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DEDICATION. 
 
 On the 23rd of February, 1884, separated from 
 my dear wife and boy, through the demon strong 
 drink, and anticipating suicide, I carelessly strolled 
 into the North End Mission, 201 North Street, Bos- 
 ton, Mass., where I met that man of God, Rev. Benja- 
 min Luscomb, then missionary at that life saving sta- 
 tion, who, in his kind way, pointed me to the loving 
 Saviour, who he told me died that I might live. To 
 him, under God, I owe my salvation, restoration to my 
 dear family, and a happy Christian home. There- 
 fore, to you, my ever dear brother Luscomb, these 
 pages are dedicated. Thomas Rush. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Dear reader, these pages are presented to you as 
 the result of years of study and silent prayer, hoping 
 that our Heavenly Father may abundantly bless 
 them. My greatest ambition in presenting this book 
 to the public is first, that it may be instrumental in 
 bringing many Roman Catholics out of spiritual 
 darkness into the marvelous light of the Gospel, as 
 it is in Christ Jesus, and secondly, that Christians 
 may see the Roman Catholic Machine in its true 
 light. I have published a portion of the following 
 pages in pamphlet form with gratifying results. All 
 facts given in this book are from Roman Catholic 
 authorities, the Douay Bible (Roman Catholic 
 Version) included. I give place, date, and names, 
 so that I may safely challenge contradiction. 
 
 vi. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Dedication, ...... 5 
 
 Preface, 6 
 
 Testimonials, ^ 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Why I Left the Roman Catholic Church.— The 
 Pope, Celibacy, the Confessional and Pur- 
 gatory, 17 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 The unblushing Impudence of the ''Machine" in 
 trying to destroy our Public Schools. — The Im- 
 moral Conduct of the Roman Catholic Priest- 
 hood and its Two-faced Hypocrisy, . 40 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 The Church without a Bible. — Its Godless 
 Teachings. — Its Superstitions. — Its estimate 
 of the Christian Ministry, the Christian people 
 
 and their Bible, 63 
 
 vii. 
 
VUl. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The Sacrifice of the Mass. — The Doctrines of the 
 Jesuits. — Papal Decrees, her cruelty toward 
 those who leave her. — Romanism utterly in- 
 
 compatible with the Law 
 
 of God, 
 
 80 
 
 The Pope's Blessing to be 
 
 Dreaded, 
 
 99 
 
 A Terrible Record, 
 
 
 101 
 
 Bishop's Oath, 
 
 
 104 
 
 Priest's Oath, 
 
 
 106 
 
 Jesuit's Oath, 
 
 . 
 
 107 
 
 Oath of a Layman, 
 
 ) 
 
 109 
 
 Opinions of Distinguished 
 
 Men, . 
 
 115 
 
 An Appeal, 
 
 , 
 
 121 
 
TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 Boston, June 18, 1890. 
 Mr. Thomas Rush, a member of the M. E. Church, 
 duly recommended by his pastor and other ministers 
 of the Gospel, spoke in my church on Sunday even- 
 ing last to a crowded audience, who listened with 
 deep attention, and were much impressed by his ad- 
 dress. Mr. Rush, himself a converted Roman 
 Catholic, handles his subject with clearness and 
 force, but with a real Christian charity so speaks as 
 to disarm prejudice and reach the conscience. Our 
 people would be glad to hear him again. 
 
 Rev. James Yeames, 
 Pastor M. E, Churchy Dorchester St., Washington til- 
 lage, 
 
 209 W. Canton St., Boston, Mass., June 18, 1890. 
 
 Bro. Rush has spoken in the Bromfield Street 
 Church on my invitation, and it gives me pleasure 
 to give the fullest indorsement to the words of com- 
 mendation written by Bro. Yeames. 
 
 Rev. George A. Crawford. 
 
 Bro. Thomas Rush gave a lecture on Romanism 
 in the Central M. E. Church, of Lowell, Mass., of 
 which I am pastor. It gives me great pleasure to 
 say that all present, without exception, were greatly 
 edified ; the matter of the lecture and the spirit of 
 our brother greatly commended him. I am sure 
 
 ix. 
 
X. TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 that any one who will give this dear brother a hear- 
 ing will confer a great benefit upon themselves. 
 
 Rev. J. N. Short. 
 
 F. W. Hagar, Boston, Oct. 20, 1890. 
 
 Dear Sir : — Yours of Oct. 20th at hand, and con- 
 tents noted. In reply would say, it was my privilege 
 to listen to Mr. Thomas Rush, the converted Roman 
 Catholic, the evening that he lectured for the Taber- 
 nacle Y. M. I., and it gives me pleasure to say that 
 I was more than entertained. Never have I listened 
 to a more interesting, earnest, and convincing talk 
 than was given on this occasion, and the most beau- 
 tiful part of it was that it contained so much of the 
 spirit of the Master. Truly "he has been with Jesus 
 and learned of him.'' The interesting part to me 
 was that his lecture contained so much of the word 
 of God, and that he spoke the word in the name of 
 the Master, which soon told upon his hearers, for at 
 the close of the meeting we had three young men 
 come forward for prayers. Sincerely yours, 
 N. F. Thayers, 
 President Tabernacle Young Men's Institute, 
 
 Lowell, Mass., Sept. 3, 1890. 
 To whom it may concern : Bro. Thomas Rush, of 
 Boston, spoke in our church last (Tuesday) evening 
 to a large congregation, including quite a number of 
 Roman Catholics. His theme was "The Sacrifice of 
 the Mass, or the Sacrifice of Christ, which?" His 
 address was clear, forceful and admirable in spirit. 
 Bro. Pastors, open to Bro. Rush the door of oppor- 
 tunity. His cause is a great one, and he is worthy. 
 W.T.Pepin, 
 
 Pastor of Worthen St. Af, E, Church. 
 
TESTIMONIALS. XI. 
 
 Lowell, Mass , July 12, 1890. 
 Mr. Thomas Rush spoke in our church last night. 
 His personal knowledge of Roman Catholicism, his 
 kindly spirit, and his keen Irish wit fit him in a re- 
 markable degree for the work to which the Lord 
 seems to have called him. He is earnest without 
 being fanatical, and strong without bitterness. 
 Alexander Blackburn, 
 
 Pastor First Baptist Church. 
 
 5 Chardon St., Boston, July 10, 1890. 
 It gives me great pleasure to say that the pam- 
 phlet written by Bro. Rush, entitled "What I learned 
 from the Bible," is calculated to do great good 
 among Roman Catholics. I can highly commend 
 it as a useful book for distribution. Allow me to 
 give a word of commendation to the author of it. I 
 believe I never met a more earnest Christian man in 
 my life than Bro. Rush. A few moments' conversa- 
 tion wuth him will very quickly tell that he is a true 
 follower of the Master, and one worthy of the sym- 
 pathy and love of all God's people. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Slattery, 
 
 Converted Roman Catholic Priest. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rush, of Boston, is an ex- Romanist, 
 a good speaker, an earnest Christian and a man of 
 the very best recommendations from Boston clergy- 
 men and business men. We know of no public 
 speaker who is more kindly received than Mr. Rush. 
 — British American Citizen. 
 
 We have recently had a very interesting interview 
 with Mr. Thomas Rush, the converted Romanist. 
 He has the endorsement of many clergymen; the 
 
XU. TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 universal testimony is, that his addresses are very 
 effective. Mr. Rush's kindly spirit and unobtrusive 
 manner, make him a general favorite.— Woman's 
 Voice and Public School Champion, 
 
 Thomas Rush, an ex-Romanist, lectured to a 
 crowded house last Monday night; many could not 
 gain an entrance. He is an Irishman with a very 
 pronounced brogue, and is one of those witty kind 
 one often reads about. He will speak again next 
 Monday evening in Society Hall. — Everett Free 
 Press. 
 
 WoLLASTON, Mass., June 9, 1891. 
 Dear Brother Rush: The people of my con- 
 gregation were pleased and profited by your lecture 
 Sunday evening, May 31st. We admire your fear- 
 less, honest, earnest. Christian manner of dealing 
 with your great subject. May the Lord use you in 
 bringing many souls from darkness to light. 
 Fraternally, 
 
 Luther Freeman, 
 
 Pastor M. E. Church. 
 
 Lowell, July 8, 1890. 
 On the evening of Sunday, June 23rd, Mr. Thomas 
 Rush gave his reasons for leaving Rome, to a large 
 audience. There were a number of Roman Catho- 
 lics. I have no hesitancy in endorsing Brother 
 Rush as an honest. Christian man. 
 
 Rev. Luther Barrett, 
 
 Pastor Fifth St, Baptist Church. 
 
 Cliftondale, Mass., July 7, 1890. 
 I have read with much interest a pamphlet written 
 and pubhshed by Mr. Thomas Rush, the converted 
 Roman Catholic, entitled, '* What I Learned From 
 
TESTIMONIAL^. XIII. 
 
 the Bible." Mr. Rush displays an excellent knowl- 
 edge of the Roman system, and by apt and striking 
 quotations from the word of God, portrays its glar- 
 ing inconsistencies. I hope that this pamphlet will 
 meet with the large circulation it deserves, and that 
 Mr. Rush may receive every encouragement in his 
 good work. 
 
 J. B. Daly, 
 
 Converted Roman Catholic Priest. 
 
 Providence, R. I., Jan. 26, 1891. 
 F.vangelist Thomas Rush has spoken twice for us 
 in Music Hall. It gives me great pleasure to add 
 that both his lectures were enthusiastically received. 
 Rev. E. G. Wesley, 
 
 Chairman of Meetings, 
 
 HoLLiSTON, Mass., Dec. 23, 1890. 
 Dear Brother Rush: Our people were more 
 than satisfied with your lecture here on Sunday 
 evening, the 14th inst. Your coming arrested the 
 attention of our citizens, and brought out a full 
 house* The telling facts presented, the spirit of 
 love displayed, made a profound impression upon 
 them, many of whom at the close of the meeting 
 and since, expressed a desire to have the lecture 
 again at an early date. 
 
 J. H. Emerson, 
 
 Pastor M, E. Church. 
 
 Wilmington, Mass., Dec. 7, 1890. 
 To whom it may concern : Brother Thomas Rush, 
 of Boston, recently lectured in our church on Ro- 
 manism. The lecture was both instructive and enter- 
 taining. I commend Brother Rush to anyone need- 
 
XIV. TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 ing his services, as a sincere, consecrated, Christian 
 man, and worthy your consideration. 
 Wm. a. Thurston, 
 
 Pastor M. E, Church, 
 
 Nahant, Mass., Sept. 19, 1890. 
 Mr. Thomas Rush, of Boston, spoke to my con- 
 gregation on Sunday evening, Sept. 14. I take 
 pleasure in commending Brother Rush as an earnest 
 speaker. The large congregation that heard him 
 were well pleased. 
 
 J. C. Willetts, 
 
 Pastor M. E. Church, 
 
 RocKviLLE, R. I., Feb. 17, 1890. 
 We had the pleasure of listening to Brother Thom- 
 as Rush, of Boston, Mass., on the evening of Febru- 
 ary 16. Brother Rush spoke with great freedom 
 and earnestness, and the congregration was greatly 
 pleased with the effort. He held the audience for 
 an hour in rapt attention. He is a man of excel- 
 lent spirit, and at once gains the confidence of his 
 hearers. All hail to such men ! 
 
 A. McLearn, 
 
 Pastor Baptist Church, 
 
 Providence, R. I., Dec. 24, 1890. 
 Thomas Rush on '' the Bible.'' Although the 
 audience at Music Hall on Sunday last was not as 
 large as usual, it was most appreciative, as the wit 
 and eloquence of Mr. Rush, of Boston, seemed to 
 strike a responsive chord in the nature of his listen- 
 ers. He is an Irishman, with the deep, impulsive 
 nature of the true son of the sod. The audience 
 that greeted him was not large, but should he ever 
 
TESTIMONIALS. XV. 
 
 speak from this platform again, Music Hall will not 
 hold the crowd that will surge to hear him. At the 
 close of his lecture the applause was so deafening 
 and prolonged that Mr. Rush had to return and 
 speak for fifteen minutes longer. — Special correspon- 
 dent to British American Citizen. 
 
 Hope Valley, R. I., Feb. 19, 1891. 
 Brother Thomas Rush, of Boston, Mass., gave two 
 very interesting lectures in our church. I was very 
 much interested while listening, not only in the sub- 
 ject but the speaker. His whole soul is in the work, 
 and his aim is not to put down the communicants of 
 the Roman church, but to be faithful to his convic- 
 tions as a converted man, and declare the truth as it 
 is, hoping that by so doing he may become the in- 
 strument in God's hands of winning souls to the 
 faith as it is in Christ Jesus. I heartily indorse him 
 in his work, and trust that all who are interested in 
 the welfare of our glorious country, will lend a lis- 
 tening ear and helping hand to our brother, that the 
 great work may go on until every American citizen 
 shall be able to see the true position of the Roman 
 Catholic Church to our free public institutions. 
 God bless Brother Rush in his work, is my prayer. 
 J. Harding Baker, 
 
 Pastor M. E. Church. 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 WHY I LEFT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 THE POPE, CELIBACY, THE CONFESSIONAL AND 
 PURGATORY. 
 
 My reasons for leaving the Roman Catholic 
 Church were many. Some of them are not fit for 
 publication. None but those who have been in that 
 " Sentry Box of Hell," commonly called the confes- 
 sionalj could believe or understand them". Many 
 years ago, when a very young man, I madly loved my 
 native land, which brought down upon my head, 
 like thousands of other young men, the curse of the 
 Roman Machine. I began to ask myself, ** My God, 
 is it a sin for one to love his native land } " and rea- 
 son would at once tell me that it was not. I did not 
 then know anything about the words of the Psalmist: 
 '* If I forget thee. Oh Jerusalem, may my right hand 
 forget its cunning ; " but I knew enough of history 
 to convince me that the Machine wanted to keep us 
 in slavery. I knew that there was an Englishman 
 by the name of Nicholas Breakspeare (Pope Adrian 
 IV.) who did not know who his father was until he 
 
18 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 was twenty four years old, and that this very man 
 sold my native land and its inhabitants to old 
 King John II of England, for a penny a head, 
 thus taking away from the Irish race everything 
 ihat was dear to them, especially the simple re- 
 ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ, planted there 
 by St. Patrick. Then again I began to doubt 
 the Roman Catholic burial service. I thought 
 that God ought not to keep a man out of 
 Heaven because he was poor. Dear reader, let me 
 explain this to you according to the teachings of the 
 Machine. No man nor woman can go to Heaven 
 without going through the purifying fire of Purga- 
 tory. I will explain this gold mine of Romanism 
 further on. The principal things that shook my 
 faith in the Roman Catholic religion were the con- 
 fessional and the immoral and high living of its 
 priests. The confessional always left a plague spot 
 upon my memory ; I often asked myself, *' Can this 
 be of God } " and reason would answer at once, No ; 
 such criminal conversation is of the Devil. Oh, my 
 Christian mothers, did you ever think of this cess- 
 pool of iniquity ? Christian fathers, have you ever 
 thought of this abomination? 
 
 Oh, my brothers, this is a disgrace to civilization, 
 and laws should be enacted for its suppression. 
 Hogan, himself once a Catholic priest, says : 
 ^* Though a married man, I would blush to mention 
 the least of them. I cannot even think of them 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 19 
 
 without a downcast eye and crimson cheek. My 
 own wife could tell you that she had been asked 
 questions in the confessional that she did not un- 
 derstand until she became a mother." 
 
 Is it any wonder then, that houses of ill-fame are 
 crowded with Roman Catholic girls ? I answer, no ; 
 the wonder is that there are not more of them, fed 
 as they are upon such criminal conversation. If 
 any one doubts my statements let them consult the 
 acknowledged Theologians of Rome, — Dens, Ken- 
 drick and others, — and I am satisfied that you will 
 do as I have often done, throw them down in disgust 
 and come to the conclusion that the Devil must have 
 been at the elbows of those monsters in the shape of 
 man when writing such filth. 
 
 A near friend of mine, a D. D. in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, when speaking to him upon this 
 subject a short time ago, said to me, "Brother Rush, 
 we have many men in state-prisons for distributing 
 obscene literature that is very mild when compared 
 with the Theology of Rome." I will dismiss this 
 subject of the confessional at present, as I am to 
 speak of it again from the light of the Blessed Gos- 
 pel as it is in Christ Jesus. 
 
 Dear reader, I have been talking to you as one 
 who has spent thirty-six years of his life a dupe to 
 the dark superstitions of the Roman Catholic Ma- 
 chine, and will now write as a young student of 
 God's word, and ask your sympathy and prayer that 
 
20 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 God may bless me in my labors. Somebody has 
 truly said that the pope is an enraged wolf, against 
 which the whole world should rise, without waiting 
 for a magistrate's warrant, and I say amen. 
 
 Let us first ask by whom was the Pope appointed 
 head of the Church ? Let God speak and man listen. 
 The Bible alone is competent to solve this question. 
 Well, what does it say of the Pope of Rome? Does it 
 favor the claims of Leo XIII? With remarkable 
 clearness the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, not 
 the Pope, is the only head of the true church. 
 
 This assertion is satisfactorily settled by the fol- 
 lowing passages: 
 
 Eph. I. 22 : And he hath subjected all things under 
 his feet ; and hath made him head over all the 
 church. 
 
 Col. I. 18 : And he is the head of the body, the 
 church. 
 
 Eph. 5. 23 : Because the husband is the head of 
 the wife, as Christ is the head of the Church. 
 
 1 Tim. 6. 15: Which in his times he shall show, 
 who is the blessed and only mighty, the King of 
 kings and Lord of lords. 
 
 Thus there is a head, but it is Jesus Christ, and 
 not Pope Leo XIII. The Savipur has never estab- 
 lished any man to be his representative upon earth, 
 nor given any orders to anybody to appoint one for 
 him. On the contrary, he positively said to his 
 disciples that he would have no pope, master or 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 21 
 
 ruler among them. Nowhere can we see that this 
 command was revoked afterward. 
 
 Matt. 23. 8-12 : But be you not called Rabbi, for 
 one is your Master, and all you are brethren; and 
 call none your Father upon earth, for one is your 
 Father, who is in Heaven. Neither be ye called 
 masters, for one is your Master, Christ. He that is 
 the greatest among you shall be your servant, and 
 whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, 
 and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 
 
 Oh, what a contrast between the lowly Jesus and 
 our past and present popes. Listen to the words of 
 Jesus to such as pretend to follow him. Allow me 
 to call your attention to the 10th chapter of Mark 
 42d and 43d and 44th verses. 
 
 But Jesus called them to him and said unto them, 
 Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over 
 the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and their 
 great ones exercise authority upon them, but so shall 
 it not be among you, but whosoever shall be great 
 among you shall be your minister, and whosoever of 
 you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 
 
 I Peter 5. 1-3 : The elders which are among you I 
 exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the 
 sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory 
 that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is 
 among you, taking the oversight thereof; not by 
 constraint^ but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a 
 ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heri- 
 tage, but being ensample to the flock. 
 
 Priests, bishops and Popes pretend to prove the 
 apostle Peter was established Pope, and that he is 
 
22 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 this rock upon which the church is built, by these 
 words of Christ. 
 
