What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

IPRIESTLY PROFLIGACY.
udiced persons, verified as far as practicable by my own observations, must not be misstated.
The celebration of mass at an early hour of Sunday morning, does not exempt a priest from the duty of obeying tlie
divine command, "I Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."
And yet he may be seen on that day as on others, in bull-rilng
and cock-pit, restaurant and tavern, with commoner and concubinie, joining in noisy revel, or looking on with complacent
sanction. Nor does the going down of the sun always arrest
his wayward peregrinations; for vicious inclinations being unsatiated, at that hour when the clerical robe after the holy offices of the day should be folded in the pure atmosphere of the
private sanctuary, it may sometimes be seen profaned by the
pursuit of street adventures, at corners with tapada,s its wearer
in gay and lascivious conversation, or threading byways in fulfilment of a lustful assignation. We may demnand in the name
of Christianity, and in its own language, is lie who standest in
high places "instructed out of the law "-" a light of them
which are in darkness "-and " teacher of others "-not to teaech
himself? " Thou that sayest a man shall not commit adultery,
dost thou commit adultery? " "Thou that abhorrest idols, dost
thou commit sacrilege? " Is it not strange thlat those who assert
a special privilege to study and expound the IHoly Scriptures,
should fail to give a just interpretation, and make a righteous
application of these, in their own cases? If the Bishop of Areqluipa will turn to thie " weak and beggarly elements of the
world," if he cannot, like his great predecessor St. Paul, "contain," but must obey the carnal desires, " let him marry" as he
is commanded by the Apostle, like an honorable man aind consistent Christian, and not prove a' stumbling-block to his more
scrupulous brother. And let him not encourage the frailty of
depraved disciples by a shameless example of licentiousness
made public by his procurement. of separate apartments in Lima
for his seven concubines and his thirty-five illegitimate childlren, during his absence on a mission to the Roman head of
the church; who, if rumor speak truth of his virtues, would
spurn him from his presence if aware of such scandalous libertinism.
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