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Gail ttis Protestsiiis Conscientiously Build nn tlie Cliarclies of tie Poje ?

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My Dear SiK,-~The question proposed in your letter k one to
winch wise and good men have given different answers.
^ Some say that as the Romish Church teaches serious error, as the
mfluence of that Church is everywhere, and from its nature, hostile to
civd and religious liberty, therefore it is wrong to grant it any volun-
tary support or direct encouragement.

Otliers say that, inasmuch as the Roman Catholic Church teaches
truth enough to save the souls of men (of which I have no doubt) •
inasmuch as it proclaims the Divine authority of the Scriptures, the
obligation of the Decalogue, and the retributions of eternity ; andinas-
much as It calls upon men to worship God, the Father, Son and Spirit
>t IS unspeakably better than no church at all. And, therefore, when the
choice 18 between that and none, it is wise and right to encourage the
establishment of churches under the control of Catholic priests.

For myself I take this latter view. The principle cannot be
^rried out that no church should be encouraged which teaches erron
For then we could help none but our own. And the principle involves
the absurdity that a little error is more powerful for evil than a great
deal of truth for good. ^

Of course public men should act on Christian principles, and if it is
wrong for a private Christian to help a Catholic Church, it must be
wrong for a corporation to do so.

While, tlit-rcfore, I dread the iiifluoiico of tlio Romish Church, and
recognize its corruptions in doctrine and worship, I nevertheless beli<ive
that it is fur better that men .should be Roman Catholics than infidels
or atheists. Romanists teach j^eoplo to worship Christ, and to regard
and ackDowled<je llim as the Salvator Ilominum.

Very truly, your friend, &c.,

CHARLE3 Hodge.

I^Ei^J.Y BY KEV. C. GIir:NIC^UY.

Deau 8ni, — Since I accepted, by the great mercy of God, the
Irutli as it is in Jesus, and renounced the errors of Romo^ I have now
and then, iieard many strange things about the doctrines of that Clmrcli.
But nothing looks to me so stranjje and saddening as tlio letter which
Dr. Ilodge of Princeton, lias written to approve the Protestants who
build up the churches of Rome. I have just read that letter in your
issue of the 2 Itli of Angust. And though it seems an act of follv, on
my part., to publicly protest against the views of such a learned theolo-
gian, my conscience tells me that it is an imperious duty to raise my
feeble voice against the manifest and so dangerous errors contained in
that document.

If Dr. Ilodge had not so many titles to the respect and gratitude
of the Protestant community, if he were not truly one of the most
shining lights of our firmament, and it his long and matchless ser-
vices, in the defense of truth, had not given him such a just title to the
confidence of all, his error w^ould not be so fatal and deplorable ; and I
would remain silent. My humble position, my very insignificance
would be my excuse in my own eyes for remaining as a mute dog in
the presence of danger. Even to-(iay I am tempted to say to my
alarmed conscience : " hold your tongue ; be still and quiet, — you are
" in the presence of a Giant, — with a knock of his little finger, he can
" pulverize you, — let those errors go their way and spread, — you can't
" help ; these ugly stones coming from such a high mountain, roll with
" an irresistible power, — you will surely be crushed down if you are
" fool enough to put yourself in their way and try to stop them."

But I see too clearly the errors of Dr. Ilodge. I know too well the
incalculable injuries they will do to the cause of Christ, to allow my-
self to be guided by any selfish fear. Though the humblest and the
weakest soldier of Jesus, I have heard him say to all those enrolled

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alai'ni in due time.

Dr. Hodge gives tlireo principal reasons for approving the Pi'otes-
tants who l)uild the Churches of Rome. 1st. The Clinrch of Konie
teacix's truths enough to save the souls of men. 2nd. It proclaims
the Divinf^ authority of the " Sci'ipturcs, — the obligations of the
Decalogue, «S:c. 3rd. The Romanists teach peojtle to worship Christ
and acknowledge him as the vSaviour of the world."

