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 UTION FOR MARRIAGE: 
 
 BY 
 
 FATHER QUINN, 
 
 FORMERLY PASTOR OF 
 
 THE KOMAlSr CATHOLIC CHURCH 
 
 IN KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN. 
 
 "Intelligence is governed by reason. Ignorance by 
 superstition and the lash." 
 
 Kalamazoo: 
 Published by the Author. 
 
 1881. 
 
TO THE 
 
 PONTIFEX MAXIMUS; 
 
 OB, 
 
 " Boss Bridge Buildeb," 
 
 WITH HIS 
 
 Episcopal Oppbessoes, ok Revknite Collectoes, and theib 
 
 Unjustly Tkeatbd Followers, 
 
 THIS BOOK 
 
 Is Respectfully, Sincerely, and Cheerfully 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
 BY THE AUTHOE, 
 
 Who for over Ten Years Witnessed their Deeds of 
 
 Cruelty and Hypocrisy. 
 
NOTICE. 
 
 My purpose in publishing the facts pertain- 
 ing to this secret organization is to warn the 
 lionest public against one of the most dangerous 
 associations of the age. 
 
 All persons who have due respect for the 
 honor and virtue of their families, friends, neigh- 
 bors, and country, ought to be thoroughly in- 
 formed on this question of vital importance. 
 
 Additional facts will be given, and many 
 names to which allusion is made in this Book, 
 will be published the moment circumstances 
 permit. 
 
 B. L. QUINN. 
 Kalamazoo, Nov. 11, 1880. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 I — Institution 9 
 
 II — Qualifications, 14 
 
 III — Reasons for Joining, 20 
 
 IV — Initiation 38 
 
 V — Insignia, 44 
 
 VI— Book 50 
 
 VII — Places and Arrangements, 54 
 
 VIII — Preventing Results, 81 
 
 IX— Special cases, 84 
 
 X— Reason Why, 96 
 
 XI — General Examples, 100 
 
 XII— The Papacy and the Irish, 122 
 
 XIII — Morality and Immorality, 170 
 
 XIV— The Last Link, 176 
 
 XV— Extracts, 195 
 
Substitution for Marriage, 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE INSTITUTION. 
 
 In the year 1866, Pope Pius IX. sanctioned 
 the establishment of one of the most appalling 
 institutions of immorality and wickedness ever 
 countenanced under the form or garb of religion; 
 virtually adding another plague-spot to that vile 
 body, that mother of harlots, Papalism, and thus 
 giving to his clergy the right (which they had 
 already taken in various ways) to use this substi- 
 tution for marriage. 
 
 This organization, then, with all its glaring 
 indecencies, its frightful operations, its unlicensed 
 privileges, its revolting and heart-rending out- 
 rages against all virtue and religion, is only one 
 more outgrowth of celibacy, one more hell -trap 
 
10 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 set for the unwary by the pious frauds of a system 
 rotten with the accumulated iniquity of ages ; a 
 system that can flourish only through the ignorance 
 of its followers, the blindness and indifference of 
 Protestants, and the patience of God, before whose 
 laws and teachings it must fall, as " He is not 
 mocked, neither will his spirit always strive." 
 
 Many good, charitable people (Catholic and 
 Protestant), revered the late Pope as a saint, 
 believed the many false reports issued from Rome 
 concerning his virtues and poverty, and contributed 
 generously to the appeals made frequently by his 
 hired tools all over the country; though his purity 
 was no better than his pretended poverty ; for 
 while he claimed to be God's representative on 
 earth, pretending to help and succor the poor and 
 needy, ostensibly protecting the interests of the 
 people, holding out promises of grace, bestowing 
 worthless benedictions on the faithful; this infal- 
 lible humbug, after deluding the people for over 
 thirty years in this manner, died in poverty (?) 
 with a fortune of twenty-three million dollars in 
 one bank, over thirty million in other banks, and 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 11 
 
 real estate, with sundry stocks, to the value of 
 sixty millions, and more. 
 
 Poor old man ? Pious fraud, 
 
 Who worshipped gold, ftir more than God. 
 
 Why did he not leave some of his ill-gotten 
 gains, some of his " blood - money," to the people 
 he deceived ? Surely, out of such a fortune, his 
 women and children could have spared a few 
 million as a legacy to his impoverished slaves and 
 subjects ? No, — the heritage he left was this, 
 " Substitution for Marriage," to be handed down 
 as the Pope's " patent right " (or invention) where- 
 ever his Church gains a foot -hold in the land, 
 giving as his reason for sanctioning its introduc- 
 tion and extension, that it was the only way to 
 save the Church from public scandal, and exhibit 
 the clergy as pure and unspotted before the 
 world, though allowing so many of them to 
 satisfy the very worst passions of their nature. 
 
 So great had been the immorality of his 
 clergy in all parts of the world, that this dear 
 old saint (?) deemed himself justified in establishing 
 these societies, so as to prevent heretics from 
 discovering, if possible, the rottenness prevailing 
 
12 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAGE. 
 
 among them, from the lowest in office to the 
 highest old grey-headed wolf in the fold. 
 
 Accordingly the best, safest, and most expedi- 
 ent plans were thought out and adopted for the 
 enslavement of women, by making them "Blessed 
 Creatures," or consecrated prostitutes, to be used 
 as vessels of election by the " Reverend Fathers 
 in God." 
 
 Thus, in many cities of the United States 
 and Canada, there are flourishing societies, having 
 the sanction of the Pope, and bearing the name 
 of "Rosary," "Compline," "Sacred Heart," "Im- 
 maculate Conception," or such " pious titles " as 
 may be calculated to awaken no suspicion. Un- 
 derstand, however, that all members of societies 
 bearing these and similar titles are not initiated 
 into the holy of holies, and have not been admit- 
 ted to the secret order of " Blessed Creatures." 
 No, no ! only those who are especially fitted by 
 disposition, training and selection are favored; for 
 while many are called, few are chosen, the re- 
 quirements being too important and diversified for 
 the mass of people who are enslaved by the Papacy. 
 
SUBSTITUTION POK MAEEIAGE. 13 
 
 The facts and proofs in connection with this 
 monstrous institution of infamy are abundant, and 
 have been thoroughly investigated by several per- 
 sons who were entrusted with the secrets, in some 
 of the leading cities during the past year. The 
 first evidence came through the confessional from 
 some of the women who had been members, and 
 who had left their former homes to get rid of 
 the burden of such a life. In all cases exam- 
 ined, the badges, pictures, instruments, and printed 
 matter were invariably the same; also the state- 
 ments made were identical (in substance) through- 
 out. There are now in safe keeping, three 
 copies of the book which is used as the guide 
 or manual of the confraternities, and although 
 shown at different times and places, they agree 
 as to the character and extent of the contents 
 bearing on the regime or duties, etc., of the 
 members, and are alike in size, print, and cover; 
 moreover, they correspond to all the other copies 
 furnished for inspection. 
 
 The interesting letters from so many clergymen 
 written at various places and dates, are some of 
 
14 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEKIAGB. 
 
 the most convincing and satisfactory evidences of 
 the existence and criminal practices of this in- 
 stitution. The complete investigation of these 
 documents, which are numerous, has removed every 
 trace of doubt, misgiving, or uncertainty from the 
 minds of those permitted to examine them. The 
 presents of jewelry, and other ornaments, with 
 the notes accompanying, serve to fully corrobe- 
 rate the testimony given, which is overwhelming 
 and revolting in every particular, and stamps the 
 whole affair as the monstrosity of the nineteenth 
 century. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 QUALIFICATIONS. 
 
 The priest who becomes a member of these 
 societies must have served in the priesthood at 
 least seven years. This is the general rule, to 
 which there can be no exception, unless a priest 
 be a special favorite with the higher powers; this 
 favoritism is usually gained liy wealth, political or 
 social influence, fawning, flattery, or praise for his 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOB MARRIAGE. 15 
 
 superiors in office, some of whom are as low in 
 deceit and injustice as the cruel and dishonest 
 Purcell, of Cincinnati, who goes through life with 
 a debt of over $7,000,000 resting on his guilty 
 soul. He and others have surely forgotten, or do 
 not believe their catechism, which mentions de- 
 frauding the laborer of his wages as one of the 
 sins crying to heaven for vengeance; and many 
 people who have been defrauded by Purcell and 
 his colleagues, now pour out the grief and male- 
 dictions of their hearts against his notoriously 
 guilty name. When did Jesus or the Apostles 
 keep banks, or peddle "the grace of God" for 
 millions of money, and titles of arrogance and 
 oppression ? 
 
 In this term of seven years the priest will 
 gives evidence to his superiors of his capacity 
 and willingness to deceive the people, dupe the 
 female devotees, and play the polished hypocrite 
 without chagrin or remorse, or he will prove 
 himself an honest and truthful man, of Chris- 
 tian conscience and sincere convictions; if the 
 latter, he is viewed with suspicion, as dangerous. 
 
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 hardly suitable for the priesthood, and certainly 
 unworthy of admission to any of these oath- 
 bound secret societies, for he might be shocked 
 at the doings^ betray the church, or lead to an 
 exposition of the fraud; or more than likely, he 
 should be put out of the way (as many have 
 been) by poison, administered by some of the 
 faithful members, were he permitted or allowed 
 to join. 
 
 Great caution is employed and required to pre- 
 vent the public from knowing or even suspecting 
 the existence of this institution in a civilized 
 community, and the priest who is admitted is 
 bound by solemn oaths and promises to secrecy 
 in all matters pertaining to the organization. 
 
 The female, to be a suitable candidate for 
 membership, must be perfectly pliant, docile, and 
 obedient. She must be sound and healthy in mi ad 
 and body, free from scrofula, and all impu- 
 rity, as nothing diseased can touch the sacred 
 bodies (?) of these "holy fathers." She must be 
 considered good looking, if not really handsome, 
 at least so held in the estimation of these priestly 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEKIAGE. 17 
 
 judges. She must be satisfied with all proofs 
 given in favor of the societies, and feel honored 
 with the privileges and duties thereof! She must 
 be above want, or poverty, if not wealthy. She- 
 must be willing to support, if need be, any 
 Father who may be poor (or reckoned poor) as 
 compared with some others. She must, if not 
 sick, go at every call to serve the Father, or 
 any of the Fathers who hold the of&ce of Pres- 
 ident, Secretary, Treasurer, or Grand Chaplain. 
 She must submit to any Father who may visit 
 at her house, unless the act would be in danger 
 of becoming known to any not members. 
 
 She must, if possible, attend all the society 
 masses, and take part in keeping the altar, sanc- 
 tuary, and vestments in good order, and must 
 also pay her portion for the purposes of the 
 altar when requested, besides paying twenty-five 
 cents a month, or that sum every week, if at 
 all convenient. This money is paid by all who 
 are not "B. C.'s" but who are members of 
 those religious societies, so that the "B. C.'s" 
 have to do likewise to keep up the deception,. 
 
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 and pay the priest for the honor conferred. " Can 
 such things be, and b'ercome us as a summer cloud, 
 without our special wonder?" 
 
 She must be ready to serve the priest imme- 
 diately after mass, or before breakfast, if he 
 selects her, and must not feel slighted because 
 she is not called on any particular morning, as 
 her turn is surely coming, and it would be 
 wrong, on her part to be displeased with an act 
 of the priest or bishop in this or any other office. 
 
 One great principle pervading the whole mem- 
 bership is that every " B. C." must deny the 
 knowledge or existence of such a society, life, 
 or body of women in the Church (should she be 
 accused), under pain of persecution and death. 
 
 The penalties of the societies imposed on 
 faithless members vary according to circumstances. 
 Any " B. C." considered disobedient must be pun- 
 ished as soon as the officers can enforce the 
 rules of penalty. After admitting her faults in 
 the presence of her companions, she is condemned 
 to fast a certain number of days, to attend the 
 sanctuary and altar an extra number of times. 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MA.RBIAGE. 19 
 
 and humbly ask to be restored to her former 
 good standing in the society. Extra fees are 
 generally required for all violations of rule, and 
 are accepted as a full substitution for penalties. 
 Should any " B. C." become obstinate, she is 
 punished until she submits, or persecuted, if nec- 
 essary, till death ensues. 
 
 The nuns have one day in the week (usually 
 Friday) for what they call " chapter." The 
 Mother sits like a confessor, to hear the Sisters 
 confess their faults. She then gives each one a 
 lecture according to the nature of the offence. 
 If the nun is a member of this society, and 
 confesses that she has refused a Father, she 
 must listen to a long harrangue on the necessity 
 of guarding the honor of the Church, or on the 
 evil of exposing the priests to the temptation of 
 having recourse to females outside of the " Blessed 
 Confraternity:" As a penalty for this offence the 
 confessing nun must seek an early opportunity of 
 serving the " F.'s," as delay would be sinful, 
 besides being obliged to fast, to kneel while 
 the other nuns take their meals, and to scrub 
 
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 the dining room or kitchen floor several times 
 when there is no need of it. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 REASONS FOR JOINING. 
 
 The inducements held out for joining these 
 societies are complex and varied, as diflferent modes 
 are required to suit the character, disposition, and 
 bearing of the ladies selected; but as priests make 
 women a special study, and have become conver- 
 sant with the duplicity, artifice and cunning of 
 human nature (by means of the confessional), it 
 is only a question of time ere the victim is bound, 
 sworn, and delivered to the tender mercies of her 
 spiritual adviser. After the emotional nature has 
 been worked up, as it were, to concert pitch, the 
 sexual, or passionate, is then attacked, and success 
 is, in nine cases out of ten, assured, as priests 
 know exactly the kind of material they work 
 upon. 
 
 How carefully, and with what specious argu- 
 ments, these smootli- tciugued villains ingratiate 
 
SUBSTITUTIOlf FOR MAEEIAGB. 21 
 
 themselves into the favor of their flock, the in- 
 itiated alone can tell ; suffice to say, they rule, 
 they sway, the bodies and souls of their dupes, 
 touching as with a magic wand the secret springs 
 of passion and lust, till, like a mighty chorus, 
 the spirits of evil seem to congregate about them 
 and revel in a villainy such as never before was 
 perpetrated under the sanction of any religion 
 claiming to be Christian, thus rivalling in enor- 
 mity the worst and most licentious institutions 
 of paganism. 
 
 It may seem strange that women, under any 
 pretence whatever, would join these societies, or 
 thus be made tools and fools of by these wicked 
 priests, but when we recollect the training they 
 have received from their youth, up, and the ab- 
 surdities taught them in regard to eating the 
 real hody and drinlcing the real Hood of Jesus, 
 can we wonder that women, in the habit of 
 being enslaved by such a religion, believe in this 
 Substitucion for Marriage ? The great wonder 
 would be if they did not believe. Many of 
 them are naturally so full of passion and lust. 
 
22 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 that they gladly avail themselves of this means 
 of gratification, so protected and secured by re- 
 ligion. Of course many are sincere in their belief 
 and accept this wrong with all others character- 
 istic of their Church. For a people who can be 
 led to believe they eat and drink the soul and 
 divinity of Jesus, can be led to believe anything. 
 
 The ornaments in the chapel are made to have 
 a special significance, a hidden meaning bearing 
 on these societies To the minds of the clergy 
 and to the initated females it is clear that God 
 and his holy Church approve and are highly 
 pleased with the sacred duties of this institution. 
 
 The Church, or clergy, obtain complete con- 
 trol of the female's will, mind, heart and con- 
 science, and then lay claim to facts (which the 
 ladies admit) that the Papal Church is the true 
 Church of God, established by Jesus and His 
 Apostles, to govern and teach all who wish to be 
 saved; that there is also much mystery connected 
 with this Divine Church and its practices, and 
 that it is the conscientious duty of every one. 
 male and female, to yield a willing and heai-ty 
 
SUBSTITUTIOK FOE MAEEIAGE. 2S 
 
 obedience to the voice of the priest, who is the 
 true representative of Jesus, and the interpreter 
 of God's Church, God's will, and God's mysteries. 
 The cushion on which the woman kneels, rep- 
 resents that on which Mary knelt to receive the 
 heavenly message from God, through the mouth 
 of his angel. 
 
 Every female in being persuaded to join must 
 count herself as highly honored and exalted as 
 Mary was, and must consider herself as promoted 
 to a celestial dignity, far above the other women 
 of the parish or city to which she belongs, as 
 Mary was promoted to be the mother of Christ 
 by the operation or on-coming of the being called 
 the third person of the Trinity. 
 
 At first the female may be a little timid, and 
 somewhat surprised to learn that the priest or 
 bishop requires this unusual, apparently wrong, 
 mysteriously right, service from her, and she 
 may object, as Mary did, in her innocent fear, 
 when she said on hearing the unusual announce- 
 ment or deinand, "How can this be? for I know 
 not man;" but the priest, representing God's 
 
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 angel in this office, gently soothes the mind, and 
 quiets the fears of his future spouse, by saying 
 to her, "He who will come upon thee is not 
 man, but is the holy one of ,God, and this union 
 is pleasing to Him, and if any child be born 
 unto thee %s the fruit of this union, it will be 
 holy and blessed; therefore I say unto thee, as 
 the angel said to Mary, "Fear not." After this, 
 the woman being convinced by the language of 
 Heaven's messenger, that all is right, gives the 
 priest ■ complete assurance of her willingness to 
 submit, by saying, as Mary said to the angel, 
 " Be it done unto me according to thy word." 
 Then there are a few mumbled words in Latin, 
 a sprinkling of holy water, a blessing asked, and 
 the feast is ready for the priest, who has 
 accomplished by mock prayers and ceremonies 
 what ought to send a pang through his accursed 
 heart. 
 
 There is a picture hanging opposite the cushion 
 representing the descent of the Holy Ghost in 
 the shape of a white dove, signifying to the soul 
 of the woman the approval of Heaven and the 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MARKIAGE. 25 
 
 perfect purity of her submission in this relation 
 to the priest, and coming as a voice from above 
 to bless their union, and saying, " This is my 
 beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, hear 
 ye him, obey him, as he desires, as did the 
 holy women of old serve Jesus." Another picture 
 shadows forth the angel bearing to her the com- 
 mission to become honored among women by 
 joining this holy family. Would they like to 
 see the picture of that God who says, "Thou 
 shalt not commit adultery;" and could they see 
 any significance in his eye, or hear any displeas- 
 ure in his voice? 
 
 There is also a statue of the virgin Mary 
 to signify the exalted position these females will 
 occupy in the church, and in the life to come, 
 for their fidelity in this matter. 
 
 The flowers denote the beauty, simplicity, and 
 sweet-scented fragrance arising froni, and adorning 
 the consecrated relations existing between these 
 " Blessed Creatures," and the Fathers. 
 
 The lights represent not only the joys of 
 heaven, but the many bright spirits above looking 
 
26 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 down with beaming and sparkling eyes to behold 
 these holy beings in the courts of God consum- 
 mating JthisjDivinely appointed act, which renders 
 them pure and holy forever. What a .set of 
 chubby, dimpled darlings these blessed creatures 
 ought to be if they are as fat as the rotund 
 Fathers themselves; possibly thej' are like the 
 plump little angels that look as though they 
 were frolicking or playing at roll and tumble in 
 their buff, as seen on the ceilings and walls of 
 their churches. The incense used at such cere- 
 monies indicates the sweet odor surrounding such 
 a life, and ascending to heaven a-s a perfume 
 redolent with glory. 
 
 The " holy water '" signifies " the grace of 
 God which passeth all understanding," purifying 
 their bodies, deeds, and souls, as members of this 
 sacred order. 
 
 The book in the priest's hand denotes the 
 authority and sanction of heaven. Tlie altar 
 typifies the throne of God. The missal, or Bible, 
 betokens the voice of God pronouncing a blessino; 
 on the heads of His devoted children. The 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MAREIASE. 27 
 
 priest assumes to be a substitute for the angel, 
 the Holy Ghost, or the person of Jesus' The 
 surplice which he wears in this connection, in- 
 dicates the purity of the holy spirit of Mary. 
 The stole around his neck represents the power 
 of Christ, and the bond of perfect union between 
 Jesus and himself, and as binding the female 
 who serves him to God through Jesus, so that 
 by this tie of close union the woman and the 
 priest are one, Jesus and the priest are one, as 
 Jesus and his Father are one; thus the unity 
 or oneness is perfected. 
 
 If all this be right, then Protestant ministers 
 and other men have indeed made a sad mistake 
 in being encumbered with v?ives and children. 
 Why not join the Papal church, and swell 
 the number of Fathers, not husbands, who have 
 a plurality of spouses in Jesus, and then palm 
 off their offspring to be supported by charitable 
 institutions, instead of rearing and caring for them 
 as true God-fearing parents? 
 
 Many arguments from the Scriptures are then 
 introduced to persuade these women as to the 
 
28 SUBSTITUTION FOB MARRIAGE. 
 
 propriety and Godliness of this institution, and it 
 will be seen by the following examples how they 
 pervert certain passages to their own destruction, 
 and the defilement of many, but if the blind follow 
 the blind, then surely they will fall into the pit 
 of Papal corruption. 
 
 Now these Fathers and their Church teach these 
 deluded women that Jesus used, in this peculiar man- 
 ner, Mary Magdalene and other women, and that 
 he pardoned the sins of many women, because they 
 had loved and served him in this manner during 
 his earthly sojourn. These men, although they 
 honor and praise Him in public, thus ascribe to 
 Him, in private, an immorality and passion such 
 as so-called infidels have rarely, if ever, mentioned 
 in connection with his career as a social reform- 
 er. But to justify their course of iniquity, and 
 to convince their favorite female slaves that they 
 are right, they maintain that, as Jesus acted so 
 with Mary Magdalene and others, such actions, on 
 their part, are virtuous. 
 
 They also adduce as an argument in their favor 
 on this point, the fact that Peter, a great saint, 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEEIA6B. 29 
 
 was a married man, retained his wife and begat 
 children while acting as one of the Apostles of 
 Jesus, claiming that Christ approved Peter's co- 
 habiting with his wife, when he went, as recorded 
 by the evangelist, and healed Peter's mother-in- 
 law. They quote the following words from the 
 eighth chapter of Matthew, as found in their own 
 Testament : " And when Jesus was come into 
 Peter's house he saw Ms wife's mother lying, 
 and sick of a fever; and he touched her hand, 
 and the fever left her, and she arose and minis- 
 tered to them." 
 
 They assert that the clergy, from the days of 
 Christ to the present, have used women in this 
 way, who were married to them privately, and 
 blessed f©r their special comfort, though the ma- 
 jority of the people have been taught that such 
 was wrong, and therefore not allowed. Then 
 as a further proof, they read the language of 
 St. Paul as found in the ninth chapter of the first 
 Epistle to the Corinthians: "Have we not power 
 to carry about a woman, a wife (or sister) as 
 well as the rest of The apostles, and the brethren 
 
30 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 of the Lord, and Cephas (Peter), or I only, and 
 Barnabas, have we not power to do this?" 
 
 Again they say that the virgin Mary had many 
 children, and prove it by the statements of her 
 neighbors, who generally know all about such 
 matters now-a-days, and as reported in the sixth 
 chapter of St. Mark's Gospel: "' Is not this the 
 carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, 
 and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon-' are not also 
 his sisters here with us?" They conclude, there- 
 fore, that Mary was the real mother of many 
 children besides Jesus, but cannot tell, with cer- 
 tainty, wTio were their fathers, as Joseph was the 
 only ostensible husband. Besides, they produce the 
 example of Solomon, who had several hundred 
 wives and concubines, and of the patriarchs and 
 prophets, who were servants of God, though they, 
 too, had several women that served them in this 
 most ancient, natnrnl, and Divine style of wedlock. 
 What a plaything this Church and her fathers 
 make of women, Scripture, God, and religion ! 
 
 They also make a very extensive use of Paul's 
 writings to Timothy ojid Titu'fe. For instance, in 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 31 
 
 the fifth and sixth verses of the first chapter of 
 Paul's epistle to Titus, whom he calls his " beloved 
 son," they discover these words; "For this cause 1 
 left thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order 
 the things that are wanting, and shouldst ordain 
 priests, as I also appointed (ordained) thee; if any 
 be without crime, the husband of one wife, having 
 faithful children.''' Then they make such comments 
 on these words, which are generally unknown to the 
 majority of the people, as will cancel all doubt 
 concerning the authorised marriage of priests. 
 To prove that the bishops of the true Church 
 were married men, they quote the words as found 
 in the second and fourth verses of the third chapter 
 of Paul's Epistle to Timothy : " It behooveth a bishop 
 to be blameless, the husband of one wife, one 
 who ruleth well his own house, having his chil- 
 dren in subjection with all chastity." Then to 
 show that deacons ought to be married men, they 
 refer to the twelfth verse of this same chapter and 
 Epistle: "Let deacons be the husbands of one 
 wife, who rule well their own children and their 
 own houses'' The eleventh verse of the same 
 
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 chapter and Epistle is then introduced to prove the 
 right of having faithful women who must be 
 considered chaste while serving the clergy: "The 
 women in like manner chaste, not slanderers, but 
 sober, faithful in all things. 
 
 Portions of the fourteenth and fifteenth verses of 
 the same chapter and Epistle are then added as evi- 
 dence that this was practiced in the true Chris- 
 tian church: "These things I write to thee, that 
 thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave 
 thyself in the church of the living God, the pillar 
 and ground of the truth." 
 
 Then the whole of the 16th verse is finally 
 read witli great emphasis and solemnity, as giving 
 the key or explanation of such service and mys- 
 terious Godliness: "And evidently great is the 
 mystery of Godliness, which was manifested in 
 the Hesh, justified in the spirit, appeared unto 
 the Gentiles (women converted from ProtestiUitism), 
 is believed in the world, is taken up in glory." 
 They say that their secret association is this very 
 mystery of Godliness, and that the deacons^ priests 
 and bishops of the tlhurch of Jesus were chaste 
 
SUBSTITUTIOIJ^ FOK MARRIAGE. 33 
 
 while, married and begetting children, and that 
 each of these clergymen was authorized to have 
 one wife and several women as his holy concu- 
 bines, or consecrated mistresses, who rendered him 
 this peculiar service, which was according to the 
 desire of the " flesh," purified by the blessing of 
 the " spirit," accepted by the angels, made known 
 to many who had been so long deprived of the 
 favor, embraced and practiced by the elect on 
 earth, and was crowned with honor and "glory" 
 in heaven. 
 
 In confirmation of all this they set forth the 
 fourth and fifth verses of the fourth chapter of the 
 same Epistle: "Every creature of God is good, 
 and nothing to be rejected that is received with 
 thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of 
 God and prayer." 
 
 Then they bring forward the first, second and 
 third verses of the same chapter to show that the 
 Papal Church, and all others that forbid marriage and 
 the use of meats, "are departed from the faith," 
 are "giving heed to the doctrines of devils," are 
 " speaking lies in hypocrisy." They say, then, 
 
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 that God has created meats to be used on all 
 days without restriction, and that men and women 
 are made to receive and enjoy each other, accord- 
 ing to these words: "Which (things and persons) 
 God hath created to be received with thanksgiving 
 by the faithful and by them that have known the 
 truth." 
 
 They admit that the Papal Church made a 
 great mistake' in trying to enforce celibacy, which, 
 being contrary to nature and the laws of God, 
 has been the source of shocking corruptions and 
 scandal; but they maintain that this Church has. 
 by Divine authority, substituted this blessed insti- 
 tution, rather than let the people discover that 
 she had been deceiving them for ages on this 
 vital question. 
 
 Furthermore, they also admit that the explana- 
 tion of the words " one wife "" as given by their 
 Church, in their own Testament, is so full of 
 absurdity that it would destroy the inspiration and 
 bring swift disgrace upon her, if it were followed 
 throughout and properly brought to the notice of 
 her subjects; she thinks it best, therefore, to keep 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 35 
 
 their attention away from that and other parts of 
 Scripture, thus leaving them in ignorance of her 
 many deceptions. 
 
