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PAPACY IN THE 19TH CENTURY; 
 
 OR, 
 
 POPERY— WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT AIMS AT, 
 
 AND 
 
 WHAT IT IS DOING. 
 
 BY 
 
 «» '*? « 
 
 J 
 
 REV. C. SPARRY, 
 
 EDITOR OF SPARRY S ILLUMINATED AND ILLUSTRATED CHRISTIAN MARTYROLOGT, OR THE 
 MYSTERIES OF POPERY DEVELOPED. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 PUBLISHED BY C. SPARRY, 132 NASSAU STREET. 
 
 BOSTON: — SAXTON & KELT. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA:— WILSON & STOKES. 
 
 1846. 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, 
 
 By C. sparry, 
 
 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern 
 District of New York. 
 
 
 The following Lecture is one of a course that was delivered in the 
 Broadway Tabernacle in this city, and subsequently in the Rev. Dr. 
 Wiley's church, Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Breckenridge's church, Balti- 
 more, Rev. Dr. Laurie's church, Washington city, Rev. Dr. Harron's, 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., Rev. Dr. Duffield's church, Detroit, Mich., and Tremont 
 Temple, Boston, Mass. By the advice of numerous friends it is published, 
 with the hope that the facts it contains may induce protestants of every 
 denomination, to unite in a greater effort to stem the influence of Popery 
 in the 19th century. 
 
PAPACY IN THE 19TH CENTUEY. 
 
 REVELATION xvii. 6. 
 
 ** And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the 
 martyrs of Jesus : and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." 
 
 The book of Revelation may be divided into two parts. The first 
 showing the state of the church at the time of the solemn address to the 
 seven churches of Asia: the second the future state of the church con- 
 tained in the book sealed with seven seals, which John saw opened. 
 This, which may be called the book of God's counsels, contains the fu- 
 ture state of the church in seven successive periods. The vision, from 
 which our text is taken, announces, in detail, the final afflictions of the 
 great harlot which had corrupted Christendom, which in verse 18, is de- 
 fined to be the city that governed the world. The visions in the pre- 
 ceding chapters were directed to the Papacy, or general dominion of 
 Popery over Christendom ; the vision of the 17lh chapter narrows itself 
 to Rome, the capital of idolatry. She is seen under the usual emblem of 
 a female figure — her system is splendid, profligate, and idolatrous. She 
 is the mother of all the idolatries and impurities of worship throughout the 
 Christian world. In our text she is represented as stained and intoxica- 
 ted with the blood of the people of God. " I saw the woman drunken 
 with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus : 
 and I wondered with great admiration," or deep astonishment. Her 
 magnificence and power over mankind are calculated to excite the wonder 
 of the world. The angel interprets the symbol of *' the beast on which 
 the woman sits," as the Papacy whose religion, grand and imposing, is 
 but another name for Paganism. Its birthplace is the " bottomless pit,"^ 
 and to the bottomless pit it shall return. 
 
 Such is the description given of the anti-Christian power which Paul 
 in his epistle to the Thessalonians, assures us should **come with all de- 
 ceivableness of unrighteousness" — that power of delusion which should 
 
4 SPIRIT OF POPERY. 
 
 be exercised over those who are not the servants of God. And where, 
 brethren, do you recognise that establishment of idolatry and corruption 
 identified, tyranny and bloodshed interwoven, but in the church of Rome. 
 
 It is not surprising that men of this age are comparatively ignorant of 
 the system of Popery. There is not only the love of peace and the sense 
 of security long enjoyed — of victory achieved, and the confidence, fear- 
 fully misplaced, of an age of knowledge ; but its long night of darkness, 
 terror, misery, and death, is associated with so many oppressive and pain- 
 ful recollections, that, like those gloomy clouds, heavy with wo and sin, 
 that sometimes darken the path of life, the heart recoils from them, and 
 we would choose to bask in the more genial light which shines around us. 
 This might be well, could our sleeping in the sunshine of prosperity 
 guard us against the night of adversity. My brethen, as long as the ruin- 
 ous and corrupting system of Popery exists it must be strenuously op- 
 posed — compromise here is treason. 
 
 In discoursing on the subject of Popery, we offer no apology for using 
 great plainness of speech, though to some it may savor of uncharitableness, 
 which is far from us ; we would wish to imitate the love and meekness, as 
 well as the truthfulness and fidelity of the Savior, who, while he mourned 
 over the misery and ruin of men, sternly rebuked their errors and vices. 
 When the words Popery, Papacy, &c., are used, it is not with any feel- 
 ing of personal unkindness, nor by way of ridicule and contempt, but be- 
 cause they most briefly and unequivocally express what we mean. 
 
 Popery is the subject of the following discourse. What we have to 
 say will be included under four heads. 
 1st. The Spirit of Popery. 
 2d. The Increase of Popery. 
 3d. The Design of Popery. 
 4th. The means employed to propagate and disseminate it. 
 
 1st. We are to consider the Spirit of Popery, 
 
 Popery is radically and essentially a persecuting spirit ; in other words, 
 persecution is an essential part of the system of Popery ; this is a bloody 
 and fiery page in her history — a fearful picture of blackness and horror. 
 In the church of Rome, the highest crime of which any person can be 
 guilty is that which is denominated " heresy," which, in the canon law, 
 is defined to be " the highest treason against God." Hence in all Popish 
 bulls it is said, all manner of sins may be forgiven, but the sin of heresy 
 can never be atoned for. 
 
 In every Popish country, and by all Roman legislation, when a person 
 is charged with offences against the state, and with disobedience to the 
 
SPIRIT OF POPERY. O 
 
 church, no regard is paid to the allegations respecting civil delinquencies 
 until the ecclesiastical cause is dismissed ; consequently heretics include 
 all persons who do not submit to the Papal church of Rome. They are 
 worthy only of lingering and excruciating tortures ; and, when nature can 
 no longer bear the suffering, then the fires terminate the anguish of the 
 victim, and the triumph of priestly vengeance. 
 
 In the effort to consolidate the Papal power, and to exterminate heresy 
 and heretics, neither age, nor sex, nor rank, nor dignity, nor talents, nor 
 condition, have met with protection ; and this has been the practice of the 
 Romish church ever since she gained the ascendency over the church of 
 Christ. The Papal power arose after the Roman empire had been di- 
 vided into ten smaller kingdoms, and it had reduced under its dominion 
 three of those kingdoms, viz. : the exarchate of Revenna, the kingdom of 
 the Lombards, and' the state of Rome. From the time that it attained 
 this ascendency, it has never ceased to persecute the servants of God, and 
 to arrogate to itself the prerogatives of the Most High. True, our happy 
 land has not been stained to the same extent that others have — I mean, 
 the fagots of bigotry have not been heaped around our freeborn sons, nor 
 has the smoke of the expiring victims ascended to heaven. But it is only 
 necessary to cast an eye upon the pages of her history to know what will 
 be the inevitable result of the continued increase of Popery in our country. 
 Cruelty and intolerance form her native element — her favorite logic — the 
 inquisition is the grand argument. In proof of this, look at the following 
 facts : — 
 
 During the 11th and 12th centuries, the Papal church butchered and 
 put to death in Ireland, from 150,000 to 200,000 Irish Presbyterians. In 
 fact, her sighs, and groans, and blood, have never been recorded on earth. 
 
 In less than forty years from the first establishment of the Jesuits, 
 900,000 protestants perished. 100,000 Waldenses and Albigenses fell 
 in one war, or rather Popish persecution. 
 
 In the Netherlands, alone, 10,000 subjects of Charles the fifth perished 
 by the hands of the executioner. 
 
 In the space of 129 years the Inquisition deprived Spain of three mill- 
 lions of inhabitants. 
 
 The Inquisition, at once the offspring and image of the Popedom was 
 first established in the 13th century, though its power had been exercised 
 against the Albigenses as far back as 1198 under the commission given 
 by Innocent III. A great monastic order, entirely subservient to the 
 Pope, had been established in Italy, the Flemish dominions of Germany, 
 and in France and Spain. This was the Dominican order, powerful in its 
 professed weakness, opulent in its pretended poverty, and ambitious and 
 
6 SPIRIT OF POPERY. 
 
 cruel in its boasted zeal. The Inquisition was given into the hands of 
 the Dominicans, 1217 — more fully authenticated and formed, 1227. It 
 was introduced into Spain, 14S6, from which time it became the chief 
 seat of the Inquisition. With a new code of horrible laws, and with 
 Torquemada at its head, the Inquisition of Spain, then the most powerful 
 of kingdoms, planted its branches in the most remote dependencies of the 
 empire, and became the scourge of mankind. Wherever Popery had 
 power, there was the tribunal. It was even planted in the east, and the 
 Portuguese Inquisition of Goa, was, till within a few years, fed with many 
 an agony. South America was partitioned into provinces of the Inqui- 
 sition : and with a mimicry of the mother state, its celebrations were 
 deemed imperfect without an auto-da-fe. From the time the Inquisition 
 was planted among them, the Netherlands were one scene of slaughter. 
 Each of the seventeen tribunals in Spain, during a long period, burned 
 annually on an average ten miserable beings. 
 
 With the racks and fires of a tribunal worthy of the hell from which it 
 arose, the Dominicans bore Popery in triumph through Christendom, 
 destroying every vestige of religion under the wheels of its bloody car. 
 This terrible tribunal set every principle and every form of justice at 
 defiance. 
 
 Secresy was the principle on which all its proceedings were conducted. 
 Its steps were shrouded in darkness. The suspected person was secretly 
 seized, tried in secret, and never permitted to know his accuser, or the 
 cause of his arrest. He was urged to criminate himself: if tardy, he was 
 forced by the rack. From the hour of his arrest, he never saw the light 
 of day, until perhaps he was brought forth to grace a public show. 
 
