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Thirty Years in Hell
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"From Darkness to Light."
BY
Ex-Priest, Bernard Fresenborg,
Who for thirty long years tread the slippery and deceitful
path
of abhorrent Catholicism, but who to-day stands at the
Vatican's door, with the torch of Protestant wisdom,
and denounces Popery with a tongue
livid with the power of
a living God.
Like a Meteor From God's Throne,
This great book has stirred
America from center to circumference.
About 400 Large Pages,
And each Page a stinging rebuke to Roman Catholicism.
Published by
North-American Book House,
St. Louis, No.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1904,
by
NORTH-AMERICAN BOOK HOUSE,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.
[Transcribed text from:
Jesus Is Savior]
Author's Announcement.
A structure of enlightment is to be built in
this land, which to finish, every man of intellectual power must contribute.
The structure which I refer to, is the
structure of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY," as the spiritual part of man must have
room to expand and grow the same as any other God-given privilege that man
is blessed with.
Unless we grow in faith we become dwarfs in the
worship of God.
Those who go forth into the world and profess
to be the teachers of men should be giants of intellect and fully prepared
to contribute to this monument of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY."
These giants are the "KNIGHTS OF THE SPIRIT,"
who stand upon the summit of righteousness and proclaim an intelligent God
to a sinful world.
Many say they do not feel that they possess the
ability to contribute to this structure of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY," but I say,
none who possess the power to reason are exempt, for if they cannot place in
the
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arch of this structure the golden "key-stone"
that shall securely bind this structure together, they can carry mortar or
stones, which is as imperative in this structure, as the polished "Cap
stone" which shall complete this great pyramid of emancipation.
I do not crave to have my name engraven in bold
letters upon the "Cap stone" of this structure, but I do desire to
contribute my mite towards the completion of this grand structure of free
thought, which, when completed, will stand out upon the horizon of time as a
towering monument to Christ and his cause.
Roman Catholicism, as taught by our modern
priests and inspired by the papal power at Rome is naught but the distant
rumblings of an antiquated chariot of darkness, as the teachings of this
MONARCHICAL creed has naught in view but the enslavement of reason for the
financial gain and benefit of the "Robed" few who claim the right to think
for the masses.
For thirty long years I was bound to this
bewitching spirit of darkness by the chords of superstition and never dared
to look above my blind superiors for wisdom, until a "something" which I
will call "fate" broke the windows of my mental dungeon and permitted the
light of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY" to filter through my being which awoke "reason
and common sense" from her long sleep of lethargy.
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Now, what I once thought "Holy" I detest as
abominable; What I once worshipped, I now hate.
It is not the glitter of gold nor the
applaudits of the Protestant world that I crave, but it is the Master's
approval, that I desire. Therefore I deem it my duty to both God and mankind
to proclaim to the world what I know of the awfulness of Roman Catholicism,
and I know enough to make my poor soul often wonder if I shall ever be
permitted, to sing with the blest around that GREAT WHITE THRONE in the New
Jerusalem.
As you peruse these pages, I pray that you may
whisper a prayer to God in my behalf, as I am now fifty-six years old and
only a child in wisdom.
With pity for the blind hosts of Catholicism
and a prayer upon my lips for their deliverance from the trenches of
paganism, I dedicate this book to the world as coming from a heart which
poured out its youth's vitality upon the barren fields of superstition, and
wasted its vigor in serving only the god of myths. With a feeling of
brotherly love for the entire world, I am,
Yours in His name,
BERNARD FRESENBORG.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Who I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am 15
CHAPTER II.
Some of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried
On in the Name of Our Blessed Savior 33
CHAPTER III.
All Children of Protestant Parents, Declared
Bastards by Catholicism 51
CHAPTER IV.
Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power to
Reason and You make Slaves of Humanity 65
CHAPTER V.
Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box 81
CHAPTER VI.
The Nations completely dominated by the Power
of the Pope, are Nations of Illegitimacy 97
CHAPTER VII.
The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto Rica and
the Phillipine Islands 109
CHAPTER VIII.
Monasteries are often Criminals' Abode, and
Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue 127
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TABLE OF CONTENTS-Continued.
CHAPTER IX.
Unmarried Cussedness of the Roman Priest-Craft
149
CHAPTER X.
A Brazen Insult to God 171
CHAPTER XI.
The Characters of the Followers of Catholicism,
Compared to the Followers of Protestantism 181
CHAPTER XII.
Why the Teachers in our Public Schools should
not be Selected from the Ranks of Catholicism 193
CHAPTER XIII.
The Influence of the Priesthood in America 223
CHAPTER XIV.
The Chastity of the Home Invaded by the
Lustfulness of the Priest-Craft 239
CHAPTER XV.
Nations which have been Disgraced by the
Toleration of Popish Rule. 255
CHAPTER XVI.
Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength 281
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Author's Picture 2
"What Shall I Do To Be Saved?" 14
The Two Inspirations-The Holy Bible and
Catholicism 32
The Unmarried Life of the Priest-Craft,
compared to the Married Life of Protestant Ministers 50
The Two Ways--"As the Twig is Bent, the Tree's
Incline", 64
Immorality of the Priest-Hood--With Romish
Lust, the Blossom of Virtue is Destroyed, 80
America's Ruin 96
Free in Name Only--Take Their Chains Off Uncle
Sam, or You will always have
Trouble with Them 108
Save The Girls-Batter Down the Doors of
Convents,
and the Civilized World will Stand Amazed 126
Take Your Choice--The Christ of Protestantism
Compared to the God of Catholicism 148
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Being Excommunicated for Reading the Bible
--"May She Be Damned in her Mouth, in Her
Breast, in Her Heart, Etc., Etc. 170
A Modern Judas--In His Wake, Misery always
Follows 180
Foes to Knowledge--Like a Poisonous Serpent,
Etc., Etc. 192
Heathenish Practices--A Catholic I 'Dupe'
Kissing the Supposed Bone of St. Ann. 222
A Catholic Tool--Begging in the Name of the
Lord, but in Reality,
to Support the Priest-Craft, Etc. 238
Systematic Robbery--The Road to Glory along the
Catholic Highway, Etc. 254
Uncle Sam--"Here is Your Next Fight Boys" 280
The Lie Nailed 329
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Chapter I.
Who I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am.
My parents were Catholics, and for this reason
I suppose, is why I became a Catholic Priest.
I was born in Germany, in 1847, thus you see I
am now almost what the world would call an old man--56 years old.
A few years ago, I was of the opinion that my
life had been well spent, but to-day I firmly believe that the major part of
my life has been spent in erroneous doctrines and nonsensical teachings, as
the broad light of wisdom and independent thought has penetrated the dark
resources of my bewildered conception of right, and has caused me to look
upon things in general in an intelligent manner. Therefore, I feel that my
youth and the
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vigorous years of my manhood have been spent in
what one might term idolatry.
From this time forward I am going to endeavor
to undo, as near as possible, what I have helped to accomplish in the past.
In the first place, I desire to give the reader
an idea of who I am, as the reader is entitled to this knowledge, and in the
second place I want the reader to understand what I am, and in the third
place to understand why I am what I am, as there must be a reason for all
things.
My ancestors came from Sweden, but becoming
tired of religious warfare under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, they
settled in a Catholic colony in Germany, in the southern part of the Dukedom
of Oldenburg, near the River Haase.
The reader, if he be a Protestant, is familiar
with Protestant affiliations, and I am led to believe belongs to one of the
many Protestant denominations, known under the head of Methodist, Baptist,
Christian, United Brethren, Presbyterian, Free Baptist. or some one of the
many other Protestant
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Churches. Therefore you can easily see why it
was that I became. a Catholic, as I was taught it from my infancy.
My father, like his ancestors, lived in Essen,
Oldenburg. Essen is a town of considerable trade in grain, in fine Oldenburg
horses and Holstein cows, in fact, it is a town noted for its fine stock.
The beautiful town of Essen has a considerable
population. Two fine rivers, which unite their rapid waters in its very
midst, make it an ideal spot to live.
My relatives were among the first and best
families of the Dukedom. These families were by name Dickmann, Meyer, Junker
and Mohlenkamp, who are at the head of the intellectual and material
movements of that place. They are all related by marriage and intermarriage
to the Fresenborgs. My parents had ten children. This, however, may not
interest the reader, so I will confine myself to my own biography.
The school to which I was sent was one of the
leading schools and had a world-wide reputation, especially of sending many
scholars and students
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to the gymnasium and afterwards to universities
for different branches of sciences.
It seems as though all of those who attended
this school became successful in their individual careers, as lawyers,
doctors or some other of the chosen avocations of life.
I was raised, I might say under the walls of
the free City of Bremen, and was inspired with the idea of freedom, and
this, perhaps, may be the reason why, when I have come to be an old man,
that I have shaken off this eternal bondage of Catholicism and launched my
boat so late in life upon the broad waters of Protestant freedom.
As the son of a wealthy family, I was sent to
the Gymnasium of Vechta for higher studies, where I received the best
education which Germany could ,give to her sons, and from there I was
dismissed with the diploma of "Maturity" in 1870, which was a passport to
any man holding such a diploma in any scholarly community, for a diploma
from this institution meant all that it implied.
After I had gone through a perfect study of
Gymnasium, and after having obtained my
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diploma, I could then decide for any career
that I might choose.
About this time came the disturbance of all of
Germany caused by "The German-French War." Like every patriot, I volunteered
as a soldier, but the officers in the German army were practical men and
they had little use for unseasoned "student soldiers" in the field of
action, and I was left in garrisons where universities were situated, where
I had military practice for a few hours each day, and then could follow my
studies at the same time.
Peace followed quickly after the Waterloo of
Napoleon III at Sedan, and this peace was restored quickly in the
"fatherland," as not one victorious Frenchman had crossed the "Rhine."
I followed my favorite study, forestry and
agriculture, for some time, but as my parents and my forefathers, both on my
father's and mother's side, had been devout Catholics, I had an earnest
longing to become a Catholic Priest, as I desired to go forth in the world
and proclaim the cause of Christ, believing that Catholicism was the only
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church which had a right to establish her
doctrines, and, of course, cast my lot with this church, and to-day finds me
an old man with every vestige of childhood's faith shaken from center to
circumference, as I have lived in America so long and seen so much of the
intelligence of Protestantism, and so much of the deception of Catholicism,
I could not remain in the Catholic Church and be true to my conception of
what was right and wrong, therefore I laid aside, with a degree of regret,
the relies of Catholic barbarism.
I discarded the Scapular and everything that
has no more intelligent meaning to it than the cungering devices of the
heathen has towards the uplifting of humanity and the civilization of the
world.
Many, many years ago my faith was shaken by
what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own cars, but I nursed my
religious belief from my mother's bosom; my religion was born and bred in my
bones; every drop of blood in my person was electrified in childhood by the
cungerings of Catholic ledgerdemain, and I was taught at my
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mother's knee to believe that there was no
other church that had a ghost of a chance of eternal salvation but the
Catholic Church, and I was taught that all Protestant, were heretics and
abominable in the sight of God and sure of eternal damnation, unless they
turned from their sins and joined the Catholic Church.
Oftimes I would have my faith shaken by the
actions of some lustful priest, but I clung tenaciously to the religion of
my mother and refused to look beyond the horizon of Catholic superstition.
About the time that I had fully made up my mind
to become a priest, I had my faith shaken in the priesthood to a great
extent by a scandalous happening near the College of Vechta, which concerned
and strictly involved one of the great dignitaries of Catholicism in my
college town, but I fought this feeling of dislike down and forced myself to
believe that what a priest or bishop did was all right in the sight of God,
but at the same time I had a feeling of distrust, as I could not reconcile
myself to believe that God would look with compassion upon the acts of a
dignitary more
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readily than he would upon the transgressions
of his blind and duped followers, but nevertheless I went ahead and prepared
myself for the priesthood, which I followed for thirty years.
Right directly opposite the college which I was
attending resided the Very Rev. Herold. This reverend gentleman was a high
dignitary in the Catholic Church.
We young priests had often heard it whispered
about that Priest Harold had in his house at different times a number of
concubines, which are nothing more nor less than lude women. We often saw
ladies around the mansion, dressed in the very height of fashion, and their
actions led us to believe that they were there at the solicitation of Rev.
Harold, as they were seen there at all times of the day and night, and this
certainly made a very strange impression upon us young students, as there
were so many different faces; one day we would see two or three young girls,
and the next day the same number would be about the mansion, but different
faces. All of we young students endeavored not to believe the rumor, as we
were
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Catholics in every sense of the word, and we
did not want to believe that anything so degrading would be tolerated in the
very mansion of one of the officials who were teaching us.
The acts of this dignitary became so flagrant
that even the students who were trying not to believe the scandal were
forced to believe there was something wrong about the mansion of this
Catholic dignitary.
About this time there was a young priest by the
name of Wulf, from Rome, who was sent to Vechta and made secretary of this
dignitary's mansion, who, during the day, worked in the office of the
mansion, where court was held in cases of the Catholic Church and schools.
He was soon familiar in and about the mansion
and the surrounding grounds and was given many privileges, and the dignitary
seemed to like him because he did not meddle with his vile conduct, and the
ladies who frequented this place also seemed to admire him. There was a
large lawn surrounding the mansion and at night-time a number of vicious
dogs were unchained to guard it.
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The priest that was sent from Rome was soon on
familiar terms with the dogs and they would mind him and became as obedient
as children, and he was soon on such good terms with these dogs that he
could approach the house at any time, day or night, and one word from him
would cause them to sneak off to their kennels and not molest any who
desired to approach the mansion.
The young priests of this college were
determined to learn, if possible, if this Catholic dignitary was guilty of
the immoral conduct that he was accused of, so they went to Wulf and
explained to him that they desired to make a personal investigation, and got
this young priest to promise that he would let them into the grounds one
night and also see that the dogs did not molest them.
We selected a dark night and a few of us young
priests slipped into the lawn surrounding the mansion and placed a ladder up
to the second story window, as there was a bright light inside, and we
determined to learn, if possible, what was going on in this room.
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Dr. Wulf, the secretary, was the first to
ascend, and there in this room was the dignitary of the Catholic Church in a
half drunken condition, with two licentious and lude women, playing cards
and drinking wine, and the trio were in a half nude condition, and
frequently this dignitary of the Catholic Church would kiss these harlots.
After Dr. Wulf came down the ladder and told
what he had seen, of course the rest of us wished to become eye witnesses to
the perfidy of this vagabond of the Catholic Church.
We would take time about going up the ladder to
look at this sight, and sometimes one would remain so long at the top of the
ladder the others would become restless and urge him to come down and give
the rest of us a chance.
It seemed as though this Catholic dignitary and
the women up stairs within had implicit confidence in the dogs, and had no
fear of detection in their drunken orgie of immorality. This dignitary
seemed very drunk, and the ladies began to undress him preparatory to
putting him to bed. When
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they had him undressed, one of them pulled off
her clothes and went to bed with him.
The next morning the report in the form of
affidavits was presented to the parents of the girls, which caused a very
great sensation, and this bundle of infamy and abomination was forced to
leave the city by the parents of these daughters whom he had desecrated by
his filthy touch.
It was afterwards learned that this state of
affairs had existed in this Catholic mansion for years past, and all that
had transpired in this mansion would blush the inhabitants of Sodom if it
could be told, but it is so filthy that it could not be repeated by any one
who had much respect for himself.
After this dignitary had left the mansion there
were a number of children's skeletons unearthed in the park belonging to the
mansion, and one child's skeleton was found in the waters surrounding the
palace.
No one was ever arrested for this awful, awful
crime, as this Catholic dignitary fled to some monastery and there was
concealed from the law's
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clutch, as there is no law whereby these
monasteries can be forced open and their criminals brought to justice.
A monastery is a Catholic institution that may
be used for divers purposes, but for one great purpose, and a very heinous
purpose, is to hide and conceal Catholic officials who break the laws of
their country, as they can flee to these monasteries and there hide
themselves from the wrath of the civil government.
It makes no difference how vile the culprits
may be, these Catholic institutions are always a refuge for them, and
especially if the culprit who has money or friends supply them with same, as
the Catholic Church is and always has been a great money machine, as money,
in the eyes of the Catholic dignitaries, covers up a multitude of sins.
You may not know it, but it is a fact,
nevertheless, that the monasteries never allow the officers of the civil
laws to enter, and suppose the officers did enter, the culprit would never
be found, as Catholic institutions are built with the purpose of sheltering
her abominable faithless in case these
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criminals desire to hide themselves therein, as
the convents, monasteries and cloisters have a labyrinth which would mystify
any one who was not used to these underground passages.
No one ever learned where the dignitary of this
Catholic institution at Vechta went, but we were thoroughly convinced that
he was hiding somewhere in a monastery.
At this point in my religious training I
perceived the nonsense of celibacy, and the Apostle's injunction:
"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and
let every woman have her own husband." (I Cor. 7: 2.) But the teachings of
my childhood caused me to believe that it would be sacrilegious upon my part
to even allow myself to believe that the Pope of Rome could possibly make a
mistake, therefore I did as all true Catholics are expected to do, and
forced myself to believe that all of the abominations practiced by this
church were godly.
At this time I would conceal myself in privacy
and endeavor to reason why a minister of the gospel should be expected to do
things which were
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unnatural and against the direct teachings of
God, as we find in Gen. 21:18 that our Creator said: "It is not good that
man should be alone, I will make a helpmate for him," but whenever I would
undertake to study and try to convince myself of the erroneousness of the
Catholic doctrines, her teachings would loom up and blind my intelligent
conception of things, as I had been taught that I should not question a
single mandate that the Pope of Rome should see fit to promulgate, therefore
I made up my mind that it was a sin for me to use the intelligence that God
had given me, and I resolved to follow the Catholic doctrine, regardless of
what it might lead me to, consequently I closed my eyes to reason and common
sense and became a blind and superstitious, follower of Rome.
When I came to America I beheld her great
civilization and at once my conception of intelligent action presented
itself again, but I fought hard to drive these feelings from my bosom, but
the more I fought the stronger I became convinced that I was wrong and that
my early training was wrong, and that the entire machinery and mechanism
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of the Catholic Church was founded upon
abominations and superstitions, but the teachings of my mother would prevail
and I would slink back into the trenches of Catholicism, and there I
remained until less than a year ago, when I resolved to burst the bands of
iniquity and walk out upon the plains of Protestantism, regardless of the
deep feelings of respect that I had for my early training.
If God is an intelligent God, then we are
expected to worship Him in an intelligent manner, and if he is not an
intelligent God, it is impossible for Him to be a God, and if the Lord of
Hosts is an intelligent Creator and expects us, as His children, to worship
Him in an intelligent manner, the Catholic Church and all of her followers
are sinning against God every day, as her mode of worship is steeped in the
drugs of heathenish superstitions.
In this volume I propose to set forth nothing
but absolute truths, and I call upon an intelligent God for my witness, and
I am qualified to make oath before any official that is qualified to bind me
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under oath that every word that appears in this
volume shall be the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
I will give $5,000.00 to any charitable
institution named by any state of the United States if any Catholic priest,
bishop or cardinal will prove by any of their church doctrines that I have
mis-stated or misrepresented the teachings of Catholicism in any letter,
word or sentence.
I want to thoroughly impress the reader with
the truthfulness of this volume, so when be or she has perused these pages
they may know that it has been written by one who has served in the capacity
of a Catholic priest for the past thirty years, but who, to-day, stands out
upon the broad plains of spiritual emancipation, and from this time forward
will always be found upon the side of spiritual liberty and following, the
doctrines of an intelligent God, and when my earthly race is run I hope and
pray to be ushered into the presence of an intelligent God.
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Chapter II
Some of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the
Name of Our Blessed Saviour.
What I will now relate is not hear-say nor
something that I have read about, but it is something that I know about,
and which I witnessed.
It is a well-known fact that Catholicism
endeavors to impress her subjects with the miraculousness of latter day
miracles, as she will hold up the bones of some supposed Catholic Saint, and
declare to her benighted followers that if they worship these relies they
will work wonders and cure the ailment of any affliction they may be
possessed of.
For instance, they will take the bone of some
Catholic Saint (?) and admonish the followers of Catholicism to touch this
bone, or to kiss it, and declare to them that by so doing they will become
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entirely cured of any malady that may rack
their person with misery.
In fact, Catholicism will resort to all kinds
of nonsensical practices in order to completely keep their subjects in
darkest ignorance, which will enable the officials to "hodwink" their
followers and make them believe anything the officials see fit to teach
them.
I will now relate what I saw in Munster,
Germany. The news spread all through Germany that the "Mother Superior" of
the house of Saint Clement was living upon "Holy Communion" only.
Now that, the reader may understand what "Holy
Communion" is, I will here state that it is a thin wafer, used for
sacramental purposes, which would not weigh more than the one-hundredth part
of an ounce, and this is what they claimed the Mother Superior of the house
of Saint Clement was existing upon, she only taking one of these wafers
every twenty-four hours.
Of course, this was given out by the
dignitaries of the Catholic Church in order to blind their
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followers, and I desire to state right here
that I also believed that this was the fact until it was demonstrated
thoroughly that it was an infamous lie and that the instigators were
infamous impostors. However, pilgrimages started from all directions to see
this "Mother Superior," and when they could not see her, they fought for the
opportunity of praying in her chapel. Some stayed for weeks and weeks to see
her. Applications for intercessions of all kinds of misery were sent to her,
as these simple ""dupes" of Catholicism 'actually believed that this
impostor-had the power to heal any ailment that might afflict them.
There were thousands of fanatics who visited
Munster and hung their crutches on the chapel walls and declared they were
cured of their, ailment. The blind claimed to see by her intercessions. lt
was claimed that all, possessed o every kind and description of ailments,
could be cured if the one who was afflicted only had faith in this Mother
Superior's wonderful power?
"The finger of God is in the land!" was the
cry,
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and tens of thousands of Catholics from all
over the country gathered in Munster.
There was a certain man by the name of
Friedhoff who doubted the proclaimed powers of this Mother Superior and
boldly declared his doubt, and the Catholic world was indignant over the
audacity of such a doubt. It was learned that the Mother Superior would
allow but one sister of the institution to come to her room, and also her
Father Confessor. By the way, it might be pertinent to say that the Mother
Superior was an extremely handsome young lady; in fact, very young for the
position she occupied.
The guard that was placed over the Mother
Superior was given instructions by the Mayor of Munster to watch her closely
and see that she lived entirely upon "Holy Communion." The Protestant world
took an active part in this matter and gave close attention to the guard
that was over this "Mother Superior," as they were determined to learn from
whence originated this bold deception, as they were thoroughly convinced
that it was nothing more nor less than a deception.
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The confessor of the "Mother Superior" was
changed and the sister who waited upon her was changed, and in a very short
time the "Mother Superior" asked for food; thus it began to dawn upon the
public at large that they had been grossly deceived, and they began to learn
that all of these miraculous cures (?) were brought about and promulgated by
the leaders of Catholicism. Numerous physicians were taken into confidence
and an examination was made of the "Mother Superior," and it was learned
that she was pregnant, and it was proven that the child belonged to the
priest in charge of the convent, who, by the way, was the one this
"Mother Superior" confessed her sins to.
This "Mother Superior" sat in her room and gave
her orders to at least two hundred sisters who were inmates of this
institution.
The Catholic world advertised this "fake" so
thoroughly that every house in and about Munster was filled to overflowing
with pilgrims who came there on the strength of this well-advertised fake."
Munster was the Mecca. Every train arriving
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brought in hundreds and added great multitudes
to the already great crowd. Some claimed that the. sight of the chapel, or
even the sight of the hospital, healed them.
Even the newspapers began to report the
wonderful miracles (?) that were-performed by this "Mother Superior."
By this time the Protestants in Munster were
getting very active and denounced this worship in round terms, and set about
to have an investigation made, which was bitterly opposed by the Catholics.
The hotel keepers and shop keepers of Munster were bitterly opposed to the
Protestants' denunciation, as they were, anxious for this "fake" to be
advertised as thoroughly as possible, as. it was bringing them in large
revenues, as the thousands who were visiting Munster were compelled to have
raiment, food and lodging; but the denunciation of this "fake" by the
Protestants became so great that the bishop was 'compelled, greatly against
the wishes of the citizens of Munster, to investigate, and this
investigation brought forth enough to startle the civilized world. However,
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it is only one of the many, many colossal
"fakes" that are promulgated by Catholicism. However, the clamor of the
'Protestant world brought things to a crisis, as the "Mother Superior" was
ordered to stay in strict confinement and a watch was placed over her.
This brought matters to a climax and I the
"Mother Superior" confessed that one of the inmates of the convent had
secretly carried her food during all of this time that she wag claiming to
exist on "Holy Communion." Of course, this is only one. of the tens of
thousands of such schemes that are practiced by Catholicism all over the
world, and the Protestants were not surprised and stated boldly and above
board that they knew there was some "scull-duggery" attached to all of this
fake miracle business.
This "Mother Superior" fled from Munster, and
it was learned that she went to the City Rheine, on the river Ems, and gave
birth to a child, and the father of this child was the Catholic priest in
charge of this convent, who helped and, was the prime instigator in giving
out to the world
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that the "Mother Superior" was performing
miracles, which was a malicious lie made of whole cloth and promulgated in
order to securely bind the followers of Catholicism to their Idolatrous
belief.
This is not the end of the "Mother Superior,"
as she afterwards practiced in the open what she had practiced in this
Catholic convent at Munster, as she entered a. house of ill fame in the City
of Rheine in Germany, and there led a life of shame as a harlot of the
world; however, she was only living the same life she had been living when
she was sailing under the name of "Mother Superior" in this convent at
Munster.
Now, reader, if Catholicism would practice such
abominations upon the ignorant dupes of her followers in Munster, Germany,
is it not reasonable to suppose that she would practice them to-day wherever
she can fasten her hellish belief upon the minds of the people!
Hardly a day passes over our heads but what we,
see in some newspaper where Catholicism is brazenly declaring to the
intelligent public that
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miraculous cures are being performed by some
"hoodoo saint" of their idolatrous creed.
One would believe that in enlightened America
the Roman Church could not wield such an idolatrous influence over her
followers, but when you stop to think that the children of Catholic parents
are brought up from infancy to believe all of this "hoodooism," it is not
strange that they fall into these idolatrous practices.
When America learns that the majority of the
convents and monasteries of this country are used for the purpose of
shielding and protecting Catholic criminals, and for the purpose of Catholic
dignitaries to glut their lust upon the female inmates of these
institutions, and will exact and demand laws that will force a rigid
examination every thirty or sixty days of these institutions, then the world
at large will know and thoroughly understand that these institutions are
practically the homes of depravity and licentiousness.
To give the reader more information in regard
to what Catholicism resorts to to impress their "dupes" with their idolatry,
we want to take up
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their great magician, "St. Anthony." The
Catholic priesthood teaches their followers that St. Anthony's spirit
possesses the power' to answer all prayers, in fact, to perform any favor
the supplicant may ask.
Now, to illustrate what I mean, is this:
Suppose you had lost your pocketbook containing $50.00; the Catholic Church
teaches that all you have to do is to pay a few dimes into the priest's
pocket and then get down and pray to St. Anthony and you will at once learn
where your pocketbook is.
Now, bear in mind that this praying to St.
Anthony don't cut any ice unless you pay something, as every prayer must be
backed up by money, and the more money paid the quicker action you can get
on St. Anthony.
The Catholic Church calls it "St. Anthony's
Bread Box," and right by the side of this box they have a large number of
small candies, and you are supposed to drop the money into this box to pay
for the candles that St. Anthony uses when looking for what is lost, or to
light his path on his road to answer your prayer.
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These candles cost the priest from one-half
cent to one cent each, and the "dupe" will drop in from ten cents to ten
dollars to have his prayer answered, so you can see that the Catholic Church
is a good thing for the candle makers.
We will now give you a few idiotic prayers that
are offered to St. Anthony by the followers of blind Catholicism.
"O, Glorious St. Anthony, noble Sunflower of
divine conformity, I salute thee in the name of the Queen of Angels and of
all the angelic choirs; and I thank Almighty God for the grace bestowed on
thee, that like to this Great Queen and the angelic choir's thou wert ever
conformed to His holy will. I beseech thee that with this glorious Lady and
all the angelic choirs, thou wouldst approach the throne of God, lovingly
offer Him this my petition and strengthen it by thine intercession.
"OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY."
"I salute thee, Blessed Anthony, noble
Narcissus-flower of knowledge, in the name of all the patriarchs and
prophets; and I thank the good God for bestowing on thee, like to the
patriarchs and
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prophets, the gift of divine knowledge and of
foreseeing future events. I beseech thee that with the patriarchs and
prophets thou wouldst approach the throne of God and by your united prayers
and merits obtain for me this my petition.
"OUR FATHER. HALL, MARY. GLORY."
"I salute thee, Blessed Anthony, noble
Carnation-flower of fervent love, in the name of all the holy apostles and
disciples of Christ; and I thank the most merciful Lord for the great grace
bestowed on thee, like unto that of the apostles and disciples, when He
chose thee to proclaim the holy Gospel and to spread the Christian faith. I
beseech thee that with the apostles and disciples thou wouldst approach the
throne of God and by your united prayers and merits obtain for me this my
petition.
"OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY."
We will give you an instance of this " St.
Anthony's" witchcraft business that came under my personal observation. A
lady was standing upon a bridge that spans one of the many streams that
rushes down from the Adirondack Mountains, gazing
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at this crystal stream and watching the fishes
below, and while standing there she was toying with a beautiful diamond ring
that had been given her by her lover. In a careless manner she allowed this
ring to slip from her finger, and it fell into the waters below.
With a sudden cry those who were near her were
attracted to the spot and she explained to them her misfortune, and it was
not long until there was quite a crowd about her, offering their sympathy
and also their assistance.
Some volunteered to wade into this stream and
search for the ring, which was done, and a number of buckets of mud were
carried up out of the stream from the point the lady had stated she had
dropped her ring, but the ring could not be found.
At this point one of our Catholic "dupes"
appeared and explained to the lady that if she would put her trust in St.
Anthony and would pay $500, that St. Anthony would restore to her her ring.
