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TO ALL PATRIOTIC AND

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AMERICAN

CITIZENS

PUBLISHED FOR

ROBT. G. WULF
LOUISVILLE, KY.



Are You A Patriot?

This is a message to patriotic citizens of all

denominations. If you are a patriot you will

be interested in the contents of this message;

if you are not, please give it to one that is. You

know the Catholic Church next to our govern-

ment is the biggest institution in this country,

and this message is to tell you the truth about

her and her people. If you are a Methodist,

read what several Methodist ministers have to

say. If you are a Congregationalist, a Bap-

tist, an Episcopalian, or member of some other

Protestant church, you will find the views of

your own ministers expressed in these pages.

Even if you are not a church member, you

want to know the truth about the biggest re-

ligious organization in the world.

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What Those Who Know Say:

Rev. S. L Postlethwait, (U. B.) Johnstown, Pa.

(The Daily Democrat, May 3, 1915.)

^^There is a class of Protestants, who, though they

would not adopt the policy of disfranchisement, are in-

clined to discredit the Catholic population. Their

minds are full of suspicion, they are quick to credit any

evil tale that may be told about the Catholics and to

give it the widest currency. To me it is nauseating to

note the eagerness with which some welcome and retail

these stories. I am speaking now as one that is thor-

oughly Protestant and because Protestantism is de-

based and dishonored by such a controversy. Sir, in

the name of our most holy religion, in the name of our

fathers who made our cause glorious, in the name of a

Christian, I protest against all campaigns of calumny,

‘^May I not suggest that after all we have a great

many things that we hold in common. Our likenesses

are as numerous as our differences. Let us see. Both

Catholics and Protestants believe in the Bible; they

accept it as the Word of God; that Jesus Christ is the

Son of God; that man is a lost sinner; that Christ is

the only Savior; that the Holy Spirit enlightens and

enables men to lead holy lives; that it is our duty to

give the Gospel to all the world
;
that there is a ^Holy

Catholic Church,’ a communion of saints, a resurrec-

tion of the dead, a life everlasting. Are not such com-

mon grounds enough at least to make us friends? Are

not these very things the only fundamental truths ?

^‘Oh, my brethren, of all churches and denomina-

tions, what am I saying? To whom, am I speaking? Am
I speaking to men and women who believe in God the

Father; who are known as the disciples of Christ?

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4 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

Must I speak with shameful face? I am standing here

nineteen centuries after the angels sang peace and good

will over the Judean hills, and I am trying to prove

that religious people, those bearing the name of Jesus,

can and should be friends. Alas ! my God, has it come

to this ! If so, it certainly is time for us to put away

every teacher who makes his appeal to prejudice and

passion.”

Rev. Charles B. Mitchell.

(Methodist, Chicago, April 6, 1914)

like the Roman Catholic Church because it

stands so immovably in its allegiance to Jesus Christ

as very God. None of its leaders ever questions the

deity of Jesus.

also like it because it believes in the religious

training of its children, and, at great sacrifice of time

and money, does it.

like it because it stands for the purity of the

home life and the sanctity of the marriage vows. Thank

God for that Church’s strong and clear protest against

the cheap divorce mills which disgrace our American

civilization. I honor that Church for what it is doing

in the building and maintenance of hospitals and

asylums. I honor it for its defense of the Bible, and

am almost ready to condone its futile battle against

^modernism,’ for it is so tremendously in earnest to

stem the tide of a godless materialism.

especially thank God for the stand that Church

takes in this land against anarchy on the one hand and

an impossible Socialism on the other. When I think

of the seething masses of foreigners of a certain type in

our cities, which we Protestants never produced, and

thus far, at least, have been unable to touch, I thank

God for a Christian Church which does touch them,

and exerts its potent influence over them in such ways



A MESSAGE TO THE EIBERTY-LOVING. 6

as to keep them from the wild vagaries of the impracti-

cal Socialist, and also from the destructive tendencies

of the wild-eyed anarchist. I go to sleep every night

with a firmer feeling of security, because we have in

this city a branch of the Christian Church known as

the Koman Catholic Church.’’

Rev. C. L. Harbord (Christian).
(Kansas City (Mo.), Post, January 8, 1915)

have read the best church historians covering

the entire history of Christian religion, both Catholic

and Protestant. I have been so fair in my investiga-

tion as to let both Catholics and Protestants speak for

themselves. In no other way can a man be honest in

his search for truth. One of the greaj: mistakes that

most men make in their reading is, they content them-

selves with one side of the question. These months of

research have not been without fruit. Therefore, I

make the following statements

:

^ ^^1. The Catholic Church has an unbroken history,

back to the first century. There are 1,500 years be-

tween the first century- and the Protestant religion.

^^2. The history of the Catholic Church has been

one of unity of faith and doctrine. The history of Prot-

estantism has been one of division, strife, contention

and unrest.

^^3. There is not a single truth that is taught by

any Protestant body that is not taught by the Catholic

Church. The Catholic Church teaches many vital

truths that are not taught by any Protestant body.

^^4. The great doctrines of the Catholic Church

have ever been the same, while Protestantism is always

changing.

^‘5. There is a spirit of reverence and devotion in

the Catholic Church that is largely wanting in the Prot-



6 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

estant world. Every Catholic has been taught to feel

that the church is the house of God, and should be en-

tered with holy reverence. While, be it said with

shame, too often the Protestant churches are turned

into play houses and club rooms.’^

Rev. Edwin F. Snell.
(Congregationalist, Winnetka, 111., May 24, 1914)

want to tell you in a very simple way why I love

the Eoman Catholic Church, and why I believe it is the

duty of every Christian to love that Church sincerely.