 The infamous tribunal went on its course of plunder, torture, and burn- 
 ing, for 600 years. The multitudes who perished in dungeons, of the 
 torture, of confinement, and of broken hearts — the millions of dependent 
 lives made utterly hopeless, or hurried to the grave by the death of vic- 
 tims, are beyond all register. 
 
 The Inquisition was the great engine of extorting money, as well as ex- 
 terminating heresy. Hence the Jews, who had accumulated vast wealth, 
 were everywhere hunted and plundered. In 1741 an edict was issued 
 against them in Spain, and before the end of the year 2,000 Jews were 
 murdered in the single diocese of Cadiz. 
 
 The holy office at length became the dictator of Europe. Everything 
 fell before the mace of the Inquisition. The most learned men, the elite 
 of the scholarship and church of Rome — men the most eminent in rank, 
 and even the most distinguished for zeal, were numbered among the vic- 
 tims of this remorseless tyranny. But Popery had a still higher mark. 
 
SPIRIT OF POPERY. 7 
 
 Charles the fifth, the greatest monarch of Europe, and Philip the second, 
 the greatest bigot ever known, were struck down by the same blow. 
 
 At length, in 1808, the Inquisition was overthrown by Bonaparte, by 
 a decree from his headquarters. He would not suffer such an " en- 
 croachment upon royal authority" to stand in his way. 
 
 In 1813, the abolition was renewed by the general Cortes. 
 
 A. D. 1814, it was revived by Ferdinand. 
 
 A. D. 1816, it was formally suppressed in Portugal. 
 
 Humanity and common sense might have had some share in this 
 measure, but as persecution is interwoven with the claim of infallibility, 
 the chief motives for the suppression of this institution must be resolved 
 into the will of the allied sovereigns, and in the conviction that if the Inqui- 
 sition is the remorseless servant of Popery, it is also a haughty opponent 
 of the Pope. 
 
 Ferdinand, the godfather of the Inquisition, boasted of his bad faith as 
 other men boast of their virtues. His ambassador one day informed him 
 that Louis XII. complained that he had been deceived by him twice. 
 " Twice," said he, *' I have deceived him more than ten times." Such 
 is the man whom Italy extolled, whom the Pope blessed, whom the church 
 sanctified, and whose hypocrisy gained him the surname of his Most 
 Catholic Majesty — a name given to his successors at the present day. 
 No one could have been found better calculated for working this engine 
 of power and bloodshed than this bigoted and faithless tyrant. 
 
 During the reign of Charles IX., at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 
 above 50,000 Huguenots were put to death. The Pope, on hearing this 
 transporting news, marched with his cardinals to the church of St. Mark, 
 and in the most solemn manner gave thanks to Almighty God for so great 
 a blessing conferred on the See of Rome, and on the Christian world. 
 In the evening cannons were fired, the city of Rome illuminated to testify 
 the public joy, and the cries and shouts through the streets were, "Give 
 us the blood of Protestants ! Let us wash our hands in their hearts' 
 blood !" It is but a short time since the Pope of Rome, Gregory XVI., 
 endorsed that cruel event, by having the medal recast which commemora- 
 ted it. 
 
 What nation or clime has not been the arena of the most frightful op- 
 pression ? Where can we travel over the face of Europe, and not find 
 the deathless proofs of the sanguinary spirit of Popery ? Who, in fine, 
 can reflect on the hypocrisies, the treacheries, the plunders, and murders 
 enacted, and not see that the figure introduced in our text most strikingly 
 represents the Papal church, whose seat and centre is at Rome. Do you 
 know, my brethren, of any other city but Rome built on seven hills, or 
 
8 SPIRIT OF POPERY. 
 
 any other city but Rome which reigned over the kings of the earth? 
 " The woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over 
 the kings of the earth." 
 
 Thus we find no difficulty in illustrating our text from the authentic 
 records of the church of Rome. The spirit of Popery is clearly pre- 
 dicted by John, in the New Testament, as well as by Daniel, in the 
 Old. John not only states the fact of the persecuting nature of Popery, 
 but gives us the reason of the fact. " Because they would not re- 
 ceive the mark of the beast in their foreheads, or in their right hand." 
 And is Popery any more humane and less persecuting now than it was 
 during the scenes already described ? No ! it only wants the power. 
 But Papists tell us it is — infidels tell us it is — Dr. Pusey tells us it is — 
 Papists, clad in the Protestant garb, tell us it is. There are probably 
 many of these disguised Papists among us. Though she has lost the 
 power of persecuting as once she did, yet the spirit, the will, and the 
 desire of Popery, are still the same. The tiger chained is a tiger still. 
 
 " Untamed and fierce the tiger still remains — 
 For the kind gifts of water and of food 
 He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts for blood." 
 
 In this enlightened age, and especially in this land of liberty. Popery 
 is compelled to conceal its bitter spirit, and exercise a cunning policy 
 toward those who dissent from her, and will not embrace her pernicious 
 dogmas, but she is to be dreaded no less on this account ; a snake hid in 
 the grass can do more harm than one in the public path* 
 
 In proof that the spirit of Popery is unchanged, look at the Spanish 
 Papists, who murdered millions of Indians in South America and Mexico. 
 
 Who is it putting Protestant ministers and laymen to death now in this' 
 nineteenth century ? It is the restless, agitating, bloodfed Romanists. 
 
 To those who believe that Popery is entirely changed from what it was, 
 that the spirit of intolerance no longer exists, but that Rome is keeping 
 pace with the refinement of the age, we present the following facts of re- 
 cent occurrence : — 
 
 A convert to Protestantism, travelling along the road leading to ScarifF, 
 Ireland, in the county of Clare, was accosted by some laborers in the 
 field. After threatening him several times, they at length suffered him to 
 pass, saying, "If you dare to come this way again, you bloody Sassenah 
 rascal, we'll blow your brains out." — [^Limerick Standard.'] 
 
 A savage-looking ruffian violently attacked the Rev. Mr. Marks, a 
 protestant clergyman, late of the Molyneux Asylum, in the public streets 
 of Dublin, and without provocation knocked the reverend gentleman 
 down. What next? — {^Warder.'] 
 
SPIRIT OF POPERY. 9 
 
 On the evening of Wednesday last, 13th inst., as John Honner, a re- 
 spectable Protestant, was returning home from the Macroom Sessions, he 
 was savagely assaulted midway between Castletown and Enniskeane by 
 some persons at present unknown ; no less than sixteen wounds having 
 been inflicted on his head and face, besides several others on his body 
 and limbs ; his scull was severely fractured. — [^Cork Standard.'] 
 
 The names of nearly one hundred persecuted Protestant clergymen are 
 given in the Tipperary Constitution. The manner in which they were 
 treated is thus marked : Stoned to death ; murdered ; stoned ; fired at ; 
 dangerously assaulted ; assaulted ; abused and persecuted ; plundered ; 
 interrupted and assaulted in the performance of duty; house attacked, 
 demolished, or burned down ; driven from his home, or his country. 
 
 Who was it a few years since that drove six hundred families from the 
 Austrian empire into the Prussian territory because they would not re- 
 nounce the Reformed Religion ? It was Popish priests. 
 
 Who was it that drove the Rev. Mr. Rule from Cadiz ? Papal au- 
 thorities, directed to do so by the Archbishop of the See. 
 
 Who flogged a man nearly to death for renouncing Popery in the state 
 of Pennsylvania? It was a Popish priest. In the neighborhood of 
 Doylestown a German Catholic attended a funeral sermon of a Protestant 
 minister, after which a priest called and asked him if he had become a 
 Protestant. "If you have," said he, "you have committed a mortal sin; 
 confess your sin to me." — " I have confessed my sin to Christ," said the 
 sick man, " and obtained absolution." The priest urged him with in- 
 creasing warmth to confess — he declined. The priest then seized a chair, 
 jumped on the bed, and pounded him with it till he broke it in pieces : 
 he then took from his pocket a raw-hide, and began to scourge him, to 
 compel him to confess. A stranger passing by hearing the noise, entered 
 the house, and finding the priest in the act of scourging the sick man, he 
 seized him by the collar, and dragged him down stairs. Soon after the 
 man died. The priest was arrested and tried in Doylestown courthouse, 
 was fined fifty dollars and costs, and left the country. 
 
 Who was it that threatened the city of Boston ? It was the Lady 
 Superior of the consumed convent, who said, " The Bishop has more 
 than 20,000 Irishmen at his command, who will tear your houses over 
 your heads, and you may read your riot acts till your throats are sore." 
 
 Who was it a short time since that said, " The first chance I have of 
 seeing your face, if powder and ball will do it, you will drop ?" It was 
 an agent of the Pope who signed himself " A Friend to Truth." The 
 person to whom the threat was addressed was the Rev. Mr. S. 
 
 A few years ago a Protestant minister in the west, after preaching to 
 
10 SPIRIT OF POPERY. 
 
 his own congregation, on the subject of Popery, was met by the priest of 
 the town at the church door, and told by him that " were it not for the 
 laws of the country he would cut his throat." — " Yes," said the minister, 
 " I know that already." 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Nast of Cincinnati, who has been instrumental in the 
 conversion of many German Papists, by preaching, lecturing, and pub- 
 lishing a German paper, received a letter a few months since, stating that 
 " If he did not stop his efforts, they would do with their fists what their 
 priests can not do with their pens — Tcnock your eyes outy 
 
 An Episcopal clergyman in the west, stated that a member of his 
 church married a Roman Catholic lady, who by his influence was con- 
 verted to the Protestant faith. The father of the young lady called to 
 inquire if it was so. "Yes," said the daughter, " it is." On leaving the 
 house, he said to his son-in-law, " Sir, I will never be satisfied till I have 
 washed my hands in your heart's blood." 
 
 A few years since a young lady of New York attended a lecture on 
 Popery by one of the city ministers, was hopefully converted, returned 
 home, and told her father that she had concluded to renounce Popery and 
 embrace Protestantism. *' If you do," replied her father, *' I'll flog your 
 Protestantism out of you." — "Act your pleasure," replied she. He im- 
 mediately took her up stairs, tied her to a bed-post, and proceeded to flog 
 her Protestantism out of her. In the act of fainting, he untied the rope 
 and threw her upon the bed. Since that time she has gone into eternity. 
 
