In these days dangers, pitfalls, snares, were rife; in these days men went about and openly, unashamedly advocated shameful doctrines.

Let them beware.

It would be his sacred duty to exclude such men from within the precincts of that parish entrusted to his care by God.

In the language of their greatest poet, "Such men were dangerous"-- dangerous to Christianity, dangerous to their country, and to national life.

They were not brought into this world to follow sinful inclination, to obey their mortal reason.