^•First. I love the Roman Catholic Church 'because

of ivhat she has been. It is the old mother church. Let

me emphasize that. Our churches are all the offspring

of that church. A few ultra Protestants will try to
claim that they trace their genealogy through some

stray erratic movements back to the Apostles, without

touching the Church of Eome, but this is largely

imaginary.

‘‘For more than a thousand years Eome preserved

the integrity and transmitted the vitality of the Chris-

tian gospel before ever anything like Protestant seces-

sion was dreamed of; and when the Protestant move-

ment came it was made possible as a branch is made

possible on the vine
;
it grew out of the strong vitality

of the mother church.

“Fiow I hold that it is a matter of simple decency

to be loyal to one’s mother. I could not respect myself

if I could forget that as a Protestant I owe my very

being as a Christian, I owe all the light and joy and

liberty in Christ I enjoy, to the mother church. To her

I owe the very existence of that Bible which I love
;
to

her I owe the sacraments which are the symbols of our

faith; to her I owe the lives of saints whose footsteps

have pressed the earth, making it a holier and happier



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING. 7

place because they have lived here. I should be a sad

and vile ingrate not to love a church that has done all

that and much more for me as a Christian. For fifteen

hundred years the preachers and pastors, the hyinn

writers and the church builders, the social reformers

and the mystics, the theologians and the poets of all

Europe west of Kussia were Eoman Catholics. All our

spiritual wealth as Protestants is an inherited wealth

:

inherited through the Eoman Catholic Church.

^^iSecondly. I love the Roman Catholic Church for

what she is. We do not know what beautiful Christians

there are among the Catholics, because we do not know

them, and they do not know how sincerely Protestants

are trying to be followers o^the same Christ whom they

serve.

^^But is it^ not true ' that1:he
’ Eoman Catholic

Church is un-American, and is seeking to overthrow our

government, and all that? I hesitate not to say that I

believe it is a foul and hateful calumny. iThe people

who say these things have not one solid fa^t upon which

to bace their monstrous indictment. It is an utterly

unworthy frame of mind for brethren in Christ to hav^e

towards each other. We must get this miserable slan-
der out of our minds. By every test which can be fairly

applied, the Catholic citizen stands on a par with his

Protestant brother.’’

Rev. W. A. Farmer, Methodist, Atlanta, Ga.
(Tke Savannah (Ga.) Press, May 7, 1915.)

^^As I look down the course of history I find that

there is only one Church which has existed from the -

beginning of Christianity to the present, teaching one

faith and being under the one ecclesiastical jurisdiction

of Borne. This is established beyond doubt by scripture,

tradition, patristic writing and by all history. In a



8 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

word, as Cardinal Manning has so tersely put it, Mf

Christianity is historical, Catholicism is Christianity.’

^^It takes a mind of wonderful inconsistent, illogi-

cal and unhistorical agility to jump from the council

of Nicaea to the time of Luther, ignoring in its pro-

digious leap twelve centuries concerned with the most

important spread of the Christian faith. Alas, that

the so-called reformers, in their desire to purge the

Church of many unquestioned abuses, ended by actually

attacking the faith itself, and attempting to give to

many of its ancient formularies and practices a new

meaning, entirely perversive of the original and true

contents of Christian revelation.

^^It is so apparent to any impartial student of

church history that Christianity had scarcely made its

appearance known in the world before a host of philo-

sophical heresies arose, and with a subtle ecclecticism

endeavored to incorporate it with their systems. Be-

hold Gnosticism, Montanism, Arianism, Monophysitism,

etc. The Church was compelled, and she had the divine

prerogative to define faith and reject error, if the truth

itself would remain incorrupt, and she did it. Hence

the definition of many of those fundamental dogmas

concerning the Godhead, Trinity, Incarnation, and so

on, tenaciously and jealously held by Protestants

against those who differ with them, as well as by Cath-

olics. To admit her decisions then makes it logical and

imperatively necessary to admit them now, for she still

stands in the midst of an unbelieving, critical, material-

istic and philosophical age as a mighty bulwark against

the disintegrating and corrupting forces of modern

rationalism and as a source of the true faith and prac-

tice for her children.”



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING. 9

Rev. W. M. Walker, Baptist, Scranton, Pa.
(The Scranton Daily News, May 24, 1915.)

^^From our Catholic friends we may learn to appre-

ciate the value of the outward forms of religious wor-

ship. While many of our Protestants were still asleep,

hundreds of men and women this morning were on their

way to offer up their prayers in the House of God. The

heart must be right to secure the divine favor, but the

outward forms of worship possess an importance far

beyond what we often give to them. Neglect them and

you will find the springs which feed your spiritual life

drying up completely.

second lesson which we may learn is that of

reverence. The 'Catholic -Church instils in the hearts

and minds of its followers a spirit of reverence for

sacred things and sacred places.

^^MillePs Angelas has won the admiration of multi-

tudes by its portrayal of the spirit of reverence in two

peasants toiling in the field. They have been busily en-

gaged in hard, laborious toil, but as the clear light of

day fades into the glow of evening they hear the bell

in the distant tower calling to prayer, and as it rings

out its message they cease their work and' stand there

in the field in an attitude of reverent worship. Say

what you will, it is worth not a little to have that spirit

so inwrought into the very fiber of the soul that even

about the common tasks of life almost unconsciously it

reveals its presence. Protestantism came as a reaction

against the grossest spiritual abuses. But it often hap-

pens that a reaction swings the pendulum too far in the

opposite direction. In discarding forms and liturgies

so largely, I sometimes fear that we do not attach to

this matter of reverence the importance that we ought.

