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teachers; and we corresponded with two
very learned Spanish jesuits. For myself
I studied late and early, and the persecution
I encountered induced, not a desire to be right, but
a blind conviction that I was so; and I determin determined to endure all things for my reli-
ed
gion. Still it was a religion of the head only.
My heart had not yet felt that "still small
voice" that subdues and melts it into love.
own desire to the house of a Benedictine
monk who
man, for the purpose of conversion - con-
ceiving that he was well acquainted
with the best arguments on both sides, he
being a very learned man. He was a
married man, and held a valuable
living.
hypocrite, and the theories of Plato
were oftener discussed, than the doctrine
of Jesus.
but did me no farther harm;
fortunately, discovering that he secretly
preserved a crucifix and a consecrated