They are obliged, in order to supply their places, to hunt up unfrocked monks of a questionable character.

There are two parties, after this, in each parish; two faiths, two systems of worship, and permanent discord.

Even when the new and the old cures are accommodating, their situations bring them into conflict.

To the former the latter are "intruders." To the latter the former are "refractories." By virtue of his being a guardian of souls, the former cannot dispense with telling his parishioners that the intruder is excommunicated, that his sacraments are null or sacrilegious, and that it is a sin to attend his mass.

By virtue of his being a public functionary, the latter does not fail to write to the authorities that the "refractory" entraps the faithful, excites their consciences, saps the Constitution, and that he ought to be put down by force.