 Some time ago, M. Maurette, a French Roman priest, was brought to 
 the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, and in consequence aban- 
 doned the pale of the idolatrous and apostate church in which he had 
 been brought up. Being convinced himself of the danger of continuing 
 in Babylon, he wished to induce as many as possible of his countrymen to 
 flee out of her infected communion. With this view he published a state- 
 ment of the reasons that had led him to adopt the Protestant faith, and 
 plainly and forcibly exposed the superstition of Rome, by the usual argu- 
 ments employed by the Divines of the French Protestant Church. For this 
 he was condemned on the 17th of May, 1S44, by the Court of Assizes 
 of L'Ariege, to a yearns imprisonment and a fine of ^00 francs ! ! as being 
 guilty of " insulting, and turning into derision, a religion, the establishment 
 of which is legally recognised in France.'''' 
 
 You have all heard of the brutish Papal persecutions at Damascus, 
 where two or three of the unprotected sons of Abraham were recently 
 flogged, soaked in large vessels of water — their eyes pressed out of their 
 sockets with a machine — dragged about by the ears, till the blood gushed 
 out — thorns driven in between the nails and flesh of their fingers and toes, 
 
SPIRIT. OF POPERY. 11 
 
 and candles put under their noses, burning their nostrils. This is 
 Popery! After hearing of this act of persecution, and hundreds of 
 others constantly taking place in Papal countries, and our own country, 
 who will believe that this unchangeable church has changed her system of 
 butchery ? What she has been she is now, and you, my Protestant 
 brethren, would feel it if she had the power. 
 
 The church of Rome has already shed the blood of 50,000,000 of the 
 human race for protesting against and renouncing the anti-Christian doc- 
 trines of her system. The laws which enacted these human sacrifices 
 stand all of them unrepealed: they are in full force to this day — this we 
 shall, now prove from her standard works. The following propositions 
 taken from Dr. Den's System of Theology (a text-book for every 
 Papal Theological seminary in the land), will put this matter beyond a 
 doubt : — 
 
 1st. '* Protestants are heretics, and as such are worse than Jews and 
 Pagans." 
 
 2d. " They are by baptism, and blood, under the power of the Roman 
 Catholic church." 
 
 3d. " So far from granting toleration to Protestants, it is the duty of the 
 church to exterminate the rites of their religion." 
 
 4th. *' It is the duty of the Roman Catholic church to compel heretics 
 to submit to her faith.^' 
 
 5th. " That the punishments decreed by the Roman Catholic church 
 are confiscation of goods, exile, imprisonment and death." 
 
 The following paragraph of an oath was taken from the Jesuit confes- 
 sion of faith published in Germany at Berlin, as late as 1829 : "We also 
 swear that we will persecute this cursed evangelical doctrine, as long as 
 we have a drop of blood in our bodies : and we will eradicate it secretly 
 and publicly, violently, and deceitfully, with words and with deeds, the 
 sword not excluded." This is the oath taken by every Jesuit, and let it 
 be remembered that multitudes of the priests in our country are Jesuits. 
 
 We next give some notes from the Popish Testament, commonly 
 known as the Rhemish Testament; they need no comment. 
 
 ^^Protestants. — To be present at their service, and all communication 
 with them in spiritual things, is a great and damnable sin." 
 
 " The, church service of England, they being in heresy and schism, is 
 not only unprofitable but damnable." 
 
 *' The translators of the English bible ought to be abhorred to the 
 depths of hell." 
 
 " Justice and rigorous puishment of sinners is not forbidden, nor Chris- 
 tian princes for putting heretics to death." 
 
12 SPIRIT OF POPERY. 
 
 " Heresy and apostacy from the Catholic faith, punishable by death." 
 
 '* Heretics ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to 
 be chastised or executed." 
 
 The blood of millions of saints shed by the Papal church "is not called 
 the blood of saints, any more than the blood of thieves, mankillers, or any 
 other malefactors, for the shedding of which, by order of justice, no com- 
 inonvvealth shall answer." 
 
 These notes are taken from a version of the Holy Scriptures, revised 
 for the Irish Romanists of the present day, published by a Roman arch- 
 bishop, and sanctioned by the highest authorities of the Romish body. 
 
 We have read of the savage islander who gluts himself with the 
 slaughtered enemy, but for men calling themselves Christians, to glut 
 themselves with the blood of saints, is a wonder indeed. Well might 
 John wonder at the strange sight — the slaughter of the saints in every 
 age. W^ho would not exclaim in the words of the patriarch Jacob : " Oh 
 my soul, come not thou into their secret : unto their assembly, mine 
 honor, be not thou united !" — " Come out of her, my people, that ye be 
 not partaker of her sins !" 
 
 Such, fellow-citizens, are the precepts of the Papists — such the de- 
 clared principles of Popery in the nineteenth century. Who will doubt 
 that persecution is an essential feature and characteristic of Popery ? If 
 in anything she seems changed, the change is only apparent — it is only an 
 artful accommodation of long-received principles to the peculiar exigen- 
 cies of the times. 
 
 " Of popish bigotry, Protestants take heed, 
 Your ruin's fixed, if they to power succeed ; 
 Their cruel, bloody scenes, they'll act once more, 
 And streets again shall stream with martyrs' gore. 
 Wherever Romish superstitions reign, 
 Reason shall speak, and nature plead in vain ; 
 Zealots shall perpetrate each barbarous task, 
 While priests turn butchers in religion's mask : 
 The reeking dagger and consuming fire, 
 The groaning gibbet and the scourging wire, 
 The dreadful rack to terrify the frail. 
 The torturing pincers nature to assail, 
 Of protestants shall be the certain dower. 
 Wherever popish factions rise to power. ) 
 The innocent, who truth's bright tenets own, 
 Shall die by malice, or by tortures groan. 
 Think of the massacres of which you've read. 
 Think of the murders of the mangled dead. 
 Then think, if ever popery bears the sway, 
 Such bloody scenes may be in this our day.'* 
 
INCREASE OP POPERY. 13 
 
 2d. The second point we propose to consider is the Increase of 
 Popery. 
 
 The frequent allusions made to this interesting and important subject 
 in the secular papers, appear to have excited a vague and undefined 
 anxiety in the minds of the reflecting and religious portion of the com- 
 munity ; and unfortunately, these allusions, being themselves vague and 
 unsatisfactory, could lead to no other and practical result. A sufficient 
 amount of facts has not been brought forward, suspicions and rumors 
 have been substituted for them, consequently many who on the discovery 
 of real danger would be prepared to unite in strenuous efforts to avert it, 
 refrain from all exertions, believing the time of peril still far distant. It 
 is to such persons we desire to speak, with a view of calmly and tem- 
 perately stating the true position and prospects of that great semi-political 
 power, which in former ages enthralled all the nations of Europe. 
 
 Our object is to present proof that Popery is in the possession of im- 
 mense strength, and is marching forward with rapid strides to supremacy 
 in this country, and thus to arouse all true Protestants, and all the friends 
 of our repubUcan institutions, to united and vigorous efforts in the cause 
 which involves the continuance of our civil and religious liberties. To 
 facts, and to facts alone, we appeal for a confirmation of our statements. 
 
 It is only about 56 years since the first Papal See was created by the 
 Pope in these United States. There is now one Archbishop ; 26 Bish- 
 ops ; 21 Sees ; 762 Priests ; 740 Churches and Cathedrals ; 437 Mission- 
 ary Stations ; 63 Female Seminaries ; 21 Theological Seminaries ; 25 
 Colleges and Literary Institutions ; 36 Female Convents. 
 
 It is now estimated that there are in the United States 2,000,000 Pa- 
 pists under the government of the Pope of Rome, all of whom are sworn 
 enemies to this republic, and that the annual increase is about 150,000. 
 
 An Irish paper lately says, " We never recollect to have seen such prep- 
 arations as are making among us to emigrate to America." A corres- 
 pondent in Germany says that '* hundreds of thousands of German Pa- 
 pists are preparing to come to the United States." So great is the desire 
 among the Belgian population to emigrate to America, that a Belgian 
 paper says " the authorities are determined to ship all her poorest class 
 here." Belgium is a Papal country. 
 
 The Roman Catholic church has built or consecrated over thirty new 
 churches in the United States within the year. The number of mission- 
 aries received from abroad during the same period is estimated at one 
 hundred and twelve. 
 
 Let it be remembered that it is chiefly to the western states that this 
 mighty stream of emigration tends. It is there the battle must be fought 
 
14 INCREASE OF POPERY. 
 
 which is to decide whether this land is to be occupied for Christ, or 
 whether it is to become the stronghold of Popery. One third of our 
 whole population is already in the western states. Fifty years ago a man 
 might have taken his stand on the banks of the Ohio at Pittsburg, and 
 drawn a line north to Lake Erie, and southward along the Allegany and 
 Cumberland mountains to the Gulf of Mexico, and the whole white pop- 
 ulation west of that line would have been less than a quarter of a million. 
 Here we have an increase of twenty-four fold in fifty years. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE, MD. 
 
 Churches, 59 ; Chapels, 12 ; Churches building, 1 ; Other stations, 20 ; 
 Clergymen on the Mission, 44 ; Clergymen otherwise employed, 37 ; 
 Ecclesiastical seminaries, 5 ; Clerical students, 56 ; Literary institutions 
 for young men, 4 ; Convents, 5 ; Female academies, 5 ; Charitable in- 
 stitutions, 27 ; Religious institutions, 12 ; Catholic population, 90,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
 
 Churches, 61 ; Chapels, 6 ; Clergymen on the mission, 47 ; Clergy- 
 men otherwise employed, 3 ; Ecclesiastical seminary, 1 ; Clerical stu- 
 dents, 30 ; Literary institutions for boys, 4 ; Literary institutions for 
 girls, 6 ; Charitable institutions, 4 ; Catholic population, 70,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF PITTSBURG, PA. 
 
