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Vol. 12, No. 45
What Did Gen. Grant, Mrs. Grant and the Kest of His Party Live on
QOME weeks ago, Rev. Dr. Wil
liam H. Smith—Secretary at
$2,850 a year, of our Richmond
Foreign Mission Board—wrote a piece for The
Christian Index, defending the high salaries,
the Baby bounties, etc., of our martyr mis
sionaries.
He said that these martyrs are the most un
selfish, consecrated men on earth, and that the
reason they had to have so much money, and
SIOO per year extra for each baby was, that
they could not live on the native food-stuffs
of China, Japan and India.
Dr. Smith said that the martyrs had to im
port their grub from America ; and that, on
account of railway freights, ocean freights,
and one thing and another, this American
grub was awfully high by the time it reached
the martyr. *
That’s the tune given out by the Baptist
Board and all the little Sapsucl versos the
system are singing it.
The Methodist Foreign Board thought so
well of this tune, that they adopted it, and
went to singing it; and when my dear friend,
Rev. Carlton B. Harris, sat down to compose
his book, “Thos. E. Watson Exposed,” he in
troduced Bro- J. T. Myers, as a witness to
prove, “from actual experience,” the dread
ful cost of American flour, granulated sugar,
butter, lard, ham, soap, Pond’s extract, bak
ing powder, pocket knives, daily papers,
weekly magazines, monthly magazines, shoes,
and clothes.
Brother Myers goes on to explain that a
THOSE GOOD OLD CATHOLIC DAYS WHEN POPES WERE THE “SAFE
'T' HE official organ of the Romanists
1 in Pittsburg, Pa., is the Observer,
and a most devoted friend of Truth it
is, to be sure.
Let me quote a precious morsel from one
of its issues:
One of the last words of the saintly Pius X. is
reported to have been: “Alas, in former times
the Pope might have been able to stop such a
war as this. But what can I do?”
In former days religious unity prevailed in
.Christendom, because the Catholic religion was
known to be the complete revelation of God’s
will, the supreme test of right and wrong, the
absolute standard of life, private, individual,
family or public. Men never questioned that.
As a consequence the Pope was the father of
Christendom, and men “saw in him not merely
the type, but the real and highest organ of a
power not of this world.” The cause of the
Popes was that of religion and holiness.
Therefore, an appeal to the Holy See was the
safe-guard of Christendom.
I regularly read many of the Romanist
periodicals, to keep up with them, and see
what they are saying.
Nothing about them impresses me more
forcibly than the cool manner in which they
assume that the average Catholic has never
read history.
They take it for granted that Catholics
do not read Protestant books, and they know
that th? Catholc histories suppress every-
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, November 11, 1915
when in China, Japan and India ?
missionary would risk his life by subsisting
upon native food.
He says, “The natives rather despise than
admire the white man who does it."
That is to say, if you, a white man, go to
China and live like a Chinaman, on the na
tive products of the country, the Chinaman
will despise you.
Well, Well! WELL!
Here we have one case where it will not
do. “when in Rome, to do as Rome does.”
Brother Myers piles another truth on top
of his first one, and says:
“All missionaries are agreed that it would
not aid the work, and few home mission
boards would allow their missionaries to take
the risk.”
What risk? Why, the risk of being con
tent to live or the food with which it pleased
God to Jbless 800,000,000 members of the
human race.
Here we have a typical martyr, introduced'
as a witness to “expose” Thos. E. Watson,
and this witness deposes and says that the
Boards and the missionaries are not willing
to take the risk of living on the natural foods
of the Eastern lands to which they are sent
as representatives of the harmless wanderer,
Jesus Christ, and the homeless Evangels,
Paul, Peter, Mark. Timothy and Barnabas.
Peter evangelized all over the near East
of the Roman Empire, where the staple food
GUARD OF CHRISTENDOM.”
thing unfavorable to Popery: hence, they
can safely presume upon the ignorance of
the average Catholic reader.
If there is any one fact which stands out
in European history more undeniably than
another it is" that the Papacy has always
been the cause of war and rapine, but never
the promoter of peace.
To advance its own power over Kings and
peoples, the Roman Church has constantly
employed fire and sword.
No institution that ever cursed the world
has shed more innocent human blood than
the Papacy.
Beginning with those desolating wars
which the Roman Catholics waged against
the Arian Christians, concerning the divine
nature of Christ, we may almost say that
Romanism has been at the bottom of every,
European war, from the days of the Con
stantines down to the present Armageddon.
As all students of history know, the Ro
man Church played one tribe of Goths, Visi
goths, Franks, Lombards, Vandals, &c.,
against another, until finally Clovis rose to
the top in France, and much of Germany,
establishing a Catholic control.
When the royal line of Clovis lost its.
vigor, the Popes transferred their support:
was dried fruit, goat’s milk, and
grain, with an occasional lamb.
Paul ranged throughout the
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near West of the same Empire and in every
place where he sojourned, he was content to
eat what his hosts placed before him.
( hnst himself and his Disciples went
many a day with no other diet than fish and
bread, or bread and figs.
John Wesley made it a rule to support
himself and family on 28 English pounds a
year, which expressed in our money was
about $135.60.
Adonirain Judson did noble work in Bur
mah, next to China, and lived simply and
frugally on the native food.
Morrison and Livingston did the same.
All travellers, all scholars who go East to
study the literature and the people, all British
consuls, all American consuls, all the British
officials in India, all the European families
who reside in the East, subsist on the native
foods.
General and Mrs. Grant spent many months
in this manner, and I do not find in the
voluminous story of that tour, one single
mention which disparages the various articles
of food upon which people subsist.
The very idea of British fleets and Ameri
can vessels transporting meat and bread,
necessaries and luxuries, to these people, is
preposterous.
It is only in the last few years when the
pampered and tolerated extravagances of the
(continued on page five.)
to the chief-officers of the puppet
kings; and the “Lord’s anointed” was
deposed, to make way for Pepin, Mayor
of the Palace.
Pepin rewarded the Pope by crossing the
Alps, slaughtering the Lombards, and hand
ing over the conquered territory to the
“Vicar of Christ."
Pepin's son. Charlemagne, continued this
sanguinary policy, made war upon all Ger
manic tribes who refused to accept Roman
Catholicism, and left a wide scene of wreck
age and carnage, from Danube to the Ebro.
After Charles the Great, came puppet
Kings whom the Popes played with, and
kept at war with one another, until at
length Charlemagne’s grandson went to
Rome, kissed the Pope’s foot, and was oiled
and blessed as Emperor of Germany.
Almost immediately the Popes began to
assert their rights to act as God on earth:
and to lay down the law to both Church
and State, Kings and peoples.
For centuries, tliis unheard of encroach
ment of the Church upon the State plunged
Europe into turmoil, strife, bloodshed, sav
agery and chaos.
The Germany emperors fought for the
independence of the Civil State and the
Popes fought for the despotic and universal
dominance of the Church.
(continued on PAGE SEVEN.)
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