HlMLABtt OS IWILM D0H0T" ,,un THE AUTHOR. PROTESTANTS fflKE OR The Danger of Romanism BY REV. W. H. GREER. ILLUSTRATED. 'For every one that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither comet h to the light, because their deeds were evil." —John hi, 20. 1. \ GRANGE, OHIO : W. 11. GREER. /^ 1893. A: ^' [if V I J ii •— ' ■ Thb Library of Congress WASHINGTON -% COPYRIGHT, 1893. BV W. H. GREER. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. A Sketch of the Church of Rome 9 Union of Church and State. — The Exterior Church. — Rise of Papacy. — Indulgences. — Purgatory. — Martin Luther. — Massacre of St. Bartholomew. — Results of the Reformation. CHAPTER II. Jesuits 21 Loyola's Visions. — Aims. — Immorality of their Teach- ings. — Expulsions. — Wealth. CHAPTER III. Rome's Wealth 35 How Obtained. — Indulgences. — Masses. — Relics. — Public Treasury. — Poverty. CHAPTER IV. Rome's Political Power 47 Rome's New Possessions —Rome's Power Supreme. — Catholic Oath Void. Majorities. Rome Controls New York Knights of Labor Subject to Rome. — Military Organization. No Opposition. CHAPTER V. Rome and Public Schools 63 [gnorance and Superstition. — Contrast. — The Pope the Supreme Judge. — Parochial Schools. — Rome must be Obeyed. — Archbishop Ireland's Address. / / CHAPTER VI. Rome's Intolerance An Honest Confession. — Inquisition Necessary. — Protestantism Denounced. — What may be Pub- lished. CHAPTER VII. Inquisition 86 Its Terrible Work. — Why Tortured. — The Place of Torture. — Story of Isaac Orobis — William Lithgow. — Dark Record Justified by Rome. — Conclusion. CHAPTER VIII. Rome and the Bible 99 No Bible Society. — Bibles Burned. CHAPTER IX. Nunneries 104 A Young Lady's Experience. — The Pope's Investiga- tion. — A Nun's Instructions. — Peril of Girls. — Priests in the Confessional. — How Priests can Enter Nunneries. — Deluded Mothers. — Submit or Die. — Murder of a Beautiful Girl. — St. Frances, we are Sent for You. — Slaughter of Infants — Burial Place for Infants. CHAPTER X. Rome Fosters Crime 127 Sabbath Desecration. — Immorality. — Who Fill our Prisons. — Murder. CHAPTER XL The Confessional 133 An Honest Confession. — Improper Questions. — Diver- sity of Opinion. CHAPTER XII. Rome and Whiskey 141 Confession. — Encouraging Intemperance. — Rome's Policy.- -Saloons Control our Cities. — Temperance Societies. CHAPTER XIII. The Worship of Saints 150 Idolatrous Worship. — Blasphemy. — St. Joseph. CHAPTER XIV. Rome's Charity. . : 155 The Church and the Poor. — Church and State. — Treatment of Orphans. CHAPTER XV. The Canon Law and Eate Papal Utterances. 1 63 Utterances of Leo XIII. — Rights the State does not Have. — Rights and Powers of the Church. PREFACE. In presenting this volume we do not profess originality, but have gleaned facts from all available sources, having quoted freely from Roman Catholic standard works, also the works of ex-priests and nuns. Among some of the works quoted are, "Romanism and the Republic," by Rev. I. J. Lansing; " Romanism and the Reformation," by Guinness; "Why Priests Should Wed," by Fulton; "What Rome Teaches," by Miss Cussack; "Popish Nunneries," by Wm. Hogan; "Rum, Rags and Religion," by O. M. Owen; "Rome Against the Bible," by W. S. Plumer, D. D.; "The Jesuits," by Principal Austin; "Essays on the Church in Canada," by O'Sullivan; "Plain Talk," by Mgr. Segur; "Christian Schools, or Judges of the Faith," by Jenkins, and "Maria Monk." We send forward this little volume in the hopes that it may arouse Protestants to a sense of danger, and that they may be prepared to cope with this Mother of Harlots. \v. ii. G. A SKETCH OF THE CHURCH OF ROME. Thk Roman Catholic Church, properly so speak- ing, comes into existence about 313. The population of the entire Roman empire at this time was 120 millions and about 6 millions of these were professing Christians, who were suffering persecution under Ro- man rulers. When Constantine became emperor, he began to patronize Christianity from selfish motives. The decree of Milan in 313, proclaiming full toler- ation for Christians, was his statesman-like manoeuvre, and it succeeded in promoting his own interests. UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Constantine now openly supported Christianity, and thousands of people who cared nothing for religion affected to espouse it, because it was the popular side. Soon there became millions of people who professed (not possessed) Christ's religion. Constantine's patronage of Christianity did much to strengthen his power, while it tended to ruin tile spirituality of the Church. The more firmly he united io PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Church and State the more he injured it, because the Church and State are unnatural companions. Some one has said, "Tie Religion to the State chariot, and it becomes defiled by being dragged through the mire of expediency." Christ said to the Roman governor just before his crucifixion, " My kingdom is not of this world." Would that Christ's followers had always kept this saying in mind, and had remained under the protection of God alone, whatever they might have suffered. The change in the outward forms of Christianity, under Constantine and his successors, seemed to render the solemn declaration of Christ a mockery. Under suc- cessive rulers it became gorgeous, cruelly intolerant and murderous. We can never find real Christianity robed in worldly grandeur, but we find it lowly and persecuted, thus resembling its divine founder. THE EXTERIOR CHURCH. Men now sought for something exterior ; they had grown tired of the bond of love Christ left to bind them together, and now they sought union through Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops and Priests, for faith in the heart no longer connected the members of the Church. The living Church retiring gradually within a few faithful hearts, an exterior Church was substituted THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 1 1 In its place, and all its forms declared to be of divine appointment. Salvation no longer came through Christ, but was conveyed through channels that the}' themselves had invented. Rome was not satisfied with ecclesiastical power, but sought temporal power as well, and gained it through the usurper, Pepin, who had wrested from the Lombards the cities they had taken from the Greek emperor, and instead of restoring them to that prince, he laid the keys on St. Peter's alter and swore with uplifted hands that he had not taken up arms for man but to obtain remission of sins from* God and to do homage to St. Peter. Thus France established the temporal power of the popes. During the ninth century Rome was governed by abandoned women. It is said that a woman named Joan became pope, and whose sex was betrayed by the pangs of child-birth during a procession. Theodora and Marozia installed and deposed at their pleasure the popes of Rome. In 1033, a youth who had been brought up in debauchery, became pope under the name of Benedict IX. This position did not purify him, for he still continued in the same degrading vices, and at last sold the papacy to a Roman ecclesiastic. 12 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, Oh' Henry III., the German emperor, deposed three popes and appointed the one he wanted to fill St. Peter's chair. Thus, through Henry III. we find the papacy gain- ing power and becoming reformed of some of its abuses. RISE OF PAPACY. To exalt the Papacy is to exalt the Church, and now begins a new era for Papacy. It rises, to trample the princes of the earth under foot. Hildebrand comes forth, whose one aim is to restore to papal Rome all that imperial Rome had lost. At one time he ordered the Emperor of Germany to kiss his toe. His first task was to organize the nlilitia of the Church to emancipate Rome from its subjection to the empire. His expectations were only partially realized, for he died in exile. The kingdoms of Christendom, already subject to the spiritual authority of Rome, now become her slaves. What a change in the Church. At first, a community of brethren, worshiping the living God, with humble pastors as their teachers, and now an absolute monarchy, compelling all men to yield to her power. Rites and ceremonies multiplied. Prayers were made to the saints, and thus a real idolatry sup- planted the living and true God. The system of pen- THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 13 ance was introduced. At first this consisted in certain public expressions of repentence, required by the Church from those who had been excluded on account of scandal and who desired to be restored. It was not long, however, before penance was extended to every sin. Penance was thus confounded with repentance, and instead of looking to Christ for pardon, it was sought for in the Church through penitential works. Men were required to fast, to go barefoot, to take long journeys on foot, or to renounce the world and em- brace a monastic life. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Italy became greatly agitated. Nobles and peasants, old and young, even young children, went in pairs by hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands, through the towns and villages, visiting the churches in the depth of winter. Armed with whips and scourges they flogged each other without mercy, and the streets resounded with cries and groans that were pitiful to hear. The priests began to see that a remedy must be found. They accordingly invented INDULGENCES. They explained to their penitents : " You cannot accomplish the task imposed on you. Well; we, the priests of God and your pastors, will i 4 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR take this heavy burden upon ourselves. For a seven weeks' fast you shall pay twenty pence if you are rich; ten, if less wealthy ; and three pence if you are poor; and so on for other matters." A hull of Clement VII., declared it to he an article of faith. Rome was not yet satisfied. This system of barter was soon extended. vSome of the ancient philosophers had conceived the idea that men were to be purified by fire. Rome now adheres to this opinion, and PURGATORY is annexed to the pope's domain by another bull. In that place men would have to expiate their sins that could not be expiated here on earth. Indulgences would liberate their souls from that awful place in which their sins would detain them. The Romans saw their pockets being filled by this traffic, and Pope Boniface was enabled to effect still more to fill the treasury of Rome. In 1300 he pub- lished a bull, in which he declared to the Church that every hundred years all who made a pilgrimage to Rome should receive a plenary indulgence. From the surrounding countries people flocked in crowds, and in one month 200,000 pilgrims visited Rome, each bringing an offering. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 15 Roman greed knew no bounds. The term of years was soon fixed at fifty, then at thirty-three, and lastly at twenty-five years interval. Then, to make it more convenient to the purchasers, and to increase the profit of the sellers, both the jubilee and its indulgences were transported from Rome to every market-place in Christ- endom. It was unnecessary to leave one's home, as each man could be accommodated at his own door. " All these people maintained that the pope, ' sitting as God in the temple of God,' could not err, and they would not suffer any contradiction." Could the evil become greater. The news of this infamous Papal imposture came to the ears of MARTIN LUTHER and impelled him to speak out, — " Call you that God's religion ? I say it is the Devil's religion. Call that the religion from heaven? I say it comes from hell ! " The poor, superstitious people, turned pale at such words, and began to think the world would soon end. But Martin Luther was in earnest, and fearlessly ex- posed the fraud practiced upon the people by Popery, An earnest band of men soon gathered around him, and in the course of a few years they gave Popery such 16 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR a scorching that she has not yet recovered herself, and would that they had only killed the old serpent ; hut again she is raising her head in our midst to be crushed or to crush. This is the question lor Protes- tants to consider at the present time. Which will it The Reformation furnished the Inquisition with new victims. For a time it had everything its own way. Philip II. of Spain renewed the provision which rewarded an informer from the property of the accused. During the years 1559-60 the Inquisition was at the height of its activity. It had been a principal means of driving the best classes of people from the country, and of crippling its literary and scientific life. The Inquisition was also active in America, for it was early introduced from Spain and converted Mexico, Cartha* gena and Lima into regions of terror. It is unneces> sary to say much on the Reformation, as all are famil- iar with the leading points. One incident, however, we must relate, and that is THK MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW. "It was arranged by Catharine (regent of France) that the semblance of a thorough reconciliation be- tween the Protestants and the Roman Catholics should take place. Her daughter was to marry Henry of THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 17 Navarre, the leader of the Huguenots or French Pro- testants. Brilliant festivities were arranged, and the whole land was alive w T ith a new joy that, at last, the Huguenots and Roman Catholics could live, hence- forth, in peace, and each worship with equal rights before the law. The marriage was celebrated August 18, 1572, but on the night of the 24th a bell in the palace belfry gave the signal for general slaughter. This was the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's eve. The Huguenot chiefs were all in Paris, and their where- abouts was known. Admiral Coligny, an intrepid warrior and firm Huguenot, was murdered in cold blood, and cast out of the window into the stone court below 7 . For seven days and nights the streets ran with Protestant blood. Outside of Paris the massacre was sudden and overwhelming. The Loire and the Rhine ran red and thick with the blood and bodies of victims. The cities of Meaux, Orleans, Bourges, Lyons, Rouen, Toulouse and Bordeaux were centres of the persecution. Not less than one hundred thou- sand Huguenots fell beneath flame and sword. The pretext for the universal murder was, that Coligny had concerted a secret conspiracy against the crown. There is not, and never was, a vestige of authority for even the StlSpicion of SUCh a thing. At Rome there was great rejoicing over the bloodshed. Pope Gregory ,x PKOTESTAXTS AWAKE, OR ordered the ringing of the bells of the city, and a spe- cial medal was struck in honor of his triumph." (Hurst's History of Reformation.) We will now consider some of the RESULTS OF THE REFORMATION. Protestants rapidly increased. The common people had been sorely oppressed. Independence was being won, and the citizens were desirous of a higher and purer citizenship. The y Reformation became the mother of Republics. The people began to think. Men of culture and learning embraced Protestantism; and wherever the Reformation triumphed, universities and other institutions of learning sprang up; good morals and political liberty made rapid advancement; but the greatest benefit was the spread of the Gospel and its translation in different languages. ROME'S NEW FIELDS. Rome sought new fields for labor, and found them in America, being the first successful colonists. Their first settlements were as follows: St. Augustine, 1565; Santa Fe, 1585, and San Fran- cisco, 1776. In 1604 they entered Canada under Cham- plain and organized several missions. The foundation THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 19 for the Jesuit College for the Hurons was laid at Quebec in 1635. During the next ten years the Jesuits founded a number of schools for the Indians, and were successful in gaining many converts. At the present time there are about 2,000,000 Catholics throughout Canada, over 2,000 Churches, and about 2,200 priests. In three of its Provinces there are 4,250 Separate Schools for elementary education. There are 48 Col- leges, 16 Theological Seminaries, and about 200 Academies. The hierarchy is composed of one Cardi- nal, 6 Archbishops, 16 Bishops, 5 Vicars-Apostolic, and one Prefect-Apostolic. The history of the Catholic Church properly began in the United States with the settlement of Maryland, under the auspices of Lord Baltimore, in 1634. They did not make very rapid progresses they were deprived of equal rights. But the era of the revolution was favorable to them. Congress declared for religious toleration. Since then they have rapidly increased in number and influence. Hoffmann's Catholic Diction- ary of 189L gives the following statistics of the Catholic Church in the United States: Arch-diocese, 13; Dio- ceses, 79; Vicariates Apostolic 6, and 1 Prefecture Apostolic; Cardinals, 1 ; Archbishops, 14; Bishops, 7;, ; Priests, 8,778, of whom 2,354 are members oi religious orders; Adherents, 8,579,966; Churches, 7,631; Stations, 20 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR 2,841 : Chapels, 1,750; Orphan Asylums, 218 ; Theo- logical Seminaries 39, educating 1,711 candidates for the priesthood; Colleges, 123; Academies, 624; Paro- chial Schools, 3,277, with 665,32s pupils, while Werne's Catholic World gives the total number of adherents throughout the world as 230,000,000 II. JESUITS. Before much can be said on this subject, it will be necessary to give a brief sketch of the founder, Ignatius Loyala., born 1491, in the Province of Gui- puscoa, Spain. During his early life he spent much of his time by reading the legends of the Saints; this seriously impressed his mind, causing him to devote himself to a religious life. He resolved to bid adieu to the world, and after sharing a repast with his com- panions, he gave his rich costume to a beggar, put on coarse attire and entered the Dominican convent, to devote himself to the mortification of the flesh. It was not long, however, until he found himself in a state of despair, being tempted to return to the amuse- ments of the world, but persuaded himself that these thoughts came from the devil. One day he met an old woman who told him that he should receive visita- tions from Jesus. From this time he began to have visions. i.oyala's VISIONS. Sometimes he was wrapped in ecstacy. In 1526 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR he began to gather about him a band of fellow-work- ers. This little "company of Jesus" became a special militia to the Pope, who recommended them to be- come confessors to sovereigns. At the death of Eoyala, in 1550, the order num- bered 45 professed fathers, 2,000 members, and more than 100 colleges and houses. From this time on they struggled with the Pope for supremacy. They were first driven from England in 15S1 , and again in 1 60 1, for being conspirators against the life of Queen Elizabeth, and still another time for their share in the gunpowder plot. They required but a very low .standard of morality from their converts. At a great council in Lima, they decided it inexpedient to require any acts of Christian devotion from South American converts, save baptism, except under greatest precau- tions; and in China, their missionaries allowed con- verts to continue in their idolatrous rites. During this century they abandoned their system of free edu- cation and attached themselves to the interests of courts, and became a great trading firm with branch houses in nearly every part of the world. They were responsible for the rebellion in Paraguay, 1754, and are supposed to be responsible for the death of Pope Clement, 1775. "By their very constitution, as well as genus of AMERICA'S DANGER. 2 \ PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR order, a spirit of action and intrigue is infused into all its members." Robertson, an English satirist, has said of them: "They were tempted to serve God with the help of the devil," while a French writer has declared, "that the Jesuit confessor had lengthened the creed and shortened the decalogue. 1 ' They are, without doubt, the ruling order in the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuit vote controls the government of a country; each political party pays homage, and even money, for their votes and influence. Principal Austin, of Alma College, St. Thomas, Out., says: "There can be no doubt that their powerful and sinister influence in local and Dominion politics is the one dark cloud upon our country's horizon, and the earnest, united and successful resistance to Jesuitic aggression on the part of all friends of free institu- tions is the paramount duty of the hour." They are the sworn vassals of the Pope, their ultimate AIM is to overthrow every form of religion but the Roman Catholic, the complete crushing out of civil and THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 25 religious freedom, and the absolute subjection of every individual and state to the Pope. They have reduced deception to an art, and their name is synonymous with trickery and jugglery. They barter political support to a party for lands or money. They are sworn enemies of free institutions, freedom of thought, or liberty of conscience. They claim that the Pope has been appointed of God to do this world's thinking, thus they have exalted the Church and minimized man until freedom is no longer thought possible or desirable. The society has ever tried to check the tide of progress and keep the people in bondage to Rome. Each member is bound to obey those in authority ; thus he becomes a mere machine in the hands of his superior, and manhood is demoralized. The Jesuits specially defend the right of the Pope to temporal power, the right to depose sovereign power, to absolve from civil allegiance, and the com- plete subjection of the State to the Church. Cardinal Manning, the Pope's mouth-piece and Jesuit's defend- er, says: "I acknowledge no civil power. I am the subject of no Prince. I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men. I am the sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong." Pius V confirmed this statement when he deposed 26 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Queen Elizabeth and released her subjects from their vow of allegiance. Gabriel Vasquez, a prominent Jesuit, made this .statement: "If all the members of the royal family are heretics, a new election to the throne devolves upon the State; for the king's successors could be justly de- prived of the kingdom by the Pope, because the preservation of the faith, which is of greater import- ance, requires that it should be so. But if the king- dom were thus polluted, the Pope, as supreme judge in matters of faith, might appoint a Catholic king for the good of the whole realm, and might place him over it by force of arms if necessary." These are the views held and propagated by .ne "Company of Jesus," and we know of none in that company who repudiate them. We find this order in every part of the world, united by the same design, the same manner of life, and the same vow. We will now give a few extracts from the writings of Blaise Pascal, a celebrated Roman Catholic scholar. The following hare been affirmed by Jesuit authorities and prove the IMMORALITY OF THEIR TEACHINGS. i. Doing evil, that good may come of it. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM, 27 " We ma)- seek an occasion of sin directly and de- signedly, when our own, or our neighbor's, spiritual or temporal advantages induces us to do so." 2. Desiring the death of another and rejoicing over it. "An incumbent may, without any mortal sin, de- sire the decease of a life-renter on his benefice, and a son that of his father, and rejoice when it happens, provided always it is for the sake of the profit that is to accrue from the event, and not from personal aver- sion." 3. Duelling. — " It is perfectly reasonable to hold that a man may fight a duel to save his life, his honor, or any considerable portion of his property, and when it is apparent there is a design to deprive him of these unjustly by lawsuits and chicanery, and when there is no other way of preserving them." . Navarre, a good Jesuit authority, claims that their is nothing to prevent one from despatching one's ad- versary in a private way, and rather prefers this way — for by so doing we avoid exposure to our own lives. 4. Killing a man for an insult. "It is perfectly right to kill a person who has given us a box on the ear, although he should run away, provided it is not done through hatred or re- venge, and there is no danger of giving occasions PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR thereby to murders of a gross kind, and hurtful to society. And the reason is that it is lawful to pursue the thief that has stolen our honor, as him that has run away with our property." 5. Retention of unlawful gains. "If one has received money to perpetrate a wicked action, is he obliged to restore it? "We must distinguish here; if he has not done the deed he must give back the cash; if he has, he is under no such obligation." 6. Perjury. "A man may swear that he never did such a thing (though he actually did it) meaning within himself that he did not do so on a certain day, or before he was born, or understanding any other such circum- stance, while the words which he employs have no such sense as would discover his meaning. And this is very convenient in many cases, and quite innocent, when necessary or conducive to one's health, honor or id vantage." "It is the intention that determines the quality of the action." DeGuay, one of the highest Jesuit authorities, claims that it is right to defraud the public treasury. This teaching justifiies smuggling and illicit commerce of every kind. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 29 A man may demand secret compensation from one who has wrongfully defeated him at law, or in other words, he may take the law into his own hands, and make the wrong right. A servant may secretly compensate himself if he is not given as high wages as others of his class, even if he agreed to leave the wages to the judgment of his employer. These are a few extracts of the many that might be given, but these are sufficient to prove the teach- ing of the Jesuits, anti-christian and immoral, and we can understand why they have been condemned by both Protestants and Roman Catholics. In 1762 Lavalette, the head of the order in France, was summoned to Paris to answer for some charges brought against them. The order were obliged to produce their "Constitutions." When these became known intense indignation was aroused against the order. Louis XV sent a letter to the General of the order at Rome asking to have the statutes amended. The General replied: "The Jesuits must remain as they are or cease to exist." We give a ({notation from a decree of the Parlia- ment of Paris, in that year, showing reasons tor their request: "These doctrines (those contained in the Constitution made at Prague), the consequences of 30 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR which would go to destroy the law of nature — that moral standard which God himself has imprinted on the heart of man — and hence break all the bonds of civil society, since they authorize theft, falsehood, per- jury, impurity the most criminal, and generally all passions, as well as all crime, by teaching secret com- pensation, equivocations, mental reservations, proba- bilism and philosophical sin; to destroy all feelings of humanity among men, since the}' favor homicide and parricide, to overthrow the royal society/ ' Pietro Sarpi,a distinguished Roman Catholic divine and an intimate friend of three successive Popes, says of the Jesuits, " They are a public plague, and the pleague of the world. Chameleons, who take their colors from the soil they squat on, flatterers of Princes, perverters of youth. They have the art so to blend their interests and that of Rome, seeking for them- selves and Papacy the empire of the world that the Curia must needs support them, though it cowers be- fore their unscrutable authority. They are the ruin of good literature and wholesome doctrine, by their pitiful pretence of learning and their machinery of false teaching. On ignorance rests their power, and truth is mortal to them. Every vice of which humanity is capable, every frailty of which it is subject, finds from them support and consolation. If St. Peter had THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 31 been directed by a Jesuit confessor he might have arrived at denying Christ without sin. Expelled from Venice, they work more mischief there by their intrigues, than they did when they were tolerated. They scheme to get a hold on Constantinople and Palestine, in order to establish seminaries of fanatics and assassins. They are responsible for the murder of Henry IV., for if they did not instigate Ravaillac, their doctrine of rigicide inspired him. They can creep into any kingdom, any institution, any house- hold, because they readily accept any terms, and sub- scribe to any conditions, in the certainty that by the adroit use of flattery, humbug, falsehood and corruption, they will soon become masters of the situation. * * * The education of the Jesuit consists in stripping the pupil of every obligation to his father, to his country, and to his national Prince." At their first centenniary jubilee, the members numbered 13,112, distributed over 32 Provinces. At the time of their suppression, a century later, they had increased to 22,589, and were possessed of 24 professed houses, 669 Colleges, 176 Seminaries, 61 Novitiates, 335 Residences, and 275 Missionary Stations in infidel countries, or in the Protestant States of Europe. 32 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR EXPULSIONS. The decline in the fortunes of the Jesuits was rapid and decisive in its consummation. It can readily be seen that this order, in any country, is very likely to disturb the peace of that country, as their teachings endanger the morality and patriotism of the young. We give table showing the order in which they have been expelled from the various countries : — Saragossa 1555 La Palatine 1558 Vienna 1566 Avignon 1570 Antwerp 1578 Segovia 1578 England 1579 1581 11 1586 Japan 1587 Hungary 1588 Transylvania 1588 Bordeaux 1589 F ranee . 1 594 Holland 1596 Toulon 1597 Berne 1597 England 1602 England 1604 Denmark 1606 Thorn 1606 Venice 1606 Venice 1612 Japan 1613 India 1613 Bohemia 1618 Moravia 1619 Naples 1622 Netherlands 1622 China 1623 Malta 1634 Russia J 7 2 3 Savoy 1729 Paraguay 1733 Portugal x 759 Canada 1762 France 1764 Spain ._ 1767 THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 33 Two Sicilies 1767 Duchy of Parma 1768 Malta 1768 Russia 1776 France 1804 Eripon 1804 France 1806 Naples 1810 " 1816 Seleure 1816 Belgium 1818 Brest 18 19 Russia 1820 Rouen 1825 Spain 1826 Gt. Britain.- 1829 Ireland ---1829 France 1831 Saxony 1831 Portugal 1834 Spain -_ 1835 Rheims 1838 Lucerne 1S41 Lucerne 1S45 France 1845 Bavaria 1S4S Switzerland 1848 Naples 184S Papal States 1S4S Linz 1S4S Vienna 1848 Styria 1S4S Austrian Empire 1S48 Galicia 1848 Sardinia 1S4S Sicily 1S4S Paraguay 1S4S Italian States 1S59 Sicily i860 Germany 1S73 Probably no other society has ever proved itself so thoroughly obnoxious and detrimental to the pro- gress of a country as this; and while they have been expelled so many times, and especially from Catholic countries, on account of their vile and demoralizing influence, the United States and Canada not only mak- ing them welcome, but putting the reigns o\ govern- ment in their hands. What Europe scorns as vile, 34 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR America receives with open arms. Here, they are making rapid progress. They have about twenty Col- leges in the United States at the present time. Little can be said of their WEALTH, as the State does not assess it. When the order was abolished by the decree of the Pope in 1872, their property amounted to $200,000,000. In Paraguay, in 1 6 10, the Jesuits set up a patriarchal government which lasted for about 150 years. The people lived in poverty, the Jesuits in luxury. The people became thin, the Jesuits grew fat. When they were expelled from that country, the one mission of San Ignacio Mini was worth $27,000,000, and there were thirty other missions similar to this. Gameau, a Roman Catholic historian, of Canada, says that the Jesuits are trying to make a Paraguay of Canada. In 1888, the Quebec Legislature, endorsed by the Dominion Parliament, granted them $400,000, to satisfy an alleged "moral" claim. This claim was so vague, that people of ordinary understanding could not see it. The politicians could only see it, when it was backed up with good strong political support. III. ROME'S WEALTH. It is impossible to give an exact estimate of Rome's wealth, as her property is not assessed, and we only get stativStics here and there, and these do not always show the true value, for she possesses more than she admits. The census of 1890 gave the value of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States at $118,342,366. This report does not include the value of Parsonages, vSchools, Colleges, Convents, Monasteries, Nunneries, Lands, etc. If these were reported it would likely more than equal the above sum. In 1850 the value of the Church property in Mexico . was $300,000,000, or one-third the value of the nation. The annual income of the Church in the City of Mexico was $20,000,000, while the income of the whole Repub- lic was only $18,000,000. The Cathedral in Lima cost $9,000,000, and another one in the capital of Honduras cost $5,000,000. They hold one-quarter oi the proper- ty in the State of Ecuador, and about one-third oi that of Chile. In Canada, where popery IS the ruling 36 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR power, the Order of the Sulpicians is said to be worth more than the Bank of Montreal, which is one of the greatest banks of North America. The Roman Catholic property in the Province of Quebec is esti- mated at S 100,000,000. At one time, we learn from history, the revenue of the Pope from England exceeded the revenue of the king. In the United States, it is stated that Archbishop Williams of Boston has vested in his own name church property valued at $21,000,000; the Archbishop of Chicago $41,000,000; the Bishop of Cleveland $16,- 000,000 ; while Archbishop Corrigan of New York has over $50,000,000. Dr. McGlynn says that the present Pope of Rome is worth $100,000,000. Think of this, protestants, the representative of Him who said "My kingdom is not of this world," and who, while upon earth, had not where to lay his head. Yes! and the successor of St. Peter, who had not money enough to pay the tax levied upon him by the Roman law. HOW OBTAINED. The question arises as to how the Pope came in possession of this immense wealth. He certainly never inherited it from St. Peter, nor has he earned it. We THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 37 can only partly answer this great question, as it would be impossible to go through the w r hole list of decep- tions which are practiced by the Church of Rome, in a work like this. There is scarcely any religious rite to which the Roman Catholic is entitled without paying something. We will begin with indulgences, which, of course, are granted only at a price. INDULGENCES. This, in Roman Catholic theology, means a remis- sion, by Church authority, to a repentant sinner, of the temporal punishment which remains due after the sin and its eternal punishment have been remitted. In the sixteenth century the Church had opened a vast market in the sale of indulgences. Tetzel, Bachelor of Divinity, prior of the Dominicans, Apos- tolic Commissary, Inquisitor, was appointed to fill the office of dealer in this kind of merchandise. There certainly could not have been a more suitable man in Germany than he, and we here give a few of his own statements. " Indulgences are the most precious and the most noble of God's gifts. "This cross (pointing to an erected cross) has as much efficacy as the very cross of Jesus Christ. 38 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR " Come and I will give you letters, all properly sealed, by which even the sins that you intend to com- mit may be pardoned. 44 I would not change my privileges for those of St. Peter in heaven; for I have saved more souls by my indulgences than the apostle by his sermons. 4 ' There is no sin so great that an indulgence can- not remit, and even if any one (which is doubtless im- possible) had offered violence to the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, let him pay — only let him pay well, and all w T ill be forgiven him. " Reflect then, that for every mortal sin you must, after confession and contrition, do penance for seven years, either in this life or in purgatory. Now, how many mortal sins are there not committed in a da}', how many in a w T eek, how many in a month, how many in a year, how many in a whole life ! Alas ! these sins are almost infinite, and they entail an infinite penalty in the fires of purgatory. And now, by means of these letters of indulgence, you can once in your life, in every case except four, which are reserved for the Apostolic See, and afterw r ards in the article of death, obtain a plenary remission of all your penalties and all your sins. "Do you not know that if any one desires to visit Rome, or any country where travelers incur danger, THE DANGER OF ROMANISM, 39 he sends his money to the bank, and for every hundred florins that he wishes to have, he gives five, or six, or ten more, that by means of the letters of this bank he may be safely repaid his money at Rome or elsewhere. And you, for a quarter of a florin, will not receive these letters of indulgence, by means of which you may in- troduce into paradise, not a vile metal, but a divine and immortal soul, without its running any risk. " But more than this, indulgences avail not only for the living, but for the dead. " For repentence is not even necessary. " Priest! noble! merchant! w 7 ife! youth! maiden! do you not hear your parents and your other friends, who are dead, and who cry from the bottom of the abyss. We are suffering horrible torments ; a trifling alms would deliver us ; you can give it, and you will not. "At the very instant the money rattles at the bottom of the chest, the soul escapes from purgatory and flies liberated to heaven. " Now, you can ransom so many souls ; with twelve groats you can deliver your father from purgatory, and you are ungrateful enough not to save him ! I shall be justified in the day of judgement ! but you, — you will be punished SO much the more severely for having neglected so great a salvation, — F declare to you. 4 o PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR though you have a single coat, you ought to strip it off and sell it, in order to obtain this grace. The Lord, our God, no longer reigns. He has resigned all power to the Pope." This teaching of Tetzel's had the desired effect. The confessors were thronged with crowds. Each came with a piece of money in his hand. All found money, even those who lived on alms. Christopher Columbus, when extolling the value of gold, said, 4 ' Whoever possesses it can introduce souls into paradise." And such was the doctrine taught by the papal commissaries. We quote still further from them : " As for those who wish to deliver souls from purgatory and procure the pardon of all their offences, let them put money into the chest ; contrition of heart or confession of mouth is not necessary. Let them only hasten to bring their money ; for thus will they perforin a work more useful to the souls of the dead, and to the building of the Church of St. Peter/' Leo X. agreed, with the King of Spain, to take twenty-four thousand ducats as his share of the profits on the indulgences in that realm for each year. Henry IV., of Castile, in four years, received #100- 000,000 as profits of the sales in that domain. Philip II., of Spain, obtained much of his wealth through this traffic. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 41 The worst feature of indulgences arises from the fact that the people were often compelled to buy them for fear of the Inquisition, and when too poor to pay cash were compelled to buy on credit, when payment would be exacted from them in a pitiless manner. Pope Pius IX. announced a complete exemption from purgatory for all who would take these indul- gences. He granted a bull for this traffic, to go on from 1878 to 1890, and stipulated the money price for this period. This traffic by no means belongs to the dark ages, for the poor and ignorant are still oppressed, to add still more to the wealth of Rome. The Roman Catholic religion is a costly one. That which is sold most frequently is the mass. MASSES. They claim that the priests, by pronouncing cer- tain words over the wafer, can immediately change it into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. This will be offered as a sacrifice in the mass. In proportion to the money paid, is the number of masses said, and only by these masses can souls be liberated from purgatory ; so poor people will be much more liable to remain in purgatory than the rich. There are so many requests for masses that the priests ol Canada and the United States are unable to say them all. as they are only permitted, as a rule, to say one a day, 42 P ATTESTANTS A WAKE , OR So they send the remaining ones to be said to priests in Knrope, who say them for twenty-five cents, while the home priests get a dollar ; thus they retain the seventy-five cents, which is a good commission for them. In 1889, the priests of Rome nearly had a strike, as there was an effort made to reduce the masses to sixteen cents apiece. The fee for baptism is about one dollar. Salvation can, therefore, easily be secured, if only the money is obtainable, for baptisms, masses and indulgences are considered essentials to salvation. The Papacy grants permits to people who wish to make unlawful gain, on condition that they pay a cer- tain tax to the holy Church. There is a tax to be paid for cheating in weights and measures, money obtained through fraud, prosti- tution, etc. The beggars in Mexico give the priests a precentage of what they beg. We have plenty of beggars in our own country ; some .are called SISTERS OF CHARITY. The Church has plenty of devices for securing money. In Montreal, Canada, is THE GRAND LOTTERY OF THE SACRED HEART, which has a charter granted by the Dominion Parlia- ment to the Province of Quebec. Another very lucrative business, is the sale of THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 43 RELICS. In New York, May 8, 1892, five thousand people paid one dollar each, to see the arm of St. Ann, mother of the Virgin Mary. This relic brought into the Church .$16,000 before it was taken to Canada, where, no doubt, they procured a big haul from the poor Canadians. The Frankish monastery of Centula has a minia- ture cottage belonging to St. Peter, and some hairs taken from his beard, a handkerchief from St. Paul, the Virgin Mary's milk, some souvenirs from the graves of the murdered innocents at Bethlehem. But the most wonderful relic of which we have any account is the remains of St. Bartholomew. " The body of the Apostle St. Bartholomew, is declared in the Roman Breviary and Masiology, to have been translated from Benevento to Rome by the Emperor Otto III. , and is alleged to be entire. It is attested by bulls of Alex- ander III. and Sixtus V. But the Church of Benevento alleges that the entire body of St. Bartholomew is there still, and produces bulls to that effect from Leo IX.. Stephen IX., Benedict XII., Clement VI., Boniface IX., and Urban, (all infallible, you know) ; the earliest of which Popes reigned fifty years after the death of Otto III. Here, then, are two entire bodies ; but Monte Cassino claims the possession of a large part oi the body, and so does Reims. There are, besides, three 44 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR heads : one at Naples, one formerly at Reiehenaw, and a third at Toulouse ; two crowns of the head, at Frank- fort and Prague ; part of the skull 'at Maestricht ; a jaw at Steinfield ; part of a jaw at Prague; two jaws in Cologne, and a lower jaw at Murback ; an a?m and hand at Gersiae ; a second arm, with the flesh, at Bethune ; a third arm at Amalfi ; a large part of a fourth arm at Toppens ; a fifth arm and part of a sixth at Cologne ; a seventh arm at Andeeks ; an eighth arm at Kbers ; three large leg or arm bo?ies in Prague ; part of an arm at Brussels; and other alleged portions of the body, not reckoning trifles like skin, teeth and hair, in twenty other places." So much for this wonderful Saint, but we have account of a handkerchief almost as wonderful. "Again, that one handkerchief, with which St. Veronica is said to have wiped the face of our Lord, thereby imprinting His likeness upon it, is shown in seven different places. They are, Rome, Turin, Milan, Cadouin, Besancon, Compiegne, and Aix-la-Chapelle. Four papal briefs attest that at Turin, and fourteen the one at Cadouin." There has been enough of the true cross sold to make a good sized ship. This is a relic business, and from the instances related it cannot fail to prove the uncertainty of relic worship. