Convents; A Review of Two Lectures on This Subject, by the Rev. Hobart Seymour
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Excerpt from Convents; A Review of Two Lectures on This Subject, by the Rev. Hobart Seymour: Embodying the Substance of a Lecture Delivered at the Catholic Chapel, Bath, on Sunday, May 23, 1852 Fortunately England possesses religious institutions in almost every great town, and in many rural districts. Ireland is, thank God, full of them - France, so easily visited, teems with them. When, therefore, we are told that nuns are a brokenhearted race, all bordering on madness, and any one visiting a convent sees none but smiling countenances, and hears but cheerful voices; when we learn that every convent is a cage, from which the poor birds long to fly out, and find on inspection, that there are open doors and unbarred windows on every side, and no one to prevent any religious flying to the generous asylum provided for her by Mr. Lacy´s Bill - the matron of the nearest workhouse; when we have it roundly asserted that these establishments absorb enormous fortunes, and snatch everything away from families and friends, and upon enquiry discover, that on the one hand almost every convent is poor, and not one rich, and that, on the other, both the community and the novice have acted most generously in all pecuniary arrangements; when finally (we blush to write it) a foul charge of immorality is insinuated against these sacred institutions, and yet nobody can become acquainted with them, without finding them composed of persons whose purity of character, holiness of life, devotedness to God, fervour of charity, and sweetness of disposition, find, we will not say no rival, but no parallel in that world of sin, where their enemies would have us seek it; it follows as a necessary consequence, that the deceit practised is easily, and completely, discovered, and what was done to discredit, turns out to be the sure means of vindication. And hence we have witnessed with delight the phenomenon, that such institutions have received not the slightest check, by all that has been written to disparage them; their schools and charities are more prosperous than ever, and their noviciates certainly not less filled. Hence also it is not very wonderful, that not only Catholics, but Protestants should continue, chiefly on the continent and in the New World, to send their children for education into establishments, which their own observation has taught them, are the very reverse of what their maligners describe them. But we must enter upon our task more earnestly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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