If thcf'C assertions are correct, Luther and Calvin, Knox, &c.,
would he the most guilty men of modern times, and the millions of
martyrs whom Rome has slaughtered v/ould be nothing else l)Ut rebels
justly punished. If the Church of Rome's teachings can save soids,
why should we continue to })rotest against the great soul-saving
Church ? and why do we not go to the feet of the Pope t<j make our
peace with him ?

Dr. Hodge is a mighty logician, I know it, and he has probably
many brilliant theories in store to support his position. But the more
arguments he will bring to prove that Rome is a soid-saving church,
and that she is a true worshipper of Clu'ist, the better he will prove
that Luther and Calvin with their hundred millions of Protestant
followers, Dr. Hodge included, were and are to-day, the greatest fools
and the most wicked of men, for having made so much noise, caused
80 nuich shedding of l)]ood, to get out of the chains of Rome ; the
more he will j)rove tiie verity of the Rev. Mr. Ecker : '' Pi-otestantism
is a failure." And if the learned theologian of Princeton can persuade
the Pi'otestants that they do well to build Churches for the Romanists,
the surer he will make the prophecy of that same Ecker good :
" Before 25 years the United States will be Roman Catholic ! "

PLid Dr. Hodge been, as I have been, a Priest of Rome a quarter
of a century, he would have spared his friends and admirers the sur-
prise and sadness we have felt at his strange views on that matter.

1 do not pretend to say tliat I am j)erfectly sure of what the learned
Divine means by '' Truth enough to save the soul," and I would like to
know his mind mcu'o positively on that subject. But before I have
that favour, I must bear testimony to the truth and say : " After 2a
" years of experience and stud}' as a Priest of Rome, I do not know a
" single truth which that Apostate Church has kejjt in-tact and
*' unmixed with the most diabolical and damnable errors." Let us take
the nature, eternity, holiness and independence of God, for instance,
as revealed in Christ, and by Christ. What is the God of the Roman

Catholic Church nam, or kn.Avn through the ({octrine of Transdhsfan-
tiation ? A Gotl made with a piece of Ijrcad, by a man ! Just a»
Aaron took the «;ol(l of the Israelites, melted it, turned It into a ^^[olden
calf and said to the peopli! : " These are tl»y Gods, O Israel, who
'• brou;^]it you out of the Land of F^ifypt."

So the Priest of Kome said to his servant j^irl, " I want to carry
"the good God (La Bon Dieu), to a sick man to-morrow — but there
" are no more in the tabernacle — mak(i me fifty wafers, or little cakes^
" that I may consecrate them." And the domestic mixes the ilour
with some water, bakes the whole between two red irons, on which
there is a cross erii^raved with the abridged name of Christ. Then she
takes her scissors, and cuts those cakes, which are originally about five
inches large, cuts them into small round wafers, one inch large —
jin<l respectfully hands them to the Priest. The next morning that
san\e Priest takes those small round wafers to the altar, i)ronounces five
magical words, and showing to the people the wafers, which are now
turned into as many Gods, he says: "This is our God — this is the
'• Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world — adore Ilim,"
and the whole people, with the Priest himself, falling on their knees,
and with the face in the dust, " adore and worship the new born, or new
made God ! "

I ask it — where is the difference between this modern abomination
and the idolatry of the Israelites ? The only difference is that the
Jewish idolatry was of a short duration, they did not stick to it, they
gave it up the next day, and shed tears of rejientance. But the
inicinity, the awful idolatry of Rome is a permanent fact. Their wafer
God — their God made by a Priest with the help of his servant girl, is
the basis, the life, the grand, constant and public object of their adora-
tion ! I know that the Romanists and the Jesuits have very curious,
though very ridiculous arguments to bind the poor slaves of the Pope,
and [trove them that the adoration of tlie wafer God is not idolatry.
But I hope that Dr. Hodge will not prostitute his high intelligence in
attempting to help the sophists of Rome in the efforts they make to
prove to tiie world that a man can take a wafer, turn it into God, and
worship that God which he has just made liimself without being an
idolater. But if Dr. Hodge confesses that the worship of the wafer
God is an idolatrous act, how can he say that Rome teaches truth
enough to save the soul !

