ht here the reader may ask if these nuns are willing to submit to
the embraces of these priests?

I will allow this girl to answer this question in her own language,
and her answer is this:

"I answer that in fifteen out of twenty cases--No! But she is there
helpless; the priest has seen her somewhere in the garb of a nun and
has taken a fancy to her, and whether she be willing or not, he
compels her to allow him to satisfy his hellish passion!"

This girl continues by exclaiming: "Oh God! Great God! When I think
of this system--this system born of the devil and nurtured by
hell--and realize that under the cloak of religion it is stealing
away our liberty, entering into our homes, ruining our womanhood and
girlhood, and painting childish purity with the brush of immorality,
and defiling everything with which it comes in contact, I then become
a mad woman, and I become as a venomous serpent, wanting revenge for
what has been done to me, and it seems as if I cannot remain quiet,
but, closing my eyes and ears to everything, as I have no redress, I
am compelled to warn thousands who may come after me, of their fate,
should they take up convent life, which is a hell upon earth and a
blotch as black as the shadows of hell to any land."

The same lady who related the above, and a great deal more which I
cannot tell in this chapter, gave an account of the sufferings of
another nun, who was in the same convent with her, and I now learn
that the same story that I will now relate has been told to others.

Reader, you must bear in mind that convents have many tortures
outside of the torturing conscience on account of having the virtue
of their inmates destroyed. The teachings of Catholicism lead people
to practice self-infliction upon their person in order to appease a
living God, as they seem to worship a living God the same as the
pagans would worship a God of stone, or a ferocious God in the form
of some carnivorous beast, and in order to atone for their sins,
these inmates of the nunneries are taught that they must bear
self-infliction; in fact, Catholicism teaches her followers that in
order that any of them shall receive absolute pardon, that they must
resort to heathenish practices.

As stated above, the same lady whom we speak of in the first part of
this chapter, relates her experience with a sister nun, who endured
self-torture, believing that it was an outward demonstration of
godliness. Her story follows:

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