ted is true, with an assemblage of a score or more of
priests, with their bishop in their midst, then what could be
expected of one of these priests alone in the presence of a female
whom he preferred? I make this statement so that the reader can draw
an intelligent conclusion. I will now proceed with the nun's story:

"This annual dinner would be made an occasion for great rejoicing and
recreation on the part of the holy ecclesiastics. Everything was all
right as long as the meal was in progress, but as soon as the sisters
who had waited on them had withdrawn, after placing an abundance of
wine, whiskey and cigars on the table, then all restraint would be
set aside and these holy fathers (?) would then exchange confidences
as to the latest items of news they had gathered in the confessional
from Catholic servants employed in Protestant families, and, without
mentioning any names, would repeat, amid shouts of drunken laughter,
the sins that some of their female penitents had confessed.

"We nuns would often put our ears to the key-hole and listen to the
stories that were being told by the priests, and upon my word, I
never in all my life heard as many dirty, immoral, filthy stories
told as these vagabond priests would repeat, and it always seemed as
though the bishop heartily enjoyed them.

"These carousals would proceed for hours. The whiskey bowl would be
placed in the center of the table, then these drunken priests would
sing songs which were vileness personified."

I feel that it is not necessary for me to go further to convince any
one of my readers that the lustfulness of the priestcraft is a menace
to the chastity of womankind, for if this nun has told the truth,
and which I know from past experiences is true, and which I also know
is a recital that could be intensified ten thousand times over, if
the whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told in this
volume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what I
have seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by
broken-hearted "sisters" who have come to me with tears in their eyes
and with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries.

"I know of a nun who spent many years in a convent, who declared that
on many occasions the priests would come to the convent and demand
that a number of the nuns even do worse than expose their entire
person; however, I cannot conceive of a demand that would be more
degrading than this of fo