PAST AND PRESENT. earth.
If
any evidence were needed
the enslaving, crippling, blighting and influence of that Church, to
show how
113 to manifest
benumbing it
stupefies
men, stifles their generous emotions, stultifies and deadens every inborn principle of good, and makes them indifferent to the wants and sufferings of humanity, one has onl_y to look at the fact, patent and undeniable, that Chili has been free from Spain since the year 1820, and still the laws of the government justify and enforce such direful practices as those mentioned above. O Rome There are fearful evidences against you in this land In every street, in every village, in every parish, in every district and j)rovince are to be seen the workings of thy power, the blasted blight of death where thy hand hath swept over. See the thousands of noble sons of toil, disgraced, compelled to live in filth and rags, in such wretchedness and woe that pen fails to depict the misery and for what ? Because your self-appointed advisers, your sons of Belial, who claim to be ministers of light commissioned to preach the Gospel of good news, to feed the hungry, !
!
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clothe the naked, to heal the sick, to bind up the broken-hearted have neglected them, spurned them, robbed them, treated them as inferior animals, and never have put forth one exto
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ertion to ameliorate their condition of disti-ess
and