But I wish you to understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have served rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Now I desire From hence it appears, that what was intended as the greatest hindrance to the propagation of the Christian religion, eventually proved the most direct method of extending it. St. Paul was not less zealous in prison, and in chains, than when he laboured under no obstacles to his designs: how much the reverse is the conduct of our late reformers!
