UNCLE SAM I POPE WHICH? Class bAHfe S Book., - 55 Copyiight^N? COPYRIGHT DEPOSm UNCLE SAM OR THE POPE, WHICH? BY REV. L. L. PICKETT, EVANGELIST. Vice-President "Ame'rican Federation Patriotic Voters." Author of "The Danger Signal," "The Book and Its Theme, " "The Booze Devil," and many other Books and Booklets, Songs, Song Books, etc. PENTECOSTAL PUBLISHING COMPANY LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. Copyright, 1916 By REV. L. L. PICKETT. DEC -4 1916 CI.A445949 INTRODUCTORY. In this book I say many plain things. Some will brand these utterances "uncharitable." We will leave that to the Judge of all. I love sinners but not sin; heathens but not heathenism. In like manner, I have a kindly spirit for devout Ro- manists, but I war on the 'hierarchy, on Roman- ism. Romanism -claims to be the only true Church of God. She assumes to herself the title, "The Holy, Roman, Catholic, Apostolic Church." Her bold assumption is, that by divine appointment, "She is the Mother and Mistress of all churches." This is true or false. If true, there is no place for or need of any other religious organization or church. If her pretensions are false we may well repudiate them and label her, "The Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth." I shall attempt to prove in these pages that she is not only false in her claim to be the "true and only Church of God," but that she is in no proper sense a church at all. I shall seek to prove that she is merely a politico-ecclesiastical system of tyranny and oppression, and is the great Apostasy spoken of in inspired truth. There are some devout, God-fearing people who adhere to Romanism, believing it to be the Church of God. I have no quarrel with them. My w 7 ar is not upon those who reverently fear God and work righteousness, even though they be identified with this Pagan system. I am war- ring on BomaTmm as anecclesiastical and political machine; not upon devout Roman Catholics. I wish that every spiritually-minded adherent of this Pagan Institution might receive light; that a'll such would break their shackles and come forth into liberty. Christ has bought their free- dom. (John 8 :32-36) . This cruel and tyrannical system is no place for devout people. I fight their battles for them, I seek their liberty, their disen- thrallment, and would not grieve or afflict them. L^t all who fear God and seek the interests of humanity give us a patient, thoughtful, prayerful hearing. Those who reject truth and hug the chains that enslave them may be angered by our writings. All such have our pity rather than our hatred. They are slaves, not freemen. Such are victims of superstition. "To the law and to the testimony: If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8 :20) . Our appeal shall be to Reason, to History and to Scripture. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. Romish Claims and Pretensions 9 CHAPTER II. "The Man of Sin." 17 CHAPTER III. A King's Dream 29 CHAPTER IV. Daniel's Vision 33 CHAPTER V. The Mother of Harlots and Abominations .... 43 CHAPTER VI. Romanism not Christian — One Hundred and One Proofs 51 CHAPTER VII. The Anti-Christ 85 CHAPTER VIII. Romanism an Enemy to Our Free Institu- tions — One Hundred and One Proofs 91 CHAPTER IX. Priestly Rottenness 125 CHAPTER X. The Inquisition 137 CHAPTER XI. By Their Fruits 157 CHAPTER XII. By Their Fruits, (Continued) 165 CHAPTER XIII. By Their Fruits, (Concluded) 171 CHAPTER XIV. Riots 177 CHAPTER XV. The Jesuits 181 CHAPTER XVI. Rome and the Schools 197 CHAPTER XVII. Rome's Nunneries and Convents 217 CHAPTER XVIII. Houses of the Good Shepherd 225 CHAPTER XIX. Some of New York's Papal Institutions 231 CHAPTER XX. Rome and Our Government 237 CHAPTER XXI. Freedom of Speech, Press, Conscience and Worship 245 CHAPTER XXII. Romish Graft 255 CHAPTER XXIII. Rome and Marriage 263 CHAPTER XXIV. Romanism and Politics 269 CHAPTER XXV. The Church 293 Topical Index 303 UNCLE SAM OR THE POPE. CHAPTER I. Romish Claims and Pretensions. He who could purchase the Papist system at the price it merits, according to its actual worth, as weighed in the scales of Scripture and humanity, and sell it on the basis of its lordly pretensions would be forthwith a multi-billionaire. According to the creed of Pius IV., those who unite with the Roman Communion take the fol- lowing oath : "I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church for the Mother and Mistress of all churches ; and I promise true obe- dience to the Bishop of Rome — -Successor to St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, Vicar of Jesus Christ." He further says, "I profess and sin- cerely hold, this true Catholic faith, without which no one can be saved ; and I promise most constantly to retain and confess the same, entire and inviolate with God's assistance, to the end of my life/' But it cannot be both "Roman" and "Catholic." "Roman" pertains to the city of that name and is necessarily limited, local. But "Cath- olic" means universal. No church can be, there- fore, both limited and universal or Roman and yet of a truly world character. These terms nullify each other. She may be essentially Roman, but (9) 10 Uncle Sam or the Pope. she cannot be really Catholic or universal. But she does assume universal prerogatives. Cardinal Manning puts into the mouth of the Pope the following haughty words : "I acknowl- edge no civil power; I am the subject of no Prince ; I claim to be the supreme Judge and di- rector of the consciences of men : of the peasant who tills his field and of the Prince who sits up- on his throne ; of the household which sits in the shade of privacy and of the legislator who makes laws for the kingdom. I am the sole, last, su- preme judge, of what is right and wrong. More- over, I declare, affirm, define and pronounce it to be necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff." Wonderful assumption! Ungodly pride! If this teaching is true, then every man or woman in this or any other Nation who is not connected with the Roman Catholic Church, is on the way to 'hell. Who can believe this? Yet it is asserted by their theological teachers, that outside of their fold there is no salvation. Boiled down, her creed is, "Accept Rome as your Mother and Mistress or he damned." Now I resent this as insufferable ecclesiastical egotism and infallible proof of satanic pride and bigotry. It is born of a spirit that despises God's authority and tramples on the rights of men and of nations. But the Pope is doomed : for "pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." According to The Catholic World, "Each indi- Romish Claims and Pretensions. 11 vidual must receive his faith and law from the Church, * * * with unquestioning submis- sion and obedience of the intellect and will * * * We have no right to ask reasons of the Church (that is of the Pope) any more than of Almighty God. As a preliminary to our submission, we are to take, with unquestioning docility, whatever instructions the Church gives us." What man is thus willing to throw away his own intelli- gence? Are we not thinking beings? Have we no conscience ? Are w r e not to be allowed to main- tain our own individuality? Shall we forfeit our personality, surrender our souls to the keeping of a despot, and concede ourselves amenable to the Roman Bishop, instead of to God? Such abso- lute surrender of one's conscience of personal rights and individuality is belittling. It thor- oughly unmans and dehumanizes one. Such pre- posterous claims are an insult to every upright, thinking man. The following extracts are from the Canon Law of Rome. There are eighty propositions. We give only a few samples: 1. "All human power is from evil and must therefore be standing under the Pope." He means that all must be subject to the Pope. 2. "The temporal powers must act condition- ally, in accordance with the powers of the spir- itual. 3. "The Church is empowered to grant, or to take away, any temporal possessions. 12 Uncle Sam or the Pope. 4. "The Pope has the right to give countries and nations which are non-Catholic to Catholic regents, who can reduce them to slavery. 5. "The Pope can make slaves of those Chris- tian subjects whose prince or ruling power is in- terdicted by the Pope. 6. "The Church has the right to practice the unconditional censure of books. 7. "The Pope has the right to annul State laws, treaties, constitutions, etc. ; to absolve from obedience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimen- tal to the fights of the Church, or those of the clergy. 8. "The Pope possesses the right of admon- ishing and, if needs be, of punishing, temporal rulers, emperors and kings, as well. 9. "Without the consent of the Pope no tax, or rate of any kind, can be levied upon a clergy- man, or upon any church whatsoever. 10. "The Pope has the right to absolve from oaths, and obedience to the persons and the laws of the princes whom he excommunicates. 11. "The Pope can annul all legal relations of those in ban, especially their marriages. 12. "The Pope can release from every obli- gation, oath or vow, either before or after being made." The Pope claims to be the rightful ruler of the world, its only real king and God. Pope Pius IX. declares that "the profession of the papist is in- dispensable as a qualification for the exercise of Romish Claims and Pretensions. 13 civil and political rights." He also denounced what he is pleased to term "the absurd and erro- neous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience as a most pestilential error — a pest of all others most to be dreaded in a state." (En- cyc. Let. Aug. 15, 1854.) The declarations and encyclicals of the Pope are binding upon the consciences of all real Cath- olics. The Pope is considered infallible. His ut- terances are authoritative. The Bible can only be read in the light of the teachings of the Church ; it, accordingly, cannot speak with absolute au- thority; but the Pope can. Hence, his word is more binding upon the conscience of his people than the word of the living God — it supersedes the Bible as authority. The Pope can condemn, not only individuals and nations, but all princes, presidents, kings, potentates and law-givers. He claims supreme authority over both the souls and bodies of men, and he consigns to perdition those who deny his power or repudiate his authority. He claims both temporal and spiritual power. He wears a triple crown, indicating that he is Lord of heaven, earth and hell. If this be true, then, as Lord of heaven, he supplants God ; as Lord of earth, he supplants all temporal rulers; and as Lord of hell, he actually assumes the prerogatives of his Satanic Majesty. Wonderful powers ! mar- velous pretensions ! Pius IX., in a Papal Bull (1860) claims that his dominion of the world is derived directly from God, that unlimited temporal ability is necessary 14 Uncle Sam or the Pope. for the propagation of the Gospel, and that it is absolutely indispensable "that he be not restricted by subjection to any civil power or authority." "How can this independence of civil authority be secured? Only in one way — the Pope must be a Sovereign." No temporal prince, emperor or king, president or any legislative body, can have any lawful jurisdiction over him. What right has the Pope to be independent of every civil ruler? He has it, according to papal demands, in virtue of his dignity as the Vicar of Christ. Christ Himself is King of kings. The Pope governs the Church in the name of Christ and as his representative. His divine office, there- fore, makes him superior to all political, temporal and human governments. Such are the Hierarch- ical assumptions. Any reader of history knows how the Romish Church has enforced her decrees; how she has made her mandates effective with fire and sword. She has trampled upon and well-nigh destroyed whole nations, deluging them in blood, because the people had consciences of their own and de- sired to follow Christ rather than the Pope. Kings have been dethroned; princes have been driven from their dominions ; ministers have been expelled from their pulpits; husbands have been torn from their wives and wives from their hus- bands; children have been wrenched from their parents and parents from their children. Tears and blood that commingled would well-nigh float the navies of the world, and sighs that combined Romish Claims and Pretensions. 15 would create a desolating storm, have been the result of the cruel demands of power on the part of this "Dark Age" abomination. Yet this tyran- nical oppressor demands that we recognize it is the Church of the holy God. In the eloquent language of the Rev. I. J. Lan- sing, I denounce the Pope and the tyrannous sys- tem of which he is head : "I impeach him in the name of liberty of con- science, whose rights he has denied; I impeach him in the name of freedom of worship, whose temples he would close; I impeach him in the name of a free press and free speech, whose voice he would smother in the smoke of fire and fagot ; I impeach him in the name of civil liberty, over whose just laws he has claimed the sovereignty of Romish councils ; I impeach him in the name of the marriage-bond of the majority of the happy households of the 'Christian world, which he has stigmatized as "filthy concubinage," because not contracted in his name. I impeach him in the name of Protestantism, which he calls heresy and against w^hich he provokes the persecution of the civil government and the tortures of the Inquisi- tion ; in the name of progress, which he has tried in vain to stay ; of modern civilization, with which he cannot be reconciled ; in the name of the free and enlightened governments of the world, against whose beneficent laws he has hurled his anathe- mas; in the name of the Holy Bible, whose free circulation he has pronounced a pest ; in the name of free America, whose overthrow he has plotted ; 16 Uncle Sam or the Pope. in the name of Almighty God, whose prerogatives he has blasphemously usurped : in the name of all these, I impeach the Pope and the Hierarchy which dominate the Roman Catholic Church and summon them to the bar of oppressed humanity and Divine Justice." — ("Rom. and the Republic," pages 85, 86.) CHAPTER II. "The Man of Sin." II. Thes. 2:3-12. "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day — the day of Christ's coming and king- dom — shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth him- 'self above all that is called God, or that is wor- shipped, so that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remem- ber ye not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things; and now ye know what with- holdeth that he might be revealed in his time, for the mystery of iniquity (lawlessness) doth al- ready work. Only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. (Rev. Ver.) And then shall that Wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth (that is the preaching of the Gospel) and shall destroy with the 'brightness of his appearing; (At his return our Lord shall blot this evil power from the earth), even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of un- righteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved ; and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie ; that (17) 18 Uncle Sam or the Pope. they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. " This passage contains many things worthy of our careful study. A proper analysis of the prophecy will give us a key to unlock the centuries that follow. Paul had preached in Thessalonica very strongly, and evidently very much, on the second coming of our Lord. He had awakened in them great expectations as to the nearness of the glorious event. They were looking for the return of Jesus in their own life time. Loving this great doctrine as he did, he was not willing that they should be misled as to the time of the event. Having created a premature expectancy of the advent, he must now Clear the atmosphere of error and let them know a very sad fact. Prophetically, the apostle saw a dark picture, a great "falling away" from primitive Christianity. This, he briefly delineates. Ob- serve the following clearly revealed points : 1. An Apostasy. He tells the people that Jesus will not return until there has come a great falling away. What is this apostasy? It cannot be heathenism. The great heathen religions, such as Brahamism, Bud- dhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Confucianism, etc., were all older than the 'Christian religion. Chris- tianity attacked them and proposed to supersede them; hence, the apostasy, a falling away from Christianity, could not possibly be any manifesta- tion or branch of original heathenism. 2. Nor could this spiritual decline be repre- "The Man of Sin." 19 sented by Mahammedism; that arose in Arabia several centuries later. It had no connection, whatever, with the Church of Jesus Christ. It was a thing entirely apart. But the great evil foreseen by Paul was not a separate institution; but a decay in original Christianity. 3. Nor could it be Protestantism, as Rome vainly asserts. The evil that the apostle saw was already setting in. He said, "The mystery of iniquity doth already work." This indicates that the apostasy foreseen was even then beginning. It was a spiritual decline, a moral corruption ; it was heart-rot. No outside system such as Heath- enism and Mahammedism could possibly meet the conditions described, since they lacked connection with Christianity ; nor could it be Protestantism because of the great time intervening between the writing and the rise of the Lutheran reforma- tion. Luther was not born till 1483, so, it is evi- dent, he could have no connection with the apos- tasy which was even then beginning ; its evil leav- en that was already at work. 4. But there was a restraining power. Do you ask, What ? My answer is the Heathen Gov- ernment of Rome ; the Emperor. Why should he restrain the apostasy? Because of the conflict of interests. The Emperor proposed to maintain his power and rule. The apostasy would beget a rival, consequently, the rival and competitor could not come into his own, into the place of power which he should seek, until the Pagan ruler had lost his dominions. The papacy could not develop, 20 Uncle Sam or the Pope. assert its kingly prerogative and sway the sceptre of empire, until the decay of the empire and the departure of its heathen ruler from Rome. Any student of history will tell you that Constantine ruled when the empire was breaking up, the re- sult of which was a capital at Constantinople, as well as at Rome; in the East as well as in the West. The throne had to pass from the empire of the Caesars before it could fall to the lot of the Pope. 5. It is noticeable that the apostasy should head up into a man. This is not true of other spiritual declines. We often find in history a de- cay of spirituality; people lose their touch with the Infinite; the spirit of holiness departs from them; the .light burns low. This sad condition may be found today, throughout a large part of Christendom ; but it has no special head-ship. It is not organized ; it is simply a weakening of mor- al character and a decay of spiritual tone. But the "falling away" foretold by the great apostle to the Gentiles had a head. It was an or- ganized system of evil. This head is set forth under a special title, and is labeled by inspiration, THE MAN OF SIN, THE SON OF PERDITION. It is not necessarily a single individual, any more than a king or an emperor is merely an individual. We speak of the Kaiser; we mean, not the man, but the office; still this office centers in a man. It is not necessarily William I., William II., nor Frederick, but simply the Kaiser. In like man- ner, we speak of the Pope; this does not mean, "The Man of Sin." 21 necessarily, Alexander VI., Paul III., Pius IX., or Benedict XV. ; it (mean® the office that is occupied by the man, and his perpetuated successors. Now the Pope is the head of the system, and I affirm that he and he only can fulfill the con- ditions of the prophecy ; he therefore is officially, and in endless succession, "The man of sin, the son of perdition." 6. This apostate head of the fallen church is preeminent in evil. The apostle describes him as "that Wicked," meaning, evidently, that no other bad man can equal him ; that he is the most evil, corrupt and corrupting of all the forces of sin. His character and official life make him the su- preme representative of sin, the quintessence of concentrated and double-distilled wickedness. This does not necessarily represent the essential innate wickedness of an individual pope, but the corrupting, God-defying, soul-polluting effect of the system of which he is head. Another rendering of the word is "the lawless one." Is the Pope especially lawless? He is. Let us notice a few claims made by and for him. Nicholas I., himself a pontiff, declared, "It is evi- dent that the Pope can neither be bound nor un- bound by any earthly power." Pope Gregory in his maxims, declares : "It is lawful for the Pope to depose emperors; he can absolve subjects of their oath of allegiance." Cardinal Manning has the Pope saying, "I acknowledge no civil power; I am the subject of no prince." Pius IX. said, "It is an error to hold, that in the case of conflict- 22 Uncle Sam or the Pope. ing laws, between two powers, the civil law ought to prevail." Thomas Aquinas wrote, "The temporal power is subject to the spiritual." The Roman Canon Law says, "The Pope has the right to annul state laws, treaties, constitutions, and to absolve from obe- dience thereto." Leo XIII., (Encyclical of 1890) .declares, "If the laws of the State * * * set at naught the authority of Jesus Christ, which is vested in the Supreme Pontiff, then indeed, it be- comes a duty to resist them, and a sin to render obedience." From these quotations, we see that the Pope is not simply a personal law-breaker, but that he heads a system that defies, spurns, rejects, annuls and condemns the laws and constitutions of all governments outside of his own. Then he is em- phatically, "THE LAWLESS ONE." 7. "The man of sin" even proposes to sup- plant God. Observe that he takes his place in the temple and house of God and there becomes the rival of the Most High. "He exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worship- ped"; yea, he even "showeth himself that he is God ;" it might be rendered, "showeth himself off as God." Nicholas wrote, "that the Pontiffs held the place of God upon earth." One of the papal titles is "Our Lord God the Pope." He grants in- dulgences, extends absolutions, claims to have the keys to the Celestial City, yea, and to the infernal regions. He promises heaven to those who do his bidding and excommunicates and consigns to hell "The Man of Sin." 23 those who reject his superlative claims. Men call him "The Holy Father;" Inspiration calls him "the son of perdition." Men call him "His holi- ness ;" God calls him "that Wicked." Men wor- ship him ; God consigns him to hell. 8. His power is Satanic. We read that his "coming is after the working of Satan"; no di- vine power here ; no Spirit of God in this system, but the Spirit of the Evil One. God is not in it, but Beelzebub is. God gives no power or blessing to the Pope, but hell sanctions, encourages and nerves him for evil. 9. His teachings are false. Those who be- lieve them are under a strong delusion; it is said that they "believe a lie." His work is promoted by falsehood, for it advances "with all deceivable- ness of unrighteousness." It is said of his vic- tims that they "perish," yea, even, "that they might be damned" who have pleasure in unright- eousness. If men believe God, the less they have to do with this evil and accursed system, the bet- ter it will be for them. Marie Alacoque represents Christ as saying: "If I have given thee a commandment and thy con- fessor giveth thee another, it is thy confessor whom thou must obey." Has not the Pope as- sumed the place of God when he claims the power to forgive sins and has men kneel before him? From the life of Pius IX., we read the followiig: "Two Cardinal Deacons then conducted him be- hind the high altar where he assumed the pontifi- cal habit, and then in front of the altar to receive 24 Uncle Sam or the Pope. the hoimage of the Cardinals." (Page 63). This refers to the time when Cardinal Ferretti was elected Pope, assuming the title, Pius IX. "The Cardinals, archbishops and bishops gathered at an early hour in the Vatican; then, robed in white coats' and mitres, they passed the great hall in front, and thence to the vestibule of St. Peter's to await the coming of Pius IX., the Sovereign Pontiff. He soon appeared; all knelt in prayer ; the Pope intoned Veni Creator Spirltm in his clear voice, and as the choir took it up, the procession moved back into the palace and down the Scala Regia to the vestibule of St. Peter's. First came the cross, with burning lights and clouds of incense, then the long line of mitred ab- bots, bishops, archbishops, primates and patri- archs, a glorious line, most of them men of age, their faces showing the line of care, the impress of experience ; all ibishops in their very look. Ital- ian, Greek and German; Persian, Syrian and Hungarian, Spanish and Copt, Irish and French; American, English, Chinese, Aus- tralian; a very world gathering. Then comes the cardinals, the most venerable body in the world ; but even they were forgotten, as the Hoiy Father appeared, borne in his curule chair, ALL KNEELING (my caps. P.) as he passed. The unmitred heads of religious orders closed the line. All knelt in adoration before the Blessed Sacra- ment, exposed on the high altar, and, then the pro- cession entered the transept." — (Life of Pius IX., pages 321 and 322), "The Man of Sin." 25 A sight for men and angels, as those idolaters gather from all parts of the world and kneel be- fore their f ellowman, and before the wafer which they are pleased to call the "Blessed 'Sacrament." Elsewhere, this writer speaks of the same Pope as follows : "To the Catholic, the moments when we knelt at the feet of the great Vicar of Christ, were remembered with a pious consolation through life that seemed supernatural." (Ibid, page 457). In this same book, we have a sketch of Leo XIII. The writer is telling of his election to the Papacy. "After two ballots on Monday, the third ballot on Tuesday morning showed that Cardinal Pecci had received thirty-six votes for the elec- tion, only five less than were needed. Cardinal Franchi, to whom the next highest number of votes had been given, then rose and advanced to the seat of Cardinal Pecci. His example was fol- lowed by many, and when Cardinal Franchi knelt, Cardinal Pecci's election was virtually accom- plished." (Page 463). This is a strange way to make a God. When these cardinals all gathered on that Tuesday morning, February 19, 1878, they were only men, Monsieur Pecci with the rest, but when their bal- lots were cast and the majority were found to be in favor of Mr. Pecci, lo, he was at once a God. Others who entered as his equalls now knelt be- fore him as though he were the Almighty. In fur- ther description of this scene at the elevation of Leo XIII., we read (Life of Pius, 463-464) : "He 26 Uncle Sam or the Pope. was at once attired in the white cassock of the Sovereign Pontiff, the walled window was broken open, and the new Pope, surrounded by the Car- dinals and Deacons, passed through the broken wall of the balcony window, and stood for a mo- ment in sight of the subjugated capital of Catho- licity, no less than twenty thousand of the faithful kneeling there to receive the first Papal benedic- tion." Did not the apostle tell us that he opposeth and exalteth himself above God? Romanists insist that Peter was the first Pope, We wonder what Cardinals elected him? We re- call that when he came into the presence of Cor- nelius (Acts X) the Centurion knelt before him, but Peter's Pontifical lordship had not been fully developed, accordingly, "He took him by the nand saying, Stand up ; I myself also am a man." This glorious apostle was an humble follower of Jesus Christ, the lowly Man of God. These blasphem- ers, these lordly man-gods are glad to have car- dinals, and others humble themselves before them. No wonder the apostle Paul labels them jointly as the continuous head of the 'hell-born hierarchy, "That Wicked." On the lonely isle of Patmos, the beloved John found himself in the radiant presence of a Ce- lestial Visitor. Before such majesty and great- ness, we are not surprised to hear the good m ^ a say, "When I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the teet of the angel" (Rev. 22: 8). l>ut this angel was no Pope. Fear him say "The Man of Sin." 27 to the kneeling apostle, "See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them that keep the sayings of this book, Worship God." If the Pope had the spirit of this divine and glorious angel and of those who "keep the sayings of this book," he would say to his kneeling dupes, "See thou do it not; Worship God." But this, the Pope never does. His blasphemous pride feasts and fattens on the duplicity and sin of his craven followers. Reader, have you considered the etiquette of the Vatican ? Should you go to Rome and be ac- corded an introduction to the Pontiff, you would at the hour set, arrive at the door and be brought into his presence by servants, whose duty it is to do so. Approaching him, you would kneel, rise, move forward, kneel again, again rise and go forward till you came into his very presence. He does not rise to receive you, as one man should re- ceive another, but remains seated upon his throne ; you kneel at his feet, lift his hand to your lips, and thus acknowledge in this debasing, obsequi- ous manner, your lack of manhood and his claim to deity. What blasphemy on his part; what truckling on yours! How can a self-respecting man thus debase himself and encourage the blas- phemous pretensions of another? It is wicked, foolish, degrading. Any one who does it is ever afterward less a man for having done so. I would be ashamed to look an honest dog in the face if I so far debased my manhood as to do it. CHAPTER III. A KING'S DREAM. Dan. 2. In the book of Daniel, we find a record of two dreams or visions. The first was given to Neb- uchadnezzar in the night, but it faded from his memory. He was unable to reproduce it, and having called upon the wise men of Babylon to give him the substance of 'his dream and its in- terpretation, he was greatly angered because of their inability to do so. Daniel, with other devout men, his 'brethren, joining in prayer, obtained by revelation the dream and its meaning. In this dream Nebuchadnezzar saw an image of a mighty man. Its head was of gold, followed on a descend- ing scale, by arms and breast of silver, belly and sides (margin) of brass, legs of iron, and feet and toes of iron and clay mixed. By way of interpreting it, the prophet inform- ed the king, "Thou art this head of gold. After thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass which shall bear rule over all the earth. The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron/' which, he says, "breaketh in pieces and sufodueth all things.' ' The proph- etic explanation of the feet and toes shows a di- vided condition in human governments, they at the end period containing elements of strength, mingled with weakness. (29) 30 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Finally, the stone cut out of the mountain without hands Semites the image, "upon his feet, that were of iron and clay; he brake them to pieces and then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer thresh- ing floors, and the wind carried them away. * * * And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth." (Dan- iel 2). By way of further exposition the prophet in- forms us that the image pictures the kingdoms of the world in the course of earthly empire. Nebuchadnezzar represents the Babylonian Empire. This head of gold, is the kingdom that was superseded 'by the Medo-Persian. This in turn was followed by the Macedonian, represented by the force and triumphs of Alexander the Great, who conquered all the known nations of the earth and was himself destroyed by the Demon Rum at the early age of thirty-three. Next, we have the Roman Empire which was the mightiest of the world dominions. It was in its glory in the days of Jesus. Later, this mighty kingdom began to split up, resolving itself into a double J headed empire. The Eastern capital was at Constantinople and the Western at Rome. The dominion of the Romans was finally overthrown by the barbarians, and out of the one world-wide empire came some ten kingdoms. How true to history is this prophetic vision. It has been said that "prophecy is history written A King's Dream. 31 in advance." Rome was subduing and governing the earth in the days of our Lord. The two legs of the image very thoroughly represent the divis- ion of the empire. Its ten toes likewise show its ultimate dissolution from one great empire into ten kingdoms. Please observe, that the stone cut out of the mountain without hands, does not represent the birth of Jesus, which occurred in the days of Rome's greatest glory. The image was smitten upon its feet in the closing of the "Gentile times," the period represented by the image, when not only had the great empire run its course, but out of it many kingdoms had arisen. It is in the feet and toe stage, that the stone smites and destroys these earthly kingdoms. From this we learn that the stone does not represent the first coming of Jesus, to establish His Church and plant His gos- pel in the earth. The gospel strengthens govern- ments, instead of destroying them ; but the stone when it shall appear, shall smite, crush, pulverize and destroy, even "as the dust of the summer threshing floors," all these earthly kingdoms. This shall be at the second coming of our Lord. He will then make an end of human governments and Gentile Supremacy and establish His own Theocratic Government. This shall extend over all nations, fill the whole earth and establish the glory of God among men. The dream we have been considering was giv- en to Nebuchadnezzar who was a mighty ruler, and it conformed to his idea of kingly grandeur 32 Uncle Sam or the Pope. and earthly greatness. God accommodates Him- self to the state of mind of men in revealing Him- self. We rememlber that Jesus at one time said, "I have many things to say unto you, but ye are not able to bear them now." CHAPTER IV. Daniel's Vision. Daniel VII. We next have a vision of the same course of empire we have studied in the preceding chapter as it was given to Daniel, a servant of the Most High. The leading feature here is that of THE LITTLE HORN. Let the reader carefully con- sider this passage. I will not quote the passage under consideration, but will refer you to your Bible. As in the former vision this traces the course of empire, but not under a figure of human greatness. It is, rather, as God sees it, the scram- ble and war of wild beasts. Human governments, in the present fallen condition of the race, are very fitly represented by wild, warring animals. To man, official position represents honor, promo- tion, earthly glory, but, as too frequently conduct- ed, these earthly governments represent, in the eyes of God, the snarling, contentious and bloody conflict of the fiercest beasts of the jungle. Notice these beasts. 1. We have the lion, the kingliest beast of the forest. This, as the head of gold, stands for Nebuchadnezzar. He had ea- gle's wings, representing the great speed with which his armies progressed in advancing his con- quests. But these wings were plucked, he was placed upon his feet, and a man's heart was given to him. The plucking of the wings evidently fore- OS) 34 Uncle Sam or the Pope. casts the time when the great king's reason should forsake him and he be driven forth with the beasts of the field. The giving of the man's heart to the lion foreshadows the restoration of Nebuchadnez- zar's reason, when he acknowledged the God of Daniel as his God, and bade all nations worship and serve Him. 2. In the days of his grandson, Belshazzar, drunkenness and debauchery weakened his domin- ion ; and the Medo-Persian armies overthrew the great empire. This kingdom is presented under the figure of a bear, having three ribs in his mouth. These ribs may stand for the kingdoms of Media, Persia and Babylonia. They, however, most likely represent three kingdoms subdued by the dual monarchy. If so, they are Babylonia, Egypt and Lybia. The glory had departed, the golden dominion descended to that of silver — the lion was overthrown by the bear. 3. Next in order is the leopard, which had upon its back four wings. This beast had also four heads. How truly this portrays the Alexan- drian kingdom. He is represented by the leop- ard, which is the lithest of beasts; but even the native agility of this animal is not sufficient to fitly set forth the victories of this mighty con- queror. The great speed with which he swept over the then known world, can only be prefigured by four wings. The rapidity of Nebuchadnez- zar's marches was shown by two wings, that of Alexander by twice this number. And the beast had four heads. True again to history. At the Daniel's Vision. 35 death of the Great Conqueror, having no son to inherit his throne, his dominion was divided into four parts, according to the cardinal points of the compass. The successors to these dominions were Alexander's favorite generals, Lysimmachus, Se- leuous, Cassander and Ptolemy. None of these proved to have any great executive ability, and within a short time the Macedonian Empire had gone to pieces. 4. Next in order, we have in the vision, a picture of a nondescript beast. Terrific it was, terrible "and strong exceedingly'' ; it had great iron teeth" ; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it. It was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. What could this great and furious beast rep- resent, except the OLD ROMAN EMPIRE, the greatest of earthly dominions? It swept on with mighty power, crushed, overthrew, and destroyed armies, dethroned kings and annihilated king- doms ; it ruled with a hand of iron and a spirit of despotism the nations of the known world. It surpassed in majesty, power, extent of dominion and political shrewdness, and in governmental ef- ficiency, all former kingdoms or empires. It was in the days of world-wide Roman rule that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. He appeared before the Great Iron Empire began its decline ; before it reached the 'leg stage, as repre- sented by the image revealed to Nebuchadnezzar. This nondescript beast is the last of the Gen- 36 Uncle Sam or the Pope. tile dominions as pictured in this prophetic vision. We notice that this great beast had "ten horns." This arrested the Prophet's attention. "Behold, there came up among them another little horn, be- fore whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things/' This dream troubled Daniel ; he wondered what these things might mean, and accordingly sought an explanation. An angel interpreted it, at his request, as follows: "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse (different) from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth." "Out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise : and another shall arise after them ; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and laws : and they shall be given into his hands until a time and times and the di- viding of time." Elsewhere in the vision, the prophet says that, "The horn had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows : And the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them, until the Ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High : and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom." This marvelous picture contains things worthy Daniel's Vision. 37 of our consideration. We observe here, "A little horn." These horns are defined for us as kings. So the little horn is a little king; but his mouth speaks great things; and his look is more stout than his fellows. We see that he plucks up three other horns, i. e., kings, and he makes war tvith the saints. By every token this "little horn" is the Pope of Rome. For proof of this, consider the following items : 1. His Place. This is in Rome ; in the center of the old Ro- man dominion. 2. His Time of Appearance. He comes on the scene after the great empire has fallen to pieces; when there are ten kings within the circle of the old empire. 3. His Position. He himself becomes a king, as others, yet dif- ferent from them. 4. The extent of his dominion. He plucks up three of the other horns. True to fact. The Pope subdued three Italian states, namely, Rome, Lombardy and Ravenna. His kingdom was never large, consisting only of these three states. 5. His Spirit. Among all the rulers of the earth, no one has ever shown such pride, vanity, self-consciousness, love of authority as the Pope. No wonder it is said that "his look was more stout than his fel- lows, and that his mouth spake very great things." With a small personal, temporal dominion, this 38 Uncle Sam or the Pope. "Little Horn" has made himself felt in all the nations of the earth. Kings have fee^n crowned by him and others uncrowned ; earth's mightiest rulers have sought his favor, and even stood re- proved and trembling outside his gate, acknowl- edging their dominions as his gift. 6. His Character. It is preeminently wicked. It is said, "He makes war with" and "wears out the saints." And again, we read, "He shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall think to change times and laws." Every word of this is true of the Pope and of the Pope only. In all history no other character can be found who will measure up to this description. A rea- sonable knowledge of history will convince, it would seem to me, any candid thinker, that the Pope of Rome is herein clearly depicted. He has dominated the nations, perverted justice, tramp- led on the rights of men, destroyed human liber- ties, changed the laws of God and of man. He has assumed the prerogatives of God-head, spurn- ed the authority and dominion of rulers. He has made calendars, established feast days, and set up his own dominion over all earthly empire. This lesson thoroughly identifies the Pope of Rome as the enemy of God and man. He takes unto himself the title of the vicegerent of God, but proves himself rather, the generalissimo of hell. He calls himself the ''Father of the faithful," while proving himself "the son of perdition." He is on the one side in the conflict of the centuries, God Daniel's Vision. 39 and his saints on the other. He makes war upon the saints, tramples on their rights, sheds their blood and wears them out. Not content with that, he assumes the place of God, bids men kneel in his presence, pardons the iniquity of transgres- sors, sends forth his Tetzels peddling indulgences for cash, and so would rule the Most High out of the affairs of earth. How foolish it is in men to grant this usurper the divine prerogatives, this enemy of the Most High and his saints, a place among the churches and, to cap the climax of folly, concede the usurper the blasphemous title, "His Holiness." He is the enemy of all human prog- ress, of every holy aspiration and movement, and of everything noble among men, and to the crown of universal infamy, this Prince of Darkness as- sumes unto himself the powers of deity and his blinded followers kneel at his feet and acclaim him, "Our Lord God, the Pope." Thanks to the Most Higih, "The judgment shall sit" and they shall take away his dominion to "consume and destroy it unto the end." Our Christ shall at His glorious appearing destroy the "Little Horn" and give 'his kingdom to the saints. (2 Thess. 