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 LETTER PROM REV. C. CHINIQUY, 
 TO THE BISHOP OF MONTREAL. 
 
 To my Lord Fabr^, Roman Catholk Bishop 
 of Montreal: — 
 
 My Lobd, — On my arrival from the 
 Maritime Provinces, I learn that your 
 priepts and your press-organs have pub- 
 lished that I have tried, during my last 
 sickness, to make my peace with your 
 Church. I do not want to tell you that this 
 is an unmitigated falsehood ; you I:now it 
 better than any man. No, my lord ; by 
 the mercy of God I will never submit my- 
 self again to the ignominious yoke of Rome, 
 and allow me to give you and yonr priests 
 and your press -organs some of my rea- 
 sons:— 
 
 1st. Your dogma of Apostolic succession 
 from Peter to Piua IX. is an imposture— 
 
you c£i.anot find a single word in the holy 
 Gospel, to flhow us that Peter has passed 
 a single hour in Rotne. You ktiow very 
 well also, that the superiority or pre-emi- 
 nence you give to Peter over the other 
 apostles is another imposture. 
 
 Every time our Saviour was asked by his 
 twelve apostles, who would be the first, 
 the leader, or Pope, he always answered, 
 that there would not be such first, 
 leader, or Pope in his Church. 
 
 More than that, he positively answered 
 the mother of Zebedees children, that 
 he had not received from his father the 
 power to establish one of his apostles over 
 the others. '*To sit on my right hand or 
 my left is not mine to give," Math. xx. 23. 
 
 We have an irrefutable and infallible 
 proof that our Saviour never placed Peter 
 at the head of the apostles as the first, the 
 leader or the Pope, as you call your su- 
 preme Pontiff,in the dispute which occurred 
 among the apostles a moment before his 
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 ** And there was also a strife among them 
 which of them should be accounted the 
 greatest," Luke xxii. 24. Such a dispute 
 could never have occurred if Jesus Christ 
 had established Peter the s^reatest or the 
 firstof them. They would surely have known 
 it,and Jesus Christ would have answered: 
 "Have you so soon forgotten that Peter is the 
 the greatest among you, that he is the first 
 from the day in which I appointed him, the 
 fundamental stone in my Church." But .far 
 from answering this,the Son of God rebukes 
 his apostles,and tells them positively :'*rhe 
 kings of the gentiles exercis*^ lordship over 
 them, but it shall not be so among you," 
 Luke xxii. 23,24,25. Not only that mod- 
 emly forged primacy of Peter has never 
 been acknowledged by any of the apostles, 
 but it has been squarely and positively 
 denied by St.Paul :— "For he that wrought 
 eflTectually in Peter to the apostleship of 
 the circumcision, the same was mighty in 
 me towards the Gentiles," Gal. ii. 8. "And 
 when James, Cephas and John, who 
 
 
 
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 seemed to be the pillars, perceived the 
 grace that was given unto me, they gave to 
 me and Barnabas, the right hand of fellow- 
 ship, that we should go unto the heathen 
 and they unto the circumcision." Gal. ii. 9. 
 Here Peter is named only after James, a thing 
 which could never have been done by St. 
 Paul, if he had knofvn anything of the 
 marvellous superiority and primacy of Peter 
 over the rest of the apostles. But please 
 read the following words of Paul :— *' But 
 when Peter was come to Antioch, I with- 
 stood him to the face because he was to be 
 blamed," Gal. ii. 11. Is it not evident that 
 Paul had not the least idea of any kind of 
 superioritv of Peter over him, when he so 
 publicly withstood him to the face, and 
 still more when he wrote theae lines] Is it 
 not clear that the Holy Ghost has inspired 
 Paul to give us the history ot his so stern with- 
 standing to the face of Peter, that we might 
 not be reduced by the grand imposture of 
 the supremacy of Peter, which is the cor- 
 ner-stone of your apostate Church 1 
 
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2nd. I will never be a Roman Catholic, 
 for the Roman Catholic Church is idola- 
 trous. You worship God ; yesi But the 
 God you worship is. made with a wafer. It 
 is a wafer-^od, who is on your altar ! 
 fj i; Every hour of your priestly life you are 
 I guilty of the crime which Aaron committed, 
 
 when he caused the Israelites to worship a 
 golden calf. The only difference between 
 you and Aaron, is that his god was miide 
 with gold, and yours is made with dough, 
 baked by your runs, or your servant girls, 
 between two well polished and heftted 
 
 irons. 
 
 You have a Christ '^n your altars ; yes. 
 And you are verj ^ed and truly pious, 
 
 towards that or i • 'lose Christs ; you 
 
 praise their powers . leir mercies; you 
 
 sing beautiful songs in their honor— but 
 the Christs whom you worship are spoken 
 of by our Saviour in Matt. xxiv. "There 
 will be false christs, and they shall show 
 great signs and wonders insomuch that if it 
 were possible, they shall deceiye the very 
 
elect. Wtierefore,i£ they shall say unto you, 
 behold, he (Christ) is in the seciot cham- 
 bers, believe it not/' 
 
 Now, my Lord, bow dp you not see that 
 that terrible prophecy is accomplished by 
 you, every time you prostrate yourself be- 
 fore those Christs, made with little cakes, 
 and put in the secret chambers of your 
 Church (the tabernacle) ? Do you not 
 believe in those Christs of the secret 
 chainbers, when the Son of God tells you, 
 ** believe it not ?" Do you not go there 
 to adore your wafer-god, when the true 
 Christ says : '^ Go not there % " In vain 
 you tell us that (Christ i/ave you the power 
 to make your God with the engraven wafer. 
 We answer you that Chnst himself had not 
 the power to make God, and to make 
 himself with an engraven wafer, for his 
 father had forbidden such an absurd and 
 abominable act of idolatry, when on Mount 
 Sinai, ii;i the midst of thunders and light- 
 nings he said : -^'Thoushalt not make unto 
 tl^e.e any graven image or any likeness of 
 
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any thing, that is in heaven abo^ a. or that 
 is in the earth beneath, or thax is in the 
 waters under the earth ; thou shalt not bow 
 down thyself to them, for I the Lord thy 
 God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity 
 of the fathers upon the children unto the 
 third and fourth generation of them that 
 hi««:e me." 
 
