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Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hend corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmte A des taux de reduction diffdrents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seui cliche, il est film6 A partir de I'angle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nicessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Inl A TREATISE. ROMANISM: POLITI C AL -AND RELIGIOUS In the (jth and lOth DECADES of the \0 CENTURY. -BY- WILLIAM REGINALD AKMSTKON(i, OF 08G00DE HALL, TORONTO, B A KRISTER AT LaW. FOURTH EDITION-REVISED AND ENLARGED 1895. ' I:? /76i' M ^ 74251 895 Entered kccording to Art of FRrUament of Canad*, Chapter 08 of the Revised Statutes of Canada of A. D. 186H. in ttae year of Our Lord, 1895, and %ll copyrights reserved by William Ueoinald ARMHTiioxa, Khq., darriister at Law of the Town of Owen Bound in the County of Orey, and duly roBlRi.ered in the office of the Minister of ARriculture for the Dominion of Canada. PRINTED BY C. J. PIJflTT, " sen Office," OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO. CANADA WEST. PREIFAGEI. The assertions o( Roman Catholic journals in Ontario and Quebec that the Uom>vn Cathohi* religion is the only Christianity and that all Protestant religions are mere heresies, and that Protestants hove no rights 1 1 has caused the writing and publication of this book. I must express regret that some one ntore capable than myself of the task has not taken the initiative in the matter. At the same time, 1 show in the subflequf>nt pages that Roman Catholicism is undoubtedly heresy from Christianity as taught by Jesus Christ, His apostles and evan- gelists, as we have their teachings handed down to us in the New Testament, as gotten up under England's King James I. There have been so many copies of the \7ritings of Jesus Christ and those apostles and evangelists which are literally falsified and unreliable, written by men for the most part calling themselves Catholics ; the Bible Society of England having in the archives of that society over fifteen thousand copies of such falsified copies (see a report issued by that society some two or three years past) ; there- fore it is time some one took up the matter to show the absurdity of Roman Catholic pretentions. Christianity is and will continue to be as given to us in the New Testament in spite of the pretentions of the Church of Rome. A celebrated writer, Isaac Disraeli, has given it as his opinion that a long preface to a work is useless, especially when such work has an index; therefore, I beg to request that the public will consult my index and read such points as present themselves to their intelligences — then pass their judgment. WILL. REG. ARMSTRONG. OwKN Sound, Ontario, Canada, October, 1895. Debicateb TO MV imoTHRn MASONS AND OKANQEMEN. As ALHO THK OTHKR I^nOTKSTANTS OF Canada. A TUKATIHE — OK The Position of tilings Political a"" Religious -IN — THE DOMINION OF CANADA AM) OTHKR PARTS (iK THK HKITISH KMP!HK. lu the lOth Decade of the 19th Century. fHEN a people get into a difficulty, or to use the words of the Celebrated JuniuH, " a political dead lock," which is appar- ently surmountahle, connnon sense and self- preservation, as in an individual case, is the first law of nature, which law dictaTes the getting over the matter or putting it aside in the easiest manner which circumstances suggest. Now, at this time, 10th decade, 19 th Century, we British Cana- dians have, not solely by our own mistaken policy and want of fore- thought, been brought face to face with one of the most gigantic of difficulties — our uncomprouii^ing enemy " Jesuitical Romanism" that dreadful heresy from the Church of Christ, which our ancestors were compelled to crush as a power in Great Britain and Ireland, during the memorable and GOD directed Reformation, is gradually, silently and Slealthily encroaching upon our Free Institutions, and will in a fdw years, if we do not check it by legislation, be too strong for anything but civil war with the French Canadians and other Romanists to compel ihem by force to respect civil freedom and British Protestant Government. May the great disposer of all events direct us to such wise legislative policy as will preserve the freedom of our institutions, and forbid the necessity of such a dire and dreadful war! The encroachments of Raman Catholic Ecclesiastics must be stayed, if we are to live with credit to ourselves as a free people. Yes, Freemen, we British Canadians are most assuredly to remain HI in ipite of khe underhand work and double dealing of the Jesuits. The Oovemment which accedes to their demands must perpetrate in' justioA upou loyal British CanadianH. "Justice to Catholics"!! "Justice to Catholics" !t is theory — Justice to Catholics means Injustice to Protestant British Freemen. The Romanists demand and look for appropriations of money collected as taxes from free Protestants- to keep up their schools, in which schools the young Romanist is taught bitter hatred to Protestant in- 8*;itutions and disloyalty to the Royal Authority of I'ur Sovereign, /.v this Justice f is it common sense on our part to permit it? If Romanists cannot exist without separate schools, let them have them by all means — if they can do so by paying for them. But it is a gross injustice to take the money of Freeman to keep up a system of religion in which they do not believe and which they look upon as no better than Islamism, and which is in truth — a stern undeniable truth — heresy from Cnristianity. T'iC howl of Quebec newspaper Editors against Ontario Orangemen is extremely absurd and shows inci easing bigotry, intense lanaticism and ignorance of simple facts — The A. F.d A.M., the Orangemen and the P.P. A. have no aim but to hold our own, and are determined to pay no money towards the support of Romanism a system of rHligion which is con- trary to reasoning common sense. As to alleged " Rights of the French in Manitoba" to havo separate schools to he paid for by Government subsidy or apportionment of the tax fund it is simply assumption and shows the Romish Ecclesiastics in the Province to be the most unreasoning bigots. It seems incredible that they suppose they can (by pretenses and absurd falsifying of docu- ments, or by getting up false documents, and raising the cry of French rights when such I'jhts are merely imaginary) draw a cloud over the Ottawa Government, and hoodwink all the Courts in the Empire from the highest to the inferior Oh, ouch ridiculously fanciful n nsense. But it is not by mere conceit that you can make a Racehorse out of a Hyena, you cannot expect reason or reasonable utterances from people who cannot reason, people who fancy and believe they are the elect people of GOD and that their Church is the only Christian Church and that she has sole possession of the Key of Heaven, without the merest shadow of scripture authority for such belief. What will the projected " ffoly Alliance " between the Romanists of Quebec and the Ontario Grits amount to ? Echo answers "tahw," which in English means nothing at all. That is if the Ontario Pro testants unite and neutralize the boasted '< Balance of Power." — 6— Ah I yes, Roman Catholic rights and more places, more offices to be filled by men for the moat part totally unfit for the duties. That Roman Cstholios are now in posseflsion of a larger percentage of Ooveriiment clerkshipa than their numbers amongst the population of Ontario entitle them to ia a fact, as we have the whole matter in plain type — over a whole half column of any newspaper, of Htatistics respecting the Ontario Government Departments ia given in the last census and in which the following figures ap|>ear which will show facts to refute the ''no places " cry. According to that census the Roman- ists are in Ontario as 1 to 6 Protestants, therefore they are entitled under our absurdly liberal custom to one desk in a Government De- partment for six Protestant clerks' desks, but we quOvn: OOVEHMMKNT DrPARTMKNT. PrOTK8TANT§, I MANklTS. Attornuy (ieneral 10. t. Crown Lancia 39 5, Educatiun (L . 17 Public W'--) H 80. tf. . Treasury 88. 6. . ^cretary and Re({iatrar HI 7. LeRialative Asaeinbly 2U. 9. Aftriculture 82. 8. 267. 84. Thus there are in the Ontario Government Departments 27 officials over the number they are entitled to under our al)8urdly liberal svstem. If it were possible to make Romanists loyal to our Protestant govern- ment, or cause them to arrive at a reasonable mental consideration of their position amongst us, it might be different. But dealing with people who hold themselves immeasureably superior to all the rest of the Empire and that they are GOD'S peculiar and elect people and their church — The Church of Roiue — is the only Christian church (when the Word of GOD shows quite the reverse, see in future pages) we must say there is an insurmountable difiiculty. The superabundant number of olficial clerkships in the Ontario departments does not satisfy them, no, the wish to crowd the Proteslants out altogether is apparent as it is in Quebec. One to six is their proper proportion. There are 821 clerkships, one sixth of which go by the proper calculation to Roman Catholics, which will give a fraction over 58, whereas they have 64. This kind of impudent aggression must be stopped. It cannot be possible that Sir Oliver Mowat does not know that we have a secret and deadly foe in the Society of the .Jesuits and through that society the whole Church of Borne. — 6— Let us hope that the Romanists will not drive us into civil war. Yet we must hold our own, our own freedom and priceless Protestant institutions cost what it may. A remarkable sentence, penned by the celebrated Junius, " The, voice of an outraged people is the voice of GOD." Ah ! true it is. Let us then trust to Him and in His guidance. Let us consider the Manitoba Schools Further. As an additional instance of the cunning and designing encroach- ments ol the Jesuits as also the supine shillyshallying of the Govern- ment of this country in yielding them their demands, we will read statements published in returns filed in the archives of the Manitoba Legislature respecting the position of the Children's Schools in the Province of Manitoba. Such returns show that up to January, 1889, seventy-four schools, Protestant and Roman Catholic schools, were es- tablished in that Province. To maintain such schools the sum of $114,- 454.00 are annually paid. Of that sum $52,484.00 are paid for the maintainance of Fifty Protestant public schools, and the balance, $61,970.00, to maintain Twenty-/ our C&thoWc separate schools. The Church of England has twenty seven schools, to which are paid $32- 65700. The Presbyterian Church has eleven schools, to which are paid $16,790.00, and the Methodist Church has twelve schools to which are paid out $8,039.00. RECAPirnUiTioN, Thcs : The Church of Rome, 24 separate schoola, which receive.. The Church of England, 27 schools, which receive The Presbyterian Church, 11 " " " The Methodist " 12 '• " " »61, 970.00 32.037.00 lt),7S>0.00 3,037.00 »52,484.00 »o2,484.00 »1 14,454.00 Notwithstanding the facts which these figures show, Mr. Ewart, the counsel for the Roman Catholics of Manitoba, has had the hardihood to assert before a public meeting of the citizens of VVinnipea; that "the Roman Catholics of Manitoba pay taxes every year to support the Protesaant's schools. The condemnation of such language is apparent to all free intelligences. Thus Roman Catholic Ecclesiastics — heretics from Christianity and ^Sk — 7— aliens to free Protestant christian institutions by the influence they wield, through the Balance of Power held by the Church of Rome in this country, aided by the double dealing of unprincipled politicians calling themselves Protestants) have induced the Government of the country to pay thera for separate school support $9486.00, annually, more than is paid to all the Pro- testant schools together, though the Roman Catholics have not half the number of schools which the Protestants have, nor one-fourth the number of pupild attending Kheir schools which attend the Protestant schools. There are men in th's country who are professedly Protestants who say they " cannot see that the 'Catholics' are more encroaching than Protestants are " ! I The only way of accounting for such failure to see, is that they are unacquamted with facts wkich all Protestants ought to be in possession of, or it may be that It pays best not to see. Again, perhaps deception is resorted to, The Conservative is deceived by representations in a Conservative newspaper that the Indepen- dent Party established for the purpose of ousting the Conserva- tive government at Ottawa, and tl.e Reformer is deceived by representations in Reform journals that the Independent party is established to oust Sir Oliver Mowat and his government at Toronto. Both are undoubtedly wrong. Tne New party has no liason nor understanding with either of the old parties, but intends to unite both Conservatives and Reformers into one new and mdependent party, claiming /a/r play and equality before the law for all, both Protestant and Roman Catholics, and special privileges for none. It is folly to say that the Romanists are not, under our existing government system, dominajit in this country The b.ilanceof power, held by the Church of Rome in both the Dominion and Ontario Governments will keep them dominant, and enable them to dictate the terms upon which they will support the government in power, for the time being. The duty of British Freemen, Grits and Tories, Conservatives and Reformers is to unte for self-preservation and form an Independent party to neutralize or keep within reasonable bounds that balance of power, r^et us pause to ask ourselves. How are we to get rid of paying money for the support of the Roman Catholic Church if we do not form such party. Think of the deplorable and degrading fact of an Ontario Departmental Minister (Ross, Education) submitting the Bible, the sacred Word of our Eternal GOD to a Roman Catholic Bishop for his approval and culling out such passages as certain dogmas of his church are inconsistent with, and then having such garbled ar^d mutilated scriptures printed as a school book for our public schools and the cost of such printing paid fur from money (taxes) fnrni<^hed by British Protestant Freemen. How long are we British Canadians to put up with Roinish clerical dictation, insatiable money demands and their manipulation of the Balance of power, of which the French Canadians so impudently boast? How long are we to endu;e literal imbecility, or it may be Hagrant lack of principle, in the management of the finances of this country ? The Jesuits Paradise- A very Paradise for Jesuits and Jesuitism is the Province of Quebec. The New York Churchman says : — " The Jesuits chased and expelled "from Europe, smilingly show themselves in Canada, which country " has heretofore as a British Dominion, so far as Ontario is concernel, " favoured human freedom. But, deplorable to tell and melancholy to " transmit to posterity, 2^he British Province of Quebec has stood " still and lain dormant for the past hundred years through the stupi- "fying and torpifying dictates of Romanism." Winking Virgins and Miraculous relics (dead men's bones, &c.) " which tell lies," said Tally- rand " without speaking." After having been banished as public nuisances from France, Ger- many, and other countries, the Jesuits are enshnued on the shores of the St. Lawrence within earshot of the blast of freedom's trumpet and the boom of guns which have been the instruments of destruction of the enslavers of men. And within sight of those twin flags of freedom and progress around which, on both sidf^s of the Atlantic, Freemen rally. Ah ! yes, the bigoted enslavers of men will again tremble at the flash of those guns and the determined shout of Freemen as they rush to the assault, lift to the breeze the banner of freedom, and trample into the dusf the enemies of ''ivil and religious liberty. A fair field is indeed opened in Quebec for the propagation of "ne barbaric ecclesiastical medievalism of past times and the crushing down of commerce, progress and mental freedom under the Jesuits. Yes, so it is, and so it will be, a melancholy and degrading fact, which will increase in importance unless a change comes over the spirit of -9— Jesuitism. Ab, no, that spirit knows no change ; it is as cruel and demoniac now as when it consigned to flames and murdered in all other ways, true and pure christians in Europe by the minions of its ^'holy office" — the inquisition. May GOD forgive us for designating such a Satanic system " holy office." NothinR but the free education taught in our public schools and colleges can enlighten the intelligences of Canadians and arouse them to stem the Jesuitical torrent, which threatens to flood this country. And if we do not form the New and Independent party to check or neutralize this baneful balance of power, the Jesuits will And the means to keep the force of edu''ation from opposing their scheii/BS. The recent huge indemnity to them, $400,000, '* non vetoed at Ot- tawa " a is one instance that the power of diplomatic, intrigueing Jesuitism is a mighty and a fearful power in thii country, and which, it is evident, naught but self-preservation and protecting their homes and firesides will teach British Canadian Freemen to neutralize. The great mass of British Canadians are too well off and too busy with money making to trouble themselves about the enrroachments of Roman Catholic eccleeiastics, but if we do not bestir ourselves the time will surely come when the Jesuits will cast aside the mask they now wear, and will let us know unmistakably that if we make our livings in this country we must pay money to keep up the Church of Rome and conform to the unscriptural and idolatrous worship of that church, and uphold her heretical dogmas. Then and apparently not till then will we arouse ourselves. Let us avoid, if possible, a civil war and the horrid use of the bayonette. The encroachments of the Komish Church are most glaringly apparent in the Departmental buildings at Ottawa. For one Englishman or British Canadian you meet, you will meet two French. Yet still the insatiable cry is shouted by French papers " we are not treated fairly, we want more places — moie ! more ! more ! Then LePatrie bombastically lets ofi" the following ridiculous gas- conade in an article published in January, 1898, thus : ** vVe French Canadians are irreverently doomed to periafa if we do " not ourselves take up the defence of " our rights.'' "We want no " English and Protestant domination in this Canada of ours/ 1 " We are partisans of Catholic Canadian Domination— and no " other I ! If the constitution that governs us is not able to protect " us. If the men in power refuse to give us justice. If our own men " allow themwives to be bribed by gold and titles, and enter into a —10— "compact with our enemies, our 'executioners' ! we must change "all \Mi%— Change the Constitution ! Change the Gooernment ! •' Change the Allegiance ! ! ! for we do not want to be ' Choked.' " The true Canadian will have enough pride ac' honour to refuse " to play the slave. He who does not resist oppression, approves of it. " English gentlemen, you do not hold this country by right of con- '• quest, but by right of cession. We are not a conquered people— but " a betrayed people ! ! Surely we love the British Crown (! !) we cherish " our flag, but if it be true that the English flag protects tyranny, we " will have no hesitation to change that, too; peacably if possible, by " force if necessary ! ! " This puerile babble was published in a Canadian newspaper during the tenth decade of the 19th century. Ah ! well it is written by a French Romanist, ''Surely we love the British Crown,'' he says. Why did he not tell the truth about French Canadian feeling for the British crown. Had he done so, no British Canadian would have gone to the troub'e of setting his dogs upon him. We know to whom the Canadian French are loyal, and we bide our time ! ! Again he says ''W^ cherish our /lag," what flag, -Johnny Habi- tant ? You have let us know unmistakably what your flag is. How long is it since this same newspaper, LePatrie, declared that the French tricolour is the "Envelope which envelopes every true Canadian heart, and will yet proudly wave over Kew France on the shores of the /St. Lawrence." Let us intimate to the Editor of LaPatrie that the British flag does not wave over, neither does it protect tyrants nor tyranny, and no man who understands what human freedom is can think it does. This Editor acknowledges that this country is British by cession, he does not seem to know how that cession was brought about. Did France cede the country to Britain from a friendly feeliag, or was she compelled to do so at the point of the bayonette. Shade of Montcalm^ Shade of Wolfe, arise and give this Editor a lesson in his mother tongue, teach him that cession, in French as well as English, means a yielding, a giving up the country and executing the treaty under compulsion. The victory on the Plains of Abraham where British generalship and British hardihood completed the conquest of Canada and compelled old France to evacuate the country and execute the treaty of cession. These are historic fact?, Mr. Editor. One would suppose that at this time in the 19th century a man in the position of the editor of a Canadian newspaper would have learned —11- ■jiSUi- sufficient reasoning power and would have read sufficient of Canadian history to pause before giving vent to such ridiculous gasconade as that above quoted as published in LaPatrie. We would not enjoy the hearing of his having fc. in " Choked," as above is intimated at the same time at is a pity he was not eating his dinner instead of writing such a paragraph. What rights are the French in Canada deprived ol ? What a ridi- culously fanciful dreamer our editor must he. The Canadian French are deprived of nothing by us, absolutely nothing. They are deprived of nothing but such rights as the Roman Catholic church will not per mit any one to enjoy — that church will not permit any man to be a freeman. That, however, those who are slaves to Roman Catholiaism cannot be supposed to understand. As to British Protestant domination in Canada, the Canadian French, or such of them as are able to appreciate human freedom, know that it is best for them. At all events it is going to continue in spite ot all they can do. with old France and her ally Russia to aid „them. Perhaps LaPatrie will condescend to give us a hint of the time when the powerful, the holy Catholic, the conquering (and to conqutr) French Canadians intend to '* change their allegiance " ! ! Jesuit Jhminaiion in Quebec- The British Province of Quebec is now {rostrate at the feet of Rome; or, to speak more pomtedly, it is governed by the " worst society or company of evil men " which this world has ever known — that engine of Satan, blasphemously called the Society of Jesus: Oh, what a superlative misnomer! From all countries in Europe; from the city of Rome itself (See a subsequent page), has that Society been driven, as absolulely infamous and dangerous to Christianity as taught in the Word of GOD, and to the public weal ; yet here in this Canada, In the 19th century, it is accorded the rights of good citizenship, al- though that Society ban drive . the EngUsh language from the schools in the Province of Quebec, in which no langnage but French is taught, except in such sch )oh as are supported entirely by Protestants. The same encroachments are progressing in some three or four of the eastern counties of Ontario. In a few years the Pro*.est»nt schools will be driven out of Quebec and disappear. The cunning and serpent- like assumption i of the Jesuits are so grasping, so intolerently bigoted that Protestants will be compelled before many years to leave Quebec if the Roman Catholics are not deprived of the power they possess —12- through their local legislature, and the balance of power. The Toronto Mail during the winter of 1886 7, with commendable zeal and energy, exposed the game the Jesuits are playing in the eastern part of Ontario, which is but a continuance of their scheming for the subversion of British Protestant institutions, and the substitution in. stead of them, French and Romish institutions. French is the Language used in the legislature of the British Province of Quebec, for which there is no definite authority. French Canadian interpretation of the Imperial Statute of 1774 claims that, that Statute concedes to them the uae of the French language, with other important concessions ; there is no authority in that Statute fur such assumption — suppose there is, it must now be looked upon as effete, as the Statute was ob- tained from the Imp«»ria,! Purliament by the French Canadians as the price of their loyalty at the time the American (lolonies revolted. The French Canadians have in recent years unblushingly shown us that lovalty from them to the Protestant Christian Sovereign of thi' Empire is a myth, a mere pretense, (their rebellions having had their ramifications and agents in every village and other locality throughout the Province of Quebec.) Such fact is too well known for any disloyal Romanish Priest or Layman to attempt to deny. Such being the undeniable truth, the Statute of 1774 above referred tc, and so often quoted by French journalists, sj far as the French Canadian claims are concerned, virtually stands repealed, and is absolutely to all intents and purposes, void. The laws enacted by the Do minion Legislature are printed in French as well as in English. This mistaken liberality on the part of Ontario -772^5/ and will in lime be corrected, for this country is to remain British, let France and Russia, with French > anadians and Irish Romanists to aid theni, du all they can to the contrary. And we, if necessary, must compel all people to learn and speak English and obey our laws, when such people enter public life. In an article on the French language and the asserted claim to its being universally used and spoken throughout the world, L'Evene- ment, a newspaper published in Quebec March, 1891, recalls the ad- vice given by Bishop Lefleche, given about a year then past, to the effect that : "HE WOULD BE GLAD IF THE FRENCH CANADIANS WOULD NOT "SPEAK ENGLISH UNNECESSARILY, AND WHEN COMPELLED TO SPEAK •' THAT LANGUAGE, TO DO SO, AS IMPERFECTLY AS POSSIBLE. THERE — la- "18 NOTHING," SAID HE, "THAT I LIKE BETTER TO HEAR THAN A " FRENCH CANADIAN SPEAKING ENGLISH BADLY NEVER THEN, MY "CHILDREN -DESCENDANTS OF THE GRAND, THE ELEGANT, THE "SUPREMELY 5*0LITE PEOPLE OF LA BELLE FRANCE -THE LEADERS "OF THE WORLD. NEVER ALLOW A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO ESTAB- ' LISH ITSELF BESIDE YOUR FIRESIDES." We suppose this Rorniah ecclesiastic holds that we liritish Cana- dians have lorKotten all about Great Britain's conquest of this country (as some French Canadian newspaper editors would like to do), as also the treaty of 1763 by which the Canadian French were elevated into the position of freemen; which position the ii>ajority of them do not seem able to appreciate. Does he hold that we have to thank him and his coadjutors for the privilege of using our own English iu tho British Province of Quebec ? There is no doubt about the wish, in fact the intention, of the French in Canada to put down everything British in Canada, especial- ly in Quebec, and it is to bo feared th<5y will succeed in that Province if we do not arouse ourselves from our careless apathy. Let us not think ot depriving them of the freedom and the privil- eges we ourselves enjoy But let ua never forget that it is our duty as Freemen to show the French Roman Catholics that they must submit to our British laws and respect our christian institutions. And that as the descendants of the conquerors of this country we must and we will dictate. We have done so before at the point of the bayon- ette and we are quite able to do so again should it become necessary. The Quebec Mercury, Xewspaper Informs us with quite a trumpet flourish, that •' The English language has been 'abolished ' !! in the township of Whitten, in the county of Compton, as also in the township of Btanbridge, in the county of Missisquoi " ! Has it Mr. Mercury? We shall see by and by what your Me.uuiml effervescence will amount to. French Canadians had best ev^rt their wits on the fact which is patent tn all reasoning intelliger ees : That this Canada is a Dominion under the British crown, a part of the British empire by right of conquest. Still further, that so it will re- main until the end. And that the English language is, and is to bi> for the time to come, the language of that empire and every part of it. Let French people use their language as Germans, Italians, and others, use their languages — amongst themselves. But English is the language of this empire, and Frenchmen, like the Germans and others, must learn it, for it most assuredly will be the language of all Legis- —14— latures, Government Departmonta, Courts, County and other municipal councils in this Dominion. So take it coolly, Mr. Mercury. Keep your French temper within rational bounds, if possible. For British Canadians are determined tc put a stop to your French vaunting and pueirle gasconadish boasting