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Protestant Journalism, by the Author of 'my Clerical Friends'.
Protestant Journalism by the Author of 'my Clerical Friends' Author:Marshall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Burns and Oates, Portman Street and Paternoster Row Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acces... more »s to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A POLEMICAL TRUCE. 17 No. m. A POLEMICAL TRUCE; APPROVED BY THE MORNING POST; MOTIVES FOR IT -- THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH -- CONSERVA- TIVE SOCIALISM -- LATEST NEWS FROM ROME. If our multitudinous journalistic censors, whose columns are chiefly devoted to disparagement of the Catholic religion and all who profess it, would not mind giving us a respite now and then, -- say for a day or two at a time, -- the periodical truce could do no harm to any one. Their occasional silence would not perhaps make much difference to us, but at least it might be advantageous to themselves. To be always reiterating the same fables, and rehearsing the same calumnies, is neither profitable nor amusing. They would perhaps assail us with more success if they did not assail us quite so often. It is no doubt for our good, and from a pure motive of benevolence, that they continually represent us as superstitious Christians and disloyal citizens. But if the monotonous indictment is not already superabundantly proved, how much more evidence is required to complete the demonstration ? Are we to be tried, convicted, and sentenced every day of the year ? If so, the process is likely to become equally wearisome to the judge, the jury, and the criminal. Besides, the objects of this interminable prosecution remain obstinately impenitent. Though twenty journals defame us every day, not a solitary Catholic in the whole empire is even transiently impressed by it. We attend to our business, say our prayers, and love our country, just as if there were not a Protestant ...« less