 Churches, 41 ; Clergymen, 23 ; Clerical students, 8 ; Academy for 
 boys. 1 ; Schools for young ladies, 2 ; Charitable institutions, 4; Catho- 
 lic population, 30,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF NEW YORK. 
 
 Churches, 110 ; Chapels, 10 ; Other stations, 65 ; Clergymen on the 
 mission, 96; Clergymen otherwise employed, 6; Ecclesiastical semina- 
 ry, 1 ; Clerical students, 20 ; College for young men, 1 ; Literary institu- 
 tions for young ladies, 3 ; Institutions under sisters of charity, 11 ; Asy- 
 lums for Orphans, 6; Orphans supported and educated, 420; Catholic 
 population, over 200,000. 
 
 . DIOCESE OF DETROIT, MICH. 
 
 Churches, 12; Chapels, 15; Churches being built, 10; Other sta- 
 tions, 16 ; Clergymen on the mission, 14 ; Catholic schools, 16 ; Charita- 
 ble societies and Convents, 11 ; Catholic population, 40,000. 
 
INCREASE OF POPERY. 15 
 
 DIOCESE OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. 
 
 Churches, 70 ; Churches building, several ; Other stations, about, 50 ; 
 Clergymen on the mission, 56; Clergymen otherwise employed, 10; 
 Ecclesiastical seminary, 1 ; Clerical students 19 ; College for young 
 men, 1 ; Convents, 5 ; Academies for young ladies, 2 ; Charitable insti- 
 tutions, 5 ; Religious associations, 12 ; Catholic population, 65,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF HARTFORD, CT, 
 
 Churches, 10 ; Clergymen, 7. 
 
 DIOCESE OF VINCENNES, IND. 
 
 Churches and Chapels, 50 ; Clergymen in the ministry, 33 ; Clergy- 
 men otherwise employed, 6 ; Theological seminary, 1 ; Ecclesiastical 
 students, including four in Europe, 19 ; Convents, 3 ; Literary institu- 
 tions for young men, 2 ; Female academies, 5 ; Schools under direction 
 of brothers, 3 ; Catholic population, about 25,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 Churches, about 38 ; Churches building, about 8 ; Stations, numerous ; 
 Clergymen on mission, 21 ; Clergymen otherwise employed, 2 ; Ecclesi- 
 astical seminary, 1 ; College, 1 ; Convent, 1 ; Catholic population, 
 over 50,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF MILWAUKIE, W. T. 
 
 Churches and chapels, 18 ; Churches building, 6 ; Clergymen, 9 ; 
 Academy, 1 ; Schools, 4 ; Catholic population, 20,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF DUBUQUE, I. T. 
 
 Churches, 13 ; Stations, 8 ; Indian mission, 1 ; Clergymen, 13 ; Re- 
 ligious academies, 3 ; Catholic population, 5,800. 
 
 DIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
 
 Churches, 46 ; Private stations, 26 ; Clergymen on missions, 40 ; 
 Otherwise employed, 11 ; Ecclesiastical seminary, 1 ; Ecclesiastical stu- 
 dents, 10 ; College for young men, 1; Free school, 1 ; Charitable institu- 
 tions, 6; Benevolent associations, 4; Convents, 4; Catholic population, 
 160,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 Churches, 5 ; Clergymen, 6 ; Stations, 16 ; Churches building, 4 ; 
 Catholic population, . 
 
16 INCREASE OF POPERY. 
 
 DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE^ TENN. 
 
 Churches, 3 ; Chapels, 3 ; Stations, 30; Clergymen, 8 ; Ecclesiastical 
 seminary, 1 ; Clerical students, 3 ; Academy for young men, 1 ; Acade- 
 my for young ladies, 1 ; School for colored people, 1 ; Circulating libra- 
 ries, 2 ; Catholic population, . 
 
 DIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE, KY. 
 
 Churches, 40 ; Chapels, 10 ; Other stations, 75 ; Clergymen on mis- 
 sions, 31 ; Clergymen in various institutions, 23 ; Ecclesiastical institu- 
 tions, 3 ; Colleges for young men, 3 ; Convents, 4 ; Female academies, 
 11 ; Charitable institutions, 4 ; Catholic population, 30,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF RICHMOND, VA. 
 
 Number of clergymen, 11 ; Churches building, 3 ; Churches built, 10; 
 Ecclesiastical seminary, 1 ; Clerical students, 10 ; College for young 
 men, 1 ; School for young ladies, 1 ; Charitable institutions, 2 ; Catholic 
 population, . 
 
 DIOCESE OF MOBILE, ALA. 
 
 Churches, 12 ; Stations, 30 : Clergymen, 12 ; Ecclesiastical Semina- 
 ry, 1 ; Clerical students, 7 ; College for young men, 1 ; Female acade- 
 mies, 4; Charitable institutions, 7; Catholic population, 11,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 Churches, 32 ; Churches building, 8 ; Other stations, about 15 ; Cler- 
 gymen on the mission, 31 ; Clergymen otherwise employed, 3 ; Catholic 
 college for young men, 1 ; Orphan asylum, 1 ; Schools, numerous ; 
 Catholic population, 65,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 
 
 Churches dedicated, 15 ; Churches not dedicated, 5 ; Cnurches build- 
 ing, 2 ; Churches about to be erected, 3 ; Stations, about 50 ; Clergymen 
 on the mission, 19 ; Clergymen otherwise engaged, 2 ; Clerical students, 
 4 ; Convents, 2 ; Female academies, 2 ; Charitable institutions, 6 ; Catho- 
 lic population, over 10,000. 
 
 DIOCESE OF LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 
 
 Churches, 2 ; Stations, 6 ; Clergymen, 2 ; Convents, 2 ; Female 
 academies, 2 ; Catholic population, . 
 
INCREASE OF POPERY. 
 
 17 
 
 DIOCESE OF ST. LOUIS, MO. 
 
 Churches, 33 ; Churches building, 4 ; Other stations, about 26 ; Cler- 
 gymen on the mission, 31 ; Clergymen otherwise employed, 29 ; Eccle- 
 siastical seminaries, 3 ; Indian mission, 1 ; Colleges for young men, 2 ; 
 Academy for boys, 1 ; "Convents, 8 ; Academies for young ladies, S; 
 Schools, 7 ; Charitable institutions, 6 ; Catholic population, about 100,000. 
 
 COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 Dioceses, - - - 
 
 Bishops, - - - 
 Churches, - - - 
 Priests, - - - 
 Eccl. Seminaries, - 
 Colleges, - - - 
 Population, - - - 
 
 The following statistics of Popish Bishops is copied from the Metro- 
 pohtan Catholic Almanac, for 1846, published by F. Lucas, Jr., Balti- 
 more 4 — 
 
 1835. 
 
 1840. 
 
 1846. 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 1 Ap. Vic. 
 
 14 
 
 17 
 
 26 
 
 272 
 
 454 
 
 740 
 
 327 
 
 482 
 
 762 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 21 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 25 
 
 )00,000 
 
 — 
 
 2,000,000 
 
 ^-o. 
 
 Date. 
 
 . — 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1789 
 
 2 
 
 1793 
 
 3 
 
 1608 
 
 4 
 
 1808 
 
 5 
 
 1808 
 
 e 
 
 1808 
 
 ' 
 
 1820 
 
 8 
 
 1820 
 
 9 
 
 1821 
 
 1(1 
 
 182fi 
 
 11 
 
 1829 
 
 12 
 
 1S33 
 
 13 
 
 1834 
 
 14 
 
 1837 
 
 15 
 
 1837 
 
 16 
 
 1837 
 
 17 
 
 1843 
 
 18 
 
 1843 
 
 19 
 
 1843 
 
 20 
 
 1843 
 
 21 
 
 1843 
 
 Baltimore, 
 New Orleans. 
 
 LOUISVILLS, 
 
 Boston, 
 Philaoblphia, 
 
 Ni;w York, 
 
 "Charleston, 
 Richmond, 
 
 CfNCINNATt, 
 
 St. Louis, 
 Mobile, 
 
 Detrcit, 
 
 VlNCENNES, 
 
 Dubuque, 
 
 Nashville, 
 
 Natchez, 
 
 Pittsburg, 
 
 Little Rock, 
 
 Chicago, 
 
 Hahtford, 
 
 MiLWAUKIE, 
 
 Maryland a«d Dist. of Col. 
 Louisiana, 
 
 Kentucky, . , . . 
 
 { Massachusetts, Vermont, 
 / N. Hampshire and Maine, 
 r Eastern Pene.. Delaware, 
 I <f Hunterdon, Warren, Bur- 
 1 lin.gton, Gloucester, Salem, 
 I Cumh'd, Jf C. May Cos , N. J. 
 ( N. Y. State, Sussex, Bergen, 
 } Morris, Essex, Somfr't,Mid- 
 ( dlesex, <S- Monvi'th Cos,, N J. 
 
 N. Caroi'a, S. Carol'a, & Ga. 
 
 Virginia, 
 
 Ohio, .... 
 
 Missouri, 
 
 Alabama aBd Florida, 
 
 Michigan, . 
 
 I»di£waa, 
 
 Iowa Territory, . 
 
 Tennessee, 
 
 Mississippi, 
 
 Western Peainsylvania, 
 
 Arkansas, . , . , 
 
 Illinois, .... 
 
 Connecticut and R. Island 
 
 Wisconsin Territory, 
 
 Vicariate— Oregon Terr., 
 
 Name3 of Bishops. 
 
 Most Rev. Sam'l EccJeston, D. D. 
 R. Rev. Anthony Blanc, D. D. 
 \ R. Rev. Bened't J. Flaget. D. D. 
 \ " " G. 1. Chabrat, D.D. Coaj. 
 