 Matt. 16. 18 : 'Thou art Peter, and upon this 
 Rock I will build my church, and the Gates of Hell 
 shall not prevail against it.'' Examine this passage 
 in connection with the two preceding verses, and 
 you will see that it means nothing of the kind. In 
 the 16th verse Peter exclaims, ''Thou art Christ, the 
 Son of the living God." The Saviour, hearing this 
 forcible and astonishing declaration of his faith, tells 
 him, 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will 
 build my church.'' Observe that he does not tell him: 
 "Thou art Peter, and upon thee, Peter, I will build 
 my church." But upon this rock, that is to say, 
 upon Christ, the true rock, the object of the confes- 
 sion he has just made. Such is the real signification 
 of this passage. No, the church is not built upon 
 the apostle Peter, but upon this rock, which is Jesus 
 Christ j in short, Peter ha-s not been the first pope, 
 nor the foundation of the Church. This rock of 
 Peter I found to be nothing but a soap-stone, and a 
 very slippery one at that. Now read what the Bible 
 says on this question : 
 
 Cor. 3. II: For other foundation no man can lay 
 but that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus 
 
 Eph 2. 20-21: Built upon the foundation of the 
 apostles and prophets, Jesus Chri-^t himself being 
 the chief corner stone, in whom all the building 
 being framed together groweth into a holy temple 
 in the Lord. 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 23 
 
 Again, we have the testimony of Peter himself: 
 1 Peter 2. 4 : *'Unto who mcoming, as to a living 
 stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made 
 honorable by God/' Thus according to the Holy 
 Scriptures there is no pope, master or ruler among 
 the children of God besides Jesus Christ. Now 
 what are you going to do with the Pope of Rome.^ 
 Simply nothing more nor less than to leave him just 
 where he is, and consider him neither more nor less 
 than any other sinful man. If you think that he is 
 the head of Christianity, be deceived no longer, my 
 dear Catholic reader, for he is only the head of 
 Romanism, and what Romanism was in the past 
 and is to this present day, the blood of the martyrs 
 can answer for the past, and its attacks upon the 
 grandest system of education the world has ever 
 known, — your public schools — can and will answer 
 for the present. Christ, the only true head of the 
 Christian Church, is infallible, and has always been 
 so, but can we say this of the Pope of Rome.'* No; 
 emphatically no. His infallibility is a very modern 
 invention. This ungodly and unscriptural doctrine 
 was declared on the 13th of July, 1870; not by the 
 supreme authority of God, or of the Holy Scriptures, 
 but by the feeble voice of a council of sinful men 
 assembled in the Vatican. Now my Roman Catholic 
 reader, if you can believe this twenty-two years old 
 infallibility, I cannot. It is too absurd and too 
 false. It takes, or attempts to take, away from God 
 
24 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 that honor which to him alone belongs, and should 
 not be tolerated outside of a lunatic asylum. In- 
 fallibility is not of the earth, nor in the hearts of 
 men. The Bible is explicit on this point. 
 
 Rom. 3. 4, 12: But God is true, and every man a 
 liar; all have turned out of the way; they are be- 
 come unprofitable together; there is none that doeth 
 good ; there is not so much as one. James 3. 2: 
 For in many things we all offend. 1 John i. 8 : If 
 we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and 
 the truth is not in us. 
 
 For my closing words upon this subject let me 
 read the Apostle Paul's opinion of the Pope of 
 Rome, of his destiny, and of his followers; nothing 
 harder, but nothing truer. 
 
 2 Thess. 2. 3, 4, 7-11 : Let no man deceive you 
 by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, 
 and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdi- 
 tion who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is 
 called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in 
 the temple of God, showing himself as if he were 
 God; for the mystery of iniquity already worketh, and 
 then that wicked one shall be revealed, whom the 
 Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth, 
 and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; 
 him, whose coming is according to the workings of 
 Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders, 
 and in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish, 
 because they received not the love of the truth that 
 they might be saved : therefore God shall send them 
 the operation of error to believe lying, that all may 
 be judged who have not believed the truth, but have 
 consented to iniquity. 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY.' 25 
 
 Having partly shown the novelty of this infalli- 
 bility of his Royal Highness, the Pope of Rome, and 
 all his predecessors, even though they should be 
 short taken in a procession like Pope Joan, it is a 
 laughable thing to hear of a pope giving birth to a 
 child in a procession, but such is a notorious fact, 
 and yet they are infalliblej but this fact must have 
 its origin in the confessional, of which I wtII write 
 later on. 
 
 Knowing from personal experience, and from 
 facts that I shall present as I advance, of the immoral 
 conduct of the Roman Catholic Machine and their 
 objections to married life, I will call your attention 
 to what the divine word has to say about this 
 blessed institution, Matrimony. Heb. 13. 4 : ^'Mar- 
 riage is honorable in all." This blessed declaration 
 takes in all, priests, ministers, bishops and pope. 
 Where is it taught in the word of God that priests 
 and bishops must not marry? The teachings of the 
 Bible, from beginning to end, favor marriage of all 
 men, but especially of priests and bishops. Read 
 the following passages, and you will see whether it 
 is better to have a married or unmarried ministry. 
 We read in Gen. 2. 18 : '*And the Lord said, it is 
 not goocj for man to be alone." But the Machine 
 says, "We don't care what the Lord says, we are 
 going to do as we like. If we wish to have a hand- 
 some housekeeper or a pretty niece to grace our 
 home It is none of the Lord's business." Let us see 
 
26 • THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 what the apostle Paul has to say upon this subject. 
 1 Tim. 3d chapter and first five verses. Don't for- 
 get, my Roman Catholic reader, that this solemn dec- 
 laration can be found in your Douay Bible. I be- 
 seech you, seach it and see for yourselves. 
 
 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of 
 a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2. A bishop 
 then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, 
 vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, 
 apt to teach. 3. Not given to wine, no striker, not 
 greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not 
 covetous. 4. One that ruleth well his own house, 
 having his children in subjection, with all gravity. 
 5. For if a man know not how to rule his own house 
 how shall he take care of the Church of God. 
 
 And again in the 4th chapter of the same book, 
 first two verses and the first clause in the third. 
 
 Now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter 
 times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed 
 to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking 
 lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with 
 a hot iron. 3. Forbidding to marry. 
 
 Let us pause, gentle reader, and consider this 
 sweeping condemnation: let us briefly look at the 
 1st chapter of Titus, 5. 6, 7 verses. 
 
 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou 
 shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, 
 and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed 
 thee; if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, 
 having children not accused of riot or unruly. 
 7. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 27 
 
 of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to 
 wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre. 
 
 It is certain that some of the apostles had wives, 
 nevertheless they were holy men, and sent of God to 
 preach the gospel to perishing sinners. Christ never 
 made celibacy a condition to his sacred ministry. 
 This, \^ have been told in Timothy, is a doctrine of 
 the Devil. Now turn to first Cor. 9. 5-6. 
 
 Have we not power to carry about a woman, a 
 sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the 
 brethren of the Lord, and Cephas or I only and Bar- 
 nabas? Have we not the power to do this? Matt. 
 8. 14: And when Jesus came into Peter's house he 
 saw his wife's mother lying and sick of a fever. 
 
 Now, in order to prove beyond all doubt that 
 ecclesiastical celibacy is far from being a divine in- 
 stitution^ let me repeat the words of St. Paul and tell 
 you that is a doctrine of the Devil. *' It is hard, 
 but it is true ; " those are the words of the great and 
 fearless aoostle. Enough ; it is satisfactorily estab- 
 lished that the celibacy of the clergymen of Rome 
 finds no basis in the Holy Scriptures. If you con- 
 sult ecclesiastical history, you will find that it was 
 invented or declared an article of faith in the tenth 
 century. Therefore, without fear of being contra- 
 dicted, except by ignorant persons, I declare it a 
 human invention. It was never taught by Christ 
 nor his apostles. Roman Catholic laymen ought not 
 to ignore this important truth. Before the tenth 
 century, priests, bishops and popes had wives and 
 
28 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 children. In the canon law of the church of Rome, a 
 long list of popes is given who were either sons of 
 popes or of bishops ; as for instance, Boniface I, 
 Felix III, Adrian II, Agapetus I, Agapetus II, and 
 several others. Many councils mention the wiv^es 
 and children of bishops then ; they were right, be- 
 cause they followed the teachings of the Holy Scrip- 
 tures. Now they are wrong, because they transgress 
 God's commandments and submit to the traditions 
 of men. But who authorized them to make this 
 change ? No human organization nor power, however 
 great it may be, has any right to formulate dogmas 
 contrary to Christ's dogmas, or to make the least 
 change in God's laws or in the Saviour's precepts. 
 
 John 15. 14 : You are my friends if you do the 
 things that I command you, saith the Lord. 
 
 Once more I wish to call your attention to the re- 
 cruiting office of his satanic majesty, the confes- 
 sional. Was confession instituted by Christ and 
 practiced by the apostles ? I answer, no ; emphati- 
 cally no. Confession was neither taught by Christ 
 nor practiced by the apostles ; this invention is the 
 outgrowth of several centuries of darkness and ignor- 
 ance. Towards the end of the second century, when 
 a member of the church committed a grave sin, he 
 was obliged to confess it before a meeting of the 
 whole church \ but in 450, under Leo I, Bishop of 
 Rome, this public confession became private, and in 
 1215, the Council of Lateran, gathered by the 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 29 
 
 order of Pope Innocent III, declared private confes- 
 sion an article of faith. If you doubt this statement 
 consult ecclesiastical history and satisfy yourself. 
 Open the Bible ; does it teach that we must confess 
 in the ears of the priests? No; but to God alone. 
 God alone through Jesus Christ can give us absolu- 
 tion of our tran^igressions, and that without the as- 
 sistance of priest or minister. Read these few pas- 
 sages, and you will see to whom the true confession 
 must be^made. Certainly you will not say that it is 
 to the priest or pope or any of his cardinals : 
 
 Luke 5. 18-24: And behold men brought in a 
 bed a man who had the palsy, and they sought 
 means to bring him in and to lay him before Him. 
 And when they could not find by what way they 
 might bring him in, because of the multitude, they 
 went up upon the roof and let him down through the 
 tiles, with his bed, in the midst before Jesus, whose 
 faith when he saw, he said, ** Man, thy sins are for- 
 given thee/' and the Scribes and Pharisees began to 
 think saying, '*Who is this who speaketh blasphem- 
 ies? Who can forgive sins but God alone? " And 
 when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering, he said 
 to them, '^ What is it you think in your hearts ? 
 Which is easier to say, thy sins are forgiven thee, or 
 to say arise and walk ? But that you may know that 
 the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," 
 he said to the sick of the palsy, '* I say to thee, arise, 
 take up thy bed and go into thy house." 
 
 1 John 1.9: If we confess our sins he is faithful 
 and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us 
 from all unrighteousness. 
 
30 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 Acts 5. 31 : Him hath God exalted with his right 
 hand to be the prince and saviour, to give repent- 
 ance to Israel and remission of sins. 
 
 Matt. 11. 28 : Come to me all you that labor and 
 are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. 
 
 Acts 8. 22 : Repent, therefore, of this thy wicked- 
 ness, and pray God, if, perhaps, the thoughts of 
 thine heart be forgiven thee. 
 
 Luke 23 42 : (The dying thief.) And he said 
 unto Jesus, '* Lord, remember me when thou comest 
 into thy kingdom." 
 
 Luke 18. 13 : And the publican standing afar off 
 would not so much as lift up his eyes towards 
 Heaven, but struck his breast, saying, '' Oh, God be 
 merciful to me a sinner. 
 
 Psalm 50. 1, 4, 6 : Have mercy on me, O God, ac- 
 cording to .thy great mercy, and according to the 
 multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my iniqui- 
 ties. Wash me yet more from my iniquity and 
 cleanse me from my sin. To thee only have I 
 sinned and have done evil before thee. 
 
 There is not a single word in the Holy Book 
 which commands, suggests or approves of confes- 
 sion to the priest. God has never given authority 
 to any mortal being to know the secrets of the heart. 
 Who shall dare to say that it is not absurd, even 
 shameful, for a married woman or a young lady to 
 reveal all her sins by thoughts, by desires, by words 
 and by actions, into the ears of a sinful man, often 
 more corrupt than the one who confesses to him ? Do 
 not be deceived. Religion does not consist in such 
 indecent and criminal conversations. It is only 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 31 
 
 by kneeling before God with contrite spirits, that we 
 can receive absolution of our sins. To kneel before 
 priests and confess to them and call them ''fathers/' 
 is nothing less than degrading to man and insulting 
 to God, who forbids all these things in his word. 
 Not only the Bible is against this iniquitous practice , 
 but even reason. A man kneeling before a man ! 
 Have you ever thought seriously about this ? 
 
 Acts 10. 25-26 : And it came to pass that when 
 Peter was come in, Cornelius met him, and falling 
 down at his feet, adored ; but I^eter lifted him up 
 saying, ''Arise, I myself also am a man.'' 
 
 Rev. 22. 8-9 : And I, John, who have heard and 
 seen these things, and after I had heard and seen, 
 I fell down to adore before the feet of the angel who 
 showed me these things. And he said to me, 
 " See thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant j 
 adore God." 
 
 Matt. 23. 9 : And call none your father upon 
 earth, for one is your father who is in Heaven. 
 
 The Romanists make a great noise about the 
 words of our Saviour in John 20. 23 : " Whose sins 
 you shall forgive they are forgiven them, and whose 
 sins you shall retain they are retained." Well, 
 what do these words teach, confession to a priest ? 
 Not at all ; they simply mean that Christ gave t(;^his 
 disciples the power and authority to preach the gos- 
 pel, which, if accepted, forgives, remits, saves ; or if 
 rejected, retains, binds or looses sinners. This they 
 did, and nothing more. 
 
32 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 We find in Acts 10. 43 : '' To him all the prophets 
 give testimony that by his name all receive remis- 
 sion of sins who believe in him ; '' and in the 13th 
 chapter of the same book, 38th verse : '^ Be it known, 
 therefore, to you, men and brethren, that through him 
 forgiveness of sins is preached to you.'' 
 
 Let me quote once more from Luke 24. 46-47 : 
 '^ Thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise 
 again from the dead the third day, and that penance 
 and remission of sins should be preached in his 
 name among all nations." You cannot find a single 
 place in the New Testament where an apostle or 
 minister of Christ took upon himself to absolve^ par- 
 don or forgive any one. God alone can absolve, 
 condemn or save. One more remark : These 
 words, " Whose sins you shall forgive they are for- 
 given them ; and whose you shall retain they are 
 retained/' were addressed not only to the apos- 
 tles, but to the disciples and men and women 
 to the number of 120 in Jerusalem. Compare 
 the 20th chapter of John with the first and 
 second chapters of Acts ; thus the same power 
 is given to all Christians. The Bible and eccle- 
 siastical history are witnesses that auricular con- 
 fession and absolution by the priests are noth- 
 ing else but an infamous imposture. Therefore, 
 let us all, instead of going to the confessor, go to God 
 through the merits of Christ, and say, " Forgive us 
 our sins," Luke 11. 4. This is the truth, nor as it 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 33 
 
 comes from the Pope of Rome, but as it comes from 
 Christ, who redeemed us from our sins on Calvary. 
 
 Now, my dear Catholic reader, w^hat are you going 
 to do, believe God's infallible word, or your self- 
 made infallible Pope? Bring this solemn thought 
 before you. Where shall I spend eternity? You 
 cannot plead before the judgment throne of God that 
 you did not know the facts in the case. You have 
 been told according to God's word the right way, 
 and may the dear Jesus who died for you and for 
 me, grant that you may be on his side. 
 
 Another of the satanic doctrines of Rome is Pur- 
 gatory. I ask, is the doctrine of Purgatory a hu- 
 man invention, or was it taught by Jesus Christ and 
 his apostles? It is my purpose to prove to you that 
 it is like all the rest of the teachings of the Romish 
 Church, simply the invention of sinful, wicked men. 
 In the first place we must know what that place com- 
 monly called Purgatory is. Having never been 
 there, and finding nothing in the Bible about it, I 
 am obliged to ask the Roman Catholic Machine to 
 enlighten you upon this strange and mysterious 
 place. The Catechism of Quebec, published with 
 the approbation of the first Provincial Council, re- 
 veals the whole thing with perfect knowledge. Pur- 
 gatory, says the infallible catechism, is a place of 
 suffering where the just go after death in order to 
 finish the expiation of their sins before entering 
 into Heaven. My Christian reader, I appeal to your 
 
34 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 judgment, you who are conversant with God*s word, 
 is this not blasphemy ? Is this what God promises 
 the just, send them to be tormented and purified in 
 a second-hand Hell? Away with such nonsense. It 
 is a lie on the face of it. In the Holy Scriptures God 
 speaks of the existence of Heaven and Hell, but he 
 does not say a word of the existence of Purgatory. 
 Would it be possible that he had entirely forgotten 
 to mention, even once, the existence of a place so 
 important for the Roman Catholic Church? The 
 silence of the Bible on this question is very eloquent. 
 It demonstrates, beyond doubt, that it is not by 
 the means of Purgatory that hearts are purified from 
 evil. If there were such a purifying place, the Bible 
 would certainly speak of it, but if the Bible is silent 
 on Purgatory, it is not silent with reference to this 
 truth, that it is only the precious blood of Christ 
 that purifies from all sin. *Here are passages that 
 you can compare with the teachings of the catechism: 
 
 Rom. 5.9: Christ died for us, much more therefore 
 being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved 
 from wrath through him. 
 
 Rom. 8. 1 : There is now therefore no condem- 
 nation to them that are in Christ Jesus. 
 
 1 John 1.7: The blood of Jesus Christ his Son, 
 cleanseth us from a]l sin ; and in the 9th verse, if 
 we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive 
 us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity. 
 
 Are not all these passages sufficient to convince 
 us that Christ alone is the only means by which we 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 35 
 
 can be made fit subjects for Heaven, without pas- 
 sing through the imaginary purifying flames of 
 Purgatory? How ridiculous and absurd it is then to 
 speak of Purgatory when the New Testament is so 
 explicit in teachin i us that we are entirely sanctified 
 by Christ. If Jesus Christ sanctifies, he sanctifies 
 perfectly or not at all. Now bring your priest or 
 bishop and let them show me, in the word of God, a 
 single passage that teaches us that after death the 
 just go to Purgatory in order to finish the expiation 
 of their sins before entering into Heaven. 
 
 Nowhere does the Bible speak of a middle state of 
 temporary punishment, but it says that after death 
 the righteous enter into the joy of everlasting rest, 
 and not to a place of suffering and woe. When the 
 Christian leaves this world he goes to be with 
 Christ, a thing by far the better. We are told in 
 Luke 23. 43 : 
 
 And Jesus said to him (the dying thief on the 
 cross), ^*Amen; I say to thee, this day thou shalt 
 be with me in paradise.*' 
 
 And again we find in 2 Cor. 5. 8 : 
 
 We are confident and have a good will to be ab- 
 sent rather from the body, and to be present with 
 the Lord. 
 
 And once more let us go back to Luke 16. 22-25 : 
 
 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was 
 
 carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom ; and 
 
 the rich man also died, and he was buried in Hell ; 
 
 and lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he 
 
36 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, 
 and he cried and said, " Father Abraham, have 
 mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the 
 tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, for I am 
 tormented in this flame/' And Abraham said to 
 him, '' Son, remember that thou didst receive good 
 things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil 
 things, but now he is comforted and thou art tor- 
 mented. 
 
 Rev. 14. 13 : Blessed are the dead who die in the 
 Lord, from henceforth now, saith the spirit, that 
 they may rest from their labors, for their works fol- 
 low them. 
 
