TRUE AND FALSE PROPHETS.
The Irish Revival is not by any means approved of by the priesthood over which Dr. Cullen presides. From the following statement made by a Dublin journal in reference to the present state of King’s County, it appears that some of those reverend gentlemen pretend to prophetic gifts of their own:-
“The priests openly proclaim the banishment of all Protestants from the district, and prophesy that before winter is ended many of them will make clay in the churchyard.”
What do Dr. Cullen and his episcopal coadjutors say to these predictions? They may, if they please, contrast the prophecies of their own clergy with those of the Revivalists, and argue that the latter, being unfulfilled, are evidently the utterances of mere enthusiasm, whereas the former must be regarded as attestations of true faith, because they are verified: for if Irish priests predict that Irish Protestants will make clay in the churchyard, their words are pretty sure to come true.
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