This lady being a Catholic also, of course, was
easily persuaded to do this, so they knelt down and prayed to St. Anthony
and beseeched him to
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restore the lost treasure, and it was not long
until all of those in the crowd that belonged to the Catholic Church were in
sympathy with this distressed lady, and they were also kneeling and
supplicating St. Anthony to restore the lost treasure. They prayed for an
hour, but still the lost treasure would not appear; then the ringleader of
this barbarous belief informed this lady that the ring had been swallowed by
a fish. He pretended to be inspired and claimed that he could catch this
identical fish with the bait of St. Anthony's bread. Everything was soon
prepared and the line was let down into the water, and sure enough a good
sized fish was caught upon this St. Anthony's bait, and the crowd went into
rapturous delight, as they were quite sure they had the identical fish that
had swallowed the ring.
As soon as the fish was caught a collection was
raised by a priest who was in the crowd for the benefit of "St. Anthony's
Bread Box." All of the Catholics in the crowd contributed, of course, as
they were afraid not to, for Catholics believe that if they do not do what a
priest tells them to
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they are sure to have something awful befall
them, and, of course, all of these Catholics believed ill the witchcraft of
St. Anthony and believed that he was the actual restorer of all lost things.
The Protestants in the congregation were
determined to see what was inside of the fish, so they followed the one that
carried it to a butchershop and the fish was cut open, but naught was found
in it but what is usually found in any old fish that never saw or heard tell
of a diamond ring.
Now, this is one of the thousands--yea, tens of
thousands of such instances that are forced down the throats of the
ignorant, superstitious followers of Catholicism.
Now, what I relate above is true in every
conceivable manner, and not one sentence or statement is misrepresented.
This belief in the power of St. Anthony is
simply abominable and belongs to the dark ages of heathendom.
I have often wondered when I was acting as
priest ill the Catholic Church wily it was that Protestants, when they
attended my church, would
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look on in wonderment and surprise, and I attributed this wonderment to a
desire upon the part of Protestantism to make fun and vilify the teachings
of the Catholic Church, but I now realize that this bewilderment came from
minds which had been elevated far above the cungerings of the Catholic
Church, and I am now surprised that the Protestants who visit Catholic
churches are not more bewildered and mystified, as the teachings of
Protestantism are based upon the inspirations derived from the Word of God,
and the teachings Of Catholicism are naught but the rumblings of the dark
ages.
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Chapter III.
All Children of Protestant Parents Are Declared Bastards
by Catholicism.
The Catholic Church declares that all of those
who contract marriage otherwise than in the presence of a Catholic Priest,
that such marriages are null and void.
Catholicism further declares that your darling
child, which is the fruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a
common bastard.
How do you Protestants like to hear this? How
do you feel when you know that this is the belief and opinion of all
Catholic dignitaries, and this belief is taught to all the Catholic world by
those who presume to dictate?
Your darling baby boy or girl is branded as an
illegitimate offspring by Catholicism, simply because their parents were not
united in wedlock by
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a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as
hell itself.
The reason why Catholicism so sternly demands
that all should be married by the priestcraft is from a monetary standpoint,
as the Catholic priest gets his fee, as he will not under any circumstances
unite any one in wedlock without a fee, and I have known in many instances
where, the contracting parties were unable to pay a money fee, and the
grasping priestcraft would refuse to unite them in marriage until they had
given him some article of intrinsic value, and I have often seen jewelry,
silver-mounted pipes, watches and many other things confiscated by the
priestcraft before they would perform the ceremony.
It is strange to me, indeed, that America,
which is and should be by every law of justice and right, a Protestant
nation, is so unconcerned and so listless over the insults that Catholicism
daily offers Protestantism, for if it is not a most damnable insult to
stigmatize your offspring as bastards, then we are unable to discern and
distinguish between a brazen insult and a flattering compliment.
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Whenever America learns the actual and true
meaning of Catholicism and her teachings, there will be an awakening among
the Protestant world that will make the four corners of the government of
the United States tremble with a righteous indignation.
Now, if the offspring of that dear old mother
is a bastard, then she is nothing more nor less than a Common whore,
and you cannot arrive at any other rational conclusion. This is only
reasoning from intelligent deductions; therefore, whenever Catholicism calls
the children of Protestant parents bastards simply because these parents
were not united in wedlock by a Catholic priest, they villify the sacred
name of father and mother, and trail in the slime of disgrace the sweet
memories of that sturdy old father and that angelic old Protestant mother.
I am at a loss to know and to understand how
Protestantism can sit so unconcernedly by with folded hands and allow this
vulturous foe of human rights and human privileges to brazenly rear its
institutions in Protestant America, and
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teach such damnable doctrines about those who
have made America all she ever was, and is, or ever will be.
A creed or doctrine that exists upon the
dwarfed ambitions of its followers is undoubtedly an institution which
exists upon the carrion of human miseries, and is. a menace to a nation,
which possesses the godly ambitions that permeate the minds of
Protestantism.
We have in this country scores--yea, hundreds
of Protestant fathers and mothers who allow their children to attend
Catholic schools, when those who are teaching them in these Catholic
institutions brazenly, flagrantly and openly declare that those children are
the offspring of immorality, as they do not hesitate to say that all
children are bastards whose parents were not married by the priestcraft; but
still these Protestant parents allow their children to be taught by those
who vilify and defame their parents' names.
This is one of the strangest things that has
ever come under my observation in the United 'States, as the Protestant
world in general knows that
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Catholicism teaches these things and the
Protestant world also knows that under no circumstances nor conditions would
Catholicism allow their children to attend a Protestant college, but
Protestant parents go right ahead and allow their children to be taught by a
class of men and women who will boldly declare to these children that their
own parents are immoral, and that the teachings of their youth were
erroneous and would lead to everlasting damnation.
Is it not about time that the Protestant world
.was arousing themselves from this lethargetic sleep of unconcern, or do you
Propose to allow Catholicism to convince you, by her doctrines of
degeneracy, that she is right, and that you acknowledge her as right by you
sending your children to her institutions of learning?
Catholicism has' always made her boast that if
she can control the children until they are 7 to 10 years old, that they
will control the government in the future, and it seems as though Protestant
America is perfectly willing to risk the consequences, but let me sound a
warning in your ears
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in this chapter, which may not arouse you from
your national stupidity, but which, in after years, will rumble down the
avenues of the future the truthfulness of this assertion that will make the
Protestant world shudder. It is this:
"Unless you guard the goddess of your American liberty with the patriotism o
f your Protestant manhood, it will not be long until you will find this
government face to face with a problem more perplexing, than the government
of France is wrestling with to-day, on account of this Romish beast, whose
jaws are dripping with the blood of doomed ambition.
Catholicism is like a thief in the night, as
she goes about her devastation of human rights with the tread of a thief and
with the cunning of a bold deceiver, which she is, and this country must
station trustworthy men upon the ramparts of this government to watch her
progress and batter down her foundations of superstition and ignorance, or
within the next fifty years America will find herself bound hand and foot by
this Romish creed of abominations, which has caused every nation on
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the face of the earth that she has ever
controlled to wither and decay under her touch, like the tender plant under
the broiling rays of a tropical sun.
I have a right to sound this warning, as I know
whereof I speak, as I have traveled this Romish road of despair for thirty
years, and I know her Cunning and dastardly deception so well that her
history and her teachings are to me like the primer is to the school boy or
girl.
The warnings that I now sound in the ears of
Protestant America are not sounded by an alarmist, nor one who does not know
whereof he speaks, but these warnings come from one whose back has been
lashed for thirty long years with the whip of a Catholic tyrant, and I know
the history of Catholicism from beginning to end, for if one cannot learn
the history of an institution in thirty years' devout study, then pray tell
me of what use it is for man to apply himself to the study of anything?
'I was once as devout a Catholic as I am to-day
a Protestant, and I am only a Protestant to-day because I was forced to
become such, after having
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the scales of Catholicism brushed from my eyes,
which had been blinded by the superstition and fearful doctrines of this
abominable creed.
Arouse, ye men and women of America, or else
the time will come when you will not be permitted to make a protest; when
your wives and mothers are declared whores by Catholicism, and your fathers
and brothers are declared whore-mongers and your children bastards!
I have been a careful observer of events
through my entire life, and I never was more thoroughly convinced than
to-day that we stand near the threshold of Popish power in America, and I
ask of the reader, and of the Protestant world at large, Are we about to
realize the prediction made by the father of our country? Are we nearing the
time when liberty shall be bound to the stake by Catholicism? Are we nearing
the great Romish chasm that has swallowed up the hopes of many nations? Are
we nearing the crater of a Roman volcano that pours out its desolation and
devastation upon free men? Are we nearing the inky-night of servitude, where
no light is possible, but
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the dim and treacherous lamp of idolatrous
Catholicism? Are we nearing the stretch of waste lands that contains no
friendly oasis for him who seeks liberty? Are we building our own sepulchers
to bury all the hopes of liberty cherished by our forefathers? Are we
willingly carrying fuel for our own funeral pyres, there to be consumed by
the greedy. and relentless ghouls of Catholicism?
These are questions that demand an answer and
demand an answer at once, as we are far along the road to the end of human
rights in Protestant America, unless we call a halt and kindle anew the
fires of patriotism that have so long been unnoticed by those who have been
left in charge to guard our interests.
Catholicism is a vile deceiver and a rank
hypocrite, therefore we must diligently watch her serpentine movements, for
she will appear where you least expect her, as she wraps about her the
'American flag and other symbols of patriotism and goes about as a lamb in
wolf's clothing.
I have no reason for writing this book only a
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desire to help undo what I have already done in
my fifty-six years of the past, and by writing this book I have cut every
tie that binds me to those whom I have associated with since my childhood,
therefore the reader must know that what I am doing is being done in the
name of right, justice and the love I bear my fellowman and my adopted
country, which is the "Garden of Eden" of all the universe.
"The fool doubts what a wise man tells him
because the information is new." You may doubt what I am telling you, but
your doubt will cost you your liberty.
I have your cause at heart and I have no
ambition to gratify, as I am an old man and have no other desire than to
help those who need help, and I have come as a friend to talk to you around
your firesides, with no mission but that of truth.
Many of us have never been told to our face
that we were fools, but because no man has been frank enough to tell us the
truth is no reason why we should not investigate what is told us, and which
you have no right nor reason to doubt,
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The mission of this book is to get you to
think and to examine and pry into the past history of Catholicism, and
when you have examined the pages of Catholic history and then scrutinize her
present, you must know that her future promises no more than her past and
present would indicate her future to hold.
This book is written from a Protestant
standpoint, but by a man who was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever
became a Protestant, and we feel absolutely certain that the, Catholic world
will endeavor to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every
vestige of fear from that standpoint and have made-up our mind that we are
no better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were burned
at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the awful deeds of
that awful creed.
We want you to consider this book as a friend,
who has called at your fireside to tell you truths that you should
know, and which, if you do not learn, will lower you and your posterity to
the level of the commonest slave and place over you
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the most brutal despots the world has ever
known, and these despots are nothing more nor less than the Catholic Church.
This book comes from a man who does not court
the friendship of any sect or class of men; therefore, it comes to you with
intentions as pure as it is possible for a book to come from the hands of a
poor mortal, who fears nothing but the wrath of a living God.
Catholicism is taught her cunning from her
childhood, as she is taught to watch the ranks of Protestantism and whenever
she finds a weak spot, she turns her forces upon this weakened line, and is
further instructed never to weaken in her continual march of devastation.
Could the tears that have been shed on account
of heartless Catholicism be gathered in one body, the mighty oceans of the
earth would appear as silvery mountain brooks. Could the innocent blood of
Protestants shed by the heartless hand of Catholicism be congealed, it would
build a purple mountain that would cast a shadow the length and breadth of
this land.
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The nations of the earth have had wars from the
creation of the world, but the myriads of those who have fallen in all the
battles of the world would only be a small portion compared to the millions
who have laid down their lives that greedy, abhorrent Catholicism might be
appeased.
It is time for us as American freemen to
become free men in ever y sense the word implies, and exercise both our
franchise and our brains in relegating this "Scarlet-Robed Hag of Rome" to
her original haunts.
Will you perform your American duty and band
together and become a Protestant army and march out under the blood-stained
banner of King Emanuel and help to make America the greatest Protestant
nation the sun has ever shone upon?
Be men, and by your manhood you can, if you
make the start now, lull into eternal sleep this Romish power which
villifies your ambitions and brands your offspring with the stigma of
disgrace.
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Chapter IV
Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power to Reason, and
You Make Slaves of Humanity.
The men and women of the world, who have caused
nations to advance and prosper, have never been, nor never will be
Catholics, unless she discards her present mode of procedure, and this she
will never do. Whenever you tear the cloak of superstition and idolatry from
the form of Catholicism, you have naught left but the skeleton of
abominations.
The men of science and of reason, all over the
world, boldly accuse the Roman Catholic Church of being the enemy of
science, detesting it and desiring to spread the mantle of ignorance over
all those whom she controls.
The Church seems not to understand that
everything finds its source at the fountain of reason, as
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all things must originate from God, and most
assuredly the Supreme Being is an intelligent, reasonable and rational God.
The Catholic Church must resist, as a matter of life or death, the progress
of modern civilization, or else go down in disgrace, for civilization and
reason is a nightmare and an everlasting enemy to Catholicism, as
"scientific thought" makes her doctrines and dogmas stand out as
abominations.
If the world is to depend upon the Romish
Church for her intellectuality, and for her philosophy, and for her
scientific resources, she will always be groping her way in darkness, as the
Popish church has never advanced one-hundredth part of an inch from the
trenches of ancient ignorance and superstitions, nor has she in any material
way been instrumental in advancing a single interest of the masses which
elevates, as her every cry and her combined efforts have been to paralyze
progress and scientific research, as 'she well knows that to have the
searchlight of reason turned upon her mystified labyrinths of hoodooism, the
world
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will behold the marks of ignorance,
superstition and barbarism upon her degraded form.
Whenever an institution comes to believe that
it is infallible and an impossibility to err, then she settles back into the
ruts of tyranny, and whenever you find an individual or a body of
individuals who believe whatever they do is right, no matter what it may be,
you will find those who believe themselves ordained rulers of men, and
whenever this happens, the individual who believes this becomes a tyrant,
and tyranny belongs to the dark ages of heathendom, whence Roman Catholicism
originated.
To demonstrate to the reader and give him or
her some idea of the tyrannical rule of Romanism, we will take the history
of Galileo, which every child, perhaps, is acquainted with.
Galileo declared that the sun did not move, and
this declaration greatly insulted Pope Urban, who grew very angry, as this
pope had taught that the sun did move and that the earth stood still.
The teachings of Galileo so angered the pope
that he called together an inquisitorial board and
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had Galileo tried by this Romish tribunal, and
Galileo was sentenced to imprisonment for what. Catholicism termed a
heretical doctrine.
Who was right--Catholicism or Galileo? Not a
school boy or girl six years old in this land but what knows that
Catholicism was wrong, as she usually is, but she would not have
acknowledged her wrong had not the world-at-large been thoroughly convinced
of her error, which would have. brought her to the very feet of ridicule had
she persisted in teaching the doctrine promulgated by Pope Urban that "the
sun did move, and that the earth stood still. "
The Catholic Church is always desirous of
evading questions which are susceptible to debate, and which, by mature
thought and deliberation, can be analyzed, as she does not desire to come
into contact with the brains of any nation, but is satisfied to prey upon
the ignorant and superstitiously inclined, as those are her dupes and the
ones from whom she derives her revenue, and "revenue" is one of the main
perquisites of the Catholic Church, as this Romish institution is run for
the sole
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purpose of making serfs of men and controlling
the destiny of nations, so that the inhabitants may be forced to disgorge
their sustenance in her lap of greed) and it matters not how low she brings
her followers, nor what may be the hardships they have to endure, just so
she accomplishes her diabolical end.
The reader may think it strange that a man who
was born and raised a Catholic, and who for thirty years officiated in the
capacity of a Catholic priest, could turn his back upon the creed of his
forefathers and so vehemently endeavor to destroy every vestige of his
childhood's doctrines, but this is no more unreasonable than it was for
Paul, in the twinkle of an eye, to turn from his wickedness and become one
of the chosen Apostles of Christ.
Many years before I cut loose entirely from the
Catholic Church my faith in her abominations was at times almost threadbare,
and I have declared time and time again that never would I enter another
Catholic Church in the capacity of a priest, but as often as I declared and
made these resolves, just so often I broke them, as my early training
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and my superstitious fears would get the better
of my convictions, and I would be whipped back into the trenches of
superstition.
I have often tried within the past ten years to
"nag" those officials who were above me into a paroxysm of fury and have
them excommunicate me, as I tried to make myself believe that it would be
better to have them throw me out of the church than to leave it on my own
free will, but it appeared as though they discerned by intentions and they
would not do as I desired, and at last I made up my mind that I would swing
out upon my own account from the dark shadows of this superstitious belief,
and every word of this book has been written without a single charge
preferred against me by the Catholic Church, therefore the Catholic Church
cannot declare that I was not in good standing as a priest at the time this
book was compiled.
What I mean by "good standing" is that the
robed monarchs who boldly claim the power to damn the soul by
excommunication, have not as yet seen fit to eternally obliterate my
prospects
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of ever entering the "New Jerusalem," but as
soon as this book is given to the reading public, then those who wield the
axe will let it fall with all the diabolical vengeance of Roman hatred upon
my head and declare the " pearly gates have been forever closed upon my
depraved soul; but what I most desire is to have the public understand that
Now, while I am writing this book, I am considered AND AM BY ALL THE RIGHTS
OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A PRIEST AND ENJOY ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF CATHOLICITY
AS SUCH.
Why I so earnestly desire to impress this upon
the minds of the reader is that I know so well the trickery of those whom I
write about and I know full well that the Catholic officials will at once
endeavor to make the world believe that I am an outcast and in bad standing
with the Catholic Church.
This book is being written in the year 1903,
and I will make oath before any court of record on earth to the truthfulness
of the statements herein set forth, and I will give ten thousand dollars to
any charitable institution in America if any priest, bishop or archbishop on
the face of the whole
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earth will make oath and prove before any
lawful tribunal of America if one word of the foregoing is not true.
Furthermore, I will give up all of my earthly
possessions, which amounts to several thousand dollars, if any priest,
bishop or archbishop living upon the face of the earth can prove before any
court of justice in America that I have not always endeavored to live an
exemplary life and rigidly taught the doctrines of the Catholic faith,
although at times my whole life rebelled at being compelled to do so, but my
whole training and long association would invariably get the master of my
reason and better judgment, and I would be forced by my superstitious
training back into the mystified labyrinths of my childhood's education.
I stood it until I became tortured day and
night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade
farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of
blind Paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "slave of the
soul" and "tyrant of reason."
In this chapter we want to give the reader some
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idea of the nonsensical and unreasonableness of
the claims of Catholicism, so that you may more fully understand how
disgusting it is for a man who endeavors to use his God-given abilities to
submit to such abominations.
The Catholic Church depends more upon the
saving power of the Scapular than it does upon 'the saving power of Jesus
Christ. Now, this is a broad expression, but I know whereof I speak and I am
prepared to back up the assertion with facts.
The Scapular is a veil or cape, which covers
the shoulders. It was worn as such by Monks and Nuns, over their dress, but
which is best known among Catholics as two little pieces of cloth worn out
of devotion, under ordinary garments, and connected by a string which goes
around the neck and hangs down, allowing this "trinket" to rest upon the
breast.
Catholic children, from their infancy, are
taught that this trinket is a preventative against accident and disease, and
they actually believe it, and should they lose this "nothing" they at once
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become miserable and will undergo any hardship
to possess another.
It was through the Carmelites (Monks) that this
devotion began and I believe that the history, that I will relate in regard
to it is the first history ever repeated in this or any other country by an
ex-priest that ever lived or died.
A man by the name of Simon Stock was elected to
the generalship of the Carmelite Order, and this same Simon Stock was
considered a Saint, and it is taught by Catholicism that the Virgin Mary
appeared to Simon Stock in a vision and exhibited this Scapular and gave
Stock to understand that it was to be worn by the Catholic world in the
future as a preventative against accident, disease and sudden death.
There is another story which is told in regard
to tins Scapular, as follows: It is said that the Virgin Mary appeared to
Simon Stock in a vision in behalf of the Carmelite Order, which at that time
was in great trouble, and gave to Stock a Scapular, which she bore in her
hand, in order that it could be worn, and which she guaranteed was an
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order direct from God Almighty that the
Carmelite Order should wear this "trinket," which would be a preventative
from any evil overtaking any of those who did wear it, and further stating
that all of those who wore this Scapular
"shall never suffer eternal burning."
It is further stated that Pope John XXII, in
his famous Sabbatine Bull, declared that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him
and informed him that all the members of the Carmelite Order who wore this
Scapular should be gotten out of purgatory by her on the Saturday after
their death, and this Pope winds up his declaration with the following
sentence: "I accept, corroborate and confirm, in the name of Jesus Christ,
for our Glorious Virgin Mary, who has granted this great privilege to those
who wear the Scapular."
This abomination is nothing more nor less than
a "tale of fiction," and promulgated by men who know that it is a positive
lie, but they do it in order to mystify the ignorant and to compel them to
remain in darkest ignorance.
Now, to convince the reader that Catholicism is
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as densely ignorant to-day as it ever was, we
will bring her history up to date.
Pope Leo, in the good year of 1903, on his
death bed, ordered this Carmelite veil brought from Mount Carmel, that he
might have assistance from it in his dying hour, and declared that by the
assistance of this mythical Scapular that when he died he would go straight
to Heaven.
You can take the history of the Roman Catholic
Church from the earliest days of its cussedness up to the present time, and
you will find that the same heathenish superstition that surrounded it
centuries ago still follows it to-day.
Is there any proof that the Virgin Mary
appeared to Simon Stock and made to him the promise above related? No proof
whatever, only the conjured up proof of the officials of Catholicism, and
the Sabbatine Bull of Pope John has no more sense nor righteous meaning in
it than the ghost dance of the American Indian.
The Scapular that we above refer to is not the
only emblem of heathendom that Catholicism resorts to, but we have a number
of others which the
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Protestant world knows but little about, and
especially the Protestants in America, as the Catholic officials do not want
"this Scapular business talked about too much in this country, for fear that
the Protestant world will give it the deserving ridicule that it should
have. However, we have started out to show up the teachings of Catholicism
as they actually exist, and the more light we turn upon this subject the
more prominent her abominations will become, consequently we want to mention
these other Scapulars.
The first that we will mention is, "The Trinity
of White Linen with Red Cross;" the second is, "The Survite Scapular of
Seven Dolors," which is of, black woolen stuff; the third is, "The
Immaculate Conception," which is of blue woolen cloth, and the fourth and
last Scapular is one that was originated in 1846 by a Sister of Charity in
Paris, France, who is said to have received a revelation from God Almighty,
and this one is called "The Red Scapular of the Passion."
While American Catholics are a class far
superior in intellect to the Catholics of other
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nations, they still tenaciously cling to the
inert Scapular and believe in its efficacy and power; however, the Catholic
Church is getting to have quite a number of these Scapulars, which is
causing the intelligent Catholics to become a little doubtful as to which
has the greatest "pulling power," and many of them, in order to make no
mistake, wear all five of them in a bunch; thus they are assured that if one
fails to get in its work another will come to the rescue, and should they
fall off of a train moving 60 miles an hour, this little bunch of woolen
goods will save them from a bruise, or should they drink a quart of the
essence of strychnine they would be saved from instant death by one of these
five Scapulars.
You ask a Catholic to explain the merits of the
Scapular and all they can tell you is that if they die during the week that
the Virgin Mary will then take them to heaven on the Saturday following, but
if they happen to die on a Saturday, bear in mind that the Virgin Mary gives
them a cold shoulder until the next Saturday. Now, this is the
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only explanation that you can get a Catholic to
give you in regard to a Scapular.
Is it any wonder that the power to reason is
shattered by these conjuring devices of Catholicism, and do you wonder that
the dense ignorance of Catholic nations are completely under 'the power of
this angel of darkness?
Let us repeat, in conclusion of this chapter,
that Romanism is the everlasting enemy of science and individual intellect,
as she knows full well that when the broad, effulgent light of Protestantism
dawns on the benighted minds of her followers that she at once loses her
grasp upon her "hoodwinked" dupes, as it is impossible for the teachings of
Catholicism to exist side by side with the teachings of Protestantism,
provided that those who believe in these Romish abominations care to look
above the horizon of Romanism.
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Chapter V.
Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.
Blight girlhood and you destroy the
usefulness of womankind. Tarnish the sacredness of girlhood and you sear
the purity of womanhood. Deface the beautiful countenance of chastity,
which is found in the bosom of girlhood, and you not only mar the
happiness of girlhood, but you deface and obliterate the families of the
future, for without that priceless treasure, virtue, the eternal
principles of conjugal love becomes a barren waste without a single
oasis.
Oh, if I could but call about me in one
vast throng the girls of this land, and all other lands, who have had
the first thought of carnality planted in their bosom by the scheming
Priestcraft, I would have a throng of tear-faced mortals
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that would rend the heart of stone and
stigmatize the cunning of Catholicism with a stigma blacker than the
lowering clouds of despair.
When you force childhood to believe in the
infallibility of the priestcraft you educate the mind of that child to
implicitly believe in the officials of the Catholic Church, and when you
gain the implicit confidence you have established a belief that cannot
be easily eradicated, as this belief has become a part of that child,
and as it grows older, this erroneous belief grows in proportion to the
body, and by the time this child has arrived at the age of maturity, she
is as densely ignorant of the cunning of this doctrine as she was when
she first learned to repeat the Catechism with a childish lisp.
We desire to preface this chapter with
common-sense arguments, so that the reader may thoroughly understand how
completely the female element of the Catholic Church is under the
control of the priesthood of this institution.
Priests are, as a rule, men of more than
average intellect, and, as they have no other calling nor no
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other avocation in life than to make good
impressions upon their members, they of course become cunning in their
art, especially with the female members of their congregations, and more
especially with their young and handsome members.
Imagine the power that a Catholic priest
has over a young girl in her teens--yea, over any female member of their
congregation, when you take into consideration the fact that from
infancy these girls and women have been taught that it is almost an
absolute impossibility for a priest to commit a sin.
When you dwell upon the doctrines taught
these girls and women it will not be a matter of surprise that the
priestcraft wields such a powerful influence over them, as any one with
this doctrine funneled into them from childhood is open and ready to
believe what the priestcraft may tell them, and the individual is not to
blame for believing this, as they have been taught it by their parents
from infancy, and the officials of the Catholic Church have taught it;
then why should
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we be surprised at the dense ignorance upon
the part of these girls and women?
Priests always try to impress their members
with the idea that they are infallible and that it is impossible for
them to sin. They do this for many reasons. First, in order that they
may have their congregations in humble submission to any of the demands
of the church, and, secondly, it enables them to accomplish any devilish
deed they may wish to accomplish under the guise of priestly sanctity.
It is no pleasant task to dwell upon this
most distasteful and most, repulsive of all of the fallacies of Rome and
the abominable rottenness of the priesthood, but without giving a vivid
description of the cunning of the priestcraft in regard to the
"Confessional" would be treating the subject in a manner that would not
do justice to the abominations of her hideous doctrines; and to fail to
touch upon this subject would leave the greatest and most deadly weapon
in the hands of this band of devils.
The Confessional Box is an emblem of
paganism,
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as innumerable trustworthy authorities
prove that Roman Catholicism has pre-empted this custom. as well as many
other of her practices from the dark ages of paganism.
Oricular confession was practiced centuries
ago by the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Mexicans, Peruvians and the
Japanese--in fact, it is not only an ancient custom, but one which
belongs to the darkest of the ancient ages, which should have been
relegated to the haunts of hell centuries ago.
A priest once said: "Nobody should be
surprised when we priests, bishops and popes sink into the bottomless
abyss of immorality, for the celibacy of the priestcraft is only a
cudgel in the hands of Catholic officials to drive us to the haunts of
immorality."
A priest once said "that the Confessional
is one of the most damnable institutions that was ever permitted to
exist, as these Confessionals are only traps to lead the piously and
morally-inclined priest to the plains of immorality, for a priest is
naught but man, and when he is forced to compel women penitents to pour
into his ears their every
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thought, feeling, desire, emotion and act,
it kindles the fires of unholy thought upon the altars of his better
ambitions and before he knows it he has committed adultery and not only
ruined his own soul, but has been the implement in the hands of the
devil to destroy the virtue of innocent womanhood.
He further states " that not only do the
thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc., have to be related, in all of their
details, to the priest, and perhaps a bad priest, but all circumstances
leading to and the results growing out of these thoughts, must be given
in detail."
The immorally inclined and. licentious
priest is not satisfied with the female penitent enumerating only her
mortal sins, but he insists and forces the penitent to give
circumstances, minutely describing her thoughts and feelings of
every-day life, which leads both the penitent and the confessor to the
lowlands of immorality.
The priestcraft is instructed 'by the
Romish Church not to allow the penitent to conceal anything from them,
and the priestcraft is given
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instructions to probe the penitent to the
heart's core.
In this chapter we propose to give you a
little insight to the character of one or two priests that I have
personally known, and if I dared and if it was possible to print the
nasty history of a number of priests that I have been acquainted with, I
could fill this volume with their depravity; but should I do so this
book would not be permitted to circulate through the mails of the United
States. But I will endeavor to clothe my recital of a few instances of
priestly immorality in language of chastity, but will make my recital
plain enough that any one who can read may understand.
Rev. Chas. Kuhlman, who was pastor of a
Catholic Church in Edwardsville, Ill., was suspicioned of having become
too intimate with a sister of his own school, and this sister soon left
the sisterhood, and it was rumored that she went to St. Louis to evade
the birth of a child.
This very same priest was caught in the act
of adultery with a married woman in his office in East St. Louis. He was
at that time, besides being
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pastor, the editor and publisher of a very
important Catholic paper called "The Catholic Progress." This
immorality of Priest Kuhlman became public property and formed such a
nasty mess that the Catholic bishop had to take some notice of it and
the case was tried before the Bishop of Alton, Ill., and Kuhlman was
excommunicated for life.
This married woman gave testimony that was
very damaging to the Rev. Kuhlman and gave her evidence before a notary
public, which cannot he disputed, and it matters not how hard the
Catholic Church may try to villify these statements, they cannot
overcome the truthfulness of the same, as there are too many living
witnesses at this time who know that what I am relating is absolutely
true.
