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rouched to stealthy meihods of catching children, and insinuating truth into their early mind^t. But Schwartz wa* a missionary for men, and Elliut was ; aye tmil Martin was, and Xavier, and multitudes; but the nobility, the peerlcst nobility*, and topping sovereignty of their office hath been 1o«t, and oar missionaries must tnm 1246 IBCLAHDS EVIL COVDITlOlf. [- tbeir b&nds tu «very joh of ti-aoHlating, com spODdin^, lecturiDg- in colleges, and teacfainj; sdiools, yed, to mechanica] arts, aiul professioDi occupations, iniibrad of goio^ fortli in this di of second preparation, or did the Bapti^^t, sii to the wilderDcsB and ^vaste of heatlicft *' Every valley be exalted, every niouBtahi low, tbe crooked places straight, »nd die'Toui places plain, and let a highway in the desert prepared for our God."* And thcTcforc I have the preacher 8 oHicc foremost in thus trcatiofr means, and the education of children bnt; cause it is my pitrt, and yotif part as men, to inataot for this generation, and not to for^t generation that re to arise. For vrhicfi ifinooei rising: generation tbey will prepare 5ueb fotiera will hind them fast in error and darkness, tf y< interpose not your prompt and immediate hcl] Tbalftchen^e of ftcheineH for iuntter folly (whi only hapeful feature is its impracticability), M^bii i toached upon when shewing: the ran^^e that thi quettien had in the polilicians mind, doth h\ apeak in the quarters by whom michacommisaion vaji appointed ; high qaarterft, I presume, thai 1 know not, being utterly ignorant of tbe wh* of |»olicy; such a feelin^c towards ilie youth Ireland, as utterly unmans me to think of il And is it possible that the British goremi which hath seca the blessings upon a I^ti people, and the curHe^ upon every Catholic idolatmus uatioa uf Europe, can propose or cn- Ittrtain^the propoflaU that the Catholic chili shall be sanctioned, yoa brott^ht up, trained, conhrmed in the monstrous ignoraaoe of fathers t Make all your membcrv of parliamcnl ,WII.] iklj.and'k bvij. oo^iJjTJOM. 1247 CatholtcSf and all your ^nerals, ainl ail yoijr admirals ; bitU (or tbe sake of UccL do not appoint that the teachers of the children shall be Callko* \n:% : du iiuL by I'ublic autliorily U[iU hi^y law coin- matuJ it that tlic cbildrt'D of dve miUions of people iihuH be made isaco^ftKible to li^t and kinnr- ieiigc, — Ob, Sou of God, who loved lilllc children, and desired tbem to come unto thcc, prevent tbat such a crime should be perpetrated by the law- givers of this land ; or it at lenijth the law ^nd eonjtitution