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by Pope Pius IX., in the Syllabus of 1864.
So late as 1895, the priests were publicly
burning heretics in Mexico, under the creed
and the laws of the Homan Catholic Church.
I wonder if the writer of the silly article
in the Dalton Citizen can give any explana
tion of the Pope’s torture chambers at Rome
and Avignon, and of the murders of Jews,
M asons and heretics, by direct command of
Popes and councils.
I wonder if this ignorant Georgia Catholic
has any conception of the hideous cruelty
with which his church rooted Protestantism
out of Bohemia and Hungary—to.say noth
ing of the devilish deeds of popery, under
the Duke of Alva, King Philip IL, Ferdinand
11. of Austria, and Catherine de Medici and
Louis XIV., in France.
This writer actually classes Henry VIII.
as a Protestant who perseccuted Catholics!
Henry VIII. w’as never anything but a
Catholic, and he died in the odor of Roman
-ist sanctity.
Os course, John Calvin, and* his solitary
crime, is mentioned by the writer in the Citi
zen.
Servetus denied the existence of the Trin
ity, and he was burned, not as “a heretic,”
but as an atheist.
Ln fortunately, Calvin could not entirely
escape the baleful influence of his Catholic
education and environment.
He committed one great crime—one, only.
Compared to the millions of murders that
have been committed by the Roman Catholic
Church, the death of Servetus seems a pitiable
detail.
As to Luther and the Jew’s, the same remark
applies!
Luther had been a monk too long to en
tirely escape the influence of education and
environment.
Whatever he may have written, he did not
do anything against the Jews; whereas, the
Roman Cathoic Church butchered them like
wild beasts throughout Europe.
Even so late as the middle of the last cen
tury, Pope Pius IX. had the intant son of the
Jewish family, Mortara, kidnapped and car
ried oil to a monastery.
The distracted parents appealed in vain for
redress.
The Emperor Napoleon 111. wrote to the
Pope, imploring him to give the Jew child
'back to its parents; but the Pope was coldly
merciless and inexorable.
As to the rack in the Tower of London, it
was put there by the Roman Catholics, and
used until the Protestants got the upper
hand.
Queen Elizabeth never used it as an instru
ment of religious persecution.
It was used in criminal cases, especially in
cases of treason; but had been entirely out of
use several generations before the Popes quit
using torture in Italy, in Spain, in Mexico,
in South America, and in the Philippines.
In fact, the Roman Catholic Church never
did discontinue the use of torture in the Phil
ippines, until the revolution broke out which
led to our occupation of the islands.
The Roman Catholic Church is the only
church, in the history of the world, which
delilierately invented devilish machines and
methods, to inflict horrible torture on men,
women and children, because of a difference
of religious opinion.
The Roman Cathoic Church enjoys the
infamous distinction of burning tens of
thousands of human beings, who were fol
lowers of Christ, but not the foot-kissing
slaves of the Popes.
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THE JEFFERSONIAN
The Romanists Are Not Super
stitious: Oh No!
n.WDY JOHN NOLL, of the Sunday
Visitor, should read his Catholic ex
changes. In that event, he would either
change some of his own editorial statements,
or he would beg the Italian-Pope’s ambassa
dor to compel the exchanges to alter theirs.
Conflicts between Romanist editors, are rather
perilous at this particular stage of the battle.
For instance, Dad Noll says, in the Visitor,
of Oct. 11, 1914:
“Every Catholic child is taught in his
catechism that it is sinful and superstitious
to believe that there is any char mor amulet,
an inherent pow’er to protect from illness or
physical harm. These things become deified,
w T hen we attribute to them powers which only
God. can have.
“Not Catholics, who are so frequently
charged with superstition, but their accusers,
are the superstitious ones.”
Such is the testimony of'Dad Noll Now,
let us glance at some other Catholic papers,
and see what they say about medals, charms,
amulets, etc.
I turn to The Messenger of the Sacred
Heart (published in New York), and in the
issue of April, 1915, page 243, I painfully
wade through popish hog-wash, as follows:
Charleston, S. C.—My only brother was far
away from home. We had not seen him for nearly
three years. He had never been one to attend
Church, though he was christened in infancy. He
was a railroad man and traveled all over the
country, which often made us feel uneasy about
him. Last May I sent him a Sacred Heart Badge,
and asked him to w r ear it for my sake. About
two weeks afterwards we received a letter telling
us that lie had met with a serious railroad acci
dent, and that his escape from immediate death,
he was sure, was entirely due to the Sacred Heart
Badge he was wearing.