2:8; Dan. 7:26, 27). The following questions from The Menace (July 3, 1915) shall close this chapter: DID JESUS DO IT? We are told by the popes and priests of Rome that Jesus of Nazareth established their so-called church to do What it has done and is doing. What? Did Jesus set up a line of popes to live in pal- 40 Uncle Sam or the Pope. aces, levy tribute, dabble in politics, maintain an elaborate court, create princes, carry on war, and behave generally like the pagan emperors of Rome ? Did Jesus, Who had no place to lay His head, create a Vatican palace, with thousands of rooms and galleries, in which to carry the gospel message out into the highways and hedges? Did Jesus, Who never had a church building of His own, but most frequently taught in Jewish synagogues, or preached under the open sky with a stone for His pulpit, have anything to do with the building of the pagan-like temple miscalled St. Peter's? Did Jesus, Who called a dozen fishermen and laborers to be His apostles, have anything to do with the creation of cardinal princes, wearing red hats and disputing matters of precedence and court etiquette with ambassadors and civil offi- cials ? Did Jesus so much as suggest the building of jails, and the confinement therein of women 7 Did He sanction the erection and equipment of laun- dries to be operated in His name by means of un- paid labor? Did Jesus, Who ordered Peter to put up his sword, have anything to do with the organization of the Knights of Columbus, their display of gaudy uniforms, tin swords, and other means of fostering militarism ? Did Jesus send apostolic delegates to the rulers of nations and solicit the presence of envoys from Daniel's Vision. 41 foreign courts? Did He employ a band of oily- tongued spies and diplomats like the Jesuits? Did Jesus and His unpretentious assistants, appear or behave in any manner like the sleek, overfed, and gorgeously-gowned pope, cardinals, bishops and priests of the twentieth century? Times have changed, to be sure, but should we not reasonably expect to find some of the charac- teristics of the original Christians in what now claims to be the only and original Christian church ? And if an organization, pretending to be found- ed by Jesus the Christ, has so far departed from the practices of Him and His associates, and has so far conformed to the pagan institutions of man, how can its extravagant claims be allowed or believed? The nature of the creature reveals the identity of its creator. The Roman Catholic church bears all the marks of being man-made for human, and very often inhuman, purposes. Christianity lives, not because of the so-called Roman Catholic Church, but in spite of it. CHAPTER V. The Mother of Harlots and Abominations. We will briefly study the seventeenth chapter of the Apocalypse, as revealed to St. John. Will the reader kindly get his Bible and go carefully through these chapters ? One of the angels shows to the apostle things that are to be. Chief of these is the judgment of the great harlot. Sev- eral points stand out distinctly. We note the fol- lowing : 1. Her corrupt character. This is indicated •by her title. She is not simply lewd, but is the GREAT HARLOT. Not only is she thus guilty within herself, but she is, furthermore, "The •mother of harlots; and abominations of the earth." Her lewd connections are not simply with the common herd and riff-raff of society, but with her "the kings of the earth have committed for- nication." This special characteristic may be either physi- cal or spiritual. We remember that Jesus has chos- en the Church as His bride, and her entanglements with the world and worldliness are branded as spiritual adultery. Furthermore, the Romish sys- tem is noted for its licentiousness. Many of its nunneries and convents are but harems of the treacherous priesthood, abundant proof of which we give elsewhere. 2. All-round debauchery. It is said, "The (43) 44 Uncle Sam or the Pope. inhabitants of the earth have been made drunken with the wine of her fornication." While there are exceptions, noble exceptions, yet Rome is largely responsible for the liquor traffic, for white slavery, for gambling, Sabbath desecration and for lax morality in general. A study of moral conditions in any of our great cities will confirm this fact. Romanists themselves confess that about 85 per cent, of the saloon-keepers, bar-ten- ders, and other liquor dealers are Roman Catho- lics. That such are not Christians, goes without saying. 3. Her place in the vision. The prophet be- held this guilty woman "seated upon a scarlet covered beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." In our study of the vision given to Daniel, we found four beasts rep- resenting four governments or kingdoms. This scarlet covered beast is ridden by a lewd woman. What is the beast herein described? Is it not Rome? In our former study, we find the Roman dominion dissolving into ten kingdoms, presented under the figure of ten horns. Here, again, we encounter the same horns with an additional key word : -namely, the seven 'heads. Concerning this, what saith the angel? "The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth, and there are seven kings: Five are fallen and one is, and the other is yet to come : and when he com- eth he must continue a ^hort space." In all history, Rome alone can fulfill the out- lines herein given us. (a) Rome was built on The Mother of Harlots. 45 seven hills, (b) She had in her history seven forms of government or types of rulers. They were the king, the consul, the tribune, the decem- vir, the emperor, the president, and the praetor. Of these, five had fallen; one then was, namely, the empire; and one was to appear later. No other nation, before or since, had its seat of gov- ernment on seven hills, as did Rome; and none had been under seven types of rulership. The identification is therefore indisputable. The case before us is that of a woman. The feminine gender represents the Roman Catholic Church. We use the feminine in speaking of churches. Of the Roman, we say "she is cruel and cunning." Of the Methodist Church, "she is a missionary church," etc. The scarlet covered beast represents the government of Rome, typified by the horns in Daniel. 4. Her blasphemy. The woman is not only noted for her lewdness, but for excessive lewd- ness ; nor is hers ordinary blasphemy ; she is lit- erally "filled with names of blasphemy." She calls herself 'holy, when noted for unholiness. She assumes the title, "Catholic," that is, universal, though being of purely Roman origin; she blas- phemously discards the Bible for her traditions; she comes between the people and their God, send- ing her penitents to the priest, rather than to the Christ. Her adherents know more of her dead saints than of the risen Jesus. They adhere more faithfully to the councils and popes than to the divine Spirit of the living God. They trust in 46 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Mary more than in her divine Son ; more in scap- ulars, relics, holy water, in crucifixes and genu- flexions, in beads and bones of her so-called "saints" than in the knowledge of sins forgiven, and in the witness of the Holy Spirit. What blas- phemy ! 5. Her attire. "She was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and pre- cious stones and pearls." Bishop Newton says: "The woman was ar- rayed in purple and scarlet color, this being the color of the popes and cardinals, as well as of the emperors and senators of Rome. Note here the mules and horses which carry the popes and cor- dinals are covered with scarlet cloth, so that they may properly be said to ride upon a SCARLET COLORED BEAST." The woman is also decked with gold and precious stones and pearls. And who can sufficiently describe the pride, grandeur and magnificence of the Church of Rome in her vest- ments and ornaments of all kinds? Alexander Donatus hath drawn a comparison between an- cient and modern Rome and asserts the superior- ity of his own church in the pomp and splendor of her religion. We have a remarkable instance in Paul II., of how Platina relates that in his Pon- tifical vestments, he outwent all of his predeces- sors, especially in his regno and mitre, upon which he had laid out a great deal of money in purchas- ing, at vast rates, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, chrysolites, jaspers, and all manner of precious stones." He tells us how this Pope made a decree The Mother of Harlots. 47 "that only the cardinals should wear red caps." "You have a conspicuous instance in the Lady of Loretto : The riches of the holy image, and of her house and treasury, the golden angels, the gold and silver lamps, the vast number, variety and richness of the jewels of the vestments of the holy image; that the prodigious treasures of all sorts are far beyond the reach of description." Mr. Addison says, "Silver can scarcely find admission, and gold itself looks but poorly among such an incredible number of precious stones." (Newton on the prophecies, pages 568, 569). Such pride, vanity, pomp and love of display has ever characterized this vain, pagan delusion, which assumes unto itself the proud title of "Mother and mistress of churches." God's title, however, is more befitting. Remember he calls her, "THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." 6. IHer Cruelty. "I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." Rome has even surpassed heathenism in the persecution of God's saints ; she has incarcerated innocent ones in dark, damp, un- derground dungeons by the millions. Read his- tory, and you will find that she has cut men and women to pieces, impaled them on spears and borne them through the streets. She has burned out their eyes with red-hot irons ; has hewn them to pieces; 'has torn out their tongues, and disem- boweled them; she has swung them up by their thumbs and toes, and many times over fires. She 48 Uncle Sam or the Pope. has roasted their feet, sawn them asunder, torn them, limb from limb, cast them over precipices, many times upon sharp spears. She has roastel them to death in hot ovens, burned them at the stake, cut them to pieces with revolving knives, inch by inch; and ghe has gloated in their blood and the shrieks of their torture and their waitings and their dying agonies. With hellish ingenuity she has invented means of torturing and butcher- ing and destroying the humble servants of God. What more fitting description then that she is "drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus"? 7. Her National Pretensions. The prophet saw her sitting upon and amidst "the peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues." But the angel points out the time when the nations shall "hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn ! her with fire ; for God hath put it in their hearts to fulfill His will." 8. The Beast. Now from the feminine, we pass to the masculine and notice "the beast." The angel said to John, "The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ; he shall ascend out of the bottom- less pit and go into perdition." Again he says, "and the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven and goeth into perdi- tion." This is the Pope. In saying that he "was" it refers to the kingly title. One of the ancient forms of Roman government is that of the king. The Pope did not revive the title of "dictator" or The Mother of Harlots. 49 "emperor" or "president," but of "king" ; there- fore in describing 'him as a king, it is said that he "was" indicating that he would revive this an- cient title. It is s'aid that he "is not" ; that is to say, there was no king over Rome at the time of the writing. The kingly form of government had passed away, and Rome was ruled hy an emperor ; but of this beast, it is said, that while he "is not" yet "he is the eighth and is of the seven." He is the eighth, because he is not simply a king, but also a pope ; and in assuming the office and title of "king" he makes himself one of the seven. So the Pope in his time was king, but he was more than a king, and therefore is described as "the eighth" head or ruler. 9. His Origin and End. It is said, "He shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into per- dition." His origin is infernal, his end is hell. One might as well call Satan an angel of light as to consider the Pope of Rome a child of God, or the "Holy Father." Let him be known as God labels him, "The man of sin, the son of perdition." No people will properly deal with the papal sys- tem till its evil origin and its vicious influence are correctly grasped. It is so wicked, so accursed that no compromise with it is admissible. If you have any respect for God's Word never speak of the Pope as "His Holiness," but as God Himself labels him, as "That Wicked." CHAPTER VI. Romanism Not Christian — One Hundred And One Proofs. We give here only /brief reasons. Practically every one of them finds additional proofs in the pages of this book. It is not our purpose to argue, illustrate, or try to prove these charges in an ex- tensive way in this connection. If any point does not seem fully established, study it in the light of the book as a whole. We believe that every think- ing reader will concede that we have fully estajb- lished every assertion. 1. That Romanism is the little horn of Daniel VII., which persecutes and makes war on the saints. It is there shown distinctly to be the en- emy of God and man. See chapter IV. 2. The Pope is shown in the prophecy of Dan- iel to be a blasphemer, to speak great words against the Most High; he tramples on the au- thority of God, changes his law and thus despises his deity. 3. According to the Divine Word, the Pope exalts himself above his Maker and all that is called God or that is worshipped. (2 Thes. chap. 2). 4. The pontiff is the "son of perdition" where- as, Christians, being begotten of the Holy Spirit, are children of God. The Pope is the "Lawless one," as we have elsewhere shown, whereas Chris- (51) 52 Uncle Sam or the Pope. tians are known by their spirit of obedience to God. (1 John 2:1-6). 5. Since Romanism is "the scarlet woman" and Christians are washed white in the blood of the lamb, they cannot be considered one and the same. 6. Romanism is labeled in the Word "the great harlot," whereas, the Church is "The 'bride of the Lamb." (Rev. 19:6-8). 7. The Church of God is essentially holy. Ro- manism is peculiarly corrupt and corrupting in influence. Study its effects in Romish lands and in the slums of our great cities. 8. Romanism creates no moral atmosphere, nor sets up any effective moral standard. She jus- tifies all manner of sins. "It is only in Protestant countries that one may find a decent type of mor- als among Catholic people. No country on earth is able to endure Roman Catholic rule for any length of time, without suffering tremendous loss of virility, prestige, hopefulness and faith in God." (Rev. J. A. Phillips, Missionary in Mexico) . 9. Romanism is the enemy of the Bible. "For as much as the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue, has been productive of more evil than good, it is expedient that they be not trans- lated into the vulgate (common tongue) or be read or possessed by anyone without a written license from the Inquisitor or the Bishop of the Diocese." (Council of Trent). 10. Romanism justifies theft. "Theologians, commonly designated as a mortal sin, the theft Romanism not Christian. 53 of twenty^five cents from those who are very poor. * * * For theft from the very rich $1.75 to $2.00." This is from the teaching of St. Alfon- so. Another Romish writer says, "It is to be re- membered that the various amounts indicated by St. Alfonso to constitute mortal sin, cannot now be considered sufficient cause. Money was much scarcer then and therefore more precious than now." (Ripalda's Catechism). 11. Liguori justifies gambling. "Betting is not prohibited, provided there be no sin connected with it, for example, the drinking of too much wine." Nothing like being sober when one is gambling. 12. Romanism justifies lotteries. We read, "Lotteries per se are lawful, provided there be no fraud, and the gain is not excessive; and when they are in favor of pious causes, a larger gain than is (ordinarily) just is permitted." 13. Romanism justifies lying. "The vow made without 'intention' of promising and obli- gating ones self to keep it is void. He who makes a vow with the intention of promising and with- out the intention of obliging himself would in all probability be committing only a venial sin, but according to the laws of Rome he would not be obliged to keep it, provided it does not refer to re- ligious professions and sacred organizations." 14. Romanism justifies impurity. "Any young man who doesn't know, and any adult who is ab- solutely ignorant of the sins of adultery, and who sins with a married person, is not guilty of that 54 Uncle Sam or the Pope. sin." These extracts are taken from Ligouri's theological writings, quoted here from "Roman Catholicism Analyzed." From the same work, we get one or two other extracts, "The ley fug a as practiced in Mexico, is pure, unadulterated Catholic morality. The ley fuga is a Mexi- can custom of telling the prisoner to es- cape if he can, shooting him if he attempts it, re- porting accordingly that he was trying to escape." (Roman Cath. Analyzed, page 154) . Is this Chris- tianity? 15. Romanism justifies the Inquisition. "The Church's legislation on heresy and heretics is of- ten reproached with cruelty and intolerance. In- tolerant it is. * * * Its intolerance is of doc- trines subversive of the Faith. And such intol- erance is essential, for tolerance of destructive elements within the organism amounts to suicide. * * * Opponents say, the rigors of the Inqui- sition violated all human feelings. We answer: They offend the feelings of later ages, in which there is less regard for purity of the faith; 'but they did not antagonize the feelings of their own time, when heresy was looked on as more malig- nant than treason." (Quoted from Catholic En- cyclopedia, by Phillips). 16. Romanism is intolerant. "Protestantism of every form has not and never can have any right where Catholicity is triumphant." (Catho- lic Review). "No good government can exist without religion, and there can be no religion without an Inquisition, which is wisely designed Romanism not Christian. 55 for the promotion and protection of the true faith/' (Boston Pilot, Cardinal O'ConneH's pa- per) . What do you think of this, reader, in our age and day, and in our own country? This is Romanism. Is it Christianity? 17. With Romanism, heresy is more accursed Uhan sin. She never expels a Catholic for any type of personal wickedness, even though he trample the laws of both God and man, beneath his feet. But he who questions the authority of the Pope and the power of the priest is at once sentenced to perdition. 18. Rome's doctrine of confession is unchris- tian, if not anti-Christian. She demands that men and women confess their inmost thoughts, desires, sins, and even temptations, to her bache- lor priests. The Bible knows no such confess- ional. Christians confess their sins to God, their faults and mistakes to one another. (James 5 :16) . 19. Rome keeps men in spiritual ignorance, and so enslaved the world for a thousand years. She produced a devil's millennium amidst the na- tions. God's Church is different. The Psalmist truly says, "The entrance of thy word giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." (Psalm 119:130). 20. Christ is the Prince of Peace. Rome has deluged the world with blood. She has spread war and sword and fire; she has desolated cities and scourged nations, causing untold sorrows ev- erywhere. 56 Uncle Sam or the Pope. 21. The Christian lives for God and for human- ity. (Matt. 22:37-40). The priest demands that man shall live for him, for his enthronement, enrichment and do- minion. 22. Christ went about doing good. The priest of Rome is 'busy seeking place and pelf. What Jesus said of the Scribes and Pharisees is true of him. "They bind heavy burdens, grievous to be borne, and lay them upon men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers." (Matt. 23:4). Christ gave His life for others, a willing sacrifice. (Heb. 2:9). The Pope demands that others make the sacrifice for him, become impoverished and pour their blood out that he may be enriched and empowered there- by. 23. Peter is claimed by Rome to be her first Pope; yet he was a married man. (Matt. 8:14). None of Rome's Popes, bishops or priests are now allowed to lead about a wife. The Book says, "The bishop must be the husband of one wife, one that ruleth well his own house, having his child- ren in subjection. In the same connection, we read of deacons, of whom it is said that their "wives must be sober, grave and faithful" in all things. If the Bible be true, Romanism is false ; if Romanism be correct, burn your Bible and re- nounce Christianity. They are not and cannot be the same. They are irreconcilable. When two things differ as widely as the Bible and Popery, Romanism not Christian. 57 you may know that one is false. They can not both 'be true. Give me the good old Bible. 24. Jesus and His apostles mingled freely with the people. Certain ones complained of our Lord that He ate with "publicans and sinners." Romanism builds her monasteries and convents and shuts her nuns and monks up in dens of se- clusion. Jesus declared "in secret have I said nothing." Whereas, Rome, Anti-Christian, like a mole, burrows in the darkness. Jesus refused to meddle with government, to interfere with Caesar. The Pope, on the contrary, proposes to lord it over rulers, thrusts his hands into Caesar's pockets, robs him of his treasures and w r ould thus rule or ruin him. 25. God forbids images and condemns image worship. (Ex. 20:4, 5). Rome, despite divine warnings, fills her churches and cathedrals with ca^rven images of her "saints," and, like other idol- aters, kneels before them. For the Romanist to say that he does not worship the image is but to echo the declaration of the Buddhist and other heathens. They all deny worshiping the idol, and insist that they worship the spirit that dwells therein. 26. Our Lord said, "Call no man your father upon earth." (Matt. 23:9). Of course, He did not mean that we should deny our relation to our masculine parent, He simply condemned "father" as a religious title; but Romanism has some three hundred thousand unmarried priests, and she calls every one of them "Father." According to the 58 Uncle Sam or the Pope. best information available, most of them are such. The very word "pope" means "papa." He, also, is a bachelor. 27. Jesus commends the careful study of the Bible (John 5:39). The early Christians prac- ticed it. "From a child, thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation." (2 Tim. 3:15). The nobility of the Bereans was manifest, in that, with open mind, "they searched the scriptures daily." (Acts 17:11). Pius IX. on the other hand, denounced Bible societies as a "Pestilence," a defilement of the Faith ; imminently dangerous to souls." It is evident that he who is an enemy to the Bible, can not be a friend of God. "The entrance of thy Word giveth light." 28. Nothing is more noticeable in the Romish fold than its intense humanism. It exalts men, their opinions, doctrines and teachings. It serves living men and worships dead ones. It even puts its Pope in the place of God ; such is not Chris- tianity. Jesus said, "Without me, ye can do noth- ing." (John 15:5). He declared, "1 will build my Church. (Matt. 16:18). The Pope and the priest 'build Romanism: Christ and the Divine Spirit, build the Church of the Living God. 29. The Bible bids the preacher shepherd his fold. Peter said, "Feed the flock of God which is among you," and forbids that this be done for "filthy lucre." Popery shears the flock and uses it as a means of papal enrichment. It is the world's champion grafter. Such political thieves and Romanism not Christian. 59 grafters as "Boss" Tweed, "Boss" Croker, "Boss" Murphy, "Bath-'house John" are the natural prod- uct of this money-mad, power-loving system. 30. Christ sets men free. "If the Son, there- fore, make you free, ye shall be free, indeed." (John 8:36). "Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." 2 Cor. 3:17). In all the world, there is no more enslaving system than that of the Papacy. The Pope curses freedom of eon- science, antagonizes freedom of speech and denies freedom of press. 31. Christianity has no Pope, no archbishop, no monsignor, no cardinals, no "prince of the blood," no priest. He who would be greatest in the Christian system must be "servant of all." (Mark 10:44). Jesus said, "One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren." "Whosoever sihall exalt himself shall be abased: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." (Matt. 23 :8-12) . I wish here to present a number of questions and ask for Rome's proof texts. We shall see that s*he despises and tramples on the Word of God. 32. Who can point out a single passage of scripture showing that men should pray to Mary ? or Should worship her in any sense ? When at the marriage in Cana, she said to her divine Son and Lord, "They have no wine," his reply sounded dis- respectful. "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" (John 2:4). He did not mean to show disrespect to His mother, but He notified her, and with her every Romanist that should ever be on 60 Uncle Sam or the Pope. earth, that she could not control His deity. That was beyond her province. It was a direct thrust at Rome's pagan Mariolatry. 33. Who can show a text even hinting that the Virgin Mary was born without sin? That she was a devout, godly young woman is evident ; but that she was more than a woman, or in any wise supernatural in her birth and origin, is ab- solutely unscriptural. 34. Who can produce a scripture calling Pe- ter Pope, or one showing that he ever visited Rome, or one showing that he was superior to the other apostles? He did not preside at the Jeru- salem Council; that honor fell to James. Peter was not even an Apostle to the Gentiles, and yet Romanism is a Gentile institution. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles, Peter to the Jews. Rome should have by all means selected Paul for her first Pope. And as he was likely a bachelor, her unmarried priesthood would have had more show of reason. Peter dissembled and Paul reproved him. (Gal. 2::11). 35. Who can produce a single scripture indi- cating that preachers should not marry ? On the supposition that Peter was the first Pope of Rome, he set them a better example in marrying than they are following. Indeed, we read that the bishop and the deacon must be the husband of one wife. (1 Tim. 3:1-12). Enforced celibacy is dia- metrically opposed to this scripture. With Rome's horde of unmarried monks and nuns, and with her thousands of wifeless "fa- Romanism not Christian. 61 thers" some Romanist should be able to find one Bible verse justifying her course. 36. Who can point out a single scripture, in- dicating that there is a New Testament priest- hood? The word priest, noWhere applies to the New Testament ministry. Romish priests, in their pagan incantations, claim to offer up daily sacrifice to God, but the New Testament says of Jesus that "he continueth ever," "hath an un- changeable priesthood," and needeth not daily to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people : For this, He once and forever offered up Himself. (Heb. 7). Thus He fulfilled the 'priesthood, and being Himself the abiding priest, leaves no successor. Now we read, "If he were on earth, he would be no priest/' (Heb. 8:4). AH earthly priesthood terminated in his death, once for all. 37. As there is no priest in the New Testa- ment, there can be no priestly absolution for sin- ners. There can be no such thing, scripturally, as is represented by the Roman mass. I chal- lenge any man to point out a single text of New Testament scripture which will prove that priests have divine recognition, that they are authorized to say "mass" or to forgive sins. "Who can for- give sins but God only ?" It is wide of the mark for one to quote the words, "Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted. " This indicates no pow- er of absolution, but simply, as Paul puts it, "The ministry of reconciliation." (2 Cor. 5:18). 38. Who can produce one verse of scripture 62 Uncle Sam or the Pope. showing' that the priest can change the sacramen- tal bread and wine into "the very blood, body and divinity of Jesus Christ' ' ? The thing is absurd on the face of it, an insult to reason and a blasphe- mous assumption of Godhead. Jesus truly says, "This is my body, this my blood/' Certainly, and they ate the bread and drank the wine concerning which He spoke. Did they really eait His body and drink His blood ? If so, He was not crucified by Pilate but eaten by His disciples. But He re- tained His life and manhood after giving them the sacrament, and after they all had eaten of it. 39. He also said, "I am the vine and ye are the brancihes." According to this Romish inter- pretation, neither He nor we are men, but grape- vines. He said, "I am the Good Shepherd, my sheep know my voice." Taken literally, He was not a minister, only a shepherd, a tender of sheep, and His people are but a set of mutton-heads. The whole Romish dogma of transubstantiation is so inconceivably absurd, so diametrically contrary to New Testament simplicity and truth that its acceptance indicates either mental weakness or sublimated superstition. 40. Where in the New Testament is a pas- sage that justifies the presence of Images in the Church? Were they commended by Jesus, or His apostles? Were they not condemned by the sec- ond of the ten commandments? Are they not on a par with the idolatries of Paganism? If we had time to trace image worship in dhurch history, we would find that it was condemned by one Pope Romanism not Christian. 63 and sanctioned by another; that it was encour- aged by one council and denounced as idolatry by another ; that it was of Pagan origin and gained power and ascendance with the decay of spirit- uality. 41. Rome has innumerable mediators. What else is the meaning of her whole system of saint worship? Many of them pray more to Mary, Josepih and other "saints" and angels than to Je- sus Christ. In the Scriptures we read that there is one mediator between God and men, "the man Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. 2:5). He alone ftas re- deemed us. He only can save us. 42. Who can point out Purgatory, either in the Old or New Testament? Concerning the saints, Paul declares that, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." (2 Cor. 5: 6-8.) Lazarus, immediately after his death, was safe in the 'bosom of Abraham. (Luke 16) . John in the Patmos vision saw under the altar "the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held." (Rev. 6:9-11). No flames of purgatory for them, but a place of joy and ransom beneath the very throne of God. 43. Rome leaves men in sin while they live, and then seeks to pray them out of Purgatory after they die. Is this scriptural? On what pas- sage is it built? In all my Bible reading, I have found no support for this dogma. On the other hand, we read, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might ; for there is no work, nor 64 Uncle Sam or the Pope. knowledge, nor wisdom, nor device in the grave whither thou goest." (Ecc. 9:10). Again, we read, "Behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Cor. 6 :2) . The apostle bids us "redeem the time, because the days are evil." (Eph. 5:16). After death, the sentence is, "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still." Death seals one's doom, and to pray for a man after he is dead is a waste of breath. 44. Rome would have her people become ex- ceedingly religious during Lent. On what scrip- ture does she base this demand ? Paul pronounces sentence against "such as depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry (as Rome does to all her priests, monks and nuns) and commanding to abstain from meats," as Rome does on Fridays and during Lent. (1 Tim. 4:1-3). 45. One of the fundamental dogmas of Rome is the infallibility of the Pope. Now, we all know that before his election to the papacy, the pope was but a man ; he looked like a man, talked like a man, acted like a man ; but so soon as the cardi- nals holding the election give him the majority of their votes, he becomes a God on earth ; hence- forth, his official utterances, his ex cathedra pro- nunciamentos, are beyond the possibility of error, and he who was born and has lived a man shall henceforth live and die a God. Marvelous ! Give us the scripture proof, will you? Otherwise, Romanism not Christian. 65 dump this dogma into the limbo of forgetfulness — call it the concentrated extract of double dis- tilled nonsense. 46. Will some adherent of the Papacy give us chapter and verse where it is said that water baptism "cleanseth from original sin," and makes one as pure as an angel, an heir of the kingdom of heaven? The writer has seen a multitude of people w(ho have had all that water could do for them and yet to the best of our knowledge, and belief were exceedingly carnal. 47. Now we are waiting for the scripture that teaches that unbaptized children are lost, and that there is a limbo into which their dis- embodied spirits are thrust. We well know that concerning the little ones, the Master said, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," and that "in heaven, their angels do always behold the face of my Father." He who would be greatest in the kingdom of heaven must "humble himself as a little child." (Matt. 18). If the Pope, the cardi- nals, the bishops and archbishops were as these little ones, it is highly probable their chance for heaven would be greatly improved. 48. What priest can point to the scripture whidh justifies the papal cursing and excommuni- cation of those who, having learned of Jesus and "tasted the good word of God and the powers of an endless life" (Heb. 6:5), shall afterward re- nounce the Pope and forsake the Roman fold ? If the Word of God unequivocally justifies the hor- rible curses and excommunications, boycotts and 66 Uncle Sam or the Pope. persecutions Rome heaps upon such as forsake her communion, any intelligent priest ought to be able to point us to the chapter and verse. 49. Will some Romish bishop kindly point the place in the Holy Word of God where it is said that the priests have a monopoly on the pure gos- pel of Christ? We know that they forbid their people attending Protestant churches and Pro- testant ministrations. By what authority? Chap- ter and verse please. 50. We would like the scripture also which proves that anyone is justified in putting his con- science, his intelligence and his eternal future in the keeping of another man, who may be as igno- rant and as sinful as himself, possibly more so. If God gave to each man a mind and a conscience, why should he not answer to his MAKER, rather than to a mere ecclesiastical boss ? 51. Since we are on the search, will our Rom- ish friends point us to the passage which proves that Rome is the only church of God? It will, perhaps, be acceptable, if you will simply prove that it is a church of God. Since she is so lordly, so self-assertive, so domineering, Rome should give proof of her authority from the very word of God. 52. The papist puts traditions upon a plane equal with the Bible; while practically the pope gives the pre-eminence to tradition. Our divine Lord found the Scribes and Pharisees much giv- en to their traditions This he denounced saying, "Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, Romanism not Christian. 67 This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrine the command- ments of men." "Full well ye reject the com- mandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition." (Mark 7:6-10). This seems to have been written especially for the papists. 53. Protestants teach, with the Apostle Paul, that men are justified from their sins by faith, without works (Rom. 5). We also agree with Peter, (the first pope(?) by the way) who set aside all papal intermediaries ; declaring of Jesus, "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12). Thank God, the humble penitent is not dependent on Mary, Joseph, Peter or any Pope or priest. He who teaches otherwise and demands that we shall look to man for our salvation is anti-christ. Jesus, Jesus only ; now and forever ! 54. Let us try some Romish titles on the apos- tles and ministers of the first century. How would it sound, if the apostle had written in his second Epistle to the Corinthians : "Paul the cardinal of Jesus Christ," or "John the archbishop of Jesus Christ;" or we may go to Rome's (so-called) first Pope and let him write in his first epistle, "Peter the Pope of Jesus Christ, the infallible head of the Roman Church;" or how would Ephesians 4:11, 12 sound, if revised after this fashion; "He gave some to be popes, and some cardinals; and some archbishops and some monsignors and 68 Uncle Sam or the Pope. priests, for the building up of Rome, for the estab- lishment of the mother and mistress of all churches, for the edifying of the Hierarchy ?" This would not be a perversion of the passage if the papal claims have scriptural warrant. 55. Where is the scripture for auricular con- fession, the use of holy water, the worship of beads and bones, of images and relics, the mak- ing of a pancake god, kneeling to it and then eating it? 56. Please give us a text showing that the Pope is the vicar of God upon earth, his only vice-gerent ; and, while at it, give us the text that bids us kneel to the pope and kiss bis 'hand, his ring or his toe. Pd certainly demand some clear, scriptural proof before I would belittle my man- hood by doing it. 57. We would like to see the text which, au- thorizes the excommunication of an humble man of God for heresy, while saloon-keepers, gamblers, Sabbath-breakers, white-slavers, lecherous men and ungodly women are retained in church mem- bership. 58. Where is the text that justifies the wor- ship of the wafer, the carrying it in procession, the kneeling to it and the anathematizing of those who refuse such practice? If a God can be made out of a piece of dough, we want to see the scrip- ture proof thereof ; otherwise we might seriously doubt if it can be done. 59. Wherein does the Bible warrant a man, and especially a woman, to enter a secret place Romanism not Christian. 69 alone with an old bachelor, and there be plied with questions that would insult a decent man at a bull ring? The old bachelor claims the right to question minutely the wives, daughters and sisters of men concerning their inmost thoughts and their very desires. It seems to me that he should have good scriptural backing or he would be a worthy mark for a champion at gun practice. 60. Give us a text which will prove that the priest who collects the cash for praying souls out of purgatory does not receive money under false pretenses, unless he can deliver the goods in the eyes of all men. 61. Where in the Bible are we taugttt that a Roman priest should be paid a fee to marry the living and bury the dead, and to pray a soul out of limbo? 62. Give us a text which proves that Priest Phelan was not a traitor when he said, "To hell with the government of the United States." The man who talks in this fashion should undoubtedly be made to answer to the authorities, unless they are cowards and political trucklers, or Mr. Priest has a splendid Bible backing. 63. Let us have the scripture that justifies the action of Pope Stephen IV., who triumphed over his competitor, Oonstantine II., and having done so, burned out his eyes with a red hot iron and commanded the executioner to strike him many severe blows on the head, and to tear out his tongue." (See "The Danger Signal/' page 59). Was Stephen acting according to the Ro- 70 Uncle Sam or the Pope. misih title accorded the Popes, when they call him "His Holiness?" If he were a holy man, how should he have acted to have been unholy ? 64. Rev. G. B. Winton, a returned missionary from Mexico, writes, "It will probably never be known to what extent the skepticism of France is to be traced to the powerful hold of Catholicism (Romanism) upon that country. Through near- ly a century the concordat which Napoleon foisted upon an otherwise progressive people, has ena- bled the Catholic hierarchy to strangle Protest- antism, and has bred infidelity till, religiously, France has been well nigh ruined." Such is Ro- manism. Would Christianity produce a like re- sult? 65. Mr. Winton further says, 'The priests charge a fee for everything — for baptisms, mar- riages, masses, funerals, all — they insist on pay- ment in advance, and insist on no fixed schedule, varying the fee, demanding always as much as they think they can get. So exorbitant is their usual fee for marriage, that thousands of couples in every Catholic country live together and rear their children without being married." (From Methodist Quarterly Review, April, 1905). 66. Rev. J. M. King ("Facing Twentieth Century," page 194), says, "One of the principal sources of revenue for Romanism has been the treasuries of governments which held the moneys of the people, which it has forced open by preying on the fears and by inspiring the cowardice of politicians. To this end it has threatened and Romanism not Christian. 71 cajoled legislatures and debauched courts and ex- ecutives/' This grafting is true to form with the Roman Church. Is it Christian ? 67. Again, from the same connection, we quote Mr. King, "The apparently normal relation of things in pronouncedly Roman Catholic coun- tries has come to be that the richer the church the poorer the people ; the more absolute the dom- ination of political Romanism the lower the peo- ple in the scale of civilization based upon civil and religious liberty/ ' If this might be truthfully said of the Presbyterian or any other Protestant Church, would we consider it a Christian insti- tution? I trow not. 68. During three years of Roman Catholic Boss Tweed's regime (1869-1871) "the Roman Church received of public moneys $1,395,000 for one hundred institutions, the most of which had no existence, in fact; and which, after Tweed, their partner in theft, was retired from business, disappeared from the list of 'charities'." After the rascalities of Tweed had been exposed, sudh was the gratitude of his Roman Catholic constit- uents for their share in the spoils of his plunder, that they elected him to the State Senate by a tremendous majority." (Fac Twen. Cent., page 421). This is Romish graft; but is it Christian- ity? 69. The Pilot, a Romanist paper, says, "The Roman Catholic, according to Leo XIII., must render his perfect submission and obedience of will to the Church and the sovereign Pontiff as to 72 Uncle Sam or the Pope. God Himself." This is certainly placing the Pope upon a towering pedestal, but Jesus' standard is, "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted; he that exalteth himself shall be -abased." Thus, ac- cording to the Master, the Papal Papa is destined to a great tumble.. 