THE PROGRESS OF BEGUILEMENT

то

ROMANISM.

A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

BY ELIZA SMITH,

"

AUTHORESS OF FIVE YEARS CATHOLIC," &c. &c.

DIVINITY

SCHOOL

LIBRARY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FLEET STREET,

Beeleys.

AND

HANOVER STREET,

TO THE

REV. W. H. HAVERGAL, M. A.

RECTOR OF ST. NICHOLAS, AND HONORARY CANON, WORCESTER ;

WHOSE COUNSEL AND ASSISTANCE,

IN THE WAY OF TRUTH,

HAVE PROVED MOST BENEFICIAL,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY

INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHORESS.

PREFACE.

SOME apology may be necessary for the publication of the following pages.

By many who have kindly perused my former narrative, "Five Years a Roman Catholic," a wish has been expressed for me to narrate the incidents of my perversion to Romanism, and to give a more detailed account of my experience while a Romanist.

This in my former little volume, modesty, and the fear of becoming tedious, prevented me from doing. The unanticipated interest and kindness, however, with which that little work has been received, and which I can only account for on the principle that the language of the heart appeals to the heart, encourages me to venture on what was then felt to be too delicate ground. Fully requited indeed shall I be for any sacrifice of personal feeling which the effort occasions me, should my dearly-bought experience be made beneficial to only one individual who, from like causes, is in similar danger.

A word on the style of the present Narrative may