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 45 If this business was carried on by the poor and illiterate people, it might well excite our sympathy ; but not so. It has the sanction of the Church, and many of these high representatives of the Church know it to be a fraud, and yet they perpetrate them on the poor people for money. THK PUBLIC TREASURY. In addition to all this income, they are obtaining money out of the treasury of our country, for we are already largely tinder the control of Rome. Dr. Strong makes this statement : "The authorities of New York, during the eleven years preceding 1880, gave to the Roman Church real estate valued at $3,500,000, and money to the amount of $5,827,471 ; this, in exchange for Romish votes, and every cent of it paid in violation of the law." Rev. Dr. R. S. McArthur, says : " During the year 1890, the Catholics received out of the public treasury of New York City, the sum of $1,037,186.07." This system of oppression and fraud cannot fail but bring poverty upon the people. POVERTY. v In Tobasco, Mexico, where Rome rules, a daily paper says : "Two out of every three arc held by their creditors as slaves for debt. There are about 500,- 000 Mexicans in this form of slavery. The people 46 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR often fall into debt through paying the exorbitant marriage fee asked by the priest, and another large fee is exacted at the baptism of each child, each baptism requiring the entire wages of at least two weeks." In Ecuador, another country controlled by Rome, a man is glad to get six cents a day working as a potter, twelve cents a day working as a hat manufacturer, and twenty-five cents as a silk manufacturer. Rev. N. Roussel has written, from official reports, the schedule of a parish of four thousand inhabitants in Ireland — all Catholics : "Now, these four thousand Catholics own, among all, one cart, one plough, sixteen harrows, eight saddles for men, two side-saddles, seven table-forks, ninety-six jaunting cars, two hundred and forty-three stools, twenty-seven geese, three turkeys* two mattresses, eight ticks, eight brass candle-sticks, three watches, one school, one priest, but no hats, no clock, no boots, no turnips and no carrots." J. Semoinne quiets his conscience, by saying : " Some ONE has said, that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." If poverty were a pass-port into the kingdom, no doubt the majority of Catholics would enter; but where would the Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Priests go ? When Archbishop PurcelVs attention was called to these scandalous men, he w T as compelled to say, — " without doubt, some of the Popes were in hell." IV, ROME'S POLITICAL POWER. In an Encyclical of Leo XIII. we find the follow- ing statement : "No doubt there are times when the State demands a line of conduct manifestly contrary to the dictates of our religion. This only happens when the Civil rulers for the time being overstep their true sphere, or seek to make the sacred power of the Church subservient to their own ends. The good citizen will refuse to obey an immoral command of the State and peacefully accept the penalty." To adhere strictly to the teaching of Rome it. is logically impossible to be a true citizen and a true Roman Catholic at the same time. They dare not transgress the laws of the Church for the purpose of observing the Civil law. We have a good illustration of this at the dedica- tion of the World's Fair buildings in Chicago. "When Vice President Morton (acting in the place of President Harrison, who was detained at home in consequence of the serious illness of his wife) stepped 48 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR forward to receive from the President of the Commis- sion the building of the World's Fair for dedication, the entire assemblage, together with notable officials on the platform, arose to honor him, with two con- spicuous exceptions. One was Cardinal Gibbons, in his robe and cap of scarlet; the other was Archbishop Satolli, who was present as a direct representative of the Pope. The latter was dressed in a purple robe and cap. While the vast assemblage, including the diplomatic corps, Governors of States, members of the Supreme Court, sundry members of Congress and of the House of Representatives, the World's Columbian Commission, and many others, were standing on their feet, waving hats and handkerchiefs as a salute to the representative of our National Government, these two men sat complacently, as much as to say, 'We do not recognize nor greet any person as a representative of government; the Pope is the rightful ruler of the world.' This is entirely in keeping with the spirit of Romanism at the present time. Rome claims that the Pope should govern the world, and there is no ques- tion but as soon as it is believed to be practicable, a concerted movement will be inaugurated to restore temporal power to the pope." (Free Methodist, Nov. 2, 1S92.) THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 49 ROME'S NEW POSSESSION. Where will she gain her first possession? Are we alive to the fact that the Fathers of Rome are expeet- POLITICIANS AFTER THE CATHOLIC VOTE. Uig to have Canada or the United States as their start- ing point. Is it not time we awoke to the true state of affairs? Are we ready to yield our Liberty to Rome? 5 o PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Are we willing to give up what our fathers once fought for. Leo XIII. says: "All Catholics must make themselves felt as active element in daily polit- ical life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of Civil affairs. * * * All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the Constitution of States and Legislatures to be modeled on the principles of the true Church." Is it not time we began to see what success they are having. Canada has a Roman Catholic Premier, with three Roman Catholics in his Cabinet. The United States has three Catholics in the Cabinet, and behind these is a Pope at Rome who gives to each his politics. The Review 7 says : "Catholics must get their politics from where they get their religion — Rome. "When a Catholic candidate is on a ticket and his opponent is a non-Catholic, let the Catholic have the vote, no matter what he represents. A strong medi- cine of this kind administered annually will tone the nervous system of the bigot and the politician." We must give the Catholic the credit here, as he votes for principle, w T hile the Protestant votes for party and leaves principle out of the question. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 51 romk's power supreme. Rome recognizes no political power or government outside the Pope of Rome. The Catholic World says: "We do not accept it or hold it to be any government at all, or as capable of performing any of the proper functions of government. If the American government is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the prin- ciples of the Reformation (that is the government by the people) and the acceptance of the Catholic prin- ciples, which is the government of the Pope/ 1 Rome wtll not compromise her principles, although she may wear different clothes. We will have to come to her terms if we want anything to say in the govern- ment of our country. How dare the Roman Catholics disobey the Pope? Here is what Mgr. Preston, Vicar General of New York, says in a sermon Jan. 1, 1888: " Every word Leo XIII. speaks from his high chair is the voice of the Holy Ghost and must be obeyed. You say, ' I will receive my faith from the Pontiff, but I will not receive my politics from him. 1 This asser- tion is disloyal and untruthful. You must not think as you choose, you must think as Catholics/' 'file orders of the Pope have been obeyed in the 52 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR past and thousands of precious lives have been sacri- ficed. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew furnishes one example out of many. CATHOLIC OATH VOID. We arc sending men to our capitols to make laws for us that will be the means of bringing about our ruin, or, if not our own, that of our children's. You may think there is no danger of this, as all our repre- sentatives must take oath to uphold the laws of the land, and this is a Protestant nation. Well, let me tell you that the oath of a Roman ■ Catholic is not binding where Rome is not a partner. In a pamphlet by Dr. J no. H., afterward Cardinal Manning, we find this statement made in reply to Mr. Gladstone : "No pledge from Catholics is of any binding force to which Rome is not a party." Why do we, as Protestants, trust our interests to a people who are our sworn enemies? "The creed of Pope Pius IV. is put for subscription before every Priest and every Bishop. Every convert to Romanism must signify his assent to it. One of the sections reads as follows: 'I do give allegiance to the Bishop of Rome, and the sense is I do give polit- ical as well as religious allegiance.' " (Marriage, page 12.) THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 53 "Mgr. Preston, under oath on the witness stand in New York, Nov., 1888, when asked if Roman Catholics must obey their Bishop, w 7 hether right or wrong, re- plied 'yes.' The question was repeated, and again he answered, 'They must obey, right or wrong. 1 ' (Rum, Rags and Religion, page 85.) The Prime Minister of Canada may take the oath to uphold the laws of the country, while he has given another to the Pope to advance his power. The one given to the country is not binding, as the Pope has no part in it. This is what the Protestants of America are doing, oiling up the machinery, so that, when in working order, it will cut off the oilers' heads. No one can be a Catholic and be a friend to our free insti- tutions. MAJORITIES. You may say that Protestants are in the majority. True, but our majorities count for little, as we are divided among ourselves. Rome is united, in fact the votes of all Catholics are in the hands of Priests who are the tools of the Pope. The Catholic Review, in speaking of Mr. Morgan, Indian Commissioner, says: "Mr. Morgan turned away from Mr. Harrison many votes. Mr. Harrison was requested to call him down, but failed to do so, and has borne the COn Sequences 54 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR That is the way she treats those who are not will- ing to do her bidding. Eight million Catholics can have a Democratic or Republican government. Rev. W. J. Phillips, editor of the Protestant Amer- ican, says: "With our sixty millions and nominally Protestant citizens, we turn over to the nine million foreign-born Romanists ninety per cent, of our municipal offices, and about sixty per cent, of the State and National." ROME CONTROLS NEW YORK. In March, 1892, Hugh J. Grant, Mayor of New York, knelt before a public audience and kissed the hand of Archbishop Corrigan. Rome controls New York by a majority of 50,000, and more than this, she has captured Baltimore, Chicago, St. Paul, New Or- leans, Mobile, Savannah, Cincinnati, Albany, Troy, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, besides many of the smaller cities and towns. This is not all, for the power that controls these cities also controls America. Americans wave the flag of liberty and boast of their freedom, while every day this personal liberty is being more and more curtailed by Rome. Rome is pleased, and not without cause. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 55 KNIGHTS OF LABOR SUBJECT TO ROME. When she thinks best she permits political or benevolent organizations to exist and carry on their work under her direction. We have only to refer to the Knights of Labor to show that Rome rules America to an extent of which its people are either ignorant or indifferent. Mr. Powderly was obliged to submit the rules and regulations of the American Knights of Labor to the Italian prelates and monsignori of the Inquisition for approval or condemnation, and to accept their decision as final. The following is the letter of the Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation to Cardinal Gibbons, em- bodying its decree in regard to the American Knights of Labor, taken from the New York Freeman $ Journal. a Roman Catholic paper: "Rome, August 29, [888. "Most Eminent and Most Rev. Lord: I have to inform your Eminence that the fresh documents rela- tive to the Society of the Knights of Labor, which have been laid before the Sacred Congregation, wen examined at its meeting held on Thursday, August [6, of the current Near. "Having carefully studied these documents, the 56 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Sacred Congregation orders that this reply be made : That, judging by all that has been hitherto proposed to it, the Knights of Labor may, for the present, be tolerated. The Sacred Congregation only requires that the necessary corrections be made in the statutes of the organization, in order to explain what might otherwise appear to be obscure, or be interpreted in a wrong sense. The modifications should especially be made in those passages of the preamble of the rules which i efer to local association; the words which in the passages savor of Socialism and Communism must be corrected in such a manner as to make them express simply the right of God to man, or rather to mankind, to acquire by legitimate means, respecting always the rights of property enjoyed by every one. "I am happy to be able to inform your Eminence that the Sacred Congregation has praised highly the resolve of the Bishops of the United States to take heed, in concert with itself, lest there creep into the Society of the Knights of Labor, and other similar organizations, anything contrary to justice and honesty, or not in conformity with the instructions as given to the Masonic sect. "In confirming and supporting you in this excel- lent project, in the name of the Sacred Congregation, THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 57 I pray you to accept the assurance of our respectful and devoted sentiments. "Your Eminence's very humble servant, "John Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect. "To His Eminence Cardinal James Gibbons, "Archbishop of Baltimore." A letter from Cardinal Gibbons to Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati reads as follows : "Cardinal's Residence, ) "408 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Sept. 25. J "Your Grace: On receipt of the letter of which the enclosed is a copy, I wrote to Mr. Powderly, re- questing him to come and see me. He came on the 24th inst. in compliance with my invitation, and cheer- fully promised to make the emendations required by the Holy Office, and expressed his readiness to com- ply at all times with the wishes of the ecclesiastical authorities. Very faithfully, "Your friend in Christ, "J. Card. Gibbons, "Most. Rev. Dr. Elder Abp., Cincinnati." This great American Republic of English speaking people, having their organizations controlled b> a body of Roman Cardinals. Every word must suit 5 8 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR them or it cannot be tolerated. No reference is made to the Government or to the opinions of the American people, for a Cardinal, as "Prince of the Church," claims precedence of presidents and princes of every nationality. "Moreover, the right of deposing kings is inherent in the supreme sovereignty which the Popes, as vice- gerants of Christ, exercise over all Christian nations." (Essays on Religion and Literature.) MILITARY ORGANIZATION. A false idea prevails among the people that there is no danger, that Rome is enlightened and not the same as she once was, but Rome never changes, and the Priests control their flocks just as much as the slave-holders control their slaves. In every county and town throughout the United States, the whole of the Roman Catholic population, of the male sex, are being drilled and disciplined under the direction of the Priests. Battalions, regiments, companies everywhere are compelled to join their mili- tary organization. This organization goes under the name of The United States Volunteer Militia, and claims that its object is to protect the country should it be invaded by a foreign foe. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 59 The Loyal American, Jan. 21, 1893, says: "There are seven hundred thousand in the cities of the United States, an immense arm)', all ready to spring up at any moment's notice, and fight for the Pope of Rome. Rifles are stored in the basements of Churches, and in Nunneries, and they are not flint- locks, either. They have been counted, and, in one instance at least, by one not a Romanist. They have been exported by express companies in a box marked 'books' and in coffins. By accident they have been, in a number of instances, brought to light and exposure. But comparatively few anti-Romanists have come to know of these facts. Publicity cannot be made through the secular prsss, because that is effectually muzzled by Rome." They control the telegraphic system, thus they pre- vent our getting honest reports. In addition to their own army they are gaining con trol of the State troops. Prof. Townsend says: "The U. S. navy is already so far Romanized that confessional boxes are now built in our ships-of-war." These astute and subtile Priests are ever ready in carrying forward plots to undermine and overthrow bur free institutions. They are good census takers, 60 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR gathering all the information obtainable of the place to which they are sent. When they leave a place their successors take up the same work, and thus it pro- gresses. NO OPPOSITION. Eighty per cent, of the employes in the depart- ments at Washington are Roman Catholics. In the City of Troy twenty-one Protestant teachers were recently expelled and Catholic ones substituted. Of the 1,900 policemen in Chicago 1,559 are Irishmen. Is our country not in danger, and what is being done to secure its safety ? Where is the politician be- longing to either party that dare oppose them ? Is not this moral cowardice contemptible ? Many people will not believe when told these things, but they will at no distant day come to realize the true situation, too late, however, to prevent an American St. Bartholomew. The following is quoted from a lecture given by Rev. I. J. Lansing: "No interest is represented by the government of this country which would be safe in the hands of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. 'Would freedom of the person be safe under her jurisdiction? Ask the Inquisition, not the Inquisition THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 61 of three hundred years ago, but the Inquisition of 1870, which enlightened Italy at that time stamped under foot. Ask the history of the States where Rome has had supreme sway, the papal States as they were when Victor Emanuel entered Rome, when every free man was likely to be taken out of his bed at night by the spies of papacy, and without a trial or jury in- carcerated for an indefinite time in the dungeons of the Church. Would freedom of opinion be safe in this country if the Roman Church had power ? Ask the Index, ask thousand anathemas of the Church, ask the history of the Montreal Institute, the Institute Canadien, where but a few years ago the Church fought with all its might and intensest bitterness against an organization which had for its purpose the cultivation and enlighten- ment of men, because they had avowed toleration oi opinion as one of their principles. Would freedom of conscience ? Ask the syllabus of 1864, the infallible word of the infallible Pope. When did ever freedom of conscience thrive tinder Romish despotism ? Ask the myriads of Roman Catholic people who have no conscience of their own, but simply the conscience of the Priests for their guide, whose ideas of morals are made up on what is told them, and who have no more idea of persona] eon 62 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR science as you have it than they have of liberty as you define it. or truth as you hold it. Would education be safe in the hands of Roman hierarchy ? Ask the countries which she has edu- cated. Ask the children of Spain, and of Italy, of Portugal, of France, of Austria, and of Hungary Mexico and South America. Can we trust them to govern the family and regu- late marriage ? Ask Chili, ask Ecuador, ask Peru, ask Mexico." J V. ROME AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Ignorance for the masses is the teaching of Rome. The Catholic World says : " The best ordered and administered State is that in which the few are well educated and lead and the many are trained to obedience, are willing to be di- rected, content to follow, and do not aspire to be leaders." Rome not only teaches this but enforces it whenever she has the power. To prove our statement, we will call up some of these Roman Catholic countries. What about Chile, one of the most prosperous coun- tries of South America ? One person in seven can read and one in eight can write, while one child out of twenty-five of her population goes to school. Truly, this is a dark picture, but by no means an exceptional one, nor is it the darkest. In Poland 91 per cent, are unable to read, Mexico 93, Venezuela 90 per cent, and Brazil 84. Rome has to rely upon the illiterate people for her support, and this is why she so opposes our public 6 4 PROTESTANTS AWAKE. OR school system. Her motto is, "educate afew and keep the rest in ignorance." The Catholic World add*: "We believe the peasantry in old Catholic countries two centuries ago were better educated, although for the most part unable to read or write, than are the THE WAY ROME WOULD LIKE TO TREAT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. great body of American people to-day. M This is not paying a very high compliment to a people who pride ourselves in oitr educational institutions. IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION. Rome can only thrive where there is ignorance and THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 65 superstition. I once read of a Priest who promised to liberate a number of souls from purgatory on a certain night and in the presence of his people. As soon as the money dropped in the box the souls would come forth. The room was partly darkened. At a given signal a little door opened and several small creatures appeared on the platform — departed souls. One little soul wandered away from the Priest's watchful eye and was captured, taken away, and on examination proved to be a crawfish dressed up. But this is just one of the many similar ways Rome contrives to get money from her superstitious people. Mexico has been under her control for about three hundred years, and this is what Dr. Greene writes to Dr. Jas. King of New York: ''Potatoes sell for a penny a piece, and you buy them one at a time, for the seller cannot count two." These are the people Rome has been educating in her Parochial schools. The following official statistics, secured by the United States Bureau of Education in [890, show the COX 'PR AST between Roman Catholic and Protestant eountru 66 PXOTESTAXTS AWAKE. OR man n*t* R a: Cat!. ■ Laie ' Illiteracy. Hungary [887-8 42 per cent, Italy ; x ^;-^ 4S per cent. Austria 1SS7-S 39 per cent. Portugal ._ i vvs > ^2 per cent. Spain : vv : 63 per cent. Ireland iSSS 21 per cent. Belgium : vv_ 15 per cent. restaur. ite. Ratio of Illiteracy. Denmark 1889 Less than 1 per cent. Germany 1^89 Less than 1 percent. Sweden i sv ; Less than 1 per cent. Norway 1886 Less than 1 per cent. England and Wales isSS 9 percent. Scotland : vvx - percent. Switzerland : vv_ percent. Such a contrast as the above shows makes it evi- dent that Protestants should have supervision of all ols. In some countries but few of the Priests are edu- cated, and many of them have never seen a Bible. Roman Catholics are trained to believe that they have no conscience. Hear the Pope: THE POPE THE SUPREME JUDGE. '• I claim to to be the Supreme Judge and Director of the conscience of men — of the peasant that tills the field and the prince that sits on the throne: of the household that lives in the shade of privacy and the slature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 67 sole last Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong." His Eminence, Cardinal Manning (speaking in the name of the Pope), Kensington, 1869. Again, Catholics have no right to think, they must be in the Pope's hands as wax, or as a machine in the hand of the machinist. We substantiate this state- ment by quoting from Plain Talk, p. 93. " Freedom of thinking is simply nonsense. We are no more free to think without rule than we are to act without rule." The Church reasons for the people, and they sim- ply believe in the Church. The reply of a Catholic coal heaver fully illustrates this point: "What do you believe, Patrick?" "Believe," said Patrick, "sure, I be- lieve what the Catholic Church believes." "And what does the Catholic Church believe?" "Sure, man, the Church believes what I believe." "Well, Patrick, what do you both believe?" "By my soul, sir, we both believe alike." It has been said "Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise," and Pat's ignorance proves this. The question may be asked why does Popery ob- ject to freedom of thought. In Plain Talk, p, 94, one of their own works, we find the answer: " Freedom of thought is the soul of Protestantism; it is likewise the soul of modern rationalism and 68 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR philosophy ; it is one of those impossibilities which only the levity of a superficial reason can regard as admissible. But a sound mind that does not feed on empty words looks upon this freedom of thought only as simple, absurd, and what is more, as sinful." This is the doctrine of a people who we are putting at the head of our country to manage our affairs. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. Let us see what countries think of the Parochial Schools where they have been, for many years, the only schools. The Encyclopaedia Britatmica (Vol. VII., p. 712) says: 44 In all Europe education is passing from the con- trol of the clergy into the hands of the State, and is becoming more secular and less sectarian.' ' Do we want to adopt schools in our country which have proved detrimental to the progress of other countries and are now being discarded by them. Let South America tell her experience of Parochial Schools. Ecuador is the only country that tolerates them. And what is the condition of Ecuador, which is purely Roman Catholic. With a population of over a million we find forty-seven post-offices, 110 railroad or stage coach. Laborers get from $2 to $10 a month. In Chile, anyone sending a child to a Parochial school THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 69 is fined. The same may be said of nearly all the States of South America, while only twenty years ago the educational system was controlled entirely by the clergy. Why are these Republics, with their 50,000,000 people, discarding the Parochial schools ? Is it to the advantage of the United States and Canada to absorb what South America casts off. Mexico and Central America have also had an ex- perience with Parochial Schools. In a work by Wm. E. Curtis, Secretary of the Spanish American Commis- sion, we read the opinion of these countries. In Mexico Parochial Schools have been prohibited and free schools have been established. Any one sending a child to a Parochial School is fined. In the Republics of Central America education is free, com- pulsory and under State control. Surely the testimonies of these countries and the experiences which they have had with Parochial Schools would be sufficient evidence to us to leave them alone, but not so. We have them in our midst and are supporting them. The United States has 4,200 Parochial Schools with 750,000 scholars. Canada has 4,250 Parochial Schools, with 382,500 scholars. Ontario, the chief Protestant Province ^\ yo PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Canada, has 170 of these schools, and pays $14,000 annually for their support. During the past sixty years a Catholic Bishop and his clergy have been supported largely from the public treasury in this same Protestant Province. It is no wonder that Catholics think that the form of civil gov- ernment in Canada is one of the best in the world, and no doubt they will continue to think so as long as they hold the key to the public chest. Father McGlynr of New York, and one of the ablest Priests of America, says: "The real, true grievance of the Roman ecclesiastics is this: There is not enough of their religion taught in the schools. They desire to have the children under their control in such ways, and times, and places, that while receiving from their cradle to their adult man- hood, womanhood, a little education, they shall always be under the dictation of the Priest ; a venerable mis- sionary Priest, after preaching a revival, said: 'Let your children grow up like savages on the street rather than send them to those godless schools.' To prevent what ? To prevent them becoming Protestants. 14 This talk about the immorality of the Public Schools is brutal, beastly, calumny upon the American people. Who are the children that fill these schools? They are your children. Who are the teachers that THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 71 are filling these schools ? They are your daughters, your sisters, your wives, your mothers, your cousins, your flesh and blood. If these schools are schools of wantonness, then you are an utterly debauched, de- graded people; you are past salvation. " It is that probably there is less immorality in the public schools than in those Parochial Schools. Why? Because there is more intelligence, more decency and purity in the Public Schools. These Catholic Schools are often a mere sham." In a recent lecture delivered by Archbishop Segher on the ''Secular School System/' the Holy Father is described as "denouncing the erroneous teachings of the age," and that his "condemnation falls upon the educational system now in vogue. The system con- demned by the Holy Father is the one which places schools exclusively under the State legislation, so that the Church is denied the right to watch over the discipline of schools, the direction of the studies, the selection of books and teachers, schools to be kept en- tirely free from the influence of the Church, to be conducted regardless of religion, without the worship of God or the professions of Christianity. Such isthe system which Catholics are forbidden to approve. From the condemnation of that school system that we require the education of the youth to be i 72 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Education must be preceded, accompanied and fol- lowed by religions instructions.' ' Rome claims that "Public Schools are avowedly religionless, even Godless institutions." Godless be- cause the Roman catechism is not taught. "Satolli" thinks that it would be a great advantage to extend the catechism to the High Schools and Col- leges. The catechism comes first, because it contains her false teachings. Catholics object to hear the Bible read in our Public Schools. Some of the divines in Ontario, sanctioned by the late Archbishop Lynch, mutilated the Bible, leaving out everything that Catholics considered ob- jectionable, but even this did not satisfy them, so a law was passed permitting Catholic children to enter school fifteen minutes late, so they would not be neces- sitated to hear even the "Ross-Lynch-Bible" read. The politicians of that most Protestant Province are running to see who can honor the Pope oftenest. Alexandre Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec, Canada, makes this statement: " Our Fifth Council forbids Catholic parents to send their children to Protestant or Godless schools; it commands to refuse absolution to parents who, being named, persist in exposing their children to this great danger. It reserves to the Bishop alone the THE DANCER OF ROMANISM. 73 power to give this permission when necessity requires, and he should grant it but with conditions which avert all danger." Catholics are taught to look upon our Public Schools as immoral, and consequently a source of evil. Arch- bishop Sesher has said: " I denounce the system of mixing both sexes in the same school as grossly and monstrously immoral, as a blot, a blemish and a disgrace on this country; as a living scandal and as an approbrium which covers its promoters and protectors with shame and infamy." ROME MUST BE OBEYED. 44 She shall be consulted and obeyed in what con- cerns the spiritual direction of the school of public in- struction . " — Christian Schools. Rome w 7 ill enforce her commands just as far as her power will admit, and is working and planning :n an underhanded manner schemes that will enable her in time to enforce obedience by the aid of arms. "SatolliV plans for extending Rome's influence are as follows: "For the standing growth oi Catholic Schools it seems that care should be taken that the teachers prove themselves qualified, not only by previous exam ination before the Diocesan Board and by a certificate 74 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR or diploma received from it, but also from having a teacher's diploma from the school board of the State awarded after successful examination." Notice that the first diploma comes from Rome, if successful here then they are fit subjects to go before the school board. Satolli explains thus: "This is urgent; first, so as not to appear regard- less of what the public authority requires for teaching; secondly, a better opinion of the Catholic Schools will be created; thirdly, greater assurance w T ill be given to parents that in Catholic schools there is no deficiency to render them inferior to Public Schools ; that, on the contrary, everything is done to make Catholic Schools equal to Public Schools, or even superior; fourthly and lastly, we think that this plan would prepare the way for the State to see, along with the recognized tested fitness of the teachers, that the laws are observed in all matters pertaining to the arts and the sciences, to methods and pedagogies, and whatever is ordinarily required to promote the stability and usefulness of the schools." ARCHBISHOP IRELAND'S ADDRESS. Their true reason may be more readily seen from an address given by Archbishop Ireland to a class of graduating students at Rome: " We can have the United States in ten years, and THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 75 I want to give you three points for your consideration, the Indians, the Negroes, and the Public Schools." Rome is by no means asleep ; she has many deep laid plans, and at some near future date her anticipa- tions may be fully realized. In an article written by Rev. I. J. Lansing in Christian Statesman we quote the following: ' l Moreover, the Papacy is so manifestly unfriendly to the prosperity of the people that in all South Amer- ican States when there has been a revolution, the people invariably strike first at the Church as their worst enemy. A Priest cannot openly wear his cassock in Mexico, while they are fostered in the United States. Guatemala abolished both monasteries and convents ; we help support them. Costa Rica and Argentine expel all Priests that interfere in Common School edu- cation; we put -them at the head of our tables and banquets, on our library committees, and often on our school boards * * * so you note and cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that everywhere when freemen rise they know their tyrants and repudiate them; and the tyrant, which they first strike from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, is the Roman Catholic Church." Do we want to remain free or become slaves to 76 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OK Rome; she is working plans of conquest while we are asleep; she is gaining a foothold while we are losing the land of our birth. Do we want to be controlled by Papacy? If so, we have simply to remain as we have in the past — inactive. VL ROME'S INTOLERANCE. Rome has been intolerant in the past, and will only tolerate to-day what she cannot help. We quote from Plain Talk, p. 174: " She — the Catholic Church — teaches and defends truths with as much intolerance as the science of mathematics de- fends hers. And what more logical ? The Catholic Church alone, in the midst of so many different sects, avers a possession of absolute truth, out of which there cannot be true Christianity ; she alone has a right to be, she alone must be intolerant. She alone will and must say, as she has said through all ages, in her coun- cils: 'If any one saith or believeth contrary to what I teach, which is truth, let him be anathema.' ' Here we see Rome taking the place oi the Lord Jesus himself as spoken by the Apostle Paul. She claims to be above all heaven and earth. Listen to what llerr Kinkelman .saws : "We Priests are above governments, above the emperors, kings and princes as much as the heaven is above the earth. The angels and archangels are much below Priests, foi we can in 7« PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR the face of God pardon, which they have never been able to do. We are above the Virgin Mother of God, for Mary gave birth to Christ but once, while the Priests create him every day. Again, to a certain ex- tent the Priests are above God himself, for God must be at every time and in every place at our disposal." How could a Church with a priesthood possessing such wonderful powers be expected \o tolerate any- thing outside the pale of her own Church? Hear Bishop Ryan of Philadelphia: AN HONEST CONFESSION. We maintain that the Church of Rome is intolerant — that is, that she uses every means in her power to root out heresy. The Church tolerates heretics when she is obliged to do so ; but she hates them with a deadly hatred, and uses all her power to annihilate them. If ever the Catholics should become a consider- able majority, which in time will surely be the case, then will religious freedom in the United States come to an end. Our enemies know how the Church treated heretics in the middle ages and how she treats them to-day, w r hen she has the pow r er. We no more think of denying these historic facts than we do of blaming the Holy God and the Princes of the Church for what they have thought fit to do." THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 79 INQUISITION NECESSARY. The Boston Pilot says : " There can be no religion without an Inquisition." * Rome has proved her ability to put this in force. We could relate scores of incidents in which Protest- ants were nailed up by the tongue and only enabled to liberate themselves by tearing and destroying that member, while others have been stretched upon the rack and often torn limb from limb. The Inquisition has been the means of spreading the teaching of Rome, their motto being, "accept of our teaching or pay the penalty with your life." When several Mexican converts from Romanism were murdered by a Romish mob, instigated by the Priests, three years ago, the New York Freeman s Journal, one of the leading Roman Catholic papers of this country, endorsed the crime by a tirade against Protestant missionaries, which closed with these words : " If the killing of a few missionaries of this kind would keep others like them at home, we should almost — we Papists are so wicked — be inclined to say, 'On with the dance; let joy be unconfined !' " The killing of Protestants is what gives them joy. The Inquisition is the creature of to-day. Rome is only waiting for temporal power to be as cruel as ever, Protestants are asleep while Rome is at work pre- So PROTESTANTS AWAKI^ OR paring for victory, and when this is won we will be aroused, but too late. PROTESTANTISM DENOUNCED. The Weston Watchman (Roman Catholic), pub- lished at St. Louis, says: "Protestantism — we would draw and quarter it; we would impale it and hang it up for crow's meat ; we would tear it with pincers and fire it- with hot irons; we would fill it with molten lead and sink it in hell fire, a hundred fathoms deep.'' Protestants, this is what is awaiting us, or if not us our children. Is it not time we opened our eyes, as we are blind to the intentions of Rome. Roman Catholic Theology teaches that it is a duty, when the Church commands it, to kill a Protestant if the y mur- derer can escape punishment. Dr, McArthur, in the Christian Inquirer of New York, says : "A Catholic connected with one of our city papers said to me a few months ago, 1 1 am a Catholic and a Jesuit, and I wish we had the Inquisition with rack and fagots for you heretics, and perhaps you shall have it some day.' M Your Catholic neighbors may be very kind and obliging to you, but back of this they are your sworn enemies, and should the Church authorize them to cut your throat they will do it. THE DANCER OF ROMANISM. 8j Father Brawn, a Jesuit Priest in Canada, in a work highly approved by Canadian Bishops, says: "It is customary to regard Protestantism as a religion which has rights. This is an error. Protestantism is not a religion. Protestantism has not a single right. It is a rebellion in triumph. It is an error which flatters human nature. Error can have no rights. Rebellion can have no rights." The Pope is declared by the Bishop of Quebec to be the Supreme Ruler, both in temporal and spiritual things. Let me give you a statement made in the Civilta of March 18th, 1871: The Pope is the Chief Justice of the Civil Law. In him the two powers, the spiritual and temporal, meet together as in their head; for he is the Vicar of Christ, who is not only Eternal Priest, but also King of Kings and Lord of Lords. * * The Pope, by virtue of his high dignity, is at the head of both powers." If the Pope .says Protestants have no right it is be- lieved and must be believed by all good Catholics. Rome's history proves her intolerant. We will here give a few examples: Dr. McGlynn, a noted Priest oi St. Stephen's Church, New York, said that, in his opinion, Public Schools were better than Parochial Schools. This was his first offense. He next took Up the temperance PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR question. Here he greatly offended Rome because she gets much of her money from the saloon. His third offense was by expressing his opinion that the suffering ones of New York could be relieved by mak- ing certain changes in the system then in vogue. This was too much for Rome ; she allows no free thought. Dr. McGlvnn was summoned to Rome, but failed to go. He was then excommunicated. She will not spare even her own when expressing opinions contrary to her teachings. Here is a threat against the Catholic Herald for speaking the truth : "Editor and Proprietor of the Catholic Herald: "Gentlemen: By this note, which is entirely private and not to be published, I call your attention to the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, following the leadership of Leo XIII., has pointed out the duties of the Catholic press, and denounced the abuses of which journals styling themselves Catholic are some- times guilty. ' That paper alone ,' says the Council, (decree No. 228) 'is to be regarded as Catholic that is prepared to submit in all things to ecclesiastical authority.' Later on it warns all Catholic writers against pre- suming to attack publicly the manner in which a THE DANCER OF ROM AX ISM. 83 Bishop rules his diocese. For some time past the utterances of the Catholic Herald have been shockingly scandalous. As this newspaper is published in this diocese, I hereby warn you that if you continue in this course of conduct, it will be at your peril. "I am, gentlemen, yours most truly, "M. A. Corrigax, ''Archbishop of New York. WHAT MAY BK PUBLISH KD. We here give you some statements from a monthly magazine called The Pastor. This journal is author- ized by ecclesiastical authority and gives orders regard- ing books. These orders cannot be enforced in Amer- ica at the present time, but where her power permits it they are enforced, and are as given below: 11 Propositions contrary to the liberty, immunity and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical persons should be re- jected. "Also those which — based on the sayings, morals and doings of heathen communities — advocate tyranny, and the introduction of that supremacy of the State, so irreconcilable with the law of the Gospel and Chris- tianity. " Propositions heretical, erroneous, savoring ol 84 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR heresy, scandalous, offensive to pious ears, rash schis- matical seditions or blasphemous. " Those which advocate novelties contrary to the rites and ceremonies of the sacraments, or contrary to the custom and usages of the Holy Roman Church. "Misrepresentations of sacred Scripture or quota- tions from the false versions made by heretics, unless indeed these be adduced for the purpose of refuting heretics, taking them on their own grounds. " Epithets of honor and words of praise bestowed on heretics should also be expunged." This is the teaching that Rome aims to enforce, and in a country which boasts of religious freedom and liberty of the press. Anything less than perfect sub- mission cannot be tolerated by his holiness Leo XIII. Pius V. is said to have uttered these words: "Cursed, banned, in the name of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and in that also of the blessed St. Peter and St. Paul, shall be, firstly, all Hussites, Wickliffites, Lutherans, Ywinglians, Calvinists, Hugue- nots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, Unitarians, and all, and every other heretic ; secondly, all those who give* any succor or aid to any heretic, comfort him, shelter him, or show him countenance in any way ; thirdly, all who buy, read, print, or disseminate, or favor in any way, any religious book published without the THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 85 sanction of the apostolic throne ; fourthly, all Univer- sities, Colleges, and Cathedral chapters, on their appeal- ing to a Council." The Archbishop of St. Louis is reported to have said: " Heresy and unbelief are crimes, and in Christian countries, as in Italy and Spain, for instance, they are punished as other crimes. 1 ' From a Roman Catholic paper called the Shepherd of the Valley, St. Louis, is taken this sentence: " Protestantism of every kind, Catholicity inserts in her catalogue of mortal sins. She endures it when and where she must; but she hates it, and directs all her energies to effect its destruction." VII. THK INQUISITION. Nothing could be more harmless than this term Inquisition, which simply means inquiry, investigation, but no word in the English language contains more deception in its use. Inquisition, in history, means inhumanity, hellish cruelty, cold-blooded torture and low cunning. De- ception and hypocrisy furnished in a mask. The Holy Office is the title it assumes for its place of busi- ness. With a harmless name, it poses before the pub- lic eye as an angel of mercy and justice. This creature of misery was born about seven hun- dred years ago, and still lives where Rome rules. We even have it in America in a modified form. We would be glad to omit this chapter, as it presents a very sad picture, but by appealing to facts, we will endeavor to give you an idea of this Holy Machine's work. ITS TERRIBLE WORK. What shall we say of the Albigenses and Waldenses in the thirteenth century? Have we forgotten the INQUISITORIAL rORI SS PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Let me picture to you the Inquisition: You pass through the gloomy entrance and dark hall which leads to the awful chamber of torture — generally underground — you can hear the very shrieks of some of the victims. What terrible sufferings and inexpressible anguish ; unseen by any human eye save those of the inquisitors, who feel happy in rendering service to the Church. The victims were shut in by locked doors and stone walls, with none to lend a sympathizing ear to their cry. Occasionally they were released, and came forth from their chamber of woe to tell the terrible things they experienced at the hands of the Holy Fathers. We shall call on some of these witnesses before leav- ing this subject. WHY TORTURED. Inquisitors in the name of Jesus Christ, torturing their fellow-men, to compel them to become Catholics, to worship man instead of God. What a world of anguish expressed in the one word — Inquisition. Tre- mendous was its power. No secrets could be withheld from the inquisitors. As a result of their examination when under torture main' persons were often appre- hended in one day. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 89 Prisons and even private houses were crowded with victims awaiting their turn in the torture cham- ber, which was a hell on earth. Instruments of vari- ous kinds were employed to dislocate and stretch the limbs of the victim. Even this would not satisfy the holy inquisitors, for thousands were burned at the stake. THE PLACE OF TORTURE. A Spanish historian says: "The place of torture, in the Spanish Inquisition, is generally an underground and very dark room, to which one enters through several doors. There is a tribunal erected in it, in which the inquisitor, inspec- tor and secretary sit. When the candles are lighted, and the person to be. tortured brought in, the execu- tioner, who is waiting for him, makes an astonishing and dreadful appearance. 'He is covered all over with a black linen garment down to his feet, and tied close to his body. His head and face are all concealed with a long black cowl, only two little holes being left in it for him to see through. All this is intended to strike the miserable wretch with greater terror in mind and body when he sees himself going to be tortured by the hands of one who thus looks like the very devil." There were' various kinds oi punishment. Fire was sometimes applied to the feet —again they would 90 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR fill a linen bag with water and stuff this down the throat, or tie cords round various parts of the body, cutting through the flesh. STORY OF ISAAC OROBIS. We will now give an account of the sufferings of Isaac Orobis when in their hands ; taken from History of the Inquisition : "It was towards evening when he was brought to the place of torture in the Inquisition. It was a large underground room, arched, and the walls covered with black hangings. The candlesticks were fastened to the wall and the whole room enlightened with candles placed in them. At one end of it there was an enclosed place like a closet, where the inquisitor and notary sat at a table ; so that the place seemed to him as the very mansion of death, everything appearing so terrible and awful. Then the inquisitor admonished him to con- fess the truth before the torments began. When he answered that he had told the truth, the inquisitor gravely protested that since he was so obsti- nate as to suffer the torture, the holy office would be in- nocent if he should even expire in his torments. When he had said this, they put a linen garment over his body, and drew it so very close on each side as almost squeezed him to death. When almost dying, they THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 91 slackened all at once the sides of the garment, and, after he began to breathe again, the sudden alteration put him to the most grievous anguish and pain. When he had overcome this torture, the same admonition was repeated, that he would confess the truth in order to prevent further torment. As he persisted in his denial, they tied his thumbs so very tight with small cords as made the extremities of them greatly swell, and caused the blood to spurt out from under his nails. After this he was placed with his back against a wall and fixed upon a bench ; in the wall were fastened iron pulleys, through which there were ropes drawn and tied round his arms and legs in several places. The executioner, drawing these ropes with greater violence, fastened his body with them to the wall, his arms and legs, and especially his fingers and toes, being bound so tightly as to cause the most exquisite pain, so that it seemed to him just as though he was dissolving in flames. After this a new kind of torture succeeded. This was an instrument like a small ladder, made of two upright pieces of wood and five cross ones sharpened in front. This the torturer placed over against him, and by a single motion struck it with great violence against both his shins, so that he re- ceived upon each of them at once five violent strokes, which put him to such intolerable anguish that he 92 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR fainted away. After this he came to himself, and they inflicted on him a new torture. The torturer tied ropes about Orobio's waist, and then put these ropes about his own back, which was covered with leather to prevent him hutting himself ; then falling backward he drew the ropes with all his might till they cut through Orobio's flesh, even to the very bones. And this tor- ture was repeated twice, the ropes being tied about his arms at the distance of two finger's breadth from the former wound, and drawn with the same violence. On this the physician and surgeon were sent for out of the neighboring apartment to ask whether the torture could be continued without danger of death. As there was a prospect of his living through it, the torture was then repeated, after which he was bound up in his own clothes and carried back to .his prison. .After pro- longed imprisonment, Orobio was released and ban- ished from the kingdom of Seville." Before leaving this subject, we will call up another witness, William Lithgow, a native of Scotland, who suffered the terrors of the Inquisition in the time of Jas. I. Listen to him: WILLIAM LITHGOW. " Now mine eyes did begin to startle, my mouth to foam and froth, and my teeth to chatter like the dab- THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 93 bling of drum sticks. Oh strange, inhuman, monster man-manglers ! * * * And notwithstanding of my shivering lips in this fiery passion, my vehement groaning, and blood springing from my arms, my broken sinews, yea, and my depending weight on flesh-cutting cords, yet they struck me on the face with cudgels to abate and cease the thundering noise of my wrestling voice. At last, being released from these pinnae les of fame, I was hand-fast set on the floor with this their ceaseless imploration: 'Confess, con- fess, confess in time, or thine inevitable torments en- sue.' Where, finding nothing from me but still inno- cent — l Oh! lam innocent. O Jesus, the Lamb of God, have mercy on me, and strengthen me with patience to undergo this barbarous murder." Hut 1 must not continue this subject further, for the picture is too sickening to look upon. DARK RECORD. The first eighteen years of the Spanish Inquisition under Torquemada [0,220 persons were burned and 07,000 imprisoned, banished and reduced to want. In the Netherlands, under the Emperor Chas. V., the victims of the Inquisition who were burned, strangled, or buried alive, were estimated from 50 to I <)( ),()()(). About 100,000 Albieenses were- toi t m ed and burned 94 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR to death, 500 men, women and children were burned alive, on suspicion of heresy, at one time. By the revocation of the edict of Nantes ico,ooo Christians were exiled from France by the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 70,000 persons were . slaughtered without mercy. In Peru about 100,000 victims were put to death, but we must pass on from the horrors of the Inquisi- tion. We now wish to show that the Inquisition with all its horrors is JUSTIFIED BY ROME. It originated with the Popes and has been supported by them. The inquisitors have been appointed by the Church of Rome, supported, blessed and canonized. The whole outfit was and is the property of Rome, and what she has done in the past she will do again if she has the power, for Rome never changes. She respects no religion but her own. " Since the thirteenth cen- tury no principle or doctrine has been enforced with greater emphasis and more frequently repeated by the Popes in their circular letters, bulls and enactments, than the doctrine that it is a divine commandment and sacred duty of every monarch and every government to make use of the power that is given them for sup- THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 95 pressing those who avow a different creed, and to per- mit no freedom in matters of faith and divine service. The dogma of infallibility is at the same time a declar- ation of the divine truth of the doctrine that Catholic Princes and States, so far as they possess the necessary power, are also bound, as a matter of conscience, to tolerate no other but the Catholic confession, as far as possible to keep back from official positions, those who differ from it, to undermine their Christian associations, and finally to extirpate them. Intolerance is to be enforced wherever there is the power to enforce it. A measure of toleration may be allowed wherever the government is not strong enough to withhold it." Again, Rome says "there can be no religion without the Inquisition, which is wisely designed for the pro- motion of the true faith." Pope Pius IX. says: " Cursed be those who assert liberty of conscience and worship; and all such that maintain that the Church may not employ force." Ecclesiastical persecution is declared in the Roman Catholic law of to-day to be a duty. Every Bishop who takes the full pontificial oath has to swear that he will, to the utmost of his ability, persecute and exter- minate every heretic. Persecution is also enjoined upon private citizens. 96 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Pope Urban II, in 1088, decreed, and it is embodied, in the canon law of Rome, as follows : " Those are not to be accounted murderers or homi- cides who, when burning with love and zeal for their Catholic mother against excommunicated Protestants, shall happen to kill a. few of them." This is now a part of the unalterable law of the Roman Catholic Church and flourished in all the Pontifical States until 1870. # We learn from good authority that this decree, in a modified form, is in force in the Province of Quebec at the present time. Von Dcellinger tells us: "Only very recently, at an opening meeting of the Consistory, Pius IX. de- livered a eulogy on the Inquisition, and declared it to be a beneficial and genuinely ecclesiastical institution. On the 29th of June, 1867, Pius IX., in St. Peter's Church, which was magnificently decorated for the occasion, formally canonized Pedro Arbues, one of the inquisitors of Spain, who, for his fierce and cruel per- secuting, in association with Torquemada, was stabbed at the altar by his exasperated and suffering victims, on the 17th of December, 1485. Pius IX. recom- mended all Spaniards to honor this man in future as a pattern of Christian virtues, and now with other saints they may invoke him to pray for them." THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 97 CONCLUSION. It is unnecessary to say more in order to prove the Inquisition to be a thing of the Roman Catholic Church. One writer of high authority says: "The Popes furnished victims as well as executioners. Ay, and the Church became itself the executioner. No cata- logue can be made of Papal crimes. . Even after the restoration of Pius IX. in 1850, the horrors committed at Perugia by the Papal mercenaries were as dreadful as any of the middle ages. No quarter was given. The mother was massacred with her unborn child ; and when all resistance to the Pope on the part of the insurrection had ceased, and those among the rebels capable of bearing arms had left the city, the slaughter of the helpless multitude left behind commenced, and the atrocities committed exceeded the worst ever per- petrated by Austrian pandours. Women and young girls were foully violated, and then impaled alive or thrown from the house windows to be caught on bayonets, or they were transfixed with lances and so dragged through the streets. Mothers with their babies were thrown into oil casks, which were then set on fire. Yet Pope Pins IX. thought not of laying ban 01 interdict on the brutal leader of his troops, the Swiss 9 8 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OP Captain Smidt, but, on the contrary, appointed him for his heroic conduct in this affair, to the rank of gen- eral brigade ! And this, remember, was only forty years ago/' These are certainly dark pictures, but nevertheless they are true ones ; and I only wish that they might be a means of arousing every true Protestant to realize the danger our country is in, and thus prevent a repe- tition of the Inquisition in our own loved land. VIII. ROME AND THE BIBLE. The Catholic Church claims to have the deposit of the Holy Scriptures, and is therefore very anxious for her dear children to be nourished with the Divine Word. They must not receive it from the Bible itself, but ''should receive both the text and the interpreta- tion of the Scriptures from the legitimate pastors of the Church, and from them alone." The Church also commands that "only those translations shall be em- ployed which have been carefully examined and ap- proved by the ecclesiastical authorities. Thereby the faithful are taught that what they read is indeed the Word of God and not the human rendering of some dishonest translator." — Plain Talk, page 114. You will see from this statement that Rome docs not acknowledge her translators human. If they are not human they must either be Divine or Satanic, and we are inclined to think that they partake more of the latter nature than of the former. Rome calls our translators ignorant ami dishonest. Why? Because they give us the Gospel without an} ioo PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR tradition, and Rome claims that " tradition has as much authority as the Gospel " NO BIBLE SOCIETY. Who ever heard of a Popish Bible Society. They have societies for other objects, such as buying cups, boxes for the holy wafer, rosaries and crucifixes. Many churches and societies are making money out of the relics of saints. One society has recently found a bone of one ol the arms of the blessed "Virgin." There will certainly be more money in it than in distributing Bibles to the ignorant. How can we account for this except on the ground that it makes the people ask difficult questions of the Priests and which they would be unable to answer satisfactory to Rome ; Catholics are forbidden to read even Rome's own translation. In 1840 a Doway Bible was printed and approved by Bishops Connell and Kenrick of Philadelphia and Bishop Hugh's of New York. On the third page of the book we find the following "admonition * * * It was judged necessary to forbid the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar languages without the advice and permission of the pastors and spiritual guides, whom God has appointed to govern the Church." Rome hates the Bible, and claims that it should not THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 101 be read by any class of people found in any country without the comments of the Priests. Leo XII. delivers himself thus in speaking of the Bible, "A most crafty device, by which the very foun- dations of religion are undermined * * * pesti- lence * * * defilement of the faith most danger- ous to souls." True, the wise Father is right, for the Bible does undermine all religions not built upon it; thus Roman- ism is undermined. Plain Talk, page 118, says: "Verily, the Bible is the sheep's skin under which the wolf hides himself." Instead of the Bible, Rome has 135 large folio volumes and the Apocrypha. These are composed of the following parts: Apostolic Fathers, 35 folios; eight volumes of Decretals; ten volumes of Bulls of the Popes; thirty-one volumes of Canons and De- crees of Councils ; fifty-one volumes of the Acts of the Saints. All these must be understood and interpreted by councils, as they are beyond the reach of the laity. To expound them is difficult, if not impossible. The true reason of infallibility is inspiration. Jesus Christ, Romanists admit, can give a perfect rule. He there fore inspired twelve apostles to form that rule and en joined us to hear them. We both have a perfect rule, and that rule is the Bible. Where is the inspiration o\ 102 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR the one hundred and thirty-five folios? And yet these are the embodiment of Romanism. BIBLES BURNED. Rome aims to destroy the Bible. In November, 1S42, at Carbo, in the township and county of Cham- plain, X. Y., during a meeting conducted by Romish Priests, hundreds of these Bibles were collected, piled together and burned. This was not in the dark ages ; but Rome never changes; she is the same to-day as she was when she led Latimer and Ridley to the stake to be burned. Rome hates the truth, and the Bible is truth : "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'' She hates this freedom and fights it. The Bible gives us freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, and 'freedom of soul. It does away with purgatory, masses for the dead, and the traffic in relics which are the great means of income for the Priests. If these Priests were required to give proof as to the number of masses that are necessary to liberate a soul, and to give evidence that the soul is liberated, there would be no purgatory. Purgatory is the sucker which sucks the money out of the pockets of the illiterate and superstitious. We cannot close this chapter without giving the reader some idea of the difference between the Doway and Protestant Bible. THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 103 COMPARISON OF BIBLKS- PROTESTANT BIBLE. DOW AY BIBLE. "I abhor myself and repent "I reprehend myself and do in dust and ashes." — Job 42:6. penance in dust and ashes. "Repent ye, for the king- dom of heaven is at hand." — Matt. 3:2. "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth." — Luke 15:7. "By faith, Jacob when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff."— Heb. 11:21. "Do penance, for the king- dom of heaven is at hand." "There shall be joy in hea- ven over one sinner that doeth penance." "By faith, when he was dy- ing, blessed each of the sons of Joseph ; and worshiped the top of hisrod." IX. NUNNERIES. Nunneries we may describe as hiding places for immorality. History abundantly proves this fact. Inmates who have escaped add their testimony to prove the above statement. They are cages contain- ing unclean birds. They have proven themselves to be hives of prostitution, around which Monks, Priests and Bishops swarm. These vile dens are not all found in Europe, there are hundreds of them in the United States and Canada, and Protestants are doing their part towards support- ing them. If these statements were not true they would open the doors of their Convents and Nunneries to public view, but their minds love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. Protestants believe them to be places of education, and many of them send their children there to be edu- cated and trained for social life. We shall give a few facts for the consideration of those who may think that these places send out a good influence. THE INNOCENT DELUDED. io6 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR A YOUNG LADY'S EXPERIENCE. Miss Caracciolo, who was intending to take the veil, was insulted by her Confessor; this event caused her to change her mind. Efforts were put forth to regain her confidence. A young Priest, who became her Confessor, said, after asking her many improper questions: " The world has abandoned you. The heavenly spouse opens the door of his house to you, offers to embrace you in his arms with tenderness, and anxiously awaits you, to make you forget, in the sublime comforts of his love, the discords of men. Remember, the Priest is the representative of Christ." He then attempted to em- brace her. She scorned him, and finally said: " Is it, or is it not true, that man was created for humanity? If, as you say, the family of Christ be restricted to this little community, why was the Son of God crucified for the salvation of the whole human race? It is said that, to be contented with solitude, it is necessary to be either God or brute. Now, I have not arrived at the elevation of Deity, nor yet to the condition of a brute. I love the world and take pleas- ure in the society of my friends. Besides, I do not believe that you, yourself, have a horror of human society ; because, if it were so, you would, ere this, THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 107 have become a Monk at least, if not an Anchorite." A Madalena became jealous and almost desperate, thinking Miss Caracciolo had won her Priest and lover, and refused to speak to her. Miss Caracciolo dismissed the new Confessor, beg- ging him to give his attentions to others. But he would not, and as a result, on going in the corridor, she found MadaHna in the center of a group of agitated Nuns. The utmost confusion prevailed. In the meantime the old Abbess appeared on the scene to restore peace. She promised Madalena that her Confessor should no longer confsss Miss Caracciolo. " Will you give me your word for that?" cried the infuriated Madalena. while the seventy other mouths around her remained closed, awaiting in silence the answer. u Hold me pledge." "Bravo, Bravo," while Madalena exclaimed: " It was insupportable for me to see him shut up in the Confessional with another." Events similar to this are common in Italy. Whole days are passed by Priests and Nuns in idleness and love-making. — Mysteries of Neapolitan Convents^ p. 161. THE POPE'S [NVESTIGATION. Immorality abounded beyond all description in the fifteenth eenturv. Main innocent creatures, thinking ,< - PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR they are leaving the world to escape danger, are here met with greater danger and deceived by wicked Priests. Even the superiors do not know the amount of wickedness that goes on between the Monks and the Nuns. The same evils prevail everywhere. We are giving no exceptional cases. In Popish Nunneries^ by Win. Hogan, p. 60, we read: ll Such was the profligacy of Priors and Nuns, as Llorenti informs us, in the fifteenth century, that the Pope, from very shame, had to take notice of it. He had to invest the Inquisition with special power to take cognizance of the matter. The Inquisitors, in obedience to orders from their sovereign Pope, entered immediately upon the discharge of their duties. They issued, through their immediate superior, a general order commanding all women, nuns and lay sisters, married women and single women, without regard to age, station in life, or any other circumstance, to ap- pear before them and give information, if any they had, against all Priests, Jesuits, Monks, Priors and Confessors. "The Pope got more than he bargained for, sup- posing that the licentiousness of his Priests did not extend beyond women of ill-fame, he summoned all to come. Disobedience was heresy, and heresy was death. The accusors came, not singly, but in battalions. The THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 109 number who made their appearance to lodge informa- tion, in the single city of Seville, Spain, was so great, that the taking of depositions occupied twenty notaries for thirty days. The Inquisitors, worn out with fatigue, determined on taking a recess, and, having done so, they re-assembled, and devoted thirty days more to the same purpose ; but the depositions con- tinued to increase so fast that they saw no use in con- tinuing them, and they finally resolved to adjourn and quash the inquiry. The country was found to be one vast area of pollution." You may think this state of immorality belonged to the dark ages and is a thing of the past ; but not so. Priests, Nuns and Confessors are the same now that they were then, for " Rome never changes." Whoever visits the Nunneries of Dublin, Paris, Madrid and the principal cities of Spain and of Mexico will find a lying-in hospital attached to each. Wm. Hogan, an ex-priest, explains the object of these hospitals. "The object," he says, "is to provide for the illicit offspring of Priests and Nuns and such other unmarried females as the Priests can seduce through the Confessional. But it will be said there are no lying-in hospitals in this country. True, there ;ire not ; but I say of my own knowledge and from my own experience through the Confessional that it no PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR would be well if there were; there would be fewer in- fants Strangled and murdered. 