70. Would the Christianity of Christ attempt to destroy the State? According to Paul, govern- ment is of God: (Rom. 13). Jesus Himself bade us, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." Is this true of Romanism? Let us hear from Monsieur Paul Bert, Minister of Public Instruction and Worship in France. Speaking of Romanism as a meddler in political affairs, Mr. Bert said, "She has opposed the progress not only of liberty of thought — that is within her role — but also of popular education, of which she seems to fear the consequences above everything. She has become aristocratic and royalist, identifying her cause with that of the ancient regime. She has again and again threatened the existence of the Republic ; and has taken part in all the elec- tions against all candidates who represent liberal and democratic ideas." If government is of God, then it is certain that an institution which would undermine government is an enemy of God. 71. "The conflict between the Republic and the Hierarchy cannot continue indefinitely. The triumph of one will mean the overthrow of the other." Such is the testimony of Monsieur Bert. Speaking of the conflict above mentioned, he con- tinues : Romanism not Christian. 73 "Such a state of things cannot last. If, as many enlightened minds think, there is an abso- lute antagonism between the tendencies of the church— WHICH IT HAS NOT ABANDONED, AT LEAST IN FRANCE, ITS DREAMS OF UNIVERSAL DOMINION— and the Republic, which means to be master in its own house, and whose fundamental principle, liberty of con- science, has been formally condemned by the last two Popes, how can we admit that civil society should continue to augment the power of its would-be ruler ?" Here is plain conflict between democracy and God on the one hand, and medieval tyranny on the other. The same conflict lies ahead of us in these United States. 72. The threatened dominance of the Pope in all lands is set forth by Priest Midhael Muller, "To be separated from the divine authority of the Pope is to be separated from God, and to have no place in the kingdom of Christ. * * * Mark well, Pius IX. uttered these solemn words against 'certain .men* whom he calls the enemies of the Catholic faith — he means liberal-minded Catho- lics, as is evident from his words, wherein he said, "Tell the members of the Catholic Society that, on the numerous occasions on which we have censured those who held liberal opinions, we did not mean those who hate the Church, whom it would have been useless to reprove, BUT THOSE CATHOLICS WHO HAVE ADOPTED SO- CALLED LIBERAL OPINIONS, WHO PRE- 74 Uncle Sam or the Pope. SERVE AND FOSTER THE HIDDEN POISON OF LIBERAL PRINCIPLES." The Pope will not satisfy himself with cursing and condemn- ing Protestants, but he must also spend his fury on "Liberal minded -Catholics." This is Roman- ism. Is it Christianity? 73. The Church of Rome has been a curse to the Emerald Isle. The great orator, Sargent S. Prentiss, graphically said, "There lies upon the other side of the broad Atlantic, a beautiful is- land, famous in story and song. It has given to the world more than its share of greatness and genius. It has been rich in statesmen, warriors and -poets. Its brave and generous sons have fought successfully all battles except its own. In wit and humor it has no equal, while its harp, like its history, moves to tears by its sweet and mellow pathos." Why has Ireland failed to win its own battles? Because of the Tyrant of the Tiber. Those poor dupes of the Pope have been trampled, crushed, beggared, and bull-dozed by the priests for a bitter, grievous, millennium. Would Chris- tianity have thus wrecked the people? 74. Pope Adrian IV., conscienceless grafter that he was, sold Ireland to King Henry II., of England. Writing to the said Henry, the Pope said, "As for Ireland and all islands where Christ is known and the Christian religion is received, it is out of all doubt that they belong to the right of St. Peter and the Church of Rome. You have, our well-beloved-Son in Christ, so advertised and signified to us that you will enter into the land Romanism not Christian. 75 and realm of Ireland to bring them into obedi- ence to law, and in your subjection to root from among them their foul sins and wickedness, as also to yield and pay yearly out of every nouse a pension of one penny to St. Peter. We therefore grant that you do enter to possess that land. And, further, we do strictly require that all the people of that land do with all dutif ulness and honor, ac- cept and receive you as their liege-lord and sov- ereign." How is this for papal religion? Shall a man sell his fellows body and soul, to the ex- actions and tyrannies of some selfish overlord? It is Rome; but is it Christian? 75. Rome's doctrine of "intention" is a moral perversion. According to this questionable teach- ing, baptism and the Lord's Supper are not real sacraments unless the priest's "intention" is pure. So no one can know whether he has had the sac- rament or not. Likewise, a man may take prop- erty that does not belong to him, and, hiding be- hind the intention, he is no thief in the eyes of this corrupt system. He did not "intend" to steal. From ex-Priest J. Donnelly, I take some twen- ty of the following propositions. He gives them as reasons why he left the Romish fold. Some of them I reprint as he gives them, others I abridge or enlarge, but his work is the base. He says he left the Pope's flock — 76. Because no Roman Catholic is ever sure of salvation, as he is not certain of the priest hav- ing the right "intention" when baptizing him. If the priest had not the intention to do what Rome 76 Uncle Sam or the Pope. does, the ibaptism is null and void, and conse- quently all other sacraments are null. Because a good and merciful God would not commit the salvation of souls to the "intention" or non-in- tention of an ecclesiastical body of men, who, for unholy living and impure lives, are hardly equal- led by any other class of notorious sinners. 77. Because the law of the Church teaches that if the priest learns in the confessional from his penitent that the latter is about to plot the burning of a city, the destruction of all the in- habitants thereof, he must say, if interrogated outside the confessional, that he knows nothing about it ; and if in a court of justice, he is to con- firm his statement by an oath. 78. Because confession to the priest is im- moral, indecent and contrary to the Scriptures, which command us to go to God alone with our confessions of sin ; and because the priests violate the secrecy of the confessional in speaking to one another of the sins they hear in confessionals, in such a way that listeners can readily know to whom they refer. 79. Because Roman Catholic Theology teach- es that her members may equivocate, dissemble, perjure, steal, and even murder, if it be for the good of the Church. Because she has corrupted the Holy Scriptures, denied them to her people for ages, and even omitted the second command- ment from her Decalogue, in order to justify her image worship, and because her worship of and praying to saints is unscriptural, unreasonable Romanism not Christian. 77 and absurd. For saints to hear the prayers of all Romanists, it is necessary that they be in all places at the same time; that they be omniscient. 80. Because of her traditions, dogmas and bulls which contradict the word of God, and make it of no avail. There is no scriptural authority for any of her sacraments, as she teaches them. Especially is this true of the five bastard sacra- ments: Confirmation, Penance, Extreme Unction, Ordination and Matrimony. 81. Because of her cruel persecutions. I saw and touched the instruments of the Inquisition, by which multitudes of honest Christians were put to slow, heart-rending death for the crime of being suspected of heresy. I saw the methods of torture, of "walling up," the "burning pile/' the "red-hot ovens," the "deadly pulley," the "iron virgin," the cold "water-pressure" on the brain. When I obtained sufficient evidence that priests, bishops and monks who claimed to be the repre- sentatives of the meek and lowly Jesus, helped to apply the torch to the limbs of their fellow men, I shed tears, and prayed God to show me the way out of a system that strangled, burned and murdered. 82. Because of Rome's unscriptural doctrine of Extreme Unction, which teaches the departing soul to settle its thoughts on visible things, such as candles, oils, holy water, instead of looking to Jesus Christ, whose blood "cleanseth from all sin." (1 John 1:7). Because no matter how ho- lily Roman Catholics may live, and no matter how 78 Uncle Sam or the Pope. many good works they may perform, the Church gives them no assurance of heaven on their de- parture hence, but fills them with doubts, fears and the certainty of a burning purgatory, even for the just, before they can enter heaven. With them there is no "This day thou shalt be with me in paradise." 83. Because this Church makes the Pope its head on earth, whereas there is no head other than Christ Jesus. "For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is head of the Church." (Ephe- sians 4:23; Col. 1:18). 84. Because "the mass" is a fraud, imposed upon the implicit confidence of a credulous peo- ple, under the pretense that it is the same as Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, and that the priest's mass liberates the souls of the dead from an imaginary purgatory. The Word of God de- clares that Christ "offered one sacrifice for sins forever and then sat down on the right hand of God." (Heb. 10:11, 12). 85. Because the Romish Church makes the Virgin Mary the refuge of sinners, the "gate of heaven," the "comfort of the afflicted, the "morn- ing star," the "health of the weak," and the "help of Christians." Rome makes more of Mary than of her divine Son, and this is blasphemous idol- atry. 86. Because this Church's aim is to keep the people in intellectual, moral and physical slavery, and make them "hewers of wood and carriers of water" the world over. Because an ortho- Romanism not Christian. 79 dox Roman Catholic owes allegiance to the ecclesiastical government of the Pope of Rome, who teaches his superiority over and above all secular powers; and so, he cannot be a worthy citizen in any civil govern- ment. And because a large number of the Popes have been the most immoral wretches who ever appeared in human form, and because all the Popes interfere with politics and have been the greatest curse of the nations on earth. 87. Because the papacy teaches dogmas and human canons that contradict the teachings of Christ, and has persecuted unto death millions who for consciencce sake have rejected her de- mands. Because Rome denies Jesus Christ to be our Advocate, our Redeemer and our Savior, by exalting Mary to be "our most loving advocate," and "the protectress of all sinners." Because this Church has persecuted the Bible, discouraged its reading and study among the people, and recom- mends instead thereof the priest's prayer book and the bishop's catechism. Her people are gen- erally far more familiar with her creed than with the Christ. 88. Because Rome has failed to bring the unconverted to a holy life. Her members live and die unhappy, always looking for some help they cannot find, and because I have learned from long and careful experience that the priests and bishops do not preach for the glory of Christ and in the interest of His kingdom, but for Rome and the almighty dollar, and because the apostles and 80 Uncle Sam or the Pope. disciples of Christ never dressed in royal vest- ments — never said "mass" in Latin or in any oth- er strange language — never permitted man, wom- an or child to bend the knee to him in confession. They never used wine, holy water, candles, wafers, incense, agnus, scapulars, medals, relics or pock- et-gods of any kind. 89. Because "the mass" offers an opportunity to a large majority of priests to 'blaspheme the Lord Jesus Christ by celebrating it in drunken- ness. Intoxication is a rule rather than an ex- cception among priests. They are an unclean, lech- erous class of men. I find more wicked men and seducers among the Roman Catholic clergy than among any other organizations of men of the same number.* 90. Because the Romish teachings are no- where in the Bible. This Church changes her doctrines so often that Romanists themselves, for the most part, do not know what their Church really believes and teaches. I feel more secure to live by faith in the Word of God than by tra- ditions and the alleged infallibilities of men. 91. Because I believe that priests and bish- ops, instead of being vicars and ambassadors of the Holy One, are but microbes and human para- sites, the farther from which we betake ourselves the happier, holier and more successful in this life and the life to come we shall toe. 92. According to the scriptural idea, Roman- *Remember this is from Rev. J. Donnelly, who lived among the priests for years. Romanism not Christian. 81 ism is no Christian Church at all. All those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior are thereby made members of His Church, and whoever they be, wherever found, the commission to preach, teach, and bring men to a knowledge of sins forgiven, is imparted to them. To them is the promise of the Holy Spirit that he may abide with them, comfort, teach and use them, and no hierarchy can intervene. 93. Because long experience has taught me that the Romish system gives no equivalent for the immense sums of money extorted from the people. I am satisfied from history, especially from my knowledge of the Bible, that neither Pe- ter, Paul, John, James, nor any follower of Christ ever did what the priests, bishops and popes of Rome now do. I prefer the grace of Christ, free- ly bestowed upon all, to the mummeries and in- cantations of Pagan popery. The Bible bids us "prove all things, hold fast that which is good." 94. Because I had rather be condemned by the priest for rejecting his mummeries than to be condemned on the last great day by the Judge of all the earth for rejecting free salvation pur- chased for me by the precious blood of the Lamb. I had rather search the scriptures by the aid of the Holy Spirit in order that I might know the mind of God and the way of life, than to depend on a mere man, when the chance is that forty-nine times out of fifty he himself is a sinner. 95. Because I find in every land in which I have traveled that men make good Catholics while 82 Uncle Sam or the Pope. poorly representing Christ, Many very wicked men ranking as first class Christians, according to the priests. For a man to be a good Christian, the New Testament says that he must foe born again and his life must be holy. 96. Because the so-called Church that has used the chain, the thumb-screw, the virgin crib, the sword, the halberd, powder and fagot to make people yield their religious convictions cannot be the Church of Christ. I insist that no church has a right to make slaves of those who desire to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience. 97. Because Romanism warns the people through the confessional to have no intercourse whatever with those who, having once belonged to her communion, have repudiated it. Such ex- clusiveness is not neighborly, not social ; it is un- civil and anti-Christian. Jesus ate with publicans and sinners, visited the poor and erring, and proved Himself a friend to all. 98. Because the Roman Church loves author- ity more than truth ; it cultivates form more than spirit. She has added to and taken from the Word of God at her pleasure. Through all his- tory she has proven herself the mother of igno- rance, intolerance and superstition. Her teach- ings are calculated to encourage sin and conduce to unholy living. 99. Because I never knew the Roman Church to cut off a member for violating any of the ten commandments, and I have known of her perse- Romanism not Christian. 83 cuting unto death those who persisted in wor- shipping God as their own consciences led them. I have ibeen ashamed of her history and of the very immoral lives of a large number of her Popes. I have seen more light and intelligence in the things of God among the common people of the Protestant churches than I have ever seen in the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, I have found in this church, as much (if not more) drunkenness, violence, deception, blasphemy and desecration of the Sabbath, and all manner of un- cleanness, as I have ever found in any equal num- ber of the people of the world. 100. Because I find the wearing of vestments and saying of mass, blessing of beads and water, burning incense and candles, praying to saints and angels are all of Pagan origin. These things are practiced until this day by Indians, Chinese and Aboriginal savages. 101. Because I find the Romish Church to be a political organization instead of an assembly embracing the Church of God. Romanism is a secret society full of peril to the nations. The Romish system is today, as she has always been, an intolerant, blood-thirsty tiger. According to her own testimony she cannot change, her motto is, "et semper eadem." CHAPTER VII. the Anti-Christ. There are two views of the Anti-Christ, (a) The historical, (b) The futurist. The first iden- tifies Anti-Christ with the Pope. The second de- clares the Anti-Christ to be an evil and mighty being who is yet to arise and to flourish in the great tribulation period, just after the saints are caught up to meet Jesus, at His second coming. (1 Thes. 4 : 15-18) . Now if we combine these two ideas and accept both as true instead of treating them as one true, the other false, we will likely get at the truth as to the Anti-Christ. That the Pope is Anti-Christ is manifest by the Scriptures. Dan. 7. 1. He is the "little horn" of Daniel. 2. He makes war with the saints and de- stroys them. 3. He changes God's laws and ordinances. 4. He speaks against the Most High. 5. He shall be destroyed. Note the following from 2 Thess., 2d chapter : 6. He is the "man of sin." 7. He is the son of perdition. 8. He is the product of an apostasy. 9. He sits in the temple of God and assumes divine prerogatives. 10. He shows himself off as God. (85) 86 Uncle Sam or the Pope. 11. His coming into place and power was delayed by heathen rulers of Rome. 12. His power was the satanic working or energy. 13. Christ's gospel consumes him, makes in- roads on him by reducing his following. 14. He will be destroyed when Jesus "ap- pears" again. 15. His teachings encourage evil, delude men and tolerajte and encourage unrighteousness, as shown in Rev. 17. 16. He is a "beast" and comes up amid Dan- iel's wild beasts. 17. He is identified with the seven forms of Roman government. 18. And yet he is different, so much so as to constitute "an eighth." 19. He is identified with the great harlot. 20. He is on the seven hills of Rome. 21. His harlot mistress commits fornication with kings, that is, meddles with and debauches governments. 22. The governments shall burn her with fire — and how many have already spurned and fought her. 23. He comes out of the pit and goes into hell. Rev. 17:8-11. As seen in Revelation 13th : 24. He is here, as elsewhere, a "foeast." 25. He combines Daniel'si lion, bear and leop- ard. So the Pope corrupts and blights every form of government, kingly and republican alike. The Anti-Christ. 87 26. He has two heads, as claimed by himself — Church and state, or, spiritual and temporal pow- er. 27. One head was wounded unto death. His temporal kingship was destroyed by Garabaldi's braves and Victor Immanuel. 28. The deadly wound was healed. His tem- poral power will be restored in or about the time of the tribulation. 29. The dragon— the devil (Rev. 20:1-3) gave him his power. 30. He made war with the saints as seen by Daniel (7:21). 31. He has power over the nations. Rome has ruled politically among practically all the Eu- ropean and American nations. 32. He is worshiped by nations. They call him "His Holiness," and tow down to him. All this sustains the historical view of the anti-Ohrist. John said there were many anti-christs in his day. (1 John 2:18). Paul said, "the mystery of iniq- uity doth already work." So here is the historical Anti-Christ. 33. Another beast comes out of the earth — the bottomless pit (Rev. 13:11). 34. He also has two horns : the union of Church and state ; that is, the temporal and spir- itual power. 35. He comes "as a lamb." This is his pro- fessed following of Jesus, the Lamb of God. John 1:29. 36. He exercises all the power of the first 88 Uncle Sam or the Pope. beast whose successor he is. You see he is dif- ferent from the first beast and yet falls heir to his kingdom, power and glory. 37. He perpetuates the worship of the Pope by causing the earth dwellers "to worship the first beast," the Pope. 38. He is greater than the Pope, for he works many miracles, "he doeth great wonders." The Popes have faked miracles, but this second beast actually works them. 39. Notice some of his great wonders. "He maketh fire come down from heaven." He gives life and speech to an image: he brands men in their hands and foreheads, and establishes a uni- versal boycott, (verses 16, 17). 40. He is, from the foregoing, a super-man. Satan is ultimately disappointed in the Pope, and so he brings forth this super-man, anti- christ or fake Christ, endowing him with his own power in a final mighty effort to deceive all the world and perfect the work which the papacy had handled so long and well, and yet the ultimate failure of which even Satan has to acknowledge. At the close of the tribulation this ultimate beast, this final anti-christ, is "cast alive into the lake of fire." Rev. 19 :20. So ends the anti-christ. Note. — 'Let the reader study carefully "the beast" of Rev. 17, with my exposition in Chapter 5. Then notice this same "beast" in Rev. 13 :1-10, and see how in verses 11-16 "another beast" with "two horns," spiritual and temporal power, comes up out of the ground, the abyss ; then you will see The Anti-Christ. 89 that he takes up the unfinished work of the first beast, brings to this work super-human power, couples on as successor and puts honor upon his predecessor, whose work he comes out of hell to complete. Now this is the culmination of the papacy, the final, supernatural, devil-begotten, Satan-empower antichrist, and he takes up where the pope, the first beast, left off. This shows the historical teachers are correct in making the pope the "man of sin," the antichrist of the ages. But his failure to meet Satan's expectations in the great Tribulation conflicts results in Satan's mightiest effort when, incarnating a product of his own, a great miracle-working fake Christ he takes over the papacy and fights his final battle with the coming King eternal, immortal, Divine. Thank God ! victory is with the Man of Galilee. All hail' ! my Christ. CHAPTER VIII. Romanism an Enemy to our Free Institutions. One Hundred and one Proofs. In reading quotations from Romish literature always bear in mind that when her writers use the words "the Church" they mean the Romish Church, and no other. To them all other churches are heretics, schismatics, and outside the pale of God's Church. Consider the following extracts from her stand- ard writers and ask yourself how far we would he removed from the Inquisition of the "Dark Ages" if she should gain authority in this country? The following quotations are from "The New Mission Book," drawn chiefly from the works of St. Alphonsus Maria De Ligouri and adapted to preserve the fruits of the Mission, by Rev. F. Gir- ardey, C-SS. It is published by the St. Louis Catholic publisher, B. Herder, and is sanctioned by the Church "Censor Theologicus," F. C. Hdl- wech, who says, "I hereby sanction the publica- tion of The New Mission Book/ " It bears date Feb. 6, 1911, and has the Imprimatur of Arch- bishop John J. Glennon. In it we read : 1. The Church greater than government "When you offend against the civil law, your punishment is but temporary, perhaps only a slight fine. But if you trample upon the laws of the Church, your punishment will be eternal — the 91 92 Uncle Sam or the Pope. unquenchable fire of hell." (P. 272). Observe, she does not say you go to hell for sin against God, but, "if you trample upon the laws of the Church." 2. Rome the holy Church. "The holy Roman Catholic Church is the Church of God .... Her doctrines have never va- ried ; they have been the same in all ages, in all places and under all circumstances. Like truth itself, she has ever been exclusive and intolerant of error." (P. 380). 3. Rome only produces saints. "Show us one of these modern, wrangling sects that has ever produced a single saint Nowhere except in the Roman Catholic Church, are there any real saints." (P. 381). 4. Only divinely-empowered teacher. "The Roman Catholic Church alone has from Christ the commission to preach the gospel and teach all nations." (P. 382). 5. The priest God's only representative. "The Roman Catholic priest alone can show his mission from God Himself. He alone is com- missioned by the Pope, the Vicar of Christ on earth." (P. 383). 6. Protestant Ministers Impostors. "The ministers of the various sects have no au- thority, no commission from God. They are im- postors." (Ibid). 7. It is Rome or hell. "Jesus Christ commissioned her (the R. C. Church) to teach all nations, and made it obli- gatory on aJll men, under pain of eternal damna- Romanism an Enemy. 93 tion, to accept her teaching and become her faith- ful children." (Ibid). 8. The Roman Church infallible. "Now Christ could not have done this — last paragraph — without endowing His Church with the gift of infallibility. Were the church not in- fallible, she would be liable to fall into error and to lead men astray. " (Ibid). 9. Extent of Roman infallibility. "Although her infallibility is confined to mat- ters of faith and morals (and yet about eighty- five per cent., of our nation's saloon-keepers are Roman Cathdlic people) , it often extends indirect- ly to other matters, such as philosophy, politics (my italics. P.), and natural sciences." (Ibid). Remember Galileo. 10. Infallibility located. "The infallibility of the Church is vested in her visible head— the Pope." (P. 385). The Pope infallible ! and yet they have taught many differ- ent doctrines and have denounced, condemned and cursed each other as few men have done. 11. Rome the only guide. "He commissioned His Church (the R. C.) to teach all men, and He made it obligatory on all under pain of eternal damnation to accept her as their guide. The Church of Christ therefore must have an infallible head." (P. 386). 12. Infallibility compatible with sin. "But what does Papal infallibility mean? It does not mean impeccability, or sMessness. . . . The Pope acknowledges himself a sinner, .... Ev- 94 Uncle Sam or the Pope. ery morning at Mass he says, "I confess that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed." (P. 386). Yet this sinner is "Our Lord God the Pope !" 13. Pope's infallible authority. "The Church has always accepted and obeyed the decisions of the Popes. She has always re- ceived tihem as infallible and without appeal. She has approved what they approved, rejected and condemned what they rejected and condemned." (P. 387). One pope established the Inquisition; one had a Te Deurn sung over the murder of some 70,000 to 100,000 Protestants in France in three days — the St. Bartholomew Massacre. But they are all infallible ! 14. Heretics condemned. "She (the R. C. Church) has ever considered as heretics or schismatics all who refuse to sub- mit to the Papal authority." (P. 388). 15. The Popes and truth. "The Popes have always had the truth on their side. The Popes could not have had the truth on their side constantly, had they not been enlight- ened by the Holy Ghost." (P. 389). And yet one pope has even dug up the remains of another and heaped insult upon his dead body. 16. We must submit to the Pope. "It is our duty, therefore, to submit unreserv- edly to the Pope. We thereby submit to the Church of Christ, which we are bound to obey un- der pain of eternal damnation." (P. 390) . This is the basis of the whole inquisitional system. It Romanism an Enemy. 95 was obey or be burned at the stake and consigned to hell! 17. Who can be saved? "There can be no salvation for those who, through their own fault, are out of the Church of Christ, the Holy Roman Catholic Church." (P. 390). 18. The Church of Rome or no God. "He who willfully refuses to obey the Church of God, refuses obedience to God Himself. He is a rebel against God's authority." (P. 390). 19. Chastise the rebels. "He (who rejects Rome's communion and au- thority) deserves the severest chastisement. He may h&ve every natural virtue, he may be a pol- ished man of the world, but as long as he deliber- ately refuses to obey God, to become a child of God's holy Church, he cannot enter into heaven." (P. 391) . Out of Rome he must be chastised here and hereafter. 20. No other way. "There is no middle course. If we believe and live as faithful children of the Church, we shall be saved. But he that deliberately refuses to en- ter the church shall be condemned." (P. 391). 21. Romanism or no Christ. "We cannot remain neutral ; we are either for Christ or against Him." (This is true, spiritually, but observe the application — P). "We are with Christ, if we are members of His Church. If through our own fault, we are not members of 96 Uncle Sam or the Pope. His Church, — the Church of Rome, remember, reader, — we are against Christ," (P- 391). 22. Heretics condemned. "She condemns and must condemn all error. She excommunicates those of her children who openly and obstinately persist in error." (P. 392) . Had you noticed, reader, that Rome never expels men for any type of sin, however heinous, only for heresy? 23. The Church in place of God. "The Catholic Church is infallible and cannot teach error. If we reject or disbelieve a single doctrine, we impugn her infallibility and commit a grievous sin ; we practically accuse God of decep- tion and rebel against His authority." (P. 398). 24. Protestant Bible denounced. "You sin against faith by reading heretical Bi- bles, heretical and infidel books and papers. The Protestant Bible is not the Word of God. It is a mutilated and corrupt version of the Holy Scrip- ture. You should have an intense hatred for ev- erything that can weaken or destroy your faith." (P. 400).* 25. Editors bound. The Plenary Council of Baltimore (Decree 223) says, "That paper alone is to be regarded as Catholic, that is prepared to submit in all things *The two translations are somewhat different and Rome adds some books known as "The Apocrypha." Still the fundamental doctrines are essentially the same. This de- nunciation of the Protestant Bible is simply a part of the priest's plan to control her dupes. The Duoay Version (Romish) which I frequently read, is a clumsy translation, reminding one of a club-foot or a pug nose. Romanism an Enemy. 97 to ecclesiastical authority." Dr. Geo. D. Wolff de- clares, "Catholic editors are not the expounders of what they may think ; they are to declare the doc- trines taught them toy the authorized teachers of the Church." So we see that not only is the Pro- testant Bible condemned but all independence of thought and expression, even by Romanist wri- ters. 26. Other services condemned. "You sin against faith by assisting at. . . . heretical preaching and false worship, you are not allowed without very serious reasons, to assist at marriages or funerals, at which heretical — and with Rome all Protestants are heretics — minis- ters officiate." (P. 401). And still the Knights of Columbus have appointed a Committee to in- quire as to why there should be religious preju- dice in this country. 27. What is forbidden. "To attend the funeral is not forbidden, but it is forbidden to be present at the praying, preach- ing or religious service of heretics, infidels, Jews and heathens." (401). 28. What constitutes sin. "Your sin is far greater if you take any active part in false worship by playing the organ or sing- ing, or if you contribute in any way to the main- tenance of false worship." Protestants are invi- ted to attend Romish services, and urged to con- tribute toward erecting their temples of idolatry, and some are foolish enough to do so, and this is the way they return the compliment. 98 Uncle Sam or the Pope. 29. Intolerant? Certainly. "Faith is truth and is necessarily intolerant and exclusive of error. There can be no com- promise in matters of faith." (P. 402). All the compromise must be on one side. Protestants must hear priests, attend and support papal ser- vices, hospitals, asylums, etc., but denunciation as infidels, heretics, sinners is the pay we get. 30. What about secret orders? "The Catholic Church has justly condemned oath-bound secret societies as dangerous, con- trary to good morals and essentially opposed to civil and ecclesiastical authority." (P. 402). What about Rome's own oath-bound Jesuits, Jansenists, Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibern- ians, nunneries, .etc.? 31. Specifies some orders. "The Church forbids her children, under pain of excommunication to join the Free Masons, the Odd Fellows, The Good Templars, The Knights of Pythias and the Sons of Temperance." (P. 403). But she does not forbid them drinking liquor and conducting saloons and bawdy houses "under penalty of excommunication." 32. Even the burying -ground too holy for se- cret order men. "He who belongs to an excommunicated secret society is cut off from the Church, and if he dies thus, he cannot receive Christian — he means priestly— burial." (P. 403). 33. Some household necessities. "You should have at home good Catholic Romanism an Enemy. 99 books, papers and pictures You should have in your house a crucifix, holy water, and some (priest) blessed candles." (P. 404). He overlook- ed some holy relics, such as St. Anne's shin bones. But they are strongly recommended elsewhere. 34. Some vows of converts of Rome. The convert kneeling with hand on the gospels says, "Knowing that no one can be saved without that faith which the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Ro- man Church holds, believes and teaches I sub- mit myself with my whole heart. . . .and am ready to observe all that she commands me." (P. 412). (My italics) .^ He goes on to acknowledge the doc- trine of transubstantiation, the primacy of the pope and "the veneration of the saints and their images." If this isn't idolatry, image worship, what is it? Let us here have a few of the questions asked by bachelor priests of men and women in the con- fessional. 35. On impurity. "Have you been guilty of seduction? Did you accomplish your designs? Have you committed crimes against nature? Have you taken part in the sins of others? You must mention the circum- stances that change the nature of your sin — the sex, the relationship and the condition, Whether married, single or bound by vow." "How long have you been addicted to secret sins? How of- ten have you committed them?" (p. 450). Do Americans want their wives and daughters, their 100 Uncle Sam or the Pope. sisters and sweethearts asked such questions by burly bachelors? 36. Bad men may be good priests. "The priestly character is never lost, for once a priest, forever a priest of God." Be the priest ever so bad, the penitent is told, "Your confession must be entire" and "humble." He is to you "a good father, who will be o'rily too glad to rescue you from eternal perditioin." "You ought to con- sider yourself a criminal deserving of hell, kneel- ing before Jesus Christ." How is that for fa- ther's humility? (pp. 232-234). 37. Hearken as to Christ. "If the priest questions you, listen attentively and answer sincerely. Hearken respectfully and humbly to his advice, as if Christ Himself were speaking to you." (p. 234). "At his ordination, the priest received the wonderful and sublime powers* * * to bless, to say Mass and to change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, to forgive sins and to administer the sac- raments." (p. 177). Now I hate to say that the bunch who tells that stuff are all liars, and yet it resolves itself into "fools" or "liars" and I am puz- zled as to which term charity would use. 38. The Wonderful Scapular. "The scapular consists of two small pieces of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders. * * The advantages of this devotion are very great. * * It is a badge of love and veneration of the holy Moth- er of God" (Mary) . Many indulgences are grant- ed to those who wear this "scapular." Among Romanism an Enemy. 101 others named are "a pledge of salvation, a safe- guard in danger ; those who die wearing the scap- ular shall not burn in the flames of hell." And this, gentle reader, is lately published over the imprimatur of Archbishop Jno. J. Glennon of St. Louis, U. S. A. ! ! You thought it was from Italy in the thirteenth century, didn't you? 39. As to Schools. "You must, if possible, send your children to a Catholic school. Such is the decision of our Holy Father, the Pope * * When Rome has spoken the case is settled." (My italics. P.). "Our enemies are straining every nerve to wrest education from the control of the Catholic Church, and it be- hooves every true Catholic to stand by his Church in this vital question." (p. 488) . 40. An appeal for war. "Under which banner will you fight? Will it be under that of Christ and His Church? If so, send your children to none but a Catholic school and do all in your power to support the school. If you act otherwise, you are endeavoring to destroy your mother, the Church." My question is this : Can Americca be free while nursing in her midst an enemy to that institution which is to be cred- ited largely with her greatness — the Public School? 41. Which shall prevail? A conflict is an. The public free school has laid the foundations of general education, intelli- gence and national greatness. It, with an open 102 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Bible, free speech and press, has produced the great Republic. The parochial school with the priest and confessional have given us Spain, Por- tugal, Mexico, Ecuador. Rome has thrown down the gauntlet. The conflict is on ; which shall pre- vail ? Let red-blooded, freedom-loving, Bible- reading Protestant manhood meet the issue and forward march till we PULVERIZE THE PA- PAL POWER. We now drop "the Mission Book," a resurrect- ed product, a twentieth century re-issue of the tenth century, and turn to other Papal authorities of the same system, a stuffy reliquary of bygone days. 42. The bachelor Fathers. Bear in mind, the priests from Papa Benedict, "the Holy Father," down, according to Rome, are all bachelors. There are in the United States some 17,000 of them; in the world something like a quarter of a million or more. None of them are married legally and openly, but all are "fathers" ; that is what Romanists call them, and they ought to know. 43. The Ne Temere Decree. This was promulgated in 1908 by Pius X. I quote in part : "No marriage between Catholics * * is valid, unless contracted in presence of a competent Catholic priest and two witnesses. * * The same law is binding in mixed marriages, be- tween Romanists and Protestants. These to be valid, must have the necessary dispensation and be contracted before a priest, etc." (Mission Book Romanism an Enemy. 103 p. 264) . He calls those married by other than a priest adulterers and their children bastards. 44. "Mollie's Mistake/' The above is the title of a book issued by B. Herder, St. Louis, publisher of the New Mission Book. It is by a priest and is approved by the "Censor" also. He says, "In our day there are many mixed marriages. Hoping to make converts, some may look upon them as a blessing; others deprecate them on account of the loss of souls en- tailed." Among the evils resulting the author says, "The wreck of faith * * the parent is mis- erable in life and death." From the Preface. So it seems that Protestants are a bad lot. And yet the "Knights" are inquiring, Why religious prej- udice? 45. Hurtful results. The priest speaking to Mollie, who contem- plates marrying a Protestant, says, "As evil com- munications corrupt good manners, so Protest- antism protestanizes us;" (p. 34) and of course this is a great danger. Why don't they go to Spain or Mexico? They are not Protestantized lands ; they are fair samples of Romanized coun- tries. 46. Divorce Outgrowth of Protestantism. Mollie having told the priest that there are di- vorces among Catholics received the reply, "We do have them occasionally ; but the cases are few and far between. Divorce is the fruit of Protest- antism." "Had the Pope granted a divorce to Henry VIII. there probably would be no Protest- 104 Uncle Sam or the Pope. ant Episcopal Church today, which is the offspring of adultery." (p. 34). And yet some Episcopali- ans are anxious to get back '"bag and baggage" into "Holy Mother Church" ! Such certainly have small self-respect. 47. Dispensation fees. Mollie inquired as to what she would have to do in order to marry Mr. Brown, her Protestant lover. After giving other items, the priest said, "The next step will be the dispensation fee." Un- doubtedly ! Does Rome ever do anything without the fees? In Ecuador 75 per cent, of the children are said to be born out of wedlock. Why? The marriage fee of the priest is so high, that the poor people cannot pay it, and so they live together un- married. Is this not worse than our fool Protest- ant divorces? Though they certainly are a dis- grace to any nation. 48. An unforgivable sin. The "holy father" tells Mollie that "no priest would perform the ceremony without a dispensa- tion" (and that requires 'the fee, remember) and he adds, "That marriage before a squire or preacher would be unmitigated adultery, and that even on the death J bed the sin could not be forgiven unless the one be separated from the other, or, with the bishop's approbation, the marriage be revalidat- ed" (p. 80). Here is "rule or ruin" with a ven- geance. Is not this a rotten type of divorce ? No forgiveness unless they toe separated." 49. A marriage contract. In this "Mollie Love's" book there is given the Romanism an Enemy. 105 form of contract that must be signed by the Pro- testant who would marry a Romanist : "I promise on my word of honor, that Miss Mollie Love shall be permitted the free exercise of her religion ac- cording to her belief, and that all children born of this marriage sha'll be baptized and educated in the faith, and according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church." He also agrees to have no further marriage ceremony, (p. 64). 50. Protestant unfitness. Elsewhere concerning qualification for train- ing their offspring the priest adds, "In your case, Mollie, the Church says, Mr. Brown is not fit to have care of his own children. To this effect, he went so far as to sign an agreement," and adds, "Mr. Brown is prohibited by his marriage con- tract to interfere with the religious exercises of the child, and yours also." (p. 102). 51. Everything hinges on temporal power. "When the temporal sovereignty of the Apos- tolic See (the Pope) is in question, the cause of the public good and the well-being of all human society in general are also at stake. Continuing, he cries out "against the seizing of the civil sov- ereignty and the infringement of rights belong- ing to the Roman Church" (Great Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII. p. 15). 52. Failure of Society. "The Church of Christ (Roman he means), far from being alien to or neglectful of progress, has a just claim to all men's allegiance as its nurse, its mistress and its mother. Furthermore, 106 Uncle Sam or the Pope. that kind of civilization which conflicts with the doctrines and laws of holy Church is nothing but a worthless imitation and a meaningless name/' (Ibid p. 12). 