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Otyt JJerfersoniatt
Vol. 14, No. 8
'’P HE annual report of Dr. H. K. Carroll
on the status of Christian churches in the
(United States, is well worth a few minutes of
your attention.
He gives the census of church-members at
40,000,000.
In this count, the children and death-bed
converts are included.
Os course Dr. Carroll does not attempt to
separate the active from the passive members.
•He has to go by the books.
During the last year, church-membership
increased 747.000, which was a gain of 204,-
000 over 1915.
The Baptists gained 132,000; the Methodists
$.36,000; the Presbyterians and Reformed
group 79,000; the Episcopalians 27,000; and
the Lutherans 20,000.
The of the Roman Catholics was about
'two-thirds of the number of the Immigrants.
Their new members —just born and just dy
ing—were counted at 216,000, of whom at least
half were Italians, Irish, and Canadian Cath
olics.
The Disciples of Christ are debited with a
loss of 185,000, but this is said to be due to
inaccurate reports previously made. Who
made these inaccurate reports?
If the census of the one of the churches is
■admitted to have been so very erroneous, how
Jio we know but that some of the others
inaccurate ?
I The Foot Kissers and God-Eaters Have a Strong Hold on Texas.
I N San Antonio, the pope’s laundry makes
* huge profits from the forced labor of
Protestant girls, such as Laura Stone who
was- railroaded into that hell-hole by the Gra
ham woman, “Police Matron.’’
In Dallas, the pope’s sanitarium imprisons
Ji Protestant girl, pending the payment of the
bill presented by these consecrated holy-ones-
Of-God.
In the Houston Post, I find a sweetly pious
pard from one S. P. Netardus, person who,
Jfrhen he gets his chemise on, can talk Latin
to a wafer and change it into the Almighty.
Then Netardus drinks his Redeemer out of
Lcup, while his asinine congregation eats the
ord at the altar-rail, after which the God
featers and the God-drinker go forth to look
Jvith reproach upon the stupidity of the
Protestants.
This Netardus God-maker writes a fra
grant card which the Houston Post was afraid
hot to publish, so great is the power of a man
Who can create his Creator, and then drink
Him. ■ ;
Netardus asserts that “mob law is holding
its sway in Georgia.” evidently referring to
she time when the Roman priests stirred up
the Catholics of Macon, and W. E. Reed was
phased out of the City, as a punishment for
hot usurping the authority to grant them the
ball-room of the Hotel Dempsey while the
(President of the Company was down sick.
Netardus, as usual with critics, couldn’t see
THE EDITOR SLOSHES AROUND.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, March 1, 1917
In 1916, the gai*n in the number of churches
was only 117.
The Methodists lost 68 churches!
Where? In this country of course. They
are not losing any in Korea. They never will
lose any on the other side of the pond, so long
as they pay a man and his wife $1,200 a year,
furnish them a palace to live in. and give
them a baby-bounty of SIOO per baby, every
year for every baby.
Change “eend for end,” and let our home
parsons live on the Ecclesiastical Pullman,
a while. Then you'll see home churches in
crease.
Put the missionary on the same hard grind
that the home pastor has been up against,
and those Korean churches will all peter out.
They live on your money, just as your luxuri
ous missionary does.
The Baptists lost only 33 churches.
We got off light. Where did we lose these
33 Bethels and Antiochs?
In this country, of course.
We’re not losing any in China.
We are not likely to lose any, as long as
the missionary is housed in a mansion, sur-*
rounded with servants, with elegancies of life
supplied out of a steady salary af..51,200, sup
plemented by SIOO for each baby that comes
along.
Test' those missionaries by the hag-
any mob law in the action of the Texas
Knights of Columbus, when they secured a
polite invitation into William Black’s private
room, at Marshall, and then shot him like a
dog. because leave town as they
demanded.
Nor did Netardus recognize any mob law at
Haverhill, Massachusetts, where the Knights
of Columbus —no doubt instigated by the
bloated brute. Cardinal O'Connell—rioted
against the authorities and viciously assaulted
peaceable citizens, to prevent Thos. E. Lev
den from delivering his lecture against the
use of State money by Catholic church
schools.
Netardus compares me to Nero, and alleges
that I am the cause of the lynchings of ne
groes. So? lam also the cause of “preju
dice" against Catholic priests. Really?
Negroes are usually swung up for assaults
on women: does Netardus admit that the
average priest, if caught up with, might get
the same medicine?
Netardus is better acquainted with his fel
low goats than even I am; and if he classes
them with negro rapists, he must have a good
reason for it.
Netardus says that Nero persecuted the
Catholic church.
This shows the ignorance of Netardus. In
Nero’s time there was no such monstrosity as
the Catholic church. , -
There was a Christian church, and it was
gard experiences of our home preachers, and
you’d soon read dismal news from those for
eign “fields.”
The Presbj terians lost 97 churches.
Tough on the Calvinists, wasn't it?
These 97 extinct churches did not expire in
Japan, India, or China.
They pegged out here in this country.
Why?
The Roman Catholics gained 199 new
churches, at the same time that those three
Protestant denominations lost 247.
Are the Catholics squandering $23,000,000
a year on cZc lu.re mission work in Korea ? .Vo.
Are the Catholics payiiig their foreign mis
sionaries the absurdly disproportioned sala
ries which the Protestant missionaries de
mand ? No ’
7he Cat holies are concentrating their mis
sion work and their mission money on this
country.
Therefore, while we annually add.to the
number of Chinks and Japs and low-caste
Hindoos, who are eager to get missionary
bounties, the Catholics are putting new
churches in the eery towns where the Protest
ant churches died.
It is unspeakably sad and deplorable; but
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as different from the Catholic church of Ne
tardus, as tlie New Testament is from the
Canon law of Trent and the Svllabus of Pope
Pius IX?
Christianity existed under Nero, but pop
ery didn't.
The first Christians of Rome lived a few
years after Christ, but the first pope did not
come on deck until GOO years later.
The Christian churches are 1,900 years old.
but the Catholic church was not born more
than 1.300 years ago. and it did not discover
the Immaculate Conception of Mary's mama,
and the Infallibility of the Catholic papa,
until more than 1,850 years after Christ.
Who knows what else the papists may di
cover?
If Mary's mother was sinlessly conceive h
I don’t see why the same line of reasoning
wouldn't carry immaculate conceptions clear
on back to David, Bathsheeba, Lot, and Lot's
daughters.
Netardus alleges, affirms, asserts, declares
and says, that if I had my way I “would have
the negro race exterminated in one day.’’
It takes a Roman priest to publish a state
ment like that: no decent negro would do it,
because a respectable negro would be ashamed
to father such an absurdity.
The next time Netardus feels irresisibly in
clined to make, an ass of himself, let him put
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