 When taking the language of their Church 
 in her explanation of these two words, they 
 show how it really destroys the true doctrine of 
 Paul, and leaves it both silly and senseless. To 
 make all this clear and satisfactory to the minds 
 of their ladies elect, they repeat the words of the 
 Papal Church, as explaining the expression (or 
 words) ''one wife," saying they mean that "no 
 one shall be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, 
 priest, or deacon, who has been married more than 
 ,once." Now, if that be the true and correct 
 meaning and interpretation of those two words, 
 " one wife," it must,- then, be equally correct and 
 just to construe, or pervert, the remaining parts 
 of the verses, and say, no one shall be admitted 
 to these orders who has been "blameless" more 
 than once, "sober" more than once, "prudent" 
 more than once. " of good behavior " more than 
 onoe^ "chaste" more than once, "given to hos- 
 pitality " more than once" or " a teacher " more 
 
36 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAREIAGE. 
 
 than onoe; but this rendering would manifestly 
 contradict and overturn all that people have be- 
 lieved on the subject since the beginning, as may 
 be seen by the honest reading and view of the 
 whole verse or passage. This places the Papal 
 Church in a frightful dilemma before her own 
 followers, and before all the intelligent people of 
 the world ; for she must admit that she has 
 given a wrong explanation of these words, " one 
 wife," to uphold her false doctrine on celi- 
 bacy, or she must admit that, according to her 
 explanation, no one is to be ordained as priest, 
 bishop or deacon, if he has been blameless, sober, 
 chaste hospitable, etc., etc., more than once; but 
 as this would imply and mean that a man, to 
 be qualified for admission to any of these orders, 
 should have been impure, inhospitable, ill-behaved, 
 incompetent to teach, etc., etc., it would make 
 her, in the estimation of all sensible people, a 
 very dangerous guide, an unsafe and most fallible 
 teacher. 
 
 These and other false explanations of the Papal 
 Church, if discovered by her people, would cause 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 37 
 
 them to revolt against her, and abandon her 
 teachings as pernicious and un-Christian. but as 
 her numerous perversions and corruptions must, 
 at all hazards, be screened and defended, her 
 clergy feel justified in denying or concealing the 
 fact that she has departed from the Apostolic 
 doctrines and practices, or else they carefully 
 observe a complete silence on all questions which, 
 if duly investigated, would drive her to destruc- 
 tion, and bring upon her the odium and contempt 
 she has earned by a long, unscrupulous course of 
 avarice, hypocrisy, deceit and carnage. 
 
 " Audacia pro muro hahetur." They use 
 heartless arrogance as a wall to protect themselves 
 and the wickedness of their whole Church system. 
 
 '"Avaritia Udem, prohihitem, ceterasque artes 
 honas subvertit; pro his superhiam, orudeli- 
 tatem, Deum negligere, omnia venalia habere 
 edoouit.' Their ungovernable avarice subverts in 
 them fidelity, integrity, all principles of honor, 
 and fills them with impudence, cruelty, irreligion, 
 lust and gross venality." 
 
38 SUB8TITUTI0K FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 INITIATION. 
 
 To make the impression lasting, and give the 
 form of sacredness and solemnity to the affair 
 with its obligations, the Papal Church requires both 
 the priest and female to observe many ceremo- 
 nies at the time of initiation. Some of the pomp, 
 show, music, pictures, candles, incense, bells, holy 
 water, together with all the paraphernalia used by 
 this Church on important occasions to lure in the 
 ignorant and deluded, must be called into requi- 
 sition for the purpose of mystifying or impressing 
 the victim. The priest who is to bless or receive 
 the female is robed in cassock, surplice, and stole. 
 The female usually wears a white veil, kneels 
 on a cushion before the officiating clergyman, who 
 has power to bless and consecrate her for such 
 holy uses, holding in her hcind a lighted caudle, 
 while the priest asks her the usual questions: she 
 answers all promptly, and sweai-s to obey and 
 perform all enjoined. 
 
 She swears implicit obedience to all clergy- 
 men who arc inembei"s of the society, especially 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MAKEIAGE. 39 
 
 to him who shall be her pastor, aad also to be 
 most faithful in the discharge of all duties, par- 
 ticularly in not revealing the secrets, duties, or 
 insignia of the society. She swears to watch the 
 conduct and language of every female member, 
 and to report the same to any of the priests or 
 bishops having control. She swears to take part 
 in opposing and pursuing, even to death, every 
 member who may become dissatisfied with the re- 
 quirements of the clerical members. She swears 
 to defend every clergyman who is a member, on 
 all occasions, and deny under oath, if need be, 
 every charge or statement made against him by 
 any member who may report to the outside world, 
 find fault, or complain of the society or its pro- 
 ceedings. She swears to submit to punishment 
 herself, in case she should displease her superiors 
 in any of their demands. If she is a married 
 woman when she is admitted into this order, she 
 promises to be faithful to her pastor, and to con- 
 sider him, if a member, and serve him in all 
 things as her only true and lawful husband, blessed 
 before God and His Church, and also agrees to 
 
40 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAREIAGE. 
 
 abstain from serving her ostensible husband, as the 
 laws of the Church are more binding than the 
 laws of man. She agrees to get what money 
 she can from her apparent husband for the sup- 
 port of the priest and Church, and to persuade 
 him that she, though living in the same house 
 with him, and receiving support as in ■ foi-mer 
 days, can no longer be as <z wife to him, but has 
 to consecrate her whole being to the service of 
 God and His holy Church by trying to live a life 
 of virtue and holiness, saying she would displease 
 God, and defile her body, by being his wife in 
 that one respect, and that it would be contrary 
 to the vow she took when she became a member 
 of one of the "Blessed Confraternities" belonging 
 to the Church. Some husbands have actually 
 ^believed all this, and out of respect for the ap- 
 parent religious wishes and scruples of their wives, 
 have lived and are now living in the same house, 
 supporting and caring for them, supposing that 
 God, conscience, purity, and religion, are the only 
 motives actuating their once loving and truthful 
 companions, whom tliey wedded in all confidence 
 
SUBSTITUTION BOK ^AEKIAGE. 41 
 
 and love. As to the marriage of heritics, or Prot- 
 estants, the Papal Church holds, both theoretically 
 and practically, as far as possible, that they are 
 null and void, and that the offspring of such 
 marriages are illegitimate, or in the language of 
 the priests, " bastards." 
 
 This Church has therefore improved on the 
 Christian style of marriage. The New Testament 
 says no man shall separate those united of God 
 in marriage. The exception to this law was adul- 
 tery, and yet the person guilty of adultery shall 
 not marry again, while the innocent party is at 
 liberty to marry. 
 
 Now here come the favored ones of the Papal 
 Church, armed with the Pope's " patent right," 
 and claim the authority to separate those who 
 have been legally married, laying hold of or clutch- 
 ing the victims for their own private use, lust, 
 and gratification. God never can or will sanction 
 such villainy, if the Christian record is true as 
 bearing on this and many other questions of vital 
 importance to the individual or family. 
 
 The Papal Church maintains that no clergy- 
 
42 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAGB. 
 
 man belonging to her can be married, and does 
 not consider the bishops and priests who have 
 left her and married, as being at all married, yet 
 secretly she allows her chief priests and bishops, 
 who are members of these infamous societies, to 
 make these deluded women believe that they, as 
 members, are truly and honorably married, and 
 so much so that they are not permitted to live 
 as wives with their former husbands. 
 
 Can a kingdom divided against itself stand? 
 Can God inspire and reveal certain laws to be 
 as a light and a lamp to the feet of his chil- 
 dren, and then destroy them by sending this 
 Church to bring darkness, foul corruption, and 
 death among his people? 
 
 When the females have duly vowed to serve 
 the clergy, who represent Christ and the Holy 
 Spirit, and have bound themselves to observe all 
 obligations laid upon them, by giving every as- 
 surance, that henceforth they will serve all priests 
 and bishops, obey, honor, and respect them as the 
 pure holy representatives of Jesus — for, in fact, 
 they consider all priests and bishops thus joined 
 
SUBSTITUTIOJf FOR MAREIAfiE. 43 
 
 to them in holy wedlock, as Jesus or as the 
 Holy Ghost — then the officiating clergyman con- 
 cludes the ceremony by sprinkling the initiated 
 with holy water, and bestowing upon her the 
 name of " Blessed Creature," and thus by the 
 initials " B. C." at the top or end of a note or 
 letter, they frequently make themselves known to 
 each other. 
 
 Now if all this be right for some, why not 
 for all 'r* If clergyman are allowed to have sev- 
 eral women (married and single), why may not 
 laymen, indulge in this manner? But what be- 
 comes, of the commandment which says: "Thou 
 shalt not commit adultery; '' and another saying: 
 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife"? 
 How can the foregoing commandments agree with 
 the practices peculiar to this Papal invention? 
 Are not such things contrary to the nature and 
 principles of Christianity and virtue? and shall 
 they not be exposed and abominated so that they 
 may wither under the frown and heart-felt rebuke 
 of every honest God-fearing man and woman in 
 the land? 
 
44 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAGE. 
 
 When a church becomes as a leper on the 
 body of the community it should be avoided. 
 The Papal Church, like the mouth of a serpent, 
 has poison concealed for all who come within 
 its reach; and many a true-hearted and honor- 
 able spirit that might have winged its way in 
 joy and freedom beneath the starry vault of 
 heaven, has been lured, by blind obedience, and 
 charmed by the apparent brightness of this system, 
 to ruin and complete destruction. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 INSIGNIA OF "B. C.'s." 
 
 " These " Blessed Creatures " have certain badges 
 or insignia, by which they can be easily recog- 
 nized as members by the Fathei-s at home or 
 abroad. That which is considered of most im- 
 portance, and as the greatest deception when in 
 Catholic families and countries, is the image of 
 the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus in her arms. 
 A very small neat statuette of the Virgin and 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 45 
 
 child is given to each woman soon after, some- 
 times before, the ceremony of admission. A brass 
 or silver case, w^ith a tiny glass door or vfindow 
 in front, encloses the image; a covering of leather, 
 morrocco, or silk is freqxiently used as an out- 
 side casing or protection for the more solid and 
 costly case, lest it be damaged or broken. The 
 Virgin Mary is made the queen or mother and 
 protectress of the entire organization. 
 
 These "B. C.'s" pray to Mary to help them to 
 be perfectly resigned to the will of the Fathers, 
 as she was to the will and demand of God, and 
 the operation of the Holy Ghost, as well as to 
 Joseph and the holy men of old. 
 
 Then they are to beseech her to aid and assist 
 them safely through all their efforts to prevent 
 conception, and that if conception must take place 
 to assist them in pregnancy and childbirth. They 
 implore her to guard their bodily health, and to 
 restore it if at any time it should suffer from 
 any duty or service in the confraternity. They 
 believe in the Virgin's willingness to shield them 
 from scandal, exposure, disease, or death, while 
 
46 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 undergoing the operation necessary to produce 
 abortion. 
 
 They are required to keep one of these images 
 constantly in the house and as near their persons 
 as practicable, so that they may look through 
 the little window or door, and see the Virgin and 
 child, and pray to her for aid and protection. 
 
 Every " B. C." is expected to say daily the 
 Litany of the B. V. M.. or the beads of the 
 Immaculate Conception, or the prayer, '"We tiy 
 to thy patronage," etc. Some, if they have suffi- 
 cient time, and are thoroughly devoted to Mary, 
 or on the verge of childbirth, or any great trouble, 
 say the Rosary, or recite the Little Office of the 
 B. V. M., as well as they know how. The ap- 
 parent piety of these women is in proportion to 
 their sins, and the consequent dangers; and they 
 greatly deceive honest, well meaning people, who 
 are ignorant of the secret impurity underlying 
 these pious performances. 
 
 Another badge of real membei-ship is a pair 
 of silken mittens, generally very white, and knit 
 by hand. They cover the fingers from the middle 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MABEIAGE. 47 
 
 Joint up over the hand, wrist and half the fore- 
 arm. If a " B. C' is a special favorite by reason 
 of her beauty, etc., etc., she is honored by a 
 present of a very beautiful pair from the highest 
 officer, for the purpose of making her known to 
 the fathers when in a strange home or country. 
 These " Blessed Creatures " wear some of the in- 
 signia even in the best society without being sus- 
 pected; for many Roman Catholic women belong 
 to associations having some religious titles, while 
 they have no knowledge of the hidden opera- 
 tions of the inner circles. 
 
 Then each " B. C." is provided with a ring, 
 which is plain, and worn on the third finger of 
 the left hand, as the wedding ring; or it may 
 be worn on the corresponding finger of the right 
 hand. As all ladies wear rings, these "B. C.'s" 
 are evidently exercising a privilege common to all 
 Christian countries without arousing any distrust. 
 These are the articles generally used in public, 
 and by them, or any one of them, with certain 
 grips of the hand, a "B. C." can make herself 
 known to any of the Fathers, without detection by 
 
48 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAKRIAGE. 
 
 strangers. But the most private and cherished arti- 
 cles of insignia are the twelve napkins or handker- 
 chiefs used at any or every consecrated union. 
 These women are taught that the seed or " blessed 
 nature," as they call it, of these Fathers is pure, 
 holy, and precious, as was that of the Holy Ghost 
 or Jesus Christ, and that it would be a sacrilege, a 
 desecration of holy things, to allow one drop or 
 particle of it to be wasted, or to fall to the ground, 
 or to touch anything not blessed especially for 
 its reception. Every female, therefore, while in 
 the act of serving these Fathers, must have one 
 of these handkerchiefs so arranged as to save all 
 the " blessed nature " that might be in danger 
 of being lost. A second " blessed napkin " must 
 be ready for the Father to use for the prevention 
 of wastage; a third is used by him after wash- 
 ing; a fourth by the " B. C." aft-er the ablutions; 
 a fifth is needed to wipe or purify the vessels 
 employed while washing: all these must be taken 
 care of by the " B. C," and washed apart from 
 all other articles, and in the purest water (holy 
 water, perhaps,) that cau be found. Then all the 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 49 
 
 water used for such purposes must be poured into 
 a pail (it ought to be Messed) and thrown into 
 some remote corner of the yard, where no one 
 will be likely to desecrate it by walking on or 
 over it, or ii must be emptied into a "Sacrarium," 
 and be carried by a pipe into the ground. They 
 claim that every particle must be treated with as 
 much respect and reverence as the particles of the 
 consecrated host that adhere to the " purificator" 
 or " corporal " during mass. 
 
 Now many of these Fathers visit Europe, 
 Canada, and different parts of the United States, 
 and in all their travels, they can recognize a 
 " B. C." as easily as they can count the beads, 
 or mumble a '"Pater Noster^'' 
 
 If any change is made in the grips, insignia, 
 letters, etc., etc., for the greater security of the 
 members, the old features of recognition are re- 
 tained until all members are familiar with the 
 new; and even then sufficient of the old are con- 
 tinued to prevent mistakes. Safety and certainty 
 must be preserved in these very important matters. 
 
50 SUBSTITUTION FOB MAERIAGE. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 THE BOOK. 
 
 A book containing the rules and instructions 
 for the confraternity is given to every " B. C." 
 about the time of initiation. It is of such im- 
 portance th^t it must be kept in a very secret place. 
 The moment any one of them is suspected of 
 infidelity to the order or its obligations, the book 
 is taken from her. A portion of this book is 
 devoted to private directions as to the care o^ 
 the health, the cleanliness of the body, and the 
 manner of using and keeping the napkins, or 
 handkerchiefs. Regulations governing the several 
 duties, as praying, attending mass, receiving com- 
 munion, the paying of weekly or monthly fees, 
 are given at considerable length. The language 
 of several portions of this book will bear two 
 interpretations; the hidden and secret meaning is 
 known only to the initiated, while the phxin, ob- 
 vious meaning would not fully reveal the true 
 character of the organization, of which it is the 
 exponent or mouthpiece, though some of- the tech- 
 
aUBSTITUTION FOR MA.RRIAUE. 51 
 
 nical expressions used might awaken curiosity, 
 inquiry or suspicion, if a copy should fall into 
 the hands of persons not acquainted with the 
 doings of the societies. 
 
 There is no meiition of place, or person, on 
 or in the book, nothing written that would lead 
 to personal or local exposure, or bring odium on 
 the Church. This curious document has been 
 printed for some years at one of the institutions 
 of Papal education in the Western States, though 
 the chief centres of distribution h^e been in 
 the Middle and Eastern States, with one very 
 important centre for the Southern States. This 
 book, or manual, is sei4 from the printing office 
 to these depots of distribution for the greater 
 convenience of the members. Some of the head 
 officers reside at or near these centres, others near 
 the printing establishment. Efforts have been 
 recently made to have the printing done either 
 in one of the Eastern or Middle States, and this 
 change, if not already made, will soon be accom- 
 plished. 
 
 Though the printing establishment has been 
 
52 8UB8TITUTIOK FOR MAKEIAGE. 
 
 considered the headquarters, still the chief officer 
 of the entire association resides many hundred 
 miles east of it. A large supply of these books 
 and insignia is constantly kept at or near his 
 residence and cathedral; and no person can obtain 
 a copy of this book without this man's endorse- 
 ment, or a recommendation from one of the 
 subordinate officers of the society. When this 
 book is sent to a member, it must be sent to 
 her pastor, if he is one of the F.s, or to some 
 one who is* a member, as the greatest caution 
 must be employed to secure its safe transmission 
 and delivery. 
 
 For a long time the liooks were sent in pack- 
 ages of magazines, or other printed matter, but 
 as that was considered unsafe, it has been aban- 
 doned for the safer method of sending them in 
 sealed parcels. The Fathers often take a number 
 of them in their trunks or satchels, as that is 
 the surest and cheapest way of transportation. 
 
 A few months ago, some persons, learning of 
 the existence and operations of these associations, 
 watched the mails for the purpose of capturing 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MAKEIAGE. 53 
 
 some of these books, and found that many of 
 the packages sent from that place were very care- 
 fully sealed; they could not open them, as the 
 laws forbid the breaking of seals, or packages 
 that are sealed. Thus the laws and the govern- 
 ment, without knowing or intending it, are a pro- 
 tection to the circulation of a book which was 
 written to aid in fostering the impurities of a 
 set of lecherous bishops and priests, with num- 
 bers of their female subjects. 
 
 Should any " B. C." give an outsider a copy 
 of this book with a key to its real and immor- 
 al meaning, of course the whole affair would be 
 met by a prompt denial from those most inter- 
 ested. If her name, or the name of any other 
 " B. C." were published, as it might be, then the 
 disgrace of herself and family would be inevi- 
 table; the woman's guilt or connection with this 
 bestial society serves actually to hide and pro- 
 tect the lewd operators and leaders. Still, there 
 are a few whose vigilance has not ceased, and 
 whose zeal is greater than ever to unearth this 
 villainy; and there are certain men and localities 
 
54 SUBSTITUTION FOK MARRIAGE. 
 
 that are watcbed with a never-tiring and unflagging 
 interest. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 PLACES AND ABEANGEJtENTS. 
 
 A list of the females is usually kept in the 
 vestry, priest's house, or school house, where the 
 " B. C.'s " may see it every morning before or 
 after mass, if they desire. There is a frame with 
 a wooden back having many squares or blocks 
 marked upon it, like a checker board, and on 
 each square the name of one of the " B. C."s " 
 is written or printed. A hole is bored in each 
 block, and in it a little peg is inserted. When 
 the peg is out, the " B. C." whose name is in 
 that square knows that she is required b}' the 
 Priest or Bishop that morning. When the " B. C." 
 is absent, her name is removed from the frame. 
 In some parishes, however, the order of using 
 the peg is reversed. 
 
 The Father, before leaving the sanctuary, after 
 saying mass, notices where these " B. C.s '" have 
 
SUBSTITUTION POR MAERIAGE. 55 
 
 pews, or the places where they generally kneel 
 during service. Then he makes his selection from 
 those present. Having taken oif his vestments, and 
 made a mock thanksgiving halt of a fev\r minutes 
 in the church, he takes the peg out, or in some 
 unsuspicious manner, makes known his good pleasure 
 to the one elected, who gladly obeys, if possible. 
 But if, through sickness, company, or other un- 
 locked for circumstance, she cannot comply, she 
 whispers to the F. the fact, or hands him a note 
 containing the excuse. In some congregations, 
 every " B. C." knows the day or week of her 
 service beforehand, and the necessary arrangements 
 are completed in the confessional. 
 
 The priest's housekeeper, or so-called niece, 
 even when she is a member, often becomes jeal- 
 ous of these favorite " B. C.'s," and manifests 
 much reluctance if in any way she is to show 
 courtesy or kindness while they are present, and 
 many a tempest is raised in the priest's house 
 by these fair inmates. So priests, as well as other 
 men, are made to feel that "Hell has no fury like 
 a woman scorned." 
 
56" SUBSTITUTIOK FOR MAEEIAGB. 
 
 This criminal performance often takes place 
 immediately after mass, and before breakfast al- 
 most every day when the F. is at home, and 
 well enough to attend to his duties, this one 
 included. 
 
 A common place for the performance of these 
 special obligations is a room in the Father's house 
 which is kept for that particular purpose, and is 
 frequently taken care of by his housekeeper, if 
 she be a member, otherwise the " B. C' who 
 serves that day cleans and regulates it to suit 
 herself. Sometimes there is a room reserved for 
 this business in the parish school-house, whenever 
 that can be done without awakening suspicion, 
 or creating scandal. A neat little bed, called a 
 bed of the holy family, is blessed by one of the 
 F.'s, and consecrated to this use. A statue of 
 Mary, with the infant Jesus in her arms, covered 
 with a white veil, stands in one corner of the 
 room. Two or more blessed candles are burning 
 at the foot of the statue, or on a small altar 
 which is usually kept in these rooms, or in rooms 
 in the homes of these " B. C."s " There are 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARKIAGE. 57 
 
 rooms elegantly and sumptuously furnished for 
 this purpose in the homes of the higher digni- 
 taries, in which these officials entertain for a 
 considerable time their most favored and beautiful 
 "B. C.'s" Some of these titled embassadors of the 
 Pope spend many an hour on their knees, revel- 
 ing in the presence of, and fondling their charming 
 dulciana or nymph de pretre. Many thousand 
 dollars have been expended on these women, and 
 many a time has the chant, with the words so 
 often sung at the offertory of the mass, been 
 poured into the ear of these adorable darlings. 
 The choirs may not understand the meaning of 
 the words, but the F.'s do know, and express 
 their full, deep meaning, with all the fire of 
 passion and lust, when singing or interpreting 
 them for the amusement of the " B. C/s," whose 
 presence thrills and inspires these holy men of God 
 who rapturously translate in the quiet of the 
 "blessed room:" " sponsa mea-, dilecta veni, 
 amplecti te desidero?'' Then they ask, " Do you 
 understand, my darling, all these words imply?" 
 When they receive the answer, "no," they then 
 
68 SUBSTITUTIOlSr FOK MAKRIAGB. 
 
 say: "These words are sacred, and are used by 
 the Holy Church of God to express the intense 
 love and heart-felt desire I now have, at this 
 moment, for you, and to embrace you as my 
 true spouse in the Lord Jesus Christ; for the 
 Church desires that the clergy, as married people, 
 ought to show and feel the same burning affec- 
 tion and admiration for Jesus, for his people, for 
 his elect and cherished daughters, of whom you 
 are the most worthy, my own blessed creature, 
 and lovely spouse." Such is a fair specimen of 
 the language used by these pious F.'s when mak- 
 ing over, or transforming, their flock of sheep, 
 which, in time, become shorn of all power of 
 resistance, and as pliable as wax or putty. 
 
 Protestants, together with Papists, have been 
 very generous in patronizing big fairs, and swelling 
 the treasury of this Church by liberal donations 
 for the ostensible purpose of building a " new 
 cathedral," "orphan asylum.", or the support of 
 seminaries, and various institutions of supposed 
 charity, when, in reality, a large portion of such 
 money has been expended on the persons, or for 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MABEIAGE. 59 
 
 the entertainment of these "B. C.'s" while the 
 remainder is retained for various uses, such as 
 buying the favor of the Pope, for real estate 
 speculations, for sundry securities, bonds, and the 
 many popular stocks that are put upon the 
 market, to say nothing of the large supplies of 
 "Holland Gin," "Choice Madeira," first-class 
 "Cognac Brandy," pure "Bourbon," "Old Irish," 
 and " Scotch Whiskey," strong enough, and firey 
 enough, to send a torch-light procession through 
 their brain and stomach. These supplies are 
 generally of more consequence to a. genuine 
 Papal priest or bishop than the presence of 
 the grace of God. Imagine one of these apostles, 
 one of these poor, humble, abstemious represen- 
 tatives of God having constantly in his cellar or 
 vault from |300 to |3,000 worth of such stuff, 
 while hundreds of his parishioners are starving 
 for bread! And this is not a rare case, but one 
 of very common occurrence, especially in the 
 cities and large towns, or rich farming districts. 
 Now, as it is a sin to rob the people, poor or 
 rich, Papist or non-Papist, all those who conceal 
 
60 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAKEIAGE. 
 
 the fraud, or support this huge system of fraud, 
 are partakers of her guilt. They who put their 
 hands to pitch or polluted rottenness will surely 
 be defiled. 
 
 Apartments are often fitted up in some favorite 
 convent for one of these lordly Fathers, where 
 he can spend a few days in private pleasure and 
 meditation with his chosen " B. C." The excuse 
 assigned for these episcopal visits is the giving 
 of the veil, or receiving the vows of females 
 who have abandoned this wicked world, and are 
 prepared to devote their remaining days to God, 
 or to that Church, in a nunnery. Some of the 
 nuns are members of this secret organization, 
 and are bound to serve the F."s as the " B. C.'s" 
 who are still in the world. Many of the nuns, 
 like many of the priests, and few of the bishops. 
 are not members, and know nothing concerning 
 its existence, oaths, and duties. 
 
 Sisters or nuns are not allowed to become 
 members of this secret society before they have 
 spent four years in the convent after " making 
 their profession;" they are not usually admitted. 
 
SUBSTITUTIOX FOE MAEEIAGE. 61 
 
 in fact, before serving five, six, or seven years 
 after they have taken their final vows, and have 
 received all the insignia peculiar to the sister- 
 hood vrhich they join. The parents or friends 
 of the young ladies about to become nuns, attend 
 the grand ceremony or wedding of these brides 
 of Jesus Christ; which wedding may be only 
 the foreshadowing of the real marriage, when, 
 blessed anew, they become privileged to enter 
 into the joy awaiting them in their union with 
 these Fathers who are the true messengers of 
 Jesus. Many priests of the diocese and vicinity 
 are invited to participate in the festivities. A 
 grand dinner or repast is furnished. The young 
 ladies who attend school at the convent generally 
 get a holiday, and right well do they enjoy it, 
 as the sisters spare no pains to make all things 
 pleasing and attractive. During the afternoon, the 
 visitors return home. Some of the nuns resume 
 their ordinary duties, others, with the pupils, con- 
 tinue the relaxation and merriment to a late hour, 
 while to the eye of the public, the whole affair 
 is solemn and impressive, and in reality it is. 
 
62 ' SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAGE. 
 
 The lordly celebrant, who, at times, was jolly, 
 prayerful, and evidently absorbed in deep thought, 
 suddenly becomes very much fatigued, and quietly 
 withdraws to the apartments so tastefully, and 
 in some respects gorgeously, arranged for his 
 special ease and pleasure. Nothing more is known 
 to the public, unless the newspapers write up 
 and report the remarkable event; and remarkable 
 it is to find free women in this America vow 
 themselves, hody-, irain, reason, will-, soul, and 
 all into that life of slavery, not knowing what 
 may be required of them in the years to come 
 by these spiritual vultures, not knowing the day 
 when they may be dismissed in disgrace, or pois- 
 soned in secret, as many good women have been, 
 for no other reason than that the bishop or 
 superioress desires it for the gratification of per- 
 sonal anger, revenge, jealously, or self-interest, 
 which last is the ruling passion or motive in 
 many instances. 
 
 But to return to the giving of the veil. The 
 performance of his lordship in the forenoon was 
 barely a circumstance, compared with the thrill- 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEEIAGE. 63 
 
 ing after-piece. Everything was done to make 
 the " episcopal visitation " pleasing and success- 
 ful. The silver for the table, with many rich 
 ornaments for the rooms, were sent from the 
 episcopal palace, for the occasion, lest the convent 
 might not have a sufficient supply of costly and 
 elaborate articles, fitting to do ample honor to 
 the prince (the bishop) who had come to sojourn 
 for a brief period in that abode. The best and 
 most palatable food is provided in abundance. 
 The choicest liquors are there from his own 
 cellar. The cooking is a la mode, and all is 
 done to perfection, as few persons know better, 
 or can more fully appreciate the good things of 
 this life than the rotund Fathers, mothers, sisters, 
 or brothers of this Church. 
 