Through her sacrilegious and idohvtrous sacrifice of the mass, the
Church of Rome has not only dragged back the modern world to the
idolatry of the old paganism, but she has added to the brutalising and

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25 years that I was a ])rie8t of Rome, almost ev(^ry morning I had to
turn into Ood, a wafer made by my servant girl. I was assure<l by
my Church that this was my true Saviour, my true God! After that
I had to eat it, iu the same way that I eat the food which is ou my
tahle ! Ami there are more than 100,000 Priests of Home, who
to-day, heliev e and do preach the same monstrous things.

Nay — you do not probably meet a single priest in the streets, or in
the cars who does not carry a do/cn of those wafer Gods in his vi^at or
pantaloon pockets ! and wo are grav«^ly told that the church teaches
saving tnitli aiiout God I Well, if the Revd. Theologian of Princeton
really believes tiiat the Priests of Rome have the power to change the
water into his very Saviour and God, why does he not go to worship
Him at the feet of their altars ! But if, as I am certain of it, that great
christian man would prefer to be thrown into a burning furnace, to
adore the wafer-God of Rom(!, how can he tell us that there is no sin
to help to build temples for such a sacriligious and idolatrous
worshif) ?

We are gravely told in that letter that the " Romanists teach
" Christ, and regard him as the Saviour of the world ! " Into what
strange illusions good and learned men are sometimes apt to fall. In
writing these liiu;s, the clebrated Theologian no doubt consulted more
the kind disposition of his cliristiaii heart, than his vast erudition.
Wlien the Protestants meet their Roman Catholic neighbours, when
they listen to the interesting lectures, or read some of their learned
books, then they see their smiling lips, their refined manners ; they like
to conclude tliat such amiable and learned men are true worshippers of
Christ. It does them good to live in that illusion; they do not even
like to hoar any thing contrary than what they consider the only
charitable and christian way to think of their neighbours. So Rome
has many ways to d«'ceive even the most intelligent and learned ones —
she is so expert iu the art of entrapping and bewitching the souls ! Is
it not written of that wonderful church that it " will come after the
" working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders —
*• Vvith all deceiv:;nleness of unri<ihteousnes3 ? "

But the kiiid and christian (though mistaken) feelings of Dr.
Hodge and some other Protestants towards the Roman Catholics, will
not change the awful truth. The A})ostute Church of Rome has long
since forsaken and forgotten the real Divine Christ of the Gospel, and
has forged another Christ to suit her pride, her lust and her unquench-
able thirst of power and human glory.

The Cliri.st of tlio Gospel is the. only cornor-stoiio of Iiis Church,
liut tli(! Church of IloiiK' has Lrmiitt'd thiit privih'm' to I'fler. Tlio
Christ of tho Gospel is the only he;i<l of liis ('liureh — iuit tht; Chiist of
Rome s!ii(] : ''It is tho Pope who is the henil of t'le Cliureh." Tlie
Christ of the Gosp<;l hus jjroiulsed his Holy Ghost to nil his Diselpie-i,
even to the huinhlest ones, to liuide thetn in till their ways uml leach
tltciu i!u) sense of Ilis holy words. Hut the C'hrist of IJonie has pro-
mised his Holy Ghost only to the; Pope, who aloitc tias thi! infelliiience of
the Scriptures, and the knowledge of the truth. TIk; Christ ot
Rome says to the sinner : '• Go to Mary and you shall Ix; tavcMl."
The Christ of the Gosjjcl is the incarnate love towards sinners. He
loves them, — He likes to be called their friend, — He constantly prayK
for them with a love and mercv that no human hinuuMire can expi'ess.
But the Christ of Rome is constantlv auLa-v a^^'ainst sinners — he would
not listen to their prayers ; he would shut his ears to their hundjle
supplications, if His Mother were not constantly remindini^ him of the
price he has |)aid and the blood he has shed for them. The Chi'ist of
the Gospel is God and man ; as God lie is eternal as His Father, He
could have no mother. But the Christ of Rome is a (]uite modern
God; he is born about 1872 years a<,fo, his mother is Mary, who,
everywhere is invoked and called the Mother of God by the
Romaiiists.