 Jesus Christ and the apostles never taught the ex- 
 istence of Purgatory. The existence of this strange 
 place was first promulgated in the fifth century. The 
 idea of Purgatory was developed in the darkness of 
 the middle ages. In 1438 the Council of Florence 
 dared to declare it an article of faith, so it took 
 nine hundred years to compete this gigantic work of 
 making a purgatory. It was certainly quite an in- 
 vention for these dark and ancient days, but what was 
 the purpose of the Roman Catholic Machine in 
 imagining and preaching the existence of such a 
 place ? To make money and become rich is my an- 
 swer. It is an undeniable fact, according to their 
 teachings, that no one can get out of that hot place 
 before some generous friend or rela:ion pours dol- 
 lars upon dollars into the priest's long and bottom- 
 less purse. When a poor man dies, if he does not 
 leave behind him some money or good friend to as- 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 37 
 
 sist him, he must wait for the resurrection of the 
 dead in Purgatory, but when a rich man dies, with 
 his money he can get out of Purgatory immediately. 
 Happy are the wealthy with the priest, but woe unto 
 the poor. No money, no Heaven ; no money, no 
 christening ; no money, no marriage ; no money, no 
 pews io the church ; no money, no burial ; no mon- 
 ey — you can get nothing from this machine of the 
 Devil. 
 
 Who can deny that the Church of Rome is not 
 a money making concern ? Like all other earthly 
 transactions, the more money you have, the more of 
 their stock in trade you can have. Dear reader, be- 
 lieve me, if Purgatory were a divine institution it 
 would not 'swallow up so much money extorted from 
 the poor, the widows and the orphans. What a sys- 
 tem of robbery ! No ! No! Salvation cannot be 
 bought ; the sinner can be saved without giving a 
 cent. Eternal life is a gift. Oh ! what a blessed 
 promise made by the dear Saviour of mankind. Let 
 us look at the 10th chapter of Matt. 7th and 8th 
 verses, and going, preach, saying, "the kingdom of 
 Heaven is at hand, heal the sick, raise the dead, 
 cleanse the leper, cast out devils, freely have you 
 received, freely give." 
 
 Now, I ask any candid Roman Catholic, what can 
 you get freely from the priests and bishops of Rome? 
 I answer without fear of contradiction, nothing, 
 unless it is their curse, and in this they are experts. 
 
38 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 
 
 You may read Billingsgate or Biddy Moriarty's at- 
 tack on Daniel O'Connell in the fish market in Dub- 
 lin, but I tell you candidly that they are very mild 
 when compared with an infuriated Roman Catholic 
 priest. Further on I will give you a few samples of 
 their curses, in order to show you a little more of 
 this modern Sodom. Let me call your attention to 
 Matt. 11. 5: 
 
 *The poor have the gospel preached to them." 
 Glory be to God, they have, but not in the Church 
 of Rome. Roman Catholics have the doctrines of 
 pagan Rome preached to them, but not the word of 
 God. Again we find, Acts 8, 19-20, a declaration 
 made by Peter himself, that ought to suffice to put 
 an end to this gigantic fraud. Purgatory. Listen, 
 my Roman Catholic reader: ''But Peter said to him, 
 keep thy money to thyself to perish with thee, be- 
 cause thou has thought that the gift of God may be 
 purchased with money." Take this thought with you, 
 and when you see a Douay Bible, find out for your- 
 self. Let me give the chapter and verses again: 
 Acts 8th chapter, 19th and 20th. Read them, then 
 ask your priest if they are true. He certainly must 
 answer in the affirmative. Then ask him what is 
 the use of paying for the souls in Purgatory, if the 
 gift of God cannot be purchased with money. You 
 will also find in Rev. 22. 17: 
 
 "And he that will, let him take of the w^ater of life 
 freely." 
 
THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 39 
 
 Oh, what a glorious offer ! He that will, let him 
 take of the water of life freely, without money and 
 without price. Anything contrary to this teaching 
 is the work of the Devil. We find in Kph. 2. 8-9, 
 the following : 
 
 For by grace you are saved through faith, and 
 that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God, not 
 of works, that no man may glory. 
 
 You see it is not by works we are saved ; espe- 
 cially by works of priests, who very often are more 
 sinful than ourselves. Did you ever think seriously 
 upon this subject ? Admitting the existence of Pur- 
 gatory, do you think it is fair or God-like for the 
 poor soul who has no friends to pay for masses for 
 him, to remain in torments until the morning of the 
 resurrection? Is this what our loving Heavenly 
 Father put us in this world for ? Oh, what did our 
 dear Saviour die for ? Let the Catholic priest an- 
 swer. One more Bible quotation and I am done 
 with Purgatory : 
 
 1 Peter 1. 18-19 : Knowing that you were not re- 
 deemed with corruptible things as silver or gold, but 
 with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb un- 
 spotted and undefiled. 
 
 Now, my dear Roman Catholic reader, I hope that 
 I have proven to you clearly from your own Bible 
 that Purgatory has no existence beyond the bottom- 
 less purse of your priests. Therefore, I pray you 
 not to allow yourselves to be any longer deceived. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE UNBLUSHING IMPUDENCE OF THE MACHINE IN 
 TRYING TO DESTROY OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 THE IMMORAL CONDUCT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 
 PRIESTHOOD AND ITS TWO-FACED HYPOCRISY. 
 
 Dear reader, it is not because of any trouble that 
 I might have with the Roman Catholic Church that 
 I make the sweeping charges against her that I am 
 about to do. It is my sincere love for truth and 
 justice that compels me to expose the worst ism that 
 has ever cursed God's footstool. It has been the 
 curse of every country that it has ever gained politi- 
 cal power in, and it is the curse of this glorious Re- 
 public today. My only living boy was born in this 
 country. He is getting a grand education. How, 
 then, can I, as a christian citizen and father, seal 
 my lips and close my eyes to the damnable doctrines 
 of Rome. I cannot, and if I could, I would not. 
 I cannot compromise with sin of any kind. I have 
 just said that the Roman Catholic Church is a curse 
 to this country. You have only to consider the 
 stand that this machine has taken to ruin your pub- 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 41 
 
 lie schools. It is a notorious fact that a large num- 
 ber of Roman Catholics very often ask the question, 
 is it fair to condemn us all because of the hasty re- 
 marks made by a few priests? This is a fair ques- 
 tion, and is worthy of our most earnest considera- 
 tion. In the first place, we have numberless Roman 
 Catholic laymen who are far above their church, 
 but they dread ex-communication, and if business 
 men, they dread the "boycot." Secondly, they do 
 not fully understand the Ecclsiastical Machine. To 
 those, we would say, ''Brothers, we do not condemn 
 you ; God forbid? We pray without ceasing for you 
 that our Heavenly Father may open the eyes of your 
 understanding, that you may see what a slave you 
 are to those wicked, godless men, commonly called 
 the Church. But I do denounce the Roman Catho- 
 lic Priesthood, who are sworn to a man to destroy 
 our public schools. It is not as Roman Catholics 
 claim, and even weak-kneed Protestants admit, that 
 only a few hot-headed priests take part in. Gentle 
 reader, this is a delusion. There is not a priest in 
 Christendom that would not hail the call from the 
 Vatican to burn your schools, your churches, your 
 homes and yourselves. This would be repeating 
 history. 
 
 It is my purpose to jDrove to you in these pages 
 that she is the sworn enemy of your public schools 
 and free institutions. I have before me a book 
 called "Judges of Faith," compiled by father Jen- 
 
42 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 kins, and published by Murphy & Co. of Baltimore. 
 This book and its compiler has received the special 
 blessing of Cardinal Gibbons; it has the approval of 
 380 of the highest dignitaries of the church of Rome; 
 it has the approval of 21 plenary and provincial 
 councils, six or seven Diocesan synods, two Roman 
 pontiffs, two sacred congregations of some twenty 
 cardinals and pontifical officials, seven single cardi- 
 nals, who with thirty-three archbishops, make forty 
 primates and metropolitans; finally, nearly eighty 
 single bishops and archbishops deceased or living in 
 the United States. Thus, you see, my dear reader, 
 that it is not a matter to be laid at the door of a few 
 priests. Now, let us see what this infallible book 
 has to say of a school system that is the admiration 
 of the world, save the old man of sin who sits on 
 the Tiber. On page 10 we are told that the public 
 schools are avowedly religionless, even godless insti- 
 tutions, leaving out in their teachings the very foun- 
 dation of Christianity ; that there is one God, and 
 that he has established one true church, in which 
 and by which alone, all men are to be saved that are 
 saved. What blasphemy this doctrine is ! What St. 
 Paul would call a doctrine of the Devil. The in- 
 spired word tells us that Jesus Christ is the true 
 Saviour of mankind. Mr. Jenkins tells us that the 
 Roman Catholic Machine is the only way to get to 
 Heaven. Wonderful revelation ! Page 14 : **Whatis 
 he very reading of the Bible in our city schools but 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 43 
 
 an attempt to pervert the hearts of our Catholic 
 children, for to tell the truth, this pretended Bible 
 is nothing more nor less than the edition of King 
 James." Ah ! Holy Father Jenkins, this is where 
 you show your weak point in your objection to hav- 
 ing the Bible read in the schools. Did you, or the 
 Machine of which you seem to be the safety valve, 
 ask for the reading of the Douay version ? Not at 
 all ; because one version paints you as black as the 
 other, as I shall prove in another chapter. On page 
 16 we are told that another evil following from the 
 attendance of Catholic children on schools of public 
 instruction, is the constant association with ill-bred, 
 unbelieving and immoral companions. This '' Rev. 
 Bacchus'^ must have the cheek of a '' canal horse" 
 or a ^' government mule" to thus insult your sons and 
 daughters here in your midst. Did I call him a Rev. 
 Bacchus? Yes, I did; and no man in his sober 
 senses, outside of a lunatic asylum, would make 
 those charges on one page, and the following con- 
 fession on the opposite page, 17. Read and think 
 for yourselves. It is well, says this "Judge of 
 Morals," ro confess that Catholic children are often 
 the ring-leaders of the youthful scoundrels, bullies 
 over their companions, and the '* terror " of neigh- 
 bors. I know that they are a ^' terror." 
 
 If you were to ask the superintendent of the Little 
 Wanderers' Home when on Baldwin Place, Boston, 
 he could tell you something about the Roman Cath- 
 
44 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 olio schoolboys of St. Mary's, under the holy guid- 
 ance of Father Byrne. 
 
 On page 32 he tells us that to eat, drink and be 
 merry, to-morrow we die, is a fit escutcheon for every 
 public school door. No, Mr. Jenkins, we deny this. 
 There is a proper place for all things. This should 
 be hung on every Roman Catholic parsonage with 
 its well-stocked wine cellar and its buxom maids. 
 On page 39 we are told that all free thinkers, secu- 
 larists, atheists, members of the International Soci- 
 ety, communists, socialists and whatever is wicked, 
 perverse and impious, is on the side of the secular 
 system of education. On the opposite, we have, 
 says this ''Judge," the Pope, all the bishops and all 
 true Christians (Roman Catholic of course). 
 
 Yes, indeed ; Priest Jenkins has all those on his 
 side, and a great many more that he has not men- 
 tioned, but which I feel called upon to give to my 
 readers. He has on his side the rum seller, the ma- 
 jority of criminals, the prize fighters, the gamblers, 
 the keepers of dance halls and houses of ill-fame ; 
 he has on his side such men as Archbishop Wil- 
 liams of Boston, Mass., who declares in his pam- 
 phlet, sent broadcast throughout our land in 1874, 
 children should be brought up in total ignorance 
 rather than be educated in your godless schools. 
 This pamphlet you can get at any Catholic book 
 store in Boston ; it is in Latin, and its title is, 
 *' De Abs.olutione Parentibus." This very bishop 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. , 45 
 
 has been the champion of prize-fighters and gin- 
 mills. 
 
 I challenge any Roman Catholic to produce a 
 copy of the Boston Pilot (Catholic), during the 
 many long years that he owned it, that its pages 
 were not open to the cause of both. 
 
 Another of these precious birds was Archbishop 
 Purcell, of Cincinnati, who robbed his poor dupes of 
 five millions of dollars. You have on your side, Mr. 
 Jenkins, such men as Father Mullen, who when on 
 his way from the Propagander at Rome to take 
 charge of a wealthy parish in California, on his ar- 
 rival in New York got gloriously drunk and com- 
 menced to paint the city "red;" but as New York is 
 a Rome-ridden city, he was sent on his way unmo- 
 lested. Not so when he got to Chicago ; he started 
 a kind of Marquis of Waterford racket, and was 
 arrested, but as he was well supplied with money it 
 was all right. INIy authority for the above statement 
 is the Boston Herald of June 1, 1885; by the way, 
 a very good Roman Catholic paper. In fact, it is 
 more Romish than the Boston Pilot. Such men as 
 Father McNulty, of Malone, N. Y., who seduced his 
 fair penitent, Miss McFarlane, and w^hose enraged 
 parents prosecuted him, and got a verdict of two 
 thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars, 
 which he refused to pay. In default he was sent to 
 Gaol, but the politicians closed their eyes and went 
 to sleep while this holy father broke Gaol, and es- 
 
46 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 caped to Canada to forgive others their sins, and to 
 ruin others of his fair penitents. 
 
 Need we wonder that Roman Catholics gamble, 
 swear, and do everything that is wicked when their 
 archbishop here in this Athens of America deplores 
 the suppression of the lotteries.'* Listen to his paper, 
 the Boston Pilot, October 11, 1890": Newspaper 
 readers henceforth will miss the attractive little anec- 
 dotes of how a poor man was made happy by being 
 the lucky holder of a $15,000 prize ticket in the 
 Louisiana Lottery. The Anti-Lottery Law, lately 
 passed by Congress, forbids the publication of all 
 advertisements of the Lottery, or announcements of 
 its drawings, thus inflicting another blow on Ameri- 
 can imaginative literature.'' Poor, old man! Call 
 and see your brother bishop. Distiller McQuaid, of 
 Rochester, who thinks it more needful than saving 
 souls to manufacture good wine to drown your sor- 
 rows. His vaults have a capacity of 50,000 gallons, 
 and this wine is to be used for church purposes, and 
 as the people never get any of this church wine, the 
 Machine must anticipate a good blow-out. Yes, in- 
 deed ; and this reverend father has on his side the 
 murderous Clan-aGael, the Maffia, the A. O. H., 
 the Molly Maguires, all respectable associations, 
 having their spiritual advisers, to whom they go to 
 confession, and often go in a body to the altar to 
 eat their wafer god. On the side of the Pope you 
 will find such reptiles as the followiiig : I must 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 47 
 
 lump them together, if you will pardon the phrase; 
 space will not allow me to give many. From the 
 Detroit Tribune, April 21, 1891 : "A modestly 
 dressed young girl, not over sixteen years of age, 
 appeared at the Cadillac House on Monday night, 
 and asked for a room. The clerk assigned her to 
 No. 77. Half an hour afterward, more or less, a 
 middle aged man, clad in priestly garb, smooth 
 shaven, with long blonde hair, came into the office 
 and inquired if a young girl by the name of Miss 
 Scott had secured a room for the night. He was 
 told that she had, and he also asked for a room, 
 and was assigned to room 66. The clerk was sus- 
 picious of the couple, and at about 10.30 the night 
 watchman was sent with a skeleton key to Miss 
 Scott's room, and as was expected, found that she 
 was not there. Upon the dresser was her hat, her 
 wrap and rosary, the inseparable companion of a 
 devout Catholic maid. He reported his discovery 
 at the office, and was ordered to go at once to room 
 66 upon a similar tour of investigation. Here his 
 searches were rewarded by evidences of the fact that 
 all was not as it should be, as he found Miss Scott 
 there locked in with the priestly O'Connor. The 
 priest was bounced into the street, offering as an ex- 
 cuse for his rascality, that 'the girl was afraid to 
 sleep alone, and came to me for company.' The 
 priest hailed from Mount Clemence, Mich." 
 
 On the night of November 4th, 1890, Kev. Father 
 
48 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 R. A. Finnerty, pastor of the Sacred Heart Church, 
 of Dayton, O., took a handsome young woman, to 
 whom he made love in the confessional, across 
 to Richmond, Ind., and registered as R. A. 
 Renmer and wife, at the Arlington Hotel. After- 
 ward he went down stairs and was recognized by 
 two men, one of whom notified the trustees of the 
 Sacred Heart Church. He was asked for an expla- 
 nation which he refused to give. 
 
 Another precious pet was the Rev. Father John E. 
 O'Sullivan, who, on the 25th of June, 1886, was 
 found guilty by a jury at Syracuse, N. Y., of criminal 
 assault on Abbie O'Connor at the Catholic parson- 
 age in Camillus, in May, 1884. The trial lasted 
 three days, and excited great interest in Catholic 
 and other circles. The evidence was of a sensa- 
 tional character. Judge Kennedy sentenced him to 
 11 years in Auburn Prison. 
 
 A Terrible Trap : — Father Bruzza's bogus or- 
 phanage at Leghorn. By cable to the Boston Her- 
 ald. London, Aug. 1, 1885 : 
 
 The name of the Catholic Priest recently arrested 
 at Leghorn for enticing young girls to ruin by means 
 of a pretended orphanage, is Bruzza. He called his 
 institution the Asylum of San Fillipo de Neri, and ap- 
 parently repentant Magdalenes were enrolled as 
 sisters of charity in the service of the house. When 
 the police entered the place, by breaking in the 
 doors, they found 20 little girls held in captivity, one 
 of them about to become another. The bogus sis- 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 49 
 
 ters of charity secured clients, and also made new 
 victims while going about the city soliciting alms. 
 The chief patrons of the place were rich Jews. 
 Father Bruzza, who is now in a cell in the Municipal 
 prison, vigorously denies the charge, but the evidence 
 against him is overwhelming. The Mother Superior- 
 ess of the institution fled from the city, but was 
 subsequently arrested, and many other arrests are 
 expected. 
 
 My dear Father in Heaven, how long will the 
 American people tolerate similar institutions in 
 our midst. American readers, you have been told 
 by Maria Monks, Edith O'Gorman, and others, 
 that you have those very hells in your midst, yet 
 your poHticians make laws to protect those institu- 
 tions. Shame upon them. The most disgusting and 
 revolting sights that I ever saw I saw in Roman 
 Catholic institutions when a boy. 
 
 Violated His Vows on the 13th of October, 
 1886. Rev. Fr. Lawren R Murphy, of Cleveland, O., 
 a priest of good address, was arrested by officer Mc- 
 Cusker, of Station 1, for the larceny of a second hand 
 coat valued at $3, from Lewis Richmond, at No. 40 
 Salem St., Boston. Father Murphy picked up the 
 coat and started to walk out when the owner's back 
 was turned. At the Station House he acknowledged 
 that he had been on an extended spree, and had been 
 drinking hard. He said also, when asked to account 
 for a sacque in his possession, that he stopped with 
 a strange woman at the Boston Hotel last night, and 
 that she beat him out of $10, and to get ''square" 
 with her he took her gossamer and sacque. 
 
50 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 Oh, what a monster to be able to forgive sins. 
 You can find the above on file in Room 35, Boston 
 Herald, if you wish to call. 
 
 Fr. Hickey Charged with Theft and For- 
 gery : — Money taken from a -woman thought to be 
 dying. She finally recovers to find herself in pov- 
 erty. Special despatch to the Boston Herald. New 
 York, Nov. 18, 1886. 
 