 When all things are ready, his lordship, who 
 has been spending an hour or more conversing 
 with his "B. C," and arranging for the enter- 
 tainment of the evening, is politely notified and 
 escorted to the banquet chamber, that is just 
 ablaze with candleabras or gas-jets, and the bright 
 eyes of the fair guests. He enters, takes a seat 
 
64 SUBSTITUTION FOB MAKRIAGE. 
 
 at the head of the table, and when the favored 
 few are seated in order, he "says grace," or 
 asks a blessing. Some of the sisters wait on 
 table, and consider it a great honor; Then the 
 fun begins, the time being enlivened by laughing, 
 talking, punning, and repartee, which cause the 
 spirits to rise sometimes beyond the limits of 
 true etiquette. To give additional zest to the 
 mirthful season, some Cecilia in a room near by 
 performs upon the harp or piano, and sings a 
 few classic pieces, or sacred melodies, with an 
 occasional comic song interspersed, to give variety 
 and humor. All this makes the hearts of those 
 assembled glow and thrill with pleasurable emo- 
 tions. Meantime, some of the sisters make prep- 
 arations for a meeting of all the inmates, to be 
 held in one of the large parlors or halls after 
 supper. The bell rings, all assemble, and his 
 episcopal highness, as full as a tick, is accom- 
 panied to his throne, or lai-ge chair, when one 
 of the most beautiful girls, attended by others 
 vieing in loveliness, approaches his lordship, bows, 
 and reads an address prepared for the occasion, 
 
SUBSTITUTIOK FOE MAERIAGB. 65 
 
 in which all the good qualities that could be 
 imagined as belonging to the best and greatest 
 men, are described in glowing and elaborate terms. 
 The intoxication of such eulogies enters into the 
 very soul of this favored man, and he accepts 
 all as true, though knowing and feeling they 
 are as false as flattery and the prolific brain of 
 an imaginative girl can make them. He is 
 pleased ; his heart is melted. While thus on 
 fire with delight; joy, too ravishing for tears, 
 runs like quicksilver through every fibre of his 
 being, and beams like a sun-rift on his face; 
 he then rises, and, in broken accents, says: "At 
 this moment, my dear young ladies, I cannot find 
 fitting words to express to you my feelings of 
 gratitude and appreciation for the sentiments of* 
 filial regard and true esteem which you have 
 just conveyed to me in the name of all the 
 good sisters, and your dear young lady classmates, 
 and in honor, I am sure, of those blessed souls 
 who have made this day memorable on earth by 
 severing their connections with the outside world 
 forever and have vowed to become the faithful 
 
bb SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEHIASE. 
 
 spouses of Jesus Christ. Pray for them, my dear 
 children, and for the other sisters, that they may 
 have grace to persevere in this holy calling, and 
 oh! may some of you be also blessed with a 
 desire to leave this world, with all its vanities, 
 pleasures, luxuries, and all those things that are 
 so pleasing to the senses, and to follow Jesus 
 Christ in all humility, with heroic mortification 
 of the flesh, in perfect chastity, poverty and 
 obedience, as the sisters, the priests, and the 
 bishops do. Pray for all these, as I will pray 
 for you all." Then one of the sisters gives the 
 signal for all to kneel and receive the bishop's 
 blessing, which he bestows by making the sign of 
 the cross. He then seats himself again to enjoy 
 a few more selections of music, some songs, and 
 perhaps a chorus from the company. Then they 
 may repair to the chapel to attend the " Benedic- 
 tion of the Blessed Sacrament.'" "'Night prayers" 
 are said, and the young ladies retire for the 
 night. 
 
 The bishop then goes to his rooms, which are 
 adapted to his tastes, wants and privacy. A fair 
 
SUBSTITUTION- FOR MARRIAttE. 67 
 
 supply of choice things to eat and drink, is 
 left on table. The " Blessed Creature," whether 
 nun or women of the world, is usually in the 
 bed-room before he enters, or she soon follows 
 him. All is hushed, save the gentle footsteps of 
 the sisters, passing and repassing to extinguish 
 the lights, and examine the doors before they 
 retire for the night. Then the bishop and the 
 " B. C." spend two or more hours in rapturous 
 gratification, and finally close their eyes in repose, 
 there to lie till " the grey dawn is breaking," 
 when all crimes, all foulness, all deeds born of 
 darkness generally terminate. 
 
 It frequently happens that, instead of a nun, 
 some '■ B. C." who is a convert from Protestant- 
 ism is invited by his lordship to meet him there, 
 to spend some days and nights with him. When 
 that is the case, the preparations are almost as 
 on the occasion of giving the veil, and the sisters 
 belonging to the convent, who know the whole 
 secret, manage to disturb or visit him as little as 
 possible. The excuse which the bishop gives for 
 spending so much time with this " B. C." is 
 
bo SUBSTITUTIOSr FOE MAEEIAGE. 
 
 that she, being a convert, needs much private 
 instruction on many matters of importance per- 
 taining to their religion ; and of course he is 
 supposed to be employed in making plain all 
 difficult points of doctrine and practice. 
 
 He is decidedly practical with this "B. C-.." 
 but hardly so much so with male converts. He 
 probably wishes to have the inscription that is 
 hung up in his room, or elsewhere, verified in 
 himself to the- very letter," so that this "Blessed 
 Creature," and others who know him intimately, 
 can exclaim with truth and pleasure : " Virga 
 tua et baculus tuus, ipsa me consolata sunt?'' 
 " TTiy rod and thy staff have consoled me." As 
 a certain priest ( Father F. ) once remarked of 
 these private performances with these creatures : 
 " The bishop, or priest, who devotes so much 
 time to these converted ladies, is privately confirm- 
 ing them in grace, or infusing the faith in 
 what he thinks the most natural and efficacious 
 manner! " 
 
 The preference shown for these converts by 
 the bishop, or priest, causes considerable unpleas- 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOB MAEBIAGE. 69 
 
 antness, or even jealousy, among the nuns who, 
 by being members of the organization, think they 
 are more worthy of affection, and deserve the 
 pleasures and privileges of their blessed marriage 
 on such occasions. Yet, owing to their oath, they 
 dare not complain, or attempt to expose the 
 Father, but must remain silent and yield to his 
 desires. 
 
 When the bishop wishes one of these converts 
 to meet him at the convent, his own palace, or 
 elsewhere, for the purposes described, he usually 
 supplies her with all the money she requires for 
 jewelry and other fixings to make her attractive 
 and increase his happiness when in her company. 
 Such a favorite "B. C." has often received from 
 $1,000 to $5,000 at one time for one such visit. 
 One of these " B. C.'s " received $15,000 a year 
 while she endured the service and continued faith- 
 ful; another obtained the neat sum of $30,000 one 
 year, but then she was, in the estimation of the 
 bishop, the very pink of all perfection. She had 
 a cultivated mind, a fine physique, a classic head, 
 and was a descendant of a family that once had 
 
70 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAREIAGB. 
 
 rank, wealth, and social influence. She became a 
 member of this iniquitous society of "B. C.'s" and 
 served many of the F.'a, from the chaplain of the 
 nuns to the hoary - headed sinners who wear the 
 purple and scarlet. She has been receiving, until 
 very recently, large sums of money from these 
 men, that she might be at ease, and be generous 
 in her offerings to different churches. She gave 
 a portion to help relieve — rather increase — the 
 Purcell frauds and scandals in Cincinnati. 
 
 The letters of love and confidence which she, 
 and others, received from some of these F.'s were 
 rare specimens and morsels of the kind. Some 
 were teeming with amorous quotations from the 
 pen of Byron, Shelley, Moore, and Shakespeare, 
 and were sanctified, as it were, by the touching 
 whispers of the Old Testanient, particularly the 
 gushing sentiments of the Song of Solomon. 
 
 This "B. C." had a small trunk filled with 
 such epistles, rich ornaments, and valuable trinkets 
 which she had received while so highly esteemed 
 as a member of the organization. 
 
 In these letters, one could see the intense 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEEIAGB. 71 
 
 jealousy which these F.'s manifested, at times, 
 against each other. In their great impetuosity or 
 vehemence of feeling they often gave the real 
 names of those whom they disliked, and wished 
 to injure, for monopolizing the charms and loving 
 services of her, or some one of the " B. C.'s " with 
 whom she was acquainted. When sober, and 
 sufficiently cautious, they signed only their initi- 
 als, or the name of some saint, understood by 
 the lady; but when under the iniluence of liquor, 
 wrote names in full. 
 
 They generally, though not in every instance, 
 wrote at the top or bottom of the letter, or in 
 the " post-scriptum," the name of the place where 
 the letter was written — especially if it were not 
 the old, place. They always gave the number of 
 the house, the name of the street, or avenue, also 
 the name of the street nearest to the one on 
 which they had rooms ready for a grand time 
 with the " B. C." One letter, or one parcel of 
 letters, for they were kept in packages belonging 
 to the respective Fathers, explained or cleared away 
 any doubt, mist, or obscurity that might surround 
 
72 SUBSTITUTION FOB MABEIAGE. 
 
 the schemes, purposes, operations, or names of 
 either persons or places. The frequent flashes of 
 anger, hatred, and revenge were at times amusing 
 and terrific, serving, like the lightning's lurid glare 
 in a dark and stormy night, to throw many 
 gleams of light on the path of the weary trav- 
 eler, assisting him to find his way with certainty 
 and safety. This woman was, like so many of 
 the " B. C.'s," full of passion, and of an enthu- 
 siastic, intensely emotional and religious chara<!ter. 
 having in her nature powerful elements of the 
 romantic, sentimental and visionary. Her feelings 
 overruled reason, especially in this Church and 
 secret institution, and " she loved not wisely, but 
 too well." 
 
 Her constitution began to weaken, she became 
 diseased in body, so ill and feeble that she. at 
 last, felt the cold, clammy chill of death touch 
 her brow and freeze her vitals. In this condition, 
 with the terrible uninterrupted pain of remorse 
 gnawing at her heart-strings, the accumulated 
 guilt of years resting like a heavy weight upon 
 her conscience, she thought of her husband and 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MAKKIAGE. 73 
 
 children, whom she loved and honored before she 
 had been converted to the Papal Church, and 
 whom she had neglected and disgraced secretly. 
 Tears of regret and repentance flowed freely from 
 the fountains so long dried up, under the glare 
 and evil influence of that religion of mockeries, 
 whose frightful crimes are concealed from public 
 notice, and are so enormous that few people will 
 believe them until they have become victims. 
 
 Then, the thought of a frowning, displeased 
 God, before whose bar of judgement she expected 
 soon to stand, with the long record of impurity, 
 made her form a resolution to abandon that life, 
 if she recovered, and, in case of her death, to 
 cause this " Substitution for Marriage," and the 
 Church that upheld it and accomplished her ruin, 
 to be exposed to the world. Accordingly, she 
 placed many of the letters, badges, and presents 
 received by her while a true "B. C," in the 
 hands of a trustworthy physician, and two friends 
 in whom she had implicit confidence, with the 
 earnest request of a dying woman that, after 
 her death, they would publish an account of the 
 
74 SUBSTITUTION FOE MABRIAGB. 
 
 existence and practices of these female secret 
 societies, as kept in the very heart, head, and 
 soul of the Papal Church, for the purpose of 
 gratifying the lust of so many of her clergy. 
 
 She repeatedly requested them to do this work 
 as thoroughly as could be done, but, if possible, 
 to save her family from disgrace. One of the 
 " two friends " was a priest, a hardworking, hon- 
 est, temperate priest, not a member of any of 
 these societies, but one who had been most un- 
 justly and brutishly dealt with by a cruel fop of 
 a bishop, and some of his vilest priests and hire- 
 lings. His knowledge of priestly, episcopal, and 
 sisterly injustice, hypocrisy, and deviltry in thous- 
 ands of ways not known to the common people, 
 was extensive, but this institution was too much 
 for his belief, until he was thoroughly convinced 
 by these numerous proofs, and the honest testi- 
 mony of the lady preparing to appear before 
 her Creator. 
 
 The lady recovered, however, but was so much 
 annoyed by some of the F.'s, who still persisted 
 in visiting her, notwithstanding her frequent ob- 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOB MAEEIAGE. 75 
 
 jections, that she finally decided to leave that 
 city, and, with her family, seek another home, 
 where she would not be known in person to 
 any of the Papal clergy. 
 
 Sickness, of course, was the ground for leav- 
 ing the city, and the excuse for refusing to 
 serve these F.'s. She still retains many of the 
 letters and presents, with a copy of the "Book," 
 while she leaves the others, with another copy in 
 the possession of the physiciain and two friends. 
 
 She was afraid to keep a lounge, settee, or 
 sofa, in her room, lest one of these strong, burly, 
 passionate Fathers might call when somewhat 
 intoxicated, and force her to comply with his 
 desires. So great was her fear that she often 
 kept the keys out of the doors when two or 
 more of these Fathers called together; and she 
 usually left one door open towards the dining 
 room, another open towards the sitting room or 
 hall; while conversing with them, she appeared 
 to be busy at some important work, and thus 
 managed to keep herself at a safe distance from 
 them when present. The only relief or escape 
 
76 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 from such tortures was a change to a strange 
 locality, far away from their reach and control. 
 In speaking of the enormities known to her, 
 she has no mercy for the system, and its prin- 
 cipal leaders, who have drawn so many of their 
 subjects into such abnormal, unnatural, and dan- 
 gerous conditions, by their false teachings and 
 baneful dealings. She laments over the dangers 
 to which Protestants expose their daughters by 
 sending them to convent schools to be educated. 
 While admitting that many of the sisters are 
 good, and will not intentionally corrupt the 
 Protestant girls, still they do and must, if true 
 to their calling, plant the seeds of Papalism in 
 their minds and hearts, in just such a way, 
 that, in time, the clergy can complete the con- 
 version, and so draw them into these societies, 
 if sufBciently pliant, and otherwise qualified. Thus 
 the sisters prepare the way, although not always 
 knowing the evil results that will follow. Such 
 is this woman's experience. 
 
 She served as a spouse or consecrated prostitute 
 to nineteen different Roman Catholic clergymen 
 
SUBSTITUTION- FOR MAEEIAQE. 77 
 
 in less than two years. No wonder she loathes 
 their doings, and fears their vengeance. 
 
 Another lady, a convert from Protestantism, 
 was induced to become a " B. C," and served 
 thirty-seven different Fathers, all members of this 
 organization. This indulgence brought severe 
 prostration and sickness . upon her, and death 
 finally put an end to all her sufferings, and 
 removed her from her devoted family, who never 
 mistrusted her piety or virtue. 
 
 Another lady who had always been a Papist, 
 and whose husband is yet a subject of the 
 Papacy, served twenty-three of these Fathers. 
 She suffered much in trying to produce abortions, 
 but, by good nursing and medical treatment, 
 partially recovered her health. She abandoned 
 the society and persuaded her husband to leave 
 the State. 
 
 Then, two unmarried young ladies, and real 
 sisters, belonging to a highly respectable family, 
 became initiated, and have served as " B. C.'s"; 
 one served twenty-eight, and the other served 
 thirty-two of these Fathers. They have not fully 
 
78 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 abandoned the confraternity, but have not observed 
 any of the rules, etc., for a year and more. 
 They seldom go to mass, never pay anything to 
 support the Church. Owing to their high posi- 
 tion in life, they move in the most aristocratic 
 ranks of society, without the least suspicion 
 resting on them. They appear to have but little 
 fear of the clergy and their female slaves, as they 
 evidently know more than can now be published 
 on this subject and they would expose the 
 whole affair, in the twinkling of an eye, if they 
 could only do so, and completely avoid the shame 
 it would bring on their good parents, their many 
 friends, and themselves for their having led such 
 an impure life. 
 
 Three young ladies, children of Roman Cath- 
 olic parents, have been members, and served, the 
 one seven, the other nine, and the third thirteen 
 of these Fathere. They have given it up on 
 account of their own sufferings, and the cruelties 
 inflicted on two of the members for disobedience 
 to the rules and the Fathers. 
 
 Few physicians know of these associations, and 
 
SUBSTITUTION' JOB MAERIAGE. 79 
 
 their operations. Four or five know all the 
 important facts. Those who are acquainted with 
 some of the members and proofs, do not publish 
 them lest they might bring ruin upon many 
 worthy and happy families. Even the one re- 
 quested by the dying lady to publish the affair 
 after her death, hesitated through fear of injuring 
 her innocent children and husband. Yet there 
 are others wto stand prepared to' fully expose 
 and destroy this moral plague, whenever they can 
 do it without harm or detriment to the living. 
 
 These guilty Fathers, then, have been allowed 
 to escape, and go through life with as much 
 apparent security as though they were angels; 
 many of them march at the head of processions, 
 and iihpoverish their subjects with as much arro- 
 gance and avarice as did the old-time Fathers of 
 the Inquisition, who gloried in burning, drowning, 
 suffocating, and torturing, with all kinds of cruel- 
 ties, tens of thousands of innocent beings, who 
 desired to worship God according to the dictates 
 of their own consciences, rather than according 
 to Papal dictation. 
 
80 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 In that Church, these men of to-day (with 
 the cries of ruined young ladies and the blood 
 of their murdered infants going up to heaven 
 against them) take part in chanting the " Te 
 Deum," " Gloria in excelsis," as did the Pope, 
 and many of his clergy, after the horrid mas- 
 sacre of St. Bartholomew, while the streets of 
 Paris were flowing with innocent blood, in August, 
 1572. The old spirit of cruelty, fraud, murder, 
 and arrogance continues to this day, in that 
 un-Christian system. Pretending to be God's own 
 people, they readily quote such passages as the 
 following, to justify their deeds of iniquity, and 
 intimidate their victims: "The sword without, 
 and terror within shall destroy both the young 
 men and virgins, the suckling also, with the 
 man of grey hairs." — Deuteronomy, 32d chapter, 
 25th verse. " That thy foot may be dipped in 
 the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of 
 thy dog in the same." — Psalm 6S, verse 23. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 PREVENTING RESULTS. 
 
 Other means, besides the supposed power of 
 masses, or the intercession of the Virgin Mary, 
 are employed by ^ these " B. C.'s" to prevent the 
 results of these criminal marriages. The Fathers 
 usually study such medical works as will enable 
 them to prepare the medicines that will produce 
 abortions, and thus keep this secret as they do 
 all others pertaining to the Institution; but 
 should the medicines prove ineffectual, then an in- 
 strument, called a forceps, or other appliance, is 
 used with success. 
 
 When the child is killed in this manner, the 
 priestly consolation offered to the mother is, that 
 the infant has received "the baptism of blood," 
 and is, therefore, happy in heaven. This cruelty 
 is performed, in most instances, without a shudder 
 or compunction of conscience, and with as much 
 gratification and satisfaction as when they drink 
 the blood of Jesus. A skillful physician may be 
 called in very difficult cases, but in nine cases 
 
82 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAGE, 
 
 out of ten, these Fathers are the real murderers. 
 One Roman Catholic lady, a physician, has 
 attended a large number of such cases during 
 the past nine years, as well as the victims of 
 priests and bishops who were not " B. C."s " 
 She rebuked some of these men for their profli- 
 gate doings, and asked them how they could say 
 mass while leading such criminal lives. They 
 laughed at her, and said, " What is the con- 
 fessional for, if we cannot get absolution as well 
 as other men?" This lady has been instru- 
 mental in saving the lives of many of these 
 infants. Some of these children were placed in 
 foundling asylums, orphanages, or other places of 
 refuge, that would screen the Church from public 
 odium; and a few of them were of the number 
 of abandoned waifs found at door-steps, and by 
 the wayside. Many people, Protestant and Cath- 
 olic, contribute largely for the support of these 
 institutions, little dreaming that they are feeding, 
 clothing, and caring for the bastard off-spring 
 of some of the Papal clergy. 
 
 This lady has often paid poor women for 
 
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 taking care of these infants at their own homes, 
 to save the mothers from infamy, and she has 
 heen obliged to report that she knew nothing 
 ■whatever of the parents. 
 
 Many of these women, having been demoral- 
 ized by the clergy, become dissipated, and are 
 often among those characters in houses of ill- 
 fame, or those who are sent to places of reform 
 and punishment. Others receive big pay to leave 
 their homes, and say nothing about these men, 
 and their escapades. They accept this, for they 
 know that if they were to speak as they ought 
 concerning the Fathers, they would be denounced 
 by their own people, and by the clergy, and 
 considered insane. The fear of persecution and 
 ■death make many bear the wrongs in silence, 
 that burn like fire, and while they long to cast 
 off the burden of their souls, their lips are 
 .sealed with a terror which is intensified by the 
 sad recollections of the cruelties heaped upon 
 others who undertook to express their knowledge 
 of these men, and their deeds of wickedness. 
 'Then, the impression made upon their minds 
 
84 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 through false teaching, that God will eternally 
 punish all who speak against that Church, or 
 any of the clergy, causes them to dread His- 
 anger; and it is not surprising when such lan- 
 guage as the following is poured into their brain: 
 " He will render vengeance to his adversaries, and 
 will be merciful unto His land, and to His 
 people." — Deuteronomy, 32d chapter, 43d verse. 
 " For a fire is kindled in mine anger, arid shall 
 burn unto the lowest hell." — Deut., 32d chap., 22d 
 verse. " I will heap mischief upon them ; I will 
 spend my arrows upon them." — Deut.. 32d chap. 
 23d verse. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 SPECIAL CASES. 
 
 A most beautiful girl was, by priestly cunning 
 and Church influence, seduced, and became a 
 " Blessed Creature," belonging to a society in one 
 of the thief cities of the United States. Her 
 beauty and educational accomplisliments made her 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEEIAGE. 85 
 
 exceedingly attractive to a large number of the 
 Fathers, whom she served most gladly for nearly 
 two years. After she had been sick several times, 
 through the brutality of these men, she became 
 so disgusted with the society, and its horrid 
 crimes, that she finally complained to some of 
 the members, who, of course, reported her mur- 
 murs to the leading pastor. He paid a little 
 attention to these reports, and soon asked the 
 young lady to serve him. This the brave girl posi- 
 tively refused, when he coolly told her that she knew 
 the terms. The girl, however, was very spirited, 
 and wrought up to such madness by the heart- 
 less gang about her, that she again refused, and 
 threatened to expose the whole concern, at the 
 risk of her own character, which she counted of 
 little value while in that particular frame of 
 mind. This pastor, with the members who had 
 heard her complain, seized her at once, and 
 hurried her upstairs to the garret, and bound 
 her round the waist with a strong rope to one 
 of the posts, then fearing she was not perfectly 
 secure, they procured a pretty heavy chain, and 
 
86 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 fastened her to a large beam, and thus left her 
 to her own reflections, thinking, as they did, 
 that she would soon repent and submit. 
 
 But in this they were disappointed, for they 
 found they had to deal with a spirit as invin- 
 cible and strong for right, as they were for 
 wrong. They brought her barely enough bread 
 and water to keep her alive had she partaken 
 of their miserable allowance; but she, the once 
 loved and petted idol, neither ate nor drank, and 
 constantly reiterated her determination to expose 
 and denounce the whole crowd, until iinally the 
 overburdened mind gave way, and she became 
 sick and crazed in that temporary prison. In her 
 fury and insanity she tore her long, beautiful 
 hair out of her head, and cursed it as being 
 one of the beauties admired by the F.'s She 
 also tore the clothing from her body into shreds, 
 and sat there raving, cursing, crying, praying, 
 while the consecrated fiends (Fathers and " B. 
 C.'s") invited a few of their associates who 
 were a little wavering or fault-finding, to witness 
 the sufferings and punishment of that poor girl, 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 87 
 
 as a specimen of what they might expect, should 
 they venture to threaten, leave, or speak against 
 the confraternity; and what is truly surprising, 
 not one of these women, either by look or 
 word, expressed the slightest pity or commisera- 
 tion for the poor victim before them. On the 
 contrary, some said: " Oh, it is good enough for 
 her, for talking as she did, and refusing to obey 
 the blessed Father; it serves her just right." 
 
 There is no telling how vice, when presented 
 in the garb of religion, may harden and destroy 
 every fibre of human sympathy or Christian 
 charity in the hearts of men and women. And 
 the cruelty of that Church alone has brought 
 mourning and ruin to tens of thousands. 
 
 This unfortunate girl lingered but a few days, 
 when death released the tired and worn-out spirit. 
 Then the scene changes. In a dimly lighted 
 chapel, with the smoke and smell of incense 
 floating through the air, the altar draped in 
 mourning, lies the heart-broken, abused girl, all 
 unconscious of the mock prayers and empty cer- 
 emonies performed seemingly for her benefit, but 
 
88 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAKEIAGE. 
 
 in reality, to show that nothing is wrong, that 
 all is well, all is proper, all is religious, all is 
 in honor of the dead and living. Of course, 
 only the select few know anything of the cir- 
 cumstances connected with her death; hence the 
 pomp and show to delude and blind those who 
 were ingnorant of what occuired. A momentary 
 glance at the dead girl (as, one by one. those 
 present take a last look) does not reveal the 
 horrible tortures that caused the death, or the 
 frightful secrets and pollutions now shut in 
 forever under the closed lips. There are no 
 relatives present, no fond mother, whose keen, 
 loving eyes might have discovered something 
 wrong in the appearance of her child; no proud 
 father to mourn over the one object his whole 
 heart was wrapt up in ; no brother or sister 
 to mingle tears of love and affection over their 
 darling sister's coffin — all is strange, all are 
 strangers, iill is mockery and deception. Yet, 
 thanks to God ! all is peace with the once 
 pure, iimocout girl, who was sent from a distant 
 home, and entrusted to these spiritual shai-ks to 
 
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 train and educate her in their faith. That is 
 the way they did it. Now let God and insulted 
 humanity be judges! 
 
 A mother superioress, who knew of the fore- 
 going case, and who was also a " B. C," became 
 very ill-natured and fretful, owing to jealousy 
 caused by the too frequent and warm loves of 
 her episcopal superior for a dashing young lady 
 convert, who became a member of one of these 
 confraternities. This young belle had, by her 
 many charms, turned the heart of this man from 
 the superioress, who had loved and served him 
 devotedly in days gone by. The young lady had 
 often visited the convent, and had been his 
 almost constant companion while there, much to 
 the annoyance of the mother, who at last became 
 so irritated that she took special pains to make 
 these visits as unpleasant as possible for both 
 parties. 
 
 Now the bishop had made this mother a con- 
 fident too many times to have a sudden or open 
 rupture, so he, while trying to be only slightly 
 disconcerted by her anger and ugliness, determined 
 
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 to have his own way, as usual, and at the same 
 time get rid of her completely, yet quietly and 
 in order. She had long wished to visit friends 
 in Europe, as her physician had advised, and 
 expressed her desire to have the sanction of the 
 bishop for such a tour. "Now is the time," 
 was all this worthy said, after thinking of this 
 plan to be rid of her presence. Accordii^lj, a 
 few words of apparant kindness were addressed to 
 her, a large and well filled purse ayowed to cover 
 all her expenses, and the irate mother, having 
 received leave of absence, and the bishop's bless- 
 ing, was sent on her way, if not rejoicing, in 
 a very comfortable condition of feeling. 
 
 Another and more pliable tool, was appointed 
 superioress, and all went happy as a marriage 
 bell for the venerable sinner. The voyage across 
 the ocean was not so helpful as hoped for, and 
 the mother was favored with a longer vacation, 
 and another supply of money. This Wcis the 
 bishop's version of the story, but there are many 
 who think she has shai-ed the fate of many 
 others, and has been put out of the way for- 
 
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 ever, lest she might, if living, become too 
 troublesome to his guilty lordship, and his com- 
 panions in crime. 
 
 A certain priest, who knew^ the particulars of 
 these and many other cases, as well as the 
 criminal conduct of this bishop, with two other 
 nuns, has had a very narrow escape from death 
 by poisoning. Three times within two years 
 have these attempts been made. The poison was 
 prepared and administered at the request of the 
 prelate, who dreaded this priest on account of 
 his knowledge of many facts, and was, therefore, 
 most anxious to silence him forever in this 
 manner. These doses were given to him either 
 in his food, or in the liquors at table; once in 
 the bishop's house, twice in the convent, where 
 he stayed for breakfast after saying mass. A 
 physician, a friend of his, was summoned, and 
 examined the food as vomited by the priest; he 
 found sufficient poison in it to- kill a pretty 
 strong man. The doctor, by his timely arrival 
 and prompt administration of the strongest and 
 best antidotes he .had in his possession, saved 
 
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 the man's life. The priest suffered a great deal 
 after his recovery from the fear of having to 
 pass through the same ordeal. 
 
 Then the bishop advised a trip to Europe, 
 but the priest did not feel strong enough to 
 undertake such a journey. Then a trip to some 
 of the American watering places was suggested, 
 and the priest went to Long Branch, but re- 
 mained there only a short time, for he discov- 
 ered that a plan was adopted to destroy him in 
 that place. 
 
 He returned, having resolved to stand his 
 ground, come what might. So he arranged with 
 his physician to watch the movements of those 
 suspected. They employed a Roman (?'atholic 
 man to assist them, when a certain bull-dog of 
 a priest, who was high in the bishop's esteem, 
 met the man, and asked him what he was 
 hanging around that convent for. The man 
 answered that he wa.s " attending to his own 
 business," and "if there wiis nothing wrong going 
 on they need not be afraid." Thereupon the 
 priest struck the man; but he would not leave 
 
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 to please the savage. Soon after the man dis- 
 appeared from the locality very suddenly, and has 
 never been heard of since. The belief is that 
 the poor man was put out of existence by 
 poison, or in some other way. 
 