As Dr. Hodge is a good logician, he will easily fmd that if IMary
is the ]Mother of God, Saint Anne, who is the mother of Mary, and
Joachim, who is her father, must be truly the Grand-Mother and
Grand-Father of the God of Rome, and Adam his (rrand-Grand-
Fathor ! A most marvellous fact, which, when well understood, will
make it more christian for the Protestants to raise Temples to a God
who has such glorious Grand-Mothers and Grand-Fathers.

It is true, as Dr. Hodge says, that the Church of Rome calls her
Christ, " The Saviour of the world." But this is just as wluui his
executioners called him " King of Israel." It is a mockery. For the
very moment after she has called " Christ the Saviour of the v/orld,"
she goes to Mary and she calls her also " The Saviour of the world."

Rome says most eloquently in many of her books, that Jesus is the
hope, the refuge and the salvation of sinners. But this is only to
throw dust into the eyes of good and unsuspecting men as Dr. Hodge.
Turn the page and you will see that, with still more eloquence, she
calls Mary " the only hope, refuge and salvation of sinners — the door
of Heaven !"

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niaiiv uu>vo. iufallil-le I'opes will assure; you, in their infallihh' enevrli-
cals, that it >s Mniji icho is the surrst f'lnindnfin/i of '»'»' /mnt'. I will
not insult Dr. Hodire liv LrivinLT the names of tlu^ Popes and the docu-
raents which proehiini those plain, elear hlasphcmous doetrines, for he
kiiowo them yery well.

1m ean^i! ^Varon called his golden calf " The •;reat G(m1 who had
brought Israel from Eii-ypt," is Dirctor Hodifo ready to sav that. Aaron
was really worshipping the (iod of Heaven, when sncrilieini; to the
God-("ilf ? How then can that lenriied man tell us that tin- Romanists
wor^hijt (lie true Christ Jesus of the Gospel, when tlu-y wof.-.Jiip their
Wufer-Go'l? Jt is true that they i-all that wafer-God yt'S>/.s' ///c Saviour
of the world. Hut does the cailinu' <>f that, wafir tlie Saviour of the
world, the Gotl-man, chaiii^e the nnturo < T that wafer, and make it
really the Sun of God and the Saviour ot the \'.orld? If it is so, we
must {^o and adore that new (,iod made by die Priest of Kome in his
Uibeiiiacles. Who will do yu''h an act idolatry? Let us tlimi con-
fess th 4 that wafer cannot be Christ anil God. But that wafer is the
ow/y Christ the liomanists liav( — it is at IiIm feet that they pray day
and niuht, throu:.di their " Perpetual adi;ration Societies," it is thr;)ugh
tliat wafer-Saviour and God that they otler their prayer.-, to the Father!
They [)roclaini every day, from one end to the other of the world, that
tlie J(!sus whom they acknowledge to be in Heaven, is no other than
the Jesus whom the Priest has created with a piece of bread, and that
tlie Ou'ist who is in her tabernacle, is tin; same who is in Heaven.

J Jut, again, is the learned man, who is the brightest christian glory
of our continent, ready to confess that the wafer-God of liome is really
the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, the nial Jesus, at the name
of whom eyery knee must bend.

Then, again, how can he tell us that Rome really and verily recog-
nizes tlie Christ of thii Gosj»el and worships him, when, in fart, she
worsh.i{>s nothing but a little idol of bread ? Every page ofthe history
of the Church of Rome, these last thousand years, proves that the
Christ whom Rome worships is not the Christ of the Gosj.el, and the
Gospel she preaches is not the Gospel which Christ has given us.

The true Christ was meek and humble and merciful, he rebuked
hif.; apostles when they wanted to punish those who n^jected him. He
proelahned liberty of coiisclence among men. IJut the Christ of Rome
is a bloody monster, who, through his infallible vicar, tlie P(;pe, has

approved tlie slaughter of the St. Bartholomew, and covered Europe
with rivers of blood and tears.

No ! the Christ of Rome, with his hatred of liberty, his constant
opposition to every human proi^ress: liis infallible Pope: his Molj
Inquisitions : his hatred of the Bible, can not be the true Christ who is
worshipped at Princeton Seminary. It is an old false God, smuirgled
by tlie Pope from the old Pantheon of Rome, presented to the world
und(ir the name of Christ !

