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Cl)e Jeffersonian
Vol. 14, No. 9
ROME BEGINS ATTACK UPON BIBLE-RELIGION.
Popery Cannot be Found in Scriptures, Therefore Scriptures Must Go.
# T'HE Philadelphia Standard and Times is
the organ of Archbishop Prendergast,
Sind publishes the most approved Catholic
doctrines.
In other words, The Catholic Standard and
Times is an official mouthpiece of the foreign
Papacy which seeks to subvert our laws and
establish Popery upon the ruins of democracy.
Whatever appears in The Catholic Standard
and Times must be accepted as authoritative
&nd final, so far as Protestants and Catholic
laymen are concerned.
Its voice is the voice of the Roman Catholic
Hierarchy.
For some years. Cardinal Gibbons has been
cautiously putting forth statements to the
effect that the Bible is not the only rule of
faith.
The Jesuitical assertions were made for a
purpose. They prepared the Catholic mind
to depend upon the Roman clergy, rather than
upon Holy Writ.
If the Catholic mind accepts the statement
that the Bible is not the only guide to faith,
it logically and necessarily follows that Cath
olic laymen must look somewhere else for a
And where else can the Catholic layman go,
save to his priest?
Hence, the priestly warning against trust
ing to tlie “Word of God,” inevitably leads
the Catholic to trust to the word of the pope.
Forcing Romanism and Incipient Treason Upon the Confederate Vets!
Withdraw That Invitation to the Rebellious Papist, Bishop Keiley!
pVERYWHERE in the United States, the
agents and plotters of the Italian pope,
.working actively to carry out |iis orders to
Make America Catholic, are pushing them
selves forward to seize upon those celebrations
and anniversaries that are peculiarly Ameri
can and patriotic.
They are not satisfied with monopolizing
their own St, Patrick's Day celebrations, and
their Columbus Day parades and glorifica
tions, but they now reach out, aggressively
and encroachingly to take forcible possession
of all American functions.
Thus the Knights of Columbus ‘ appro
priated the Washington Birthday, just as
though Washington had not lived a Mason,
detesting the Roman Hierarchy.
In our First President’s response to the
Address of the Virginia Baptists. he em
phatically expressed his horror of the perse
cuting, bloodthirsty church of Rome.
Nevertheless, the pope's murderous secret
Societies, whose garments reek with the blood
of William Black, William Gaynor, Jose
Ilizal, Francisco Ferrer, President Madero,
and Vice-President Suarez of Mexico, forcibly
took charge of Washington’s Birthday, and
£o completely monopolized the programme,
that a foreigner might have supposed George
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, March 8, 1917
So far as I know, this anti-Christian doc
trine was never proclaimed in America,
with defiant fullness and boldness, before this
year 1917.
In Buffalo, New York, a lecture was de
livered, week before last, by the Rev. Walter
Drum, Jesuit, — a. teacher in Woodstock Col
lege—on the amazing subject of—
“ The Church first, and the Bible last.”
In order that you may not be left in doubt
as to the orthodox doctrine of Roman Cath
olicism on this vital point, I lay before you
the report of Drum’s lecture as reported in
the Archbishop’s paper: I give headlines, and
all:
PROAES BIBLE-BUILT RELIGION ILLOGICAL
Scholarly Jesuit Declares Reason Revolts Against
Christianity Reared on Such an Insecure
Foundation.
EMPHASIZES EXISTENCE OF CHURCH 200
YEARS BEFORE NEW TESTAMENT.
Rev. Walter Drum, S. J., Sounds Note of Warn
ing to Parents Against .Scripture Taught
Students in Protestant Universities.
Logically showing how hopelessly impossible it
was to build up Christianity as a reasonably se
cure religion, if the foundation were the Bible,
the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible, the
Rev. Walter Drum, S. J., of Woodstock College,
lectured on “The Church First, the Book Last,”
in Academy Hall, Buffalo N. ¥., last Sunday un-
Washington to be a twin-brother to St. Al
fonsus Liguori, whose filthv ‘’Moral The
ology” carries its sewage into every Catholic
community on earth.
In like manner, these secret societies of the
Italian potentate, whose triple crown symbo
lizes his claim to be Supreme Lord-of Heaven?
Earth, and Hell, have taken charge of Fourth
of-July celebrations, Custom-House dedica
tions, Lincoln-Day functions —even having
the effrontery to put a priest on deck when
the Lincoln Mausoleum was formally dedi
cated, regardless of the fact that the Roman
hierarchy had him murdered, and that Pope
Pius IX. received into his personal Body-
Guard the fugitive John Surratt, one of
THE ASSASSINS !
Following up their policy of identifying
themselves ostentatiously with our patriotic
observances, in order that we may remain in
a supine state of false security, these agents
and plotters of the Italian potentate have in
vaded the one day in the year that is especially
sacred to the South.
They desecrate the Memorial Services by
thrusting themselves forward to the speaker’s
stand, to mouthe patriotism, loyalty to
American ideals, allegiance to American gov
ernment —and all the yest of it—at the very
der the auspices of the Nardin Acadamy Alumnae.
That the reverend speaker was greeted by a
capacity audience was no surprise to many who
recalled how the late Bishop Colton became so
enthusiastic over a lecture given by Father Drum
on “The Christ Theories of Today’’ that at the
end of the discourse he arose and asked the big
audience to give the speaker a rising vote of
thanks.
Father Drum pointed out last Sunday that
reason revolts against such an infallible rule of
faith as the Bible unless obliged by a logical pro
cess to the acceptance thereof. And, lie added,
there is no logical process of Catholic apologetic,
if one begin with the Bible. Continuing,.he said.
“There was no Bible when Christianity was up
builded. The beginning of Christianity was about
29 A. D., the probable date of. Christ’s death and
resurrection. And when the beginning of the
Bible? About two hundred years later! Not till
then were these books gathered together into one
sacred book as a Code of faith. And where was
the teaching of Christ meantime? There where
Christ put it —in the infallible teaching body, the
Church. Who gave us the Bible some two hundred
years after Christ gave us Christianity? Was it
the Christ? No, the Church’
“An infallible book could not possibly be a
rule of faith, unless every reader of the book were
inspired to read one and the same meaning into
the book. See what Protestantism has developed
into! And yet all Protestants say that they start
with the Bible.’’
It is a very shocking thing to see a Jesuit
.college-teacher circulating such monstrous
untruths, in a great national Catholic paper,
the personal organ of a Catholic high-priest.
(continued on page four.)
time that they are doing their utmost to re
frame our most cherished laws upon the
Papal model, subvert our democratic institu
tions with the pope’s monarchical teachings,
subjugate our Civil laws beneath the pope's
despotic canons, and thus gradually “Make
America CatholicX
Among these Roman prelates none is more
aggressively insolent and defiant than Benja
min Keily, the pope’s Savannah subject.
Benjamin did not wait for any American
State to enact a statute distasteful to his
Italian sovereign. No I Ben jamin was so
eager to let us know where his allegiance and
loyal belonged, that he jumped into the news
papers, several years ago, when the French
Republic was divorcing the Roman church,
and virtually saying that, thereafter the
priests should not keep nun-brothels without
a State license.
Benjamin Keiley and James Gibbons both
rushed into print to say, that if the Civil
power in this country should ever make laws
which the Roman church considered infringe
ments on its rights, the Catholics would re
fuse to obey those laws.
Who was to be the judge, in such a case?
Gibbons and Keiley. of course.
(continued on page five.)
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