Brief Reflections Relative To The Emigrant French Clergy

Anticipate the answer, anticipate the historians of times to come : will they not say, ‘these holy men, who died for want of bread, were Priests of the Christian Religion. They had committed no sin, they had offended against no law : they refused to take an oath which their consciences disapproved ; their piety banished them from their country ; and the land in which they sought refuge received, admired, relieved –neglected, forgot, and finally permitted them to starve!

By addressing myself to females, I am far from inferring that charity is exclusively their praise; no, it is a virtue as manly as it is gentle; it is christian, in one word, and ought therefore to be universal.