No ! the Christ whom I have made, during the twenty-five years,
with the help of my servant girl, and with a wafer — the Christ who,
through his vicar, the Pope, has made me believe the most monstrous
lies, who has persuaded me tnat his body, his blood, his Divinity,
could be verily and substantially eaten by me, can not be the Son of
the God of truth. He is the father of lies and deceptions ; and the
disciples of the true Christ, who raise temples to that spurious Christ
of tlie Popes, may be good, honest, sincere Christians, but they are
mistaken. They give a helping hand to the greatest enemy of the
Gospel ; they build up the Bible-burning church ! they strengthen
those who, after having destroyed the Bible, will have no rest till they
destroy every vestige of liberty and true Christianity on earth, even if
they have to wade to their knees in the blood of the disciples of the
Gospel. Tlie Protestants who build up the churches of Rome, give
help and strength to the enemy.

Rev. Dr. Hodge says of the Church of Rome ; " She proclaims the
divine authority of the Scriptures, and lie takes that as his ground for
approving those who build up the churclies of the Pope. What \vould
the good Doctor think and say, were I going to him with a golden cup
half lilled with the purest water • but after having put as much arsenic
as thei'e is water in the cup, I would tell him ; " please sir, drink ; this
is good and refreshing water ? " Would he not repulse me with horror,
and justly call me a murderer?

Now, what is the Church of Rome doing with the Gospel ? Does
she not offer it to the people oythj after she hasmixedit with her poison-
ous tradition ? Does not the Church of Rome, in the most a])solute
and positive way, say tb.at the Vijltten Gospel (wliicli we call the
Scri[>turos), is only a part, an unfhiished fragment (;f the Gospvl ? Can
Dr. Hodge ignore that the Council of Ti-ent has put the tradition
(which they call the unwritten word of God), on a level with the
written gospel ? that the one is of as much divine authority as the
other ; that the one has to be received with the same respect as the
other ; that to reject the one is to reject tlie other ! and that the Roman

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Catliolic is not allowed to drink the waters of life, except when mixed
with the deadly poisons, the arsenical preparations of Popery?

The learned Theologian ^-'.ys that Home proclaims the divine
authority of the Scriptures ; but lie forgets tliat it is only on condition
that we receive the holy Scriptures in the light of Romish traditions.
For Rome proclaims the divine authority of the Scriptures, but only
with the condition that, under that name, we accept the Divine origin
and authority of the traditions about purgatory, transubstantiation,
indulgences, auricular confession. Immaculate conception, Infallibility
of the Poi)e, &c., &c. Does he really accept the meaning which that
Churcli attaches to the loord of God — holy Scriptures ? Does he
believe that by rejecting the authority of the one, he rejects the
authority of the other? Then he is a good Roman Catholic, he is all
right when he takes the side of the Priests of Rome and approves the
Protestants who spend money in building the Churches of the Pope.
But if he rejects, with horror, from his lips, the golden cup which Rome
offers her blind slaves, tlien he is wrong. The mistake of Dr. Hodge
is very common among the honest and unsuspecting Protestants of the
United States. They too easily forget that the Church of Rome very
often says one thing and means another quite different. When she
speaks of the Holy Scriptures with ati apparent respect, and proclaims
their divinity, many think that she means only that blessed word of
God, which is contained in the Holy Bible, as they have at Princeton
College. But it is not so.

When Rome speaks of the word of God, the Holy Scriptures, she

means the " Scriptures transmitted through the written and unwritten

tradition." She means the Apocrypha, purgatory, celibacy, absolution.

Mass, holy water, works of sui)ererogation, worship of IMary, Infalli-
bility, &c., &c.

