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DR MURRAY AND THE ALBIGENSES.
(To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury )
SIR,-I crave permission to be allowed space in your paper
to refute a portion of the specoh of the Roman Catholic Bishop
of Maitland. I trust some of the ministers of the Protestant
churches will enter on the subject, so that ignorant people may
not be credulous enough to swallow such a perversion ot facts.
In your issue of the 16th the Bishop's speech states that the
Romish Church, six centuries past, received great persecutions
at the hands of the Albigenses. Six centuries past the
Church of Rome, in the zenith of her power, placed
her feet on the necks of Kings and Princes to persecute
and extirpate all heretics. They dared not disobey,
or an interdict would have been placed on their king-
doms. Does his Lordship imagine in this nineteenth cen-
tury people are to believe such falsehoods against a race they
hunted by sword and fire through the means they used by
that great saint of the Roman Catholic Church, St. Dominic,
the founder of the Inquisition, burning bodies to save souls. By
their own ideas, these unfortunate people were extirpated by
fire and sword from France ; 60,000 were killed at the taking
of Beziers, and one of the Pope's legates was asked how to
distinguish them from Romanists. He answered - kill all;
better to lose some of our own than spare one of these Pro-
testants. Their goods and property were couflscated, and out-
rageous acts continually practised against them. The blood of
these men became in time the seed ot the Protestant Church of
Christ of the Reformation. The same would be enacted again
if power was placed in the hands of Rome.
Certainly the speech relating to these Albigenses is a gross
libel on a race they extirpated-a quiet and inoffensive people.
Yours, &c,
A DESCENDANT OF THESE ALBIGENSES.
November 16,1886.
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