 \ R.Rev. Bene^ctFenwick,D,D. 
 I" " J. Fizpatrick, D.D. Coarf;'. 
 
 R. Rev. F. P. Kenrick, D. D. 
 
 R. Rev. John Hugh«s, D. D. 
 " " J. McCloskey.D.D., Coaj. 
 
 R. Rev. Ignatius Reynolds, D. D. 
 " " Richard V. Whelan, D. D. 
 " " John. B. Purcell, D. D. 
 " " Peter R. Kenrick, D. D. 
 *' " Michael Portier, D. D. 
 Rev. Frederick Reze, D. D. 
 " Peter P. Lefevre, D.D., 
 Coaj. and Administrator. 
 R. Rev. C. de ia Hailandiere, D,D. 
 " " Mathias Loras, D. D. 
 " " Riohard P. Miles, D. D. 
 " " John J. Chances, D. D. 
 " " Michael O'Connor, D. D. , 
 " '•* Andrew Byrne, D. D. 
 '» " William Quarter, D. D. 
 <' " William l^ier, D, D. 
 " »' John P. Henni, D. D. 
 '* " F. N. Blanchette, D, D., 
 Vicar. 
 
 When Consecra'd. 
 
 Sept. 14. 1834. 
 Nov. 22, 1835. 
 Nov. 4, 1810. 
 July 20, 1834. 
 
 Nov. 1, 1825. 
 March 24,1844. 
 
 June 6, 1830. 
 
 Jan, 7, 1638. 
 March 10,1844. 
 
 March 19,1844. 
 March 21,1841. 
 Oct. 13, 1833. 
 Nov. 30. 1841. 
 Nov. 5^ 1826, 
 Oct. 6, 1833. 
 
 JNov.21,1841. 
 
 •Aug. 18, 1839. 
 July 28, 1637. 
 Sept, 16, 1838. 
 March 14,1841.1 
 Aug. 15, 1843. 
 March 10,1844. 
 March 10,1844. 
 M-arch 17,1844. 
 March 19,1844. 
 
 i Apostolic. 
 
 In CaBada, on the north, Popery is the established religion of one 
 province, and is liberally supported by the other. They number 10 
 
 2 
 
18 DESIGN OF POPERY. 
 
 Bishops, 133 Priests, and 500,000 Papists. In Texas equal activity is 
 displayed. In South America and Mexico they have 44 Bishops, 5,000 
 Priests, and 23,000,000 of Papists — total for the new world, SO Bishops, 
 6,000 Priests, 26,541,000 Papists. The whole number in the world : 
 Archbishops, 147 ; Bishops, 584 ; Vicars Apostolical, 71 ; Prefects, 9 ; 
 Apostolicals, 3 ; Priests and Jesuits, 400,000 ; Monks, 600,000 ; and 
 156,000,000 of Papists. From 1800 to 1S42, 40 new Sees have been 
 created. 
 
 In every part of the world Popery is pursuing its triumphant course. 
 The same elements which are at work in other countries, giving Popery 
 such victories, are at work in the new world. The priests are equally 
 diligent — the secular press is to a very great extent in the hands of the 
 Papists. Men high in office in our land are disposed to assist them. 
 Modern Liberalism, Infidelity. Ultra High Church Doctrines, the princi- 
 ples of expediency, all these things conspire to aid the march of Popery, 
 Every nerve is now strained to its utmost tension, and every plan that 
 human or Satanic craft can devise, is carried into execution, to promote 
 the great design of Popery. This leads us to consider, 
 
 3d. The Design of Popery. 
 
 The illustrious La Fayette, the companion and fellow-soldier o^ 
 Washington, observed, " If ever the liberty of this republic is destroyed, 
 it will be by Roman Priests." And the father of his country, probably 
 with an eye to the encroachments of the same power, warns his country- 
 men to guard against " foreign influence." We lay it down as an in- 
 controvertible truth, that Catholic European nations are determined to 
 plant their institutions among us, until they reduce this free and en- 
 lightened republic to the dominion of the Roman See. There is abun- 
 dant* proof that a foreign conspiracy has been organized in Catholic 
 Europe to embarrass and overthrow the institutions of this country, and 
 that Austria is a member of it. One of the most formidable instruments 
 for effecting its object, is the Leopold Foundation, established iu 
 Vienna, May 13th, 1829, to support CathoHc Missions in the United 
 /States. Every member of this society agrees to offer daily one Peter 
 and Ava, with the addition, " St. Leopold, pray for us;" and every week 
 to contribute a crucifix. The valley of the Mississippi has been mapped 
 as well as surveyed by the Jesuits of the Vatican, and Popish Cardinals 
 are rejoicing in the prospect of the entire subjection of this land of free- 
 dom and inlelllgence to Papal supremacy. The Rev. Dr. John Angel! 
 James, an eminent clergyman of England, says : ^' The church of 
 Rome has determined to compensate herself for her losses in the old 
 
DESIGN OF POPERY. 19 
 
 world by her conquests in the new." Hence a Papal editor in Europe 
 says: "We must make haste — the moments are precious, America may 
 become the centre of civilization." 
 
 The Right Rev. Dr. Reese of Detroit (now in custody at Rome), a few 
 years since, writing to his master, the Pope of Rome, says : *' We 
 shall see the truth triumph, the temple of idols overthrown, the seat 
 of falsehood brought to silence, and all the United States embraced 
 in the same faith of that Catholic church, wherein dwell truth and tem- 
 poral happiness." 
 
 A Popish priest in Indiana told a Protestant minister that the time would 
 come when Catholics would make Protestants walk knee deep in blood 
 in the valley of the Mississippi. In conversation with a Catholic priest, 
 a Protestant minister lately observed, *' Catholicism is making rapid prog- 
 ress in this country, and will doubtless ere long obtain the ascendency." 
 To which the priest replied, " There is not a member of our church but 
 believes the same." 
 
 Bishop England, in a letter to his Holiness the Pope, writes : " With- 
 in thirty years the Protestant heresy will come to an end. If we can se- 
 cure the west and south we will take care of New England." This same 
 dignitary said to his Catholic brethren at Vienna, " All that is necessary 
 is money and priests to subjugate the mock liberties of America.''^ 
 
 The Boston Pilot says : *' Catholics should control and sway the 
 destinies of the far west. Catholic enterprise first measured its immense 
 lakes, opened paths in the eternal forests, and traced its mighty rivers from 
 their mountain nurseries to the ocean. The west was a conquest of the 
 Catholic spirit — the jesujt spirit, if you will. The Church has 
 a right to claim the immense valley of the Mississippi of which the 
 JESUIT missionaries were the first explorers — the lands that bank the 
 Ohio and the Illinois, and those adjoining the great lakes. 
 
 " We long to have an Irish policy in America ; and if good 
 Presses in Canada and this Republic, will carefully consult each other's 
 position, lending aid and approbation — that policy can be established." 
 
 Professor Brownson, who recently became an advocate of Papacy, 
 says we are not to inquire whether the Catholic Church is hostile to 
 civil and religious liberty or not ; but whether that Church is founded on 
 Divine right. Mark his language : — 
 
 '' * But would you have this country come under*the authority of the 
 pope!' Why not? 'But the pope would take away our free institu- 
 tions!' Nonsense. But how do you know that ? From what do you 
 infer it? After all, do you not commit a slight blunder? Are your free 
 institutions infallible? Are they founded on Divine right? This you 
 
20 DESIGN OF POPERY. 
 
 deny. Is not the proper question for you to discuss, then, not whether 
 the papacy be or be not compatible with republican government, but, 
 whether it be or be not founded in Divine right? If the Papacy be 
 founded in Divine right, it is supreme over whatever is founded only in 
 human right, and then your institutions should be made to harmonize 
 with it, and not it with your institutions." 
 
 A Romish doctor in the south, speaking of the difficulties Catholic mis- 
 sionaries find in converting the western Indians, closes with this as the prin- 
 cipal obstacle: " Their continual traffic among the whites, which can not 
 be hindered as long as republican government shall exist." Would the 
 Romish doctor put an end to our repubhcan government ? Doubtless, 
 if he had the power, he would do as the Catholic French commander 
 did who introduced Catholicism into the Sandwich Islands, at the can- 
 non's mouth, or as a New York bishop would have long since done to the 
 Protestants for not granting him $50,000 to establish Popery in our cily. 
 
 The Duke of Richmond, while governor of the Canadas, made the fol- 
 lowing observations at a public meeting in Montreal : *' The curse of the 
 French Revolution, and the subsequent wars and commotions of Europe, 
 are to be attributed to the republic of America, and so long as it exists no 
 prince will be safe upon his throne, and the crowned heads of Europe are 
 aware of it, and they have decided upon the means for its destruction.^^ 
 What are these means ? 
 
 Speaking on this subject, the Rev. Dr. Beecher of Cincinnati remarks : 
 *' We have reached an appalling crisis ; the work is vast and difficult, and 
 is accumulating beyond our sense of danger and deliberate efforts to meet 
 it. Our ablest patriots are looking out on the deep, vexed with storms, 
 with great forebodings and failings of heart, for fear of the things that are 
 coming upon us." Recently an eminent minister of the gospel in Europe 
 addressed the people of this country in the following emphatic language : 
 " Rouse and inflame the zeal of Protestantism in America, to disappoint 
 the apostles of darkness of their wished-for prey." 
 