There were so many other miracles worked
by this Sacred Heart Badge (which is a
flimsy pewter medal, sold by the priests at
so much per hundred), that the editor of The
Sacred Heart Messenger lumped them on
pages 45, 6,7, 8, 9 and 10—six pages, of
miracles worked by this blessed medac The
following extracts are fair samples:
Sixty-six recoveries, fourteen situations, five
successful examinations, train on time, obstacles
overcome, saved from humiliation, protection, safe
journey, preservation from storm, successful
opeiation, safe delivery, success in business,
health restored, relief from temptation, relief
from trouble, relief from pain, purchase of car,
success in property, intemperance overcome, cure
of cold, happy marriage, position retained, ''suc
cess in choir, farm rented, subscriptions obtained,
trouble averted, sight restored, disposal of home,
sale of com, insurance obtained, success in
studies, policy changed, means to pay debts, pur
chase of home, operation averted, blessing of
rain, help obtained, increase in salary, gambling
overcome, position gained, innocence proven, suc
cessful lawsuit, cessation of disease, successful
entertainment, protection from disease, scandal
averted, finger saved, instrument found, article
found, father’s return, preservation from small
pox, money found, business established, success
with fowl, peace restored, house rented, relief
from nervous trouble, safe delivery, trouble
averted, position retained, health restored, help
in business, position obtained, improvement in
property, prize won, success in piano solo, success
with choir, preservation from disease, success in
churning, trouble averted, package received, peace
of mind, money collected, intemperance overcome,
successful entertainment, preservation from hog
cholera, good crops, success with stock, son’s re
turn, safe delivery, successful operation, safe re
turn, scandal avoided, conversion, money received,
successful undertaking, exoneration, preservation
during storm, work received, safe journey, suc
cess in lawsuit, cure of finger, coat found, success
ful operation, position regained, good collection,
peace of mind, purchase of house, care dismissed,
happy marriage, renting of property, farm sold,
conversion, ring found, preservation from small
pox, chain found, trouble averted, saved from
lightning, (good incubator, cfliickens preserved,
land rented, preservation from fire, favorable de
cision, debts paid, successful operation, trouble
averted, health restored, lawsuit averted, relief
from trouble, protection from contagious disease,
cow cured, article returned, garage rested, tW
successful operations, success in business, peace
of mind, safe delivery, interview granted, intem
perance overcome, poultry found, blessing of rain,
sight restored, successful operation, purse found,
increase in salary, picture won, work obtained,
rosary found, succ’ess in studies, ceasing of
storms, return of friend, race won, health re
stored, safe trip, safe delivery, abstinence from
drink, protection during storm, successful opera
tion, success in gardening, matters righted, night’s
rest, umbrella found, letter forwarded, success in
business, relief from pain, preservation from dan
ger, permanent position, success in bookkeeping,
good tenant , relief from nervousness, money
found, rings found, teeth extracted, operation
averted, case cettled, saved from misfortune, busi
ness saved, graduation, promotion, three situa
tions, successful examination, safe delivery, health
restored, saved in accident, saved from sudden
death, happy marriage, crops saved, good hus
band, preservation from fire, intemperance over
come, news from brother, illness averted, health
safe trip, protection from hog cholera,
reconciliation, protection from storms, protection
from fire, cessation of fire, sale of work, accident
avoided, mixed marriage prevented, two safe de
liveries, scandal averted, conversion, successful
operation, succ'ess in lawsuit, means to pay debt,
good health, protection from storms, saved from
fire.
Don’t you think that Dad A oil had better
read his Catholic exchanges, before he writes
any more denials about Catholic faith in the
miraculous virtues of “holy” medals, amulets
and charms?
Suppose a Protestant should advertise and
sell medals warranted to save men in railroad
accidents, cure their cows, save their chick
ens, keep the lightning from hitting them,
, bring rain, restore eyesight, rent their houses,
prevent hog cholera, preserve houses from
fire, find lost chickens, watches, rings and
monev!
Suppose Protestants should use. the mails
to cheat people out of their money in this
way!
You know what w’ould happen: a “fraud
order” would put those swindlers out of busi
ness, too quick to talk about.
Even a mental healer, like Mrs. C. C. Post
(Helen Wilmans), who used her money to
create the beautiful town of Seabreeze, Flor
ida, w y as prosecuted, persecuted, ruined and
hounded to her death by the Federal Govern
ment, because she claimed to be able to cure
without medicine, and used the mails in her
business.
The same Government w’hich prosecuted
Mrs. Post and destroyed her, tolerates the
continual use of the mails by these Romanist
cheats and swindlers, who pretend that money
paid to them, will cause a mythical St. An
thony, a mythical St. Rita, and an imaginary
“Queen of the Heavens,” to cure all manner
of diseases, find all sorts of lost property, pro
cure all sorts of employment, restore sight
and hearing, save people from storms, pesti
lence, fires, accidents, stop Ue weather when
there is too much rain, and stop the drought
w hen there is not enough weather.
These are the rascals who insolently de
mand that this Democratic Administration
close the mails to every book, paper, picture
and magazine which shows up their crooks,
their cheats, their impostors, their hypocrites,
their murderers of men and their seducers of
women!
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