44 It is not generally known that the crime of pro- curing abortion — a crime which our laws pronounce to be felony — is a common offence in Popish Nunneries. In Kings County Penitentiary is a woman who has been in prison twenty years for infanticide, and who is condemned to stay there for life. That which is a crime in the State is a practice in the Convents. Luther, in his Table Talk, says that in his time a pool was cleaned out in the vicinity of a Convent, and the bottom was almost literally paved with the bones of infants." a nun's instructions. After Maria Monk had taken the veil in the Black Nunnery of Montreal, she received the following in- structions: " The Superior now informed me that, having taken the black veil, it only remained that I should swear the three oaths customary on becoming a nun. and that some explanations would be necessary from her. I was now, as she told me, to have access to every part of the edifice, even to the cellar where two of the vSisters were imprisoned, for causes which she did not mention ; I must be informed that one of my great duties was to obey the Priests in all things, and this, I THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 1 1 1 soon learned, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal inter coarse with them. I expressed some of the feelings which this announce- ment excited in me, which came upon me like a flash of lightning, but the only effect was to set her to argu- ing with me in favor of the crime, representing it as a virtue acceptable to God and honorable to me. The Priests, she said, were not situated like other men, being forbidden to marry, while they lived secluded. laborious and self-denying lives for our salvation. They might, indeed, be considered our Saviors, as without their services we could not obtain pardon of' sin and must go to hell." " From the Black Nunnery to the Congregational Nunnery is a secret underground passage, so that the Nuns and Priests can go from one to the other." — From Maria Monk. But these underground passages, connecting Con vents and Monasteries, are found not only in Mon- treal, Canada, but have been discovered in L,ombardy, Tuscany, Parma, Milan and other places. The Roman correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette \ referring to a scandal in the Convent which occupied the attention of the Vatican authorities, said: "Nearly the whole of the Nuns, who are very j i2 PROTESTANTS AWAKE y OR young, were found to be as Nuns should be. ' :: * * At length search revealed a subterraneous passage communicating with a Monastery of Belgian Monks. 1 ' Monsignor Castellaci was blamed by the Holy Father for having failed to discover this secret com- munication, and for defending the Nuns, particularly the Abbess, though she was in the same condition as many of her flock." The Paris correspondent of the London Times, of May, 1 87 1, in describing the exposures which drew public attention to the Convent in the Rue de Picpus, tells how the Jesuit establishment stood next to the Convent of the White Nuns, and that the two build- ings communicated with each other by means of a door at the back of a stable and other apertures in the gar- den wall, which showed signs of having been recently closed up. In a building in the Nuns' garden were found mattresses furnished with straps and buckles, as such are used in French midwifery, as well as a rack and other instruments evidently designed for torturing the human body. When E. H. Walsh was an inmate of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemane, Nelson County, Kentucky, great public scandal was caused by the closing of a neighboring Nunnery which the Abbot and other Superiors of the Monastery had turned into a house of THE DANCER OF ROMANISM. 113 prostitution. The Mother Superior of that Nunnery had a husband who was in the penitentiary for horse stealing. The affair cost the Abbot $10,000 hush money, which sum was paid by a neighboring distiller named Taylor. PERIL OF (URLS. Inexperienced girls, full of religious enthusiasm, are enticed into these prisons by the specious false- hoods of the Priests and their female' decoys, and awake when too late to the fact that they have been robbed of their liberty, property and honor. The white veil is a sentimental disguise. The renunciation of the world is purposely made to represent a marriage ceremony. Who are to be the husbands of these de- luded brides? We are told that " they are the brides of Christ," "they are married to the Church." but Roman theology makes the Pope the Vicar of Christ, and the Roman Priests constitute the Church. PRIESTS IN THE CONFESSIONAL teach innocent penitents that their sacerdotal persons being holy, certain acts, which would be sinful in others, become a means of spiritual grace when si: with them. We can thus estimate the result oi this "spiritual marriage*' on impressionable young females who are decoyed into Nunneries in then teens ii 4 PROTEST ANTS AWAKE, OR Maria Monk tells us HOW PRIESTS CAN ENTER NUNNERIES. She says: "Among the first instructions I received from the Superior were such as prepared me to admit Priests into the Nunnery from the street at irregular hours. It is no secret that Priests enter and go out as they choose; but if they were to be watched by any person in St. Paul's Street all day long no irregularity might be suspected, and they might be supposed to visit the Convent for the performance of religious ceremonies merely. " But if a person were near the gate about mid- night, he might sometimes form a different opinion ; for when a stray Priest is shut out of the Seminary, or is otherwise put in need of seeking a lodging, he is al- ways sure of being admitted into the Black Xunnery. " Nobody but a Priest can ever ring the bell at the sick room door, much less can any but a Priest gain admittance. The pull of the bell is entirely concealed somewhere on the outside of the gate. 11 He makes himself known as a Priest by a pecu- liar kind of hissing sound, made by the tongue against the teeth while they are kept closed and the lips open. The Nun within, who delays to open the door until informed what kind of an applicant is there, imme- THE DANCER OE ROMANISM. 115 mediately recognizes the signal, and replies with two inarticulate sounds, such as are often used instead of 'yes,' with the mouth closed. The Superior seemed to consider this part of my instruction quite important, and taught me the signals. A Priest in the Nunnery was permitted to go where he pleased/' Archbishop Corrigan of New York is familiar with these signs, as he has access to the women imprisoned at Hunt's Point, which is denied to even the female relatives of these deluded victims. There are certain apartments in these Convents and Nunneries where strangers can gain admittance, but others where they are always excluded. DELUDED MOTHERS. From earliest infancy children are trained by their mothers to look upon these Priests as holy, incapable of sin. This leads us to see how easily young and in- nocent girls can be controlled by the Priests. Maria Monk, p. 26: The writer relates the follow- ing: 11 In this Nunnery was a girl thirteen years of age, whom the Priest tried to persuade he could not sin, because he was a Priest, wwd that anything he did to her would sanctify her. Doubtlul how to act, she related the conversation to her mother, who expressed n6 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR neither anger nor disapprobation, but only enjoined it upon her not to speak of it, and remarked to her Priests were not like men. but holy, and sent to in- struct and save us, whatever they did was right ! Other children were treated in the same manner." These girls are often compelled to either SUBMIT OR DIE. 'A young squaw, called La Belle Maria, had been seen going to confession at the house of a Priest, who lived a little out of the village. La Belle Maria was afterwards missed, and her body found in the river. A knife was also found, covered with blood, bearing the Priest's name. Great indignation was excited among the Indians, and the Priest immediately ab- sconded and was never heard from. A note was found on his table addressed to him, telling him to fly if he was guilty. — Maria Mofik, p. 28. When a girl takes the veil she is supposed to retire from the temptations and trials of this world where by prayer, penance and good deeds she fits herself for heaven : but she soon finds herself to be the Priests' victim, and. if unwilling, a fate similar to the following may befall her, in the MURDER OF A BEAUTIFUL (ilRL- "It was about five months after I had taken the THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 117 black veil, when the Superior sent for me and several other Nuns to come to her room. The weather was cool ; it was an October day. We found the Bishop and some Priests with her, and, speaking in an un- usual tone of fierceness and authority, she said, 'Go to the room for the examination of conscience and drag St. Frances upstairs.' Nothing more was necessary than this unusual command, with the tone and manner which accompanied it, to excite in me the most gloomy anticipations. It did not strike me as so strange that St. Frances should be in the room to which the Superior directed us. In was an apartment to which we were often sent to prepare for communion, and to which we involuntarily went whenever we felt the compunctions which our ignorance of duty and the misinstructions we received inclined us to seek relief from self-reproach. Indeed, I had seen her there lie- fore. What terrified me was, first, the Superior's angry manner; second, the expression she used; third, the place to which we were directed to take the intei esting young Nun, and the persons assembled there. as I supposed, to condemn her. My fears were such concerning the fate that awaited her. and my horror at the idea that she was in some way to he sacrificed. that I would have given anything to he allowed to stay where I was. But I feared the con sequences ot dis- IIS PROTEST. \NTS < / U \ /A7:\ OR obeying the Superior, and proceeded with the rest towards the room for tfye examination of conscience. "Tile room to which we were to proceed from that was in the second story, and the place of many a scene of a shameful nature. It is sufficient for me to say that things had occurred there which made me regard the place with the greatest disgust. "St. Frances had appeared melancholy for some time. I well knew that she had cause, for she had been repeatedly subject to trials which I need not name — our common lot. " When we had reached the room which we had been bidden to seek, I entered the door, my compan- ions standing behind me, as the place was so small as hardly to hold five persons at a time. The young Nun was standing alone, near the middle of the room. She was probably about twenty years of age, with light hair, blue eyes, and very fair complexion. " I spoke to her in a compassionate voice, but at the same time with such a decided manner that she comprehended my full meaning, 'ST. FRANCES, WE ARK SKXT FOR YOU.' " Several others spoke kindly to her, but two ad- dressed her very harshly. The poor creature turned round with a look of meekness, and without express- THE DANCER OE ROMANISM. 119 ing any unwillingness or fear, without even speaking a word, resigned herself to our hands. The tears came into my eyes. I had not a moment's doubt but she considered her fate as sealed, and was already be- yond the fear of death. She was conducted, or rather hurried, to the staircase, which was near by, and then seized by her limbs and clothes, and, in fact, almost dragged up-stairs, in the sense the Superior had in- tended. I laid my own hands upon her — I took hold of her, too — more gently, indeed, than some of the rest ; yet I encouraged and assisted them in carrying her. I could not avoid it. My refusal would not have saved her, nor prevented her being carried up ; it would only have exposed me to some severe punish- ment, as I believed some of my companions would have seized the first opportunity to complain of me. "All the way up the staircase St. Frances spoke not a word, nor made the slightest resistance. When we entered with her the room to which she was ordered, my heart sank within me. The Bishop, the Lady Superior and five Priests were assembled trial, When we had brought our prisoner before them, Father Richards began to question her ; she made ready but calm replies. I cannot pretend to give a connected account of what ensued ; my feelings were wrought up to such a pitch that I knew not what I 120 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR did or what to do. I was under a terrible apprehen- sion that if I betrayed the feelings which almost over- come me I should fall under the displeasure of the cold-blooded persecutors of my poor innocent sister; and this fear on the one hand, with the distress I felt for her on the other, rendered me almost frantic. As soon as I had entered the room, I had stepped into a corner on the left of the entrance, where I might par- tially support myself by leaning against the wall be- tween the door and the window. This support was all that prevented me from falling to the floor ; for the confusion of my thoughts was so great that only a few of t^ie words I heard spoken on either side made any lasting impression upon me. I felt as if I was struck with some insupportable blow ; and death would not have been more frightful to me. I am inclined to the belief that Father Richards wished to shield the poor prisoner from the severity of her fate by drawing from her expressions that might bear a favorable construc- tion. He asked her, among other things, if she was not sorry for what she had been overheard to say (for she had been betrayed by one of the Nuns), and if she would not prefer confinement in the cells to the pun- ishment which was threatened her. But the Bishop interrupted him, and it was easy to perceive that he considered her fate as sealed, and was determined she THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 121 should not escape. In reply to some of the questions put to her she was silent ; to others I heard her voice reply that she did not repent of words she had uttered. though they had been reported by some of the Nuns, who had heard them ; that she still wished to escape from the Convent ; and that she had firmly resolved to resist every attempt to compel her to the commission of crimes she detested. She added that she would rather die than cause the murder of harmless babes. ' That is enough, finish her' said the Bishop. " Two Nuns instantly fell upon the young woman, and in obedience to instructions and directions given by the Lady Superior, prepared to execute her sen- tence. She still maintained all the calmness and sub- mission of a lamb. " Some of those who took part in this transaction I believe were as unwilling as myself; but of others I can safely say that I believe they delighted in it. Their conduct certainly exhibited a most bloodthirsty spirit. Hut above all others present, and above all human fiends I ever saw, I think St. Ilippolyte was the most diabolical. She engaged in the horrid task with all alacrity, and assumed from choice the most revolting parts to be performed. She seized a gag, forced it into the mouth of the poor Nun, and when it was fixed between her extended jaws so as to keep them Open at i22 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR the greatest possible distance, took hold of the straps fastened at each end of the stick, crossed them behind the helpless head of the victim, and drew them tight through the loop prepared as a fastening. " The bed, which had always stood in one part of the room, still remained there; though the screen which had usually been placed before it, and was made of thick muslin, with only a crevice through which a person behind might look out, had been folded up on its hinges in the form of a W, and placed in a corner. On the bed the prisoner was laid, with her face up- wards, and then bound with cords, so that she could not move. In an instant another bed was thrown upon her. 11 Some stood up and jumped upon the poor girl with their feet, some with their knees, and others ::i different ways seemed to seek how they might best beat the breath out of her bod)' and mangle it without coming in direct contact with it, or seeing the effect of their violence. * * * "After the lapse of fifteen or twenty minutes, and when it was presumed that the sufferer had been smothered and crushed to death, the Priest and the Nuns ceased to trample upon her, and stepped from the bed. All was motionless and silent beneath it THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 123 "'They then began to laugh at such inhuman thoughts as occurred to some of them, rallying each other in the most unfeeling manner. They alluded to the resignation of our murdered companion, and one of them tauntingly said, 'She would have made a good Catholic martyr, ' "After waiting some time longer, the feather bed was taken off, the cords unloosed, and the body taken by the Nuns and dragged down stairs. I was informed that it was taken into a cellar and thrown unceremoni- ously into the hole, covered with a great quantity of lime, and afterwards sprinkled with a liquid, the pro- perties and name of which I am ignorant." — Maria Monk,, p. 1 1 3-1 18. All this in the name of religion. By her devotion to Christ, resistance to crime and loyalty to virtue she became a prey to her terrible persecutors, and what is there in this event that would prevent its repetition in every Nunnery in the land. SLAUGHTER OF [NFANTS. " The infallible Church teaches that without bap- tism even infants cannot go to heaven. The hol\ Church, not caring much how the aforesaid infants may come into this world, but anxious that the\ should go out of it according to the ritual ol the [24 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Church, insist that the infant shall be baptized. That being done, and its soul teing thus fitted for heaven, the Mother Abbess generally takes between her holy fin- i the nostrils of the infant, and in the name of the infallible Church consigns it to the care of the Al- mighty ; and I beg to state from my own personal knowledge through the Confessional, that the father is in nearly all cases the individual who baptizes it. I desire to assert nothing of a character as frightful and disgusting as this on my own authority ; I could give numberless instances ; let this suffice." — Popish Nun- neries ', by Wm. Hogan, p. 61. THK BURIAL PFACK FOR INFANTS Is thus described by Maria Monk: "It was in the / cellar. The earth appeared as if mixed with some whitish substance, which was found to be lime — the secret burying place of slain babes. Here, then, I was in a place which I had considered as the nearest imita- tion of heaven to be found on earth, among a society where deeds were constantly perpetrated which I had believed to be most criminal, and had now found the place in which harmless infants were unfeelingly thrown out of sight, after being murdered. " Is not Romanism just as degrading as Hindooism, where widows are burned and infants drowned in tubs of water. THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 125 Why will not the American people awake to their duty. We see what Catholicism has done in Europe, and in the same fashion will she degrade the people in any land where she has absolute control. Euro- pean countries are opening up these Nunneries and opening them out as corrupt, while we are taking good care of them, and at the same time we call our- selves a Christian nation. OPEN THE CONVENTS. To-day on these shores where no bondmen can he, Where fetters must burst and the slave he set free, Are prisons of darkness all over the land, Their keepers unseen, and their doings unscann'd; Where haply the innocent pine in despair ; And cannot escape to the light and the air, But worn by the vigil, the scourge and the fast, Rot into the grave, their sole refuge, at last. ( )r haply — for darkness is full of such deeds, Where stern Superstition and Cruelty breeds — The Abbess may live, and the Priest may be found Who rule as twin tyrants that Golgotha ground : And woe to the Nuns disobedient then To the tempers of women and passions of men. Where anything foul can be done in the dark, Unstruck by Truth'a spearpoint's electrical spark! — What! Isn't this libelous false from the i; Protestant bigotry's slander at worst ? it may be it must be we hope for the best But open your ( invents ' this, this be the test I 126 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR We gladly would find they are homes of delight Where hearts are all happy and faces all bright, Each Abbess a mother, with daughters who love Their gloom as a foretaste of glory above ! Yes— let in the light — let us hear the glad truth That Priest never snared the fair maid or rich youth — That neither the Nun nor the Monk can be slaves, Unless they so will it themselves, to their graves; Let us know they are free to depart or remain Unbound by that life long tyrannical chain ; Let us see for ourselves that no treasons are there, But — everything open, all right and all fair! If still supervision is warned from the gate, And prisoners alone are seen through the grate, If all that we prize in an honest man's home Is secretly crushed through the Priestcraft of Rome — Well— Nunneries heretofore have been torn down, When people suspected the cowl and the gown ; And Monkeries — witness St. Al ban's and Fronde — Had better keep clear of the rage of the crowd ! — Tupper. X. ROME FOSTERS CRIME. The cursing which we so frequently hear in public places is not condemned by Rome, but finds authority in the following statement: "To curse insensible creatures, such as the wind, the rain, the years, the days, fire, sun, is no blasphemy, unless the one who curses expressly connects them with the name of God, by saying, for instance, cursed be the fire of God — the bread of God." Is this not in contradiction to the third commandment? No doubt this accounts tor so profane language being used by Catholics. There is a price put upon sin, and when this price- is paid the deed may be committed without it being any sin. In a work entitled Garden of the SouL pub- lished with the approbation of Bishop John Hughes, New York, we find what it costs to ruin a girl : " Those who have deflowered a virgin must pay six gros." In the estimation of Rome this is compensation foi the virtue of our daughters and sisters. Are we satisfied with this? PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR SABBATH DESECRATION. ' The Pope claims the right and the power to de- cree that the sanctificatiou of the Lord's day shall only continue a few hours, and that servile work may be done on that day. Merchandising and the selling of goods at auction on the Sabbath is, on the account of its being a general custom, altogether lawful." It is no wonder that there is so much desecration of the Sabbath in our large cities, for Rome is there and introducing the Roman Catholic Sunday, which is mass in the morning, and work or pleasure the rest of the day. In Spanish countries the IMMORALITY Of the people is well known. In Chili, out of ninety thousand births, only sixty-eight thousand are legiti- mate. In Mexico, a country controlled by the Priests. the people are being forced to live together in con- cubinage, for more money is exacted for performing the marriage ceremony than a poor man can earn in five years. In Chili the government has taken the marriage laws in its own hands, and a couple can be married for twenty-five cents. Father Nugent, in his address at League Hall, Liverpool, Nov. 12th, 1886, says: THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 129 " Nine out of ten of the girls to be seen at night along London Road or Lime St. were Catholics ; there was no use hiding it. The Sisters of Notre Dame had 15,000 girls under their charge. What became of them after they left school ? They went into places where they got work, and instead of going home at night went out with their companions." The following table shows the percentage of illegi- timate births in the cities named : In Roman Catholic Paris 33 per cent. '• Brussels 35 " Ecuador 75 Munich 4S 11 " " Vienna 51 M In Protestant London 4 " While Rome — the mother of harlots — shows a record of 143 illegitimate births to every 100 legitimate. In 1870 the population of the City of Rome was 205,000, total births in one year 4,378, of these 3,163 were ille- gitimate. At this time there were Nuns, Monks and Clergy to the number of 7,322. An Italian proverb runs thus: " Where there are many Monks and Priests the people have less morality and religion." The following letter from the Roman Catholic Times, April 17th, [885, will give us some idea ol the class of people PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR WHO FILL OUR PRISONS. " The criminal returns of Her Majesty's prison at Liverpool for the year ending March 31, 1885, discloses a state of things which the Catholic public cannot con- template without feelings of sadness and humiliation; and it is in the hope that our people may be roused to action that we place the figures before them. During the year 21,324 persons were committed to jail — 12,367 men and 8,957 women. Of this number 13,676 were Catholics — 7,237 men and 6,439 women ; whilst Pro- testants, all other denominations, numbered only 7,648 — 5,137 men and 2,518 women. It would further appear that daily average of the prison population for the year was 633.45 Catholics against 327.52 of all other denominations. " The Roman Catholics of Scotland are one-twelfth of the population, but furnish one-third of the crimi- nals. In England and Wales only one- twentieth are Catholics, and yet we find one-fourth of the criminals belonging to this class. In Ireland there are seven Catholics to two Protestants, and here we have six Catholic criminals to every one Protestant." In Canada forty-four per cent, of population and fifty-two per cent, of criminals are Catholics. In Ontario one-sixth of the population are Catholics, and these furnish sixty-eight per cent, of criminals. One THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 131 third the population of Prussia are Catholics, and from this class more than half the criminals are found. The Netherlands give about the same figures. Go into any of our prisons in any of our States, call the roll and ask each prisoner "What is your faith?' 