his eyebrows, in his cheeks,
in his jaw bones, in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders,
in his lips, in his shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers!

"May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart,
and appurtenances, down to the very stomach!

"May he be cursed in his ... and his ... in his thighs, in
his ... and his ... and in his knees, and his legs, and his
feet, and toe-nails!

"May he be cursed in all his joints and articulations of the
members; from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet
may there be no soundness!

"May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of His
majesty, curse him!

"And may Heaven, with all the powers that move therein, rise
up against him, and curse and damn him, unless he repent and
make satisfaction! Amen! So be it! Be it so! Amen! Amen!
Amen!"

I have given you the diabolical "curse" of excommunication, word for
word; thus you can see how un-Christlike the Catholic Church is.

As I have before said in this chapter, the foregoing is the curse
that will fall to my lot as soon as this book is placed upon the
market, thus the reader can see that my motives for writing this
book must come from a pure incentive, or else I would not willingly
cut myself asunder from all of those whom I have associated with
during my life. This task is not one that I enjoy, as it breaks my
heart to realize that I have all through my life been burdened down
with this load of superstitious filth, but I could not in justice to
myself and in justice to a living God refrain from the task, after I
had had my eyes opened to the beauties of Protestantism.

With tears in my eyes and with a heart full of sadness, I remember
the angelic face of my old mother, as she conscientiously taught me
my first Catechism and directed my feet in the paths of what she
sincerely believed righteousness, and believing in a just God, I knew
that He has taken her to His bosom in His home beyond the skies, for
what she taught me she sincerely believed, as she never had her eyes
opened to the abominations of the creed of which I write, and I do
not believe that a just God would damn the soul of a pure mother who
honestly taught what she conscientiously believed, but the
priestcraft in general are men who are above the average in
intellect, and are men whom I believe have often had had the same
thoughts relative to the doctrines of Catholicis