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Romanism and Ruin,

Rev. H. C.

Morrison,

D. D.

Author of "World Tour of Evangelism," "Two Lawyers," "Life Sketches and Sermons," "The Baptism With

Holy Ghost." '-Thoughts For Thoughtful," "The Second Coming

The

of Christ," Etc., Etc.

FIRST EDITION

PENTECOSTAL PUBUSHING COMPANY,

LOUISVILLE, KY.

the

COPYRIGHTED PENTECOSTAL. PUBUISHING CO.,

I.OUISV L. .E . KY.

This

ook is dedicated to

Patriotic American Citi ens Who Love Civil and The

Religious Li erty,

Open Bi le and The Pu lic School.

CONTENTS.

Chapter I. The Tree

is Known

its Fruit

....

Chapter II. The Voice of History Man's Last Chance

Chapter III.

Chapter IV. Protestantism Forced Into Politics The Massacre of St. Bardiolomew

Chapter V.

Chapter VI. Perfecting the Plans Chapter VII. The Night of Horrors Chapter VIII. The esuits

Chapter I . The Revoking of the Edict of Nantes

Chapter

. TTie

Chapter

II.

Opportunity

of Romanism

...

The Purpose of Romanism

Making Headway

Chapter

III. The Boycott and Intimidation. .

Chapter

IV. The Influence of Rome in National Capital

Chapter

V- Witnessing Against Themselves

Chapter

VI. Facing the Facts

Chapter

VII.

The

Remedy

our

PREFACE.

sending forth this ook with an earnest de sire to contri ute something to the awakening of the American people to a proper appreciation of the dan We

gers

are

that

now

threaten

our

institutions and li erties.

longer a secret that the Roman Catholic Church is seeking y every means possi le to domi Her past his nate and control this great repu lic. tory ustifies the most earnest opposition to such dom ination on the part of all patriotic and li erty-loving It is

citi ens.

We disclaim

any sort

feeling or ill-will We recogni e the

of unkind

toward Catholics as individuals. fact that among Roman Catholics there are many e cellent people, kind neigh ors and good citi ens.

dangerously under the influence and dictation of the Pope and his representatives. The reader vwll o serve that this ook is largely a compilation. Remarka ly few people of this rising generation of American citi ens have read the story of St. Bartholomew. We have thought it wise to reproduce at length some account of that fearful trag edy, and so have uoted e tensively from ohn A ott's e cellent history of Henry IV. of France. We But

elieve that the est of them

are

Preface.

uoted li erally from the history of the Huguenots, y Samuel Smiles, a very interesting work, pu lished y Harper Brothers, Franklin S uare, New York City.

have also

een fortunate in securing an interestingthe aggressiveness of Romanism in Wash

We have

chapter on ington City, which

alarming and timely warning to American citi ens and ought to arouse them to an earnest and aggressive effort to save the Capital of this repu lic from the domination of the Pope of is

Rome.

It has

for the

een

our

press, not to

principles.

in preparing this volume deal in personalities, ut with

purpose

elieve that the time has

come

when

the American people should ac uaint themselves with the past history, present condition, and evident pur poses of the Roman Catholic Church, and prepare themselves to stand up and stand together for the

protection and preservation of the Bi le, the Pu lic School and our Civil and Religious Li erty.

Romanism and Ruin. CHAPTER I. A Tree

Known

y its

Fruit.

The Roman CathoHc Church claims inal and

only

true

church of God.

un roken line of succession from the

e the orig She claims an to

Apostle Peter

the present Pope in Rome. She claims that the pope is the visi le head of the kingdom of God in die

world, the true and highest representative of esus Christ on earth lhat in matters of reHgion he is in falli le, that in speaking for Christ and things con

cerning His kingdom, a

mistake.

With the wish

are

it is

impossi le for him

make

Roman Catholic the pope's will and a solute authority. If the pope is not true

o ect of worship, in the mind of olic, he is so nearly so diat it takes an

devout Cath

very acute

dis

separate etween the pope and the Lord esus. If the pope and those under his direction do not claim to have power on earth to forgive sins, their claim so nearly approaches this e treme that cernment to

undou tedly many thousands of their ignorant follow ers elieve they can forgive sins and look to diem for

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does claim the power of e communication, and when displeased with those who do not su mit a solutely to his will and wish, he salvation.

The

pope

hurls against them his anathemas, e communicating them from the church, its sacraments, and privileges, and consigning them hopelessly to eternal torment thus placing himself on the udgment seat, which the

Scriptures give

only.

Christ

ecause of these arrogant claims and pro fessions that many have een forced to the conclusion It is

that the

is the individual

spoken of

second chapter and fourth of II TTiessalonians, which reads as follows

y the verse

Pope of Rome Apostle Paul in

"Who opposeth and e alteth himself a ove all that is called God, or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself

that he is God."

TTie Roman CathoKc Church, as a church, does recogni e any other church organi ation as any part of the Church of the Lord esus, ut elieves that no one can e saved from sin and its not

in this world

ers of

the world

conse uences

to come,

who

are

not mem

fold, in full harmony with its teachings and actions, receiving from its priests the holy sacraments. All people outside of her pale are heretics, who must Its

either repent and

come

into the Roman Catholic

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Church,

die in their sins and

punishment.

It would

seem

that

into

everlasting

church with such a solute

ought not to o ect to the most careful inves tigation of her doctrines, history, practices, and in A church making fluence upon the human race. such claims ought not to o ect to the closest and most searching scrutiny. It is nodiing more than fair in making up our udgment with regard to any organi ation or institution, that first of all we carefully study the history of such institution or or gani ation. It would seem strange and illogical if a church claiming to e the only true church of God, o ected to a careful and widespread reading of her past acts, teaching and influence upon society. It is our purpose in the following chapters to give a few pages in the history of Romanism. We eHeve there is ample reason why the American people should ac uaint themselves most thoroughly v nth the past history, present condition, purposes, and aims claims

of the Roman CathoHc Church. that there are those who will o

are

well

aware

ect to the lifting of the curtain and turning of the searchlight upon the past history of Romanism. They are constantly tell ing us that the Roman Catholic Churdh has changed and that her spirit and attitude today are entirely dif ferent from what they were a few centuries ago.

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Romanism does oasts that she any

not

never

make

any

such claim.

We have

changes.

She

never seen

indication of r entance for her past conduct or y any recent pope or official ody of

repudiation

loody deeds of the past few hun ishops, and popes, cardinals, priests who were murdering their fellow- eings a few centuries ago, are the saints of today. The perpe trators of die awful tragedy of St. Bardiolomew, and the leaders in the persecution and slaughter of the Huguenots, and the fearful persecutions that pre vailed in France and Spain during the close of the die church of die dred years. The

een, so far as we know, pu licly or privately condemned y the Roman Catholic Church. We grant that modem di century have

th and in the

civili ation and die

never

rapid growdi and

power

of Prot

estantism make the repetition of those loody deeds impossi le, ut the spirit of arrogance, tyranny, and persecution still a ides in the heart of Romanism, and

she

never

loses

opportunity

manifest the

same.

That the Roman Catholic Church proposes to dic tate the policies, the election of officials, the legisla tion and administration of the laws of this country, is

Romanists themselves will not deny made herself o no ious and despica Having le in other countries, her people are flocking from other lands to die United States. She is an

open secret.

this.

centering

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her forces in Washington City, and is determin ed to use every power known to the shrewd

esuit, the cunning diplomat, and the dictatorial fK litical oss to overawe, master, and foist Roman ism upon the American people. The following clip ping from a sermon preached sometime ago y Rev.

D. S. Phelan, a priest of St. Louis, Mo., and editor of the Romanist Church paper. The Western Watch

will give some very clear ideas of the arrogant spirit of the Roman CathoHc Church "And why is it that the Church is strong why is man,

every ody

is afraid of the Catholic Church

And

the American people are more afraid of her than any people of the world. Why are they afraid of the Catholic Church They know what the Catholic

Church means. It means all the Catholics of the world not of one country, or two countries ut all the countries of the world. "And it

means more than that it means that the Catholics of the world love the Church more than anything else, that the Catholics of the world love the Church more than they do their own governments, more than they do their own nation, more than they do their own people, more than tiiey do their own

fortunes,

than they do their own selves. "We of the Catholic Church are ready to go to death for the Church. Under God, she is the sumore

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o ect

worship.

our

Tell

that

think

of the Church than we do the United States of Tell us we are Catholics first and course we do. Americans or Englishmen afterward of course we more

are.

etween the Church and the civil government we take the side of the Church of course we do. Why, if die government of the "Tell

us,

in the conflict

United States

at war

were

with the Church

would

say tomorrow, to hell with the Government of the United States and if the Church and all the govern ments

of the world

were

at war we

would

say, to

hell

with all the governments of the world. "TTiey say we are Catholics first and Americans

decidedly afterward. We

are

than

world.

There is no dou t a out it. Catholics first and we love the Church more love any and all the governments of the

"Let the governments of the world steer clear of the Catholic Church let the emperors, let the kings, and the presidents not come into conflict with the head

of the Catholic Churtih.

Because the Catholic all the Catholics of the world all nationalities where diere is a ues to her. And why is it that the pope is

Church is everything

diey

renounce

tion of

loyally strong Why is it that in this country, where we have only seven per cent, of the population, the Cathso

Romanism and Ruin. olic Church is so much feared She is loved y all her children and feared y every ody. "Why is it the pope is such a tremendous power the pope is the ruler of the world. All the

Why,

kings, all the princes, all the presi dents of the world today are as these altar oys of TTie pope is the ruler of the world. Why mine. emperors, all the

Because he is the ruler of the Catholics of the world the Catholics of all the world and the Catholics of all the world would die for the rights of the pope. He is the head of the Church, and

they would die

for the Church."

We wish to call the reader's attention to the fact that in these old statements the priest is e alting a human organi ation to a place of worship. This is not the e altation of esus Christ or divine man,

and

truth, ut it is the e altation and glorifying of Ro manism, of an organi ation that for ignorance, sud '-stition, tyranny, loodshed, and ruin has had no e ual

in the

history

of the world.

The

statement

of this

representative priest reveals the fact that she is ust arrogant, defiant, and merciless today at heart as she has ever een in her history. Let it e orne in mind that the Roman Cadiolic Church, in ehalf of whidi Mr. Phelan makes such old and confident as

declarations, is not an organi ation to disseminate Bi le truth, to redeem men from sin and ignorance, and

Romanism and Ruin.

ring them into eautiful harmony and co-operation with God in the uplift and salvation of the race, ut it is a great pohtical organi ation it seeks to control

all governments, all officials, all men. It proposes to manipulate and administer not only the civil af fairs of all governments, ut to dictate the thinking

and dominate the consciences of all men. We all agree that there is sound philosophy in that saying of our Lord esus when he said "The tree is known

history.

its fruit."

can

only udge of

of what it has done for the led

men

y its church in the light

The church is known a

race.

Has Romanism

Has she ondage enlightenment or engulfed them ip

into freedom

into

lifted them into Has she instilled into them the great doc darkness trines of the Bi le, or has she kept them in ignorance

of the truths contained in the Bi le tries under her control

Have the

coun

een prosperous Have their in education, in commerce, in

peoples made progress moral development, and high spirituality

Has Ro-

in the past stood for the li erties of men, for ideals in culture, morals, and saintliness high Can Spain, France, Italy, Me ico, South Amer ica, Cu a, and the Philippine Islands, where Ro manism for centuries has had almost undisputed sway, get upon the witness stand and ear testimony to the e cellent effects of the teachings, practices and spirit of Romanism mamsm

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Nay, verily. These countries, reduced to a depth of ignorance, superstition, and wickedness, would stand up and give faithful and unanimous warning to the United States that as she loves li erty, progress, and prosperity, to guard and protect herself against the encroachments of Romanism. The fruits of the tree of Romanism are die itter fruits of tyranny and

superstition, ignorance and decay.

CHAPTER II. The Voice In die

History.

preface of his Hfe of "Henry die IV.

King of France," A ott says "History is our heaven-appointed instructor. It The calamities of yes is the guide for die future. terday are the protectors of today. "The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is

not

unknown

sea.

It has

sunken rock

and diere is

not

sand- ar which is

not

marked

ages,

who have preceded

een traversed for or a

treacherous

y the wreck of those

us.

portion of history fraught with more valua le instruction than the period of diose terri le religious wars which desolated the si teenth century. TTiere is no romance so wild as the verita le history "There is

of those times." The were

religious

those which

and Protestants,

wars were

which die historian refers

waged etween the Catholics especially in France. TTie

only privilege die Protestants contended for was diat of li erty to worship God according to die dictates of dieir own conscience. They did not, could not e lieve in die infalli ility of die pope, die sale of indul-

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the sanctifying of giving large sums of gences,

to pray

lost souls

money to

out

purgatorial fires, the profligate priests the pits of perdition, the vir

power

hire

of the fragments of the ones of deceased saints, and a thousand other superstitions and idolatries prac tue

ticed among the Roman Catholics. The desire of the Protestants to read the

Script

gatherings of devout Christians where they might hear the simple gospel preached in its pu rity, turned loose upon them a perfect storm of in dignation and persecution from Rome. All the ures,

and attend

powers

of the

testantism

out

pope

were

com ined

to sweep

Pro

of France and off the face of the earth.

The persecutions inflicted upon die Christian people at that time would seem impossi le of ehef ut for

the plainly written pages of history. We elieve this is an opportune time

review

sufferings of the devout followers of esus Christ during those tragic and loody years. The Roman Catholic Church is fond of oasting of her age, the fact that she never changes, and her pur some

of the fearful

pose to

dominate and control the world.

It will

wise for the present generation to ac uaint itself with something of the history of the Roman CathoHc

Churdi and the influence of her teachings and prac It tices upon mankind during the passing centuries. is

uite likely that

sending forth this volume

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will e accused of seeking to stir up and foster strife this is the least of our desire. We elieve lhat the oth Protestants and Ro whole American people man Catholics ought, at this time, to make a careful

study

final

of the religious persecutions in France and the

outcome

There vey

are

and fruitage of those persecutions. four periods in Frendi history that con

lessons of such

afford

ignore

importance that refuse to study them. vast

men

cannot

There is France under the almost a solute

First

domination of the hierarchy at Rome practically her whole population are apti ed mem ers of the moth

Cardinals and ishops wield an influence that dominates the pohtical, educational, commercial, and social life of France. The people were sunken church.

superstition and idolatry. They were worshiping images and pictures from one end of the

in ignorance, nation

the other.

moral and of the

king

Licentiousness undermined the

physical life to

of the nation from the

the huts of the peasantry.

palace

Second

The Reformation, under Martin Lu had made a powerful ther, impression in Germany and other countries. Its influence was felt in France

the

intelligent and aggressive people of France, who were disgusted with the wickedness of the priests and the dead forms and ceremonies of the church, semore

Romanism and Ruin. cured copies of the Scriptures and read them. The Bi le rought to France the possi ilities of a spiritual resurrection. Tens of thousands of people awoke to the fact lhat God is a spirit, and seeks those to

worship Him who worship Him in spirit and in truth. They revolted against the vain ugglery and pretenses of Romanism. TTie dawn of a new day had risen upon one of the most eautiful countries and capa le peoples in all the world. Had the people of France had free access to the Scriptures, and had the pure gospel een preached among them vwthout opposition, what a different history France would have had. The

loodshed and devastation of die horri le civil wars that came to her would have een unknown. TTiere would have een that development of intelligence and

piety that would so powerfully have affected the whole civil and spiritual Hfe of France that the French Revolution would have een a moral impossi ility. But the opening of the Bi le and the appearance of ministers of the gospel preaching the saving truths of the Lord esus, aroused the pope and all his prof ligate hosts to a high pitch of indignation they leaped upon the Protestants with the fury of wild easts, de vastated eautiful France, washed her plains widi lood, driving hundreds of thousands of devout and industrious people into e ile, filling the cemeteries with utchered multitudes, crowding the prisons and con-

Romanism and Ruin. w idi their captives and sent to perpetual slavery in the galleys thousands of devout and earnest men. Rome was sowing to the wind, and as sure as God is true and His word is true, she was preparing to The years of persecution left a reap the whirlwind. vents

loody trail in

across

awful day of

the centuries until they culminated THE REIGN OF TER

vengeance

ROR.

That day of vengeance came when arro selfishness and tyranny on the one hand, igno viciousness, and hate on the other had reached

Third gance, rance, a

ounds of reason were swept ecame the arena for one of the

cHma where all die

away most

and France fearful

scenes

utchery and ruin, in which the appalled nations

of human

human history, upon looked with awe and horror. tion

was

the

logical

outcome

The French Revolu

condition of things

that for centuries had made it practically impossi le for pious men, who loved the Word of God, to live and

reathe in

peace

within the

orders of F rance.

The pope and his minions had driven all the moral salt out of the land, and the people sunk into that cor ruption and decay that was ound to com.e to France, or to any other country where society is not perme ated with divine truth, and the powers of evil are not stayed and held in check y the lives and influence of the devout and consecrated servants of the Lord

esus.

Romanism and Ruin.

Centuries efore, the Lord esus had said to Peter "Put up again thy sword into its place, for all them that take the sword shall perish with the sword."

This saying of our Lord was fearfully fulfilled in those awful days of die Revolution, when the Cath

olics, having driven

the Protestants, had

one

they leaped like hungry tigers, The priests themselves were led upon each other. y scores to the guillotine, and in manacles and chains v ere driven to the galleys in great num ers with as little pity as they had shown to their unfortunate fel low- eings during the awful years of the persecution else

slaughter,

out

and

of the Protestants.

Fourth

The France of today, with an outraged people confiscating church property and driving CathoHcs from their shores in disgust with the superstition,

avarice and tyranny of the church, the masses of the French have swung into un elief and a riot of

wickedness sad

contemplate. The influences

of the

teachings and practices of Romanism, notwithstand ing whatever good there may e in them, will finally ring the people to a condition of degradation and moral depravity where they will turn against the priests and the church that have ro ed them of their civil and religious li erties, and strike to the heart the mother church that has destroyed in them that which is est, and developed that in them which is worst.

Romanism and Ruin.

hopeful indications of moral reform or spiritual awakening among the French peo ple of today. The Bi le was anidied, the Protes tant minister, and the hum le worshipers of God were There

are

few, if

any,

either slain, tortured into the surrender of their faith, driven into e ile, or chained to criminals and sent

perish in agony. France, left in moral darkness, has plunged into a depth of de pravity and ruin which ought to e a tremendous les Let the calamities of son and warning to the wofld. France e the protection of America. Take any country which through the centuries has dovra the

stream

of time

een under the domination of Romanism, where the pope has had practical control of all the forces that

make for the intellectual enlightenment and spiritual development of the people superstition, ignorance, and moral decay have inevita ly een die result. Look at Spain today. A wasted and perishing nation, in

depths of ignorance

eggary, the legitimate outcome of a country without the saving salt of an TTie open Bi le and a living, evangelical ministry. same is largely true of Italy. Why are hundreds of thousands of emigrants flying from Italy every year to the hopeful shores of the United States It is e cause popedom, through the years of oppression and tyranny has made eautiful Italy an uncomforta le home for the down-trodden, poverty-stricken people the

and

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whom she has

degraded. You will search in

vain for

the highest standards of civiH ation, progress, prosper ity, and human freedom in any country where Ro manism has had undisputed sway, and centuries of

for the practice of her superstitions. In every instance you will find the people reduced to a state of spiritual slavery and an impoverishment which is al years

most

unendura le.

etween the United States and Spain lifted the curtain which to some e tent o scured the superstition and light of Romanism, and gave the American people an e cellent opportunity to look The

upon

war

the

and the

waste

and

degradation of Cu a, Porto Rico

Philippine Islands.

For hundreds of

years

the pope with his army of cardinals, ishops and priests, had en oyed undisputed control of the people of these Islands.

They

not

only guided in ecclesi

astical affairs, ut controlled the civil powers and had full direction of all the influences of education, social

family life.

The priests were in the closest pos si le touch with the whole people from the governors, and

who ruled the provinces, to the generals who com manded the army, the admirals who controlled the

navies, the

they took immense tithes the teachers whom they instructed and guided, the hus ands, wives and children who whispered the secrets

commerce,

from which

of their hearts into their

ears

the confessional.

Romanism and Ruin. declared against Spain, and the to some e tent hid the degradation of the peoples of these Islands were ruthlessly drawn contem away, the e posure was something fearful to plate. Thousands of intelligent American soldiers When war curtains which

was

the nakedness, disease, ignorance and depths of moral depravity into which these peoples had een led y their moral and religious teachers.

looked

upon

well-known fact that the CathoHc priests charged such immense sums of money for performing It is

the marriage service, that large num ers of the ple in these Islands were living together without

peo

legal

marriage, simply ecause they were una le to pay the heavy fees. Their children came into the world with the stamp of shame upon them, placed there y a godless and miserly priesthood, w'ho made die legal marriage of their parents an impossi ility. The time has come when these facts should e pondered well y the American people. Rome has

set

herself

dominate and control the

political affairs of this Union she is

using her in fluence to pour into this nation die ilHterate peoples whom she has impoverished and degraded in their now

various countries and proposes to marshal them at the polls and elect only such men to office as are

willing

to go

with the collar of the

necks, pledged

use

pope

around their

their influence for the selfish

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Church which, under the ecclesias tical ro es of sheep's clothing, hides the hungry wolf of pohtical am ition. In closing this chapter, we uote again the words

advantages of

of A

"The

ott

But it is

perils.

traversed for

sea

not

ages,

of time

unknown

and there is

treacherous sand ar which is

not

is full of

navigate sea. a

It has

een

sunken rock

marked

y the

wrecks of those Who have preceded us." Tie rock of Romanism and the sand ar of the papacy

are

strewn

with the wrecks and de ris of the

nations who have een dominated

y the

pope.

May

God grant strong hands and clear heads to guide the American Ship of State clear of these destructive per ils and influences which peace

now

threaten the welfare,

and happiness of the great American

Repu lic.

CHAPTER III. Man's Last Chance. has said, "North America is God's last chance with man." The thought is that if, in this ecclecountry, the church ecomes a cold, formal siasticism, if civil government ecomes corrupt, if the Some

one

spirit of selfi ess and greed prevails

ural

resources

of the land

are

sei ed

that the

upon

nat

and utili ed

for the enrichment of the few while the multitudes sink into poverty, ignorance, disease, and vice, and

if the hisitory of other nations is repeated in North America in a word, if civili ation fails here, in the

midsit of provisions so a undant and opportunities so great, upon what grounds can we ase reasona le e pectations of the success of the race at some future age

and in

some

Where else country

ing

other country

upon

our

glo e can we

find

ha ita le

vast, with such illimita le coasts,

to commerce,

with lakes

road, rivers

so so

invit

long

deep, v th such marvelous possi ilities of water power, forests so e tensive and woods of so many va and

rieties, with mountains of mineral wealth coal, oil, gas, iron, and the precious metals in incalcula le

uantities waiting for the pick and spade of industry

Romanism and Ruin.

Think of the adaptation of the soil and cHmate of

growth of the vast varieties of ce reals, fruits, vegeta les, fi ers, and everydiing that supplies the wants and contri utes to the prosperity, comfort, and happiness of mankind. Where, in all this country

the

the world, wiW you find more constant sunshine, fresher air, purer water, richer soil, and a greater va riety, or grander scenery in fact, everything that

ought

contri ute

ment

of the human

NOW,

where, and

the

race.

highest If

and

est develop

fails here, and e pect him to suc

man

WHEN may we

ceed a

God created this great continent, fenced it in wath vast e panse of ocean waves emd kept it in reserva

through the centuries, waiting for the develop ment of a people, loving and demanding civil and religious li erty. He evidently desired a place in which He could plant and grow a larger and etter manhood than it was possi le to produce under the shadow of kings and popes. At last the hour came and the divine Being se lected the est, most advanced, li erty-loving people tion

e found in the various countries of Eu rought them across the ocean, and planted

that could

rope,

them along the Atlantic coast. Mayflower was the dawn of a progress in the

history

The

new

of mankind.

landing of the era of hope and

Romanism and Ruin. It takes the the ruts,

mighty

of God

lift

man

out

from old ha its of thought, divorce him from customs that have

reak him

and action,

arm

fastened themselves

away

upon

people dirough succeed

ing generations and centuries, and introduce into his mind no ler and etter thoughts, and ring him into This was the purpose God a larger and truer life.

had in view when He created this vast continent this If man fails is the philosophy of North America.

hope for his future. We dou t if in all the history of the world man has made such rapid strides along the highway of here there is little

or no

human progress as has een made in the last century The emigrants came, the and a half in this country.

spirit of civil and religious li erty grew, the Declaration of Independence was written, the war for freedom was fought and won. God had sprinkled gold nuggets along the Pacific slope and men were induced to turn their faces toward the setting sun they discovered the great West. colonies

States

sprung up,

sprung into

the

e istence,

vast

cities

rose

y magic, railroads crossed the Continent in every direction, the lack anner of smoke floated from the chimney stacks of a hundred thousand factories, and the sound of the church-going ell was heard through out

the land.

Never efore

at any

time

in any

place had

men

Romanism and Ruin. known such H erty as in this new world. They stood up together, framed their own constitutions, enacted their

laws, and selected dieir

own

pu lic

ser

of religion they have had a solute freedom of conscience. Since the landing at Ply mouth Rock in this country, the Bi le has een THE

vants.

matters

ath has een o served, the Ten Com mandments and the Sermon on the Mount have pow BOOK,

the Sa

erfully influenced society, and the fires of true devo tion have een kindled morning and night upon hun dreds of thousands of family altars, where the teach ings of the Word of God have een instilled into the minds and hearts of rising generations, where none dare molest,

make afraid.

These conditions

rought

such prosperity in in commerce, such uickening to

usiness, such progress of industry and such moral and spiritual uplift, that our name and fame were spread through all the world

fellow- eings under the iron yoke of civil and religious ondage sought peace, home and happiness on our hospita le shores. and the millions of

our

great attles in the past that made American civili ation a possi ility. One of these was

TTiere

fought

were

two

y the British

navy,

which

eat, sunk, and

the four winds the Spanish Armada. This unprecedented fleet of ships was fitted out in Spain with the intention of con uering the British scattered

Romanism and Ruin. Isles and with one terrific Num ers forever. of

low crush Protestantism Romish priests sailed

with the great Armada, prepared with their cruel instruments of torture, to compel the British to recant

and surrender their simple faith in the atoning merits of esus Christ for salvation, or to rend them in pieces and consign them to the grave. Had the Spanish

fleet con uered the British navy, landed their minions up on the British Isles, overcome and su dued the Protestant people, the American civiH ation of the

past hundred and

possi ility.

fifty

years

would have

een

The ne t great decisive attle that stayed the hand of Rome and meant hope and glorious possi ilities to this country, and the human race, was

fought etween the French and British at ue ec, and again the compassionate hand of God turned ack the French Catholics efore the charges of British Protestants, and saved the day for a country of free institutions, open Bi les, pu lic schools and reHgious li erty. How impossi le the Protestant Church with a pure gospel, the free pu lic school and an untram-

meled,

road-shouldered manhood would have een if the pope and his servants had have had control, ad ministered the policies, dictated the reHgious diinking and controlled the spiritual and moral life of die na tion.