^'A third lesson which we may learn is that of

loyalty. In order to succeed in our work, we must



10 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

imitate their example. A church that influences the
life of a community must have not an uncertain waver-

ing attachment from its members, but a loyalty which

will not falter even when subjected to the severest tests.

^‘The fourth lesson which we may learn from our

Catholic friends is one of zeal. A spirit of cold indiffer-
ence never accomplishes anything.’^

Rev. B. P. Dimmick.
(Methodist, Columbus, Ohio)

^^For centuries the Koman Church was the only

organized representative of Christianity in the world.

During all this time she stood as a bulwark of defense

against all foes that assaulted our holy Christianity.

But for her, the Church of God would have perished

from off the earth.

^^During all the centuries of darkness and heathen-

ism in the world, this Church preserved the essentials

of the doctrines of Christianity.

^^Eoman Catholicism has never wavered from her

steadfast adherence to the divine Incarnation of the

Son of God, in His vicarious death, in His resurrection

from the grave, in His ascension into heaven and in His

divine rulership as the King of kings and Lord of lords

over the world.

^^A Church that has given the world the example

of so many holy saints as has the Koman Church has

made a contribution to the uplift of the race that is

incalculable.

^^The world would be very poor if there had not

lived in it such characters as Fenelon, Pascal, Thomas

a Kempis, Savonarola, Faber, Newman and a host like

them. Of such the world was not worthy.

^^Her long list of martyrs, who counted not their

lives dear unto themselves, stand as a divine attestatioii



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING. 11

to the power of Christ to save unto the uttermost.

There has never been a time when she has not had living

witnesses to the truth as it is in Christ. She has always

had her holy men who have lived the incarnate life of

Jesus."

^^She has always been able to get the poorer classes

into her fold in large numbers. She is solving the vex-

ing questions, ^How to Eeach the Masses’ and ^How to

Save the City.’

^^Her order of Sisters are doing a great work for

the poor and suffering humanity. In this they have set

an example that is being followed by other churches.

^‘The Church of Eome has been always a strong

force in favor of public morals and the family. It has

alwaj^s been against the terrible public evil of divorce.”

Rev. J. S. Thompson.
(Independent Church, Los Angeles, CaL)

‘^The providential purpose of the Eoman Church

denomination is unity and continuity. The Catholic

Church is the grandest organization in the world. It

has a place of consecrated duty for all types or groups

of mind.

‘^The poor, the common, and the rich people meet

together in that Church, as children of the same com-

mon Father. The poor, hard-working man and wo-

man are found in that Church. It is an ancient

Church. It was the ancient Church before the birth

of Protestantism. It has cohesion and unity and con-

tinuity. The very fact of its great age is a proof of

its providential purpose. It traces its descent to the

founder of our common Christianity. The gates of

Hades have not been able to destroy it. It stands to-

day a victor over the opposition of centuries. It is

the strongest religious force in Christendom.”



12 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

Rev. A. M. Courtney.
(Methodist, Chillicothe, Ohio)

“The Protestant church owes all that is best in it

to the Catholic Church.

“If I could destroy the Catholic Church tomorrow

as easily as I could turn over my hand, I should not do

so, for it has a great mission to perform and it per-

forms it as the Protestant church could not do. Its

writers and theologians, Thomas Aquinas, for instance,

are a font of inspiration to all Christianity and its

organization is the most perfect in existence.

“Protestantism owes much to the Catholic devo-

tional literature. I admire, also, the firmness of the

Catholic Church in asserting her authority. We ought

to thank God that in many regions this Church can

hold masses of men, whose sudden release from this

bondage would threaten society. I honor the Catholic,

Church for its enforcement of the sanctity of the mar-

riage vow, and staunch opposition to divorce.

“It has only been a few years since the Methodist

church began building hospitals. The Catholic Church

built houses of mercy at the beginning of its founda-

tion, and its devoted and faithful Sisters are the ad-

miration of the world.

“The Catholic Church will never disintegrate.

Dynasty after dynasty has fallen into dust, and the

lines of the Popes go on. And it will continue to

fiourish, and in the ages to come should Macaulay’s

New Zealander stand oil London bridge and view the

ruins before him, he would still find the Catholic

Church.

“We ourselves as Protestants owe uur best church

music to the Catholic Church. The fact is that of the

six hymns sung at the service Sunday evening all but

two were written by Catholic writers.”



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY.LOVrNG. 13

Rev. Madison C. Peters (Baptist, N. Y.).

(Speaking on “What Protestants Should Learn

from Catholics.”)

^^Catholics teach us the lesson of constant attend-

ance upon public worship. Protestants go when the

weather is just to their liking. Who has not heard

early on Sunday mornings the tramp, tramp of people,

with a hard week’s work behind them, while we are

asleep, hastening to the Catholic church, with prayer-

book in hand?

^^Catholics go to church to worship; Protestants

frequently to hear an eloquent preacher. Catholics sel-

dom even in their prosperity turn agaihst their Church.

Would to God our rich Protestants were as faithful?

^^The rich Catholic hesitates not to kneel by the

side of the poorest. There is a real democracy in a

Catholic congregation in prayer before God.

^^In caring for their children Catholics teach us

a lesson. Statistics show that Protestants do not

hold their own children to the Church.

^^The Catholic Church has been charged with put-

ting too much stress upon good works and not enough

upon faith. Protestantism has swung to the other

extreme and not put enough stress on good works.

Good works don’t save, but faith without works is

dead. Our religion is too much talk. We have too
many women’s meetings and not enough Sisters of

Charity. Eandly, generous, loving acts—people believe
in that kind of religion.

