Excerpt from Father Gavazzi's Lectures in New York, Reported in Full by T. C. Leland, Phonographer: Also, the Life of Father Gavazzi, Corrected and Authorized by Himself There is but one way to check its ever-increasing pow impoverish it. Let a law be passed forbidding priests or reli gions institutions to hold lands, or to inherit; impoverish the Church of Rome, and it dies; for to this sect, of all others, riches are power.' Yet it must not be imagined that Gavazzi is either an apostate or a sceptic. He belongs not to the church of the Pope, but he has declared that he is neither a follower of Ln ther nor of Calvin, but simply a disciple of the Catholic Church founded by St. Peter, free from all the errors, lies, and abuses of the present Church of Rome. Whilst defending political liberty from the inroads of Popery and Jesuitism, Father Gavazzi seeks to efface the petty differences of dogma, or of ceremonial, and strives to enlist all the followers of Christ under one banner, bearing on it but one title, the proudest of all, that of Christians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.