to churches in Western Australia and later in Queensland) the same testimony is borne of him.

He combines in a rare manner singleness of spirit with a strength of character which cannot fail to win affection and command confidence.

What impressed and greatly delighted me in my friend was the utter absence of anything approaching vindictiveness. Not a bitter word has he spoken of the Church in which he had been reared and trained. The love for his old Church is deep, and its depth is the measure of the intensity of the struggle which separated him from her. His references to his confreres in the Church are always not only generous, but affectionate.

This non-retaliative spirit has defeated the persecution to which he has been subjected since his secession, persecution which has not scrupled to use calumny and lying of the grossest kinds. They have, however, failed to provoke a retort. He has criticised, but never abused. Those whose condemnation and rejection of Papacy depend upon piquant revelations and innuendoes will look in vain for them in this volume.

That men fail under the unnatural strain which the Roman Church puts upon its priests is to be expected. The wonder. is that so many maintain a high standard of virtue. Mr. Enright does not seek to make capital out of the moral disasters for which the system must be largely responsible. He attacks the Church in its very strength, and is confident that the reasons which constrained him to break some of the strongest and tenderest ties of life will suffice to convince others. If he fail in this, he is prepared to accept failure. If those within the fold of the Roman Church will be led to read the following pages, they will, I am sure, be compelled to recognise in this ex-priest one who is a fair and even a magnanimous critic.

Mr. Enright has helped largely to modify and change the method of attack from the Protestant camp, and is destined to accomplish much more yet in this direction. My intercourse with him has strengthened my faith in Protestantism,

while at the same time it has softened and chastened my aversion to the Romanist conception and helped me to appreciate its many excellent features, and to think with more tender charity of its numerous failures. This effect upon myself and many of my brethren to whom I have introduced Mr. Enright will, I am satisfied, be the effect of this volume. Such, I know, is the aim of the author. May God grant him

the desire of his heart.

W. H. LEWIS,

Ex-Chairman of the Western Australian and Queensland Congregational Unions, and present pastor Congregational Church, Newtown, Sydney.

To My Fellow-Traveller, the Reader.

I find that Holy Writ in many places

Hath semblance with this method where the cases
Do call for one thing to set forth another.
Use it I may, then, and nothing smother

Truth's golden beams; nay, by this method may
Make it cast forth its rays as light as day.
And now, before I do put up my pen,
I'll show the profit of my book, and then

Commit both me and it into that Hand

That pulls the strong down, and makes weak ones stand.
This book it chalketh out before thine eyes

The man that seeks the everlasting prize.

It shows you whence he comes, whither he goes,

What he leaves undone, and what he does.

It also shows how he runs and runs

Till he into the gate of glory comes.

It shows, too, who set out for life amain
As if the lasting crown they would obtain.
Here, also, you may see the reason why
They lose their labour and, like fools, do die.

To My Late Colleagues in the Roman Priesthood.

This book will make a traveller of thee,
If by its counsel thou wilt ruled be;
It will direct thee to the Holy Land
If thou wilt its direction understand;

Yea, it will make the slothful active be;
The blind also delightful things to see.
Art thou for something rare and profitable,
Or would'st thou see a truth within a fable?

Art thou forgetful? Would'st thou remember
From New Year's Day to the last of December?
Then read my fancies; they will stick like burrs,
And may be, to the helpless, comforters.

This book is writ in such a dialect

As may the minds of listless men affect.
It seems a novelty, and yet contains

Nothing but sound and honest Gospel strains.

-JOHN BUNYAN.

Nota Bene. The italicising of the lines is mine.

PREFACE.

-JOHN ENRIGHT.

MY

Y chief reason in issuing this work is to spread that
which has been so fully given me—
"The Light."

I wish to acknowledge my deep spirit of gratitude to those authors and writers from whom I have freely quoted, also to the Rev. W. H. Lewis, Brisbane, my father in the Protestant Faith, for his many wise suggestions in the compilation of this volume, and notably for his valued preface.