^^The Catholic charities, covering every conceiv-

able case of need and suffering, put Protestants to

shame. One orphanage is worth a whole ton of tall

talk. Christianity is not only a recipe for getting

to heaven, it is rather a powerful incentive to make

this world better for our being in it.”



14 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

Rev. James Benninger.
(Methodist, Wilkesbarre, Pa.)

have famed and fussed and worked our-

selves into a frenzy while the Catholic Church, with-

out any effort on her part, has gone on in even tenor

of her way solving the problems to the satisfaction

of her hierarchy.

^^How does she do it? How does she get men

out of bed on Sunday morning at an early hour—men
who work late on Saturday night? How does she fill

the streets on Sunday morning with worshipers when

the Protestant world is fast asleep? I know some of

the explanations that are offered, but they do not ex-

plain. Many that we have heard and read only seem

childish twaddle. One man will tell you that the

Catholic Church contains nobody but ignorant peo-

ple/ But is that true to the facts of the case? Do

we not know of brillant lawyers and judges and pro-

fessors and business men who are devout worshipers

at her shrine? But if it were true that she only had

ignorant people, would not the criticism pay her a

high compliment? For every Protestant clergyman

in Christendom knows that the hardest people to get

along with are ignorant people. A church that can
gather and hold the ignorant rabble has a vitality

very much to be desired. But the criticism is not

true.

Another man will tell you that the Catholic

Church scares people into her fold. How often have

you heard that? But that explanation is no better

than the first. You can readily see how one genera-

tion might be frightened into doing something, but

who is willing to believe that twenty generations can

be worked upon in the same way? The scarecrow

method is bound to play out with the growing years.



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-EOVING. 15

No, such explanations as we usually hear explain

nothing. Her secret lies deeper.

^^The reason the Catholic Church succeeds, in spite

of our misgivings, is because she is true to the central

fact of revelation. She makes the death of Jesus

the center of her devotion, and around that point

she organizes all of her activities. When you see a

company of Catholic people Sunday morning on the

way to church, you can be assured of this: they are

not going for the sake of fine music; they are not

going to hear an eloquent dissertation on ^Dr. Jekyl

or Mr. Hyde.’ They are going to that place of worship

to attend Mass. What is the celebration of the Mass?

It is what we call the celebration of the Lord’s Sup-

per. That fact is kept prominently before the mind

of every Catholic. What is the first thing you see as

you approach a Catholic Church? A cross. What is
the first thing you see as you enter that church ?'*‘

A

cross. What is the first thing you see a Catholic

do as he seats himself in that church? Make the sign

of the cross. What is the last thing held before

the eyes of a dying Catholic? A cross. He comes
into the Church in childhood imbued with the death

of Jesus; he goes out of this world thinking of the

death of Jesus.”

Rev. Fred Hopkins.
(Pilgrim Congregational Church, Chicago)

^^There is but one Church in the United States

which has stood right up and defied all this drift, and

all these new-fangled notions. It is the Roman Catho-

lic Church, and it has the biggest churches, and the

largest congregations, and flourishes in the toughest

neighborhoods. It is the mightiest social influence in

all our cities, and we know it.”



IG A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

Rev. Dr. T. Moffatt.

(Congregational, Newark, N. J.)

^What Do I Admire in the Catholic Church?’’

^^There are seven things which the Protestant

church migh^ imitate and which I admire in the Cath-

olic Church, and they are these: First, emphasis of

the sanctity of the marriage vow; second, the pomp

and dignity and parade of the Church; third, the cen-

tral unifying auhority of the Church
;
fourth, the tone

of conviction; fifth, femininity, as exemplified in the

honor paid the Blessed Virgin Mary; sixth, purgatory;

and lastly, confession.

want to tell you, and I speak just for myself,

what I admire in the Catholic Church. I can imagine,

to begin with, that there are those, even in this day,

who say that I have no business to admire anything

in that Church.

^^There is another thing, I remember, and that is

that the Protestants also persecuted the Catholics.

Servetus was burned at the stake and John Calvin

gave his sanction to the execution of a man whose

only crime was that his religious theories did not jibe

with those of Calvin. In our own land we have also

read about the Puritans persecuting the Baptists, and

we have also read about the persecution of the Quakers;

in other words, Protestants persecuting Protestants.”

Rev. P. M. Snyder.

(Episcopal Church, Rockford, 111.)

‘^It is a beautiful thing when people can look with

apprehension and admiration upon the work of the

Catholic Church. I recognize that the Roman Catho-

lic Church is the conservator of faith and morality, of

law and right for more than half of the Christian

world,”



A MESSAGE TO THE LiBERTY-LOVING. 17

^
Rev. T. B. Thompson.

(Plymouth Congregational Church, Chicago)

^‘When Protestant ministers speak of the Roman

Catholic Church it is perforce to speak in condemna-

tion of her. I propose to assume the unprotestant

attitude of saying some things in the way of respect

and veneration of her wonderful ministry to the cen-

turies of human life. There are undoubtedly some

facts about this Church that we as Protestants can-

not commend. But in all fairness it must he admitted

that popular ignorance^ superficial knowledge^ and

malicious slander have misrepresented her teachings

in many instances.

contemplate her history is to admire her.

EeformationSj wars, empires, and kingdoms have been

arrayed against her. After all these centuries she

stands so strong and so firmly rooted in the lives of

millions that she commands our highest respect. As

an institution she is the most splendid the world has

ever seen. Governments have arisen and gone to the

grate of the nations since her advent. Peoples of every

tongue have worshiped at her altars.