 Fr. Patrick C. Hickey, assistant pastor of the Ro- 
 man Catholic Church of the Epiphany, is accused 
 by Mrs. Mary Sheridan of theft and forgery. Fear- 
 ing that she was on the point of death, Mrs. Sheri- 
 dan, who is 7.4 years old, sent for Fr. Hickey. After 
 attending to her spiritual welfare, she says he asked 
 her if she had any money. She had $745 under her 
 pillow, and he induced her to let him have it to in- 
 sure its safety. If she recovered, he would return 
 the money intact, and if she died, he would pay her 
 funeral expenses. The priest then put his hand 
 under the pillow, she says, and abstracted the money. 
 At the same time, she says, he took her bank books, 
 one on the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, repre- 
 senting ^3052.50, and the other on the Bowery Sav- 
 ings Bank, where she had $1104.66. Mrs. Sheridan 
 recovered from her illness, and found that her bank 
 books were gone. She went to see Fr. Hickey, and 
 accused him of the theft. He admitted that he 
 had taken the books, and promised to return them. 
 At the same time he gave her $200 out of the $745, 
 and said that the balance would be returned in a few 
 days. As he failed to keep his promise, she began 
 an investigation, and discovered that the priest had 
 drawn all her money from the banks in drafts, pur- 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 51 
 
 porting to have been signed by her. She has brought 
 suit to recover. Fr. Hickey for over a week has been 
 an inmate of St. Vincent's Hospital, v^rhere he is 
 under treatment for a serious disease (a serious dis- 
 ease). An operation was performed upon him twQ 
 days ago, and he is not allowed to see anybody. 
 We will draw the mantle of charity over him, and 
 will not comment upon his serious disease. 
 
 The indifference of the American people to the 
 encroachment of this system is simply appalling. 
 An institution whose sole aim is to get control of 
 this country, peaceably through her politicians, if she 
 can ; but if this fails, as sure as there is a God in 
 Heaven, the Machine will try force. Dear reader, 
 you may be one of those who may laugh at the idea, 
 or who may shout nonsense; to such I must say, not so 
 fast. Listen to what Father Jenkins declares on page 
 47: ''The church of Rome has, all over the world, 
 twenty millions of Irishmen who stand united in in- 
 vincible battle array, but waiting the word of com- 
 mand from their spiritual chiefs to fight the good 
 fight for their own and their children's souls." With 
 such confessions as those before us^ who will dare to 
 say that a Roman Catholic can be a true citizen ? 
 Let me tell you that all of the Roman Catholic mili- 
 tary organizations have no other object in view. I 
 speak from experience, as I have been one of them 
 for many years. 
 
 Quoting from the late Bishop of Covington, he 
 says, '*The public schools are infidel and godless, 
 
52 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 and must, therefore, be avoided. A show of reli- 
 gion is indeed kept, up in them by a reading of the 
 Bible, but this does not and cannot meet the require- 
 ments of the chief and only end for which man is 
 created. To be convinced of the impotency for 
 good of such reading, reflect for a moment upon the 
 sad state of religion outside of the Roman Catholic 
 church, the lamentable ignorance of the most sa- 
 cred duties and responsibilities, the wide-spread skep- 
 ticism and indifference, the consequent disappear- 
 ance of honesty and integrity, and the fearful in- 
 crease of irreligion and immorality among all classes 
 of society (except the Roman Catholics)." The 
 best way to refute this malignant, dastardly attack, 
 is to give some statistics that will show the rotten 
 tree in her true colors. 
 
 Interesting" StatisticSv 
 
 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ROMANISM FOR THE CRIMES 
 OF THE WORLD. 
 
 [J. B. Huriburt, Ottawa.] 
 
 The various quotations from popes, archbishops, 
 bishops and priests, asserting that the pubhc schools 
 are "nurseries of crime," '^ the scandals of which 
 they are the scene, making the blood curdie in your 
 veins ; " "a scandal grossly and monstrously im- 
 moral," " a blot," '' a blemish," '' a disgrace on the 
 country;" ''seminaries of infidelity and fruitful 
 sources of immorality; " " the children of the public 
 schools turn out to be learned horse thieves, scho- 
 lastic counterfeiters," etc., are in strange contrast to 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 53 
 
 the Statistics of crime. In Ontario the criminal sta- 
 tistics for 1889, pp. 8-10, give the following : 
 
 Prisoners committed : 
 
 Roman Catholics, 4,544, 1 in 70 Roman Catholics. 
 
 Church of England, 3,876. 1 in 94. 
 
 Presbyterians, 1,610, 1 in 254. 
 
 Methodists, 1,682, 1 in 350. 
 
 Here we have one committed for crime in 70 of 
 the Roman Catholic population ; one in 94 Church 
 of England ; one in 254 of the Presbyterians, and 
 one in 350 of the Methodists. The Jews and the 
 Lutherans make the study of the Bible a part of the 
 education of their children, and they have fewer 
 criminals, I believe, "than any other class. 
 
 The committals in 1889 to the Central prison 
 (Ontario), were 242 Church of England in a popu- 
 lation of 366,539 ; 263 Roman Catholics in a popu- 
 lation of 320,000 (in this number were over 100,000 
 French, of whom very few were committed) ; 87 
 Presbyterians in a population of 417,747; and 100 
 Methodists in a population of nearly 600,000. 
 
 The parliamentary reports for Ireland, 1881, give 
 six-sevenths of the criminals to the Roman Catho- 
 lics ; especially is this disparity seen in the case of 
 children. In the industrial and reformatory schools 
 in Ireland in 1833, there were 6,135 Roman Catho- 
 lics and only 948 Protestants. 
 
 From the Almanico Populare of Turin we take 
 these statistics : In England, one murder in 178,000 
 people; in Catholic Spain, one in 4,113; in the 
 Roman States, one in 780, or 237 limes as many 
 murders in the Catholic Roman States as in Eng- 
 land in proportion to population. A late chap- 
 lain of the State Prison in Massachusetts stated, 
 that of 560 convicts there, 400 were Roman Catho- 
 
54 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 lies, chiefly Irish ; more than five times their due 
 proportion ; of 250 women convicts at Sherburne, 
 seven-tenths were Roman Catholics ; at Deer Island 
 75 per cent, j at Cambridge House of Correction 90 
 per cent, were foreigners, nearly all of whom were 
 Roman Catholics. 
 
 ^^ The legitimate children in London were 24f to 
 one illegitimate ; in Paris 2 1-19 to one illegitimate ; 
 in Vienna one legitimate to 1 1-6 illegitimate; in 
 Rome one legitimate to 2 2-3 illegitimate." (Al- 
 manico Populare, Turin.) Rome, therefore, as re- 
 gards illegitimacy, is six times worse than Paris, and 
 sixty-six times worse than London, and worse 
 than pagan Rome. But then Rome is the city of 
 Jesuit priests, whose teachings on the seventh, as 
 on the other commandments, have scandalized 
 Christendom. Give us, they say, the children of 
 the present generation and the next shall be ours, 
 ours in soul and body. They compass sea and land 
 to make one proselyte, and when they have made 
 him, he is four-fold more the child of hell than be- 
 fore. 
 
 Fig-ures Tell the Tale. 
 
 AS IN SAN FRANCISCO, SO IN BOSTON AND ELSE- 
 WHERE. 
 
 [San Francisco Argonaut.] 
 
 We have received from John Foley, superintendent 
 of the House of Correction, his report for the fiscal 
 year ending June 30, 1890. During the fiscal year 
 the House of Correction has admitted 1,259 mem- 
 bers, who, in their respective creeds, are divided as 
 follows : Roman Catholic, Protestant, Hebrew, un- 
 believer and Pagan. Of this number there are 830 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 55 
 
 Roman Catholics, and of the remainder, embracing 
 all religions — Pagan and unbelievers — there are 
 429. These figures, under the manipulation of a 
 member of the Roman Catholic Church, are very 
 significant, and worthy the consideration of all intel- 
 liij:ent citizens who are interested in the vouth of our 
 city. Those of our respectable fellow-citizens of the 
 Romish Church would do well to consider whether the 
 parochial system o^ education produces results as 
 satisfactory as the non-sectarian free school system. 
 If education in the godless schools supplies, out of 
 all denominations and faiths, only one-third as many 
 criminals as does education in church schools, it 
 would be well to inquire whether the church schools 
 should not be suppressed by law, and the parents and 
 guardians of children should not be compelled to 
 send them to the public schools for education. We 
 have estimated that the Roman Catholic population of 
 San Francisco is twenty per cent, of the entire popu- 
 lation. The criminal statistics, as indicated by the 
 report of the House of Correction, show about sixty 
 per cent, of juvenile crime in an entire pouulation of 
 over 300,000 people. Less than thirty-three per 
 cent, of these people are Roman Catholics. It is a 
 question of mental arithmetic to determine whether 
 it is well that the youth of this community should be 
 instructed by priests and nuns of the Romish 
 Church. 
 
 Allow me to give yuu a few extracts from a pas 
 toral letter of the late archbishop Perche, of New 
 Orleans. It is very plain talk. 
 
 ''Our public school system as organized in this 
 state, is erophatically a social plague. It is no 
 system of education at all, but the simple and 
 
56 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 direct negation of such, since it excludes all 
 creeds, without which education, as we have defined 
 it, is impossible. The public school system is not 
 imperfect only, it is also vicious; not only defective, 
 but radically mischievous. Its eflEects upon re- 
 ligion (Roman Catholic Religion, of course), are 
 most disastrous." 
 
 This bishop warns his people that they must shun 
 these pest holes. He says "it would make the very 
 blood curdle in your veins to hear of the scandals 
 that are perpetrated in the public schools." 
 
 Ah, lying Rome, we know you, and know that the 
 truth is not known by you. The public schools, 
 like all other institutions in this country, will bear 
 the light of investigation. How is it with your nun- 
 neries? Can you tell us of a public school where 
 they keep a quick lime vat. Respect for my readers 
 prevents my giving you some startling facts, but I will 
 simply remind you of the case of Fr. Buzza just 
 given in this chapter, page 99. 
 
 Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee, Wis., says, "We 
 grieve in our inmost heart when we look upon the 
 children growing up in our diocese, for far the 
 greater number of them are without any school, or 
 go to the public schools, where so many of them im- 
 bibe in their tender souls the poisonous germs of in- 
 fidelity and immorality." 
 
 Not so fast, Mr. archbishop ; was it immorality or 
 christian inspiration that caused Father Walsh to 
 try to drug Edith O'Gorman behind the holy altar, 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 57 
 
 and in the presence of your hand-made god, that he 
 might accomplish his hellish purpose. 
 
 Page 100, Bishop Vertin, of Marquette, Mich., has 
 said," From schools without religion, schools which 
 necessarily lead to all social and religious disorders, 
 deliver us, O Lord ! Are you Catholics ? Come 
 over to me, send your children to Catholic schools. 
 Are you not Catholics ? Then go away about your 
 business. We want no such scabby sheep to infest 
 the flock of Christ. On page 105 the compiler gives 
 us a dose of his ''Blatant Blarney." Dear reader, 
 give this careful consideration. *'These ignorant 
 masses^ who, in the common schools, have been 
 through the Fourth Reader, know nothing, not even 
 their own ignorance. Take the first boy whom you 
 meet, 14 or 15 years old, fresh from the common 
 school, and his ignorance of all real knowledge will 
 surprise you." I dare not trust my pen to comment 
 upon the above statements, but will simply say that 
 the bachelor priest who uses the language that he 
 does on page 109, must indeed be a depraved brute. 
 Dear reader, it is the firm belief of the Machine that 
 the female teacher of our public schools (Roman 
 Catholics excepted), are the mistresses of our School 
 Board, as publicly declared a few years ago by Fr. 
 Sculley, of Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Hear what the great "wine-maker," Bishop 
 McQuade, has to say, page 118. **It is absurd to say 
 that one bishop more than another insists upon the 
 
58 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 establishment of Catholic schools. It is not left 
 with bishops to choose in this matter. They receive 
 commands from an authority higher than their own/' 
 (This authority is the Pope.) Yes, dear reader, that 
 command comes from the Vatican, and cardinals, 
 bishops and priests must obey. This will confirm 
 what I have said in the opening of this chapter, 
 that it is not a matter of a few hot-headed priests. 
 They have nothing to do but obey. Therefore, I 
 say, without fear of contradiction, that when a bishop 
 or priest tells you that he favors your public schools, 
 he lies, and he knows it. 
 
 Pope Pius IX used these words : 
 
 ^'The people are not the source of civil power. 
 The Roman Catholic Church and her Ecclesiastics 
 have a right to immunity from civil law. Education, 
 outside the control of the Roman Catholic Church, 
 is a damnable heresy." 
 
 There you have the whole thing in a nutshell. Your 
 education is a damnable heresy. The Romish Church 
 claims the right to exercise its authority without hav- 
 ing any limit set to it by the civil power, and your 
 law-makers dare not dispute the ground with them. 
 
 The Romish Church claims the right to interfere 
 in the discipline of the public schools, and in the 
 arrangement of their studies, and in the choice of 
 their teachers, and the School Board of Puritan 
 Boston says, amen. Shame, a thousand times shame 
 upon such pusillanimity. 
 
 Cardinal Gibbons says that with the increase of 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 59 
 
 public schools comes an increase in public crimes, 
 chiefly committed by those educated scoundrels, 
 and the only remedy is in establishing Parochial 
 schools. Mr. Cardinal Gibbons, you are indeed very 
 ignorant of the general state of affairs. If you 
 should see this, I most respectfully ask you to call 
 and see your dear children in our various penal in-' 
 stitutions. Go to some police court on a fine Mon- 
 day morning, and see who those are that spent the 
 Lord's Day drinking, gambling and fighting, selling 
 rum and running dance halls and houses of ill-fame. 
 You will perhaps learn that a great many of those 
 had been to confession the previous Saturday night, 
 and that many of them had for their Sunday morn- 
 ing breakfast your hand-made god. Verily, this is 
 a wonderful deception. 
 
 Page 125, the lamented Archbishop Spaulding 
 says : 
 
 "Yes, we can no longer deny it, the great defect, 
 the gnawing canker, the blighting curse of our 
 educational system, is the absence from it of a whole- 
 some religious instruction '' (instructions, of course, 
 by the priests and nuns, such as that the priest can for- 
 give sins, and that none but those who go to confession 
 can be saved. That young girls must listen to the 
 filthy questions put them by the priest.) 
 
 Ah, my dear reader, the Roman Machine is, and 
 always has been, the sworn enemy of free institu- 
 tions. That great statesman and patriot, the late 
 Richard W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, in 
 
60 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 his admirable work, the 'Tapacy and the Civil 
 Power," says : 
 
 "Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of 
 the Church of Rome prevailed here, our Constitu- 
 tion would necessarily fall. The two cannot exist 
 together. They are in open and direct antagonism 
 with the fundamental theory of our government, and 
 of all popular governments everywhere." 
 
 The eloquent Spanish orator, Castelar, speaking 
 of his own Church of Rome, said, in 1869 : 
 
 **There is not a single progressive principle that 
 has not been cursed by the Catholic Church." 
 
 This is true of England and Germany, as well as 
 all Catholic countries. The Church cursed the 
 French Revolution, the Belgian Constitution, and 
 the Italian Independence. Not a Constitution has 
 been born, not a step of progress made, not a soli- 
 tary reform effected which has not been under the 
 terrific Anathemas of the Church. 
 
 Heresy the church endures when and where she 
 must, but she hates it, and directs all her energies 
 to destroy it. If Catholics ever gain a sufficient nu- 
 merical majority in this country, religious freedom 
 is at an end ; so says the shepherd of the valley^ the 
 official mouthpiece of the bishop of St. Louis. This 
 is a true expose of the arch hypocrite, the church of 
 Rome. 
 
 *'The Catholic church is the medium and chan- 
 nel through which the will of God is expressed ; 
 while the State has rights, she has them only in vir- 
 
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 61 
 
 tue and by permission of the superior authority, and 
 that authority can be expressed only through the 
 cYiMXohr— Catholic World, Jul^, 1870. 
 
 "Protestantism has not, and never can have, any 
 right where Catholicity has triumphed. Therefore, 
 we lose the breath we expend in declaiming against 
 bigotry and intolerance, and in favor of religious 
 liberty, or the right of man to be of any religion as 
 best pleases him." — Catholic Review, June, 1865. 
 
 "In 1900 Rome will have this country and keep it. 
 All legislation must be governed by the will of God, 
 indicated by the Pope. Education must be con- 
 trolled by Catholic authority ; the secular arm and 
 the press must be under the authority of the church, 
 even to war and bloodshed." — Fr. Hecker^s Catholic, 
 July, 1870. 
 
 Priest Hecker makes this statement because he 
 knows that in addition to the 20,000,000 of fighting 
 Irishmen, he has the French Catholics, the Ger- 
 mans and the bloodthirsty Italians drilled fur this 
 purpose. 
 
 If children are educated in our public schools, 
 they cannot and will not b.elieve in the asinine 
 theology of Rome. They will not believe that the 
 priest can put horns on them, nor that wearing two 
 dirty pieces of cloth around their necks will keep 
 them from harm. In closing this chapter, let me 
 tell you that no Protestant in this country can afford 
 longer to remain indifferent to the encroachments of 
 Roman Catholicism. Read again the bloody pages 
 of the inquisition. The blood of a million of mar- 
 
62 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 tyrs cries aloud in heaven for you to awake. The 
 sleeping dust of your fathers pleads with all the 
 deep pathos of outraged humanity for you to awake. 
 Every principle dear to a free American people is in 
 danger, and little as you think of it, already the 
 thongs are being fastened round your hands, and 
 when it is too late you will realize it. Awake, 
 awake ! free men of America. Arise in your 
 might and declare, God helping you, that Rome 
 shall never, no never, rule Americans. May our 
 Heavenly Father and the ever dear Jesus grant it, is 
 my earnest prayer. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ITS SUPERSTITIONS, ITS 
 
 ESTIMATE OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, THE 
 
 CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR BIBLE. 
 
 Christian reader, a church without a Bible I 
 know will sound very strange to you. In such a 
 church I was born, baptized, confirmed, absolved 
 from all my sins, had the blessed privilege upon 
 various occasions of eating the God of that church. 
 In that church I was married, and in that church 
 my only living child was baptized. I have told 
 you already why I left that chucrh. 
 
 The Roman Catholic Church does not use the 
 Bible ; first, because they do not believe in it ; sec- 
 ondly, because it would ruin their business, for be 
 it understood, the church of Rome is run upon 
 strictly business principles, no credit. If you want 
 any of their goods you must pay cash down, or down 
 you go to Purgatory or some hotter region. They 
 have in the church of Rome lots of theology but no 
 Bible. I here challenge any Roman Catholic 
 
64 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A lilBLE. 
 
 bishop, priest or layman, to refute this statement. 
 Does the Roman Catholic believe in the Bible ? I 
 answer, most emphatically, she does not. Supposing 
 you had an authentic, scientific work, or a history 
 written by an author of unblemished reputation, is it 
 reasonable to think that you would forbid your fam- 
 ily reading those books ? Certainly you would not ; 
 and if you did they would be justified in telling you 
 that you were a proper representative of the '* first 
 of April.'' The law of the southern states forbade 
 the education of the slaves. Why? Simply because 
 an educated slave would make a poor piece of prop- 
 erty. So it is with the Roman Catholic Machine in 
 forbidding her dupes to read the Bible. They would 
 be useless Roman Catholics if we could get them to 
 read God's word. Rome dreads the Bible, and it is 
 no wonder to me that she does. I declare that I 
 have never read anything that painted the Roman 
 Catholic Church blacker than the Douay Bible (R. 
 C. Version). From this version I take all my quo- 
 tations. Should any Roman Catholic read this, I 
 beseech you in the name of the living God, and for 
 the sake of your immortal soul, to read his blessed 
 word. Let no man deprive you of this blessed privi- 
 lege. 
 
 It is my purpose to prove to you that the Roman 
 Catholic Church does not believe in the Bible. I 
 will only call your attention to one passage of the 
 Old Testament, for the very simple reason that 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 65 
 
 the Roman Catholics claim that Christ dispensed 
 with the old law, and that we are now living under 
 a new dispensation, but as this is of such importance 
 to us all, Roman Catholics included, I feel con- 
 strained to submit it to your consideration. I refer 
 you to the ten commandments to be found in the 
 20th chapter of Exodus. Let me call your attention 
 to the 4th verse. 
 