53. Church's claim outraged. "Public institutions, moved to charity and be- nevolence, have been withdrawn from the whole- some control of the church ; thence also has arisen that unchecked freedom to teach and spread abroad all mischievous principles, while the Church's claim to train and educate youth is every way outraged and baffled/" (Ibid p. 10). 54. Temporal power of divine origin. "Such too is the purpose of the seizing of tem- poral power conferred many centuries ago by Di- vine Providence on the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) , that he might without let or hindrance, use the authority conferred by Christ for the eternal welfare of the Nations." (Ibid p. 11). So he is still demanding authority as temporal ruler over all nations, hence over these United States. Shall he have it? 55. Demands authority. Condemning those who deny "the holy and venerable authority of the Church" this pontiff says, "They labor to weaken her influence and power by wounds daily inflicted, and to overthrow the authority of the Bishop of Rome, in whom the abiding and unchanging principles of right and good find their earthly guardian and cham- pion." (p. 10) . It seems then that right and good Romanism an Enemy. 107 have no champion but Rome's Pope. Since he is not in authority here the right is defenceless ! 56. Legalized concubinage. "When impious laws, setting at naught the sanctity of this great sacrament (marriage) , put it on equal footing with a mere civil contract (that is, when performed by a magistrate or a minister instead of a priest) , the lamentable result follow- ed, that of outraging the dignity of Christian mat- rimony, citizens made use of legalized concubinage in place of marriage." (p. 18). How does red- blooded manhood take this insult to your wives, mothers, and selves? Men, are you and your children illegitimates because your parents and yourselves were not married by one of the Pope's petticoated bachelor daddies ? 57. Leo Against the Masons. "It may seem to some that Free Masons de- mand nothing that is openly contrary to religion and morality ; but, as the whole principle and ob- ject of the sect lies in what is vicious and crim- inal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful." (p. 102) . Yet some Ma- sons truckle to the Pope's minions! 58. The Pontiff head over all. Leo wrote, "Over this mighty multitude— all the nations of earth — God has Himself set rulers with power to govern (my italics) ; and he has willed that one should be head of all and the chief and unerring teacher of truth, to whom he has given the keys of the kingdom of heaven." (Ibid 108 Uncle Sam or the Pope. p. 112). Isn't this a most sublime egotism, for a mortal man to write thus of himself? 59. The Pope true law-maker. "In very truth Jesus Christ gave to His apos- tles unrestrained authority in regard to things sacred, together with the genuine and most true power of making laws, as also with the twofold right of judging and punishing, which flow from that power." Here is the basal principle of the Inquisition. And Leo XIII. wrote it November 1, 1885. (Great Enc. Letters p. 113). 60. The Church and State differ as to their rights. "Now this authority — to legislate, teach and rule — * * long assailed by a philosophy that truckles to the State, the Church has never failed to claim for herself. * * * The Roman Pontiffs have never shrunk from defending it with un- bending constancy." (Ibid p. 113). 61. Republicanism Tabooed. Speaking of a Democratic form of government, the rule of the people, Leo says, "Thus as is evi- dent, a State becomes nothing but a multitude, which is its own master and ruler. And since the populace is declared to contain within itself the spring-head of all rights and power, it follows that the state does not consider itself bound by any kind of duty towards God." (p. 120) . According to this reasoning a republic cannot be a Christian na- tion ; only a papalized monarchy can be obedient to the Divine Authority. 62. Leo Against Free Speech and Free Press. Romanism an Enemy. 109 "The liberty of thinking, and of publishing, whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrance, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice * '* It is the fountain-head and origin of many evils." (p. 124). 63. Freedom of Thought Denounced. "The State is acting against the laws and dic- tates of nature whenever it permits the license (liberty) of opinion and of action to lead minds astray from truth and souls away from the prac- tice of virtue. To exclude the Church * * from the business of life, from the power of making laws, from the training of youth, from domestic society, is a grave and fatal error." (p. 124). Give this king of all men what he demands and where would be yo*ur social and civil fabric? 64. Touching Conditions in These United States. Of our nation, Leo says some good things and then adds, "Yet, though all this is true, it would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most de- sirable status of the Church, or that it would be universally law r ful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in America, dissevered and di- vorced * * * She would bring forth more abun- dant fruits, if, in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority." (pp. 323-4). He goes on to say that he has "left nothing undone" to establish "the Catholic religion" in our land. I believe him. 110 Uncle Sam or the Pope. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY/' 65. Pope Supreme Judge. "The Pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land. He is the vice-gerent of Christ * * The King of kings and Lord of lords * * The Pope, by virtue of his dignity, is at the summit of both powers" — the temporal and the spiritual. From Civilta Catholica, official organ of Pius IX., March 18, 1871. 66. Pope's Authority Final. "None may reopen the judgment of the Apos- tolic See, than whose authority there is none greater; nor can any lawfully review its judg- ment." First Dogmatic Constitution. Vatican Council, 1871. 67. A Few of Pope Gregory's Maxims. "A princess should kiss the feet of the Pope." "His judgment no man can reverse, but he can re- verse all other judgments." "The Roman Church never erred, nor will she ever err." (Epistle 55, Book 11). The Papists are putting on the market a book entitled, "Manual of Christian Doctrine." It is issued by John J. McVey, Philadelphia. It bears the Imprimatur of the archbishop of Philadelphia. It is for use in High Schools, Academies, Colleges and for general instruction, as we learn from the preface. The copy before me was bought in a second-hand book store in Minneapolis, by Rev. W. L. Brandon. It has been used quite a bit. On the ends of the leaves when the book is closed, we Rmanism an Enemy. Ill find in pencil, in a large, clear hand on one end as follows: "GOD'S WORD." On the other end, "The Word of God/' This shows the weight it carries to the mind of the student who made use of the copy. Let's have a few extracts from this copy of "God's Word." "41. What is Tradition? Tradition is the Word of God not written in the Bible, but transmitted in unbroken succession, by word of mouth, from the Apostles to us. '42. Where are the Teachings of Tradition Contained? In the decrees of councils, the acts of the Holy See (the popes P.) the liturgical books, the works of exalted Christians, and the Fathers and Doc- tors of the Church. "43. Why is Tradition of Equal Authority With the Holy Scriptures? It is of equal authority because it is equally the Word of God. (But Jesus said, Ye make void the Word of God by your tradition. — P.). "44. To Whom Does the Interpretation of Holy Scripture and Tradition Belong ? To the infallible teaching authority of the (Ro- man Catholic) Church, the guardian of revealed truth. "45. Which are the Errors Against Revela- tion? 1. Rationalism, deism, naturalism and all the false systems which deny the existence and even the possibility of revelation. 112 Uncle Sam or the Pope. 2. Protestantism and all the heresies which attack any one of the revealed truths. "46. What is the Source of These Errors ? It is the criminal revolt of reason against the divine teaching : a revolt which is the outcome of the pretended right of private judgment" (p. 6). So we see that to exercise the right of private judgment is a "criminal revolt of reas-oai." Is not such teaching treasonous in a land where "all men are born free and equal ?" Is it not fundamen- tally dangerous to exalt the "traditions" of Rome, the decrees of her councils, and "the acts of the Holy See" to the plane of Divine authority? What authority can the laws of the land have over minds imbued with teachings such as we quote above T I give six propositions above, numbered as in the book for identification. This makes our seven- tieth proof. "117. Union of Church and State. "What more should the State do than respect the rights and the liberty of the Church? The State should also aid, protect and defend the Church. "119. What then is the PRINCIPAL OBLI- GATION (my caps— P.) of heads of States? Their principal obligation is to practice the Catholic religion themselves, and as they are in power to protect and defend it. "120. Has the State the right and the duty to proscribe (condemn and outlaw) schism or her- esy? Yes, it has the right and the duty to do so, both Romanism an Enemy. 113 for the goad of the nation, and for that of the faithful themselves; for religious unity is the principal foundation of social unity. "122. May the State separate itself from the Church ? No; because it may not withdraw itself from the supreme rule of Christ. "123. What name is given to the doctrine that the State has neither the right nor the duty to be united to the Church to protect it? This doctrine is called Liberalism. It is found- ed principally on the fact that modern society rests on liberty of conscience and of worship, on liberty of speech and of the press. "124. Why is Liberalism to be Condemned? 1 Because it denies all subordination of the State to the Church. 2. Because it confounds lib- erty with right. 3. Because it despises the social dominion of Christ, and rejects the benefits de- rived therefrom." (pp. 132, 133). We do not re- ject the social dominion of Christ. He is "Lord of all/' and should rule in every heart. But to ac- cept the dominance of the Pope of Rome is an altogether different proposition. They are as far apart as heaven and hell. In above I again follow the numbers in the book. I now resume my own consecutive' num- bering. 77. Act only as Catholics. "We do not hesitate to affirm that in perform- ing our duties as citizens, electors and public offi- cers we should always and under all circumstances 114 Uncle Sam or the Pope. act simply as Roman Catholics ; that we should be governed and directed by the immutable princi- ples of our religion, and should take dogmatic faith and the conclusions drawn from it, as the only rule of our private, public and political con- duct." — From the Catholic World. 78. Dominant Religion. "The Catholic religion with all its rites ought to be exclusively dominant, in such sort that every other worship shall be banished and interdicted. It is a cause of supreme bitterness to the heart of the Holy Father not to be able otherwise to im- pose a limit to so much evil, as he certainly would if he could make use of other means to bridle their insane license." — Pius IX. 79. One Kind of Crime. "From the decisions of the Popes, it is clearly to be understood that the origin of public power is to be sought from God Himself, and not from the multitude; that the free play of sedition is repugnant to reason ; that it is a crime for private individuals and a crime for States to * * treat in the same way different kinds of religion ; that the uncontrolled right of thinking and publicly proclaiming one's thoughts, is not inherent in the rights of citizens.* (Life and letters of Pope Leo XIII., page 384). 80. Discrimination Expected. "It is necessary to call attention to the fact that the point raised about discrimination in fa- vor of one church at the expense of another cannot be said to apply in the case of cardinals. They Romanism an Enemy. 115 are something besides ministers of the Gospel and ecclesiastics." 81. A Cardinal's Greatness. "Indeed, a cardinal is not necessarily a priest, but he is from a secular point of view, a very great personage, who is regarded and treated every- where abroad not as a dignitary of any church, but as a prince of the blood." 82. Princes of the Blood. "Under the circumstances it must be borne in mind that even though Cardinals Farley, O'Con- nell and Gibbons are at heart patriotic Americans and members of an American hierarchy, yet they are as cardinals, foreign princes of the blood, to whom the United States, as one of the great powers of the world, is under an obliga- tion to concede the same honors that they receive abroad." 83. Salutes and Naval Honors. "Were Cardinal Farley to visit an American man-of-war, he would be entitled to the salutes and naval honors reserved for foreign royal per- sonages, and at any official entertainment at Washington the Cardinal will outrank not merely every cabinet officer, the Speaker of the House and the Vice President, but also foreign ambassadors, coming next to the chief magistrate himself." 84. Royal Visits. "Incidentally, it may be mentioned that when a royal personage not of sovereign rank visits New York it is his duty to make the first call on Cardinal Farley." 116 Uncle Sam or the Pope. These five extracts from The Boston Pilot, Cardinal O'Connell's paper, April 6, 1912 : 85. Alliance 'between Church and State. "And inasmuch as the destiny of the State de- pends mainly on those who are at the head of af- fairs, it follows that the Church cannot give coun- tenance or favor to those whom she knows to be imbued with a spirit of hostility to her, who re- fuse openly to respect her rights, to make it their aim and purpose to tear asunder the alliance that should, by the very nature of things, connect the interests of religion with those of the State." — (Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII., Jan. 10, 1890). 86. Identified with Rome. "The great conservative and living principles of our civil and political institutions are hence- forth to be identified peculiarly with the Catholic church and its friends. Every year that rolls by will make this fact more clear and will develop its consequences more fully." — Freeman's Jour- nal, July, 1852). 87. Compelled the Government. "The Catholics of the United States compelled the government and compelled the officers of the navy and the army to undo the work of spoliation of the Philippines. And the vestments were all returned, the altars were all restored, and the churches were all given back, the lands were all paid for, and the Government of the United States spent nearly twenty million dollars paying for the ravages of the army." — (From sermon by Priest Phelan, St. Louis, June 30, 1912). Romanism an Enemy. 117 88. No question — only obey. 'The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself hid- den under the veil of the flesh. Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus Christ who speaks. Does the Pope accord a favor or pronounce an anathema 1 It is Jesus Christ who pronounces the anathema or accords the favor. So that when the Pope speaks we have no business to examine. We have only to obey." — "Archbishop of Venice," who be- came Pius X. 89. Authority to kill heretics. "The Catholic Church has the right and duty to kill heretics, because it is by fire and sword that heresy can be extirpated. Mere excommunication is derided by heretics. If they are imprisoned or exiled they corrupt others. The only recourse is to put them to death. For the highest good of the Church is the Unity of Faith, and this can not be preserved unless heretics are put to death." — (Prof. Hugh O'Donnell, author of "The Ruin of Education in Ireland," page 3). 90. Organized Against "Bigoted Officials." "The American Federation of Catholic Socie- ties has been organized to bring the powerful in- fluence of the entire Catholic Church in America against the injustice of the Public School System, to secure the revision of histories a-nd books of reference prejudicial to the Catholic Church, the removal of bigoted officials from holding office, and a move toward stricter divorce laws." — 118 Uncle Sam or the Pope. (Bishop McFaul, before Federation of Catholics, Milwaukee) . 91. Penalty of Living in a Republic. "The question of education is one of major and universal interest to our people. It is one of the penalties of living in a Republic that every man or woman who has a vote is supposed to do his own thinking, for those who rule us by virtue of our votes, and those who make our laws are but our representatives." 92. Dissatisfied with Public Schools. "We persist in our attitude of dissatisfaction with the public schools. They are quite as unac- ceptable to us as they ever were. Once they sin- ned by excess, now by deficiency. Once they taught religion opposed to ours, now by silence they undermine it." "Could there be anything, I ask you, more fu- tile or more repugnant to a Christian than the attempt (of which we read in the papers) to teach morality under the guise of sex hygiene in the public schools. . . .In the privacy of the confess- ional, which is anonymous, we deal with such weakness ; we set forth the stronger religious mo- tives for morality and indicate the sure methods of recovery " — Extract from sermon by Bish- op Dowling, Des Moines, la., Sept. 15, 1913. 93. Protestantism in Dissolution. "As a religious system, Protestantism is in hopeless dissolution, utterly valueless as a doc- trine of moral power, and no longer to be consid- ered a foe with which we must contend. The Cath- Romanism an Enemy. 119 olic Church is the sale living and enduring Chris- tian authority." — Archbishop Ireland. 94. Protestants, is this true? "What right has a Protestant wife to object to her husband's having a mistress ; and what rea- son has a Protestant husband to object to his wife having a lover? There is absolutely nothing in. Protestant Christianity to prevent it. Luther claimed it as one of the glorious privileges of the gospel. If these people will be monogamic, let them join the Catholic Church." — Western Watchman, Nov. 26, 1914. 95. What Marriage is Valid? "Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before a parish priest." — Pius X., Au- gust 2, 1907. "A civil marriage is only licensed cohabita- tion. There should be no such legal abomination, and the Church should be supreme judge of the marriage relation." — Western Watchman, March 28, 1912. 96. Luther a Blackguard. "Protestantism is simply ruffianism, organized into a religion. The first reformer, Martin Lu- ther, was the vilest blackguard of all time. * * * All his associates in the sacrilege of sanctuaries and sacking of religious houses, were almost to a man of the lowest and beastliest morals." — Western Watchman, Sept. 28, 1911. 97. Protestantism Piracy. "Protestantism has been a pirate of the seas and a marauder of the lands for these four hun- 120 Uncle Sam or the Pope. dred years. The corsair ships and pirate crews have now been overhauled. Protestantism goes down to hell, confessing, but impenitent." — West- ern Watchman, March 21, 1912. 98. — Protestantism Anarchy. "Protestantism is a bloody protest against all authority and a proclamation of anarchy and un- bounded license in all the walks of life. Man's will, not the will of God, is the supreme law of Protestantism, and it is man's will that there shall be given a free rein to all the passions of the hu- man heart." — Western Watchman, Nov. 9, 1914. 99. Apostate a Scoundrel. "Catholics not only believe but know, with a knowledge as firm as the rock of Gibraltar, that the man who apostatizes from the Catholic Church is an unmitigated scoundrel, a renegade to every honest and honorable principle." 100. Hanging Preferable. "There is not a Catholic in the world who would not prefer to see his mother or sister dead than turned Protestant. Speaking for ourselves, we would rather see a relation of ours hanged than a renegade to his religion." 101. To Leave Rome Makes a Judas. "But a Catholic apostate, if he dies in his apos- tasy, is damned as sure as Dives or Judas were damned. As between a Catholic apostate and Beelzebub, give us Beelzebub every time for any office or employment. It is not fair to expect Catholics to vote for men, who, in the full posses- Romanism an Enemy. 121 sion of their reason and full knowledge of their act, betray Christ for anti-Christ." (Above extracts from Western Watchman, dated Oct., 1909). Thus we find Romanism an enemy to our Bible, which she would burn ; to our free schools, which she would annihilate ; to our marriage ties, which she would dissever; to our free speech and free press, which she anathematizes ; to our Protestant Christianity, which she hates far more than she hates any type of sin. Can a compactly organized system like this, with these principles and animos- ities, and controlled by a foreign despot, be safely trusted in this country? Are its followers enti- tled to the privileges of citizenship? I here ap- pend a letter of Rev. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. It speaks for itself: "With persecution I have nothing to do. I persecute no man for his religious principles. Let there be as boundless a freedom in religion as any man can conceive. But this does not touch the point. I will set religion, true or false, utterly out of the question. "'Suppose the Bible, if you please, to be fable, and the Koran to be the Word of God. I consider not whether the Romish religion be true or false ; I build nothing on one or the other supposition ! Therefore, away with all your commonplace dec- lamation, about intolerance and persecution for religion! Suppose every word of Pope Pius's creed to be true ; suppose the Council of Trent to have been infallible; yet I insist that no govern- 122 Uncle Sam or the Pope. ment, not Roman Catholic, ought to tolerate men / of the Catholic persuasion. I prove this by plain argument (let him answer it that can) ^ That no Roman Catholic does or can give security for his allegiance or peaceable behavior, I prove thus : It is a Roman Catholic maxim, established not by private men, but by public council, that * * *"No faith is to be kept with heretics." This has been openly avowed by the Council of Constance, but it never was openly disclaimed. Whether private persons avow or disavow it, it is a fixed maxim of the Church of Rome. But, as long as it is so, it is plain that the members of the Church can give no reasonable security to any government of their allegiance or peaceable behavior. There- fore, they ought not to be tolerated by any gov- ernment, Protestant, Mohammedan, or Pagan J You may say, "Nay, but they will take an oath of allegiance." True, five hundred oaths ; but the maxim, "No faith is to be kept with heretics," sweeps them away as a spider's web. So that no governors, who are not Roman Catholics, can have any security of their allegiance. "Again, those who acknowledge the spiritual power of the Pope can give no security to any government for their allegiance. But all Roman Catholics acknowledge this— the spiritual power of the Pope. Therefore, they can give no security for their allegiance. The power of granting par- don for all sins, past, present, and to come, is, and has been for many centuries, one branch of his spiritual power. But those who acknowledge him Romanism an Enemy. 123 to have this spiritual power can give no security for their allegiance, since they believe the Pope can pardon rebellions, high treason, and all other sins whatsoever. The power of dispensing with any promise, oath, or vow, is another branch of the spiritual power of the Pope. All who ac- knowledge his spiritual power, must acknowledge this. But whoever acknowledges this dispensing power of the Pope can give no security for his allegiance to any government. Oaths and prom- ises are none ; they are as light as air ; a dispensa- tion makes them all null and void. Nay, not only the Pope but even a priest has power to pardon gins ! This is an essential doctrine of the Church of Kome. But they that acknowledge this, cannot possibly give any security for their allegiance to any government. Oaths are not security at all; £oi the priests can pardon both perjury and high treason. Setting, then, religion aside, it is plain that upon principles of reason, no government ought to tolerate men who cannot give security to that government for their allegiance and peace- able behavior. But this no Romanist can do, not only white he holds that "no faith is to be kept with heretics," but so long as he acknowledges either priestly absolution, or the spiritual power of the Pope. "Some time since a Romish priest came to one I know, and after talking with her largely, broke out, 'You are no heretic ; you have the experience of a real Christian! 'And would you/ she asked, 'burn me alive?' He said, 'God forbid! unless it 124 Uncle Sam or the Pope. were for the good of the Church.' Now what security could she have had for her life, if it had depended on that man ? The 'good of the Church' would have burst all the ties of truth, justice, and mercy ; specially when seconded by the absolution of a priest, or (if need were) a Papal pardon. (Signed) John Wesley." If I have not in this chapter (proven beyond cavil that Romanism is treasonous, inimical to free institutions, and the gravest danger to the life and principles of a republic, of free and intel- ligent government, and proven it by the highest papal authorities, then I know not what it takes to make proof. Show the book and especially this chapter to your neighbor. Read it to a congre- gation on Sunday. Our country must be aroused. CHAPTER IX. Priestly Rottenness. Remember as you read this, Rome's doctrine that sin does not disqualify a priest — "a priest once always a priest/' The evidence of immorality and political in- trigue that appears in succeeding pages is not the product of imagination or of lurid yellow journal- ism. It is reprinted from Document No. 190 of the 56th Congress, second session, and consists of questions and answers propounded by a commis- sion appointed by the United States government to investigate the titles of certain lands and prop- erties in the Philippine Islands claimed by the Remain Catholic Church. Interview with Senor Don Felipe Calderon, Oct. 17, 1900. "Q. How many friars have you known per- sonally ? "A. Very many. I have known nearly all the Jesuits, because I was educated by them, but I may add that the Jesuits are not friars. I have known all the friars of Santo Tomas, beginning with Archbishop Nozaieda, who was one of my professors. "Q. What class of society were the friars drawn from in Spain? 125 126 Uncle Sam or the Pope. "A. I cannot say of my own knowledge, but quoting the friars themselves and persons who have traveled extensively in Spain, I should say that they come from the lowest orders of society ; and this is corroborated by the fact that the ma- jority, if not all of them, when they first come, have not the slightest conception of social forms and etiquette, and it might be said they have the hair of a dog on them. "Q. Were there not a good many well edu- cated friars? "A. The fact is, that they are almost totally unconscious of proper social forms. They act in- decently and use indecent expressions in the pres- ence of ladies in public to such an extent that I was forced on one occasion to throw out a friar who was not only using indecent language, but acting indecently in the presence of my wife. * * "Q. As to the morality of the friars, have you had much opportunity to observe as to this? "A. Considerable. From my earliest youth. With respe'ct to their morality in general, it was such a common thing to see children of the friars that no one ever paid any attention to it or thought of it, and so depraved had the people become in this regard that the women who were mistresses of friars really felt great pride in it and had no compunction in speaking of it. Now the rule is, for the friar to have a mistress and children, and he who has not is the rare exception, and if it is desired that I give names I could cite right now one hundred children of friars. Priestly Rottenness. 127 "Q. In Manilla, or in the provinces? "A. In Manilla and in the provinces, every- where. "Q. Are the friars living in the islands still who have had those children ? "A. Yes, and I can give their names if neces- sary; and I can give the names of the children, too. Beginning with myself; my mother is the daughter of a Franciscan friar. I do not dishon- or myself by saying this, because my family be- gins with myself. "Q. How do you know these things? "A. In some cases through family relations, others because they were godchildren of my fa- ther, and in others I became possessed of the facts through being an attorney. I myself have acted as godfather for three children of friars. I am now managing an estate of $40,000 that came from a friar for his three children. A family lives with me who are all children of friars. "Q. It was not a general licentiousness on the part of the friars? "A. It was a general licentiousness, because, as I have said, the exception as to the rule among the friars was to not have a mistress and to be the father of children by her. The friar ivho was not so mixed up ivith a woman in some way or other was like a snowbird in summer, but it must be confessed that for the past ten years they have improved somewhat in this regard. "Q. That would seem to indicate that the im- morality of the friars is not the chief ground of 128 Uncle Sam or the Pope, the hostility of the people against them, would it not? "A. That is not, by any means, because the moral sense of the whole people here had been ab- solutely perverted. So frequent were these in- fractions of the moral laws on the part of the friars that really no one ever cared or took any notice of them; and this acquiescence on the part of the people was imposed upon them; for ivoe be unto him tuho should ever murmur anything against the friars, and even the young Filipino ivomen had their senses perverted, because when attending school they had often seen the friars come in to speak to their openly-avowed daugh- ters, who often were their oivn playmates. "Q. So to swell the taxes, they robbed the cradle and the grave? "A. They augmented the cradle, but dimin- ished the grave. The friars had a system of blackmail, by which they held the rod over all the citizens of a pueblo, about whose habits and closet skeletons they learned through making little girls of from 5 to 7 years of age, who could barely speak, and who naturally must have been sinless, come to the confessional and relate to them every- thing that they knew of the private life in their own homes and in places that they might visit. TESTIMONY OF SENOR NOGALES. "Q. What do you know about the morality or immorality of the friars ? "A. Too much. I have nothing to add to Priestly Rottenness. 129 what Senor Galderon says, save to cite some more names. "Q. Have you known a good many young- women and young men who were the reputed daughters and sons of friars ? • "A. I have known a great many and now have living on my estate six children of a friar. "Q. Were all the friars (priests) licentious? "A. / believe that they all are. "Q. Do you think that was the ground of hostility against the friars? "A. No sir ; Caesarism was. Everything was dependent upon them, and I may say that even the process of eating was under their supervision. Naturally their immorality had a slight influence in the case, but it became so common that it passed unnoticed. "Q. Charges have been made against the friars that they caused deportations of Filipinos. "A. In my own province the large majority of the friars, and more especially Antonio Brabo, had great influence in the deportation of many influential citizens, as also in the incarceration of several of them in order to subsequently have them released so as to show their power with the authorities. I, myself, at the instigation of friars, have been the victim of their machinations, for they wanted me sent to Manilla to be crimi- nally prosecuted, but thanks to the governor, and my father-in-law, who was a European, I escaped. "Q. It is charged that they were guilty of physical cruelty to their own members and others. 130 Uncle Sam or the Pope. "A. They were cruel not only in the treat- ment of their servants by beating them, but they also took great delight in being eye witness to tortures and beatings of men in prison and jails by the civil authorities. "Q. What have you to say of the morality of the native priests as compared with that of the friars? (The friars are priests imported from Spain) . "A. They are about on an even footing. All the priests now officiating have the same vices, and when you take into account that they were purposely kept from following their natural bent to obtain an education by the friars, in order to show the Pope that there was a natural want of capacity in the Filippino, it can be seen why they became easy tools of the Spanish priests and great mimics of them in their loose life." INTERVIEW WITH NOZARIO CONSTANTINO, Oct. 1900. "Q. What was the morality of the friars? "A. There was no morality whatever, and the story of immorality would take too long to re- count. Great immorality and corruption. "Q. Have you known of fhe children of friars being about in Bulacan? "A. Yes, sir. About the year 1840 and the year 1850* every friar curate in the province of Bulacan had his concubine. Dr. Joaquin Gonzales was the son of a curate of Baliuag, and he has three sisters here and another brother, all child- ren of the same friar. We do not look upon that as a discredit to a man. They were all of the Priestly Rottenness. 131 same kind, and to name the number of children of the multitude of fHars who came here from 1876 to 1896 and 1898 would take an immense amount of space. There was a case, for instance, of the governor of the province of Bulacan named Ca- nova; he was a man who was very strict in the performance of his official duty — an honest and an upright man. He endeavored to put a stop to deportations by the friars, and they combined and called upon him in a body and asked him in a threatening manner if he desired to remain as governor of that province. He told them to go to hell ; and they said : 'Now, if you don't want to stay here, you had better ask to be transferred to another province, because if you don't leave vol- untarily you will not remain here three months longer. ' A very short time after that he had to leave. "Q. Did not the people become so accustomed to the relations which the friars had with the women that it really played very little part in their hostility to the friars? "A. That contributed somewhat to the hostil- ity of the people, and they carried things in this regard with a high hand, for if they should desire the wife or daughter of a man, and the husband and father opposed such advances, they would en- deavor to have the man deported by bringing up false charges of being a filibuster or a Mason, and after succeeding in getting rid of the husband, they would, by foul or fair means, accomplish their purposes. I will cite a case that actually 132 Uncle Sam or the Pope. happened to us. It was the case of a first cousin of mine, Dona Sop once, wfao married a girl from Baliuag and went to live in Agonoy, and there the lodal friar curate, wfao was pursuing his wife, got a position as registrar of the church, to have him occupied, in order that he might continue his ad- vances with the wife. He succeeded in this under- taking and in getting the wife away from the husband, and afterwards had the husband de- ported to Puerto Princessa, where he was shot as an insurgent, and the friar continued to live with the widow and she bore him children. His name is Jose Martin, an Augustinian friar." I give the above as samples of the priests in the Philippines, where they have the right of way and where our government will not allow a Pro- testant teacher to read the Bible in 'his school or to talk 'Christianity. This is Romanism, pure and simple. To ask the devil if it is Christianity would insult him. "The women in the convents/' remarks Savon- arola, "are worse than the courtesans ;" and Hes- naut, writing of Julius II, speaks of that "promi- nent debauchee who, became Pope in 1503, will not take off his shoes on Good Friday, for the adoration of the cross, because his foot is eaten by the French disease — pox." "As I have remarked, no pope of this epoch was exempt from homosexual practices, with the possible exception of Pius III, who, however, only wore the tiara twenty-seven days." "Pope Alexander VI was a notoriously im- Priestly Rottenness. 133 moral man who, 'beside his pederastic exploits, j and a few poisonings between, had only recently impregnated his own daughter, Lucretia.' (Tho like other priests he was a bachelor) . "In our time, says Pontano, the sovereign Pontiff no doubt follows the example of Lot, who, the Hebrew his- torians state, had known his daughter carnally and rendered her pregnant. I will not dilate any further upon the subject/' says Pontano, "on ac- count of the majesty of the pontifical seat.' " "Princes, queens and popes," writes P. Gar- nier, "toward the end of the fifteenth century, filled the world with their tewdne&B." He men- tions especially the foulness in unnameable vil- lainy, of Sixtus IV. "The last Sunday of October, in the evening, there supped with the Duke Valentinois, in his apartment of the Apostolic (papal) palace, fifty honest prostitutes. The latter, after the meal, danced with the servants and others of the com- pany, at first dressed and afterwards "stark naked." "The two besetting sins of the Romish clergy — wine and women — are well set forth in the fol- lowing anecdote. A certain Philadelphia bishop — newly ordained, and very proud of his promotion — sat down in a train one day beside a plainly dressed Irish woman, 'Excuse me, Sor/ she said, after surveying the 'bishop for a moment, 'but by your dhress ye're a praste V "I was a short time ago, madam, he proudly replied, but I'm a priest no more. 134 Uncle Sam or the Pope. 'Och, God help you, poor man! and was it d-hrinik or the women?' " "Pope Leo X was a life-long sufferer from syphilis; the Cardinal of St. Denis died of it; and the guilt of the nuns in the convent with the priests was so open and flagrant that Burchard writes: 'The women were persecuted and im- prisoned if they had any relation with laymen; but when they yielded themselves to the monks, masses were sung and feasts given/ " (These ex- tracts are from J. Richardson Parke's recent book, "Human Sexuality." pp. 257-259. He cites au- thorities carefully) . People tell us that Romanism in this country is not so bad as these cases indicate. I reply : 1. Maybe you do not know. Nearly every priest and nun who leaves the Romish fold brings a story of licentiousness and abounding evil. If Protestant preachers were to move into their par- sonage and keep house with an unmarried woman as "housekeeper" they'd be drummed out of the community. Why should bachelor "fathers" be allowed to do it? 2. But suppose it is different in this country from Spain, Peru and other strictly Roman Catho- lic countries? That only shows that contact with Protestantism has altered and refined it. Take Romanism as it is in real Romanized countries, such as Spain and the Philippines. If it is cor- rupt there why allow it to curse and debauch Pro- testant countries? It hurts Protestant morals and if you see it in Romish lands as it really is, Priestly Rottenness. 135 why burden Protestantism trying to save it. It isn't worth saving. Send it back to the hell whence it came and let Protestant Christianity have a chance to uplift and save men without the handicap of carrying so much of lust and pagan- ism. Protestantism is better without any admix- ture of Romanism, and Romanism is undiluted paganism — yea, more, hell on earth — when un- touched by Bible Christianity. CHAPTER X. The Inquisition. "Blessed are the merciful." Jesus. The Inquisition was suggested by Dominic de Guzman and was begun in 1204. Its principal work was in Spain. It was hell's masterpiece of cunning, perfidy, cruelty and all-round wicked- ness. It was conducted with the rankest injus- tice. The victim was dragged into court without witnesses and without any information as to what I was the charge against him. He was not allowed an attorney or the presence of friends, but under the cruelest torture it was demanded that he re- cant his heresies, oftentimes not knowing what was the item in the charge of which he was to re- cant. We give here an abridged report of a torture from "A History of the Inquisition of Spain" by Charles Lee. It was administered? at Toledo, Spain, in 1568. The victim was charged with not eating pork and of putting on clean linen on Sat- urday. She admitted the items charged, but de- clared herself innocent of wrong intentions. In the midst of the torture she was continually urged to "'tell the truth." She fell on her knees and begged that they might let her know what they wanted her to say. She said that she knew noth- ing wrong that she had done and wondered why 137 138 Uncle Sam or the Pope. they were persecuting her. Her clothing was stripped from her. She averred with the greatest earnestness, "I have done nothing, I cannot testi- fy against myself without speaking falsehood." Her arms were tied and the cords about them were twisted that they might cut into the flesh and she was exhorted to 'tell the truth.' She screamed with pain and said, "I have told the truth ; tell me what you want me to say." Anoth- er twist was given the cord, and again she cried, "I do not know what I have done — oh Lord, have mercy on me a sinner!" Yet another turn was given the cord, which was already cutting itself into the flesh, and she cried ' 'Loosen me a little, that I may remember what I have to tell ; I did not eat pork for it made me sick ; I have done ev- erything demanded ; loosen me and I will tell the truth." Another turn of the cord was ordered and in agony she cried, "Loosen me and I will tell the truth ; I don't know what I have to tell — loos- en me for the sake of God." Again she was ex- horted to "tell the truth," to which she replied, "Oh, my arms ! release me and I will tell it." The cords were again tightened the more and in great agony she plead, "Loosen me, loosen me — take me from here and I will tell it! I did not eat the pork for I did not want it." She was then told to tell what she had done contrary to the Holy Catholic Faith, and in the agony of increasing pain she said, "I do not remember— tell me what I have to say. Oh! wretched me! — I will tell all that is wanted, Senores ; they are breaking my The Inquisition. 