SPECIAL NOTICE
TO NEW EDITION.
Since the publication of the second edition of "Fifty Years in the
Church of Rome," the incendiary torch of the foe has twice reduced into
ashes the electrotype plates, with many volumes already printed, and about
to be delivered to subscribers.
Though those two disasters have completely ruined me financially,
they have not discouraged me, for my trust was in God, and in Him
alone. Relying on His divine and paternal protection, I offer this New
Edition to my brethren, with the prayerful hope that the Good Master will
bless it for His glory, and the good of His elect, wherever it may go.
I have no words to sufficiently bless the friends who have extended
to me a helping hand to raise the book from its fiery grave; and I cannot
sufficiently thank the Press, both religious and secular, of Europe
and America, for the kind appreciation given, almost everywhere, to my
humble labor.
May this book, with the help of God, be the means of giving liberty
to those who are held in the bondage of ignorance, superstition and
idolatry, is the sincere desire of their friend,