Rev. Kuhlman was not satisfied with the
verdict of the bishop of Alton, Ill., and appealed his case to Rome, and
the bishop was indeed glad to get rid of this dirty case and did not
appear in Rome to prosecute the case, and the Rev. Kuhlman won the ease
in Rome by default, and this same Rev.
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Kuhlman became a Catholic priest in good
standing again and was permitted to officiate as a minister of the
gospel, with all of this abominable slime of immorality clinging to his
priestly garments.
Now, bear in mind that Rev. Kuhlman, after
having all of this immorality laid at his door, was permitted by the
Pope of Rome to go right ahead with his priestly duties, but a short
time after he won his case at Rome there was an affidavit sworn out
against Kuhlman by a man in East St. Louis, averring that he had been
again caught in the act of adultery with another woman. This time the
ease was reported to Bishop Janssen, of Belleville, Ill, and also to
Cardinal Martinelli, of Washington, D. C., but there was no attention
paid to it, and this Rev. Kuhlman was permitted to go right ahead in his
pastoral duties and is at the present time the pastor of a church in
East St. Louis and is also the spiritual director of a convent, which
contains many sisters and many pupils.
Now, if what I have related is false, Rev.
Chas. Kuhlman has redress at law; and if I have libeled
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him he can make me suffer for the crime,
and he will not have to spend any money to locate my whereabouts, as he
is aware of my location at the present time and can find me at any time
that he desires to bring suit against me for blackmail or any other
crime that he sees fit to instigate against me.
It is no pleasant task to relate these very
nauseating things, but it is my aim and intention to so plainly and
powerfully set forth the deceit, cunning and dastardly deeds of
Catholicism that I may be able to open the eyes of not only the
Protestant world but of Catholicism at large, for there are thousands of
the followers of the Pope who are very weak in their faith, and if I can
by the righteousness of my cause, convince them that they are following
the blind leaders of paganism, I am absolutely certain that the
Protestant ranks will have an in-gathering of the hosts of Catholicism
that will cause the angels in heaven to shout hallelujahs of
thanksgiving.
Do not understand me to say, or to
intimate, that there are no sincere priests, as there are; but
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their sincerity is founded upon
superstitious beliefs and erroneous doctrines, consequently their
sincerity and devoutness only helps to fasten the abominations of
Catholicism more completely upon humanity, as those who are candidly
sincere are held up to the Protestant world as models of Catholicism,
when, in fact, they are but exceptions to the general herd of Catholic
officials.
To more plainly illustrate to the reader
how fascinating and powerful the teachings of Catholicism is upon the
minds of man, I would illustrate this by the power that parents have
over a child. You teach a child some doctrine, it matters not whether it
is right or wrong, and you will impress it with the truthfulness of this
doctrine in its childhood, and let it understand as it grows into
manhood and womanhood that this doctrine is absolutely true, and hedge
it about with superstitions confirming this doctrine, and the hosts of
hell can hardly convince it that its early teachings were wrong; so you
can easily see what a powerful influence Catholicism has over the minds
of its followers, as you must bear in mind that Catholicism
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takes up the child when it is only a few
days old and continually hedges it about with emblems of ignorance and
superstition and never allows it to gaze above the horizon of this mass
of erroneous doctrine; therefore the child is not to blame for its
implicit confidence, but the cunning of those who practice this
deception upon this child is to blame, and the doctrine of Catholicism
is what I am assailing in this volume, for if I can be instrumental in
opening the eyes of those who have arrived at the years of
accountability, I feel sure that I can be instrumental in having those
so reached declare to their offspring that their first lessons have been
altogether erroneous, and if the Catholic parents will begin to teach
their children before they leave the parental roof that their first
lessons were erroneous it will not be so hard for the Protestant world
to finish the job and turn these hosts of darkness into the highways of
intellectuality.
The reason that we have so many disgraceful
happenings and immoral incidents in the lives of the priestcraft is
because of the absolute confidence that their followers have in them, as
it is a well-known fact that the female world has a greater confidence
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in humanity than the male population, so it
is an easy matter for any sane man or woman to understand why an immoral
priest, and one who has no regard for honor, has such an easy task in
accomplishing the ruin of those whom he seeks to destroy.
The paradise of the priestcraft is inky
darkness, as they prefer darkness to light, and by their actions, their
every-day lives take on the hue of midnight. If we can read God
Almighty's handwriting in a legible manner, we believe that any
intelligent man or woman can discern in the countenance of a majority of
the priestcraft a look which is almost equal to a condemnation of their
actions, as a large majority are lacking of that manly frankness of
countenance which is found in the countenances of godly men.
In conclusion of this chapter, I beg to
state that the Confessional Box of the Romish Church is one of the
darkest ages of the dark history of Catholicism, and if this hideous
chapter was removed
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from Romanism, three-fourths of her diabolical deeds would be
eradicated; but when you remove the "Confessional" you remove the charm
for that part of the priestcraft which exists upon the carrion of the
human family, and whenever you remove the "Confessional," the celibacy
of the church will be abandoned and the priestcraft will be allowed to
marry, as Protestant ministers are permitted to do, and when this is
done, instead of having a Roman Catholic Church, we will have a
Protestant denomination in its stead, and my prayer is that a just God
will hasten the day when this "virtue trap" will be relegated to the
dark recesses of paganism, from whence it came.
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Chapter VI.
The Nations Completely Dominated by the Power of the
Pope Are, Nations of Illegitimacy.
In this chapter, we have before us the
vision of two countries; one is Protestant America and the other
Catholic Ecquador.
Protestant America stands upon a plane of
morality and chastity, which is pleasing to contemplate, and for which
she can thank only the principles of Protestantism, for Protestantism
teaches, by both precept and example, as she looks to the only true
standard of morality that ever existed, which is the Holy Bible. But
Catholicism looks only to a standard which the Pope of Rome sees fit to
establish, and a standard of morals which is set by mortal man, can only
be, at its best, a very inferior standard, as the licentiousness and
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lust of unholy man can never compare with
that great and infinitely good being, the Lord of Hosts.
Broad education of the mind means a
subduing of the passions, and broad education is something that
the Catholic Church fights against, as she knows full welt that to
educate her masses would be equivalent to losing her grasp upon their
actions, for no man or woman of a broad education and an individual
intellectuality will permit these hosts of darkness to dictate to them.
Ignorance is the greatest breeder of crime
known to the intelligence of man, and it is an established fact that
crime breeds immorality, and immorality of course is the equivalent of
illegitimacy, and historical facts will bear me out in the assertion
that the countries which are absolutely under the power of the Pope are
countries which are densely ignorant, and again, as above stated,
ignorance leads to crime, and crime to immorality, and now we are back
to the first proposition and have proven without going further that "The
nations completely dominated by the power of the Pope are nations of
illegitimacy," but we
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propose to use historical records to
convince without the shadow of a doubt that our statements are true.
However, I do not need these historical facts, as I have traveled
extensively through Europe and many other countries, and I know whereof
I speak, by personal observation and by coming into personal contact
with both Catholic and Protestant nations. However, we are not going to
be satisfied with this alone, as 'we do not want the reader to rely
implicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to bring facts
to bear upon your mind which cannot be over-thrown, as statistics are
stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but fool's dispute.
We propose to take statistics from the
Peabody Reporter, which you can corroborate with the official report
of the United States Commissioner of Education. The statistics that we
above refer to follow:
"To every ten thousand inhabitants under
the Roman Catholic school system, there are 1,400 illiterates, 410
paupers and 160 criminals, while in the public school system we only
find to every ten
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thousand inhabitants 350 illiterates,
making a difference of 1,050 to every ten thousand. Thus you see that
what we have said in previous chapters of this book in regard to
Romanism being founded upon the mountains of ignorance is true.
Education in its literal meaning, means an
infusion of intelligence that lifts up the minds of man, and it is
generally so accepted by the world at large, but education, as far as
Catholicism goes, means only a rehearsal of abominations, which have
been practiced upon the followers of this creed for centuries in the
past and does not in the least bear upon the principles of true
education.
The public school system is established on
the principle that the intelligence and virtue of the people constitutes
the foundation of free government.
Our public schools therefore form one of
the chief cornerstones of our American republic; they are the sheet
anchor of our hopes. The growth and prosperity which have characterized
the first century of our schools fulfills their mission.
Education is the watchword of the hour
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Protestants, but never among Catholics. We
must educate if we would elevate, and unless we elevate the minds of men
we will have humanity running riot with vice and immorality, and this is
why the Catholic nations of the earth are found with their morals
trailing in the slime of degeneracy.
Our public schools are to-day the great
assimilating power in this country. We find in them children of all
nationalities, and whether they be English, Irish, Scotch, Danish,
Norwegians, French, Italians, or some other nationality, when they enter
these institutions they pass out of the school houses, scattered all
over this land, Americans, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible
to make anything but a true American out of a pupil who has been
turned out of the public schools of this country, and one who has been
permitted to assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these
schools.
The influence of the public schools works
rapidly upon childhood and is felt through all of their after lives. A
child who has been educated in the public schools of this country is
always an
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unrelenting foe of caste. but the child who
is educated in the parochial schools is taught to look up to innumerable
superiors, and such an education dwarfs the minds of childhood and
teaches them to continually look to others for their individual
happiness, but the teachings of the public schools broaden the
individual mind and gives courage, which enables the child to swing out
from the influence of others and become a mighty power in the mechanism
of the universe.
We touch upon the public schools in this
chapter, only in connection with the dominating influence of the Pope
over nations which lie completely rules, in order that the reader may
thoroughly understand that ignorance begets crime and crime begets
illegitimacy, as we expect to dwell more fully upon 'the education of
nations in the future, but we want the reader to begin at the "Alpha" of
reason, so that when he or she is through with this chapter that 'there
will be no doubt in their minds as to why the power of the Pope breeds
illegitimacy among his followers.
We have contrasted the difference in morals
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the inhabitants, which are completely
dominated by Roman Catholicism, to that of the inhabitants of Protestant
America, but we have made this comparison in a general way; but we now
want to select a country which for its absoluteism of Catholic monarchy
has no comparison, and that country is Ecuador.
In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a
complete hold upon the inhabitants that they will not allow
Protestantism taught, and the consequence of her tyranny is that out of
every 100 children born in that country, seventy-five are bastards or
illegitimate and have no idea of their father, and the immorality of the
priestcraft is so vile that their actions are absolutely passed over
without notice, as there is scarcely a single priest to be found in that
country but who is the father of from ten to twenty-five and thirty
children; but still the Roman Church continues to forbid her priests to
wed, when they know full well that celibacy in the Catholic Church is
the cause of all of this degeneracy.
This state of affairs is not confined to
Ecuador
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alone, but the same state of affairs exists
throughout the length and breadth of all Catholic nations which are
completely under the power of the Pope.
Italy, for instance, which is the home of
the Pope and which has been the home of the Catholic Church since the
existence of her abominations, is one of the most immoral countries that
ever besmirched the face of the earth.
The first lesson that a Catholic child is
taught is "hate," and that lesson is directed at Protestantism;
therefore, is it any wonder that the. education of Catholicism only
reaches out far enough to hoodwink the student and does not elevate him
or her above the festering mess which surrounds it?
We want to repeat the statement that the
Roman Catholic Church does not want to educate anybody, nor will it do
so, where it is not under the pressure of Protestant influence. However,
the American people demand figures and facts before they will be
convinced; so as further evidence of the truthfulness of what we are
telling you, we propose to quote from a report of the minister of
education in Italy, made some few years ago. This
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report is true in every particular, and
bear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic himself. The
report follows:
"Of every 1,000 males in the province of
Lombardy, 539 only were able to read, and 461 did not even know their
letters. Of every 1,000 females, only 426 could read and 574 could not
read, neither did they know their letters.
"In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000
males, only 165 were able to read and 835 could not, and out of every
1,000 females, only 62 could read and 938 could not read and did not
know their alphabet. Taking this report, you will find that out of every
100, only about 10 were able to read.
"In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only
3,500,000 could read and write, and the rest did not know their
alphabet, and to-day Spain, another country' which is completely
dominated by the power of Rome, has a population of ignorant dupes, as
SO per cent of the population of Spain cannot read and write.
"In Ireland, where the Romish Church is
dominant, this same record is repeated, as in other
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Catholic nations. In European countries
where Protestantism is taught there is but one out of every ten that
cannot read and write, but in the same countries, where Catholicism has
absolute sway, there is but one out of every 125 that can read and
write.
"In six leading Protestant countries of
Europe there are 315 inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while
in six Roman Catholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to
every 2,715 people.
"It is estimated that at least
seven-eighths of the twenty million inhabitants in Spanish-America,
which consists of the countries of Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the
north and west parts of South America, are unable to read, and in Mexico
alone 90 per cent of the inhabitants cannot read nor write, neither do
they know their alphabet;" thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does
for the countries which she controls.
We are writing this book, believing that an
intelligent class of people will read it, and if such is true, we
believe that it is useless for us to try to
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demonstrate further why the countries which are completely controlled
by Catholicism are countries of illegitimacy, for an intelligent reader
knows full well that ignorance is the greatest breeder of immorality
known to man, and, of course, immorality means illegitimacy, and we
believe that we have thoroughly demonstrated to the mind of the reader
that Catholicism spreads a cloak of ignorance and superstition wherever
she is allowed to rule supreme, and if this is the case, then the
natural consequences of such a state of affairs is illegitimacy.
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Chapter VII.
The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands.
It makes my heart sick when I realize that
the Government of the United States has spent hundreds of millions of
dollars upon the Islands of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands,
and, after all, these Islands are still in the grasp and the filthy
embrace of the Vatican at Rome.
Not only fabulous amounts of money have
been spent by the United States upon these islands, but hundreds of our
noble boys in blue have given up their lives in battle and by the
scourge of disease, and still Catholicism has absolute sway in these
far-away countries.
These islands have been under the immediate
control of Popery for hundreds of years, but when the Government of the
United States took charge
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of them, their inhabitants had advanced no
further in intellectuality and the freedom of free men than they were
centuries ago.
It may sound strange to the average reader
when I declare that all of the lives lost and all of the money expended
by the United States upon Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands
was brought about by the tyrannical rule of Rome, for it was by her
abominations that Cuba rebelled, which was the prime cause of the
interference by the government of the United States; therefore you can
readily see why it is that I claim that Catholicism is to blame for the
part that the government of the United States took in the affairs of
these countries, and what puzzles me so much is why the government of
the United States still permits Catholicism to control the destinies of
these countries, when the officials of this government know full well
that had it not been for abhorrent Catholicism that Cuba would never
have rebelled and that Porto Rico would have been satisfied, and that
the Philippine Islands would not to-day belong to the United States;
but, instead of this
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government trying to remedy the great wrong
done to the inhabitants of these countries, it went right ahead and
allowed the bone of contention to remain, and to-day finds this
government not only permitting Catholicism to continue to practice her
abominations in these countries, but this government is instrumental in
sending Catholic teachers over to these countries, when, if this country
would, do its whole duty, it would not permit Catholicism to take any
part in the affairs of these countries.
Archbishop Chapelle was shipped to the
Philippine Islands with all the pomp of a ruler, and so was Archbishop
J. J. Harty, whom I am personally acquainted with, whom I have been on
intimate terms with for a number of years, and this, man Harty is to-day
in the Philippine Islands ruling with the same tyrannical hand that has
characterized Romanism for centuries past, and whose rule is only
symbolic to ruin, as the interests of the inhabitants of these countries
are never considered, as it is Rome's ambition and only
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desire to keep them under the heel of
perpetual tyranny.
We would like to know why Archbishop
Chapelle should be given the best stateroom in a transport ship sailing
for Manila, while our pureblooded, honest, sincere Protestant boys who
wear the blue were huddled together like so many cattle.
Ah, this is, the reason: Archbishop
Chapelle is an emissary of the Pope of, Rome and stands ready at all
times to serve the wishes and obey the orders of that Italian pontiff,
and our officials were aware of this fact and they did not want to stir
up the Catholic officials for fear of losing a few votes, as both of our
old parties have sunk so low into the quagmire of filth that they would
allow their country to sink to the level of Romish abominations if they
thought by so doing they could control the Catholic vote for either
party.
Was one of your boys on this transport
ship? Was your kith and kin aboard, this vessel that showed this ungodly
discrimination between the soldier boy who wrung a poor mother's heart
by leaving the parental fireside? If such was the
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case, you can vividly see the injustice
done to these brave lads in favor of this Archbishop Chapelle, as these
boys were on their way to this terrible land of disease and death to
help pliant the emblem of liberty upon the ramparts of these far-away
Islands, and this same Archbishop Chapelle was, on his way to destroy
the influence of these boys mission.
The time is not far distant until the
Protestant world will wake up to the realization that they have been
humbled before this Italian pontiff for the simple reason that our
officials are willing to cater to Catholicism in Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippine Islands for the sake of votes.
We do not care whether you are a Republican
or a Democrat, this chapter should fire your blood to the fullest
extent, for I am telling you truths, and if you have got the common
decency of the most ignorant liberty-loving American you will right now
make a resolve that Protestant America must redeem her pledge to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine, Islands to liberate them not only from
the hardships placed upon them by a foreign
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nation, but liberate them from the bonds of
Catholicism, which not only binds the body, but chains the soul with the
fetters of ignorance and superstition.
When it became known that the government of
the United States was to interfere in the affairs of Cuba, the Catholic
Church put all of her machinery to work immediately in order to fool
Uncle Sam and cajole him into dealing only with the government of Spain,
which would permit Catholicism to exist in these Islands, and the pages
of history only tell us too well how successfully she laid her plans, as
to-day we have the awful spectacle of beholding the government of the
United States playing the part of "protector," while she is quietly
aiding the identical institution which caused the misery in these
far-away countries.
What I tell you in this chapter is true, as
I was a Catholic priest and was on the inside of the workings of
Catholicism at that time, and what I relate is not guess work nor
imagination, but it is plain, unvarnished and unadulterated truths, and
the American people will sooner or later wake up to the realization of
these awful truths, for just so
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long as the United States permits
Catholicism to control the destinies of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands, just that long turmoil and misery will remain in
these tropical regions, for Catholicism has sworn by all of her
imaginary saints that Protestantism shall never rule these countries,
and so far she has carried out her threat truly and well, as
Protestantism to-day has no more control over the inhabitants of these
islands than she did before the damnable creed of the Pope was molested
by the appearance of Dewey's guns at Manila.
Can you expect these countries to grow in
greatness, and can you expect the inhabitants of these countries to
become giants in intellect when they practice the conjurings of
Catholicism?
We want to give the reader an insight in
this chapter to what Catholicism practices in this country and in other
countries that are not near so densely ignorant as Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippine Islands, and then you can have an idea of what the
inhabitants of these countries may expect in the way of advancement from
Catholicism,
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and what I will repeat is the abominations
that I have helped to practice myself for thirty years; therefore I know
whereof I speak and no man dare dispute.
We will take a Catholic cemetery, for
instance, and in order that the ground may be sanctified and fit to
receive the dead bodies of those who believe in the Catholic faith a
bishop must sanctify this earth and consecrate it before it is fit to
conceal the body of one of the Pope Is followers.
Our Savior has declared that "From earth we
came, and to earth we shall return," and there was no proviso made that
before we should return to earth that it would have to be consecrated by
a human being, as any man or woman of intelligence knows full well that
what the Lord our God has made cannot be improved upon by the idiotic
chant and superstitious rant of a Catholic bishop.
It matters not how godly nor how piously a
Protestant may have lived, Catholicism teaches that it is. an
abomination to bury a Protestant in a Catholic cemetery, and one of her
laws is that to bury a heretic (which means Protestant) in a
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Catholic cemetery is unlawful, and the
Catholic Popes instruct that the remains of any Protestant buried in a
Catholic cemetery shall, if they can be distinguished, be removed, and
if they can not be distinguished, that the cemetery shall be cleansed by
sprinkling holy water over the ground, and bear in mind that this holy
water is to receive its cleansing power from some priest or bishop, who
perhaps is as immoral as hell.
In Canada, some time since, the laws of
that country forcibly effected the burial of a Protestant in a Catholic
cemetery, and the bishop of that diocese, by the name of Bourget,
declared that portion of the cemetery as "desecrated and filthy"
and forbade any priest to step his foot upon the ground.
Now, do you expect an institution which
teaches such doctrines to elevate a nation above their own' doctrine? If
you do, you are expecting something unreasonable, and if the inhabitants
of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are not to be elevated
above such abominations can the future hold anything for them but
misery?
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There is but one thing that beats a
bishop's consecration of a graveyard, and that is money, and money only;
but a few dollars will turn the trick and will open up the ground in a
Catholic cemetery for a heretic, and enough money will turn the entire
cemetery into a Protestant graveyard.
In the City of St. Louis there is a
Catholic cemetery called "Calvary," and lots twelve feet square are sold
at from $50 to $1,000 each. A lot was bought by a Protestant whose son
died and who was baptized in his last hour by a. Catholic nurse. While
his people were Protestants, they consented, since he had been baptized
into the Catholic Church, that they would give him a Catholic burial,
and a priest by the name of Ward performed the ceremony. Now, bear in
mind that the father of this young man had bought a lot large enough for
his whole family to be buried there, when they should die, as he, of
course, wanted his entire family to be buried together, but the Catholic
Church would not consent to consecrate any part of that lot but the
grave in which the young man was buried that was baptized on
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his death bed, simply because the remainder
of the family were Protestants; but for money they consecrated a portion
of this lot, four feet wide and six and one-half feet long, but the
remainder of this lot was not consecrated, therefore you will see that
money in the Catholic Church has as much power to consecrate the earth
as doth the bishopric and priestcraft.
Ah, what abominations! but still this
Government expects Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands to be
elevated to the standard of manhood and womanhood by this class of
ghouls.
Now, if we could halt with the recital of
only a few abominations, my task, perhaps, would not, be so disgusting,
but had I the endurance to live on, until I were a thousand years old,
and could write what I know and have experienced in the ranks of
Catholicism, I would be unable to portray to the reader all of her
abominations.
The Catholic Church is a church of show and
glamor, and of nonsensical doctrines, and not a church of God and of
holy worship.
Many believe that Catholicism has taught
all
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of her cungerings for centuries past, and
this is the case, but bear in mind, that Catholicism often has to have
new "fakes," in order to make the money slide out of the pockets of
their "dupes" more easily, so they get up new intrigues and modern shows
for this purpose, and the fake that works the best is the one that they
work the hardest, as I solemnly declare that the Catholic Church as a
whole is a money proposition upon the part of those who teach her
abominations, and I further declare that it is a "graft" conceived by
minds that are more, cunning and deceptive than any class of men upon
the face of the whole earth.
The Catholic Church changes its form of
worship like cheap chop houses change their bills of fare, as they are
after "suckers," and if one bait will not get them, they throw out
another, and the pomp and show of the church is to catch the eye and not
to save the soul.
Not long since, the Catholic Church, with
singular devotion, turned its attention to the five wounds of Christ,
and immediately after giving these five wounds their solicitous
attention, they
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bade their followers to have recourse to
the sacred heart of Jesus, and in hundreds of Catholic Churches you will
find to-day a statue made in the likeness of Christ, with a heart
attached over the breast, and this heart is illuminated by electricity
or candle, and the followers of Catholicism absolutely worship this
mechanism of man, and it has proven 'a great drawing card, and you can
rest assured that Catholicism is pushing the scheme along good and hard,
and "The St. Anthony Bread Box" hoax is another scheme that is not very
old, but which the Catholic Church has found to be another great paying
investment, and they are working "St. Anthony" for all that he is worth.
Now, can any man or woman of intelligence
believe that the inhabitants of these islands can ever expect to become
men and women of affairs--men and women of individuality--and men and
women of intellectuality? If you can give a rational reason why these
countries should ever expect to be elevated to the standard of greatness
under such influences and under the tutelage of
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such an institution, then the road to
greatness must be a very easy one to travel.
The Catholic Church is conducted on about
the same principle as Dun's and Bradstreet's mercantile agencies, as
they go into the minutest detail to keep record of the affairs of the
country, so that they may know the weakest as well as the strongest
points of their creed, so that they may at all times be prepared to
exercise the greatest influence at the proper time, and what makes this
creed so dangerous, is that they impress upon their dupes that the
church is "eternal law," and they hold out the crown of glory on high as
a reward for following their doctrine, and this is the most dangerous
and damnable scheme ever perpetrated by mortal, for when you force a man
or woman to believe that you hold in your hands their future destiny,
you have them to the point where you can force them to do your bidding,
and this is exactly what Catholicism does to her followers, and this is
the reason why Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands can never
expect to go higher in the scale of morality and
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intellectuality than they are at the
present time, if the Government of the United States permits this troop
of ghouls to continue to be their masters.
We believe that we have in this chapter
made it plain to the reader why the influence of Catholicism should be
remotely removed from these islands, and if I am right, the Government
of the. United States is everlastingly wrong in permitting Catholicism
to retain her hold upon the throats of the inhabitants of these islands,
and I undoubtedly am, right, as I know whereof I speak, as I have trod
the deceptive road of Catholicism for the past thirty years, and I dare
not tell in this book all that I know of her cunning in regard to these
far-away countries, as I would have to use language so plain that I
could not expect this volume to pass through the mails, as the
priestcraft in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are an
immoral set, as a whole, and treat the female population of these
islands in a manner that breeds immorality from generation to
generation, and the awful part of this immorality
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is that those who commit it with the priestcraft do not consider that
it is a wrong, as they have been taught that it is no sin to do as the
priestcraft demands, therefore it is ten thousand times worse than if
the sin was committed with the knowledge of the fact that it was a sin,
as the mother or father who is aware of the fact that they are, sinners
will not teach their off-spring to commit the sins that they are guilty
of, but when they are not aware of the fact that they are committing a
sin, of course, they allow their children to believe that their actions
are in harmony with the teachings of God, therefore this damnable
practice goes on and on, from generation to generation, and this is why
the morals, intelligence and progress of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands, are to-day on the same plane of depravity as they
were centuries ago, and no one is to blame for this carnality and
debauchery of the inhabitants of these islands but the Roman Catholic
Church, and until the Government of the United States shall declare and
back up her declaration by Protestant manhood, the inhabitants of
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these islands will never know of the
beauties of chastity and morality and the wonderful blessings that are
held in store for them by embracing Protestantism.
May the Lord of Hosts hasten the day when
the eyes of those who rule in Protestant America may be opened to the
awful sins they are committing, by allowing Romanism to hover over these
islands with her vulturous and carnivorous appetite of depravity,, and
may the time soon come when the Government of the United States shall
proclaim to the Vatican at Rome that this veil of abomination shall be
lifted from the inhabitants of these islands; and when this is done, the
goddess of liberty that has made Protestant America what she is to-day,
will hover over these far-away islands of the sea, and new life will
pulsate in the veins of these Romish-ridden countries.
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Chapter VIII.
Monasteries Are Often the Abode of Criminals, and
Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.
When I was living beneath the folds of the
black banner of Catholicism, I sincerely and devoutly believed that to
shield a Catholic criminal was a righteous and Godly calling, as I
believed that to prevent the civil law from taking hold of the criminal
career of a Catholic official, for his shortcomings, was but an act of
Godly justice.
I also believed that anything that was done
'between the walls of a Nunnery was sanctified by the approval of those
who were higher in authority in the Catholic Church than myself;
therefore, the things which I now realize are both criminal and immoral,
as well as utterly detestable, I at one time considered righteous,
simply because my education had been confined to the narrow channels of
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bigotry, and the effulgency of Biblical
knowledge had never penetrated my Romish-inspired perceptibilities.
I believe that 1, will make many assertions
in this chapter that have never been made before, but there will not be
an assertion made but what is true; however, there will be many that
will arise from the trenches of Catholicism, to denounce the
truthfulness of them, but I know whereof I speak, and I defy any mortal
man to successfully dispute what I may state.
This chapter will relate to monasteries and
nunneries, which in olden times were called "asylums."
These asylums are used by Catholicism to
scuffle criminals of their following into, in defiance of law and
justice, as these asylums are notorious among those who are on the
inside workings of this creed, as to places where Cathode criminals can
be concealed without fear of having the civil law bring them to justice,
as these places are a retreat for Catholic criminals who are pursued by
the ministers of justice, and where, so long as
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they remain, they cannot be arrested; but
in order to elevate these "asylums" to the plane of religion, they are
called by different names which are misnomers, and are only
raised to the level of religious institutions to cover up the infamy of
their actual missions, as Catholicism has learned that as long as she
can throw around and about herself a religious glamour, that she is
permitted to go ahead and violate the laws of man without molestation.
The "asylums" of olden times were intended
as retreats for those who were persecuted for their religious belief,
but the mission of these institutions became useless, under the splendid
and godly progress of Protestantism, as Protestantism planted her banner
of, enlightenment under the glorious leadership. of Martin Luther, and
such institutions were done away with, but Catholicism turned these
asylums, which were once a protection to the persecuted followers of
Christ, and converted them into an abode for Catholic criminals.
There is scarcely a man or woman in America
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but what has heard of Wm. Morgan, who lived
at Batavia, in Western New York, who, it was claimed, wrote an expose of
Freemasonry, and who, the Catholic Church claims, was killed by the
Masonic fraternity for writing this expose.
The fact of the matter is that this book
was prepared by the Catholic Church for electioneering purposes, and it
served their scheme well and truly.
It is history that Morgan disappeared very
suddenly, and the Catholic Church gave it out that he had been killed by
the Masonic fraternity, which is untrue, as Wm. Morgan was spirited
away, and the trick was turned by Catholicism.
"Wm. Morgan" became the issue for the
campaign, and it was narrated around that Morgan was conveyed in a
carriage from Batavia to Niagara by Freemasons, and there drowned in
Lake Ontario.
A body was produced near the mouth of the
Niagara River, but a friend of Wm. Morgan, who knew him well, by the
name of Mrs. Wm. G. Barr, denied that the body that was found at the
mouth
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of the Niagara River, was that of Morgan,
and a devout Catholic remarked at the post-mortem examination that "It
was a good enough Morgan until after the election."
A rigid investigation was made and no one
was ever convicted of murdering Morgan.