RomanisTn and Ruin. At tiiis hour the American people are confront ed with one of the gravest and most solemn uestions that they have had to answer since the Declaration of

Independence. Shall this country continue to en oy the freedom, li erty, and lessing of Protestantism, or shall it e rought under the dictation and control of Roman Catholicism. We elieve that it's the duty

of every citi en whose heart is stirred as he looks up on his country's flag, who reads with gratitude the

who elieves in civil rights and religioiis li erty, to gird himself with new strength and devout courage to protest against the courageous

deeds of

our

ancestors,

aggressions of Romanism.

Let it e understood that we would not counte nance, for one moment, any sort of interference or in fringement upon the civil rights or religious li erties

eign

Roman Catholic.

our

thought.

Nothing could e

That there

are

many

good

for

cit

i ens in this country who are mem ers of the Roman Catholic Church is not to e dou ted. Their li er

ties, Hfe, and property are dear to the heart of every true man, w'hatever his religious views or convic tions may e. But it must e remem ered that the Roman Catholic Church is one

of the

most

all the world. rare

only a church, ut is powerful political organi ations in not

That her milions of mem ers, with e ceptions, are under the a solute sway of their

Romanism and Ruin. of Rome. ecclesiastical masters, and that the Pope with his cardinals and ishops are constantly seekmg their political advantage in this country y throwing to influence where it can e used to est advantage enforce intimidate, and influence those who make and

the laws of the land. the Bishop W. A. Candler, in a recent article in and religious press has e pressed die facts concisely

as follows "The trou le with the Roman Catholic Church is that it seeks to e oth a church and a pohtical party. Its arrogant claims of eing die only true Christian church, intolerant as diey are, might e treated with

forcefully

temporal y logical power and civil audiority, intruding itself affairs of every country conse uence into die political assumed cannot e a is which it which enters, position indifference

allowed

any

ut when for its head it

church whatsoever.

asserts

If it

must assume

position, its mem ers must not complain if it is met widi political opposition not offered to any oth er church. This is why such great men as Glad stone, Bismarck, uare , Dia , Gari aldi, and the ruling statesmen in France have resisted its preten such

sions.

"Since the Spanish-American War and the ac ui sition y the United States of colonies where Roman ism has een die esta lished reHgion, it has een more

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aggressive than

il of Romanism

ever

to our

our

political affairs. The

institutions is

not an

per

imaginary

danger, conceived y the heated rains of fanatics it is a real and constant menace. It must e resisted in een resisted in England, Ger our country, as it has many,

France, Italy, Me ico, Portugal

it has

country where it has secured If it were willing to any considera le following. take its place as a church along with all the other

een resisted in

every

churches it would

e improper other attitude dian that in which

to meet we

meet

it with any

all the odi-

only a church. Putting itself in a class to itself y its political animus, it must take all that such an improper position makes inevita le it cannot claim the political e emption of a church while it asserts political claims as well as churchly prerogatives." The Bishop states the case very clearly. Lust for temporal power has always characteri ed the Catholic er

churches

ut it is

not

willing

Church. In her eagerness to control the civil affairs of the people, she has sadly neglected their moral and spiritual welfare, as is plainly manifested in the low

spiritual dearth in the countries which have een dominated y Romanists for cen moral conditions and

One of the

features of the entrance of the Roman Catholic Church into the politics of the United States, is the fact that her action makes it a turies.

worst

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solutely

necessary

for the Protestant churches of this

country to participate in pohtics as they otherwise would not think of doing, and ought not to e forced

do, ut shall have to com ine all the influences of the various churches who love the institutions of li er ty for which our sires fought and died. to

CHAPTER IV.

Protestantism Forced Into Politics. of the great Protestant churches of this nation should enter openly into politics, keep a strong lo y at Washington City, seek to influence legisla

any

one

advantage and enefit should undertake to give itself influence efore the political parties of the country and the nations of the earth y practically forcing the President and other high officials to attend its Thanksgiving services, should, regardless of all great economic uestions and pu lic interest, throw its tion for its

influence and

vote

first

one

party and then the oth

simply voting where it could secure most advan tage for itself that church would ustly su ect it er,

self

to severe

criticism, and would dou tless receive

such criticism.

TTiis is e actly what the Catholic Church has done, is doing, and will do. This has een her his tory intermeddling with governmental affairs is red in her very one. Wherever she has had the power,

she has

always dictated the

nations, and has

not

hesitated

civil affairs of the

use

persecution,

tor

fire, and sword in order that she might ring the people into civil and religious slavery. Rome unhesiture,

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tatingly and un lushingly

proposes to

control the

con

to sciences of men, and whenever it is in her power do so, to force them to act in harmony with her tyran nical will. This is the logical outcome of the illogical claim of temporal power. Rome must renounce this

claim,

she

continue

must

in the side of the

tormenting thorn

ody politic.

Wherever she has een a le to effect her purpose, the wheels of human progress have een turned ack ward, thought has een stifled, manhood has een dwarfed, pomp and formalism have taken the place

simple humility and spirituality, and in the end ig norance, superstition, and vice have flourished. If a thoughtful man should e asked to name the three factors lhat have contri uted most to the rapid progress of our American civili ation, that have given this young repu lic a front rank miong the nations of

of the earth, that have made this country so desira le a place for residence that hundreds of thousands, even

millions, of people from other countries

are

constantly

shores, he would undou tedly name flocking Hie Bi le, the Pu lic School, and that Religious Li erty which has een fostered and preserved y the to our

Protestant Church.

the three great roots that have fed and sustained the growing and fruitful tree of Americanism. They have fostered our spirit These

are

ual, intellectual, and industrial life.

The Bi le, the

Romanism and Ruin. Pu lic School, and the Protestant Church have made the American the greatest man of modern times, the United States the most desira le place of residence for independent and li erty-loving people, and the

Stars and

world.

Stripes the floating anner of hope

all the

An organi ation of men that would close the Bi le, tear down the Protestant Church, and shut up the

pu lic school this

ered the most

and

is the

itterest and

most

dangerous

foe

e well remem great country. Let it that these are the three institutions which

ishops, and priests have Romanism with its superstitions

cardinals,

pope,

fear.

idolatries

cannot

flourish

among

peo

ple with an open Bi le, an untr immeled pulpit, and the pu lic school. Romanism grows, fattens, flourish

and wallows in ignorance the stupid mind, and the conscience enslaved y creeds and priests, offer es,

her the

hopeful field in which to uggle with the destinies of men, collect large sums of money for praying souls out of Purgatory, and practice her su perstitions upon the creduHtles of the people y rat tling the dry ones of supposed saints. The time has come when the American people must select representatives to make and enforce our to

most

laws who do resent any

not

wear

the collar of the

pope,

and will

effort of the Catholic hierarchy of this

coun-

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interfere with the affairs of government for the sake of selfish advantage. Mr. Woodrow Wilson, President of these Uni try

ted States, M'ould have done himself credit, the American people, and proven himself

gratified a truly

great and fearless man had he said to the Catholic priest, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, in Washington

City, when invited to attend the Pan-American mass "I am a mem er of the on last Thanksgiving day Pres yterian Church my church is going to have Thanksgiving service, and I feel it my duty to e present there today." Mr. Wilson is a man of educa tion and wide reading. He knows the history of Ro manism, with all its dark and loody pages he is too intelligent a man to go to high mass in order to wor ship God in spirit and in truth ut he knows that the Roman Catholic Church is

so narrow

in its views,

itter in its pre udices, and so dictatorial in its spirit, diat if he refused to leave his own church and people

parade, flummery, and mum high mass, the Pope at Rome, Cardinal Gi ons, at Baltimore, Arch ishop Ireland, at St. Pauls, and the whole Catholic hierarchy of this country would marshall their political influences against him. So he owed to the dictation of the same spirit that has ruled or ruined, controlled or cast down, mastered or murdered through the centuries. and go away to the lings of the priests at

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impossi le that grown men should e so whimsical, childish and so utterly devoid of the higher motives that ought to govern men, that they must e petted like spoiled children, they must have their priests lead in prayer at political conventions, the president and representatives of the nation must leave their families and places of worship and hie away to their church on Thanksgiving day, or, re gardless of the great uestions of commerce, trade, education, war, and the making or ruining of the peo ple, they will swap from one party to another in order to humiliate those who will not pander to their whims and pre udices. We are in heartiest sympathy with the following resolutions which were passed y the Protestant minis ters of Washington City, ust after last Hianksgiving day "Whereas, For the last three or four years there has een cele rated in St. Patrick's church in this city, on Thanksgiving day, a solemn high mass, at which It

seems

almost

the President of theUnlted States, and some mem ers of his Ca inet, the Chief ustice and several other us

Supreme Court, with a num er of senators and mem ers of Congress, have attended as the guests

tices of the

of honor and,

"Whereas, This service is now called in the pu lic press 'the official cele ration of Thanksgiving day,'

Romanism and Ruin. and is descri ed in tlie Bulletin of the Pan-American Repu lics as having an 'official character, and ev effort is made

ery

y the Roman hierarchy

give

official function, as if it were generally recogni ed as a national ser vice and as if the President and his Ca inet y this Roman

their

mass

the color of

wished it

presence

recogni ed which

the case and, "Whereas, One of the organs of the Roman

we are sure

mass

not

the Catholic Citi en of Milwaukee that 'the Pan-American Thanksgiving day high

Catholic states

press

now

capital ' and

permanent institution at the national

further, 'One day in the year in which the ountiful Giver of all good things is ac knowledged y the nation, as a nation, this e pres sion of gratitude is made in a Catholic Church, around a Catholic altar, y means of the one Cadiolic wor ship that is worthy of God, the sacrifice of the mass and, "Whereas, The attendance of our chief magis trate and mem ers of his Ca inet, not once, ut year says

after

year,

give color

five years, has een made use the Roman claim that this service or

the official cele ration of national capital and,

now

our

for four

TTianksgiving day

"Whereas, This fact has een understood, oth in the United States and in foreign countries, to give the

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Roman Catholic Church

prestige and a pre-emi nence over all other churches, and has even een e lieved y people in Bra il and in Italy to show that America is country

not

Protestant

Roman Catholic

therefore e it

"Resolved, That

against the presump tion of the Roman Catholic press in putting forward we

protest

the claims that the Roman

mass

is 'the official cele

ration of Thanksgiving day' in the capital of the

repu lic. "Resolved, That

against the attempt to convert our national Thanksgiving day into a Ro man Catholic festival, in a service entirely out of har mony with the history and the genius of our country, and the spirit and purpose of the day. "Resolved, That we desire to give voice to the widespread feeling of indignation among the millions of Protestants in America, against the efforts of the Roman press and the Roman hierarchy to e ploit the attendance of our chief magistrate and some of his Ca inet which we are convinced has een intended only as an act of courtesy and good will for the purpose of glorifying the Roman Catholic Church, and giving this service an official character, which it does not and cannot possess." The Protestant people of this country will have to awaken from their lethargy and recogni e the fact we

protest

Romanism and Ruin. that their

most

sacred H erties

are

involved in the

con

and shameless aggressiveness of Romanism and stand together for the great principles for which our fathers gave their lives, or efore we know it, they

stant

and in their place will e planted die Catholic teachings and practices which have een the menace and light of the nations that have had the misfortune to e dominated y the destructive in will e swept

away,

fluences of Romanism.

give, in the following pages, some startling and interesting chapters from the history of the past, which will to some e tent ac uaint the reader with the true spirit and animus of We

propose to

the Roman Catholic Church.

there

are

ed and

those who will tdl

read usted herself

of the present. And well she

are

aware

that

that Rome has chang the times and conditions

Rome oasts that she

never

changes.

She holds unswervingly lo the may. same principles that governed her in past centuries she still contends diat the Roman Catholic Church is the only church, that to live outside of her pale and

without the enediction of the pope, is to live outside of the kingdom of heaven, and widiout the lessing of God. To die without aptism and communion from die hands of a Romish priest is to die without hope and go into eternal darkness. All Protestap are

heretics, and all heretics

forever.

are

consigned

the pit

Romanism and Ruin. fine illustration of diese narrow views and unchristlike pre udices when Mr. Roose velt, a few years ago, visited Rome, and the pope The world had

faithfully practiced what he preaches, and refused to recogni e Mr. Roosevelt, an e -president of the United States, or grant him an audience, ecause he

Protestant Church in Rome, and rec ogni e and fellowship with honora le and eloved ministers of the gospel Who were not under the domi

dared

visit

nation of the Catholic

does her

not

own

hierarchy.

course

undertake force where force would

destruction,

ut she has

never

failed

Rome mean

use

force and proscription where she felt it was safe to do Note for so, and her aims and ends could e secured. instance, the fact that in the Philippine Islands, a

Protestant school-teacher is

any sort

reifigious

not

permitted

conduct

services in the isolated and

ual desolations where

they teach schools,

spirit

to use any

influence whatsoever that would awaken tiie con sciences or win to Christ and His truth the souls of dieir pupils. Let it e understood from first to last

that we make war on no man, that we do and must cherish the most kindly and neigh orly feeling to ward the individual Catholic. We do, however, and must make war against those principles, teachings, and practices that would destroy the factors and forces whidi have uilt this great repu lic and made the American people the most li erty-loving, prosperous, and progressive people in all human history.

CHAPTER V. The Massacre

ing

The most

tory.

massacre

St. Bartholomew. Bait

The Trap.

of St. Bartholomew

lood-thirsty and tragic This

event

events

is often alluded

was one

of the

in human his

present-day

literature, rarely descri ed with' any minuteness of detail that remarka ly few persons of the present generation are really ac uainted with the e tent of ut

the slaughter of the Protestant people which took place on that memora le occasion. It will e neces

leading up to the fatal stroke of the ell in the church steeple which turned loose a mo of human fiends upon a helpless and unprotected people. The population of France, at the time, was over whelmingly Catholic. The Catholic Church had e come so superstitious, corrupt, and tyrannical that a considera le per cent, of the most intelligent, progres sive, and devout people, having secured Bi les, and sary to

give

rief outline of

events

read them had forsaken the folds of the Romish

Church, selected preachers for themselves, and were seeking to worship God in simpHcity and truth. This, of course, outraged the pope and his satellites, who

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ready to use their ignorant and esotted followers to punish and persecute anyone who dared to uestion the a solute authority of the hierarchy at

were ever

Rome.

Charles I , a weak and vacillating young man, was king of France, his mother Catharine de Medicis, who is represented y historians as eing one of the most

am itious, dissolute, and merciless of

women, a

devout Catholic, living with the young king in the palace, had him almost completely under her control. With the connivance and assistance of the high offic

ials of the church, and certain igno le no lemen, through long months with infinite patience and silence

the plans for the

wrought

massacre were

secretly laid and well

out.

The King of France, had a young sister. Princess Marguerite, a worthy descendent of her painted, pol luted mother. A ott, the historian says, "Sie was

heartless, proud, and petulent." She was the ait with which her wily mother and the CathoKc authori

ties aited die trap into which

ing Protestants,

they drew the unsuspect die fateful slaughter of St. Bar

tholomew. The ueen of Navarre, a small Protestant coun try, eanne d' Al ert, was a devout Protestant, a wo man of many no le and rilliant traits of character. Her son Henry, one of die most rilliant and promis-

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ing princes in all Europe, had een trained in the de velopment of his physical, mental, and moral life with

diligent and tender care. He was ro ust of ody, possessed of unusual mental powers, and no le in im pulses a man of remarka le tenderness of heart. He afterward ecame Henry IV of France. The Cath olics planned a marriage etween Henry of Navarre and the Princess Marguerite, sister of Charles I , of most

France.

was

their

purpose to

cele rate this

mar

riage w th great ceremony and professions of friend ship and love for the Protestants and y this means draw to Paris unsuspecting and unarmed multitudes of the Protestant people, especially their great politi cal and military leaders. Admiral Coligni was one of the most distinguished soldiers of France.

follower of the Lord

was

esus,

and

devout and hum le at

the

steadfast and immova le Protestant.

ticipated

in and

een the

ful leader in the and Protestants

most

same

time

He had

powerful

and

par

success

etween the Romanists

wars

during the

time of Charles, directly Of all others, the Catholics

preceding the m issacre. were fully determined that he should e enticed into Paris and slaughtered. The only oon the Protestants asked was the privilege of worshiping God as they understood the Scriptures, and according to the dictates of their own

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undertake in any way to interfere with the Roman Catholic Church in its wor ship, and only egged the privilege of simple religious consciences.

They did

not

li erty. Though comparatively few in num er, they had fought for these God-given rights with such deter mination and valor that they had een a le to force from the Catholics, however against their will, consid era le concessions at the time, they were allowed the li erty of worshiping in the various places held in their possession. TTiey were allowed to have pu lic wor ship in two towns in each province of the kingdom. They were permitted to reside anywhere in France without molestation, and had een declared eligi le to any pu lic office. The ueen and the cowardly French king had een driven to the conclusion that the only possi le way to stamp out the courageous and growing spirit of Protestantism a

was

larger scale than had

use

the knife of the assassin

yet een dreamed

y the

most

history. eanne d' Al ert, the ueen of Navarre, "A wo osom all no le man of sincere piety, and in whose thoughts were nurtured, cherished many misgivings. f-Ier Protestant principles caused her to shrink from the espousal of her son with a Roman Catholic. Her religious scruples, and the spotless purity of her char acter, aroused the most lively emotions of repugnance savage

criminals of all

Romanism and Ruin. in view of her son's connection with one who had not even the modesty to conceal her vices. State consider

ations, however, finally prevailed and eanne, waiving

the marriage. She yield ed, however, with die greatest reluctance, to die un ceasing importunities of her friends. They urged diat

her

o ections, consented

this marriage would unite the two parties in a solid peace, and thus protect the Protestants from persecu tion, and rescue France from unuttera le woe. Even

Cohgni was deceived." A ott. In discussing the su ect, eanne said in the itter

die Admiral ness

of her soul

"I would choose

descend

the

condition of the poorest damsel in France rather than sacrifice to the grandeur of my family my own soul and that of my son."

King Charles played his part with consummate skill and per ury. He said T give my sister in mar riage, not only to die Prince of Navarre, ut, as it This will e the were, to the whole Protestant party. strongest and closest

peace

etween

ond for the maintenance of

su ects, and

a sure

evidence of

good-will toward die Protestants." These were remarka ly generous words to e coming from lips widi a heart so full of deep decep tion and murder, uietly laying his plans, to deceive an innocent and hopeful people, while he crouched to leap upon his prey. my

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When the

ueen of Navarre and her retinue had

Paris preparatory to the wed ding, the king e pressed his great love and admiration for his intended victim and when apart from her, laughingly said to Catharine "Well, mother, what een induced

io enter

Do I play my little part well " think of it "Yes," said Catharine, encouragingly, "very ut it is of no use unless it continues." well "Allow me to go on," said the king, "and you do

you

that I shall ensnare them." Direcdy after entering Paris, the lovely and de vout ueen of Navarre was sei ed with a violent will

see

sickness, which held her in its unrelenting

grasp

nine

days of intense suffering, and then cherishing the same faith and fortitude which had shone so rightly in her life, without a murmur or a groan she passed away. Among her last words in speaking of her children said

e their Father and protector, as He has een mine in my greatest afflictions. I confide "But God will

them

His

providence."

Henry of Navarre, with his attendants, were on the way to Paris for the wedding when his mother passed away. This sad event caused the postpone ment of the marriage ceremony for only a short time. It is not to e supposed that the impetuous young Princess Marguerite, who had een displeased with

Romartism and Ruin. the opposition Henry's mother had shown to the mar riage, shed many tears of grief over die dead ueen. It would not e an ungenerous suspicion if one should

surmise that this company preparing for so general utchery contrived to hasten the ueen's death.

When Admiral Coligni arrived in Paris to attend the marriage. King Charles feigned for him the great est

admiration and lovingly em racing him e claimed "This is the happiest day of my Hfe."

Soon the solemn tolling of funeral ceremonies was past, and the glad ringing of marriage ells was heard through Paris. Perhaps no historian has told die story of what immediately followed more accurately and strikingly than A ott. We shall let his graphic

draw the picture of the massacre for our readers "At length the nuptial day arrived. It was die seventeenth of August, . Paris had laid aside its mourning weeds, and a gay and rilliant carnival pen

succeeded its dismal days of gloom. Protestants and Catholics, of highest name and note, from every part of Europe, who had met in the dreadful encounters of a hundred fields of lood, now mingled in apparent

fraternity widi the glittering dirong, all interchanging congratulations. The unimpassioned ride

smiles and

led his scornful

ride to die church of Notre Before die massive portals of this renowned edifice, and under die shadow of its venera le towers. groom

Dame.

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magnificent platform had een reared, canopied with

the

most gorgeous

Hundreds of thousands

tapestry.

thronged the surrounding amphitheater, swarming at the windows, crowding the alconies, and clustered cere upon the house-tops, to witness the imposing The gentle ree e reathing over the multi mony. tude was laden with the perfume of flowers. Ban

and penants, and ri ons of every varied hue waved in the air, or hung in gay festoons from win dow to window, and from roof to roof. Upon that ners,

conspicuous platform, in the presence of all the high est no ihty of France, and of the most illustrious rep resentatives of every court of Europe, Henry receiv ed the hand of the haughty princess, and the nuptial oath

was

administered.

"Marguerite, however, the

presence

even

in that hour, and in

of all those spectators, gave

ludicrous

e hi ition of her girhsh petulance and ungoverned willfulness. When, in the progress of the ceremony, she was asked if she willingly received Henry of

Bour on for her hus and, she pouted, co uettishly tossed her proud head, and was silent. The uestion

was

repeated.

roused, tame

The spirit of Marguerite was now and all the powers of Europe could not

tiie shrew. She fi ed her

officiating ishop, gesture

to e press

defiantly upon the y look or word or

refusing, slightest assent, remained

and the

eyes

im-

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mova le

as a

Em arrassment and delay

statue.

Her royal rother, Charles I , fully aware of his sister's indomita le resolution, coolly walked up to the termagant at ay, and placing one hand upon her chest and the other upon the ack of her head, com pelled an involuntary nod. The ishop smiled and sued.

principle that gratefully received, proceeded

ow ed, and acting

vors

were

ceremony.

and

Such

Marguerite palace.

upon

the

were

with the

with which Henry Such is too often love

vows

united.

were

small fa

in the

"The Roman Catholic wife, unaccompanied y her Protestant hus and, who waited at the door with his retinue,

now

entered the church of Notre Dame

participate in the solemnities of the mass. The young King of Navarre then su missively received his ride and conducted her to a very magnificent dinner. Cath arine and Charles I

very

especially

The weak and

the

attentive

at to

this entertainment, were the Protestant no les.

despica le king leaned affectionately

of the Admiral Coligni, and for a long upon time conversed with him with every appearance of arm

friendship and

Balls, illuminations, and pa geants ensued in the evening. For many days these unnatural and chilling nuptials were cele rated with all the splendor of national festivities. Among these esteem.

entertainments there

was

tournament,

singularly

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characteristic of the times, and which certainly sheds peculiar lustre either upon the humility or upon die

good-nature of the Protestants. "A large area was prepared for the display of one

of those

ar aric

passes

arms

in which the rude

day delighted. The inclosure was surrounded y all die polished intellect, rank, and eauty of France. Charles I ., widi his two roth ers and several of the Cadiolic no ihty, then appeared

chivalry

upon

of that

one

side of the

arena on

no le war-horses

gor

geously caparisoned, and threw down the gauntlet of defiance to Henry of Navarre and his Protestant retinue, who, similarly mounted and accoutred, awaited the challenge upon die opposite side. "The portion of the inclosure in which the Catho lics appeared was decorated to represent heaven.

Birds of Paradise displayed their gorgeous plumage, and the air was vocal with the melody of trilling songsters. Beauty displayed its charms arrayed in

celestial ro es, and am rosial odors lulled the senses in lu urious indulgence. All die resources of wealth and

art

the

lessed.

were

lavished

to create

vision of the home of

"TTie Protestants, in the opposite e treme of the arena, were seen emerging from the desolation, the gloom, and the sulphurous canopy of hell. The two

parries, from their antagonistic realms, rushed

Romanism and Ruin. the encounter, the fiends of darkness atthng with the angels of light. Gradually the Catholics, in accord ack the ance with previous arrangements, drove Protestants toward their grim a odes, when suddenly numerous demons appeared ruslnng from the dun

of the infernal regions, who, with cloven hoofs, and satanic weapons, and chains forged in penal fires,

geons

the Protestants and

dragged them to the lackness of darkness from whence they had emerged. Plaudits loud and long greeted this discomfiture of the Protestants y the infernal powers. "But suddenly the scene is changed. A winged Cupid appears, the representative of the pious and amia le ride Marguerite. The demons fly in dis may efore the irresisti le oy. Fearlessly this em of love the realms of despair. TTie issary penetrates Protestants, y this agency, are li erated from their thralldom, and conducted in triumph to the Elysium of the Cathohcs. A more curious display of regal courtesy history has not recorded. And this was in sei ed

upon

Paris "

CHAPTER VI. Perfecting

the

Plans.

"Immediately after the marriage, the Admiral Co ligni was an ious to o tain permission to leave the city. His devout spirit found no en oyment in the gayeties of the metropolis, and he was deeply disgusted with the unveiled licentiousness which he witnessed every where around him. Day after day, however, imped iments were placed in the way of his departure, and it was not until three days after the marriage festivi

ties that he succeeded in o taining an audience with Charles. He accompanied Charles to the racketcourt, where the young monarch

was

accustomed

and there idding him adieu, his amusements, and took his way on foot

spend much of his time, left him

toward his lodgings. "TTie pope, not aware of the treachery which contemplated, was much displeased in view

was

the apparent friendly relations which had thus sud denly sprung up etween the Catholics and Protes tants. He was e ceedingly perple ed y the mar

e postulate with the French King. Charles I was e ceedingly em ar rassed how to frame a reply. He wished to conriage, and

last

sent

legate

Romanism and Ruin. vince the legate of his entire devotion to the Church, and, at the same time, he did not dare

Papal to

tray his intentions for the detection of the conspiracy would not only frustrate all his plans, ut would load

him with ignominy and his enemies." "

vastly augment the

p ower

devoutly wish,' Charles replied, 'that I

T do

ut you and the pope shall soon could tell you all know how eneficial this marriage shall prove to the

religion. Take my word for it, in a lit tle time the holy father shall have reason to praise my designs, my piety, and my eal in ehalf of the interests of

faith.'