 Will any one say there is no cause for apprehension ; that there is no 
 danger ; that we are sounding a false alarm? We answer, his ?m-holiness, 
 the Pope, will not view it in this light. His plans are deeply laid ; his 
 emissaries are secretly and effectually laboring with the most untiring 
 zeal to accomplish their purposes, and make proselytes to their religion. 
 And shall we, the descendants of the pilgrims, who fled from tyranny and 
 oppression ; who planted the Protestant religion in the wilds of America ; 
 who watered it with their tears, and invoked the blessing of God with 
 their most ardent prayers ; shall we stand still and quietly submit to this 
 worst of all bondage ? Forbid it, gracious Heaven ! No, we have seen 
 
PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 21 
 
 and heard enough of the horrors of Popery, and the Inquisition with its 
 infernal power> and the blood of slaughtered victims, to do this. We 
 will enter the lists as did our fathers. We will oppose it until it is driven 
 back to the regions of darkness, whence it proceeded. But how shall 
 we oppose it ? Not by fire and sword, not with persecution and slander ; 
 but with the meek and decided spirit of our holy religion ; by enlighten- 
 ing the public mind ; by showing its errors, and exposing its secret policy. 
 Oh, for a voice, that shall roll in strains of heavenly eloquence from shore 
 to shore through this vast continent, and through the world, that shall 
 stir up such a spirit as actuated Luther, Melancthon, and other eminent 
 reformers, who dared to stand forth, and show openly to the world, that 
 Popery is founded upon the basest principles of the human heart, and 
 that " her ways take hold on hell, and lead to the chambers of death." 
 
 4th. We are now lastly to consider the plans and means the church of 
 Rome is employing to spread her system in our country, and gain su- 
 premacy in our republic. 
 
 It is an interesting question, my Christian brethren, by what extraordi- 
 nary steps the stupendous system of Popery has overshadowed the world 
 with its power, and ext5fll|pd its influence from the rivers to the ends of 
 the earth. That the sounds of its idolatry have been echoed from the 
 steppes of the Cossack to, the wilds of the Arab, is a fact with which his- 
 tory is pregnant with proof. It is an interesting inquyj}^ by what process 
 it has been that this power, once all but universal, rose to its ascendency, 
 and how from the fisherman of Galilee was evolved the despots and tyrants 
 of the earth. ii 
 
 One step by which the Papal church rose to power and ascendency, 
 was the adaptation of the whole system to man's fallen nature and depraved 
 heart. If you examine this complex and mysterious device you will find 
 that every pecuharity of the mind is consulted. It is a fact, if you secure 
 the five senses of man, you will very soon secure the homage of the in- 
 tellect and the heart. The Papal church saw this, and after she had 
 extinguished the lights of reason, and silenced the announcements of 
 revelation, she gathered the masters of poetry and painting, and music, to 
 Rome, and when she had cast all the splendor, and magnificence of earth 
 around the throne of the despot hierarch — and when nations came to wit- 
 ness the Holy See, their senses were so dazzled with the splendor of the 
 exterior that they lost all power of perceiving the abominable scenes that 
 were " in the chakibers of imagery within." She felt that as she removed 
 the glory of heaven from the altar, she must get an earth-born glory to 
 supply its place. Thus she made mllHons to pass to the bar of God 
 
22 PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 
 
 amid the anthems of poesy and music, amid the exquisite displays of the 
 architect's and painter's skill, but alas ! in awful and disastrous ignorance 
 of " Him who to know is life." 
 
 When, in our day, we see the church of Rome sending among us vast 
 numbers of Papists — nuns, monks, friars, Jesuits, and bishops, and ex- 
 pending such immense sums to plant its institutions all over our land, is 
 it not time to look around and ask ourselves what can be done to stem 
 the influence of this mighty and malignant power? Among the means 
 and plans employed by the church of Rome to spread her system and es- 
 tablish her supremacy, we specify — 
 
 1st. The Union of Poyery and Infidelity, 
 
 This suggestion results not only from the principle that *' extremes are 
 nearest," but it is founded on facts. Infidelity and Popery, when they 
 meet, like Milton's Sin and Death, find that they are near and intimate 
 acquaintances — much more so than they supposed. 
 
 The church of Rome would rejoice to see our land covered with infi- 
 delity, not only from the fact of their relationship and sympathy, but be- 
 cause thence she would gather her most numerous and illustrious victims. 
 The moral sepulchre is to her a feast of fat things : like the vulture, she 
 hovers over the living, but pounces and preys upon the dead. 
 
 The church of Rome rejoices in chaos — in moral desolation — in the 
 wreck and ruin of all that is truly beautiful and noble. Disorganization, 
 ecclesiastical feuds, and broils, and bitter jealousies, form the atmosphere 
 in which she flourishes. It is amid the din and tumult of the storm, that, 
 like the wreckers on our coast, she brings her prizes home with rare 
 spoils and treasures. Hence in proportion as infidelity spreads, will Po- 
 pery spread also. Popery is practical infidelity. Papal seed gives an in- 
 fidel crop ; hence the Papal world is full of infidels : witness infidel France. 
 Even Italy, where the Pope, " the man of sin," resides, contains more of 
 the infidel tribe than any other nation in Europe. Dr. Priestley, who 
 visited France, in 1774, says : " I saw sufficient reason to believe, that 
 hardly any person of eminence in church or state^ and especmlly in a great 
 degree eminent in philosophy or literature, whose opinions in all countries 
 are sooner or later adopted, werjp believers in Christianity, Few persons 
 have the discernment or candor to distinguish between Christianity and 
 its corruptions. Hence the abuses of religion have led men into all the 
 extravagances of deism and atheism, of revolution and anarchy. 
 
 2d. Another means of spreading the system of Popery and establishing 
 her supremacy, is hypocrisy. 
 
 The Papal church has Popery for Europe, and Popery for America — 
 Popery for the rich, and Popery for trie poor — Popery for the learned. 
 
PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 23 
 
 and Popery for the unlearned — Popery for the old, and Popery for the 
 j^oung : she has Popery for every country and every condition in life. 
 Popery adapts itself to the tastes and prejudices, to the knowledge or 
 agnorance, yea, even to the vices of the people — it accommodates itself to 
 all times, places, and circumstances. It pays court to the great, and 
 stoops tii the mean and vulgar. It has a thousand disguises, and never 
 wants for expedients. Popery among an intelligent and free people con- 
 ceals the more revolting and odious features of her system, and professes 
 Co be what she is not. Jesuits understand how to play this game to per- 
 fection. The system on which they act is a system of the most consum- 
 mate and siihtle deception and hy|X)crisy without. Among Papists it is 
 no crime to deceive Protestants. 
 
 Popery is adapted to supply the wants of every class of men. If they 
 love the splendor of a throne, she presents them with one ; if they are 
 rich, she naeets them with indulgences ; if they want to balance both 
 worlds, to Jive as they list ia this world, she has a purgatory after death. 
 Whatever may be the way which proves to their fancy most convenient 
 for getting to heaven, that way is made ready ; and the combination of 
 forces is so exact, that though all seem to pull in an opposite direction, 
 yet ail contribute to the attaiianaent of her intense aspiration for power, 
 and of her absorfjing desire for supremacy* 
 
 3d. The Romish church aims to accomplish her objects by her 
 hoasted uniozu 
 
 It is the boast of the Papists that they are united, while Protestants are 
 split up iato sects- It is not true, however, that Papists are united in 
 uniformity of doctrine. It is true that they all acknowledge the Pope to 
 be their master, the Jiead of the church of Rome, while we Protestants 
 tiave no Pope. 
 
 The following story will give a just idea of Popish unity: Irt Ire- 
 land, a short time since, a number of boys were taken and tried, and after 
 receiving sentence, they were chained, and in that condition were march- 
 ing between files of soldiers on the road to Botany Bay. As they were 
 inarching along, they saw some of their countrymen, to whom they called 
 out with great animation, and shaking their heads, said : " See, your 
 honors, we are Tipperary volunteers.'* The Papists are like the Tippe- 
 rary volunteers — there is a sort of union, but the cause of unity is not any 
 interna! partiality, and voluntary adhesion to each other, but compres- 
 sion; a union produced by a force ah extra, not the effect of love and 
 sympathy ah intra. 
 
 4th, The boosted antiquity of the Romish church is another device of 
 the Papists io attain influence and ascendency. 
 
24 PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 
 
 Papists are constantly asking uneducated and uninformed Prate^anfs-, 
 *' Where was your church before the days of Luther and the Reforma- 
 tion ?" The answer is plain ; for ten centuries k was in the cold and 
 icy grasp of the Romish church. A fact mentioned in Liwdsay's travels 
 in Egypt and the Holy Land, will illustrate this point. " As Lindsay 
 was one day exploring the gigantic pyramids, he found an Egyptian mnni- 
 my with a large bulbous root in its fiands. By certain hieroglyph i-cal em- 
 blems, to which young Champolian and others found the key, it appeare(^ 
 that the mummy was at least two thousand years oM. Anxious to ascertaii? 
 the power and endurance of vegetable vitality, he took the root, buried i^ 
 in the ground, watered and nourished it, uirtil, to his surprise and delight, 
 it grew up and put forth a magnificent dahlia."" The aptness of this iHus- 
 tration a child can not M\ to see. Before the time of Luther, the true 
 church was in the cold and icy grasp of the church of Rome ; and Lu- 
 ther and the other reformers, those moral norser}'men and gardeners, 
 drew it from that miserable situation, planted it in more congenial; soMv 
 tended its growth amid the dews of the Holy Spirit, and tbe rays of the 
 Son of Righteousness, till it shot up and blossomed into those illustrious 
 churches which are the glory of England and America. 
 
 5th. Popery aims to extend her sway by the proud assumption of her 
 perpetual visibility. 
 
 Truly the church of Rome has been visible where she had better have 
 been invisible. We find her visible at the burning of the illustrious Hussy 
 when the flames which consumed the holy martyr reflected their light oo 
 the persons of the murderers. We find her visible during the wbole pe- 
 riod of the Inquisition. In the space of 129 years that tenible tribunal 
 deprived Spain of 3,000,000 of inhabitants. All the nations of Europe 
 have seen her intoxicated with triumph and drunk with blood. We find 
 her visible during the sacrifice and groans and agony of 50,000,000 or 
 60,000,000 of immortal beings who *' would not receive the mark of the 
 beast in their right hands or in their foreheads." Frightful visibility : 
 better that she had been covered with the pal! of oblivion, and never ex- 
 isted to terrify and crush the nations. 
 
