BX 17671 Mz LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. t^qt — - Squ|nti{H f u. I Shelf V \\ ^ I I : • I I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. r A TILT WITH ROME BY Rev. D. HALLERON, B. D., Pastor of the Second M. E. Church, i ;■ I 3 RAHWAY, N. J. I I Published Under the Auspices of the Anti-Papal League, P. O. Box 4554, New York City. PRICE 35 CENTS. Compliments of Rev. D. HALLERON. / ^ / i A ^dlxl HhT A TILT WITH RQttE BY / Rev. D. HALl.ERON, B. D., Pastor of the Second M. E. Church, RAHWAY, N. J. vO/^^ 1830 ^^// Under the Auspices of the Anti-Papa? fct^uE, Published P. O. Box 4554, New York City. mm The Library of congress washington ^-^f- PREFATORY. The following discourse was prepared as a rejoinder to the '' The Position of Catholics in the United States,'^ by the Rev. S. B. Smith, Roman Catholic Priest, of Rahway, N. J., which purports to be a reply to my sermon to the Junior American Mechanics, on November 30, 1879: and deHvered synoptically, in the Second M, E. Church, Rahway, N. J., Sabbath evening, March 7, 1880. I have been profoundly impressed with the dangers arising to this country from the pretensions and overt acts of the Roman Hierarchy and in the hope of contributing towards awakening a spirit of inquiry on t,his subject in the public mind, as well as from the most pressing invitations from numerous sources, I have consented to the publication of this sermon. As ' will be seen, Mr. Smith has suppressed the vital claims of his church in his sermon, in order to secure the favorable opinion of the unwary, but in so doing, he has discovered his Jesuitical training at the surrender of his manhood and Christian principle and standing. I have Httle fear of the dangers involved in the settlement, upon a true basis, of this great question, provided the pubHc are thoroughly aroused ; but from the apathy existing in some quarters, my gravest apprehensions are excited lest the purposes of the Roman Heirarchy may be attained and the nation awakened from its slumber to find itself in the lap of this DeHlah, fondled and petted but shorn of its strength, to become the target of Papal mockeries. Heaven knows that Rome has bhghted enough of this fair, green earth, without her addmg thereto this, the latest born among the Nations ! The sermon is divided into two parts : the first meets, specifically, the alle- gations of Mr. Smith ; the second part substantiates every charge made against the Roman Cathofic Chnrch m my sermon to the Junior Mechanics of the above date. In the presentation of historical data, in support of my position, the reader my be led to think that there is repetition, but a little care will show that this is not the fact and that the seeming difficulty arises from the close connection be- tween the claims of Rome to Temporal Supremacy and the issuance of her per- secuting edicts. March, 1880. D. HALLERON, Rahway, New Jersey. Entered according to act of Cong-ress, In the year isso, by Daniel Halleron, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. A TILT Y/ITH ROME. " The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream, and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord." — Jere. 28:28. Christian friends, I appear before you to-night to reply to the sermon of Rev. S. B. Smith, preached in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, in this city, on Sabbath evening, January 4th, 1880. Probably many of you are surprised that I did not reply before to-night. My excuse is that while I was fully determed to answer the vituperations of this priest from the first, my special duties in revival services debarred me from fulfilling so imperious a duty before this hour. I shall utter harsh expressions now, not from any desire to add fuel to the flames already fanned by this man, but the nature of the case demands frankness that would not be justified under other circumstances. Let me say at the outset, that I have sought no controversy with my Roman Catholic fellow-citizens. In my sermon to the Junior American Mechanics no issue was taken with them as individuals. I have taken issue with the Roman Catholic Clufvch and not with the members composing it so much as with the Heirarchv which shapes its measures and gives expression to its demands. My profoundest sympathies are awakened for my Roman Catholic friends in this and other lands, and anything I may say to-night I hope will not be construed as inimical to their feelings, indeed, cannot unless they are participants in the deeds with which their prieshcod is charged. The Rev. Priest has not met my allegations respecting his church — in technical terms, the indictments have not been overthrown. The gentleman covers his retreat with sophistries which are too plain to escape ordinary inteUigence. As has been remarked, I have exposed the Roman Catholic Church, gave proof for most of the assertions made, while he simply produces individuals acting in their individ ual capacity without approval or disapproval of their church, in refutation to my statements. During the disgraceful Tv>^eed government in New York City, there were individuals composing that government who were upright and who discharged their trusts with