^^The Roman Catholic Church has stood solid for

law and order. Her police power in controlling mil-

lions untouched by denominations has been great.

When she speaks legislators, statesmen, politicians,

and governments stop to listen, often to obey.

^Tn the realm of worship her ministry has been

of the highest. In employing beads, statues, pictures,

and music she has made a wise and intelligent use

of symbolism. Her use of the best in music and paint-

ing has been the greatest single inspiration to those

arts, and her cathedrals are the shrines of all pilgrims.

^^The love and veneration of the virgin Mary, plays

an important part in the ritual of the Church. I



18 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

find^o difficulty in appreciating the attitude of the

Oathmic worshiper toward the mother of Jesus.

^^Aside from this, one, cannot help but feel that

the enthronement of the virgin Mary has softened the

heart of the world toward womanhood; that it has

done much to give woman the place of honor she oc-

cupies today; that it has put the whole Catholic

Church behind the sanctity of the home. In the re-

spect given to Mary the Roman Church has paid the

world’s finest and most delicate compliment to the

grace, sweetness, and beauty of motherhood.

^^Nor do I discover any difficulty in understand-

ing the basis of the confessional. The confessional

appears everywhere in life. The erring child con-

fesses to its mother, the patient confesses to the phy-

sician, the accused confesses to his lawyer, the peni-

tent confesses to his priest. It is most natural for

the penitent, burdened, doubting soul to confide in its

spiritual leader.

^We may rail against the parochial school system

as being un-American. But the Roman Church existed

centuries before there was a United iStates, and for

many of these centuries, she was the great agency of

enlightenment, education and culture.

^^And so we stand in the presence of her history,

her majestic worship, her universal ministry, and we

confess that God must have moved mightily in all

this. We think of her Loyolas, her Xaviers, her Fen-
elons, and her Marquettes; we look at her hospitals,

orphanages, schools, colleges, monasteries, missions

—

and we see a Church ministering to the body, mind,

and soul of humanity. Her weakness is the common

lot of every human organization; her strength is of

God.”



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING. 19

Rev. Dr. Forbush.

(In a Lecture on The Papacy, Detroit)

^^Sometimes amid the struggling forces of the

twentieth century there comes over the soul of the

bravest Christian a sense of spiritual loneliness. The

forces that are opposed to righteousness seem so

strong and so united. The forces of goodness are so

separated and divided. Then there comes something

of relief in standing under the mighty dome of St.

Peter’s and looking about on those twenty-seven con-

fessionals where the children of men of every tongue

come and forsake their sins. Then there comes a feel-

ing of strength and unity and one looks up and reads

the motto which runs in gigantic letters around the

foot of that dome: ^Thou art Peter, and on his rock

I will build My Church,’ and one adds in silence the

rest of the sentence: The gates of hell shall not pre-

vail against it.’

“Then there is a wistfulness to creep under the

shelter of one who is a true holy father, in the fulfill-

ment of the Master’s prophecy that there shall be one

fold as there is one Shepherd. And the man of faith

hesitates not to say that, in some way, a fast uniting

Protestantism may some day come face to face with

a fast spiritualizing Catholicism, in one holy Church

under one Lord, and united for the one purpose of

making the kingdom of this world the kingdom of our

Lord. For such a consummation may every Christi-an

work and pray.”

Bishop Hoss.
(Metbodist, South, Nashville, Tenn.)

“I greatly admire the significance of the title of

the Holy Name Society of the Catholic Church, just

as I admire a great many other things in that great

Church.”



20 message to the liberty-loving.

Rev. N. Schuyler.
(P. E. Churcli, Trenton, N. J.)

^^Roman Catholicism lays great stress upon the

performance of outward acts, while Protestantism

affects to make light of such things. In this attitude

I am firmly convinced that Roman Catholicism is

right and Protestantism wholly wrong. A genuine
religion must manifest itself in some outward way. A
man who seldom or never attends divine services, who

declines to avail himself of the sacraments of Christ’s

appointing, who openly makes no confession of his

faith, whatever else he may be, is certainly not a re-

ligious man. The Roman authorities understand

human nature and when they lay down certain defi-

nite rules and regulations governing the outward ex-

pression of religion and insist upon their loyal ob-

servance as the evidences of the individual’s sincerity,

they show the greatest wisdom. It is folly to talk as

though religion could be divorced from its outward

forms. Religion is not solely the practice of ethics,

as some seem to suppose. It includes ethics, but it

comprises infinitely more. Religion is the attitude

of the soul towards its Creator, and that attitude must

find expression in all the departments of man’s nature.”

Dr. Briggs.

(From an Article Written for the American
Journal of Theology)

^‘There can be no doubt that at the close of the

thii:d Christian century Roman and Catholic were so

closely allied that they were practically identical.

“There can be no doubt that the Roman Catholic

Church of our day is the heir of unbroken descent to

the Roman Catholic Church of the second century,

and that it is justified in using the name ^(5atholic’ as

the name of the Church, as well as the name ^Roman.”^



How History Treats the Church

Dean Stanley.
(‘‘Life and Let. of Dean Stanley,” Vol. 1, p. 151)

am convinced that Protestantism in general

treats Catholics with shameful ignorance and unfair-

ness.’’

Dr. Schaff.

(Polit., Eccl., etc., Cond. U. S.,” p. 239)

^The Koman Catholic Church is bemired from day

to day with all possible calumnies.”

Dr. Johnson.

(“His Relig. Life,” etc., p. 149)

^Tn the present day there is much vituperation of

Koman Catholic belief.”

Dr. Nightingale (Methodist).

