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GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915.
Catholics Object to the Lord’s
Prayer.
np ALK about bigots, talk about intolerance,
* talk about idiotic nonsense, but the latest
issue of the Catholic “Antidote,’’ published
in Texas, fairly beats the record.
Read this:
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“But you Catholics are not unreasonable,”
chimes in Bro. Armstrong. “Why, you won’t
even let the children in the public schools say
the Lord’s Prayer in peace.”
Yes, we answer, and there is a reason: Why
did you tamper with the Lord's Prayer and put
an appendix to it which is not found in the
true text? When Catholics object to the Lord's
Prayer in schools, they do not object to it as
being the Lord’s Prayer, but they raise a cry
because you forc'e upon Catholic children, not
only the Protestant version of the Bible, but
even the Protestant Lord’s Prayer, with the
“Thine is the glory,” etc. Now, this appendix
to the Lord’s Prayer has been a bone of con
tention between Protestants and Catholics as to
the genuineness of the Protestant and Catholic
Bible, and when you force same upon Catholic
children you simply compel them to utter, they,
these Catholic children, a prayer which is dis
tinctively Protestant. T do not mean by this
that the words appended to the Lord’s Prayer
are objectionable in themselves, but because they
have been made a subject of controversy tee
forced utterance of these words is somewhat like
the forcing one to use the banner of a rival by
force. It is making the public' school distinc
tively Protestant.
Isn't it a marvelous thing that Roman
Catholicism can so fully conquer a man’s com
mon sense, that he can make a battle-ground
of the Lord's Prayer?
This Romanist editor admits the harm
lessness of the words. “For thine is the King
dom, the power and the glory, for ever and
ever;" but he says Catholic children must
not hear then in a Protestant school, because
the words have been a subject of controversy
between Catholics and Protest ants-
How would the child ever know that, if
some bigot of a priest didn't resurrect the
absur(lly ullim |iortant “c<>iit.roversy.
W hy was there ever any bitterness over
the question as to whether some copyist added
the d oxo logy. as a reverent conclusion to the
prayer ?
And why. in the name of lieaven, should
Catholic children be considered Tn mortal sin,
if they listen to that reverent form of words
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Random Notes on Things in
General.
I N Vilna, Poland, the Germans “command
* eered” all the metal, and went to* work
to gather it in. As usual, the big churches
were full of metal, for the Greek Catholics
and the Roman Catholics are equally fond
of certain sorts of metal.
There are no Protestant churches in Vilna:
Romanists ana Greeks have it all to them
selves.
In their churches were elaborate ornamen
tations worked in copper, bronze, brass, silver
and gold: also many most Woly idols and
images made of the precious metals: also
numberless vessels necessary to Roman pagan
ism. in the pompous celebration of its many
pageants, miracles, do-funnyisms, and so
forth.
The German army, sadly in need of metal,
invaded these idolatrous temples, and began
to tear out the stuff, wherever they found it.
A copper Virgin looked as good to them as
a bronze Saint Peter; and they were as eager
for an image of St. Bridget, in brass, as they
were for an image of St. Joseph in silver.
But the priests stirred up the people, arid
a riot was soon in progress. Greek Catholics
united with Roman Catholics to fight the
image-breakers- Hand grenades, homos, bay
onets, rifle-fire and sword work came into
action, and for several days the city was a
wild scene of bloody strife.
The \ery men who had not been willing
to fight for their country and their liberties,
fought furiously for their metal idols, and
for the paganistic furniture of their churches.
Many soldiers were killed; also many civil
ians; and humanity proved itself to be the
same old dupe of priest-craft.
Captain Cook, the celebrated navigator, lost
his life in a brawl with the naked natives
of the Hawaian Islands, because his soldiers
pulled down a heathen idol, and wanted to
put up a Catholic' “image,” in its place.
So. you see, if the world “do move,” it
moves in a vicious circle, so far as supersti
tion is concerned.
I have on my table at this moment a num
ber of little pewter images, sold by American
priests to American Cathodes, and war
ranted to keep off all sorts of harm: and I
see in the Catholic papers every week where
some idiot sends money to the priest, because
of such fancied supernatural aids, as the
following:
“T thank Our Blessed Lady of Victory for the
favor granted us during the August Novena, and
I am sending $5.00. the amount I promised
should my friend obtain work,” states a lady.
