It is the plundering and sacking of our city, the profanation of our mosques, the ruin of our homes, the violation of our wives and daughterscruel oppression, bigoted intolerance, whips and chains, the dungeon, the fagot, and the stakesuch are the miseries and indignities we shall see and suffer; at least, those grovelling souls will see them who now shrink from an honorable death.

The owner of the humblest dwelling almost invariably offers to the foreigner who enters it the hospitable tea-cup, without any apparent apprehension that his guest, by using, will defile it; and priests and worshippers attach no idea of profanation to the presence of the stranger in the joss-house.

Christianity does not need them, and they are spared a daily profanation in the name of religion.

He looked upon married life, with all its hallowed beauty, as a profanation for a priest.