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Chit Chat.
years 1816 to 181 S , first pupil in the Coilegio Romana , where 1 had the honour of studying together with Counts Ferretti , Mamiani , Menochio , and Tosi , and studied ecclesiastical history under Don Piedro ( now Cardinal ) Ostini , who , as you are aware , knew skilfully to shift from the party of Napoleon to that Pius 7 th—after the latter was restored to his papal chair in the Vatican . I then was transferred to the College of the Propagandaby the excellent Cardinal Littabut having argued
, , openly not only against the infallibity ofthe Pope , but also against the right of the Church to burn Heretics , I was banished from your interesting city in the year 1818 , on the loth of April . Romans . ' many things have passed in the world : the ' Overturning , overturning , over- ' turning , ' in Ezekiel , the 2 lst chapter , and the 27 th verse , has commenced and will continue until He shall come , whose right it is and when he shall set up that form of government upon earth to which all
nations shall willingly submit and rejoice . Until that time neither Louis Napoleon in France , nor the Constituent Assembly in Italy , shall better the condition of the world ; but while I am convinced of this grand truth , as to all attempts to reform the state of the world without Christ , I cannot for that very reason call on you , Roman citizens , to
begin at once breaking asunder , not the temporal , but the spiritual yoke of the Pope , who , to the disappointment of all his admirers , has acted less in the spirit of a Vicegerent of Christ upon earth , and more in the spirit of the Anti-Christ , than the Popes in the middle ages . Our blessed Redeemer , the Lord Jesus Christ , was led to the cross . Peter , whose successor the Roman Pontiff affects to be , drew the sword and struck a servant of the High Priest , and smote off his ear ; and though the sword was here drawn to save the life of the Lord from Heaven
himself , the Lord said to him , . ' Put up again thy sword into its place . ' —But what did Pius the 9 th ? He leaves his children at Rome like a coward , escapes to Gaeta , and from thence he exhorts bis children in France to unsheath the sword against his children in Rome ; not for the purpose of saving either Christ or his Church , but for retaking a paltry temporal dominion , which his predecessors in dark ages have graspedand which he blasphemously calls the patrimony of Peter ; and
, after General Oudinot regained it for him , he sends his congratulations . Romans ! therefore proclaim loudly that you are now convinced that Popery is , and has ever been , a lie ; that it can never be reformed , but must be destroyed , and pronounce before the whole world , that you are Bible Christians!—JOSEPH WOLFE . "
BRO . THOS . BRUTTON . —This most worthy and excellent Mason has retired from the governorship of the county gaol of Stafford . He carries with him into his retirement , the cordial esteem of the magistracy , the gratitude of the poor , the friendship of his extensive circle , and the respect of ail classes . As a Mason his example may be quoted as the most honourable to imitate .
DEADLST RESULTS FROM THE RESPIRATION AND INOCULATION OF PUTRID ANIMAL MATTER . —I trust that sufficient has now been said to prove in the clearest manner that exhalations from the dead are injurious to health , and capable of generating malignant disease , which may , and often does , terminate rapidly in death . This proof I have endeavoured to deduce from a chain of reasoning—from a series of facts—as strong and as conclusive as any that can be brought forward to support propositions which have received the universal consent of mankind .
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Chit Chat.
years 1816 to 181 S , first pupil in the Coilegio Romana , where 1 had the honour of studying together with Counts Ferretti , Mamiani , Menochio , and Tosi , and studied ecclesiastical history under Don Piedro ( now Cardinal ) Ostini , who , as you are aware , knew skilfully to shift from the party of Napoleon to that Pius 7 th—after the latter was restored to his papal chair in the Vatican . I then was transferred to the College of the Propagandaby the excellent Cardinal Littabut having argued
, , openly not only against the infallibity ofthe Pope , but also against the right of the Church to burn Heretics , I was banished from your interesting city in the year 1818 , on the loth of April . Romans . ' many things have passed in the world : the ' Overturning , overturning , over- ' turning , ' in Ezekiel , the 2 lst chapter , and the 27 th verse , has commenced and will continue until He shall come , whose right it is and when he shall set up that form of government upon earth to which all
nations shall willingly submit and rejoice . Until that time neither Louis Napoleon in France , nor the Constituent Assembly in Italy , shall better the condition of the world ; but while I am convinced of this grand truth , as to all attempts to reform the state of the world without Christ , I cannot for that very reason call on you , Roman citizens , to
begin at once breaking asunder , not the temporal , but the spiritual yoke of the Pope , who , to the disappointment of all his admirers , has acted less in the spirit of a Vicegerent of Christ upon earth , and more in the spirit of the Anti-Christ , than the Popes in the middle ages . Our blessed Redeemer , the Lord Jesus Christ , was led to the cross . Peter , whose successor the Roman Pontiff affects to be , drew the sword and struck a servant of the High Priest , and smote off his ear ; and though the sword was here drawn to save the life of the Lord from Heaven
himself , the Lord said to him , . ' Put up again thy sword into its place . ' —But what did Pius the 9 th ? He leaves his children at Rome like a coward , escapes to Gaeta , and from thence he exhorts bis children in France to unsheath the sword against his children in Rome ; not for the purpose of saving either Christ or his Church , but for retaking a paltry temporal dominion , which his predecessors in dark ages have graspedand which he blasphemously calls the patrimony of Peter ; and
, after General Oudinot regained it for him , he sends his congratulations . Romans ! therefore proclaim loudly that you are now convinced that Popery is , and has ever been , a lie ; that it can never be reformed , but must be destroyed , and pronounce before the whole world , that you are Bible Christians!—JOSEPH WOLFE . "
BRO . THOS . BRUTTON . —This most worthy and excellent Mason has retired from the governorship of the county gaol of Stafford . He carries with him into his retirement , the cordial esteem of the magistracy , the gratitude of the poor , the friendship of his extensive circle , and the respect of ail classes . As a Mason his example may be quoted as the most honourable to imitate .
DEADLST RESULTS FROM THE RESPIRATION AND INOCULATION OF PUTRID ANIMAL MATTER . —I trust that sufficient has now been said to prove in the clearest manner that exhalations from the dead are injurious to health , and capable of generating malignant disease , which may , and often does , terminate rapidly in death . This proof I have endeavoured to deduce from a chain of reasoning—from a series of facts—as strong and as conclusive as any that can be brought forward to support propositions which have received the universal consent of mankind .