The result of the election was that
Catholicism carried her point. The Catholic Church had turned by this
excitement the eyes of the world towards Freemasonry, and claimed that
Morgan's fate was caused by the Masonic fraternity.
When I came to America, I was given
instructions in regard to secret societies, and the Morgan case was gone
over with me in detail, and I was given "The Bulls" of three popes,
which excluded all members of Freemasons from the Catholic Church, and
all who belonged to the Masonic fraternity were denied even a Christian
burial by the Catholic Church.
I was told by a priest, who was in good
standing, that the Masons had in their meetings a literal devil
concealed in a box, and that when they would meet, they would stick pins
in a picture of
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some supposed "traitor" and shriek out in
their madness: "Die like Morgan!"
Mrs. Wm. G. Barr was called to identify the
supposed body of Wm. Morgan, which was found at the mouth of the Niagara
River.
Her husband, Wm. G. Barr, was an old dry
goods man and once ran for governor of the State of Kansas, but was
defeated because his wife had declared "that Wm. Morgan's body had never
been discovered at the mouth of the Niagara River,, and further declared
that it was a 'fake,' pure and simple, and gotten up by Catholicism in
order to vilify the Masonic fraternity."
I had always been of an investigating turn
of mind, and the stories that were told to me in regard to Wm. Morgan
did not sound right, so I took the train for Topeka, Kans., where Mrs.
Wm. G. Barr lived, and this is the story that she related to me in great
emotion:
Mrs. Barr told me that she was a friend of
Wm. Morgan, and that she was called to identify his body, but instead of
finding the corpse of Wm. Morgan, on the seashore, she found the body of
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some one else and not that of Morgan, and
she further told me that Wm. Morgan, before his disappearance, had
written her that he was persuaded by a number of Catholic priests to
leave the Masons, and that he, to his sorrow, had followed their advice,
and that these priests had written a book, and insisted that he should
publish, it, but he never did give his consent, and stated that he
never. would; however, the book appeared, and the fact of the matter is
that it was a clumsy forgery by the priestcraft of Catholicism.
This book appeared in print, and Wm. Morgan
became frightened, as he realized that should the country at large
believe that he was the author of this book, he would be considered as a
traitor, and he became frightened and did not know what to do, and about
this time two Catholic priests approached him, and persuaded him to
leave the country, "and they took him to "a Trappist monastery," near
Montreal, Canada.
He remained there quite a time, and left
Canada and went to Asia, and he was seen and identified in Asia years
after Catholicism had declared
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that he had been murdered by the Masonic
fraternity.
I do not remember of ever reading this
history before, and I am under the impression that I am the first man-in
fact, I know' that I am the first man who was for thirty years a
Catholic priest that ever gave this information to the public.
Now, if a monastery in Canada would be
turned into a lie and a deception in order that the Catholic Church
might carry out her diabolical and cunning schemes, what can we expect
of other monasteries?
If this history attaches itself to a
monastery like that in Canada, what must be the condition of the
monasteries and nunneries of nations which have not the enlightenment
that Canada has I
I desire to call to the attention of the
reader a little history that is not exceedingly old, and which every boy
and girl is acquainted with, as it has transpired in the past ten
years--yea, later.
It was in the afternoon of a December day,
in 1900. A boy, Edward Cudahy, Jr., was walking to his father's mansion
and was invited to step into a
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buggy and was informed that he was under
arrest. This boy was then and there abducted, and this abduction became
known by the boy remaining away from his home that night.
The police and detectives of Omaha and the
detectives from Chicago and other cities were busy on the case day and
night. Days and weeks passed and nothing came to light except letters
from the ones who had kidnapped this boy, asking for a ransom of
$25,000, and stating that if this sum of money in gold was not
forthcoming, that the boy's eyes would be put out and he would forever
lose his sight.
This last threat startled the poor,
heartbroken mother, and as the time approached for these devils to put
into execution their threat, this poor frantic Mother insisted that her
millionaire husband, Edward Cudahy, Sr., give up the $25,000 and save
her precious boy's eyesight.
Her husband resisted as long as he could,
but at last took the $25,000 in gold and stepped into his buggy, with
the signal lantern, and drove to a certain spot, designated by Pat Crow,
who is the one
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who abducted Cudahy, and with this $25,000
bought his boy Is liberty, and this boy was brought from that cottage on
Grover street, unhurt, and Pat Crowe made away with his $25,000 in gold.
Cudahy was called up a number of times by
telephone and was threatened that if he did not withdraw the reward that
he was offering for Pat Crow's arrest that there would be something
awful befall him; but he resisted and would not withdraw his offer of
reward, consequently this made it necessary for Pat Crow and Eddy
MeGehee, alias Burns, to leave the country.
These men were known in Omaha 'St. Joe,'
Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, not only by a number of their ilk,
but also to the police forces, consequently the nets of the law were
stretched all over the United States for these abductors.
On December 28 it was reported from La
Salle, Ill., that Pat Crow was arrested. Kansas City police promised his
arrest before sunset, but he was not arrested.
There were 80,000,000 people looking for
Pat Crow, but he took a Pullman sleeper and traveled
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to New York, and from there sailed on a
first-class ticket for Europe and spent a good time in London, from
whence he went to South Africa and played a deceptive role in the
English-African war.
Now, I am going to relate something that
will make one's blood boil with indignation and the cold sweat stand out
with the clamminess of death, but what I tell you is true.
Priest Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's
Church in St. Louis, was president of the "Emmet" celebration in
the year 1902.
After a speech by Judge Ryan of St. Louis,
and a most eloquent address by a priest, who had been a young Boer
officer, he inspired Irish patriotism by an elegant appeal against "Old
England." He was indeed an orator who, by his recitation, held the
audience for an hour. I was one who was nearest to him on the platform
and congratulated him on his powerful speech.
After the applause from his Irish friends,
as he had called them, he decided to leave with me for his hotel, and I
was stopping at St. Patrick's
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parsonage, so we both had to go in the same
direction. I had become interested in the fellow while he was delivering
his speech and I became much more interested in him in our car ride,
together, to the Lindell Hotel, and he invited me to stop off with him
awhile at the Lindell Hotel, and we were soon engaged in all kinds of
discussions, both religious and political. He was a "Dutchman" and had
asked his government of Holland for a leave of absence to fight in the
Boer war, which was granted him, and to prove the truthfulness of this
assertion he showed me a wound on his breast which had not yet healed.
He remarked that he came "nearly" telling
in his address at the "Emmet" meeting about the miraculous escape of Pat
Crow to South Africa, and stated that if it had not been for the bad
impression Pat Crow had made in America, he would have told of the trick
that had been turned to gain him his freedom and rob some one in America
of the reward that had been put on his head by Millionaire Cudahy.
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The following is his story he told me as
near as I can remember it:
"One night I was in Johannesburg, South
Africa, and stayed with Pat Crow in the same room. I knew that it was
Pat Crow and did not intend to have much to do with him, but he noticed
me and I became interested in him, and he spoke to me about matters, and
the millionaire's boy being abducted, and the ransom that he received,
and his escape to Africa.
"He remarked that I would realize from his
name that he was an Irish Catholic, and stated that he had gone through
the Catholic schools and was a 'brother' in the cloisters, and stated
that this was his strong point in never being caught in his daring
undertakings.
"He stated that when they received their
$25,000 ransom from Cudahy that it was divided at the cottage where the
crime was committed. He stated that it cost him quite a sum of money to
stay with friends a few days in Omaha, but that he soon disguised
himself as an inmate of the Jesuit College, a school for Catholic boys.
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"He stated that lie traveled on a 'permit'
as Father O'Connor to Kansas City, and stated that from there he went to
St. Louis, disguised as a Catholic priest, and that the conductors on
the train spoke to him as 'How do you do, Father?'
"When I arrived in St. Louis I went 'to St.
Anthony's Church, where you can obtain most anything from that saint. I
rang the bell for confession. I confessed all kinds of things. I
confessed to murder, robbery, kidnapping, and the Father Confessor was
impressed with me because I was a 'big fish' in my line, and because I
had done no harm to the millionaire's boy. I told the inmates of St.
Anthony's Church that I wanted to make confession and do penance the
remainder of my life.
"A brother came with the scissors and I
received the 'tonsure' for the third time, which left only a circle of
hair around my head, and no Pinkerton detective, or even Bertillion
himself could have identified me.
"In a short time I left this St. Anthony
Church in a 'Catholic Habit,' which disguised me as a
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Catholic official, and I went to Omaha and
passed myself off as 'Brother Clement from St. Louis.'
"When I reached Omaha I had no trouble in
passing myself off as 'Brother Clement.'
"After I had remained there awhile I
excused myself and in my priestly robes I walked to the banks of the
'Missouri River and raised by buried treasure, as I had left a part of
the money that I received from Cudahy buried near the river, and I took
the train to St. Louis, and from there to New York, and from New York I
took a German steamer to Southampton.
"I stayed in London two weeks and read in
the papers all about Pat Crow. London was not the place for a man like
me, as I had been there before, and they knew me; so I sailed for the
diamond fields of South Africa, where I am now free, by the system of
'asylums' (which are Catholic monasteries) of the Catholic Church. Pat
Crow wound up his story by telling me that if I ever needed to try this
plan that I could do it, and stated that the Catholic Church was the
refuge of criminals."
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Now, bear in mind, the reason that the
Catholic Church is such a refuge for criminals is because no police or
detective is ever allowed to cross over the door-sills into these places
of Catholic refuge, where the worst chapters of crime never will be
told, and where these criminals flee to avoid the punishment of their
crimes.
This is the first time in the history of
the world that this awful history in regard to Pat Crow and Catholicism
was ever given to the reading public.
Catholicism teaches, and acts accordingly,
that if a confessor forgives the sins of these criminals that God has
taken away all guilt from their heinous crimes and that the civil laws
have no right to punish these criminals after a Catholic priest has
forgiven their sins, and on this damnable dogma, Catholicism bases her
right for the existence of these "asylums."
I want to give the reader a little history
in regard to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Wilkes Booth, a Roman
Catholic, was the assassin of President Lincoln. The Roman Catholic
Church, under the mask of Democracy, was always
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believed to be responsible for this
diabolical assassination. In fact, it is believed, and the belief is
well founded, that through the "inquisition" in the City of Rome that a
plot was laid to destroy the republican form of government of the United
States, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was the first step, and
the plotting on this side of the water was done in Catholic houses,
adorned with crucifixes, religious saints, religious statues, religious
relies, and rosaries, scapulars, holy water pots, and medals of
Catholicism innumerable.
It was in the house of Mrs. Surratt,
located in the very heart of Washington, D. C., that the officers of
this government proceeded after the assassination of President Lincoln,
and bear in mind that Mrs. Surratt was a Roman Catholic, and the
occupants of this house were arrested. The ones who were arrested were:
Mrs. Surratt, a Roman Catholic; her daughter, Anna, a Roman Catholic;
Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a Roman Catholic, and Miss Hollahan, a Roman Catholic.
Before the officers had left this house a light knock was heard
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at the door and a young man appeared in
disguise, as he was dressed as a common laborer and carried a pick upon
his shoulder; his hands were white and soft and he was also arrested,
and his name was Powell, another Roman Catholic.
John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was a
Roman Catholic, consequently the belief is undoubtedly well founded that
not only the scheme to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was laid in the City
of Rome by Roman Catholics, but was carried into execution by the same
set in this country.
Booth, after the assassination, fled to
Surrattsville to the hotel of Mrs. Surratt, and there a Roman Catholic
woman had concealed a carbine. Mr. Surratt, at Washington, had warned
the folks at the hotel that the weapon would be called for the night of
Abraham Lincoln's assassination, which is prima facie evidence of
the plot to assassinate Lincoln. After the assassination Booth fled, but
on the eastern shores of the Potomac he was concealed in a, Roman
Catholic Church for nearly a week. As we relate this history, which is
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true, the evidence becomes more damaging
against Roman Catholicism.
The finale of this national tragedy was
that Herald, Powell and Mrs. Surratt were hung, and Dr. Mudd and
O'Laughlin were committed to lifelong imprisonment, and all of these
were Roman Catholics.
The question now arises, How did John H.
Surratt escape from the same fate of Herald, Powell and Mrs. Surratt? I
will tell you! John H. Surratt escaped by the assistance of Catholic
officials and went to Canada, and as concealed in a "Trappist cloister"
near Montreal, and remained there until 1865, when, as a Priest, he went
to Liverpool.
In the spring of 1866, Mr. W m. H. Seward
was informed by a Mr. King, at Rome, Italy, that John H. Surratt had
enlisted in the Papal Guards, under the name of John Watson. He was
arrested at Teroli, in Italy, but escaped by plunging down a ravine
twenty-three feet deep.
He was wounded by the fall and crawled off
to a monastery and remained there until he was
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healed and then resumed his flight. After
his wounds healed, he went to Egypt, as he was not satisfied with Italy,
and was there captured by our minister, Mr. Hale, and sent to America.
I could go on and on, giving you history of
lesser importance that this, which occurs week in and week out, month in
and month out, and year in and year out, and which is strictly connected
with the Catholic Church, but what I have given you are truths, and
indisputable truths, which should be evidence enough of the awfulness of
monasteries of this and other countries, and a class of men who will
commit such dastardly deeds in the monasteries would not hesitate to
slaughter innocent virtue in the nunneries of this country.
I could give you history in regard to the
nunneries that would make the cheek of virtue blush with shame, but to
give you this history I would have to use language that I do not desire
to use, as I want to keep the minds and morals of the girls of this
country as pure as possible; but from this chapter, Protestant fathers
and mothers must know what Roman Catholicism consists of, and
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Catholic fathers and mothers who are not everlastingly blinded by the
false light of this damnable creed should rally from their lethargic
walks of debauchery and snatch their children from the Romish mire of
degradation and place them upon the Protestant highways, which lead to
the beauties of individual and collective greatness.
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Chapter IX.
Un-Married Cussedness of the Roman Priest-Craft.
In the Book of Books, we find that the Lord
of Hosts declares that, "It is not good for man to dwell alone," and our
Heavenly Father also teaches us that "Every man should have one wife."
Now, the Good Lord was either right or
wrong when He made this declaration, and who is there that would declare
that the Lord was mistaken in His injunction? Not one! Therefore, we
must acknowledge that either the Lord our God made a declaration that
was nonsensical and unreasonable, or else the Roman Priestcraft is
living a life which is diagonally contrary to the commands and demands
of God Almighty, for when the Roman Church declares that her Priests
shall not wed, they at once set up a rule for their teachers which
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is in violation, to not only the laws of
God, but the laws of man, as the silent whisperings of man's nature
demands a helpmeet. The heathen nations of the earth who are not
acquainted with the sanctity of the marriage vow, have a longing for the
companionship of the opposite sex, and this longing cannot be termed
anything but "a godly love," as this feeling was placed in the bosom of
humanity by a divine being, and whenever this desire is thwarted, you
have disturbed the most blissful inspiration of the human family; but
the Roman Catholic Church would have us believe that a few of the human
family have been ordained by God to live recluses, or, as we may term
it, "unmarried hermits."
Catholicism, with all her damnable dogmas
and creeds, cannot change that God-given impulse that was planted in the
bosom of man, when Adam was created in the Garden of Eden, and the more
Roman Catholicism endeavors to eradicate that feeling, the greater her
sins become, for it is a most damnable sin to try to force man to
eradicate from his bosom this everlasting and godly
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craving for the love of the opposite sex,
and as long as "man is born of woman," just so long that inspiration
will live in the bosom of mankind, and just so long as Roman Catholicism
endeavors to force humanity to purge itself of this blessed longing,
just so long the mark of deception, depravity and ungodliness will be
left upon the brow of this Romish demon.
This chapter is one that must be written in
a delicate manner, which prohibits me from becoming emphatic and
explicit, for should I allow myself to write exactly what I have seen,
and the truths that exist in regard to Romish hellishness, and the deeds
of the unmarried cussedness of Catholicism, I would have to resort to
language that would be unchaste, but I have in mind a story that was
told some time ago, by a young lady, who had spent a number of years in
a convent, which I will relate word for word as she gave it, and which
will be only the history over and over again of thousands--yea, tens of
thousands of girls who have had the same experience as this
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poor mortal, only perhaps had new agonies
added to their lives.
The history of this girl's life in a
convent is more than pathetic, from the fact that her father on his
deathbed requested that she be placed in a convent by her mother, which
was done, and her sufferings, the reader will see, were not a fault of
hers, but the fault of her parents, who had been raised to believe in
the diabolical teachings of Roman Catholicism, but who did not know that
these teachings were only echoes of the dark ages of paganism, therefore
you will see that this poor girl's history is laden with a sadness for
which she is not to blame, and the fault can only be laid at the
fountain head, as her parents were sincere in their belief, and did not,
of course, realize that they were helping to ruin their darling girl's
future.
I will now relate her history, as near as
possible, the way she gave it, which will be symbolic of the history of
thousands of other girls, and which is absolutely true. Her story
follows:
"When one becomes an inmate of a convent,
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they become a prisoner, as every act is scrutinized by the mother
superior, and you have no privilege any more than if you were a convict
and placed behind the bars for some heinous crime. With this exception,
however, you are allowed to receive letters from a priest without having
the letter opened and read before 'it reaches you, as there is always
some mark to distinguish a letter received from a priest, but all
letters that you write and all letters that you receive, unless they
bear the mark indicating that they have been sent by a priest, are
carefully read, and if the contents of either the letter you write, or
the one that has been written to you does not meet with the arbitrary
opinion of the "mother superior,'' they are destroyed, and you never
have the opportunity of sending the one that you have written, or to
receive the one that has been written to you, unless they can pass the
inspection of the "mother superior," who is nothing more nor less than
an agent of the Pope of Rome, as she receives her instructions from the
priestcraft, and they receive their instructions from the Pope of Rome.
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When an inmate of a convent receives a
letter from a priest it is handed her without being opened, as the
"mother superior" is instructed Rot to open such letters, and is told
that all such letters, of course, relate to the spiritual welfare of the
nun.
In these letters the priest will tell the
nun what day he will call to give her a general confession. As
soon as such a letter is received the nun informs the "mother superior"
that on a certain day Priest So-and-So will visit her, and, of course,
this "'mother superior" gives the permission, and on the day that the
priest is to arrive, this nun is excused from all duties for that day,
and when the priest arrives he is shown into what is called the
Retreat Parlor; and no matter how long he remains there, no one will
disturb him. He is supposed to be talking with his penitent on
the welfare of her soul. Ah, could any one look through the door, they
would find this priest with his arms about the form of this fair
penitent, or perhaps in a far more compromising position!
Right here the reader may ask if these nuns
are
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willing to submit to the embraces of these
priests? I will allow this girl to answer this question in her own
language, and her answer is this:
I answer that in fifteen out of twenty
cases--No! But she is there helpless; the priest has seen her somewhere
in the garb of a nun, and has taken a fancy to her, and, whether she be
willing or not, he compels her to allow him to satisfy his hellish
passion!"
This girl continues by exclaiming: ''Oh
God! Great God! When I 'think of this system--this system born of the,
devil and nurtured by hell--and realize that under the cloak of religion
it is stealing away our liberty, entering into our homes, ruining our
womanhood and girlhood, and painting childish purity with the brush of
immorality, and defiling everything with which it comes in contact, I
then become a mad woman, and I become as a venomous serpent, wanting
revenge for what has been done to me, and it seems as if I cannot remain
quiet, but, closing ray eyes and ears to everything, as I have no
redress, I am compelled to warn thousands who may come after
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me, of their fate, should they take up
convent life, which is a hell upon earth and a blotch as black as the
shadows of hell to any land."
The same lady who related the above, and a
great deal more which I cannot tell in this chapter, gave an account of
the sufferings of another nun, who was in the same convent with her, and
I now learn that the same story that I will now relate has been told to
others.
Reader, you must bear in mind that convents
have many tortures outside of the torturing conscience on account of
having the virtue of their inmates destroyed. The teachings of
Catholicism lead people to practice, self-infliction upon their person
in order to appease a living God, as they seem to worship a living God
the same as the pagans would worship a God of stone, or a ferocious God
in the form of some carnivorous beast, and in order to atone for their
sins, these inmates of the nunneries are taught that they must beat
self-infliction; in fact, Catholicism teaches her followers that in
order that any of them shall receive
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absolute pardon, that they must resort to
heathenish practices.
As stated above, the same lady whom we
speak of in the first part of this chapter, relates her experience with
a sister nun, who endured self-torture, believing that it was an outward
demonstration of godliness. Her story follows:
"I call to mind a case of cruelty under the
guise I of devotion that happened in our convent. A consecrated
penitent, Sister Madeline, had been for some time a victim of
consumption. She was a beautiful girl, and her exquisitely sweet voice
could be heard in church every Sunday, taking part in the high mass.
Poor Sister Madeline!
How many humiliations she received! How
often she was censured for leaving her work unfinished when she was not
able to do it, and how I have pitied her as she tried to eat the bread
and dripping we had for supper. Failing in the attempt, I would notice
the tears gather in her eyes. Oh, how often I longed to be able to
obtain some little delicacy for her! but dared not ask for it.
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Her gentle, patient, suffering face will
never fade from my memory.
"One Sunday evening she and I were walking
in the garden after benediction. She felt more than usually weak, and,
therefore, I could offer her my arm to lean upon.
"'Dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she
said, 'I think our blessed Lord is soon going to come for me.'
I tried to cheer her by telling her that it
might be His will to restore her again to health and strength.
'No, dear Sister, she replied; 'and oh, I
do not want to stay. I long to see my Master's face. At night, when I
lay awake in pain, I long, oh, so much, that I might go!'
" 'Sister Madeline,' I said, 'you have been
happy here, have you not? You love your present life?'
"We had seated ourselves by this time in a
little grotto made up in honor of 'Our Lady of Lourdes.' She buried her
face in her hands, and I saw the tears trickling between her fingers.
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"My own eyes filled with tears; I know not
why. "At last, raising up her head, she said: 'I have tried my best to
be contented; but oh! Sister Adelaide, it has been a bitter struggle. It
is wrong in me to give way thus; but I cannot help it. May Our Lady pity
me! I want you to promise, dear Sister, that you will say a rosary for
me every day for a year after I am dead, and one communion every month.'
'I will gladly do this for you, Sister
Madeline?' I answered. 'Tell me,' I continued, 'is there any particular
day you prefer?'
"'Yes,' she replied, 'I would like your
Friday communion. Promise me that on the anniversary of the feast of St.
Mary Magdalene, my patron saint, you will offer your communion for me.'
"I promised her this and she seemed more
satisfied.
"'I know,' she said, 'that I shall have a
long purgatory.' She shuddered as she spoke. 'And oh! I do hope the dear
sisters will remember me in their prayers and communions.'
Dear Sister Madeline,' I said at last,
'purgatory
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is better than hell and our Blessed Lady
will intercede for you.'
"'Yes, dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she
said, 'you are right; but oh!' she continued, 'I cannot help the shudder
that passes through me as I think of the suffering I shall be in for
years, especially after the mortifications I have practiced here, the
discipline I have applied to myself, the days I have abstained from
food, the prayers I have offered, the tears I have shed; and now, as
death approaches, there is no other prospect before me than a long term
of purgatorial punishment. Besides, the punishment will be all the
greater since I have given away to an unnatural thought.'
"'And what, may I ask, do you call an
unnatural thought?'
"'Sister Magdalene Adelaide, come close to
me.'
"I rose from my chair and knelt down beside
her.
"'Dear sister, I have endeavored to bear my
cross,' she commenced, speaking with difficulty; 'But oh! sister, I
dread the end; I have so much
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to expiate; and oh!' she continued, her
voice now choked with sobs, 'if only I could have my mother near me; if
only I could hear her voice once more; it is so long since I have seen
her. I have asked for any letter that may have come, but they tell me
none has arrived, and oh! I don It think mother has quite forgotten me.'
"I durst not trust myself to speak; my
heart was too full. At last I said, 'Dear sister, do not grieve thus;
our Blessed Lady will intercede for you. Remember, in coming here your
purpose, even as mine, was to make reparation for sin. You and I have
both suffered. Be brave now, dear, and now that the end is near do not
take away from God's glory by fearing for the future.'
"'I know it is wrong to grieve so much,
Sister Magdalene Adelaide, but oh, I am so weak! Will you read a
meditation for me?'
"I took up the book and did as she
requested. Soon she fell into a sleep which lasted about one hour, and
again I commenced saying my rosary beads. Presently I heard her murmur,
and, listening, I heard her whisper, 'My feet! oh, my feet!'
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I arose from my chair and removed the sheet
with the intention of rubbing her limbs; as I did so her feet were
disclosed. A thrill of horror passed through my being as I looked at
them, for they were all cut, festered and bruised; a fearful suspicion
took possession of me, and, stooping down, I picked up her infirmary
shoes. On examination I discovered in them. pieces of broken glass; a
thrill akin to horror ran through my whole frame. I held the shoes in my
hands and looked at the pale, suffering face of Adeline as she lay there
on her bed, and this evening the whole scene rises before me--the little
infirmary with its clean, white floor, a few cheap prints of the
stations of the cross hanging on the otherwise bare walls, the two or
three small iron bedsteads, then the white wooden altar upon which was
spread a white linen cloth embroidered with red; the two statues, one of
'Our Lady of Dolours' and the second of St. Joseph, the patron of happy
deaths. In the center of the altar was a vase with a few cheap paper
flowers.
"Yes, it comes to me most vividly. There
she
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lay, the sin of her past life being that she, too, had been deceived
at the altars of Rome--a victim of priestly solicitation in the
confessional. Even as she lay there in the last stages of consumption,
traces of what had at one time been a beautiful face were clearly
discernible. What had she not, suffered for years! Who could tell the
many weary hours of heart anguish she had passed through? And yet she
was young--hardly twenty-five years old. She had given up all that was
near and dear, and, for the years she had lived in the convent, she had
tried to appease God's justice for her early sin by mortifying and
chastising herself in a way that can only find a parallel in the
doctrines of Buddha. Oh, Madeline! poor, wounded, betrayed one! Who can
wonder, as you lay there with the fever of consumption running and
coursing through your veins, that, in spite of all the teachings and
practices of self-denial in the convent life in which you had lived so
many years, yet, when the hour of death drew nigh and your soul was
hovering on the borders of the unknown eternity, your thoughts once more
went back to the old
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home-scenes, and you longed, as only a
child can, for the sight of a mother's face, the sound of a mother's
voice, the cool, soothing touch of a mother's hand passing over your
brow? They tried to crush down the natural love that God placed in your
heart for your mother, but they could not. The use of the discipline
caused the blood to flow and gave you physical suffering; fasting and
long prayers made you weak, and thus incapable of exercising will-power;
and, when no other eye but God's was upon you, when struggling with the
desire to leave forever the hateful prison walls of the convent, the
bitter tears forced their way. 'Then, kneeling before the statue of the
'Mother of Sorrows,' you pleaded with her to help and intercede for you.
What comfort did you get? What hope? What consolation? None! You
might make good confessions and communions, practice all the
self-denials required of one in your vocation, and the only thing that
the church could give you, the only gleam of hope she could
offer, was that, through your works of supererogation, your purgatory
would be lessened,
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and now, wasted through suffering and
consumption, dreading the punishment of purgatory, endeavoring in your
dying state to do something to lessen its pangs, you have walked with
glass in your shoes and your poor feet give evidence of the agony you
endured. And this is Christianity!
"I applied cold cloths to her feet; I sat
down in the dimly-lighted infirmary by the side of her bed, and, holding
the fevered and trembling hand, I, in my ignorance, tried to give her
some comfort. I promised to remember her in my intentions, my
communions, and at the sacrifice of the Mass. I spoke to her of the
mercy and compassion of Mary, the 'Mother of Sorrows,' and tried to give
her hope by pointing to her as mediator between her soul and Christ, but
I could see that she received no satisfaction, no assurance. Then her
eyes closed and she dozed for a few minutes, only to wake with a moan of
pain--'Oh, my feet! oh, my feet!' And then again, 'If only I could see
my mother!' would issue from her parched and cracked lips.
"And so I sat through the night, soothing
her
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as well as I knew how, and repeating
aspirations for her, until the dawn crept in and the nuns' bell rang out
at 4:30 o'clock, arousing the inmates. The quietness and deep stillness
still remained throughout the institution, the sisters and penitents
walking in the dimly-lighted cloisters with soft tread and down-cast
eyes, as if in the land of the silent dead and not the living."
As I write I wonder how it was possible for
me to endure the paganism of Catholicism, for thirty years, and the only
rational reason I can give for this endurance is that 1, like thousands
of these poor nuns whom I have just written about, was raised to believe
that the teachings of Catholicism were right and the only road that lead
to eternal glory; therefore I look with pity and compassion upon those
black-garbed nuns when I behold them tramping the streets of our large
cities, as I realize that they actually believe they are performing
God's work, when the truth of the matter is that they are only following
the practices of heathen nations.
I could go on and write a thousand pages
upon
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"The Unmarried Cussedness of the Roman
Priestcraft," and each page would be as black as the shadows of hell,
but I deem it unnecessary, as I have confidence in those who may read
this book that they will believe every word of what I have written,
therefore it is unnecessary for me to dwell longer upon the hideousness
of celibacy.
In conclusion, I desire to say that so long
as Roman Catholicism demands that her priestcraft shall not wed, just so
long the priestcraft will remain vultures of virtue and just so long
convents will be turned into carnivals of vice.
It is only natural that such should be the
case, as both the priestcraft and the inhabitants of our convents are
brought up from childhood to believe in the absurdities of Roman
Catholicism, and to believe that all of their many sins can be pardoned
by the cungerings of this Romish doctrine.
My prayer is that the government of the
United States may learn in the near future that the broad light of
Protestant inspection must penetrate these recesses of darkness before
we can ever have them cleansed of their immorality, and this
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inspection must be made often, and I sincerely believe that the time
is not far distant when Protestant America will demand that Catholicism
shall do away with her monasteries and nunneries, unless she submits to
a rigid examination of her actions, and whenever she submits it will be
because she is forced to submit, and whenever she is forced to do so,
these monasteries and convents will be closed up, as Protestant America
will not allow nor permit these plague spots to exist to pollute the
fair name of America when she learns of their actual mission.