SIh! pretends to have the greatest respect for those two things
when perfectly imited in one body of d(jctrine. But she does not con-
ceal her implacable hatred for the true Scripture, the Jiible, as Dr.
Hodge has it in his hands. That L.'arned man seems to ignore tliat the
Scripture, tlie Bible, separated from the traditions and the Romish
oonuuentiu-'ies, is absolutely declare*! a dangerous, a souUlestroying
book by Rome, and the Council of Trent has forbidtlen the i)eoi)le lo
read it in tiieir mother tongiie. He also seems to have forgotten that
the Bible Society, whose ol)ject is to give the Holy Scriptures unmixed
with traditions, notes and comments has been, time after time declared
by the Infallible Church of Rome to be an instrument of the Devil to
destroy the souls of men. No doubt that the book of the " Index of

Rome" is in tlio Library of Princeton. Tlion let him consult the long
list of books forbidden for tlieir impiety and immorality; and ho will
find that his Bil)le is at the head i»f the list! Lot him consult the
pages of the history of France, Italy, Sjjain, Ireland, England, Caiuida,
and even the history of tiie United Stales, and he will see that ll^me,
as often as she has found her oj»j)ortunity, instead of ])r()claiming the
divine authority of the true and inmiixed tScriptures, has burned and
destroyed them, as we burn and destroy a viper.

Yes, let him open the stores of his memory and vast science, and he
will remend)er that, not only Rome has destroyed the true and luide-
filed Holy Scriptures every thno, she could do it safely, but she has
invariably condemned to death those who have been found guilty of
reading the Bilde.

The memory of Dr. Ilodije cannot be so bad as to have made him
forget that the Madiai of Florence and the 12 noble young men in
Spain, who, only yesterday, were condemned to death by the Holy
Inquisition, for the unpardonable crime of having the Bible and
readiuij it.

That great theologian, followirig more the instincts of his kind
nature and christian feelings, than the teachings of history, assures us
that the Church of Rome '' proclaims the divine authority of the
Scriptures ! " Into what strange illusions the host men are sometimes
apt to fall ! The Church of Rome proclaiming the divine authority of
the Scrii)tures ! ! ! yes, by putting the Holy Scriptures in the Index,
at the head of the most damnable books which hell has ever ins})ired !

Rome proclaim the divinity of the Scriptures ! ! ! Yes ; by tortur-
ing in her dark and lilthy dungeons ; slaughtering on her gibbets ;
burning in her antos daje, the Disciples of the dear Saviour who dare
to read, love and follow those Holy Scriptures. Rome proclaims the
authority of the Holy Scriptures, says Dr. Hodge — yes, says the
history of these last thousand years ; yes, answer millions of martyrs,
she j)roelaims and acknowledges the Divinity of the Scriptures, just as
the Jews acknowledged and proclaimed the Divinity of Christ, by
spitting in his face, Hogging him, nailing him on a cross as a criminal,
and killing him between two thieves !

There are many deplorable things to be seen among the Protestants
of the United States. But one of the most deplorable is the fatal
tendency of so many to ignore the great apostacy and the abominations
of Rome. In Europe, where Rome is better known, Princi[)al Cun-
ningham called the church " the masterpiece of Satan " — and sure she
is the masterpi(;ce of Satan. IJut what a yad spectacle we liave under

chi

cir

the

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111(1 ho will
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•testants
;he fatal
inations
al Ciiu-
ure slie
e under

our eyes on this continent! almost everywhere the Bible bnrnin'^
church of the Poi)e, instead of being sternly opposed by the children of
God, is petted^ h(]j)ed, enriched, encouraged, strengthened, praised by
the greatest j)an of them. Everv where, with very little exception,
tin; Protestants, shutting their eyes to the silent, but rapid proi>-ress of
Rome, sleep when the enemy is raising and arming his impregruible
citadels, training his innumerable legions and sharpening his sword for
the a}»proach and inevitable contest.

Hut there will soon be an awakening; and it will be a terrible one.
When the Protestants will see the extent of their incredible folly, in so
betr;<ying the interests of Truth and Liberty into the hands of their
greatest enemy, it will be too late ? There will be, then, a Roman,
Caiholic President in Washington. The armies of the Great Repid)lic
will then be commanded by Roman Catholic generals and ofHcers ; the
fleets will be commanded by Roman Catholic Admirals, and the for-
tresses will be in "the hands of Roman Catholic traitors. Then the
treasurers and the inuuense resources of this magnificent country, will
be at the mercy of the Jesuits, at the service of the Pope, and the tlag
of Liberty will be trampled in the dust. Then the American people,
who are to-day sold into the hands of Rome by their Politicians, and
lulled asleep by their Theologians, will understand that when Rome
speaks of the Divine authority o'.: the Scriptures, it only means th.at the
Bible must be dragged out of the schools and torn away from the
hands i»f tlie old and the young, to make a bon fire.

