Part 18 (1/1)
”10th Howlady lately cast herself fro led to do it, doubtless, in desperation The convents of this city, of the same order, require the same entrance fee, 2000 Of course, none but the comparatively rich can avail themselves of this perfection of Godliness
”Who will say that this mode of life has not been invented in order to cut short life as rapidly as possible, that the 2000, with all the rich diamonds upon initiation, may be repeated as frequently as possible?
”O! how true it is, that Roanisation, wherever it can fully develop itself, in all lands How truly is it denominated by the pen of inspiration the 'MYSTERY OF INIQUITY,' especially that part of it relating to these secret institutions, and the whole order of the Jesuits”
The editor of the ”Christian Union”, in his remarks on the above, says, ”Already the fair face of our country is disfigured by the existence here and there of conventual establishments At present they do not show the hideous features which they, at least in some cases, assume in countries where papal influence and authority are supreovern pohich holds theht run But they constitute a part of a systely at variance with the interests of humanity, and merely wait the occurrence of favorable circumstances to visit upon our land all the horrors which they have inflicted elsewhere
”How many conventual establishments there are now in the nation, few Protestants, it is believed, know And how ainst society, and condemned by no law of the land, are shut up in their walls and doo them, a life which is more dreadful to them than death, very few of the millions of our citizens conceive The majority of our people have slept over the whole subject, and the indifference thus manifested has emboldened the priests to posh forward the extension of the system, and the workmen are now busy in various places in the construction of additional establishments But such facts as are revealed in this article, fros that are occurring around us, show that no ti this whole subject of convents and ain, when speaking of papal convents in the United States, the same talented writer observes, ”The time has fully co-cherished indifference in respect to the movements of Rome in this land It is time for them to call to mind the testimony of their fathers, their bitter experiences from the papal See, and to take effective measures to protect the inheritance bequeathed to them, that they may hand it down to their children free from corruption, as pure and as valuable as when they received it They should ree, that what she was in Europe when in the zenith of her power, she will be here when fairly installed, and has ability to enforce her commands
”Her nu about everywhere, her colleges and printing-presses, her schools and convents, and enormous amounts of property held by her bishops, have served as an occasion to draw out so of her spirit, and to show that she is ARROGANT AND ABUSIVE TO THE EXTENT OF HER POWER
”Scarcely a newspaper issues from her press, but is loaded with abuse of Protestants and of their religion, and at every available point assaults are made upon their institutions and laws; and Rome and her institutions and interests are crowded into notice, and special privileges are loudly clamored for
”All Protestants, therefore, of every naious and political creed, we repeat it, who do not desire to ignore the past, and to renounce all care or concern for the future, as to their children and children's children, should lose no tis around theard to the papacy and its institutions They should without delay devote their efforts and influence to the protection of the country against those Popish establish us without the authority of law, and under whose crushi+ng weight soered and reeled for centuries, and have now but little of their for, and under which Mexico, just upon our borders, has sunk manifestly beyond the power of recovery
”Let each individual seek to awaken an interest in this hbor And if there be papal establishhborhood under the naions conation, which are at variance with, or are not conformed to, the laws of the commonwealth in which they are situated, let ned by the citizens, and forwarded i that they may be subjected to examination, and required to conform to the laws by which all Protestant institutions of a public nature are governed
”Let us exclude from our national territory all irresponsible institutions Let us seek to overnment of law, and insist upon the equality of all classes before it”
In closing these extracts, we beg leave to express ourselves in the words of the Rev Dr Sunderland, of Washi+ngton city, in a sern Christian Union, at its anniversary in May, 1856
”But new it is asked, 'Why all this tirade against Roainst the unhappy round down under the iron heel of that enormous despotism They are of the co to the flesh
They need the saht instruction and salvation that we need Like ourselves they need the one God, the one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus; and frorant thees which we claim to ourselves We can have no animosity towards thement But it is the system under which they are born, and live, and die, I repeat, which we denounce, and e shall cease to oppose it, then let our right hand forget her cunning, and our tongue cleave to the roof of our mouth What is it but a dark and terrible power on earth before which sothe bones of the griet his ugliness nor the terror he has inspired 'A tirade against Romanism,' is it? O sir, we remember the persecutions of Justinian; we remen of 'the bloody Mary;' we remember the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; we remember St Bartholouenots, and Pied for the testi the ancient Rhine; we remember the later wrath which pursued the islanders of Madeira, till soe upon these shores; we remember the Madiai, and we kno the beast ever seeks to propagate his power, by force where he can, by deception where he s, we or and prosperity of this grand Babylon of all Take it, then, tirade and all, for so ye reat deep of abominations! The voice of the Protestant shall never be hushed; the spirit of Reformation shall never sleep O, lands of Farel and of Calvin, of Zwingle and of Luther! O countries where the tru the people to this fearful contest!
We have heard the blast rolling still louder down the path of three hundred years, and in our solid eneration We co phalanx, not with carnal weapons, but with the arht hand and on the left, we say that ANTICHRIST MUST FALL Hear it, ye witnesses, and dom of Jesus, and by the eternal purpose of Jehovah, THIS ANTICHRIST MUST FALL”
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