139 arms ! — loosen me a little ! I did everything that is said of me." Again the cords were tightened and she said, "Senores, you have no pity on a poor woman, I don't know how to tell it, I don't know what is wanted." It was found on examination that the cords had been tightened by turning 16 times. Her limbs were swollen and bruised and bleeding. She was then ordered to be placed on the porto. She said, "Senores, why will you not tell me what I have to say, put me on the ground," and she begged piteously that she might be re- leased. She said, "I do not remember, I do not know what I have done that I have to be punish- ed," and again they exhorted her to "tell the truth." She screamed in great agony, "I do not know what to say ! Oh Oh ! they are tearing me to pieces — .please let me go." And all she could get from them was "Tell it, tell it; tell the truth." She said, "Senor, you know the truth, for God's sake, have mercy on me — take these things from my arms — Senor, release me, please, please, 0, they are killing me." She was tied on the porto with the cords and they were ordered tightened and then while she was rent and torn and her limbs twisted, all she could get from the infernal vill- ians was "Tell it, tell the truth." I will not follow this sickening story any further. There are some seven pages of it in "Ro- man Catholicism Analyzed," by Phillips. The tortures inflicted by those incarnate de- mons beggar description. I could give you many 140 Uncle Sam or the Pope. cases like unto the above, but I will carry you now to a description by a French army official of AN INQUISITIONAL DUNGEON. Napoleon the Great decreed the discontinuance of the Inquisition, Dec. 4, 1808, but for a time the decree was not carried into execution. Col. Lemonowski was intrusted with the duty of breaking up the dungeon at Madrid. He says : "One night about 10 or 11 o'clock I was walk- ing one of the streets of Madrid. Two armed men sprang upon me from the alley and made a furious attack." French soldiers came to his rescue and it was found that those making the attack were guards from the Inquisition. The Colonel then went to Marshal Soult, who was the governor of Madrid at the time, and reminded him of Napoleon's decree for the suppression of the Inquisition. The governor bade him proceed to put the decree in force. He tells us that he found the dungeon to be five miles from the city and that it was surrounded by a great wall. On his arrival, together with his troup of soldiers, he approached a sentinel and demanded that the priests who conducted the Inquisition open the gates. The sentinel fell into conversation with some official and presently turned and shot one of the soldiers. Immediately the wall of the Inqui- sition was covered with soldiers who were there to do the bidding of the Inquisitor-General. A lively battle ensued, in which the French soldiers were victors. They at once captured the place and proceeded with their duty. The Inquisition. 141 The rest of the story, I give in Col. Lemcnow- ski's own words, which I somewhat abridge : "Here we met with an incident which nothing but Jesuitical effrontery is equal to. The Inquisi- tor-general, followed by the father confessors in their priestly robes, all came out of their rooms, as we were making our way into the interior of the Inquisition, and with long faces, their arms crossed over their breasts, their fingers resting on their shoulders, as though they had been deaf to all the noise of the attack and defense, and had just learned what was going on. They addressed themselves in the language of rebuke to their own soldiers, saying: "Why do you fight our friends, the French?' The intention was no doubt to make us think that this defense was unauthorized by them ; hoping if they could make us believe that they were friendly, they should have a better op- portunity in the confusion of the moment to es- cape. Their artifice did not succeed. I placed them under guard, and all their soldiers were se- cured as prisoners. We then proceeded to exam- ine all the rooms of the edifice. We passed through room after room, and found all in per- fect order, richly furnished, with altars and cruci- fixes, and wax candles in abundance; but could find no evidence of cruelty — nothing of the pe- culiar features which we expected to find in the Inquisition. We found splendid paintings, and a rich and expensive library. Here were beauty and splendor, and the most perfect order on which my eyes ever rested. The architecture, the pro- 142 Uncle Sam or the Pope. portions, were perfect. The ceilings and floors of wood were scoured and highly polished. The mar- ble floors were arranged with a strict regard to order. There was everything to please the eye and gratify a cultivated taste; but where were those horrid instruments of torture of which we have been told, and where those dungeons in which human beings were said to be buried alive? "We searched in vain. The 'holy fathers' as- sured us that they had been belied; that we had seen all, and I was prepared to give up the search, convinced that this Inquisition was different from others of which I had heard. But Col. De Lile was not so ready as I to give up the search. He suggested that we let this marble floor be ex- amined.' Let water be brought and poured upon it, and we will see if there is any place through which it passes more freely than others. Accord- ingly the water was brought. The slabs of marble were large and beautifully polished. When the water was poured over the floor, much to the dis- satisfaction of the Inquisitors, a careful examina- tion was made of every seam in the floor to see if the water passed through. Presently Col. De Lile exclaimed that he had found it. By the side of these marble slabs the water passed through fast, as though there was an opening beneath. All hands were now at work for further discovery; the officers with their swords and the soldiers with their bayonets seeking to clean out the seam and pry up the slab ; others with the butts of their musket® strike the slab with all their might to The Inquisition. 143 break it; while the priests remonstrated against desecrating their holy and beautiful house. While thus engaged a soldier, who was striking with the butt of his musket, struck a spring and the mar- ble slab flew up. Then the faces of the Inquisitors grew as pale as Belshazzar's at the handwriting on the wall ; they trembled all over. Beneath the marble slab was a staircase. I stepped to the al- tar and took from the candlestick one of the can- dles, four feet in length, which was burning, that I might explore the room below. I was arrested by one of the Inquisitors, who laid his hand gently on my arm, and with a demure and holy look said, 'My son, you must not take those lights with your bloody hands; they are holy.' 'Well/ said I, 'I will take a holy thing to shed light on iniquity ; I will bear the res , ponsibility. , I took the candle and proceeded down the stair-case. As we reach- ed the foot of the stairs we entered a large square room, which was called the hall of judgment. In the center was a large block and a chain fastened to it. On this they had placed the accused, chain- ed to his seat. On one side of the room was an elevation, called the 'Throne of Judgment.' This the Inquisitor-General occupied; and on either side were seats, less elevated, for the 'holy fath- ers/ when engaged in the solemn business of the 'Holy Inquisition/ Thence we proceeded to the right and obtained access to the small cells, ex- tending the entire length of the edifice. Here such sights were presented as we hope never to see again. These cells were for solitary confine- 144 Uncle Sam or the Pope. merit, where the wretched victims of Inquisitorial hate were confined, year after year, till death re- leased them of their sufferings, and their bodies were left until they were entirely decayed, and the rooms were then used for others. To prevent their being offensive to those who occupied the Inquisition, there were flues, or tubes, extending to the open air sufficiently capacious to carry off the odor. In these cells we found the remains of some who had been dead apparently but a short time, while of others nothing remained but their bones still chained to the floors of their dungeons. In other cells we found living sufferers of both sexes, and of every age, from three score and ten down to fourteen or fifteen years — all naked, as when born into this world, and all in chains! There were old men and aged women who had been shut up for many years. Here, too, were the middle-aged, and the young man and the mai- den of fourteen years. The soldiers immediately released these captives from their chains, and took their overcoats and other clothing which they gave to cover their nakedness. They were exceedingly anxious to bring them out to the light of day, but I, being aware of the danger, had food given them, and then brought them gradual- ly to the light as they were able to bear it. We then proceeded to explore another room on the left. Here we found the instruments of torture of every kind which the ingenuity of man or dev- ils could invent. The first was a machine by which the victim was confined, and then, begin- The Inquisition. 145 ning with the fingers, every joint in the hands, arms and body were broken or drawn, one after another, until the victim died. The second was a box in which the head of the victim was so close- ly confined by a screw that he could not move it in any way. Over the box was a vessel from which a drop of water a second fell upon the head of the victim — every successive drop falling upon precisely the same place on the head suspended the circulation in a few minutes and put the suf- ferer in the most excruciating agony. The third was an infernal machine, laid horizontally, to which the victim was bound, the machine being then placed between two beams in which were a score of knives so fixed that by turning the ma- chine with a crank the flesh of the sufferer was torn from his limfos, all in small pieces. The fourth surpassed the other in ingenuity. Its interior was a beautiful woman, or large doll, richly dressed, with arms extended, ready to embrace. The sight of these engines of infernal cruelty kindled the rage of the soldiers to fury. They declared that every Inquisitor and soldier ought to be put to the torture. Their rage was ungovernable. They began with the 'holy fathers.' They first put to death in the machine for joints. The torture of the Inquisitor who was put to death by the drop- ping of water on his head was most excruciating. The poor man cried out in agony to be taken from the fatal machine. The Inquisitor-General was brought before the infernal machine called 'The Virgin/ He begged to be excused. 'No/ said 146 Uncle Sam or the Pope. they, 'you have caused others to kiss her, and now you must do it/ They interlocked bayonets, so as to form large forks, and with these pushed him over the circle. The beautiful image instantly prepared for the embrace, clasped him in its arms, and he was cut into innumerable pieces. In the meantime it was reported through Madrid that the prison of the Inquisition was broken op- en, and multitudes hastened to the fatal spot. And, oh, what a meeting was there ! It was like a resurrection. About 100 who had been buried alive in these dungeons for many years were now restored to life. There were fathers who found their long-lost daughters, wives were restored to their husbands, sisters to their brothers, and par- ents to their children; and some could recognize no friends among the multitude. The scene was such as no tongue can describe." This is Romanism pure and simple. This is the cruel, hell-spawned iniquity that demands rec- ognition in the holy name of Christianity. And some Protestants are afraid their "Catholic breth- ren" will not get justice in this country! We close this chapter with an authentic account of an AUTO-DA-FE. From Fradryssa's "Romanism Capitulating" I subjoin the following official report of a public burning. Mr. Fradryssa was one of Rome's no- ted priests and makes this literal translation from the Spanish. The writer was himself a Romanist and took part in the cruel proceedings, which, as you see, he fully justified. The Inquisition. 147 It will be seen that king, priests, bishops and people made a picnic of this horrible affair. To a generation trained in the fiendish horrors of this brutal system it was a jubilee, a gala day. But read the story and vow before God to forever fight the infernal power that has so long cursed the human family and made infidels of men. I abridge the account somewhat. P. Report of the General Auto-da-fe Held in Madrid on the 30th day of June, 1680, Attended by King Charles II and his Consort, Marie Louisa de Bourbon. "It being remembered by the king that he had heard that his august father, Philip IV, had attended with ex- treme delectation of spirit and Christian jubilation, the general auto-da-fe celebrated in this royal city in 1632, he had on many occasions signified to various persons of his esteem and confidence how much it would please him to witness a spectacle of this kind, the more so as he was recently married, and wished to provide to his young and beloved spouse, beside the worldly entertainments and pleasures which the kings of the world have to attend, the mystic enjoyments and moral amusements that our true and only religion provides to pure souls, that observe its precepts to become firmer each day in the sound founda- tions of faith. "The General Inquisitor of Spain and President of the Supreme Council of the Inquisition, Don Diego Sarmienta Valiadares, Bishop of Oviedo, knowing from its origin the monarch's desire, said to him one day, that having on hand many finished cases and plenty of culprits already sentenc- ed in the prisons, both of Toledo and of Madrid, the Council had decided to hold an auto-da-fe in the before-mentioned city of Toledo, and invited him to attend in order to, by this means, gratify his desire. The king having accepted the offer with effusion, declared to the inquisitor-general how much better it would be to hold the auto-da-fe in the principal square of Madrid, avoiding in this way the ex- pense and trouble that the journey must occasion to the royal person as well as to the humblest official taking part in the auto. The Supreme Council having met and become aware of His Majesty's desires, it was unanimously voted that the auto take place in Madrid. The inquisitor-general 148 Uncle Sam or the Pope. invited the Duke of Medinaceli to carry the standard of the faith in the solemn procession of the Cruz Verde (green cross), and His Excellency accepted with pleasure, giving evidence of his religiousness and of his great love and re- spect for the Inquisition. "Preparations were therefore commenced for that im- portant event. "On Thursday, the 30th of May, 1680, the auto-da-fe was published, and the beautiful standard of the Congre- gation, which was of crimson silk richly embroidered in gold, was placed in the main balcony of the inn and resi- dence belonging to the very illustrious bishop and in- quisitor-general in Torija Street. The front of the house was ornamented with elaborate bunting, and in the win- dows close to the balcony from which waved the standard, there had been placed kettle-drums and bugles, that from time to time announced in harmonious echoes the solemn function that was being prepared. Within a short time the officers of the Congregation of St. Peter the Martyr assembled, as well as the commissioners, notaries and con- stables from the court then convened, and between five and six o'clock in the evening, the procession started. The offi- cers rode in pairs upon horses showily caparisoned, headed on the right by the high constable of the Congregation, and by his side a minister of the Holy Office, both carrying their wands raised. Behind the cavalcade followed the standard of the Faith, carried by the minister of the Holy Office, and the oldest steward of the Congregation, while Luis Roman and Juan Romero, as being the oldest depu- ties of said Congregation, bore the tassels. Many devout people went along with the officers. Among them were some titled people and gentlemen of the Orders who con- sidered themselves highly honored by carrying over their vestments the insignia of the Inquisition. The first warn- ing was sounded at the door of the Inquisitor- General by the town crier. "The contents of the same were as follows: 'Know all residents and neighbors of this town of Madrid, royal resi- dence of His Majesty, existing in and inhabiting the same, that the Holy Office of the Inquisition of the city and king- dom of Toledo will celebrate a general auto-da-fe in the principal square of Madrid, on Sunday, the 30th of June, and that all those who attend the said auto, or help in it, will be granted all the graces and indulgences given by the High Pontiffs, and this is hereby commanded to be made public, so that it may become known to everyone.' "The retinue started from the house of the Inquisitor- General and went to the palace square, in front of which The Inquisition. 149 the second cry was sounded, while their Majesties were at the glass window watching the procession with great satisfaction. (And here we must note a circumstance that speaks for the religiousness of the monarch, and it is that having gone to visit, as was his wont, his august mother in the Buen Retiro, he advanced the hour of his return to the palace, so as to be present when the procession passed.) The third cry was given near the Church of St. Mary, fac- ing the queen mother's palace. (Here full details of the procession are given but for brevity I omit). As to the building of the amphitheater the record says: "Quite a number of workmen labored day and night, and by relays, so that the work should not suffer any inter- ruption, but it is also true that enthusiasm helped the numbers, for the workmen did not even stop to eat, and instead of complaining of fatigue, they encouraged one another by such exclamations uttered in the tenderest voice as: 'Long live God! Let us toil without rest to His honor and glory, and if there is not enough wood for the work, we will pull down our houses to supply it.' "While the work of constructing the amphithreatre pro- ceeded, the enlisting of the company of soldiers of the Faith was going on; these soldiers were recruited from among mechanics, and enlisted only for these occasions, when they served under the Inquisitor-General, and only while the auto festivities lasted. The company consisted of two hundred and fifty men; Francisco Saludo was ap- pointed captain, and Juan Dominguez ensign, the military drill being entrusted to Pedro de Castro, adjutant to the quartermaster-general of Spain. The company had its guardroom in the house of the royal tribunal, Inquisition Street. "The work was completed on the 28th day of June, and was by the grand master delivered to the town commis- sioners, who found it right and conformable to the law, and who in turn delivered it to the commissioners of the Inquisition, who also were satisfied. "On the evening of the said June 28, the company of soldiers of the Faith marched in orderly fashion as far as the Alcala Gate. There the mayor, marquis of Ugena, had several bundles of dried wood ready; each soldier taking one, and shouldering it, marched back to the small square of Palacio, where they halted. The captain, taking up a small bundle, suitably adorned with ribbons and tinsel, placed it on his buckler; and going up to His Majesty's room, handed it to the Duke of Pastrana, for presentation to his sovereign, who taking it in his own hand showed it to the queen, tendering it back to the Duke, who in turn 150 Uncle Sam or the Pope. bade him take it in his name, and to see that it was the first to be thrown on the blaze. The captain descended with the bundle of wood, as he had ascended, and facing his troop he placed it in his bungalow; the soldiers imitating him, hung their bundles on their lances and muskets and walked to the brazier, keeping separate the king's bundle in order to do as he had ordered; and leaving a sufficient guard behind to take care of it, they returned to their barracks. "In order to enjoy the sight of the performance, and participate in the graces, privileges, and indulgences granted by many chief Pontiffs to the brotherhood of St. Peter the Martyr, many were the persons of all ranks and conditions who in those days joined the Holy Office. "At three o'clock in the afternoon of June 29, all par- ties qualified, including notaries, councilors, familiars, and other ministers of the Holy Office were convoked in the church of the college of Maria de Aragon, in whose prin- cipal chapel were to be found the green and white crosses, surrounded with lights and ornaments. The procession started at five o'clock, headed by the mayor of Madrid and other gentlemen, all of them of the Holy Office. "The soldiers of the Faith were lined up in the square, and on the crosses coming out of the church, the ensign saluted by a waving of the flag, and the troop fired a salvo of musketry. The standard of the Faith was brought out by the Duke of Medinaceli. The standard was of double taffeta, crimson in color, with silver laces and gold tassels and cords, and bore on it, beautifully worked, the royal arms of those of the Inquisition, made expressly for this occasion, and paid for by the Duke, who later presented it to the Brotherhood of St. Peter the Martyr. After the crosses followed the religious communities, to wit: Capu- chins, Recollects, Trinitarians, Carmelites, St. Augustine, St. Francis and St. Domingo. "Then the white cross was brought out accompanied by the ministers, familiars, and notaries, with their badges of office on their breast, and carrying white wax candles with the insignia of St. Peter in their hands, the eldest steward of the congregation carrying the cross. "The green cross, which was covered by a black veil, was carried alternately by the provincial Father of the Sacred Order of Preachers, and the most reverend Prior of Atocha, assisted by six other religious fathers. Ahead of them marched the musicians of the royal chapel singing the psalm of Miserere. "At about ten o'clock p. m., after the prisoners had been provided with supper, Zembrano entered to notify The Inquisition. 151 them of their sentence of death, as follows: Brethren, devout and learned men have tried your cases and found your crimes so great and so wicked that as a punishment, and example, it has been decided that you must die; you are warned to get ready and be reconciled so that you may die in a becoming manner; I leave with you two godly men. "Twenty-three culprits were notified of the sentence of death; two religious men and two familiars were allotted to each, and these kept guard throughout the night. As the plight of the ones was so bitter, and the work of the others so painful, the commissioners responsible for the unforeseen expenses supplied abundant provisions of choc- olate, biscuits, sweetmeats and wines to help those who could not be otherwise consoled. "The Tribunal sat all night for the benefit of those wishing their services. Two women condemned to be handed over to the criminal court asked for a hearing; the Tribunal with its accustomed piety, granted it and ordered them to come up. Having heard their pleadings the exe- cution of their sentences was suspended for the time being. "During the night all places were closed along the route to be taken by the procession of the condemned, and platforms and stands were erected on which the people took their places in great numbers, the more comfortably to see it pass. The attendance from the surrounding towns and villages, attracted by the report of the novelty, was very great. "The soldiers of the Faith began to come out at seven in the morning. After them came the cross of St. Mar- tin's parish, covered by a black veil and surrounded by twelve clergymen in surplices, preceding one hundred and twenty culprits, men and women, each having two relig- ious guards at their side. "Eleven were guilty of recantation by lying, trickery, superstition, or because they had married twice, or cele- brated mass without being priests, and other similar crimes. Some carried cone-hoods and others ropes around their necks, with as many knots as the lashes they were to receive, and all carried extinguished yellow wax can- dles in their hands. "Fifty-four were reconciled judaizants with convict garments half crossed, and also extinguished candles. "Lastly there were twenty-one culprits condemned to be handed over to the criminal courts, wearing cone-hoods and capes of flames. Twelve of them who were obstinate carried infernal dragons painted to represent the flames, and were handcuffed and gagged. These were condemned 152 Uncle Sam or the Pope. to the flames. The procession of culprits was closed by Sebastian Lara, head constable of Toledo. Then came the Tribunal, preceding the Brotherhood of St. Peter the Mar- tyr. "The town of Madrid, with all its officers and deperd- ants, attended the function in a body. "Next followed the standard of the Faith, of crimson damask, with the arms of His Majesty and those of the Holy Office embroidered upon it. "The procession passed in front of the house cf the in- quisitorial guard, Encarnacion Street, and the small square of Santa Catarina de los Donados St. Catherine of the lay brothers and sisters; the small Descalzas (barefeet) Square, St. Martin Street to St. Gines; Bordadores (em- broiderers) Street, Calle Mayor, principal street, and Bo- teros to the main square, where the king and queen were already occupying the canopied throne on theii* balcony, while ?n stands were the councilors, tribunals, corporations, grandees, titles, and other invited noted persons. "Quiet was restored after a momentary disorder, the culprits were led by the soldiers of the Faith and the fa- miliars of their respective places, the statutes were ar- ranged on elevated points on the platform to enable every- one to see them. The general public and the actors occu- pied their respective places amidst a profound and relig- ious silence, as the solemn act was commenced with His Majesty's assent. "The Inquisitor-General, wearing the pontifical robes and assisted by the corresponding clergymen, ascended the box of the king and queen to take their oaths, namely: that they would defend the Roman Catholic Apostolic re- ligion, that they would not embarrass the clergy nor dis- pute the rights of the Holy Office, and that they would^ help with all their strength and powerful resources, to ex- tirpate heresy, to punish its authors and propagators, and never at any time permit mixture of worships, nor rites foreign to the true and indisputable dogmas of the Cath- olic belief. "The king very readily and without reserve of any kind gave the oath that so well agreed with his own pious in- clinations. "Descending from His Majesty's balcony, the Inquisi- tor-General, aided by his assistants and familiars, again approached the altar where everything was already pre- pared for the solemn high mass that he had to celebrate, dressed in pontifical attire, as he was then. He left the Gospel book on the side table near the altar and the au- gust sacrifice was commenced: it was the mass of St. The Inquisition. 153 Paul's conversion, and it was celebrated with as much de- votion as it was heard. "When the hour of the sermon arrived, there ascended to the pulpit of the Holy Ghost to pronounce it, the Rev- erend Father Thomas Navarro, of the Order of Preachers. "The sermon, which had for a text the verse of Psalm: 'Arise, Lord, and judge thy cause/ was a brilliant apology of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Christian religion, the on- ly true one, praising its beauties, its advantages, and the happiness that its observance provides; and a condemna- tion of the idolatries, heresies, sects and errors, of all times a»d of all peoples, which he examined with rare erudition and knowledge; and he wound up by exhorting the sover- eign there present, upon the necessity of not permitting his faithful followers to have any kind of commerce or inter- course with heretics, not even as a measure of public util- ity, so as to avoid the great evils and troubles that have overcome other kingdoms, where truth and error are al- lowed to coexist. "At the conclusion of the sermon the very illustrious Inquisitor-General rang the hand-bell as a signal to begin reading the cases and sentence of the accused, which took place in the following manner: "On the two desks facing the cages for the culprits, the stewards of St. Peter the Martyr placed the two cof- fers containing the cases and the sentences; two notaries from the Tribunal came up to read them and to make the sentences known, and another one went on calling the con- demned from the list given to him. This last, and Pedro Santos, as jailer of the Holy Office, were there to bring and take away the convicts. On hearing the condemned person's name called the jailers went to look for him on the scaffolding where they all were, and, making him get on the platform he was placed in one of the cages, and after reading to him the case and the sentence, he was taken out and returned to his place to make room for a new one. The number was very large, and in order to save time, one notary read the case and another the sen- tence. The convicts themselves had lists in duplicate and it was arranged that before having done with one, they had the next ready and thus it was possible to finish in a shorter time than it could have been feasible by a slower process. "The first man to come out in public was Manuel Diaz, a native of the island of Sardinia, his offense being judai- zation. He appeared in the cage with his yellow cape and St. Andrew's cross. "After him, those indicted for judaization were dis- 154 Uncle Sam or the Pope. patched in the briefest time possible, being condemned ac- cording to their crime to a longer or a shorter term of im- prisonment, to perpetual confinement, deportation, the lash, public infamy, to rowing the king's galleys, or to wear the garments of penitent convicts, besides the confiscation of their property to meet the Tribunal's expenses. "Then came the turn of those condemned to be dealt with by the criminal courts, the obstinate and impenitent, both in person as in statue, and the nineteen condemned to die by the garrote or in the flames were also properly disposed of; because, although they were twenty-one, while the cases were being read, a man and a woman belonging to the obstinate repented and wished to confess, begging through the religious man that ministered to them, to be heard: this was granted, they were taken down to the room intended for the purpose and were heard by the com- missioner inquisitor, who, having found cause for so do- ing, suspended their sentence. "The impenitents who had relapsed into error were taken down to the place intended for a secret cell, where ordinary justice already awaited them to carry out the execution of the sentence. "When everyone had been disposed of, the commission- er inquisitor whose duty it was, delivered them over to the sheriff and constables to take them to the place of ex- ecution, begging of them to show the convicts all possible mercy while carrying out the terrible ends of justice. "Immediately the mournful convoy started for the spot where the brazier awaited, taking the shortest way to the Fuencarral Gate. One-third of the company of soldiers of the Faith walked in front; while the unhappy convicts surrounded by the constables, each accompanied by two godly men, followed them. The convicts were encour- aged to die penitent, but without showing the least repen- tence the obstinate ones walked to the scaffold with altered features, high color and flashing looks, that appeared to throw out fire, sure signs of their eternal damnation, in great contrast with the meekness and repose of the recon- ciled ones, who went quickly forth to satisfy the public vengeance. A numerous crowd followed the convicts, moved as usual by curiosity to witness that spectacle. "In good time the Tribunal had called upon ordinary justice to have ready twenty stakes, and pillows, to apply the garrote, and a sufficient number of ministers and exe- cutioners to promptly perform that fatal duty; and justice fulfilled the order with so much haste that when the pro- cession of convicts reached the burning place the twenty stakes called for were already in position. The Inquisition. 155 "Bound to them, and with the loops around their necks, those who were condemned to that penalty were suffo- cated, while the obstinate were set on fire and consumed to death, giving out visible signs of horror and despair. "On lighting the bonfire, the bundle of wood that the captain and soldiers of the Faith had offered to His Maj- esty, and which the latter had ordered him to take in his name, was solemnly thrown into it. "When the executions were concluded, the bodies of the garroted were thrown into the flames to be consumed, but this operation was not over until nine o'clock the following morning. "Meanwhile the reading of cases and sentences con- tinued at the Plaza Mayor, and when that was over, the Very Illustrious Inquisitor-General proceeded in person to receive of the convicts and now repentant practitioners of Judaism, the abjuration of their errors, admitted them once more within the fold of the Catholic Church. "When the abjurations were finished, it was already late into the night, for which reason the square was illum- inated, especially the royal balcony, with a multitude of large wax tapers; this was continued till they had burnt out, and then the musicians of the royal chapel sang a Te Deum, thus ending that solemn function at nearly nine o'clock at night. "Such was the conclusion of that celebrated day of tri- umph for religion and of horror for impiety, a day in which all vied with one another in Christian humility and religious enthusiasm. Even His Majesty the King, zealous defender of the Catholic faith, who, because of his exalted position, is relieved from certain particulars, wished, as the least of his vassals, to spend the day in the complete practice of virtue, and remained with his royal family in the balcony from eight o'clock in the morning until nine at night, without partaking of food beyond some slight re- freshments necessary during summer. "The very illustrious bishop and Inquisitor-General was so fatigued by that dav's labor that they did not even want to take off his apostolic vestments, and, dressed as he was, his familiars and servants took him home in his mag- nificent sedan chair, made of crimson velvet with beautiful gold ornaments, and lighted by his pages with numerous white wax tapers. "On their Maiesties' rising to leave everybody did the same, and in a short time the square was emptied. The reconciled nrisoners were taken back to their cells, where the pious Tribunal had an abundant supper awaiting them. The green cross was taken in procession to St. 156 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Thomas College, and there it remained between lights until the following day, when it was solemnly carried to the Convent of Santo Domingo, and placed against one of the pillars of the church. "After all the bodies of the convicts had been burnt, the soldiers of the Faith removed the white cross from its pedestal and took it to St. Martin's parish, at whose gate the community was waiting. "On Wednesday, July 3, the sentence of the Tribunal was carried out against several culprits, who had been condemned to the lash, or to public depreciation (several women among them), and on the fourth, there were taken in galleys to the home of correction at Toledo, those who had to suffer the penalty of temporary or perpetual con- finement, and be instructed in the knowledge and practice of the Christian doctrine. "The same day and over various routes, those sentenc- ed to rowing on the king's galleys and to banishment from the kingdom, were taken to their respective destinations. "The object for which the company of the soldiers of the Faith had been called being now fulfilled, the company was disbanded, each one of its members receiving the gra- tuity that the Tribunal used to provide for such cases, be- sides giving them, through the very illustrious Inquisitor- General, the episcopal benediction." Remember, reader, that the politico-ecclesiasti- cal organization that did this is in our own dear land and wearing the pompous label, "The Holy, Roman, Catholic, Apostolic Church." Also re- member, it claims to need no reformation and, working under the motto "We never change," it is largely dominating our politiccal life. As a bas- tard religion it is seeking the overthrow of our holy Christianity and the destruction of our lib- erties. Let us arise and PULVERIZE THE PA- PAL POWER! CHAPTER XI. By Their Fruits. Matt. 7:14-22. That was a true and decisive test by which our Lord bade us try men and their systems. The fruit is a true test of the tree. The bad tree can- not bring forth good fruit, nor can the good tree bring forth corrupt fruit. We are perfectly will- ing that Protestantism should abide this test and Romanism must meet it. The preposterous claims of the papal system are worthy of consideration. In a sermon preached in Chicago, M. M. Gregory, a Romanist priest, used the following remarkable language : "The priest of today, rightly ordained in the Church, is as truly a priest as were the apostles, or even Christ Himself. In his elevation to the sacerdotal order, the priest receives a spiritual charter and he participates in the divine power of our Savior. He is not merely like Aaron and Melchizedek, he is like Christ Himself. He is another Christ. He not merely represents Christ: he is one with Him. "I cannot exaggerate the power and dignity of the priest of God. His power is greater than that of an angel. His dignity is greater than that of Mary, the queen of angels. At the altar his power is not inferior to that of God Himself. In the most adorable sacrifice of the mass the priest, in taking bread and wine and pronouncing the several words of consecration, draws aside the veil of Heaven and calls Christ down upon the altar. At the voice of the priest the substance of bread and wine are immediately changed into the body and blood of Christ. No power of man is equal to the sublime action. It must be the power of God. "Besides the sacrificial power which the priest receives there is also given him, in his ordination, the power to forgive sins. 157 158 Uncle Sam or the Pope. "Hear them. This power of forgiving sins he shares with Christ Himself, so that if Christ were to descend upon earth and hear confessions in one confessional, while the priest would hear them in another, the penitents in both cases would be forgiven in the same degree. "Nationalities must be subordinated to religion, and we must learn that we are Catholics first and citizens next. "God is above man and the Church is above the State." What blasphemous assumption ! And yet this priest is true to the system that he represents. Are the morals of the people safe in the hands of such a man? Are the rights and liberties of the people safe? This priest would supercede all other human authority, all government, and would even supplant God Himself, as we have elsewhere shown by the titles of the pontiff, as "Our Lord God, the Pope." Some of the results of Romanism, we would briefly state as follows : 1. Widespread Ignorance. This is noticeable in Catholic countries and also in communities even in our own land. Ro- manism keeps the people under ! her thumb by preventing the spread of general intelligence. 2. General superstition. A system that saves old bones, the parings of finger and toe nails, arms, legs and heads of men and women that died centuries ago, that wor- ships crosses, wafers, images and dolls, that pro- claims healings as the result of crucifixes, that offers protection from fires and even from hell to those who wear scapulars, that kneels to popes, and kisses the rings of cardinals is a school of un- By Their Fruits. 159 surpassed superstition and unmitigated idolatry. 3. Enslavement of women. Men, sane men, as a rule, 'have largely aban- doned Romanism. Some of them adhere to the system, and especially such politicians as wish to use it for sinister purposes, but the masses of men are turning from it. The women, however, con- fide their secret thoughts to the priests, who are, oftentimes, more truly their confidants than fath- er, brother and husband. This makes a ripe field for the convent and nunnery. As a result, wo- men know little general freedom where the priest is recognized as God on earth. 4. Perversion of education. General education is for the triune personality of the individual. It is intended to give tone to body, mind and soul. It develops character, increases power and imparts strength. But Ro- manism uses education as a means to an end, and this end the increased power of the system, rath- er than added strength to the people. General education builds up the nation by developing man- hood. Romanism weakens the people and turns their lost strength in upon the papacy. It is, therefore a perversion of the aims and objects of education. 5. Corruption of morals. The ethical effect of Romanism is enough to condemn it forever. Any system that would de- spoil the decalogue, that tolerates every vice and all known crimes, even burning men at the stake for "heresy," is essentially evil. When saloon- 160 Uncle Sam or the Pope. keepers, gamblers, polluted men, impure wo- men, and debauches can pass for Christians, the system that yields such a result is deserving to be cast into the nethermost hell. The morals of Romish communities in all lands are notoriously low. Its ethical effect upon nations is manifest. 6. Injustice to Children. The child needs to breathe fresh air; to be taught to walk with head up and heart open, to take in God's pure air and glorious sunshine ; but the papal system enslaves children, shuts them up within high walls, teaches them to use beads, cru- cifixes and "holy water," the "great value" of images and breviaries and the flumduggery of priest-craft. Any little one is to be pitied who is forced to spend his early years amidst the follies and tomfooleries of a system that is so rotten that it stinks in the nostrils of decency. 7. Dominance of Politics. No Christian church feels it to be its duty to enter the arena of politics and attempt to rule or ruin the government; but such has ever been the spirit of the papacy. It curses those who dif- fer with it, excommunicates such of its adherents as refuse to be controlled and seeks to absolutely dominate the government and politics. Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." He re- fused to act as judge in the matter of dividing an inheritance. The priest, however, would pocket the inheritance and put the contending parties in prison; thus this system shows itself a handi- cap to a progressive people. By Their Fruits. 161 8. Enthronement of priest-hood. The aim of the papacy is power, power and yet more power. In New York, recently, Mayor Mitchell, having' refused to do the bidding of the priest, was set upon by the Professor of Ethics in Fordham University. His words are, "Here and there may arise a traitor within our Church and do momentary havoc, but when this tragedy happens, we Catholics are not panicky about the result. To silence God's enemies, we must set in motion every energy at our disposal." Thus you see that the spirit of the papacy is what it was in the 15th century. 9. Impoverishment and Slavery of the people. Rome has no favorites among the masses. Her energies are expended in behalf of the priesthood. The people may live in direst need, they may be poor, oppressed, homeless and hungry, only pro- vided the pope and his priests and prelates may be enriched and elevated to places of power and influence. A billionaire pope and millionaire pre- lates can wallow in luxury, revel in debauchery and gloat over a people in rags and begging for bread. 