enue, in
Boston. In a month the mother called for her baby and was told that
it was "up in the country," and was requested to leave it there for a
month, and was told that it would be good for the child. She
consented to this, believing that the fresh air would be good for her
baby, but she was an uneducated woman and was inclined to believe
what others said, as she was an honest lady herself, but she did not
know the trickery of the Catholic Church, so when she was asked to
sign a paper, she readily agreed to it, not thinking that she was
giving her own blood and flesh away.

In a month she came on from New York to get her baby and was told
that she could not have it, and was further told that she had signed
a paper giving it away. Then the husband came on from New York and
demanded the child, but was refused. He then appealed to the pastor
of the Italian Methodist Church, on Hanover street, Boston. The two
went to a very prominent Romanist office-holder, who was chairman of
the trustees of this so-called "Catholic Home." This man draws seven
thousand dollars per year from the city, and is elected largely
through Protestant influence, simply because Protestantism believes
that she can reform Catholicism by being liberal with her; but oh!
Liberty! what crimes are perpetrated in thy name! This Boston
official, after much talk with this Italian father, told him to bring
a letter from a priest, and that he would see what he could do. The
Italian said, "I am a Protestant," at which the official became very
indignant, but after a little more talk said: "Bring a letter of
recommendation from a minister." This Italian father got a good,
strong letter commending his character from a Protestant minister in
New York, and one who already knew him, and went this time alone to
this Boston official.

In about an hour this heart-broken father appeared before a Methodist
minister in tears, saying: "He will not give me my child. He said I
am a bad man for becoming a Protestant, and that by doing so I have
proven that I am unfit to care for my children, and when I gave him
my letter from the Protestant minister, he said: 'I will not take the
word of a Protestant minister!'"

Now, if what we have related is true, which I know to be absolutely
true in every particular, would happen in the United States of
America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," you might
know what would happen in a Catholic country which is completel