Barry in the street weeping like her heart would break and afraid to
return to her home.

She told the audience that as soon as she reached the street where a
number of relatives were waiting for her that she broke away from her
mother and fled.

A policeman was called into consultation relative to the case and
stated that as Maggie was under twenty-one years of age, that she
had better be taken to her parents at 125 Salem street, and two
policemen accompanied her to her home.

It is stated that Miss Barry has received many unmerciful beatings
because she attended these religious meetings, and her old Romish
mother, while dragging her down the stairs that Sunday night,
threatened to do her bodily harm if she ever attended these meetings
again.

A few days after this disgraceful and un-American spectacle happened
in the streets of Worcester, a notice in the Central District Court
appeared that "_Miss Margaret Barry was charged with being a stubborn
child and was sentenced to the Woman's Prison at Shearborn. She
appealed and furnished a bail. The girl was arrested on the complaint
of her mother because she would not stay away from the meetings of
the Salvation Army_."

Now, reader, you have a case right in the United States of America
where a poor girl was sentenced to prison for attending a Protestant
meeting. What do you think of a judge of a court who will sentence a
child to a State prison for attending a Protestant meeting?

We know what you think if you are a pure Protestant, and we know that
your blood boils with pure indignation; but you cannot expect any
relief from this state of affairs and you can only expect to see
things grow worse if you continue to be "partisans" instead of
"patriots."

If such things are now happening in the State of Massachusetts, how
long will it be before the Protestant churches in this country will
be closed up by the order of the Pope, and how long will it be before
those who attend Protestant meetings will be liable to arrest and
thrown into prison, as it was during the dark ages when the Roman
Catholic Church had full control?

Authentic history, and history that cannot be denied nor disputed,
nor even questioned, gives the appalling record of 70,500,000
Protestants who were slain by the greatest curse the world has ever
known--Roman Catholicism.

We, in America, cannot expect anything better until we have a set of
Protestant preachers who will practice what they preten