"As the Admiral

through the the Louvre

streets

Coligni

was

uietly passing

from his interview with Charles

his residence, in preparation for his departure, accompanied y twelve or fifteen of his personal friends, a letter was placed in his hands. He to

opened it, and egan to read as he walked slowly ust as he was turning a corner of the street, along. a musket was discharged from the window of an ad oining house, and two alls struck him. One cut off the finger of his right hand, and the other entered The admiral, inured to scenes of dan manifested not the slightest alarm. He calmly

his left ger,

pointed gun

arm.

had

out to

his friends the house from which the

een discharged, and his attendants rushed

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forward and roke open the door. The assassin, ack window, and, however, escaped through a mounting a fleet horse stationed there, and which was

su se uently proved to have elonged to a nephew of the king, avoided arrest. It was clearly proved in the investigations which immediately ensued that the assassin

was

in connivance with

some

of the

most

prominent Catholics of the realm. The Duke of Guise and Catharine were clearly implicated. "Messengers were immediately dispatched to in form the king of the crime which had een perpetrat ed. Charles was still playing in the tennis-cwirt.. Casting away his racket, he e claimed, with every ap pearance of indignation, 'Shall I never e at peace "TTie wounded admiral was conveyed to his lodg ings. The surgeons of the court, the ministers of the Protestant Church, and the most illustrious princes

and no les of the admiral's party hastened to the couch of the sufferer. Henry of Navarre was one of

the first that arrived, and he was deeply moved as he ent over his revered and much-loved friend. The intrepid and no le old man seemed perfectly calm

and composed, reposing unfailing trust in God. For 'My friends,' said he, 'why do you weep I deem it an honor to have received these myself, wounds for the name of God. Pray Him to strength en me.' "

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edside of the ad miral to the L uvre. He found Charles and Cath arine there, surounded y many of the no les of the

"Henry proceeded from the

In indignant tones Henry reproached oth mother and son widi the atrocity of the crime which had een committed, and demanded immediate percourt.

retire from Paris, asserting that neither he his friends could any longer remain in the capital

mission nor

safety. The king and his mother vied widi each other in noisy, volu le, and even lasphemous decla in

rations of their utter a horrence of the deed

ut all

the oaths of Charles and all the vociferations of Cath

strengthen the conviction of the Protest ants that they oth were implicated in this plot of as Catharine and Charles, feigning the sassination. deepest interest in the fate of dieir wounded guest, hastened to his sick-cham er with every possi le as surance of their distress and sympathy. Charles e pressed die utmost indignation at the murderous at arine did

tempt, and declared, with those oaths which mon to vulgar minds, that he would take the

ri le

vengeance upon

could discover them. "

the perpetrators

'To discover them

cannot

are com

most ter

as soon as

e difficult,' coolly

he re

plied the admiral. "Henry of Navarre, overwhelmed with indigna tion and sorrow, was gready alarmed in view of die

Romanism and Ruin. toils in which he found himself and his friends lessly involved. The Protestants, who had

thus lured

stricken

Paris, unarmed and helpless, indications

were

relentless

hope

een

panic-

per y made preparations to fidy. They immediately Henry, ewildered y rumors escape from the city. of plots and perils, hesitated whether to retire from the capital with his friends in a ody, taking the ad miral with them, or more secretly to endeavor to effect an

these

escape.

"But Catharine and Charles, the

having

moment

for

uite arrived, were unwearied in their e ertions to allay this e citement and soothe these alarms. They ecame renewedly clamorous in their e pressions of grief and indignation in view of the as sault upon the admiral. The king placed a strong guard around the house where the wounded no leman lay, ostensi ly for the purpose of protecting him from any popular out reak, ut in reality, as it su se uent ly appeared, to guard against his escape through die intervention of his friends. He also, with consum mate perfidy, urged the Protestants in the city to oc cupy uarters near together, diat, in case of trou le, diey might more easily e protected y him, and might more effectually aid one another. His real o ect, however, was to assem le them in more convenient pro imity for die slaughter to which they were tion

not

Romanism and Ruin. The Protestants

doomed.

were

ple ity. They prehensions were groundless were

ut that in the

ne t

not

hour

in the

deepest

per

ut that all their ap and yet they knew not

sure

some

attery would They were un

fearful

e unmasked for their destruction. armed, unorgani ed, and una le to make

any prepa

unknown danger. Catharine, whose depraved yet imperious spirit was guiding with such consimmnate dupHcity all this enginery of intrigue, ration

to meet an

hourly administered the stimulus of her own stern will to sustain the faltering purpose of her e ually de praved ut fickle-minded and im ecile son. "Some circumstances

was

indicate diat Charles

accomplice with his mother in the attempt

not an

upon

seem

the life of the admiral.

She said

her

son,

'Notwidistanding all your protestations, the deed will certainly e laid to your charge. Civil war will again e enkindled.

all in Paris.

The chiefs of the Protestants are now You had etter gain the victory at once

here than incur the ha ard of

a new

campaign.

'Well, then, said Charles petulandy, 'since you approve the murder of the admiral, I am content. But let all the Huguenots also fall, that there may not "

left

reproach me." Friday, die nd of August, that die ullets of the assassin wounded Coligni. The ne t day Henry called again, widi his ride, to visit his one

"It

was on

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friend, whose finger had een amputated, and who was suffering e treme pain from the wound in his arm.

Marguerite had

which

are

She did

not

ut few

sympathies with the

scenes

e witnessed in the cham er of sickness. conceal her impatience, ut, after a few

commonplace phrases of condolence with her hus and's osom friend, she hastened away, leaving Henry to perform alone the offices of friendly sym pathy. "While the

young King of Navarre was thus sit edside of the admiral, recounting to him ting the assurances of faith and honor given y Catharine and her son, the uestion was then under discussion, at

the

council, at the palace, y this very Catha rine and Charles, whether Henry, the hus and of the secret

daughter of the

and of the sister of the other, e included with the rest of the Protestants in the massacre which they were plotting. Charles manifested some reluctance thus treacherously to take one

should

the life of his early playmate and friend, his rotherin-law, and his invited guest. It was, after much de li eration, decided to protect him from the general

slaughter "The

which his friends

were

destined.

of the leading officers of king his troops, and commanded them immediately, ut secretly, to send his agents through every section of the city, to arm the Roman Catholic citi ens and assent

for

some

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sem le them, at midnight, in front of the Hotel de Ville. "The energetic Duke of Guise, who had ac uired much notoriety y the sanguinary spirit with which he the Protestants, was to take the lead had

persecuted

To prevent mistakes in the confusion of the carnage. of the night, he had issued secret orders for all Cath olics 'to wear a white cross on the hat, and to ind a

piece of white cloth around the arm,' In the darkest hour of the night, when all die sentinels of vigilance and all die powers of resistance should e most ef fectually disarmed y sleep, the alarm- ell from die tower of die Palace of ustice, was to toll die signal for die indiscriminate massacre of die Protestants.

ullet and die dagger were to e everywhere em ployed, and men, women, and diildren were to e With a very few individ cut down without mercy.

TTie

ual e ceptions, none were to e left to avenge die deed. Large odies of troops, who hated the Protes tants with that implaca le itterness which the most of many years had engendered, had een called into the city, and they, familiar with deeds

sanguinary

wars

of lood, were to commence the slaughter. All good citi ens were en oined, as they loved their Savior, to

aid in the e termination of the enemies of the

Church of Rome. Thus, it was declared, God would e glorified and the est interests of man promoted.

Romanism and Ruin. The spirit of the age was in harmony with the act, and it cannot e dou ted that there were those who had een so instructed y their spiritual guides that they truly elieved that y this sacrifice they were do

ing God service. "The conspiracy e tended throughout all the prov The storm was to urst, at tht same inces of France. moment, upon the unsuspecting victims in every city and village of the kingdom. Beacon-fires, with their lurid midnight glare, were to flash the tidings from mountain

mountain.

peal of alarm was to steeple, from city to ham

The

ring along from steeple to let, from valley to hillside, till the whole Catholic pop ulation should e aroused to o literate every vestige of Protestantism from the land.

"While Catharine and Charles

were

arranging all

the details of this deed of infamy, even to the very last moment they maintained with the Protestants the appearance of

the

most

cordial

friendship.

They

upon the Protestant generals and no les. The very day preceding the night when the massacre commenced, the king entertained, at a sump tuous feast in the Louvre, many of the most illustrious of the doomed guests. Many of the Protestant no les were that night, y the most pressing invitations, detained in the palace to sleep. Charles appeared in a glow of amia le spirits, and amused them, till a late hour, with his pleasantries.

lavished

caresses

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"Henry of Navarre, however, had his suspicions Though he did not and could very strongly aroused. not imagine anything so dreadful as a general mas sacre, he clearly foresaw that preparations were mak ing for some very e traordinary event. The entire depravity of oth Catharine and Charles he fully un derstood.

But he knew

not

where the

low would

e tremely perple ed in deciding as The apartments to the course he ought to pursue. assigned to him and his ride were in the palace of the Louvre. It would e so manifestly for his worldly fall, and he

was

unite with the CathoHc party, espe when he should see the Protestant cause hope

interest for him

cially lessly ruined, that the mother and rother of his wife had hesitatingly concluded that it would e safe to spare his life. Many of the most conspicuous mem ers of the court of Navarre lodged also in the capa cious palace, in cham ers contiguous to those which were occupied y their sovereign. "Marguerite's oldest sister had married the Duke of Lorraine, and her son, the Duke of Guise, an en ergetic, am itious, unprincipled profligate, was one of the most active agents in this conspiracy. His illus trious ranks, his near relationship with the king ren dering it not impro a le that he might yet inherit the throne his restless activity, and his implaca le ha tred of the Protestants, gave him the most prominent

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die leader of the Catholic party. He had often encountered the Admiral Coligni upon fields of attle, where all the malignity of the human heart had

position

een aroused, and had often een compelled to fly efore the strong arm of his powerful adversary. He felt that now the hour of revenge had come, and with

despica le heart he thirsted for the lood his no le foe. It was one of his paid agents who assassin's

fired ed

the admiral from the window, and, mount one of die fleetest charges of the Duke of

upon

Guise, the wretch made his

escape.

profound secret divulge it to her hus and. The Dutchess of Lorraine, however, was in all their deli erations, and, fully aware of the dread ful carnage which the night was to witness, she egan to feel, as the hour of midnight approached, very con sidera le an iety in reference to the safety of her sis ter. Conscious guilt magnified her fears and she was apprehensive lest the Protestants, when they should first awake to the treachery which surrounded them, would rush to the cham er of their king to pro "TTie conspiracy had een kept from Marguerite, lest she should

tect

him, and would wreak their

Catholic to

She did

spouse.

her sister the

cause

Marguerite, portuned her sister,

a out I

not

vengeance upon

dare

of her alarm

o'clock

even

arose

with tears,

his

communicate

and yet, when to retire, she im

not to occupy

the

Romanism and Ruin. ut to apartment with her hus and that night, sleep in her own private cham er. Catharine sharply reproved the Duchess of Lorraine for her imprudent remonstrances, and idding the ueen of Navarre same

good night, with maternal authority directed her to re pair to the room of her hus and. She departed to the nuptial cham er, wondering what could e the cause of such an unwonted display of sisterly solici tude and affection.

"When she entered her room, to her great surprise, she found thirty or forty gentlemen assem led there. They were the friends and supporters of Henry, who ecome alarmed had y the mysterious rumors which

were

floating from

ear

and

y the signs preparation

of agitation and secrecy, and strange which everywhere met the eye. No one could imag No one knew from ine what danger was impiending.

what

uarter the

storm

would

But that

urst.

a out

some

transpire was evident to all. It was too late to adopt any precau tions for safety. The Protestants, unarmed, unor gani ed, and widely dispersed, could now only prac tice the virtue of heroic fortitude in meeting their doom, whatever that doom might e. The gentle men in Henry's cham er did not venture to separate, and not an eye was closed in sleep. They sat to gether in the deepest perple ity and consternation, as

very

e traordinary

event

was

Romanism and Ruin. the hours of the night hngered slowly along, awaiting the developments with Which the

seemed

an iously moments

e fraught.

"In the meantime, aided y the gloom of a less night, in every street of Paris preparations

star v ere

perpetration. Soldiers were assem ling in different places of rende vous. Guards were stationed at important points in the city, that their victims might not escape. Armed citi ens, with loaded muskets and sa res gleaming in the lamp light, egan to emerge, through tne darkness, from their dwellings, and to gather in motley and intermi na le assem lage, around the Hotel de Ville. A regi ment of guards was stationed at the gates of the royal palace to protect Charles and Catharine from any possi ihty of danger. Many of the houses were il luminated, that y the light la ing from the windows, the ullet might e thrown with precision, and that the dagger might strike an unerring low. Agitation and alarm pervaded the vast metropolis. The Cath olics were re oicing that the hour of vengeance had arrived. The Protestants ga ed upon the portentious gatherings of this storm in utter ewilderment. "All the arrangements of the enterprise were left to the Duke of Guise, and a more efficient and fitting

going

for the

agent could

not

enormous

have

een found.

that the tocsin, the signal for the

He had ordered

massacre,

should e

Romanism and Ruin. o'clock in the morning. Catharine and Charles, in one of the apartments of the palace of the Louvre, were impatiently awaiting the lingering flight tolled

of the hours till the alarm- ell should toll forth the

death-warrant of their Protestant su ects. Catha rine, inured to treachery and hardened in vice, was

apparently

stranger to all compunctious visitings. A life of crime, had steeled her soul against every mera

ciful impression But she was very apprehensive lest her son, less o durate in purpose, might relent.

TTiough impotent

character, he was, at times, pet ulant and self-willed, and in paro ysms of stu orn ness spurned his modier's counsels and e erted his own

despotic

power.

"Charles

was now

hastily paced the

state

of feverish e citement.

peering out of the win dow, and almost every moment looking at his watch, wishing that the hour would come, and again half re gretting that the plot had een formed. The com panions and die friends of his childhood, die invited guests who, for many weeks, had een his associates in gay festivities, and in die interchange of all kindly words and deeds, were, at his command, efore the morning should dawn, to fall efore die ullet and die poniard of die midnight murderer. His mother wit nessed widi an iety diis wavering of his mind. She dierefore urged him no longer to delay, ut to anticiroom,

Romanism and Ruin. pate the hour, and sound the alarm.

send

servant

immediately

"Charles hesitated, while a cold sweat ran from his forehead. 'Are you a coward ' tauntingly in uired

This is the charge which will always make the poltroon s uirm. The young king

the fiend-like mother.

nervously e claimed, 'Well, then, egin '

CHAPTER VII. The Night "TTiere

Horrors.

the time only the rother, the Duke of An ou.

in the cham er

were

king, his mother, and his A messenger was immediately dispatched to strike the ell. It was two hours after midnight. A few mo ments

of terri le

suspense

ensued.

TTiere

was a

dead

silence, neither of the three uttering a word. They all stood at the windows looking out into the rayless night. Suddenly, through the still air, the ponderous tones

of the alarm- ell fell upon the

the knell of death

over

ened the demon in

ten

ear,

and rolled

the city. Its vi rations awak thousand hearts. It was the

. It was , morning of the Sa ath, August the anniversary of the festival in honor of St. Barthol

which had long een cele rated. At the sound of the tocsin, the signal for the massacre, armed men rushed from every door into the streets, shouting, omew,

'Vive Dieu

Live God and the king "As the solemn dirge from the steeple rang out up on the night air, the king stood at the window of the et

le roi '

palace trem ling

Hardly had the of the alarm- ell fallen upon his ear when the report of a musket was heard, and the first vic-

first

tones

in every

nerve.

Romanism and Ruin. The sound seemed to animate to fren y the demoniac Catharine, while it almost fro e the lood in the veins of the young monarch, and he passionate tim fell.

ly called too

out

for the

The train

late.

massacre

was

stopped.

fired, and could

not

was e

The signal passed with the rapidity of sound from steeple to steeple, till not only Paris, ut

tinguished.

entire France

was

aroused.

The

roar

of human

pas

sion, the crackling fire of musketry, and the shrieks of the wounded and the dying, rose and lended in one

throughout the whole metropolis. Guns, pistols, daggers, were everywhere usy. Old men, terrified maidens, helpless infants, venera le matrons, were alike smitten, and mercy had no appeal which fearful din

could touch the heart of the murderers.

Cohgni surrounded ed, y

"The wounded Admiral upon

his

friends,

olence and

the

was a

lying helpless personal

few

of the rising storm of human vi rolled in upon their ears. TTie Duke

uproar

rage

of Guise, with three hundred soldiers, hastened to the lodgings of the admiral. The gates were immedi

ately knocked down, and the sentinels sta ed. A servant, greatly terrified, rushed into the inner apart ment where the wounded admiral was lying, and e claimed, "

'The house is forced, and there is

resisting.'

means

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long since,' said the admiral, calmly, 'pre pared myself to die. Save yourselves, my friends, if "

'I have

for you cannot defend soul to the mercy of God.'

you can, my

life.

I conunend

"The companions of the admiral, having no possi le means of protection, and perhaps adding to his

immediately fled to other They were pursued and apartments of the house. sta ed. Three leaped from the windows and were peril

y their

presence,

shot in the streets.

"Coligni, left alone in his apartment, rose with difficulty from his ed, and, eing una le to stand, leaned for support against the wall. A desperado y the name of Breme, a follower of the Duke of Guise, with a congenial and of accomplices, rushed into the room. They saw a venera le man, pale, and with andaged wounds, in his night-dress, engaged in prayer.

"Art thou the admiral ' demanded the assassin, randished sword. "'I am,' replied the admiral and, thou, young "

with

man,

thou

should respect

my gray

hairs.

Nevertheless,

a ridge my life ut a fittle.' "Breme plunged his sword into his osom, and then withdrawing it, gave him a cut upon the head. canst

The admiral fell, calmly saying, 'If I could ut die y the hand of a gentleman instead of such a knave

Romanism and Ruin. of the assassins then rushed upon him, piercing his ody with their daggers. "The Duke of Guise, ashamed to meet the eye of this '

The

rest

the cisest treachery, remained im patiently in the court-yard elow. 'Breme ' he shouted, looking up at the window, this no le victim

'have you done it ' 'Yes,' Breme e claimed from the cham er, 'he "

is done for.' "

'Let

us see

though,' re oined the duke.

'Throw

ody from the window.' "The mangled corpse was immediately thrown down upon the pavement of the court-yard. TTie duke, with his handkerchief, wiped the lood and tlie dirt from his face, and carefully scrutini ed the feat the

ures. "

'Yes,' said he, 'I recogni e him.

He is the

man.'

"Then giving the palid cheek a kick, he e claimed, 'Courage, comrades we have happily egun. Let us now go for others. TTie king commands it.' "In si teen

from this

the Duke of Guise was himself assassinated, and received a kick in the face from Henry III rother of the same king in whose service he had drawn the dagger of the mur years

event

derer.

Thus died the Admiral Coligni, one of the no lest sons of France. Though ut fifty-si years

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age

and

was

suffering.

prematurely infirm from

care,

and toil,

"For three days the ody was e posed to the insults of the populace, and finally was hung up y the feet on a gi et. A cousin of Coligni secretly caused it to

e taken down and uried.

"The tiger, having once lapped his tongue in lood, e im ued with a new spirit of ferocity. seems to

similar temper, which is roused and stimulated y carnage. The e citement of human slaughter converts man into a demon. The riotous There is in

man a

ecoming each moment more and more clamorous for lood. They roke open the houses of Protestants, and, rushing into their cham ers, murdered indiscriminately oth se es and multitude of Parisians

every age.

The

was

streets

resounded wilh the shouts of

the assassins and the shrieks of their victims.

'Kill

kill

of the slain

more were

lood ' thrown

rent

out

the air.

The

odies

of the windows into the

streets, and the pavements of the

with human

Cries of

city

were

clotted

gore.

"Charles, who

overwhelmed with such com punctions of conscience when he heard the first shot, and eheld from his window the commencement of the was

utchery, soon recovered from his momentary waver ing, and, conscious that it was too late to draw ack, with fiend-like eagerness engaged himself in the work

RomanisTn and Ruin. of death. TTie monarch when

oy, had een noted

for his sanguinary spirit, dehghtir with his own hand to perform the revolting acts of the slaughterhouses. Perfect fury seemed to now take possession of him.

His cheeks

were

flushed, his lips compressed, his

glared with fren y.

Bending eageidy from his win

dow, he shouted words of encouragement sins.

the

assas

handling of which he skillful from long practice in the chase,

Grasping

ecame very he watched, like

eyes

saw

gun,

in the

sportsman, for his prey and when unfortunate Protestant, wounded and

leeding, flying

from his

pursuers,

he would take de

li erate aim from the window of his palace, and shout with e ultation as he saw him fall, pierced y his ul

let.

A crowd of

fugitives ru ed

court-yard of the Louvre to throw themselves upon the protection of the king. Charles sent his own ody-guard into the yard, with guns and daggers, to utcher them all, and the pavements of the palace-yard were drenched into the

with their lood.

" ust efore the

carnage

commenced. Marguerite,

weary with e citement and the agitating conversation to which she had so long listened, retired to her pri

apartment for sleep. She had hardly closed her eyes when the fearful outcries of the pursuers and the vate

pursued filled the palace. She sprang up in her ed, and heard some one struggling at the door, and shriek-

Romanism and Ruin. a paro ysm of terror ing 'Navarre Navarre ' In One of she ordered an attendant to open the door. with her hus and's retinue instantly rushed in, covered wounds and lood, pursued y four soldiers of her rother's guard. The captain of the guard entered of at the same moment, and, at the earnest entreaty the princess, spared her die anguish of seeing die friend

of her hus and murdered efore her eyes. "Marguerite, half delirious widi ewilderment and of her terror, fled from her room to seek die apartment shouts The palace was filled with uproar, the sister.

of die assassins and die shrieks of dieir victims lend ing in awful confusion. As she was rushing dirough the hall, she encountered anodier Protestant gendeefore die dripping sword of his pursuer. man flying

lood, flowing from the many wounds he had already received. ust as he reached the young ueen of Navarre, his pursuer overtook He

was

him and dead

covered with

plunged

sword through his

ody.

He fell

her feet.

"No tongue can tell the horrors of that night. It would re uire volumes to record the frightful scenes

which

were

enacted

efore the morning dawned.

Among the most remarka le escapes we may menrion that of a lad whose name afterwards attained much

cele rity.

Rosny, a Protestant lord worth, had accompanied his son

TTie Baron de

of great influence and

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intelligent and spirited oy, a out eleven years of age, to Paris, to attend the nuptials of the King of Navarre. This young prince, Ma imil ian, afterward the world-renowned Duke of Sully, had previously een prosecuting his studies in the Col lege of Burgundy, in the metropolis, and had ecome a great favorite with the warm-hearted King of Na Ma imilian,

very

His father had

varre.

luctance, for he had

Paris with great re confidence in the protestations come

Immediately after the attempt was made to assassinate the admiral, the Ba ron de Rosny, with many of his friends, left the city, intrusting his son to die care of a private tutor and a He occupied lodgings in a remote valet de cham re. uarter of the city and near the colleges. "Young Ma imilian was asleep in his room, when, a litde after midnight, he was aroused y the ringing of Cadiarine and Charles I .

of die alarm- ells, and the confused cries of the popu lace. His tutor and valet de cham re sprang from their

eds, and hurried

tumult.

They

ascertain the

cause

did not, however, return, for

hardly reached the door when they

were

of the

they had

shot down.

Ma imilian, in great ewilderment respecting their continued a sence, and the dreadful clamor continu ally increasing, was hurriedly dressing himself, when his landlord came in, pale and trem ling, and inform ed him of the massacre Which was going on, and that

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y the avowal of his faith in the Catholic religion. He earnestly urged Ma imilian to do the same. The young prince mag nanimously resolved not to save his life y falsehood

he had saved his

own

Hfe only

and apostasy. He determined to attempt, in the dark ness and confusion of the night, to gain the College of

Burgundy, where he hoped

find

some

Catholic

friends who would protect him. "TTie distance of the college from the house in

which he

was,

rendered the

undertaking desperately

Having disguised himself in the dress of a Roman Catholic priest, he took a large prayer- ook under his arm, and trem lingly issued forth into the streets. The sights which met his eye in the gloom of that awful night, were enough to appall the stoutest

perilous.

The murderers, frantic with e citement and into icahon, were uttering wild outcries, and pursuing in every direction, their terrified victims. Women and

heart.

children, in their night-clothes, having ust sprung in terror from their eds, were flying from their pursuers, covered with wounds, and uttering fearful shrieks. The mangled odies of the young and of the old, of mc es and females, were strewn along the streets, and

die pavements were slippery widi lood. Loud and dreadful outcries were heard from the intc-io" of the

the work of midnight assassination pro ceeded and struggles of desperate violence were wit-

dwellings

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nessed,

the murderers

leeding and dying

attempted

victims from the

throw their

high windows

the pavements elow. The shouts of the assailants, the shrieks of the wounded, as low after low fell upon them, the incessant reports

cham ers and attics

upon

of muskets and pistols, the tramp of the soldiers, and the peals of the alarm- ell, all com ined to create a scene of terror such as human eyes have seldom wit

perils, the young man crept along, protected y his priestly gar , while he fre uently saw his fellow Christians shot and sta nessed. In the midst of

ten

thousand

his very side.

turning a comer, he fell into the midst of a and of the ody-guard of the king, whose swords were dripping with lood. They sei ed him with great roughness, when, seeing the Catholic pray er- ook which was in his hands, they considered it a safe passport, and permitted him to continue on his Twice again he encountered similar way unin ured. peril, as he was sei ed y ands of infuriated men,

"Suddenly,

and

each time he

was

e tricated in the

same

way.

"At length he arrived at the College of Burgundy now his danger increased tenfold. It was a Calhohc college. The porter at the gate a solutely re

and

fused him admittance. The murderers

tiply ing uestions.

egan

mul

in the street around him with fierce and threaten

Ma imilian

length, y in uiring for

Romanism and Ruin. La Fayne, the president of the college, and y plac ing a ri e in the hands of the porter, succeeded in o taining entrance. La Fayne was a humane man, and

e ceedingly attached

his Protestant pupil.

Ma i

milian entered the apartment of the president, and found there two Catholic priests. The priests, as

they saw him, insisted upon cutting him down, declaring that the king had commanded that not even the infant at the reast should e spared. The good old man, however, firmly resolved to protect his young friend, and, conducting him privately to a secure cham er, locked him up. Here he remained for three days in the greatest suspense, apprehensive every soon as

hour that the assassins would reak in upon him. A faithful servant of the president rought him food, ut could tell him

nothing ut deeds of treachery and At die end of die three days, the heroic oy, who afterward attained great cele rity as the minister and osom friend of Henry, was released and pro lood.

tected.

"The morning of St. Bartholomew's day had not dawned when a and of soldiers entered the cham er of Henry of Navarre and conveyed him to the pres ence of the king. Fren ied with die e citements of die

the im ecile

ut passionate monarch received him widi a countenance inflamed with fury. With lasphemous oaths and imprecations, he commanded scene,

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King of Navarre, as he valued his hfe, to a andon a rehgion which Charles affirmed that the Protestants had assumed only as a cloak for their re ellion. With violent gesticulations and threats, he declared that he would no longer su mit to e contradicted y his su ects, ut that they should revere him as the image of God. Henry, who was a Protestant from consider ations of state policy rather than from Christian prin ciple, and who saw in the conflict merely a strife e tween two political parties, ingloriously yielded to that necessity y which alone he could save his hfe. Charles gave him three days to deli erate, declaring, the

violent oath, that if, at the end of that time, he did not yield to his commands, he would cause him

with to

strangled.