10. Commercializing Religion. We read of Jesus that the common people heard bim gladly. He did not tax them. He did not rob and fleece them, but he healed, fed and comforted them. He had no fees for blessing them, for baptizing and burying them; but Ro- manism puts a price on even the prayers that it mumbles over the dead, and, like the leedh, is 162 Uncle Sam or the Pope. ever crying, "give, give." No serious-minded Christian is opposed to the proper support of the faithful and self-denying ministry, but the spirit that would ever pray only for a fee is an abomina- tion to those who love God and humanity. 11. Minimizing the Bible. I have shown elsewhere that the papacy out- laws the Bible, 'but our objector insists that in this country, Catholics are not only allowed to read the Bible but are even exhorted to do so. To be sure ; I have in my hand a Douay Bible. On the fly-leaf, I read, "Our most holy Father, the Supreme Pontiff, Leo XIII., in am audience granted on the 13th day of December, 1898, to the undersigned, Cardinal Prefect of the Con- gregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics, has kindly granted to all the faithful who piously and devoutly read for a quarter of an hour each day, the Holy Gospel, the edition whereof, is recog- nized and approved by legitimate authority, an indulgence of three hundred days for each read- ing thereof ." There you have it. Instead of com- mending in a simple, straightforward way the reading of the Scriptures to all people, it is set forth as a privilege conferred upon them through the indulgence of the priest who signs the above document. Even this little privilege is used to bolster up the dark age superstition of Indul- gences, sacred relics and an "authorized version." What effect can the pure word of God have on the minds and hearts of men who are handicapped and enslaved by such balderdash? By Their Fruits. 163 12. It destroys the power of the pulpit. At the time of Luther, the Romish system had practically forsaken preaching. The pulpit as a means of promoting righteousness and godli- ness had been abandoned and all that was left the people was the flummery of papal Paganism, and, indeed, such is the case today in real Roman lands, such as the heart of Spain, Peru, Ecuador and other papistic countries. The pulpit as a means of appeal to the consciences of men and the gospel as the power of God unto salvation are un- known to them. 13. Perverting and Censorizing the Press. I have fully established this point elsewhere in these pages. Suffice it to say that no Roman Catholic editor, can make his pages effective for truth and righteousness. D. S. Phelan, who was owner and editor of the ''Western Watch- man" (St. Louis) , was a man of independent spir- it, and yet this pagan papist was made to retract his utterances, when he had been thoughtless enough to speak out of e acquitted indeed of novelty, temerity or error ; still, if these views were not in accord with the Society's pre- scribed teaching, he would certainly offend against that one sole standard of opinion which had been so greatly desired and so highly com- mended. Whosoever examines the rules of the Society concerning study must see clearly that the teaching of St. Thomas, not only in theology but in philosophy, is to be followed absolutely." The Pope adds that the philosophy of Aquinas means the philosophy of Aristotle, and quotes the following rule from the sixteenth General Con- gregation of Jesuits : 'Since the Society has adopt- ed the philosophy of Aristotle, as being more use- ful to theology, that philosophy must be rigidly adhered to.' Leo continues : 'Unless the philoso- phy adopted in the Society be according to the mind and plan of the Angelic Doctor, it cannot subserve that Scholastic theology which all are bound to follow. * * * It is obvious then that whoso differs in a point of theology from St. Thomas, violates by this very fact that uniformity of opinion which Ignatius constantly commanded should prevail.' 'This uniformity cannot be hoped for unless the Society adhere to one author and only one.' Here follows a lecture to the Jes- 210 Uncle Sam or the Pope. uits, admonishing them that 'they must not try to interpret their constitutions in such a way as will permit them to depart from the teachings of Aquinas in small matters, or to feel free in ques- tions on which Aquinas himself is ambiguous/ Let no one by vain reasonings persuade himself that the opinions of the Angelic Doctor are am- biguous. And as for those points of which he may not have treated, his principles and leading ideas must be seduously studied, so that the solu- tion arrived at may be in no wise out of harmony with them. * * * Then follows the astounding conclusion of the letter: 'Let the governors of the Society not doubt that in their office of choos- ing professors, their authority is strengthened by ours. Let them then show favor and grant pro- motion to such as they see of a submissive spirit in the study of St. Thomas. But those whom they know to be disinclined to the teachings of Aquinas they must exclude from professorships, and allow no respect of persons to hinder them from doing so# * * * yy e l( j, ecree that this, Our Brief, shall be held in the entire Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), as the definite and perpetual law governing the choice of opinions ; * * * that copies of it be giv- en to such of the Society as are or will be teachers, rulers, prefects of studies, teachers of theology and philosophy, and book-censors ; that as soon as it shall be received, and every year thereafter at the resumption of studies, it be publicly read, in the refectory, in all colleges or other houses of the Society where philosophy and theology are taught. Romanism and the Schools. 211 We decree, moreover, that the regulations laid down in this brief shall be in force forever, and we here and now declare null and void any future attempt to change them, from whomsoever it pro- ceed.' " Thus we see Rome fossilized by her infal- lible head. "Comment is unnecessary here. Whoever does not perceive that this document is a high crime against human personality, and an infamous out- rage upon truth, 'knows nothing whatever of ei- ther personality or Truth. Let me simply draw attention to the type of method and the class of men that are educating young men in Catholic colleges and seminaries. Teachers formed upon the Papal standard simply cannot be disciples of Truth, or in possession of elementary intellectual honesty. If I am sworn and vowed to Aquinas, or any other man, so that I cannot fairly study any system but his, and have pledged myself nev- er to adopt a view divergent from his, I have com- mitted a suicide of intellect and conscience, and I am grotesquely unfit to assume the office of training young minds to love and search for Truth. Intellectual immorality lies and must lie, at the basis of Catholic education, until the idola- try of Italian Popes shall disappear. "A second result that follows from these Roman standards is incompetence in Catholic schools. That incompetence is conspicuous, indeed. The Catholic universities of the world are as inferior to the free universities as is the civilization of Arabia to that of the United States. From insti- 212 Uncle Sam or the Pope. tutions wherein Truth and n0 't &n Italian bishop dictates methods, are proceeding publications which add every year to the sum of human knowl- edge. From Catholic universities we get either sterility and silence, or desperate efforts to up- hold ancient theses which are doomed to die. "If, occasionally, a Catholic scholar shows him- self to be in the front rank of critical research, we may predict his deposition- with the same cer- tainty as we should calculate the next eclipse of the sun. From our Catholic university at Wash- ington not one work of high critical value in twen- ty years ! From our so celebrated American Jes- uits not one publication, even of the second rank of critical scholarship, in two hundred years! We can hardly wonder that a decline in writers and scholars has often been noted as coincident with the incoming of the Jesuits as teachers. Ingol- stadt was famous till the Jesuits took charge of it. Then fell mediocrity like a curse. In philos- ophy, which is their pride and boast, there is no society of scholars so miserably represented by thinkers of the first rank. In exegesis and bib- lical criticism, they are a Sahara of unproductive- ness. In literature and critical study of the classics, to which they are presumed to be devot- ed, they have observed their vow of poverty well. Their art and architecture are the scandal of these departments of fine taste. Montalembert has ex- pressed his amazement that their training results in so vast a mediocrity. Mohler says of them: 'Dogmatic theology in their hands becomes lost Romanism and the Schools. 213 in an empty skeleton of abstractions, while moral theology has suffered an especially harmful influ- ence from them. Their chief contribution to the science of morals has been an excessive subtlety, a conscienee^killing casuistry/ Mabillon, that mighty Benedictine scholar, has this to say of the casuistry of which the Jesuits are the parents: 'Casuistry is the worst offspring of scholasticism. So many subtleties have been introduced into Moral Theology that men, by over-subtilising, have gone beyond the bounds of reason; and to our sorrow we see that the ethics of the heathen puts this new casuistry to shame/ De Ranche, the founder of La Trappe, speaks still more se- verely: The moral teaching of most Molinists is so corrupt, their principles are so opposed to counsels which Jesus has given in His own word or through Hiis saints, that nothing hurts me more than to see my name used to authorize views which from my heart I detest. * * * If God have not mercy on the world, and bring to naught the energy with which men are working to destroy true principles, and set up others which are not true, the evil will grow even greater, and we shall soon see universal ruin.' Finally, let us say, the inferiority of the Jesuits even in the literature of devotion, is known to the world. * * * "It appears then, that the decrees of the Pa- pacy and the methods of the Index, along with their success in bringing about a military uni- formity of opinion, have been tragically efficient also in producing within the Catholic Church an 214 Uncle Sam w the Pope. organized intellectual tyranny, a universal mental dishonesty, and a woeful educational sterility. The situation illustrates what I have already said, that the aim of an autocratic 'hierarchy is not to seek Truth, but to preserve its own traditional ideas and prepossessions. Where in the Pontifical documents concerning study, can we find one word of exhortation to a candid search for Truth? An- athemas against independent research are com- mon enough. Warnings not to depart from men dieval scholastics and ancient fathers, are never lacking. But the following of Truth whitherso- ever it leads us — nothing at all of this. Intel- lectual sincerity, and respect for the world's earn- est endeavor to grow in Truth, I defy any one to discover in all the vast tomes of the Roman De- creta. But contempt for the achievements of crit- icism, and bigoted scorn for every species of mod- ernism, as though the greatest scholars of our own time, and many of the mightiest thinkers of all time, were scoundrels and fools — this, one may find on nearly every page of Vatican literature. This, on the part of a Roman autocracy which has condemned the fundamental truth of modern astronomy as formal heresy, supported the insane revelations of Diana Vaughan, propagated spu- rious devotions and confirmed monstrous super- stitutions, wears not the look of a divinely-safe- guarded depository of the complete truth of God, but resembles rather a desperate conspiracy to check the diffusion of intelligence among men. "The fruits of intellectual despotism are and Romanism and the Schools. 215 must be intellectual decay. Needs have arisen in past time and are pressing hard upon us now, for men of the freest mind, and the amplest scholar- ship to defend religion against assaults which threaten it with disaster ; and to adapt religion to the exigencies which have arisen as investigation has developed. Sueh men, yo»ur Roman and Pa- pal policy has made impossible in the Catholic Church." (Extracts from pages 176-184.) Thus the Romish heirarchy is condemned toy its own most intellectual and scholarly men as a benighted (medievalism, a bulwark of ignorance and despotism. CHAPTER XVII. Rome's Nunneries and Convents. One of the most shameful things in the history of crime and fraud is Rome's treatment of women. From childhood, these women have been taught to believe that the nunneries and convents are exceedingly sacred, wonderfully like heaven. Their visions have been of joy, and rest, and holy calm; of sweet peace and grace, of sunshine and happiness, to her deluded ones. They are rather dens of iniquity, prison-houses of oppression and shame. There are two kinds of convents, the open and teaching convent, whose occupants carry forward the worik assigned them in the interest of the sys- tem. The other is the closed convent, which is simply a dark, forbidding jail; a prison-house of oppression and lust and infernality. The descriptions of Rome's slave-pens by women who have made their escape are terrify- ing; they are heart-breaking. Anna M. Lowry, who was for many years a teaching nun, gives some of her experiences, and relates some things she learned, in her book, "The Martyr in Black." She says that in her convent experience in Eng- land, she found the sisters to be, with few excep- tions, the off-scourings gathered from many parts of England and Ireland." "These supposedly an- gelic 'doves,' I found in reality, rough, coarse, un- 217 218 Uncle Sam or the Pope. cter-bred creatures, a disgrace to the holy name, woman." She tells us that "Unbelievable igno- rance and superstition ran riot." "The inmates regularly drank intoxicants at dinner and supper — wine and liquor were reserved for feast days, the mere fact of their drinking not being so dis- gusting as the manner in which they drank." She mentions one convent of which the former Supe- rior was a "hopeless, bestial .drunkard-." She states that the endless strife and superstition had sapped her individuality and strength, after six years of convent slavery. She speaks of another convent at which she spent a time till the place "was broken up because the Superior was a drunkard." She tells us that there were "un- pleasant conditions of malice, envy, petty mean- ness, deceit and heartless domination." Her last experiences were in the convent at Guthrie, Oklahoma. She says that in pursuing her life's story you will "read of the sordid sur- roundings, of envy and of grasping avarice, of ig- norance and superstition, of the heartless peonage and the cruel secrecy of the Roman Convent," and from this you read veritable pen-pictures of every other Roman Catholic convent; that is, of the teaching and working orders of Catholic nuns. Elsewhere in her book, Miss Lowry gives a pict- ure which she says depicts another peculiarly striking step in the ceremony, whereby, through a man-made process of superstitious mummery, a frail, trusting, erring woman is duped into a life-long belief that &he is a 'spouse of Jesus Rome's Nunneries and Convents. 219 Christ.' The candidate, lying prostrate on the floor, is entirely covered with a black pall (upon which is a cloth cross of startling whiteness. During this prostration the 'passion' is read aloud and a bell is solemnly tolled. This ceremony of prostration signifies the death of the candidate to the world and is made as nearly as possible a reproduction of a Catholic burial service." She tells of their rising at 4 o'clock a. m., of their long spiritless mumbling of prayers in Latin for more than two hours till their breakfast at 7 a. m. She depicts a day of toil, without anything cheering or inspiring, and with constant recurrencce of those so-called "devotions." Such an endless grind would sap the life and mar the salvation of any intelligent being. But the experience of the teaching nun is noth- ing to be compared with that of the cloistered nun. She is simply in jail, where she is subject to the lusts and viciousness of the conscienceless priests. One of the saddest stories in literature is that of Barbara Ubryk. I should like to give it more space than I can; however, here is a brief outline, taken from "Center-Shots at Rome," by George P. Rutledge. "I could talk for hours up- on convent ! horrors. I could specify cases like that of Barbara Ubryk, who, as court records are reported to show, was confined in a living tomb, eight feet long and six feet wide, for twenty-one years. According to the published story in book- let form, by L. J. King, she was never given wa- ter with which to bathe. She was kept half- 220 Uncle Sam or the Pope. starved and periodically she was beaten. Her garments rotted away, andi during a majority of those years, she had only nature's raiment in the heat of summer and the cold of winter. The hair fell from her head; 'her nails became as bird's claws ; vermin ate her body, which was reduced to a skeleton; and she nearly lost her reason. And she was thus punished by the Mother Supe- rior because, as a "beautiful girl, she is alleged to have stubbornly withstood the infamous advances of her father confessor, the priest. The indig- nant Catholics, themselves, it is asserted, tried to demolish the convent. And the sleek, well-groom- ed priest, who, during all these twenty-one years enjoyed the confidence of his bishop and the be^t Catholic people, is said to have committed suicide to escape the verdict of the court." That the cloistered nunneries are merely priestly haremis, is evident from many sources; not only has it been charged by Protestants but converted Romanists in great numbers, both priests and nuns, and many Catholic writers, have denounced them as assignation houses. Many Catholic writers, as Father John Busch, Dr. Claude d' Espence, (member of the Paris Sar- bonne), Nicholas de Clamenges (rector of the University of Paris), St. Bridget, daughter of Birger, a Swedish prince, and Charles Borromeo, could be quoted. The story of Maria Monk and other converted nuns fully establish all the charges made by others, and every Romanist should be abundantly willing to accept the word Rome's Nunneries and Convents. 221 of one of their infallible popes, namely, Gregory VII., who said : "In these monasteries, almost all religion has been laid aside, lust and carnal cor- ruption between the males and the nuns have en- tered in — and many other vices which shame for- bids us to speak of minutely. "Many of the nuns commit fornication with the very monks who are placed in authority over them; and in the same monasteries many bring forth sons and daughters. "What is most grievous is, not a few nuns de- stroy the children tvho see the light" And this is from an infallible pope! Surely the testimony of such a man should be accepted by either Catholics or Protestants. Not only in- dividuals, but Romish leaders, may be quoted in this connection showing that convents and monas- teries have been denounced by many of the great- est of the Roman Catholic Councils, such as that of Mayence, Troyes, Rheimes, Claremont and the Council of Sems. The story of convent corrupt- ion has been running down the ages for a thou- sand years, during which they have been wreck- ing lives and debauching priests and nuns. The great scholar, Erasmus, aroused Europe with his strong denunciation of these harems of iniquity. Henry VIII., uncovering monastic conditions, went so far as to suppress the convents, because of their rottenness. * * * In the list of papal indulgences, the regular fine or tax was levied on the sins that were known to be practiced, not only at large, but in the religious houses. This / 222 Uncle Sam or the Pope. is one of the best evidences yet that the popes 'knew of the rotten conditions which we are charg- ing against the system. They have been charged by scholars and authors, by bishops and priests, and by popes with the vices we have named, and many others. That the cloistered nunneries are prison-pens, is proven from a thousand sources. The Council of Trent lays down the following rule which is sufficient to convince the most blinded dupe that the nunneries are bad. It said, "All nunneries should be kept carefully closed, and egress absolutely forbidden to the nuns, under any pretence whatever, without episcopal license, under pain of excommunication." This Romish law was enacted in order that the civil magis- trate should aid the cihurch in compelling escaped nuns to return to their life-long imprisonment. We have good illustrations of the working of this law in our own day and country. In Nicholas de Clemenges' book on the "Cor- ruption of the Ecclesiastics," we read : "Modesty forbids me to say much concerning them (the nuns) which could be said, but instead of speak- ing of virgins dedicated to God, we should ourselves be dragged into the shameful discourse about brothels, the craft and wanton tricks of harlots, about lewd and incest- uous deeds. "I will not call the convents sanctuaries of God, but ex- ecrable stews of Venus, and receptacles where lascivious and shameless young men gratify their lust, so that it is the same thing in our days, to put a nun's veil on a girl, as to expose her to public prostitution." "Could any Protestant arraignment be more terrific? "In 1843, a judicial investigation, made in France, proved that the same conditions which produced immoral- ity and crime in the nunneries of the Middle Ages, produce it now. Rome's Nunneries and Convents. 223 "When the nunneries of Barcelona were suddenly open- ed several years ago, the nuns led their living children out, and the news flashed throughout Christendom. "Some of those Spanish nuns were in the delicate condi- tion which caused so many of the Mexican nuns to hastily seek lying in hospitals, in 1914, their priestly paramours loudly asserting that Villa's soldiers had soiled those 'doves of the temple.' "And while we were laughing at the way Roosevelt swallowed the priestly fable, an American nun was taken short, and had a baby in the ladies' rest room of a Cin- cinnati department store. "Human nature has never changed; unnatural re- straints perpetually imposed upon red-blooded mortals, merely drive them to unnatural relations with the other sex." The above quotations and most of the facts are from Thomas E. Watson's tract, "What Goes on in the Nunneries/' A news item published in a New York paper, (April 10, 1915), mentions tho demolition of a convent in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Tn the account, we read, "In demolishing the old interior walls a few days ago, a horrible discovery vras made. Niches were found in these walls, the masonry being of great thickness, and in the niches which had been sealed up, we found quantities of bones which we recognized as those of little children, mostly infants." But this is nothing new. Time and again such things have been disclosed in the history of Romish convents, in France, in Spain and in other nations of Europe and South Amer- ica. The murdered innocents of Rome will make a vast host when they are gathered in the final day of reckoning to face their priestly fathers and their deluded mothers — murderers all. 224 Uncle Sam or the Pope. When we think of 56,000 women and girls shut up in these prison-pens of lust and iniquity it does look like Congress and every legislature would quickly enact convent inspection laws of the the most rigid and far-reaching type. Let home-loving, woman-honoring" men make vigorous demand for such legislation, and then see that it is enforced. In another chapter we will have something to say of the lecherousness of (priests — enough for the present. CHAPTER XVIII. Houses of the Good Shepherd. The convents are not the only prisons in which Rome incarcerates the helpless. Her slaves are numbered by the thousands and are incarcerated within the walls to which they give the euphoni- ous name, "Houses of the Good Shepherd." They had better be labeled, what they are, "prison hous- es of oppression." No direr or more accursed system of wickedness could be devised. Little children, misses and young women, are gathered by sundry means, sometimes voluntarily, some- times through deluded parents, many times through the scoundrelism of pope-ruled courts. When these victims are imprisoned, they at once become the slaves of the infernal system that passes itself off on the world as a church; nay, not a church but as "The Church." The victims of this vicious system, who go hungry, toil early and late without remuneration and with breaking heart, longing for deliverance, are numbered by the thousands. We will give a few examples sim- .ply as indicative of the normal conditions of these slave-pens. I glean most of these incidents from The Menace. Many of them could be secured from the daily papers, if one were thoroughly supplied with them, since they are simply record- ed as news items; however, any person who is posted is aware that the daily press is so thor- 225 226 Uncle Sam or the Pope. oughly Romanized as to deal sparingly in ®udh items of "news-." Incidentally, I will say that The Menace (Aurora, Mo.) , is doing 1 a great work and worthy of the patronage of all men. Case 1. This is the account of Catherine Egan, who in a "fit of anger," left home and went to the Good Shepherd house in Omaha. She agreed and arranged to stay six months, thinking that she was in a religious institution. Her -six months of voluntary servitude were spent in long hours of labor in the laundry, behind iron bars, and within a wall 18 ft. high. At the expiration of the time agreed upon, she felt that it was her privilege to go home, but no, she found herself a prisoner, unable to depart according to her own plans. Appeal was made to her father, James Egan, and the battle in behalf of her freedom was long and hard, In her account of the case she tells of the coming of a new girl, being brought there by her people. I pen a few lines as written by herself, indicating how she "en joyed" her stay in this prison that bears so sacred a name as that of the "Good 'Shepherd" : "Then one day a new girl was brought in by her folks. I nearly screamed for joy at the sight of the newcomer. It was Ella Callahan, of South Omaha, who I found out later eloped and married against the wishes of her parents. Her folks had her arrested and brought her to the House of the Good Shepherd for safety. But I did not say any- thing till I saw Ella alone, and nearly hugged her to death for joy. I begged her, when she should be taken home by her parents, that she would tell my father where I was. And later, when my father appeared with an attorney and demanded my release, I nearly died of joy, so glad was I to see him. When I was leaving, one of the sisters got me to sign a paper not to get any pay while working in there. Houses of the Good Shepherd. 227 I scarcely had clothes enough to cover my back, and had nothing at all for all the seven years of work I did. There are lots of girls there who are begging to be let out, but it seems that one must know their real name and their re- ligious name to get them out, and also have a lawyer. I feel sorry for the poor girls, some have no friends, and those who have do not know how they can let their people know where they ar*." How is this for a "home" free Americans? Do you want your daughter imprisoned thus? Case 2. The second item we give is a part of a letter written to the editor of The Menace. It 'bears date, November 12, 1914. Its author is a mother and her letter in part follows: "Dear Sir: A friend gave me one of your papers, The Menace. I read it and saw how you had helped to get a girl out of a Catholic institution. Now, I have a girl in a Good Shepherd home in . They refuse to let her out or to say why she is held there. This girl was stolen from me when she was two and a half years of age, and it took me eleven years to find where she is. She is now 18 years of age, and they have no right to her. Will you please get her out for me, as I need her very much. I have been sick for a long time, and am unable to do my housework. I have written two letters there, and they do not answer. The girl's name is . was my former hus- band's name. We are able to take care of her. Please advise me as soon as you hear from her. ." No wonder The Menace calls attention to the 13th amendment to the constitution of the United States which provides that: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." No imprisonment by private parties should be tolerated for one moment — only by the state, through due process of law. 228 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Our third ease is that of Maria Buocellato, of 328 W. 11th Street, New York. A writ of habeas corpus was sought and Judge Giegerich on the petition states that "the young woman is detained at the Sacred Heart Convent." A later issue of The Menace (Dec. 25, 1915) states that the giri was brought to the court and that the release from the convent was denied her. The account in the case shows that her mother was ill and greatly needed her attention and help, but the tyrants in charge of the convent refused her liberty, and her mother the comfort of her presence and help, and the crowning infamy of the case is, that the court, dominated by Roman priests, did the bidding of the hierarchy and allowed Rome to imprison, in violation of the constitution, a helpless girl. No sect, denomination, cult, order or lodge, should be allowed to run prisons on American soil. When there is crime, imprisonment is a necessity; let it remain, as it rightfully is, the function of the state. Case 4. Is that of Miss Adelaide Rene at Los Angeles, California. She, herself, went before the court seeking release from the Good Shepherd Convent. Being twenty years of age, she filed her petition through her attorney, in her own name. According to the account she gave, they kidnapped her, thrust her into a taxi cab and un- lawfully imprisoned her in a convent. In this case, her mother co-operated with the Romish au- thorities in their effort to continue her imprison- ment. She had recently inherited $10,000, and Houses of the Good Shepherd. 229 it seemed to suit the mother and the "Mother Su- perior" (were they not both "mothers inferior"?) to make a prisoner of her and control her money. By the good sense of the presiding judge, she won the case and was granted her freedom. From the Cincinnati Times-Star (Feb. 26, 1916) we have the following case of two girls who sought their freedom : "At the request of two sisters from the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Cincinnati, Safety Commissioner Kluem- per, of Covington, Ky., Saturday ordered that a search be instituted in Covington for two girls who left the convent a week ago without permission, and are supposed to be in Covington. Their names were given as Mrs. Marcella Sny- der, 18, of Sydney, Ohio, and Miss Marie Kennedy, 16, of Atlanta, Ga. According to information which reached the sisters, Saturday, the girls wrote letters from Covington, calling upon Cincinnati friends to loan them money so that they could proceed to their respective homes." Why should these girls have been shut up in the convents? And why should the police be called upon to restore them when they had effected their escape ? Is it not rather the business of the officers of the law to deliver the victims of injus- tice ? Who is running this country, any how, Un- cle Sam, or Papa Benedict? Our question is still "Uncle Sam or the Pope, Which?" We ought to find out to whom we owe our allegiance, that we may adjust ourselves accordingly. Case 5. This is of a little Protestant girl, who was adopted, she being motherless, by the patriotic deputy sheriff of San Antonio, Texas, to save her from being incarcerated in the Romish dungeon by the Papal Judge of the Juvenile Court. The girl was but 11 years of age and small; yet 230 Uncle Sam or the Pope. this mere child was reported to be an outlaw, and a snare was set for her capture by the Romish slave drivers. Her father, having other children and his wife being dead, was heart-broken, "when he heard of the treacherous intrigue" of this Romish bunch. The Menace says there are too many "holy ihell holes" in this country. It also says, "America is not free while Rome continues to house and torture innocents and youth." Noth- ing but fiends could carry on the activities that Rome is promoting in our midst. The question is, How long will free America tolerate such infa- mies? CHAPTER XIX. Some of New York's Papal Institutions. There has been quite a stir, not only in the me- tropolitan city, 'but throughout the nation, as a result of some investigations recently made by the mayor. Mayor Mitchell, himself a Romanist, was raised to believe the system to be of God. We trust his recent experiences have opened his eyes. When elected to the posiion he now holds, Mr. Mitchell found himself to be hampered, at the very beginning, by Roman Catholic priests. They evidently thought they had a cinch on the situation through a man whom they expected to use as one of their "tools/' Catholic orphanages of the city have charge of 22,000 children. For the care of these wards of the state, they receive out of the public treasury five millions of dollars. An average of $227.25. Any honest man could give these children splendid care and make a fort- une in twelve months, but Rome has never been known to do the honorable thing either by indi- viduals or the government. Her method is fraud and outright stealing ; her business robbery ; her channel is largely corrupt politics. Do these Ro- mish institutions take proper care of the children intrusted to them ? Let the mayor's testimony as to one of them answer : 231 232 Uncle Sam or the Pope. "The conditions there were so bad that they would beg- gar description. I saw some of them myself. I went over there after the superintendent was removed from office, and I looked at the conditions that even still prevailed, be- cause there had not been time to correct them. "I saw infants lying on a sun-baked veranda because there was no room to put them elsewhere, because there were insufficient nurses to take them away, without even mosquito netting to cover them and with flies crawling in and out of their mouths. The children in those institutions had been vermin covered; they also had been compelled to go without change of clothing." Every investigation I have been able to make leads to the immutable conclusion that Roman- ism is thoroughly Pagan and absolutely anti- Christian. If the Mayor has a heart, such con- ditions as he above describes would naturally stir him to activity and awaken in him an utter ab- horrence of the infernal graft practiced by the political machine of his co-religionists. We are not surprised to hear the mayor, when testi- fying in the New York court, say "that the priests and their associates had interfered with the city government, had attempted to discredit city offi- cials who had blocked their graft, had attempted to dominate the department of charities, had con- spired to pervert and obstruct justice and prevent the due administration of the law, had attempted bribery, had accomplished bribery, had conspired to utter criminal libel, had committed libel, and had comimitted perjury." On further investigation we find that the Ro- man authorities institute a systematic campaign of opposition. This opposition was headed by a •bunch of priests, Hebberd, Farrell and Potter who New York's Papal Institutions. 233 was an "ex-minister (priest) and discredited city employee," being prominent among them. These were backed by other "Catholic clergymen." May- or Mitchell testifies that Mr. Hotchkiss pointed out certain things that were transpiring against his administration, indicating that there were cer- emonial libels. "He further pointed out to me that from all circumstances as developed upon the records, the conduct of witnesses, and from extra- neous facts, some of which were also known to me, that there was serious ground for the belief that there existed a conspiracy on the part of cer- tain priests of the Catholic church, Potter, Heh- t>erd and others, to pervert justice and obstruct the due administration of the law in the language of the statute, in the manner which I have already indicated, and further by attempting to teach wit- nesses what to say on the stand, prevent other witnesses from coming on the stand, and to get them out of the jurisdiction." Thus we see that these Romish scoundrels, finding that the mayor they elected would not do their dirty work, set about to destroy his admin- istration. It is said that Priest Farrell organ- ized a regular campaign of opposition. When this priest was summoned to appear before the investigating committee appointed by the govern- ment, he ignored the summons and issued a series of pamphlets attacking the city administration, From the mayor's own testimony we read : "I 234 Uncle Sam or the Pope. might point out that libelous pamphlets were is- sued, from the best information we were able to obtain, at the rate of 180,000 to each publication, and circulated at the doors of practically all Cath- olic churches of the city." And these infamous papal representatives, these priestly villains, are 'doing in other cities, with more or less success, the same 'kind of work they are doing in New Ylork. The Mitchell in- vestigation revealed the fact that of the moneys appropriated toy the city, a former moderator, one Monsignor Mahon, had appropriated $5,000 from this treasury to his own use. In order to track them in their villainies and make sure of their work, Mayor Mitchell had his representa- tives tap certain telephone wires. On these oc- casions, some hundred incriminating statements were secured. They involved the "higher-ups" in the Papal machine. When the Mayor was on the witness stand, in the investigatimg court, he tried to 'bring out these conversations. It created quite a hubbub and the Romanized court at once stop- ped the proceedings and refused to atllow these ev- idences of papal intrigue and criminality to be given in public. Had the account been against Pro- testant ministers and officials the thing would have been laid bare with great gusto; but Rome works in the dark, and so controls and browbeats courts as to prevent much of her criminality be- ing laid open in the sun-light. However, w r e un- derstand that the mayor carried his point and was later allowed to finish his testimony. New York's Papal Institutions. 235 Inspection. There is no greater need in legislation than the thorough opening up of all papal institutions. Her convents, schools, houses of the Good Shep- herd, ".homes" and various sorts of monasteries, orphanages and other institutions should be so thoroughly opened that the winds can blow through them, the sun-light of 'heaven penetrate them, and the people know what goes on in them, and their enslaved inmates be allowed the air of freedom. The red-blooded manhood of this coun- try should see to it that the occupants of these medieval prisons are given the liberties of free men and women. Let patriots demand of all law- makers rigid inspection laws. Question your can- didates closely, especially for Congress, and the State legislatures. Support no man who will not stand for the opening of these slave-pens. CHAPTER XX. Rome and Our Government. Rome has been noted for a thousand years for her efforts to dominate the government and po- litical life of nations. The intrigues of the Pa- pacy in Spain, France, England and other old- world governments is a matter of history. He who knows nothing of this is poorly posted in the past records of the nations. The nations have to a very considerable extent repudiated the med- dling of the Pope with their governments. As far back as 1832, Pope Gregory XVI., said, "Outside of the papal states, I am pope in none but the United States of America." The simple fact is, that at that time, his influence in this country was very small, compared with what it is today. His obedient servants in this land have promised to deliver America to the papal Papa. Whether they shall 'be able to make good, is up to the people of our day. I have before me an article by William Lloyd Clark, published in the Converted Catholic (June 1915). I cannot vouch for all these facts but any man who keeps, in any measure, posted as to present conditions, can have no doubt that Mr. Clark's assertions are, in the main, correct. Many of them, we know to be true. Here they are: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the 237 238 Uncle Sam or the Pope. United States, Edward D. White, is a Roman Catholic. Joseph McKenna, a Roman Catholic, is an as- sociate justice and Vice President of the Supreme Court of the United States. The clerk of this court is also a Romanist. John J. Fitzgerald, a Roman Catholic, is chair- man of the powerful Committee on Appropria- tions of the House of Representatives. John Burke, a Roman Catholic, is Treasurer of the United States. Ransdell, Ashurst, and O'Gorman, Roman Catholics, are United States Senators from Louis- iana, Arizona and New York. The governor of Illinois is a Roman Catholic. The mayors of New York and Boston are Ro- man Catholic, and the trend of the government in both cities is toward anarchy. The revenue collector of the Port of Entry, New York, is a Roman Catholic. Under the present administration all ambas- sadors to foreign countries, with very few excep- tions, are Roman Catholic. A Roman Catholic by the name of Cornelius Ford is Public Printer in Washington, having con- trol of all government printing, and controlling the Government pay roll in the printing depart- ment, amounting to millions of dollars annually. A Roman Catholic, Joseph E. Ralph, is direc- tor of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Two-thirds of the department chiefs are Ro- man Catholic. Rome and Our Government. 