Benignity of the Secularist.

Then up rises the Secularist, with benign countenance and gentle words, to reprove the Evangelical for wrong done to the poor Catholic sectarian, and in the name of peace and conciliation, and as a settlement of all difficulties, to offer his gift of Secularism, pure and simple. It is not courteous to examine gifts too closely, but as this one is bought partly with Catholic money, it must be borne with, that, before accepting the present, the Catholic turns it round on every side, scrutinizes its shape, its color, and its substance, to make sure that in it no danger lurks concealed. To the Catholic Secularism is as much sectarian as Evangelicalism.