Henry yielded.

not

only

went

the degradation of himself, sending an edict to his own dominions, prohi iting the e ercise of any religion e cept that of Rome. This indecision was a serious lot upon his character. En to mass

ut su mitted

ergetic and decisive

was

in all his

government, his religious convictions and wavering.

measures

were

very

fee le

"When die darkness of night passed away and die morning of the Sa adi dawned upon Paris, a spec tacle was witnessed such as the streets even of diat lood-renowned metropolis had seldom presented. The city still resounded widi diat most awful of all

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tumults, the clamor of

infuriated mo .

The pave

Men, wom en and diildren were still flying in every direction, wounded and leeding, pursued y merciless assas ments were

covered with

gory corpses.

sins, riotous with demoniac laughter and drunk with lood. The report of guns and pistols was heard in all parts of the city, sometimes in continuous volleys, as if platoons of soldiers were firing upon their victims,

while the scattered shots, incessantly repeated in every section of the e tended metroprahs, proved the universaHty of the massacre. Drunken wretches, esmeared

swaggering along the streets, with ri ald ests and demoniac owlings, hunting for the Protestants. Bodies, torn and gory, were hanging from the windows, and dissevered heads were spumed like foot alls along the pavements. Priests were seen in their sacerdotal ro es, with elevated cmcifi es, and wath fanatical e clamations, encouraging the mur derers not to grow weary in their holy work of e terminating God's enemies. The most distinguished no les and generals of the court and camp of Charles with

lood,

mounted

through

were

horse ack with

gorgeous

the streets, encouraging

retinue, rode

y voice and

arm

the

indiscriminate massacre. 'Let not,' the king proclaimed, 'one single Prot estant e spared to reproach me hereafter with this "

deed.'

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whole week the massacre continued, and computed that from eighty to a hundred thous

"For it

was

slain throughout the kingdom. "Charles himself, with Catharine and the high- orn, ut profligate ladies who disgraced her court, emerged with the morning light, in splendid array, into the reek and Protestants

ing

streets.

were

The ladies

contemplated with merriment

and ri ald ests the dead

odies of ihe Protestants

piled up efore the Louvre. Some of the retinue, ap palled y the horrid spectacle, wished to retire, alleg ing that the odies already emitted a putrid odor. Charles inhumanly replied, 'The smell of a dead enemy is always pleasant.' "On Thursday after four days spent in hunting out the fugitives and finishing the loody work, the clergy paraded the streets in a triumphal procession, and with u ilant prayers and hymns gave thanks to God for their great victory. The Catholic pulpits resounded with e ultant harangues, and in honor of the event a medallion was struck off, with the inscription 'La piete a reveille la ustice' Religion has awakened ustice.

"In the distant provinces of France the massacre was continued as the Protestants were hunted from all their hiding places. In some departments, as in San-

tonge and Lower Languedoc, the Protestants were so numerous that the Catholics did not venture to attack

them.

some

other provinces

they

were so

few that

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nothing whatever to fear from them, and therefore spared them and in the sparsely settled the Cathohcs had

rural districts the peasants refused to im rue their hands in the lood of their neigh ors. Many thous

and Protestants throughout the kingdom in these ways

escaped.

But in nearly all the populous towns, where the Catholic population predominated, the massacre was In Meau , four hun dred houses of Protestants were pillaged and devas universal and indiscriminate.

tated, and the inmates, without regard to utterly e terminated. At Orleans there thousand Protestants.

furiously through

rode

age

were

se ,

three

A troop of armed horsemen the streets, shouting 'Courage,

oys kill all, and then you shall divide their proper ty.' At Rouen, many of the Protestants, at the first

alarm, fled. The rest were arrested and thrown into prison. They were then rought out, one y one, and

deli erately murdered.

slam.

Such

were

the

scenes

hundred

which

were

thus

enacted in

Toulouse, Bordeau , Bourges, Angers, Lyons, and of other cities in France. It is impossi le to as certain with precision the num er of victims. The

scores

Duke of Sully, estimates them at seventy thousand. The Bishop Perefi e, at one hundred thousand. This

pro a ly not e aggerated, if we in clude the unhappy fugitives, who, fleeing from their latter estimate is

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homes, died of cold, hunger, and fatigue, and all the other nameless woes which accrued from this great ca

lamity. to

"In the midst of these scenes of horror it is pleasant record several instances of generous humanity. In

the

ar arism of those times

dueling was a common A CathoHc officer y the name of Vessins,

practice. one a

of the

most

fierce and irrita le

private uarrel with

was

Regnier.

in Paris

men

in France, had

Protestant officer whose

They had mutually sought

o tain such satisfaction

each other

duel could

Regnier, while at prayers with his servant for in those days dueling and praying were not deemed inconsistent heard the door of his room roken open, and looking round in e pectation of instant death, saw his foe Vessins enter reathless with e citement and haste. Regnier, con scious that all resistance would e unavailing, calmly ared his osom to his enemy, e claiming 'You will have an easy victory. "Vessins made no reply, ut ordered the valet to seek his master's cloak and sword. Then leading him into the street, he mounted him upon a powerful afford.

In the midst of the

name

massacre,

horse, and with fifteen armed

men

escorted him

out

the city. Not a word was e changed etween them. When they arrived at a little grove at a short distance

from the residence of the Protestant gentleman, Ves-

Romanism and Ruin. sins

presented

him with his sword, and

and defend himself, saying 'Do not imagine that I seek your

ade him dis

mount "

what I have done.

honora ly.' "Regnier threw

All I wish is

friendship y

take

your

life

his sword, saying, 'I will never strike at one who has saved my life. 'Very well ' Vessins repHed, and left him, mak away

present of the horse on which he rode. "Though the commands which the king sent to the

ing him

various provinces of France for the massacre were very generally o eyed, there were e amples of dis tinguished virtue, in which Catholics of high rank not

only refused to im rue their own hands in lood, ut periled their lives to protect the Protestants. The Bishop of Lisieu , in the e ercise of true Christian charity, saved all the Protestants in the town over which he presided. The Governor of Auvergne re plied to the secret letter of die king in the following words 'Sire, I have received an order, under your ma esty's seal, to put all the Protestants of this prov ince to death, and if, which God for id, the order e genuine, I respect your ma esty still too much to o ey you.' "The king had sent a similar order to the com mandant at Bayonne, the Viscount of Orthe . The following no le words were returned in reply

Romanism and Ruin. "

'Sire, I have communicated thecommandsof your

the inha itants of the town and to the soldiers of the garrison, and I have found good citi rave soldiers, ut not one e ecutioner on ens and

ma esty

they and I hum ly eseech you to em ploy our arms and our lives in enterprises in which However perilous we can conscientiously engage. they may e, we will willingly shed therein the last drop of our lood." which

account,

"Both of these no le-minded

men soon

after

very

suddenly and mysteriously died. Few entertained a dou t that poison had een administered y the order

of Charles.

"The law of France re uired that these Protest ants should e hunted to death. This was the law

promulgated y the king and sent y his to the appointed officers of the crown. "But there is

kings and

dered

fidelity

were

there is

HIGHER LAW

own

letters

than that of

No ly these ma estic men ren it their allegiance. TTiey sealed their the HIGHER LAW with their lood. They courts.

martyrs,

not

fanatics.

"On the third day of the massacre the king assem led ihe Parliament in Paris, and made a pu lic avowal of the part he had taken in this fearful trag edy, and of the reasons which had influenced him to the deed. Though he hoped to silence all Protest-

Romanism and Ruin. tongues in his own realms to death, he knew that He the tale would e told throughout all Europe.

ant

therefore stated, in ustification of the act, that he had, 'as if y miracle,' discovered that the Protestants

conspiracy against his own life and that of all his family. "This charge, however, uttered for the moment, There was was speedily dropped and forgotten. not the slightest evidence of such a design. "The Parliament, to give a little sem lance of ustice to the king's accusation, sat in udgment upon the memory of the no le Coligni. They sentenced him to e hung in effigy ordered his arms to e dragged at the heels of a horse dirough all die princi pal tovms of France his magnificent Castle of Chawere

tillon

engaged

e ra ed

re uilt his fertile

its foundations, and

acres,

never

in the culture of which he

had found his chief

delight, to e desolated and sown with salt his portraits and statues, wherever found, to e destroyed his children to lose their title of no ility all his goods and

die

use

crown,

and

e confiscated

monument

of dura le

e raised, upon which this sentence of the should e engraved, to transmit to all posterity

mar le court

of the

estates to

his alleged Infamy. Thus one of the no lest servants

But there is

punished

earth

oth of God and

man.

was

day of final udgment

yet to

come.

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The

oppressor

has

ut his

rief hour.

There is

eter

nity to right the oppressed. "Notwithstanding this general and awful massacre, the Protestants were far from eing e terminated. Several no les, surrounded y their retainers in their distant casdes, suspicious of treachery, had refused attend the wedding of Henry and Marguerite. Others who had gone to Paris, alarmed y the attack upon Admiral Cohgni, immediately re

to go to

tired

Paris

their homes.

Some concealed themselves in

garrets, cellars, and wells until die massacre was over. As has een stated, in some towns the gov ernors refused to engage in the merciless utchers,

and in others the Protestants had die ma ority, and with their own arms could defend themselves within die walls which their

troops garrisoned. panic caused y die dreadful

own

"Though, slaughter, the Protestants made no resistance, ut either surrendered themselves su missively to the sword of the assassin, or sought safety in concealment or flight, soon indignation took the place of fear. Those who had fled from the kingdom to Protestant states rallied together. The survivors in France e in the first

their num ers and marshal their forces for self-preservation. From every part of Protestant

gan to count

Europe a cry ously arose in

of horror and e ecration simultane view of this crime of

unparalleled

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enormity. In many places the Catholics themselves seemed appalled in contemplation of the deed they

Words of sympathy were sent to these martyrs to a pure faith from many of the Pro testant kingdoms, with pledges of determined and

had

perpetrated.

efficient aid.

rapidly gained they flocked into

The Protestants

From all the country, walled towns which still remained in their age.

"As the

fugitives

cour

those

power.

from France, emaciate,

pale, and

woe-stricken, with tattered and dusty gar , recited in England, Swit erland, and Germany the horrid story of the

massacre,

the hearts of their auditors

fro en with horror.

In Geneva

were

day of fasting and

instituted, which is o served even to the In Scotland every church resounded present day. with the thrilling tale and Kno , whose infle i le spirit was nerved for those iron times, e claimed, in language of prophetic nerve 'Sentence has gone forth against that murderer, the King of France, and the vengeance of God will prayer

was

never

e withdrawn from his house.

e held in

everlasting

His

name

shall

e ecration."

"The French court, alarmed y the indignation it had aroused, sent an am assador to London with a

apology for the crime, y pretending that the Protestants had conspired against the life of the king. The am assador was received in the court of the poor

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with appalHng coldness and gloom. Arrange ments were made to invest the occasion with the most impressive solemnity. The court was shrouded in ueen

mourning, and all the lords and ladies appeared in A

sa le weeds.

stern

every countenance.

y his reception,

was

and som re sadness

was

upon

TTie am assador, overwhelmed overheard to e claim to himself.

itterness of heart

ashamed

acknowledge myself

French

man.' "He entered, however, the presence of the c ueen, passed through the long line of silent courtiers, who

salute him, or even to honor him with a look, stammered out his misera le apology, and, re ceiving no response, retired covered with confusion.

refused

Eli a eth,

atones

for

"Very

in the

diank thee

TTiis

one

no le deed

of thy crimes. different was the reception of these many

court

of Rome.

The

messenger

tidings

who carried

received with transports of oy, and was rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold. Cannons ells rung, and an immense procession, were fired, the

news was

with all the trappings of sacerdotal re oicing, pa raded the streets. Anthems were chanted r-nd

thanksgivings victory medal

over

was

solemnly offered for the great the enemies of the church. A gold were

struck off

to commemorate

the event and

Romanism and Rum. and Catharine were pronounced, y the Charles I infalli le word of his hoHness, to e especial favorites of God. Spain and the Netherlands united with Rome in these infamous e ultations. Philip II. wrote from Madrid to Catharine 'These tidings are the greatest and the most glori ous I could have received. "Such was the awful massacre of St. Bartholo "

in ail its aspects of per fidy, cruelty, and cowardice, it must e pronoun ed the greatest crime recorded in history. The victims mew.

When

contemplated

invited under the guise of friendship to Paris. They were received with solemn oaths of peace and protection. The leading men in the nation placed were

the dagger in the hands of an ignorant and degraded people. The priests, professed ministers of esus Christ, stimulated the enighted multitude y all the

appeals of fanaticism denounced

e terminate those whom

the enemies of God and

man.

they

After

the great atrocity was perpetrated, princes and priests, with loodstained hands, flocked to the atlars of God,

Father, to diank Him that the massacre een accomplished. "TTie annals of the world are filled with narra tives of crime and woe, ut die Massacre of St. Bar

our common

had

tholomew stands perhaps without a parallel. "It has een said, 'The lood of die martyrs

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This is only true with e ceptions. Protestantism in France has never re covered from this low. But for this massacre, onehalf of the no les of France would have continued is the seed of the Church.'

Protestant. so

large

The Reformers would have constituted portion of the population that mutual tol

eration would have

een

necessary.

Henry IV

Intel have ad ured the Protestant faith. ligence would have een diffused religion would have een respected and, in all pro a ility, the hor

would

rors

not

of the French Revolution would have

een

averted. "God is

in the

mysterious government which He wields, mysterious only to our fee le vis ion. He 'visits the ini uities of the fathers upon the children, even unto the third and fourth generation.' As we see the priests of Paris and of France, during the awful tragedy of the Revolution, massacred in the prisons, shot in the streets, hung upon the lamp posts and driven in starvation and woe from the king dom, we cannot ut remem er the day of St. Bar tholomew. The th of August, , and the d of Septem er , though far apart in the records of time, are consecutive days in the government of God."

avenger

CHAPTER VIII. The

Ignatius Loyola

in many respects

was

cising

his times. the

ance,

orn in the most

year

remarka le

man, e er

e traordinary influence over the people He fought in the siege of Pampeluna at

year

wound. ical

was

esuits.

which time he received

From that time he devoted himself

thinking,

serious

of in

serious

to pen

and mortification of the

phys

man.

himself

gave

the service of the

church and the organi ation of the Order of the es uits. This Order was recogni ed at Rome, and es ta lished y a papal ull in the year . The

esuit Order

was soon

introduced into France

one

of the Catholic cardinals, and very rapidly grew in influence until it ecame the dominating power of the state.

From that time the

esuits demanded the

most

plicit su mission and o edience of their dictates. They were the itter enemies of anything approach ing religious H erty, and were ready to hunt down, punish, and persecute any man or organi ation of men

who did

not

the will of the

su mit in the

Pope

Rome.

most

a solute

way to

Romanism and Ruin.

esuits at once devoted themselves to the work of ringing ack any heretics who had strayed from the fold or driving them from the face of the earth. They seemed to have een utterly without mercy or pity toward any of their fellow eings, how The

ever

e cellent citi ens,

devout servants of the Lord

esus Christ, they may have een, if they did not fully su scri e to all of the superstitions and dicta tions of the Romish hierarchy. The watchword was "Recant

die."

In the coming conflict etween the Pope of Rome and the li erty-loving citi ens of the United States it will e well for our people to know something of this

Order, and its methods of procedure in its efforts

and promote the teach ing and interests of the Roman Catholic Church. The following uotations from Samuel Smile's e su due the consciences of

men

the Huguenots will give some idea of the fearful ravages and ruin wrought y the Order cellent work

early history of that organi ation. "The first great field in which the esuits put forth their new orn strength was Flanders, which then formed part of the possessions of Spain. The prov of the

esuits

in the

inces of the Netherlands had reached the summit of commercial and manufacturing prosperity. They

y terprising people

were

inha ited

hard-working, intelligent and

great

artists and

merchants.

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painters and printers, architects and iron-workers as the decayed glories of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent testify to this day. Although the two latter cities never completely recovered from the in uries inflicted on them y the tyranny of the trades-unions, there een were numerous other towns, where industry had left comparatively free, in which the arts of peac Under the mild sway were cultivated in security. of the Burgundian dukes, Antwerp ecame the cen tre of commerce of Northern Europe and more us

iness is said at

Venice in

have

een done there in

two years

when

grandeur. A out the year mon sight to see as many as ,

month than

the summit of its

, it

was no uncom

ships in

the Scheldt, laden with merchandise for all parts of the world. "Such was the prosperity of Flanders, and such

the greatness of Antwerp, when Philip II. of Spni" succeeded to the rich inheritance of Burgundy on the . Had resignation of Charles V- in the year

his su ects

een of the

same

mind with himself in

reHgious matters, Philip might have escaped the in famy which attaches to his name. But a large propor tion of the

most skilled and industrious people in the Netherlands had im i ed the new ideas as to a reform

religion which had swept over Northern Europe They had read the newly-translated Bi le with avi-lity they had formed themselves into religious comin

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munities, and appointed preachers of dieir own in a word, they were Protestants. "Phihp had scarcely succeeded to the Spanish dirone dian he ordered a ranch of die In uisition to e set up in Flanders, with the Cardinal Grenvelle

In uisitor General. The institution e cited great opposition among all classes, Caiholic as well as Protestant and it was shortly followed y hostility and resistance, which eventually culminated in civil war. Sir Thomas Gresham, writing to Cecil from , , said, 'There are a ove Antwerp in as

Protestants in this

town,

which will die rather dian

the Word of God should e put to silence.' "TTie struggle which now egan was alike fierce oth sides, and e tended The powerful armies which the

and determined many years.

directed against his revolted su ects a le generals, y the Duke of Alva,

Famese, prince of Parma, and

though they did

not

were

king led y

y Ale ander

many more

succeed in

over

and al

esta lishing the In

uisition in the Netherlands, they succeeded in either e terminating or anishing the greater part of the Protestants south of the Scheldt, at the same time that they ruined the industry of Flanders, destroyed

its trade and reduced the Catholics themselves gary.

Bruges and Ghent

diieves and

paupers.

The

esr-

ecame crowded with

usy

uays of

Antwerp

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deserted, and its industrious artisans, tradesmen,

place, leaving the prop erty ehind them a prey to the spoiler. "The Duchess of Parma, writing to Philip in men had al , , said that 'in a few days ready left the country with their money and goods, and that more were following every day.' Clough, writing to Gresham from Antwerp in the same year, said 'It is marveylus to see how the pepell packe away from hense some for one place, and some for another as well the papysts as the Protestents for it is thought that howsomever it goeth, it can not go well here for that presently all the wealthy and rich men of oth sydes, who should e the stay of matters, make themselves away.' "The Duke of Alva carried on this frightful war of e termination and persecution for si years, during and merchants fled from the

which he oasted that he had

sent

persons to

the scaffold, esides the immense num ers destroyed in attles and sieges, and in the unrecorded acts of

cruelty perpetrated on the peasantry y the Spanish soldiery. Philip heard of the depopulation and ruin of his provinces without regret and though Alva was recalled, the war was carried on with increased fury y the generals who succeeded him. What mainly comforted Philip was, that the people who remained were at length ecoming terrified into orthodo y.

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The ecclesiastics assured the Duke of Parma, the governor, that, notwithstanding the depopulation of the provinces, more people were coming to them for confession and a solution

the last Easter than had

eginning of the revolt. Parma immediately communicated the consoling intelligence to Philip, who replied, 'You can not imagine my sat isfaction at the news you give me concerning last ever come

since the

Easter.'

"TTie

flight of the Protestants from the Low Coun

tries continued for many years. All who

were

strong

fly, fled only the weak, die helpless, and enough the hopeless, remained. The fugitives turned their to

acks

Flanders, and their faces toward Holland,

Germany and England, and fled thither with their wives an children, and what goods they could carry with diem, to seek new homes. Several hundred thousands of her est artisans clothiers, dyers,

cutlers, and iron-workers of all kinds left Flanders, carrying with them into the countries of their adoption their skill, their intelligence and dieir spirit of li erty. The greater num er of diem went directly into Holland, dien gallantly strug' weavers,

tanners,

gling with Spain for its independent e istence. There they founded new ranches of industry, which event ually proved a source of wealdi and strengdi to the United Provinces. Many odiers passed over into England, hailing it as "Asylum Christi.'

Romanism and Ruin. "One of the circumstances which gave the most grievous offense to the French and Spanish monarchs

the free asylum which Eli a eth offered in Eng land to the Protestants flying from their persecutions a road. Tliough those rulers would not permit their was

worship according to conscience in their own country, neither would they tolerate their leav ing it to worship in freedom elsewhere. Conformity, ut conformity not depopulation, was their o ect, y force if not y suasion. All attempts made y the persecuted to leave France or Flanders were ac cordingly interdicted. They were threatened with confiscation of their property and goods if they fled, and with death if they were captured. The hearts of the kings were hardened, and they 'would not let the people go.' But the sea was a road and free su ects

road that could

e closed, and from all parts of of France and Flanders the tidings reached not

the coasts the monarchs of the

escape of their su ects, whom had failed either to convert or kill. they They could then ut gnash their teeth and utter threats against the ueen and the nation that had given their perse

cuted people asylum. "The French king

formally demanded that Eli a eth should anish his fugitive su ects from her realm as re els and heretics ut he was impotent to enforce his demands, and the fugitives remained. The Span-

Romanism and Ruin. ish monarch then called upon the Pope to interfere, and he, in his turn, tried to close the ports of England against foreign heretics. In a communication ad

y him to Eli a eth, the Pope proclaimed the fugitives to e 'drunkards and sectaries' and de clared 'that all such as were the worst of the people resorted to England, and were y the ueen received into safe protection.' "The Pope's denunciations of the refugees were answered y Bishop ewell, who vindicated their character, and held them up as e amples of industry and orderly living. 'Is it not lawful ' he asked, 'for the ueen to receive the strangers without the Pope's fde speaketh of the poor e iles from warrant dressed

Flanders, France, and other countries, who either lost or left ehind them all that they had, goods, lands, and houses, not for adultery, or theft, or treason, ut

for the profession of the gospel. It pleased God here to cast them on land the ueen, of her gracious

pity, hath granted them har or. Is it so heinous a thing to show mercy ' The ishop proceeded to re tort upon the Pope for har oring usurers and , courtesans in his own city of Rome and he , desired to know whether, if the Pope was to e al lowed to entertain such 'servants of the devil,' the

ueen of England was to e denied the li erty of receiving 'a few servants of God ' 'They are,' he

Romamsm and Ruin.

continued, 'our rethren they live

not

idly.

they

have houses of us, they pay rent for them. They hold not our grounds ut y making due recompense.

They our

hands

not

our

streets,

reathe

our

nor

crave

air and

anything

see

our

sun.

They la or truefully, they live sparingly. They are good e amples of virtue, travail, faith, and patience. TTie towms in which they a ide are happy, for God doth follow them with His lessings.'

Spanish monarchs found that Eli a eth continued to give an asylum to their Protestant su ects, they proceeded to compass her death. Their am assadors at the English court acted as spies upon her proceedings, organi ed plots "When the French and

against her, and stirred up discontent on all sides. TThey found a ready instrument in the ueen of Scots, then confined in Tut ury Castle. Mary was not, however, held so strict a prisoner as to e pre cluded from carrying on an active correspondence with her partisans in England and Scotland, with the

Philip II. of Flanders and Spain. Guilty though the ueen of Scots had een of the Duke of Alva and

death of her hus and, the Roman Catholics of Eng land regarded her

ready

rise in

"Mary

arms

was an

their rightful head, and

in her

were

cause.

inveterate intriguer.

We find her

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entreating the courts of France and Spain to send her soldiers, artillery, men, and arms the King of Spam

England with the o ect of dethroning Eli a eth and restoring the Roman Her importunities, as well as the Catholic faith. to set

foot the invasion of

fascinations of her

person,

were

not

without their ef

fect upon those under her immediate influence and she succeeded in inducing the Duke of Norfolk, who

hope of ecoming her fourth hus and, A conspir to undertake a scheme for her li eration. acy of the leading no les was formed, at the head of

cherished the

which

were

the Earls of Northum erland and West

moreland and in the

autumn

they raised the

standard of revolt in the northern countries, where the power of the Roman Catholic party was the strongest. But the rising was speedily suppressed some of its leaders fled into Scotland, and others into foreign countries er

the Duke of Norfolk

was

sent to

the Tow

and the ueen's authority was for the time upheld. "The Pope ne t launched against Eli a eth the

most

formida le missile of the Church

communication

off,

in which he declared her

ull of to

cut

the minister of ini uity, from the community of the faithful, and for ade her su ects to recogni e her as their sovereign. This document was found as

nailed

the Bishop of London's door on the th of May, . The French morning of the up

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and Spanish courts, now considered themselves at li erty to compass the life of Eli a eth y assassina The Cardinal of Lorraine, head of the Church tion. of France, and the confidential adviser of the ueenmother, hired a party of assassins in the course of the same year for the purpose of destroying Eli a eth, ecause of the encouragement she had given to Co

ligni and the French Huguenots. Again, the Duke of Alva, in his correspondence with Mary ueen of

Scots and the leaders of the Roman Catholic party in England, insisted throughout that the first condition

of sending a Spanish death of Eli a eth.

army to

their assistance

was

the

of affairs when the Bishop of Ross, one of Mary's most ealous partisans, set on foot a conspiracy for the destruction of the ueen. "Such

was

the

state

principal agent employed in communicating with foreign powers on the su ect was one Ridolfi, a rich TTie

Florentine anker in London, director of the

comoaf--

Minute of Italian merchants, and an ardent papist. instructions were drawn up and intrusted to Ridolfi, to

e laid

II of Spain.

Pope Pius V and Philip On his way to Rome through the Low

y him

Countries he waited sented

him

efore

the Duke of Alva, and pre letter from Mary ueen of Scots, on

eseeching him to furnish her with prompt assistance, with the o ect of 'laying all this island' under per-

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petual o ligations

his

die faidiful

well

herself,

master

the

King of Spain,

e ecutor

of his

com

mands.

"At Rome Ridolfi

was

welcomed

y the Pope,

who eagerly adopted his plans, and furnished him widi a letter to Philip II con uring that monarch, y

his fervent piety toward God, to furnish all the means he might udge most suita le for carrying them into effect. Ridolfi ne t proceeded to Madrid to hold an

Spanish court and arrange for English ueen. He was received

interview with the

the murder of the

conference with the Council of State, at which were present the Pope's nuncio, the Cardinal Arch to

ishop

of Seville

In uisitor General

the Grand Prior of Castile, the Duke of Feria, the Prince of

E oli, and other high ministers of Spain. Ridolfi proceeded to lay his plan for assassinating Eli a eth efore the council. He said, 'the low would not e struck in London, ecause diat city was die strong hold of heresy, ut while she was traveling.' On the council proceeding to discuss the e pediency of die proposed murder, the Pope's nuncio at once under took to answer all o ections. The one sufficient prete t, he said, was the ull of e communication. The vicar of God had deprived Eli a edi of her throne, and the soldiers of the Church were the instru ments

of his decree

to e ecute

the

sentence

of heaven

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against the heretical tyrant. On this, one Chapin Vitelli, who had come from Flanders to attend the council, offered himself as the assassin. He said, if the

matter was

intrusted

him, he would take

The councilors of

state

erally stated their views, which

were

the and

ueen.

are

still

seen

kill

present then sev placed on record

in the archives

Simancas.