 Thou shalt not make to thyself^ a graven thing, 
 nor the likeness of anything that's in Heaven above, 
 or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that 
 are in the water under the earth. 
 
 If the Roman Catholics believe this, how can they 
 bend their knees, and make the sign of the cross in 
 our public streets when passing one of their joss 
 houses (called churches). The Bible is a hidden 
 book in the Church of Rome. 
 
 I find in Matt. 13. 55-56, the following plain 
 statement : 
 
 "Is not this the carpenter's son ? Is not his 
 mother called Mary, and his brethren James and 
 Joseph, and Simon and Jude, and his sisters, are 
 they not with us.^ Whence therefore hath he all 
 these things ?" 
 
 How can any Roman Catholic reconcile those 
 Bible facts with their teachings in reference to the 
 Mother of the man Chris: Jesus, to wit, that she 
 never had any other children but Jesus. 
 
 Mark 13. 21 : *'And then if any man shall say to 
 you, Lo, here is Christ, Lo, he is there, do not be- 
 lieve.'' 
 
66 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A lilBLE. 
 
 Does the Roman Catholic priest believe this when 
 he holds between his fingers the wafer, and declares 
 that it is the very Christ Jesus that died for perish- 
 ing sinners. Wonderful man ! A Roman Catholic 
 priest that can carry a score of full grown gods in 
 his pants pocket in defiance of the solemn declara- 
 tion that there be no gods that are made with hands. 
 At his last supper our blessed Saviour took bread 
 and wine and blessed them. Does the priest do 
 this ? Most certainly not ; the wine is too good for 
 poor Pat and Bridget. He does here as in all other 
 cases, he eats the oysters and gives them the shells, 
 *' World of wonders, I can say no less.^' 
 
 Luke 1. 46-47: And Mary said, "My soul doth 
 magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in 
 God my Saviour.'' 
 
 If they believe this, why teach that Mary was born 
 without sin. 
 
 John 5. 39 : Search the Scriptures for you think 
 in them to have life everlasting, and the same are 
 they that give testimony of me. 
 
 Don't touch it says the infallible Pope, or you will 
 be damned. The Bible has been condemned by the 
 following bulls from Rome : By Gregory IX., 1229 ; 
 Gregory XIL, 1824; Pius VIIL, 1829; Gregory X\ L, 
 1832 and 1844. Pius IX., in one of his infallible 
 bulls, declares the Bible a heretical book, by which 
 the faithful are damned if they read it. I ask, who 
 will dare to say that the Roman Catholic Machine 
 believes in the inspired word of God } 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 67 
 
 Acts 8. 20: ''But Peter said to him (Simon), 
 keep thy money to thyself to perish with thee, be- 
 cause thou hast thought that the gift of God may be 
 purchased with money." 
 
 It seems to me that this passage of Scripture 
 alone ought to be sufficient to knock the bottom 
 clean out of Purgatory, if we had no further proof. 
 
 Acts 10. 26 : But Peter lifted him (Cornelius) up, 
 saying, *' Arise, I myself also am a man." 
 
 Dear reader, do you think that the pretended fol- 
 lowers of Peter would make this manly declaration ? 
 No indeed. If you should ever call and see his 
 royal highness and get down three times upon your 
 knees, he may allow you to kiss his toe. 
 
 Acts 17. 11 : Now these were more noble than 
 those in Thessalonica, who received the word with 
 all eagerness, daily searching the Scriptures whether 
 these things were so. 
 
 Roman Catholic brother and sister, this is what 
 I want you to do, search and see for yourselves. 
 
 Rom. 3. 23 : For all have sinned and do need the 
 glory of God. 
 
 This includes the Pope as much, or perhaps more, 
 than you or I, but the Machine says this is mere 
 '' bosh ; " hence the infallibility of the Pope. 
 
 1 Tim. 2. 5 : For there is one God and one medi- 
 ator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 
 
 Where, O where is there any room for the Virgin 
 Mary and all the saints, the departed rumsellers and 
 gamblers included.^ Understand, my dear reader, 
 that it is one of the fundamental teachings of Rome, 
 
68 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 t±at after our friends pass from Purgatory to 
 Heaven, that they make intercession for their friends 
 who may still be in the whiskey business. I am 
 afraid that their Heaven is like their church, a 
 whiskey Heaven. Oh! may the living God open 
 their eyes that they may see. 
 
 ITim. 3. 1-5 : A faithful saying, if a man desire 
 the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. It 
 behooveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the 
 husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good be- 
 havior, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, not 
 given to wine, no strikerj but modest, not quarrel- 
 some not covetous, but one that ruleth well his own 
 house, having his children in subjection with all 
 chastity. But if a man know not how to rule his 
 own house, how shall he take care of the church of 
 God." 
 
 Could anything be plainer than this? Dear 
 reader, if the Roman Catholic Machine believed the 
 inspired word of God, and had a married ministry, 
 there would be no use for nunneries, there would be 
 no need of kicking them out of hotels from the fond 
 embrace of their penitents, as I have already told you. 
 Truly, that man of God, St, Paul, knew that those 
 things should come to pass when he said that to 
 forbid marriage was a doctrine of the devil, and I 
 most fearlessly say that the Church of Rome is a 
 curse. If not, what is the matter with my native 
 land. The north of Ireland is happy and contented; 
 not so with the other three provinces. You never 
 see the hat going around for Scotland and Wales. 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 69 
 
 "How is this ? Simply because the Protestant people 
 are not plundered by those highwaymen, the Roman 
 Catholic priests, under the very false pretence of get- 
 ting their dear ones out of Purgatory. I think that 
 a little lynch law would be a god-send to those poor 
 benighted dupes. 
 
 Garibaldi, said : ''The Bible is the cannon that 
 will open Italy to us.'* 
 
 I believe as he did, that the Bible is the only can- 
 non that will ever free Ireland. If Roman Catho- 
 lics were to read the Bible, it would be impos- 
 sible for the Machine to make them believe the 
 idiotic things that they do believe. Volumes might 
 be written upon this subject from the ^^Glories of 
 Mary/' "The Legends of Mary," and other books 
 before me, but I will only give you one, this you can 
 find in any Roman Catholic Prayer Book; the Agnus 
 Dei, in English the lamb of God, so called from 
 the image stamped upon it, is a small cake of purest 
 white wax, solemnly blessed by the Pope. In Easter 
 week, beginning with prayer, he dips it in holy 
 water, mingled, for the purpose, w4th holy balsam 
 and holy chrism, and then beseeches once more the 
 Almighty to bless, consecrate and sanctify this oflEer- 
 ing, so as to render it a source of graces to all those 
 who shall use it in the spirit of faith and piety. These 
 particular graces are chiefly the following : 
 
 1. A devout remembrance of our redemption 
 through the lamb of God on beholding and touch- 
 ing the waxen image, so that a lively sense of grati- 
 
70 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 tude shall prompt us to bless, venerate and love the 
 divine goodness, firmly hoping therefrom forgive- 
 ness of sins, and spotlessness of conscience. 2. Pro- 
 tection against the open and secret attacks of the 
 enemies of soul and body. 3. Preservation from 
 public and private calamities, disasters and acci- 
 dents, from contagious and violent diseases, and 
 also from a sudden and unprovided death. 4. Safety 
 during pregnancy, and a happy childbirth. 
 
 Who would be without such a safeguard? I have 
 two or three of those precious lambs in my vest 
 pocket. But to be serious, my dear reader, the poor 
 blind-folded Roman Catholics believe, first, that the 
 Pope blesses those himself. I have just transcribed 
 it word for word from the Roman Catholic Prayer 
 Book, therefore, you see he blesses every ^^Agnus Dei" 
 separately. Now, then, those are used by the mil- 
 lions yearly, no matter how short the prayer may be. 
 It does not take an Euclid nor a Newton to see the 
 gigantic fraud. Think of it, one man, in one week, 
 going through millions of such mummeries, and 
 secondly, their efficacy. Here comes the great mis- 
 take, because, instead of putting their faith in God, 
 they put it in those dirty rags around their necks. 
 Doctor Cronin, whom th^ saintly Cian-a-Gael butch- 
 ered in Chicago, had one of them around his neck. 
 Poor fellow, he might as well have had an onion 
 peel. 
 
 There is a very long word in the Papal Vocabu- 
 lary, and that is excommunication. Now, I chal- 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 71 
 
 lenge the Pope and his legion of bishops and priests 
 to give me one instance wherein any man or woman 
 has ever been excommunicated because of their 
 morals. Is it because of his morals that they have 
 excommunicated Dr. McGlynn? Certainly not, but 
 simply because he dared to assert his rights as 
 an American citizen. If he should die with this 
 anathema upon him there is not a Roman Catholic 
 Church in Christendom will allow his remains to be 
 brought inside of its fence, nor would he be allowed 
 a Christian (very unchristian) burial in their conse- 
 crated grounds. Not so with the murderer, the 
 prize fighter, the gambler and the keepers of houses 
 of ill-fame. Obedience and money, not morals, is 
 what the Machine wants, and they get it nearly every 
 time. It may be well to prove the above statement. 
 
 A few years ago there was a dive run between 
 Merrimac and Portland Streets, Boston, Mass. This 
 machine shop of the devil was run by the notorious 
 Jimmy Keenan. He ran his dive night and day, 
 license or no license, in defiance of the law of God, 
 and the law of the land. Nevertheless, when he 
 died he had a saintly burial. Why.? Because his 
 purse was always open to the priest. 
 
 Another instance is that of the prize-fighter Paddy 
 Duffy, who died July, 1890. His remains were tak- 
 en to St. Mary's Church, where the Rev. Fr. Scan- 
 Ion not only gave him a pass to Purgatory, but ac- 
 tually sprinkled with his holy water a pair of floral 
 boxing gloves upon the coffin. And yet we meet 
 
72 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 with ministers who say that this is a branch of the 
 Christian church. May God help such ministerial 
 quacks. 
 
 In the church of Rome, if you are obedient to the 
 priest and free with your money, your morals may 
 be as black as charcoal and you be a member of the 
 same. Build up the church by any and all means 
 says the Machine. Did you ever think of it, Chris- 
 tian reader, that the church of Rome has the names 
 of numberless thousands of your children upon its 
 list? Did you think when you allowed your child to 
 be taken by its Roman Catholic nurse, that she had 
 it baptized by the priest ? Allow me to tell you that 
 in eight cases out of ten this is the sad result, 
 "Bring in the young heretics," says the priest, and 
 the girls dare not disobey. Yes, baptized by the 
 priests of the blackest idolatry that ever cursed the 
 human mind. 
 
 The Egyptians worship crocodiles and calves ; the 
 Greeks made their gods of marble or gold ; the Per- 
 sian made the sun his god; the Hottentots make 
 their gods with whalebone, and go far through the 
 storm to adore them ; the church of Rome makes 
 her god of a wafer and eats him. This is the worst 
 kind of Cannibalism, and it is also base ingratitude. 
 Think of a man eating his dearest friend, and then 
 you have transubstantiation in a nutshell. 
 
 Dear reader, did you ever think that Roman 
 Catholics wear social masks? 1 propose to prove to 
 you that they do, especially the priests. I am satis- 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 73 
 
 fied that when you are through reading this chapter 
 that you will agree with me if I say that they are the 
 most two-faced hypocrites on God's foot-stool. If 
 you live in their midst they are very nice when they 
 meet you, especially so if they are begging to build 
 a joss house in your midst. The priest sometimes 
 sends to the Press an article that is grandly white- 
 washed, praising some Protestant, or shouting *'Let 
 us live in peace." In fact, nearly all her articles in 
 the public press are very liberal, and alas, the press 
 gives her all the space she wants. If the Pope has 
 a pain in his big toe, the papers are full of the sad 
 news. If a bishop or priest is celebrating an anni- 
 versary the press is full of it, and if John L. Sullivan 
 is sober for a few days the glad news is sent abroad, 
 to the exclusion of Protestant information; but you 
 see they have a political *'pulU" and that settles it. 
 I beseech you to read this, the closing part of this 
 chapter, carefully. Here is a piece of venom from 
 the Romish paper edited by Fr. Phelan, of St- 
 Louis, the Western Watchmsm : 
 
 '*We can silence infidelity and heresy in our day, 
 and in this country, and the means and opportunities 
 of doing so were never so abundant, for never were 
 infidels and heretics so hollow and vulnerable. 
 Protestantism lives in this country by the mere force 
 of jaw and the cheapness of printer's ink. It is 
 high time we were planting our batteries so that they 
 may play upon their flimsy entrenchments and tissue 
 paper forts. The people are tired listening to the 
 clatter of these predictorial guinea hens, and they 
 
74 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 are anxious for a change of subject and treatment 
 for the purpose of leavening the lump of Protestant 
 ignorance so sedulously guarded from intelligent 
 fermentation by the parsons. The Catholic Periodi- 
 cal Press has been called into existence;" we are 
 also informed by his *' Reverence," "of the real 
 charity of Romanism towards Protestantism. We 
 would draw and quarter Protestantism ; we would 
 impale it and hang it up for crows' nests ; we would 
 tear it with pincers and fire it with hot irons; we 
 would fill it with molten lead and sink it into Hell- 
 fire a hundred fathoms deep." 
 
 This is not very neighborly love, but it is the love 
 of Rome for Heretics. Listen to the Douay Bible 
 (R. C. Version) : 
 
 John 10. 1 : Amen, amen ; I say unto you, he 
 that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but 
 climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a 
 robber. 
 
 We have the following foot note from Dr. Troy's 
 Bible, as an explanation of the above passage : 
 
 " All Protestant clergy are thieves, murderers and 
 ministers of the Devil ; leaders of rebellion against 
 the lawful authority of Catholic priests ; they are en- 
 gaged in a damnable revolt against the priests of 
 God's church, which revolt is the bane of our day 
 and country, and they should be put to death." 
 
 We have from the same authority, that is to say 
 the Bible, the following foot notes : 
 
 Romans 10. 15 : All Protestant ministers are 
 usurpers ; none of them sent by God, but by their 
 father, the Devil. 
 
 Acts 10. 35 : All Protestants are of their father, 
 the Devil. 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. /O 
 
 This is very plain talk, still plainer further on. 
 Bigotry is a word used very freely by Roman Catho- 
 lics. I ask any reasonable person, who are the 
 bigots ? Frequently we hear of a Methodist, a Bap- 
 tist, a Presbyterian, a Congregation alist or some 
 other Christian when they die, if they are wealthy, 
 they bequeath a portion of their wealth to some pub- 
 lic institution irrespective of creed ; will some Ro- 
 man Catholic give a single instance of any Roman 
 Catholic giving a cent to any such institution ? No, 
 dear reader, it all goes to the Roman Catholic 
 churches, nunneries or colleges. This has become 
 such a glowing fact, that recently the question has 
 been asked by a Roman Catholic priest in the ''Pas- 
 tor," a Roman Catholic magazine having ecclesias- 
 tical sanction. In one number of this magazine, the 
 question is discussed as to the ungraciousness of 
 Romanists refusing to help any Protestant charity, 
 when Romanists are constantly asking and obtain- 
 ing liberal help from Protestants. The editor set- 
 tles the question. He says : 
 
 *' Protestants hold that you may be saved in any 
 church ; we hold that you must belong to the Ro- 
 man Catholic Church in order to be saved. So the 
 matter resolves itself into this : Protestants will be 
 damned anyhow, and we may as well get all we can 
 out of them in this world, but we cannot give them 
 anything to help a religion which we declare is so 
 absolutely false that those who believe it can never 
 be saved. 
 
 Rome is the most inconsistent organization the 
 
/b THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 world has ever known. Did you ever hear a Roman 
 Catholic priest giving a temperance lecture who was 
 himself soaked with whiskey ? I have. Does the 
 following few facts taken from many at our com- 
 mand support them in their deception? I call upon you 
 to judge. I challenge any Roman Catholic to pro- 
 duce a single copy of the Boston Pilot during the fif- 
 teen years or more that his grace Archbishop Williams 
 owned it, that did not give the rum business its sup- 
 port in its pages. Upon the 19th of July, 1890, 
 George Goldfuss got judgment against Father 
 Leighelach of the St. Benedict German Roman 
 Catholic Church of New York, for two hundred and 
 forty-two dollars for a rum-shop he sold him at 72 
 Central Ave., and put his father in the business. Ex- 
 cuse my using the word ^^ business " coupled with a 
 rum-shop, when I believe that a rum-shop is no more 
 a place of business than a den of rattlesnakes. I 
 own a small book that I value very much ; it is en- 
 titled, '' Our Faith j What Roman Catholics Be- 
 lieve," compiled by John Francis Marrin, published 
 by the Boston Catholic Publishing Co., 1884. I 
 find on the back page a very important article of 
 their belief. I will give it w^ord for word as it is in 
 the book, and I challenge contradiction : 
 
 ''Fairbanks & Neale, manufacturers of mineral and 
 soda water, Belfast ginger ale, English lemonade, 
 tonic beers, twelve flavors, wholesale dealers in 
 malt liquors. The above goods will be furnished 
 for fairs, picnics and gatherings, in large or small 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 77 
 
 quantities at special rates. Orders by mail or tele- 
 phone promptly attended to. Howard Athenaeum 
 Building, Howard St., Boston. Levi Fairbanks, 
 Otis S. Neale." 
 
 This is the secret of all the rowdyism and drunken- 
 ness at Roman Catholic picnics. What a precious 
 article of faith, and unless you believe as they do 
 you are eternally damned. 
 
 Read what the same authority has to say upon 
 this subject of salvation. "Whosoever shall be 
 saved, before all, it is necessary that he hold the 
 Catholic faith, which faith, except everyone do keep 
 entire and inviolate, without doubt, he shall perish 
 everlastingly.'' 
 
 Allow me to ask you to read the first clause of 
 this declaration once more, and ask yourself if this 
 is not blasphemy. ^'Before all things" you must be 
 a Roman Catholic, not as the Bible tells us that who- 
 soever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be 
 saved. 
 
 I will close this chapter from "plain talk about the 
 Protestantism of today," by Mgr. Segur, published 
 by Noonan & Co., Boston Mass. 
 
 I know you will agree with me when I say that 
 there should be no compromise with such people 
 who declare that the Roman Catholic Church has un- 
 ceasingly protested that she is the only true church 
 and that it is necessary to belong to her in order to 
 be a child of God, and to be out of her is to be a 
 child of the Devil. You will allow me to make 
 
/8 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 
 
 another statement from ^'J^^ges of Faith" who tells 
 us that there is one God, and that he has established 
 one true church, in which, and by which alone, all 
 men are to be saved that are saved at all. Friends, 
 don't believe the Roman Catholic that says that he 
 does not believe that you are damned when you die. 
 I declare it before God and the world that this is the 
 fundamental teaching of the ^^Modern Sodom." Fin- 
 ally, I defy any Roman Catholic to produce a cate- 
 chism that does not bear me out in my statements. 
 Rome is deceitful, and I know it. Rome dreads 
 converted Romanists. Hear what she has to say 
 about her turn-coats, as we are called. 
 
 •'It takes, indeed, apostates from Catholicity to 
 form complete adepts in the arts of destruction of 
 state and church." 
 
 We most respectfully make our bow to the Ma- 
 chine for this compliment. Now, for some plain 
 talk. The author of this work asks and answers 
 many questions, of which the following are fair 
 samples : * 
 
 Page 11 : ''Is Protestantism a religion ? No j it 
 is only a collection of sects. Is it an institution ? No, 
 it is a rebellion. Is it an instruction ? No ; it is a 
 negation.'* 
 
 Page 21 : '^You might as well say that counter- 
 feit money is about as valuable as good coin, as to 
 say that Protestantism is a religion." 
 
