This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... been discomfited, personal liberty established, and the principles of our free Constitution fully sustained, ' the community, Protestant and Roman Catholic, owes these great blessings mainly, if not wholly, to the resolute assertion of their constitutional rights by the Agents, lay and clerical, of the Irish Church ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ... been discomfited, personal liberty established, and the principles of our free Constitution fully sustained, ' the community, Protestant and Roman Catholic, owes these great blessings mainly, if not wholly, to the resolute assertion of their constitutional rights by the Agents, lay and clerical, of the Irish Church Missions Society. And if there were no other reasons against the proceeding, it would seem a very bad return for such services, to take prompt advantage of the comparative tranquillity which has been established, chiefly by their patient suffering, to dismiss them, in order to propitiate those who resorted in vain to such unjustifiable means to drive them away. "And, no doubt, there are many cases where one may feel that he is bound to assert a right, and yet that he is at liberty to refrain from exercising it, when it is established or conceded. But this is only when the exercise of the right is unconnected with duty. When, as in the present case, what is a right is also a duty, the same liberty cannot be supposed to exist. So that, if it were certain, as you seem to think it is, that the attempt to expel the Mission by force from Kilkenny has been finally abandoned, I do not feel that I ought therefore to take other methods of removing it. Signed) "Ossory & Ferns." 1856. A CRY FOR BIBLES. 171 Subsequent notices of this Mission prove that the Lord had much people in this city, to confess His name in the face of persecution. Emigration was the refuge to which numbers resorted. Increasing desire was manifested toward the close of the year 1856, for more instruction in the Scripture. There was a general cry for Bibles, especially from the country districts. At Portarlington, where a colporteur was employed, 583 copies of the Doua...
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