(“Rel. of All Nations,” p. 65)
•

^Hn scarcely a single instance has a case concerning

ti em (Catholics) been fairly stated.”

Rev. T. B. Thompson.
(Congregationalist, Chicago

)

^Tn all fairness it must be admitted that popular

ignorance, superficial knowledge, and malicious slander

have misrepresented her teachings in many instances.”

William Hamilton.

(“Discussions on Philos, and Lit.,” p. 505)

^^Church history has not yet been written, as alone

it should be written, with truth and knowledge.”

21



Are You a Socialist of the Fire

Brand and Free-Love Kind?

You Are, As An Accessory, If You Encourage the

Menace—$1000 For You, If You Prove
These Charges Untrue:

J. A. WAYLAND, the suicide-editor of the “Appeal to

Reason/* conceived “The Menace.”

WILBUR F. PHELPS, who was long the principal owner

of “The Menace,” was discharged from the business manage-

ment of the “Appear* for unbecoming conduct toward female

employees. Later he became the principal owner of “The

Menace/*

ROY CRANE, the anti-lecturer, was a rabid Socialist a

few years ago.

BILLY PARKER was a leader among Socialists at Oil

City, Pa.

“THE MENACE” has been a scab-shop, yet has never

been condemned for this by the “Appeal to Reason,** which

insists on other papers carrying the UNION LABEL. One

cannot fail to smile at the sympathy and cooperation between

the “Appeal** and the “Menace** in this matter.

“THE APPEAL” pleaded guilty to the charge of exploit-

ing labor, which it accuses capitalism of; to having accepted

advertisements “many of which are doubtless fraudulent**

(See “Appeal,** Feb. 4, 1906).

TOM WATSON, the anti-Catholic publisher of Georgia, is
blamed by several papers in his own state for having produced

the frenzy which resulted in the recent lynching of Frank.

This same man was indicted by the Federal Government

(1912) on the charges of sending obscene literature through

the mails. Read the “Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle** of September

12, 1915, if you wish to know more about Watson,

22



Self- Styled Patriots
THEIR CHARACTERS

Would You Knowingly^ Be a Party^ to Their

Fraud and Wickedness?

REV. W. O. BLACK, the victim of the Marshall, Texas,

tragedy, was never a priest, never a Catholic. Whilst serving

as a Camphellite minister in Colorado, had a bad standing; he

defrauded Rev. J. J. Giblin, of Rifle, Colo., and, says The Tele-

gram of that city (September 12, 1912) : “Rev. Black’s career,

though short in Rifle, was a very bad one, as he seemed to

have no idea of honesty whatever.”

REV. E. A. JORDAN went to a Catholic college as a non-

Catholic, remained there one year—^still owes the college
about $100.00; yet he says he studied for the priesthood. It

takes from ten to twelve years of college study to become a

priest. He has been arrested several times. He recently con-
fessed to the court that he was committed to a Reformatory,

in St. Paul, at the age of fourteen; in other words, as the at-

torney said of him: “he had been a criminal from youth.”

REV. J. E. HATFIELD, whose real name is Robeaux,

posed as an ex-priest before different audiences. He was
never a priest. He was a patent-medicine seller and was ac-

cused of being an anarchist.

REV. BENJAMIN CLEARMONT, the fake ex.priest, ad-
mitted to the court, at Potsdam, H. Y., March 24, last year,

that he was never a priest.

REV. L. J. KING, at present a Protestant Evangelist and

publisher of ‘The Converted Catholic,” Toledo, Ohio. King

was never a priest. He was arrested in Huntington, Va., in

1909, as “a public disseminator of filth.” His wife, whom he
represents as an ex-nun, was never a Catholic.

REV. HARRY H. GOODIN, Baptist minister in Illinois'; he
claimed to have been a priest; ar.estod for seduction and

abduction of a fifteen-year-old gir>, of Pontiac, 111. He never
was a priest.

2S



24 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

REV. JOHN F. RANNIE claimed he was an ex-priest who

eloped with a nun; even his name was an assumed one; he

was arrested for swindling in 1896; committed suicide at WiL

liamsport, Pa., a few years ago.

REV. F. F. DeLONG was a Baptist preacher, had trouble’*

at Wolcottville, Ind., was committed to an insane asylum in -

Custer County, Nebraska; he is now a rabid anti-Catholic and-

sometimes represents himself as an ex-priest.

REV. J. D. WILLIAMS was never a Catholic; he waS^ an

A. P. A. agitator in West Virginia; deserted his wife, livedi

with other women in several different towns—^^then began to»
lecture against Rome.

REV. J. H. DOBBYN advertises himself as an ex-Roman

Catholic priest; but this representation is false.

C. V. FRADRYSSA, who writes for the “Menace,” whose

new book the “Menace” and some denominational papers are

advertising, is an assumed name; under the name of Orts y

Gonzales, he had a bad record.

OTIS L. SPURGEON of Des Moines, Iowa, an anti-Cath-

olic lecturer, who gained considerable sympathy by the “mob-

bing” which he did his best to provoke for advertising sake.

Spurgeon comes from a family which is prominent on the

court records.

BILLY PARKER, who knew Black was not an ex-priest,

associated himself with the latter, and even thought of ex-

ploiting Sadie Allison, whom Black adopted. This Miss Alli-

son had been in a peformatory as an incorrigible girl.

SIDNEY D. PIERCE, editor of “The Danger Signal”

(Anti-Catholic), had a bad record for fraud and dishonesty

before he turned anti-'Catholic. (Inquire of business men at

Albany, Minn.).

W. A. MYLWARCZYK, of Cleveland, Ohio, recently ar-

rested on most serious charges, represented himself as a Cath-

olic priest, but falsely.