 6th. By supporting Catholic institutions, many professed Protestants 
 are doing much to establish the supremacy of the Romish church in this 
 country. 
 
 There are some men so vastly liberal they think all systems equally 
 good ; hence they contribute to everything, right or wron-g. All we say 
 to these persons, they are committing a moral suicide — they are sapping 
 the foundations of their country^s prosperity, and insulting God. The 
 
PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 25 
 
 prayer we would breathe for these misguided persons is, " Father, forgive 
 them, for they know not what they do." 
 
 Probably but few Catholic churches have been erected in this country 
 without the help of Protestants. But a short time since, one of the presi- 
 dents of our colleges contributed $20 toward the erection of a mass- 
 house ; and one of the ex-governors of our state appropriated $50 out of 
 his private purse toward a church which had been bought of Protestants 
 for the use of Catholics. 
 
 7th. The Roman church finds an important auxiliary in the popular 
 literature of the day, particularly novels, full of the beauty and plausibili- 
 ties of Popery. 
 
 It is a fact which has attracted but little notice, which nevertheless is 
 worthy of serious consideration, that much of the popular literature of the 
 day is tinctured with a spirit of mysticism and romance, which embosoms 
 and embalms, which gives beauty and power to the Romish system. The 
 love of the beautiful and the marvellous is in every mind — we love to 
 wander in the regions of fancy, listen to unearthly sounds, and see strange 
 sights. Nature seems to have made ample provision for the gratification 
 of this principle. The solemn grandeur of the towering mountain — the 
 quiet beauty of the sleeping valley — the mysterious depth of the untrodden 
 forest — the stillness of the midnight hour — the pomp and splendor of the 
 starry vault — all these minister to the love of the marvellous and the 
 beautiful. 
 
 We love to contemplate objects and scenes invested with pomp and 
 glory and mystery, and the Romish system provides largely for the gratifi- 
 cation of this feeling. Hence it may be called the religion of romance. 
 Poets and novelists have drawn largely from this source of inspiration, 
 and paid it back with interest. The stillness and holy seclusion of the 
 cloister — the chime of the evening bells — the hour of prayer — the glim- 
 mering tapers, and the cloud of incense — the solenm procession, and the 
 blazing altar, before which the priest ministers in glittering robes — the 
 mysteries of the confessional, and the performance of pompous rites — the 
 finished picture of some holy father, or saintly sister — these things are 
 made to figure as poetic illustrations, or chosen to ornament a tale of 
 marvels and of mystery. Scarcely does there a poetic fragment or a 
 novel appear, but you find this infusion of Romish superstition and 
 idolatry. Thus the poison of their system is infused in our literature ; 
 the mind is imperceptibly corrupted and ensnared, and the way gradually 
 prepared for the spread and triumph of the Romish religion. 
 
 The light literature of the day with which our press is constantly 
 teeming, found in all our public Hbraries, and in all places of amusement 
 
2G PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 
 
 is Stamped with the broad yet painted features of Popery. Under the 
 transforming influence of an inventive and powerful imagination, dross is 
 turned to gold, error is made to wear the semblance of truth, vice is robed 
 in habiliments of virtue, and a system of mummery and delusion is in- 
 vested with irresistible charms to the youthful and uninformed mind. 
 Poetry and eloquence have embalmed and rendered sacred the dogmas 
 and rites of the most false and ruinous system ever devised by man, by 
 associating them with the choicest pleasures of the imagination. 
 
 8th. Another means for spreading the Roman Catholic religion is the 
 establishment of schools for the benefit of Protestants. 
 
 In their educational bills the priests notify the public that they will do 
 nothing to induce the children of Protestants to embrace the Roman faith. 
 Many are deceived in this thing, but not all. They even offer to give 
 Protestant children a gratuitous education, while their own children they 
 leave to grow up in ignorance and vice, contrary to the well-known 
 maxim, ''Charity begins at home." It is a fact which all history shows, 
 that Rome is not, and never has been, the friend and patron of enlightened 
 education ; she has never been in favor of educating the masses, but has 
 everywhere, and in all ages, striven to keep them in ignorance. 
 
 We need only to look at Catholic Europe, and Papal countries the 
 world over, and survey the ignorance and degradation of the masses, es- 
 pecially of the poor, to comprehend the policy of the priests in establish- 
 ing schools in our country. These schools are established for Protestants, 
 and for Protestants mainly. They are traps to catch our children, and 
 alas ! they catch many. The priests may well say they " will do nothing 
 to influence the children of Protestants to embrace the Roman faith," 
 since everything is already prepared and adapted to captivate and proselyte 
 them. In the higher schools, designed for the education of young ladies, 
 the most eminent instructors in every department of the fine arts and lan- 
 guages, particularly French, which imperceptibly initiates them into the 
 mysteries of Catholicism. Then the easy and winning manners of their 
 teachers — the gentleness of the meek-eyed sisters — the apparently unaffect- \J^ 
 ed kindness, and anxious, disinterested care of the holy fathers meanwhile, 
 blended with an air of mystery and authority, combined with the attractive 
 charms in which their religion is presented to the eye and ear, can not ^ 
 fail to awaken peculiar interest in the susceptible minds of the young, and 
 steal away their hearts. 
 
 Hence we find frequent instances of children, of the higher classes es- 
 pecially, becoming Catholics, either before or after leaving the schools. 
 There is something romantic in going to a convent to school, and once 
 introduced into the wizard circle, the power of enchantment is too strong 
 
PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 27 
 
 to be resisted. Instances are not wanting of daughters converted at these 
 schools proselyting their parents. Thus Catholicism is gradually and 
 stealthily making its way among the families of the higher classes. We 
 might specify many instances of conversion to the Catholic faith brought 
 about in this way. 
 
 9th. Politics is another means employed by the Catholics to obtain 
 power and ascendency in this country. 
 
 I state this as a Christian minister, not as a partisan, for all parties are 
 the same to me — all are influenced by the same motives — and acting to 
 the same end. One party derives as much support as the other from the 
 votes of the Catholics : it is a favorite object with the two great parties 
 to secure them. 
 
 The church of Rome is bent on obtaining the ascendency in our re- 
 public, and after two or three more millions of her faithful adherents 
 have arrived from the Pope's dominions, she will feel independent of 
 either party, and do as a certain conjurer is represented to have done. 
 To accomplish the destruction of a formidable castle, he summoned cer- 
 tain demons and spirits of the deep, and said to them : " Gentlemen, that 
 castle is an eye-sore to me, I wish to level it to the ground ; will you 
 assist me ?" — " Oh, yes, to be sure we will, with all our hearts," they re- 
 plied. They accordingly helped him pull down the castle, but just as 
 they came to a hidden treasure the conjurer said : '* Now, gentlemen de- 
 mons, I have accomplished my object, I have got the treasure I sought 
 for, I pray you will retire to your own place and leave me to help myself." 
 "Not so," said they, " we helped to achieve the victory, and we mean to 
 share in the spoils." So will it be in the present case. To effect her 
 object. Popery assists, alternately, both the great parties, and when she 
 has attained the object of her ambition, she will say : " Gentlemen, you 
 may retire, and leave me to enjoy the spoils." Depend upon it, my 
 brethren, the time is not far distant, when Protestants, men of all parties, 
 will be compelled to unite to defeat the designs of Rome and save our 
 republic from her fell grasp. 
 
 10th. To estabhsh her supremacy, the church of Rome is constantly 
 receiving large contributions from abroad. The three great sources from 
 which she receives aid are tho following: The French society, the 
 Propaganda at Rome, and the famous Leopold Foundation in Austria. 
 
 During the year 1839, the Papists received from the Propaganda 
 $160,000. In 1840 the society at Lyons, in France, sent to Cincinnati, 
 $163,000— in 1842, $177,000—in 1843, $175,000. 
 
 The last appropriations of money made to the new world, according to 
 the statistics given in the Freeman's Journal, published in New York, 
 
28 PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 
 
 amount to 392,922 francs. Since the year 1830, not less than $150,000 
 have been annually received in this country for the spread of Papacy. 
 It is evident a foreign conspiracy has been formed against the political and 
 religious institutions of the United States with Metternich at their head. 
 It is well known and talked of in Europe, that such a conspiracy exists, 
 and that the design of the conspirators is to embarrass and overthrow our 
 institutions. 
 
 11th. To accomplish her ambitious designs the Romish church pro- 
 scribes the common use of the Bible, 
 
 It is the right, duty, and privilege of all to read the Bible. It is the 
 revelation God has given, and the only one for the instruction and sal- 
 vation of man, hence the Savior himself commands us to *' search the 
 Scriptures." 
 
 What are views of the Romish church on this point ? What is the 
 language of the Popes and councils ? 
 
 Pope Leo XII., in his letter addressed to all the Bishops of the 
 Romish church, dated at Rome so late as the third day of May, 1824, 
 thus writes : " You are aware, venerable brethren, that a certain society 
 called the Bible Society, strolls with effrontery through the world; which 
 society, contemning the traditions of the Holy Fathers, and contrary to 
 the well known decree of the Council of Trent, in Rule IV., which says, 
 * If the Bible be translated indiscriminately, and allowed to all, it will 
 cause more evil than good.'" 
 
 Pope Leo XII., in his letter gravely tells us from St. Peter's chair, 
 " They have turned the gospel into the gospel of devils." Pope Pius 
 VII., in his letter of 1816, denounced Bible societies as "a pestilence." 
 
 The earliest severities of the Inquisition were directed to the Bible, 
 and the edict of the Council of Thoulouse, 1229, forbade the laity to 
 read it in their own tongue. 
 
 In the year 1558, the terrible law of Philip II. was published, which 
 decreed confiscation and death for all who should sell, buy, keep, or read 
 any of the books prohibited by the holy office, among these the Bible 
 was especially included. This law was sanctioned by the bull issued in 
 1559. Bishop Spotswood once said to Black Adder, he " would rather 
 half of the people of the nation should be brought to the stake and burnt, 
 than one man should read the Bible and form his judgment from its con- 
 tents !" 
 
