n made herein,
but I am willing to meet my God around the great white throne in
Heaven and stand upon the declarations herein contained.

I have endeavored to give the Protestant reader to understand that
his offspring are considered bastards, and their parents persons who
live in immorality, by not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and
being married by the priestcraft.

I have endeavored to tear the mask of ignorance from the bleared and
polluted features of Romanism and show her up in all of her
detestible ugliness.

I have in my weak manner endeavored to try to warn our American
fathers and mothers of the great danger of the "confession," as the
confessional is the stepping stone that leads to Romish abominations,
as it is there that the seed of immoral thought is planted and it is
there that the purity of girlhood is first tarnished, and if I can
arouse Protestant mothers and fathers of this land to these awful
sinks of iniquity I will consider that I have been instrumental in
helping to obliterate one of the greatest evils known to the human
family.

I have endeavored to point out to Protestant America the awful
mistake made by the United States in permitting Roman Catholicism to
continue her debauchery in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine
Islands, as I declare to the reader with eyes wet with grief that not
only the flower of our army is being sacrificed in these far away
islands, but that millions of dollars are being spent upon these
islands and that Roman Catholicism is being benefited by this great
expenditure of Protestant money, as the Pope of Rome is as powerful
in these islands to-day as he ever was, and every intelligent
Protestant in this land who has made this subject a study knows full
well that had it not been for Roman Catholicism and her outrages,
that the Spanish-American war would never have been fought.

I have earnestly tried to make the reader understand that the
monasteries in this country are often the abodes of criminals, and
the nunneries of this land are the slaughter pens of virtue, and I
trust that my readers will read it in the spirit that I have written
it, and if such is the case I know that this little book will be
instrumental in not only opening the eyes of drowsy Protestantism,
but it will be instrumental in turning thousands of Roman Catholics
from the error of their ways and pointing them to "the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sins of the world."

I have endeav