LETTERS

TO THEЕ

RIGHT REV. JOHN HUGHES,

ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NEW YORK.

REVISED AND ENLARGED.

BY KIRWAN.

[Rev. N: Murray ]

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1855.

EX17 140

57302

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

TO

THE REV. ALEXANDER DUFF, D.D., LL.D.,

THE GREAT MISSIONARY OF SCOTLAND; THE APOSTLE OF INDIA; THE LIVING MODEL OF AN APOSTOLICAL MINISTER; WHOSE NAME AND WHOSE LABORS ARE THE

COMMON PROPERTY OF THE

CHURCH OF GOD,

This Volume is Dedicated

BY HIS FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE TO HARPER'S EDITION.

I SHOULD not feel otherwise than greatly thankful to God for the favor with which my letters to Bishop Hughes have been received by the Christian world, and by multitudes educated in the faith of Rome. Having gone through many and large editions in the United States; having been republished in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Canadas; having been translated into the German, French, and Spanish, and by American missionaries into some of the languages of India, they have been read in all countries where the human mind is in any adequate measure awake to the examination of the differences between the religion of the Bible and the religion of Rome.

For a few years past they have been in the exclusive possession of the Board of Publication in Philadelphia, by which, through its religious and benevolent channels, they have met with a wide circulation. Feeling that they were too much confined to such channels, and that they were almost excluded from the general book-trade, with the consent of that Board I have prepared the present edition.

The Letters themselves have been revised, corrected, enlarged, and, I trust, improved.

As the large editions of the address on "The Decline of Popery and its Causes" have been exhausted, and as