for a considerable time. She was quick, and learned a good deal of Scripture. By some pressure brought to bear upon her mother, however, she was removed and sent to the nunnery school, and we lost sight of her for a time. She retained, however, her controversial knowledge, and the more she saw of Popery the more she felt convinced that it was contrary to the teaching of the Word of God. She soon got service in a Protestant house, and commenced to go to church. This enraged her mother, who required her to leave her service and return to her. The girl refused; the mother summoned the mistress for keeping her daughter, but her complaint was dismissed, as it was the girl's own choice to remain. However, the employer became so tired. of the complaints of the mother that she sent the girl home. The father of the poor girl took her by the hand, and led her to the nunnery-she was heard crying as she wentand there he left her. After she was there for six weeks, however, she was dismissed as an incorrigible and a contaminating heretic, fears being entertained that she would lead others to look for salvation in the way that she had learned it could be found. I am happy to say she is now back again in the employment of her Protestant mistress, and is suffered without disturbance to come to church and profess herself a Protestant. Throughout the country the Readers are most readily received. The Irish schools are working well, and I do trust, with the Lord's blessing, an abundant harvest shall yet be reaped to the Lord's glory, from the precious seed that we are privileged to sow. May He grant us the dew of his blessing. BIBLES AT £2 10s. a CopY!-"One fact I have ascertained, viz., that within some forty miles of Dublin, the priests manage to keep up the price of the Douay Bible, at £2 10s. a copy!!! It is sold in portious, none for less than ls. 6d."-Extracted from a Letter from General Alexander. Hymn. DESIRING REVIVAL. LORD, I hear of showers of blessing Even me. Pass me not, O God our Father! Have I long in sin been sleeping— Even me. Love of God-so pure and changeless; Grace of God-so strong and boundless Magnify it all in me!- Even me. Pass me not-Thy lost one bringing, Bind my heart, O Lord, to Thee. Whilst the streams of life are springing, Even me. THE BANNER OF THE TRUTH IN IRELAND. OCTOBER 1, 1860. -000 The Report of St. Bridget. (A Romish Testimony.) IF you wish to know what the Irish Church Missions are doing in Ireland, you had better not be content with asking the missionaries, you had better ask the priests. They have means of judging which we could never have. We can ourselves see the plain results in the converts, and the people brought under instruction, but they can judge of the effect of the Missions on the Roman Catholics as a body, and they can know something of the secret and gradual change which we believe to be passing over the people through the various instrumentalities brought to bear upon them. Ever since the beginning of the Irish Church Missions the priests have been the best witnesses for the success of the movement; and many of our readers will remember the letters of "Testis," the pastoral of Dr. Cullen, on "Proselytism," and the remarkable testimonies of the Roman Catholic newspapers, which have from time to time been printed by the Society. Another of these testimonies has recently been put forth, and that in a somewhat different form. Alarmed at the success of the Mission schools, the priests have established an institution in Dublin, which is called St. Bridget's Orphanage, the avowed object of which is, to "save" poor children who are likely to be proselytized. The institution is under the sanction of Dr. Cullen, the Roman Catholic Archbishop in Dublin, and VOL. X. L its character may be gathered from the fact that Miss Aylward, the head of it, is at this moment awaiting her sentence from the Court of Queen's Bench, for taking away the child of a Protestant mother, and defying the law in every way when the child was sought to be recovered. The Report of St. Bridget's has recently been printed, and is a very interesting document. It proves the success of the Mission work in a very striking manner. The "little ones, the treasure of the Church," are said to be "exposed to the assaults of ravening wolves;" and the ladies of the Association are exhorted to rescue them from heresy and eternal death." To encourage them to this work, the ladies are informed that the Pope, "standing calmly upon the rock taking charge of the whole world, while the angry waves are breaking at his feet," has opened the treasury of the Church, and bestowed upon them the "richest spiritual gifts," referring to certain "indulgences" which the " Holy Pontiff" has conferred on all who help the institution. 66 The Report then passes on to its second part, which is headed, CHILDREN SAVED." It states that, in all, 193, children have been "saved," all of whom, excepting two, were in "danger of loss of faith." This alone is a remarkable testimony, and shows how much the efforts of the proselytizers are dreaded. For, by "loss of faith," our readers will understand, is meant Scriptural instruction; in short, training up a child in the way he should go; and by "saved," the Report does not mean brought to Jesus, the only Saviour, and taught concerning the only saving. name under heaven, but it means, taken away from the Scriptures and from Christ, and taught to trust in "Jesus,. Mary, and Joseph," and the other superstitions and idolatries of Rome. One case in point is given in this part of the Report. A boy of nearly fourteen years of age was taken into St. Bridget's, after having been "three years with the heretics;" that is to say, he had been at a Mission school, had learnt the Scriptures, and had been taught to trust in Christ. The authorities of St. Bridget's consigned the boy to the care of a Roman Catholic. The Report says, the good woman to whom we gave him in charge sent word that he was trying to corrupt her children." That is to say, that the lad was evidently, with the spirit of a young missionary, teaching the children some of the texts he had learnt at the Mission school. The Report thus finishes the story" He was called in. She brought him, and said these terrible words, May God forgive the mother that destroyed the faith in that child; better that she had taken a knife and cut his throat.' The boy was dismissed; but, according to Dr. Cullen and the heads of St. Bridget's, the mother had better have committed murder than have sent her son to a school where he would be taught the Scriptures, and the one way of salvation which God has Himself revealed. The third part of the Report of St. Bridget's is devoted to the PERILS TO THE FAITH OF CATHOLIC ORPHANS. They proceed to enumerate some of the institutions, machinery, and snares," contrived for the destruction of the faith of poor children. Amongst these the Connemara Orphans' Nursery occupies a prominent place, and an extract is given from the report of that excellent and successful institution. Our own Society is thus noticed : "6th. Society for Irish Church Missions, whose receipts for the month of last October alone have been £1597. This immense revenue comes almost entirely from England, and is spent in corrupting the children of poor Catholics." The Dublin branch of the Society is noticed at greater length, and excites the chief apprehension of all :— 66 "7th. The Dublin visiting branch of the last-named Society has had receipts last year to the amount of £833.” The names of some of the lady collectors are then given. "This," continues the Report, is perhaps the vilest machine of all. They pay fourteen agents, whose business it is to pry into the poverty of the city, and to find Catholic families in destitution, and poor widows in distress, to whom they give a few shillings weekly, or put their names in the Protestant Registry Office, and thus they get their poor infants, and send them to some of the institutions already named. A poor man, named E-, died some time ago, and because his wife had been a Protestant, he was but three hours dead, when two of these agents came |