 The priest whose life had been so much in 
 danger was appointed chaplain of a convent, and 
 though his duties were extremely light, had a 
 salary of $5,000 a year given by the bishop as 
 " hush money," as it was for the purpose of tying 
 his tongue, rather than a stipend for services. 
 The old serpent employed this > apparent kindness 
 to throw the priest of his guard, that the 
 former plan might still be carried into effect. 
 The priest fully understands, at this very Aour, 
 the danger of his position. What to do, he 
 does not know; where to go, he cannot tell; as 
 it is death to stay, and death to leave; and 
 he feels that favors from this Church augur little 
 that is good, no one knowing whether emoluments 
 are fraught with the elements of love or hate, or 
 whether the kiss of peace or temporary friend- 
 ship may not be nearest betrayal and crucifixion, 
 
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 for the blood of Judasism moves and stimulates 
 the body and soul of Papalism now, as of old. 
 One priest died from a loathsome disea.se, caused 
 by his excessive indulgence with the " B. C.'s '' and 
 others. When on his death-bed, he declared to 
 some of the members that he believed his soul 
 would certainly be lost, not only for the life of 
 impurity and intemperance which he had lived, 
 but for continuing to teach people what he knew 
 was wrong. He said he was sorry that he had 
 ever heard of that Church which was his final 
 ruin. He had been a Protestant minister 
 before his entering the priesthood, and gave as 
 his dying conviction that ministers who became 
 priests, are, as a rule, among the most immoral, 
 bigoted, dangerous men of that Church; they 
 leave Protestantism without feai- of persecution, 
 but they have neither the conscience nor courage 
 to abandon Papalism, which they know to be 
 false. He expired in dreadful agony of mind, 
 requesting two of his consecrated mistresses to 
 leave the society, and have it destroyed, if at 
 all possible. 
 
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 Another priest had no less than twenty-four 
 of these women, some of them nuns; though a 
 profligate and intemperate man, he still continues- 
 in charge of a large parish, and drives occasion- 
 ally, in grand style, past the houses of some of 
 the " B. C.'s" who, with their husbands, bow 
 to him with all the reverence due a saint. One 
 of the sisters teaching in the parish school, has 
 been a favorite for more than five years, and has 
 been obliged, at least three times in that period 
 to retire from dutj' and public view while being 
 freed from certain results of their intimacy. This 
 priest fairly steams with liquor, but is allowed 
 to continue as pastor, as he gives money in 
 abundance to the bishop, and is a violent up- 
 holder of the Church in all its demands. 
 
 Another priest had the service of thirty-nine 
 '• B. C.'s," and one of them was his own niece, 
 whom he had sent for some time to a convent 
 school, and then kept her in his house ; finally 
 he ruined her, and gave her $1,000 to leave that 
 locality. She never recovered from the effects 
 of the drugs given her to procure abortion, and 
 
96 SUBSTITUTIOX FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 is now a wreck mentally and physicially. This 
 man gave great scandal by his drinking and 
 dishonesty in church dealings, yet he was retained 
 in spite of the petitions of the congregation, as 
 he was wealthy; he remained, and ruled as a 
 tyrant till his death, which occurred but a few 
 years ago. The present pastor is almost as bad, 
 though much younger. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 THE REASON WHY. 
 
 Without money and without agents to dispose 
 of her merchandise, and collect the cash from 
 the people, the Papal Church would soon fall to 
 pieces. This religious church trafSc must, there- 
 fore continue for the support of the Italian 
 millionaires, and their clerical tools. It becomes 
 necessary to protect and satisfy these men, and 
 make things pleasant for them in a way that 
 will gratify their passions, blind the people, and 
 yet bring in immense revenues or profits to the 
 Church. 
 
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 The interior operations must be veiled from 
 public view, lest the people discover the frauds, 
 and fail to purchase the trumpery which is 
 designated Papal merchandise. A high premium 
 is put upon all the religious wares and fabrics 
 manufactured, or produced by the ingenuity or 
 avarice of those who run the factories in the 
 city of Rome. A ready market is found in the 
 United States, and the Pope's agents, the priests, 
 bishops, monks, and nuns, sell the goods rapidly, 
 and at very large profits, of which a large per- 
 centage is remitted to the home treasury to 
 enrich the lazy, idle Italian clergy. The market 
 quotations at present run about as follows: — 
 
 Beads — Firm. 
 
 Medals — Active. 
 
 Vestments — Fluctuating. 
 
 Kelics — Advancing. 
 
 Scapulars — Increasing. 
 
 Books — Dull. 
 
 Pictures — Easy. 
 
 Oil (Papal Petroleum) — Unsteady. 
 
 Oil (crude) — Rapid. 
 
 Oil (refined) — Quiet. 
 
 Wines— Brisk. 
 
 Holy Water— Descending. 
 
 Bottled Water of Lourdes— Languid. 
 
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 Pope's straws — Lively. 
 
 Pope's Blessings — Inactive. 
 
 Red Hats — Very dull, with slight indications of 
 activity. 
 
 Indulgences — Enonnous ! 
 
 Absolutions — Immense ! 
 
 Dispensations — Large and profitable. 
 
 Dispensations from fasting — Improving. 
 
 Dispensations from Bans — Steady. 
 
 Dispensations for Sundry Crimes — Extremely large. 
 
 Dispensations from Reserved cases — Tip-top, with 
 demands far in excess of supplies; shipments west- 
 ward heavy and increasing. 
 
 Masses for the dead — Sleepy, with a downward ten- 
 dency. 
 
 Show Masses at Weddings — Encouraging. 
 
 Show Masses at Funerals— Steady and rapid. 
 
 Masses that are Never Said — Extraordinary. 
 
 Papal Smiles (Lithographed) — Fair, but uncertain. 
 
 Papal Curses (sealed) — Tremendous. 
 
 Papal Toe, Foot, and Slipper Scents — Bids dull, and 
 very low. 
 
 Papal Calls for " Paddy's Money " — Unprecedented. 
 
 Papal Indignation (wholesale) — I'nlimited. 
 
 Papal Sighs and Schemes for the Control of the 
 United States — First-class, and without abatement. 
 
 The revenues from the sale of some of these 
 curiosities has been so great that the arch- 
 swindler of Cincinnati used to peddle beads and 
 medals on Sundiiys when giving confirmation. 
 He got them for a few cents a dozen, and sold 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 99' 
 
 them for a dollar a piece or pair. The priests, 
 if up to their duty, previously instructed the 
 children to bring (as a present) a dollar for the 
 beads or medal, which the poor little fools took 
 as a gift from the arch-bishop to his " dear 
 little boys and girls." One of these Purcellized 
 priests, who had learned all the arts of deceiving 
 and cheating, became bishop and purchased a 
 large quantity of cheap beads and medals, intend- 
 ing to clear from $3,000 to |5,000 a year by 
 peddling them every time he gave confirmation; 
 but his speculation failed, as the Belgium, German, 
 French, and Irish priests of the diocese were as 
 avaricious and grossly selfish as himself, and did 
 not train the children to have a , dollar ready. 
 He went into bankruptcy in the bead business, 
 but, to redeem his losses, or bring things up to his 
 previous calculations, he had a heavier tax levied 
 on the people to increase his annual salary, which 
 had to he paid. Rome has always prospered 
 through the folly of her people, who bow in 
 awe before her; for they do not and will not 
 learn her real character, otherwise they could see 
 
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 that it is like rubbing tallow to the quarters of 
 an over-fat bullock, to sustain or enrich these 
 wealthy church peddlers. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 GENERAL EXAMPLES. 
 
 A sister who left the convent after she had 
 been swindled out of her money and property 
 by the nuns and clergy, was cruelly treated by 
 her own brother, a priest, who desired her to 
 return to the convent life. She refused. Then 
 he pretended kindness by inviting her to spend 
 a few days xith him at a relative's house. She 
 went, not thinking or expecting that her brother 
 would do any harm to her, but she was deceived, 
 and doomed to sad disappointment in believing 
 that nature, or his religion, would prompt him 
 to be humane. Alter she reached that house, 
 he procured some drugs, and put them into 
 the pitcher of water, which he knew she must 
 use when washing her face. She used it. and 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 101 
 
 the consequence was that she had scarcely wiped 
 her face with the towel, when her eyes com- 
 menced to burn and smart. The pain became so 
 intense that she had to be removed to the 
 hospital for proper treatment, She remained 
 there many months in great agony, and almost 
 lost her eyesight forever. That brother still 
 officiates, as a worthy priest, feeling that he was 
 justified in burning the eyes out of his sister's 
 head for the good of the Church. 
 
 A young priest, McG., was turned away from 
 his parish by a bishop, commonly called "Jumping 
 Jack," whose record is black with injustice to 
 priests and laymen. This bishop wrote, on a 
 bit of paper the words, " ex informata consci- 
 entia,'' with a few other senseless words, and 
 handed the document to him. He read and 
 returned it, asking the meaning of the words, 
 and saying, "In my opinion they don't mean 
 anything." The bishop gave him no definite 
 answer, but told him to leave. After the young 
 man's departure, the " Jumping Jack " turned 
 around and said, in confidence to a person in 
 
102 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAGB. 
 
 the room, " McG. was about right when he 
 said those words meant nothing; for the bishops 
 only adopt them as a vague expression to serve 
 as a kind of protection to themselves when they 
 want to get rid of a priest they don't like. 
 They use it instead of giving details or reasons 
 
 which cannot be proved, but which, in former 
 years, got bishops into trouble." He then said 
 that ■' McG. is not a bad man, but must soon 
 go to the devil, for I am sure he cannot get a 
 place on such papers." The bishops have agreed 
 to stand by each other in dismissing and crushing 
 all those priests who undertake to find fault with 
 what the bishops do, in or out of council. This 
 "Jumping Jack," who so easily disposes of his 
 priests, lives in a palace, has an income of 
 $12,000 as rent from public buildings. So, 000 a 
 year from the people of his diocese, perquisites 
 running up to $1,500 a year, interest on $70,000. 
 besides $15,000 in Government bonds in his house, 
 bearing six per cent interest, payable in gold. He 
 was offered $250,000 ibr one church building, and 
 the block on whiili it stood, but insisted on 
 
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 getting $300,000 for it, though he never paid a 
 cent of his own money for the propertj', but 
 he and his predecessors had it scraped from the 
 people through such tools as the poor fellow he 
 so unjustly and abruptly dismissed from his holy 
 presence; he keeps a mistress near his palace, 
 and has given great scandal with nuns, and had 
 to run out of one city at night some years ago 
 on account of his doings with a young lady who 
 had been engaged to be married to a respectable 
 young man ; and he has used the knowledge he 
 got in confession to carry out his own vile pur- 
 poses. _ 
 
 Another bishop who had been accused of 
 immorality with the nuns of the Sacred Heart, 
 was summoned to Rome, where he was impris- 
 oned by his Church for his puilic scandals, and 
 for the purpose of forcing from him the sur- 
 render of valuable property which belonged to 
 himself personally. His successor obtained the 
 prisoner's signature to the deed on promising to 
 pay him $2,000 a year as his support, but 
 when he once had the title recorded, he never 
 
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 paid the money. The exiled prisoner, who had 
 thus been swindled, suffered so much torture of 
 mind that he became insane and was rescued 
 from that place of misery by two Protestant 
 gentlemen who happened to be visiting Rome 
 and found him there. He was then sent to a 
 sort of a monastery where he died an idiot a 
 few years ago ; his death and idiocy having been 
 caused by the bad treatment he received in the 
 Church, or from the effects of intemperance and 
 immoralities, as the heads of the Church have 
 asserted. 
 
 The flesh of his successor was almost .rotten 
 when he died, from impurities and excessive 
 drinking, but a high-mass and a grand funeral 
 procession made the public bow in awe and be 
 silent as to the enormities which some of the 
 people and clergy know better than their prayei-s. 
 
 Another bishop had to leave his place, for 
 letting the people have a chance to know that he 
 was keeping many beautiful women in his palace 
 as mistresses ; that he was eating meat on all 
 forl)idden days, and that he squandered $14,000 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAKBIAGE. 105 
 
 of the people's money in fitting up pleasure 
 boats for himself and companions. Complaints 
 had been sent to Rome, but no notice was 
 taken of them until publicity was given of the 
 ease by a French priest, Father B.. who had 
 the facts printed on placards, and posted along 
 the principal streets. The priest, knowing he 
 risked his life in this transaction, fled for safety. 
 The bishop had to fly at once, but was protected 
 by a bishop equally as bad, who has been pelted 
 with stones by his people, and had to leave the 
 country for Europe, where both received support, 
 and are allowed to officiate. Their guilt did not 
 disqualify them for that Church, as they had 
 saved plenty of money; the bishops and Popes 
 are of the same order, and must stand by each 
 other, if possible, till death. They are all sue- 
 cessors to the Apostles; the priests are tools, 
 agents, hired men, to do the bishop's chores or 
 errands in the different congregations. 
 
 Another bishop, not satisfied with the com- 
 panionship of several ladies, one of whom is 
 noted as a pious convert, gave public scandal 
 
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 by keeping a mistress in a hotel not many blocks 
 from his own house. Some of the Irish Papists 
 know that he has a daughter, and they fear 
 she will claim much of the church property as 
 his own child. 
 
 Another bishop, who became an arch fraud, 
 used to take a dashing young lady to Europe, 
 besides having others when at home. He finally 
 became a member of this organization of "B C."s," 
 He spent large sums of money in adorning some 
 of these "B. C.'s His letters were seen by those 
 who examined the proofs of this institution. He 
 raised as a subscription from the priests, and 
 other fools of the diocese, at least $4,500, to 
 meet the expenses of one of his love trips to 
 Europe, when going under cover of attending 
 the Vatican Council; he took the same dashing 
 damsel, who, as one of his pet priests remarked 
 -^ for he knew her at Fort Lee — " was able to 
 jump over a stone wall any time of the day or 
 night." 
 
 Another bishop was in love with a sister of 
 charity, and gave rise to much scandal by keeping 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 107 
 
 her in a room where confessions were heard, for 
 over two hours at a time, and by being over 
 intimate with her in the priest's house several 
 times. The same bishop caused great indignation 
 by his too frequent and amorous visits to nuns 
 of two orders, the " Blue Nuns," and " White 
 Bonnets." He had a pretty girl going to a 
 convent school; he made frequent visits to the 
 place on her account, and to feast his eyes 
 on the other girls, and not satisfied with the 
 feasting in the study hall or class room, he 
 actually placed himself in that part of the yard 
 where he was sure to have full satisfaction in 
 watching as they passed to and fro in obeying 
 the necessary calls of nature. He has promoted 
 and retained priests in office whom he often 
 charged with immorality, intemperance, dishonesty, 
 and perjury, while he dismissed those who were 
 free from such badness. He keeps a lady in fine 
 style who has two children, supposed to be his 
 own offspring. 
 
 Some priests used to save up all the money 
 they could for five or six weeks, and then go 
 
108 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEEIAGE. 
 
 to a city, for a spree or debauch, and spend 
 both time and money with women of bad repute 
 in hotels, or in houses of ill-fame; many, how- 
 ever, were so bold and fearless that they would, 
 from time to time, drive in a hack from their 
 churches to spend the evening, or most of the 
 night, in one of these houses in their own 
 parish, or at least in the city where they lived, 
 and often stayed but a few blocks from their 
 parish houses. They usually went in disguise, 
 by wearing unclerical clothes, and by fastening on 
 a big moustache or whiskers. The common 
 maxims of these men being, "Do as you like, 
 but never be caught," and " If you are accused 
 always deny, but never admit." 
 
 A priest found his photograph in one of these 
 ill-famed houses, which a neighboring priest had 
 left there; he took his picture, and threatened 
 to shoot the other priest. 
 
 Another priest had a pretty niece visiting 
 him, when his assistant priest took such a 
 fancy to her that he procured some drugs, and, 
 having invited her into his room, tried to satisfy 
 
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 his evil passions with her; he tried to pejsuade 
 the girl that all the consequences would be 
 prevented by her using a little of the medicine, 
 which he had prepared, and which, he said, 
 " never failed." The uncle, on hearing of the 
 affair, bought a revolver, and would have shot 
 the assistant, had he not fled. 
 
 One of these priests committed . incest with 
 his own sister, and actually baptised the child, 
 and entered its name on the church records. 
 
 Another was guilty of the same sin with his 
 sister, and used to send her off (on pretended 
 visits) to be freed from the results of their co- 
 habitation; he was also criminal with a married 
 woman and her daughter, who had a child by 
 him, which was soon put out of the way for 
 good; that same girl is living and married to a 
 farmer in Michigan. He spent nights and days 
 with another young woman near a place called 
 "18-Mile Woods." He sent "hush-money" on 
 the sly, to one of these women by his old 
 grey-headed, perjured brother, who went under 
 false names for years to screen the priest and 
 
110 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 
 
 family. The priest obtained most of his money 
 by gouging and cheating the people, and the 
 men who worked at the church, and furnished 
 material for it. He still practices the same 
 villainy, and is allowed to officiate by the bishop, 
 who is ai5 bad, and receives from him a portion 
 of the stolen money. Truly, money covers a 
 multitude of sins in the Papal Church. 
 
 The bishop of the forgoing priest caused a 
 young lady to go upon her knees in the hospital 
 and swear that a young priest. Father 0., was 
 the father of her child, although he then knew 
 that she was perjuring herself; for he admitted, 
 in confidence, afterwards that he knew positively 
 from reliable sources, that one of the old priests 
 was the true father, and that the girl had been 
 sent in that condition to keep house for the 
 young priest in the country, and that "the old 
 priests of the city had often played such tricks 
 for the purpose of putting their guilt on strangers, 
 whom they disliked, or desired to ruin. The 
 bishop, knowing all these facts, dismissed the 
 young man, '"ex informata oonseientia," and 
 
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 retained the criminals. He formed his conscience 
 on perjured statements, which he caused for his 
 own gratification in this case; and in another, 
 on a certain Sunday, when he caused a man, 
 who was a tool in the hands of a wicked faction, 
 to go on his knees, and perjure himself in 
 swearing to please him (the bishop), that he 
 heard a priest say, that all bishops were bad 
 men, and all kept women. Such a conscience 
 is a poisoned fountain of injustice. 
 
 A certain party or clique of drinking, dis- 
 honest priests had banded together for the pur- 
 pose of destroying a priest who, being upright 
 in his dealings, avoided the company of these 
 men. One of their number threatened to shoot 
 this priest through the window, or cause his 
 death by poisoning the well of the priest's 
 house, or have persons beat him to death. 
 Others of the faction who had been sued for the 
 debts they had left on the Church, and had been 
 found out in their roguery, had hirelings burn 
 the church building in the middle of the night, 
 for the purpose of getting the insurance to 
 
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 cover their law expenses, and preventing the 
 man who built the church from suing them for 
 his just claims, also with the hope and deter- 
 mination of burning to death the priest in 
 charge, and thus silence him forever in regard to 
 the many wrongs he knew so well against them, 
 deeming it a grand chance to put their guilt 
 on him and so free themselves from all annoy- 
 ance and exposure in the affair. Then, as they 
 failed in putting the priest to death in this 
 fiendish manner, they reported that he burned 
 the church, and had received the insurance money. 
 
 One of these, called their " big chum," who 
 circulated the false reports, was accidentally met 
 by the very man whom they had misrepresented. 
 The " big chum "" was cornered when this priest 
 asked him sharply about the falsehoods, and he 
 denied the whole matter by saying that he had 
 never spoken in any way, either public or pri- 
 vate, against him ; he tried to make his denials 
 more emphatic by saying, " Any one who says 
 I ever spoke against you in any way whatever, 
 is a Ci — (1 d— d liar '" ; besides, " I never heard 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MAKRIAGE. 113 
 
 any priest or bishop say a hard word against 
 you." This occurred in Father E.'s house not 
 far from Chicago. Father E., who knew the 
 '■ big chum," and others of the party or gang 
 very well, and had witnessed this denial, etc., 
 stated privately that the " chum " and his boon 
 companions were the liars and culprits in the 
 case, and were implicated in the whole plot, and 
 working hard to screen themselves from sus- 
 picion by spreading these stories. 
 
 Some of this same par^y, including the bishop 
 and his secretary, employed the Catholic vote to 
 intimidate the Court from rendering justice to a 
 poor man who had brought suit for wages 
 earned while building that church. The money 
 that should have paid for the church was used 
 to pay for women, liquor, high living, and to 
 cover up the crimes of some of the clergy who 
 still continue as formerly. 
 
 A plan was adopted to murder another priest 
 who had incurred the anger of some of these and 
 kindred spirits, for his unwillingness to join their 
 evil doings, and for his justice to the people. They 
 
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 prepared a grand supper and invited him as an 
 honored guest. By accident the hired man dis- 
 covered the scheme just in time to notify the 
 priest of the danger, and thus saved his life. In 
 that same city, a priest's mother and sister, 
 together with the church, were burned to ashes 
 to satisfy clerical rage and revenge. It will be 
 difficult to find any city of its age and size on 
 the American continent that has experienced so 
 much real wickedness by papal clergymen and 
 their tools as the city ' in question — and it is 
 in Michigan. 
 
 One Irish priest continues to officiate there, 
 though his whole record is covered with impu- 
 rities, dishonesty, and perjury, and he hiis been 
 at the bottom of most of the troubles and scan- 
 dals that have afflicted the community from the 
 time he burned the church in duylight. because 
 he could not make the poor people pay for a 
 farm and a grand new house for himself and 
 relatives. According to the statements made 
 confidentially by his reverend comp;uiions, "he 
 made the balls and got others to fire them." 
 
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 It is not surprising that a priest who gave 
 a mission there, said that he never niet such . 
 records of guilt in all his life as he found in 
 that city, and that it was mockery for the 
 priests and bishop to say " Domjiius vohisoum, " 
 when they had the devil in their hearts. 
 
 At one of these priestly gatherings, or sprees, 
 so common in some of the large cities, an 
 angry dispute arose between two priests, and a 
 fight began, when one killed the other on the 
 spot with a hatchet. The murderer, who was 
 a member of a ring or clique of fast-living 
 priests was fully sustained by his conferes. He, 
 having confessed, received absolution, and still 
 officiates in the Church, which endeavored to 
 deceive the public by having a high mass over 
 the body of the murdered man, and by reporting 
 that he died of heart disease. 
 
 At a certain " Forty Hours " exhibition of 
 hypocrisy, in a city where the people have been 
 swindled for years by their clergy, a number of 
 priests assembled who were bound together by 
 ties of nationality, dishonesty, party spirit, and 
 
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 self - interest, as against the rights of their sub- 
 jects, and all priests who dare speak in favor of 
 the people. They resolved to oppose a certain 
 priest who had been anthorized by general and 
 special letters from the bishop to collect money in 
 all the churches of the diocese, for the purpose of 
 paying a heavy debt which had been contracted 
 and left by a priest whose sudden death had 
 been caused b}' poison. They appointed one of 
 their number as leader, and urged him to make 
 trouble, and have the collecting priest assaulted, 
 or dragged out of the church and kicked or 
 crushed to death in the streets if he should dare 
 to collect, especially on Sunday. 
 
 The priest, not knowing this plan, went to 
 collect, as ordered by the bishop (who promised 
 to stand by him. if any should oppose), when 
 the leader of this villainous ring told the con- 
 gregation from the altar that the priest who 
 came to collect was :m impostor, and that if the 
 men had grit in them they would drasr him 
 out at once. The collecting priest then read his 
 letters of authority from the bishop. Kven this 
 
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 had no weight with the enraged brute at the 
 altar, who sent for the police, and ordered them 
 in the church, to arrest him. The priest very 
 bravely and determinedly went to the railing of 
 the sanctuary, and showed his letters, and said 
 to the police, " Arrest me, if I have done wrong, 
 but do not put a finger on me if I have done 
 right, as I know I have." The police, finding 
 they had been deceived by the lies of that 
 swindling, impure, drinking priest at the altar, 
 who was their pastor, left the church in shame 
 and disgust. This pastor then had the doors of 
 the church bolted against the people, and would 
 not allow them to have another mass in that 
 church that Sunday, though he and others preach 
 that it is a mortal sin not to attend mass on 
 Sundays, and holy days of obligations. He used 
 over $12,000 for himself and relatives, or female 
 friends, that he raised for the Church from the 
 people, instead of employing it to liquidate the 
 debts which he put on the congregations, in- 
 cluding a heavy mortgage of $12,000 which he 
 had placed upon some property without their 
 
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 knowledge. The bishop, who knows his infamies, 
 called him " a liar," " a swindler," and " a scoun- 
 drel," but allows him to continue his operations 
 in the Church, because he fears the family and 
 cliques of priests to which the "' scoundrel " 
 belongs. 
 
 A very sincere nun, who had toiled like a 
 slave in an Ursuline convent over sixteen years, 
 was suddenly and without a day's warning dis- 
 missed because the superioress disliked her, and 
 on the ground that the physician said her health 
 was failing, and she could not therefore, perfoi-m 
 the duties assigned her. The first intimation 
 the poor creature had of the change was when 
 the mother told her that it was contrary to 
 the laws and spirit of their community to retain 
 any sister who was unable to discharge all her 
 duties, or who would be a source of expense to 
 the convent. This very sudden and stnuige an- 
 nouncement nearly stunned and bewildered her. 
 On a moment's reflection she started and ran 
 up -stairs to the chapel and poured out her sor- 
 rows and earnest petitions to the Virgin Mary. 
 
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 asking her to let her stay in the convent, as 
 she considered it her home, and that, if it were 
 God's will, she might die at once rather than be 
 driven into the world which she had been per- 
 suaded by nuns and priests to abandon to save her 
 soul. While she was thus praying and crying, 
 three of the nuns approached with scissors and cut 
 the clothes from her body, put on old garments 
 and hastily pulled her down stairs, hustled her 
 into the hack and sent her from the only home 
 she knew, the only one she had long lived and 
 served in. 
 
 Little did these sanctimonious, pietistical, 
 heartless sisters care for the feelings and thoughts 
 which that poor outraged woman carried away, 
 as she remembered, in her agony, the many years 
 of toil and servitude given so cheerfully to the 
 inmates of that nunnery, in the belief that it 
 would be her home during life, in return for 
 fidelty, piety, vows, and services. But like many 
 others, . she had served people yoid of conscience 
 and religion, and discovered the deception when 
 too late. 
 
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 A Dominican nun who became the mother of 
 a child by a curly-headed priest, was, with the 
 infant, drugged to death, to shield the Church 
 and sisterhood from further odium. 
 
 Then the sins of masturbation and sodomy 
 have prevailed to an alarming extent among 
 students, bishops, and priests, and are yet committed 
 even by some of those who are members of 
 the secret confraternities. 
 
 These few instances from the huge masses of 
 such doings in the Papal Church in the United 
 States and Canadas are no more than a few drops 
 taken from Lake Ontario; and, cus compared with 
 the deeds of Papal agents in all lands, they are 
 as one drop dipped from the ocean. 
 
 A few bishops, and many priests and nuns, 
 knowing such frightful evils to exist, and detest- 
 ing them, have shed tears of bitter disappoints 
 ment and regret when speaking of the sad 
 condition of things in that Church which they 
 have learned to despise, but which they must 
 uphold while they remain within her folds and 
 mi'.-ihes. Courage, which should give wings to 
 
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 fly from such wrongs, is with them, but feeble, 
 almost lifeless. Fear shuts out the light of 
 freedom, and bolts the door of escape. The 
 dread of persecution, calumny, neglect and death, 
 compels them to continue as members of that 
 system. Even against their convictions they 
 remain unwilling witnesses of her crimes. 
 
 Some have been borne to the grave, the 
 victims of broken hearts, with outward parade, 
 that was of no benefit to either soul or body. 
 Others, forsaken by friends, have sunk to rest 
 with the poor, the stranger. Many have been left 
 to rot in vaults (known only to those men 
 who murder in the name of Jesus and the 
 Papacy), and so to die with the black and 
 blasting curses of religious men and women 
 ringing in their ears, and the awful penalties of 
 the Church resting upon their condemned souls. 
 But in spite of these maledictions, many of those 
 poor outcasts had learned to look in secret to 
 the Fountain of all Light, had found rest and 
 peace in His divine promises, and are now safe 
 and beyond the reach of Poperj"^ and priestly 
 
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 malice. During the past ten years many 
 priests have said, when speaking in private to 
 friends, " Never would we have been ordained 
 had we known one-tenth part of the villainy 
 practiced in this Church, for it is not, as the 
 ark, to save men, but as the deluge, to destroy; 
 and the best and only proof in favor of Roman- 
 ism, is the damned rascality of the whole concern." 
 This is the verdict of her own clergy, who 
 have waded through her filth and rottenness, 
 men who would gladly leave her iniquities, were 
 they not sure that, like Noah's dove, they could 
 scarcely find a resting place. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE PAPACY ANT> THE IRISH. 
 