"While these measures against the life of Eli a eth were eing devised a road, Mary ueen of Scots

diligently occupied at Chatsworth in encouraging a like plot at home with the same o ect. Lord Bur leigh, however, succeeded in gaining a clew to the conspiracy, on which the principal agents of England were apprehended, and the ueen was pmt on her guard. The Spanish am assador, Don Gerau, e ing found in secret correspondence with Mary, was warned to depart the realm his last characteristic act eing to hire two ravoes to assassinate Burleigh, and he lingered upon the road to Dover hoping to hear was

that the deed had een one. But the assassins were detected in time, and, instead of taking Burleigh's life, they only lost their own. "The Protestant party was from time to time

thrown into agonies of alarm plots against the Hfe of their

y the

rumor

of these

ueen, and y the ported apprehension of agents of foreign powers rivmg in England for the purpose of stirring up

re ar-

rr-

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ellion and preparing the way for the landing of the The intelligence Duke of Alva and his army. rought y the poor hunted Flemings, who had y diis time landed in England in large num ers and

settled in London and the principal towns of the south, and the accounts which they spread a road of the terrors of Philip's rule in the Low Countries, told plainly enough what the English Protestants had to

e pect if the threatened Spanish invasion succeeded." It is not singular that at this moment there should

e considera le e citement and indignation among Protestant people in these United States when the

Roman Catholic Church is seeking to dominate and control the political pralicies of this country. And

esuitical agents, ishops and cardinals, are swarming a out Washington City, and doing every thing in their power to ca ole, influence, and intimi date the highest law-making ody in this country in order to secure advantages for Romanism and carry forward the will and wishes of the Pope in his palace on the Ti er. One of the pressing and important duties of our li erty-loving people, is to give to the rising generation of the American people, a very general knowledge of the spirit and history of the their

Roman Catholic Church.

CHAPTER I . The Revoking

of the

Edict

Nantes.

One of the no lest and greatest acts of Henry IV. of France, was die promulgation of the Edict of . Nantes. This cele rated edict was issued in

promulgation of diis law gave the Huguenots li erty of conscience and freedom of worship. King Henry had seen the devastation and ruin of France through the persecution the esuits had inflicted upon

The

die torch and sword, destroying property, taking life, and driving out of France the most so er, industrious, and intelligent people y the tens of thousands, until he made an die Christians, the cruel

effort

put

end

wars,

the ruin which

was

eing

wrought y the promulgation of this Edict. This act of ustice and mercy on die part of the king great ly outraged the pope, Clement VIII, who at the time occupied the papal throne at Rome. When he

heard of the Edict of Nantes, he said which gave li erty of conscience to all accursed that had

ever

"A decree

was

the

most

een made."

TTiis decree did not long give rest to the Christians from their tormentors. Twelve years after its pro mulgation, Henry IV was assassinated y a Roman III after the Catholic, and his successor, Louis and of Edict die of Nantes had een rights privileges

Ill

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ruthlessly trampled upder foot, finally revoked the Edict, which turned loose, like a merciless cyclone, the pent-up storm of vengeance which had een gath ering in Catholic reasts against the Protestants. One

"On the Revoca tion of the Edict of Nantes Rome sprung up with Te Deums a shout of oy to cele rate the victory. were sung, processions went from shrine to shrine, and the pope sent a rief to Louis conveying to him of the historians of the times

says

the congratulations and praises of the Romish Church. Pu lic thanksgivings were held at Paris, in which the people eagerly took part, thus making themselves ac complices in the proscription y the king of their fel

The provost and sheriffs had of Louis erected at the Hotel de Ville."

low-su ects.

"Medals

were

struck

statue

commemo

the e tinction of Protestantism in France." "The Roman Catholic clergy were almost eside themselves with oy. TTie elo uent Bossuet was

rate

especially fervent in his praises of the monarch th of an 'touched y so many marvels,' said he uary, , 'let us e pand our hearts in praise of the piety of the Great Louis. Let our acclamations

heaven, and let us say to this new Constantine, this new TTieodosius, what the si hundred and thirty fathers said to the Council of Chalcedon, 'You ascend

have

strengthened the faith,you have e terminated

Romanism and Ruin. of Heaven, preserve the king of Massillon also indulged in a like strain of

the heretics earth.'

King

'The profane temples,' said he, 'are de stroyed, the pulpits of seduction are cast down, the prophets of falsehood are torn from their flocks. At e ultation

the Hrst

low dealt

y Louis, heresy falls, disap

pears, and is reduced either scurity whence it issued, or

hide itself in the o

to cross

the

ear with it into foreign lands its false terness, and its rage.'

"Let

us now see

seas,

gods,

and

its

what the Revocation of the Edict

of Nantes involved.

The demolition of all the

maining Protestant temples throughout France, and the entire proscription of the Protestant religion the prohi ition of even private worship under penalty of confiscation of ody and property the anishment of all Protestant pastors from France within fifteen days the closing of all Protestant schools the pro

hi ition of parents to instruct their children in the Protestant faith the in unction upon them, under a

penalty of five hundred livres in eadh case, to have their children apti ed y the parish priest, and rought up in the Roman Catholic religion the con fiscation of the property and goods of all Protestant refugees who failed to return to France within four months the penalty of the galleys for life to all men, and of imprisoimient for hfe to all women, detected in the act of attempting to escape from Franc .

Romanism and Ruin.

"The Huguenots were not even permitted to die in peace, ut were pursued to death's door and into the grave itself. Tliey were for idden to solicit the

offices of those of their

own

faith, and

were

re uired

to confess and receive unction from the priests, on penalty of having dieir odies when dead removed

from their dwelling y the common hangman and flung into die pu lic sewer. "The ody of the distinguished M. de Chenevi

su ected to diis rutal indignity. He was a gentleman illustrious for his learning and piety, and had een councilor to die king in the court of Met . he fell dangerously ill, when die curate of In the parish, forcing himself into his presence, impor tuned him to confess, when he replied that he declined to confess to any ut God, who alone could forgive his sins. TTie arch ishop ne t visited him, urging was

him

efore he died, at the same time him of the penalties decreed y the king

communicate

informing

against such as died without receiving die sacrament. He refused, declaring that he would never commu nicate after the popish manner. At his death, shortly after, orders were given that his ody should e re

y the e ecutioner and his corpse was ac cordingly taken, dragged away on a hurdle, and cast A out four hundred of his friends, upon a dunghill. of whom die greater num er were women, proceeded moved

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fetch the ody away. They wrap ped it in linen four men ore it aloft on their shoul While the ders, and they uried it in a garden. the mourn corpse was eing let down into the grave, assem ly sang the th Psalm, eginning, 'Save thither

y night

ing

O God, for the waters are come into my soul.' Such were the measures y which the Great Louis sought to win ack die erring souls to Rome. me,

"Crushed, tormented, and persecuted y diese ter ri le enactments, the Huguenots felt diat life in ecome almost intolera le. It is true diere was one alternative conversion. But Louis, with all his power, could not prevail against the im France had

penetra le

rampart of conscience, and

large

propor

Huguenots persistently refused to e con verted. They would not act die terri le lie to God, and seek dieir personal safety at the price of hypoc risy. They would not ecome Roman Catholics tion of the

diey would rather die. There was only one odier means of relief flight from France. Yet it was a frightful alternative, to tear themselves from the country they loved, from friends and relatives, from the homes of their youth and the graves of their kin dred, and fly they knew not whither. The thou t of self- anishment was so agoni ing that many hesi tated long and prepared to endure much efore tak ing die irrevoca le step and many more prepared

Romanism and Ruin. to

suffer death rather than

leave their country and

their home.

"Indeed,

fly

in any direction

ecame increas

ingly difficult from day to day. The frontiers were strongly patroled y troops and gensdarmes the coast was closely watched y an armed coast-guard while ships of war cruise at sea to intercept and search out ward- ound vessels. The law was strictly enforced against all persons taken in the act of flight. Under the original edict, detected fugitives were to e con demned to the galleys for hfe, while their denouncers were to e rewarded with half their goods. But this punishment was not considered sufficiently severe and, on the th day of May, , the king issued another edict, proclaiming that any captured fugi tives, as well as any person found acting as their guide, would e condemned to death. "But even these terri le penalties were not suffi cient to prevent the flight of the Huguenots. Many of the more distinguished literary and scientific men of France had already escaped into other countries. When the Protestant University of Sedan was ar i trarily closed y the king in urieu, Professor of He rew and Theology, and Bayle, Professor of Philosophy, fled into Holland and o tained asylum there. The magistrates of Rotterdam e pressly founded a new college for education, in which the

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fugitives were oth appointed ghens also, the distinguished

professorships. Huy-

astronomer

and mathe

matician, who had een induced y Col ert to settle in Paris, made haste to take refuge in Holland. Though not much of a Protestant, and indeed not much of

Christian, Huyghens would

not

hypo

crite, and he renounced all honors and emoluments rather than conform to an institution and system which he detested. "Amid the general proscription, a few distinguish ed e ceptions were made y the king, who granted

several laymen, in return for past pu lic services, to leave the kingdom and settle a road. Among these were Marshal Schom erg, one of the

permission

first soldiers of France, who had een commander-inchief of its armies, and the Mar uis de Ruvigny, one

of her a lest am assadors

whose only crime con sisted in their eing Protestants. The gallant ad miral Du uesne also, the first sailor of France, was

Huguenot. The king sent for him and urged him a ure his religion. But the old hero, pointing to his gray hair, replied. Tor si ty years, sire, have I rendered unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's suffer me still to render unto God the things which are God's.' Du uesne was permitted to end his few remaining days in France, for he was then in his eigh tieth year ut his two sons were allowed to emigrate, and they shortly after departed into Holland. a

Romanism and Ruin. anished pastors were treated with especial severity. Fifteen days only had een allowed them to fly eyond the frontier, and if they tarried longer "The

agoni ing leavetaking of their flocks they were lia le to e sent to the galleys for life. Yet, with that e uisite malignity which characteri ed the acts of the monarch and his a ettors, they were in some cases refused the necessary permits to pass the frontier, in order that they might there y e rought within the y the range of the dreadful penalties proclaimed in their

The pastor Claude one of the most elo uent preachers of his day, who had een one of the ministers of the great church of Charenton, Act of Revocation.

was

ordered

and he

set out

uit France within twenty-four hours, forthv ith, accompanied y one of the

king's footmen, who pastors of Paris preparations for

saw

were

him

allowed

far

two

Brussels.

days

The

make their

leaving. More time was allowed to those of the provinces ut they were permitted to all carry nothing with them, not even their children under seven years of age eing taken from them to e rought up in the religion of their persecutors. Even infants at the reast must e given up and many a mother's heart was torn y conflicting feel ings the duty of following a hus and on the road to anishment, or remaining ehind to suckle a helpless

infant.

Romanism and Ruin. "It may e asked, Why rake up these horrors of the past, these tortures inflicted upon innocent women and children in times

long

gone Sim of history, which can They may e horri le

since past and

ply ecause they are matters not e ignored or suppressed. to relate, it is true, ut they were far more horri le to suffer. And, however revolting they may now appear, any description of them, no matter how vivid or how detailed, must necessarily fall far short of the dreadful reality to those who endured them. They are, indeed, historical facts, full of significance and meaning, without a knowledge of which it were im possi le to understand the e traordinary e odus of the French people which shortly followed, and which constituted one of the most impoftant historical events of the seventeenth century.

they

are

e ually

ation of the

necessary to

which led

causes

English Revolution of followed it,

And, if

well

Revolution of

not,

intelligent appreci

the

and the

of the still

mistake

success

of the

events

which

recent

French

"When all the anished pastors had fled, those of their flocks who still remained steadfast prepared to follow them into e ile, for they felt it easier to e TTiose who possessed goods martyrs than apostates. and mova les made haste to convert them into money in such

way

e cite the least suspicion for

spies

Romamsm and Ruin.

constantly on the watch, ready to denounce in tended fugitives to the authorities. Such of them as were engaged in trade, commerce, and manufactures were surrounded y difficulties yet they were pre pared to dare and risk all rather than a ure their religion. They prepared to close their workshops, their tanneries, their paper-mills, their silk manufac tories, and the various ranches of industry which they had uilt up, and to fly with the merest wreck were

of their fortunes into other countries.

The

owners

of land had still greater difficulties to encounter. They were, in a measure, rooted to the soil and, ac

cording to the royal edict, if they emigrated without special permission, their property was lia le to imme diate confiscation y the state. Nevertheless, many of these, too, resolved to rave all risks and fly. "When the full tide of the emigration set in, it was found difficult to guard the e tensive French frontier

so as

wastes,

effectually to prevent the escape of the fugitives. The high roads as well as the y-ways were regularly patroled day and night, and all the ridges leading out of France were strongly guarded. But the fugitives avoided the fre uented routes, and crossed the frontier through forests, over trackless y

paths, where no patrols were the watch, and thus they contrived to escape in large num ers into Swit erland, Germany and Hoion

mountain

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They mostly traveled y night, not in ands, the ut in small parties, and often singly. When mem ers of a family prepared to fly, they fi ed a ren land.

de vous in

some

town

across

the nearest frontier tender leave of each

then, after prayer and taking a other, they set out separately, and made for the agreed point of meeting, usually traveling in different direc tions.

"Many of the fugitives were of course captured y the king's agents. Along so wide a frontier, it was impossi le always to elude their vigilance. To strike terror into such of the remaining Huguenots as might e contemplating their escape, the prisoners who were taken were led as a show through the principal towns, with heavy chains around their necks, in some cases weighing over fifty pounds. 'Sometimes,' says Benoit, 'they were placed in carts with irons on their feet, and the chains made fast to the cart. They were forced to make long marches and, when they sank under fatigue, lows compelled them to rise.' After they had een thus driven through the chief towns y way of e ample, the prisoners were sent to the gal leys, where there were already more than a thousand . The galley-slaves included y the end of men

of all conditions

with w hite hairs and

murderers and

pastors and peasants old men oys of tender years thieves and

discrimination whatever

was

made

Romanism and Ruin. in their classification,

in the

ar arity of their

treat

ment.

however, of no avail in checking the emigration. The Huguenots continued The Great to fly out of France in all directions. Louis, still ent on their 'conversion' increased his "TTiese cruelties

were,

guards along the frontiers. The soldiers were re warded in proportion to the captures they effected.

The aid of the frontier peasantry was also invited, and thousands of them oined the troops in guarding

highways, the ridges, the ferries, and all the ave nues leading out of France. False statements were to the effect that such emi pu lished y authority, grants as had reached foreign countries were destitute and starving. It was stated that ten thousand of them died in misery in England, and that most of those who survived were imploring permission to return to France and a ure. "The emigration continued. Some ought their way across the frontier others fought their way. went in all sorts of They disguises some as ped dlers, others as soldiers, huntsmen, valets, and eg gars. Some, to disarm suspicion, even pretended to sell chaplets and rosaries. The Huguenots conduct ed the emigration on a regular system. They had itmeraries prepared and secretly distri uted, in which the

the safest

routes

and

hiding-places

were

descri ed in

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of 'underground railroad,' such as e isted in the United States efore the a olition of slavery there. Many escaped through the great for detail

sort

Lu em ourg others through the Vosges Mountains into Germany and others through the passes of ura into Swit erland. Some were shot y the soldiers and peasantry a still greater num er were taken prisoners and sent to the galleys yet many est

of Ardennes into

thousands of them nevertheless contrived their

make

escape.

"The women,

flight of

old and

fants in their

men

young

arms.

accompanied y that of often y mothers with in

was

The hearts of the

women were

especially lacerated y the cruelties inflicted on them, through their affections y the tearing of their chil dren from them for the purpose of eing educated in convents y the uartering of dragoons in their dwellings and y the various social atrocities which preceded as well as followed the Edict of Revoca tion.

ready

While

many

conform,

Protestant heads of families

in order

save

were

their families from

insult and outrage y a lawless and dissolute soldiery, the women often refused to follow their e ample, and

entreated their hus ands to fly from the land where such ar arities had ecome legali ed, and where this daily war was eing carried on against woman hood and childhood against Innocence, morality, re-

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ligion, and

virtue.

women

under such circumstances

was

of pure feelings, life

intolera le

even

than death.

Huguenot wom en as well as the men found fleeing into e ile. They mostly fled in disguise, often alone, to oin their hus Beands or fathers at the appointed rende vous. noit says that they cut off their hair, disfigured their faces with dyes, assumed the dress of peddlers or lackeys, and condescended to the meanest employ ments, for the purpose of disarming suspicion and in suring their escape. Young women, in many cases of gentle irth, who under olher circumstances would have shrunk from the idea of walking a few miles from home, prepared to set out upon a ourney on foot of some hundreds of miles, through woods, y unfre uented paths, across mountain ranges, raving all dangers so that they might ut escape, though it "Everywhere, therefore,

were

the

are lives, from the soil of France. ean Marteilhe, of Bergerac, descri es a remarka le incident of this kind. He had himself een taken prisoner in his attempt to escape the French frontier were

with their

Marien ourg, and was lodged in the ail at Tournay to wait his trial. While lying there, five other Huguenot fugitives, who had een captured y the dragoons, were ushered into his cell. Three of these he at once recogni ed, dirough their disguise. near

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gentlemen of Bergerac ut the other two he failed recogni e. They eventually proved to e two

ladies, Mesdemoiselles Madras and Conceil of Bergerac, disguised as oys, who had set out, though it was winter, to make their escape from France through tfie forest of Ardennes. They had traveled thirty leagues on foot, under dripping trees,

young

along roken roads, and y almost trackless paths, enduring cold, hunger and privations 'with a firm ness and constancy,' says Marteilhe,'e traordinary for persons rought up in refinement, and who, previous to this e pedition, would not have een a le to walk a league.' They were, however, captured and put in ail and when they recogni ed in their fellowprisoners other Huguenot fugitives from Bergerac, they were so happy that they wept for oy. Marteilhe strongly urged that the ailer should e informed of their se , to which the young ladles assented, when diey were removed to a separate cell. They were

afterwards tried, and condemned to e immured in the Convent of the Repentants at Paris, where they wept out the rest of their lives and died." Such were the fruits of Romanism at the close of the th century. The logical outcome of the igno rance and lasphemy which e alted a mere man to the place of God. made him infalli le, and the a solute and merciless ruler over the consciences and conduct of his fellow eings.

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plunging on in mad fren y to a fearful fate. She was preparing to reap the harvest of the dragon's teeth she had een sowing for centuries. She was

a out

was

Io enter upon

the "reign of terror."

the

loodshed and horrors of

CHAPTER

The Opportunity

. Romanism.

IV had succeeded. At last the policy of Louis Protestantism was overthrown, crushed, and anished from France. The esuits were in complete con trol, their power was a solute they owned and ruled

odies and souls of men. The dissolute woman who controlled the king in the decay and corruption of his mind and ody, eing a devout Catholic, the

through the assistance of the priests who were his spiritual advisers, influenced him to atone for the ac cumulated guilt of his corrupt and wicked life, y heaping vengeance upon his Protestant su ects until at

The

last Romanism had a solute rule in France.

churches, the schools, the army, the prisons, the slaves in the galleys, the no les and peasantry, the palace and the hut

were

all

rought

esuits and owed themselves

into

su ection

the

in a solute su mission

the will and dictations of the pope. One of the fruits of this condition is descri ed y a relia le his torian as follows to

"After this period we seem to tread a dreary waste in French history. True loyalty ecame e tinguish ed and even patriotism seemed to have e pired. Lit erature, science, and the arts almost died out, and there remained a silence almost as of the grave, rok-

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noise of the revelries

only y the

which there

rose

from time

at court,

amid

time the ominous

wailings of the gaunt and famishing multitude." Out of the ro eries perpetrated y the Romanists upwn

the Protestants who

were

driven

out

of the

It is country, the Church ecame immensely rich. said that "the clergy held in their hands one-fifth of the whole landed property of the country, estimated to e worth more than eight hundred millions of dol

Attached

lars.

they continued If

church

the serfs, whom such until the Revolution."

these lands

hold

ever

had

educate,

were

opportunity

redeem,

uplift and elevate human society, the Roman Catholic Church certainly had that opportunity in France for the following hun dred years. All other teachings and faiths had een e pelled or trampled into su mis sion and the pope and his worshipers owned and controlled France soul and ody, from the lewd and lecherous

men

and

women

that flocked a out their

polluted king, to the ignorant and vicious criminals that congregated in the dark dens of vice.

For a hundred awful years Romanism had a so lute sway and perhaps there has never, in the history

of human civili ation, come to a people such spiritual desolation and moral corruption. The French Cath olics who had refused to have Protestant Christianity

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Bi le, and li erty of conscience to wor ship God in spirit and in truth "cast themselves in adoration at the feet of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rous seau." They oldly placed a depraved woman upon with

open

throne and

A historian "A

worshipped her

large num er

reason.

of the

clergy had

of the Roman

themselves

long

elieve in the truth of what they professed They had grown utterly corrupted and

teach.

demorali ed. The monasteries idleness and self-indulgence. mute

the goddess of

says

Catholic Church in France ceased

their

ooks

were

the a odes of

Their pulpits were The doctors of the

empty. Sor onne still mum led their accustomed argon, ut it had ecome powerless. Instead of the great were

churchmen of the past Bosseut, Bourdaloue, and Fenelon there were such lind leaders of the lind as the Cardinal de Rohan, the profligate confederate

of Madame la Motte in the affair of the diamond necklace the A e Sieyes, the constitution-monger

the A

in every

atheist.

Raynal, the

open

assailant of

Christianity

form and Father Lomenie, the avowed

"The corrupt, self-condemned institution ecame a target for the wit of Voltaire and the encyclopaedic philosophy of Diderot. It was ne t assailed y the clu s of Marat,, Danton, and Ro espierre. Then

Romanism and Ruin. the unfed, untaught, desperate victims of centuries of oppression and misguidance rose up almost as one The churches man, and cried, 'Away with it ' were

attacked and

had

een

gutted,

century

efore.

those of the Huguenots The church ells were

the church plate coined into money and at length Christianity itself was a olished y the Convention, who declared the Supreme People to e cast

into

cannon,

the only God "The Roman Catholic clergy, who had so long witnessed the persecutions of the Huguenots, were now persecuted in their turn y their own flocks.

Many of them were guillotined others, chained to gether as the Huguenots had een, were sent prisoners to Rochelle and the Isle of Ai . As a ody of them passed through Limogos on their way to the galleys, they encountered a procession of asses clothed in priests' dresses, a mitred sow marching at their head. Some priests lay riding in Ai Roads, where the Huguenot galley slaves had een efore them 'rag ged, sordid, hungry, wasted to shadows, eating their unclean rations on deck, circularly, in parties of a do en, with finger and thum eating their scandal ous

clothes

etween

two stones

choked in horri le

miasmata, under close hatches, seventy of them in a erth through the night, so that the aged priest is found lying dead in the morning in the attitude of prayer.'

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"Such

was

the real

of the Act of Revo Sansculottism and the

outcome

cation of Louis the Great There Reign of Terror

was no

and anishment of Huguenots, guillotining and anishment of the

sacre

longer the ut there

mas

was

successors

the

of the

one priests whom Louis had set up. There was The . resem led other point in which in direction fugitive priests fled in precisely the same which the Huguenot pastors had done and again the persecuted for religion's sake made for the free land of England, to oin the descendants of the Huguenots, driven out of France for altogether different reasons

century

efore.

"But the Roman Catholic priests did not fly alone. They were accompanied y the no les, the superin

dragonnades. Never, Huguenots which followed the

flight

tendents of the

since the

of the

Revocation of

the Edict of Nantes, had there een such an emigra But there was this tion of Frenchmen from France. and difference etween the emigrations of ,

that whereas in the former period the people who emi grated consisted almost entirely of the industrious classes in the latter period they consisted almost en tirely of the idle classes. The men who now fled were the no les and priests, who had so misguided and mistaught the people intrusted to their charge that in nearly all parts of France they had at length risen up in fierce re ellion against them.

Romamsm and Ruin. "The great ody of the people had ecome re duced to a solute destitution. They had no pos session whatever ut their misery. They were liter

ally dying of hunger.

Louis

sheep. with

The

Bishop of Chartres told

V that in his diocese the men rowsed like For want of food, they filled their stomachs The dragoons who had efore een em hunt down the Huguenots ecause of their

grass.

ployed to attending religious meetings, were now employed on a different duty. They were stationed in the market places where meal was e posed for sale to keep ack the famishing people. In Paris alone there were , eggars prowling a out, with sallow faces, lank hair, and hung in rags. In , crowds of them were seen hovering a out the Palais Royal spectral-looking men and starving women, dehrious from fasting. Some were said not to have eaten for three whole days. The women wandered a out like hungry lionesses, for they had children. One Foulon, a mem er of the king's council, on eing told of the famine endured y the people, said, 'Wait till I am minister I will make them eat hay my horses eat it.' The words were itteriy avenged. The hungry mo sei ed Foulon, hanged him to a lanterne, and carried his head a out the streets, his mouth filled with hay. "From the provinces

news came

that the starving

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everywhere rising, urning down the chateaus of the no les, tearing up their title-deeds. and destroying their crops. On these occasions the church ells were rung y way of tocsin, and the pop ulation of the parish turned out to the work of destruc tion. Seventy-two chateaus were wrecked and urnt in the Maconnais and Beau olias alone and the con flagration spread throughout Dauphiny, Alsace, and the Lyonnais, the very uarters from which the Hu guenots had een so ferociously driven out a century helots

were

efore.

scarcely a district in which the Hugue had pursued their various ranches of industry, wholly suppressed, in which the starving and in

"There nots now

was

furiated peasantry did not work wild havoc, and take They had learned ut too revenge upon their lords.

well the lessons of the sword, the dungeon, and the scaffold, which their rulers had taught them, and the

Reign

of Terror which followed

outcome

of the

massacre

was

ut the natural

of Saint Bartholomew, the

dragonnades, the cruelties which followed the Act of Revocation, and a long course of li teaching. But the victims had now changed places. Now it was the no les who were persecuted, urnt out, had their estates confiscated, and were compelled to fly for their lives. "The dragonnades of the Huguenots ecame rewars

of the

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noyades of the Royalists and again Nancy, Lyons, Rouen, Bordeau , Montau an, and numerous other places, witnessed a repetition of the cruelties of the preceding century. At Nantes, where in the

peated

the famous Edict of Toleration, afterward revoked, was proclaimed, the guillotine was worked until the

headsman sank e hausted and to hasten matters a general fusillade in the plain of St. Mauve followed, At Paris, the hide of men, women, and children. Marat called for 'eight hundred gi venient rows, to hang the enemies of the ous

ets,' in con people. He

would e satisfied with nothing short of 'two hundred All of these cut y thousand aristocratic heads.' Roman Catholi chands, from Roman CathoHc shoul ders. "It is

Suffice it

ther. fled

out

the dreadful story far that the no les, like the priests,

unnecessary to pursue to say

of France

to escape

the

fury

of the

people,

and they too made for England, where they received the same asylum that had een e tended to their cler efore them the Huguenots. To prevent gy, and

the flight of the no lesse, the same measures were adopted y the Convention which Louis IV adopt ed

prevent the escape of the

frontiers

were

strictly guarded,

troled which led

out

Huguenots.