REV. KOLODZEJECI K, who paraded as an ex-priest, ad-

mitted in court that he had never been a Roman Catholic

priest.



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTt-LOVING. 2ST

JOHN J. HAYES, who masqueraded in Denver, Colo., and

in Syracuse, N. Y., a few years ago as a priest, was recently

arrested in New York for forgery, and sentenced to one year

in Sing Sing prison.

MARGARET SHEPHERD, MARIA MONK, MARGARET

SLATTERY, EDITH O'GORMAN, HELEN JACKSON and

MABEL MoCLISH, who are represented as e;j^-nuns, were

never nuns or Sisters in the Catholic Church.

ANNA LOWRY, a real ex-nun, has been dropped by the

antis because she denies that there exists immorality of any

kind in convents.

. The Monroe, Wis.,' “Daily Journal" tells (Aug. 10, 1915)

how happy Monroe people are that W. L. BRANDON, editor

of the “Sentinel of Liberty" and anti-Catholic lecturer, has

moved away from their town. Says this secular newspaper:

“Brandon was in wrong to start with and got in worse in this

community by his cowardly, uncalled for and shameful attacks

upon reputable individuals."

THE PATRIOTIC (?) LECTURERS get most of their

ammunition from MARIA MONK and CHINIQUY. Consult
an encyclopedia (for instance “The Americana") and learn

what kind of fraud Maria Monk was. Chiniquy was put out

of the Catholic Church, and later repudiated by a Protestant

synod of Chicago for fraud and gross swindling. Later he was

taken in by the Presbyterians, only to be rejected soon after.

Then he became a Patriotic (?) lecturer and writer, INVENT-

ED THE WORDS Lincoln is supposed to have uttered deroga-
tory to Catholics, etc.

Real the “DEFAMERS OF THE CHURCH," published by
OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, Huntington, Ind., and see what kind
of men are the ex-priests Seguin, Slattery, Presenborg, Crow-

ley, Fradryssa. These men are still alive, yet OUR SUNDAY
VISITOR has never been sued by any of them for libel,

though said pamphlet has gone through twelve editions.



Are YouOneWho Believes Any
of These Charges?

ARE YOU ONE WHO BELIEVES

That the Catholic Churfch is a menace to American institu-

tions?

That the Catholic Church seeks to destroy our public schools?

That the Catholic Church refuses to recognize the marriages

of Protestants as valid?

That the Catholic Church forbids her people to read the Bible?

That Catholics adore or pray to images and statues?

That the Catholic people owe temporal allegiance to the Pope?

That the Catholic Hierarchy or the priesthood dictates the

politics of Catholics?

That Catholic Sisters are other than the purest women?

That young ladies are ever forced into the Sisterhoods, or

kept there against their wills?

That the Knights of Columbus or any other Catholic organi-

zation takes a treasonable oath?

That the Knights of Columbus or any other Catholic organi-

zation has assessed its members to wage a fight

against anti-Catholic propaganda?

That the Knights of Columbus or any other Catholic organi-

zation ever receives secret suggestions from Rome?

That the Papal Delegate meddles in the slightest degree in

governmental affairs?

That the Jesuits ever busy themselves with American

politics?

That any Catholic building in the country is stored with

ammunition?

That any Catholic society drills its members for a possible

fight against the Church's opponents?

IF SO, THEN YOU HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN.

26



The Bogus K. of C. Oath

Big sums of money have frequently been offered as a re-

ward for proof that a single Knight of Columbus has ever

taken the oath, which their enemies accuse them of. The so-

called patriotic lecturers still circ^alate this bogus K. of C.

oath, as the obligation taken by Fourth Degree members,

though every one of them knows that it is a fabrication, pure

and simple. A committee appointed by Congress said of it:
'‘The committee cannot condemn too strongly the publication

of the false and libelous article referred to in the paper of Mr.

Bonniwell and which was the spurious Knights of Columbus

Oath, a copy of which is appended to the paper.” The supreme

officers of the K. of C. handed their whole ritual to a com-

mittee of four Past Grand Masters Masons for examination

toward the end of 1914, and here is their signed verdict:

“The ceremonials of the order teach a high and noble

patriotism, instill a love of country, inculcate a reverence for

law and order, urge the conscientious and unselfish perfor-

mance of civic duty, and hold up the Constitution of our coun-

try as the richest and most precious possession of a knight of

the order. We can find nothing in the entire ceremonials of
the order that to our minds could be objected to by any

person.”

MOTLEY HEWES FLINT,
Thirty-third Degree Past Grand Master of Masons

of California, now Vice President of the Los

Angeles Trust & Savings Bank.

DANA REID WEIAiER,
Thirty-second Degree Past Grand Master of Masons

of California, Los Angeles, 401 Union League

Building.

WM. RHODES HERVBY,
Thirty-third Degree Past Grand Master of Masons

of Scottish Rite Lodge, Judge Superior Court,

Los Angeles.

SAMUEL E. BURKE,
Thirty-third Degree Past Grand Master and In-

spector of Masonic District, dentist, 1404 S.

Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, Cal.

27



28 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

The Real Obligation of the Fourth Degree

swear to support the Constitution of the United States.

“I pledge myself, as a Catholic citizen and a Knight of

Columbus, to enlighten myself fully upon imy duties as a citi-

zen and to conscientiously perform such duties entirely in the

interest of my country smd regardless of all personal con-

sequences. I pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve

the integrity and purity of the ballot and to promote obedi-

ence and respect for law and order. I promise to practice my

religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and

to so conduct myself in public affairsi and in the exercise of

public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon our Holy

Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country

prosper to the greater honor and glory of God.”

