expensive and difficult to secure. The person who wishes to buy
one of these Bibles must get permission from the vicar of his
parish, and if the would-be purchaser is inclined towards
Protestantism, the vicar will refuse to grant permission. The
priests are not very much in sympathy with the idea of circulating
even this annotated edition of the New Testament.

In Armagoza, near Bahia, the Franciscan monks held, three or four
years ago, a mission and sold about 1,000 of these Catholic
Scriptures. It seems that the Protestants had also been
circulating a Testament which had the same general appearance as
that sold by the Franciscan monks. When the monks had sold out
their supplies, they heard of what the Protestants had done and
inasmuch as the people could not distinguish between the true book
and the false, they ordered the people to bring back all of the
books to the monks, under the promise that they would examine
them, eliminate the Protestant book and return to the owners the
authorized Bible. The people brought back their books in good
faith. The monks took them, but never returned them. Neither did
they return the money.

On the 22nd of February, 1903, there occurred a public burning of
Bibles in Pernambuco. This was done in defiance of the Protestant
work with the evident purpose of intimidating the Protestant
workers and arousing a public sentiment against them.

But having failed in this, their first effort, they decided to try
another even more ostentatious.

Although it is illegal to burn any religious document publicly,