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    which causes the cup to overflow . Their subjects have borne as much as they can , and as much as , in their present state , they will . They know and feel they are oppressed , they are alive in part to a sense of their lights . Many have indignantly flung from their shoulders the yoke of bondage , others yet bearing it feel their cheeks mantle with shame . Let the Conference then see to its future measures .

    Penculosae plenum opus aleae Tractas ; et incedis per ignes Suppositos ciueri doioso . Let it abandon all Jesuitical dealings , and all forced constructions of law . Let it abate somewhat at least of its lofty notions . Let the priest sink into

    the brother ; it is a more honourable and a more endearing relation ; and , as brethren , let those who are now rulers in Israel treat with the people in a spirit of Christian equality . Thus may the Conference retain all the influence which it ought to possess , and still carryforward to the satisfaction of good men of all sects the great work which its Founder began .

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    Heidelburg . The following is a narrative of a conversion from the Catholic to the Protestant faith , which is remarkable chiefly as having commenced in the rejection of a doctrine which still darkens the creed of almost every Protestant Church . It is interesting as the history of an honest and devout mind , long struggling under an overwhelming weight of superstitious terrors , and

    rising at length into better views of the doctrine of the grace of God . This history , written by himself , was first published in Dr . Paulus ' s Sophronizon . It was inserted in a number of the AUgemeine Kirchen Zeitung , from which some passages of his life are now extracted . Charles Jais , formerly a Catholic parish priest in Munich , was minister of a Protestant Church in

    Gutingen when he wrote his narrative , and is probably still living there . He was born in 1775 at a place in Bavaria , where few of the inhabitants had ever seen a Protestant . He was twelve years old when he was placed in a convent school in Bavaria . At the end of two years he became thoughtful , inquisitive , and ( to use his own words ) extremely scrupulous . This was remarked in a catechetical lecture of one of the Professors , and

    that hour he describes as the date of all his subsequent distress , and at the same time the first step to his conversion to Protestantism . The Professor ' s lecture was on the eternal duration and intensity of hell torments . He said , ' * If every thousand years a bird should come and drink out of the sea , it would at last become dry , but the torments of hell are always but begun . If every million of years he should sharpen his beak upon that mountain , ( they were in view of one half a league high , ) it would at last become

    dust , but eternity is always but begun , and every deadly sin plunges into hell . ' * " I began , " says the biographer , " to tremble in my whole frame , for many a deadly sin lay upon me which now pressed heavily on my heart . Often on the Sunday I had been inattentive at mass , once I had not been present , and though I confessed regularly , yet I might not have been diligent enough in the duty of self-examination , and might have omitted to confess all . Also I had once eaten flesh on Friday . Still all was not lost :

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    CONVERSION OF A CATHOLI C PRIEST .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/41/