 It is a fact known to many in the private 
 circles of this Church, that Pius IX. kept for 
 many years in regal style, two beautiful women 
 as mistresses, who were his special favorites, 
 besides others not so highly esteemed, and that 
 he enriched them and his children, as well as a 
 
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 large number of relatives, with the money which 
 he obtained from the Catholics and Protestants 
 of manj' countries. 
 
 Then, his secretary of state, Cardinal Antonelli, 
 had several mistresses, one of whom became the 
 mother of a daughter, who has brought the 
 whole affair to public notice by the suit she in- 
 stituted to secure the lawful portion of her 
 inheritance, as the legitimate child, at least the 
 natural child, of this Cardinal, who, like his 
 master, Pius IX.. became so avaricious that he 
 appropriated millions of money that had been 
 contributed by the poor people of different parts 
 of the world, — a part of which they retained 
 to support their worrien, and cover up their im- 
 moralities. 
 
 It must not be deemed surprising that the 
 old Pope and his Cardinals kept women, — for 
 women, whether blessed for that purpose or not, 
 have been part and parcel of the Papal baggage 
 from 606, the date of receiving the title of su- 
 premacy, to the present time. 
 
 This lawsuit of Miss Cardinal Antonelli, how- 
 
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 ever, has been the means of exposing the injust- 
 ice and cruelty of the Papal laws invented and 
 enforced, when possible, by this Church for the 
 purpose of depriving the children of Roman 
 Catholic clergymen (in many, though not in all 
 cases, of priestly, diaconal, or episcopal bastardy), 
 of their right to inherit the wealth of their real 
 fathers; besides, the Roman Catholic clergy of 
 all grades had so many women and so many 
 children, without letting the common people 
 know it, that it became necessary to enact such 
 laws in that Church to meet in some way the 
 multitude of cases that were of daily occurrence, 
 and that would come up from time to time for 
 adjudication. 
 
 Those who govern and make such laws in 
 that Church fail to observe the "' golden mle," 
 for they never do unto others as they require 
 others to do unto them, but lay claim to the right 
 to inherit, receive and demand the money, service, 
 and property belonging in all justice to those who 
 have acquired ownership over it by an adequate 
 equivalent in labor, money, merchandise, exchange. 
 
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 or by legal grant or inheritance; it is not surpris- 
 ing, therefore, to find this Church so wealthy and 
 arrogant, for she takes all, hut gives nothing, 
 acting as though people had neither law, justice, 
 or reason on their side, nothing but duties, 
 obligations, blind obedience, and unquestioning 
 submission to her heartless demands and God-for- 
 saken despotism. 
 
 Little wonder that Pius IX. and his Cardinal 
 secretary were, like so many of their predecessors, 
 the richest^ or rated among the richest men in 
 all Italy, or, in fact, in all Europe. 
 
 These men conduct themselves as though the 
 Apostles, with all their primitive simplicity,, humil- 
 ity, honesty, and poverty, practiced in the cause 
 of down-trodden humanity and God, were a lot 
 of infatuated old fogies, or clerical tramps, who 
 were not worthy of having any of the Papal 
 titles, such as " His Holiness," " His Grace," " His 
 Lordship," " His Eminence," " His Hiverince" 
 attached to their names, for they, poor mortals, 
 never attended a Papal parish school, college, 
 seminary, or propaganda; they never got so far 
 
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 in their studies as to learn the Papal catechism, 
 beads, or raasHcs. Are they, then, to be lost 
 for want of Papal oil or alsolution? 
 
 Jesus gave the poor old careworn Apostles a 
 different kind of training, for he taught them 
 the duty of assisting the children of men. the 
 poor and needy, and not the right of ^ oppressing 
 them. 
 
 But many who know the character of the 
 Roman Catholic seminaries, and the machinery 
 of these institutions for preparing priestly material 
 for the market, call them by the undignified 
 name of " Papal Priest Factories." 
 
 Adrian IV., Pope of Rome, was the son of a 
 Roman Catholic priest. He sold Ireland and 
 the Irish people for the low price of a penny, 
 or two cents a family. He authorized King 
 Henry TI., of England, to convert and conquer 
 the Irish people, and bring them under the 
 dominion of the Papal Church and the English 
 government. He made religion — his false religion 
 — the ground of sending his agents, with fire 
 and sword, with promises of salvation through 
 
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 lloniaaisiu, to subdue that people, and to reduce 
 them and their descendants to the condition of 
 bound serfs, so that they might be hewers of 
 wood and dniweis of water, for the foreign 
 government of Italian Popes. Uod did not 
 sanction that act of the l^oi)e, neither has he 
 advised the policy of the Popes and their tax 
 coUectors, the i)riests, and bishops, to keep the 
 Irish in the bonds of serfdom, as the,y have 
 done, and us they will do, just as long as the 
 Irish people lack the courage and Christian man- 
 liness to shake off the Papal yoke forever, and 
 send it with all its avarice, ignorance, deceit, and 
 oppression, back to the land that gave it birth. 
 
 Ireland did not produce this hydra-headed 
 monster, but was prosperous and respected before 
 the' breath of this usurper reached her shores. 
 The parts of Ireland that have been held longest 
 in abject servitude to the Italian imposters are 
 the very sections that have been drained of their 
 esirnings, and have been stricken with poverty, 
 misery, and gaunt wretchedness, and made there- 
 by examples of folly and misfortune, as shown 
 
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 by the many appeals for help made to this 
 country, and to others, in the famine of 1846-7, 
 as well as in the recent — in fact, present — 
 calamity, which, like all others of that unfor- 
 tunate couritry, have been nobly responded to 
 by the very heretics whom the Papists denounce 
 as outcasts from God, and fit subjects for eternal 
 torments. 
 
 Some of the priests who have labored for the 
 Irish people rather than for the foreign intruder, 
 have suffered for their honesty of purpose, and 
 have been suppressed or finally ruined by the 
 fury of the Italian fraud and his hired spies and 
 agents. 
 
 Many of the Irish clergy at home and abroad, 
 however, have been the greatest cheats and tyrants 
 that Rome has had in her employment; for under 
 the false claim of " love for. their kindred," '" love 
 for Ireland," sympathy for the " poor Irish," 
 they have upheld and (.arried on a systematic 
 robbery and oppression, iind after deluding their 
 followers, have laughed at them for being so 
 ignorant and stupid as to allow themselves and 
 
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 children to be so easily " guljed," " humbugged," 
 and deceived. Thus the Irish are made the tools 
 of designing knaves who go about like wolves in 
 sheep's clothing, seeking whom they may devour, 
 and also devouring everything they can grasp or 
 overpower. 
 
 After they have flattered, swindled, and des- 
 pised the unsuspecting poor, many of these Irish, 
 German, Belgian, and French clergy leave their 
 congregations for a trip to Europe, pretending 
 their health is impaired — (it is, by fast living), 
 or that they must visit their " dear mother " or 
 " sister " in some remote place, or foreign land. 
 Accordingly the generous - natured of their res- 
 pective congregations respond ; a purse is presented 
 to the "dear Father," and, with a cart-load of 
 blessings heaped upon his unworthy head, the 
 fraud takes his departure, and in nine cases out 
 of ten, not to visit his " mother " or " sister," 
 but to deposit " Paddy's money " * in a foreign 
 
 *A very humorous, and graphic account of " Paddy's 
 Money," is published in pamphlet form, and can be ordered 
 in connection with this book. 
 
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 bank and to spend a while with some of liis 
 dear wives and children, or, if he is a member 
 of these secret societies, to have " a glorious 
 time " with one or more of the " Blessed Crea- 
 tures." 
 
 On his return there is another outburst of 
 feeling, and this time, the priest bestows the 
 blessings, while the deluded followers fall into 
 rank for another term of stuffing. All this 
 show is duly reported for the newspapers by the 
 wary priest, who takes this method of exhibit- 
 ing to the heretics the honor conferred on 
 him by his believers. 
 
 Could these people hear their "dear Fathers," 
 in the retirement of their homes, and with their 
 relatives or '" chums," talk about them or descant 
 on the manner in which they have gulled them; 
 could they hear themselves frequentlj- called by 
 these " Fathers '" " a low, dirty, ignorant pack," 
 • that might " go to the devil " when they, — the 
 F.'s" — got enough to retire on, they would 
 receive a shock that would cure them of the 
 insanity which causes them to sustain, and wor- 
 
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 ship the system, and men, that hold them in 
 contempt, as so many cattle or slaves. 
 
 The' lower clergy ioUow the precepts and 
 footsteps of the higher, by keeping the people in 
 bondage, filth, and beggary, the chief results of 
 religious barbarism which has been propagated 
 by Popecraft and its numberless appliances. 
 
 If poverty is so pleasing to God, as they say, 
 why do they not try it? Surely they ought to 
 have the largest share of it, if they are what 
 they profess, "the only true representatives of 
 Jesus," not the followers of women and Satan, 
 whom they condemn publicly, but serve and 
 worship privately. Christ said his kingdom was 
 not of this earth, but their's is. He was poor, 
 without a place to lay his head, but they live in 
 palaces, in luxury and pomp, are clad in purple 
 and fine linen, adorned with rings, chains and 
 other female fixings, putting the mercy of God 
 in their pocket, or locking it in a trunk with 
 the relics of the "' decayed saints," to be dealt 
 out according to their will and the price paid 
 by the applicants. Surely if tJiey can enter 
 
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 into heaven with all their wickedness, the balance 
 of mankind need not fear ! 
 
 There is a vast difference between these men and 
 Jesus. He was so poor that they would shun him 
 and be ashamed of him (judging by the way in 
 which they treat the poor people), and, if they 
 saw Him walking down Broadway to-day, they 
 would quickly jump into a 'bus, or hack, or take 
 an elevated car rather than be found in such 
 low company ; if they spoke the truth as in 
 their hearts, they would say, "He is too poor, 
 too illiterate, too low for our society. He may 
 be all right, you know, to use as a tool to 
 preach about, to furnish us with good chances to 
 draw money from these fools of people who always 
 pay best for the greatest frauds : but it would 
 never do for us to be seen walking the .streets 
 with so unpretending a person as that ; why, 
 even the Irish, who are the biggest fools about 
 priests and religion, would consider such a look- 
 ing fellow as He, as no better than a tramp or 
 bummer, and would be greatly scandalized if 
 they saw us in the company of such a seedy 
 
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 chap as that ; He would ruin our respectability 
 and business prospects in the Church by going 
 about with Him, or any 'beggar like him. We 
 must look out for our own interests and avoid him 
 by all means, if we have common sense about 
 us." This is the essence of their hearts' belief ; 
 as most of them talk of " Jesus " simply because 
 it pays them. 
 
 Irish men of ordinary reason pught to know 
 and feel that they have a right and duty, under 
 God, to attend to their own interests iirst^ and 
 that they must be free to exercise this right, 
 according to their own judgement, but not as 
 priests, bishops, or Popes may dictate. There is 
 much truth in the saying that " God helps 
 those who help themselves''- — honestly. And had 
 the Irish abandoned the Papacy years ago they 
 would be free men to-day; they would be res- 
 pected, educated, self-reliant, and prosperous; they 
 might now rank among the most cultivated and 
 enlightened people of Europe, as they did before 
 the blighting influence of the Papacy touched 
 their hearts and homes, and produced the decay. 
 
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 hatred, and inanj- afflictions that have paralyzed 
 them as a nation. Men who are trained to 
 depend on others for help and guidance are 
 weak and poor, but men who have been taught 
 to depend on themselves are usually strong, 
 enterprising, reliable, and successful. Success, 
 however, is not always proof of the honesty of 
 the scheme or the man; for some of the vilest 
 schemes and men have attained success, both in 
 and out of the Papal system; even, so-called 
 religious projects, in the hands of black-hearted 
 knaves, frauds, and unprincipled sharks (some of 
 them the off-spring of the Romish priesthood, 
 with college training) have succeeded through 
 the tricks of hypocrisy practiced on the honest 
 public. No man has religion in his heart who 
 has learned the trick of crying about Jesus, or 
 shouting "glory to Jesus" in public, and then 
 calumniating and cheating his neighbors in 
 private. A man, to be converted to God and the 
 principles of goodness, must show honor, honesty, 
 charity, and truthfulness in liis conduct and 
 dealings. A man who is inflamed with deceit, 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEEIAGE. 135 
 
 treachery, avarice, lust, duplicity, and is stuifed 
 to swelling with pride, self-conceit, and the 
 spirit of Romish or other despotism, is not a 
 religious man, but an imposter who deserves the 
 contempt of every honest Christian. 
 
 The leading feature of Papal training is to 
 appear one thing, but to be another; to promise 
 much, but do nothing. Weak people become 
 weaker by depending every day on promises that 
 are vain and never realized. The success of 
 Romanism, which was achieved mainly by villainy, 
 was so remarkable that many now copy or 
 imitate her doings, while others still follow the 
 arts of deception which they learned when 
 working for her advancement. 
 
 But the Irish can gain nothing from these, 
 or • the Papacy, but must trust to themselves ; 
 they will accomplish more good for themselves 
 in one year by the free and manly exercise of 
 their own reason, than by all the beads and 
 masses said since the days of the Inquisition. 
 They have as good mhids, as warm hearts, as 
 clear perceptions as any people in the universe. 
 
136 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 but for ages they have not been permitted by 
 that Church to exercise to their full and legiti- 
 mate extent, the faculties which the Creator 
 bestowed upon them, and which the natural 
 beauties of their own dear native land would 
 assist in developing and improving. 
 
 Many, whose powers of mind and body were 
 blessed with true native vigor, have risen from 
 degredation, either in spite of the crushing weight 
 of that foreign despotism, or by being emancipa- 
 ted from its unholy terrors altogether. . It is a 
 great marvel to find so many of those down- 
 trodden people reach the line of mediocrity, for 
 they have been deprived of the opportunities that 
 favor the progress of those who abandoned the 
 Papacy long ago, that they and their children 
 might be free, happy, and above penury. 
 
 The Papal system of injustice and oppression 
 has a tendency to destroy every fibre of manly 
 independence, every heart-throb of individuality, 
 every outgrowth of development among her 
 people. She engrafts on their characters the 
 element of weakness by constantly wrenching 
 
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 from them what they have received from nature 
 and labor, by promising what she will not, what 
 she can not give, either in this life or in the 
 life that is to come. God has nowhere promised 
 to help people who allow themselves and children 
 to be deceived, defrauded, and fettered body and 
 soul by the Popes and their hirelings. He does 
 not promise aid to those who follow delusions 
 and the selfish cruel, commandments of men 
 instead of His laws and commandments. As 
 long as they permit this Church to rule and 
 this dreadful condition of things to continue, 
 they may cry, threaten, complain, petition, suffer, 
 praj', and beg, but they will never gain respect 
 or prosperity at home or abroad, never obtain the 
 assistance of the Almighty. They have been 
 kept on their knees by their Church hundreds 
 of years, waiting, watching, hoping for better 
 things and brighter days, but that course has been 
 instrumental in giving them more misery, less 
 freedom, more beggary, less respectability, more 
 torture and troubles, less peace, less harmony, 
 less Christian manliness and courage. 
 
138 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARKIAGB. 
 
 The Irish people must begin to do the work 
 by themselves and for themselves — as others had 
 to do centuries ago ; iegin they musU and take 
 the case into their own hands and carry it 
 through, or a change for their improvement will 
 never come, will never be accomplished. Reso- 
 lutions, addresses, or sermons, of condolence 
 and verbal sympathy, will never produce this 
 necessary change for that unfortunate people ; 
 no hypocritical tears of ex -priests or in -priests, 
 of deceitful Popes, bishops, politicians or others, . 
 will emancipate these people or give them a 
 good "send-off" or start in life, for such men 
 pretend they love their " Irish kindred '" so much, 
 while the only thing they love and long for is 
 the Irish money, or a chance to pick the " Irish 
 purse of its* last and bottom farthing." The 
 people have trusted too long to the hollow say- 
 ings of these men, too often have they tried to 
 lean for support on such empty prophecies, which 
 are as the fleeting shadows of passing clouds, 
 or floating bubbles, that vanish or dissolve into 
 nothing the moment one attempts to grasp them. 
 
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 Men wishing to become popular among the 
 Irish, may talk of the " Irish valor " in many 
 battles, of " Irish heroism " in many lands, of 
 " Irish martydom for the faith, of " Irish brav- 
 ery " everywhere; bi;t all that has not gained 
 freedom for the Irish, and they still remain in 
 slavery. They must take the first step them- 
 selves ; they must quit the Papacy at once and 
 forever. That was the first power that bound 
 them, it was the first to rob them of the price- 
 less jewel of the soul and of this life — natural 
 God -given freedom., the liberty to use and 
 improve the gifts of mind and body, the wealth 
 and fertility of the land, which the Almighty 
 Ruler gave to them and their children. 
 
 The Papacy not only sold the Irish into slav- 
 ery, but has helped to keep them there to this 
 day. It will hold them in that position as long 
 as they are so cowardly or so silly as to submit. 
 The Papal system has been their worst enemy, 
 their chief betrayer, their constant destroyer. 
 She salutes them with the kiss of fond protec- 
 tion, and then stabs them to the heart in the 
 
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 dark whenever she gets the chance. She talks 
 of blessing them and giving them liberty, hap- 
 piness and prosperity, but she cuts them to the 
 bone with the rod of despotism and extortion 
 which she puts in the hands of her clergy. 
 
 If there is any sin that ought to smite a 
 man flat to the earth it is that of deceiving 
 poor ignorant people, and robbing them in the 
 name of Jesus. If the Irish clergy had the 
 true spirit of patriotism and humanity in their 
 nature they would be ashamed to chain their 
 people like dogs, to the foot of any post, throne, 
 or system; they would lead the people away 
 from the Papacy, and all its wrongs, to the 
 principles of right living, and the worship of 
 God, not that of man, dried dough, or dead, 
 rotten or worthless things. The Papacy has 
 almost petrified the hearts and sympathies of 
 her clergy; for they are not ashamed of the 
 degrading influences of their Church over the 
 people, providing they get all they demand for 
 their own revenues, and those of their superiors. 
 
 Insanity is the groundwork of the strange 
 
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 and strong attachment which so many have for 
 that system of villainy. This disease or insanity 
 is produced by having the mind or imagination 
 dwell constantly on the same ideas and false 
 impressions. The lights, the colors, the move- 
 ments, and above all, the music, in the Papal 
 Church, open the door of the understanding, and 
 let reason go out on a ramble, while the feelings 
 are aroused and fed, while the imagination runs 
 vnli with fancied desires and supposed visions ol 
 things, that pass away forever with the delusive 
 sights and sounds that gave rise to them. The 
 pictures and statues give but more intensity to 
 the delusions. The instructions furnish more 
 nutrition in the shape of warrant or authority, 
 for a whole series of these rhapsodical phantasies. 
 Many of these invisible, incomprehensible images 
 haunt the people both night and day, wherever 
 they be, influencing their hearts, brains, and 
 feelings anew, until firey infatuation governs, 
 instead of reason, so making for them God, 
 heaven, truth, religion, perfection, where there is 
 none. The adhesion to what is a deception is 
 
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 usually in proportion to the insanitj' or infatu- 
 ation, and the lack of proper information. 
 
 Some people, who are in the insane asylums, 
 believe that the little pebbles, or bits of wood 
 they find are their parents, their brothers and 
 sisters; others believe that an old comb or tooth- 
 brush is the Queen of England or the President 
 of the United States; others believe that any 
 old book, leaf, or paper turned upside down is 
 the Bible; others again believe that an old 
 penknife,, spool of thread, or piece of ginger 
 cake is Jesus Christ or God Almighty; yet people 
 of sane minds and views see and know that all 
 that is false, and pity the unfortunate creatures 
 who have lost their senses, so far as to be 
 unable and unwilling to discover the folly and 
 nonsense of their mental wanderings. But some 
 of these sane people who pity, are far more to 
 be pitied, if they are priest-governed, or full of 
 this religious insanity. It is dangerous and very 
 injurious, for a sound mind to dwell continually 
 on one subject, especially if it be surrounded 
 with gloom, fear, and dread, such as too often 
 
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 engage the thoughts and attention of pious, de- 
 voted Papists; for complete insanity of the worst 
 type has frequently been the result. 
 
 Partial insanity pervades the main body of 
 sincerely believing Romanists; for though they 
 may be sound on many or all the questions of 
 work or living, they are certainly insane on 
 many religious points; no thoroughly sane man 
 can believe he eats and drinks the body, blood, 
 soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ by receiv- 
 ing a little piece of dried baked dough into 
 his mouth, over which some words haye been 
 said by a priest. 
 
 Many of the leading men, priests and 
 bishops, and hosts of the nuns, do not believe 
 in the " real presence," though they go often to 
 communion. 
 
 A certain Papist, editing a little Papist paper, 
 admitted a few weeks ago that, though he often 
 attended mass and received communion, he never 
 believed in it; never believed the doctrine of 
 his Church on the Eucharist, until he read 
 one of Moody's sermons on the Divinity of 
 
144 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 Christ, last winter ; since that, he has some- 
 what believed in it. So it appears that he 
 disbelieved the teaching of his Church and 
 clergy, but believes the Protestant preachers. No 
 one can tell which or what he believes now. 
 He pretended he believed his Church, but did 
 not. He received communion, and deceived the 
 people, just as many of the clergy do. He wrote 
 and published falsehoods, as a champion of Ro- 
 manism, to deceive the people and get their 
 money. He exhibited the Romanized want of 
 conscience, truthfulness, and Christian honor, 
 for the sake of trade, for the sake of drawing 
 revenues from the poor, from the Irish (he is 
 Irish) through a Church whose chief doctrine 
 he disbelieved. There are many like him, editing 
 Roman Catholic papers, who do not believe in 
 that or any other church, they are like Pope Leo 
 the X., and others, who did not believe in Chris- 
 tianity, but laughed in private at the history of 
 Christ, and said that "the fable of Jesus Christ" 
 was one of the best sources of revenues ever 
 invented by man." Because men write or speak 
 
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 for that Church, or hold office in it, or attend 
 all its performances, it does not follow that they 
 believe. The ass that roars the loudest, and 
 kicks the most, does so for his fodder, not 
 because he believes in the Papacy; in truth, he 
 usually knows little about it. 
 
 The fact that educated Protestants join that 
 Church and then advocate it, does not prove that 
 they are either sincere or sane. If they are 
 sane, th-ey are certainly not sincere, and if 
 they are thoroughly sincere they are not sane ; 
 the element of self-interest controls, to a great 
 extent every educated convert to Romanism, 
 and every educated person holding any position 
 in the Church of the Popes. 
 
 But is it not dishonest for a body of such 
 men and women to make the poor people sup- 
 port them? ; if they were sincere Christians they 
 could no more live as they do on the poor, than 
 did Jesus or Paul. 
 
 The people therefore must put their shoulder 
 to the wheel and move onward and thus win 
 their own liberation. If the Irish clergy will 
 
146 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEEIAOE. 
 
 not lead, they will have to follow. Delays 
 are dangerous ; always have been to the Irish. 
 God is not going to send an army from heaven 
 to lift them up and put the enemy to flight ; 
 no nation will send out armaments to liberate 
 them and give them all they demand. Every 
 nation, like every family, has enough to do to 
 mind its own business. The freedom and rights 
 of the Irish are the business of the Irish. If 
 they do not attend to their own interests, no 
 others will. 
 
 Every man must do his own work and then, 
 if need be, he will find assistance. If a man 
 has a farm, and wishes to have a crop, he must 
 cultivate it and keep weeds and cattle out of it. 
 He must plant and reap, and gather in for 
 future use, but he must not expect to have 
 other people do the work for him, while he goes 
 about with his hands in his pockets, smoking 
 his pipe, attending m.iss and other doings of 
 the Church, blaming his Protestant neighbors or 
 the English government. 
 
 The Irish must trust themselves in the attain- 
 
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 ment of what will be for their own welfare. If 
 they are not true to themselves and one another, 
 they should give up the Church that has made 
 them so untrue, so false. If they cannot govern 
 themselves, that is an argument against Romanism, 
 for if she had governed them less, they would 
 now be more capable of governing themselves, the 
 want of exercising their own judgement, their 
 own self- control, has made them weak ; but that 
 is a reason why they should leave her and begin 
 to be men, begin to govern. If they never try 
 the water they will never learn to swim. 
 
 They need less boast and bluster, but more 
 deeds, more united, firm, persevering effort. Suc- 
 cess will give confidence and increase the 
 number of their true friends. Vanderbilt's 
 success in life was due chiefly to one thinff, 
 he depended on himself and his owu efforts. 
 There was always one person in whom he could 
 trust, himself. There was one who never did, 
 never would betray him, and that was himself. 
 He did his own work well, and the world knows 
 his wonderful triumphs. Irishmen will profit by 
 
148 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAKKIAGE. 
 
 following his example. They must find the 
 origin or cause of their woes and misfortunes, 
 and avoid it in future. 
 
 Pope Adrian IV. sold them, and he was the 
 son of a Roman Catholic priest in England. The 
 name of this priest was Breakspear, the name of 
 this son, who was afterwards known as Adrian 
 IV., was Nicholas Breakspear. The priest was 
 stationed at St. Albans monasljery, England, but 
 the young Nicholas was sent to France to con- 
 ceal the guilt of his father, the priest, and to 
 save the monastery, with its inmates, from the 
 disgrace that would cloud their reputation for 
 supposed chastity. Assistance was sent to aid 
 the boy through a course of studies. He ad- 
 vanced from one position to another in this 
 Church until, by the influence of his friends in 
 England and elsewhere, he was finally appointed, 
 to the Papacy. 
 
 Henry, the Second, of England, favored his 
 appointment, and received as a rewai-d from 
 Adrian IV., full authority and permission to con- 
 vert, subdue, rule, and tax the Irish people. 
 
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 The annual revenues extorted from these people 
 were to be divided between these two foreign 
 usurpers ; the Pope claiming to own their souls, 
 and giving their bodies to the king. This pope, 
 as a slave -master and real estate agent, should 
 of course, receive a large percentage on all the 
 sales he made of the lands and rightful owners, 
 who, in return for their submission and services, 
 received numberless cruelties from both Church 
 and State governments which he, as the " bas- 
 tard " son of of a Romish priest, had imposed 
 on them through intrigue, hypocrisy, dishonesty, 
 and bloodshed. Thus have the Irish people been 
 ruined by this veritable " Old Nick" and his 
 successors, with their ecclesiastical and political 
 agents. 
 
 If, therefore, the Irish wish to get rid of many 
 evils at once, they ought to cast off the Papacy, 
 which has been the source of their downfall, 
 and if they must have a church, they ought 
 instantly to have a national church, with truly 
 national clergy, who will labor .for the interests 
 of the people, not for a Pope, and for the redem- 
 
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 tion and elevation of that country. The people 
 can never rise while held in subjection to the 
 Papacy; men must be freed from that and every 
 other despotism before they can march forward. 
 A national church, with as much splendor as 
 the people can easily support, but without the 
 Papacy, and all its wrongs of doctrine and 
 practice, will be a sure means of restoring to 
 Ireland the success, enlightenment, and principles 
 of Christianity, which she enjoyed for ages, with 
 her own native clergy, as established by Saint 
 Patrick, and his disciples, before the Pope med- 
 dled with the spiritual or temporal control of 
 the Island, to which he had no right. 
 
 St. Patrick was not a Papist, neither did he 
 introduce or establish the Papacy, or the Papal 
 Church, in Ireland. The Papal Church did not 
 exist, had not been formed, in the life-time of 
 Patrick. it was not fully organized, with its 
 privacy and other Pagan luggage, before the 
 early part of the seventh century. It received the 
 title of supremacy, or primacy, in the year 606 
 (or. as some claim, in 604). That title gave 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MAERIAGE. 151 
 
 shape and status to the Papacy, as a distinct 
 system, and as a peculiar Church. Neither Peter nor 
 Jesus had anything to do with the establish- 
 ment of the Papacy, or Papal supremacy. The 
 title of Supremacy was conferred on Boniface 
 (the III.), Bishop of Rome, by a murderer, Phocas, 
 who had usurped the government of Constanti- 
 nople, and had the Emperor Mauritius, with his 
 wife and seven children, put to death in cold 
 blood. Phocas and Boniface were the proper 
 founders of the Papacy, with its title of univer- 
 sal headship or dominion, and with all the false- 
 hoods and injustice belonging to it. 
 