I would also acknowledge my indebtedness to some works by the Rev. Thomas Connellan that I have read and which have greatly helped me.

CONTENTS.

THE POSITION.

Chapter I.-"Buckle"-My Offence, My Sin, My Crime,
My Most Unpardonable Transgression-"Suffer and be Silent"
-Why I Forbore-Waiting for the Dawn-Rather the Angel
of Peace than the God of War.

FANATICISM.

Chapter II.-Reasons for Statement-Dr. O'Reiley, Arch-
bishop of Adelaide, Man, Minister and Character Reader-I
am the First Protestant in my Family-Roman Catholics at
my Services and Lectures-A Blessing-My Early Zeal-For-
bidden Fruit-Augean Stable-A Painful Experience "A
Roman Spy"-Pear's Soap Recommended-In Pleasing Con-
trast-My Two Blackthorns-Christ Never a Fanatic-Dr.
O'Reiley and the Protestant Community-Protestant Grief at
my Departure from South Australia.

MINOR REASONS.

Chapter III.-Rev. F. W. Robertson-Fremantle Evening
Paper The System-Various Superiors-Waterloo and Saint
Helena-No. 1's Advice to No. 2-"Noli Andream tangere"
-Very Tired of It All-Some Superiors Nobly Retrieved
the Position-Too Late for Me.

"LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT."

Chapter IV.-The "Index"-My Little Brown Bag-The
Keystone of the Main Arch in Danger-My Crucible-Where
I Found Relief-Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting.

FOREWORD TO MAJOR REASONS.

Chapter V.-Shirking the Searchlight-The Dominant
Religion of my Native Land-Though All Should Deny Thee
-De Cartes De Lammenais-No More Faithful Henchman
of the Pope than I-Fearful of Compromising-Consoling
Others, Myself Inconsolable.

INFALLIBILITY.

Chapter VI.-E. Maitland-The Roman Position-Enter-

ing into Conflict-The Famous Decree of 1870-It Fails to

Carry Me Through-My Grief Then, and Its Cause-Further

Examination of the Decree-When the Pope Intends to

Define.

INFALLIBILITY—(Continued).

Chapter VII.-Closer Study of the Sacred Scriptures-What

They Did Not Prove to Me-Mr. Gladstone and Cardinal

Newman-Not Taught by the Master nor Enforced by the

Apostles-From Gladstone's "Vatican Claims"-In a Maze-

Looking Back-"Kindly Light" Again to the Rescue-No

Strength in their Scripture Proof.

INFALLIBILITY-(Continued).

Chapter VIII.-Tradition: What It Did Not Prove to

Me-Agatha-Leo - Irenæus-Optatus-Jerome Modes of

Argument that Failed-Councils: Fourth of Constance, Second

of Lyons-Florence-Vienna-Three Peculiar Facts Adduced

as Proofs-A Fourth Peculiar Fact-"Gratis asseriturs" Not

Proofs-Canon Law-Transgressors-Downright Disloyalty-

Rev. E. J. Rogers, Victoria-Impressed and Depressed.

· INFALLIBILITY-(Continued).

Chapter IX. "Nemo dat quod non habet"-Still Burrow-

ing-Four Necessary Conditions-"Master, what shall I do

to be saved?"-Non-necessity for Two Infallible Authorities

-Every Power has the Right to Bear Witness of Itself---

The Sultan's Firman and the Czar's Ukase.

INFALLIBILITY-(Continued).

Chapter X.-Ecumenical Council-Vatican Council, 1870,
Not Ecumenical-Continental Opposition-Jansen, Archbishop
of Utrecht-Archbishop of Paris-Other Notable Secessionists
-The Rifle Range-Peter, James and Paul-Searching Early
Church History-Basil, Pelagius-Augustine-The Four Patri-
archates-Two Ecclesiastics Argue-Cardinal Baronius-
Gregory the Great-John of Constantinople-Avignon--Alex-
ander VI-Eugenius IV.-Savonarola.