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Chapter X.
A Brazen Insult to God.
Catholicism teaches that the Pope of Rome
is infallible and cannot sin, neither can he make a mistake. This claim,
if true, would place the Pope of Rome, who is nothing more nor less than
a human being, upon the same footing as Jesus Christ.
The Bible says, "There are none pure; no,
not one." Now, if the claim of Catholicism that the Pope of Rome is
infallible, is true, then the Bible is a myth and a mockery.
If Catholicism's claim that the Pope of
Rome is infallible, is true, then God is not an impartial God, for if He
is an impartial God He would not bestow upon any of His mortals the gift
of purity, without being ready to bestow the same gift upon
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all of those who are deserving, and who by
their righteousness deserve this grand and princely distinction.
We want to use a little common sense
and a philosophy that can be assimilated by any man or woman of ordinary
intelligence.
The Bible does not relate in any verse or
chapter that any one can reach the point of infallibility during life.
Now, is not this true? And if it is, then the claim of Catholicism that
the Pope of Rome is infallible is a lie, woven in the devil's loom.
We want to prove to our readers that this
claim is one founded upon fallacious grounds, as the Pope of Rome is
elected by the cardinals of the Catholic Church, who are human And who
are often as immoral as the devil; therefore the infallibility of the
Pope rests in human hands, for it is by these cardinals that the Pope is
created, therefore you will see that by the ballot of these cardinals
the Pope derives his infallibility, and not from any power of God
Almighty, consequently
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this proclaimed infallibility of the Pope
rests in the hands of these cardinals.
Now, to illustrate this damnable doctrine
and show it up in its rabid ignorance, we will suppose that when Pope
Pius X was elected Pope of Rome that if some other priest had received a
majority of one of the votes of the cardinals, Pope Pius X would never
have had this blessing from God, but he would only have missed it one
vote, therefore you will see that this infallibility which was about to
rest on Pope Pius X, but did not, would have been snatched from him by
the failure of one cardinal to vote for him.
Now, any man or woman of ordinary "horse
sense" can see that God Almighty has nothing whatever to do with filling
the office of the Pope, and this infallibility rests altogether with the
pulling power that the candidate for Pope exercises over the cardinals,
as it is an indisputable fact that there is as much political chicanery
in the election of a Pope as there is in the election of a justice of
the peace at a township election.
We want to learn just how far this
infallibility
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of the Pope goes. If a man is infallible he
can not make a mistake, and I can prove by every man of broadmindedness
and intelligence that the Popes of Rome, for centuries past, have made
nothing but mistakes, and their mistakes have been not only ruinous to
those whom they profess to teach, but their mistakes have had a tendency
to paralyze the righteous ambitions of every nation to which their
influence has extended. If the claim of Catholicism is true that her
Popes are infallible, then we must acknowledge that this great gift was
received from God Almighty, and we cannot believe such nonsense when we
are aware of the fact that these Popes are elected by the cardinals, and
the election of a Pope depends upon the tactics and schemes of these
cardinals; then, pray, tell us how any man who has been raised up under
the arch-light of Protestantism, or who has had the searchlight of
Protestant intelligence penetrate his soul, can for a moment believe in
the infallibility of the Pope?
I sincerely believe, in fact, I know that
there are millions who believe this damnable doctrine,
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as I can honestly say that I at one time
believed it myself. But those who do believe it are those who have been
raised beneath the dark shadows of superstition, and my mission in
writing this book is to brush the cobwebs of ignorance from these
dwarfed minds and help to point them to "the Lamb of God who taketh
away the sins of the world," and if I can be instrumental in this
mission I will not only open the eyes. of the followers of Catholicism,
but I will put stiffening into the backbone of Protestantism and help
them to brand this idolatrous doctrine of Catholicism wherever she may
dare to rear her abominable head.
The great danger in teaching that the Pope
is infallible is in making thieves and murderers of our citizens, for if
Catholicism is right in teaching her followers that the Pope of Rome is
infallible, this doctrine is bound to have an influence that is awful in
its effect,, for whenever a man or woman believes in the infallibility
of the Pope they are bound to believe in the infallibility of all things
that he creates; therefore you will see that this doctrine is
far-reaching in its effects, for if a
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Pope is infallible the bishops which he
creates are infallible, and if the bishops which he creates are
infallible, the priests which they create are infallible, and whenever
we teach a nation this abomination we have a nation of people which
believes that there is no sin so heinous which they may commit but which
may be forgiven by the priesthood, as they have learned to believe that
all things created by the Pope are infallible, simply because they have
been created by the Pope, and whenever you preach a doctrine that has
such effect upon the inhabitants of any country you will have a set of
inhabitants who will commit crime without hesitation, as they are
assured that by paying a few dollars into the coffers of the priest they
can have their sins pardoned, and whenever you cause a nation to believe
this, you at once have a nation of criminals.
It is, in my estimation, absolutely
impossible for an individual who believes in such a damnable doctrine to
become a pure, patriotic American citizen. Now, this may seem to the
reader a very broad assertion and one that may appear too broad to be
substantiated, but I propose to demonstrate
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to you that it is only a natural
consequence, and if we fail to make this point clear to the reader's
mind we will not ask them to believe it.
In the first place, we desire to say that
the Catholic religion--if religion it can be termed--is founded upon the
rock of superstition. Every code of their church doctrine teaches that
the Pope is infallible and cannot err, which is absurd, and not only
absurd, but a festering lie, for no man or woman who believes in the
teachings of the Holy Bible can believe in such a doctrine, and whenever
a man or woman does believe in the infallibility of the Pope and
believes that the Pope cannot err, he or she believes that the Pope is
superhuman, and such we know cannot be the case as long as there is life
in the body, as we are all liable to the Adamic sin, as the world at
large was cursed with the Adamic sin in the Garden of Eden.
Now, we want to deal in simple facts and
truths that are so simple that the commonest man of ordinary
intelligence can understand.
Now, if the Pope of Rome is infallible, he
is immortal, and if every action of this Pope is pure,
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then everything that is created by him must
be pure; and if such is the case, I was at one time as pure as Jesus
Christ Himself, as I for thirty years was a Roman Catholic priest and a
creature created by a Roman Catholic Pope. Every man and woman of very
ordinary intelligence knows that neither I nor any other priest ever was
pure; in fact, that man has never lived or died who could claim
infallibility and purity so long as life was left in his body.
If the doctrines of Catholicism are correct
then we have no use for a God any longer, as we already have a Pope; and
should Pope Pius X die to-day the cardinals to-morrow, or some day in
the near future, would elect another Pope, who would take the place of
Jesus Christ Himself, according to their doctrine; and if such doctrines
are true, then the human family in the future and the unborn millions
could be saved as easily without God as they could with Him, as the Pope
would perform that mission himself.
There are thousands--yea, tens of
thousands, who send handkerchiefs and trinkets each year
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to Rome to be blessed (?) by the Pope, and
who believe that by having some article which has been blessed (?) by
this presumptuous vagabond will prevent them from being overtaken by bad
luck, ill health or any other misfortune that besets the path of man.
Now, if the Pope of Rome has the power to
bless and sanctify, a piece of cloth, a ring, or any dead and inert
object, he undoubtedly is "the real thing," and if such is the
case the Bible is a lie, the gospel a fallacy, and God Almighty becomes
a hireling, and we have no further need of a God.
What can we expect of the followers of
Catholicism who believe in this hellish doctrine, and what can we expect
of a nation which is controlled by those who teach and preach such
abominations?
An institution which will teach such
damnable ignorance and practice such superstitious paganism is a plague
spot and a curse to any country, and the man or set of men who claim
that the Pope is infallible offers
"a brazen insult to God."
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Chapter XI.
The Characters of the Followers of Catholicism
Compared to the Followers of Protestantism.
I believe that I am not presuming too much when I consider myself
authority on the subject of " Character, " as I have had the privilege
of studying the characters of the followers of both Catholic and
Protestant countries, as I have traveled extensively over both Europe
and America and have had occasion to compare the characters of the
followers of the Pope to the characters of the followers of Jesus
Christ, and the comparison is one that will lead any sane man, or woman,
and one who desires to reach a true verdict, to arrive at the conclusion
that it is a physical impossibility for any man or woman who depends
upon mortal wisdom for their inspiration to ever attain the broadness
and purity of character that the man or
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woman who lives beneath the shadow of the
Cross, and who looks to a living God for their wisdom.
Character is not a spontaneous fungus which
grows without proper care, as character is an essential that must be
cultivated in the fertile soil of morality, as there is no code of
morals which will stand the crucial test of godliness unless it springs
from the eternal injunctions laid down in the Holy Bible, and without
morals an individual as well as a nation loses its identity among the
good of the land, and when this happens, society in general is the
loser, for whenever we degrade society we degrade ourselves, for there
is no man or woman so strong and powerful in their individuality but
what they can become besmirched and contaminated, to a degree at least,
by the association of those who have been lowered in the scale of
morality by the lack of this most precious jewel of the human family.
We are aware of the fact that Protestantism
is not exempt from sin, as we are well aware that we will find sinners
of all degrees in the Protestant ranks, but we make the assertion,
without fear of
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contradiction, that the characters in
general of the followers of Protestantism are many times superior to the
characters in general of the followers of Romanism.
We will take the large cities in the United
States as an illustration, and we will find that the saloon-keepers,
comparatively speaking, are from the ranks of Catholicism, and to engage
in the saloon business is no bar to a member of the Catholic Church, for
if this saloon-keeper, no matter if he runs a wine-room in connection
with his saloon and is responsible for the downfall of an army of
precious girls, he is considered a fit subject for heaven by the
Catholic Church provided he liberally donates to the support of this
damnable institution.
Statistics show that ninety-four bar-rooms
out of every one hundred in America are owned and controlled by the
followers of Romanism. As Catholicism establishes and builds character
out of money, she makes money her god, and as long as her followers
liberally support the great army of Catholic dignitaries they are taught
that they
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have performed the essential part in the
establishment of character; thus you can see what the result of this
doctrine would lead to, and you have demonstrations of this doctrine in
this country, and more especially in other countries where Catholicism
is solely responsible for the condition of the inhabitants.
Everything that is not in the Bible is
taken by the Catholic Church from the heathens and the Jews, and you
will find the doctrines and the practices of Catholicism founded upon
heathenish practices and not upon the broad plane of morals taught by
Jesus Christ.
Those who may read this book, and who are
not acquainted with the characters of the rabble of Catholicism, we
would be glad to have them go to any of our large cities and visit some
of the districts of these cities which are inhabited by the followers of
Romanism, and there you will find a class whose countenances alone would
condemn them in any criminal court of the land, as they are men and
women who are made up of a foreign element and from the criminal
districts of
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European countries, and who are as ignorant
as rams and glory in their ignorance, and who have no idea of patriotism
and of loyalty to country, and only have an idea and desire to worship
the images and symbols of Catholicism, and any man or body of men, or
any nation, who will practice this heathenish worship cannot possess
character.
I have traveled extensively over the United
States and over European countries which are controlled by the Pope, and
if I could vividly portray the characters of Catholicism and Protestant,
ism the comparison would resemble the countenance of the criminal
compared to the innocent and loveable features of a girl baby.
Catholicism poisons the very atmosphere
that surrounds her followers, and she is not satisfied by confining her
contaminating influences to her own followers, but she is everlastingly
stretching her filthy grasp to pull Protestantism down to her degraded
level. Catholicism lowers the standard of public opinion. She makes war
on morality and virtue, which destroys character. Catholicism
countenances wrong-doings. Catholicism tolerates
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evil and rewards vice, and it is a
well-known fact that "evil communications corrupt good manners," and if
this is the case, then is it any wonder that the characters of the
followers of Catholicism cannot, nor never will, favorably compare to
the followers of Protestantism?
I am about to make an assertion that will
perhaps shock those who are not familiar with the teachings of
Catholicism, but I make it without fear of contradiction, as I know
whereof I speak, as I have traveled the Papist road for thirty years,
and I declare to you with all sincerity and honesty that Rome would not
go far wrong if she counted in her membership 95 per cent of the men and
women who are on their road to hell, and if this assertion is true, and
if I have not overdrawn my estimation, then, pray, tell me what we can
expect in the future in this country should such characters as I have
just portrayed be permitted to dominate this government.
Every Roman Catholic that is born in the
world comes into the world alienated from God and God's teachings, and
is taught from infancy not
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to depend upon God Almighty for guidance,
but to depend upon Romanism for their everlasting future, and with such
doctrines everlastingly funnelled into childhood, what can we expect of
the child when it has grown to maturity?
Protestant children are born into the world
of parents who look above the horizon of earthly things for their
inspirations, and these children are taught from infancy that they must
look to an all-wise God for succor and support; but Popery ignores all
of this and teaches by heathenish symbols and by paganic practices. Thus
it is an easy matter for any sane man or woman to understand why
character cannot be found in such a class.
The followers of Catholicism are taught
that by the payment of a few dimes they can have their sins remitted and
pardoned; thus you will see that crime has no terrors for such a class,
as they believe that when they have committed a crime all they have to
do is to go to the priestcraft and have their sins pardoned, in exchange
for perhaps
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a part of the, money which they gained in
their criminal transaction.
To rule such men, no religion is required.
A Romanist does not look to God Almighty for his salvation, but to the
church, and the church gives him her unbounded sanction to commit sin,
provided that he returns after he commits the crime and pays a few
dollars to have his sins pardoned.
A Roman Catholic can swear, break the
Sabbath, dishonor his parents, lie, steal, commit adultery, get drunk
and commit any other crime that he chooses, provided that he returns to
the confessional box and pays for having his sins pardoned.
Now, what can you expect of a class of men
and women who believe in this doctrine, and can you expect to find
anything but the character of a criminal or a degenerate? If you do, you
are undoubtedly as ignorant as the followers of Romanism, as it is a
physical impossibility to reasonably expect a man or woman who has been
taught these abominations to ever make men and women of character who
will adorn this or any other nation.
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One of the rulers of England, Charles II,
died with prostitutes about him and died a disgrace to England and to
himself, but Rome glorified in him as one of her converts. The more of
Rome a man or woman possesses, and the. less of God, the more the Roman
Catholic Church glorifies in him.
Catholicism is a coward--yea, a cringing
coward--when not surrounded by large numbers of her followers, as she
has no excuse for her existence and cannot defend herself by intelligent
and godly arguments, and the only way she can defend herself is by
numbers; but whenever she can resort to physical and brutal strength,
she then makes a fight which crimsons the earth with blood, and
Protestantism pays the penalty, and the reason why those in the country
and in sparsely settled districts do not know more of the hellishness of
Catholicism is because this creed cannot intelligently defend itself and
will not take issue with Protestantism unless she can take issue by
brutal power, but in our cities we have an exhibition of the diabolical
deeds of Catholicism, as the majority of our municipal elections are
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controlled by the followers of Catholicism,
as Rome's followers congregate in our large cities, because they love
darkness better than light, and they infest the " tough " sections of
our cities and control our municipal elections by brute force, which is
sanctioned by the priestcraft.
We will take it for granted that the
inhabitants of the United States know more of Mexico than any other
nation which is priest-ridden, so we desire to dwelt for a short time
upon the characters of the Mexican peon. You will find Mexico, which
lays right across from Texas on the Rio Grande River, a dividing line
between ignorance and intelligence, crime and godliness, and morality
and immorality; however, that part of Texas which lays near the 'Mexican
border has become contaminated to a great degree by these Mexican
"dupes" who follow the black flag of Romanism; but the, difference in
character, in manhood, in womanhood, in intelligence and everything
which distinguishes right from wrong is so marked and so plain that one
does not have to look twice to see the difference, and there is no cause
nor no reason
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for this great difference in character, in
manhood and womanhood but the teachings of Rome.
If we expect America to retain her place
among the nations of intelligence and nations of greatness, and nations
of goodness and godliness, we must be character-builders, for without
character we can never expect to reach the zenith of godliness, and
without godliness individual greatness is an impossibility.
Catholicism paints the countenances of her
followers with the brush of ignorance and criminality.
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Chapter XII.
Why Teachers in Our Public Schools Should Not Be
Selected from the Ranks of Catholicism.
The Catholic world does not hesitate in
declaring that our public schools in this country are "Sinks of
Iniquity," "Schools of Vice," and "Nurseries of Hell;" then why should
the followers of Catholicism be permitted to teach in our public
schools?
This is a question that ought to vitally
interest every Protestant father and mother in this land, and the time
is not far distant until they will become interested, for just as sure
as God reigns, the time is not far in the future when Catholicism will
endeavor to close up the public schools of this land and establish her
nurseries of darkness and superstition in their stead.
If the public schools of this country are
not
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good enough for the children of Catholic
parents, it seems to me that the Protestant parents of this country
should see to it that their children are too good to be taught by
Catholic teachers.
Why is it that the Pope does not promulgate
one of his "holy bulls" and excommunicate those of his believers who
take the money so freely for their services from the public schools of
this country?
Oh, no; the Pope and the priestcraft are
perfectly willing, so long as Protestants have the power to maintain
those schools, that their "Jesuitical dupes" shall receive the money
that is set aside for these schools. My blood fairly boils with
unbounded indignation when I think of the hard, harsh, and ungodly slurs
that Catholicism is ever ready to throw at our public school system, and
then see blind Protestants help to place a Catholic teacher in one of
our schools.
We propose to give facts and figures in
this chapter that we hope will open the eyes of drowsy, unconcerned
Protestants, and help them and their children to apply the brakes to
their downward
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course, and spike the guns of the Vatican
with American manhood.
We hope by the time you are through with
this chapter you will be ready to make inquiries as to who is to teach
your children in the public schools. Let me ask you, Mr. Protestant, if
you ever heard of a Protestant teaching in a Catholic school? Oh, no!
But then you will fold your hands and be content to allow your children
to be taught by a man or woman who secretly despises the public school
system. Shame! Ten thousand times we exclaim you should be ashamed for
not asserting your American and God-given privileges of Protestantism
gained for you through the blood of your forefathers!
A general system of education, such as
affords all alike an opportunity to cultivate and expand the intellect,
the poor as well as the rich, is, beyond all question, one of the
greatest blessings that any nation can enjoy. Such a system had its
birth in America while it was yet comparatively free from the blighting
influence of a religio-political corporation whose whole history is one
uninterrupted
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and relentless war upon every system of
education which broadens the intellect and causes people to think. In
America was born the public free school system, and from the date of its
birth, in 1695, to the present, it has been the means of giving to this
nation its most renowned statesmen, jurists, patriots, agriculturists,
teachers and divines. It is one of the principal agents by which the
United States of America has been enabled to advance to the first rank
in all things that make a nation great.
But against this most sacred product of
American liberty Rome lifts her unholy hands. Against our schools she
hurls her worst anathemas. But it is our purpose in this chapter to let
the Roman Catholic Church speak for itself. Its language is plain and
needs no interpretation. Listen to Rome's damnable utterances:
"These public schools are devouring fires
and pits of destruction. They ought to go back to the devil, from whence
they came."--The Freeman's Journal.
"If your son or daughter is attending a
state
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school you may be sure that you are
violating your duty as Catholic parents and conducting to the
everlasting anguish and despair of your child. Take it away. Let it
rather never know how to write its name than to become the bound and
chained slave of Satan."--The
Shepherd of the Valley.
"The common schools of this country
are sinks of moral pollution and nurseries of hell."--Chicago
Tablet.
"The public or common school system is a
swindle on the people, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters
of morals, and should be abolished forthwith."--New
York Tablet.
"The hideous fetish, called the public
school, is only an ugly idol after all."--Colorado
Catholic.
"It will be a glorious day for Roman
Catholics in this country when, under the laws of justice and morality,
our school system shall be shivered to pieces."
--Catholic Telegraph.
"We hold education to be a function of the
church and not of the state, and in our case we do
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not and will not accept the state as an
educator." --New York Tablet.
They love darkness rather than light
because their deeds are evil. Listen to the snarls of Rome's "dupes:"
"Unless you suppress the public school
system as at present conducted, it will prove the damnation of this
country."--Father Walker.
"I frankly confess that the Catholics stand
before the country as the enemies of the public schools."--Father
Phelan.
"The duty of all loyal, God-fearing
Christian men (Roman Catholics) then, I repeat it, is to make common
cause against this common foe."--Father
Gleason.
"The public schools have produced nothing
but a godless generation of thieves and blackguards."--Priest
Schauer.
"I would as soon administer the sacrament
to a dog as to Catholics who send their children to public schools."--Priest
Walker.
"The public school system must be
destroyed. It must be done by stopping Bible reading, Psalm
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singing and eliminating objectionable
books." --Priest Phelan.
"To rescue these little ones out of the
grasp of that monster (the public school), of that popular idol, is our
work."--Bishop John Hennessy.
"We can have the United States in ten
years. And I want to give you three points for your consideration: The
Negroes, the Indians and the public schools."--Bishop
Ireland.
"Emphatically a social plague."--Archbishop
Perche.
"A ripe knowledge of the catechism, minus
Massachusetts education, is preferable to her education, minus the
catechism."--Cardinal Antoneffi.
"The common school system of the United
States is the worst in the world."--Cardinal
Manning.
"The catechism alone is essential for the
education of the people."--Cardinal
Antoneffi.
"We must take part in the elections. Move
in solid mass in every state pledged to sustain the
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integrity of the public schools."--Cardinal
McCloskey.
"The Roman Church alone is endowed with
power to educate the young."--Cardinal
McCloskey.
"Education outside of the control of the
Roman Catholic Church is a damnable heresy."--Pius IX.
"Public schools open to all children for
the education of the young should be under the control of the Romish
Church, and should not be subject to civil power, nor made to conform to
the opinions of the ages."--Pope
Pius IX.
"When I see them drag from me the children,
the poor little children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks
my heart."--Pope Pius IX.
"It is desirable, therefore, venerable
brethren, that in concert with your colleagues in the Episcopate, your
efforts and your zeal guard Catholic children from frequenting schools
in which their religious instruction is neglected and open danger
incurred of spiritual loss. Therefore we vehemently desire, as has
already been intimated to you by the propaganda, that in approaching
Episcopal
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meetings you carefully discuss the measure
that. may best help to attain this end. We wish you also to use earnest
efforts that the civil magistrates, who know full well that nothing is
more advantageous to the commonwealth than religion should provide, by
the enactment of wise laws, that the office of teachings, which is
carried on at the expense of the public, including consequently the
contributions of Catholics, should contain nothing that stands in the
way of their conscience or runs foul of their religion."--Pope
Leo XIII.
We could go on and quote diabolical
denunciations of our public schools from hundreds and thousands of
Catholic officials, as the followers of Rome make no "bones" of
declaring their animosity towards the public schools of this country,
and they are only waiting for the time to arrive when they will be able
to wipe from the face of the earth every vestige of our public schools,
and place in their stead their parochial schools, which are nothing more
nor less than "mills of ignorance" and "institutions of superstition."
An institution of learning is something
that is
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not desired by Catholicism, for whenever
you educate you destroy the doctrines of Romanism, as the hosts of
Catholicism cannot stand the searchlight of wisdom, for whenever you
educate the followers of Catholicism they become disgusted with their
dogmas of damnation.
Our public schools are the bulwarks of this
government, and all that we are to-day, and all that we may expect to be
in the future, has come and must come by and through the public schools,
which are the dearest institutions that adorn this country.
There must be no sectarianism, whether
political or religious, in our public schools, but there must be truth
and duty there. The unchanging and undying maxim of moral rectitude
should be taught to every child. It is not enough that a boy or girl
should be educated mentally. The safety of our nation, as well as his
own usefulness and happiness, demand that they should be trained to
habits of truthfulness and develop a fine standard of honor. They should
be inspired to form exalted ideals of manhood and womanhood, charity,
rectitude and godliness, and made strong in the
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resolution to defend the truth, which is
never found in parochial schools, as the Catholic doctrine always tends
to humiliate her followers.
The time has come when the pupils of our
public schools must be taught the love of country, and Catholicism does
not teach this, but the reverse. The children of this nation must learn
to love their native land. To whom shall we look for the inculcation of
those patriotic sentiments which should inspire the heart of every
American citizen? Not to Catholicism, by any means, but to the three
hundred thousand teachers of our public schools.
Over every school house in hamlet and city,
in country and town, in the North and in the South, in the East and in
the West, the American flag should kiss the morning breeze. Place it
where twenty millions of children will see it every day, and learn to
love it as the emblem of all that is great and good. It will represent
to us and to all the world, in a new and peculiar manner, the great
fundamental truth that the bulwark of our liberties is in the education
of our people.
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The war of the revolution was fought to
establish our nationality. Incalculable blood and treasure have been
spent to establish and keep our national life intact, and the national
policy with relation to our public schools is part and parcel of that
all-absorbing determination to secure the perpetuity of the state. Men
make better citizens for being educated. The higher the popular
intellect is raised the more intelligent and independent will be its
vote. The stronger the source of government, the stronger the
government. If the "bayonets that think" are the most potent, the
"ballots that think" are the most beneficent.
Every victory which our nation has won has
been a victory of the public schools and a death knock to Catholicism.
They have been the nursery not only of our statesmen, but of our
patriots and soldiers. They are an American institution and are destined
to live as long as the republic survives. There is no other American
institution that American people would sooner fight for and die for than
that which secures an educated and intelligent nationality. Let us
maintain inviolate our
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public schools to the end that our nation
may ever be the home of liberty, "the land of benedictions."
In the unbounded universe of God's domain
there are manifold diversities, and yet there is an essential unity that
binds the world together; there is a common point where all matter
unites.
As there is great freedom and diversity
permitted in the, unity of nature, so, in our country of religious and
political freedom, we must grant the greatest latitude possible to the
individual conscience in personal, religious and civil rights consistent
with good government. But that there must be a code of morality common
to all as the basis of our civilized jurisprudence, in which the rights
of all center or unite and are equally protected, every reasonable mind
must admit. But where do we get our ideas of what is morally right, and
what is morally wrong, as the basis of our common law and jurisprudence?
What book or books contain the best code of morals? We answer, the
Bible. For the excellency of the morality of the Bible has been admitted
by the most
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distinguished men who have opposed its
supernatural revelation, among whom are Gibbon, Byron, Carlyle, Lord
Bollingbroke, Napoleon Bonaparte, Goethe and Renan. Thomas Jefferson,
speaking of Christ as a teacher, said: "He set forth the sublime ideas
of the Supreme Being, aphorisms and precepts of the purest morality."
Catholicism says: "No Bible shall be taught
in the public schools," but demands that she be allowed to proclaim her
dogmas.
Benjamin Franklin, five weeks before his
death, said of Christ: "I think His system of morals, and His religion,
as He left them, are the best the world ever saw or is likely to sec."
The services of the Bible in behalf of human rights and freedom, and in
reforming and purifying jurisprudence and politics, have been recognized
by many of the most distinguished historians, jurists and statesmen.
As the makers of our laws and the founders
of our government have accepted the moral code of the Bible as the basis
of our jurisprudence, and have forbidden the union of church and state,
and have
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left every citizen free to "worship God
according to the dictates of his own conscience," so long as he does not
interfere with the rights of others or violate the moral code common to
all citizens, for the law cannot allow a person to murder or steal, or
burn human sacrifices, or be a polygamist, or commit any other public
crime, even if the dictates of his conscience should lead him into such
a form of religion, because the moral code of the Bible is the basis of
our jurisprudence, and it forbids such things.
Therefore, we demand that the "book of
books" be kept where the rising generation shall come under its moral
teaching without party or sectarian comment, so that all may understand
the fundamental principles upon which the science of our common law
rests, and thus one of the objects of the order is "to maintain the
public school system of the United States and to prevent sectarian
interference therewith, and upholding the reading of the Holy Bible
therein."
The argument that the reading of the Bible
in the public school should be abolished because it is
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objectionable to the conscience of some
comes only from the Church of Rome, and applies with equal force against
the moral code of jurisprudence, because it is objectionable to the
conscience of the anarchist, and the conscience of the anarchist is just
as sacred and entitled to as much respect, under the law, in this free
country of ours as the conscience of any one else.
We have, just as much right to take the
moral code out of our common jurisprudence as to take the Bible out of
our public schools, because the moral code of the Bible is the moral
code of our common law.
We desire the Bible to be kept in the
school as the standard of moral truth, as the dictionary is kept there
as the standard of words and their definitions. As the unabridged
dictionary contains all the words of the English language, so the Bible
contains all the truths of Christianity. Every book has a part of the
words of the dictionary, so every Christian creed has a part of the
truths of the Bible. As there never was a book written that contained
all of the words of the dictionary, so
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there never was a creed written that
contained all the truths of the Bible. Therefore, as the dictionary and
not the books is the standard for words and their meaning, so the Bible,
and not the creeds, is the standard of moral truth. A man can take the
words in the dictionary and write a bad book, but that is not the fault
of the dictionary, but of the man. A person may take passages of
Scripture and misapplied truths and write a bad creed, but that is not
the fault of the Bible, but of the creed-maker. But every man who takes
the Bible as a whole has a complete standard of moral truths.
It is claimed that the Bible should not be
read in the school because there are passages that are not proper to be
read before children, or a promiscuous audience, but this is only
claimed by Catholicism. Yes, and there are words in the dictionary that
it would be just as improper to use and define before children or a
promiscuous audience as any passage in the Bible. Therefore, it would be
just as reasonable to exclude the dictionary as the Bible from the
school room on this
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hypocritical argument in favor of false modesty. The man's conscience
that will object to the reading of the Bible in the public school will
ultimately object to the moral code of our jurisprudence, and such a
conscience is dangerous to our form of government, inimical to the best
interests of society and good government, as has been clearly
demonstrated in the past. The Mormons claimed the right under our
constitution to live in polygamy, as that was their religion and the way
they served God according to the "dictates of their own conscience." But
the supreme court decided they could not worship God according to the
dictates of their conscience if their worship was a violation of the
moral code common to all. Thus all must submit to the moral code
irrespective of their individual conscience. So the Bible should be read
in the public schools, irrespective of the conscience of any, until the
majority of the government of the people, for the people and by the
people shall say: "Away with your Bible, away with your Sabbath, away
with your Christian jurisprudence, and give us infidel,
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revolutionary France, or lawless anarchy,
or the inquisition of the dark ages!"