The

and all the roads

of France.

passed against emigration, and the

Severe laws estates

were

of the fu-

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gitive aristocrats were declared to e confiscated to the state. Nevertheless, many succeeded in making their escape into Swit erland, Germany, and Eng land.

"It fared still worse with Louis VI and his eau tiful ueen Marie Antoinette. They were the most ar arous policy of Louis That monarch had sowed the wind, and

illustrious victims of the

IV.

reaped the whirlwind. A mo of starving men and women,, the genuine offspring of the Great King, urst in upon Louis and his consort at Ver read ' They were very sailles, shouting, 'Bread different from the plumed and garlanded courtiers accustomed to worship in these gilded saloons, and y no means so o se uious. They insisted on the king and ueen accompanying them to Paris, virtu ally their prisoners. The royal family tried to es cape, as the Huguenots had done efore them, across the frontier into Germany. But in vain. The king's own highway was closed against him, and the fugitives were led ack to Paris and the guillotine. they

now

"The last

attempt

the drums was

address were

drowned

few words

ordered

y the

the last occasion

in France

of the unfortunate Louis

act

was on

noise.

e It

was

his

his su ects, when eaten, and his voice

was

remem ered that

which a like scene had occurred the occasion of the e ecution of the

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Huguenot pastor Fulcran Rey at Beaucaire. When he opened his mouth pu licly to confess his faith, the drummers posted around the scaffold were ordered to eat, and his dying speech remained un heard. The slaughter of the martyred preacher was thus terri ly avenged. "We think we are ustified in saying that, ut for the persecution and e pulsion of the Huguenots at young

the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in

, the

pro a ly never would have occurred. The Protestants suppHed that enterpris ing and industrious middle class which gives sta ility to every state. They provided remunerative em ployment for the population, while at the same time they enriched the kingdom y their enterprise and Moreover, they furnished that virtuous industry. and religious element in society without which a na Revolution of

tion is

wind. there

When

most

much chaff that is driven

they

end

were

suppressed

efore the

anished,

their industrial

undertakings. growth of a prosperous middle class was prevented and the misgovernment of the ruhng class eing unchecked, the great ody of the working order was

The farther

left

idleness, nakedness, and famine. Faith in God and in good died out religion, as represented y the degenerate priesthood, fell into contempt, and the reign of materialism and atheism egan. Fright-

were

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length culminated in revolution and anarchy and there eing no element of sta ility in the e no class possessing moral weight to stand state tween the infuriated people at the one end of the so cial scale, and the king and no les at the other the imposture erected y the Great Louis was assailed on all sides, and king. Church, and no ility were at once swept away." Long ago an inspired hand had written, "Whatso ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap " the same is true of a nation. France had sown the supersti tion, tyranny, and persecutions of Romanism, for one hundred years. The logical harvest was the Reign of Terror. The Pope at Rome had sown the Phil ippine Islands down with ignorant and selfish Friars for two centuries, and ehold an illiterate, naked, and downtrodden people ro ed of their lands, deprived and depraved into the depths of superstition and pov erty. Since the days of Corte Rome has een sow ing the seeds of false teaching in Me ico and the out come and fruitage of the same are eing gathered in ful distress

harvest of Can

any

lood and horror

sane

had have had

citi en

the present time.

elieve that if Protestantism

welcome home and free land in Me

ico for the past two hundred years that the illiteracy, poverty, and want which reign there today would

e ist

Me ico in its madness and

lood today is

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logical and legitimate an outcome of the false teach ings and practices of Romanism as was the Reign of

No small part of the unsettled state of the South American repu lics, the wretched condition of the people, the low moral standards, the Terror in France.

constant

and useless re ellions,

ruin arise

out

of the fact that

loodshed,

waste

Spanish Catholicism

and got

her feet

upon the soil of that unfortunate country in stead of British Protestantism. If these countries had

have

le, the

en oyed the privileges of an open Bi an evangelical Protestant mmistry, and education

religion of

and

New

the

of South America

different record

that

progress

with

Testament,

today would have

the

the repu lics an

entirely

world, and where there is war, loodshed, ignorance, and super stition, there would e peace, prosperity, and less ing. We are not saying that Protestant peoples have not gone to war, and that society in Protestant coun tries is in a state of perfection, ut Protestant coun tries when they have gone to war have fought for great principles and as a result of the conflicts into which they have entered there has come a ette ' state of peace, the advancement and prosperity to the race.

present

the

CHAPTER The Purposes

Romanism.

history of Ro manism in other countries and eing fully convinced Having had

some

ghmpse

into the

that it is the purpose of the pope and all the Romish hierarchy to ring these United States under the do

mination and control of the Roman Catholic Church, it is well that patriotic American citi ens should ask

themselves, in all seriousness if

we are

willing for the

history of France, Spain, Me ico, and other

coun

een under the power and domina tion of Romanism to repeat itself in this new and tries which have

repu lic. It will e readily admitted that there is no field in all the world which offers so large a harvest tn the religious propagandist as the United States, and it would e strange indeed if so old, powerful, and ag gressive a church as the Roman Catholic, should fail to see and appreciate this fact. great

It is well understood that in this land of freedom and die largest religious li erty and that all denom inations of Christians should have e ual rights and privileges for the promulgation of their doctrinal views and should e permitted to practice their religious rites and ceremonies, without molestation of course, provided that such doctrines and practices do not in-

Romanism and Ruin. terfere with the rights of their fellow eings, or tend to the intellectual and moral hurt of the people who come

under the influence of such teachings and

prac

tices.

But for three facts connected with Romanism there

would e

pu lications

occasion for the writing of this of like character.

TTie first fact

ook,

mention is the false doctrines and

superstitions that through the centuries have een ac cumulating in this great ecclesiastical mass of dogma, superstition, and teaching which not only has no war rant

in the Word of God,

ut has een

a solutely hurtful and destructive of mankind. It is

not

our

purpose at

this time

proven to

the est interests to enter

into any

discussion of this important phase of the Roman ues tion. If we should, it would e easy to show that popes, ishops and priests in the minds of the devout

Catholics

nearly take the place of esus Christ that the mem ers of that church are in great danger of ecoming idolaters, worshiping men and looking to them for the forgiveness of sins, direction of their lives, and the regulation of their conduct rather than to the teaching of the Holy Bi le. The Church of Rome claims for her officials and priests a power and authority over the people that have made them the religious slaves of their ecclesiastical masters through so

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utterly unwarranted in the Scriptures and certainly approaches lasphemy. These arrogant claims of Rome have rought the minds of Catholic people into such a solute su ec tion that the priests are easily a le to influence and control them in all matters of pohtics as well as re ligion. It has een the policy of Rome to keep the people in such a state of ignorance that they might easily ma nipulate and direct them for the advancement of the the centuries

power

that is

selfish and am itious interests of that

most

marvelous

the centuries and through the world has accumulated such vast wealth and power

organi ation that that it has

day

een

a menace

of this

repu lic.

across

light

to many

the h erties and

Intelligent

countries, and is peace

of the

people

missionaries and

trav

elers who have had opportunities to study moral and spiritual conditions in those countries which have for

een under the domination and sway of the Romish Church, are ready to ear witness that all sorts of superstition and idolatry are practiced among many years

the religious rites and ceremonies of the people, and that they are living in the depths of moral degrada tion and utter ignorance of the simple teaching and

saving

of the gospel of the Lord esus Christ, that is sad to contemplate and lifts them ut very power

little a ove the condition of pagan

people.

Romamsm and Ruin. At the present time, in the Philippine Isles, in Cu a, Porto Rico, and South America, tens of thousands of people who have een living in a fearful state

of moral

degradation and spiritual Hndness

are

under the influence of the missionaries of the various Protestant churches eing converted to Christ. Their

surprise and oy to find the truth and the marvelous change that takes place in them is as marked and won derful as that among the heathen peoples in India, a pan,

and China.

The second fact to which we want to call attention It is not worth while is the history of Romanism. for Romanists or tender-foot politicians and others who claim of

history

to to

e Protestants, to try to close the pages the investigation of the present genera

shall remain ignorant or indiffer ent to the fearful records of superstition, oppression and loodshed that the Roman Catholic Church has tion

insist that

een making through the centuries. In trying to find out what the Catholic Church is, we want to know what it has een. We want to e amine the root and trunk of this great ecclesiastical tree in order that we may decide intelligently whether or not we will par take of or re ect the fruits it produces. We are not claiming that this church would repeat the fearful tragedies that have stained the past with

lood and made it horri le with the

agony of perse-

Romanism and Ruin.

not

claiming tliat she would if in her eal and fanaticism she thought y We

peoples.

cuted

so,

are

not

doing she would advance the claims and

of the we

pope

and his followers.

have reached

ment

of the

race

interests

We thank God that

time in the progress and develop where, if the people are intelligently a

their dangers and privileges, it is impossi le for her to repeat the past. But it is egging the uestion to ask the present gen

instructed, and fully aroused

the voice of history. One of the chiefest and safest guides for the future is the history eration

e deaf

of the past. By careful study of the mistakes and failures of men in the past we may prepare ourselves to avoid and guard against those mistakes and fail ures.

Studying the principles and teachings which

have influenced leam

men

for weal

or woe

in the past

disregard false principles and avoid those teachings which have een productive of evil,

may

hindrance to the advancement and human family. a

progress

of the

The present generation of American people intends study the history of Romanism and ought to make

the

study

thorough and genuine that every young American will e well ac uainted wdth the unscriptso

ural doctrines, superstitions, false pretenses, arrogant claims, tyrannies, persecutions, and lood-shed that have marked the trail of the serpent of Ro-

Romanism and Ruin. manism

throughout

the centuries and

across

the

tions of the earth.

TTie third item

which

call attention is the fact

that the Roman Catholic Church is

powerful politi

TThroughout the past, at the pres ent time, and in the future Rome may e relied upon to constantly interfere with and seek to control and

cal organi ation.

direct civil governments. This she has always done. She has sought to e alt her pope, cardinals and ish

a ove all civil authority. She has un lushingly claimed not simply to have a commission to preach ops

the gospel to the people, ut to have divine authority to direct and control the civil affairs of the people. In France, Spain, Italy, Me ico and all other coun tries where she has had

ways

determined

rule

undisputed or

sway,

she has al

ruin and she has ruled and

ruined until the

su ugated, heavily-ta ed, and light ed peoples have arisen in their wrath and with muskets in their hands and ayonets at the throat of their per

have roken their ecclesiastical fetters and flung away the iron yoke of tyranny which Romanism had riveted upon them. It was ecause of her interference with civil affairs that the Romish priests were persecuted and driven secutors

of China many years ago, and Christianity under the guidance and control of the priests awakened such pre udice and opposition among the Chinese out

people

Romanism and Ruin. that for

many years

was a

serious o stacle and hin

missionary work in that great country. Those who have the time and disposition to do so, need only to turn to the pages of history to find popes, cardinals, ishops, and priests constantly haunting the courts of kings, the capitals of nations, and states, seeking to place the hand of Romanism upon the scepter of civil government, always greedily seeking after power, always seeking to control civil and polit ical affairs, always striving to shovel money out of

drance

the coffers of the government into the coffers of the church, always in her pride and conceit claiming to

e superior to all other authority and power and to have a perfect right to rule and control, not only the

religious interests and consciences, ut the civil affairs

men.

of human government the pope would take the place of kings, presidents, and governors, and su ect all men and all policies to his will and matters

dictations.

matters

of the soul, he would take the

place of the infalli le God and the atoning Christ and

he and his followers, without hesitation or shame, are ready at all ha ard to proclaim that such assumptions are ased on scriptural authority and are the undis

puted and perfect right of the Romish Church and that almost all means are ustifia le in order their unreasona le and tyrannical ends.

secure

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history of all countries reveals plainly the fact that in proportion as Romanism has ruled, the wheels of progress have een locked, ignorance has prevailed, superstition has flourished, the rights of men have een trodden down y ecclesiastical oppression, wealtli has The

gone

into the coffers of the few, and the multitudes

have sunken into poverty and vice. It is no wonder that the Romanists of this country o ect so seriously

study of the history of the "mother church " that they are constantly intermeddling with regard In to the histories that are used m our pu lic schools. seeking to accomplish her purpose here, it would e greatly to the advantage of Rome if she could drop the curtain of o scurity over the past. But this she cannot do. This grim old destroyer of divine truth, to

the

of mankind, and menace of the peace and happiness of the people of our country, must e dragged from its hiding place and its startling oppressor

chapters of misrule, oppression, tyranny and human suffering unfolded and read so that the great Ameri can people may intelligently decide whether they will su mit to a repetition of the past, or whether they will resist Romanism, in proportion as they love the rights and privileges of citi enship and the religious and ed

ucational institutions of

our

nation.

CHAPTER

II.

Making Headway.

That Romanism is making rapid headway in her purpose to get her hands upon the reins of our national government, and her schemes for the manipulation of

of this country, there can e no dou t. Within the pale of the Roman Catholic Church there are the most a le and astute ecclesias tical statesmen, who have devoted their whole lives

political affairs

the

diplomacy. They have had ample practice and e perience in the capitals of various nations, living in close touch with the leading politicians and statesmen to

of all countries. TTiere

and

are no

shrewder

determined

schemes than these

same

men men

in in

laying their plans carrying out their

political churchmen, who

direct the affairs of their ecclesiasticism and control and direct the

There is

vote

of the Roman Catholic

people.

greater mistake than that we should regard the Roman Cadiolic Church with her repre sentatives from all countries, well educated, and thor oughly schooled in every ranch of politics and state craft, as a weak foe, easily to e con uered or turned aside from her purpose. The Roman Catholic Church, hoary with age, with her marvelous organi a tion, heading up at Rome, with her hordes of countno

Romanism and Ruin. less wealth, her representatives in close touch with the law-making odies and governing forces of all civil i ed nations, and her millions of devout adherents

great head, con stitute one of the most compact, powerful, and dan of the gerous human organi ations in all the history

ready

o ey the

voice of her

one

world. This powerful propaganda has not gone to work for the con uest of this country in a sort of hapha ard ut with the

way,

plans

that

termined

can

men

most

e devised

careful and

the

who have had

every

and varied e perience. First of all she has esta lished at

our

national capital.

shrewdly-laid

most astute

and de

enefit of long

powerful lo

She seeks, with her great

cathedrals, hospitals, schools, universities, assem lies, pageants, and parades to produce a profound im pression upon the governing forces and law-making odies

Washington City. Her representatives are constantly coming and go ing etween Rome and Washington, and keeping our national capital in closest touch with the various great centers

of Roman influence.

Romanism has sei ed

upon

our

national Thanks

giving day, and has so perverted the real intent and purpose of our day of national recognition and praise to God for His manifold mercies, and is making it a

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seeking to create the impression upon foreign diplomats and residents, that the Roman Cath sectarian affair,

olic Church is "The Church" of this country, and she has such power in Washington City that she is a le to so overawe and influence presidents, secretaries of state, senators and congressmen that

this great oc and eautiful

they turn away from the simple forms of worship in the churches in which they were orn and reared, and attend high mass in the Roman Catholic Church on Thanksgiving occasions and meekly sit and look upon the mitered ishops and gorgeously ro ed priests acting out the unscriptural flummeries and follies that characteri e their pu hc casion

services.

supposed that a president of these United States, leading secretaries and statesmen en oy or elieve in these gaudy displays of form and cere monies so utterly out of harmony with the teachings of the Word of God, ut they must give up the soci ety of their families and the worship in their churches on Thanksgiving occasions, or ring down upon them selves the displeasure of the Catholic hierarchy and e driven out of office y the com ined vote of the Romish people and the thugdom under their control in our great centers of population. It is

not to

There is

grimness a out the transaction that is lood-curdling. We do not suppose that the notifla

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president and other leading officials in Washington City is worded as follows "We here y notify you that Thanksgiving service will e held in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thanksgiving day. The cation

the

President of the United States, Secretary of State, We and other prominent officials must e present. understand that you are Protestant people, and mem

ers of the various churches of the country, that you do not elieve in the infalli ility of our Pope, that you

elieve in the Catholic

not

tion and much other

know that

are

aware

trans-su stantia

dogma in Mother Church we ac uainted with our history of

persecution, and

tyranny,

you

mass,

of the fact that

loodshed, that

we are

seeking

you must to

dictate

the pohtical affairs of this nation, that we are the enemies of the open Bi le, the Pu lic School, and

Evangelical Religion we are confident that your re ligious intelligence is outraged and disgusted with our lofty claims for the Pope and the power of our priests to pray

human souls

out

of purgatory,

ut notwith

standing all this, we propose to corner the Thanks giving day in Washington City, and show the peopl" of these United States and the nations of Europe our power to make presidents, secretanes and statesmen

dance io our music. So, see to it that you are on hand etimes Thanksgiving morning with every ap pearance

of approval and endorsement of the

gor-

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unscriptural services that will take place. If you should fail to o ey our orders and show up on time, we notify you now that at the ne t presi geous

and

dential election Cathohc

vote

ministration."

will throw the whole force of the

of the country against the present ad We say, we do not suppose that this

is the way the invitation was worded, it amounts to. This is the spirit of it.

We do

that the President, Secretary, and congressmen replied as fol

not suppose

and various

lows

senators

"The orders of

your

received, and notwithstanding to

ut this is what

attend service with

of worship, and

our

Reverence have

notwithstanding

e delighted

would

famihes in we

een

places

our own

have

sort

faith in the arrogant claims of Roman Catholicism, we have learned to put pyolitics first and religion second, the Pope and his political osses first, then

esus Christ and His divine teachings afterwards,

you may

confess that e cite the

e pect we

are

us a

e present. little afraid to

We come

must

lest it

indignation of the Protestants and Pro testant people of the country, ut after thinking seriously over the matter, we elieve it is safer to displease the Protestants than the Romanists. The Protestant churches are not political organi a tions the Roman Church is a political organi ation. The pastors of Protestant peoples do not control the

Romamsm and Ruin. votes of their people the priests of the Roman Cath olic Church do control the votes of their people. The Protestant people may e displeased, ut they will

forgive and forget the Roman Catholic Church never forgives nor forgets. We do not elieve in your teachings nor approve of your claims, or en oy your forms and ceremonies

you may count

have Now, the invitation ing we

want your votes,

eing present."

on our

idea that the

note

acknowledg

the Thanksgiving service was ut it might have een

couched in the a ove words, so written.

This is e actly why we protest against Romanism. It reathes its foul spirit of sectarian pre udice and po litical am ition

upon

the

most

sacred and solemn in

stitutions, and perverts and degrades the

simplicity

and

holy

It manages to cut the heart and true devotion out of all religion,

services and em lems.

most

hollow sham, and manipulates for selfish ends the most sacred and holy things that God turns

it into

has committed

to men.

This only goes to Romanism wields in There is

very

powerful influence national capital.

prove our

good

what

reason

elieve that several

presidents of late years have een not a little influ enced y the powerful com ination Romanism cen tered in Washington City.

Romanism and Ruin. It is

worthy

of notice, in fact should

looked, that Romanism has

not

neglected

over

the military

affairs of this country. She has esta lished a propa and is ganda near West Point Military Academy and to seeking to in ect her teaching into the minds, her ecclesiastical net for the entanglement of

spread

the feet of the young men who in the future are to command the army and navy of die United States.

She has industriously rought to ear powerful press as ure to secure die appointment of Cadiolic priests chaplains in die army and on ships of war. It is high dme for American citi ens to awake and

think so erly when an institution claiming to e the only true church of die Lord esus Christ, with a record of oppression and loodshed like that of Ro

manism, seeks to esta lish herself in our national cap ital to dominate the chief e ecutive, and the law mak ing odies of die nation, and worms herself into the army and navy of die country, so as to control and mould the religious thinking and pre udices of the mihtary forces of the nation. All of these manipu lations remind

evangeli ation een to compel to

that

one

of the chief methods of

in the Roman Catholic Church has men

do this she has

not

her altars, and in order hesitated to have recourse to the

musket and sword. In this connection

must not

overlook the fact

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that the Roman Catholic Church has

powerful mil

itary organi ation in the Knights of Colum us. This organi ation has something approaching a half million of men, more than the standing army, and all the national guards and militia of They are the United States put together. inding oath, united y the most solemn and officered and drilled, and are constantly in evidence, first in one great city and then another parading e fore the pu hc, many people eheve an open chal lenge and threat to the peace and uietude of the Why should an organi ation claiming to country. e the Church of Christ, and the only Church of Christ, want an army of drilled men like the Knights of Colum us

suppose

the

answer

found in history St. Bartholomew and the tior of the Huguenots.

peiiecu-

things give ample grounds for the un easiness and dread that is coming to possess the minds of li erty-loving citi ens, with reference to the very serious pro lems that Romanism has thrust upon All of these

us.

The thoughtful student of the situation, will not overlook the fact that a large per cent., perhaps two-

thirds of the hundreds of thousands of emigrants that come to this country every year, are Roman Catholic, and that

they

are

from countries where Romanism has

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had such complete control of the mental and spiritual development of the people through succeeding centu ries, that they have reached a fearful depth of pov

A very large per erty, ignorance, and depravity. cent, of them utterly unfitted to e ercise the rights of

repu lican form of government. These great masses of people constantly flowing in upon us, are herded in our large cities where they are under the careful control of the priests and have little or no opportunity of eing rought under the influence of Christian evangelism, and where they can e ma nipulated y their political masters to the est ad vantage for the promotion of selfish ends, and where their incompetency and deep poverty cheapens la or, and greatly intensify the pro lems that confront the franchise under

American citi en who sweat

ing

of his

to meet

must

earn

his

read in the

row where they produce almost noth

the

necessary wants

men,

consume

the products of the farm and field to such an e tent, that while they cheapen la or, they increase the price

of living, thus ecoming one of our most serious eco nomic pro lems. And yet, if statesmen undertake to pass a ill through congress that will check and

purify diis flood of emigration, the Catholics rally to a man to oppose such a ill. They must ring the su ects of the pope into this country at any cost, even at the risk of ringing upon us la or somewhat sift and

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Repu lic

The numerical growth of the Catholic Church in these United States every year from emigration alone is evidently not less than a half million of people

people who contri ute almost nothing to the moral up uilding or spiritual salting of society, ut thrust upon us the serious pro lems which have een indicated And yet the Church of Rome e ercises such tremendous power at Washington City, that it is prac

a ove.

tically impossi le to reduce this constant stream which is all the time augmenting the power and arrogance of

Romanism.

su ect which de serves the attention of the thoughtful citi en Great cities, largely control political issues. They cut the There is

one

other feature of the

channels in which the

current

for weal

or woe.

of national life flows

the cities,

the

coun

In the cities great masses of men can get to gether, uild platforms, outline policies, mass the try.

voters, and elect lawmakers and those

and

e ecute

who administer

law.

largely controls the of the United States. They tell us that

The Roman Catholic Church great cities

Chicago has

one

million,

one

hundred thousand Ro

mish residents San Francisco is dominated y Ro manism New Orleans is in the hands of the Roman-

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ists Buffalo, N. Y., is Baltimore is man

Catholic

powerfid

vote

great Roman Roman center.

of New York,

nati, Louisville, and other cities

stronghold

The Ro

Pitts urg, Cincin

too numerous to men

tion, hold the alance of powder, and shifting from one end of the political see-sav to the other, can constant

ly keep politicians

terror

and o edience

their

whims and wishes, eliminating the etter class of pa triotic citi ens from official life. We must not close this chapter without calling at tention to the well-known fact that Romanism has

powerful influence over the pu lic press. One way and another she so controls and manipulates many of the great daily papers that she is constantly advertis ing herself to est advantage, and y some means e -

silence said papers with reference that it does not suit her to have given to We grant the reader that all of these

ercismg power to to

the

things

the pu lic. facts give a rather gloomy outlook to the situation, and call for serious thinking, united and practical

the part of those who would preserve the institutions that have made this great country the "land of the free, and the home of the rave." action

CHAPTER The Boycott

and

III. Intimidation.

studying the pro lems which Romanism has thrust upon us, we must not overlook the oycott and In

intimidation.

One of the great saving ualities in our American civili ation is found in the spirit of fraternity and

rotherhood that has e isted remarka le degree. The hardships with which

among

people in

our

most

our

ancestors

had

to con

struggle with the great forests, wild easts and wild men in getting a foothold in this country, rought them together in closest and strongest onds of friendship. As civih ation advanced across the continent those struggles continued on the plains and tend in their

in the mountains there

was a

strenuous

attle for life

together, and cemented American society in the most perfect union ever known in human history, e cepting that of the He rew people. The log-rolling, the arn-raising, the corn-husking, and the many emergencies arising in a new country making men dependent upon each other, had their deep undercurrent of usefulness and lessing in the uilding of American character, difficult to estimate which drew

men

value. It is noticea le and

its

true

hopeful that however e cited

Romanism and Ruin. ecome in times of great political conflict and campaigns, that directly after elections are over, society flows together again in itter

and

peace and

people

our

may

harmony.

remarka le chapters in human his tory, will e that when it is truthfully written, which One of the

most

speedy reunion of our great nation once rent asunder y civil war. The fearful tragedy of reak the strong cords dial war itself did not entirely ound American citi ens into a splendid fraternity. During the war our soldiers from the North and the South, when die ugle called, "cease firing," sang records the

songs to

and

each odier

men on

the

the rivers and the creeks line and picket posts, while the

across

firing

smoke of conflict cleared

away,

swapped to acco and

coffee. The readiness with which the old soldiers and manhood of the country rallied a out the flag, every section of the nation, and marched shoul

young

from

with Spain, the great reunion at Gettys urg, the genuine admira tion and friendship that have e isted etween die men who wore the lue and the men who wore the gray der

ever

shoulder

the out reak of the

since General Grant gave

oys their

ack

war

the Southern

cavalry horses widi which to plow their fields, have orne splendid witness to the genuine no ility of American manhood. old

Romamsm and Ruin. The readiness with which

our

people have forgotten

animosities, strife and loodshed, and have united for the advancement, improvement and progress of great nation, all goes to prove that Americans love

our

one

another. The great political parties can engage in the most terrific conflicts, ut the day after the allots are counted the e citement dies away, the animosities per ish, true friendship and rotherhood survive, and those

who

yesterday seemed

udices and dislikes for

to a

e separated in their pre

lifetime, today

are

walking

path of life together in cheerful and genuine fra ternity. Repu licans and Democrats, Progressives and Prohi itionists, Socialists and Grangers, will all e long to the same fraternal organi ations, gather in the

the

social circles, take the communion at the same altar rail, and stand together for the same great prin ciples that have contri uted to the welfare of the coun same

try and made

our

repu hc the admiration

of the

Vorld. In the church you will find Baptists and Methodists, Pres yterians and Congregationalists, Luflierans and

Disciples, United Brethren and Wesleyans, Free

Methodists and Na arenes, Low Churchmen and Dutch Reformers, men of all Protestant denomina tions

standing together in one great Christian rother-

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of the gospel, the up uilding of of Heaven, and the etterment of con

progress

Kingdom

ditions among human eings. It is remarka le how that in the

matter

of intermar

riage, partnership in usiness, trade and commerce, social life and friendly intercourse, our American people make ut little note of a man's political affilia tion or church relationship. With that great e clusive, political and eccle siastical organi ation the Roman Catholic Church it is not so, and in the nature of things, cannot e so. The Roman Catholic Church claims to e the only the e clusive church of esus Christ. Mem ers of all other churches

heretical sinners, and cannot e fraterni ed with as the children of God. The same is true of Romanism as a political organi ation. She are

claims divine

authority to wield the scepter of civil and political control over all men and all nations. She may when it suits her purposes, vote in the va rious political parties, ut she stands ready always to mass

her hosts, com ine her

powers,

and

cast

her

vote

for the advancement of

ready

Romanism, and she is always have recourse to the oycott, proscription,

and intimidation.

