sionary, and requested to be incorporated as one in the Society; but they said, they had not then a convent; but they expected to obtain one in Swizerland. I saw a young lady of nineteen years, come every day to this man; she seemed to possess great piety, and desired to enter in

a convent.

A Bohemian baron, who was a great bigot, began at this time to persecute me, because he thought I had embraced some Protestant doctrines; and once when I spoke of Ganganelli with respect, Hofbauer was very angry, and said to me, ' You are full of Lutheran notions. I began to read the works of F. Schlegel, which he published after his turning to the Roman church; the Roman church is there represented as I never saw it before; so that it was neither like the church of Christ, nor like that of Rome, as it now is, nor as it is described by Bossuet and Fenelon: it is the delineation of a religion, partly poetical and partly philosophical, in which are introduced the mythology of the old Greeks, and the more modern superstition of the Hindoos. He is a PaganoChristian. Schlegel considers the crusades as the most noble and holy undertaking of mankind, and as the triumph of Christianity; and he stops with pleasure to dilate on the destruction of those who fell by the sword of nominal Christian crusaders; he defends Charles the Fifth, and Philip the Second; and he calls the Virgin Mary the queen of the heavens.

The public sermons of P. Hofbauer seemed to

me to be according to the Gospel, but he distributed at the same time scapularies and chaplets, and the work Visitationes beatæ Virginis Mariæ ; and I heard both Hofbauer and Schlegel speak more of the authority of the pope than of Christ, but I excused it as a respect due to a bishop of Christ. In short, I was not able to refute the wonderful sophistry of Schlegel. I remained a year and a half in Vienna, and I undertook a journey during the vacation into Hungary, where I had a recommendation to a Catholic Archbishop. He was a pleasant man, and had some Scriptural knowledge, but I can protest that the name of Christ, and the Bible are unknown to the Catholic people of Hungary, which accounts for the great number of robbers and murderers in that country. The worship of images has taken place of the worship of Christ, though in some places in Hungary religious worship is altogether forgotten. I found in Erlan, a town of Hungary, a Jewish boy six years of age, in a house, called the house of converts. I asked how this little Jew came there? They answered me, he was taken from his parents by force, at the express command of the Bishop. When I heard this, I became indignant, especially when I observed the sorrow of the poor child, who was forced to worship images and not Christ, instead of Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! I returned to Vienna after an absence of six weeks. Being unable to reconcile these abuses with the spirit of the Catholic religion as it is represented by the most enlightened Count

Stolberg, who is the Fenelon of the German Ca tholics. I wrote to him, and entreated him to permit me to come to him; he replied, that he, as well as his lady and his children, would receive me with brotherly kindness. With the money which I gained by my lessons, and with the assistance which the Archbishop of Vienna afforded me, I was enabled to take a place in the coach to Landshut, where I gave a public lecture on the Hebrew language, and I obtained so much by it, that I had sufficient to bring me to the palace of Count Stolberg, in Westphalia.

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As I passed from Vienna to Westphalia, I found true Christians as well amongst Catholics, as amongst Protestants. I was astonished when I arrived at Count Stolberg's, and saw that great man: he and his lady, and fifteen children were examples of true humility and piety. He read with me the New Testament in the original text; he himself and his wife spoke with me of the power of Christ, and of his resurrection, of his humility and love to his elected people: and he said to me very often, I feel great concern and love for you, and for your brethren the children of Abraham! He spoke with horror both of the inquisition and the crusades, and considered both as abominable. He considered John Huss a martyr, and spoke of Luther with great regard. It was his intention, I should remain in his house some years; and I also desired and intended it, because I found myself very happy in the company of this great man. But it was not the will of God that

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I should remain any longer than three months, in the house of this great man. When Napoleon returned from Elba to France, Count Stolberg and his family were in great distress, because he was always an adversary of that tyrant, and wrote continually against him; and being so near France he was in danger, and determined to go to Holstein to his brother, to put himself and children in security. I left his house with tears because he was my true friend, and believing that his system is the true spirit of the Roman church, and accords with the system of Catholicism in all ages, I continued a true follower of the Roman church; and when I stopped after my departure from Count Stolberg, sometimes with learned men of the Protestant denomination, I defended with great fire the Roman church; and when they said, The Catholics believe the infallibility of the Pope, and command to worship images, I denied, and declared that Count Stolberg had taught me the true spirit of Catholicism, which was nothing else than the true doctrine of the Gospel. They replied, Stolberg is a good Christian, but has formed for himself his own Catholicism, which is different from that of Rome; go to Rome and you will be convinced.'

I experienced at this time the almighty hand of Providence. Count Stolberg gave me, when I left him, twenty-eight guineas for my journey; I sent to my mother the greatest part of it, and when I came to T. I had no means of living. I hired a lodging, and promised to pay every month.

When the last day of the month arrived, I did not know how to pay, and I kneeled down and prayed to our Lord Jesus Christ, that he would assist me to be able to pay. I had scarcely finished my prayer, when I received a letter from Charles Dalberg, Grand Duke of Frankfort, and Archbishop of Ratisbon, and I found enclosed in the letter two guineas, which was four times as much as I wanted. He wrote me word that he was ready to send me every month the same sum, as I was recommended to him by professor Klein, of Ratisbon. At this time, I. one day heard as a stranger, a public lecture of a Protestant professor about the Catholic system, in which he asserted that the Catholic church prefers the Vulgate to the original text, and that she teaches the worship of saints, and works of supererogation, and indul gences. I resolved, therefore, to go to Rome, because Protestants said to me, If you should manifest your sentiments there, the inquisition would excommunicate, and perhaps burn you. Having been already recommended by the Pope's ambassador in Vienna to the Cardinal Litta, in order to permit me to enter the Propaganda, I passed Basle, in Swizerland, where I stopped two weeks with Madame Krudener, and other Protestant Christians, whom I found equal to Count Stolberg in love, and in true faith towards Christ our Redeemer. I heard them sing hymns, and sigh to be united more and more with Christ, and I found both Catholics and Protestants in Berne of the same spirit. Madame Krudener said to me, The