There are two things which Romes hates with an implicable hatred.
It is (he Bible and Liberty. At any cost Rome is bound to fight down
tho'jo two things, till they will be completely destroyed. But the more
she hates our dear Bible and our glorious liberty, the more she con-
ceals her hatred, under the most d«-ceprive words, and the most fictiti-
ous demonstrations of love and respect. It is just when she lays the
surest and most perfidious plans to drag away the Bible from the
school and the private house, that she [)roclaims, most elo(piontly, its
diviiK! authority. Just, as the murderer, who puts on a smiling face
and a friendly countenance, at the approach of his victim, the better to
prevent him from IxMiig on his guard. Thanks to the betravals of the
politicians, and the delusions of theologians. Except God makes a
miracle to prevent it, the Pnble and liberty are doomed in the United
States.

Till lately, I have had my doubts about that deplorable issue. But
these last few years' study of tilings and men here, makes it imjiossiblo
to entertain any doubt about it. Blind indeed must be the man who

lil

does not see the portentous signs which foretell that the days of liberty
are numbered, and will be very short. With the hundred thousand
Protestants, who give their daughters, their sons and their money to
the Jesuits, and with the connivance, the silence, if not the public
approbation, of thousands of ministers who dare not speak out, Home
is raising her proud banner on every hill, over every valley of the
United States.

See how Rome is ruling in the midst of all our great cities, from
New York to San Francisco ; from Quebec to San Jago ! It would
require the united efforts, the stern energies of all the disciph^s of the
Gospel, to put a stop to the giant power and aggressive work of Rome ;
but, instead of trying to defeat the public and grand conspiracy of
Popery against Liberty and the Bible, the Protestants, with few
exceptions, are trying with each other who will most efficiently give
aid and comfort to the enemy.

Does Doctor Hodge ignore the ground the Church of Rome pro-
claims the divine authority of the Scriptures ? But there ia not a
student at Princeton who does not know that the faith of Rome in the
Holy Scriptures, and the so-called proclamation, by her, of their divine
authority, are founded on what the logicians call a Vicious Circle.

Does not Rome boast that she receives the Holy Scriptures because
they point to her as the only Infallible Church, — when, in the mean
time, she refers us to those scriptures to prove the title she has to the
BU[)reme respect and submission of the nations ? I ask it from yon,
Mr. Elditor, and from every one of your intelligent readers, what is all
that bombast of Rome about her faith in the divinity of the Scriptures,
if it is not a castle built in a mistv cloud hi^jh in the air. Who can
believe in the divinity of a thing, in favour of which not a single reason
can be given which can be accepted by common sense ! Who will
believe Rome proclaiming the divine authority of the Scriptures, when
she has no other argument or reason to our intelligence than it vicious
circle.

Is not that very proclamtition of the divinity of the scriptures by
Rome, from a vicious circle, an insult to common sense, an outrage to
man and God, a public invitation from Satan to reject the Holy
Scriptures ?

Is not the proclamation of the divinity of the Holy Scriptures by
Rome, Mdien she has no other foundation of her faith than a vicious
circle, the most infallible way to make those scriptures the objoct of
contempt to every intelligent man — is it not the shortest way to sow
the seeds of infidelity all over the world ?

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With her vicious circle as the foundation of her faith, the more
Rome will speak of her Holy Scrij)tures, the less the world will believe
in them — the louder she will make her proclamation, the surer the
world will laugh at the holy scripture, and the more she will damage
the cause of Christ. If France, Italy and Spain are peopled with
infidels, who, under the name of Roman Catholics, reject Christ and
His Gospel, it is due to that proclamation of the holy scriptures found-
ed on a lie — an imposture, a vicious circle.