about abolishing the GOD created P^n- lish languag , and your building up a New France on the shores of the St. Lawrence, which the late Senator Trudelle prophesied would include the whole of British America and the New England States of the American Union. Wonder if Brother Jonathan is big enough to resist the all powerful Canadian French t As to the advancement of the English language throughout the world, and the decression of French and other languages, see a sub- sequent page. French Canadian taking the part of France. An Englishman writes to The Mail over the signature, ''John Bully and thus reviews an article written by .J. X. Perrault a promi- nent leader of French Canadians and an uncompromising Angloin- visist (those who hate Britain). "In a recent editorial in the Toronto Mail," writes Perranlt, " that paper mildly suggests that the Siam difficulty should be a favorable opportunity fur the British Govern- ment to wipe out permanently the preposterous Fren h claims in New- foundlam!, which are so Annoying to both the Newfoudlanders and to the whok- Dominion of Canada {always- excepting Quebec- ) " Well," continues Mr, Perrault, " by this time the Mail must realize that the interests of France are no longer in the keeping of foreigners. With a formidable army and navy. Backed by the Rus sian Alliance! ! France is determined to assert her power in every part of the world, regardless of foreign influence." (Ah, if she can.) A century ago she was in possession of the greatest part of the American continent, which she had discovered and colonized. (Why did sne not keep it, Mr. Perrault ?) Great Britain took it from her. " That splendid colonial empire, after a bloody war, leaving bu^ a few rocks in the gulf of the St. Lawrence," writes Mr. Perrault, "to the French fishermen. Even these rocks are begrudged by the Mail to the French. Well, let .John Bull and the Mail take them if they can, " // they dare." Like the King of Siam, they will be glad enough in a few hours to ignoniiniously back down in the face of the irresistable army and fleet of the French Republic." This is simply a rehash of the gasconadish elation of the French upon the visit of the Russian fleet to the French ports. The victory over Siam 16 and the bnanting of the French press both in France and Quebec is one of the u'ost brutal and mean offences ever comn:itted by a great power against a weak people, yet it has thoroughly aroused French enthusiasm. The French ought to know that this "victory" is at best but a small affair, and must undoubtedly prove of still less im- portance. The tone of the British Government respecting that affair is moderate in the extreme, yet Great Britain will most certainly not stand by and permit any more highhanded bullying by France, in spite of the invincible army and fleet of France and Russian alliance, of which Mr. Perrault boasts. As to the irresistibility or invincibility of the great French army, that has still to be shown. It should not be forgotten that the "invincible" armies embodied and equipped by Napoleon III and Ganibetta in 1870-71 svere also boasted as irresist- ible, yet still one array after another was ignominiously beaten in quick succession by the cool determination of the Germans and the superior generalship of German officers. The Siam affair is very far indeed from being glorious to France. It appears like a concocted scheme by the French ministry to make a diversion in the public mind to quiet the feeling against that dirtiest scandal the world has ever known, the Panama scandal. Tlie Gov- ernment of coufoO wished it to be forgotten that nearly ail of the Ministers of France had accepted bribes out of the Panama treasury. Therefore poor Siam was made the scapegoat. TM Russian Alliance. As for Russia backing France, of which Mr. Perrault has so con- fidently spoken, the less said about it the better. It is evident it will eventually prove a one-sided affair. Ruseia will, there can be no doubt, accept the aid of France if the Czar requires such aid, but he is too clever to allow himself to get mixed up with any quarrels which France raa^' get into without his own special permission. Such being so, the Ru.-5sian army and fleet will not be at France's disposal. The less bluster the French make about the alliance with Russia the better for themselves. The self-interest of the Czar will dictate to him the possession and occupancy of a naval station on the Medi- terranean — south of France will answer his purpose as well as any other part of the coast — and he will no doubt conclude a treaty with Fran«*.e securing a station for his ships of war, because it will aid him in his darling scheme to subjugate Great Britain. " Perhaps," said an American diplomatist. " the Czar will find it a difScult matter to overrun Great Britain." t —16— It is certainly anything but evidouce of national pride and dignity, to see France, the '^ Grand .Vat ion" — a free republic -literally creep in^ on her kneeH in the nioBt servile manner before the greatest auto orat on the face of the earth, and French offi'-ers fawning upon and toadying to the Russian naval officers during the visit of the Kussian naval squadron to France, October, 1H98, to such an extent as (said an Englishman, who was present on the occasion) to evidently disgust the Russians.'* Truly, Mr. Perrault, you and your French Canadian confreres will have to live years longer than Methuseleh before you see such an un- manly and disgusting spectacle as above mentioned to be laid at the door of John Bull, or a " backing down " similar to the idea above referred to. It has been said that The Treaty of Paris, of 10th February, 1763, is the great foundation of the deadlock which confronts us in Canada. That is not correct, however; there is nothing in that treaty which British Canadians at this time would object to. It secured nothing to the French Roman Catholics but the peaceable enjoyment of 'their religion— the same is conceded by a Statute of King George III. In fact there was not a word said about their laws» language or i>eculiar institutions by any one of the commissioners at the execution of that treaty ; nor was there in the terms of surrender granted to the French General, the Marquis do Vaudreuil, who was then the Governor of New France, wLcn he surrendered at Montreal in 1700 to the British General Amherst, at which time Canada (or New France) became a dependciiey of the British crown. The words of Garneau, the French Canadian Historian of Canada, regarding that treaty, are conclusive on the point, and are as follows: "The only stipulation in the treaty re- " garding concessions to the French m Canada was that Great Britain " bound herself to allow them the free exercise of their religion." Silence was maintained on the subject of French Canadian laws, languages or institutions for the reason probably that in be'.'oming British subjects the Canadian French liecame entitled to the rights of freemen and were made participants in legislative institutions. *' Q." — Was such British liberality thrown away "? The Statute of 1774, above referred to, being now, through the dis- loyalty of the French Canadians, become void, their assumptions are preposterous, and their claim without the least vestige of right. 17— Rritish Canadians regard the cunceRsionH to tlietn, the French Cana- dians, of file enjoyment of their rehgion, conceded by the treaty of Pariw of 167B, as an act of simple justice. At the same time, if a Roman Catholic power had subjugated a Protestant country, what wuuld have been the cuurs<' pursued f Those who have road the history of the world, especially the Church of Rome, can best answt-r that (juestion. Great Britain and fatten Foes. iph fallen foe -tli Dear old Protestant Britain does not trami assertions of Irish agitators, who make livings by inventing and as- serting misrepresentations, to the contri: y. England would now have elevated the French-Canadian habitant to the position, status and the enjoyment of the rights of a freeman, had it not been for the success- ful opposition of Jesuitism and the inability of the French to appreciate human freedom. Experience is teaching us liritish Canadians that the effort to amalgamate English and French in this country — to make one people of British Protestant Anglo-Saxons and French-Romanists, with the French language and the Roman Catholic religion determmedly against us — is a lailure ; it cannot be done, and we must give up the attempt until we can bring about a new state of things and a new rjiode of governing this country. Romanism, especially when manipulated by the Jesuits, as it is at this time, 1H95, is the same today that it was centuries past: there is no change in either the dogmas, the assumptions, or the policy of that system. How good ia tne Eternal Fathkr in that HE has deprived that church of the fear- ful power It once posse.'^sed. A short time past in Montreal, a priest (a Jesuit, no doubt) got up a table of statistics to show, as he said, that GOD is increasing the numbers of the French-Canadians fur Bis own QOod and wise purposes. Like the greatest number of Jusuitical statements, it was not correct — indeed very far from truth, in this instance. The priest attempted to show from the last census of Ontario and Quet^ec that the French Canadians had increased in far greater ratio than had the British in Ontario, and without immigration. He said not a word about secret immiffration from France. He evidently thought that no one knew anything about that immigration, which through Jesuit intriguing has been going silently on for years past, and is known to some British Protestants in the Province of Quebec, -18— who think it nafost to Aay nothing about it, Rinco they cannot fltop it. Nevertheless it is going quietly on. A French Savant, Sometime in the beginning of the month of P'ebruary, IHH7, M. Koohard, a member of the Academy of Medicine, Paris, delivered a lecture at the Sarbonne, in which he referred to the decression within the past twenty y«iar8 of the population in some parts of France. He showed that in Ihode parts in which the people were in time past and then still continued, bigoted adherents to the Church of Home the depopulation was almost entire. Where the people had gone, he was unable upon inquiry to ascertain. The persons whom he found in those parts seemed, or pretended, to know nothing about where they had gone : " Gone to Paris," was a reply sometimes to his queries. A paragraph in an English paper, the London Sun, upon emigration from Europe, shows that 74 086 emigrants had loft French ports during 1871 and 1H72 for parts unknown — supposed destination, the United States. How is it the ships sailed for parts unknown — one po'n*. is not unknown. There are Jesuit priests in every seaport of F"'rance, and many Jesui* brothers who are agents for or command French ships ; such being the fact, what is the rational conclusion as to the destination of those French ships which sailed for /jaaA? un- known ? Had the people in those ships gone to Canada to swell the number of the population of the Province of Quebec, and help to work out a deep-laid scdeme of the .Jesuits, supplied with money by the Canadian Romish Church, which could well-afford to spend millions upon such a scheme, got up for her own aggrandisement and for the injury of Great Britain ? Ah, yes, " The. End Justifying the Means." ' As to the doctrine of the Church of Rome — The end justifies the means — a Roman Catholic priest in the city of Ottawa, some time during the beginning of the year 1889, offered a money reward to any person who could show that any Jesuit had ever propounded, or had ever held the dectrine that '• the end justly es the means" Now, the Jesuits hold neither doctrines nor dogmas but those of the Church of Rome, and to prove that " the end justifies the means " is a doctrine of that church we will quote from the annotations printed in the Douay translation of the Bible — the editions issued in 1035, 1810 and 1848 — which Bible, with the Vulgate of St. Jerome, are acknow- ledged by the Roman Catholic church as authentic. The quoted notes -19— hIiow uniui8tukably Unit Ifjintj, atealing, deceit and prevarication are coiiuiiendable and Hinlesn in certain cases — the end for which the steahnK iH done, and the lies, ihicoit and prevarication are spokon - jiiatifying the words and action^^ of the person perpetrating the rtaine. if the end of which tends towards the benefit of the Church of Home, or adherents thereto. Douay Bible, 1 KprriiiNB OK 1(>.H.1, IHUi and IMH Oetii'siR, I'itli ohaptnr, iHtli verst):— Abraham's concfaalment of his inarriagt* with Sarah — is ithown to be juatiflablo ; Abraham '\» calltxl " t'r.e faithful," yet in this instance he ought to have had miftioieiii faitli in (lOD'H protection, but \\v luui not. The note simply com- niends hiH duplicity. 2 — 8am K Editions : Genesis, '27th chapter, 10th verse : Jacob and his mother deceivinf,; t)ie old blind patriarch Isaac, and depriviiig Ksau of his birthright — is shown to hi; justitiable, and, under the circumstances, meritorious. a— Editions Of 1685 AND 181«: Genesia, 3l8t chapter llHh verse :— Uachael's stealind her father's idols — is shown to be justiiiable. as it is prosier to destroy all such idols. .\t the same time it does >iot appear that she took them for any purpose but to worship them, as it is reasonable to suppose her father Laban and his children had done. We are ■^.ot told that she destroyed them. 4 -I^DiTioN or 1G3.5 : Joshua, rtth chapter, 2nd vjrse : The Israelites ordered to lay in ambush around the city of Ai, and capture the King by stratagem as had been done at Jerico. This item of strategic warfare is much lauded, and the deceit commended as justifiable. 5 —Edition ok 1035 : 1st Kings, in the Douay translation (let Samuel in the English version of the Bible) 14th chapter, 2',)th verse : — Jonathan eating some honey, after King 8aul (his father) had issued an order to all persons to eat no food that day until the King had been avenged on his enemies and the victory won. It seonns to be supposed that Jonathan had heard of the King's order, yet transgressed, being the King's son and hungry. His denial of any knowledge of the order and his transgression are held justiAable and commendable. () — Edition of lfi35 : Same book of Kings, (or Samuel) 2lBt chapter, 4th and 5th verses : — David eating the show bread— though he prevaricated, yet it is shown to be justifiable. 