Our public school is the mill that is to
grind out this standard of morality, knowledge and patriotism common to
all. Hence we must have the Bible in it as the standard of morality, and
primary principles of literature, science and art, the standard of
knowledge, and the American flag and its essential principles as the
standard of patriotism. Our American school system is like a great paper
mill, into which are cast rags of all kinds and colors, but which lose
their special identity and come out white paper, having a common
identity. So we want the children of the state, of whatever nationality,
color or religion, to pass through this great moral, intellectual and
patriotic mill, or transforming process, and thus lose their foreign
peculiarities and come out not as Germans, Irish, English, Runs or
Poles, but as Americans, having the common identity of morality,
knowledge and patriotism that is essential to true American citizenship
and good government stamped upon their minds, and when they
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pass through this mill of purification they
then begin to lose confidence in the heathenish doctrines of
Catholicism.
In a government where the people are the
rulers, intelligence and education are necessary to maintain the
nation's stability. Under this belief, the public school system of the
United States was founded.
Following are expressions of prominent
Americans on the general subject of popular education:
President Hays: "I am firmly convinced that
the subject of popular education deserves the earnest attention of the
people of the whole country, with a view to wise and comprehensive
action by the government of the United States. The means at the command
of the local and state authorities are in many cases wholly inadequate
to deal with the question. The magnitude of the evil to be eradicated is
not, I apprehend, generally and fully understood."
President Garfield: "Next in importance to
freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom
nor justice can be permanently
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maintained. Its interests are intrusted to
the state and to the voluntary action of the people. Whatever help the
nation can justly afford should be generously given to aid the states in
supporting common schools, but it would be unjust to our people and
dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenue of the
nation of the states to the support of sectarian schools. The separation
of the church and the state in everything relating to taxation should be
absolute."
Dr. Strong: "Free schools are one of the
corner-stones of our government."
Washington's Farewell Address: "Promote
them as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government
gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinions
should be enlightened."
Calhoun: "In proportion as a people are
ignorant, stupid, debased, corrupt, exposed to violence within and
danger without, the power necessary for a government to possess in order
to preserve society against anarchy and destruction
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becomes greater and greater, and individual
liberty less and less, until the lowest condition is reached, when
absolute and despotic power becomes necessary on the part of the
government and individual liberty extinct."
The church of Rome wants to rule by tyranny
so that she can force her "dupes" to do her bidding.
No subject could be of more interest to
American citizens to-day than that of foreign immigration to America.
Every section of the country has felt, to some degree, the demoralizing
effect of the free admission of aliens, unsuited morally and mentally
for participating in a government of the people.
The consensus of opinion among all classes
of good citizens is that some restrictive measures should be adopted,
and this can be effected only by popular agitation and demand.
Read what some prominent men of the country
have said on the subject:
Hon. Wm. E. Chandler: "We should prepare
ourselves with wisdom and vigor to enforce
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completely such laws of exclusion as we
have adopted. We should throw our strongest force into a stricter
administration of those laws so that no man and no family shall pass
through the Ellis Island doors, or into any seaport, or across the
Canadian or Mexican borders, who is a pauper or likely to become such.
One method of stricter administration should be the requirement that all
immigrants before leaving their own countries shall obtain consular
certificates abroad, showing their right to enter the United States."
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge: "You ask me for a
few words on the subject of immigration. My opinion has been stated at
length, both in speeches in Congress and in review articles, but I am
very glad to restate it in the briefest possible form. I think that
immigration to this country is increasing too fast on one hand and
deteriorating on the other. We are ready to welcome every honest
immigrant who comes to make a home and become an American citizen, but I
believe that the present immigration ought to be sifted and restricted
much more than it is, both as a protection to the
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quality of our citizenship and to the rates
of wages to our workingmen."
Hon. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of
Census: "The unrestricted admission of the diseased, half-fed swarms of
helpless humanity from the purlieus of Southern European cities is the
dangerous phase of immigration. If continued, it will prove a curse and
blight to American citizenship and American institutions. There was a
time in our history when the better class of foreign immigrants and our
own population was able to swallow up the less desirable class, but it
takes no great discernment now to see the congested spots here and there
on our body politic. In this lies the danger. Such a change in the
character of immigration as herein shown cannot have taken place without
materially affecting the entire immigration problem, and the sooner our
statesmen get to the bottom of the present condition of affairs, the
better for the republic. "
Rev. Josiah Strong, D. D.: "It is
immigration which has fed fat the liquor power, and there is a liquor
vote. Immigration furnishes most of the
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victims of Mormonism, and there is a Mormon
vote. Immigration is the strength of the Catholic Church, and there is a
Catholic vote. Immigration is the mother and nurse of American anarchy,
and there is to be an anarchist vote. Immigration tends strongly to the
cities and gives to them their political complexion, and there is no
more serious menace to our civilization than our rabble-ruled cities."
Samuel Gompers, President American
Federation of Labor: "It almost grieves me even to recommend the
slightest restriction to the full and free immigration of anyone who
desires to escape from the iniquitous conditions from which he may
suffer, but the progress of our civilization is hanging in the balance,
and intelligent and brave men should not be afraid to express themselves
to secure us against results which may be appalling. Unrestricted
immigration injures the people of our country and does no good to the
people of other countries. It injures all."
A. S. Draper: "I would hang the flag in
every school room, and I would spend an occasional hour
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in singing our best patriotic songs, in
declaiming the masterpieces of our national oratory, and rehearsing the
proud story of our national life."
Francis Marion: "Men will always fight for
their government according to their sense of its value. To value it
right, they must understand it. This they cannot do without education."
Winship: "The public school is the one
force, is the only force, that can unify all classes and conditions of
society. Here we have the children of the nation in their entirety, and
we can, if we will, teach them in the schools so much of the grandeur of
our possession, of the heroic in our history, of the brilliant in our
prosperity, of the fascinating in our traditions, that the fathers of
the future will be willing to vote for and die, if necessary, for the
American idea; that the mothers of the future will teach their sons to
develop our resources by industry, to honor the active duties of private
and public system, because it lies at the foundation of our national
existence."
Where does the vicious element which is
found in this country come from, and to what church
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does it belong? Ah, 98 per cent of those
whom we call anarchists can trace their origin from foreign countries,
and they are always identified with the Roman Catholic Church.
Wherever you find a national disturbance,
and wherever you find the spirit of anarchy in this country, you will
find a spot where Roman Catholicism exists, as her teachings are
anarchistic, as she teaches her followers a doctrine that is as sure to
lead to anarchy as water is to flow down hill.
Catholicism teaches her children that our
public schools are "plague spots" and "nurseries of hell," and impresses
upon their minds that education, in a broad sense, is not essential, and
also teaches them that they must look to the priestcraft for their
education, and at the same time the priestcraft is instructed by the
Pope of Rome that a broad-gauge education is not permissible to be given
to the followers of Catholicism, and the Pope of Rome teaches her
bishopric and her priestcraft that they must fight the public school
system. and in its stead erect the parochial schools
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of Rome, which are nothing more nor less
than schools of dogmas, and these dogmas are incubators of anarchy, for
without education and without love of country, anarchy is as certain to
follow as the day is certain to follow night, but still Protestantism
stands idly by and allows Catholicism to vilify her institutions, and at
the same time permits Catholicism to place her followers in a position
to draw salaries from the institutions which they despise and hate with
the venom of hell.
It is my object and my aim to arouse
Protestantism to a sense of their duty, and if I can do this I will feel
that I have accomplished a task that will eventually call forth the
plaudits of the American people, for as sure as God reigns, just that
sure our public schools will be crushed out of existence by Catholicism
unless Protestant America raises her voice and her strong arm in defense
of our public school system, and against the encroachment of the
damnable and diabolical doctrines of Catholicism.
Our greatest American statesmen, our
greatest
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American patriots, our greatest American
thinkers, our wisest and most loyal citizens, and our grandest old
mothers are Protestants, and born of Protestant stock; then why should
we hesitate to denounce this anarchistic demon of Rome, when we know
what she thinks of our American institutions, and when we are absolutely
certain that if it was within her power she would crush into dust
everything that is near and dear to Protestantism?
Arouse, ye Protestant hosts, and buckle on
the armor of your forefathers and march out in a solid body of
Protestant warriors and fight to the death the encroachment of Romish
rule and force her back into the trenches of her degradation, and compel
her to remain within the border of the countries which she has desolated
by her hellish dogmas, and purge the shores of the "home of the brave
and the land of the free" of this scarlet robed hag, who would paralyze
our American institutions which are near and dear to every pure
American, both man and woman, who dwells beneath the folds of the
American flag.
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Chapter XIII.
The Influence of the Priesthood of America Upon the
Morals of This Country
An institution which is allowed to flourish
in this country, should be an institution whose teachers are in harmony
with the fundamental principles of godliness, morality and liberty, and
unless they are, the teachers at once become traitors.
Now, is not this common sense logic and
everyday philosophy?
We want to investigate and see if this
logic and philosophy is not reasonable and founded upon common sense,
and if we find that it is, then any man or woman of intelligence must
acknowledge that if the teachings and the fundamental principles of a
free country are correct, then the doctrines of Catholicism are
altogether wrong, and
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the sooner the American people can arrive
at this conclusion, the better it will be for us, for if the teachings
of our Protestant forefathers are right, and the teachings of Rome are
wrong, the quicker we can eradicate and stamp out these popish
doctrines, the better it will be for our posterity.
If this country is a home for those who
love liberty, then the influence of the priesthood of America is
detrimental to the fundamental principles of America, as Catholicism
does not teach patriotism and loyalty of country, as the burden of her
teachings is, "Loyalty to the Pope," and the Pope of Rome, who is at the
head of the Catholic Church, is a despot pure and simple--yea, he is
worse than a despot, as he rules his followers by a superstitious
belief, which teaches that not only the body of Rome's followers is
subject to the Pope's every whim, but the soul as well is directly under
the control of this despotic sovereign.
A Roman Catholic form of government is more
despotic than a monarchy which is ruled by an absolute despot, as these
monarchs who have absolute
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sway in the affairs of the state only are
satisfied with this absolutism, but not so with Catholicism, as she
haunts her followers to the grave and then demands of their surviving
relatives that homage be paid her in order to keep their dead out of the
regions of despair.
It matters not how strong we are in our
endeavors to do right, the commission of wrong under our nose will
corrupt to a certain extent the moral's of the young, and I say without
fear of contradiction that the priestcraft of this and every other
country are, as a whole, a set of men whose morality is below par;
however, I sincerely believe that there are some few who are chaste, but
I am sorry to say that this class is greatly in the minority; and why
should it be otherwise, as the priesthood is composed of men who are
mortal, and the vow of celibacy which they must take before they enter
the priesthood is an unnatural and an unreasonable vow, and one which is
not kept sacred by one out of every fifty; thus you will see at once
that the priestcraft is a cancer upon the body of morality, for whenever
the young and rising
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generation learns that those who are
supposed to teach them in chastity and morality, are men who will commit
the very sins which they have been taught, are heinous. Then, what can
you expect of future generations, and what must eventually be the morals
of a country which is controlled by the priestcraft?
We do not have to confine ourselves to the
recital of the immorality of the priestcraft of foreign countries, but
we could mention scores of cases that have happened in this country and
which will continue to happen as long as the Romish Church demands the
vows of celibacy by the priestcraft.
We will give you an instance of the
practices of Romanism in this country which happened no later than
November of this year (1903), and if I had the space, I could fill this
volume full of such actions by the priestcraft.
Priest Geo. D. Sander, of St. Leonard's
Catholic Church, Hamburg avenue and Jefferson street, Brooklyn, New
York, was known in that city as a devout Catholic priest, and he was
also known in Far Hills, New Jersey, as a race horse man, by the
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name of "Geo. West," who was interested in
a stock farm, on which lived a woman known as "Mrs. Geo. West," but her
right name is Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who formerly belonged to Priest Sander's
church, but disappeared from Brooklyn very mysteriously, and whose
whereabouts had been unknown to her family and her friends, until it was
learned that she was living on this stock farm at Far Hills, N. J., and
bore the fictitious name by which this priest was known.
The double life of Priest Sander began in
1901. Then Jos. C. Peck, racer and raiser of trotting horses, met this
priest in Albany, who wore the ordinary garb of a citizen. They met at
the race track, which was not a very good recommendation to say the
least of it, for the Rev. Father Sander. Peck found that this priest was
a keen judge of horses and their love for horses established a bond of
friendship between them.
In Baltimore, a short time afterwards,
these two men again met at the race track. Peck told Priest Sander that
he had just sold a stock farm at Millington, N. J., and contemplated
buying
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another. Sander told Peck that he was the
owner of a fine mare named "Ethel Burns," and that he would place her on
Peck's farm if he purchased it. He told Peck that his mare had a track
record of 2:201/4 and a trial record of 2:16.
Peck informed this priest that he was a
bachelor. Priest Sander proposed that, they should keep house jointly
and said that he would provide a housekeeper and share the expense of
the establishment. He was the guardian, he said, of a Mrs. Mamie Kipp,
who had had some trouble with her husband and who wanted to get away
from Brooklyn. He informed Peck that this lady had a young son, and that
he would bring both the mother and son to the farm at Far Hills, N. J.
It was obvious that the priest could not
indulge in his love for fast horses, and make regular visits to the
stock farm in his priestly robes, as he knew it would cause considerable
comment; so this priest suggested to Peck that Mrs. Kipp be called "Mrs.
Geo. West," and that it be given out to the neighbors that she was the
wife of a drummer for a large mercantile house in New York, and
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further stated that he could visit this
woman as "George West," and not create any comment.
The trainmen became acquainted with this
priest and considered him a "good fellow," as he was always smoking and
played the part of a "drummer" in an elegant manner, and these trainmen
came to know "Geo. West" as Peck's partner in the race horse business.
The merchants about Far Hills knew this
priest as the husband of "Mrs. West," and when this priest would put in
his appearance at Far Hills, the neighbors, of course, thought it was
nothing more than natural that "Mrs. West's" husband should come to see
her whenever he could get an opportunity to get off of the road.
The accounts for the supplies of the
household were billed sometimes to "Geo. West" and sometimes to Jos. C.
Peck, thus you will see that Priest Sander acknowledged by these bills
that he was "Geo. West. "
This story got to be noised about, and the
Protestant element of Brooklyn as well as Priest Sander's flock became
very much interested in
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the tale, and sent a reporter out to
interview Jos. C. Peck, and the first question this reporter asked him
was, "Is that the picture of your sister?" pointing to a portrait of the
woman hanging on the wall. "No," he replied. "That is Mrs. West." The
reporter asked if it was not, the picture of Mrs. Mamie Kipp. Peck
hesitated, his lips trembling, and he began to look very nervous, then
he gave way completely and said: "Yes, it is Mrs. Mamie Kipp." "How does
she come here under the name of 'Mrs. West,' and who is 'Mr. West?' "
was then asked, which Peck refused to answer.
With these facts in hand, the reporter
returned to Brooklyn and sought Priest Sander in his parlor, in his
parish residence, and the first question he asked him was this: "You own
a trotting horse out at Far Hills, N. J., don't you I" The answer was,
"Yes." "Don't you own a string of trotting horses?" The answer was,
"Certainly not! Who told you that?" The reporter replied, " Oh, no; you
don't own a string of horses as Priest Sander, but as 'Geo. West,' don't
you?" Priest
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Sander tried to look surprised, and he
folded a slip of paper he held in his hand and got very nervous and
replied, "Now, that is a pretty story, isn't it; who told you all this?"
The reporter laid before him all the facts
he had gathered at Far Hills, and demanded that he affirm or deny the
story. Then this priest said, "I may as well confess; it will be the
ruin of me; it will take the bread out of my mouth, but you have got it
absolutely straight." The reporter asked Priest Sander if he positively
didn't know that this woman who sailed under the name of "Mrs. Geo.
West" wasn't Mrs. Mamie Kipp.
This priest, not being content with the
dastardly part that he had played in his immoral conduct with Mrs. Kipp,
absolutely denied that it was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and further declared that
he knew nothing about her, except that she was the "housekeeper" at
Peck's farm, and why she was called "Mrs. West" he did not know; thus
you will see that while he was guilty of immorality with Mrs. Mamie
Kipp, he also was a notorious liar; but bear in mind that this same
Priest Sander was still
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at this time presiding over a Catholic
church in Brooklyn.
The reporter was determined to lead him out
as far as possible so he repeated again, "Are you absolutely positive
that 'Mrs. West' at Peck's farm is not Mrs. Mamie Kipp?"
This priest replied that he was "positive,"
and stated that this woman at Peck's farm was Peck's housekeeper, and
further stated that he did not know anything about her at all, when he
knew as well as he knew that he was living that he had been the cause of
her forsaking her husband in Brooklyn, and also had been instrumental in
her going to Par Hills, N. J., where he could live his life of shame
without molestation.
After this vagabond had made this denial,
Mr. Peck was again seen at Far Hills, N. J., and emphatically stated
that Priest Sander had told him that this woman was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and
that he knew that this priest was living in adultery with her.
What is the consequence? Did the Roman
Catholic Church excommunicate this bundle of perfidy
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for immorality? Ah, no! As the "moguls" and
"high up" officials of Catholicism are cognizant of the fact that the
priestcraft are, as a whole, the most immoral set of men that
ever infested the face of the earth. Now, what can we expect of the
morals of a country which has for its leaders and teachers men of this
caliber? We might as well expect our daughters to become women of virtue
and godliness, who were raised in houses of ill fame, as to expect young
men and women to become men and women of morality and chastity, who have
for their teachers such men as Priest Sander of Brooklyn, New York.
There is no denying the fact that
Catholicism has already a strong hold upon the affairs of this country,
as we find the hydra-headed demon in every branch of our government, and
since such is the case, it is folly to deny the fact that if Catholicism
is what we have shown it to be, that her influence is demoralizing, and
the influence of the priesthood of America upon the morals of this
country is bound to be detrimental, and who will deny the truthfulness
of my assertions, as I have
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not misstated a single paragraph in this
book; and if this is true, what shall we expect of the present
generation and the generations that are yet unborn, if we permit
Catholicism to make as great headway in the future as she has in the
past?
We call to mind another case which belongs
to the history of to-day, and in this chapter we desire to refer to the
present sins of the priestcraft, as history teems with the abominations
of the priestcraft immorality, but in this chapter we want to thoroughly
convince the reader that the same immorality that has existed in the
ranks of Catholicism in bygone centuries, is to-day as degrading and as
rampant as it ever was, and if we can do this, we feel satisfied that we
will impress the Protestant world with the importance of overthrowing
the power of the Pope, and erecting in its stead the true spirit of
Protestantism, whose influence will not blight the characters of our
boys and girls, but which will make of them an army of giants, ever
ready to battle for the chastity of our American homes.
One of the most fashionable Roman Catholic
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churches in New York City is "St.
Cecilia's" situated on North Henry and Herbert streets.
Only a few years ago the organist of this
church went to the room of the priest in charge, in company with a
little boy. The priest informed this boy to stay down stairs, and
invited the organist to his parlor, near which were his living rooms.
This priest locked the door behind him, and without a moment's warning,
leaped upon her like a beast and attempted to bear her down upon the
sofa and commit an assault, but her cries frightened him away.
With flushed face she rushed from this
priest's room and passed the servant, out into the street, with the
priest begging her to say nothing about what had happened. We want to
know if this attempted crime injured the priest in the estimation of
Catholicism? Not by any means, as he continued to serve the church in
the capacity of priest, after both this girl's father and mother had
publicly denounced him as a seducer of virtue.
The entire congregation learned of this
priest's attempted assault upon virtue, but this degrading
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notoriety did not injure him in the least,
as his services are just as crowded as they were before. This outrage
was carried before the bishop of the diocese in which this church was
situated, but nothing was done.
The priest which we refer to was a
drunkard, and he drank as deeply after this attempted assault as before,
and in a short time he assaulted a 12 year-old girl, and not long after
that he assaulted his servant, who was a girl 18 years of age, and
continued his raid upon her virtue until one day, while in a drunken
spree, he struck her and injured her, and she made public the actions of
this human viper, who had been parading in the robes of a priest.
Did this exposure disgrace him in the eyes
of the Catholic officials who were above him? Not at all, as he
continued to serve this New York church without molestation, and it was
a notorious fact, and known by the members of his church what he was
accused of, but still hundreds of boys and girls, young men and young
women, and old men and old
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women, bowed at the feet of this depraved
devil and confessed their sins.
If we cared, we could write from now until
our old arm would become palsied with age, and each chapter would be a
new story of the perfidy and hellishness of the priestcraft, as every
age reeks with the stench of their immorality, and the countries which
are completely under the power of the Pope of Rome are only the shadows
of what this country will become if this demon of darkness is not
halted, for the influence of the priesthood in America upon the morals
of this country will spread its blight over the face of our fair land
until our nation's morals will be a nauseating sight to behold.
Reader, remember what I tell you to-day:
that unless the spirit of Protestantism takes a firm stand in this land
against Catholicism, we will find our Protestant hopes and ambitions
within the near future paralyzed by the infusion of Rome's immorality.
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Chapter XIV.
The Chastity of the Home Invaded by the Lustfulness of
the Priest-Craft.
Catholicism begins to teach her children
from their infancy that no act of their officials is impure; thus their
followers grow up to believe that any advancement made by these
officials are made in behalf of the salvation of their souls,
consequently it is an easy matter for the Priestcraft to make the female
members of their congregation believe that whatever they may do or say
is done and said through a righteous motive, and no stigma of disgrace
can possibly attach itself to the act.
With this erroneous doctrine funneled into
the minds of the female members of the Catholic Church, is it any wonder
that the Priestcraft exerts a wonderful power over these members? And
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is it any wonder that thousands of trusting
and confiding wives and daughters are forced to the level of immorality
by this belief?
As an introduction to this chapter, and in
order to make the conduct of the priestcraft in general thoroughly
understood, so that the reader may know what character of men I refer
to, I will give a part of a story told by a nun who had been in a
convent for a number of years.
I repeat what this nun related in order
that the reader may not be compelled to take my statements alone. Her
story follows:
"It was customary with the sisters in our
convent to give the bishop and priests of my diocese a grand dinner once
every year. Of course, this entailed a great deal of extra work upon our
part; however, we were glad to undergo these hardships, as I thought at
that time that it was a part of my religion. The finest delicacies of
the season and the choicest wines graced the table. The dinner was
always served in the dining room of the priest of the house. The bishop
would usually arrive along in the afternoon about
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two or three o'clock. We would spread
scarlet felt upon the floor of the cloister in honor of the occasion,
and the drawing room would be banked with the rarest flowers; the dining
table would groan beneath its rich silver and cut-glass."
Now, bear in mind that what I am going to
tell you is what happened when there were a number of priests together
with their bishop in their midst, and it is a well known fact that
"numbers" is often a check to the actions and ungodly inclinations of
many, but if what this nun related is true, with an assemblage of a
score or more of priests, with their bishop in their midst, then what
could be expected of one of these priests alone in the presence of a
female whom he preferred? I make this statement so that the reader can
draw an intelligent conclusion. I will now proceed with the nun's story:
"This annual dinner would be made an
occasion for great rejoicing and recreation on the part of the holy
ecclesiastics. Everything was all right as long as the meal was in
progress, but as soon as the sisters who had waited on them had
withdrawn,
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after placing an abundance of wine, whiskey
and cigars on the table, then all restraint would be set aside and these
holy fathers (?) would then exchange confidences as to the latest items
of news they had gathered in the confessional from Catholic servants
employed in Protestant families, and, without mentioning any names,
would repeat, amid shouts of drunken laughter, the sins that some of
their female penitents had confessed.
"We nuns would often put our ears to the
keyhole and listen to the stories that were being told by the priests,
and upon my word, I never in all my life heard as many dirty, immoral,
filthy stories told as these vagabond priests would repeat, and it
always seemed as though the bishop heartily enjoyed them.
"These carousals would proceed for hours.
The whiskey bowl would be placed in the center of the table, then these
drunken priests would sing songs which were vileness personified. "
I feel that it is not necessary for me to
go further to convince any one of my readers that the lustfulness of the
priestcraft is a menace to
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the chastity of womankind, for if this nun
has told the truth, and which I know from past experiences is true, and
which I also know is a recital that could be intensified ten thousand
times over, if the whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told
in this volume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what
I have seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by
broken-hearted "sisters" who have come to me with tears in their eyes
and with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries.
"I know of a nun who spent many years in a
convent, who declared that on many occasions the priests would come to
the convent and demand that a number of the nuns even do worse than
expose their entire person; however, I cannot conceive of a demand that
would be more degrading than this of forcing those benighted souls to
prostitute their persons for the gratification of those who pretend to
be the followers of a crucified Christ. "
In relating her experience, I understand
that a nun who had been confined in a convent for years
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made the following declaration: "That the
superior of the seminary would often come and inform us nuns that an
order had been received from the Pope to request those nuns who
possessed the greatest devotion and faith to perform some particular
deeds, which he would name in our presence, but which no moral or decent
person could ever endure to speak of, and I cannot repeat what these
demands often were, as I would have to resort to language so filthy that
it would blush the cheek of one who was hardened in sin."
Now, if those who sail under the garb of
righteousness would go so far that the inmates of the convents, who are
there believing they are doing the work of God, would rebel against the
priests' immorality, then what can we expect of the priestcraft when
they are in the presence of your wife, daughter or sister, whom they may
prefer, and who has been taught to believe that every act of the
priestcraft is sanctified by God Almighty?
We want to bring the history of Catholicism
down as near to the present time as possible, so
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the reader may understand the confidence
the "dupes" of Catholicism have in the priestcraft, for, as stated in a
previous chapter of this book, it is a well-known fact that the feminine
world in general have more confidence in humanity than the male
population, but to demonstrate to the reader what implicit confidence
the male members of Catholicism have in the priestcraft, we call
attention to Ed Butler, of the State of Missouri, who resides in St.
Louis.
Ed Butler is a full-fledged Catholic and
believes in Catholicism twenty-four hours each day. By the way, it may
be necessary for us to refresh the readers' mind of the fact that Ed
Butler of St. Louis, Mo., is considered one of the most highhanded
"boodlers" in America, and who has had a number of his "dupes" placed in
the state penitentiary and kept himself out of the same institution by a
"technicality." But to go back to the point that we wanted to make, we
will just say that a Catholic priest in the City of St. Louis by the
name of Coffey had a falling out with Butler over some thing or another,
and in order to get even
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with him he took sides against Butler and
said many harsh but true things about him. One day a reporter of one of
the St. Louis newspapers met Butler and called his attention to what
Priest Coffey had said about him, and the only answer that Butler gave
this reporter was: "Father Coffey is a Catholic priest and I have
nothing to say, and if he should spit in my face I would not resent the
action, as I was born and raised a Catholic, and do not believe that a
Catholic priest can commit a sin."
Now, if a man of Ed Butler's intellect can
be brought up in this land of intelligence to believe such abominations
in regard to a Catholic priest, is it not reasonable to suppose that the
female members of the Catholic Church would have a severe task in
defending their virtue should a priest desire to destroy it, by telling
them "that no act of his could defile them, as it was impossible for him
to sin?"
Now, reader, you may not know just what
kind of treatment from the Catholic Church I will receive for writing
this book, but as soon as it is
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placed upon the market the Catholic Church
will "excommunicate" me; however, it may be possible that the reader
does not understand what a horrible curse this excommunication is, but
in order that you may thoroughly understand what I mean I will repeat,
word for word, what some Catholic official will declare against me for
writing this book, which will further go to show the reader the vileness
of this damnable creed, and which will also go to convince the reader
what fear the followers of Catholicism have of the priestcraft, which
will more fully convince you that timid, unsuspecting woman, who has
been brought up to believe in the paganism of Catholicism, can be easily
led to yield to the lustful desires of the priestcraft, for fear that by
refusing his request that he would pronounce this terrible curse upon
her, which she has been taught would forever damn her eternal soul.
The curse of excommunication which I am
certain to receive at the hands of Catholicism for writing this book
follows:
"By the authority of God Almighty, the
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Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and the
undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of our Savior, and all of
the Celestial Virtues, Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers,
Cherubim and Seraphim, and of all the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of
all the Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, who in the
sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new songs of the
Holy Martyrs and Holy Confessors, and of all the Holy Virgins, and of
all the Saints, together with the Holy Elect of God, may he, Bernard
Fresenborg, be damned!
"We excommunicate and anathematize him from
the threshold of the Holy Church of God Almighty. We sequester him, that
he may be tormented, disposed, and be delivered over with Dathan and
Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord, 'Depart from us, we desire
none of thy ways;' as a fire is quenched with water, so let the light of
him be put out for ever more, unless it shall repent him and make
satisfaction!
"May the Father, who creates man, curse
him!
"May the Son, who suffered for us, curse
him!
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"May the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in
baptism, curse him!
"May the Holy Cross, which Christ for our
salvation, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him!
"May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and the
Mother of God, curse him!
"May St. Michael, the Advocate of the Holy
Souls, curse him!
"May all the Angels, Principalities and
Powers, and all Heavenly Armies curse him!
"May the glorious band of the Patriarchs
and Prophets curse him!
"May St. John the Precursor, and St. John
the Baptist, and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, and all other
of Christ's Apostles together, curse him!
"And may the rest of the Disciples and
Evangelists, who by their preaching converted the universe, and the holy
and wonderful company of Martyrs and Confessors, who by their works are
found pleasing to God Almighty; may the holy choir of the Holy Virgins,
who, for the honor of
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Christ, have despised the things of the
world, damn him!
"May all the Saints from the beginning of
the world to everlasting ages who are found to be beloved of God, damn
him!
"May he be damned wherever he be, whether
in the house or in the alley, in the woods or in the water, or in the
church!
"May he be cursed in living and dying!
"May he be cursed in eating and drinking,
in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting and sleeping, in
slumbering, and in sitting, in living, in working, in resting, and . . .
. and in blood-letting!
"May he be cursed in all the faculties of
his body I
"May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly!
"May he be cursed in his hair; cursed be he
in his brains and his vertex, in his temples, in his eyebrows, in his
cheeks, in his jaw bones, in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders, in
his lips, in his shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers!
"May he be damned in his mouth, in his
breast,
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in his heart, and appurtenances, down to
the very stomach!