 This is too plain to need comment; and again on 
 page 55, we find the following plain talk : 
 
 ''To be a Christian is to be a Roman Catholic. 
 
ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 79 
 
 Outside of Catholicity you may be a Lutheran, a 
 Calvanist, a Mohammedan, a Free Thinker, a Mor- 
 mon, a Buddhist, but you are not, you cannot be, a 
 Christian." 
 
 Page 62 : ^'Protestantism is not what it is claimed 
 to be, simple, it is hollow and naked." 
 
 Page '127 : '^It would be an insult to the Catho- 
 lic clergy to compare them with the pastors of 
 Protestant Sects, as Protestantism is no religion, 
 whatever they may say to the contrary." 
 
 So its ministers have not the authority of the 
 Priesthood, no matter how hard they may try to 
 have its appearance. 
 
 On page 93 we get the following illustration. Let 
 me transcribe it word for word as it is in the book: 
 
 *'Had ye ever seen a regiment of noble soldiers 
 with serried ranks, marching under the lead of a 
 cuirassed chief, and after them the musketeers in 
 beautiful order, and then the arquebusiers, with 
 the rest of the troops all keeping step to the measured 
 beat of the drum, and then had ye seen a swarm of 
 monkeys trotting about the streets, carrying wooden 
 swords, and shouldering long reeds, beating time 
 music on a tin pan, and every mother's son among 
 them giving orders to his comrades. Well, ye would 
 then recognize in the first the order of the true 
 church, and in the latter the disorder of those 
 bastard churches which ape the true one." 
 
 Don't be astonished at the Machine calling your 
 church a bastard church. This is what you are your- 
 self according to the teachings of Rome, as your 
 fathers and mothers were never married, as none but 
 the Machine can tie the matrimonial knot. Beware, 
 gentle reader, do not trust those snakes in your 
 midst. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 THE DOCTRINES OF THE JESUITS. PAPAL DECREES. 
 
 HER CRUELTY TOWARD THOSE WHO LEAVE HER. 
 
 ROMANISM UTTERLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH 
 
 THE LAW OF GOD. 
 
 The sacrifice of the mass is the most solemn cere- 
 mony in the Romish Church. Through the mass 
 you get from Purgatory to Heaven ; there is no 
 other way, notwithstanding that our blessed Sav- 
 iour hath said : " I am the way, the truth and the 
 life." Is it possible to find a bishop, priest or lay- 
 man to point out a single passage in the New Testa- 
 ment that even hints at the sacrifice of the mass? I 
 answer without fear of contradiction that it is im- 
 possible, nay more, it is rani<: blasphemy to preach 
 such ; it is unpardonable deception, as I shall prove 
 to you further on. No man with the education of a 
 Roman Catholic priest, outside of a lunatic asylum, 
 can believe in it. What is the Roman Catholic 
 mass ? Let us see what the Machine says it is : 
 
 "- The mass is the sacrifice of the body and blood, 
 soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, which are really 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 81 
 
 present under the appearance of bread and wine, 
 and are offered to God by the priest for the living 
 and the dead." 
 
 Is the mass a different sacrifice from that of the 
 
 cross ? 
 
 '^ No," says the infallible church of Rome, " be- 
 cause the same Christ who once offered himself a 
 bleeding victim to his Heavenly Father on the cross, 
 continues to offer himself in an unbloody manner by 
 the hands of his priests on our altars." 
 
 What unblushing presumption, when God's word is 
 as plain as A B C upon this question. His blessed 
 word tells us very plainly that Christ's sacrifice was 
 once for all and needs no repetition. When our 
 Heavenly Father does anything, bless his holy 
 name, he does it complete, and leaves no room for 
 the Roman Catholic Machine to improve upon 
 his works. All the self-styled improvements 
 of Rome, such as the mass, the confessional, in- 
 dulgences, penances and others, only help to sink 
 their poor, deluded followers deeper in sin, shame 
 and misery, giving historians material to work upon, 
 and when this is seen in print, they are up in arms 
 like that inglorious Judge Fallon, shouting, "bigot- 
 ry, bigotry, fanatics, cranks, and so forth." Poor 
 Judge Fallon, I pity your ignorance. 
 
 Reader, I ask you to carefully examine the fol- 
 lowing coLvincing proofs : 
 
 1 Peter 3. 18 : Christ also died once for our sins, 
 
82 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 the just for the unjust, that he might offer us to 
 God. 
 
 Compare those words from the Douay Bible (Ro" 
 man Catholic Version), with the teachings of Rome, 
 apd see for yourself. But then, as I have already 
 said, Rome does not believe in the Bible. Again 
 we find in Heb. 7. 26-27 : 
 
 For it was fitting that we should have such an 
 high priest ; holy, innocent, undefiled, separated 
 from sinners and made higher than the Heavens. 
 Who needeth not daily, as other priests, to offer sac- 
 rifices first for his own sins, and then for the peo- 
 ple's, for this he has done once by offering himself. 
 
 Also Heb. 9. 25-28, the following powerful proofs: 
 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the 
 high priest entereth into the holies every year with 
 the blood of others, for then he ought to have suf- 
 fered often from tlie beginning of the world, but now, 
 once at the end of ages he hath appeared for the 
 destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself. And 
 as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this 
 the judgment, so also, Christ was offered once to 
 exhaust the sins of many. 
 
 Did you ever think seriously of it? A man daring to 
 offer the same sacrifice that Christ offered on Cal- 
 vary's cross. A man who drank, used snuff, smoked 
 tobacco, went to dances, took young women to neigh- 
 boring towns, and put up at hotels as man and wife. 
 With all these facts befoi-e us, Cardinal Manning in 
 his *' Eternal Priesthood," page 22, dares to tell us 
 that the priest is the guardian of our dear Lord. 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 83 
 
 Poor Cardinal Manning ! He may be the guardian 
 of your ^^ pastey " God, but lie has nothing to do 
 with the God of the true Christian. Once more let 
 me call your attention to the infallible word of God: 
 
 Heb. 10. 10, 11, 12: In the which will we are 
 sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus 
 Christ once. And every priest indeed standeth 
 daily ministering, and often offering the same sac- 
 rifice, which can never take away sins. But this 
 man offering one' sacrifice for sin, forever sitteth at 
 the right hand of God. 
 
 Let me impress upon your mind the last clause of 
 the 11th verse : "Which can never take away sins." 
 No, my dear reader, there is but one thing to wash 
 away our sins, and that is the cleansing blood of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 The Douay Bible positively declares in the pas- 
 sages that I have just cited, that Christ offered him- 
 self once for all, but the Roman Machine denies 
 this, and teaches that he continues to offer himself 
 in an unbloody manner by the hands of the priests. 
 A more daring, blasphemous statement could not be 
 made ; it is blasphemy from beginning to end, es- 
 pecially the mass for the dead. No money, no 
 mass. The priest does not care a straw for the 
 souls of your friends, they only want your money. 
 Think of it, dear reader ! Your mother, your father, 
 your wife, your dear sister, or perhaps your dear son 
 or daughter in a burning fire, and a fireman could 
 rescue them but will not do it unless you pay 
 
84 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 him for it. What would you do ? Would you not in 
 your just indignation shoot him as you would a 
 dog ? And yet this is what the priests are doing 
 every day in the year. Be it distinctly understood 
 the priest will not '^say mass " until he is paid for 
 it. 
 
 I have already said that the Roman Catholic 
 Church claims that Christ continues to offer himself 
 in an unbloody manner by the hands of the priests. 
 Very well ; let them prove it if they can. Not with 
 their penny theology, commonly called the cate- 
 chism, but with God's word ; and if they cannot do 
 so, let them just own up honestly that the sacrifice 
 of the mass is an imposture and a fraud. Their 
 own ecclesiastical history declares that the mass 
 was invented in the eleventh century, thus the apos- 
 tles knew nothing about it. It may be well that we 
 should all bear in mind that an unbloody sacrifice is 
 no sin-remitting sacrifice at all. I make this state- 
 ment backed by that fearless man of God, St Paul, 
 who said, that without the shedding of blood there 
 is no remission of sins. Hebe 9. 22. 
 
 But why do I wonder, knowing her theology, and 
 that theology must have had its birth in the infernal 
 regions; listen to the following facts from Fr. Gury. 
 These are the doctrines of the Jesuits : Supposing a 
 man has a grudge against his neighbor, he takes his 
 gun and fires at his neighbor's donkey, who runs 
 away unhurt, but kills his neighbor's cow who stood 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 85 
 
 behind the fence. According to the doctrine of the 
 Jesuits this man is not responsible to his neighbor 
 for damages, because he intended to shoot the don- 
 key. A rum-seller is not held to sustain a consider- 
 able loss in order to prevent the habitual sin- of 
 drunkenness in his client. Charity does Dot force 
 upon us such a sacrifice. Can you wonder that Ro- 
 man Catholics sell rum? With them and their 
 church it is no sin. A man is guilty or in the habit 
 of doing something unmentionable ; he goes to hia 
 confessor, who, according to those hellish doctrines, 
 tells him that he must not be troubled. If it were 
 only for once or twice he should avoid it, but as it 
 would deprive him of a life-long pleasure, he can go 
 ahead. Wonderful church ! 
 
 A man who kills his fellow-man under the plea 
 'that he intended to kill somebody else, is free from 
 sin. Oh, inhuman brutes ! Are those Jesuits who 
 allow unmentionable acts and murder, to go unpun- 
 ished ? A woman confesses that she lied^to save her 
 cousin from a severe punishment ; can she be ex- 
 cused from sin, and is her action commendable? 
 She ought to be excused from sin ; moreover, she 
 has acted well. Oh, deceitful and lying church. 
 "The church," says the machine, "has the power to 
 make laws in order to accomplish the end which 
 she has in view." 
 
 Ah, my dear reader, that object is the overthrow 
 of this grand Republic. 
 
86 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 A Roman Catholic is never bound to keep his 
 oath if he suffers by doing so. A man is not 
 bound by oath to a young lady in a promise of mar- 
 riage, who is rich and healthy, if she should lose her 
 health or her wealth. This is one of the many cases 
 where the Church of Rome tells her dupes to defy 
 the law of your land ; yes, and the law of God. 
 
 It is the duty of a husband to punish his wife when 
 she commits a fault. In the beginning he must 
 gently reprove her in order to correct her, or, if that 
 is of no effect, to have recourse to more severe pun- 
 ishments. The confessor must not believe a woman 
 who complains of her husband, because women are 
 habitually given to lying. This is quite a compli- 
 ment to our wives, mothers and daughters, but such _ 
 is Rome, and you cannot mend it. A church whose 
 doctrines allow theft and falsehood is beyond salva- 
 tion. It is no sin for a Roman Catholic to steal 
 from you if you have more than you want. This is 
 the very doctrine that caused the communists to be 
 executed in Chicago a few years ago, but they did 
 not have the Machine at their back, if they had they 
 would be living today. You would have to keep your 
 hands off, as you had to in the case of John Surratt. 
 Listen to the hellish doctrine once more. Can a 
 servant compensate himself if he does more work 
 than he ought to } Answer, "yes ; if it is by the ex- 
 press will of the. master that he works excessively, 
 because one who works must be paid in proportion 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS 87 
 
 to his work." The value of this just compensation 
 may be left to the judgment of the servant. (No 
 arbitration for Rome.) She tells your soldiers on 
 the frontier that it is no sin for them to desert if the 
 government refuses to supply them with confessors. 
 And yet those deceitful reptiles dare to tell you that 
 they love this country. 
 
 Dear reader, it is utterly impossible for a Roman 
 Catholic bishop or priest to love this glorious 
 Republic. I will give you their oath further on. 
 Don't forget, dear reader, that all these facts which 
 I am presenting to your earnest consideration are 
 taken from Fr. Gury's Doctrines of the Jesuits, 
 which filled that great Statesman, Paul Burt, with 
 such burning indignation that he caused the Jesuits 
 to be banished bag and baggage forever from France, 
 only to make their homes here in your midst. Will 
 you stand it? 
 
 Gambling is not only allowed in the Church of 
 Rome, but is a harmless business, and men can 
 gamble for prayers if they have nothing else to bet. 
 {Gamble for prayers, think of it, gentle reader.) 
 
 In a Catholic country if the wife of a heretic de- 
 clares that she is a convert to Catholicism, she can 
 leave her husband and marry whom she pleases, 
 providing he is a Roman Catholic. This is a very 
 easy way to obtain a divorce. Servants may steal 
 from their employers what they deem a compensation 
 for extra work, and are not compelled to return what 
 
88 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 they have thus stolen from time to time, even if it 
 should amount to a fortune. 
 
 What a glorious church for thieves to belong to, 
 and I hardly need add that they may be found in 
 her fond embrace in large numbers, simply because 
 they have no conscientious scruples. They do not 
 wait to think whether God sees them or not doing 
 their black deeds, but they always bear in mind that 
 the priest will forgive them if they share their ill- 
 gotten goods with his reverence. I will give you 
 quotations from other Roman Catholic authorities: 
 
 The Council of Lateran declared that the Roman 
 Catholics who arm themselves for the extermina- 
 tion of heretics have all their sins forgiven. Greg- 
 ory VII. declared that killing heretics is no murder. 
 St. Thomas' Theology, volume 4, page 90, tells 
 his followers to exterminate all heretics. Among 
 the decrees of the Council of Constance we find that 
 there must be no faith kept with heretics. 
 
 Ah, my dear reader, we who have left the Church 
 of Rome know her cruelty. When a man dares to 
 desert her to come out into the glorious light of the 
 Gospel, that moment he takes his life in his own 
 hands. The cruel doctrines of Rome forbid her 
 dupes from having anything to do with an "arch- 
 heretic, a turn-coat, of course, and especially if he 
 dares to expose her damnable errors, the Machine 
 says, ''mob him, boycott him, and shun him as you 
 would a mad dog or a rattlesnake." But who ever 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 89 
 
 heard of a man who leaves the Protestant faith to 
 become a Roman Catholic being mobbed. How is 
 it that this can be so ? The answer is plain. Be- 
 cause, as we have shown you, the theology of Rome 
 is of the Devil. A religion that will poison a 
 mother's heart against her own child for no other 
 crime than that of accepting Christ as his personal 
 Saviour, must have been born in Hell. 
 
 The law of God demands respect for the laws of 
 our country. Romanism denies this j nay, more, 
 she defies this law, as may be seen from the follow- 
 ing : Read this very carefully, and you will see at 
 once that it is utterly impossible for a good Roman 
 Catholic to be a good citizen. 
 
 The Canon Law, the undisputed, fundamental 
 code of Romanism, is utterly incompatible with the 
 Constitution and laws of our Republic, as witness 
 the following leading provisions, gleaned therefrom 
 by Dr. G. F. Von Schulte, Professor of Canonical 
 Law at Prague, viz : 
 
 ^'I. All human power is from evil, and must 
 therefore be standing under the Pope. 
 
 ''11. The temporal powers must act uncondition- 
 al, in accordance with the orders of the spiritual. 
 
 ^'HL The Church is empowered to grant, or 
 take away, any temporal possession. 
 
 *TV. The Pope has the right to give countries 
 and nations which are non-Catholic to Catholic 
 regents, who can reduce them to slavery. 
 
 "V. The Pope can make slaves of those Chris- 
 tian subjects whose prince or ruling power is inter- 
 dicted by the Pope. 
 
90 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 *'VI. The laws of the Church, concerning the 
 liberty of the Church and the Papal power, are based 
 upon divine inspiration. 
 
 "VII. The Church has the right to practice the 
 unconditional censure of books. 
 
 '^VIII. The Pope has the right to annul State 
 laws, treaties, constitutions, etc. ; to absolve from 
 obedience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimental 
 to the rights of the Church, or those of the clergy. 
 
 '^IX. The Pope possesses the right of admonish- 
 ing, and, if needs be, of punishing the temporal 
 rulers, emperors, and kings, as well as of drawing 
 before the spiritual forum any case in which a mortal 
 sin occurs. 
 
 '*X. Without the consent of the Pope no tax or 
 rate of any kind can be levied upon a clergyman, or 
 upon any church whatsoever. 
 
 "XL The Pope has the right to absolve from 
 oaths, and obedience to the persons and the laws 
 of the princes whom he excommunicates. 
 
 ^•XII, The Pope can annul all legal relations of 
 those in ban, especially their marriages. 
 
 "XIII. The Pope can release from every obliga- 
 tion, oath, vow, either before or after being made. 
 
 *'X1V. The execution of Papa! commands for 
 the persecution of heretics causes remission of sins. 
 
 "XV. He who kills one that is excommunicated 
 is no murderer in a legal sense." 
 
 After the above, as well expect concord between 
 light and darkness, as between Romanism and 
 the Republic. Yet the foregoing utterances are but 
 a tithe of the like assumptions to be found in 
 twenty folio volumes. 
 
 In the Syllabus of Pius IX., issued Dec. 8, 1864, 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 91 
 
 the rights and powers of the Church are affirmed 
 thus, viz. : 
 
 '^She has the right to require the State not to leave 
 every man free to profess his own religion. 
 
 '•She has the right to exercise her power without 
 the permission or consent of the State. 
 
 "She has the right to prevent the foundation of 
 any National Church not subject to the authority of 
 the Roman Pontiff. 
 
 "She has the right to deprive the civil authority of 
 the Entire government of public schools. 
 
 ''She has the right of perpetuating the union of 
 Church and State. 
 
 "She has the right to require that the Catholic 
 religion shall be the only religion of the State, to 
 the exclusion of all others. 
 
 ''She has the right to prevent the State from 
 granting the public exercise of their own worship to 
 persons immigrating into it. 
 
 "She has the power of requiring the State not to 
 permit free expression of opinion." 
 
 The power of the Church (Roman Catholic) is 
 superior to the power of the State. — Pope Gregory 
 
 •* Bless and curse not/^ saith the great Jehovah. 
 
 Now, I ask any candid being if the Roman Cath- 
 olic priests believe this injunction ? Verily, they do 
 not. If they did, the writer of those pages would 
 not have heard so many of them calling upon God 
 to send down his wrath upon their people, simply 
 because they might question or differ from them. 
 The following is a fair sample : 
 
92 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 A Priest's Blessing*. 
 
 Extract from a speech of the Rev. John Nash 
 Griffin, Minister of Harold's Cross Church, Dublin, 
 at the annual meeting of the Irish Church Mission, 
 held in London, on the 30th of April, 1852 : 
 
 '^ I pray God to pour down all vengeance on those 
 who sent their children to the Kilrelly School on 
 last week (particularly two). May the Devil be 
 their guide on the right and on the left, lying and 
 rising, in bed and out of bed, sitting and standing, 
 within and without. May all misfortunes attend 
 their families and labors. 
 
 " And any person or persons sending their chil- 
 dren to this school henceforth, may they be struck 
 blind and deaf, so as never to see any of their chil- 
 dren again; and may the children sent to the school 
 go wild. May they never leave the world until they 
 become such examples as that the marrow may come 
 through their shin-bones. May they be pained both 
 standing and sitting ; and may they never leave this 
 world until they are in such a state that the dogs 
 would not bear coming near their carcasses when 
 dead. 
 
 'M pray to God that every child who goes to this 
 school, that for every day he spends in it, his 
 life may be curtailed a twelve month, and that they 
 may enjoy a year of maturity ; and that those people 
 who sent their children to the school, that their 
 crops and their goods may be taken away by the 
 Devil j and may all these misfortunes attend any 
 person taking their posterity in marriage thfrty years 
 hence. 
 
 *' I pray the Almighty to hear this prayer (/ /) as 
 the minister (//) of God, and I now strictly command 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 93 
 
 this congregation to kneel down and pray to God 
 to grant me my prayer." (II!) 
 