239 Practically all the important federal positions of the large cities, like Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco, are filled with Roman Catholics. The private secretary of the President of the United States, Joseph Tumulty, is a Roman Cath- olic, and, though working in the background, wields more influence in many of the affairs of the nation than the President himself. A Roman Catholic managed the national com- paign that elected Wilson. Over seventy per cent of the appointments of President Wilson are Roman Catholic. Ten states now have Catholic administrations. Thirty-one States now have Catholic Demo- cratic committees (1915). Twenty-one States have Catholic Republican committees. Twenty thousand public schools have about one-half Catholic teachers. Six hundred public schools now use Catholic readers and teach from them the Roman Catholic religion. New York City, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadel- phia, Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland and St. Louis now employ over 75 per cent. Catholic teachers in their public schools. In all the cities and towns of the United States of 10,000 or more inhabitants, an average of over 88 per cent of the men on the police force are Ro- man Catholics. Roman Catholics are in a majority in the city 240 Uncle Sam or the Pope. council of 15,000 towns and cities in the United States. To the same author who furnished the above facts, we are indebted for the following: Established Facts Compiled From The Menace, The Amer- ican Citizen, The Jeffersonian and other Reliable Sources, by Wm. Lloyd Clark. Fact No. 1. — We captured the Philippines from Spain. Church and State are united under the Spanish System of government, and all church property is owned by the gov- ernment. After capturing the Philippines, we paid Spain $20,000,000 for them, and the purchase included the church property. This we gave back to the Roman Catholic Church. We then bought again, for $7,500,000 certain "friar lands" which these friars had wrested from the sim- ple people who owned them — though the friars had sworn that they had already sold the property to certain business corporations. But we paid four times what the property was worth. This on recommendation of Wm. H. Taft. Fact No. 2.. — To consummate the purchase of the "friar lands," William H. Taft was made a "special envoy to the Vatican," with which we had, and could have, no diplo- matic relations. He humiliated our whole nation by go- ing on such a mission; his proposals were turned down by the Pope, and he was ordered to negotiate with the Pope's delegate at Manila. If Taft were a statesman he should have known better than to so disgrace the nation. Fact No. 3. — Taft then recommended that Roman Cath- olic teachers be sent to the public schools in the Philip- pines, and had a law passed allowing Rome to teach her doctrines in the public schools at certain times, and had a Romanist, Jim Smith, put at the head of the Philipppine board of education. Today the papal catechism is taught in virtually every public school building in the Philippines. Fact No. 4. — Rome put in a claim for over $2,450,000 for "damages" to her buildings by the insurrection in the Philippines. An expert commission (including one Roman Catholic) allowed Rome $360,000, though it was known that in some cases the priests themselves had destroyed the churches. Then Taft asked the award to be doubled. Coneress made it $420,000, and Rome got the cash. Fact No. 5. — Rome asked for money for certain prop- erty in Porto Rico, which she did not own (according to the testimony of the most intelligent Porto Ricans). The case was carried into the Supreme Court, but before the court Rome and Our Government. 241 could decide, Roosevelt and Taft ordered a verdict for Rome, and $320,000 and valuable real estate was awarded to the papal church — if Congress agrees. Fact No. 6.— Rome claimed over $2,000,000 for certain property in Cuba. The Cubans considered the claim a downright fraud; but Roosevelt and Taft ordered the Cu- ban people to pay Rome $1,500,000 for this property which Spain had taken from the Church 70 years ago. Fact No. 7. — In 1904, just before the election, it was discovered that over $100,000 of Indian trust funds had been paid out in Washington without the knowledge or consent of the Indians — $98,000 to Rome and $4,000 to the Lutherans. Nobody knew by what authority it was done, but Roosevelt finally confessed that he had ordered it paid, by advice of Attorney General Bonaparte, a Romanist. The whole nation was aroused and indignant but the money was eone. James S. Sherman, chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and afterwards Vice President, condoned and defended the theft. Fact No. 8. — When the United States took possession ^ Porto Rico, it found that the government seal was a Ro- manist seal, with papal emblems and the letters "P. & I." ("Ferdinand and Isabella"). The seal was changed and Americanized. Rome howled, and then "hurry orders" went from Washington to restore the papal seal. It was done, and it is there today — a papal church seal for an American territory! Fact No. 9. — The United States government, through the recommendation of Roosevelt and Taft, has establish- ed in Panama, at government expense, three papal houses of worship and sustains four papal chaplains, though all Protestant denominations in Panama are paying their own expenses. The American Romanist papers also state that the public schools and hospitals in Panama have been put under the control of "Christian Brothers and Sisters of Charity." Fact No. 10. — In an "official document" issued in Ma- nila by the government, the "Diplomatic Corps" was headed with Archbishop Harty, followed by the Apostolic Delegate, then a priest, another priest and then, under all these, the consuls of Germany, France, Great Britain, etc. This was all done after Taft's "Mission to Rome." Fact No. 11. — Ex-Governor-General Ide, of the Philip- nines, declared in a speech in Fitchburg, Mass., that "the U. S. keeps an army in the Philippines solely to protect the Roman Catholic Church," and Congressman Littlefield, of Maine, in a speech in that state August 1, 1900, said that "so long as we have to protect the Roman Catholic 242 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Church against its opponents in the Philippines, the war will go on." Thus we are spending hundreds of millions for the benefit of Rome in the Pacific. Fact No. 12. — More than half the people in the Philip- pine Islands, and the most intelligent, have broken away from the Roman church, but are not allowed to have their share of the church property which was paid for by the people as a whole — simply because the papal church has votes to deliver in the United States. Fact No. 13. — The governor-general of the Philippines; more than half the Philippine Supreme Court judges; the chairman of the Committee on Insular affairs; 3700 out of 4,200 public school teachers in the islands, and many more of the officials, are Roman Catholic, though more than half the Filipino people openly express a preference for Pro- testants. Fact No. 14. — When James S. Sherman, Taft's running mate, was up for re-election to Congress in the 27th N. Y. district in 1906, Priest Ketcham, the papal lobbyist in Washington, wrote to every priest in Sherman's district, asking these priests to use their influence for Sherman's election, and stating that Sherman was their champion in Congress. When Ketcham was faced with a copy of his letters, he declared with tears, that he was "compelled to write as he did by threats that if he did not he would in the future get no more money for his Indian schools." Sherman was chairman of the Congressional Committee on Indian Affairs, and became Vice President. Fact No. 15. — Practically all the chaplains in the navy are Romanists and two-thirds of the chaplains in the army. Fact No. 16.— The Roman Catholic Church has acquired title to the heights which, from a military standpoint, com- pletely command Washington city. Batteries placed upon these heights would sweep our national capital with un- failing fire — as irresistibly as the German guns, on the heights surrounding Sedan, compelled the surrender of Ra- zaine and Napoleon III. Fact No. 17. — The street railways and many of the steam ship companies and railroads allow priests and nuns to ride free, while Protestant ministers and Protestant charity workers are compelled to pay their fare. Thus the transportation companies are giving Rome every advantage in her efforts to ruin this country, and placing the Protest- ant workers at a disadvantage in their efforts to save the nation. Fact No. 18. — The public libraries in the United States have almost entirely come under control of Roman Cath- olics, and Protestant church papers, magazines and works Rome and Our Government. 243 of history showing up the infamous record of the Papacy have been culled out while all kinds of books, papers and documents falsifying history and glorifying Rome, are giv- en prominence in these public institutions. Thus Rome has turned our public libraries from a blessing to a curse. Fact No. 19. — Roman Catholics are given the privilege to beg money in the different departments of the govern- ment at Washington, while the privilege is denied to the Protestants. Fact No. 20. — A Jesuit censor controls the columns of every large daily paper in this nation and all matter de- rogatory to Rome is tossed into the waste basket while the smallest Hibernian convention can get a big head-line v/uteup on the front page, and the smallest Catholic as- assembly can get more space in the average daily than the national assembly of the largest and most influential Pro- testant convention in the land. Fact No. 21. — The Roman Catholic Church so complete- ly controls the metropolitan dailies, and the magazines, that an anti-Catholic publisher cannot buy an inch of space with which to advertise the literature that is telling the truth on which the salvation of this country depends. Fact No. 22. — Very nearly all the school teachers in Chicago and other large cities are Roman Catholic. Thus the public school has fallen into the hands of its most deadly enemy. Fact No. 23. — Very nearly every prison and large jail in the country has a priest for a chaplain and many have altars fitted up with gold at the public expense. Fact No. 24.— The President of the United States is surrounded by Jesuits who report everything to Rome. Fact No. 25. — Nearly one-half the governors of the dif- ferent states have Jesuit private secretaries who are com- pelled to reveal all their knowledge of state matters in the confessional. Fact No. 26. — Gov. Deneen, of Illinois, appointed A. J. Burroughs, a Jesuit priest of Rome, a member of the Ed- ucational Commission of this state. Other nations expel the Jesuits as dangerous plotters against the government. Our politicians appoint them to positions of trust. Future statesmen will curse the traitors of this generation while the people will pay for their treason with blood and tears. Fact No. 27. — In the federal court in the city of Peoria, 111., Judge Humphreys fined Wm. Lloyd Clark $400 and costs for exposing Romanism and White Slavery in the State Capital of Illinois. Politicians fear publicity because their deeds are evil. They know the freedom of the press must be destroyed or they cannot long remain in power. 244 Uncle Sam or the Pope. I give the above twenty-seven facts concerning Rome simply as samples. They are taken from a pamphlet by William Lloyd Clark, in which he gives one hundred such facts, under the title, "Washington in the Grasp of Rome." Mr. Clark is one of the most widely known patriotic lectur- ers in oiur country. He is wide awake, thorough- ly posted, and a terror to the bachelor-bund. He has been mobbed time and again by them. Our Protestant people have long been asleep on this question. It is high time they should be awakened. We find throughout the country that the priests are pushing themselves and their henchmen into places of political power and pres- tige. They have a hand in everything. For years all big political parties have opened their conven- tions with prayer by Romish priests. This sum- mer, on the best information that I have been able to secure, the awakening has reached them. They got through their conventions, apparently, with- out calling on the bachelor Daddy to pray for them. But, only today, on reading a program of the forth-coming Prohibition Get-together con- vention, I find a priest is slated to make the open- ing prayer. The writer is a life-long Prohibition- ist and makes this record with shame. If I am not mistaken, something will happen at the Conven- tion. Such folly costs the party of home and righteousness many votes. It will hardly occur again. CHAPTER XXI. Freedom of Speech, Press, Conscience and Worship. Since the Pope claims to be the Lord God, hav- ing the whole man, body, soul, and spirit under his control, we are not surprised at his efforts to destroy free speech, free press, free exercise of conscience, also freedom of worship. When the papal system ceases to antagonize these funda- mentals of liberty, it will cease to be popery. From Ripalda's Catechism* we gather a few points; bearing in mind that this Catechism has the high- est papal sanction. Note the following : * Quoted here from Phillips' "Romanism Anal- yzed." "What do we understand by Liberalism?" "The system which defends the independence of the State with respect to the Church. How many grades of liberalism are there? Principally three. What is the first? That which teaches that the Church should be sub- ject to the State. What do Liberals deduce from this doc- trine? That the laws and precepts of the Church should not be complied with, not even their evangelical counsels, when these oppose the laws of the State. What does the second grade teach ? That the two powers of the Church and the State are equal and completely independent. What is deduced from this ? That all civil laws are just and ob- ligatory, although they are opposed to the Sacred Canons and other laws of the Church. What does the third grade teach ? That the Church is superior to the State, but in the present age she should approve of independence with all other liberties which Liberalism teaches. Has the Church condemned all these errors? Yes: * * * * What then does the Catholic doctrine teach on this head? That the State should be subject to the Church as the body to the 245 246 Uncle Sam or the Pope. soul and the temporal to the eternal. What is the basis of the Church's superiority to the State ? Her exceedingly noble purpose," etc. "What other Liberties does Liberalism defend?" "Liberty of conscience, liberty of worship and of the press. What is meant by liberty of conscience? That every man may profess the religion which his con- science dictates, and none, if it dictates nothing. Is is true that a man may elect the religion which he likes best? No; but he should profess only the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman, which is the only true one. What is meant by Liberty of w orship ? That the government should protect the free ex- ercise of all religions, although they may be false. What is, then, the obligation of the government at this point? First, she should prof ess it, and then protect the only true religion, which is the Catholic. Ought it not then to pro- tect all the opinions of its subjects? Yes, sir, provided that these opinions are not condemned by the Church." One would imagine at first thought that we were to have an indorsement of freedom of con- science and worship, but notice again his answer, "provided, that these opinions are not condemned by the Church." Now any one who understands, Romanism, is well aware that she has condemned all the teachings of Protestantism, including free- dom of worship and of conscience. Continuing with our author, we have the following : "What is meant by Liberty of press? The right to print and publish without previous censorship all sorts of opin- ions, however absurd and corrupting they may be. Should the government suppress this liberty by means of censor- ship ? It is evident that it should. * * * * Does the Church tolerate these Liberties? No, sir; she has many times condemned them." He then raises the question whether a Catholic should call •himself liberal? and answers in the negative ; and as to whether Catholics may ap- prove liberalism, taking the name of Catholic Lib- erals. He denounces this and also the question Freedom of Speech, etc. 247 whether Catholics may practice their religion in private without thrusting it upon the public. May Catholics Read Independent papers? The author of the Catechism plunges into the question of free press in the following fashion : "Does one sin gravely who subscribes for liberal pa- pers? Yes, sir. Why? Because he contributes to evil with his money, puts in peril his faith, and sets a bad ex- ample. Note, that if the reviews or periodicals are pro- hibited by some bishop, the faithful of his diocese commit also a grave sin of disobedience. He next lays down some rules by which to determine what papers may be read and what must be spurned. Pa- pers and magazines are condemned, 1. If they call them- selves Liberal. 2. If they defend liberty of conscience, lib- erty of worship, of the press, or whatever other of the liberal errors. 3. If they attack the Roman Pontificate, the clergy or the religious orders. 4. If they belong to liberal parties. 5. If they show a liberal mind in their comments upon news or in their judgment of persons. The most cer- tain rule of all is, if they are condemned by the bishops." One would naturally as-k the question, Do the priests credit their people with having any brains ? All Romanists are treated &s little child- ren or feeble-minded ones who may not be allowed to run at large. What a travesty upon Twentieth Century manhood! It would seem that every in- telligent, thinking Romanist would accept such doctrine as an insult to his manhood, and wipe the dust of Romanism from 'his feet. The author from which we are quoting, instructs his flock as follows.: "'Read- no periodicals without previous- ly consulting and securing the approbation of the Confessor. What should all good Catholics do with reference to the press? Extirpate the im- pious and liberal, and subscribe for and propa- 248 Uncle Sam or the Pope. gate the Catholic." This he says cooperates with the work of God, defends the faith ag'ainst error and sets a good example. He then instructs all Catholics to vote. He naturally warns them against voting for the Lib- eral representative, which he calls a sin. Thus he would stock every Legislature, and Congress itself, with men who know nothing but Roman- ism; with no common personal intelligence; and who will do nothing except after the advice of their ghostly Confessors. Asking the question as to what arms ought to be used in the fight with Liberalism, he answers, politics, journalism and social questions. From this, we understand that Rome aims to dominate politics, control the press and shape all social questions. But enough of Ripalda. We all know that under the Council of Trent (1545) the Bible was condemned and so recent a Papal authority as Pope Pius IX. denounced Bible Societies as a pest. He also denounced freedom of conscience in the following words, "Liberty of conscience is a most pestiferous error, from which arises, rev- olution, corruption, contempt of sacred things, holy institutions and laws; in other words, that pest of all others most to be dreaded in a State, unbridled liberty of opinion." As to the general reading of the Scriptures and their wide-spread circulation, he said that several of his predeces- sors have made laws intended to "turn aside this scourge." In 1870, Cardinal Antonelli, in behalf of Pius Freedom of Speech, etc. 249 IX., writing to the Bishop of Nicaragua, says, "We have lately been informed 'here that an at- tempt has been made to change the order of things in that Republic (of Nicaragua) ; to be publishing programs in which are enunciated freedom of ed- ucation and worship. Both of these principles are contrary to the laws of God and the Church." And yet in this country the Romanists are very full of their plea and contention for religious tol- erance. Much depends on whose ox is gored. They have actually appointed a committee on re- ligious prejudice and are making mighty efforts to stem the current of public opinion. What have the tools and dupes of Rome to do with liberty of conscience and worship? Has not their "holy father" busied himself throughout the centuries in stifling all manner of human freedom ? To the unfortunate dupe of the Pope, Emperor Maxi- millian, in Mexico, Pius IX wrote as follows, ac- cording to Appleton's Encyclopedia for 1865 : "To repair the evils occasioned by the revolu- tion, and to bring back as soon as possible happy days for the Church, the Roman Catholic religion must above all things continue to be the glory and mainstay of the Mexican nation, to the exclusion of every other dissenting worship, that no person may obtain the faculty of teaching and publishing false tenets; that instruction, whether public or private, should be directed and watched over by the ecclesiastical authority; and that, in short, the chains may be broken which, up to the present time, have held down the Church in a state of de- 250 Uncle Sam or the Pope. < pendence and subject to the arbitrary rule of civil government." (Quoted from "Rom. and the Re- public") According to what we have shown above, Ro- manists are not allowed to re^d any papers antag- onistic to the Pope. One of their men who was in attendance upon the Baltimore Catholic Con- vention (Nov. 1889) set forth as the spirit of the Council, their dependence on the Catholic press. He said, "The Catholic press is to be the antidote for pestilential literature. Catholic editors are not the expounders of what the editors may think in doctrine. Editors and writers are to declare the doctrines taught them by the authorized teach- ers of the Church." According to this, the Cath- olic editor has- no mind of his own ; 'he is but a machine played upon by the Pope, a papal puppet. He can only record the things inspired by his bachelor Papa. It would seem to the American mind that this is an inexcusable belittling of man- hood, but I suppose a mian trained in the Parochial schools is ready to acquiesce at once in this in- sult to his man-hood, his intelligence. From a letter by Archbishop Corrigan of New York, dated April 13, 1887, and addressed to "Editor and Proprietor of the Catholic Herald/' we make the following extracts: "By this note, which is entirely private, ,and not to be published, I call your attention to the fact that the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, following the lead- ership of Leo XIII., has pointed out the duties of the Catholic press, and denounced the abuses, of Freedom of Speech, etc. 251 which journals styling themselves Catholic are sometimes guilty. 'That paper alone/ says the Council (decree No. 228), 'is to be regarded as Catholic that is prepared to submit in all things to ecclesiastical authority.' " "Later on it warns all Catholic writers against presuming to attack publicly the manner in which a bishop rules his diocese. "For some time past the utterances of The Catholic Herald have been shockingly scandalous. As this newspaper is published in this diocese, I hereby warn you that if you continue in this course of conduct, it will be at your peril." We call the reader's attention to some present day conditions. 1. There have been before the Congress of the United States, during the past several years, a number of bills fathered by Ro- man representatives, aimed at freedom of the press. The chief offenders have been Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Gallivan, of Boston. These two papal lick-spittles are never so happy as when seeking to deliver America, bound and gagged, at the feet of the Tyrant of the Tiber. Their zeal is worthy of a better cause. They wish especially to be able to shut out of the mails such papers as The Menace, The American Citizen, (Phila.), Watson's Jeffersonian and Magazine (Thomson, Ga.), The Christian Standard, and other papers that are brave enough and true enough to defend Protestant Christianity and American freedom. Men of their stripe have already dominated the 252 Uncle Sam or the Pope. governments of Canada to such an extent as to exclude The Menace from the Canadian mails. If the people of the United States slumber much lon- ger, we will find a free press not only much ham- pered, but destroyed. 2. Not only do they seek to control the postoffice system at Washington 'but they are diligent in se- curing the appointment of papal postmasters throughout the country. It is said that in one Congressional district in Wisconsin, the present government administration has appointed twenty- seven postmasters, of whom twenty-three are pa- pists. These men in all manner of underhanded ways, are using their positions to annoy and dam- age, if not destroy, the patriotic papers. The government should receive vigorous protests from real Americans. 3. One of the methods adopted by the servants of the Pope is to hale patriotic and independent pub- lishers to the Federal Courts. They hope to pen- itentiary those whom they cannot otherwise con- trol: failing in conviction, they at least hope to break down the publisher through court expenses. Suits against the publishers of The Menace and against Mr. Watson of Georgia, have 'been already prosecuted in the federal courts. But thanks to the justice of the American .spirit, the patriots have been thuis far able to maintain their freedom, although the costs have likely been great. No juror is worthy of his freedom who would convict Uh> editors and publishers in cases like this. Such juror should himself be incarcerated. It is sim- Freedom of Speech, etc. 253 ply the 12th Century spewing its rot and vomit on the 20th Century. 4. But one of the saddest and most alarming feat- ures is Rome's constraints of the Metropolitan daily press. No great daily, so far as I know, is open to the presentation of the patriotic de- mands in this conflict with Rome. The silence of these dailies on the aggressions of Rome and pa- pal rottenness in general is alarming. A crime upon the part of a single Protestant clergyman, obtains a larger space in the nation's press than all the wickedness of all the priests on the Con- tinent. The priests have also a right of way through the columns of the large papers. One can scarcely pick up an American daily without finding something exploiting the papacy. The Pope is forever in the head-lines. The cardinals and the archbishops cover the front pages. Their sayings are recorded, their doings are boosted, their conventions are exploited, but who ever sees anything of American patriotism? Even the pa- triotic national conventions, though largely at- tended, can scarcely get small recognition. Is it not time that some wide-awake, patriotic American citizen of means should start a series of dailies in our great centers of population, that will stand for true Americanism, that will defend our press, that will represent our work, our move- ments and our needs ? The press is a power and it ought to be used for America, not for Rome ; for liberty, not for tyranny; for the Protestantism, that has made this nation great, not for the papal 254 Uncle Sam or the Pope. tyranny that has cursed the fairest portions of the earth. One of the greatest needs of our times is a fair, clean, strong American press, un- fettered by priestly dominatioin, unhampered by papal paganism. Shall we have it? CHAPTER XXII. Romish Graft. This whole system would have been relegated to the limbo of the has-beens but for its success in the way of graft. No power of government, political or sectarian, has ever been able to hold it a candle. The priests begin their practice of graft upon the baby when he is born. They charge for baptizing him and they hound him through life. There is a fee charged for marriage, which in Central and South American countries is frequently so high as to be absolutely prohib- itive. Some Mexicans have reported that their priests demanded as much as $250.00 for marriage fee. The result is, that vast numbers of poor peo- ple find themselves unable to >meet the fee, and so, instead of marrying, they simply go together and live and raise their children without the formality of a marriage ceremony. In Ecuador, it is said that 75 per cent, of the children, largely on this account, are born out of wedlock. In the Philip- pines, the 'percent, is almost as great, in some sec- tions of the Islands. And this very century they issue the Ne Temera Decree, denounce all who are married 'by Protestant authorities as adulterers and forever harp on the evils of divorce, Which they charge up to Protestant heresy. Shameful as is our record of divorce it cannot hold Roman- ism a candle for the pollution of the home. 255 256 Uncle Sam or the Pope. The priests would tax the people for breathing if it were in their power. They often follow the dead to their graves for a burial fee. Then, when a man dies, they tax his widow and the relatives to pray him out of their pagan purgatory. Other thieves stop their robbery at the grave, but such priests would set up a door-keeper at the gates of hell and put a fee upon every poor soul that might wish to escape the infernal regions. The bulk of these priestly robbers, if they had their desert, w r ould be in the chain gang or the penitentiary under charge of " obtaining money under false pretenses." Chiniquy relates the story of a poor widow with three children. Shortly after the death of her husband, the petty-coated bachelor was on hand. He put up a touching plea for the poor husband who was in purgatory suffering the tort- ure of its flames. The heart-broken widow and mother, with tears in her eyes, begged the priest to intercede with Mary and all the saints in be- half of her "poor husband." The priest informed her that the only hope was in having masses (priestly prayers) said for the repose of her hus- band's soul. Sir Priest does very little free pray- ing. His prayers come high. So the widow of the dead informed him that her whole earthly pos- sessions, besides her children, consisted of one cow and two pigs. The cow furnished milk for the children, and through the sale of a part thereof, they were able to obtain some cash to meet living expenses. She and the orphans w r ere looking for- Romish Graft. 257 ward to the day when hog-killing time should ar- rive that they might have meat on their table. To shorten the story, the priest began by taking, first, one pig, after a few weeks reporting that the hus- band was still suffering the agonies of Purgatory, he bore away in triumph the other pig, and after he had picked its 'bones he wrought still more upon the agonized heart of the widow, until she author- ized him to take away her last earthly possession, the cow. After this, there being no further pay, the priestly grafter allowed the widow, in her poverty, to weep over the tortures of her erst- while husband in the flames of Purgatory, while the papal scoundrel sought the possessions of oth- er widows. The thing is such a manifest fraud, such a cruel, heartless (plan of robbery, that it would seem that an awakened manhood would drive the whole iniquity from every acre of soil and endungeon the priestly robbers until they learn to practice justice rather than fraud. A friend in Pennsylvania told me of visiting, m his capacity as an agent of a life insurance concern, a poor man who had a large family. He found him at a steel-mill, working in the terrific heat of the furnace and of the sun, and was shocked at the weakness and frailty of the man. It looked, indeed, as if the laborer would "drop in his tracks." My friend asked him of he were sick. His reply was, that he had eaten nothing for thirty-six hours, that his priest was forcing upon him a forty-eight hour fast, and his woTik was so heavy that he could scarcely hold up under 258 Uncle Sam or the Pope. it. My friend tried to secure the patronage of the laborer for life insurance, but was told that his earnings were only about $80.00 per month, of which he had to pay the priest $12.00, and that he simply could not spare enough money to reach the insurance bill. Failing with the laborer, he went to see the priest and found him surrounded with other priests at the table enjoying a verita- ble feast. No fasting for the Daddy bachelor. He would make his poor parishioners fast till they fainted, while he, himself, reveled in luxury. No scarcity of money with him ; therefore, when the insurance man told him his business, he readily took out the policy, having abundance of money with which to meet the payment. Why will the poor toil early and late for a bare living and then rob their families to support these beer-glutted, liquor-soaked, priestly parasites ? I heard Mr. Haines, ex-Congressman from New York, make an astounding report concerning the methods of the priests to maintain their sys- tem of dominance and graft. Mr. Haines tells us, which we know to be true, that the bishops control all the property of Rome. In many Pro- testant (Countries, the priest proposes an elegant church and >a carefully laid campaign is made to raise funds for the building. Protestants con- tribute a very good proportion of this money. In like manner, hospitals, infirmaries, houses of the Good Shepherd, orphanages, schools, convents and 'monasteries are built. Who ever heard of Ro- mainists helping Protestants build a church? or, Romish Graft. 259 who ever heard of them building a church without the aid of the Protestants? When these great buildings are erected, Mr. Haines tells us that the bishop mortgages them for every dollar they are worth; and this is not simply a local affair, but a great nation-wide movement on the part of Rome. With the millions secured on this prop- erty, largely built by Protestants, these wily schemers go on the stock exchange in New York and buy a controlling interest in a great railroad system. They do not have to pay aid cash, a small amount, perhaps five or ten per cent, of ready money, will secure this stock, it being hypothe- cated for the remainder due ; then with their .stock in hand, these lords of finance go into the stock- holders' meetings and see that Romanists are put in charge of the management of the road. After this, their stock is put on the market and with the same funds, they secure control of another road. Thus going the rounds, they have largely succeed- ed in Romanizing the management of the rail- road systems of this country. Pay day comes in the Metropolitan city and thousands of men go to the office to get their hard earnings. The toilers passing out through the door find begging nuns stationed on the outside of the exit. One tnight say, "They do not have to give." An innocent might think so, but the laborers have found that he who refuses soon loses his job, and his place is presently filled by a treacherous servant of the papes. Thus the Ro- mish graft succeeds in ways unexpected and by 260 Uncle Sam or the Pope. schemes undreamed of by simple minded Protest- ants. In confirmation of what I have just related I give the following from James M. King : "It stations the reipresentatives of the secret societies of its church on pay day at government and corporation departments, and by the garb of these secret orders advertises the creed and the ecclesiastical connections, 'and 'collects the first in- stallment of money from the toilers' wearily- earned wages in advance of the first claims of the wives and families. " ("Facing Twentieth Cen- tury.") One of the worst forms of graft practiced by the papists is through those institutions, in which they come in touch with the commercial world. For example, their Houses of Refuge. These are supplied with victims railroaded into them by Ro- manized courts-. Most of their inmates are girls. These are put to work early and kept at it late. One of the favorite methods is the laundry. These prisoners have to toil from eight to twelve hours without any kind of remuneration. Rome gives them nothing but the barest necessities in the way of food and bedding; these are paid for by the state, and thus the papal machine gets the benefit of their labor, besides making a margin of their board and entertainment. Her institutions la- beled as "Charitable" are tax-free, the laborer, as we have shown, is fed and entertained by the state and the toil unremunerated ; her untaxed laundries are therefore run in competition with others that have to pay taxes and pay their labor. This is Romish Graft 261 un-American, unfair and worthy of the attention of the labor unions. George P. Rutledge in his "Center-Shots at Rome," gives an item which he declares is sup- ported by affidavit, in which he says : "In 1912, a prominent manufacturing company of our city (Columbus, Ohio), had sixty-three sewing ma- chines in the convent at West Broad and Sandusky streets, and that these machines were operated by girls, a number of whom were under fourteen years of age; and that these girls were given daily tasks to perform." The author adds, "If a secular company's sewing machines in an untaxed convent sweatshop, and run by children under the scorpion lash of the 'daily task' is not union of church and state on a scale that should cause every patriotic citizen of Ohio to rise up in a frame of mind that would be ready to demolish the in- iquitous system which throttles our laws and com- mits such crimes, the word 'patriotism' is as empty as a last year's bird nest." Other oppressive things, injustices, have 'been swept away, but it seems that this medieval tyr- anny, hiding itself under the cloak of religion, is yet able to walk in the open with head up. Hon. Tom Watson, in one of his tracts, says, "They have compelled the railroads to haul their priests and their nuns and their chapel-cars free of charge. They have piously filched from duped Americans hundreds of millions of dollars, invest- ed in the choicest realty and exempt from taxa- tion. They have realized the process by which 262 Uncle Sam or the Pope. their sweat-shops are supplied with Protestant slave labor, furnished by the so-called Juvenile Courts. They have imprisoned for life fifty-six thousand American women, under pretense that those women are ravenously fond of confinement, and they bitterly resent the proposition, that the States shall open those prison-doors, and ask those women whether they want their freedom" A number of the Government depart- ments that employ large numbers of toilers are strictly Rdmanized. Rather than repeat these lists, I refer to other chapters in which I give some of them. No intelligent voter can afford to cast his vote for a Romanist, nor can we afford to sleep over the issues involved between Uncle Sam and the Pope. Let every one who wishes to be a good American citizen, read up on the question and post himself that his ballot may be cast in- telligently. Many of their hospitals are subject to a like charge, being built by Protestants, supported by Protestant money and run by the labor of deluded nuns, who, as trained nurses, serve for their bread. But we will not follow this subject fur- ther. Let every honest reader investigate. CHAPTER XXIII. Rome and Marriage. It is but a few years since the Pope issued a decree known as the Ne Temere. This decree forbids marriage except by a Roman Catholic priest. The Pope goes so far as to declare all other marriages "filthy concubinage." According to him, no man and woman are married unless the ceremony be performed- by a bachelor priest. American citizens, according to this insulting pro- nunciaimento of Rome, if your marriage ceremony was performed by a civil magistrate or a Protest- ant minister, you and your wife are charged with living "in adultery" and your children are "ille- gitimate." I, for one, resent this as an insult to the decent home life of our country. 1 call upon red-blooded manihood everywhere to resent it. I am recommending to the people, and believe it just, that they should pass a law which pro- vides that no marriage ceremony shall be per- formed by an un'married man. These bachelor daddies have not respect enough for a home to marry, settle down and establish one of their own, but they ipropose to insult our wives and mothers and our manhood by their Ne Temere decrees. In retaliation, let us have a law that will forbid the Pope's bachelors performing the marriage cere- mony. Not long since, in Georgia, a Romanist was ill. 263 264 Uncle Sam or the Pope. He 'had been married to a good Methodist woman by a Protestant minister. It seemed that he would die and his Romish superstition demanded "ex- treme timetion" at the hands of the priest. The superstition in Which he had been raised made the dying man feel that he would be lost if he did not receive the attentions of the Romish clergy. The priest was sent for post haste. But did he come? No, sir. He charged that this man and his wife were living in adultery, and averred that he would not administer to the dying man, unless he and his wife would admit themselves unmar- ried, though they had lived together for years, and allow him to perform a new marriage cere- mony; and thus this decent wife had to see her superstition-cursed husband die in despair for lack of the priest's 'pagan mummeries, or take the insult that she had lived for years with a man un- married and allow the petty-coated bachelor to marry them. It looks a good deal as if he should have (been horse-whipped, a rook tied to his neck and he thrown into the sea, along with the pope who indited this insulting decree. From a couple of friends who are missionaries in Bolivia, S. A., I have letters, from one of which I make the following extracts : "We are up against a hard proposition here, but we are happy in our work. We love one 'another and Jesus is with us ; we are satisfied with Him." I give this quotation to show the character of the author. Recounting a recent trip, the writer says that he discerned a 'crowd of Indians and heard mu- Rome and Marriage. 265 sic ; then he describes the scene as follows : "The Indians were branding ia mule. After applying the hot iron, one of their number took up a large wooden cross and walking over to the mule that was lying on the ground, touched it three times with the cross of Christ. After the mule was loosed a drunken Indian was seized, thrown on the ground and touched in the same manner with the cross, and then a glass of chicha was 'handed to him. Then a large bowl of chioa (the native strong drink) was placed in front of the cross and the Indians would take turns braying like a don- key, then getting down on all fours and drinking out of the bowl of chieha. All this was done 'amid the laughter and uproar of the crowd. "My (heart was heavy and my spirit was grieved to see the cross, the ensign of the Christian faith, used in a drunken debauch, a religious feast, to iblesis a mule and give it long life, and in derision to bless a drunken Indian, while the crowd hooted and jeered." He tells how he induced a priest to stop this, and adds: "Shortly afterwards, I was talking to some of the prominent citizens, and they said the Indians were savages, ignorant and barbarous. That no one save a priest could stop a custom like that. That ever since the coming of the Spanish this thing had been practiced. They also said that it was a shame and a disgrace to their country. "I said to them, 'This is what Catholicism has done to your country. After 'hundreds of years of unmolested sway, you still ihave such scenes as 266 Uncle Sam or the Pope. we have just witnessed. Who is to blame for this ignorance? Who is to blame for such supersti- tion V The Roman Church with its greed for gold is the mother of it all, and may God have mercy on her priests, bishops and popes who before Him will have to render an account for the teachings this people have and have not received. "On my way to the Chile Annual Conference, January, 1914, I spent the night in a hotel at Chuimani. About the first man to reach the ho- tel after my arrival was a priest of the Catholic 'Church, and the first thing that he did was to go to the bar and call for a glass of beer, which he drank ait once. As the other passengers came he drank beer with practically every one of them, till he had imbibed ten or fifteen glasses, and stood around looking like a drunken sot. I thought with 'sadness and grief how far this man missed being a representative of Jesus Christ, and how difficult it would be for him to point souls to the Lamb of God "The next morning I spoke to a friend of see- ing the priest drink so much beer at the hotel. My friend then told me that his wife came down from Oruro the day before with the same priest. She said she &ait just behind the priest on the train. 'She told the following story : 'The priest took off his hat and hung it on the rack directly in front of me. Chancing to glance in that di- rection, I was shodked to see a very indecent French picture in his hat. I called the attention of a friend to it and she also was dumbfounded, Rome and Marriage. 