Watchman And Observer

Value Received.—The National, daily Paris paper, lately published two very singular articles illustrative of the spirit and action of Popery.— One of them was a circular sent by the general clerical agency of France to the incumbents of the various parishes, urging them to establish among the faithful an active sale of the articles which the agency undertakes, "for a consideration," to procure from Rome. The second paper is a table, or catalogue, of the articles set down at the most reasonable prices. In this catalogue there is an exhaustless variety of subjects. Nothing is omitted that could possibly be thought of. Every thing figures therein, from plenary indulgences, which are offered dirt cheap, at nineteen francs, to the permission to read forbidden books. and privately retain the same. ("Permission de lire les livres defendus, et de les garder chez soi," ) which cost twenty-one francs fifty centimes, or about two shillings more than the full forgiveness of sins. As for relics, they are such a drug at Rome that they are to be had there for the mere asking; but three francs fifty centimes are demanded for them, in France, for the warrant of authenticity by which they are accompanied. I must be allowed that this is a very edifying prospectus of the religion of Romanism.

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