It is next to impossible for an intelligent man to accept the Divinity
of the Scriptures, when they are presented by a church who has no
other reason for her foith than a gross absurdity. If a profound logi-
cian like Dr. Hodge considered this fact with attention, he would not
have put in the hands of Rome a document which she will use with
Buch disastrous effect in the United States.

Though there is a great deal of show in the Church of Rome, there
is no real faith, even among the priests. The little faith which
remains has no more solidity than the building raised on the quick-
sand. From the highest to the lowest ranks of Rome, with very few
exceptions, infidelity or skepticism is the rule ; very few to-tlay, even
among the priests of that apostate church, care anything for the
scriptures.

They do not ask, " What saith the Lord ?" but they ask, What
saith the Pope ? It is not necessary to be so profound a logician as
the celebrated Theologian of Princeton, to understand that, " with an
infallible Pope," there is no need of an Infallible Bible. It is just
because (he scriptures had ceased to be an authority in the Church ot
Rome, that it has been found necessary to provide another authority
to guide the human intellect— as the holy Bible had ceased to be the
oracle, the source of truth among the Roman Catholics, it was a ques-
tion of life or death to find or invent a new oracle, a new fountain of
truth and life. Yes, it became a necessity to proclaim an infalUhh
Pope, the very day that the holy Scriptures had ceased from being
an infallible guide. Many have misunderstood the terrible logic which
forced the Roman Catholics, almost in spite of themselves, to proclaim
the infallibility of the Pope. To every serious thinker, the proclama-
tion of the dogma is a most natural, a most logical, fact. These last
ten centuries, the Roman Catholic nations have sternly, but in vain,
tried to resist the logical consequences of the false and Anti-Christian
principles, which their church had accepted as divine truths. The
proclamation of the infallibility of the Pope is not only the logical
consequences of the rejection of the divine authority of the Scriptures

in the Church of Rome, it is also the last and ultimate efTort of the
apostate church to <;et for ever rid of those holy Scriptures, in every
page of which she finds her condemnation written. Prom the profound
thiid<er IJossuet, to the learned INIontalembert, many intell'font
Roman Catliolics had foreseen and foretold, that the proclamation of
the Infallibility woidd be a death-blow to the authority of the Scrip-
ture, and would sweep away the last Christian principle from their
church.

But logic is stronger than raen. When men, in a moment of
blindness, have accepted a false principle, to replace a christian one
whicli tliey have rejected, they are dragged, in spite of themselves,
into its fatal consequences. By admitting the Divinity of traditions
which were opposed to the holy Scriptures, the Roman Catholics had
prepared for the rejection of the authority of those infallible oracle.=»,
and the necessity of finding some other infallible guide.

From one abyss, the Roman Catholics have fallen into a profound-
er one, with the same fatal necessity and irresistible law, by which a
stone must roll to the bottom of the pit, the very moment the crumb-
ling support on which it rested on the side of the precipice has been
removed.

By proclaiming the Divine authority of the tradition which gives
them an Infallible Pope, and by accepting that man as equal to God,
in wisdom and science, the Roman Catholic Church has fallen to the
bottom of an unfathom.xble abyss. Human folly and depravity could
not go farther. The last link which united Rome to the Christian
world ha« been cut. It is no more from Christ, speaking to Ilim
through the Holy Ghost, in the Scri[)tures, that the Roman Catholic
will receive the Truth — it is from the Pope. Christ and His Gospel
are no mo'o, the way, the truth, the life. It is the infallible Pope.
By taking away the Corner-Stone, Christ, whom the Father had laid
as the foundation of His Church, in order to give place to her infalli-
ble Pope, Rome has renewed on earth the awful rebellion of Lucifer
in Heaven.

And the Protestants who build the churches of this modern Luci-
fer, like those who approve them, may be honest and learned, but
they are mistaken men. They give help and comfort to the enemy!
They are of those for whom Christ said on the cross : " Father, forgive
them — they know not wh;<t they do."

C. CHINIQUY.

St. Anne, Kahkakek Co., Illinois, lO/A Oct., 1872.

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