What If Catholics Started a Menace
“I try to put myself in the places of my Catholic neigh-

bors and to think how I should feel if they were largely in the

majority and were publishing newspapers in which the same

kind of things were said about Protestant ministers, and the

wives and mothers of our Protestant homes, a» are being said

or insinuated about Catholics by these anti-Catholic news-

papers. I have seen a pamphlet published, by a Catholic gen-

tleman in Toledo, addressed to a judge of that city, in which

he puts some searching questions:
“
'Do you suppose, for instance, that if we were vile

enough to have a Menace; if we were low enough to employ

pandering lecturers ,* if we were so lost to shame as to slander

your ministers, that even you with your judicial poise could

restrain your natural human passions? If I were so contemp-

tible a cur as to impugn the purity of your homes, to insult by

inference your mother, do you think that even you could re-

main calm?'

“I am persuaded that if the same kind of campaign of

destruction and viliflcation, and innuendo, which is now waged

by the anti-Catholic propaganda against the Catholics, were

urged by Catholics against Protestants, THERE WOULD BE
TROUBLE IN OUR STREETS.”—Dr. Gladden (Prot.) In Sep-
tember (1914) Harper's Weekly.



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING. 29

**As if we did not already have enough strife among re-

ligious denominations this inflammable sheet only stirs up

more. It points out bad instances of Catholic life. Some of

them may be true, we do not know. But if the Catholic folks

should start an Anti-Menace they, too, could point out a few

bad things in Protestant life. Let us be sensible and admit it.

Let’s not imagine the beam to be only in our neighbor’s eye.”

—Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald, April 26, 1914.

‘Tf any one were to scan the news sheets of the world to

secure accusations and dirty tales about members of any par-

ticular. branch of the Christian religion, they could fill pages

with rottenness that would appeal to the depraved minds of

some members of rival churches.”

—

Henryetta (Okla.) Stand-

ard, July 23, 1914.

Count on the Patriotism of Catholics

“To the average American Catholic, the Stars and Stripes,

the American flag, is next in sacredness to the Cross of Christ.

There is not a battlefield over which that flag has ever waved

its sacred silken folds on which Catholic blood has not been

poured out as copiously as any other blood. That blood was

shed with equal freedom on both sides in the Civil War; and

when the Stars and Bars were furled never to be unfurled

again, no heart gave forth a sadder wail than that which came

from the almost broken heart of the poet priest. Father Ryan.

“If American institutions are ever destroyed, if the Stars

and Stripes bhall ever meet the fate of the Stars and Bars,

there will be no hearts more sincerely sad when that awful

catastrophe takes place than Catholic hearts; and in that dark

hour, if a requiem to the flag must be written, some other

Father Ryan will touch with untold tenderness the strings of

some harp, and the world will receive another heart song like

‘The Conquered Banner.’

“If American institutions were as sacred in the hands of

those who, in books and newspapers, seek to arouse Prot-

estant prejudice against Catholicism as they are in the hands

of the American Catholics, but little harm would befall the

nfost sacred safeguards which our fathers threw around the

religious and political liberties which we enjoy.”

—

Editorial

in “Texas Democrat,” (Tyler, Texas), April 14, 1914.



30 A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-LOVING.

‘It is our duty to address public thanks to our Catholic

brethren, as to them we are indebted for every late success

over the common enemy in Canada.”—George Washington,
November 5, 1775 (in a letter addressed to Boston citizens).

“I presume your -fellow citizens will not forget the pat-

riotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their

resolution and the establishment of their government, or the

important assistance which they received from a nation in

which the Roman Catholic faith is professed.”—George Wash-
ington, March 12, 1790.

The Patriotism of the Knights of Columbus

In an article on “Patriotism,” which the Hon. Joseph E.

Randsdell, United States Senator from Louisiana, contributes

to the July, 1914, issue of “The Columbiad,” the monthly

organ of the Knights of Columbus, which is published at

Hoboken, iNew Jersey, he writes:

“Permit me to remind you, my brothers, that Knights of
Columbus are forbidden to use the society in any way in

politics. We cannot without violating both the letter and
spirit of our rules meddle in elections, or participate in organ-

ized effort to advance the political fortunes of any man or set

of men.< We have no right as a society to interfere with
politics and should let it alone. Each individual Knight must

have entire freedom of action in all political matters. This is

a wise rule which should be followed strictly.”



A MESSAGE TO THE LIBERTY-EOVING. 31

The Senator is a Knight of Columbus. He is addressing

the Knights of Columbus in their own publication. He re-

minds them that the order is not to be used in partisan politics

and urges that’ the rule be strictly enforced.

*T am not a KnowiNothing, that is certain. * * When

the Know-Nothings get control it will read: ‘All men are

created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.*

When it -comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some

country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—

•

where despotism can be taken, pure, and without the base

alloy of hypocrisy.’*

—

“Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,"

Lamon.

Concerning the bogus quotation from Lincoln, which the

anti-Catholics have been circulating, Robert Lincoln, son of

the martyred President, wrote as follows to Anthony Matrd,

Secretary American Federation of Catholic Societies:

“Manchester, Vt, Nov. 4, 1912.

“Dear Sir: In reply to your inquiry respecting the

authenticity of an alleged quotation of my father in an anti-

Catholic circular enclosed by you, I never before heard of it

or anything like it. An examination of indexes to his papers

and letters disclose no authority for it, and I have no doubt

that it is a simple invention from beginning to end. ,

“Yours very truly,

“ROBERT LINCOLN.**



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