Books from the Virginia Military Institute

D. W. N. Minor with the sincere regard of his friend J. [C?]. Diddle July 1, 1836

XII.) V.M.I. [?] ) [?]. T.) Library.

Not the Roman Catholic

No [Ch?] [illegible] [illegible]

Which was not [then the?] Roman Church

[?sts] Church under [plenary?] power but [?st] of man's composition.

P.S. Our author has, in much beautiful language, urged [deleted word] you to renounce Protestantism and embrace a religion, which, in connection with other palpable errors, requires you to believe in the infallibility of a mortal man -the Pope. But before complying, I ask your candid interpretation of the following passage of _____ "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." I John. Chapt. 1 verse 8. "Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, xxxx, forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats." I Timothy. Chap. IV. Verse 1-3.

A reader [Md?] [June 1st 1875?]

W. Newton M[??]

M. H. Jewett