"May he be cursed in his . . . . and his .
. . . in his thighs, in his . . . . and his . . . . and in his knees,
and his legs, and his feet, and toe-nails!
"May he be cursed in all his joints and
articulations of the members; from the crown of his head to the soles of
his feet may there be no soundness!
" May the Son of the living God, with all
the glory of His majesty, curse him!
"And may Heaven, with all the powers that
move therein, rise up against him, and curse and damn him, unless he
repent and make satisfaction! Amen! So be it! Be it so! Amen! Amen!
Amen!"
I have given you the diabolical "curse" of
excommunication, word for word; thus you can see how un-Christlike the
Catholic Church is.
As I have before said in this chapter, the
foregoing is the curse that will fall to my lot as soon as this book is
placed upon the market, thus the
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reader can see that my motives for writing
this book must come from a pure incentive, or else I would not willingly
cut myself asunder from all of those whom I have associated with during
my life. This task is not one that I enjoy, as it breaks my heart to
realize that I have all through my life been burdened down with this
load of superstitious filth, but I could not in justice to myself and in
justice to a living God refrain from the task, after I had had my eyes
opened to the beauties of Protestantism.
With tears in my eyes and with a heart full
of sadness, I remember the angelic face of my old mother, as she
conscientiously taught me my first Catechism and directed my feet in the
paths of what she sincerely believed righteousness, and believing in a
just God, I know that He has taken her to His bosom in His home beyond
the skies, for what she taught me she sincerely believed, as she never
had her eyes opened to the abominations of the creed of which I write,
and I do not believe that a just God would damn the soul of a pure
mother who honestly taught what she
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conscientiously believed, but the
priestcraft in general are men who are above the average in intellect,
and are men whom I believe have often had had the same thoughts relative
to the doctrines of Catholicism that I had long, long years before I cut
loose from the teachings of Rome; however, the priestcraft is not to be
excused from their raid upon virtue by ignorance, as they are taught the
lessons of chastity in their childhood, but the bond of celibacy which
binds them in an unnatural way, and the hellish doctrines taught by the
Catholic Church that the priestcraft cannot sin, turns them into pirates
upon virtue.
When we take into consideration the fact
that all of the teachings of Catholicism lead to not only implicit
confidence in the purity of the priestcraft, but carry with them the
cudgel of destruction of the soul of her followers, if they do not
submit to her teachings and demands, we can then realize why it is that
the chastity of the home becomes a rendezvous for those of the
priestcraft who deliberately ravish virtue to gratify their inhuman
lust.
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Chapter XV.
Nations Which Have Been Disgraced by the Toleration of
Popish Rule.
There is no nation on the face of God's
green earth to-day which has been enslaved by the power of Popery, and
which has been burdened by an idle and worthless army of Priests, Monks
and Nuns, but what would have become, not only tired, but disgusted with
their burden, if they had ever been permitted to mingle and commingle
with Protestant countries, and learn that Protestantism leads to
individual intellectuality and collective greatness.
It is true, however, that there are many
countries in South America that have been Priest-ridden for centuries,
and who are as heavily burdened to-day with this ancient parasite as
ever, who offer not a single protest, but the only reason
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for this is that Catholicism has always
forbidden these priest-ridden nations to make any advancement towards
Protestantism, which has been instrumental in keeping these nations
under the complete control of the Vatican; thus you will see they have
never been permitted to taste of the grandeur of Protestantism.
We will take France for instance, which was
at one time one of the most priest-ridden countries on earth, but which
is to-day endeavoring to extract herself from the meshes of this
damnable creed, as the intelligent statesmen of France have learned that
Catholicism is only another name for ignorance and superstition, and
they have also learned that so long as the affairs of France remain
under the control of papal power, just that long advancement and
greatness stand aloof from the portals of their country, so in the past
two years the government officials have removed tens of thousands of the
Pope's hirelings from authority and have closed up hundreds of parochial
schools.
Now, if Catholicism is such a glorious
creed,
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why is it that France is so anxious to get
rid of her influence? Ah! France has learned by coming in contact with
Protestant countries that she need not expect to ever become a great
nation if she permits popery to control her affairs.
Italy, the home of the Pope, has begun to
wince under the Vatican's rule, as her national back is getting raw by
the saddle of this diabolical creed. The inhabitants of Italy have been
for the past few years protesting against the high-handedness of
Catholicism, and the officials have begun to take notice of this vulture
of humanity, and my predictions are that within a very short time Italy
will do as France has done and close up the monasteries and convents,
for just as long as these institutions are allowed to keep open house,
and dictate to the inhabitants of Italy, just that long we may expect
the immigrants who come over from Italy to bear the Vatican's mark of
vice, immorality and criminality.
Go to Ellis Island and watch the immigrant
ships from Catholic nations as they vomit forth their load of human
carrion upon the fair shores of this
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country, and your heart will become sick
with fear, as this class that hails from the nations of popery are a
class, as a whole, that will disgrace and ruin any nation on earth, as
these immigrants are men and women who have no conception of a free
country, as they are men and women who have never been taught to look
above the horizon of Catholicism; therefore they land upon the shores of
America as criminals and not as citizens, and you cannot make pure
American citizens out of them until you boil this hellish creed from
their system by the fire of patriotism, and this cannot be done as long
as this country permits Catholicism to run her mills of degeneracy
unmolested upon our shores.
All of our large cities are infested more
or less with this "scarlet-robed hag of hell," and more especially our
eastern cities, as this foreign herd of the Pope's followers land in
eastern ports and spread themselves out like a blanket, reeking with a
moral stench over the eastern borders of this country, and they make a
specialty of settling in our eastern cities.
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We will take Boston, Mass., for instance,
as there is but very little difference in the "rabble'' of that city and
the immoral degenerate class that infests the densely populated centers
of Catholic countries.
Several notorious cases of open defiance of
civil law and violation of civil rights by the tools of popery have
recently occurred in Boston. One of these is the escape of two girls
from the so-called "House of the Good Shepherd," in Roxbury, and the
re-capture of these girls by a policeman.
Now, bear in mind that this "House of the
Good Shepherd" is a Catholic institution, pure and simple, but these
girls who escaped from this "plague house," were arrested by the police
and returned to this Catholic dungeon without the semblance of law.
On questioning "The Mother Superior," she
said that the girls were not committed to the institution by the courts,
but by "the church." The question then arose: Has the Roman Catholic
Church the right to give sentence of imprisonment
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with hard labor as a penalty? For this is
exactly what imprisonment in this "House of the Good Shepherd" means;
therefore, if these girls so sentenced escape, what right has a city
policeman to arrest and carry them back to this Catholic institution,
which exists without the semblance of a State law and without an iota of
moral law? Are the policemen of the cities of Massachusetts servants of
the Roman Catholic Church? Have the courts the right to, sentence
prisoners to Catholic prisons, and after sentence, have the prisoners no
right? Many of them are kept for life, or until too old to work, and
then they are set adrift to become public charges upon a Protestant
country, after the Roman Catholic Church has made hundreds of dollars
from the labor of these unfortunates.
We want to call attention to another
flagrant case, which happened in the north end of Boston not long since.
A few months since, a Protestant Italian
family in the north end of Boston was about to move to New York. There
were two children and the
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wife soon expected to become mother again.
She expressed the wish that some one would care for one of her children
for a few weeks, until she got well and was settled in her new home. A
neighbor sent a woman to her who offered to care for the children, and
when this little one was turned over to her, she took it straightway to
the home for destitute Catholic children, on Harrison Avenue, in Boston.
In a month the mother called for her baby and was told that it was "up
in the country," and was requested to leave it there for a mouth, and
was told that it would be good for the child. She consented to this,
believing that the fresh air would be good for her baby, but she was an
uneducated woman and was inclined to believe what others said, as she
was an honest lady herself, but she did not know the trickery of the
Catholic Church, so when she was asked to sign a paper, she readily
agreed to it, not thinking that she was giving her own blood and flesh
away.
In a month she came on from New York to get
her baby and was told that she could not have it,
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and was further told that she had signed a paper giving it away. Then
the husband came on from New York and demanded the child, but was
refused. He then appealed to the pastor of the Italian Methodist Church,
on Hanover street, Boston. The two went to a very prominent Romanist
office-holder, who was chairman of the trustees of this so-called
"Catholic Home." This man draws seven thousand dollars per year from the
city, and is elected largely through Protestant influence, simply
because Protestantism believes that she can reform Catholicism by being
liberal with her; but oh! Liberty! what crimes are perpetrated in thy
name! This Boston official, after much talk with this Italian father,
told him to bring a letter from a priest, and that he would see what he
could do. The Italian said, "I am a Protestant," at which the official
became very indignant, but after a little more talk said: "Bring a
letter of recommendation from a minister." This Italian father got a
good, strong letter commending his character from a Protestant minister
in New York, and one who already
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knew him, and went this time alone to this
Boston official.
In about an hour this heart-broken father
appeared before a Methodist minister in tears, saying: "He will not give
me my child. He said I am a bad man for becoming a Protestant, and that
by doing so I have proven that I am unfit to care for my children, and
when I gave him my letter from the Protestant minister, he said: 'I will
not take the word of a Protestant minister!'"
Now, if what we have related is true, which
I know to be absolutely true in every particular, would happen in the
United States of America, "the land of the free and the home of the
brave," you might know what would happen in a Catholic country which is
completely under the tyrannical and damnable rule of the Pope.
A minister informs us that on three
occasions lately, children have come to him and told him that an Irish
public school teacher in Boston had forbidden them to attend Protestant
services, as their parents were at one time Roman Catholics,
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and that this talk from this Romish school
teacher was had during school hours.
What we need in this country is a
"vigilance committee," and we need it badly, and we need it right away,
and this committee should be instructed to impeach every public
official who endeavors to usurp the law in favor of Roman Catholicism.
The brightest minds of the past, and the
brightest minds of the present have pointed out to Protestant America
the dangers of Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed their
warning, when we see upon every side evidences of moral decay and
national degeneracy by permitting this "Romish hag" to supervise and
superintend the affairs of this nation.
Protestant European nations have for many
years beheld the despotic march of Catholicism in America, and this
country for a number of years has been the laughing stock of Protestant
European countries for permitting this brazen demon to tread up and down
the avenues of our liberties without molestation.
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A few years before Bismarck of Germany
died, he, in a public speech delivered in the German parliament, pointed
out that the Roman Catholic Church was only free in America, and for the
benefit of the reader we will quote a part of this great statesman's
speech:
"The Pope being purely a religious chief,
there is no occasion to keep a permanent political representative at his
port. Things, indeed, might have been left in status quo had not the
present Pope thought it fit to revive the ancient struggle of the papacy
with the temporal power, and more especially with the German empire. The
spirit emanating the papacy in this campaign is too well known to
require comment; still we would tell the house a story, which has long
been kept a secret, but which had better be made public. In 1869, when
the Wurtemberg government had occasion to complain of the action of the
papacy, the Wurtemberg envoy at Munich was instructed to make
representations, and in a conversation which passed between the envoy
and the nuncio.
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the latter said, 'The Roman Church is free
only in America.'"
This nuncio further stated that the Roman
Catholic Church in all other countries had to look to revolution as the
sole means to retain her position. This, then, was the view of the
priestly diplomatist stationed at Munich in 1869, and formerly
representing the Vatican at Paris.
Bismarck further stated: "I know from the
very best sources that the Emperor Napoleon was dragged into the war
very much against his will by the influence of Jesuit priests."
Who can deny these statements, as Bismarck
was a man who made the study of Catholicism a part of his life, and he
was a man who was of rugged character and undaunted courage, and a man
whom the world at large believed.
There has not been a war for centuries past
but what the cunning hand of popery has been mixed up with the blood
shed in these wars, as popery never misses an opportunity to take sides
with the nation which represents Catholicism, as this creed of
abominations will resort to blood-
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shed if by so doing she believes she can
carry her point and establish her rule of despotism.
If America will take a lesson from France
she will be taught a lesson that will save this country from passing
through the same ordeal that France is passing through to-day, and
unless the government of the United States begins in the near future to
suppress this giant of darkness, Roman Catholicism, we will within the
next fifty years have to resort to the same means that Combes of France
is resorting to, to annihilate the serpent of Catholicism from our
shores, or else meekly submit to being dragged down to the level of
Roman Catholicism, which is equivalent to losing our identity as a
government, and taking our places among the nations noted only for
either ignorance, vice or criminality.
Catholicism does not believe in a free
country. Catholicism does not believe in a country of the people, by the
people and for the people, as such a country is not the natural abode
for this detestable creed.
Catholicism believes in a country which is
ruled
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by a monarch, as she then only has to
control the monarch himself, and this is why the Catholic clergy and the
Catholic officials, from the smallest to the greatest, are in sympathy
with Russia, as the Russian government is a most complete monarchy, and
the emperor is an absolute monarch, and this is why Catholicism is
always ready to toss up her hat in glee for the success of the Russian
army.
Catholic prelates all along the line, up to
the Pope himself, have been trying to make Americans believe that Russia
is deserving of our sympathy, but her solicitude in behalf of Russia is
only a sympathetic shriek for her own polluted carcass.
Catholicism never sympathizes with any
nation nor any individual who have for their motto "Emancipation," as
emancipation means to Catholicism a vital blow to her teachings, as
slavery of both body and soul is Rome's uppermost desire.
Can we expect Catholicism to change her
abominations without force? Most assuredly not, as
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her every inspiration comes from a set of
men who know no more about loyalty to country than her dupes know about
a living God, as the Pope is a native born Italian, and her cardinals
are recruited from the ranks of Italy's king ruled inhabitants,
consequently it is impossible to expect the Pope of Rome or those
cardinals to recommend anything in harmony with the teachings of
Protestant America, as they are strangers to Protestantism and American
manhood; therefore it would be as reasonable to expect sunlight in the
caverns of the earth as to expect Rome to recommend a doctrine which
would be beneficial to humanity.
When I declare to the American people that
unless this country in the near future makes a combined effort to stamp
out the political intrigue of Catholicism, or it will not be long until
America will find her every interest tied tight and fast to the carcass
of Romanism; I do so because I feel that it is my duty to warn this
country of her awful fate, for just as sure as God reigns, just that
sure Catholicism has America "spotted" as her victim,
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as this spirit of darkness has for many
years in the past made her boast that "America is Rome's future
possession."
There is not a nation on the face of the
earth which has permitted Rome to plant her banner Of infamy unmolested
but what has been disgraced by the toleration of her creed, and America
cannot expect to meet with a better fate.
The dangers that beset the path of
America's future are in the form of a political serpent, as Rome has
learned to know that by holding out the "vote bait" to our politicians,
that she can retain the balance of power, as she has long since learned
that as long as she can be instrumental in keeping two political
parties, both largely made up of Protestants, and fighting each other,
that she can associate herself with one or the other by offering this
party the undivided suffrage of Catholicism, and by this act she can
gradually get control of the offices of this land, and this is her main
object, for if she can control the officials, she will see that such
laws are passed as will enable her to coil her slimy self about the
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vitals of Protestant America, and just as
long as the Protestant denominations allow themselves to be made
Protestant simpletons of, just that long Catholicism will fool
Protestant hosts by offering the "vote bait" to the politician.
Whenever Protestantism learns that she has
a common cause to champion, and a common enemy to fight, then we will
have an "American party'' on one side, and a "Catholic party" on the
other, and when this time comes, Catholicism will be deprived of her
cudgel of deception, and will have to fight her battles without the
assistance of "Protestant partisan fools," and will cease to believe
that she belongs to either this or that political party. Protestantism
is a band of American patriots, and should only have the welfare of
Protestantism at heart.
Catholicism, if left alone without the
assistance of Protestant votes, could not turn a wheel in the affairs of
this country, but by permitting Romanism to make Protestantism believe
in one of two political parties thus dividing the Protestant votes,
Catholicism is allowed to hold the
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balance of power and dictate terms to a
Protestant country.
Shame, eternal shame upon the hosts of
Protestantism for permitting themselves to be made fools of, by the
Romish Church, as this is exactly what the hosts of Protestantism are
allowing Catholicism to do with her!
Now, I know whereof I speak, as I have been
on the inside of politics in our large cities, and especially in the
City of St. Louis, and Catholicism's scheme is always to allow the
cities to elect a Protestant mayor, but they always endeavor to elect
the other officials.
Oh, could I but whisper into the ears of
every Protestant in America and make them understand what I know of the
cunning and deception of Catholicism I would march an army of
Protestants to the polls at our elections that would represent a mighty
army of patriotism; but just so long as Protestantism permits
Catholicism to make her believe that it is necessary to have two or more
political parties, just that long we will have partisan block-heads, and
as long as this
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state of affairs exists, just that long the
cunning schemes of Catholicism will be able to control the balance of
power, which will disgrace the fair name of Protestant America.
I solemnly declare that there never has
been a nation completely under the control of Romanism but what has been
disgraced by that toleration, and America will live to realize the
truthfulness of this assertion unless she becomes "Protestant patriots"
instead of "prattling partisans."
To give the reader a better idea of what
happens in countries absolutely controlled by Catholicism, and to more
thoroughly convince the reader that what I have said is true in regard
to nations which have been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule, I
desire to repeat a little history that is not many months old, which
happened in the United States, where it is supposed that man and woman
can worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, and
if what we are going to relate happens in this free land, what do you
suppose is the condition in Catholic
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countries that are completely under the
control of the Pope?
In Worcester, Mass., not long since, a
19-year-old girl by the name of Maggie Barry received a public whipping
from her mother for attending services of the Salvation Army.
Miss Maggie Barry, who is 19 years of age,
had been for some time occasionally attending the meetings of the
Salvation Army, and was desirous of becoming a member of the corps,
having been converted a short time since.
Her parents were Irish Roman Catholics and
insisted that Maggie should remain a Romanist. They regarded the
Salvation Army, which is purely non-sectarian, as a Protestant
organization, and they were determined that their daughter should have
nothing to do with it, and forbade her attending any of the meetings.
On a Sunday evening not long since she
attended the services of the Salvation Army at No. 5 Commercial street,
where there were at least 250 people present. While the commander of the
corps was reading from the Bible, Miss Barry's
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mother came through the doorway and down to
the front row of seats near the corner of the platform, where Maggie was
sitting, and grabbed her daughter by the arm and began to pound her over
the head, and at once proceeded to pull the girl from the hall and down
the stairs into the street, all the time unmercifully beating the poor
girl over the head and shoulders.
The incident happened so quickly that for a
moment the audience could not realize what was taking place, but as soon
as the audience could gather their wits, there was a rush made for the
street.
After the meeting had adjourned many of the
attendants found Miss Barry in the street weeping like her heart would
break and afraid to return to her home.
She told the audience that as soon as she
reached the street where a number of relatives were waiting for her that
she broke away from her mother and fled.
A policeman was called into consultation
relative to the case and stated that as Maggie was
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under twenty-one years of age, that she had
better be taken to her parents at 125 Salem street, and two policemen
accompanied her to her home.
It is stated that Miss Barry has received
many unmerciful beatings because she attended these religious meetings,
and her old Romish mother, while dragging her down the stairs that
Sunday night, threatened to do her bodily harm if she ever attended
these meetings again.
A few days after this disgraceful and
un-American spectacle happened in the streets of Worcester, a notice in
the Central District Court appeared that
"Miss Margaret Barry was charged with being a
stubborn child and was sentenced to the Woman's Prison at Shearborn. She
appealed and furnished a bail. The girl was arrested on the complaint of
her mother because she would not stay away from the meetings of the
Salvation Army."
Now, reader, you have a case right in the
United States of America where a poor girl was sentenced to prison for
attending a Protestant meeting. What do you think of a judge of a court
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who will sentence a child to a State prison
for attending a Protestant meeting?
We know what you think if you are a pure
Protestant, and we know that your blood boils with pure indignation; but
you cannot expect any relief from this state of affairs and you can only
expect to see things grow worse if you continue to be "Partisans"
instead of "patriots."
If such things are now happening in the
State of Massachusetts, how long will it be before the Protestant
churches in this country will be closed up by the order of the Pope, and
how long will it be before those who attend Protestant meetings will be
liable to arrest and thrown into prison, as it was during the dark ages
when the Roman Catholic Church had full control?
Authentic history, and history that cannot
be denied nor disputed, nor even questioned, gives the appalling record
of 70,500,000 Protestants who were slain by the greatest curse the world
has ever known--Roman Catholicism.
We, in America, cannot expect anything
better
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until we have a set of Protestant preachers
who will practice what they pretend to believe.
Our Protestant ministers of to-day are
weak-kneed, weak-spined, "nothings," who have not enough religion nor
backbone to take a firm stand against Catholicism, and until we have
such men we will continue to see "Maggie Barrys" dragged from Protestant
meetings and publicly whipped by parents, and then sentenced to
imprisonment by judges elected by Roman Catholics.
Again we want to repeat the head lines of
this chapter for the benefit of those who are weak-kneed and who are
entirely "spineless:" "Nations who have been disgraced by the
toleration of popish rule," and we leave it to the reader to decide
whether this headline is a misnomer or not, as we have offered you
evidence in this chapter that should convince any right-thinking man or
woman that if the Roman Catholic Church has grown so bold in America,
with the ink upon the Declaration of Independence scarcely dry, what
shall we expect for our posterity if there is not
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a stand made by Protestantism to halt this
"emperor of darkness" in his march of devastation?
This black-winged vulture of human rights
is growing bolder day by day by being permitted by Protestantism to
separate and divide the Protestant vote among different parties, and
combining the hosts of Catholicism for an onslaught against everything
American in order to control the affairs of this country. If you will
listen you can almost hear the death rattle of Protestantism as the
serpent of Rome has so gently entwined her slimy self about the throat
of our American goddess of liberty that the death rattle is almost
perceptible.
Strike while you have the power, and do not
delay, or else the time is not far distant when the once powerful arm of
Protestantism will be paralyzed by the infusion of Roman virus.
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Chapter XVI.
Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.
We can only judge the future of nations and
institutions by the past and present, and if we are to judge Catholicism
by her past, and if' we art honest with ourselves, we cannot paint a
future without producing a panoramic view that is dreadful to behold, as
Catholicism in the past has been an institution which always endeavored
to rule by the tyranny of oppression, and her decisions and mandates
to-day are the same as they were during the inquisitorial days when our
Protestant forefathers were burned at the stake for disobeying the
commands of Catholic officials.
Catholicism makes her boast that she never
changes; then what are we to expect the future to bring forth, if her
dogmas of damnation are
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allowed to fasten her intolerable hold upon
this country? for if she "never changes," and we are compelled to judge
her future by her past, which is the only rational conclusion that can
be arrived at, then we can expect nothing more than to behold her future
trail stained with the blood of Protestants, as such has been her
history of the past.
It is our purpose in this chapter to give
the reader an authentic epitome of a few of the doctrines and facts
which we defy Roman Catholicism to successfully deny, as what we propose
to give you is Roman Catholic law, and if such is Roman Catholic law,
then we will have no trouble in establishing the fact that no loyal
Catholics can possibly be loyal American citizens; therefore should not
be placed in a position where they can carry out the mandates and
dictates of the Church of Rome, for whenever they are placed in power
and thoroughly believe in the laws of Catholicism they can not possibly
be naught but traitors to our American form of government.
We propose to give the reader "Canon Law"
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to establish our statements, as we are as
well acquainted with the laws that govern Roman Catholicism--yea, better
than we are with the laws that govern this country, as we for fifty-six
years have been directly influenced by this "Canon Law," and for the
past thirty years, or since we became a Roman Catholic priest, have been
a servant and an executioner of this law; therefore, I know whereof I
speak, and no man dare deny my statements.
The first declaration of this "Canon Law',
is: "All human power is from evil
and must therefore be standing under the Pope."
You will thus see that the first
declaration of the "Canon Law" is to place the human family as a whole,
under the tyrannical control of Catholicism.
Another declaration of this law is:
"The state has not the right to leave every
man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he shall deem true. "
In this declaration, you will further see
that Roman Catholicism would, if it was within her
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power, take from the American citizen the
right to worship a true and living God.
The next law that we will refer to is as
follows: "The state has not the
right to establish a church separate from the Pope."
Again you will see that Rome is idea is to
force all of humanity to bow at the feet of her creed.
Again she declares in her "Canonistic
Laws:" "That the state has not the
right to assist the inmates of monasteries and convents to abandon
them."
Again you will see that Catholicism desires
to usurp the rights of the courts and establish prisons of their own
without a semblance of law.
Once more this "Canonistic Law" thunders
forth her monarchial law as follows:
"The Roman Catholic church has the right to
require the state not to leave every man free to profess his own
religion."
Again the reader will see that Roman
Catholicism with her iron hand demands this nation to force and compel
every man, woman and child that lives under that old red, white and blue
flag,
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which was bought by the blood of our
forefathers, to humbly bow to this heathenish creed.
The next, and one of the most damnable laws
found among the "Canonistic Laws" of Catholicism, is as follows:
"Roman Catholicism has the right to
exercise her power without permission or consent of the state."
Within this Romish law any one can easily
discern her monarchial designs, as she boldly and flagrantly declares
that she has the right to do as she sees fit, without even being
molested or questioned by the laws of this country.
Further on in the "Canon Laws" of
Catholicism we find the following:
"Roman Catholicism has the right to prevent the foundation of any
national church not subject to the direct authority of the Roman
pontiff."
Thus the reader will see that the
Protestant churches of America exist only by and through the numerical
power of Protestantism, but should Romanism ever become powerful enough
in this country she would, within the twinkling of an eye,
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destroy or confiscate every Protestant
church now in existence.
Further along in this Romish "Canon Law" we
find that she strikes at the dearest institutions of our land, as
follows: "The Roman Catholic church
has the right to deprive the civil authorities of the entire government
of the public schools."
The reader will see by this declaration
that should Catholicism ever come in control of the affairs of this
government that our public schools, which are the bulwarks of our
American government, would have their very foundations rooted up and
scattered to the four winds of the earth.
The most devilish and damnable law, in my
estimation, that is to be found upon the statute books of Catholicism is
the following: "Roman Catholicism has the right to require that the
Roman Catholic religion shall be THE ONLY RELIGION
of the nation, to the exclusion of all
others."
We have the entire principles of
Catholicism embodied in this last "Canonistic Law," as Roman
Catholicism's aim and intention is to put this
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declaration into effect as soon as she can
become powerful enough to execute her plans.
In my estimation, the next "Canon Law" that
I will quote, is the one most detrimental to our American form of
government, as it is a law, when put into execution, that will throttle
every ambition and strangle every hope that now permeates the bosom of
Protestantism, and it is one that should freeze the very flesh and blood
of Protestantism to the bone's marrow. It is as follows:
"Roman Catholicism has the power to require
the nation not to permit free expression of opinions. "
In this last law, which is found upon the
statute books of Roman Catholicism, we have a declaration from her
rulers that would deprive you and your posterity from expressing an
opinion in regard to Roman Catholicism, that is, if that opinion did not
coincide with her abominations, and an institution which would place
such a law upon her statute books is an institution which would burn and
flay alive those who would disregard this law; thus the reader may have
some idea of
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what he or she may expect should their
posterity ever live to see America pass into the ungodly clutches of
this unholy demon.
The history of Roman Catholicism in the
past plainly demonstrates what she has done and how well and awful she
has carried out her laws herein quoted, and Catholicism makes her brags
that she "never changes," consequently the only reason why these
laws are not put into execution in the United States is the lack of
physical power, and whenever Roman Catholicism reaches the point in the
history of this country where she possesses this physical power,
Protestantism will feel her tyrannical heel upon their necks.
That the reader may thoroughly understand
and realize that Roman Catholicism of to-day is the same as Roman
Catholicism was hundreds of years ago, we desire to quote a letter
written by Pope Leo XIII during his reign, which will thoroughly
demonstrate to the reader that Roman Catholicism of the present retains
all of her harshness and cussedness that she possessed when our
forefathers were burned at the stake and our
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mothers were punished for worshiping a true
and living God. Pope Leo's letter follows:
"The teachings given by the Apostolic
See, whether contained in the syllabus and other acts of our illustrious
predecessors, or in our encyclical letters, has given clear guidance to
the faith as to what should be their thoughts and their conduct in the
midst of the difficulties of time and events. There they will find a
rule for the direction of their minds and their work."
The reader will see from this letter from
Pope Leo XIII that he reiterates to his followers the "Canonistic Law"
laid down by his predecessors, making it obligatory upon the followers
of Catholicism to put in practice to-day the hellish doctrines of Roman
Catholicism of the past.
If Catholicism depends upon numbers and
physical strength to accomplish her ends, then what must this country
expect when such a time arrives, as Catholicism can govern by the power
of physical strength?
Will we have any one to blame for what
Catholicism does to this country when such time arrives?
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Ah, No! No one but Protestantism, for if
America, which is a Protestant country, sits idly by and permits
Romanism to reach a point where she can control the affairs of this
government, it will be on the account of the lethargy and imbecility of
Protestantism, as we have it within our power to-day to halt this
Emperor of Darkness before that time arrives, but the question is, will
we do it?
The history of other nations which have
been controlled by Catholicism should be enough, not only to frighten
the Protestant hosts, but to paralyze them with fear, as the pages of
history teem with the awfulness of Rome's rule, wherever she has been
permitted to become master.
France, which has been priest-ridden for
centuries, is now at this time in the throes of a national convulsion,
brought about by the tyranny of Romanism.
Now, if Rome is such an abominable master
and such a tyrant that France has to deport the priestcraft and close up
her institutions, is it not time that the United States was taking some
step to
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protect her offspring from this vulture of
human rights?
This country is undoubtedly a Protestant
country, and if it is a great country, which no man dares to deny, she
surely owes her greatness to Protestantism.
Our soul is poured into this chapter, as we
never were more in earnest than we are at this time, as we can shade our
eyes and look down the avenues of the past and behold naught but
skeletons of Protestant despair on every byway which has been traveled
by Romanism, and when we behold this mighty waste of despair we can not
conceive how the United States of America can expect to fare better than
have the nations of the past, unless she exerts her American and
Protestant manhood and gives Roman Catholicism to understand that it is
time to halt, and, in the name of an intelligent God, forbid her to
transgress further upon the rights of this country.
