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ta too much of this policy, even in the eonduct of these schools for which I plead. There ia no Spiritual man who can hope for the salvation of thoae who are depending upon the merit of their nwQ work» for salvation, and Kanctifying in their heart all the si*usualities of the Cathi^ic supersti- tion, and calling them holy. My office is nuUi' and void, if men can have salvation by their own** works. The world are then all in the nght, and VII.^ IRKLAND'8 KVIL coMDiriojr. 1949 se«d not to bo BUmmoned smd warned, aa tfaoKc who tre in a utate of death &nd miaery. If ye then have left the worldly city of DefitructioQ on ac- count of this error, how can yc look upon a people whn have nanctibod tbe ciror, and covered it with all idolatrous glory, and nnt wifth them ami their ehildren delivered iVom the same t And liow can ya undertake the education of then* children, and not avow thifi to be your main object ! If they ask you, whether your object ia to proselytize from the ('utholic faith? way. Yes, iti». For whatavailti the fiubCtii-fu^e, that the Catholic faith contains beneath it tbetmefaith^iieeing that the people see it not. The visible world contains under it all the truths of the invisible world, the knowledge of the true God; but men ace it not. So the Catholic faith contains under it the tme Ga<ipel ; but the people eee it not. If you *aT they do ; I say, Come and Ke«. Do they receive abH^jltJtion from a pricvl t Do ihcj* penance T Worship they a wafer-god f Trust they in the intereeasioo of saints * Yg«, bo they do in simplicity and sin- cerity; not y\ih plausible explanations, but with unsophisticated ^itb. What, then, do you not wish them converted t If you do not, you are not worthy to be philanthropists to tlieir catllc, much li^ss teachers to their children. And if you wi»h them and their children converted, avow it; avow it before the world, and stand by the issues. Though your income Hhoiild iati ten in the hun- dred, or 6fty in the htindred, what of that ? the Lord will bla» the remainder, and give it aeven<- fold fruit. Men mutit at length be plain and declare themselves: expediency will serve the turn no longer. They that arc for Christ and his 1250 JftELAKDS EVIL COXPITIOV. teuth, moRt b& for nothing else ; and Lbcy Ihat arc Ibr him uid somctbiagr else, mtM Call with that lirok«A reeri unto which they have leaned th^r trusts 1*herefare I oSfercd myself to the office of adve- catiDf? the catiEc of tliii^ SoeWty, because I saw that of all the others the best spirit