The great daily papers listen to Romanist dictation ecause they know if they fail to do so the priests wiW

notify their mem ers

oycott their

papers.

Mer-

Romanism and Ruin. chants

afraid

are

oldly

come out

and circulation of literature

in their

which

advocacy

encourage

the

spirit of protest against the menace of our free insti tutions y the Roman Catholic Church ecause they know the priests will instruct their mem ers not to trade with

men

who lift

the

their voice in defense of

open Bi le, the pu lic school, and the free insti tutions and li erty of conscience in affairs of religion which have made America great.

The

TTiey

same

must

true

very

with regard to professional men. careful in any e pression against

the great Roman political hierarchy, or they will e lack marked, so far as Roman CathoHc support is

concerned.

Politicians

they

convictions

surrender their sincere political must smother the foresight of the

must

statesman, which notes the dangers from Rome, hov ering upon the hori on of our national life, the peace and prosperity of our country they must silently per

mit Rome

people,

sei e upon the sacred li erties of

they will

ut the whole

not

power

only e oycotted

of Romanism will

against them. As much we are

as we

forced

regret

to say

that

the polls,

organi ed

tell the truth, fear for their property

to say men

our

it,

and their lives if they are disposed to take advanced ground against the encroachment of this progressive.

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ceaseless, tireless, merciless, all-a sor ing, tyrannical, lighting, political ecclesiasticism. It is a well-known fact that in every city or community where Roman Catholics are numerous, there is a class of men, illit

superstitious, and fanatical, who are ready to do personal violence to those who oppose the en croachments of Romanism. This has always een erate,

num er of instances of vio lence in these United States within the last few months, where Romanists have undertaken to answer the arguments of Protestants with clu s, stones, and There have een

true.

the torch. There is danger of riot, violence and loodshed in any large city in this nation if an e -catholic priest, who has given up the infalli ility of the pope, the notion that priests, for a certain sum of money can pray souls out of purgatory, the doctrine of celi acy,

the many idolatries and superstitions of Romanism, should undertake to make a pu lic address in con

demnation of Roman Catholic

teaching and practice,

and in defense of the great free institutions of the tion which are endangered y the eiunity and of Rome

purpose

cause

destroy said

institutions.

set

Such

fre uently occur, and free speech on this is mu led and gagged in many instances e

riots do

su ect

citi ens know that violence and

would e the inevita le result.

loodshed

Everyone knows that

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impossi le for Gen. Miles, e -commander a genuine American patriot, to travel through this nation peace a ly and unmolested, organi ing the Sons of Li erty, and delivering addresses on the danger and menace of our free institutions, die progress and development of our great repu lic, ecause of the intermeddling of Roman Catholicism. Romanism hates free speech in chief of the armies of the United States,

and

unmu

led

press,

open

Bi le with its intel

lectual and spiritual illumination, the pu lic school, with its opportunities for instruction and knowledge that will

tion

reak the

favora le

of ignorance and supersti the nourishment and growth of the power

unscriptural and illogical teachings of the

his followers. There is on

no more

pope

and

peacea le, loving-hearted, citi en

this continent than the well-known Rev. Bud Ro

inson, whose deep consecration and

earnest

ministry

in die past few years have led tens of thousands of people to our Lord esus. He is incapa le of doing

eing, ut he is a Protestant, he ehoves in religious li erty, the pu lic school, die open Bi le, the preservation and promulgation of the harm

to any

human

institutions and ideals which have made this country the asylum of the downtrodden and oppressed of the

nations of the earth.

Not long since in

one

of his meetings, he dared

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people, "The Menace," a ealous and aggressive weekly pu lication which is sounding a clarion and arousing note of warning to the Amer ican people. Because this Protestant preacher dared, in a Protestant Church, to speak his profound convic tions, which are thoroughly ustified y the past his recommend

the

tory and present attitude of the Romish Church, a mo gathered in front of the parsonage where he was

entertained, and three

made their

way

urly

men,

Roman Catholics,

into the parsonage of die Protestant

violent attack upon him, while a police officer, either himself a Romanist, or intimi dated y the thug element a out him, remained inac minister and made

apparenUy indifferent, while the life and lim of a peacea le minister of the gospel were in imminent danger. There is no use denying the fact, peacea le citi tive and

who love their country, their homes, lives and property, are afraid to speak oldly their convictions ens

with regard to the matters of which we are writing. The oycott, proscription and intimidation are so well

known, die dangers that attend free speech and ag gressive contention against the constant encroachment,

infringement and insistencies on recognition, place and power y Roman Catholics, that thousands of good men, remain uiet and inactive, who otherwise would speak freely and act aggressively for the pres-

Romamsm and Ruin. ervation of true Americanism. The serious uestion for our consideration is, shall we meekly su mit and see

our

and

country

overrun, our

institutions

destroyed,

uietly permit ourselves to e ro ed of our li erties, or shall we arise in our might and save this na tion from the light and ruin that Romanism

has wrought in other great nations who are today moral cinders thrown upon the waste heap of passing

time.

This map shows the sites of the Roman Catholic cathedrals, other Roma There are many leges in the District of Colum ia. the capital, including- academies and conTent , orphan asylnms, etc completely the Roman Catholics occupy tho capital.

CHAPTER The Influence

IV.

Rome

our

National

Capital.

this

After eginning ook, I had

write the

great desire

chapters of

from resident in Washington City who knew the facts with reference to Romanism and its influence in our National Capital, and could wnte on the su ect accurately and dispas sionately, to prepare a chapter setting forth conditions as they really e ist in Washington. I was fortunate in securing the services of Rev. Ben amin Haywood, an intelligent and cultured minister of the gospel who has for some time een a resident in our Capital City, and as the following will show, was fully prepared to give us the desired information a

to secure

some

Protestantism

must

Capital, than which

awake

none

our

condition in

nation's life is

our

people are awake as to the dangers of organi ed greed they are awake to the menace of organi ed lust ut they are sleeping in the presence of a powerful and astute political, com mercial and religious organi ation that num ers its votaries y the many millions, and is a le, when the critical.

The American

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enough, to manifest itself in any election as a solidarity. It has an insatia le desire for con uest and dominion. With it the end always usti fies the means. Its mem ership is only seven per ut our nine cent, of the population of our country, ty-three per cent, must awake to its purpose. stake is large

PRE-EMPTION

OF STRATEGIC LOCATIONS

THE

CAPITAL.

Today Romanism has already pre-empted every strategical location in the District of Colum ia. Massive and magnificent uildings have arisen every where to speak of the presence and potency of that organi ation. TTie most learned, the most adroit and the

most

cultured and

and

women

always and everywhere in evi The accompanying map shows the sites and

its communion

dence.

suave men

are

Catholic cathedrals, churches and principal colleges in the District of Co lum ia. Academies, convents and orphan asylums are relative locations of Roman

indicated

has

effort

een made

give uildings George town College or with the Cathohc University. How completely the National City is dominated cannot e not

nor

the num er of

etter descri ed.

strength where it map .

any

in connection with

Rome is wise

counts most.

and

masses

her

See accompanying

Romanism and Ruin. NATIONAL CELEBRATIONS ROMANI ED.

The Pan-American Thanksgiving Mass has now een cele rated for live successive years, always at

y leading politicians and statesmen. This last Thanksgiving the church had the satisfaction of receiving acceptances to her invitation to attend from tended

the President of the United States and his Ca inet, In spite as well as mem ers of the diplomatic corps.

of protests that ihe Protestant President and officials attend their own church services rather than that of

the Roman Church, these dignitaries were in attend ance at the mass at St. Patrick's Church. This mass

widely advertised eforehand y Romanist or The gans as the national Thanksgiving cele ration. was

of protest that arose from all Protestant at the assumption of such a title y any

storm ters

uar one

Thanksgiving service in this land of re ligious e uality, caused high church officials to hastily deny that the affair had any political significance as church for its

cele ration.

For the past few years the Church of Rome has pursued a very definite policy of utili ing historical

of increasing her influence and partiiclpation in national and official cele ration. Significant it is that the new Federal events

and characters

monument

means

Colum us in front of the marvelous

Romanism and Ruin. railroad station in the services conducted

preceded y

was

decided character.

Capital

was

dedicated and the

y Romanists that this ceremony Romanist procession of the most

As this is written the papers are full of notices to the effect that mem ers of the Ancient Order of Hi

ernians, Knights of Colum us and other societies are taking a deep interest in the unveiling of the new monument to Barry, the father of the American navy, and that it will e their aim

make the Barry unveil

Catholic gathering as was the Co lum us Memorial unveiling in Union Station pla a

ing

nota le

two years ago.

een invited

have

Mem ers of the Caiholic hierarchy to

participate.

call attention the well-known antipathy of the Roman Church our national anthem and to their systematic and

In this connection it is to

continual efforts ica"

not

amiss

change made from "Amer "The Star Spangled Banner." The ac to

have

tivity in this direction is nowhere more noticea le Washington. It has een much commented upon that at the annual meetings of the Daughters than in

of the American Revolution there should

e such

noticea ly large attendance of clergyonen from a church so opposed to women's organi ations and ac tivities which are not supervised y its own officials as

is the Roman Catholic.

Romanism and Ruin. ASSUMPTION

MAN

OFFICIAL

CATHOLIC

RECOGNITION

FESTIVITIES.

The Catholic Universe of Cleveland, of anuary , prints the following news item under the heading, "Cardinal's Day at the Capital."

. Cardinal Gi ons was "Washington, an. last Washington Sunday to cele rate Cardinal's a custom Day, inaugurated y him a out nine years and followed The day was ago every year since. cele rated y a solemn high mass in St. Patrick's Church at o'clock which was attended y mem ers of the Ca inet, the diplomatic corps, ustices of the Supreme Court, officers of the army and navy, sena in

and representatives and a num er of prominent churchmen and citi ens of Washington. tors

"After the services the Cardinal held

reception

in Carroll Hall, when the mem ers of the St. Vincent

Society and the League of the Good Sheperd served as a guard of honor and thousands formed in line, including many non-Catholics, to give New Year's greetings to the aged prelate The Christian Herald, under date of Fe ruary de Paul

in part sational features conmients

follows on this event "TTie attending Cardinal's Day are as

the fact that the Cardinal

home,

the national

comes

capital

sen

from Baltimore, his

cele rate the day

Romanism and Ruin. diat it is noted that he

gathers a out him mem ers of the ca inet, the diplomatic corps, ustices of the Supreme Court, officers of the army and navy, senators and representatives. This causes Cardi nal's Day at the capital to look decidedly Hke a state affair. The President has his New Year's reception so has the Secretary of State, and perhaps the repre sentatives of nations accredited

government. these functions.

our

International courtesy is shown at Diplomatic relations may make attendance

diese

the representatives of foreign functions imperative These functions are a realistic pano governments. to

rama

of world

placed

power,

and the

pomp

of rulers is dis

them.

"Now here

the oldest Americn cardinal, of office, and sets up his own New

comes

oldest in years Year's reception

capital, and is delighted to see to recognition as a sover that in a manner eign, 'a prince of the lood, is granted, for some TTiey persons of official rank are there to greet him. ut not will diemselves, they persuade may persuade millions of their fellow citi ens, that diey came merely to greet a kind old gentleman, or a personal friend, or

honor

our

his claim

great

man.

Mr. Gi

ons has

come

the leading Wasfhington, not as Mr. Gi ons, ut Church the United Caiholic in Roman prelate of the as

States. He and his

people have notlcel the

presence

Romanism and Ruin. their 'Cardinal's Day,

not

of Mr. A.,

ut of

Ca inet Mem er A. not of Mr. B., ut of Am as sador B. not of Mr. C, ut of ustice of the Su preme Court C. not of Mr. D., ut of General D. of Mr. E., ut of Admiral E. not of Mr. P., ut of Senator P. not of Mr. G., ut of Represen

not

tative G.,

None of these gentlemen, we imag ine, would have gone to Baltimore to attend Cardi etc.

Day therefore the accommodating Cardinal comes to Washington. The prophet has not risked calling the mountain to him and has discreetly elected to go to the mountain. Moreover this is prefera le, ecause Baltimore is not the capital, while Washing nal's

ton is.

church in our country e cept, perhaps the Mormons in their limited territory and on a small "There is

scale, that is playing politics and religion, with the emphasis on the former, though it feigns an emphasis on the latter, as does the Roman Catholic Church. No self-respecting presiding officer of any other er

church would lower himself and his organi ation to the e tent Roman Church dignitaries are contin

ually doing when they

the officials of

city. State and national governments at their politico-reHgious e hi itions for the glorification of dieir church. Our officials and statesmen have our sympathy if they think that they must attend these functions. If they use

our

Romanism and Ruin.

imagine that their Pan-American

Cardinal's Day or at a is for any other purpose than

presence

mass

stage effect and Catholic renomme, and that y far the greater part of their intelligent and fair-minded

fellow citi ens view their action in

they

are

any

mistaken."

other light,

NUMERICAL STRENGTH IN CONGRESS AND IN THE

COURTS.

, announces that there are seventy Romanists in the House and four in the Senate, and adds that some The National Hi ernian of Decem er

of the a lest

orators

oth sides of the House

mem ers of the Ancient Order of Hi ernians.

are

The

following list of Roman Catholics elected to the House of Representatives was printed in the Catholic

Citi en of Milwaukee, Wis., in its issue of Novem er , , immediately after the last Congressional elections Connecticut

Thomas L.

Reilly and

eremiah Donovan. Illinois ames T. McDermott re Thomas elected , Gallagher re-elected , Frank T. O'Hair defeated Uncle oe Cannon , ames M. Greiham re-eledted . Iowa Maurice Connolly. Kansas ohn P. Connelly. Kentucky Ben ohn son re-elected . Louisiana Ro ert F Broussard re-elected . Maine D. . McGillicuddy re-

Romamsm and Ruin.

elected . Massachusetts W. F Murray and as. Minnesota ames ManM. Curley re-elected . ahan Repu hcan . Missouri William L. Igoe. Ne raska ohn A. MaGuire re-elected . New ersey Thomas . Scully and ohn . Egan. New York D. . Leary, ames P. Maher re-elected , . . Fit gerald re-elected , Daniel P. Griffin, as. H. O'Brien, Daniel . Riordan, Timothy Sullivan, Michael . Conroy. Peter . Dowling, Michael E. Driscoll re-elected . Ohio Timothy D. Ans erre-elected . Oklahoma W. H. Murray. ry Pennsylvania Michael Donahue, . Washington

Logue, ames Francis Burke. Rhode Island Geo. Repu h F O'Shaughnessy, Am rose Kennedy T. Byrnes. ames can . South Carolina Burke H. Charles Repu Soudi Dakota

hcan . Wisconsin Michael E. Burke, WilHam . Gary re-elected , Michael K. Reilly pro a ly. In an article on the Indian school uestion in the Catholic Standard and Times, of Philadelphia, March , the following paragraph occurs in ,

reference to the failure of the House to eliminate a certain o ectiona le item in the ill "If the fiftythree CathoHc Democrats who have a vote in the House had een present and had voted against the o ectiona le item, it would have een eliminated y a ma ority of thirty-four."

Romanism and Ruin. Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, Senator O'Gorof New York, and Senator Henry F Ashurst

man

of Ari ona, are among the Roman Catholics in the Senate. Senator Ashurst has very recently een made chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian

Affairs, much

the satisfaction of Roman Catholics.

Among other high officials

in the national life who

mem ers of that church, may e mentioned Mr. Chief ustice White and Mr. ustice McKenna, of are

the United States

Supreme Court.

the much

discussed position and influence of oseph P. Tu multy in the White House, the following paragraph

uoted from the Protestani Maga ine for March is "We have never criticised Mr. Wilson pertinent for appointing a Roman Catholic as his private sec retary, although we have felt that under the e isting

conditions in this country, with the avowed purpose of the Roman hierarchy 'to make America Catholic,'

necessarily placed on the defensive y so do ing. Our position has een that no Roman Catholic was dis ualified from holding a high office merely on account of his religion ut ecause the Papacy is a and inculcates political princi pohtical organi ation ples diametrically opprosed to the principles upon which the American system of government is ased, we

was

have maintained that

aspires

every

pu lic offices ought

Roman Catholic who have

record proving

Romanism and Ruin. his

loyalty

distinguishing features of the polit ical system which he is to represent. The doctrine persistently taught y the Roman hierarchy, concern ing the proper relations etween Church and State, to

the

places the Roman Catholics in a different class from the Protestants, and renders it imperative that a cer tificate of good character e re uired." A significant incident in the matter of o taining audiences with the President has een widely com mented upon y the Protestant press recently. Bish op Rowe, Protestant Episcopal Bishop for Alaska, came to Washington to lay efore the President rerommendations for the uplift of the Indians and Es kimos in Alaska. He had received the impression

that he would have

audience with the President.

He remained in the city ten to secure an interview ut

days and repeatedly tried was always told that the President was too usy to see him. During this time, however, it was found possi le to receive ArchBishop Ireland, Roman Catholic prelate from St.

Paul.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY.

In connection with Indian Affairs mentioned a ove, chapter in rather recent history is of interest to all

Americans,

showing the participation

the Roman Church.

A letter

politics of

The Chronicle of

Romanism and Ruin.

Poughkeepsie, sets

forth in

N. Y.,

some

printed

detail the

in Decem er

account

of this

particular

it of political activity. The following is uoted from that letter "On anuary , , S. M. Bro-

sius, Washington agent of die Indian Rights Asso ciation, appeared efore a su -committee of the Sen

Indian Committee, in relation to matters under consideration. A full stenographic record of that ate

pu lished in a government document en titled "Hearing Before the Su -Committee of the

meeting

was

Committee

Indian Affairs of the United States

Senate, anuary Mr. Brosius "A

statement

, given

has

statement

amplified efore

honora le

the Committee

Indian Affairs, if re uested, to the effect that Mr. Scharf, a representative Catholic, su mitted on

of diat document

page

een made

Senator which will e

uote the

." I

a a

ta le of twenty close Congressional districts, with the alleged Catholic vote in each, and a written proposal deliver the necessary votes to carry those districts that might e selected y the Repu licans, if i ie ap to

propriations for the Catholic Indian schools to die amount of were continued for two years , longer. Even threats were made y t iis Mr. Scharf that the defeat of certain Congressmen would e rought a out unless opposition to sectarian appro priations was wididrawn."

Romanism and Ruin.

The letter continues "Hon. Thomas R. Bard, that time Senator from California, thereupon told

the committee that he was the Senator referred to y Mr. Brosius, and he further stated I elieve Mr.

Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, that it is a

dangerous thing

very

let such

noticed and I therefore feel that it is this

matter go my

duty

make

efore this e ecutive session of the

statement

com

mittee.

"I made I refer

memorandum

that

with reference

now

it.

soon

not

afterwards,

trusting

that

my memory

I have ta ulated

statements

here showing some twenty districts in the United States, and the names of the mem ers representing

such districts, the total Catholic population in each district and the total Catholic vote. "Mr. Scharf called

on me

and stated that he

y his church authorities to offer a the Repu lican leaders in Congress

was

authori ed

propo

sition

this

effect That he would guarantee these twenty weak congressional districts to go Repu lican the ne t elec tion provided Congress gave to the Roman Catholic

school

appropriation

for

two years

written memorandum referring to the matter which I made on the following day. Mr. Scharf at that time delivered to me a letter from

But let

refer

Bishop Montgomery dated March ,

, relating

Romanism and Ruin. the appropriations for the Catholic Indian schools. The first ta ulated statements were e hi ited to me to

several weeks

efore

that time that for

ployed

to go

y Mr. Scharf. year

through the

or more

the

propriations tinued for

Repu licans to

e carried

a le

authori ed

Congress

to pro

that if the ap were con

the church would guarantee that the congressional districts named

y the Repu licans. over and over again the church

to secure

such results.

In his interview

the evening of March , he again reiterated the ment that the Roman Catholics could always mand

two years,

"He assured was

was

een

together the

the CathoHc Indian schools

during that period

would

he had

country and get

statistics therein shown that he pose to

He stated

sufficient num er of Catholic

state com

votes to carry

elect any man when they were in formed y the aulhorities of the church that such re sults would e for die enefit of the church. He any

measure or

further stated that arrangements had already een ar rived at y which the re-election of the mem er of

Congress from

one

of die California districts would

e assured, and that he had, in pursuance of his prom ises to this gentleman, written to the Roman Catholic

clergymen

in the various counties

district.

"Senator Bard did

not

comprising that

look with favor

upon

the

Romanism and Ruin.

'reciprocity' proposed,

and he

was

defeated in his

efforts for re-election."

Although Cardinal Gi ons, following this

e pos

agent of the Ro man Catholic Church, in the report of the "Director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for ure,

denied that Mr. Scharf

was an

" the conclusion contains of the Bureau's inde tedness

Scharf for the

cause

very

acknowledgment

Professor. E. L.

valua le services which he rendered

of the CathoKc Indian schools.

It is interesting

to note,

this

same

letter,

uoted

length a ove, states that Father ohn L. Belford of Brooklyn, in taking e ception to certain state ments made y a clergyman in Trinity Church, says that the charge that "the Roman Catholic Church has an office in Washington to influence legislation at

o tain concessions is false." Yet he admits, that there is a ureau and that "the ureau does watch legislation and it does report the words and works of

and

those mem ers of Congress who attack the church and the rights of Catholics."

The Indian schools incident is an illustration of Rome's manner of working under die dome of the

Capitol. PROTESTANTISM AWAKENING.

The Protestant Maga ine for March introduces

Romanism and Ruin. the report on the union Protestant service held in the New National Theatre on Decem er , at , which the Reverend R. H. McKim of the Church

Epiphany, gave his nota le and now famous address on "Why We Are Protestants Reasons for the Separation from Rome," widi this paragraph "A united and powerful protest has een registered y the Protestants of the City of Washington againsf the religious doctrines and political activities of the

of the

Roman Catholic Church in America. After 'lect ures for non-Cathohcs' had een given for two weeks

Novem er -

in St. Patrick's Church, in

which Roman Catholic doctrines Protestantism mass

had

was

were

e alted and

decried after die Pan-American

een cele rated

Thanksgiving Day,

y President Wilson, mem ers of the Ca inet and other high officials after a fierce attack had een made upon one of the daily papers for pu lishing after matter not accepta le to Roman Catholics this com ination of events it seemed fitting that Prot ear pu lic testimony to their loyalty estants should to Reformation pnnciples and against the perversions tended

....

of the Roman Church."

The report closes with the following "We confidendy elieve that nothing in the whole controversy

with Rome in this country has can people as the work done in

stirred the Ameri

ehalf of Protestant-

Romanism and Ruin. ism in the

City of Washington during recent weeks. Under the lessing of God, the faithful protests against Romanism have orne much fruit, and will continue

do so in the days to come." From the general review of Roman Catholic activ ity in the Capital alone, it can e readily deduced to

that the following uotation from the same maga ine referred to a ove March issue is not e aggerated "It

cannot

e denied that the Roman Catholics

are

political control of many of the largest cities of the United States and of several of the states diat die

num er of Roman Catholics in oth ranches of Con gress

steadily ecoming larger that Roman Catho a tremendous hold directly or indirectly up

lics have

the secular

pu lic places

of the country that few men in have the courage to give open e press press

their views

this su ect for fear of the con se uences in one way or another that the present gen eration has grown up with little or no instruction from ion

the Scriptures concerning the divine foreview of the Papacy and its work, such as was given from Pro

pulpits a generation ago and that there is a general tendency to compromise with Roman Cath olicism, treating it as one phase of Christianity rather testant

than

the great apostasy from die truth of the

pel."

"Americanism

means

gos

the separation of Church and

Romanism and Ruin. State.

Catholicism

means

the union of Church and

Stale.

"Americanism

means

the freedom of the

press.

censorship of the press. "Americanism means freedom of speech. Cathol

Catholicism icism

means a

restriction of

"Americanism Catholicism

speech.

esta lishment of religion. the esta lishment of the Roman the religion of the country.

means no

means

Catholic rehgion as "Americcmism means

Democracy the rule of the ma ority in things civil, and die protection of die rights of die minority. CathoHcism means the alleged divine right of the few to rule the many, with no regard whatever for the rights of the individual when diey oonflict with the wishes of the hierarchy. "Americanism means the right to worship God ac cording to the dictates of one's conscience, with no persecution for dissenters. Catholicism means com pulsion to worship God according to the direction of a hierarchy, wath persecution of heretics even unto true

death. "Americanism means the freedom of the ody, soul and spirit which tends to the development of al that is no lest in the individual. Catholicism means die repression of the individuality and the su ection of ody, soul and spirit to a ruling class ine ora ly ound to the spirit of medievalism y the terri le doc trine of infalli ility."

Romanism and Ruin. The work of the Protestant Church is constructive,

deeply evangelical, and it must y no means e lack ing in courageous enterprise. Nor will we e afraid of responsi ility ut in its e ecution we will never e com ative for the sake of com at.

The defense of

Washington is the defense of the Union

ical Protestantism

pregna le

must

and

Evangel

awake and make itself im

iti the heart of the

Repu lic and thus

per

petuate the "Faith of our Fathers," preserve and hand

down

posterity civil and rehgious li erty.

CHAPTER

Witnessing Against Themselves.

Recently there appeared in the Northern Christian Advocate, a series of articles from the gifted pen of Rev. C. W. Winchester, D. D., on "Romanism a Menace to Civic and Religious Li erties." From these articles we clip the following paragraphs which we elieve to e so er thinking and serious truth, uite in harmony with the spirit, contents and purpose

of this

ook.

"The Roman Catholic Church is stu ornly op posed to every shape and shadow of reHgious li erty. We Protestants hold diat every man has a right to

elieve and worship as he pleases, provided he does not interfere with the rights and privileges of other

reHgious opinions and practices he is responsi le to no eing in the universe ut God. Rome says 'There is only one reHgion and one Church. Every ody is o md to think and elieve and worship as die Pope directs. It is the duty of the State to e terminate all other religions and all other churches and compel every ody to eHeve and worship according to this one rule.' Rome says 'Believe as I tell you, or lose your civil privileges, men.

For his

Romanism and Ruin. your property, your

li erty and

your

life.'