 At the time Thomas Harding was found in the woods reading his 
 Bible, he was taken to the stake and burnt, and every one who carried a 
 fagot to the stake was granted forty days' indulgence ! 
 
 Burning at the stake was not the only way Bible readers were put to 
 
PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 29 
 
 death. Thousands were put to death by a machine called the pendulum. 
 The victim was fastened in a groove upon his back, suspended above him 
 was a pendulum, constructed so as to become longer with every move- 
 ment. This instrument of death being sharp, swinging to and fro from 
 above him, first it cuts the skin of his nose, and gradually cuts on till life 
 is extinct. This horrid butchery was practised at as late a date as 1820, 
 and published by the secretary of the Spanish Inquisition, Florence, 1826. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Winans, an Irish Protestant, stated before the British 
 Bible Society, that he employed four men to go out and expound the 
 Scriptures in the bounds of his extensive congregation ; that three of 
 them were murdered, and the fourth they killed before Mr. Winans' door, 
 and as he lay weltering in his blood, his murderers turned and remarked : 
 *' Mr. Maker, you'll never expound the Scriptures again !" 
 
 In the absence of his father, a little boy attended the sabbath school 
 of a Dutch Reformed minister. On his return, he went up stairs, and 
 finding his son reading the Word of God, he asked him : " What book 
 are you reading?" He replied, *' The Bible." — " Where did you get it?" 
 " In yonder sabbath school." He then took the Bible from him, and 
 committed it to the flames, saying : "If you ever go to the sabbath 
 school again, I'll give you such a thrashing as you never had." Having 
 ascertained that the Bible was burnt, his son said to him: "Father, 
 you've burnt my Bible, but I can tell you what it is, you can not burn 
 out of me those pretty little chapters I have committed to memory out of 
 the gospel of St. John." 
 
 A lady who had received a Bible in one of our neighboring towns, was 
 called on by a priest, who asked her if she kept a Protestant Bible in her 
 house. " Yes," said she. " Where is it ?" — " On that shelf."—" Hand 
 it to me." — " Help yourself, sir." — " Hand me that Bible !" repeated 
 the priest. — " You are big enough to help yourself" He seized the 
 tongs, with which he took the Bible, threw it out doors, and burnt it. 
 
 Protestants go for a Bible education — an education based on the oracles 
 of God. What education would that be, my friends, which would minis- 
 ter to all that is material and perishable in our nature, but would cast a 
 dark and impenetrable shroud over all that is glorious and enduring in 
 the prospect of regenerated humanity? What education would that be 
 which would allow me to learn the name and smell the fragrance of every 
 flower, but would conceal from my view the Rose of Sharon ? What 
 education would that be which would unfold the wonders of immensity, and 
 allow me to gaze on every star that studs the canopy of heaven, but cast 
 a dark mantle over the bright and morning star ? What education would 
 that be which would allow me to dip into all the rules of the pharmacopoeia, 
 
30 PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 
 
 to learn its balms, and its cordials, but debar me from that only balm that 
 comforts and quickens with a blessed immortality? 
 
 12. To attain the object of her ambition the church of Rome prescribes 
 liberty of conscience. 
 
 It is well known by all tourists that in the city of Rome a drawn sword 
 is put to the throat of every editor, public speaker, and author. One 
 unpopish idea advanced there will deprive a man of his liberty, and one 
 word in favor of liberty will cost a man his life in one short hour. 
 
 It is one of the fundamental principles of the church of Rome " to 
 deny to men the right of private judgment." Why have oceans of blood 
 been shed by Papists ? It was to extinguish civil liberty and the rights 
 of conscience. Why was war waged in the Netherlands, by the duke 
 of Alva, and thousands sacrificed in cold blood? It was a war against 
 the genius of religious freedom and the sacred rights of conscience. 
 Why have thousands of the Waldenses been murdered by the bulls of 
 Rome ? Because those men dared to vindicate the rights of conscience. 
 Even the present Pope dares in the face of Europe and the world, de- 
 nounce liberty of conscience as the claims of impious and raving madmen. 
 
 A gentleman of our city, a ^ew years ago, happened inadvertently to say 
 to his father confessor, *' I think, sir, it is so and so." The priest kindled 
 into a rage and said : "You think, sir! what right have you to think? If 
 ever I catch you thinking again, I'll place you under such a penance as 
 will stop your thinking." 
 
 The religion of Rome is a religion of proxy, and for men to think, oi 
 act, or speak for themselves, is a mortal sin. Hence the Duke of Bruns- 
 wick, in his fiftieth reason for becoming a Papist, said the priest told him 
 rather than he should be damned, he would be damned in his place ; 
 *' That's what I never could find a Protestant minister willing to do." 
 
 A gentleman Papist advertised a short time since in papers that he 
 would give 25,000 francs to any person who would perform his penance, 
 a journey to the Holy Land. 
 
 The denial of private judgment and liberty of conscience, is the great- 
 est barrier to intellectual and moral progress. It paralyzes the mind, dis- 
 courages every noble pursuit, and is destructive to national prosperity. 
 It is despotism of the worst kind. 
 
 What, we ask, is the whole edifice of Popery, but a compound of 
 pride, ambition, covetousness, and fraud ? The ofi5cials of Rome have 
 no other object in view but to promote their own secular interests, and 
 rule our country with a rod of iron. My brethren, let your course ever 
 be marked by candor and liberality, but never let us betray our civil and 
 religious liberties into the hands of their bittefest enemies by giving them 
 
PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 31 
 
 the sword of destruction. Under the delusive and preposterous plea that 
 their principles are changed. , 
 
 In view of the foregoing statements it may be asked by some, " What 
 is the duty we owe to Catholics?" It is obviously our duty to seek their 
 conversion to God. Let it be ours to follow the noble example of How- 
 ard, who, when at Rome, had no time to inspect her temples and works 
 of art, but found time to gaze at the captive in his cell, and bind up his 
 broken heart; or the example of Paul, who, when on Mars Hill, found no 
 time to contemplate the literature and splendors of imperial Rome, while 
 his thoughts were occupied with the strange inscription on one of her 
 temples to the " Unknown God." Neither the imposing grandeur of their 
 cathedrals, the pomp and glitter of their v/orship, should be suffered to 
 blind our minds to the moral state and prospects of the Papists in our 
 land, nor the tremendous power for evil which, if unchecked, they ate 
 destined to exert upon our institutions, civil, literary, and religious. 
 
 But we are told it is unkind, illiberal, and uncharitable, thus to raise a 
 cry against Popery, and do they think to silence us by this unfounded 
 imputation? Shall the watchman hold his peace when he sees the sword 
 coming ? Let him do it at his peril. 
 
 For one I glory in the office of lifting up my voice like a trumpet to 
 cry no Poperij ! It is not in the spirit of unkindness, but as I love and 
 value the dearest interests, the temporal and eternal welfare of Papists, 
 so I feel myself called on to raise and prolong the cry no Popenj f If I 
 could follow my heart wherever it could go, I would visit every spot 
 where the deluded and enslaved Romanist is found, and there, as I value 
 their freedom and salvation, would cry no Popery! Yes, brethren, I 
 would go into a Romish mass-house — I would enter the conclave of 
 Romish bishops — I would go to the Vatican itself, the place of the man 
 of sin — I would go into his dark and degrading confessional^ where the 
 poor Papists trust their wives and daughters to him, while the tyrant 
 presses his obscene and impure investigation, putting the heart and sensi- 
 bility of the senseless creature on the rack till she sinks enslaved and 
 powerless at his feet — yesL, I would drag the victim forth in triumph from 
 his grasp, and ring in the monster's ear no Popery ! In thus speaking, I 
 wish not to give offence to Roman Catholics. His religion we reprobate 
 because it is his undoing — the veil that darkens his understanding — the 
 tyranny that forbids his natural liberty of choice — the corruption of Chris- 
 tianity that shuts the Scriptures upon him — that forces him away from the 
 worship of God, and flings him down at the feet of priests, and images of 
 the virgin, and the whole host of false and idolatrous mediators. For the 
 poor deluded Papist there can be but one feeling — of the deepest anxiety 
 
32 PROPAGATION OF POPERY. 
 
 that he should search the Scriptures ; coming to that duty without insolent 
 self-will or sullen prejudice, he should compare the gospel of Christ with 
 the doctrines of Rome. 
 
 Whatever be the lot of those to whom error has been an inheritance, wo 
 be to the man, and the people, whose it is by adoption ! If, with the his- 
 tory of Rome before us, we secretly aid her, or openly join with her in 
 her crusade against the truth, and against all who dissent from her, we 
 shall not escape the terrible punishment such a crime deserves. Let the 
 church of Rome but once obtain the ascendency in our land, liberty will 
 give place to despotism, and the era of peace and prosperity will be fol- 
 lowed by the " reign of terror." The motto, then, of every Protestant 
 Christian, and of every true-hearted American, should be: " Ao jjeace 
 with Rome, till Rome makes her ])eace with GodJ'^ 
 
 ** God's children are like stars, that look most bright 
 When foes pursue them through the darkest night ; 
 Like torches beat, they more resplendent shine ; 
 Like grapes when pressed, they yield luxuriant wine ; 
 Like spices pounded, are to smell more sweet ; 
 Like trees when shook, they wave but not retreat ; 
 Like vines, that for the bleeding better grow ; 
 Like gold, that burning makes the brighter show; 
 Like glow-worms, that shine best in dark attire 
 Like cedar-leaves, whose odors gain by fire ; 
 Like the palm-tree, whose humors force removes ; 
 Like camomile, which treading on, improves ; 
 Like everything that can withstand the te^lt, 
 Are those God loves, and who love God the best." 
 
 THE END. 
 
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