 This curse was pronounced by a Maynooth man, 
 the Rev. Michael Meehan, Roman Catholic priest of 
 Carregaholt, near Kilrush. 
 
 Gentle reader, 1 feel constrained to give you one 
 more of those godless maledictions : 
 
 Cursed His Congreg'ation. 
 
 A FRIGHTFUL MALEDICTION CALLED DOWN BY 
 FATHER o'bRIEN. 
 
 A correspondent writes as follows to the Cleveland 
 (Roman) Catholic Knight : 
 
 On a recent Sunday at St. Patrick's Church, West 
 Side, I was shocked beyond measure by the strange 
 conduct of Rev.' Father O'Brien, our recently ap- 
 pointed pas' or. Our congregation has always done 
 its duty nobly in the matter of responding generously 
 to appeals for financial help toward all parochial 
 purposes. On the Sunday alluded to, Fr. O'Brien, 
 regarded by some as a temperance orator, made a 
 most intemperate harangue, and convinced me that 
 there was a temperance of speech as much needed 
 as temperance in alcoholic drinks, I never listened 
 to a wilder discourse. It seems that the contribu- 
 tions of his congregation were not pouring in as fast 
 as the pastor desired, and in hope of frightening his 
 parishioners into greater exertions, he launched out 
 against them such a torrent of abuse and maledic- 
 tion that the congregation were disgusted in the ex- 
 treme. Among other rash denunciations. Father 
 O'Brien prayed that Heaven would scourge the peo- 
 ple of St. Patrick's with the most fearful calamities 
 
94 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 — that if they would not give their oiferings more 
 abundantly, he wished that God would curse the 
 wealth they possessed, that their arms fall paralyzed 
 by their sides, and the malediction of Heaven and 
 the curse of Ananias and Sapphira fall upon them, 
 etc., and poured out on the devoted heads of the 
 parishioners of St. Patrick's such vituperation and 
 scandalous abuse, that it is a wonder the people 
 could sit patiently in their seats and endure such 
 gross insults. 
 
 Now, Mr. Editor, it strikes me that if we had less 
 maledictions and more charity in our public dis- 
 courses, it would be better for the interests of relig- 
 ion. I would like to ask Father O'Brien, as of 
 course he must be a Biblical scholar, when did our 
 Lord curse his followers, and threaten against them 
 all manner of woe if they did not keep him well 
 supplied with money ? Money is preached in our 
 church more than the gospel. But, Mr. Editor, will 
 you please explain the fate of Ananias and Sapphira, 
 as Father O'Brien wished, most vehemently, that the 
 parishioners of St. Patrick's s:hould meet with the 
 same lot ? Might it not happen that curses, like 
 chickens, sometimes come home to roost ? 
 
 At any rate, please inform me, Mr. Editor^ what 
 became of Ananias and Sapphira? Since Father 
 O'Brien's discourse I am rather interested. 
 
 Yours sincerely. 
 
 West Sider. 
 
 [The fate of Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, is re- 
 lated in the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. 
 They were suddenly struck dead in the midst of 
 their sins. The malediction of Father O'Brien is 
 the most fearful that could be uttered by human 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 95 
 
 lips, and there can be no excuse for such language 
 in the mouth of anyone, much less in a priest of 
 God. We are glad to be able to inform you, and 
 others who have not since then worshiped at St. 
 Patrick's, that Father O'Brien retracted this infam- 
 ous language the following Sunday. Surely there is 
 need of that Reform (with a big R) in certain quar- 
 ters of the Cleveland diocese that the Catholic 
 Knight is battling for. — Kd. C. K.'] 
 
 The inspired word of God says, *' Thou shalt not 
 steal, thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not 
 bear false witness against thy neighbor,'* and many 
 other things. Does the church of Rome believe in 
 those commands from on high ? Her theology, from 
 beginning to end, clearly demonstrates that she does 
 not. *' Believe on the. Lord Jesus Christ and thou 
 shalt be saved," said that fearless man of God, St. 
 Paul. "Out of the church of Rome there is no salva- 
 tion, no matter what you believe," says the Ma- 
 chine. " Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
 heavy laden, and I will give you rest," says the lowly 
 Jesus. The Roman Catholic Machine says, " Come 
 into the sentry box of his Satanic Majesty, the con- 
 fessional, until I poison your young minds with my 
 filthy questions." 
 
 Many an innocent boy and girl has said, ^' Father, 
 I do not understand what you say," when their 
 thoughts had been dragged through obscene regions 
 hitherto unknown to their innocent hearts. Oh, 
 think of it ! A brute of a man asking innocent boys 
 
96 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 and girls questions of a licentious nature. Father 
 Chiniquy tells of his first confesssion. He says to 
 the priest, " Sir, I am very wicked ; I have seen, 
 heard and done many things which I regret, but I 
 never was guilty of what you mention to me.'' Oh, 
 cesspool of iniquity ! 
 
 Did you ever seriously ask yourself the question, 
 how is it that Roman Catholics can call themselves 
 christians, and swear, and get drunk, and use such 
 filthy and profane language as they are in the habit of 
 doing ? Let me tell you why it is that those evil habits 
 are so natural to Romanists. The root of this evil 
 is in the confessional. Times without number have I 
 heard people say when rebuked by some friend for 
 their profanity or vulgarity, *'0h, that is no harm, the 
 priest would say that j" the poor drunkard might ex- 
 claim, ''Oh, it is no harm, the priest gets drunk,'' as 
 many of them are in the habit of doing. 
 
 Dear reader, I have endeavored in m^^ first chap- 
 ter to prove to you from the inspired word of God 
 that the Pope of Rome can claim no succession from 
 the Apostle Peter, or from any other of Christ's 
 followers, unless it be Judas. 
 
 Now I propose, God helping me, to prove to you 
 from history that the loving God that rules this uni- 
 verse never gave such sinful m^n as the majority of 
 the popes of Rome have been, any power to repre- 
 sent him. History clearly demonstrates that God 
 was not with them, simply because they were not his. 
 
THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 97 
 
 It is laughable to hear Roman Catholics talking 
 of the spiritual power of the most Holy Father, the 
 Pope. I would like to ask any Roman Catholic 
 where was the power of Clement VII., when, as we 
 are told by the eloquent Spanish orator, Castelar, 
 he was forced to eat the flesh of horses and asses. 
 I have before me a Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical 
 History, published by John Murphy & Co , of 
 Baltimore, and I fail to find in that history the 
 record of a time when honest thinking men were not 
 up in rebellion against a man of sin. Roman Catho- 
 lics may boast of the unbroken chain from Peter to 
 Leo. XIII. It is simply bosh. 
 
 The Boston Pilot, Archbishop Williams' paper, 
 frankly admits that the chain has been broken; that 
 they have lost track of the popes. A lamentable 
 confession for an archbishop to make. You can find 
 this on file in the office of the Pilot ; ask for October 
 25th, 1890. You have it here, word for wo^d. I 
 will also show you that the blessing of the Pope is to 
 be dreaded more than his curse, and it is nothing 
 short of blasphemy to dare to claim any power from 
 on high for such wicked men as the popes of Rome 
 have been. 
 
 Read carefully the following article from the Bos- 
 ton Pilot of October 25th, 1890 : 
 
 *'W. W.'' Boston : *'Will you kindly tell me how 
 many popes there have been, counting from St. 
 Peter ? The Catholic column in the Boston Herald 
 
98 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
 
 last week, gave the number as 255 ; an engraving 
 just published in New York gives the number as 
 259 j Donahue's Magazine for October gives the 
 number as 253, while the ' List and Portraits of the 
 Popes, ' just published by Doyle & Whittle, of this 
 city, says there are 263. Which is correct.^" The 
 answer to this query has been delayed for the pur- 
 pose of examining authorities on the subject. The 
 result of such examination impresses us that exact 
 chronology of the Roman Pontiffs is a difficult mat- 
 ter to arrange, and where authorities who have made 
 ecclesiastical history an almost life study differ, we 
 do not undertake to give our view as decisive. 
 Most lists have been prepared from ancient pictures 
 and catalogues. Writers do not exactly agree as to 
 the dates of creation to the Papal Chair. Further, 
 during the periods of agitation attending the so- 
 journ of the Papacy at Avignon, and in some of the 
 cases of the anti-popes, some writers count, while 
 others exclude, certain claimants. In this way the 
 number is made to vary from 259 to 263 or 264. 
 This last number is given by a French author in a 
 regular biography of the Roman Pontiffs. The 
 number 259 is given in history, edited by Dr. Neli- 
 ga;n. The excisions referred to seem to have been 
 made in this case. The Roman Almanac, a suf- 
 ficiently good authority, gives the number as 263, 
 which agrees with that given in the "Portraits and 
 List," published by Messrs. Doyle & Whittle, and 
 taken in connection with the fact that one of the 
 Pontiffs-elect, Stephen II., died before consecration, 
 and by several not reckoned, corresponds with the 
 number given in the French biography, it seems as 
 well authenticated as any." 
 
The Pope's Blessing* to be Dreaded. 
 
 The Jt^rimitive Catholic states that from the time 
 the Pope blessed Jefferson Davis and the Con- 
 federacy the cause of the North was in the ascen- 
 dancy, until it finally reached a complete triumph. 
 Whether or not this is true, it is in a line with what 
 has over and over occurred when the vicar of anti- 
 Christ blasphemously attempted to bless his follow- 
 ers. 
 
 The Pope's blessing, indeed, is more dreaded than 
 his curse. History confirms this statement. There 
 never'was an instance of papal blessing but it was 
 turned into a curse. W? can prove this from events 
 in our own day. The Pope sent the golden rose (a 
 special mark of favor), with his blessing, to King 
 Bomba, of Naples, and in less than twelve months 
 afterward the king lost his crown and his kingdom. 
 He next sent his blessing to Francis Joseph, Em- 
 peror of Austria, and in less than twelve months he 
 was defeated at Sadowa, and lost his Venetian do- 
 minions. He then sent it to Queen Isabella, of Spain, 
 and again, within the same short space, she lost 
 both croWn and dominions. He then sent it to 
 Louis Napoleon, or rather the Empress Eugenie, 
 which is most remarkable still, as she called that 
 war with Germany "her war;" and again in less than 
 
100 THE pope's blessing TO BE DREADED. 
 
 twelve months France was defeated by Protestant 
 Germany, and the Emperor had to flee to Protestant 
 England for shelter, where he died in exile. 
 
 Mrs. General Sherman got the golden rose as a 
 special mark of favor for her service to the church, 
 and it w^as too much for her, as she died soon after. 
 
 The Pope cursed Italy, as he had cursed Eng- 
 land under Elizabeth, when he excommunicated 
 Victor Emanuel for seizing the papal dominions, 
 and for making Rome the capital of his kingdom. 
 Since then Italy has risen from being a cipher 
 amongst nations to become a voice and a power in 
 the councils of Europe. 
 
 He cursed Germany, and she became the greatest 
 power of continental Europe. 
 
 The Pope sent his blessfhg to that French show- 
 man, Boulanger, and in less than two weeks after he 
 had to flee for his liberty, and took refuge in Ger- 
 many, and is now an exile in the Island of Guernsey. 
 
 The Princess of Brazil, when nearing her confine- 
 nient, requested the interposition of the Pope, and 
 his blessing upon her child. She received it and 
 the child was born deformed. 
 
 Maximilian was killed a short time after being 
 blessed by the Pope as Emperor of Mexico, and his 
 wife became insane after going to Rome and receiv- 
 ing the benediction. 
 
 The Pope neglected some official business in or- 
 der to give his special blessing to an English steam- 
 
A TERRIBLE RECORD. 101 
 
 er laden with sisters of charity for South Africa in 
 1370, and it never reached its destination. Every 
 soul perished. 
 
 The Empress of Brazil was blessed but once, but 
 that was enough, she broke her leg three days after. 
 
 It will be remembered that the floating palace de- 
 layed its starting from Montevideo to Buenos Ayres 
 until it received the assurance of safety in the papal 
 blessing, then raised its anchor, sailed out to sea — 
 and went down in two days. 
 
 McGlynn tells us that he has grown fat and happy 
 on the Pope's curse; and the editor of this paper has 
 reason to bless God for the day the Abbott Bene- 
 dict cursed him with bell, book and candle, and he 
 left Gethsemane Monastery in Kentucky, with the 
 mark of Cain, as it were, upon him. Since then he 
 has grown strong, healthy and happy, whereas the 
 old man who did the cursing was stricken with 
 paralysis and died recently. 
 
 The following is a record of those Romish saints 
 and popes who have been doing this cursing. 
 Surely curses are like chickens, they come home to 
 roost : 
 
 A Terrible Record. 
 
 THE POPES OF ROME AND A HISTORY OF THEIR 
 LIVES. 
 
 Of the two hundred and ninety-four Popes thirty- 
 one were designated usurpers, or anti-popes. 
 
102 A TERRIBLE RECORD. 
 
 Sixty-four Popes called legitimate died violent 
 deaths. Of this number eighteen were poisoned, 
 namely : John XL, Clement II., Damascus II., 
 Stephen IX., John XIII., Pascal II. (the same who 
 disinterred and insulted the dead bodies of^ Henry 
 IV. of Germany and Clement II.), Benedict IX., 
 Alexander V., Pius III., Alexander VI., Adrian VI., 
 Marcellus II., Urban VII., Clement VIII. and 
 Clement XIV., Leo XL and Leo XIL, according to 
 Bianchi Giovina, and finally Leo X., of whom it is 
 not certain whether he died of poison or of an evil 
 disease. Four popes were assasinated — John VIII. ^ 
 Leo VI., Leo VII. and John XII. Then thirteen 
 others died various deaths — Stephen VII. was 
 strangled, Leo III. and John XVI. were mutilated, 
 John X. was smothered, Benedict VI. was throttled 
 with a rope, John XV. was famished as well as 
 Gregory XVI., according to Gualtero; Lucius 
 II. was stoned to death, Gregory VIII. encaged in a 
 prison of iron, and Celestine V. by means of a nail 
 driven into his temples. Boniface VIII. committed 
 suicide; Clement V. was burned to death upon a bed 
 of agony. Urban VI. was precipitated from his 
 horse and killed by the fall. Paul 11. succumbed 
 beneath the crushing weight of his tiara, and Pius 
 IV. died of excess in the arms of a woman. Sixty- 
 four Popes out of the two hundred and sixty-three 
 have perished in extraordinary manners, not count- 
 ing a score of others who died suddenly from the 
 effects of chagrin in consequence of misfortunes 
 they" had to endure, especially Gregory IX., Inno- 
 cent IV., Paul III., Paul IV. and Gregory XIII. 
 Twenty-six Popes have been deposed, expelled or 
 exiled, not counting the Popes at Avignon. They 
 were Sergius III., Benedict V., Leo VIII , John 
 
A TERRIBLE RECORD. 103 
 
 XIIL, Benedict VIII., Sylvester III., Gregory V., 
 VII., IX., XII., Alexander III., Urban V., Pascal 
 II., Gelasius II., Innocent II., Eugenius III., 
 Adrian IV., Lucius III., Martin IV., Pius VII., and 
 John XXIII., whom Martin V. chased as if he had 
 been a ferocious beast. Many popes have been 
 accused of murder. Twenty-eight popes invoked 
 foreign aid to maintain them in their See. Stephen 
 II. appealed to Pepin and the Franks ; Adrian I. to 
 Charlemagne; John VIII. to the Franks and Charles 
 the Stammerer; Formocus to Arnolphe the Emperor 
 of Germany; John II. to Otho L; John XV. and 
 Gregory V. appealed to Otho III.; Leo IX. to Henry 
 III.; Gregory VII. to Henry IV. and Robert Guis- 
 card; Nicholas II. invited Frederic Barbarossa; Urban 
 IV. and Clement IV. drew to them Charles of 
 Anjou; Boniface VIII. drew Charles of Valois; John 
 XXII. the Austrians of Frederick the Beautiful; 
 Innocent VI. appealed to Charles IV. of Germany; 
 Urban VI. to Louis of Hungary; John XXIL to 
 Sigismund; Sixtus IV. to the Turks for the destruc- 
 tion of Venice; Innocent VIII. to Charles VIII. of 
 France; Alexander VI. to the French of Louis XII. 
 and the Spaniards of Ferdinand the Catholic; 
 Julius II. to the French, to Maximilian of Austria, 
 to the Spaniards and the English; Leo X. to Charles 
 v., to Henry VIII. of England and to Ferdinand of 
 Astoria; Clement VIII. to Charles V.: Paul IV. to 
 Henry II. and Soliman; Gregory XVI. twice to 
 Prince Metternich; Pius IX. to the Austrians, to the 
 Spaniards, twice to the French, to the Neapolitans 
 of Ferdinand II., to the black bands of Lamoriciere, 
 to the brigands of Francis II., and to the volunteers 
 of the Catholic and even heretical world. In brief, 
 ninety popes have died violent deaths, been ex- 
 
104 bishop's oath. 
 
 pelled, dropped or exiled ; thirty five who merited 
 the same were false to the Pontifical institution j 
 twenty-eight there were who would have undergone 
 the same chastisement had not the foreigner inter- 
 fered to save them ; in all, one hundred and thirty- 
 five popes out of the two hundred and sixty-three 
 who have been unworthy of their position. What 
 dynasty, what institution in the world has ever had 
 such a history ! — Converted Catholic. 
 
 Bishop's Oath. 
 
 " I, G. N., elect of the church of N., from hence- 
 forth will be faithful and obedient to St Peter the 
 Apostle, and to the holy Roman Church, and to our 
 lord, the lord of N., Pope N. and to his successors 
 canonically coming in. I will neither advise, con- 
 sent, nor do anything that they may lose life or 
 member, or that their persons may be seized or 
 hands anywise laid upon them, or any injuries 
 offered to them, under any pretence whatsoever. 
 The counsel which they shall entrust me withal, by 
 themselves, their messengers or letters, I will not 
 knowingly reveal to any, to their prejudice. I 
 will help them to defend and keep the Roman Pap- 
 acy and the royalties of St. Peter, saving my order 
 against all men. The legate of the Apostolic See, 
 going and coming I will honorably treat, and help 
 in his necessities. 
 
 The rights, honors and privileges, and Authority of 
 the holy Roman Church, of our lord the Pope and 
 
bishop's oath. 105 
 
 his aforesaid successors, I will endeavor to preserve, 
 defend, increase and advance. I will not be in any 
 council, action or treaty, in which shall be plotted 
 against our said lord, and the said Roman Church, 
 anything to the hurt or prejudice of their persons^ 
 right, honor, state or power ; and if I shall know 
 any such thing to be treated or agitated by any 
 whomsoever, I will hinder it all I can; and as soon 
 as I can, will signify it to our said lord, or some 
 other, by whom it may come to his knowledge. The 
 rules of the Holy Fathers, the Apostolic decrees, or- 
 dinances, or disposals, reservations, provisions and 
 mandates, I will observe with all my might, and 
 cause to be observed by others. Heretics, schis- 
 matics and rebels to our said lord, or his aforesaid 
 successors, I will to the utmost of my power perse- 
 cute and oppose. I will come to a council when I 
 am called, unless I be hindered by a canonical im- 
 pediment. I will by myself in person visit the 
 threshold of the Apostles every three years, and gfve 
 an account to our lord and his aforesaid successors 
 of all my pastoral office, and of all things anywise 
 belonging to the state of my church, to the disci- 
 pline of my clergy and people, and lastly to the sal- 
 vation of souls committed to my trust; and will in 
 like manner humbly receive and diligently execu'e 
 the x\postolic commands. And if I be detained by 
 a lawful impediment, I will perform all the things 
 aforesaid by a certain messenger hereto specially 
 
106 priest's oath. 
 
 empowered, a member of my chapter or some other 
 in ecclesiastical dignity, or else having a parsonage ; 
 or in default of these, by a priest of the diocese ; or 
 in default of one of the clergy (of the diocese), by 
 some other secular or regular priest of approved in- 
 tegrity and religion, fully instructed in all things 
 above mentioned. And such impediment I will 
 make out, by lawful proofs, to be transmitted by the 
 aforesaid messenger, to the Cardinal proponent of 
 the holy Roman Church, in the congregation of the 
 sacred council. The possessions belonging to my 
 table I will neither sell nor give away, nor mortgage, 
 nor grant anew in fee, nor anywise alienate, no 
 not even with the consent of the chapter of my 
 church, without consulting the Roman Pontiff. 
 And if I shall make any alieration, I will thereby 
 incur the penalties contained in a certain constitu- 
 tion put forth aboijt this matter. 
 
