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tolerate. The Church, having been cleansed by the blood151of the Redeemer through the mysteriously sanctified waters of Baptism, has become the Bride of the Lamb and his body; the Church, being herself the body of the Lamb, feeds upon his body in the mysteriously hallowed bread and wine, and transubstantiated into the real flesh and blood of the Bridegroom. The Bride -Church- has particular devotions to the “sacred hearts” of Jesus (pbuh), of Mary, and of St. Joseph (pbuh) ; to the fourteen stages or mansions of the Crucifixion; to the statues andimages of hundreds and hundreds of saints and martyrs; to thousands of authentic or fictitious bones and relics of the same; and adoration to the consecrated wafer exactly asto God the Almighty! Still there is no peace; all sins, grave or otherwise, must be confessed to the priest; and it is the absolution that the sinner obtains from that “spiritual father” that produces peace and tranquillity in his heart, and fills it with good will !!!If we turn to the evangelical group of diverse creeds and tenets, we shall find them endeavouring to procure an internal peace by praying directly to the three persons of the deity individually -now to Jesus (pbuh) , now to the Spirit, then to the Father- with closed eyes, but with oratorical gestures and movements; by reading the Bible, and by other practices private or in public; andthen they believe that they are filled with the Holy Spirit and are at peace! But I assure the reader that all these “penitent” Christians, who through their real or artificial devotions pretend to have obtained “peace,” and to have possessed “good will” towards their neighbours, instead of becoming docile, meek, and peaceful like their pretended Master, become extremely bigoted and intolerant. Whether an orthodox or a heterodox, when a Christian comes out from the church where he has “shared” the “Lord’s Communion” which they