 Now, my Lord, you know well that Christ 
 came to accomplish and not to break his 
 Father's commandments. He could not 
 give you the permission <*y, the power to 
 break them, by ordering you, as you pretend 
 he did, to make an engraven wafer, change 
 it into your God, and bow your- 
 self down before it. For this is 
 idolatry ! Rank,— shameful idolatry ! I 
 am ready to meet you, or any of your 
 priests in any public or private discussion, 
 to show you, with the help of God, that, 
 when Christ told you to eat his body and 
 drink hia blood, he was speaking with the 
 same figure as when he said he would eat 
 ^l^e passover. Though Christ salJ:— *^x 
 
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 will eat the passover," he was not able 
 eat the passover, for the simple reason 
 that the passage of the exterminating angel 
 over Egypt could not bo eaten, but the 
 lamb which was eaten in remembrance of 
 
 the *' passover." 
 
 By the same fipcure of speech, the body 
 and blood of Christ could not be eaten, but 
 the bread, which represented that body, 
 could be eaten, and the bread had then to 
 be called that body by the same reason, 
 and by the same rule of language that the 
 lamb was called the passover. 
 
 Just in the same way and by the same 
 rule of language, that when we look at the 
 marble statue of Monseigneur Bourget, we 
 gay :— '"J'his is Monseigneur Bourget, 
 though it is not Monseigneur Bourget at 
 
 all.'' 
 
 . 3rd. I will never be a Roman Catholic, 
 because every Steman Catholic bishop and 
 priest is forced to perjure himself every time 
 he explains a text of the Holy Scriptures. 
 Ye8,my Lord, though it is a very big and hard 
 
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 word, it is the truth, from the day that you 
 have sworn, when you were ordained a 
 priest, to interpret the Holy Scriptures, only 
 according to the unanimous consent of the 
 Holy Fathers, you have seldom preached 
 on a text of the Scriptures without being 
 guilty of perjury. 
 
 For, after studying the Holy Fathers, 
 with some attention, I am ready to prove 
 to you that the Holy Fathers have been 
 unanimous, almost in only one thing, ;<rhich 
 was to differ on almost every text of the 
 Scriptures on which they have written. 
 
 For instance, you cannot say that the 
 books of the Maccabees are inspired, with- 
 out perjurine yourself with all the priests. 
 For the greater part of the Holy Fathers 
 tell you that those books are not inspired. 
 You cannot, without perjuring yourself, 
 say that when Christ said to Peter, "Thou 
 art Peter and upon this rock I wil build 
 my church," it signified that Peter was 
 meant by that rock, and that he is the 
 corner- stone of the church. For you know 
 
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 very well (and if you do not know it, I can 
 show it ^o your lordship) that St. Augustine 
 wci many of the Holy Fathers positively 
 say. that Christ meant himself, when he 
 s^i<^j ^* Upon this rock I will build my 
 dhurch." 
 
 4th. I cannot be any more a Roman 
 Catholic, for I Know that auricular con- 
 fession is a diabolical institution. 
 
 5th. I will never be a Roman Catholis 
 for I have seen with my own eyes the in- 
 side of the walls of your Church, and they 
 are filled with all the abominations of the 
 world. Your celibacy is of diabolical in- 
 stitution ; your purgatory, with the poor 
 souls who burn in it, and are saved by 
 p^yixig you so many dollars, is of diabolical 
 institution ; your waters of La Salette and 
 ifotje Dame de Lourdes, which are sold in 
 youi^ palace, your forbidding to ea,t meat 
 on ^(^rjtiain days, is of diabolical institution ; 
 your defence of reading the Holy Scriptvres 
 is 9f diabolical institution ; your infallible 
 Pop^ and immaculate mother of God are of 
 diabolical institution. 
 
 
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 6th. With the help of God, I will never 
 
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 think of making my peace ^itb th^, C|iur/ch 
 of Rome, for her priests, bishops and popes 
 have shed the blood of millions of martyrs 
 from John Huss to our dear brother 
 Hackefct. 
 
 On your Popes' hands I se6 the bloba of 
 75,000 Protestants slaughtered the night 
 of St. Bartholomew, and the blood of half 
 a million of christians slaughtered in the 
 mountains of Piedmont. 
 
 7th. I will never be a Roman Catholic, 
 for your church is the implacable enemy of 
 all the laws of God and of all the rights and 
 liberties and privileges of men. Your 
 church has degraded and brought into the 
 dust and the mud all the nations she has 
 ruled. 
 
 1 might give you many other reasons 
 why I will never be a Roman Cotholic ; 
 but f hope these are sufficient to show to 
 ray dear countrymen, whom you «o cruelly 
 keep in the most ignominious ignorance and 
 slavery, that having once accepted Christ 
 
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 for my only Saviour, and hia only word for 
 my Ktdde, I cannot bow down any more 
 before your idols and your water-god. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 C. Chiniquy. 
 1430 St. Catharine St. , 
 Montreal) September 3, 1877. 
 
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