In this chapter we will endeavor to be
explicit and above all truthful, and we ask God to give us courage to
present facts in a way that will fan to
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life again the patriotism that has been
lulled to sleep by the bat-like wings of Roman Catholicism.
We hope that this little volume may arouse
unconcerned Protestantism to a realization of the fact that our public
officials are year by year forcing her nearer and nearer the great chasm
of Roman despair, and if we can be instrumental in this great
undertaking we will feel that when our race is done, that we have fought
a good fight, and will be remembered by the Protestant world as a man
who taught a doctrine which was the salvation of Protestant America.
Roman Catholicism has no politics, as she
is ever ready and willing to join hands with any party that will
guarantee her more complete control of national affairs, as she teaches
her followers that whenever they find that the Republican party will
grant her requests that they should be Republicans, and she also teaches
them that whenever the Democratic party or any other party will enter
into a contract with her and grant her the right of way of devastation,
that they should be
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Democrats, or be adherents to whatever
party grants them the most power.
Roman Catholicism wraps herself about the
smaller officials and wheedles herself into the good graces of the small
officials by promising them the Catholic vote, and by so doing she is
able to control the officials higher up in power, and in this manner she
reaches the highest officials of the land, as we find to-day the
boa-constrictor of Catholicism wrapped about every official at
Washington city, from the President of the United States on down.
Suppose that the Pope and his tribe of
liberty destroyers realized that the officials of America were
Protestants, and implicitly believed and lived up to the teachings of
Protestantism; do you think that she would presume to approach our
Protestant officials and demand their support in behalf of her damnable
creed, or do you suppose that she would dare to send her emissaries into
the halls of our national congress and brazenly approach those
Protestant officials? Ah, never! as Catholicism is a base coward and
never makes
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her appearance only where she is assured
that her overtures will be gracefully received.
Protestant America! do you not believe that
you have granted Romanism her requests long enough, and do you not
realize that unless you throttle this carnivorous beast of human rights
within the near future that your protests will only be received with
ridicule and jeers?
Protestantism from this day forward should
resolve that her ballot in the future should be a Protestant ballot, and
whenever she has reasons to believe that there is one place upon their
ticket that is tainted with the abominations of Romanism they should be
dropped as though they were a poisonous reptile.
It matters not what the office may be that
is to be filled and what power it carries with it, Protestanism should
find out whether or not the applicant believes in Protestantism, and
learn, if possible, whether they or their family are tainted with the
virus of Roman Catholicism, and if you should find that the taint
extends to any part of their family then scratch them off your ballot,
and
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by so doing you will help to woo back the
spirit of both Protestantism and patriotism, as one is symbolic of the
other.
It may seem strange and also untrue for me
to make the statement that there are cities in the United States which
are as completely under the control of the Pope of Rome as Rome herself,
but such is the case, and the city of St. Louis, Mo., is one of them, as
Romanism rules the inhabitants of that city with a despotism that is
only equaled in a nation where the pontiff of Rome is an acknowledged
ruler.
During the last election in the city of St.
Louis I was a Catholic priest, and was in the Catholic confidence, and I
declare to you as a man of truth and before a living God that it was
understood between the Catholic church and those who controlled the
Democratic party that the Protestants should elect the present mayor,
Rolla Wells, but that Catholicism was to be permitted to name the other
officials, or at least enough to control the city government.
Now, is there any politics in such an
agreement?
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Ah, no; but the only object in this secret
agreement was a desire upon the part of Roman Catholicism to control the
revenues of the city of St. Louis, as Catholicism is a money machine and
endeavors to keep her exchequer full by preying upon the ignorance of
her followers.
I have mentioned St. Louis only for the
simple reason that it is a recent happening, but there are a score of
other cities in the United States of America which are controlled by
Catholicism on the same principle, as Romanism joins hands with either
the Republican or Democratic party if she sees a chance to put her
hellish schemes and dogmas into practice.
That the reader may know what element
controls the municipal governments of our cities we desire to call
attention to the fact that over one half of the officials of our large
American cities are direct representatives of Roman Catholicism, and
over two-thirds of all the policemen of these cities are the Pope's
followers.
Why does this state of affairs exist? Ah,
it is because the Protestant voter has "politics"
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instead of "principles"; therefore you
yourself are to blame for this awful state of affairs.
Yes, I say that you are to blame, for you
are a voter and you pretend to represent Protestantism but still will
permit yourself to be made tools of in behalf of Roman Catholicism; then
am I not right in declaring that you are to blame for this state of
affairs that exists in our large cities?
In our municipal elections you will find
Roman Catholicism courting the political power which has the greatest
chance of electing their candidates; it matters not what party it may
be, as Roman Catholicism has no politics, as her only desire is power,
and it does not matter from what source she receives it, so long as it
is granted her, as Romanism is like a chameleon, as she will change her
political color to suit her surroundings if she is assured that she will
be permitted to inject her deadly virus into the veins of Protestantism.
If Roman Catholicism can extract a promise
from a Republican candidate they are Republicans; but, on the other
hand, if they can make a Democrat do their bidding, they are Democrats;
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and if they can "wiggle" into tile
Populists, favor, they are Populists, in fact, they are any and
everything that will serve their purpose and help to bind and throttle
Protestant principles.
The nation of France is making history
to-day, and each line and page of this history is a warning to
Protestant America, as every page of this history is covered with the
slime of Roman Catholicism, for had it not been for her tyrannical
despotism, France would not have had to close up the monasteries and
convents of that nation, but on account of her teachings, and in order
to protect the rising generations from her influence, not only have the
convents and monasteries had to be closed, but the schools which teach
her damnable dogmas have been closed.
We do not have to cross the ocean and visit
European countries to learn of Roman Catholicism's depravity, but we can
stand upon the southern shore of the United States, almost in hailing
distance of Cuba, and there behold the shores of a country which had to
rebel against the hellishness of Roman Catholicism, as Cuba would to-day
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belong to Spain had it not been for Roman
Catholicism, as it was her abominations that continually kept Cuba in a
feverish ferment.
It was Spain's ungodliness that brought
about the Spanish-American war, and Spain's ungodliness was taught her
by Romanism.
The West India islands were the progenies
of Spain, and the Spanish government permitted the Papists to control
these islands with her dogmas of instructions, which were directly
instrumental in continually keeping the spirit of anarchy alive.
The only reason that Roman Catholicism does
not control this country with her tyrannical hand is on account of
numerical numbers, for did Rome believe that she could rule this country
to-day, before the sun would set to-morrow night this would be a nation
of serfs instead of a nation of independent men and women.
I perhaps have made my declarations broader
and stronger than any man of the present day' but I am fresh from the
ranks of Catholicism and I know her cunning, and since I have forsaken
her
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blind leadership and drank deep from the
well of Protestantism, I have resolved that no stone shall go unturned
that will help me to convince America of her great danger which shadows
her future by permitting this Romish despot to flood this country with
not only her blind followers, but by being permitted to brazenly
denounce everything that is near and dear to this country, as her brazen
denunciations of our American institutions is nothing more nor less than
treason, and which should be treated as such.
To give the reader some idea of what Roman
Catholicism will do if she ever has the power, we quote an article which
appeared in a Catholic journal known as "The Catholic Citizen, of
Milwaukee, Wis.
Now, if Catholicism has at this time become
so brazen that she dares offer the Protestant world the insults that is
contained in this article, what shall we expect if this damnable creed
ever becomes powerful enough to control by physical strength? The
article follows:
"Protestantism in Cuba? What good will it
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do there? If only the good it has wrought
elsewhere, Heaven help the Cubans! Protestantism is nothing but a
disorganizer and a pathway to infidelity and atheism. This is the only
reason of its existence. As a positive moral force, it is a farce. It
has never converted a single nation, but it has unconverted Protestants
themselves with a holy vengeance. Berlin has 75,000 church goers out of
2,000,000 people; London 400,000 out of 6,000,000 and so on. 'Without
baptism you can not enter Heaven,' says the Scripture, and lo! thanks to
Protestantism, nearly 60,000,000 people in the, United States are not
baptized. A nice system (for the devil), that produces such
results--results as fatal to the heathen as to the Christian.
Protestantism found the Sandwich islands with 400,000 people. Where are
they now? Gone. A million Macris in New Zealand. Where are they? Gone.
Seven million Indians in the United States. Where are they? Gone.
"On the other hand, the friars found
300,000 natives in the Philippines 400 years ago, and there are
9,000,000 now; 12,000,000 Indians south of the
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Rio Grande, and there are 50,000,000 now.
'By their fruits you shall know them.' In view of such facts, we think
Protestants should leave 'Boonioboola Gha' alone and confine their
proselytizing to unfortunates nearer home. An American is just as well
worth saving as a Cuban or a Chinaman any day."
"The American Citizen," a journal
published in Boston, Mass., made the following comment on this article,
which appeared in this Roman Catholic journal:
"The above is as good a specimen of papal
logic as we have ever seen--and it is the real thing.
" 'It has never converted a single nation!'
Christianity is not supposed to convert nations it converts individuals.
Mohammedanism converted (?) many nations by the sword, and popery
attempted to do it by the inquisition, but failed except in the case of
the Jews and Moors in Spain, which it 'converted' into beggars and
refugees.
"Rome 'converted' the Albigenses from being
peaceful and industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in
Europe--and the handful
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defied and defeated the best papal armies
of Europe.
"But how about England, and Scotland, and
Scandinavia, and the Netherlands, and many other nations--were they not
all papal at one time, but converted through reformation? How about the
Huguenots--the very flower of France; the Protestant Irish, the very
salvation of the Emerald Isle--were not these all at one time
Romanists--converted to Protestantism?
"Read the record of Rome's 'conversions' in
Mexico, in Central America, in South America, as told by Prescott and
other historians--the introduction of slavery by the papal church, and
the unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon the Indians, or aborigines,
of the countries mentioned. Read, in United States senate document 190,
the record of Rome's 'conversions' in the Philippines--a work which has
made every Filipino a bitter hater of the priests.
"'The Indians of the United States!' Have
they ever been Protestants? Have not the priests had control of them
since this land was discovered?
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Are not the vices which have killed them
apart from war--the peculiar vices of popery, especially drunkenness?
What good have the priests wrought among them? Take California as an
example, where these priests enslaved tens of thousands of the Indians
for the sole purpose of enriching their church!
"This is a matter of history--of undeniable
history. If the American Indians were slain in battle, in nine eases out
of ten the Jesuits instigated them to the deeds which brought on the
war. While Prescott's 'Mexico' and 'Peru' are accessible in our
libraries, popery had better be dumb.
"That the Filipinos have increased from
300,000 to 9,000 000 and the South Americans from 12,000,000 to
50,000,000, may be true, for all travelers tell us that it is no
uncommon thing to find a priest with a halfscore of concubines and fifty
children. Certainly these priests have an advantage over Protestant
missionaries in this respect. The pagans would naturally follow the
example of their 'spiritual' advisers. Oh, yes, the population certainly
increases where the priestcraft live."
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The Roman Catholic church says that the
priests shall not wed, but at the same time the priestcraft fathers an
army of children.
The Philippine islands is a nation of
heathens, and Catholicism has been in charge of these islands for
centuries, and to-day they are worse off than they were before
Catholicism planted her black banner in their midst.
Wherever you find intellectuality, morality
and civilization in its fullest meaning, you will find a country where
Protestantism is the predominating doctrine, as Catholicism can not
exist only in the "underbrush" of, ignorance and vice.
The greatest menace this country has to
contend with is the influx of Rome's followers from other nations, and
unless our immigration laws are remedied it will not be long until Rome
will be able, by physical strength, to enumerate the United States as
one of her countries, as each succeeding year tens of thousands of the
followers of Rome from Italy and other priest-ridden countries flock to
our shores to practice in this country the abominations taught them in
their childhood.
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France's woes and miseries have been
expected for years by, men of intelligence and men who could read the
signs of the times, as Rome's influence was year by year growing more
intolerable, and it was only a matter of time when France would be
forced to either permit herself to be dragged down to the level of the
debased teachings of Catholicism or else by a heroic effort boldly stamp
out this Romish creed of damnation, and the latter course is the one she
has chosen to pursue, and today finds the Roman Catholic church despised
and detested by every intelligent and patriotic Frenchman of the land.
In July 1874, Eugene Lawrence, in the
columns of "Harper's Weekly," made a prediction that ought to
convince every sane man and woman in this land that the woes of France
are directly traceable to the Roman Catholic church, as Mr. Lawrence was
a historian of national repute, and a man who was a patriot whom the
American eagle was proud of, and for the benefit of the readers of ray
little book I desire to quote in full this prediction made thirty years
ago, as to-day finds
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Mr. Lawrence's prediction being fulfilled
in every particular, and Roman Catholicism is the incarnate fiend that
has forced this prediction to come true. Mr. Lawrence's article follows:
"The Papal church is chiefly responsible
for the decadence of the French mind. The priests have long controlled
the education of the nation and have striven to shut it out from all
contact with the culture of America, Germany and England. Under the rule
of Napoleon III, the Jesuits obtained the guidance of nearly all the
secondary colleges; Protestant schools were sedulously discouraged, and
nothing was taught that could offend the mediaeval tastes of Rome. When,
two years ago, tile French republicans had resolved to found a free and
compulsory system of instruction for all France as the chief want of the
nation, the papal bishops and priests suppressed the measure by all
their arts. They were resolved to have no education which they could not
control. The republican movement failed; Bishop Dupanloup, and his
associates succeeded once more in shutting out the light of knowledge
from the people,
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and have sown the fires of warfare in the
place of mental progress and moral culture.
"France, which has often made the most
rapid progress toward reform, has also been the most successful leader
of modern reaction. Its revolutions have set in motion all other
nations, but have failed to purify itself. It is enslaved by a single
church and ruled by Roman superstition. At the recent assembly at Paris,
of all the hierarchy of France, of Jesuits, Dominicans, Monks and
prelates, it was resolved that all the strength of the papal party
should be given to an effort to grasp the control of the higher
education of the people, and make every college and seminary the teacher
of the worship of the Sacred Heart; to confine instruction within the
limits of Roman theology, and shut out more strictly than ever before
the light of modern progress. At a great and powerful meeting of all the
Roman Catholic editors of France, a similar policy was resolved upon. By
a strange revulsion of sentiment the press was made to advocate its own
restriction or repression. The papal editors apparently sigh
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for a return of the mediaeval practices
when Francis I. burned ardent printers in Paris, and the Sorbonne would
have banished the printing press from France forever. The Roman Catholic
papers invoke the restoration of the Bourbons and of the temporal power
of the Pope, and in the ardor of a new spirit of martyrdom offered
themselves up to a spiritual bondage that must end in their own slow
destruction and the death of the national intellect. They would enforce
anew that policy if isolation which has filled France with impurity, and
left it the prey of emperors and marshals, princes and priests.
"France has thus displayed, since its first
revolution, a most remarkable contest. The spirit of freedom has more
than once placed its people in front of human progress, and ever again
the spirit of reaction has dragged them back into the abyss of mental
and moral decay. Its priests have invariably triumphed over its
reformers. The Roman church has always held a supremacy above the law.
Of all the national institutions, it has alone preserved its freedom of
action unimpaired.
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It receives an enormous subsidy from the state. While all other
associations are held under a strict subjection, while political
meetings are scarcely allowed, while the press is silenced, while
Protestant churches can hold no assemblies or synods except by the
connivance of the government, while Protestant churches are forbidden to
have either bell or steeple, the Roman priesthood hold their councils
and assemblies unrestrained, and cover the land with their sodalities,
their societies, their processions, and their pilgrimages. The church is
the only well-organized political party. Its agents are active in every
commune. Its severe discipline produces order through all its hosts of
Jesuits, monks and priests. Its confessors rule in the palaces of the
wealthy and the hovels of the peasants. It forbids education, it stifles
thought, it inculcates a pitiless severity against Protestants and
reformers; and with natural indignation the leading Republicans point to
the dominant church as the chief source of all the woes of France, as
sacrificing the morals, integrity and mental elevation of the nation to
the single
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purpose of maintaining the ascendancy of a
foreign Pope. The French Republicans have been forced to see that the
Papal church is the necessary foe of freedom. It would be well if our
own people could learn from their experience, and guard with strict
vigilance their institutions from the secret and open assaults of a
foreign priesthood.
"There is no doubt, at least in the minds
of the French Republicans, that to the intrigues of the Papal faction is
due the disordered and hopeless condition of the nation. Gambetta's
paper, La Republique, assures its readers that the assembly is
ruled by a party devoted wholly to the ecclesiastical interests; that
they labor only to reduce the whole country to an abject submission to
Rome, and are ready to accomplish their aims by measures fatal to the
peace of France. It asserts that the priesthood forms a league as
rigorous as that over which the Guises ruled and against which the
Huguenots struggled; that the church has its myriads of societies,
committees, agents, an over flowing treasury, the favor of the
government, a
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single aim--an infallible ruler. It calls
upon the people, if they would be free, to strike down the hydra that
preys upon the state. The policy of Bismarck, indeed, finds its best
defense in the condition of France. If the interference of the papal
faction proves so disastrous to the welfare of the French people, it is
plainly the interest of Germany to crush it forever by all the resources
of statesmanship. If the rule of papal Rome be so intolerable to its
friends, what might it not accomplish in the dominions of its opponents?
France may yet learn from its neighbors over the Rhine the only path to
freedom. What it seems most to need is a Bismarck."
If in 1874, Mr. Lawrence, after making a
thorough study of the conditions of France, could so accurately prophecy
what would happen thirty years hence, the conditions at that time must
have been indeed very palpable, but no more so than they are in America
to-day, as Roman Catholicism within the past ten years has made greater
strides in strangling American liberties than she ever has in any
twenty-five years, before, as this
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creed of abominations has been losing its
hold upon not only the throats of France, but of Italy as well. As she
has made the effort of her life to plant the seeds of anarchy and
revolution in the bosom of her followers in the United States, in order
that she may at the proper time, and as soon as she believes she is
numerically strong enough to overcome by physical force, to strike a
blow that will paralyze every ambition of Protestantism in this country.
Hundreds of the best and wisest men this
country has ever known have been for years warning the United States of
her dangers from Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed the
warning, but bear in mind that unless this country does heed this
warning and halt the Czar of Darkness, we will live to see the time when
we will have to resort to arms to protect our Protestant interests.
The nation of France has swung out from the
power of the Vatican, and is to-day defying the Pope of Rome and daring
him to do his worst, and France is a nation that has always been a
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Catholic nation and controlled by her
abominations, but she has woke up to the fact that unless this hellish
doctrine is stamped out from her shores that she will become a nation of
mental pygmies and nonentities, as she has long since learned that
Catholicism is nothing more nor less than a poisonous breath that
withers intellect and causes nations to decay and sink to the level of
Romish degeneracy.
It seems as though the Vatican will not
learn that the world moves, as the Vatican is determined that Italy
shall not appear above the horizon of papal abhorrence.
It is hard for the Vatican to learn that
the world moves and that Italy moves with it. In its final resolution,
the quarrel between the Pope and the French government is based on the
recognition of the king of Italy as the sole sovereign in Rome, but the
Pope is as determined that him and his reign of darkness shall be the
only acknowledged ruler of Italy.
President Loubet of France, the executive
of this Catholic nation, gave great offense to the
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Vatican by visiting the king of Italy, who
is in the eyes of the church a usurper.
According to the Vatican's standards, the
kingdom. of Italy is not an accomplished fact, as the Vatican refuses to
recognize any government in Italy save that which he chooses to
establish and build up out of the filth and abominations of Roman
Catholicism.
The Pope declares himself to be the only
legitimate sovereign in Rome, but the Italian government has for a
number of years been learning that the power of the Vatican is a power
of darkness, emanating from the putridness of paganism, and which is
detrimental to any nation that aspires to individual intellectuality,
morality and greatness.
The reader must bear in mind that Italy is
the home of the Pope, and the home of Popes, and that Rome is the city
of Popes, archbishops and cardinals.
This statement can not be denied by any
living man, and since it is true, we want to learn something of the
inhabitants of Rome, so that we may be prepared to judge whether Roman
Catholicism
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is beneficial or detrimental to those whom
she rules.
We make the statement without fear of
successful denial, that Roman Catholicism is a power which withers the
hopes and ambitions of any nation, which is so unlucky as to fall under
her tyrannical tread, as Romanism is a power for evil, unequaled by any
creed of deviltry and diabolical cunning ever conceived by mortal man.
We have made the statement that the city of
Rome was one of the most immoral and ungodly cities under the shining
canopy of Heaven, and we have also made the statement that Rome is the
home of popes, archbishops and cardinals, and we propose to prove to the
reader that, while Rome is the home of Roman Catholic officials, that
she is also the home of the libertine and immoral.
We also propose to prove that the
immorality of the inhabitants of Rome is taught them by the Catholic
officials of Rome, as we are not writing of what we have learned from
the mouth of others, but we are writing of what we know by the power of
sight, as we have visited Rome more than once
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in the official capacity of Roman
Catholicism, and we make this statement with a living God as our
witness, that Roman Catholicism is responsible for the immorality found
in the city of Rome, and this immorality is not confined alone to the
city outside the walls of the Vatican, as this atmosphere of immorality
and degradation permeates the very atmosphere of the Vatican, as
illegitimacy is found within the walls of the Vatican, as well as
without.
Rome is a city of popes, cardinals,
archbishops, priests, monks, friars and ecclesiastical students.
In the city of Rome, which is the home of
popes, there are 39 cardinals, 35 archbishops, 1,469 priests, 2,832
monks And friars, 2,000 nuns and 1,000 ecclesiastical students, making
in all 7,576 teachers of this abomination; and for every 4,375 children
born in the city of Rome, 3,160 are bastards, and for every 750 people
in the city of Rome, there is a murder committed during the year; thus
you will see that this herd of Catholic teachers are not only teachers
of immorality and degradation, but are also responsible for murder,
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as such a pestilence of immorality will
lead to murder.
Is it any wonder that France and Italy are
today struggling with this polluted beast in order to free themselves
from her filthy grasp? Is it any wonder that France has closed up the
monasteries, convents and schools of this abomination?
With such nations as France and Italy
declaring to their inhabitants that Catholicism is not only a nuisance
but a menace to intelligence and morality, what can this government
expect in the future if she permits Romanism to continue to flourish in
the future as she has in the past?
This book is not written by a man who seeks
notoriety, or a man who is writing from a prejudiced standpoint, but we
are writing from what we know of the awfulness of Catholicism, as
fifty-six long years have rolled into eternity since I began to worship
at the feet of this immoral hag; therefore, the reader must know that it
is not a pleasant task to acknowledge before the world that we have been
not only fifty-six years a follower of this creed of abominations, but
for thirty long
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years we helped to fasten this creed upon
the human family.
I wish that it was within my power to
become a spirit, which would enable me to navigate the air and whisper
my warnings into the ears of Protestant America, for no nation on the
face of the earth needs the warning as badly as the United States, as
day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year the Vatican's
shadow grows longer and longer upon our shores, and wherever this shadow
of paganish darkness stretches itself you will find the withered hopes
of man, as Roman Catholicism's only ambition is to place humanity at her
feet, which will enable her to bind her followers with the cords of
superstition and ignorance, as she exists upon the blasted hopes of
those whom she rules.
If what I have told you in the pages of
this book is true, then is it not time for Protestant America to arouse
herself from her lethargy and buckle on the armor of righteousness and
patriotism and go forth to battle this "Strumpet of Sin" with the valor
of our American forefathers?
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I have prayerfully endeavored to lay bare
the sins of Roman Catholicism, and the only hindrance I have encountered
in my efforts is on the account of not being more familiar with the
English language, as I am a German born, and my power of expressing
myself in the English language is materially hindered by being educated
in Germany, but thank God that education does not stand in the way of a
living God helping the foreign tongue to express itself in a manner
which can be understood.
I have endeavored to inform the reader who
I am, what I am, and why I am what I am, and have taken up the
abominations of Catholicism and treated these abominations in a manner
that I hope will carry conviction to the hearts of the reader, as I am
qualified to go before not only any official who has the power to
administer an oath and to make oath to the truthfulness of every
assertion made herein, but I am willing to meet my God around the great
white throne in Heaven and stand upon the declarations herein contained.
I have endeavored to give the Protestant
reader
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to understand that his offspring are
considered bastards, and their parents persons who live in immorality,
by not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and being married by the
priestcraft.
I have endeavored to tear the mask of
ignorance from the bleared and polluted features of Romanism and show
her up in all of her detestable ugliness.
I have in my weak manner endeavored to try
to warn our American fathers and mothers of the great danger of the
"confession," as the confessional is the stepping stone that leads to
Romish abominations, as it is there that the seed of immoral thought is
planted and it is there that the purity of girlhood is first tarnished,
and if I can arouse Protestant mothers and fathers of this land to these
awful sinks of iniquity I will consider that I have been instrumental in
helping to obliterate one of the greatest evils known to the human
family.
I have endeavored to point out to
Protestant America the awful mistake made by the United States in
permitting Roman Catholicism to
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continue her debauchery in Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands, as I declare to the reader with eyes wet
with grief that not only the flower of our army is being sacrificed in
these far away islands, but that millions of dollars are being spent
upon these islands and that Roman Catholicism is being benefited by this
great expenditure of Protestant money, as the Pope of Rome is as
powerful in these islands to-day as he ever was, and every intelligent
Protestant in this land who has made this subject a study knows full
well that had it not been for Roman Catholicism and her outrages, that
the Spanish-American war would never have been fought.
I have earnestly tried to make the reader
understand that the monasteries in this country are often the abodes of
criminals, and the nunneries of this land, are the slaughter pens of
virtue, and I trust that my readers will read it in the spirit that I
have written it, and if such is the case I know that this little book
will be instrumental in not only opening the eyes of drowsy
Protestantism, but it will be instrumental in turning thousands
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of Roman Catholics from the error of their
ways and pointing them to "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of
the world."
I have endeavored to demonstrate to the
reader that celibacy upon the part of the priestcraft is one of the most
damnable crimes known to civilization, as it is the unmarried cussedness
of the Roman Catholic priests that is instrumental in the slaughter of
virtue.
I have endeavored to prove to the reader
that the Roman Catholic Church is a living infamous insult to an
all-wise God, by claiming that the Pope of Rome is an infallible being,
and I believe that if the reader has read my book with a determination
of discarding that which is bad and holding to that which is good, that
he or she will close this book with an enlightened conception of this
devilish creed which would have its followers believe that the Pope of
Rome is on an equality with Jesus Christ.
I have endeavored to lead the reader from
clime to clime, so that he or she might behold the characters of the
followers of Rome, and by comparison
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I have endeavored to convince the reader
that the characters of the followers of Roman Catholicism are not nor
never can be on a par with the character of Protestantism, as Roman
Catholicism follows the teachings of paganism, born in the kennel of
filthiness and surrounded and led by a class of men who glut their lust
upon the virtue of their "dupes," while Protestantism is led by the
lowly Nazarene, whose teachings have made Protestant America all that
she is to-day or ever will be.
I have endeavored to point out to the
readers of this little volume the sin of Protestantism, permitting
Catholicism to control our public schools and teach our children
doctrines that will be instrumental in strangling their ambitions and
paralyzing their aspirations, which is near and dear to Protestant
America.
I have from the bottom of an honest heart
endeavored to impress upon the reader the awful influence that the
priestcraft of America has upon the morals of this country, and I trust
that this task has not been a useless one, for America has
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no plague that is so deadly to patriotism
as this black-garbed army of priests, who tramp up and down the length
and breadth of this land, seeking whom they may devour.
With every drop of blood in. my old veins
electrified with a desire to serve a living God, I have endeavored to
warn Protestant America of the lustfulness of the priestcraft, who
without a blush of shame invade the chastity of our American homes, and
by the hellishness of this Romish doctrine pollute the wives and
daughters of this fair land.
I have pointed out the dangers which beset
this nation by the toleration of Popish rule, and have compared
Protestant nations with the nations which have been morally damned and
disgraced by Romanism, and I trust that my comparisons will lead an
intelligent public to see the dangers that beset this country unless
Romanism is relegated to the everlasting haunts of oblivion.
In conclusion I desire to say to the reader
that he or she will never know of the diabolical cunning of this Romish
doctrine, for it is impossible
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for mortal man who has traveled this road
of debauchery to ever portray in print to the public what he has seen
along this journey of ignorance, superstition and immorality, as no man
who has the welfare of the young and rising generation at heart would
sink so low as to write all of the awfulness, that I have seen upon my
journey for thirty years upon this Romish highway of carnality, as every
turn in the path that leads through this desert of desolation is strewn
with the bleached bones of Ambition.
There is not an oasis in this vast stretch
of Romish desolation, as her every ambition is to rule by superstition,
ignorance and tyranny.
Again I would warn Protestant America that
we are nearing the trenches of physical strength, and unless we infuse
into our Protestant manhood the liquid fires of Protestantism, the time
is not far distant when the Bunker Hill that was made famous by the
blood of our forefathers will have her base dripping wet with the blood
of Protestantism, in defense of the principles that have
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made America all that she ever has been,
all that she is, and all that she may hope to be.
Can we expect anything else should Roman
Catholicism ever become numerically strong enough to rule by physical
strength? The answer to this question must come from the pages of Romish
history, and this history has every page wet with Protestant blood shed
by this Monarch of Darkness, as 75,000,000 Protestants to-day sleep
beneath the sod of the universe, bearing the scars of Romish torture.
My task is done; my warning has been
sounded; my prayers have been offered, and now in the evening of old
age, when life's sun is slipping down behind the horizon of earthly
things, I find myself surrounded with the faces of new friends, but in
the dim far away I behold the countenance of my Lord beckoning me to
that rest beyond the skies, where I hope to receive a full pardon from a
God I so recently learned to serve, for the sake of right, I bade
farewell to the associations of my childhood, but in doing so I have
been permitted to taste of realities that were
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bought for the human race "By the blood of the Lamb," and I feel
assured that when this earthly race is over that I will be taken home to
glory, where I will be permitted to sing the songs of the new Jerusalem,
and my prayer is that this little volume may march on down the ages
after I am gone, to warn the generations that are yet unborn of the
damnable teachings of Romanism, and be instrumental in wooing away from
this human viper those who have been taught to worship at the feet of
this hydra-headed monster, Roman Catholicism.
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