 Gregory, the bishop of Rome, who preceded 
 Boniface, condemned the title, and taught that 
 any bishop or church that would assume or receive 
 such a title, ought to be considered by all 
 Christian people as the forerunner of anti-Christ, 
 for it was not Christian, and no bishop or 
 church ever possessed, or had any right to 
 claim it. But Boniface thanked Phocas for this 
 title and for the death of the imperial family and 
 all who opposed him in his efforts to establish 
 the Papal Church and his own authority. 
 
152 SUBSTITUTION rOR MAHEIAGE. 
 
 St. Patrick began to preach Christianity, but 
 not Romanism, in Ireland in the early part of 
 the fifth century, about the year 432; nearly 200 
 years before the Papacy was founded. He wrote 
 a short sketch of his life, or his confession, 
 about the year 455, or after he had labored 28 
 years for the conversion of the Irish, but does 
 not say one word concerning the Pope, Rome, 
 or Papal Church. If he had been sent by Rome 
 or the Pope, he certainly would have told the 
 people whom he converted something about the 
 Roman Church or the Papacy, il' he belonged 
 to that Church, and had summoned them to 
 join it, and uphold it. That would have been 
 too serious and important a matter for him to 
 omit or neglect, when he was so far advanced 
 in years, for he was sixty-eight when he com- 
 posed this record, in which \^ speaks of God, of 
 Christ, of Scripture, of prayer, of death, of 
 heaven, of the soul, but does not even allude 
 to the Papacy. Had he been commissioned by 
 any Pope to evangelize the Irish, or any other 
 people, he was too grateful, too honest, too 
 
SUBSTITUTIOIf FOR MARRIAGE. 153 
 
 conscientious, too full of zeal to conceal or deny 
 it; if he had been any way connected with or 
 bound to the Papacy, he would have mentioned 
 it in this document or autobiography. He was 
 silent in relation to that foreign affair, because 
 he did not receive his appointment from it. He 
 was called and sent of God, as Paul had been, 
 as he intimates in his writings. 
 
 The supposition or belief that Patrick was a 
 
 Papist, and sent from Rome by Celestine to 
 
 convert the Irish to the Papacy, is based on 
 
 the oft-repeated falsehoods and forgeries of some 
 
 of the Papal writers. Many of these false 
 
 claims and statejuents were made to prop up, 
 
 bring dominion, wealth, and submission to the 
 
 Roman Church, by her paid officials. These 
 
 ficticious records Jiave been preached from pulpits, 
 
 printed in Romish feooks, and published in works 
 
 of reference (even in an encyclopedia), as true, 
 
 historical facts, when, in reality, they are the 
 
 fabrications of zealous Papal authors, who plied 
 
 the art of iietion in the "middle ages," and with 
 
 an eye to pleasing that great fraud, Romanism, 
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154 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARKIAGE. 
 
 hunted up characters noted for piety or great 
 deeds, then claimed them as their own, and wrote 
 out all the legends they thought proper, to 
 give color and plausibility to their purposes and 
 assertions. Anxious to increase the popular super- 
 stition and attachment for that (their) Church, 
 they maintained that these Christian heroes or 
 saintly personages were members of that Church, 
 or were commissioned by it to convert the 
 nations." As none cared to contradict or inves- 
 tigate the religious lies and follies, the pious 
 fibs and stories which these men framed at their 
 leisure have passed along from age to age, and 
 have been accepted as truthful by people inside 
 and outside of Papalism. 
 
 Moreover, teaching by fables, was frequently 
 adopted to please and convince children and 
 ignorant adults; and these two classes still cling 
 most tenaciously to the impositions of that system. 
 Besides, this Church would not permit anything 
 to be written or published that did not sustain 
 her pretensions, if she had the power to suppress 
 it; and such is yet the spirit of her policy. 
 
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 By claiming St. Patrick and his Church, as 
 her own property, she exposes her dishonesty, 
 and merits the contempt of millions of Christian 
 men who know her contradictions, her incon- 
 sistencies, and false assumptions. She teaches 
 that she never changes, but is always the same 
 in her doctrines and practices. Though she has 
 privately furnished this " Substitution for Mar- 
 riage" to accommodate some of her clergy, yet 
 publicly she teaches that her clergy shall not 
 be married, and she tries to have people believe 
 that she has been the only true Christian Church 
 from the days of the Apostles to the present. 
 But it is a fact, Patrick's father was a deacon 
 in the Christian church to which the family 
 belonged; deacons in the Papal Church are not 
 married, according to the laws of that Church; 
 therefore these two churches diifer, and are not 
 the same in this respect. 
 
 It is also a truth, that the father of Patrick's 
 father was a priest (or presbyter) in the Chris- 
 tian church to which he belonged; but the 
 priests (or presbyters) of the Romish Church 
 
156 SUBSTITUTIOlSr FOB MAEHIAGE. 
 
 are not married according to the laws of that 
 Church; therefore, these two churches are not 
 identical, but differ on this question. If the 
 Papal Church existed then, and permitted the 
 clergy to marry, she must have changed when 
 she prohibited their marriage, and is, therefore, 
 not the same now that she was then; or rather 
 the Christian church did then exist, but the 
 Papacy did not exist, and therefore did not, for 
 it could not, commission Patrick to preach in 
 Ireland. 
 
 If the marriage of the clergy in the Church 
 was right then it .is equally right now; for 
 neither nature, nor the law of God, has changed 
 on this point; and the Papal Church is wrong 
 in forbidding and legislating against it. If it 
 was wrong then, the Papal Church was wrong 
 in upholding it — supposing her existence — and 
 if she was wrong then and is wrong now, she is 
 unreliable, and therefore, not God's church, or a 
 safe guide for mankind. 
 
 If the Roman Church, through Patrick and 
 his successors, introduced and continued the 
 
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 Christian religion among the Irish, then Pope 
 Adrian, the priest's " bastard," had a different 
 religion, and must have done great injustice to 
 his predecessors, by condemning the Irish for 
 having the true Christian, or Papal religion, and 
 by employing Henry, the II., with others, to con- 
 vert them to his Church, and make them subjects 
 of it. 
 
 O'Halloran, in his "History of Ireland," gives 
 a copy of Adrian's Bull, granting Henry, the IL, 
 the authority to convert the Irish to his Church 
 and Christianity, as well as to civilize and govern 
 them and the right to tax them with the duty 
 of reserving a penny a family for the Papacy. 
 This Bull was confirmed a few years later by 
 Pope Alexander III. 
 
 St. Patrick's " confession," or biography, as 
 written by himself in Latin, may be found on 
 page 801, in volume 53, of Migne's edition of 
 the Patrologia, now in the Astor Library, New 
 York City. 
 
 Now the church which the Irish had received 
 from Patrick and his disciples, was either right 
 
158 SUBSTITUTIOKT FOE MAREIAGE. 
 
 or wrong ; if wrong, then the Papacy must 
 have been wrong to the time of Adrian, and if 
 the Irish church was right, then the Papacy 
 must have been wrong from the time of Adrian 
 to the present. The truth in the whole case, is, 
 that Patrick was not a Papist, and that he 
 founded the Christian religion, but not the Papal 
 institution, with its numerous methods of extor- 
 tion and oppression. 
 
 The Irish were Christians, but not Papists, 
 for ages after Patrick's death. They were swin- 
 dled out of their religion, liberty, education and 
 manhood, by the Papacy ; and if they wish to 
 show respect for Pati-ick, for their ancestors," for 
 their country, for Christianity, or for themselves, 
 they must reject the Papacy, and immediately 
 adopt such principles of life and belief as will 
 most certainly promote their own freedom and 
 prosperity ; the sooner they get rid of that cancer 
 — the Papacy — which has been eating away their 
 substance, their very life, the better for them- 
 selves, their children, their countrymen, and their 
 dear native land, which ciin never ring, as it 
 
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 ought, with the glad sounds of free men, until 
 the people make themselves free by driving from 
 their soil that system which has been their curse. 
 Other nations were ruined by the Papacy, but 
 finally abandoned it, and have since attained 
 (what the Irish will attain by the like course), 
 the eminence which freedom and man's own 
 efforts alone can give. There never can be peace 
 in Ireland until peace is established on right doc- 
 trines, until the people are educated in the facts, 
 truths and principles pertaining to their own 
 rights, privileges and well - being. They have as 
 much right from God to be their own masters, 
 and to learn everything for their own interest, as 
 they have to breathe the air, or use the light 
 of the sun, moon, or stars. The church that 
 shuts out the light of the mind, is a fraud, and 
 ought to be avoided as such. 
 
 The Papasy reached the height of its iniquity 
 in the person of Pope Alexander VI., whose 
 crimes were a curse and disgrace to Christendom 
 at the close of the fifteenth, and beginning of 
 the sixteenth centuries. He was guilty of murder. 
 
160 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEKIAQE. 
 
 perjury, adultery ; and had become so immoral 
 as to be guilty of incest with his own daughter, 
 Lucretia, and his two sisters. 
 
 When a Cardinal, he was the father of many 
 children by several women ; he was appointed to 
 be Pope, because he bribed the Cardinals to vote 
 for him, and he then gave full scope to his 
 worst passions, for, as Pope, he had more money 
 to employ people to serve him and conceal many 
 of his most criminal deeds. He made one of 
 his sons a bishop at the early age of sixteen. 
 His career of crime was terminated by a dose 
 of poison which he took by mistake, and which 
 had been prepared by him, and his son, for a 
 Cardinal, whom they hated and feared. Poison was 
 the common agent used by him for the secret 
 destruction of those who might reveal any of the 
 loathesome disorders belonging to him and his 
 polluted Church. It is very true that, " TJhi pro 
 lahore desidia,pro continentia ei aquitate. lib- 
 ido, atque superhia invasere, fortuna, simul, 
 cum morihus immutatur," 
 
 This is the Pope who caused Father Savon- 
 
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 arola, a priest of the Dominican Order, to be 
 condemned, tortured, and burned to death at 
 Florence in the year 1498. 
 
 His offence was that of speaking against the 
 corruptions of the Pope, the Church, and the 
 age, and of advocating the necessity of reform, 
 and a life of Christian virtue. If that were the 
 Church of God, it would- obey the voice of God, 
 saying, "Thou shalt not kill." The spirit of 
 Alexander VI., with his chosen female and cler- 
 ical attendants still animates that Church, and 
 has led to the inauguration of this new institu- 
 tion, this "Substitution for Marriage," which will 
 spread as a pestilence, if not exposed and arrested, 
 with all its demoralizing influences. 
 
 Pope Sergius III. publicly lived with his mis- 
 tress, Marozia, one of the most immoral females 
 of Rome. One of their sons, when only sixteen 
 years old, was appointed Pope, and was known 
 under the title of John XI. 
 
 Pope John XXIII. was charged with fornica- 
 tion, adultery, incest, sodomy, and murder, and 
 proved guilty by the testimony of more than 
 
162 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAERIAGE. 
 
 thirty witnesses, many of them being clergymen. 
 He was guilty of having seduced over 200 nuns, be- 
 sides a large number — over 100 — young ladies 
 who had not bound themselves by vows of chas- 
 tity and obedience. 
 
 The wickedness of the Papacy becoming known 
 
 . to the people in the sixteenth centurj-, made them 
 
 revolt and produced the " Reformation,"' which 
 
 was a protest and outbreak of Papists against 
 
 the Papal Church, with its enormities. 
 
 If the Italians desire to retain this Church, 
 they may have it, but let them support it as 
 their own institution or fixture; they ought to 
 be ashamed of taxing other people for the 
 maintenance of such a nuisance. 
 
 If • the Germans wish to have a national 
 church and clergy, they ought to have both, for 
 they will be spirited enough to support them, 
 without taxing the Italians. Were the Irish to 
 have a national church, with its own national 
 clergy, as they ought to have, they will maintain 
 them in good style, and will never tax the 
 Italians, or the people who may live in Rome. 
 
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 In the United States, large numbers of Papal 
 subjects, clergy and people, who have witnessed 
 the evils flowing from that system, have seriously 
 hoped for the day to come when the whole fraud 
 would be exposed, broken up, and cast off, when 
 all might receive just treatment, according to 
 their merit, and the welfare of the people, 
 instead of the luxury of Italian hypocrites and 
 revenue collectors, such a church might become 
 the groundwork of the laboj-s of all those men 
 and women who are willing to devote their lives 
 in Christian earnestness to the cause of truth and 
 humanity. 
 
 The people, who pay for churches, pastoral 
 houses, furniture, graveyards, and lands have, in 
 all justice, the right to own and control the 
 same, and they ought to retain full control over 
 every inch, over every dollar's worth of such 
 property, instead of being cheated out of it by 
 false promises, and the pretences of Italian agents, 
 or bishops, who usually contribute nothing, but 
 hold such property by threats, injustice, and deceit 
 for themselves and the Popes. As long as the 
 
164 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAEKIAOE. 
 
 people allow themselves to be blind-folded and 
 cheated by these men, the work of plunder and 
 hypocrisy will continue. 
 
 Since thousands, whole congregations, are ready 
 to break away from the wrongs of the Papacy, 
 and the injustice of many of its representatives, 
 the bishops and some priests, the clergy and 
 people ought to break at once with Romanism, 
 and form a national or American church that 
 will, in all its influences, be in harmony with 
 the genius, laws, institutions, and progress of 
 the United States, and that will possess all the 
 grandeur and Christian solemnity which may be 
 deemed advisable as agreeing with the reason, 
 tastes, and characters of the people. 
 
 The doctrine that it is necessary for all to 
 have one and the same visible head to govern 
 them on earth is simply moonshine. Men can be 
 Christians and go to heaven without the Papacy. 
 There is no more reason for all to belong to 
 the Pope and his Church, than there is for all 
 to be born in Judea. To teach or believe that 
 all must have that one head to rule them, is as 
 
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 absurb as to believe that all should have the 
 same color of hair; people are right and can be 
 saved, whether their hair is red or black. There 
 is really no more need or benefit in having the 
 Papacy stuck to a people, or a nation, than there is 
 in having a big wart on the end of a person's nose. 
 The Papacy is about as useful to the human race 
 as a cancer is to a man's stomach. God's chil- 
 dren, like the birds, can find the bread of life in 
 abundance, without ever going to scratch for it 
 around the dung -heaps in the Pope's barn-yard. 
 For many hundred years after the ascension 
 of Christ, the people who were Christians, had 
 no Pope, no one visible head, but adopted that 
 form of church government and worship which 
 best suited themselves^" their city, province, or 
 country. 
 
 Constantinople, instead of Rome, became the 
 seat of empire, and took the lead in many of 
 the great activities of the age to such an extent 
 that her clergy, concluding their church should 
 hold pre-eminence in all ecclesiastical matters, 
 resolved on claiming the title of supremacy, or 
 
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 SUBSTITUTION FOB MARRIAGE. 
 
 universal headship for the bishop of their city. 
 The bishop of Rome, Gregory I., as has been 
 stated, opposed and condemned the title as anti- 
 Christian. His successor, Boniface III., accepted 
 it and graciously thanked Phocas, the usurper 
 and murderer, for bestowing the title on him, 
 instead of the bishop of Constantinople. That 
 title makes the Papacy, to a great extent, what 
 it is, and leaves in its head and tail the sting 
 of the viper ; for the " trail of the serpent is 
 over it all." 
 
 If these men, called Popes, be infallible, which 
 one of these two was right ? The one who 
 condemned the title, or the one who received it, 
 and left it as a legacy of l:)lood, fraud, oppression, 
 to his successors, and as a rod of injustice to 
 tens of thousands ? 
 
 The supremacy of the Pope has become a 
 matter of faith, and those who disbelieve it are 
 branded as heretics, and doomed by her cui-ses 
 to eternal sufferings. Were Gregory and his 
 predecessors heretics for rejecting it P Are they 
 lost forever? If they are in purgatory when will 
 
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 they be let out ? It has been truly said that 
 '"''Amiiiio multos mortales falsos fieri subejit." 
 This unbounded ambition for universal dominion 
 and power has made the Papacy a system of 
 falsehoods which rests on millions like a huge 
 sponge, constantly sucking out the very life-blood 
 of all who tolerate it, or tamely submit to her 
 manipulations. The Papal Church is the stolen 
 frock of religion, is a conspiracy against people's 
 rights, and against all parties and governments 
 that favor freedom and progress. 
 
 " Ubi Aaec contagio quasi pestilutia invasit, 
 immutata civitasi imperium ex justissimo et 
 Optimo, orudele intolerandumque factuTu estP 
 
 Again, if Gregory and his pijedecessors were 
 Popes, and infallible, they must have been right 
 without this title, and all claims arising from it; 
 for if they were wrong they were not infallible, 
 they were not, therefore, true Papists, and the 
 present Church, if infallible, must repudiate them 
 as she does all others, with their churches and 
 doctrines, that are not in accord with her views 
 and demands. 
 
168 substitution: foe maehiage. 
 
 In round numbers, the Papal Church, with its 
 peculiar title, was started about 500 years after 
 the death of the Apostles, who certainly never 
 had anything to do with that strange system. 
 The year 606 may well be considered the dividing 
 line between the Christian churches on the one 
 side, and the beginning of the Papal fraud on 
 the other. 
 
 Moreover, the very title. ''''Pontifex Maximus" 
 " Supreme Pontiff," assumed by that Church, was 
 not Chris^an, but Pagan, in its origin, and means 
 when translated, the " Boss Bridge Maker,'' or the 
 chief street cleaner. Pontifex is composed of the 
 words, ''pons,'''' a bridge, and '' facer e^'' to make. 
 Originally, the iitle denoted the occupation of the 
 man who bore it; as in English the word shoe- 
 maker indicates the trade, or occupation, of the 
 individual to whom that name is given. 
 
 The business of the Pontifex w;is, in Pagan 
 times, to make and repair bridges on the ways 
 or roads chosen for the religious processions, for 
 triumphal marches, and for ordinary purposes. In 
 addition to this, it wiU'^ his business, or office, to 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MAKRIAGE. 169 
 
 clean the streets for these and other uses. In 
 the course of time several of these Bridge Makers 
 and street cleaners were employed, and, one of 
 the number became the '" maximus," the " boss" 
 or chief, and generally directed the "job." At a 
 later period of Roman Paganism, the Pontifex 
 Maximus, or " Boss Bridge Maker," took part in 
 appointing the persons who were to do this 
 work, or to officiate in the temples of the gods, 
 or to conduct the processions on festal occasions. 
 He finally had the office of making the offierings 
 in the temple of the goddess Vesta ; he also 
 selected the females who were to serve her, and 
 they were called Vestals. This Pagan title, 
 '■ Boss Bridge Builder," is now stuck to the 
 Papal mud-scow, which is laden with the dirt, 
 sweepings, and rotten timbers of heathenism. 
 Es ist immer gut etwas zu leriien. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 MOBALITY AND 'IMMORALITY. 
 
 Since the corruptions flowing from the celibacy 
 of the clergy and nuns, have been so great in 
 all countries, and at all times, the bishops have 
 adopted four rules by which they determine 
 the character of the priest. With equal justice 
 these same rules are applied to themselves, for 
 they are taken from the ranks of the inferior 
 clergy, not for their virtue or learning, but 
 through favoritism, which they gain by some 
 unchristian, cunning, or intriguing method of influ- 
 ence ; their nature is not metamorphosed into 
 perfection by their promotion in oflice or liy the 
 surroundings of their advanced position. The 
 pole -cat is the same on the hillside as in the 
 valley, and the scent becomes stronger as the 
 animal approaches. 
 
 The tirst rule is: — "Priests who nre drunk- 
 ards are impure and immoral witliout exception." 
 
 The second rule is : — " Priests who are in- 
 temperate, but not drunkai-ds, are impure and 
 
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 immoral, with a few exceptions." 
 
 The third rule is : — "Priests who are fond of 
 liquor, but neither intemperate nor drunkards, 
 are impure and immoral, mth many exceptions." 
 
 The fourth rule is : — " Priests who are nat- 
 urally and strictly temperate, having a strong 
 dislike for all kinds of liquor, are pure and 
 moral almost without exception." 
 
 Therefore, as they make temperance the basis 
 and test of morality, it appears there are three 
 impure and immoral priests and bishops for the 
 one that is pure and moral in the Papal Church. 
 This is the conclusion from their own standard, 
 and must be accepted, as it is warranted by 
 facts, and by a host of living witnesses. As 
 the Church has a criterion of morality in her 
 clergy, perhaps an explanation as to the ohitf 
 cause of their immorality would be admissible 
 and very profitable. 
 
 The wine, or (as that Church calls it) " the 
 blood and divinity of Christ, is, in most instances, 
 the first and main cause of their intemperance, 
 and, therefore, of their immorality. The laws of 
 
172 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 the Church require the clergy to fast from all 
 food and drink from the previous night until 
 they shall have said or sung mass the following 
 morning or forenoon. The stomach is usually 
 in a condition to receive proper food rather than 
 the vpine which they pour into it during mass ; 
 and nature, which has always been opposed to 
 Romanism, inflicts frightful penalties on those 
 who disregard or violate the natural principles 
 and laws established for man's well-being. 
 
 The wine stimulates the nerves of the stomach 
 and, in time, produces undue irritation or excite- 
 ment. The inflamation which is thus generated 
 becomes a disease, or an intense craving for 
 more and stronger liquor. To suppress, or rather 
 satisfy and increase, this painful gnawing in the 
 stomach, which aifects, to some extent, the whole 
 system, these priests and bishops are driven to 
 drink more frequently and more abundantlj-. In 
 a few years the majority of these men are very 
 fond of liquor, if they are not intemperate or 
 drunkards. Many who were thoroughly temper- 
 ate men when ordained have been changed into 
 
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 inebriates in less than five years, by the almost 
 daily repetition of stimulating or gorging the 
 stomach with mass-wine, instead of suitable food 
 or nourishment. The brain and general organiza- 
 tion of the man suifer. and he becomes so restless 
 that, often as a curative, the company of drinking, 
 jolly, dissipated characters is sought and enjoyed, 
 until the temperate and pure young man becomes 
 thoroughly demoralized by that Church, with 
 her laws and wine, which he had hoped and 
 believed would fill him with all grace and 
 virtue, instead of being the great cause of his 
 ruin and misfortunes. 
 
 Many days and nights during the year are 
 spent by these men in gambling, drinking, and 
 carousing, at such times as " The Forty Hours' 
 Devotion," " Month's Mind," " Priests' Funerals," 
 " Confirmation," " Corner-stone Laying," " Jubilee," 
 " Dedication," " Patron's Feast," or while at- 
 tending the "Council of the Church," though 
 they perform or rehearse their several parts at 
 certain hours in the church like actors in a 
 theatre. 
 
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 On such- occasions they are hilarious, profane, 
 boisterous, obscene, and call the priest who 
 
 gives them the spree "a d d good fellow," 
 
 and the more drink he furnishes, the more lavish 
 they are of their praises; he is termed for a 
 a while a magnificent chap, ' if he spices their 
 festivities with the presence of a few of the 
 " right kind of women,'" who " understand things 
 perfectly," who can " chime in," and who have 
 the real esprit du corps, women who are "" up 
 to snuff," without letting outsiders know the 
 inside business; if all passes off without a great 
 row, then they call one another by the eupho- 
 nious name of '" regular bricks." 
 
 As priests' minds are usually at rest on the 
 question of how they are to get a living, they 
 have, therefore, so much more time to devote to 
 thoughts of ease, comfort, gratiticatiou, and in- 
 dulgence. Had they the cares, anxieties, and 
 occupations of other men, they would be less 
 subject to the vices and practices that are so 
 common and debasing among them. 
 
 Those who inherit from their pai-ents a dis- 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOE MARRIAGE. 175 
 
 position to drink, or to immorality, find oppor- 
 tunities and material in abundance to feed the 
 flames that burn and consume them. Honest 
 industr}', with reasonable cares, and the natural 
 restraints of home and decent associations, are 
 .some of the remedies or preventat^es which 
 would have saved many. 
 
 One young man. the descendant of lustful 
 parents, could scarcely control his raging lust 
 for his aunt, his mother, and his sister while 
 he was preparing for the priesthood. He was 
 so far carried away by his passion in the sem- 
 inary that masturhation became almost a daily 
 practice with him for years, though he con- 
 cealed it in confession for a long time. The 
 priest to whom he finally confessed this, advised 
 him and ui-ged him to keep out of the priest- 
 hood, but the infatuation was too strong, and 
 he was ordained not many years ago for the 
 diocese of Louisville, Ky., having, besides the 
 inherent longing for ease, wealth, and notriety, 
 this hereditary passion, which has been intensified 
 by much indulgence, to contend with, unless he 
 
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 should be admitted to this organizatioa that 
 
 might be a safe and ample escape-valve or 
 reservoir. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 THE LAST LINK. 
 
 The last link that binds the " B. C.'s "' and 
 all Catholics who may have lost much of their 
 early confidence in the Papal Church, is their 
 belief in the necessity or saving power of 
 " Extreme Unction," or the annointing. They fear 
 their souls would certainly be lost forever if they 
 did not receive this " sacrament," as it is called, 
 from the hands of the clergymen of that 
 Church. Thousands cling to Romanism for this 
 one reason, when all other arguments have been 
 destroyed by her numerous corruptions, which 
 they have witnessed so often with their own 
 eyes. 
 
 They learn this doctrine from their catechism, 
 from the sermons, and private instructions of 
 these men, who make religion a mere trade for 
 
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 their own benefit. They believe that the priests 
 receive in the " Sacrament of Orders " the par- 
 ticular power of forgiving sins, and that they 
 are attended and appointed to administer this 
 last means of salvation to those who are in 
 danger of death. The following words of St. 
 James are quoted to establish this belief: " Is 
 any man sick among you, let him bring in the 
 priests of the Church, and let them pray over 
 him, annointing him with oil in the name of 
 the Lord." — Chap. V.; verse 14. 
 
 The doctrine deduced from this verse (the 
 following verse being frequently omitted) is ac- 
 cepted cis correct, inspired, and, therefore, infal- 
 libly true, since the words " priests," " church,'' 
 "annointing," "oil," "in the name of the Lord," 
 are given. They also learn from that Church 
 that every Catholic who has attained the age or 
 use of reason, and who is dangerously sick^ 
 must receive extreme unction. This annointing, 
 then, is held by that Church as necessary to 
 salvation; hence the immense power she has 
 over the multitudes who continue in vile sub- 
 
178 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 mission to her unjust laws and demands, through 
 fear of losing their souls should the priest fail 
 or refuse to annoint them at the hour of death. 
 Now St. James does not teach the Papal 
 doctrine of extreme unction, either in- this four- 
 teenth verse, or in any other verse, but differs 
 from it, as the fifteenth verse clearly shows, and 
 he condemns, from the first to the fourteenth 
 verses, such practices, doctrines, and men, as are 
 so common and numerous in that Church. The 
 examination of the fourteenth and fifteenth verses 
 of this fifth chapter of St. James will serve in 
 clearing up this matter, and give to honest 
 minds information that will guide them in the 
 right direction. St. James did not mention or 
 mean in these two verses the Papal Church or 
 its clergy, with their false doctrine of annointing. 
 for the Papal Church did not exist at that time. 
 He did not say that annointing would save the 
 sick man; he did not say that the sick must be 
 annointed by priests to bo saved; he did not 
 teach that the sick man should confess his sins 
 to a priest; or that a priest could give absoln- 
 
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 tion, or should hear confession; nor did he 
 teach that the prayers of a priest, bishop, Pope, 
 or the Roman Church could or would save the 
 sick man. or anyone else. 
 
 If the word ''''priests'' be correct,^ then two 
 or more priests (not one) should be employed to 
 rub the oil on the body, and send the soul 
 sliding through the air to the invisible world. 
 
 But the word "priests" is wrong, for the 
 Latin word is Seniores, which means elders, 
 precisely as the Greek word Preshuterous in this 
 fourteenth -verse signifies "elders. Sacer dotes is the 
 word for priests, which is not the word used by 
 St. James. Senex means old (or eld). Senior 
 means older (or elder), and Seniores being plural 
 means olders or elders, which latter is more 
 commonly used at present. 
 
 In the' Christian church good men and true, 
 being esteemed for their age and experience, were 
 chosen to conduct the services, visit the sick, 
 help the poor, advise the people, and free them 
 from, the bondage of false systems, church avar- 
 ice, and despotism. No priests were required or 
 
180 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARKIAGE. 
 
 employed to serve or ofEeiate in the Christian 
 church, for Christ abolished the earthly priest- 
 hood and sacrifice forever in His Church, as 
 St. Paul teaches in the epistle to the Hebrews. 
 He says in the seventh chapter, twenty-seventh 
 verse, that "Christ needeth not daily (as the 
 other priests) to offer sacrifices, first for his own 
 sins and then for the people's; for this he did 
 once, in offering himself;" and in the eighteenth 
 verse of the tenth chapter he says, " There is 
 no more an oblation for sins," and in the 
 twenty-sixth verse of the same chapter he says, 
 " There is now left no sacrifice for sins." 
 
