Assassination of Lincoln (Classic Reprint)

From Fifty Years In the Church of Rome. )C harles Chiniquy was born July 30, 1809, at Kamoraska, Canada, Five years later his parents emigrated to Murray Bay, at which place he received his early education at the hands of his mother, there being no schools located there at that time. The Bible, printed in Latin and French, was the book in which he was taught to read, and It was from this circumstance that M. Chiniquy learned so much of it, and, when the time came when he could no longer be a Romanist without giving up the Bible, he chose to leave the priesthood. It was his devotion and love of the Bible that made his life as a priest of Roman paganism one that was incessantly full of toil, hardship, trials and peril. His history reads like a romance. At all times and places he was discovering where the Bible and the church conflicted, and, in his loyalty to the Book his mother taught him to read, he was ever being placed in antagonistic positions with his eccllastical superiors and his fellow priests. There vas in all his experience as a priest one broad and grand work, that of becoming the foremost figure In the cause of temperance in Canada, and he was so successful in that work that he was the means of reforming not only the various parishes he successfully had charge of as a priest, but the neighboring parishes and priests, and lastly his Bishop as well. This work was of so pronounced a character that he was officially named by the Bishop of Montreal. The Apostle of Temperance of Canada. These facts in Mr. Chiniquy searly history prove incontestably that he was a man of unswerving devotion to what he believed to be right. He had the courage of his convictions so as to act them out; in a word, he was all that goes to make a brave and upright man. It is no wonder, then, that, after his signal success in the cause of temperance, he was selected to be the st
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