CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
A CHINESE TALE, FOUND IN THE PORTFOLIO OF A PORTUGUESE FRIAR.
Hear, O prodigy! O Tenderness! O Mystery!—He has just
drowned the Fathers;—and now he will die for the Children!
Voltaire.
LONDON:
PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY R. CARLILE, 55, FLEET STREET.
1819.
CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
Commercial affaire had engaged me to make a sea voyage. I had got far from the shores of my native country, when a dreadful tempest threw me on an unknown coast; however, I fell into the hands of a very humane people, and soon found they had brought the arts to great perfection, that they practised many virtues, and appeared to me in a state as enlightened as humanity could attain.
My admiration of them equalled my gratitude, but, alas! it is but too true, that man always discovers by some failing the weakness of his being.