“Please acknowledge publicly in your paper
thanks to the Sacred Heart, the Blessed Virgin,
St. Anthony, and St. Joseph for a position re
ceived. —M. F. C.”
which the Protestants are charged with inter
polating?
I’d like for the Antidote to tell us when
it was the Protestants forged that, or any
other parts of the Bible.
Also, when it was that the well-known
apcchyphal verses in Mark were put there.
Also, when it was the Catholics quit trans
lating correctly the Greek word which means
“mystery,” and changed it to “sacrament.”
Also, when it was that the 21st chapter
of John made its first appearance.
My own opinion is that the verses, “Thou
art Peter and upon this rock &c” is the
rankest kind of Catholic interpolation; and
any scholar can prove it from the context of
the Bible itself.
r l'hat inconsistent passage, contradictory to
all that Christ had said about the absolute
equality of the Disciples, was never in any
.of the Ancient Bibles; and that’s one reason
why Jerome and the papalists destroyed the
original manuscripts when he manufactured
his new version.
“Please publish my thanks to St. Anthony and
Little Flower of Jesus, Theresa, for selling of my
lot. —A Pawlowski, Vernon, Pa.”
From a lady from Brooklyn: “Twice during
our absence our home has been entered and.
robbed. This summer before we went away I
placed a medal of the Blessed Virgin on the in
side of the main door. Something unknown
prompted mo to do this. A feeling of security
held me and I told my husband not to take out a
burglar insurance but trust to _ur dear Mother.
Again they came. The wood wound locks was
torn to atoms and the iron work bent, but the
door —they never opened. Detectives, police and
all who saw it were dumbfounded. Praise to
the Sacred Heart and the Blessed Virgin.”
Notice the manner in which the Kings,
the Princes, and the Pope are made conspic
uous in the war news from Europe. The
Emmperors of Austria and Germany have
little more to do with the movement of the
armies than the Peisident of the French Re
public and the Sultan of Turkey have to do
with theirs; but the names of the Kaiser and
his sons are constantly paraded, just as
though Von Kluck, Hindenberg, Mackinsen
and Buelow were not the real executive offi
cers, carrying out the plans made in Berlin
by the General Stall.
Likewise, we hear of Prince Boris of Bul
garia, a youth of 21, as the head of the
Bulgarian army; and of King Constantine
of Greece, Prince Alexander of Roumania,
the Crown Prince (or Heir Apparent) of
Austria, &c.
All this is, to keep the dynasties in evi
dence, and to create the impression that these
hereditary autocrats are indispensable to the
wellbeing of Europe.
As a matter of fact, it is a dynastic and
popish war, not a war of peoples.
Inquire of the first German you meet—
Flow can the victories of the Hohenzollern
clvnasty benefit the individual German?
He can’t answer. Nobody can answer. If
William and his sons enlarge their empire,
their glory and power will be enhanced, but
as to the average German, he will not only be
no better oft, but he will have to pay heavier
taxes and to submit still further to the crush
ing spirit of autocratic militarism.
x The same may be said of the citizen of
Austria, of Italy, of Bulgaria, and of Turkey.
The Jesuits and the German emperor plot
ted the war. for the sordid purpose of a res
urrecting a medievalism, in which the union
of Pope and Kaiser ruled the European
world, trampled upon the democracy, and
halted all tendencies to modernism.
As The Jeffersonian has contended all along,
our Government should have been neutral in
the truest, strictest sense. It should not have
permitted our Trusts, our Banks, and Ships
to have fed the flames of war on either side.
If England was caught napping, that was
none of our business-
If Russia let German spies get into her
munition plants and blow them up, thM was
no affair of ours. It is profoundly immoral
to supply the sinews of war, and thus be
come a necessary party to the bloodshed.
I do not mean to say that the Law of
Nations forbids this kind of thing: it does
not: but when our President elevates himself
to the lofty plane of a righteousness that is
'“too right to fight,” he should see the in
consistency of re-filling the ammunition
chests of those who are not too right to fight.
In time of European war, this Republic
should not become the arsenal of any of the
belligerents.
It is to be regretted that President Wilson
has been won over to the Militarists, and
now a convert to “preparedness.”
This means huge bond issues, huge appro
priations, and a carnival of rottenness among
subsidized daily papers, press agents, Con
gressmen and departmental officials.
The Powder Trust, the Steel Trust, &c.,
will revel in clover; and the Military Caste
will intrench itself never to be dislodged.
