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Excerpt from The Life of Rev. Amand Parent: The First French-Canadian Ordained by the Methodist Church, Forty-Seven Years' Experience in the Evangelical Work in Canada, Thirty-One Years in Connection With the Conference, and Eight Years Among the Oka Indians
I decided to leave Lower Canada and go to the United States, having become thoroughly disgusted with such an unsatisfactory way of living. Being a good Catholic, as the word goes, I would not think of leaving home without making my confession to the priest. If I did not do this I should not secure the priest's blessing, and I might become an apostate among Protestants. SO I made my way to a priest and asked him if he would hear my confession. He con sented, so I made a general confession of all the sins I had committed during my previous life, so far as I could remember, and of course received the desired absolution. N ot being quite certain that I had yet received sufficient strength to serve among the Protestants, with whom I was sure to come in contact in the United States, whither I was going, I paid him a certain sum of money to say mass for me when away from my own people. Having fully made up my mind to leave Canada, I did so on the tenth day of May, 1838. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
