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der their own consecrated churches, and abolish the Sabbath and its worship—when we see the highest of the clergy publicly lay aside their robes, doff their mitres and cast away their crosiers, crosses, and rings, and most solemnly abjure that religion which they and their fathers for many generations had observed and kept—when we behold the Bible burnt by the common hangman, and temples dedicated to the goddess of Reason, and hear the public annunciation that there is no other God to be worshipped—and again, when we see this same people publicly dethrone their goddess of Reason and place a harlot in her stead—when we see an ignorant peasant girl spring from obscurity to command their armies and dictate the coronation of their King—and again, when we see the masses who but yesterday kissed her garments and strewed her way with flowers, burn this same innocent female at the stake for no other crime than holding the same principles for which they had worshipped her—when we behold a raging faction hurrying its victims to the guillotine, and while yet the ponderous blade is dripping with