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Show T Liberal Protestants Disgusted. The day when Protestants demand proof of all statements made, against the Church by their spiritual guides will have written opposite it in fbe calendar of progress the statement: Death of Protestantism. The London Spectator is profoundly profound-ly disgusted "at a hook that has just appeared in the English metropolis. calVd "The Roman Catholic Cath-olic ( ';rclrin Italy," by Alexander Robinson, D. I). "'I ins book may best be described." says the Spectator, "as an invective against the Roman! Catholic church in Italy. The author is a Protestant Pro-testant minister resident in Venice, and as he has many friends among the Italians, he might have written an informing book had he not been so blinded by his hatred of the Church of Rome as to be unable to distinguish between truth and falsehoods. false-hoods. When describing the state of matters under Pio-Xono, he writes thus: 'Xo sick or dying person per-son was permitted to see a physician until he had first seen a priest and taken .the Sacrament. All wills 'were invalidated which did not contain legacies lega-cies to the Church, and once a good, fat legacy " was secured, the priest, so the Italians tell me, often took care the sick person should not recover to rescind it. In administering tho Viaticum, it is said, the priest 'would accidentally rest his elbow-too elbow-too heavily on the patient's heart or press his thumb on the patient's throat.' It is amazing, however." how-ever." goes on the Spectator, "that a minister of religion and an educated man should repeat without with-out a word of dissent such a monstrous allegation. There is much, of the same kind in Dr. Robertson's Robert-son's volume, which we cannot recommend." Western West-ern Watchman. |