7— Editisn ok 1636 : Same chapter, 13th verse ; — David feigning idiocy — is shown to be re^jalred to save his life. His cunning and duplicity are laudeu as justifiable. His want of trus^ in GOD is in no manner censured. —20— I- ;_■ i • -■.. ^- fi 8— Edition ok 1636 : Esther, 2nd chapter, 8th to 17th versea : — Esther's consent to marry Ahasueras the King, he being a Gentile idolater — though deceit was practised, it was shown to be jastifiable and wise, as she was the means of preserving from death, thousands of her people, the Jews, 9— Edition of 1635 :— Job, 3rd chapter, lat verse :— Job in his anguish curses the day of his birth. — His nursing is held excusable. 10- Edition or 1635 :- "Such prudent evasions of truth, and consequently the warding off of " danger, are lawful and much to be commended for the benefit and advantage " which may arise therefrom — and which St. Chrysostom calleth the wisdom " of the serpent." Ifc will be observed that items 1st and 2nd above are ^iven in the notes to the three editions of the Douay Bible— those of 1685, 1816 and 1848. Item 8rd is given iu the notes to the editions of 1685 and 1816, bnt not in notes to edition of 1848, whilst items from the 4th to the last, inclusive, are given oniy in the notes to the oldest edition, that of 11634 ! ! How is this ? Is the Church of Rome changmg her doctrines — her dogmas ? Perhaps it is merely an instance of the wisdom of the serpent. Fif, ^ re Uiankf ul ; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish I'l'jilT .KyiJHiiih'jlood mi \: A re darkened. Professing themselves to be wise ^he^ ^^m^f^\f^^ o,-niy[,.ioqol And changed the glory of th^Rfl^fflrgupJ^^ GftPoH^?! ^^^Al\yi\m ^ piyoniera lo enoiJaeb ia vlljiit>oq.''.o .ulin 2oth:— Who changed the truth of GOD into a Lie, and worshiiiped and MADE LIKE TO CORUUPTABI,E MAN. -27- served the Creature more than the CREATOR, who is blessed forever.T- Amen." Sir Isaac Newton, f Undoubtedly ihe greatest intellect which the 17th or any other cen- tury has produced, in his Observations on the Prophesy of Daniel and Image woryhip, writes : The invocation of the dead, and the kneeling and bowing down be- fore, in fact the worship of their iuiages having been gradually intro- duced during the 4th, Gth, Gth and 7tb centuries ; the Greek Emperor, Phillipus, in the year ?io, A. 1)., declared against such worship as Idolatrous. And his successor, the Emperor Leo-Isaurus, in the year 726, A. D., to put a stop to the scandal, caused a convention of bishops and counsellors to be held in his palace ; and by their advice he promulgated an edict to the ecclesiastics of Greece against such worship or adoration of relics and images, and wrote to Pope Gregory 2nd, asking him to call a general council, an edict from which council would put a stop to such idolatrous worship. Pope Gregory, however, called the council, which met during the same year in the Vatican, and confirmed and established the worship of images by all Catholics, and excommunicated the p]mperor for declaring image worship idolatrous, and absolved the Greeks from their allegiance to him • and forbad them to pay him tribute, or to be to him in any manner obedient or observant of him. Thus in the year 726 of the christian era, the worship of the image of Jesus and other sanits in the Church of Rome, was established and firmly fixed. And SO it Continues to this day, and which was the principal cause of the Greek Church leaving the Church of Rome and declaring herself independent of that church. Julian, the Apostate, a pagan emperor of Rome, writing about the worshi;^ f the so-called CJatholics of his day, says : " You christians add many dead men to your calendar for the worship of their relics and images as well as Jesus. Who can suffi- ciently denounce and abominate such absurdities. You have erected sepulchers and shrines all over the country, as well as statues and monuments for worship. Although you are nowhere in your scrip- tures told to prostrate yourselves before tombs or sepulchers nor to worship statues or images, yet ye do eo. Those sepulchers, said Jesus, are full of filthiness and dead men's bones. How do you invoke the approval of any god upon such absurd worship. " If christians had adhered to the precepts of the Hebrews they JIP/T -28— would have worshipped one GOD, instead of many ; not one man only, but many unhappy men. They adore the mere wood of a cross and make the form of it upon their faces and before and upon their houses." Jesus, who is CHRIST, said to ua, " worship the FATHER, who is the Chkator of Heaven and Earth, who is a spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth." Again said He, " In vain do they worship the Father, teachmg for doctrines the commandments of man." Is not the adoration of an image, though it be the image of a divine person, still a human creature, heretical. Do they who do so, worship the Father when they kneel before the image of Jesus — •' The Son of Man?" Mary, the blessed Virgin Mary, was the Mother of the man Jesus, and not Lhe Mother of GOD, as believed by Romanists. GOD had no Mother, He was jelf- created and existed and exists by His own power; sa:d one of the apostles: " CHRIST, the Anointed One. The immortal spirit of the only begotten Son of GOD, the Father, the Creator of Heaven and Earth. And that Jesus, " The Son of Man," as mentioned by St. Paul above, is " The Creature," there is no reasonable doubt. Jesus did not say to us, pray to Me, or to My human Mother, the Virgin Mary, or to St. Paul or St. Peter or to any other saint. But said He pray to the Father, and whatsoever ye ask of Him m My Name He will give it you. The Father knows all about us, our wants and our circumstances and will give us what is best for us when we ask Him ; but we must ask Him through the intercession of Jestib Christ, who is our inter- cessor — our sole and only intercessor. The root and foundation of that great Heretical system, the Church of Rome, is the perversion of a text .>{ the Holy Scriptures, the falsifying in the most heretical manner, the Word of GOD as written by the Apostle St. Matthew. In the version of Matthew's Gospel^ printed in the English New Testament, under the auspices of England's King, James I, (the translators having had no means of ascertaining its truth or falsity), from the 13th to the 20th verses of the 16th chapter, it reads as follows — the same is given in the Douay translation — : " 13. When Jebus came into the coasts of Caesa ea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say I the " Son of Man " am? " 14. And they said, Some say that thou art John the Bapiist ; some Elias ; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. " 15. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? -29— " IB. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Chbist, the Hon of the living GOD. "17. And Jksiis answered and naid untD him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blooil hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. " 18. And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church ; and the gates of hell shall not prevail a>»ainHt it. " 19. And 1 will give nnto thee the keys of the kingdom of Heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven : and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven. "20. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jkhus the Chuist." : • Copitfi of the. Scriptures. Let us bear in mind that the sacred writings of the Apostles and Evangelists, have been subject to being copied by innumerable eccles- iastical zealots, by far the greater majority of whom called themselves Catholics, und who did, it may be said, what they pleased in the copy- ing of such writings. In a report of the British and Foreign Bible Society issued some few years past, it was stated that, that society is in possession of over 15,000 (fifteen thousand) copies of the writmgs of the Apostles and EvangeUsts ; all of which, except three or four, are held as unreliable. The Wicaliffe translation which is from the Latin of St. Jerome, is held first as to reliability. Next comes the '' Alpha,'^ a Sinaitic manuscript, which is as yet anonymous. The style of diction, Ac, is said to resemble the writings of Clement, of Alexandria, but it bears date in fourth century ; therefore it cannot have been written by him, as his death occurred during the second decade of the third century. Next in order of excellence ranks the ^^ Alexandrian'' held by learned antiquarians a work of much excellence, and which was brought to England by Cocil Lucar, then Patriarch of Constantinople, and by him presented to King Charles 1st, of England, and bears date in a late decade of the fourth century. A fourth copy which may deserve mention is the "Z?f2fl." This copy is said to be for a large part of it unreliable, yet quite superior to the 15,000 other copies which are literally worthless. Self-sufficient conceit has brought upon the copyists of that large number just pun- ishment, as their copies are little else than waste paper. The great Alexandrian Library in which was the most valuable col- lection of thoelogical and other works, was destroyed by fire during the last decade of the fourth century and the large collection of christian works collected by the Emperor Constantiue was destroyed by the Turks after the taking of Constantinople, 6th decade 15th century. There being then no public repository of the sacred writings of the Apostles and Evangelists, King James 1st, of England, it is said, procured by means of sr^cret agents, copies of our four gospels and the other writings of the Apontles which were translated, and with the manuscripts above mentioned formed the New Testament of King James 1st, of England. Alessandro Gavazzi, the Italian Christian preacher, once a Romish priest, in several of his interesting discourses, told ns of his conversion, to use his words, from Romanism to Christianity. The commencement of which conversion, or that which first opened his eyes to the great deception perpetrated by Catholic ecclesiastics between the second and the fifth centuries, was the discovery by him in the library of the Vatican of the oldest copy of the Gospel of St. Matthew which was then and, as held by Gavazzi, has ever been in existence. It is a Gospel which the Pdpacy does not acknowledge, and to which the endorsement of the College of Cardinals of that Church has not been given, nor was it by the Council ol Trent, though bearing date in tne 85th year of the first century, a short time after the crucifixion of the Redeemer, — the copies which were used by the Bishops in King James I. time, when trans- lating the Gospels to form part of our English New Testament, and which bore the endorsement of the Papacy as authentic, were falsified copies. Of course the Bishops as translators had no option — they were compelled to use such copies as might be spurious, they having no means of ascertaining their truth or falsity, — and it may be sup- posed that they did not suspect the correction of any of them. Gavazzi gave us the translation of the passage above referred to as written by the Apostle Matthew in the Enghsh translation. In the old hidden-away gospel which he, Gavazzi, had tound, and which translation as to the point in question is as follows — which must be read instead of the 17th, 18th and 19th verses of the 16th chapter of King James' version of the Gospel by St. Matthew, as above quoted : — " Thou art Simon, but thou shalt be called Peter. What do the people say of me, whose Son am I ? One of the disoiples answered, Some say Thou art Elias ; and Home say, John the Baptist come again into the world ; but what sayest thou Simon that I am ? Simon answered, Thou art the Christ, the Bon of the Eternal Father. Then said He, thou sayest it ; upon this Rock I build my Church and the power of Satan shall not avail against it." -81- What, then, is the Rock upon which Christ haa built his Church ? Upon Himself, and Himself alone— the Rock of ARes. " Thou art the Christ, /^g Son of the Etkrnal Fathkr," — that is the Rock upon which the Church is built, and not the Apostle Peter or any other human being, although an Apostle — but Himself, Jesus Christ, the everlasting Son of the Eternal Father — (we may add other texts in connection herewith) ; " Jesus is Christ who was crucified, died and was buried, and the third day lie arose from the dead, to be the pro- pitiation for the sins of His people ; He ascended to the Fathkr and ever liveth at His right hand, the one and only Mediator between the Father and the children of men." Let us read the following passage : — " 18, For through Him we have access by one spirit unto the Father. " 19. Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow- citizens with the saints, and of t'r e household of GOD. "20. And built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets. Jehus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. (The Rock.) "21. In whom all the building fitly formed together groweth unto an holy temple in the LORD. " 22. In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of GOD throngh the Spirit." — Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, 2nd Chapt., 18th to 22nd Verses. The Mother of Jesus. The Blessed Mary is not mentioned in the Word of GOD as a Mediator between GOD the Father and the sons of men ; nor is any other saint. Jesus who is Christ is the only Mediator. In the first and second verses of the 2nd chapter of the 1st Epistle general of St. John, it is given : " And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous ; " And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world." Again in the 5th verse of the 2nd chapter of St. Paul's Ist Epistle to Timothy, it reads : " For there is one GOD, and one Mediator between GOD and man, The man Christ Jesus," who tells us to pray to the Father, and, said lie, " whatsoever you ask the Father in My name. He will give it you." Those who read the Word of GOD understand the difference between the Gospel of St. Matthew as above referred to in chapter 16 and the other three gospels ; but those who do not or who dare not read that word cannot know anything about it. The assertion of Archbishop Tache, of Manitoba, that the ecclesias- — »2— tics of the Church of Rome encotirage Roman Catholics to read the Bible, diaagrees with the fact of a priest of that church in St. Koche, a village in Montreal Diocese, but a few years past gathering in a wheelbarrow as many copies of the Bible as he could gel his hands upon, then after subjectmg the books to much indignity, he caused a fire to be made in ihe most central place in the village, and deliber- ately threw the Bibles one after another upon the hre and thus burned them all to ashes, having the simple, ignorant Habitants as his audience. He dared to burn to ashes the sacred Word of the Eternal GOD. Was he, this priest of heresy, one of those who say in their hearts " There is no GOD '7 Did he think that he could annihilate that sacred, that everlasting Word of GOD by burning a barrowful of copies of it, or was he a mere instrument in the hand of Satan and obeying his dictate, when the British Bible Society print and circulate by giving away and selling at less than cost, over {4,0(X),000) four millions of copies of that Word in 800 languages and dialects of lan- guages, everi/ year. It cannot be said — the laiue excuse cannot be offered, that he held those bookrt as heretical works, for they were principally copies of the Douay.and DeSaci translations. It matters nothing which translation they were for those two as well as the English translation of 1 ing James I., are all the Word of GOD, but differing somewhat in the rendering of some texts and passages. The Quebec Auxiliary Bible Society have published the DeSaci translation for French readers, in the French language, which was first published under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris in 1701. Four Protestant clergymen in the Province of Quebec at the request of that Auxihary Society, examined into and maiu; a report and a solemn declaration upon the attitude of the Romisii Clocgy toward the Holy Scriptures, who after a "■ conclave delihti at ion" condemned the work, and ordered all Catholics who had copies to burn them with tire, no matter which of those three translations. How strange the works of the evil one stultify themselves sometimes. That book, the DeSaci translation of the Word of GOD, was condemned to the flames as a bad book, had been authorized by a high dignitary of the Church of Rome as a good and true version of the scriptures. One of the Quebec Bishops denounced it, the DeSaci translation, as having been printed by the Quebec Auxiliary Bible Society for the purpose of making Pagans I —as- Pursuant to the order above referred to, several copies were burned; the simple, ignorant habitants not knowing the value of the sacred Word, obeyed the orders of the priest. The Rev. Mr. Fortin, of Winnipeg, who lived for some years in Quebec, shows that the Canadian Frein' » are a people who generally know nothing about the scriptures as the Word of CiOD, and thousands of them never heard of the Bible ; unfortunately the Irish Romanists are in a similar otate of degredation. No, Archbishop Tache, of Manitoba, muit have been misinfcM' tiled! The clergy of the Church of Rome do not encourage the reading of the scriptures amongst their people; on the contrary, the facts given above show that they do all they can to prevent their reading the Word. There is a certain kind of old people whom they will permit to read some parts of the scriptures, but they are seldom to be found either in Canada or Ireland. Romanists are all taught that the key of Heaven was given to 8t. Peter, to let into Heaven whom he choose, giving as their authority the 17th, 18th and 19th verses of the IGth chapter of the Gospel ty St. Matthew, which three verses arc herein shown to be a false inter- polation invented and inserted by Monks calling themaelves Catholics. Speak to any adherent to the Church of Rome upon the vital point — The rock upon which the {!hurch is built — his first sentence in reply to you will be a repetition of the above -perverted passage in the said 16th chapter of St. Matthew, the 17th, 18th and 19th verses. His Church being founded upon St. Peler, whom, he thinks, holds the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, to admit or ex lude whom he may see fit, is quite enough for bim; he will also inform you that " Peter" means a Rock. St. Paul's Prophetic Knowledge. To whom could the Apostle St. Paul have referred in his 2nd Epistle to the Thessalouians, 2nd chapter and 11th verse, in which he uses the prophetic words, " And GOD shall send them strong delusion that they siiouid believe a lie." Apostasy From the Church of CHRIST- What is thts He, and who are they who will believe it ? referred to by St. Paul in that verse. The original Greek cannot be interpreted, a mere false assertion, but refers to a very extended and important falsifying of trnth. In St. Paul's 1st Epistle to Timothy, certain people are described -84- i'^--<.-- ?■.<■. ?r as apostates from th» faith. In chapter 4, 1st to 7th verses it is given thus : ' r ; ' ' 1st. Now, the spirit speaketh expressly, that m the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of dtivils ; " 2nd. Speaking lies in hypocracy ; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; " 3rd. FOKDIDDINO TO MAIiBY AND COMMANDINU TO ABSTAIN FROM MEATS, which OOD hath created to be received with thanksgiving, of them which believe and know the truth. "4th. For every creature of GOD is good and nothing to be lefused, if it be received with thanksgiving. "5th. For it is sanntifiel by the Word of GOD and prayer. " 6th. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt b^ a good minister of Jesus Chribt nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, wherennto thou hast attained. " 7th. But refuse profane and old wives fnbles, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness." In the 8rd verse above we read, " Forbidding to marry, and 3om- manding to abstain from meats." Who are the people who have done 80, or are doing so in this, " the latter time " referred to above. For- bidding to marry and who command to abstain from meats? The Church of Rome is the only church and Roman Catholics the only people. The ecclesiastics of that church are forbidden to marry and all the adherents to that church are commanded to eat no meal on the Friday in each week and other days. How is it that St. Paul con- demns forbidding to marry, the celi' acy of the Roman Catholic clergy? We must conclude that it is because CHRIST condemned it. In the 2nd chapter of Revelation, CHRIST, who is designated *' The Son of man ' and the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last," is represented as commanding St. John to write to the church of Ephesus. After commending them from the 1st to the 5th verses for some works and warning them that they must repent of having left their first love, in the 6th verse it is written, " But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Kicnlaitanes, which I also hate." From the 12th to the 17th verses St. .John was commanded to write to the church in Pergamos. In the 15th verse it is written : " So hast thou also them that hold the doctrmea of the .Vicolaitaneii, " which thing I hate." 16th verse : " Repent ; or I will come unto " thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my " mouth." Thus CHRIST pointedly condemns the Nicolaitanes, now who were they ? —35- Sir Isaac Newton, in his Observations on the Apocalypse, gives the derivation of this word. He spelled the word, " Nicolatans," as also did Clemenl, of Alexandria. Luther, Stillingflect and Eusebins use the word Nicholastans. However, the orthography of the word is not material. Sir Isaac says the word is derived from " Nicholas," one of the seven deacons of uhe primitive church at Jerusalem, who, having a beautiful wife and being accused of f&ndness for her, he abandoned her and permitted her to marry whom she choose ; saying that a pious and holy life would not admit of the least of worldly attractions. Henceforward he lived a life of celibacy, contrary to and in defiance of GOD'S ordinance of matrimony. Luther on several occasions denounced the " Nicolastanisra " of the Romish clergy as a violation of GOD'S ordinance of matrimony. The Roman Crucifix Idolatrous. ' Again, the apostatizing of the Church of Rome is pointed at in 8t. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 1st chapter, from the 21st to the 25th verses; speaking of those who apostatize, it is given thus : (No material variance in the Douay translation.) " 'ilst. Because thivt when tbey knew GOD, they glorified Him not iia GOD, neither were thankful ; but benaiue vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. " 22nd. Professing themselves to be wise, they became foola . "•23rd. A.nd changed the glory of the uncorruptable GOD into an image made like to Gorruptable man, And to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. " 24th, Wherefore GOD also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. " 2r)th. Who cbangod the truth of GOD into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Cheatok who is blessed forever. Amen. The 23rd verse above seems to point to the image of the man Jesus, the crucifix of the Romish worship, as a departure from the faith. Vide Ist verse of chapter 1 of St. Paul's prophetic knowledge fore- shadowing the great apostacy which would arise in the world. There is no religion professed at this time, nor has there been at any time, the adherents to which may be said to havo a knowledge of GOD, (2l8t verse above) which has set up the Image of a man, to bow down before and worship, but the Church of Rome. In the Greek Church it 18 different. In that church a crucifix, an image of the sacred man Jesus or any inferior aaint is unheard of There are pictures representing scenes in scripture narrative as also divine persons, found in the church and private houses throughout Greece I -86- and Russia ; there also statues of saints, but nothing at all of the kind tor adoration or worship. Jksus, who is CHRIST — the annointed, the only begotten Son of GOD the Father — always referred to himself as " The Son of man" As a son of man He was a creature as His Mother, the Blessed Mary, was or as any other man or woman is a creature. CHRISTOS — the annointed, the chosen one — is the Immortal Spirit of the Son of man. Jesus Christ who was chosen and sent into this world as the spirit of the child Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary, to die upon the cross as the propitiation for the sins of the world. Therefore, they who have made his image of wood, or stone, or metal, and attached it to a cross to be set up for adoration or to be " worshipped or served," have " changed the glory of the uncorruptable GOD into an image made "hke unto a corruptable man." GOD is a spirit and must be wor- shipped in spirit and in truth. We live in "the latter times," as referred to by St. Paul, and the Church of Rome seems to ke pointed at by the Apostle as the people who would depart from the faith ; as said He, the " SPIRIT speaketh expressly," &c., as above quoted. A Hindoo Christian clergyman, the Rev. Suraatara Vishma Karmorkar, whilst delivering an address in the city of Montreal, July, 1B98, thus refers to Roman Catholicism: " It is much to be deplored " that there is a marked similarity between the Mass of the Church " of Rome and the Pagan Idolatry of Hindoo worship. Hindoos say " that ' Roman Calholic worship seems but » new name for their " worship.' It contains little of the s^irii of Christianity, and still '•shows the poison of old Roman idolatrous philosophy, with which it " was thoroughly impregated in ancient times. " Often Hindoos ask us after look'ng at the Romish worship, ' what "is the difforence between that performance and our worship?' " In India we christian ministers have to contend not only with " the Demon of Hindoo Idolatry, but also with ihat hydra-headed " monster, Jesuitical Romanism." ■■'• '^'' * '^■ After the enunciation of such ideas, a mob of Romish Montreal roughs collected on the street opposite the house where the meeting was held, and by their shouts and savage yells alarmed some of the ladies in the audience. But upon a small number of young fellows arriving upon the scene and ordering the "t-owd to keep quiet or some- thing disagreeable tn them might occur, they became as quiet as sheep ; and the ladies, guarded by their friends, got home without injury. The Mayor of the city acted with proper dignity and due and kind attention. —37- What people, what church or leliginu could the Apostle 8t. Paul have referred to as those who would " depart from the faith," and again those who would '' believe a lie y" if it is not the Church of Rome. He undoubtedly meant some peculiar people, some people who would become prominent and notorious throughout the world in this latter time, and which would continue to exist until destroyed by the briLfbtness of the coming of the Lord Jesus CHRIST, as St. Paul wrote to tht' Thessalonians, 2nd Epistle, 2nd chapter and 8th verse. As to the images " of four-footed beasts, birds and creeping things " mentioned in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Ist chapter and the latter part of the 23rd verse, that part of that verse must have been added by some cunning ingenious ecclesiastic. The verse cannot refer to the Mythological worship of the Egyptians as declared by Pope Gregory 7th, That cannot be possible. The Pagan Egyptians, it is undoubted, made images of man, of birds, four footed beasts and creeping things to woiship them. At the same time they never knew the true GOD as is mentioned by St. Paul in the 21st verse of the Ist chapter of his Epistle to the Romans which is above quoted. Nor had they any definite idea of Him or of worshipping him, an in- visible GOD whom they could not see, until aftei' they, the Egyptians, had received CHRlsT ; so that St. Paul could not ha^-e written those words which refer to birds and creeping things with reference to the Pagan l^gyptians. His words arc, " When they knew (WD they glorified Him not as O0J>," Ac. As Pagans they knew nothing of the true GOD. As to the worship of images in the Church of Rome see ante in quotation from Sir iisaac Newton's observations on the Prophesy of Daniel. Those who have apostatized from the faith have added another part to the great Lie. They have changed the Word of GOD as written by the Apostle St. Matthew, by expunging an original passage as written by St. Matthew and foisting into its place a false one — the 17th, iHth and 19th verses of the 16th chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew as we have it translated as part of our New Testament — King .lames 1. version hereinbefore referred to. Which false passage sets forth that CHRIST would build His church upon St. Peter and to him He would give the key of Heaven (to admit into or exclude from Heaven whom he choose) This invention is undoubtedly an im- portant part of the //r^'flt^ Z/^. Other passages in the New Testament, which from one passage running counter to another, must have been changed by monks iM —88- n i. Mi 1 1 I I zealous for the supremacy of the Church of Rome in ancient times, and which through Satanic influence have caused confusion schism and unbelief in the Church of CHRIST, and in numberless instances Deism and Athiesm in the minds of men. Thus Satan does his work. History shows that alterations were frequently made in copying