 The priests of the Papal Church teach that 
 they offer an unbloody sacrifice, but Paul teaches 
 that there is left no sacriiice. The priests of 
 the Roman Church contradict St. Paul and them- 
 selves by teaching that they do offer a daily 
 sacrifice, and by maintaining that they change 
 the bread and wine, in the sacrifice of their 
 mfiss, into the real blood and body of Jesus, 
 and that they continue to offer this sacrifice, 
 which is, therefore, bloody; for it cannot be 
 
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 bloodless, if they change the wine and bread 
 into blood. Their whole doctrine is false, and 
 they generally know it; for Paul declares what 
 is true in saying " There is now left no sacri- 
 fice," neither bloody or unbloody "for sins," 
 and he commands that his doctrine must be 
 received as true, even if an angel should teach 
 a different one. Again, in the tenth verse of 
 the tenth chapter he says, that " We are sancti- 
 fied by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ 
 once,''; in the twelfth and fourteenth verses of 
 the same chapter that Christ, by " offering one 
 sacrifice for sins, forever sitteth on the right 
 hand of God." " For by one oilation, he hath 
 perfected forever them that are sanctified." St. 
 Paul's purpose was to convince people that they 
 were to be saved by faith, by goodness of life, 
 without priests and their useless inventions, as 
 the priesthood, with its performances, had ceased. 
 The "church," in the true Christian sense, 
 differs entirely from the Papal Church, as will 
 be shown by the examination of examples and 
 facts relating to this question. The Pope's clergy 
 
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 mean themselves Vhea they speak of obedience 
 or submission to the Church; supporting the 
 Church means, iu their view, supporting them- 
 selves, with all their demands; the voice of the 
 Church means their voice; the laws of the 
 Church signify their laws; and the doctrine of 
 the Church is their doctrine. In fact the 
 Papal Church means simply the clergy, par- 
 ticularly the higher grades of the clergy, with 
 their interests and conveniences, no matter what 
 deSnitions, or sophisjtical explanations, thej- may 
 give to the contrary. 
 
 The subjects of the Papal clergy never take 
 part in making the laws of the Church, or in 
 appointing the pastors who are to guide them: 
 they neither dismiss nor receive members as the 
 early Christians did, but they are wholly deprived 
 of their right to exercise the authority vested 
 in them by the apostolic Christian church, spirit, 
 principles, and discipline. 
 
 The Church meant the people. In the 
 eighteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel this fact 
 is clearly and prominently conveyed. Christ, as 
 
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 there reported, gave general principles for decid- 
 ing cases of misconduct, and he made the people 
 (or church), not the clergy, the judges, or the 
 deciding and ruling body. He says iu the 
 fifteenth verse "If thy brother shall offend against 
 thee, rebuke him between thee and him alone;" 
 in the sixteenth verse. '' And if he will not hear 
 thee, take with thee one or two more; "' (as 
 witnesses); in the seventeenth verse, "And if 
 he will not hear them, tell the church. And if 
 he will not hear the church, let him be to 
 thee as the heathen and publican." He did not 
 say that the Papal Church or clergy should 
 decide such matters. He addressed the people as 
 ''the Church," and said to them: "Whatsoever 
 you shall hind on earth shall be bound also 
 in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on 
 earth, shall be loosed in heaven." He thus gave 
 to the people the right, the duty and the 
 authority to pronounce the binding or loosing 
 sentence, and their decision when rendered on 
 Christian principles of justice and equity would 
 be ratified in Heaven. 
 
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 He did not say that Peter was to decide 
 the difficulties or regulp.tions pertaining to the 
 behavior, belief, or practices of the Church (the 
 people) or the ministry. Peter was prasent on 
 the occasion, when Christ gave this power to 
 the people, and he did not understand that he 
 or the other Apostles were the Church, or that 
 they had then or there received this binding 
 and loosing office, or jurisdiction which the 
 Papal Church falsely claims to have from Peter, 
 and from the words of this chapter, especially 
 those of the eighteenth verse. 
 
 In the twentj'-first verse of this same chapter 
 Peter asks Christ, "How often shall my brother 
 offend against me, and I forgive him? till seven 
 times?" In the twenty-second vei-se, "Jesus saith 
 to him; I say not to thee, till seven times, 
 but till seventy times seven times." Christ 
 did not place Peter above the people (or the 
 church), but simply put him on a common 
 level with others who might have difficulties, 
 and left him under the obligation of submitting 
 his case to the investigation and vei-dict of the 
 
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 people^ the church, acting as the ecclesiastical 
 court with full authority from Jesus to bind or 
 loose as in their judgment was just and equit- 
 able. Peter felt bound to abide by the answer 
 of Christ, or by the decision of the churok, 
 the people, and by the principles of forgiving his 
 enemies or opponents 490 times, if necessary. Christ 
 constituted the Christian people the Christian 
 church, and he sent the Apostles as a body of 
 preachers, healers, advisers, and consolers. 
 
 The Papacy has, by violence, intrigue and 
 fraud, deprived the people of the authority and 
 power belonging to them; she has cheated them 
 out of their privileges, as she has swindled them 
 out of their property. 
 
 Since, then, she will not hear the voice of 
 Christ's church, his people, she must, therefore, 
 be counted " as the heathen and the publican." 
 
 In the first verse of the eighth chapter of 
 
 the Acts, it is recorded that " there was a great 
 
 persecution raised against the church which was 
 
 at Jerusalem, and they were all dispersed except 
 
 the Apostles." The Papacy was not there at 
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186 SUBSTITUTION FOB MAKKIAGB. 
 
 that time. In the twenty-sixth verse of the 
 eleventh chapter of the Acts it is stated that 
 " They conversed there in the church a whole 
 year, and they taught a great multitude, so that 
 at Antioch, the disciples were Urst called Chris- 
 tians." Where was the Pope's Church on that 
 occasion? 
 
 St. Paul, in the fifteenth verse of the fourth 
 chapter of his Epistle to the Colossians requests 
 these people to " Salute the brethren who are 
 at Laodicea and Nymphas, and the church which 
 is in his housed This church was the as- 
 sembly of Christian people who met in that 
 house for worship, which consisted of singing 
 hymns of praise, reading portions of Scripture, 
 partaking of the Lord's Supper as a memorial 
 of His goodness, and of the fact that there was 
 to be no more sacrifice. The church in the 
 house of Nymphas differed completely from that 
 which is known as the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 The "oil," as named and intended by St. 
 James, was for the body, but not for the soul 
 of the sick man, and he with the other minis- 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOB MARRIAGE. 187 
 
 ters, not priests, of the Christian church, used 
 oil as a healing remedy for the ailments of 
 man's physical system. In the thirteenth verse 
 of the sixth chapter of St. Mark's Gospel the 
 correct view of anuointing, or the application of 
 oil, is furnished with definiteness and precision: 
 " And they cast out many devils, and annointed 
 with oil many that were sick and healed 
 tTiem." Oil was thus applied as a medicine or 
 liniment to the body, as it is at the present 
 time, but not as a spiritual substance or grace, 
 whereby the souls of men could be saved. The 
 Roman Catholic belief, as drawn from these 
 words, and as imposed on so many unsuspecting 
 people, is, therefore, untrue^ and should be 
 rejected by every honest man who apreciates the 
 truth, or has proper regard for his own reason 
 and happiness. 
 
 Saint James declares positively that, " The 
 prayer of faith will (or shall) save * the sick 
 man." He gives prominence and emphasis to 
 " tlie prayer of faith," as the means that will 
 save the sick; and such a prayer can be offered 
 
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 by the sick man himself, or by some pious, 
 faithful elders, or leading members of the Christian 
 church, or by sincere, good neighbors, but no 
 need of the mutterings or mumblings of the 
 Roman Catholic priests. If they were required, 
 why did not St. James Say so, or mention 
 them? This "prayer of faith," not the twaddle 
 which priests or other hypocrites offer for prayer, 
 makes it easy and possible for people to be 
 saved, through the mercy of God, no matter 
 where the hand of death may touch them, 
 whether on land or sea, at work or amusement, 
 in peace or war, in the glory and buoyancy of 
 youth or the declining hours of old age; for 
 without oil, confession, mass, priest, bishop, or 
 Pope, the Creator will hear the penitent sigh, 
 the prayer for pardon, and having absolved his 
 children from their sins, will enable their souls 
 to wing their flight to that kingdom eternal in 
 the skies. " And the praj^er of faith will save 
 the sick man; and the Lord will raise him up; 
 and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven 
 him." — James, chapter V., verse 15. 
 
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 St. James commands people to be just, to 
 confess, or acknowledge their offences to one 
 another^ and to pray for one another that they 
 may be saved, "for the continual (effectual and 
 fervent) prayer of the just man availeth much." 
 He does not say the prayer of a priest availeth 
 much, or anything; in truth, the prayer of the 
 average Roman Catholic priest or bishop is of no 
 avail, for he has neither Christian faith or justice 
 in his heart, or daily dealings with mankind; 
 his Papacy excludes his Christianity, for the one 
 contradicts the other. 
 
 No sacredotal trickery is necessary to save 
 anyone, salvation being a matter that rests 
 between man and his Maker. Every man must 
 secure his own safe passage to heaven; he can 
 not hire substitutes to send him through by a 
 train of masses, indulgences, sprinklings, or 
 oilings; one drop of the pure grace or mercy of 
 God would go further in saving the human 
 family than a tank full of Papal petroleum. 
 
 When the Roman Catholic priest goes to 
 annoint the sick people, he usually makes them 
 
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 confess their sins to him that he may pardon 
 them by giving what he calls absolution. Now 
 if he can pardon their sins in that manner, 
 there is no need j of annointing them to do the 
 same thing. Again, if he. by the confession, 
 absolution, and annointing, has pardoned or effected 
 the complete pardon of their sins, and has 
 prepared their sonls for heaven, there is no need 
 for masses to accomplish the same object, and 
 he is unjust in charging fees for masses which 
 he says, or pretends to say, for the souls of the 
 departed, even for the souls -that he prepared 
 for perfect happiness. 
 
 Then if all these interventions do not save 
 their souls from punishment in the next life, 
 the priest, if a humane being, and if he can 
 prevent souls from torture by the application of 
 indulgence, should instantly use this remedy in 
 every case rather than let them roast or freeze 
 in purgatory or elsewhere. No good man would 
 permit his neighbors' children to burn if he had 
 the power to rescue them; he would risk his 
 own life, which is infinitely more than the 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOK MAKEIAGE. 191 
 
 mere words or* motions of a priest over the 
 sick or dead. 
 
 Money should not be the cause of releasing 
 poor souls from torments, but it is well known 
 that money is the prime mover, the propelling 
 power, that causes these priests or bishops to do 
 a seeming act of justice for their deluded 
 followers. 
 
 Moreover, if the priest is sure that the souls 
 are still suffei'ing in pufgatory, he must, therefore, 
 be equally sure that all, his previous appliances 
 have not saved or rescued them. 
 
 If this church can control the will of God 
 and emancipate souls, she ought to begin the 
 work at once without any delay, and convince 
 the world that she has done so by giving the 
 date, the hour, when she set them free, as well 
 as the names of those that are in purgatory, 
 or that she has taken out of it. 
 
 There is not a priest living that can tell 
 with certainty how long any soul has been in 
 purgatory, how long any soul must remain there, 
 when any soul was released, how it was rescued.; 
 
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 not one can tell how much godfl or how much 
 evil his performances have done any soul; in 
 truth, he doubts all he does in the Papal farce., 
 and looks upon it as a dramatic display of 
 useless nonsense. ^The first and last thing they 
 do understand with accuracy and readiness is the 
 money. They must have that whether the souls 
 be saved or damned. They will offer masses 
 for the souls in purgatory and keep them there 
 just as long as the living are such fools as 
 to give the money; when the money ceases, 
 the masses are not said. Money is the Alpha 
 and the Omega of their belief. 
 
 When a man's sins are forgiven, he is usually 
 freed from punishment. If a father pardons the 
 offences of his son he does not immediately 
 afterwards put the son in prison. The prodigal, 
 as mentioned in the gospel, who repented and 
 returned, was not rejected or thrown into prison 
 or a dungeon, but was received with joy by the 
 kind and forgiving father. The Almighty Spirit, 
 the Heavenly Father, will accept the repentance 
 and prayers of his children when sick or dying. 
 
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 will pardon their sins, and take them into the 
 happy home provided for them. He does not 
 desire his children to be robbed here and tor- 
 tured hereafter to suit the greed and falsehoods 
 of that Church, from which He calls all people 
 by the voice of the angel, as recorded in the 
 fourth verse of the eighteenth chapter of " The 
 Apocalypse " : " And I heard another voice from 
 heaven saying: go out of her, my people, that 
 ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye 
 receive not of her plagues." 
 
EXTRACTS, 
 
 Extracts from the pamphlet called " The Future 
 Conflict," being an address by the President of 
 the " Order of the American Union." 
 
 This peculiar feature of the bishops owning all 
 the property of the Church gives them ah immense 
 power whenever they choose to wield it. Owing to 
 the priestliood owning several hundred million dollars 
 worth of property in Italy and Mexico, the evil 
 became so intolerable that the Governments in 'those 
 countries were obliged to confiscate the property for 
 the benefit of the State — this was all done since 
 1870. This, added to the secret organized character 
 of the Church, its purely military organization, and 
 its maxim that "the end justifies the means," makes 
 the Roman Catholic Church in the future a most 
 dangerous institution for the existence of religious 
 freedom and equal rights, and shows the necessity 
 of the National constitution being amended so as to 
 require all church property to be taxed, and also 
 to be held by trustees consisting of the members of 
 the church, institution, or society owning or using the 
 same. 
 
 Added to all that has been stated, there is the 
 certainty that as soon as Rome gains the power, she 
 will demand that all her schools, seminaries, convents, 
 
196 SUB8TITUTI0X FOR MARHIAOE. 
 
 monasteries, colleges, hospitals, etc., be supported out 
 of the public treasury. Her leading writers have 
 boasted already, as we have before stated, that in 
 less than thirty years, they will number two-fifths of 
 our population, if they increase as rapidly as they 
 have in the past, which they claim they will; then 
 they will have things their own way, and make up 
 for being compelled to pay taxes for the support of 
 our public schools, either by abolishing our schools, 
 or by having all their institutions supported by the 
 tax-payers. This last is exactly what Rome has done 
 in New York city, where the Catholics number one- 
 third of the population. By selling her votes, she 
 has been enabled to obtain, out of the public treas- 
 ury in the space of fifteen years over $12,000,000 for 
 the benefit of the institutions under her control, while 
 all other sectarian institutions under Protestant and 
 Jewish control have received less than -31,000,000. 
 
 As a sample of the manner in which the Romish 
 institutions were subsidized out of the public treasury 
 in that city by the authorities, a majority of whom 
 are Catholics, or sympathizers with that belief, we 
 give a list of appropriations made in the years 1869, 
 1870, and 1871. It will be borne in mind that one-tliird 
 only of the population of that city are of that 
 belief, and that nine-tenths of the taxes were paid by 
 non-Catholics. 
 
 Catholics got ninty-one per cent, and Protestiuits 
 a little over seven per cent, although the latter paid 
 nine-tenths of the taxes. 
 
 Besides the above gigantic donations to the Roman 
 Catholic Church, from the public treasury, there were 
 collected the siune years from excise the sum of 
 
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 $754,238; out of this $635,217 were given to the 
 Romish Church, while about one-third of the balance 
 was paid to Protestants institutions. 
 
 In 1874 the Roman Catholic institutions received 
 $454,194, while the Protestant institutions received 
 only ^4,461, and the Hebrew $25,293. 
 
 A single Romish institution, called a Protectory, 
 received over $1,500,000 out of the public treasury 
 since it was organized. 
 
 All the children of the prisoners and paupers on 
 Randall and Blackwell's Islands, some 700, of both 
 Protestant and Catholic parentage, are sent to this 
 Catholic Protectory, and boarded and educated at the 
 expense of the city, at four dollars per week, 
 making $2,800 a week. The cost to the Protectory 
 does not exceed |700 per week, as they are fed on 
 the cheapest and plainest food, leaving a net profit 
 of .1?2,100 a week, equal to $109,000 per annum! These 
 children are educated in the Catholic faith, regard- 
 less of the creed of their parents. The most likely 
 ones are selected to be made priests of, and are 
 educated to a life of celibacy, all at the expense 
 mainly of the Protestant tax-payers. 
 
 In 1857 the City Council donated to that Church 
 a tract of land worth at that time about three- 
 fourths of a million of dollars, but valued to-day 
 at about four millions of dollars, ou part of which 
 the magnificent Fifth Avenue Cathedral is erected- 
 The -plea that this gigantic donation was a charitable 
 affair cannot avail, inasmuch as a ten million dollar 
 cathedral was a recipient of a portion of the gift. 
 
 If Rome can do this in New York city, where 
 her population is only one-third, what is there to 
 
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 prevent her from doing likewise out of city, State. 
 and National treasuries thirty yfears hence, when she 
 will number, at a low estimate, one-third of our 
 population? And what will she do fifty years hence, 
 when she will probably outnumber the non-Catholics, 
 
 The clergy in Mexico owned four hundred million 
 dollars worth of property previous to its being confis- 
 cated by the Government, and which never paid any 
 tax. If the Romish power ' in this country held as 
 much property in proportion to population — 45,000,000 
 to 9,000,000 — it would have reached $2,000,000,000 ; or 
 if they owned as much property in proportion to 
 Eomish population — 7,500,000 to 9,000,Ono— they would 
 have owned $.323,000,000, and it now already controls 
 $250,000,000. The case of Mexico, as well as other 
 Catholic countries, shows clearly what the hierarchy 
 contemplates doing in this country — namely, to accumu- 
 late a vast amount of property, reaching into the 
 thousands of millions, simply because it will give an 
 immense amount of political power. 
 
 For many years the general Government has sui>- 
 ported Providence Hospital, in Washington, an institu- 
 tion under control of the Romish Churdi, hundreds of 
 thousands of dollars having been appropriated for that 
 purpose. Three years since. Congress donated to the 
 "Little Sisters of the Poor" $25,000, which was used 
 to build a church. The members, both Democrats and 
 Republicans, dared not vote against these appropriations 
 for fear of losing Roman. Catholic votes. In the Siune 
 
ST3BSTITUTI0N FOK MARRIAGE. 199 
 
 manner the Legislature of New York has voted at 
 different times over a million dollars to Roman in- 
 stitutions. In California, Roman institutions are 
 largely supported out of the public treasury, all 
 brought about by a gentle reminder that Catholic 
 votes could be retained • by being liberal with the 
 Church. As fast as the adherents of that Church 
 increase, just so fast do they augment their demands. 
 These facts illustrate unmistakably the purpose of 
 Rome to obtain control of the public revenue as 
 quickly as possible for the purpose of aggrandizing 
 herself. 
 
 While all this unjust discrimination is going on 
 against Protestantism, wliich pays nine-tenths of the 
 taxes, the so-called guardian of the public interest 
 and of tlie rights of the people, the press, is silent. 
 
 Extracts from Macaulay's Essay on Ranke's 
 History of the Popes.— pp. 405, 407, 408, 414. 
 
 "Two Popes" (at the same time), "each with a 
 doubtful title, made all Europe ring with their mutual 
 invectives and anathemas. 
 
 " Rome,'' (the headquarters of one Pope) " cried 
 out against the corruptions of Avignon " (the head- 
 quarters of the other Pope) " ; and Avignon, with 
 equal justice, recriminated on Rome. The plain 
 people were unable to discover to which of these two 
 worthless men the headship belonged. 
 
 " During the generation that preceded the Reforma- 
 tion the Roman Court" (the Roman Catholic Court 
 and Church) " had been a scandal to the Christian 
 
300 SUBSTITUTION FOB MARKIA.GB. 
 
 name. Its annals are black with treason, murder, 
 and incest. Even its more respectable members were 
 utterly unfit to be ministers of religion. They were 
 men who had acquired an atheistical and scoffing 
 spirit. Among themselves they spoke of the Incar- 
 nation, the Eucharist, and the Trinity, with contempt 
 and ridicule. 
 
 "Their years glided by in a soft dream of sensual 
 and intellectual voluptuousness, choice cookery, delic- 
 ious wines, lovely women, horses, sonnets, burlesque, 
 romances, as licentious as a fine sense of the graceful 
 would permit, these things were the delights and 
 even the serious business of their lives. 
 
 "In France, during the Revolution, the priests 
 flung away their sacred vestments and proclaimed 
 that their whole life had been an imposture.'' 
 
 Extracts from Dr. Brownlee's Letters in the 
 
 Roman Catholic Controversy. — pp. 38, 45, 166. 188, 
 
 189, 190, 191, 347, 348, 353. 354, 355. 
 
 "Baronius, a Roman Catholic writer, says: 'What 
 is, then, the face of the Roman Church! How 
 exceedingly foul it is! When most potent, sordid, 
 and abandoned women (Meretrices) ruled at Rome; 
 at whose will the Sees were changed, bishops were 
 presented; and what is hoj-rid to hear and unutter- 
 able, False Pontiffs, the paramours of these women, 
 were intruded into the chair of St. Peter. For who 
 can aflirm that men illegally intruded hy bad women 
 (Scortis) were Roman Pontiffs!' See his annals of 
 A. D. 912. 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 201 
 
 "Claude D'Espence, that eminent divine of your 
 Church, has written : ' Shameful to relate, they (the 
 Popes and their bishops) gave permission to priests 
 to keep concubines, upon paying an annual tax.' And 
 he adds : ' There is a printed book, which has been 
 sold for a considerable time, entitled the Taxes of 
 the Apostolic Chancery, from which we may learn 
 more enormities and crimes than from all the books 
 of the 8ummists. And of these crimes there are 
 some which persons may have liberty to commit for 
 money; while absolution from all of them, after 
 they have been committed, may be bought.' See 
 D'Esp. ad cap. ad Titum, deg. II. 
 
 "The Council of Constance 'met in 1414. The 
 Council required the three Popes to resign forthwitli; 
 each one on oath solemnly yielded, and swore on the 
 Evangelists to obey. But each of them instantly 
 resumed the Papacy. Thus the ' Holy Mother ' had 
 three perjured heads and there were three perjured 
 vice^gods ! 
 
 "John was deposed for his infamous crimes* the 
 council actually proving and declaring the Holy 
 Father guilty of perjury, iiic&st, rape, murder, and 
 sodomy. See Labbeus, vol. xvi, pp. 178-222. 
 
 "It was publicly and unblushingly enacted by 
 the Council of Toledo (1473), and ratified by Pope 
 Leo of that day, that a priest might keep his 
 concubine publicly, and that the lordly bishop also 
 might have his concubine publicly, and privately his 
 seraglio. See Binii Council, tom. i., pp. 737-9. Crabb 
 Council tom. i., pp. 449, ed. 1551. Pithqji corps. Jur. 
 Can. p. 47. 
 
 "St. Bernard, of the twelfth century, declares to- 
 13 
 
202 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 the world that bishops and priests committed such 
 acts of turpitude as it would be scandalous to 
 express. See Bern, in Con. Rhem. 1728. 
 
 "And Agrlppa, in Bayle i, tells us of a Romish 
 bishop who boasted of having in his diocese eleven 
 thousand (11,000) priests who paid him annually one 
 guinea each for a Papal license to keep a concubine. 
 
 "Clemangis, your own famous writer, declares: 
 'The adultery, impiety, and obscenity of the priests 
 to be beyond description. They crowd into houses 
 of ill-fame; they spend their time in taverns, in 
 eating, gambling, drinking, reveling, and dancing. 
 These sacerdotal sensualists fought, roared, rioted, and 
 blasphemed God and the saints. They went from the 
 company of infamous women to the altar and the 
 mass. To veil a woman in those days, or to make 
 a nun of her, was synonymous with prostituting 
 her.' See Clemangis, 26 ; Lenfau, i., 70; and Bruy., torn, 
 iii, p. 610-1. 
 
 " The Council of Valadolid say that ' the clergj' 
 led lives of enormity and profligacy in public concu- 
 binage.' See Labb., vol. xv, p. 247. 
 
 " ' The clergy,' said King Edgar at the close of the 
 tenth century, 'are lascivious in dress, insolent in 
 manner, and filthy in conversation. Their time they 
 devote to revels, debaucheries, and abominations.* See 
 Fordun, cap. 30; and Bruy. ii, 219; Edgar, p. 512. 
 
 "The Council of Lyons, in which were assembled 
 the chief bishops and cardinals of the Romish 
 Church, converted that city into one great temple of 
 pollution. M. Parvis, p. 7it2, h;is recorded the speech 
 which Ciirdinal Hugo hiwl the unblushing impu- 
 dence to pronounce to the citizens after the council 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 203 
 
 was over. 'Your city,' said he, 'contained only three 
 houses of ill-fame' when the holy synod met here. 
 Xow there is only one, but that one comprehends the 
 whole city, between the east gate and the west 
 gate.' See Edgar, p. 510. 
 
 "The holy Council of Constance was attended by 
 litteen hundred (1500) infamous females. See Labbeus 
 vol. xvi, p. 143.5, and Aruy. iv, 39. 
 
 " In the Council of Basil it was publicly avowed 
 and maintained by argument that infamous houses 
 were necessary and proper, and a source of great 
 revenue. See Labb. Council, vol. xvii, p. 986-988; 
 Venice ed. 1728; Carissius Thesaur, vol. iv, p. 467; 
 Antwerp ed. 1720. 
 
 " Pope Paul III, who convoked the Council of Trent, 
 made no scruples of availing himself of the revenue 
 that could be raised from licensed houses of infamy! 
 And his revenue from this source was very great, as 
 Jorty-flve thousand (45,000) of these infamous persons 
 were receiving the protection of his holy Apostolical 
 licenses. See Mc'Gavius Glasgow Protestant Ch. 15. 
 These licenses continue under the care of his holiness 
 to this day. 
 
 " But it is not from this sin alone that the Eoman 
 Catholic Chiucli draws her revenues. She has traded, 
 and still trades, in all sins. In the far-famed book 
 called 'The Taxes of the Apostolic Chancery,' the 
 prices of each class of sins is laid down. Let no 
 Romish priest or layman expose his Jesuitism or 
 ignorance l>y denying the existence of this book. 
 
 " Editions of it were sent out from Rome in 1514, 
 from Cologne in 1.51.5, at Paris in 1520, 1545, 1625. 
 It is still in the libraries of the curious in Europe. 
 
204 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAREIAGE. 
 
 Claude D' Espence in his comment on Titus, cap. i, 
 digr. 2, p. 479, makes this mention of it : " It is a wonder 
 that this filthy index (the Taxoe CaneSllariae) the 
 Pope's tax book, has not been suppressed; there is 
 not a book more to their reproach ; in it is a price 
 set to all buyers.' 
 
 "From this authentic tax book I shall prasent a 
 specimen of the holy priest's traffic, and his prices 
 of sins. In Papal refinement of sin, the prices are 
 fixed either for sins about to be designedly com- 
 mitted, and this is called Indulgence, or they are 
 paid for sins past (committed), and that is called 
 Absolution. 
 
 "Every man who has been in Italy, Portugal, 
 Switzerland, South America, and Mexico, has seen 
 this inscription on the fronts of the various churches, 
 even to this day, 'Plenary Indulgences Sold JTere,' 
 
 at such and such prices, ' The bishop of sells 
 
 indulgences here,' at such and such low prices. An 
 Englishman, on reading the sign over the indulgence 
 shop at Naples, went in and purchased for a small 
 sum an indulgence to do any sin for one hundred 
 days ! " 
 
 "A list of sins pardoned, and their orthodox 
 prices, in British money, as rendered from the Pope's 
 Tax Book: 
 
 £. 3. D. 
 
 .Absolution for a layman killing a layman,. . . 7 6 
 
 " for killing a father or mother, 10 6 
 
 " for killing a wife or sister, 10 li 
 
 " for ince.it with mother or sister,. 7 « 
 
 " for violating a maid 6 
 
 " for robbing a house 12 
 
 " for burning a house 12 
 
 " for i)prjury in a criniin.ll case... 9 
 
 " for procuring abortion 7 6 
 
SUBSTITUTION' FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 205 
 
 Dn- Oar- 
 
 o>ts. linE. 
 
 14 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 Absolution for eating meat in Lent, 10 H 
 
 " for laying violent hands on a 
 
 priest, 10 6 
 
 for priest keeping a concubine,. . . 10 6 
 Absolution for a priest keeping a concubine,— as high as 
 one guinea. 
 
 Another list from the same source, the Pope's Bank or 
 Chancery Tax Book, " Taxse Cancellarise Apostolicse ; et 
 Taxffi Sacraj Penitentiarije," " Absolutio," etc., etc. 
 
