godliness is to make gain, and who consider it a right and proper thing that religion should be used to minister to one’s personal advantage. Leo the Tenth was a true disciple of Balaam when he exclaimed to his cardinals, “What a profitable thing this myth about Jesus Christ has been to us!”* And every person, of whatever sect or system, or perchance outside of all such, has followed after the error of Balaam, who enters upon the dispensing of religious mysteries with a view to financial or other