My Parents Were Both From Scotland, But

Great Dislike To The Bible Was Shown By Those Who Conversed With Me About It, And Several Have Remarked To Me, At Different Times, That If It Were Not For That Book, Catholics Would Never Be Led To Renounce Their Own Faith.

Others Too Would Occasionally Entertain And Privately Express Such Doubts; Though We All Had Been Most Solemnly Warned By The Cruel Murder Of Saint Francis.

I Have Hardly Detained The Reader Long Enough On The Subject, To Give Him A Just Impression Of The Stress Laid On Confession. It Is One Of The Great Points To Which Our Attention Was Constantly Directed.

The Bishop, As I Have Remarked, Was Not Very Dignified On All Occasions, And Sometimes Acted In Such A Manner As Would Not Have Appeared Well In Public.

All Around Me Insisted That My Doubts Proved Only My Own Ignorance And Sinfulness; That They Knew By Experience They Would Soon Give Place To True Knowledge, And An Advance In Religion; And I Felt Something Like Indecision.