 Tour- 
 nois. 
 
 Absolution for a dying person 
 
 " for a society, 
 
 " for a priest celebrating a clandes- 
 
 " tine marriage 
 
 " for a priest keeping a concubine, 
 
 and for his irregularities, 
 
 " for a priest striking another before 
 
 mass 
 
 for a priest striking another after 
 
 mass ■ 
 
 for simony, 
 
 " and a dispensation for a priest 
 
 keeping a concubine, 21 
 
 of a nun for fornication, 36 
 
 for an adulterer, 4 
 
 " for a layman for any act of immor- 
 ality, '■ <> 
 
 " for incest 4 
 
 for adultery and incest, 6 
 
 for killing a wife, 4 
 
 a father, 4 
 
 a mother, 4 
 
 " a brother, 4 
 
 a sister, 4 
 
 " an infant 4 
 
 for theft, 36 
 
 for perjury, 36 
 
 " for burning a house, 36 
 
 " for rapine, 36 
 
 for beastiality and sodomy, 90 
 
 "At the end of the chapters of absolutions to 
 marry within a certain degree, and in cases of divorce 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 9 
 9 
 9 
 9 
 12 
 
206 SUBSTITUTION FOB MA.KEIAGE, 
 
 the following is added : ' Ifote well ; graces and dis- 
 pensations of t/iis kind are not conceded to the poor, 
 because they have no means; therefore they cannot 
 be comforted." See folio xxiii, ed. 1520; and p. 
 208 of ed. 162.5. Also, folio cxxx, ed. 154."), and p. 19 
 of the ed. which I use. The prices of sins vary to 
 suit eircumstance.s. 
 
 "It is usually said by many Protestants and all 
 Boman Catholics, that the priests do not pretend to 
 pardon sin, in granting absolution, but that they 
 simply declare sin to be remitted to the penitent by 
 God. Here are the words of the Council of Trent: 
 I If any one shall say that the sacramental absolu- 
 tion of the priest is not a judicial act, but a naked 
 ministry of pronouncing and declaring that sins are 
 remitted to the person confessing, jjrovided only that 
 he believes, etc., let him be accursed. Council Trid. 
 Sess. 14, Can. 9. 
 
 " Hence it is not simply declaratory, but a formal 
 and judicial act of the priest, sitting as judge and 
 in Christ's stead, uttering the sentence of pardon to 
 the victims of his imposture. 
 
 "N. B.— In the "Little Catechism,'' approved by 
 the Bishop of Boston, the following statement occurs: 
 ' Penance is a sacrament by which the priest, as the 
 representative of God, forgives sins (p. 63.) On page 
 72, of the same is found this question with its ap- 
 propriate answer: "What power is given to the 
 priest in holy orders V ' ' The iiower in particular of 
 offering up the holy sacrifice of the mass, and of 
 forgiving sins' 
 
 " On page 47, of ' A (ieneral Catechism," approved 
 by the Archbishop of Xew York, is given the fol- 
 
SUBSTITUTIOX FOR MARRIAGE. 207 
 
 lowing explanation of absolution: "What is absolu- 
 tion'?' "Absolution is the forgiveness of our sins, 
 which the priest imparts, in virtue of the power 
 he has received from Christ.'" 
 
 " Ferocious cruelty is an essential attribute of Popery. 
 
 " There perished under Pope Julian 200,000 Chris- 
 tians (people who displeased the Papal Church), and 
 by the French massacre in three mouths, 100,000. Of 
 the Waldenses there perished (to satisfy the fury of 
 the Koman Catholic Church) 150,000. There perished 
 b? the Jesuits in thirty years only' 900,000. The 
 Puke of Alva destroyed by the common hangman 
 alone 36,000 persons; the number murdered by him 
 is set down by Grotius at 100,000. There perished 
 by the fire and tortures of the inquisition in Spain, 
 Italy, and France, 150,000. This does not include the 
 exiled, those confined for life, and those who died of 
 hard usage. 
 
 "In the Irish massacres, in which were displayed 
 all the horrid arts and tortures of the Spanish 
 inquisition, there perished 150,000 Protestants. Besides 
 those put to death in the time of Queen Mary, 
 22,000 were driven into exile. 
 
 " To sum up the whole, the Roman Catholic 
 Church has caused the ruin and destruction of a 
 million and a half of Moors in Spain: nearly two 
 millions of Jews in Europe. In Mexico and South 
 America, including the Islands of Cuba and San 
 Domingo, fifteen millions of Indians in forty years 
 tell victims to Popery. In Europe, the East Indies, 
 and in America fifty millions of Protestants have 
 been murdered by it. 
 
208 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEBIAGE. 
 
 "Thus the Church of Rome stands forward before 
 tlie world, claiming to be Christian, drenched in the 
 blood of sixty-eight million, five hundred thousand 
 human beings. 
 
 "And what is all this guilt compared to the guilt 
 of her seducing and sacrificing the souls of hundreds 
 of millions of her victims, and of damning them, so 
 far as her fatal influence can go, to the pains <)t the 
 second and never-ending death. ^ 
 
 "Can any Christian in the sober exercise of re^on 
 conceive this sanguinary power to be a branch I of 
 Christ's pure and holy church V Can any politician 
 believe that such principles (and such a Church) 
 make their votaries good, orderly (or safe) citizens ?V 
 
 A ROMAN BISHOP'S TESTIMONY. 
 
 The Kankakee Times publishes the following 
 communication from a member of the Illinois 
 
 bar : 
 
 As I was present when the Roman Catholic Bishop 
 Foley, of Chicago, was ordered to read in Latin, and 
 translate into English those laws, I have kept a correct 
 copy of them, and I send it to you with a request to 
 publish it. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Chiniquy presented the works of 
 St. Thomas and St. Liguori to the bishop, requestina 
 him to say, under oath, if those works were or were 
 not among the highest theological authorities in the 
 Church of Rome, all over the world, .\fter long 
 and serious ojjposition on tlie part of the bishop to 
 
SUBSTITUTIOIf FOR MARRIAGE. 209 
 
 answer, the court having said that he (the bishop) 
 was bound to answer, the bishop confessed that 
 those works were looked upon as among the highest 
 authorities, and that they were taught and learned 
 in all the colleges and universities of the Church of 
 Rome as standard works. 
 
 Then the bishop was requested to read in Latin, 
 and translate into English, the following laws and 
 fundamental principles of action against the heretics, 
 as explained by St. Thomas and St. Liguori: — 
 
 1. " An excommunicated man is deprived of all 
 civil communication with the faithful, in such a way 
 that, if he is not tolerated, they can have no com- 
 munication with him, as it is in the following verse: 
 'It is forbidden to kiss him, pray with him, salute 
 him, to eat or do any business with him.' — St. 
 Liguori, vol. 9, p. 162. 
 
 2. " Though heretics must not be tolerated because 
 they deserve it, we must bear them till, by a 
 second admonition, they may be brought back to the 
 faith of the Church. But those who, after a second 
 admonition, remain obstinate in their errors, must not 
 only be excommunicated, but they must be delivered 
 to the secular power to be exterminated. 
 
 3. "Though the heretics who repent must always 
 be accepted to penance, as often as they have fallen, 
 they must not, in consequence of that, always be 
 
 permitted to enjoy the benefits of this life When 
 
 they fall again, they are admitted to repent 
 
 but the sentence of death must not be removed.— 
 St. Thomas, vol. iv, page 91. 
 
 4. "When a man is excommuicated for his apos- 
 tacy, it follows from that very fact, that all those 
 
210 SUBSTITUTION FOR MABHIAGE. 
 
 who are his subjects are released &om the oath of 
 allegiance by which they are bound to obey him. — 
 St. Thomas, vol. iv, page 94. 
 
 The next document of the Church of Rome 
 brought before the court was the act of the Council 
 of Lateran, A. D. 1215:— 
 
 "We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy 
 that exalts itself against the holy, orthodox, and 
 Catholic faith, condemning all heretics, by whatever 
 name they may be known— for though their faces 
 ■differ, they are tied together by their tails. Such as 
 are condemned are to be delivered over to the 
 •existing secular powers, to receive due punishment. 
 If laymen, their goods must be confiscated. If priests, 
 they shall be first degi'aded from their respective 
 orders, and their property applied to the use of the 
 Church in which they have ofiBciated. Secular powers 
 ■of all ranks and degrees are to be warned, induced, 
 and, if necessary, compelled by ecclesiastical censures, 
 to swear that they will exert themselves to the ut- 
 most in the defence of the faith, and extirpate all 
 heretics denounced by the Church, who shall be found 
 in their territories. And whenever any person shall 
 assume government, whether it be spiritual or tem- 
 poral, he shall be bound to abide by this decree. 
 
 "If any temporal lord, after having been admon- 
 ished and required by the Church, shall neglect to 
 clear his territory of heretical depravity, the metro- 
 politan and the bishops of the province shall unite 
 in excommunicating him. Should he remain contu- 
 macious a whole year, the fact shall be signified to 
 the Supreme Pontiff, who will declare his vassals 
 released fi-om their allegiance from that time, and 
 
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 will bestow his territory on Catholics, to be occupied 
 by them, on the condition of exterminating the her- 
 etics and preserving the said territory in the faith. 
 
 '■Catholics who shall assume the cross for the 
 extermination of heretics shall enjoy the same indul- 
 gences, and be protected by the same privileges as 
 are granted to those who go to the help of the 
 Holy Land. We decree further, that all who may 
 have dealings with heretics, and especially such as 
 receive, defend, or encourage them, shall be excom- 
 municated. He shall not be eligible to any public 
 ofBce. He shall not be admitted as a witness. He 
 shall neither have the power to bequeath his property 
 by will, nor to succeed to any inheritance. He shall 
 not bring any action against any person, but anyone 
 can bring action against him. Should he be a judge, 
 his decision shall have no force, nor shall any cause 
 be brought before him. Should he be an advocate, 
 he shall not be allowed to plead. Shoiild he be a 
 lawyer, no instruments made by him shall be held 
 valid, but shall be condemned with their author." 
 
 The Roman Catholic Bishop (Foley, of Chicago,) 
 swore that these laws had never been repealed, and, 
 of course, that they were still the laws of his 
 Church. He had to swear that, ever^ year he was 
 bound, urider pain of eternal damnation, to say in 
 the presence of God, and to read in his Breviarium 
 (his prayer book) that "God Hinself had inspired" 
 what St. Thomas had written about the manner in 
 which the heretics shall be treated by Roman Cath- 
 olics. Stephen Mooee, Attorney. 
 
212 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAEKIAOl!. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS. 
 
 The following appeared in the Chicago Times, 
 of Saturday. February 14, 1874, under the head- 
 ings, "The Catholic Bishops and their Arbitrary- 
 Powers — The Catholic Church — A Change in its 
 Discipline Necessary for its Good in the United 
 States:" 
 
 To render my wor8s of more effect I must inform 
 the reader that I am a priest who has had some 
 experience- on the mission, and one who firmly believes 
 in the truth of the Roman Catholic faith. I love 
 my Church, and would not for anything deny, con- 
 tradict, or bring into dispute any one of the truths 
 contained under the general name of articles of faith- 
 
 The bishops govern arbitrarily. Eacli bishop is the 
 supreme authority in his own diocese, and he is not 
 bound to give an account of his acts to any other 
 bishop or council, provincial or national. He is not 
 obliged to call either bishops or priests to aid him 
 by advice or otherwise in the ijuvernment of his 
 diocese. 
 
 The bishop is expected, at stated periods, to bring 
 or send an account of the status of his diocese to 
 the Propaganda at Rome. Such reports simply con- 
 sists of the number of priests ordained, clmrches, 
 colleges, and convents built, etc. Xo one exiiects 
 him to give an account of himself. 
 
 History informs us of Imt few persons who. of 
 their own free will, relinquished tlie supreme author- 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 213 
 
 ity, and of but fewer who did not, in some way, 
 abuse their authority. Have our bishops abused the 
 authority confided in them by our present arrange- 
 ments? Yes, they have. I will mention a few facts, 
 and leave it to these interested to judge if I am 
 correct. 
 
 Bishoiis frequently discard priests without inves- 
 tigating the charges against them, and the bishops 
 assembled in council have made a law that says: 
 "^Vny bishop may dismiss a priest without informing 
 him of the accusations against him, or that any 
 charge is made against him; and a bishop may 
 dismiss a priest without other cause than that it is 
 his (the bishop's) good will to do so." I have pur- 
 posely translated " dismiss " for " suspend," because 
 priests are not canonically suspended in this country, 
 but as an overseer discharges his hired men, with 
 or without reason, so do the bishops dismiss their 
 .priests. A faithful clergyman, after a life of labor, is 
 liable any day to receive a note like this: "Kev. Sir: 
 Your services are no longer required in my diocese;" 
 or, "Rev. Sir: Your faculties are withdrawn in my 
 diocese." Every priest has seen these letters, tor 
 they are the stereotyped form used. Who has not 
 seen some of these unfortunate priests going about. 
 They are plenty, too plenty. One looks upon them, 
 clothed in their rags, and under the influence of 
 whisky, which they drink hoping to drown the 
 anguish of their hearts, and is almost tempted to 
 say that the bishop did right in discarding them. 
 But call the worst of them and get his story, and 
 you will see that they are men who have been 
 brought to this and ruined by the system of one- 
 
214 SUB8TITUTI0NF0B MARRIAGE. 
 
 man power. Perhaps you will not like to believe 
 their side of the story on their own word, for they 
 are, in a manner, like women who, once virtuous, 
 but having fallen, are supposed to be unworthy of 
 credit. Take notes, then of what they say, and go 
 where they once were pastors, and you will see that 
 they have been more sinned against than they have 
 sinned. 
 
 Is it possible that bishops can find no place for 
 priests who are unfit for- the mission V They turn 
 them out upon the world to scandalize Christians, and 
 to make sure of their eternal as well as spiritual 
 destruction. They cannot be received by any other 
 bishop until they get an exeat from the one who cast 
 them out, and he who cast them out cannot give them 
 an exeat until they are received by another bishop. 
 
 This is the text of a law of discipline sent to each 
 bishop in the United States three years ago from the 
 Proaganda in Rome. But this law is as little respected 
 as those contained in that wonderful book called the 
 Councils of Baltimore, and sometimes an exeat is 
 given which is not worth the paper on which it is 
 written. 
 
 Most priests are unfit for any other cidling in life, 
 so these dismissed laborers ai'e useless burdens on 
 society. Some years ago, a religious order undertook 
 to erect a house where priests whose services were no 
 longer required by their bishops might retire. Did 
 the bislioi)S assist these good men in buiUliug such 
 u house y Not a bit. On the contrary, they worked 
 so hard against the aucomplishnient of that charity 
 that they succeeded, and though the house was built, 
 it was used for another purpose; and so each city and 
 
SUBSTITUTION FOR KARBIAGJE. 215 
 
 town has yet its quota of discarded priests, objects of 
 scorn, disgust, pity and commiseration. 
 
 When one becomes a priest, he deprives himself of 
 all chance of ever returning to worldly occupation. 
 He does so freely and willingly, for God's sake, and 
 he takes upon himself heavy obligations; he binds 
 himself by sacred vows, and cheerfully resigns all 
 the pleasures which he might lawfully enjoy by 
 remaining in the world. Is it fair that the obligations 
 should be all on one sideV That the bishop after 
 confirming these obligations in a man by ordaining 
 him, should be at liberty to open the door next day 
 and order that man out of his diocese? They have 
 sinned, and must be punished, says the bishop. Very 
 well; but censure should be a medicinal remedy cal- 
 culated to heal, not to kill. These young priests are 
 going about swilling poisonous whisky into themselves. 
 Was there no other remedy but to turn them out to 
 beg their bread from door to door, everywhere obliged 
 to proclaim their disgrace, while they fall deeper and 
 deeper, even in their own estimation, till despair 
 seizes upon them, and by his agent, alcohol, hurries 
 them into hell? This is no overdrawn picture. Look 
 at it, you parents, who pick out the fairest of your 
 sons to make a priest out of him. Why don't these 
 unfortunates apply for admission into some convent? 
 Go to any convent of religious men, and you will find 
 tliere one or more of these priests, but the religious 
 cannot, for want of means, receive all who apply. The 
 superior of any convent will tell you that every year 
 he is obliged to refuse many of them. The words of 
 the Holy Gospel may be applied to these discarded 
 clergymen, " Work they cannot, steal they will not, and 
 
216 SUBSTITUiyOlf FOB MARRIAGE. 
 
 to beg they are ashamed;" so their destruction is 
 inevitable, and while their bishops dwell in palaces 
 worth thousands, are "clothed in fine purple, and fare 
 sumptuously every- day," these poor fellows have not 
 where to lay their head, and are refused the crumbs 
 that fall from their lordships' tables. It is high time 
 that this wholesale discarding of clergymen should 
 cease. We must keep agitating the subject until the 
 scandal is stopped. The multitude of them now who 
 are out of their place equals in number those who 
 are actually engaged on the mission, and theological 
 students in sacred orders are daily added to the ranlc^ 
 of those unfortunates with like dispatch. We must 
 bring it before the public, and keep it there untU the 
 world knows how grevlously priests are used under 
 the present arbitary system. The sycophant clergymen 
 who pat the bishops on the shoulder, and cry " Well 
 done, well done!" when they know in their hearts that 
 it is not well done, are partly to blame for the high- 
 handed way in which the Episcopal authority is admin- 
 istered. I do not mean to say that some of the dis- 
 missed priests are not richly deserving of punishment, 
 but I do say that most of them could have been 
 reformed and saved, and that by the present method of 
 turning them loose on the world, there is not one 
 single little chiuice of one them ever l>eing reformed, 
 or any other hope for them here but to be drunken 
 sots and to go to hell hereafter. And I say, moreover, 
 that whenever it is necessary to punish a priest, that 
 priest should be provided with a penitential asylum, 
 and no case has ever been heard of a bishop providing 
 such a place of retirement. When asked by a discarded 
 priest for su(!h a place, tlie bishop answers, "I do not 
 
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 care where you go, sir, nor what you do. Leave my 
 diocese." Nay, I have letters from bishops to superiors 
 of convents commanding them to turn out those un- 
 fortunate priests from the shelter which the charita- 
 bly disposed monks had given them. 
 
 Now let us observe how these bishops are ap- 
 pointed. Have the priests of the vacant See a word 
 to say in the election of the bishop who is to rule 
 over them ? Not one word. Is the bishop chosen 
 from the most worthy of the clergy of that See? 
 Hardly ever. He is said to be nominated by the 
 bishops of the province, but, in reality, he is chosen 
 and appointed by the archbishop, and confirmed by 
 Bome, and most always comes from the favorites of 
 his grace, the archbishop. Every time the bishops 
 met in council it was to concentrate all power and 
 authority in themsehes, and whatever else they did 
 or said has been a dead letter. (Vid. Council Bait.) 
 So well have they succeeded that the shadow of in- 
 dependence is no longer with the priests. There is no 
 canon law or other law by which we are governed; 
 the whole thing depends on getting the good-will of 
 the bishop and retaining it. If you quote canon law, 
 the bishop strikes his breast and says: "I am the 
 canon law, sir!" Sometimes clergymen have gone to 
 Rome and succeeded in obtaining justice in tlieir own 
 cause, but one having a good place does not care to 
 run the risk of losing it, and he will not complain so 
 long as the bishop does not molest him, and it is too 
 late when he is driven out; for then, if he should 
 complain, the Catholic newspapers would get after 
 him and overwhelm him with abuse, and talk much 
 concerning the things they know nothing at all about. 
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218 SUBSTITUTION FOE MAHEIAGB. 
 
 It was a good custom in ancient times, when the 
 priests and people elected the bishop who was to 
 govern over them, and it ought to be revived. It 
 was good, too, when the bishop was obliged to select a 
 council of the more learned and experienced priests 
 of his diocese, and every accused priest was cited 
 before them, and then had a full and impartial hear- 
 ing, with the privilege of having a learned priest to 
 defend his cause, and when he was found guilty, he 
 was suspended, and sent to a monastery to do penance, 
 and the monks were paid to treat him kindly, and 
 support him decently. It was considered better to 
 spend the money thus than in building magnificent 
 palaces, and furnishing them in regal splendor, for 
 their good bishops. 
 
 The church property should be completely taken 
 out of the hands of the bishops, and held by its right- 
 ful owners, the people. The bishop will find plenty 
 to emply him in attending to the spiritiial wants of 
 his diocese. The system of trusteeism need not 
 frighten anyone. That scare is a big bugbear, gotten 
 up by the bishops to gain the cbncentration of their 
 authority. 
 
 The money collected for any object ought to be ex- 
 pended for that object. For instance, in every diocese 
 thousands of dollars are collected amuially for the 
 education of young men for the priesthood, yet nearly 
 every student must pay for himself, and if any are 
 helped by the bishop, they must refund that money 
 soon after their ordination. In one ejistern diocese, 
 thirty thousand dollars was collected for this purpose 
 in one year, and that bishop, according to his own 
 report, had thirteen students for whom he was paying 
 
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 at the rate of two hundred dollars a head. What 
 became of the balance V The bishop's name flourishes 
 in a newspaper among the bank directors of his city, 
 and his is far from being an exceptional case. All 
 priests should unite and have a paid representative at 
 Rome. The bishops have such a one, and he performs 
 his work so well that each bishop is immediately 
 made acquainted with any complaint sent there against 
 him, and while he who sent it is anxiously expecting 
 an answer, the bishop, sitting in his big comfortable 
 chair, is quietly reading the original letter, and cogitat- 
 ing when it will be prudent to send that fellow a 
 " Dear sir, your services are no longer required." 
 
 J vs. 
 
 ( A. communication to the Protestant Standard 
 of Oct. U, 1880.) 
 
 Mr. Editor :— It is a duty and a pleasure for me to 
 tender and present to you my best thanks for having 
 published in your valualble and fearless journal my 
 letter of recantation, addressed two weeks ago to Ed. 
 Chs. Fabre, Roman Bishop, of Montreal, to whom, 
 unfortunately, 1 belonged for fourteen years. Having 
 left that bastard Roman Church, I must give a word 
 of explanation to the public. In November, 1879, 
 I sent to Pope Leo XIII. a full report of what 
 I knew about four Romish bishops and two vicar- 
 generals, their substitutes, their assistants in their 
 crimes. 
 
 That report was a perfect statement of the im- 
 morality of our lords, the Roman bishops: which 
 statement is accompanied with documents that estab- 
 
220 SUBSTITUTION FOE MARKIAGE. 
 
 lished the aforesaid immorality, the impudence, inso- 
 lence, gluttony, and villainy of these potent-mitred 
 lords. 
 
 As I said in my letter of recantation, the only 
 answer I received from the man-god of the Vatican 
 was that my report was dispatched to the "small 
 man in the moon." 
 
 Seeing that that Pope, who is entitled the servant 
 of the servants (serviis servorum) did not perform his 
 duties as such, I concluded that he was an impostor, 
 that he was not better than his satellites. 
 
 I awaited an answer to my report during eleven 
 months : then Father Sautois, a Jesuit priest, attending 
 the Sacred Heart Church, in Chicago, told me, "as 
 your letters of recommendation are very good, I 
 advise you to go to Green Bay, Marquette, and if you 
 do not succeed there, I will advise you to see Car- 
 dinal McCloskey." 
 
 Mr. Editor, I followed the advice of that venerable 
 priest, the only good one I think that Chicago pos- 
 sessed. 
 
 Finally, I had to open my eyes, and see that in 
 the Roman Catholic Church Christ could not be there. 
 I came then to New York, not as a beggar, but as a 
 real soldier of Christ, to fight his battles against that 
 impostor called Leo XIII, represented in New York 
 by what you call the Cardinal McCloskey. 
 
 I gave up forever then that impure Church, full 
 of impostors ********* My letters of 
 recommendation. The first is from Montreal, and is 
 written as follows : 
 
 "By the present lettei-s we give permission to Mr. 
 A. P. Seguin, priest of Montreal, to go to St. Paul, 
 
SUBSTITUTIOIf FOR MARRIAttE. 221 
 
 Minnesota. We attest and certify that the aforesaid 
 priest is addicted to no ecclesiastical censaire what- 
 soever, and that he is worthy the esteem of the 
 bishops. [Signed] Ed. Chs. Fabre. 
 
 August, 23d, 1878, 
 
 The second letter is from Bishop Seidenbush, a 
 real Dutch, of Minnesota: 
 
 " This is to certify that the Kev. A. Seguin, a priest 
 of the diocese of Montreal, Canada, has, for eleven 
 months, labored in our diocese. He worlied with 
 great zeal and energy, but left of his own accord. 
 
 As far as I know, he is under no censure, and as 
 far as in my power, I give him full permission to 
 join any other Rt. Rev. bishop. 
 
 t Rupert Seidenbush, O. S. B." 
 St. Cloud, July, 23d, 1879." 
 
 I made up my mind to give also my report that 
 I had the year previous addressed to Leo XIII. 
 
 We intend to have that report published as soon 
 as possible, to let the American people know how 
 the poor priests of Rome are treated by these big 
 fellows called the Pope, his cardinals, archbishops, 
 and prelates of every description. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 A. P. Seguin. 
 October, 14th, 1880. 
 
 St. Anne, Kankakee, III., Sept. 13th, 1880. 
 
 To Bight Bev. M. Heiss, D. D., Coagutor of Milwaukee: 
 
 My Lord — Born from Catholic parents in 1842, 
 
 I was ordained priest in Marquette by Rt. Rev. T. 
 
 Morak. During several years of my priesthood, 1 
 
222 SUBSTITUTION FOR MAKRIAGE. 
 
 sincerely believed that the Church of Rome was the 
 Church of Christ. It is true that I had very often 
 to witness a corruption that I may call unmentiona- 
 ble in the priests and bishops of the Pope. But I 
 succeeded to -persuade myself that it was due more 
 to that, deprouation which has' flown from the veins 
 of Adam and Eve to their children, than to the 
 nature and inherent system, of which I was an agent 
 and a victim. I fancied myself that the Church of 
 Rome might be holy, and its leading ministers de- 
 praved, just as Judas was possessed by the devil, 
 even in the company of Jesus Christ. 
 
 But in the year 1875, I became pastor of Marquette, 
 and I began to see things in a higher point of view; 
 it was while in that high position that my eyes 
 began to plunge into that boundless horizon of duplic- 
 ity, hypocrisy, idolatry, and profound degradation in 
 the subaltrens, and incredible pride, insolence, and 
 tyranny in the bishops which form the body of that 
 Church. It was there and then that I began to 
 hear in the inner part of my soul that voice which 
 Saul of Tarsus heard: "Why persecutest thou me?" 
 Like the blind apostle, I was often prostrated to the 
 ground by the cries which were almost day and 
 night in my conscience, and I did not know what to 
 do. It was from that time that it became evident 
 to me that the Church of Rome could not be the 
 true Church of Christ. Her incurable corruption, her 
 diabolical hatred for all rights and liberties of man, 
 her lying traditions, her false miracles were becoming 
 more apparent every day; and, like Saul, I was 
 blind, not knowing what to do, or where to go, to 
 find the Church of Christ. 
 
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 At last, having in the good Providence of God, 
 lived in the vicinity of Green Bay, I was there 
 witness of such a corruption and degradation in the 
 low clergy, and of the heartless tyranny from the 
 bishop, that it was evident to me that the Church 
 of Eome was an abyss of iniquity. However, at 
 this time I did not know what to do, or where to 
 go to find the truth. It was then that I met the 
 Eev. M. Deroehes, of Detroit. 
 
 In order to follow Christ, I gave up my friends, 
 and all which is dear to me. I gave up the priest- 
 hood of the Church of Rome, which is so rich, so 
 great, so high in the eyes of the world, to take the 
 cross, and follow the Lamb, whose blood made me 
 pure, whose life made me free. 
 
 Truly yours, 
 
 O. COMTOIS. 
 
 THE CASE OF SISTER ROSE M'CABE. 
 
 The question as to the sanity or otherwise of the 
 alleged lunatic. Sister Mary of Stanislaus, or Rose 
 McCabe, as she is known in worldly circles, is about 
 to be made again the subject of a judicial investiga- 
 tion. It is unnecessary, after the extended recitals 
 given of her case, in connection with the recent legal 
 ■ proceedings, to go over the history. Her story (very 
 simply told) is that, while in a nunnery, a high official 
 in the church undertook to coerce her into submission 
 to his lusts, and because she would not submit to him, 
 trumped up a charge of insanity against her, and put 
 her in the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, whence 
 
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 SUBSTITUTION FOR MARRIAGE. 
 
 she was shortly transferred to the lunatic asylum on 
 Blackwell's Island, where she is still confined.— iV. Y 
 Herald. 
 
 FIXLS.