. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. parallel inthe annals of civilization. The most grotesque super-stitions were incorporated into the popular faith as amatter of course; but the priests were not at pains todisguise, or in the least conceal, the most revoltingfeatures of their system. Popery was literally ramp-ant in the south of Ireland. The policy of the Romishpriesthood was to exclude every influence that couldby any means, direct or indirect, tend to render thepe
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. parallel inthe annals of civilization. The most grotesque super-stitions were incorporated into the popular faith as amatter of course; but the priests were not at pains todisguise, or in the least conceal, the most revoltingfeatures of their system. Popery was literally ramp-ant in the south of Ireland. The policy of the Romishpriesthood was to exclude every influence that couldby any means, direct or indirect, tend to render thepeople dissatisfied with their condition, or in the leastsuspicious of the natural connection between their reli-gion and the physical degradation, wretchedness, andpoverty of the peasantry under their control. Byexciting the most absurd and wicked prejudices, theyhad succeeded in rendering their deluded devoteesproof against the efforts of their Protestant neighboursto lift them from the slough in which they were volun-tarily, though still ignorantly, content to pains were taken to warn the poor papists340 POPERY AND THE BIBLE IN IRELAND. 341. FAMINE IN IRELAND. against the insidious wiles of the Bible were threatened with all the terrors of excom-munication by bell, book, and candle. Under nocircumstances were they to tolerate in their housesthe hateful presence of these heretical emissaries,who went about from house to house, and from hovelto hovel, seeking permission to read the Bible to theinmates. The most violent among their partisans wereincited by the flatteries and suggestions of the priest- 29* 342 POPERY AND hood to acts of violence, in order to deter the Biblereaders from the prosecution of their missionary were constrained either to abandon it, or to goliterally w^ith their life in their hand, in peril of vio-lence and death. A mission among the Thugs couldscarcely have been more adventurous or the face of the grea
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