Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I have compared the foregoing certificate of ordination with the original, and find it to be a correct copy. Jno. G. Morris. Baltimore, April 1th, 4843. THE CONVERSION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC IS A GREAT MIRACLE. The age of moral miracles has not ceased, whatever the opinion of modern theologians to the contrary may be, whatever proofs they may adduce to support their opinions, I will answer them in the language of the blind man, who was healed by our Savior; " One thing I know, that whereas, I was blind, now I see." I know that the Lord has worked a miracle in my heart, once I was a blind leader of the blind, now I know that without grace I can not do any thing. I know it, I have felt the miraculous power of grace in my heart; who will contest the reality of it ?— That the blind received their sight, and the lame walked, and the lepers were cleansed, and the deaf heard, and that the dead were raised up, are undoubtedly miracles, but that He should makesuch an extraordinary change in the heart of man, who had imbibed the religious superstitions of the church of Rome for thirty-one years; to give him grace and strength to leave mother, sisters, friends and all that was nearest and dearest to him on earth, for Christ's sake, is an astounding moral miracle, that cannot be properly appreciated by any man who has not been the subject of such a conversion. My mind has often been filled with astonishment, and deep meditation on the subject of conversion. I am convinced, that when ;i Protestant is converted, he believes the truth, which he once considered folly, and looks upon the formalities in which he was brought up from his infancy," (which have been augmented and strengthened with his age,) as many tyrants, which bound and shackled his mind, or as many clouds which have dar...