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Jej jtrsonian
Vol. 14, No. 12
IJOW strange it is, that any citizen of the
Carolinas should be doped into the de
lusion that Popery is no foe to human liberty,
■when the Huguenot descendant furnishes the
reminder of the death which his ancestor
escaped, by fleeing from Catholic France!
They tell us that Roman Catholics in the
United States would never do what Roman
Catholics did in France.
How can any sane person say that?
Roman Catholic law is the same that it was
in the days when the Huguenots were
butchered for thejr religion, and the streets
of Paris, Avignon, and Bordeaux ran red
Ivith Protestant blood.
If Rome's spirit has changed, why have her
laws remained unchanged?
In the State of Georgia, the Salzburger is
U living reminder of what Romanism does,
yjhen it can : the Salzburgers had to flee from
Austria, to escape death, and they naturally
qhose a colony whose law forbade the residence
of a papist.
In the days of Oglethorpe, nobody doubted
the blood-thirsty character of Popery: it had
recently been committing too many atrocious
inurders, in Holland, in Germany, in France,
and in England, to leave any doubt as to its
sanguinary intolerance when in power.
Isn’t it a marvellous thing that neither the
Jluguenct nor the Salzburger revives the ap
prehensions of Protestants? Isn’t it a won
der, that Rome can keep her laws and her
What’s the Idea, in Placing the Church Flag Above the State Flag ?
QOME of the most effective teaching, is that
which appeals to the eye.
The marble statue, the painted canvass, the
displayed symbol can do quicker work than a
book.
Many a person will look., who will not read
or listen.
Many a person is influenced by a song,
tWho can’t be touched by a sermon.
The papal propagandists have always ap
preciated the subtly power of color, of music,
pf statues, of paintings, of symbols, of incense
and illuminations: consequently, the papists
took over from expiring Paganism all those
Architectural, artistic, symbolic, theatrical,
and ceremonial elaborations which captivate,
ol overaWe the human mind.
The continuous displays of images of the
Virgin, statues of the Virgin, paintings of the
Virgin, frescoes of the Virgin, and lighted
Shrines to the Virgin, led insesibly to prayers
to the Virgin, votive offerings to the Virgin,
And worship of the Virgin.
Virgin-worship was ihe direct and, natural
Result of the persistent education, addressed
Jo the eye.
Jn no other way could Mary have been
tnad,e, practically, a member of the God
nead-
Jfary plays no part in Christ’s ministry,
•Wak not entrusted by hi iff with any mission,
“LEST WE FORGET.”
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, March 29, 1917
secret organizations, (the same that they
were when she instigated massacres and
operated the Inquisition,) without exciting
suspicion of her real, ultimate designs?
Because the volcano is not always belching
fire and lava, we forget that it is alive.
Protestant preachers leg it over the town,
with Catholic solicitors, and aid them to raise
the money to build a papist church, or a
papist hospital, or a papist sweat-shop, piously
named The House of the Good Shepherd.
Then, having intrenched itself with Protest
ant assistance, the papal system establishes
its school, and its Juvenile Court; puts its
teachers in the Protestant schools and col
leges; and secures a place in the public library
for its sly and active missionary.
Then the papal machinery moves all-to
gether, for the glory of the pope.
The church becomes a god-factory, where
theological cannibals create and eat their
Creator.
The hospital gives the nurse the best of
opportunities to proselyte her patients.
The Juvenile Court, with its. Catholic Police
Matron, goes out into the streets, picks up
Protestant boys, girls, young men, and young
women, threatens them with the Stockade, and
allures them into choosing the Good Shep
herd hell-hole, in preference.
The school insinuates its fingers into the
municipal, or State treasury, and secures
Protestant money for papal propaganda.
was snubbed by him when she interrupted
his teaching, and was left by him, as a charge
upon John, just as any mother would be given
to the care of any trusted friend.
Virgin-worship—or adoration—has no
place whatever in the New Testament, or in
the writings of the Fathers; but the Pagan
world had, for ages, been accustomed to wo
man deities, and Christianity deferred to this
antique, incorrigible practice.
Hence, by eye-teaching, Mary gradually
became the most beloved object of Catholic
devotion; and iffany an ancient statue of Ve
nus, Diana, Juno, and Minerva has done duty,
for centuries, as “The Madonna” of modern
Catholics.
In the Pagan days, the church claimed a
supremacy over State affairs; and the armies
and fleets seldom moved until after the priests
had gone through with their monkey-doings,
and announced the “signs” which they had
found inside the hen, or the heifer, or the
nanny-goat sacrifice.
Julius Caesar was the first heathen who
put a stop to this nonsense; and even Caesar
was so sensible of the danger of a supreme
priesthood, that he united in hia person, the
two offices of supreme head of the State, and
supreme head ol the church.
Caesar’s successors wepe all careful to do
The Catholic Misses Riordan and Lovett,
employed as teachers in the Public Schools,
burn the Protestant New Testaments, and
drill the pupils into the recitative formula,
“The Catholic religion is the best.”
In the public library, the Catholic assist
ant will manage to put the strongly Protest
ant books where they won't be seen; will give
prominence to the works of Catholic authors;
and will taboo such literature as J/cmzcz’,
The New-Age Magazine, Liberty, and IF«£-
son's, while zealously promoting such Cath
olic periodicals as Collier's, the Llearst publi
cations, and the Literary Digest.
Lest we forget! What?
That every distinctive principle of Ameri
canism is a conquest over Romanism:
That our forefathers won them by splendid
antagonism to the popes and the kings, who
arrogated to themselves a monopoly of power
on earth:
That Americanism is anti-papal, just as
Protestantism is anti-papal.
If itomanism had changed its creed or code,
I could understand the preacher who allies
himself with the priest.
If Popery had renounced its claim of divine
authority over all governments and all peo
ples, I could understand the American who
co-operates with the Romanist.
But the pope of today stands where stood
the popJof Luther’s day, Calvin's day, Knox’s
(continued on page two.)
the same thing, until long after the reign of
Constantine the Great.
When Roman bishops at last made Christi
anity the State religion, and began to aspire
to universal dominion over the churches, they
were forced to usurp first one prerogative
and then another, striving to evolve a central
power which no separate church could with
stand.
The vast usurpation having been accomp
lished, it was natural for the bishops, who
had become popes, to aspire yet higher.
They reached out for control of the State!
Claiming to be Gods-on-earth, they asserted
that their will was God’s will, their law,
God’s law; and that, since God is supreme,
the vice-gerents of God must be supreme,
also.
A pretty theory, you see!
Grant the premises, and you’re lost.
The kings granted the premises, and were
lost. They became vassals to the popes. They
put on, and took off their crowns, at the
command of popes.
The theqry grew to such a pitch of arro
gance, that popes compelled kings and em
perors to kiss their feet.
Darkness fell upon Europe, as a conse
quence of this monstrous perversion of
Christ’s teachings; and, for 1,000 years, the
layman, his son, his wife, and his daughter,
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