 ^* So help me God and these holy Gospels of 
 God." 
 
 Priest's Oath, 
 
 *' I, A. B., do acknowledge the ecclesiastical pow- 
 er of his holiness and the mother church of Rome, 
 as the chief Head and matron above all pretended 
 churches throughout the whole earth ; and that my 
 zeal shall be for St. Peter and his successors, as the 
 founder of the true and ancient Catholic faith, 
 against all heretical kings, princes, states or powers. 
 
Jesuit's oath. 107 
 
 repugnant unto the same; and although I, A. B., may 
 follow, in case of persecution, or otherwise to be 
 heretically despised, yet in soul and conscience I 
 shall hold, aid and succor the mother church of 
 Rome, as the true, ancient and apostolic church : 
 I, A. B., further do declare not to act or control any 
 matter or thing prejudicial unto her, in her sacred 
 orders, doctrines, tenets or commands, without leave 
 of its supreme power or its authority, under her ap- 
 pointed, or to be appointed; and being so permitted, 
 then to act, and further her interests more than 
 my own earthly good and earthly pleasure, as she 
 and her Head, his holiness, and his successors have, 
 or ought to have, the supremacy over all kings, 
 princes, estates or powers whatsoever, either to de- 
 prive them of their crowns, sceptres, powers, privi- 
 leges, realms, countries or governments, or to set up 
 others in lieu thereof, they dissenting from the moth- 
 er church and her commands.*' 
 
 Jesuit's Oath. 
 
 I, N.,-now in the presence of Almighty God, :he 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the 
 Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy 
 Apostles Peter and Paul and the saints and sacred 
 hosts of Heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, do 
 declare from my. heart, without mental reservation, 
 the Pope, N., is Christ's Vicar General, and is the 
 
108 Jesuit's oath. 
 
 true and only head of the Universal Church through- 
 out the earth, and that, by virtue of the keys of 
 binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by Jesus 
 Christ, he hath power to dispose of all heretical 
 kings, princes, states, commonwealths, governments, 
 all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, that 
 they may be safely destroyed, therefore to the ut- 
 most of my power I will defend this doctrine and his 
 Holiness' rights and customs against all usurpers of 
 the heretical and Protestant authority whatsoever, 
 especially against the now pretended authority of 
 the Church of England and all adherents, in regard 
 that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the 
 sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do renounce 
 and disown all allegiance as due to any heretical 
 king, prince or state named Protestant, or obedience 
 to any of their inferior magistrates or officers. I do 
 further declare the doctrine of the Church of Eng- 
 land, of the Calvanists, Huguenots and other Protes- 
 tants to be damnable, and those to be damned who 
 will not forsake the same. I do further declare that 
 I will help, assist and advise all or any of his Holi- 
 ness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and 
 to do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protes- 
 tants' doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended 
 power, legal or otherwise. I do further promise and 
 declare that, notwithstanding I am dispensed with 
 to assume any religion heretical for the propagation 
 of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and 
 
OATH OF A LAYMAN. 109 
 
 private all her agents' counsels as they entrust me, 
 and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, 
 writing or circumstance whatsoever, but to execute 
 all which shall be proposed, given in charge or dis- 
 covered unto me by you, my ghostly father, or by 
 any one of this convent. All of which I do swear by 
 the Holy Trinity and Blessed Sacrament, which I 
 am now to receive, to perform and on my part to 
 keep inviolably, and to call all the heavenly and 
 glorious host of Heaven to witness my real inten- 
 tions to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I 
 take this most holy and Blessed Sacrament of the 
 Eucharist and witness the same further with my 
 hand and seal in the face of this holy convent. 
 
 Oath of a Lay man. 
 
 Commonly called the Creed of Pope Pius IV, 
 
 I, N. N., with a firm faith believe and profess all 
 and every one of those things which are contained 
 in that creed which the holy Roman Church maketh 
 use of. To wit : I believe in one God, the Father 
 Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and of all 
 things visible and invisible ; and in one Lord Jesus 
 Christ, the only begotten son of God, born of the 
 Father before all ages ; God of God ; Light of light ; 
 true God of the true God ; begotten, not made, con- 
 substantial with the Father, by whom all things were 
 made. Who, for us men, and for our salvation. 
 
110 OATH OF A LAYMAN. 
 
 came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the 
 Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. 
 He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilot, 
 suffered, and was buried. And the third day he 
 rose again according to the Scriptures ; he ascended 
 into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of the Father, 
 and shall come again with glory to judge the living 
 and the dead, of whose kingdom there shall be no 
 end. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and 
 the life-giver, who proceedeth from the Father and 
 the Son : who, together with the Father and*the Son, 
 is adorned and glorified ; who spake by the prophets. 
 And in one holy. Catholic and Apostolic Church. 
 I confess one baptism for the remission of sins ; and 
 I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life 
 of the world to come. Amen. 
 
 I most steadfastly admit and embrace the apos- 
 tolic and ecclesiastical Traditions, and all other ob- 
 servances and constitutions of the same church. 
 
 I also admit the holy Scriptures, according to that 
 sense which our holy mother the Church hath held 
 and doth hold, to whom it belongeth to judge of the 
 true sense and interpretation of the Scriptures ; 
 neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise 
 than according to the unanimous consent of the 
 Fathers. 
 
 I also profess that there are truly and properly 
 Seven Sacraments of the new law, instituted by 
 Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salva. 
 
OATH OF A LAYMAN. Ill 
 
 tion of mankind, though not all for every one ; to wit: 
 Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Ex- 
 treme Unction, Order and Matrimony : and that they 
 confer grace : and that of these, Baptism, Confirma- 
 tion and Order, cannot be repeated without sacri- 
 lege. I also receive and admit the received and ap- 
 proved ceremonies of the Catholic Churchy used in 
 the solemn administration of the aforesaid sacraments. 
 
 I embrace and receive all and every one of the 
 things which have been defined and declared in the 
 holy Council of Trent concerning original sin and 
 justification. 
 
 I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered 
 to God a true, proper and propitiatory sacrifice for 
 the living and the dead. And that in the most holy 
 sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and 
 substantially the Body and Blood, together with the 
 soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and that 
 there is made a conversion of the whole substance 
 of the bread into the Body, and of the whole sub- 
 stance of the wine into the Blood, which conversion 
 the Catholic Church calleth Transubstantiation. 
 also confess that under either kind alone Christ is 
 received whole and entire, and a true sacrament. 
 
 I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory, and 
 that the souls therein detained are helped by the 
 suffrages of the faithful. 
 
 Likewise, that t^e saints reigning together with 
 Christ are to be honored and invocated, and that 
 
112 OATH OF A LAYMAN. 
 
 they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics 
 are to be held in veneration. 
 
 I most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of 
 the Mother of God ever Virgin, and also of other 
 Saints, ought to be had and retained, and that due 
 honor and veneration are to be given them. 
 
 I also affirm that the power of Indulgences was 
 left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of 
 them is most wholesome to Christian people. 
 
 I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Ro- 
 man Church for the mother and mistress of all 
 Churches; and I promise true obedience to the 
 Bishop of Rome, successor of St. Peter, Prince of 
 the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ. 
 
 I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all 
 other things delivered, defined and declared by the 
 sacred canons and General Councils, and particu- 
 larly by the holy Council of Trent. And I condemn, 
 reject and anathematize all things contrary thereto, 
 and all heresies which the Church hath condemned, 
 rejected and anathematized. 
 
 I, N. N., do at this present freely profess and sin- 
 cerely hold this true Catholic faith, out of which 
 no one can be saved ; and I promise most constantly 
 to retain and confess the same entire and inviolate^ 
 by God's assistance, to the end of my life. 
 
A POPISH BULL, OR CURSE. 113 
 
 A Popish Bull, or Curse. 
 
 PRONOUNCED ON REV. WM. HOGAN, FORMERLY A 
 PAPAL PRIEST IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 " ' By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, 
 Son and Holy Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary, 
 mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all Ce- 
 lestial Virtues, Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Do- 
 minions, Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim, and of 
 all the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of all the 
 Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, 
 who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy 
 to sing the new song of the Holy Martyrs and Holy 
 Confessors, and of all the Holy Virgins, and of all 
 Saints together with the Holy elect of God ; ' — 
 May he, William Hogan, be damned. We excom- 
 municate and anathematize him from the threshold 
 of the Holy Church of God Almighty. We sequest- 
 er him, that he may be tormented, disposed and be 
 delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with 
 those who say unto the Lord, ' Depart from us, we 
 desire none of thy ways ; ' as a fire is quenched with 
 water, so let the light of him be put out for ever- 
 more, unless it shall repent him and make satisfac- 
 tion. Amen. 
 
 '* May the Father, who creates man, curse him ! — 
 May the son who suffered for us, curse him ! — May 
 the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in baptism, curse 
 him ! — May the Holy Cross^ which Christ for our 
 
114 THE POPISH BULL, OR CURSE. 
 
 salvation, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, 
 curse him ! 
 
 *' May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and mother of 
 God, curse him ! — May St. Michael, the Advocate 
 of the Holy Souls, curse him ! — May all the Angels, 
 Principalities and Powers, and all Heavenly Armies, 
 curse him ! — May the glorious band of the Patri- 
 archs and Prophets, curse him ! 
 
 " May St. John the Precursor, and St. John the 
 Baptist, and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, 
 and all other of Christ's Apostles together, curse 
 him ! And may the rest of the Disciples and Evan- 
 gelists, who by their preaching converted the uni- 
 verse, and the holy and wonderful company of Mar- 
 tyrs and Confessors, who by their works are found 
 pleasing to God Almighty ; — May the holy choir of 
 the Holy Virgins, who, for the honor of Christ, have 
 despised the things of the world, damn him ! May 
 all Saints from the beginning of the world to ever- 
 lasting ages, who are found to be beloved of God, 
 damn him ! 
 
 *' May he be damned wherever he be, whether in 
 the house or in the alley, in the woods or in the 
 water, or in the church! May he be cursed in living 
 and dying ! 
 
 ** May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in be- 
 ing hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting and sleeping, 
 in slumbering and in sitting, in living, in working, 
 in resting and * * =* and in blood letting ! 
 
OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 115 
 
 ''May he be cursed in all the faculties of his 
 body ! 
 
 '* May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly ! May 
 he be cursed in his hair j cursed be he in his brains 
 and his vertex, in his temples, in his eyebrows, in 
 his cheeks, in his iaw-bones, in his nostrils, in his 
 teeth and grinders, in his lips, in his shoulders, in 
 his arms, in his fingers ! 
 
 " May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, 
 in his heart and purtenances, down to the very stom- 
 ach ! 
 
 " May he be cursed in his * * * and his * * * j 
 in his thighs, in * * * *, and his * "* and in his 
 knees, his legs and his feet and toe-nails ! 
 
 *' May he be cursed in all his joints and articula- 
 tion of the members ; from the crown of his head to 
 the soles of his feet may there be no soundness ! 
 
 *' May the. Son of the living God, with all the 
 glory of his majesty, curse him ! And may Heaven, 
 with all the powers that move therein, rise up against 
 him, and curse and damn him, unless he repent and 
 make satisfaction. Amen ! So be it. Be it so, 
 Amen ! " 
 
 Opinions of Distinguished Men. 
 
 There is not one of the large daily newspapers of 
 Boston that has not been working almost constantly 
 in the interests of Romanism during the several 
 months of the late Protestant-Jesuit controversy. 
 
116 OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN- 
 
 The conspiracy of the press of Boston to cheat the 
 public on news and facts to which it is entitled, is a 
 reproach to our civilization, and deserves the deri- 
 sion and scorn of all honest men. — Prof. L, T. Town- 
 send, Boston University, 
 
 In seven years $1,713,490 of public money has 
 been delivered over to the Roman Catholic Church 
 to make Romanists of the American Indians. In 
 seventeen years that alien church has received from 
 the public funds of the city of Ne.w York, $10,915,- 
 810. — Rev, Richard Harcourt, 
 
 For every 10,000 inhabitants, the Roman Catho- 
 lic schools produce 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers, 
 and 160 criminals. — Rev, Richard Har com t. 
 
 Nothing is more certain than that we are living in 
 a grave and aw^ful time. The Pilot says, "No good 
 governrrent can exist without religion, and there can 
 be no religion without the Inquisition. It is wisely 
 designed for the perpetuation and permanence of 
 the true faith/' Is this Boston? Is this America.^ 
 Is this the nineteenth century 1 I tell you, ladies 
 and gentlemen^ every drop of blood in my body boils 
 when I read that. — Rev, R, S. Mc Arthur, in Tremont 
 Temple^ Boston. 
 
 We will take this country and build our institutions 
 over the grave of Protestantism. — Priest Hecker, 
 
 The common school system of the United States 
 is the worst in the world. — Cardinal Manning, 
 
 I frai.kly confess that the Catholics stand before 
 the country as the enemies of the public schools. — 
 Father Phelan, 
 
 They who send their children to the public schools 
 cannot expect the mercy of God ; they ought not to 
 
OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 117 
 
 expect the sacraments of the church in their dying 
 moments. — Father Walker, New York, 
 
 The public school system is a disgrace to the civi" 
 lization of the nineteenth century. — Bishop Hughes, 
 
 The public school is a national fraud ; it must 
 cease to exist, and the day will come when it will 
 cease to exist. — Priest jF. S. McCarthy^ a Jesuit, 
 
 It will be a glorious day for the Catholics of this 
 country when, under the blows of justice and mo- 
 rality, our school system shall be shivered to pieces. 
 — Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph. 
 
 Unless you suppress the public school system as 
 at present conducted, it will prove the damnation of 
 this country. — Father Walker, 
 
 The public school system is a swindle on the peo- 
 ple, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters 
 of morals, and should be abolished forthwith. — New 
 . York Tablet. 
 
 The public schools are devouring fires and pits of 
 destruction ; they ought to go back to the devil, from 
 whence they came. — Freeman's Journal, 
 
 Swearing, cursing and profane expressions are 
 distinctive marks of public school children. — Second 
 Provincial Council of Oregon,, 1881. 
 
 The public school system is grossly and mon- 
 strously immoral ; it is a blot, a blemish, and a dis- 
 grace on this country, and a living scandal and an 
 opprobrium, which covers its promoters with shame 
 and infamy. — Archbishop Serher, 
 
 The public schools have produced nothing but a 
 godless generation of thieves and blackguards. — 
 Priest Schauer. 
 
118 OPrNIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 
 
 Not only is the papal sword drav/n for the destruc- 
 tion of the priceless public schools — its very scab- 
 bard is thrown away. Parochial schools are rising 
 from sea to sea, and the entire papal hierarchy is 
 united against our system. — Rev, Jos. Cook, {Evan- 
 gelist?) 
 
 We have about 17,000 newspapers in this country. 
 I do not know that there are 200, or perhaps not over 
 150, of these papers that are not, to a considerable de- 
 gree, under the power of Rome at this moment. — 
 Rev, R. S. Mc Arthur {Baptist), New York. 
 
 The '^Hamilton" School m the city of New Haven, 
 Conn., is a distinctively Catholic school, of 500 
 children, taught by eleven Sisters of Mercy at a cost 
 to the city of $5,000. In New Britain, in the same 
 state, the Catholic school was adopted by the town, 
 and is supported at a yearly expense of $3,000. In 
 Waterbury, the parochial school is supported out of 
 the public fund. — Arnold Publishing Company.^ Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 I can scarcely withhold myself from joining in the 
 wish of Silas Deane, that there was an ocean of fire 
 between this and the old world. — Thofnas Jefferson, 
 
 I do not pretend to be a prophet ; but, though not 
 a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon, 
 and that cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled 
 with tears of blood. — Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 We are fast becoming a conquered people. All 
 the elements that have made our Constitution work 
 so easily for one hundred years, are changing every 
 day with every foreign vessel that lands its cargo at 
 Castle Garden. In another generation your children 
 and children's children will be in the minority, and 
 
OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 119 
 
 aliens will possess the land. — Bishop A. C, Coxe, 
 {EpiscopaL) 
 
 The crucial test for the American Republic will 
 come in the early part of the twentieth century, and 
 as the Huns swept down on Rome, so will a vast 
 horde sweep down on America. — Macaulay, 
 
 Out of every 100 persons in New York, 80 are 
 foreign born, or children of foreign born parents ; 
 Cincinnati, 60 ; Boston, 69 ; Brooklyn, 67 ; Wash- 
 ington, 71 ; St. Louis, 78 ; San Francisco, 78 ; 
 Cleveland, 80 ; Detroit, 84 ; Milwaukee, 84 j Chi- 
 cago, 1^.— Bishop y, F, Hursti^Methodisf). 
 
 Americans must be blind indeed, if they cannot 
 see that the day is very near when the Jesuits will 
 rule their cities, from the magnificent white house at 
 Washington to the humblest civil or military de- 
 partment of this vast Republic. — Rev. Charles Chini- 
 quy^ in ^^ Fifty Years i?i the Church of Rome. ^"^ 
 
 The Pope of Rome is at the head of a conspiracy 
 to destroy this Republic. It is the madness of folly 
 to ignore present danger. Stand by your country, 
 your God and your flag. — Rev. J, G. White (^Presby- 
 terian)^ Stanford^ III. 
 
 We are faced with two dangers, — the aggressive- 
 ness of Romanism and the apathy of Protestants. — 
 Rev. O. P. Gifford {Baptist), Boston. 
 
 The most open, pronounced enemy of every prin- 
 ciple of the United States is the Roman Catholic 
 Church. Mark my words, the time is sure to come, 
 and that ere long, when Romanism will have the 
 public school moneys of our commonwealths divided, 
 and a large share appropriated to their denomina- 
 tional institutions, unless freemen arouse and pro- 
 
120 OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 
 
 tect the treasuries on which they have already be- 
 gun to make attacks. — Rev, I. y. Lansing {Congre- 
 gational)^ in ^^ Romanism and the Republic y 
 
 Romanism is a foreign institution. The adher- 
 ents of the Roman Catholic Church in this country 
 to day are the representatives of a foreign pow- 
 er, intriguing in our political affairs, filling our legis- 
 lative halls and lobbies, and seeking to control the 
 destiny of this country. American Romanism has 
 two faces, one toward Rome, and the other toward 
 the simpletons who are ready to believe their protes- 
 tations of loyalty to our native land. The moment- 
 ous, the perilous fact, is the public indifference. 
 The public peril is neglected for personal aims. 
 The press panders, the politicians trim, the preach- 
 ers doze, and the priests sow tares. The country 
 drifts, drifts, drifts. Meanwhile duty commands 
 every voice to cry aloud and spare not. — Rev. Leroy 
 M, Vernon^ Syracuse^ N. K, eighteen years a missionary 
 in Italy, 
 
 Romanists use two sets of books, one with which 
 to deceive Protestants, and the other with which to 
 enslave their subjects. — Rev, Richard Harcourt^ in 
 ^^The Great Conspiracy Against the Public Schools J ^ 
 
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