scrupulous conscientiousness ; will we say, therefore, that that government was pure ? To make the fallacy more apparent let us throw the matter into a syllogism : All pure governments are composed of upright members. Some members of the Ticeed govern m.ent loere vpright: therefore Mr. TioeecVs f/oi'ernmeitt vjas a pure goijermnent. Hence we discover the fallacy at a glance. The same rea- soning may be applied to the commune of Paris, many of whose members were sound thinkers, calm statesmen and peaceable citizens, but the Commune itself was of a Utopian and fiery character. No, a party, a church, a government is what its leaders make it. no more and no less, and thous;h individuals bv their acts, seemingly, contradict the broad character of that party or church, these do not change its complexion in any radical sense. The Priest has pubHshed his sermon in the National Democart newspaper of this city. He has since pub hshed, what purports to be the same sermon in pamphlet form. To state it mildly, he commences his published discourse with a blank distortion of facts. His sermon purports to have been preached in Ids church on January 4th, 1880, but it is not published in the Democrat as delivered, while that in his pamphlet is distinct in many of its features from that pubHshed in the Democrat and that as preached from his altar. Did this man preach three sermons in refutation of my one ? No, he preached bnt one sermon, and yet we have three ! Again he says: " The Rev. Mr. Halleron wished to sow the seeds of civil and social disorder, to array in open conflict one class of citizens against another. I shall endeavor to estabhsh social peace and civil harmony." (National Democrat, January 15, 1880.) Now in the face of this assertion, this Priest proclaims from the steps of his altar " It has been reported that the Methodist Minister, during the deHvery of his sermon to the Junior American Mechanics, paraded a stuffed (effigy ?) Monk and a Rosary to the amusement of his audience." This is an entire fab- rication. Never did such a thought enter my mind, and I have yet to hear that a public retraction of that slanderous fling has been made. Is this the way to establish " social peace and civil harmony ?" Verily, yes, according to Rome, whose mandates this priast obeys, for she has peace at the total annihilation or martyrdom (wolf and lamb harmony) of her opponents. Furthermore, " The Ministers dream" is the great point of attack with my reverend opponent. Had I not had that dream I might have been saved that severe castigation at his hand. Well, I dreamed, and this man comes forward as the interpreter, and his interpretations are so true to life that he loses his self contro! in the diatribe in which he indulges. '' The meaning of the dream is too -clearly explained by the context of the minister's sermon. The stately temple are the hberties, civil and religious of this country and contained and embodied (sic) in the Constitution of the United States. The peaceable and contented groups in it are of course the protestants and eminently the Methodists. The drenched crowds who basely raised their hands against the sacred edifice of American liberties are the Catholics (Roman?) The latter must be shot down," (see Democrat). " He wants to shoot us down hke dogs, ' (sermon as delivered but not printed). Does the con- text of my sermon bear the interpretation ? I say no. Though Mr. Smith's ob- ject was attained, for one man swung his arms in the wildest gesticulations of wrath and the cry was raised by another person "shoot him ! shoot him ! ' — so- cUtl peffce and civil harmony ! The context of my sermon shows "that one of the appaUing dangers Hes in the misconception of freedom. In the United States, the Communists of France and the NihiUstsof Russia have found an asylum and here they seek to propagate their principles by every conceivable method. (Democrat, Dec. 18, 1879). "The very name Commune has come to represent blood and robbery and cruelty. It is supposed to be walking about in the wooden shoes of the Middle Ages, in the narrow, crooked streets of the French Metropolis ; but one who places his ear to the ground can hear the mut- tering and rumbling, even under the soil of Freedom. The Chief of Police in the city of Chicago awakens to the fact that several thousand Communists are armed with Springfield rifles and are nightly drilHng in public halls in almost every war! of the city, and are sending emissaries to other cities. The object of arming is not stated; a repetition of the riots of July, 1877, may solve this mys- tery." — N. Y. Chrisd'm Adoocnte, May 2, 1878. " Germany has at last found it uejessary to take public cognizance of the frequent and mahcious attacks of the socialistic element in its midst, and which has of late been so rampant. Not only have quite a number of Socialists been returned to parliament professedly as such from certain districts, but their public movements in certain of the large cities, notably in Berlin, have been so peculiarly offensive to common decency and religion that it seems as if the government is in duty bound to do something to protect itself and the sacred cause of morality and social order.'' — {ih}