I do

not

knowingly su scri ed to that creed or a solute intolerance. Many of them think that they elieve in religious li erty. But that is what the Roman Church has always eheved and taught and every Romanist is ound to elieve it, or e everlastingly damned. Pope after Pope and they are all infalli le has declared it to say

that all Roman Catholics have

article of elief, necessary for salvation, that no other religion should e tolerated anywhere ut the an

Roman Cathohc. "In

, Pope Pius VII. said Tt has een proposed that all religious persua circular letter in

e free and their worship pu licly e er But we have re ected this article as contrary

sions should

cised. to

the

canons

and councils of the Cathohc Church.'

Pius I . Sciid

'TTie Catholic

religion ought

e e clusively dominant in such sort that every other worship shall e anished and interdicted. In to

Pope condemned certain 'Principal Errors of our Times.' Among them was this 'That in the present time it is no longer necessary that the Catholic rehgion shall e held as the only rehgion of the

the state,

same

the e clusion of all other modes of

Pope Leo dated anuary ,

ship.'

preme

III.

wor

circular letter, , in which he said 'The su sent out

teacher of the Church is the Roman Pontiff.

Romanism and Ruin. Union of minds, therefore, re uires, together with perfect accord in one faith, complete su mission and o edience of will to the Church and to the Roman The Popes and councils have declared again and again that all heretics and all Protestants are heretics ought to e put to death, and that it is a meritorious act for any Catholic to kill

Pontiff

any

God himself.'

heretic,

at any

time and in

any

heretic will shorten the duration of in Purgatory, after his death.

To kill

place. a

Catholic's stay

"In all countries where the Church of Rome has complete control all other religions are for idden y

complete een granted y the or partial religious li erty has government, at the demand of the spirit of the times ut always against the protest and opposition of Rome. Down to the esta lishment of the Kingdom of United Itedy, in , the city of Rome and the surrounding country was governed y the Pope. He was the a solute civil, as well as religious, ruler. He had his way and Romanism ore its perfected fruit. What was the result Protestant worship was a solutely for idden y law e cept in the houses of am assadors sent to the Pope y Protestant govern law.

ments.

e heard

most

Not

of the old Cathohc countries

Bi le could e sold,

preaching Christ, on soil the punishment for such

voice could

part of the Italian crime was imprison-

any a

not

Romamsm and Ruin. ment

It would

death.

Pope could have his

e the

same

today, if die

way.

"What do American Roman Catholics think and

They But all they

say

sometimes prate a out religious li mean is li erty for themselves till

erty. they

enough to rule the land. Then re ligious li erty will e e tinguished in the lood of all can

grow

strong

who resist their will.

Listen

some

of the

sweet

and

lovely

sentiments of these only representatives of the meek and lowly esus The Catholic World, one

leading papers, wholly controlled y the , 'The Church is instituted, priests, said, in April as every Catholic who understands his religion e lieves, to guard and defend the rights of God on of their

earth against in all places. accept,

any

and

every enemy, at

all times and

She, therefore, does not and cannot in any degree favor, li erty in the Protes

li erty.' The Freeman's ournal of New York what a name for a paper which can ut ter such sentiments says 'Religious li erty, in die sense of a li erty possessed y every man to choose his own religion, is one of the most wicked delusions ever foisted upon this age y the father of all deceit. No man has a right to chooes his religion. Ca tant

sense

tholicism is the tolerance

might

most

intolerant of creeds.

It is in

itself, for it is truth itself. rationally maintain that a sane

We man

Romanism and Ruin. has

make

righl

elieve that

and

not

theory of religious li erty. Its impiety is only e ualled y its a surdity. The Shep herd of the Valley, a Roman Catholic paper pu lish ed in St. Louis, says 'The Church is of necessity in tolerant. Heresy she endures when and where she ut she hales it, and directs all her energies to must ,

this

its destruction.

If Catholics

ever

gain

immense

numerical ma ority, religious freedom in this country is at an end. So our enemies say. So we elieve.

The Catholic Review of has not, and

never can

says

'Protestantism

have, any right where Catho Therefore, we lose the reath

licity has triumphed. we e pend in declaiming against igotry and intoler ance and in favor of religious li erty, or the righl of The man to e of any reHgion as est pleases him. of Pitts urgh, says Right Rev. O'Connor, Bishop is endured until the opposite 'Religious li erty merely e carried into effect without peril to the Catholic can Church.'

The reader will notice that these radical

statements

against religious li erty are not what Protestants say of Cathohcs, they are the statements of Catholics. "Hear what three great

democracy. had

seen

LaFayette,

men

think of Rome and

Romanist himself who

how Romanism had cursed and

fair realm of France, said

lighted the

'If the li erties of the

Romanism and Ruin.

American people

destroyed, they will fall y clergy.' Gladstone wrote 'No more cunning plot was ever devised against the intelligence, the freedom, the happiness are

ever

the hands of the Catholic

and virtue of mankind than Romanism.'

Richard

Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, said, in hia ook, the 'Papacy and the Civil Power.' 'Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the Church of Rome prevail, our Constitution would necessarily fall. The two cannot e ist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental the ory of our government everywhere. "A third glaring and frightful fact is that the Pope claims the supreme allegiance of every human soul. He is a ove every emperor, king, prince, president, governor, legislator, udge, magistrate and offcer, of He has the right, every sort, anywhere in the world. though fortunately not the power, to depose the Pres W.

ident of these United States and to set aside any law that can e framed and any decree or udgment of

Every loyal child of the Church will o ey the Pope first, and the law of the land afterward. If the will of the Pope and the law of the land are in conflict he will choose to o ey the any

court

tri unal.

Pope.

"No

man

Romanist

can

the

same

loyal American and a loyal The loyal Romanist time.

Romanism and Ruin. owes

supreme

allegiance

foreign despot.

There

thousands of Roman Catholics in this country who intend to e loyal citi ens of the Repu lic. But if are

conflict should arise etween love of country and love of Church, they would have to choose the Church any

incur the

danger

of eternal damnation in hell.

No'

to this you reveal your e treme igno you say rance of history and of current events. All along the ages the Popes have claimed, and e ercised, the right

depose kings and ueens. Pope Innocent III. de posed King ohn of England and Pope Si tus de clared ueen Eli a eth deposed and sent over the Spanish Armada to e ecute his decree. But Eng land's naval prowess and the wrath of Almighty God sent most of the Spanish soldiers and sailors to the to

ottom of the "If

you

sea.

should ask

any

intelligent and loyal Ro

manist what he would do if the commands of the

Church and the law of the land should conflict, he T would o ey the Church.' would instantly answer

The last Pope ut one, Pius I ., said, in one of his circular letters Tt is an error to hold that, in case of confhcting laws etween the two powers, the civil law

ought

prevail."

"The Roman Catholic Church dishonors and de fies the laws of the land whenever it suits her pleasure. At the fairs, which tiiey hold

raise money for their

Romanism and Ruin.

priests and their institutions, they almost always op erate gam ling devices and sell into icating drinks contrary to state and national law. The priests of Rome consider themselves a ove the law.

many

I know that they disregard the law concerning the recording of marriages. A city clerk once told

cases

that the priest of the city where he was did not comply with the law and, when he asked him a out it,

he in

defiantly made reply T record all my marriages the records of my parish, and that is enough.' When

reminded of the law of the State of New York, he said 'I want you to understand that the Church is

And the clerk, who owed his elec the Roman Catholic vote, held his peace. A

a ove the law.' tion

Methodist minister using such language, would have een prosecuted for violating the law. According to

the

statutes

of the State

lawfully married.

we, men

But Rome

and

laughs

women, are

the law and

that, ecause we were not married y a Roman priest, we are living in gross and damna le adultery. says

Romanist is married

Protestant

woman

Romanist priest would tell a Protestant minister, him that he could lawfully forsake his wife and marry again, a woman of his own faith. That is what Rome would tell him. But the State of New York would tell him that if he did what his priest told him, he would commit a state's crime. Thus Rome sets our a

laws

naught.

Romanism and Ruin. "A fifth

large

appalling fact

is that Rome,

very

e tent, rules this nation

today. Rome can get from our State and Na

almost anything she wants tional governments. The United States Government supports three Roman Catholic churches and four priests in Panama. Nearly all the chaplains in the

and navy are Romanists. The street railways and many of the steam railroads and steamship lines army

permit priests and

nuns

Protestant ministers

ride for

must pay.

nothing, while

Roman Catholics

given the privilege to eg money in the different departments at Washington, while the privilege is de nied to Protestants. A esuit censor controls the columns of every large daily paper in this nation, so diat the trudi a out Rome cannot go into print, while everything diat is derogatory to Protestantism is given the largest display. There is hardly a paper etween are

the

oceans

diat dares

anything which Rome any

says

Protestant Church

Nearly

word of criticism of or does, or dial will give institution a fair show.

to utter

all die teachers in die

pu lic schools

in Chi

odier cides, notvnthstanding die fact that Rome is cursing the pu hc schools and doing all she can to destroy them. The friends and relatives of soldiers uried in the Narioncd Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, are for idden to put Masonic em lems on their headstones, though Romanist em lems are allowed. cago

are

Romanists, and

many

Romamsm and Ruin. "On the recommendation of President Taft

, the

were

given

Philippines which

were

not

worth

TTie Roman Catholic catechism is

pu lic school York

in the

Rome for the Friar lands in

Philippines.

one

million.

taught

in every The city of New

gave the Roman Catholic Church the ground which St. Patrick's Cathedral stands, worth a mill

the time, and several millions cities the Roman Catholic churches

ion dollars many

now.

pay

In noth

ing for the street improvements made in front of their uildings. No Protestant Church ever had such e emption. Nearly all the great cities of our Repu lic are governed y Roman Cathohc mayors and com mon councils of which a ma ority are Romanists and they rule the cities in the interest of Rome. In nearly all die great manufacturing plants, and on many of the great railroad systems, some mysterious influence is at work, with great success, to drive out every em ploye who is not a Romanist. Rome is getting her cruel grip on almost everything in this nation. "Do you know that Rome is doing her est, or Such is the worst, to destroy our pu lic schools trudi. Why do not our great and small newspapers

sound the alarm and try to save our schools efore it Because the misera le cowards dare not is too late

whisper pose to

word against Rome. If she should pro cut our throats, it is dou tful whether a paper a

Romanism and Ruin. in New York

ect.

Rome

Washington

Buffalo would o

they care. the head uarters of the

do what she will for all

can

"Word has

gone out

from

east' that the American system of Cardinal must come to an end.

'scarlet colored

pu lic Capel, speaking for the Pope, recently said free

schools

'The

when the Roman Catholic Church of the Repu lic of the United States, at the order of the Pope, will refuse to pay their school ta , time is

not

far

away

the reasts of the government It will come as uick as agents rather than pay it. the click of a trigger, and will e o eyed, of course, as coming from God Himself.' The highest author and will send

ullets

ities in the American Roman Catholic Church have

condemned the pu lic schools.

And yet the greatest of American patriots and statesmen, all along the years since the Repu lic was founded, have declared

the pu lic schools e istence

as a

free and

e a solutely necessary

to our

self-governing people.

The "Why does Rome hate our schools She knows that if her children is very easy. ucated with Protestant children in the

answer are

pu lic schools,

they will get their eyes open and will turn their acks on her silly superstitions and forsake her confessional, her ones of saints, her dough god and her deified Pope. Rome has never een a le to endure the Hght of reason, science, history and the Word of

Romanism and Ruin. God.

Where she has her way, she never does any thing for popular education. When the city of Rome and the States of the Church ecame a part of United

Italy,ninety-two per cent, of the people, who had een ruled y the popes for hundreds of years, could

neither read

nor

Ignorance and degradation always and everywhere accom

write.

and vice and crime

Roman Cathohc domination. In this country she cannot keep her children in perfect ignorance. She has to set up her parochial schools, where very

pany

httle is taught that is of any value, and commands her people to patroni e them. Hie Roman Catholic

would prefer the pu lic schools, ecause they know that they are etter than the schools which are

masses

taught their

y the ignorant down

nuns.

But the priests hold

the grindstone y threatening to e clude them from the privileges of the church. Now noses

the priests are demanding that the pu hc money e didived etween their schools and the pu hc schools.

Knights of Colum us, the largest gadiering of Roman Catholic priests and laymen ever held on this continent, that was declared to e the policy and purpose of the Roman Church. TTie war was egun. 'Death to the pu lic school' is the attle-cry of Rome.

recent

convention of the

"Unless the

sons

ful danger ahead.

of America awake, there is If there e war, it will e

pro-

Romanism and Ruin. voked and egun y Rome. But we ought to e on If only our careless, optimistic Ameri our guard. can people can e aroused They have the kindest

feeling toward their Romanist neigh ors. They elieve that Rome has any evil designs against

cannot

with the great seers of our nation. Pres ident Lincoln said T do not pretend to e a prophet. Not

us.

But though not a prophet, I see a dark cloud and it It will rise and increase until its flanks will is Rome.

flash of lightning followed y a peal of thunder. Then a cyclone such as the world has never seen will pass over this country, spreading ruin and e

torn

desolation from north

south.

After it is

over

there

e long days of peace and prosperity for po een swept away forever from our pery will have

will

country.'

loody struggle etween America and Rome. He so declared in a speech at a reunion of the army of Tennessee, at Des Moines, . , la., Septem er "General Grant feared

"TTie wife of General Sherman was a Romanist. One of her sons ecame a esuit priest. The Gen eral was an intense Protestant. He often e pressed his convictions and his fears to my cousin. Again and again he told her, asing his opinion on what he had found out concerning the spirit and intentions of Rome, that the time was coming when there would e loody war etween America and Rome.

Romanism and Ruin. "If

war

comes,

e solely the fault of Rome. We would not deprive our Ro

it will

want peace.

man

Catholic neigh ors of

one

shadow of their

rights.

TTiey may worship and elieve as they will. But they must keep their sectarian hands off our Consti tution and laws. They must not destroy or harm our pu lic schools. They must not take one cent from our pu lic treasury for sectarian purposes. We desire the most perfect good will to e ist etween

them and ourselves

ut it

must not

the

e pense

free press. We ask them speech to oin with us in rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and we will oin with them in ren of the free

dering

unto

Church in consent to

a a

and

God the

things which

are

God's. 'A free

free State,' is our cry and we will 'Slave State in any Church.' "

never

CHAPTER Facing

the

VI. Facts.

preceding chapters of this ook, we have aneful influence of Romanism seen something of the In the

in all of those countries where she had power suffi We have seen that cient to make her influence felt.

she has always intermeddled with the affairs of State, and has sought to manipulate and control civil offi cials and affairs for the advancement and advantages of Romanism. This is the logical outcome of the Romish claim that the Pope is the representative of God in the world, and is the divinely appointed head of all ec

clesiastical and civil

power,

clothed with

supernatural

wisdom and rights to dictate and rule in the affairs of oth in Church and State. men,

chapters preceding this we have had laid efore us a remarka le and starthng view of the situation in Washington City. It is plain that Rome, rampant with rehgious fanaticism and limitless am ition, encouraged with the headway she is now making, has set herself to force Uncle Sam to ow in su mission to the Pope at Rome. Having een un In

one

of the

masked and re uked in those countries where she has

Romanism and Ruin. wielded largest influence and succeeded in degrading and impoverishing the people, and having had her

checked and curtailed in those countries, Rome is marshalling her hosts to capture, dominate and control this Repu lic. power

She is

shipping millions of emigrants to our shores, accumulating and com ining her forces to ind, cut

the locks, and ow the knees of Uncle Sam to the dictates of the Pope, while she ro s his children of their civil and rehgious li erty. Will our free Amer

idly y and see the strong man of the ages, the representative of all that is highest and est in the civil government of the world's history, who never yet owed the knee to king, potentate or Poi e, go down and put his unsulhed lips to the toe of the most arrogant, tyrannical and lasphemous ican citi ens stand

ruler of all the world We had

well face the fact that the Roman

Caiholic Church is a great political party, and diat she has set herself y the com ination of her voting power, the shrewdness of her diplomats, and all the

trickery and deception in which esuitry has ecome master through years of practice, to put the iron yoke of Rome

upon

the fair

It is useless for

people must

try

young

our

hide their

reconcile ourselves

neck of Americanism.

patriodc and li erty-loving eyes to

from these facts.

su mit

Rome rule, the

Romanism and Ruin.

turning of the wheels of progress ackward, the fail ure of American civili ation, and the repetition of history in all of those old nations where Roman Ca tholicism has dominated Church and State, or we must gird ourselves for one of the most tremendous,

moral struggles in the history of the world. That was sound philosophy of our Lord esus when He

said, "What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he e a le with

ten

thousand

to meet

him that cometh

. against him with twenty thousand." Luke In looking forward to the great moral and political struggle against Romanism, it will e well for us to

of the forces in this country that cannot e relied upon to help the cause of civil and religious

count up

freedom.

some

It is well understood that

large

f er cent.

pu hc press is already su sidi ed and very much under the dictation of the Roman Catholic

of the

Undou tedly, many of the men who con trol influential daily papers in this nation, have little or no spiritual vision, and are indifferent as to who guides and controls the moral conscience what they desire is large circulation, and advertising space well paid for. Nothing ut tremendous pressure rought to ear y Protestantism could influence them in their

Church.

present attitude toward Romanism. The old politicians have ecome used to wearing

Romanism and Ruin. the collar of Rome they have learned to guard with greatest care against any allusion that could e con strued in

Pope, his peo ple, claims or pretenses. They know how complete ly the priests control and rule their people and on what short notice they can com ine their voting power against any politician who dares to utter a sentence that can e construed as a reflection against iheir any way to

reflect

upon

the

church.

Only

few

days

ago,

received

Catholic friend who reminded

graph

that

letter from

one

small para

fwhtical speech, "Rum, Romanism and Re ellion," and this made only a few hours efore the polls were open, carried the State of New York against ames G. Blaine and for Grover Cleveland. in

Our Catholic friend did fact that he

not

seem

aware

of the

only proving that his church is a pow erful pohtical organi ation, and is not governed y great economic prmciples, ut y Romish pre udice. was

Under present conditions, we can count on the old politicians sympathi ing with the Romish hierarchy.

Another item of importance which we regret to have to put to record, is the fact that the Protestant

ism of this country is honeycom ed with a destructive criticism which practically amounts to infidelity. The

un elief in the integrity of the Bi le which is eing promulgated from universities, colleges and pulpits

Romanism and Ruin. under Protestant influence is having a most fearful effect upon evangehcal faith and reHgious revivals

throughout this nation. All of this is to the great advantage of Romanism. It reaks down and de stroys the most powerful influence that could e rought to ear and ought to e rought to ear against the superstitions and fanaticism of Romish teaching and practice. We must also confess that there is a sad lack of the union, sympathy and co operation etween the great odies of Protestant de nominations in this country that ought to characteri e a people who read the same Bi le, trust in the same Christ for salvation, speak the same language, and are striving for the promulgation of the same great principles and the securing of the uplift and salvation

All these are stu orn facts which any thoughtful man or class of men must take into serious consideration in seeking to solve the great pro lem which confronts us. Roman Catholicism is a great world power she is ound together with the strongest ties that can cement men into a consoHdated union. Through years of has she learned how to com ine practical e perience and focus her powerful influence upon any given point or coimtry. At the present time these com ined influences are focused upon the United States that power must e roken or this country must ow the knee to Roman rule. of the human

race.

Romanism and Ruin. There is

one

other fact

which

must

call the

reader's attention

efore closing this chapter, namely TTie religious press of the Roman Catholic Church. Commenting upon this fact, a religious paper of recent

date

says THE CATHOLIC PRESS,

"Many people find

it difficult

understand how

the Catholic Church, loaded down as it is with a ur den of mediaeval ecclesiasticism, is a le even appro

imately gress.

has

hold its

against die rising tides of pro Here is a large part of the e planation It powerful press The total population of the to

own

principal countries of Europe and America is a out Catholic papere , , , and there are , in those countries or one paper for a out every people. That e plains a great deal.

"This powerful

gives the Catholic Church a great advantage. If you say anydiing a out it, it ack. can talk It has ninety-si papers in this coun try printed in foreign languages, and through them it speaks to a constituency of two or three millions who And here is another never read an English paper. thing to e orn in mind Catholic homes the world over contain a Catholic paper if they contain any. They are a solutely loyal to their own papers. Mill

ions of them take

press

other kind

and hence all their

Romanism and Ruin. information concerning local and world movements is colored y Catholic sympathy and interest." "The great force of any cause lies in its press. The pope declared he would part with the very chal efore he would part with his press." Northern Christian Advocate, Syracuse, N. Y.

ice

the altar

The wisdom and

eal of the CathoHc

people

are

e commended it is most unfortunate that this wisdom and eal are not e pended in a great spiritual to

evangelism instead of the uilding up of a supersti tious and tyrannical ecclesiasticism, the perversion of

truth and of human nature, instead of the inculcation of Bi le truth, the illumination and uplifting of hu

We have no railing accusation to ring against Roman Catholic priests or the sisterhood of

man

nature.

the church

elieve the

vows

and practice of

e unscriptural and against God-created human nature, su ecting those who make the vows

li acy

strong and unnecessary temptation to which dou t many unfortunate ones fall victims, ut to

hope for the est among our fellow- eings everywhere, and we ut upon principles are not warring upon individuals, which are fundamental in religious teaching, family life and civil government. We are protesting against a condition of things that has een tried out again and again in the course of human history and in every in-

have tried

train ourselves

elieve and

Romanism and Ruin. has resuUed fatally, which Is creeping upon our Amrlcan civili ation like a great sleeping sickness, and must e checked or this nation must suffer Irre stance

para le loss, the

progress

of the human

dered and diverted from Its God-given final goal. We

su mit

are

facing

some

stu

race

e hin

course

orn facts will

and

uietly

them, or shall we arise in the name of God and humanity and contend for civil rights, rehgious li erties, the salvation of the nation and die progress of the

race.

CHAPTER

VII.

The Remedy.

We have een making something of a diagnosis of a critical situation it is plain to our readers that some thing must e done to stay the tide of Romanism and save

our

country from the

spiritual and intellectual

light it has rought to other nations. In treating a disease it is customary for the physi cian to seek to uild up the general healdi of the pa

One of the greatest needs of our times is a decided improvement in the moral health of the na tient.

spiritual awakening throughout the entire country, a great uickening of the faith, devotion and religious activities of our Protestant people. Our religious salt in this country is losing its savor we want a very general renewal of spiritual life and re ligious eal to penetrate and affect our entire social tion

system.

its

There is nothing so helpful to national life in all departments, as the fear of God, reverence for His

We can conceive of a spiritual atmosphere which would remedy all of our ills, solve all of our pro lems and lift the whole people into communion with God and fellowship with name

and o edience

His laws.

Romanism and Ruin. each olher. any

The present outlook does room to hope that we are

standing such spiritual

give us approaching not

in this country, ut it is safe to say that every Protestant minister and layman who contri utes anything to the spiritual evangeli ation of any

era

the present generation, is helping thus much to erect a arrier against the encroachments of Romanism.

TTie churches ought to esta lish great missionary centers in all the seaport cities of Roman Cathohc

countries, and do their

enlighten and de liver from the ondage of ignorance and fanaticism, the multitudes of emigrants coming from Catholic countries to our shores. The churches ought also to set on foot powerful evangelical movements for the preaching of the gospel and the scattering of genuine ly religious literature among the masses of the people utmost to

in all great Catholic countries. There is a divine law of reciprocity

we save our

y saving others. We can save the United States y saving Italy, Spain, France, Me ico, South America and Germany. We must evangeli e the peoples or the peoples will destroy us. TThe church selves

has failed in her vision she has had no proper conc tion of the scope, power and possi ilities of the

gospel of esus Christ. The sad feature of the situ ation is, that in all pro a ility she will not awake to her of portunities and the emergencies which press

Romanism and Ruin. While evangelical Christians sleep, Ro manists sow tares in the field. If the time, money and energy that have een de

upon

us.

the promulgation of the loose and skeptical teacliings of destructive critics had een devoted to

voted

missionary effort at the seaports where our emi grants land, following up these newcomers with prac tical evangelistic effort, we would have an entirely different situation with which to cope today. great

While this is all

our

country

most

practical

true,

Romanism way.

we or

There

shall have

surrender

the situation in the

meet must

DETERMINATION, CO-OPERATION, ORGANI ATION.

First of all, there must e in the mind of our peo ple a positive and grim determination that this coun

try shall not e dominated y the Pope of Rome. TTiose citi ens of these United States who elieve

in and love civil and

rehgious li erty, who have no faith in die royal lood of kings, or die infalli ility of popes, whose ancestors fought for the independence and up uilding of this great Repu lic, or whose fa thers and mothers, in

recent years

have fled

from the poverty and ruin wrought y Romish tyr anny in the old countries to these friendly shores "this land of

promise"

must

determine that the

Pope of Rome and his representatives shall

not

in-

Romanism and Ruin. termeddle with, distur or destroy the institutions which have made this nation great. It must not e a uestion of the time it takes, or

the la or, sacrifice and suffering it involves we must not stop to count the cost we must determine to save our country from the most invidious and relentless foe that

tyrannical foot upon shore, or sought to enslave a free, independent and progressive people. We have come to a crisis in American history we must

ever set

rise

to meet

it.

There must e co-operation the great Protestant odies of Christians must get into closer sympathy and harmony with each other. They must e a le to dominate situations and successfully checkmate Rome in every effort to intermeddle with political af fairs. TTie united Protestantism of this country ought to uild a great structure in Washington City

keep there representatives of the various church es to constantly watch the efforts of Roman Catholics to dominate our officials and influence legislation. TTi ought to send out a weekly pu lication inform ing the American people of every effort and trick of Roman prelate and esuistic schemers. At the same time, these representatives of Protestantism ought to seek to ring to ear upon Washington City and so ciety the most powerful evangehstic and spiritual in fluences. Such men as Gypsy Smith, Mr. Chapand

Romanism and Ruin.

George Stuart and Billy Sunday ought to e rought to Washington City year after year to mass all of the Christian forces of the capital city in great evangelistic meetings which would powerfully per meate the moral atmos here of the Capital of the na tion and impress the head of our own government and other governments represented in our Capital, with the virile life and power there is in the evangel ical religion of die New Testament. Protestantism will not win the day y pronouncing ut she invectives against Catholic aggressiveness, might win die day y tremendous effort at genuine evangeli ation. We have the forces, if we only com ine and use them, to shake this nation widi gospel man,

power

Gulf and the Atlantic to the would only properly appreciate and use

from Lake

Pacific if

these forces.

To successfully meet die situation, we must have organi ation. We ought directiy to rally around the standard of religious and civil li erty millions of

well-informed and patriotic American citi ens who would e a le at the polls and anywhere and every where, to meet and offset the influence of die Knights

of Colum us, who could easily secure for pu lic speakers escaped nuns and converted Catholic priests, a

peacea le hearing

discuss die false teachings and

the dangerous effect of those false teachings upon the

Romanism and Ruin.

individual, and upon society, in any town, city or com munity throughout the nation in a word, an organi ation that could assist Uncle Sam

c ance and

keep his

proper

without fear or favor, free speech and a free press for the American people. The remedy for the situation which confronts us, is found in the proper and practical interpretation of four words Evangeli ation, Determination, Co-op eration and

secure

Organi ation.

The End.