the sacred writings and books of scripture (before the invention of print- ing) by monks and other scribes who through self-sufficient conceit and the instigations of Satan thought themselves capable of improv- ing the writings of the Apostles and Evangpliyts who wrote the Gospels and Epistles. Even St. Jerome was accused before a synod of Bishops by his former friend Rufinus, ct heresy in altering the text of certain passages of scripture. The passages hereunder given and copied from the Gospels of the Evangelists St. Mark and St. Luke and the Apostle St. John, describe the very same scene between our Lord and His Disciples as thai above quoted from the 16th St. Matthew, 13th to 20th verses, as given in King .James I. version of that Gospel, the 18th to the 16th verses and 20th verse are in no manner changed from the original Gospel as written by St. Matthew and found by Gavazzi ; but the 17th, 18th and 19th verses are entirely changed from the original copy as found by him. The version issued from the Vatican as authentic, and represented as having been written by the Apostle Matthew, which the translators in James I time used, was not authentic and was probably never heard of for 200 yeats after the Apostle Matthew's death. THE 17TH, 18TH AND 19TH VERSES OF CHAPTER 16 OF ST. MATTHEW'S GOSPEL ARE, FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST WORD, A FALSE RENDERING OF THE PASSAGE" AND FOISTED INTO THE ORIGINAL TEXT AS FOUND BY GAVAZZI, in which there is not one word about Christ building His Church unon St. Peter and giving to him the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, nor is such an idea propounded in anj/ other part of GOB'S revealed llord- The Point to be Gained by such a perversion of the original text of St. Matthew's Gospel was to make out a clear case in favor of the Church of Rome attaining to universal supremacy over all other Christian Churches ; hence, at the instigation of Satan, the Word of GOD in those three verses was changed, and upon that changed and falsified part the C!hurch of Rome was built. The same scene as given between our Lord Jesis Christ and His Disciples in the English version of St. Matthew's Gosj^el, 16th -89- chapter, 13th to 20th verees; is given in the 8th chapter of the Gospel by St. Mark, English vt-rsion, 27th to 88rd verses, which are as fol- lows (the same is given in the Douay translation) : — " 27. And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cseaarea Philippi : Rnd by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say tliat I am ? " 28. And they answered, John the Baptist ; but some say, Elias ; and others, One of the Prophets. " 29. And He aaitii unto them. But whom say ye that I am ? And Petor an- swereth and saith unto him, Tuor akt the Chbiht. " 30. And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. " 31. And he began to teach them that The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. " 32. And he spoke that saying oi>en!y. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. "33. But when he liad tnrned about and iDoked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying. Get the*. Bt.HiM> mk, Satan ; for thou savorest not the tilings that be of GOD, but the things that be of men." Kot a Word in the above Quotation ^ • > from the Evangelist St. Mark's Gospel about St. Peter beiag a rock upon which Christ would build His Church, nor about His giving the kejjs of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, and to bind and loose and let into Heaven whom he thought proper. At the same time it is un- doubted that the Evangelist St. Mark, the writer of that Gospel, was the intimate friend and confidant of the Apostle St. Peter. It has been said that St. Mark was a son of St. Peter, whether he was so uterine or baptismal, as Timothy was of St. Paul, does not appear. However that may be it is sufficiently authenticated that Mark wrote his Gospel under the diction and instruction of St. Peter, of whom he was the friend and confidant. How is it then that St. Mark has not written a sentence about St. Peter being a rock upon which the Church of CHRIST is built ; or his having had the Key of Heaven delivered to him by CHRIST. TertuUion stutes that St. Mark's Gospel must have been written before the year 40. A.D., -nd St. Peter must then have known if CHRIST had given him any }X)wer to bind or loose on Earth or in Heaven different from or more potent than the power He conferred upon the other Apostles; and if it ever occurred, there cannot be a doubt but that St. MBrk would have known all about it. The simple fact is, St. Peter never could have heard of the matter; as our Lord Jesus Christ never could have used the words ; if He had, the other -i i J I I 40- Mi: r ti i; 1 : 1'!; '\ i ; 'I writers, St. Luke and St. John, would not have omitted men- tion of it. CHRIST is the sole custodian of the Key of Heaven, and He is the Rock upon which the Church is built. Let it be remembered here that in the H8rd verse above quoted, the Lord uses to Peter the words, " Get thee behind me, Satan." Again, in the Gospel by the Evangelist St. Luke, chapter 9, from the IBth to the 22nd verses, the same scene, though slightly varied in the description, is recorded; which reads as follows (the same is given in the Douay translation) : — " 18. And it came to pass, aa he was alone praying, his disciples were with him ; and he asked them, saying. Whom sav the people that I am ? " 19. They answering said, John the Baptist ; but some say Elias; and others say, that one of the old Prophets is, risen again. "20. He said unto them, ^-ut " a say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of GOD. ' 21. And he straightway charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing ; " Saying, The Son ok man musi ..ift'ev mivny things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day." ^ot a word in Si- Luke either about St. Peter being a Rock upon which Christ was to build Hia Church, nor about His giving the. Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter, not a word. There is but one passage in the Gospel by the Apostle St. John which at all approaches the point at issue, from the 66th verse to the 7 1st, which concludes chapter 6, in the English vereion. It is written as follows, slightly varied in Douay translation, but literally of the same import : — " 66. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. ., ' i " 67. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away ? " 08. Then Simon Peter answered him. Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life. "60. And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living GOD. " 7!). Jksds answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? "71, He spake of Judas Iscariot the Son of Simon ; for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve." . ^ot a word in the Go.^pel "by St. John either about St. Peter being a Rock upon which Christ was to build His —41— Church, nor about His giving the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to St. Peter. J\ot & word. J)/'oi one word in those four Go8pel histories of the sacred words and actions of our blessed Lord and Savious Jksus Christ, about the Apostle St. Peter being a rock upon which would bo built His Church, and that to him He would give the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, t;.\cept that one passage, the 17th, iHth and 19th verses of the 16th chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew, as given in the English version of the New Testament, and above set forth fully, and which is shown in this pamphlet, as also by the good and truthful ilavazzi, to be ut- terly false and not in the Gospel ap written by St. Matthew. . ■ " Origen and Jerome. Neither Origen nor Jerome appear to have had any suspicion that the 16th chapter of the Gosptl by St. Matthew had been altered from the original text as shown by Gavazzi to have been done. Jerome in his Commentary on St. Matthew's Gospel mentions the " Rock " in the IHth verse of chapter 16 as CHRIST and Him only, and goes on to say tha"; the meaning of the 17th, iHth and 19th versas of that chapter is perverted, impiously perverted. Jerome lived and wrote durmg the cbse of the 4th century and first years of the 5th. In the copies of his commentaries he states emphatically that the Rock mentioned in the 18th vei'se ol the 16th chapter of St. Matthew refers to CHRIST and to CHRIST only. And the Key of Heaven men- tioned in the 19th verse of the said chapter, Jerome held, was a mere metaphor, which could not by any rational construction be construed as conveying to St. Peter or any other person any peculiar power or attribute. St. Jerome also earnestly and in forcible language condemns as false and impious the assumption by certam f^cclesiastics of his day of the power to bind or loose in Heaven or on Earth as they choose ; tlie as.-iumption being founded upon a false interpretation of those throe verses mentioned above. The true copy of St. Matthew's (iospel which had been written about the year 85 of the era, it is safe to say was never st^en by either Jerome or Origen, and which had before their time been kept as a precious document in the archives of one of the churches ; then at a later time remo.ed to the Vatican, and there remained concealed and never was brought to light until found by Gavazzi ; and which was under GOD'S dispensation, no doubt (to use the words of Gavazzi) -^ i 1^ r I"' I ! ■BPP —42- iK I the means of liia conversion to Christianity, as so forcibly aiid elo- quently described by himself. How is it that with all their zealous cunning 2'/ie Catholic Priesthood in darkest times did not burn it ? GOD no doubt over-ruled that it should remain concealed and be found by Gavazzi. His description of his finding that precious Gospel was noticed by the newspapers at the time he was in America. Yet now his words seem almost for- gotten ; and were, when uttered, thought by many people to be of no matei'ial consequence. Roman Catholics may traduce the character of the p.ire and upright Gavazzi, as they have done ; but let any man who saw and heard him, any man who has had experience of men and has made the human countenance a study, and who dare reason and think independently of prieptly or any other influence, and who noted the workings of truth and purity upon his noble and intellectual face, answer this question : Did Gavazxi tell the truth about finding that precious old Gospel written by St. Matthew himself, above referred to? Such a man will reply, / believe he did. For if the human countenance can express pure christian truth, it was Gavazzi's ; not- withstanding the assertions of Jesuits to the contrary. Hence the attempts by unreasoning bigots to murder him. He died, however, peaceably in his own home in Rome, at an advanced age, in the month of February of 1889. A London journal of some four or five years antecedent to Gavazzi's death, stated that his tall broad-shouldered figure, .somewhat bowed down by the weight of years, might occasionally be seen walking in some one of the London parks. Peace to his ashes - he was a bless- ing to his fellow men. . , His words in conversation on one occasion with a writer in a Lon- don paper were : " I fear not the cruel hate of the Jesuits, but hold myself a christian freeman, thanking the Grea: r .\TitER for the bless- ing of a liberel constitutional Government established by our King Victor Emanuel (upon whom 1 ask the unlimited blessings of the Great Father), and the wise statesmanship of the memorable Garabaldi. In the Acts of the Apostles there are many scenes described in which the Apostle Peter took part. Yet not one word did he or any other person write which in the most remote degree can be consiiued to bear upon the Apostle Peter being -48— -a Rock, or being any other thing upon which the church of Chriht was to be built ; and that he was to receive the AV^5 of the Kingdom of Heavcu, to admit into or exclude frcm Heaven whom he thought proper. Not one word in the Acts of the Apostles, nor in any other part of the sacred Word of GOD can be found a syllable which can be con- strued to mean that St. Peter was a Rock upon which would be built ^he Church of Christ, and to him Christ would deliver the Key of Heaven, except that perverted and falsified passage in the IGth chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew, above referred to. The scripture paragrapli from the 19th to the 23rd verses of the •'20th chapter of the Gospel by St. lohn, shows clearly that Christ did not intend to confer on St. Peter alone the power to retain or remit sins — which reads as follows : — " 19. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the ■doors were shut where the Disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jksus and stood in the midst, and saith unto tliem. Peace be unto you. " 20. And when he had so said he showed unto them uih hands and his side. Then were the diHcipii's glad, when they saw the Lord. " 21. Then said Jescs to them again, Peace be unto you : as my Pathee hath neat me, even so send I you. ■'22. And when he had said this. He beeathed on them, and saith unto them. Receive ye the Holt Ghost : " 23. Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosoever SINS ye rotaiu, they are retained." As also in the Hth verse of the 10th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, Christ upon sending forth His Disc:ples said to Ihem : Heal ihe sick ; Cleanse the Lepers ; Raise the dead ; Cast out devils, freely ye have received freely give. Also m the iHth verse of iHth chapter of the same Gospel He told His Disciples : " Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever 'ye' shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatsoever * ye ' shall loose -on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven." The above scene, as shown in the 20th verse of chapter 20, St. John's Gospel above quoted, occurred after the Resurrection. The whole of those passages describe the Rkdeemkr sending His Disciples forth into the world to preach the glad tidings to all people. Yet not a word did He say about any special commission to the Apostle St. Peter, who, no doubt, was present with the rest. He did not tell them that St. Peter was a Rock upon which Mis Church was to be built^ or that He had given to, or intended to give to him the Keys of the Eingdom of Heaven. The commission was to all the Disciples then -44- ■it i. ! H il i ]•> H I -I :; 'i i 1 4 .'if I' and there present— which gave theiri (a/lcr He had breathed upoTl them and said unto them " Jieccive f/e the Um.Y Ghost") power to remit or retain tlio sins of those with whom they came in contact; to heal the sick, to raise the dead, Ac. He did not tell them anything ahout " Apostolic Succession," or that their successors as Bishops until He comes the second time would have any especial power or privileges conlerred upon them, as to the remission or retention of sms and other powers which He had con- ferred upon those then present by breathing upon them and saying unto tliom, " Receive ' ye ' the Holy Ghost." It will be observed that the personal pronoun " ye" used by Christ in the above (quotation indicates the plural number ; showing that He spoke to them all who were then in that upper room with Him col- lectively, conferring the powers mentioned upon them all individually as well as collectively. Those powers were not conferred by Ciikist upon any other persons upon whom Ho did not breathe, nor say to them Rectiive the Holy Ghost (spirit), there is no other record in the New Testament of His conferring such power. . The Christian Fathers, amongst whom were the Apostle 8t. Barnabas, sometime the fellow- worker with St. Paul, who wrote an Epistle to the Christian Churches, St. Clemens of Rome ; St. Clement of Alexandria; Origen Adamantius ; Dyanysius the Athenian Areapagile, an intimate of St. Paul ; St. Ignatius ; St. Polycarp ; St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, and the three Bishops named Eusebius, all of whom lived in the Jkd and 4th centuries, and who were Bishops or Teachers in the Church. Yet not a sentence alluding to the Apostle St. Peter being the Rock upon which CmusT had built or would build His Church, nor his having received the Key of Heaven, can be found in the writings of any one of them. St. Jerome, who was contemporary with Origen, refers to the 10th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel in his commentary upon that Gospel, the 17th, 18th and 19th verses. And he states emphatically that the Rock mentioned in the 18th verse above, refers to Christ and to Him only. He also mentions deprecatingly in the most forcible language, the absurd and impious assumptions by some of his contemporary ecclesiastics of special sanctity and powers connected with the dogma of St. Peter having received the Key of Heaven ; and as to the i)owor to bind and loose on Earth and in Heaven, such power was conferred. -46- by Chriht by broathint,' the Holy Spirit upon all the Disciples alike who were in the room, at the Urno he appeared to them after His rbfliirr»'ction. It is undonhtecUy evident that the dogma of St. Pet.er beinj? the linck upon which Chiust would build His Church, was not held by nor believed by any of the Fathcis named above nor by any others until the establishment of the IMshop of Home as Universal Bishop. One would suppose from the character of tha Roman Emperor Julian, usually referred to as Julian, the Apostate, who lived in the 4th century, that he would have taken some notice in some one of his satires, of the dhurch of Ciiuiht being built upon His Apostle Peter and he having the Koy of Heaven delivered to him by CiiKiHT had such dogma been generally known or thought of in his day. Nothing escaped him ; and he was most ingenious in his ridicule of christians. His was not, however, an extremely cruel or per- secuting disposition, but he kept the christians in fear of annoyances and unjust action?, derisively styling them " Galileans and Bone Worshippers." lie despoiled the property of the church at Edessa, giving the heartless and deceitfully facetious reason for his conduct that the christians who owned the church were rich ; and said he, " Ye know it is hard for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of Heaven." At the same time his court physician, Ca-sarius, who was a christian, he did not dismiss upon discovering his religion, though he exertod himself, but failed, to pervert him from his faith in Chiuht. It has hem Intimated that to show that the proper intent and meaning of those three verses, the 17th, 18th and 19th of the 10th chapter ot St. Matthew's Gospel have been falsified, will have a tendency to weaken that confidence and implicit faith in the old translation of the Bible which has here- tofore existed in the minds of christians. It is difficult to suppose a christian at this time of the era who can permit his intelligence to doubt the authenticity of the scriptures because Romanists have falsely copied the original Greek of St. Matthew's Gospel as to those three verses of chapter 16 which must be translated as we have them in the British Bible. It is shown clearly enough what ad- vantage the falsifying of those three verses was to the self-styled Catholics, at the time they wore disputing with the Arians over, and striving for, the establishment of a dominant Church at Rome, which ', \{\ f I. i .1 r I '< ■ -40— histor]/ ahows thoy wore detorminerl to make i^uprorne over all other Ohurjlies. Shoiil«l confi'lencu in tho just adininistralion of tho laws of this country be lost bceauso lawless pooplu break tlusin.and cunninfj; and di'si^Miing Jiien — for tlicir own especial hc-nefit — sometimes succeed in giving interpretations to certain sections of statutes which they will not reasonably bear. It cannot be that such objection as is above supposed will he seriously entertained by reasoning Christians. There is another passage of scripture, the 9th verse of tho 1 Ith chapter of St. John's Clospel, which it is evident, trom its contra- diction of other passages in that Ciospol, must have been foisted into the original Greek. That 9lh verse reads : — " Jesus Christ held himself the Son of GOD and not GOD the Fatheu? The last sentence of that verse is. My Father is greater than I. Thus giving a pointed contradiction of the 9th verse. Such contradictions are utterly opposite to the revealed mind and character of the Saviour. It is time the christian world awoke to the fact that some of those who assumed the term Catholic in early times, during the great Arian controversy, altered the scriptures in other passages as well as in the two mentioned in this book. The last aUove and the 17th, iHth and 19th verses of the IGth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel. In the annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society of some two or three years past, it is shown that there were over fifceeii thousand falsified copies of books of the scripture in tho archives of l! -47- that society. Which shows that Satan has been at work falsifying the writingfl of the Prophets, Apostles and FiViingelists. Herein is shown tho falsifying; of two passages, which are sub- mitted for the consideration of christians undoi' the hope that faith iu the Word of GOD will not be shaken in the minds of any who believe in Christ as the Saviour. Traditional beliefs beget prejudice and opposition to all now theories. It takes time to awaken men's minds out of inherited and firmly fixed errors. Vet when an idea, however now and surprising, is propounded and fairly boiiten out on the anvil of public opinion, so that it assumes the fulness of reasonable probability, it gradually forces itself forward ; and after having passed through the early stage of incredulity, and occasionally with obtuse intelligence ridicule, it is met by candor and fair dealing, it will finally attain to triumph and celebrity. As said MaJ MulltT, " Ideas which are called wild and unreason- '■ able theories, arc in many cases by no means wild or un asonable. " Conceited students at first smile incredulously, then laugh at them. " Again they turn their backs upon both the ideas and the pro- " pounder of them, and iry many means of escaping from the " responsibility of squar*4y facing the matter. But ut last when en- " vironed on every side by unyielding evidence, and .seeing there is no " escape, they submit to the inevitable. Then after a time such " inevitable will generally be found the intelligible and reasonable " conclusion.'' Again, Macaulejj, in one of his beautiful and masterly written essiivs, says : " As time advances facts accumulate, doubts arise, faint " glimmers of truth begin to show themselves, increase in brilliancy, " and shine more and more unto the perfect day.' The brightest and " most far-seeing intellects, like mountain tops, are first to catch and " reflect the dawn They are bright whilst the plain below is still in "shadowy darkness. But soon tiio light which illuminated first, the " loftiest peaks, descends to the fields and meadows and finally pene- " trates into the deepest recesses of the valleys. " First come hints; then suppositions of systems ; then systems or " ideas somewhat defective ; then definite, complete and harmonious " systems. The opinion held for a time gives place to bolder and " clearer opinions than those proceeding ; which ideas become the " opinions of at first a small minority, then by a majority ; afterwards " by a strong majority ; lastly of the majority of the intellectual i I i \ I 1^;^- —48- " of civilized men. Thus progress and advancement goes on, until " eventually the mere Catechumen of our day, may smile at the " crudeness of ideaa which imposed upon great intellects of former " times. " ^ The Quedion in this Matter for consideration : the falsifying of those three verses, the 17th, IHth and 19th of the 16th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, is. Is that which is herein asserted, true or untrue ? To ascertain the facts above stated has cost the writer of this line a quarter of a century of careful reading and study. . And he Chatlenfjes the World to show that his allegation as to such falsifying of those three verses in the 16th chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew is not true. Honest-minded people will ask why was such a perversion and falsifyi g of those three verses made ? That it was made is certain, and the reason for making it must have been this and this alope : — Before and during the continuance of the Arian controversy, between the end of the 5th century and the beginnmg of the 7th those who had assumed the term Catholic had a long and bitter contest with all others who professe I Christ throughout the then known world, for the establishment of a dominant Church at Rome. They succeeded at last by various means, and the getting up, the invention, the per- version of the Greek original of those three verses, 17th, 18th and 19th of the 16th chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew, to read and bear the translation as given in King James 1. version of the English New Testament, was their great strong point, and which in fact, carried the day in favor of the Catholi )s who held and hold that Jesus who called liimself ^'77ie Son of man,'' is really and absolutely COD the Fathkr. The Arians taking the ground that He is the Son of GOD the Fathkr. The dogma was asserted by the Catholics as correct, and shov/n by falsely antedated and falsified copies of St. Matthow's Gospel ; and it appears that no body of Christians was in a position to refute the false dogmas that the Church was built upon St. Peter and that Christ is the Fathkr. What could be done? Rome was growing powerful, and conversely all other Churches were growing weaker. Acacias, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the end of the fifth century and beginning of the 6th, opposed with all his force of character the —49- , X-} ' '; ^•■; , ^' \ '■lil ' '• s insolent assumption of the Catholic Bishop of Rome. However, after many years of controversy and disputation, he was compelled to sub- mit to the superior power of his Roman opponent, who mercilessly persecuted the Arians and forced them to succumb to his dictates. Ulrkh Zwingli, ' . durinc? the early part of the 16th century, when delivering an address to the Magistrates of Zurich against the sale of Romish mdulgences by a monk named BenarJin Barason, who had gone to Zurich for that purpose, mentioned that Acacias above named, discovered that in many instances the copies of the Gospels which had been used in the Churches from time immemorial had been taken away and other copies put in place of them. One especially mentioned by Acacias, a copy of St. Matthew's Gospel, which he had in his own house, had been taken away — he knew not how- and another copy substituted. The copy left instead of his old one, had his notes, which he had occasionally written on the pages, written in an immitation of his writing, but which he knew was not his writing. He, Acacias, it does not appear, — so far as Zwingli is quoted — had made any comments upon the falsifying of the meaning of those three verses, the 17th, 18th and 19th of the IGth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel as above is shown to have been done. But why was kis copy takcji awny and replaced by another ! Thus the means resorted to by the "Catholics" of the 5th, Gth and 7th centuries for the establishuipnt of a dominant Church in the City of Rome, .-^o far as the assertion that the Church of Christ was built upon St. Peter and that he had had the Key of Heaven de- livered to him 18 concerned are apparent. If Catholic Monks had the effrontery and duplex cunning to enter the house of the Patriarch of Constantinople, and take away his copy of the Gospel by St. Matthew and substitute a falsified copy in its place, they did the same with every other cjpy of it in the then Christian world, and the copies with which they replaced the old copies would, it is safe, to say, be falsified, an shown above to have been done, and which was undoubtedly the cause for ib^ substitution. Thus 't becomes apparent why there was no means available to the Christian world by which the dogma of the Church of Chkist being built upon the Apostle St. Peter and he having had the Key of Heaven delivered to him by Christ could be contradicted and success- fully refuted. i Tf-"F '1 ■pt~!