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Show A Rare Jewel. (Messenger.) Consistency is a Jewel. Rev. Father Vaughn showed its absence among those non-Catholics who proclaim so loudly that one religion is as good as another and yet become mad with fury when they hear of anyone near and dear to them being received into the Catholic church. Like Frederick, King of Prussia, they say to such a one: "I cannot respect the man who has abandoned aban-doned the religion of his fathers." But the convert could reply with Stolberg: "Nor indeed can I; for if my ancestors had not abandoned the religion-of their fathers they would not have put me to the necessity of returning to it." |