267 for it would be hard to imagine a more degrading picture. Same gentlemen just across the aisle noticed that we had seen the priest's indecent picture, and one of them spoke to him about it. Without looking around he took down his hat, walked forward two seats, and sat down without a blush of shame/ "This is one of the men to whom the women and children of this country have to confess. Oan we wonder that here in the city of Cochabamba in 1912 the percentage of the illegitimate births was over twenty-nine? Can we hope for the re- demption of this country while men of such low morals as this one are her religious teachers? Many Catholics with whom I have talked have led me to believe that the majority of the priests here are of this stripe. "The men are becoming indifferent and are being lost to the church by the scores. In a short time they drift into atheism and infidelity, and it is very hard to reach them with the gospel after they have once lost faith in the church that is sup- posed to represent Jesus." CHAPTER XXIV. Romanism and Politics. Roman Catholicism is decidedly more a politi- cal machine than a church. It seeks temporal power and is everlastingly mixing in with govern- ments and seeking to dominate and control poli- ticians and political parties. If it were absolutely shut out of the whole realm of politics and govern- ment and thus cut off from the public treasury and the support of truckling politicians, it would per- ish from the earth. In its Whole history as an in- stitution it has proven itself a meddler in ques- tions that, by the Divine mandate, belong to secu- lar government. It was the Master Himself who said, "Give to Caesar the things of Caesar and to God the things of God." He thus drew the line of separation between churdh and state so clearly that the wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err in interpreting His meaning. But the pope insists on his right to rule, not only in the realm of the spiritual, but as an intruder he would usurp the throne of Caesar and rule the world. Boniface VIII declared himself God on earth, above the judgment of mortals, and the rightful ruler of the world. The Common Law of the Ro- man church affirms: "The pope has the right to annul state laws, treaties, constitutions, etc.; to absolve from obedience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimental to the rights of the church or those of the clergy." . . . "The pope can release from every obligation, oath or vow, either before or after be- ing made." 269 270 Uncle Sam or the Pope. How does the above compare with the Declara- tion! of Independence, wherein it is said, "Govern- ments derive their just powers from the consent of the -governed?" According to the Roman Hierarchy, the pope is the head and father of ail Christians, the only- source of law, of government and authority ; ac- cording to our principles of American government the people are Sovereign and independent and as such are the source of governmental authority. We define true democracy as "government of the people, for the people and by the people." Roman- ism would throttle this democratic freedom and establish over us a medieval tyranny that could best be defined as "government of the people by the pope and for the pope." Is this putting it too strongly ? Let us see. Romanists shall first answer; after which a few others may be heard. Cardinal Manning repre- sents the pope as saying: "I acknowledge no civil power ... I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men ;" here he speci- fies peasants, princes, private citizens and legisla- tors and adds, "I am the sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong." Thos. Aquinas says: "Human government is derived from the divine and should imitate it. . . . for the temporal! power is subject to the spiritual as the body to the soul, therefore it is not a usurp- ation of jurisdiction if a spiritual prelate (priest, bishop or pope) intrudes himself into temporal af- fairs." With them the spiritual power or church Romanism and Politics. 271 is always and only Rome. Pope Leo XIII, endors- ed Aquinas as a prince and master "who far out- shines every one of the scholastic doctors." In perfect line with the words just quoted are these from Pius IX., pope 1846 to 1878 : "It is an error to hold that, in the case of conflicting laws between the two powers, the civil law ought to prevail." This from his "Syllabus of Errors." In the same document we read : "The state has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he shall deem true." lAgain, in this writing, he says of the Catholic Church, "She has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all others." "She has the power of requiring the state mot to permit free ex- pression of opinion." But is Rome in politics? Let Pope Leo XIII, who succeeded Pius IX, answer. Hear him : "We exhort all Catholics who would devote careful attention to public matters to take an active part in ALL municipal affairs and elections, and to further the princi- ples of the church in all public services, meetings and gatherings." But, doesn't he simply mean to do this 'by a good and helpful influence? Let him continue his exhortation. His very next sentence reads : "All Catholics MUST make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life. . . . They must pene- trate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil af- fairs. . . . All Catholics should do all in their power to "^use the constitutions of states and legislatures to be modeled on the principles of the true (i. e., the Roman Catholic) church." He also exhorts "all Catholic writers and jour- 272 Uncle Sam or the Pope. nalists" to push the cause of Romanism. These extracts are from his encyclicall of Nov. 1, 1885. I capitalized two or three words for special 1 em- phasis. This pope holds high rank in the estimate of all Roman Catholics as both a saint and a states- man. Accordingly his words have great weight with his people. Let us note carefully the follow- ing extract from his pen. You who think the pap- acy is not in politics and its political machinations not to foe feared or resisted have herein food for meditation. He said : "Furthermore, in politics, which are inseparably bound up with the laws of morality and religious duties, men ought always, and in the first place, to serve, as far as possible, the interests of Catholicism. As soon as they (these Catholic interests) are seen to be in danger, all differences should cease between Catholics. " (Here you have under papal direction a perfect machine for the Irish, Tammanyized political Boss — and the meaning of it comes with the full weight and sanction of the infallible papa. If this is not a threatening, malodorous thing in a Republic — a new type of "Iiif ernal machine," pray tell me what is, or can foe. Remember the words of Brownson, editor of The Catholic Review, "Undoubtedly it is the in- tention of the pope to possess this country. In this intention he is aided by the Jesuits and all the Catholic prelates and priests;." Add also these words from Daniel O'Ooninell, "You should do all in your power to carry dut the intentions of his Holiness, the pope. Where you have the electoral Romanism and Politics. 273 franchise, give your votes to none but those who assist you in so holy a struggle." This naturally raises the question, not in preju- dice, but in all candor and patriotism : Ought any Romanist to have the ballot until he has had two years' training in the public (not parochial) schools and, further, till he takes a most solemn oath forever renouncing all foreign potentates and specially allegiance to the Pope of Rome? This should be specific, not simply classing the pope with "foreign potentates and rulers." If any reader thinks my suggestion in anywise hysterical or uncalled-for, let him read and in- wardly digest the words of priest Hedker, taken from the Catholic World, July, 1870. He said : "There is, ere long, to be a state religion in this coun- try, and that state religion is to be the Roman Catholic. "1. The Roman Catholic is to WIELD HIS VOTE for the purpose of securing Catholic ascendency in this country. "2. All legislation must be governed by the will of God, unerringly indicated by the pope. "3. Education must be controlled by Catholic au- thorities, and under education the opinions of the individ- ual and the utterances of the press are included, and many opinions are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under the authority of the church (of Rome) even to war and bloodshed." J. M. King spoke a, great truth when he said, 'egotten, education-promoted civilization. But the fight is on ; it will not cease till liberty and pro- gress triumph. Our liberties shall be preserved! Our nation shall be free ! Our Protestant civiliza- tion shall triumph over hoary superstition and medieval tyranny ! Bishop Gilmour, of Cleveland, 0., in a Lenten Letter (1873) declared with great gusto: "Nationalities must be subordinated to religion, and we must learn (will American citizens also learn this) that we are Catholics first and citizens next. God is above man and the church above the State." How is this, Americans ? Monsignor Vaughan, an imported priest, declared in 1906, "The Oatho- 284 Uncle Sam or the Pope. lie Church is the servant and the menial of no earthly sovereign and of no temporal govern- ment." Is this defiance enough for you, friendly read- er? The Bishop of Newport, England, in a pastoral letter, (1912) saM: "There is at least one principle which may be laid down for the guidance of Catholics in this country, as every- where else. The church has the right to intervene even in practical politics, and when she speaks, Catholics are bound to obey. By the church is here meant the local authorities .... for example, the bishops of the province. To con- tend that the bishops may only pronounce upon abstract questions, and may not authoritatively direct their flock to support or oppose a concrete and definite measure, or to vote for or against an existing party at an election, is to paralyze the church's arm." Now, remember, reader, the vote of the Cath- olic is to be cast at the dictation of one man, the Roman bishop ; and don't forget that he is a ser- vant of the man^god who occupies -a priestly, po- litico-ecclesiastic throne in far-away Italy, not a servant of this Republic. The grafter usually buys his venal votes, but the priest commands them of dupes and slaves. The Council of Baltimore — not of Trent simp- ly, though it was coined there — gives forth (1884) the following oath of papistic allegiance, "I pledge and swear true obedience to the Roman Pontiff, vicar of Jesus Christ." iSince the pope claims, as I have shown, abso- lute authority over the souls, bodies and conscien- ces of men, I insist that those who tatoe the above Romanism and Politics. 285 oath should 'be thereby forever debarred from the prerogatives of citizenship. Bellarmin wrote that "the pope hath, by divine rigM, supreme power over the whole world, both in ecclesiastical and civil affairs." Here comes a man who accepts that dictum and takes a solemn oath of true and perfect obedience to the said lord of the world. This oath puts him in open war with or secret tnaitorship to governments other than that of the pope. If he takes the papal oath no oath of allegiance to a Republic or any other form of earthly and organic government can be binding, for the Canon Law of Rome affirms une- quivocally that the pope has authority "to annul state laws and constitutions" an ( d "to absolve from oaths of allegiance." The reader may be f aimiliar with that classic of Romish patriotic devotion given forth foy the editor of Rome's great siheet, The Western Watch- man, when in a fervid sermon in the Cathedral, St. Louis, in 1914, priest Phelan said : "You tell us that we think more of the church than we do of the United States; of course we do. Tell us we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen after- wards; of course we are. Tell us, in the conflict between the church and the civil government, we take the side of the church; of course we do. Why, if the government of the United States were at war with the church, we would say, tomorrow, 'To hell with the government of the United States;' and if the church and all the governments of the world were at war, we would say, 'To hell with all the governments of the world.' " And this is Romanism ! How is it for patriot- ism? How is it for Christian reverence? Should a man like this toe allowed to run at large? Is our 286 Uncle Sam or the Pope. government safe when such men not only have the ballot, tout when they control a priest-ridden following of thousands of votes, and when they dominate political parties through corrupt, liquor- serving, if not sodden, politicians? Let the wise be warned. ROME AND THE BOYCOTT. This "mother and mistress of churches," as she would toe designated ; more scrip tur ally "moth- er of harlots an>d abominations of the earth" (Rev. 17), is very truly the fountain-jhead of scheming trickery, of corruption land oppression, The Seer of Patmos tells us of the time when no man may "buy or isdl, save he that hath the mark or the name of the beast." (Rev. 13:16, 17). Does this not picture the Romish tooycott? The boycott is a sort of refined and up-toHdate inquisition. It is a means 'by which a man'® enemies may combine to wreck his business, prevent his employment, if poor, or hinder him in securing needed help in his factory, store or ishop; or to cut off his patronage or by social and other ostracism to wreck his tous- iness, undermine his influence or otherwise annoy, frustrate or destroy him. It is of Irish origin and is essentially ia Romish weapon. It is unfair, un- christian and underhandied. Like the midnight assassin, or the highway robber, it strikes in the dark. It is the weapon of such as "love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." A merchant who resists the machinations of the papacy iat once f ^els the boycott. A Jew mer- chant in Jacksonville, Fla., was recently notified Romanism and Politics. 287 that unless he should disdharge a clerk who was circulating The Menace, the Catholics would with- draw their trade. A pastor was informed that if he did not shut his church to speakers on Roman- ism the business of his members would toe curtail- ed. A paper that ventures to tell the truth about Papa Benedict and the other bachelor daddies *is notified in no uncertain tones that not only will subscriptions foe discontinued but that advertis- ing patronage will cease. And this method not only denies the paper the advertising of Roman- ists, but also of Protestant business men. "Smith, stop advertizing in The Journal or all our people go elsewhere for their supplies," and Smith's ad is discontinued. "No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark of the beast." A careful writer speaking of the papal boycott, tersely remarks : "(Several newspaper enterprises have thus been killed off in late years." He might have added "and other foulness ventures utterly destroyed." The pope's minions propose to (browbeat those they cannot use. As Rome bullies business by the boycott, so does she dominate politicians and po- litical parties by using a sidlid, priest-controlled, pope-serving, un-American, superstition-perimeat- ed vote and demanding silence on her sins and obedience to her behests. This foreign hierarchy reminds me of a dog I saw in Lancaster, Ky. His home was in another town, but he took up quarters in Lancaster &nd, as "lord of all he surveyed," made himself "at 288 Uncle Sam or the Pope. homie." He was quite an intelligent 'beast, was this dog. He had learned that riding the running- board of an automobile was faster moving and eas- ier traveling than loping along dog-fashion with his tongue out. He had also learned, this wise dog had, that men furnish autos and gasoline and so it is not necessary for dogs to buy machines. So all this wise dog does is to Choose his machine, one going in his direction, and take a free trip. He mounted the board of a ear in which a friend was giving me a ride. When we stopped he alighted, but When the car again got in motion, Sir Dog was quiddy in place. He knew neither me nor the driver, but he knew the use of "buz J buggies" with runhing-hoatfds. My friend remarked, "He has nerve." So with Romanism. She pays the bills for no political party, but when the party machinery is in motion she is aboard "as big as Ike" heading for place and pelf. The writer is a Prohibitionist, spell it, please with a big P. I am not a "dry" democrat nor a lo- cal option republican. The strength of the liquor traffic is in partisan-fellowship of dhurdh and sa- loon. I insist that the Prohibition party shall un- load Rome and Rum, these twin devils of super- stition and sin. Let the Prohibition chauffeur drive this medieval beast from our running-iboard and we will move on toward Washington 1 City and thence head for the New Jerusalem, where there are no dramshops and no poHitic ! o-*eoclesiastical ty- rants fattening by corruption and graft on the Romanism and Politics. 289 carcass of human liberties and on the decay of conscience and moral character. Rum is surely bad enough, tout Rome is worse ; this ecclesiastical oligarchy is hell's masterpiece. While the saloon curses a man, wrecks his home, breaks his moth- er's heart, murders his wife, brains his baby and damns his soul, a lot of his neighbors will escape. But Romanism spreads itself out like a midnight pall over an entire nation, blots out its moral sense, blurs its spiritual vision, debauches its conscience, corrupts the fountain of its political life, destroys its public school, stays its intellectual progress, handicaps its material advancement, de- stroys its moral and political freedom, unmans its leaders and pushes it backward into the dark ages. Witness Spain, Italy, Austria, Mexico, Ouba, the Philippines, Central America, South America. In Mexico 76 per cent, of the population can neith- er read nor write. There is an average of 78 per cent, illiteracy in all of South America, and "our one state of New York expends more on education than all South America combined." (Bishop Ho- mer Stuntz). And this is Romanism! Behold Ouba and Porto Rico as samples of papal influence. When the Philippines at the close of the Spanish-Ameri- can war, came under our rule more than 90 per cent, could neither read nor write, and moral con- ditions, as we show elsewhere in this book, were appalling. And this is Romanism ! (Spain is impoverished, her people uneducated, 290 Uncle Sam or the Pope. she has no Bible and no Sabbath, bull-fights, gambling, oppression and poverty prevail — she is living in the thirteenth century rather than the twentieth. And this is Roman Catholicism ! But what more need we say? time would fail us to picture the poverty, the illiteracy, the im- morality of priest-ridden peoples under all flags. Now hear from our own Abraiham Lincoln : "The history of the last thousand years tells us that wherever the Church of Rome is not a dagger to pierce the ibosom of a free nation, she is a stone to her neck and a iball to her feet, to paralyze her and prevent her ad- vancement in the ways of civilization, science, intelligence, happiness and liberty. Though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And .that dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase till its flanks will be torn by a flash of light- ning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cy- clone, such as the world has never seen, will pass over this country spreading ruin and desolation from North to South. After it is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity; for popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been forever swept from our coun- try." Spoken to Chiniquy. It is no wonder Romanists killed him. They do not readily accept such reproofs. They not only killed Lincoln, but also Garfield and McKinley. Allow me to say in 'conclusion : I am an ene- my to no man. I hate saloons, but 1 love drunk- ards and seek their salvation. I hate gambling dens because I see in their victims souls purchas- ed toy the crimson current of Calvary. I do not hate Romanists, I love their souls, I recognize in some of them devout followers of my Lord. But I do loathe and despise that villainous, blood- stained system that through countless years has Romanism and Politics. 291 oppressed humanity, ground under the heel of ty- ranny millions of God's noblest poor. Rome has sought to drive freedom from the earth, but please God, truth shall triumph, the tyrant of the Tiber shall be overthrown and truth and right- eousness shall fill the earth. The Bible shall yet be loved and obeyed and the 'holy Christ shall be crowned, Lord of all. Speed the day. CHAPTER XXV. The Church. The question is raised, wthat constitutes the true Church of God? As we have seen, Roman- ism is very vociferous in claiming a monopoly. According to her teachings, no other sect or body of people are entitled to any recognition in this connection. She is the whole thing ; in the slang of the day, she is "It." Some other organizations, in disputing Rome's claims to be the true Church of God, set up a counter claim for themselves. To my way of thinking, to my reading of the Scriptures, they are alike wrong. No denomination or sect can, properly speaking, represent The Church of God. A few ipassages of the Word ought to make this clear. Let us examine them. 1. The Church is the body of Christ God's divine power to us-ward who believe is manifest, in that divine working "which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead" and "put all things under his feet and gave him (Christ) to be the head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all." (Eph. 1 :22, 23) . Let us see also a parallel passage: "He is the head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the first- born from the dead ; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence; for it pleased the Father 293 294 Uncle Sam or the Pope. that in Him (Christ) should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things, unto Him- isellf." (Col. 1:18-20). Elsewhere the apostle speaks of suffering for the Christ and "filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's salke, which is the Church ; whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God." (Col. 1 :24-25) . Behold the figure. The Church constitutes the body, Christ the head; the union is so complete that each takes the other into possession. The Church pointing to Christ says, "My Head;" Christ pointing to the Church says, "My Body." Now when we look at any human organization posing as a church and find in its ranks those who drink, -swear, dance, gamble, chew, smoke, profane the divine name, trample on the Sabbath — and every denomination has such — we would utter an absurdity, an incongruity, in trying to identify the Church of God with this body of people. Then what is the Church? It is the body of the saved, It includes those who have passed from death unto life, who are regenerated by the Divine Spirit and sanctified by the blood of the Lamb, 'which deanseth from all sin. (1 John 1 :7) . Sinners have no share in it. It is not a human organization. It includes all from the first mar- tyr, Abel, to the last saint that shall take his place in the presence of God, when the records are com- plete. If Christ is the Head and the Church is The Church. 295 His Body, their natures must 'be essentially alike, actuated by the same spirit. They must see alike, think alike, love the same things, hate the same things. If one is holy, heavenly, unselfish, so must be the other. Now this description is not true of any earthly denomination or sect, less of Romanism than any other that bears the name Christian. There are people, unclean, unholy, full of lust, worldliness, selfishness and sin in all earthly com- munions. God only knows the full number of the saints, the memfoers of His Church. The list is kept hy no church clerk. The label is furnished from no church record. Saints of all lands, lan- guages, colors and conditions, from every fold and flodk, are in this true Church of God. The lordly bishop, the boastful priest, the self-important pope, the place-seeking cardinal and the money- loving ecclesiastic, soaked in beer and pickled in vice, has no more place in the Church of God than Satan has in the city of God, the New Jerusalem. 2. The Church of God. Thanks be to the Holy One, the Divine Spirit appoints overseers whose business it is to feed the sheep of this sacred flock, not to shear them, not to serve them for the coin of the realm, but to feed them on the sincere milk of the word and to lead them to the fountain of blood that purchased them unto holiness. The Church of God is made up of saints, separated ones, Christly people, and of those alone. In this Church, no sinner can boast the possession of a place. It is pure, clean, 296 Uncle Sam or the Pope. bearing the nature of Christ, its head. It is not the Pope's Church, the cardinal's or the archbish- op's Church ; it is not the Roman Church nor is it the Protestant Church. It is the Church of God. It is not the Episcopalian, the Methodist, nor the Baptist Church. No, remember, it is the Church of the living God. In the true sense, it is "the Holy Catholic," but not the "Roman Catholic" Church. "-Catholic" simply means 'universal.* *I very much doubt the wisdom of the phrase, "I be- lieve in the Holy Catholic Church," in the Apostles' Creed, because it is so liable to be misunderstood. The Romanists have succeeded in largely monopolizing the title; so the unthinking are led to believe you thereby endorse the bas- tard institution of Rome. Simply say, "I believe in God's Holy Church." The Roman Church is not a truly Catholic, that is, universal Church, nor can any Protestant sect lay claim to the title. When this Church of God shall be gathered up yonder, there will be found in it those who have lived on earth in the many different communions, some Baptists will be there, some Methodists, -some Presbyterians, some Disciples ; yes, and some Who have lived and died in what is known as the Roman Catholic Church. If Romanism has ever had in her ranks a true saint, he will take his saintliness to the home on high, but he will shed his Romanism before he passes through the gates of pearl. 3. The General Assembly and Church of the First-Born. (Heb. 12:23). What a host will be there, when all the blood-washed, redeemed ones come together at the crowning of the King, in The Church. 297 "that Day of days." Then will truly be the gath- ering of God's own. His Church will then shine forth in His kingdom. Every member thereof shall be all-radiant and glorious. Romanism will not give a passport, nor will Protestantism. Faith in Jeswsi and a holy life are the essentials. Oh, that writer and reader may be there. 4. The Church is essentially a divine product. Jesus said, "On this rock will / build my Church and the gates (powers or open door-ways) of hell shall not prevail against it." (Matt. 16:16-18). The Romanists tell us that Jesus 'built His 'Church upon Peter. Strange and unworthy foundation. This apostle denied his Lord, cursed, swore and, with others, fled. In the same chapter from which we get the text, the Master reproved Peter and said, "Get thee behind me, Satan, for thou savor- est not the things that be of God but the things that 'be of men." (Matt. 16:23). Perhaps that was the occasion on which Peter became Pope. If Peter was not the rock upon which Christ built his Church, who, or what, was? When Pe- ter had confessed Jesus as the Son of God, our Lord said, "Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven," and here is the rock foundation, namely, the divine revelation to human consciousness of the God- head of Jesus. When the Holy Spirit reveals Christ as Messiah and Redeemer to the heart of a man, that man then and there passes from death unto life, enters the fold and becomes a living stone in the walls of that Church which our Lord, 298 Uncle Sam or the Pope. Himself, builds. It is not -built by popes, arch- bishops or priests, but by Him who hath all power in heaven and in earth. If any one communion or organization was truly "the Church of God," then there would be salvation for no one outside of that fold; nor would there be a single sinner in its ranks. But this cannot be said of any earthly church, order or communion, Catholic or Protestant. Therefore, no organization can in any wise measure up to or equal that which composes this One, Holy, Catho- lic Church. But I am asked about the denominations, have they no place? Yes. The chaff furnishes a shield for the wheat and even tares grow along with the grain. There is a human element in all Christian service. The true baptism is that of the Holy Ghost. "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body." (1 Cor. 12:13). There is "one Lord, one faith, one 'baptism." (Eph. 4:5). John said, "I indeed baptize you with water unto re- pentance, but He that cometh after me, shall bap- tize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." (Matt. 3:11). Who is this one Lord, John or Jesus? All will answer, Jesus the Christ. Then in whom is the one faith? Is it in John or in Christ? There can be but one answer. It is in the Christ. Then whose is the one baptism, that of John with water, or that of Christ with the Holy Ghost? Unless we accept John as the "one Lord" and faith in John as the "one faith," we must say that the "one The Church. 299 baptism" is that of Christ. Then should we not observe water baptism ? Certainly ; for it is the emblem of the real baptism. Many Protestants transubstantiate water baptism, as the Romanists transubstantiate the eucharistic elements. The Romanist makes the wafer and the wine to be the very Christ; in like manner, many Protestants make water baptism to be the real baptism. This is simply another type of transubstantiation. Both the wafer and the water are but em'blems of the real. There is but one crucified Jesus who died for our sins and rose again! but many times in many places has His broken body and shed blood been symbolized in the Sacrament of the Holy Supper. Now these human elements in which the bread and wine represent the broken 'body and shed blood of the Crucified are necessary. The water baptism represents the holy, heart-search- ing, soul-purifying baptism of the Holy Ghost. This beautifully sets forth the human element in which our denominations, as chaff about the wheat, represent the Church of God. They have their place; they promote the work when they preach the truth; they advance the kingdom, in proportion as they show forth the Spirit of the Christ, but they are human — they are all human ; simply earthly and imperfect types of the Church of the first-born. Every sinner they lead to Christ passes from type into the anti-type, and thus the human and the divine work together. There are human churches cared for, built, promoted and de- veloped by human agents ; but there is a divine 300 Uncle Sam or the Pope. institution, the heavenly Church, called by our Lord "My Church" — the Church which He Him- self ibuilds, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. It is called by Paul "the body of Christ." This is the Church of God. None but the saved have a place therein, no unsaved are there; nothing unclean shall enter there, only saints. Reader are you in THE CHURCH? The Church is the beautiful bride of the Lamb — "all glorious within: her clothing of wrought gold." (Psa. 45 :13) . Christ gave Himself for the Church, "that He might present it to Himself," all glorious. (Eph. 5:27). We learn that at His return in majesty a glad shout goes up, for "his wife hath made herself ready," s'he is glori- ously arrayed and gives Him a glad welcome. (Rev. 19:6-9). The idea of a lot of liquor-soaked, card-play- ing, gambling, bartending, Roman riot-promoters constituting the bride of the ail-conquering Christ! The mere suggestion is blasphemy. God's Church, the worthy ibride, is pure, clean, holy. CONCLUSION. 1. We do not mix politics and religion. That is Rome's folly in her dual character as a religion and a temporal ruler. We must fight her idola- tries, paganism, wickedness from pulpit and press. We must stifle her political meddling at the ballot-box and by legal methods. The Church. 301 2. We do not, must not, hate Romanists. They are deluded. Many of them are taught from child- hood that it is the only true Church, the very rep- resentative of heaven. These follies shall foe ex- ploded and Rome's dupes redeemed. We must love and pray for them. 3. But the fight is on. Our liberties, our very civilization, are at stake. Rome's henchmen are aggressive. The system spawned in hell is the arch-enemy of everything dear to the heart of a Christian patriot. Politicians who truckle to the blinded minions of Rome are beneath the con- tempt of freemen. They must, to a man, be driv- en from public life. This enemy of an open Bible and a pure Christianity is even worse than the devil-begotten liquor traffic. Uncompromising Prohibitionist that I am, I would scratch my ballot any day if a papist or pro-papist should se- cure a Prohibition nomination. 4. I append some words concerning this world- curse from men whose name and fame are inter- national . They are reproduced here from The American Citizen, Philadelphia. This is Niapoleon Bonaparte's conclusion : "Wherever the Jesuits are admitted, they will be mas- ters, cost what it may. Their society is by nature dicta- torial, and therefore it is the irreconcilable enemy of all constituted authority. Every act, every crime, however atrocious, is a meritorious work if it is committed for the interest of the Society of Jesuits, or by the order of the general of the Jesuits/ Fine institution ! It has flourished wonderful- ly in this country and has become a mighty pow- 302 Uncle Sam or the Pope. er, but as it has been driven from Roman Catholic countries, by Roman Catholics, it will yet be driv- en from this, and the time is near at hand. We shall heed the warning given England by Lord Beaconsfield : "We are sinking beneath a power before which the proudest conquerors have grown pale, and by which the nations most devoted to freedom have become enslaved; the power of a foreign priesthood. Your empire and your liberties are more in danger at this moment than when the army of invasion was encamped at Boulogne." Lord Macaulay is surely an authority. In his "History of England," he states that : "The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty, in political ser- vitude, and in intellectual torpor; while Protestant coun- tries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by toil and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poets." The papacy was well known by Garibaldi, Italy's idol and great statesman. Thus said Gari- baldi : "The papacy, aided by the Jesuits, is the most horrible plague with which my country is afflicted. Thirteen cen- turies of falsehood, persecution and burning at the stake, in complicity with all the tyrants of Italy, rendered the plague incurable. At present, as heretofore, the vampire of the land of the Scipios supports its body, which is cor- rupted and eaten up by gangrene, by means of discord, re- action, pillage, and civil war." Statesmen are against the hierarchy, patriots fight the battle of freedom, and when Jesus comes again the whole iniquity will be blotted from ex- istence, and earth redeemed will know the curse no more forever. Hallelujah! THE END. TOPICAL INDEX. Page A. A certain widow 256 Acton, Lord quoted 165 Acts 4:12 : 67 Adrian IV, Pope 74 Advertiser, Boston Oath, and Public Schools 202 Alexandrian Empire 30 Angel refused homage 26-27 Apostates from R., scoundrels worse than Beelzebub . . 120 Aquinas on temporal power 270 Attending Protestant services 97 Auto da f e, description of one 147 B. Baltimore council 201 Barbane Ubryk 219-220 Barnett A, E., mobbed 176 Beaconsfield, Lord, quoted 302 Beast, The 48-49 Bellermin on power of Pope 285 Bert, Mr. Paul, quoted 72-73 Bible denounced 96-162 Bishop of Newport, pastoral letter 284 Bismark on papal power 274 Black, William, killed 176 Blain, H. W., on priestly meddling 195 Boles struck 175 Bonaparte, Napoleon 301 Boss, Tweed 71 Boston Pilot quoted 55-71 Boycott, Romish institutions 286 Brown-son, O. A., quoted 272-279 Burial refused to excommunicated 98 C. Canon Law 11-12 Cardinal, prince of the blood; must be saluted; royalty must honor 115 Compelled the government 116 Confessional, condemned, 68, 9; misuse of 76 Contribute to Protestantism — must not 97 Cor. (2) 3:17, p. 59; 5:6-8, p. 63; 6:2 64 Councils — Claremont, Mayence, Rheims, Troyes 221 Crimes, a record of 175-6 303 304 Topical Index. Crowley, J. J., mobbed 174 Crucifix, needed 99 Carlisle on Jesuits 187 Catholic Review quoted 54 Catholic World on obedience 10-11 Chastise all rebels 95 Children, injustice practiced on 160 Clark, Wm. Lloyd on Rome's grip 237-40 Clement II. abolished Jesuits 189 Church (Roman), greater than government, p. 7, 91, 167; in place of God 95 Col. 1:18-20, 24-25, p. 294; 1:18, .78 1 Cor. 12:13 298 Courts, often Romanized 228, 231-4 D. 1 Dan. p. 29; 2 Daniel's vision 33 Dog— a free ride 287-8 Dollinger, Von, quoted 115-6 Donelly, ex-priest quoted 75 Duke Valentinois with prostitutes in Papal palace 133 Divorce charged to Protestants 103 DeMars, Grand Vicar, against education 198 Diplomatic corps Romanized 241 De Rauche 213 E. Editors may not think, p. 97; under surveillance 250 Ecuador, some facts 104 Education, perversion of 159, 188, 207, 214 Elliott, Priest on Romish drunkenness 279 Eph. 5:27 300 Episcopal Church, fruit of adultery, Rome says 103-104 Excommunication 96 Exodus 20:4, 5 57 Extreme unction 77 F. Facing 20th Century 70-77 "Father" as a religious title 57 Fees charged by Rome 104 Foley on Catholic drunkeness 281 Fradeyesa in the Inquisition 146 Freeman's Journal, denounces public schools 203 Free press condemned, p. 247; Congressional bills.... 251 Friars indecent, fathers of children 125-126 Friars land bought 240 Frande on priestly loyalty 275 G. Gambetta on the enemy 278 Topical Index. 305 Garribaldi quoted 302 Gewgaws of Rome 171 Gilmore, Bishop, Lenten letter 283 Globe, Boston, on Catholic schools 201 Graft, Rome's 70 Gregory VII., maxims of, p. 21; on monasteries 221 Gregory XVI., where Pope 237 H. Haines, Hon. C. D., quoted 258 Hearing Protestant preachers forbidden 97 Hecker, Priest, on Papal victory 273 Heb. 7:8-4, p. 61; 6:5 p. 65; 12:23 296 Herald, N. Y., on Romish intolerance 278 Heretics, who? p. 94; must be outlawed, p. 112-13; yea killed 117 Houses of Good Shepherd 225 Huguenots hung 191 I. Images 57 Incident in West Virginia 179-80 Infallibility and politics .93 Inquisition, The, a picture of, p. 37; dungeon, p. 140; palace of, p. 140-1; condoned 54 Instruments of torture 144-5 Isaiah 8:20. J. James 5:16 Janssens, Bishop, on public schools 201 Jesuits, p. 181; no civil law binding on, p. 185; full of deceit, p. 184; absolute monarchy, p. 186; lax morality of 188 John 8:32-6, p. 4; 5:39, p. 58; 8:36, p. 59; 2:4, p. 59; 15:5-58 59 1 John 1:7 294 K. Kenney, Bishop, orders Catholics 204 King, Rev. J. M., on Jesuitry 192-3 L. Lansing, Rev. I. J., impeaches Pope 15 Leo X. a syphletic 134 Leo XIII. on political duties 271 Leo XIII. elected Pope, p. 25; men knelt before, 26 Letter from South America 264-7 Lay f uga 54 Layden mobbed 178 Liberty of conscience fountain head of evil 109 Liberty of conscience condemned 113 306 Topical Index. Liberty of conscience, press, worship 245 Libraries Romanized 242-243 Liguori on priestly power 166 Little Horn, The 33, 36, 39 Lowry, Anna M ,,. 217, 218 Loyola, founder of Jesuits; in place of God 181-183 M. Mabillon 213 Macauley 302 Manning, Cardinal, on papal authority 10 Man, The, of sin 17 Manual of Christian Doctrine 110 Mark 10:44, p. 5-9; 7:6-10 67 Marie, Alacque 23 Marriage, evil of mixed 103 Marriages only by priests 17 Marriage fees prohibitive 107 Mary, worship of 78, 79 Mass, The, a fraud 78 Masonry, denounced 107 Matt. 3:11, p. 298; 16:16-18, 23 287 Medo-Persian Empire 30, 34 Mediator, only one 63 Menace, The 226 Mexico, cursed by popery 191-192 Mitchell, mayor of New York, orphanages 231 Modernist, A. to Leo XIII 207 Money paid Rome by U. S 240-241 Morals of Rome .159-160 Mother of harlots _. 43 Muller, Priest, quoted 73 Murphy's plea for booze bund 281 N. Nebuchadnezzar's dream 29 Newton, Bp. on the prophecies 46-47 N. Y. Papal results 231-234 Nicholas I. assumes prerogatives of God 22 Nunneries 217 (1) Nicholas de Clemenges on N 222 (2) Council of Trent on N 222 O. Oath of Convert to Romanism 284 Obedience demanded 94 Our Country, status of 109 P. Papal seal used in Porto Rico 241 Parke, J. R.'s book 133-134 Pauperism among Roman Catholics 280 Topical Index. 307 Peter refused homage 26 Peter was married 56 Peter, apostle to Jews, not Gentiles 60 Peterson, Robt. E., quoted 164 Phelan, D. S., traitorous utterances 69, 168, 285 Phillips, Rev. J. A., quoted 52 Philippines, Papal meddling 193-196 Pius V., justified murder 165 Pius VII. revived the Jesuits 190 Pius IX. condemned liberty of conscience 13 Pius IX., men knelt to him 23-24 Pius IX., condemned Bible Societies 58, 248 Pius IX. condemned civil liberty 278 Political bartering 242 Pope can make slaves of men, annul treaties, mar- riages, p. 12; claims authority from God, p. 13; head over all, p. 107; king of kings, p. 110, is Christ 117 Popes are immoral, p. 79; is a confessed sinner, p. 93-94; is the Anti-Christ, p. 85-87; claims to be only champion of right 106 Politics and religion 300 Poverty of Roman Catholic people 161 Power of priesthood 100, 157 Prentiss, S. S., on Ireland 74 Priest claims to be God's only representative 92 Priest is money, seeking, p. 79; corrupt, p. 125; cruel, p. 130; officiate in sin 167 Priests at political conventions 244 Prohibition, R. C, bishop against 283 Protestantism in dissolution 118 Piracy, ruffianism, anarchy 119-120 Protesctantism Criminal 174 Protestant preachers frauds 92 Protestants unfit to raise families , 105 Protestant marriage contract 105 Psalm 45:13, p. 300; 119:130 .21 Pulpit destroyed by priests 163 Q. Questions asked by priests 99 Rationalism ranked with Protestantism 111-112 Religions — crime to treat all alike 114 Revelation 6:9-11, p. 63; 13, p. 86-7; 17:1-15 86 Revelation 19:6-9 300 Ripalda's Catechism 245-6 Riots, Chicago, Haverhill 177-8 Roman Empire 30 Romanism and politics 269 308 Topical Index. Romanism not Catholic 90 Romanism fails to produce holiness 79 Romanism defrauds the people 81 Romanism not Catholic 80 Romanism changes her doctrines 80 Romanists love authority more than truth 82 Romanism is a secret political authority 83 Roman oath, p. 9; Romish graft 255-260 Romish practices are Pagan 83 Rome claims to be only teacher 92 Rome claims to have the only saints 92 Rome — no appeal from 101 Romish chaplains, army and navy 242 S. Sacraments, 5 ; bastard 77 Saloons, 85 per cent, kept by Roman Catholics 282 Salvation — none out of Rome 95 Secretaries of officials largely Roman Catholics 243 Scapulor — marvelous results from 100-101 Sinning priests not disqualified 100 Slattery, Jos., mobbed 178 Spurgeon, Otis L., mobbed 175 Stephen IV., cruelty of 69 Stone kingdom 31 Stuntz, Bishop Horner 198-199 T. Telegraph, Catholic 203 Temperance Society condemned 98 Temporal power demanded by Pope 105 The Menace quoted 39, 40 Thess. (2) 2:1-12 expounded 17 Thompson, R. 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