1 You will have about ninety per cent, of them answer "Roman Catholic. " This is a dark record for a holy Church with an infallible Pope surrounded by a swarm of sinless Car- dinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Priests. A religious system that fills our prisons and degrades bur people surely cannot be a success; one may even commit MURDER And be a good member of this holy Church, In Theologica Morlis^ by Dens, we read : "A man who has been excommunicated by the Pope may be killed anywhere, as Escobar and Deaux teach, because the Pope has an indirect jurisdiction over the whole world, even in temporal tilings, as all the Catholics maintain, and as Swarez proves against the King o[ England." The following tabic shows the committals for mur- der per year in the country named to each million ol population : 132 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR Roman Catholic Ireland 19 France 31 " " Austria 36 Bavaria 68 Sicily 90 Protestant London 4 Romanists love America, because here they ar liberty to lay the foundation of their despotic religion which has cursed every land where it has had absolute power, and the question now is what will Americans do with it ? XL THE CONFESSIONAL. There are millions of poor, deluded people who think the Confessional is linked with the salvation of the soul. They believe it essential to salvation. They must confess their sins to a Priest, no matter how im- moral or vile, in order to obtain absolution. Undoubtedly this is the devil's plot against moral- ity and against the home. Father Chiuiquy says: " In the Church of Rome it is utterly impossible that the husband should be one with the wife, and that the wife should be one with the husband. A monstrous being has been put between them both called the Con fessor. Born in the darkest ages of the world, that being has received from hell his mission to destroy and contaminate the purest joys of the married lite — to enslave the wife, to outrage the husband, and to cheat the world. The more auricular confession is practised, the more the laws oi public and private morality are trampled under toot." 134 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OA 1 A Roman Catholic recently testified thus: I married a beautiful woman. She was a Roman Catholic. So am I. Friends told me that my intended was the favorite of Father . I did not think that a fault. We were married by that Priest. I now find that she is in her heart and in her his wife, and not mine, There is no divorce in the Church. I am not alone. If Priests are allowed two or three women each month, that means that some one's wife or some one's daughter is being ruined by the devil in the guise of a saint, and who at the Con- -ional and before the altar stands in the place of Jesus Christ." Hear what Win. Hogan, ex-Priest, says: " I now declare, most solemnly and sincerely, that after living twenty- five years in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church and officiating as a Romish Priest, hearing confessions and confessing myself, I know not another reptile in all animal nature so much to be shunned, and loathed, and dreaded by females, both married and single, as a Roman Catholic Priest or Bishop who practises the degrading and demoralize i ffice of auricular confession. Auricular confes- sion is nothing but a systematic preparation for the ruin of the soul of the guileless and guiltless scholar." THE CONFESSIONAL f J Ol lUl N 136 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR AN HONEST CONFESSION. Don Paulo makes the following confession the same day he died and went to meet his God: 11 Since God Almighty is pleased to visit me with this sickness, I ought to make good use of the time I have to live, and I desire of you to help me with your prayers, and to take the trouble to write some substan- tial points of my confession, that you may perform after my death, whatever may enable me to discharge my duties towards God and men. When I was or- dained Priest, I made a general confession of all my sins. I have served my parish sixteen years, and all my care has been to discover the tempers and inclina- tions of ni}' parishioners ; there are in my parish six- teen hundred families, and more or less I have de- frauded them all some way or other. "My thoughts have been impure ever since I began to hear confessions; my words have been, grave and severe with them all, and all my parishioners have respected and feared me. I have had so great an em- pire over them, that some of them, knowing of my misdoings, have taken my defence in public. I have omitted nothing to please them in outward appearance, but my actions have been the most criminal of man- kind; for, as to my ecclesiastical duty, what I have done has been for custom's sake. THE DANCER OF ROM AX ISM. 137 "As to the confessions and wills I have received from my parishioners at the point of death, I do con- fess I have made myself master of as much as I could, and by that means I have gathered together all my riches. As to my duty towards God, I am guilty to the highest degree, for I have not loved him ; I have neglected to say the private divine service every day. I have procured, by remedies, sixty abortions, making the fathers of the children their murderers, besides many others intended, though not executed, by some unexpected accident. I confess that I have frequented the parish club twelve years. We were only six parish Priests in it, and then w^e did consult and contrive all the ways to satisfy our passions. ^ * * We served one another then twelve years. Our method lias been to persuade the husbands and fathers not to hinder them any spiritual comfort, and to the ladies to per- suade them to be subject to our advice and will ; and that in so doing they should have liberty at any time to go out on a pretense of communicating some spirit- ual business to the Priest. And if they refused to do it, then we should speak to their husbands and lathers not to let them go out at all, or, which would be worse for them, we should inform against them to the holy tribunal of the [nquisition. And by these diabolical persuasions they were at our command, without tear i; v s PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR of revealing the secret. I have spared no woman of my parish whom I had a fancy for, and many others of my brethren's parishes; but I cannot tell the number. I have sixty nepotes alive of several women; but my principal care ought to be of those that I have by two young women I keep at home since their parents' death." IMPROPER QUESTIONS. Father Chiniquy says: " How many times God has spoken to me, as he speaks to all the Priests of Rome, and said with a thundering voice, 'What would that young man do could he hear the questions you put. to his wife? Would he not blow out your brains? Ati(J that father, would he not pass the dagger through your breast, if he could know what you ask from his poor, trembling daughter? Would not the brother of that young girl put an end to your miserable life, if he could hear the unmentionable subjects on which you speak with her in the Confessional?" The loathsome corruptions which are unavoidably' engendered by auricular confession should convince the people of America that it is a soul-trap of Satan, to cause the destruction of female virtue. In Antoine's Moral Theology will be found the THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 139 obscene questions which are put by Priests and Bishops of the Romish Church to all women who enter the Confessional. Any man who would ever permit his wife, daughter or sister to go after reading these ques- tions must have very loose ideas of morality. DIVERSITV OF OPINION. Alexander Gavazzio writes: " I was a missionary in Italy twelve years, and as I was not severe, many people chose me as their Con- fessor after being sent to the devil by others — thus I speak practically. I ask you, as good Christian people, when, for the same sin, the Dominican sends me to everlasting torment, the Franciscan refuses me abso- lution, the Carmelite allows me absolution with a heavy penance and without communion, and the Jesuit gives me absolution, communion, and a very slight penance. What is this Moral Theology ? What is this Auricular Confession with its so great diversity of judgments? It is a farce." Is it moral that a young lady should go to unveil the mysteries of her heart to a man. and in many cases an immoral man? "God alone is the searcher of the hearts and no man can enter into His sanctuary." In Auricular Confession all is secret, all nndei the sacramental seal. Christ did not impose this seal, SO 14" PROTESTANTS AWAKE % OR it cannot be divine In many instances this secrecy is not kept, a very slight imprudence can give it wings. "A young wife in Perugia went to a newly-authorized Priest to confess. He confessed her and said, ' You are the first person I have confessed.' Shortly after- wards the young Priest went in an apothecary \s shop, where he met some persons and imprudently said, 'The first person I have confessed was a wife who was unfaithful to her husband. 1 Among those present at the statement was the husband of *he lady. The lady and husband dined together unconscious of each other, but after dinner the wife said, 'This morning I was in such a Church and such a Con lesser told me I was the first person he had confessed.' Hearing her, the poor husband, blinded by jealousy and a sense of outraged honor, took a knife and immediately killed her." The Confessor may intend to keep silent, but he is only human and has human infirmities. In the delir- ium of fever he may speak, and has often been known to speak of the events of the da}'. Some have repeated verbatim the confessions made to them. XII. ROME AND WHISKEY. Drunkenness is not a sin in the eyes of Rome, for their Priests will administer the sacraments to drunk- ards before death, assure them of absolution, and pro- claim that they have a direct passage to heaven. In Oct., 1883, New York, a murderer before execution, cried for whiskey, even after he had partaken of the Eucharist. He went to his death in a besotted condi- tion, but was proclaimed saved by Romanism. Priests are known to drink to excess, and some oi them have had delirium tremens. Signori says: "Among the Priests who live in the world it is rare — and very rare — to find any that are good." From an article written 1))' Bishop Ireland oi St. Paul, Minn., published in the Catholic Worlds Oct., 1S90, we note the following: CONFESSION, " Let me speak as a Catholic. I know well that I will be blamed for my rashness and credited with un- pardonable exaggerations, and may be with untruths. i 4 2 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR But speak I will, and let me be called as Theobald Matthew was, a fanatic and a madman. Intemperance to-day is doing our Holy Church harm beyond the power oi the pen to describe, and unless we crush it our Catholicity can make but slow advance in America. I would say intemperance is our one misfortune. With all other difficulty we can easily cope, and cope successfully. Intemperances, as nothing else, paralyzes our forces, awakens in the minds of our non-Catholic fellow citizens violent prejudices against us, and ea^t> over all the priceless treasures of truth and grace which the Church carries in her bosom, an impene- trable veil of darkness. Xeed I particularize ? Catholie> nearly monopolize the liquor traffic : Catholics loom up before the crimi- nal courts of the land, under the charge of drunken- ness, in undue majorities ; poor-houses and asylums are thronged with Catholics, the immediate or mediate victims of drink ; the poverty, the sin. the shame that fall upon our people result almost entirely from drink, and. God knows, those afflictions come upon them thick and heavy."' The great reason in the above for doing away with intemperance is that non-Catholics may not be preju- diced against them. The Catholic Review criticised Archbishop Ireland's remark, which they would not THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 143 have done had the)' not had his ecclesiastical superior on their side. We find this statement: ''Notwith- standing the facts put forward by Archbishop Ireland, few will consider it desirable that the nations should become supporters of his drinking creed." We will now quote from Father Elliot of New York. In an article published in the Catholic World for Sept., 1890, he says: "In man)' cities, big and little, we have something like a monopoly of the business of selling liquor, and in not a few something equivalent to a monopoly of getting drunk. Scarcely a Roman Catholic family among us but mourns one or other of its members as a victim of intemperance. This is lamentable. I hate to acknowledge it. Yet from Catholie domiciles — miscalled homes — in those cities and towns three-fourths of the public paupers creep annually to the almshouses, and more than half the criminals snatched away by police to prison are by baptism and training members of our Church. Can anyone deny this? Or can any one deny that the identity of nominal Catholicity and pauperism existing in our chief centers of population is owing to the drunkenness of Roman Catholics? This detestable vice has been a veritable beast in the vineyard of the Lord, making its lair in the very precinct ol the build ings containing the confessional and the altar. 1 will i 4 4 PROTEST. \NTS - 1 \\\ \KE, OR give you an example. For twenty years the clergy of the parish of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, have had a hard and uneven fight to keep saloons from the very Church door, because the neighborhood of a Roman Catholic Church is a good stand for the saloon business ; and this is equally so in nearly every city in America. Who has not burned with shame to run the gauntlet of the saloons lining the way to the Roman Catholic cemetery ? Whether it be the christening of the infant or the burial of the dead, the attendance at the ordinary Sun- day mass or the celebrating of such feasts as Christ- mas and New Year's and St. Patrick's day, the weak- ness and the degradation of our people has yoked reli- gion and love of country and kindred, the two most elevated sentiments of our nature, to the chariots of the god Gambrinus and the god Bacchus, whose wheels crush down into hell a thousand fold more victims than ever perished under the wheels of Juggernaut. " How can you expect conversions," demands Canon Murname in his paper read to the Catholic Truth Conference at Birmingham, "how can you ex- pect conversions when a Roman Catholic prison chap- lain can assert that of six or seven thousand women brought into the prison yearly, more than eighty per cent, are Catholics. " THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 145 ENCOURAGING INTEMPERANCE. There are but few Priests who are really interested in temperance work, and who can they blame for this great evil of which Mr. Elliot speaks but the Church, who is the mother of drunkards and puts forth no real effort to rescue them. Miss Cusack (or the Nun of Kenmare), says: " Rome has allowed her devoted and long-suffering Irish children to become slaves to the curse of strong drink without one vigorous effort being put forth to save them. Rome could put an end to the drunken- ness in her communion to-morrow if she gave one-half as much attention to the subject of suppression of the liquor traffic as she has recently done to the prohibi- tion of the Bible in the Public Schools. * * How could they offend the faithful saloonkeepers, the very bone and sinew of the Church, the men who make mayors for the first city in the world, the men who have a few dollars always ready for the Priest ami tlie vSister ? No matter if these dollars were reeking with the blood of their victims. No matter if these dollars were the life-blood of the poor. No matter if these dollars were the price of immortal souls. The} were dollars all the same. Rome is at best indifferent to the 146 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR subject of intemperance, I might say more with per- fect truth. I might say that Rome encourages intem- perance, for she certainly does when she sets the seal of her approval on those who devote their best ener- gies to the cause of intemperance. She does not deny Church membership to drunkards, nor Christian burial to those who have been guilty of the most atrocious crimes committed under the influence of drink." A writer in the Primitive Catholic says: 11 She has a specified provision in her mission book for regulating the conscience of rumsellers, a confes- sional formula providing for adulterated liquors up to a grade which seems to be entirely left to the good taste or judgment of the Confessor ; and also for Sab- bath desecration, outside the hours of Romish worship/' In 1888 Rome bestowed extreme unction on the well-known drunkard, gambler and prize fighter, John L,. Sullivan. The only requisite to be a good Catholic is to give the Priest the key to your pocketbook. ROME'S POLICY. The Wine and Spirit Gazette says : 44 The policy of the Roman Catholic on the liquor question, which is modeled after the principle laid down in the gospel of Christ, has been a liberal one from THE DANGER OE ROMANISM. 147 times immemorial. It is but lately that the spirit of intolerance has taken possession of a certain section of the Catholic Church of this country. There can be no doubt that the doctrine of intolerance put forth by the Baltimore Council did not find a responsive echo in the breasts of the great mass of Catholics in this coun- try." SALOONS CONTROL OUR CITIES. The whiskey element know Rome too well to be alarmed at any little temperance movement that she puts forth. Rome must have the saloon in order to gain the power she is seeking. A recently elected Irish Alderman in Chicago said shortly before his elec- tion : " I have 750 saloons at my back. The people of the Nineteenth ward are a people governed by the saloons and not by the press. I am as good as elected now." Rev. Richard Harcout has said : "Of 8,034 persons engaged in the liquor traffic in Philadelphia 6,418 had been arrested for some crime. The most immoral centers of New York City are the liquor saloons, and yet nine-tenths of these are run by members of the Roman Catholic Church." Archbishop Corrigan is now practically the Mayor ol New York. New York is no exception, for all of i js PROTEST. INTS A W* \KE, OR our leading cities ars controlled by Rome and whiskey, and as a result arc becoming more and more corrupt. And what are Protestants doing to prevent it ? Nothing. Prof. A. I). White says: " Without the slightest exaggeration we may assert that, with very few exceptions, the city governments of the United States are the very worst in Christen- dom, the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt." TEMPERANCE SCIETIES. True, Catholics may have temperance societies, but they are only temperance societies in name, for they prove by their actions that they are not in favor with temperance. At a Convention of the Catholic Young Men's Union the following resolution was twice proposed and twice voted down : " That the Catholic Young Men's National Union, viewing the saloon as pre-eminently the source of evil to young men, will use its utmost influence and urge upon the societies connected with it to use their utmost efforts to prevent Catholic young men from visiting saloons, and also to discontinue, by all means, the drinking custom of society." THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 149 When a Roman Catholic Temperance Convention deliberately refused to support such a resolution as this, the less we depend 'upon Rome's temperance work the better. Rome's political power and the saloon must stand or fall together, for she must have the support of the saloon in order to gain temporal power which is Rome's true aim. Christ said, "My kingdom is not of this world," Rome says " We cannot carry on the Master's wor-k without the possession of a temporal kingdom," and the Pope is the Master's representative. Is not this mockery ? XIII. THE WORSHIP OF SAINTS. In the Glory of Mary, a standard Roman Catholic work, the writer says: " It is the w T ill of God that all graces should come to us at the hands of Mary. * * * God, to glorify the Mother of the Redeemer, has so determined and disposed that of the great charity she would intercede in behalf of all those for whom his divine Son paid and offered the superabundant price of His precious blood in which alone is our salvation, life and resur- rection.'' St. Bona venture says : 11 That those who make a point announcing to others the glories of Mary are certain of Heaven/' St Lawrence declares that "To honor this queen of angels is to gain eternal life." The Albert Arnold of Charities has made this state- ment : "Since the flesh of Mary was not different from that of Jesus, how can the royal dignity of the Son be denied to another? Hence we must consider the glory of the Son, not only as being common to, but as one with that of his mother. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 151 " If Jesus is the king of the universe, Mary is also its queen, and as queen she possesses by right the whole kingdom of her Son. 4< Whoever asks and expects to obtain graces with- out the intercession of Mary, endeavor to fly without wings. Whenever the most sacred Virgin goes to God to intercede for us, she, as queen, commands all the angels and saints to accompany her, and unite their prayers with hers. " For God at the prayers of Mary, forgives the crimes of enemies." IDOLATROUS WORSHIP. We might quote many more passages similar to these, but consider these sufficient to prove that Rome substitutes Mary for Christ and thus rejects the corner stone on which the true Church is built. She refuses to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of our salva- tion, while there, is no other name under Heaven among men whereby we must be saved. We now (j note from this same wonderful book — ■ iilory of Mary — one of the miracles performed by Mary, ' Our advocate (the Virgin Mary) has shown how great is her kindness towards sinners by her mercy to Beatrix, a Nun in the Monaster) of Pontebialdo. This unhappy Nun, having contracted a passion for a cer- tain youth, agreed to flee with him from the Convent; i 5 2 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR and, in fact, she went one day before a statue of the blessed Virgin, there deposited the keys of the Monas- ter)' — for she was portress — and boldly departed. Arrived in another country, she led the miserable life of a prostitute for fifteen years. It happened that she met, one day, the agent of the Monastery in the city where she was living, and asked him, thinking he would not recognize her again, if he knew Sister Beatrice? 'I know her well,' he said, 'she is a holy Nun, and at present is Mistress of Novices.' "At this intelligence she was confounded and amazed, not knowing how to understand it. In order to ascertain the truth, she put on another dress and went to the Monastery. She asked for Sister Beatrice, and, behold ! the most hoi)' Virgin appeared before her in the form of that same image to which, at parting, she had committed her keys and her dress. "And the divine Mother spoke thus: ' Beatrice, be it known to thee that, in order to prevent thy disgrace, I assumed thy form, and have filled thy office for the fifteen years that thou hast lived far from the Monas- tery and God. My child, return and do penance; for my Son is still waiting for thee; and strive by thy holy life to preserve the good name I have gained thee.' " She spoke thus and disappeared. Beatrice re- entered the Nunnery, and gratified for the mercy of THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. *53 Mary, led the life of a saint. At her death she made known the foregoing incident, to the glory of this great Queen." Rome' a idolatry has brought her into a most deplor- able condition and intellectual depravity. Sinners are assured that " Mary is the door of heaven, the only foundation of salvation, the only hope of sinners." This is the teaching — not of pagan Rome — but of Rome as she exists to-day. BLASPHEMY. Many of us have noticed in Papal Churches under the painting of the Virgin Mary, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." " He that believeth in me shall never die." By these misrepresentations the poor deluded Catholics are made to believe that these passages of Scripture refer to Mary and not to Christ. Signori says: "Nuns ought to have a special de- votion towards ST. JOSEPH, Their guardian angel and their tutelary saint." In 1890 Pope Leo sent to his Church by the Bishops to the Priests, the formula of a prayer to St. Joseph. These Pastors were to call the attention ol the tloek to it. It reads as follows: i54 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR " To thee, () Blessed Joseph, do we fly in our tribu- lation, and after imploring the help of the most holy spouse, we ask confidentially for thy protection. We beseech thee by that affection which united thee with the immaculate mother of God and by the paternal love with which thou hast encircled the child Jesus, and suppliant we pray that thou mayest regard with benignant eye the heritage which Jesus Christ has won by blood, and that thou mayest aid us in our necessities by thy power and help. 11 Protect, O Most Provident Guardian of the Divine Family, the elect race of Jesus Christ; banish from us, O most loving Father, all plague of error and corrup- tion ; do thou, our strongest support assist us from the height of heaven with thy efficacious help in this struggle with the powers of darkness, and, as formerly thou didst rescue the child Jesus from the greatest danger of His life, so now defend the Holy Church of God from all adversity, and cover each one of us with thy lasting protection, so that following thy example, and supported by thy help, we may be able to live holy, die piously, and obtain eternal life in heaven. Amen." Is not this blasphemy, and yet we believe that many of these Priests are honest and sincere in their awful error. Let us pity them and pray for them that God THE DANCER OE ROMANISM. 155 may open their eyes to see their works of unrighteous- ness. XIV. ROME'S CHARITY. The religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church are bound by the vow of poverty. This vow simply means that as long as Monks and Nuns live in obe- dience to the Pope they shall be supplied with the ver\ best, even all the delicacies of the season. Now, while these are living in luxury, the question naturally arises, what are they doing for the poor ? In answer to this question we refer to a lecture delivered by Father McGlynn of New York, Feb. 3, [889, subject being THE CHURCH AND THE poor. 11 What has the Church done for the poor? What is the Church doing for the poor? There was a time when the Christian Church in the spirit of the Mastei went out into the world and preached the glad tidings to tlie poor, to the serf, to women enslaved by men. to i 5 6 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR the masses of mankind. She taught her ministers to be solicitous, not for themselves, but for the Kingdom of Christ ; and she taught them to go forth into the high-ways and by-ways, and by a special and intense predilection to gather up the waifs and strays : frag- ments of Christ's precious humanity, the poor, the blind, the halt, the outcast, the insane. This was the special mission of those whom Christ sent to preach the glad tidings to the poorest of the poor. " The doing of charity to the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving shelter to the blind and the halt, were precious, not merely because of the unspeak- able sacreduess of each individual, but still more be- cause it established the wonderful sanctity and dignity of universal human nature represented in each one of its individuals; because it showed how Christ's spirit would give shelter, would give comfort to every one; while these gentry have established the belief that the idea of the Christian commonwealth would be substan- tially that of a great workhouse or poorhouse. CHURCH AND STATE. " The work of the Roman Catholic Church among the poor has come to be just that. On account of the unfortunate union of Church and State, the undue en- riching of the Church, the mere administration of THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 157 ecclesiavStical charities has become corrupt, and an un- due proportion of the good things that were supposed to be for the poor have gone to the benefit of the ad- ministrators rather than to the originally intended beneficiaries, and the charity itself has very often be- come a mischief rather than a benefit, for it had en- couraged idleness, shiftlessness, on the part of the privileged inmates of these institutions, and has to that degree discouraged thrift, enterprise, individual respon- sibility. * * * Some years since a few pious women desired to invite the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to this city to care for the Magdalens, but they were opposed in their Christ-like project by the Archbishop of New York. A good old lady, the matron of the Tombs, .who was not a Catholic, but a north of Ireland Presbyterian, heard with delight that the Sisters were coming. " She had abundant experience as matron ol the city prison of the need of just such a refuge, and she said to a priest who was in the habit of visiting the prison that she was so delighted that she had made up a very respectable purse from among her friends in order to help the work. 'But/ said the Priest, the Archbishop says that he does not favor this charity ; the Archbishop is opposed to it; in fact, the Arch- bishop says he does not believe in tlie conversion 01 isS PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR these people/ Whereupon old Airs. Forster said, Well, but even if the poor creatures happen to fall again, would it not be a blessed thing, a most Christian thing, even to stop sin for a time?" This Priest had the hardihood to report that conversation to the Arch- bishop, and some time afterwards the Archbishop came to the conclusion that the time had now arrived to open a House of the Good Shepherd. So he said to the Priest when he met him on another occasion, 'How is Mrs. Forster? When you see her tell her I was very much struck by that remark of hers about the stopping of sin for a time.' The poor old soul — she is in heaven to-night, I am sure — had to teach the Arch- bishop of New York Christianity. "Oh, but things have changed now ! Aren't there a do/en, or a couple of dozen, institutions in New York and vicinity stretching up into Westchester and Put- nam counties, and to Rockland county across the river, all for the protection of destitute children? Aren't there some ten or fifteen thousand of these destitute children provided for by these great Catholic charities? There are, perhaps, all those thousands provided for in so-called Catholic charities, but what kind of chari- ties are the}', I want to know, when they are all sup- ported, ever}' one of them, out of the treasury of the county and State of New York. The fact is that now THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 159 there is almost a superfluity of these institutions, there is almost a race now between different orders of the Church to get up just such institutions Why ? Be- cause instead of being charities they are a source of gain. There is money in it. " The Catholic community of this city shamefully failed to do anything like the work of charity that it ought to have done until these appropriations began to come in from the county and State of New York. It was almost impossible to get a destitute Catholic child into an)- institution. Now it is not difficult. Now there are children supported there who have no business there. Now the unworthy father who has had several children and whose wife has died, and who wants to relieve himself of the burden of supporting his own children, or marries again and doesn't want to be bothered with that brood, has them committed to these institutions to be supported at $110 a head by the taxpayers of New York. And there is a scramble among the dear holy souls to get the destitute children, there is a scramble for the favor of Police Justice this or Police Justice that, that he may patronize their in- stitution by committing to it as many of these chil- dren as he can. They are crying for more. Why ? Because the children represent $110 a head, and the very buildings were largely built by appropriations bj jfr. PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR the Legislature of the State. The children m those institutions are almost, without exception, supported by the public treasury." They make these institutions a source of revenue,, pouring the money into the hands of the Priests. During the five years from 1871 to 1876 the cost to the people in King's County, New York, from these children was reported as having risen from $40,000 to $172,000. TREATMENT OF ORPHANS. 44 In Paterson, N. J., is the St, Joseph's Orphan Asylum. Enter there. It is a cold, cheerless morn- ing. Behold the children without fire in January, without shoes, bare shoulders and bare arms, crying and shivering with cold. They rise at 6 o'clock, hastily dress and repair to the bathroom, the older orphans always assisting the younger, because the Sisters are forbid touching them. After they are washed and combed, they proceed to a class room for morning prayers ; then a scant} and unpalatable break- fast, which, without any change, always consists of dry bread and coffee, without milk or sugar, made from the refuse coffee of the Sisters' table. The orphans' table is covered with a black, greasy oilcloth; to each child is thrown a piece of bread, which is eaten from the table without a plate; the coffee is served in tin THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 161 cups. They do all the work of the refectory, scrub the halls, dormitories, class rooms, make beds, sweep, and wash dishes, etc. "At 8:30 A. m. those who are permitted to attend school assemble in the clothes room, where they divest themselves of their old and tattered clothes and don the red or green plaid uniform, with which the)' appear in public. At 12 m. they go to dinner, if it can be so called, made of infected meat, thickened with the waxy remnants of the unleavened wafer and crusts of moldy bread, portioned out to them in cups, from which they eat with discolored pewter spoons. At 1 o'clock the}' again go to school, and remain there until 3, when school is dismissed. After school the uniform is re- placed by their old, comfortless rags. At 5 o'clock they have supper, consisting of mush and molasses, and at times of mush and buttermilk. Sometime a child's stomach refuses this food. He is then whipped or starved until he is glad to eat anything. " The children, on the second day of my arrival, were compelled by Sister Ann Joseph to run with bare feet in the snow for one half hour, and she applied the cat-o'-nine-tails vigorously on the bare shoulders of those who Stopped or hesitated. When asked a reason for such conduct, the reply was, 'to make them tOUgh and hardy,' as she (lid 'not believe in making hot-house 1 62 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR plants of orphans.' Children were left until their heads were covered w 7 ith vermin and with sores and scabs. For the least digression they were cruelly beaten, sometimes until the blood would flow, and all in the name of religion. " Is this Christian charity ? Money earned by hard working people to support these institutions, which are only a mockery under the name of Christian chmity. XV. THE CANON LAW AND LATE PAPAL UTTERANCES. The leading provisions of the Canon Law, the un- disputed, fundamental code of Romanism, are as fol- lows : " I. All human power is from evil, and must therefore be standing under the Pope. "II. The temporal powers must act uncondition- ally in accordance with the orders of the spiritual. 44 III. The Church is empowered to grant, or to take away, any temporal possession. 14 IV. The Pope has the right to give countries and nations which are non-Catholic to Catholic regents, who can reduce them to slavery. 44 V. The Pope can make slaves of those Christian subjects whose Prince or ruling power IS interdicted by the Pope. 44 VI. The laws of the Church, concerning the liberty of the Church and the Papal power, are based upon divine inspiration. 1 64 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR "VII. The Church lias the right to practice the unconditional censure of books. "VIII. The Pope has the right to annul State laws, treaties, constitutions, etc., to absolve from obe- dience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimental to the rights of the Church, or those of the clergy. " IX. The Pope possesses the right of admonish- ing, and, if need be, of punishing the temporal rulers, Kmperors and Kings, as well as of drawing before the spiritual forum any case in which a mortal sin occurs. "X. Without the consent of the Pope no tax or rate of any kind can be levied upon a clergyman, or upon any Church whatsoever. "XI. The Pope has the right to absolve from oaths, and obedience to the persons and the laws of the Princes whom he excommunicates. l> XII. The Pope can annul all • legal relations of those in ban, especially their marriages. "XIII. The Pope can release from every obliga- tion, oath, vow, either before or after being made. 11 XIV. The execution of Papal commands for the persecution of heretics causes remission of sins. 1( XV. He who kills one that is excommunicated is no murderer in a legal sense." THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 165 UTTERANCES OF LEO XIII. The latest encyclical of Leo XIII. issued at Rome, January 10, 1890, is mainly devoted to the relations of Church and State, as these effect Catholics, and "Is to describe more exactly the duties of Catholics * * % to restore the principles and practices of Christianity in private life and in all parts of the social organism. It maintains — " That cases happen in which the State demands one thing from the citizen and religion the opposite from Christians, and this undoubtedlj' for no other reason than that the heads of the State pay no regard to the sacred power of the Church, or desire to make it subject to them." "It is an impious deed to break the laws of Jesus Christ for the purpose of obeying the magistrates, or to transgress the laws of the Church under the pretext of observing the civil law." " But if the laws of the State are in open contradic- tion with the Divine law, if they command anything prejudicial to the Church, or are hostile to the du imposed by religion, or violate in the person Supreme Pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then indeed it is a duty to resist them and a crime to obey 1 66 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OR them — a crime fraught with injury to the State itself.'' 44 It must be considered a duty by Christians to be ruled and guided by the authority and leadership of the Bishops, and especially the Apostolic See. * : ' : * Hence it is that the Pontiff ought to judge with author- ity what is contained in revelation, what is consonant, and what disagrees with it; and for the same reason it is incumbent on him to point out w T hat is moral and what immoral; what is necessary to do and what to avoid, in order to attain salvation." "They receive from the Church the rule of their faith; they know with certainty that in obeying its authority and allowing themselves to be guided by it, they will be placed in possession of the truth. * * * We must receive entirely and with the same assent all things and everything ascertained to have been revealed by God." " Furthermore, in politics, w 7 hich are inseparably bound up w T ith the laws of morality and religious duties, men ought always and in the first place to serve, as far as possible, the interests of Catholicism. As soon as they are seen to be in danger, all differences should cease between Catholics." In an earlier encyclical the present Pope had said: 44 We exhort all Catholics who would devote care- ful attention to public matters to take an active part THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 167 in all municipal affairs and elections, and to further the principles of the Church in all public services, meetings and gatherings. All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must pene- trate wherever possible in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going be- yond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the Constitution of the States and legislation to be modeled in the prin- ciples of the true Church. All Catholic writers and journalists should never lose for an instant from view the above prescriptions. All Catholics should redouble their submission to authority, and unite their whole heart, soul, body and mind in the defence of the Church and Christian wisdom. " RIGHTS THE STATE DOES NOT HAVE. From the Syllabus of Pius IX., issued December S. 1864, the following paragraphs are found: "The State has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he shall deem true. "It has not the right to enact that the ecclesiastical power shall require the permission of the civil power in order to the exercise of its authority. 1 68 PROTESTANTS AWAKE, OK "It has not the right to treat as an excess of power, or as usurping the rights of Princes, anything that the Roman Pontiffs or Ecumenical Councils have done. "It has not the right to adopt the conclusions of a National Church Council, unless confirmed by the Pope. "It has not the right of establishing a National Church separate from the Pope. "It has not the right to the entire direction of pub- lic schools. " It has not the right to assist subjects who wish to abandon Monasteries or Convents." RIGHTS AND POWERS OF THE CHURCH. The same Syllabus affirms thus: "She (the Church) has the right to require the State not to leave every man free to profess his own religion. "She has the right to exercise her power without the permission or consent of the State. "She has the right to prevent the foundation of any National Church not subject to the authority of the Roman Pontiff. 41 She has the right to deprive the civil authority of the entire government of Public Schools. THE DANGER OF ROMANISM. 169 " She has the right of perpetuating the union of Church and State. "She has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all others. "She has the right to prevent the State from grant- ing the public exercise of their own worship to per- sons immigrating into it. "She has the power of requiring the State not tc permit free expression of opinion." "The present Pontiff, Leo XIII., in a letter to the Bishop of Perigweux, July 27, 1884, explicitly con- firms the foregoing, thus: "The teaching given by this Apostolic See, whether contained in the Syllabus and other acts of our illustrious predecessor, or in our own Encyclical Letters, has given clear guidance to the faithful as to what should be their thoughts and their conduct in the midst of the difficulties of times and events. There they will find a rule for the direc- tion of their minds and their works." How can a Roman Catholic be a loyal follower of Leo XIII. and a loyal American citizen when the teaching of America is "that all men are born tree and equal and with certain inalienable rights.' 1 •■ r ■ 683 AVAILABLE OH HCROFU . DO NOT mm I LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 318 709 9 I ■ ii V < 11 1 . H 1 • 1 Sill 88 Bffl « ' ^ ■ * ■ 1 '^ wfa fl > *