-- |ii t :Mi - 50- / T/ie Historian Gibbon in his chapter on the Arian controversy shows that thp building and endowing of monasteries during the 6th century became the rage with those who could command the means to do so ; and those who earnestly felt and professed Christianity, in numberless instances entered those houses to seclude themselves from the pride and in- solence of the '^'' self-styled Catholic" Ecclesiastics who favored a dominant Church in the City ot Rome. Others again seemed to fall away from the faith, or retired into caves and huta in remote places, disgusted and frightened by the Catholics. Then again, one of the Bishops of Rome put forth a pretended lleavenl{j visit, to the effect that he or some other person had seen the Virgin Mary (the Mother of Jrsus) whom he asserted as the Mother of GOD had commanded all Christians throughout the world to build a house in the City of Rome for the worship of GOD, which would eclipse all other houses of the kind then extant. Hence by contributions from the wealthy, by St. Peter's Pence, the sale of indulgences and other impositions, Bt. Peter's was built, and the Church of Rome brought up to and established in the position it has held. Pepin, Kinff 0/ the Franks. . "Pepin Le Bref," King of the Franks, was the first potentate who did anything to elevate the Church of Rome into a position of splendor and magnificence. Sir Isaac Newton in his " Observations upon ttie Prophesy of Daniel," says: During the Pontificate of Pope Leo the 10th, in the sixth decade of the Bth century, there appeared in the Vatican an inscription in Latin in honour of Pepin, the short King of the Franks, here also called " The pious," to the effect that he was the first potenate who opentjd the way to the grandeur and magnificence of the Church. " By conferring upon her the Exarchate of Ravenna, " with the Principalities of Emilia and Pentapolis as also the Duchy "of Rome," declaring Pope Leo Universal Bishop, and other oblations. •„ That gift was the nocleus of Petor's patrimony, the estates of the Church. Afterwards Charles the Great, King of France, usually written Charlemagne, the son and sucsessor of Pepin the Short, added other states to the nucleus, as also did other Emperors, which to- gether were afterwards — down to this century — known as the Campigna — The Papal States. Thus the great Heretical Apostacy took root, strengthened itself, —51— and became a most fearful power ; and Python-like, crushed every- thing that dared to oppose its assumptions. Those are the conclusions to which history and reasoning sense lead us, as to the cause why the Church of Rome falsified that passage in the IfUh chapter of the Gospel by St. Matthew, the 17th, iHth and 19th verses. , Had lihe Lord .Jesus Christ intended to build His Church upon His Apostla Peter and to give to him the Key of the Kingdom of Heaven, it cannot be possible that a matter of such vital, daily and hourly importance to the Christian world, never would have been mentioned under any circumstance, or in anv way so much as hinted at, by any one of the Evangelists or Apostles, in any of their wri Ings, epistles, Ac. ; especially by the Apostle St. Peter himself, who wrote two epistles ; or by any one of the Christian Evangelists or Fathers who lived, taught and wrote for tbe Christiun religion in the 2nd, 8rd or 4th centuries, some of whom are named above. But no ; not one sentence did any one of them write about such a dogma. In fact^ they could not, for it was never heard of until it was gotten up — invented by some ingenious ecclesiastic during the second century. It does not appear that any Christian Father, Bishop or writer was able successfully to contend against th3 dogma. Acacias, above re- ferred tc, as also St. Jerome who preceeded him, held that it was an innovation, but the exertions of Acacias were useless; proof having brfcn suppressed as shown by Zwinglius, he was finally compelled to yield to the assumption and uncompromising power of the liishop of Rome. Gregory 8th and Caiholicism. The Church of Rome acknowledges that the authority of the scrip- tures is required for the establishment of that Church. Yet Pope Gregory VIII and the Roman Colloge of Cardinals claimed that the Church has the undoubted right to say what sacred writings and books of scripture are authentic and what books or writings are not authentic. Let us fancy, if we can, a County Council in this Province of Ontario refusing to acknowledge the Municipal Act passed by the Legislature of Ontario until such County Council, which is created by that Municipal Act, had endoreed it, in token of their acknowledge- ment of it. The one position is as tenable as the other and just as irrational. What will not Rome assume for self aggrandisement ? Another of Gregory VIII and after him the Church of Rome's as- sumptions is the word " Catholic," which may be said to be the moat -■, 1 t . ■■'■■>•: ■::h-'. •4 • -J 1*^1 '\m Hi 52— i \ *,-;f ! i ; ' 1 I i i-k prominent, as it comes to the front on all occasions. No one except a Romanist will for a moment suppose that the Heretical religion of the Romish Church will be the religion universally professed by christians after the Stcond Advent of the Lord Jesus Chhist, as is so emphatically asserted by Pope Gregory VIII. That cannot be so, however. It is safe to say, that the religion of the Church of Rome will not be that which will be taught by the LoiiD Jesus Christ when He comes to reign upon Earth (if there is to be any teaching as we understand that word) ; for it is said : 8th chapter and 11th verse of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, that, " All shall know the Lord, (by intuition, by inspiration) from the least to the greatest," so that we will know the will of the Great Father without being taught, and worship Him " in spirit and in truth," and according to His diction. So that we may rest assured that we will not require to be taught, but we shall know the will of the Father intuitively. What the difference between that intuitive knowledge and the worship as handed down to us by Christ and His Apostles as described and inculcated in our New Testament scriptures is to be, of course no man can attempt to describe. Most certainly it cannot be the re- ligion of the Church of Rome, there being so many of the prominent doctrines, in fact fundamental doctrines, of that Church which are clearly and pointedly condemned in the New Testament scriptures. The cehbacy of the Romish clergy is condemned by Christ in the 2nd chapter of The Revelation, 2nd and 15th verses, in which verses He says He hates the doctrines of the " Nicolitanes," whose especial characteristic was cehbacy. Celibacy was during the first centuries denominated " Nicolitanism." The departure of some in the latter time from the faith '^ as it is in Jesus " clearly points to the Church of Rome as per St. Paul's Epistle to Timothy, chapter 4 and 1st to 0th verses, in which he says, " they shall forbid to marry and command to abstain from meats." There is no church which does so in this the latter time but the Church of Rome. The worship of the cruoifix is shown by St. Paul to be idolatrous in his Epistle to the Romans, chapter I, 21st to 25th verses. In 21st verse it is thus given : " ffhen they knew (WD they glorified Him not as GOD." ""'id verse : " And changed the glory of the un- corruptable GOD into an Image made like to corruptable man. (Thus) 25th verse, " they changed the truth of GOD into a lie, and —68— worsliipped and served the creature more than the C reator »vbo ia blessed for ever. Amen." Then again the erasure of a passage in St. Matthew's Gospel and foisting into its place the 17th, 18th and 19th verses of the IGth chapter, which attempt to estalilish the dogma that Christ has bnilt His Church upon St. Peter and that He gave the Key of Heaven to St. Peter, and consequently to the Church of Rome, and which is, on another page of this book, shown to be a false invention, and a part of the grjat lie referred to by St. Paul : 11th verse of chapter 2, 2nd Epistle to the Thessalonians. No, there is not the most remote probability that the religion of the Church of Rome will be taught and continued by Christ upon this Earth. Romanists evidently comfort them.selves with the superstitions re- flection that because we Protestants use the word Catholic respecting them, it is a supernatural proof of their being undoubtedly entitled to it. They never seem to think that we use the term because of their assumption of it and our absolute indifterence abou*^^ ^.he word. We say, let them show their ignorance of the meaning of it if they will, as we wish to be polite to all. Certainly we do not call them Catholics because we hold them entitled to the term. It ia in fact a matter of no importance how Romanists are designated — let them be called Papists, Peterites, Romanists, Roman Catholics or Catholics — •vhat they wish ; the latter term, however, is absolutely absurd, for no religionists have or ever had a legitimate claim to the term Catholics, excepting those who believe in the universal (catholic) salvation of the descendants of Abraham. But when Romanists im- pudently and dogrnatically assert that they have undoubted right to the term Catholic, and that their religion is the only christian re- ligion, and all others are mere heresies — such unreasonable, dis- respectful and preposterously false assertions by such people (whose religion is heresy from Christianity, and is in fact quasi Idolatry and ''but a short dUtance from the worship of Stocks and Stones,") provokes retaliation, and we, <',ons(M}uently, apply to them the only terms to which the English language and the feelings of free born Britons entitle them. But the acme of Romish presumption and Blasphemy was reached in entirety when A Bavarian Priest published a pamphlet in the year 1H72, in which he writes as fol- lows : — • ^:i f^ -54— 1 < : ) ■-■ i? i. J ,1 :; P': fc ¥ ) I n " We, the Priests of the Holy Roman Church are high above all Kinge, Emperors, Princes, Potentates and Governments of this world as the heavens are above the earth. Kings and Potentates are as much beneath us as lead compared with the finest and purest gold. Angels and Archangels are far beneath us, for we can for- give sins as GOD Himself, which power Angels and Archangels never possessed. We stand above the " Mother of GOJ^,' for as she gave birth to our GOD-Christ but once, we Priests produce Him and create Him every day. yea, the priest may be SAID TO STAND ABOVE GOD HIMSELF, BECAUSE GOD MUST BE AT OUR SERVICE AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL PLACES. AND AT THE CC-SECRATION WHEREcVER MADE, HE MUST COME DOWN AT "OUR BIDDING FROM HEAVEN TO SERVE US" Such words seem like the crazy ravings of a madman. At the same time, when we recollect that European Romish ecclesiastics are AS a class proverbally ignorant, illiterate and superstitious, this Bavarian may be one of the most ignorant and illiterate of those ; and we always find that where ignorance and superstition exist, there we find immeasurable vanity and the most absurd and unreasonable conceits and fancies. There is no doubt but that many adherents to the Church of Rome, think that the Priesthood of that Church can forgive sins, and consign whom they choose to either Heaven or Hell. St. Augustine was forward in asserting this presumption, giving as his authority the 17th, 18th and 19th verses of the 16th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, as we have the passage in King James' version, and above shown to be false and not as written by St. Matthew ; and which is undoubtedly The Lie or a part of the lie referred to by the Apostle St. Paul in his 2nd Epi»tle to the Thessalonians, 2nd chapter and 11th verse. Let us hope for the sake of the intellectual advancement of the 19th century that people who hold the dogma that Roman Catholic clergy are able to forgiv.i their sins are a small minority amongst our fellow men of the Romisu faith, as christianitv must in some measure — if it be imperceptible to us — shed its light upon the superstitious intelligences of the adherents of the Church of Rome. In the IGth century, during the commencement of the Riitormation in Great Britain, a commentary of dissertation on the Apocalypse appeared in England, -55- I: which was supposed at the time to be written by a well-known Romish Priest, which dissertation foreshadowed the success of the Reform- ation, which was styled by him the great Heretical Apostacy. It told Romanists that they were to be punished for their want of zeal for the faith; but that through great tribulation, about the year 1860 they would reign triumphant and put down heresy throughout the world. This it may be supposed is one cause for the conviction in the minds of Roman Catholics that they have nothing to do but " Assume the Ascendant," and GOD will secure them in it. Then again, the Canadian Habitants are to overrun the whole of British America and New England, by what, they fancy, will bf the special interposition of GOD, and that their increase in numbers is owing to natural means aided by GOD, for his especial benefit. Its a question, does the Canadian Habitant kno'V anything about the secret immigration going on from Europe, above referred to. We are forced to conclude that through the manipulation of the Jesuits, thousands ot the bigoted adherents to the Romish faith are to be transferred to the Province of Quebec. The Habitant moving oiT to new localities in Ontario and the North West and the immigrants taking their places in Quebec, church money being liberally used, is a reasonable conclusion. A ship's cargo of Italians bound for some place in America (where ?) was cast away near New York city during the spring of 1887. If the wreck of the ship had not occurred we never would have heard of the ship cargo of Italian Romanists. It is reasonable to conclude that they would have disembarked at Gaspe or Riraouski, or some other port in Quebec, in ;he night- time — the ship putting in for supplies, as on a former occasion and above referred to. Then again, the Ph(Bni(iian Irish (intellectually upon a par with the French Habitants) governed more by the dreams and fancies of an old crone in a chimney corner than by reason, have for generations been expecting and confidently looking forward to a time when they will have what they term " The upper hand." One Bridget O'Carrolan, some time 150 years past, fell, or pre- tended to fall into a trance ; out of which she awoke, and told a tale which set the whole country-side in comraotioi. The burden of which was that in '' Minetjj nine years" the Irish were to exterminate heresy, chase the English out of Ireland aud rule the whole world. Such puerile fancies are fully believed by the Irish, with the addition that ''they are GOD'S own peculiar and elect people." VA .^'Ol '•1 ' f ^■ ■ 'VJ',.' t." How like the poor and simple ('anadiim Habitant 1 A case in point as to the* Irish, occurred and which was publinhed in the Irish Time.Sy during one of the last of the frtiuines in Ireland. Thus : An En- glish ship had arrived in a harbor of one of the stricken districts wiLh a cargo of food for the starving people. The poor creatures seemed disinclined at first to eat the English meal. At length the priest said to them, *' Eat it, it will feed yon, but don't thank the English. GOD knows IJis own I " They, the Irish, are GOD'S " own people." They who think they are doing GOD a service when they hum at the stake, bury alive, shoot down from behind hedges,. and desir Oil in all other ways, those who differ from them in relifjion — those whom the Church of Rome denounces as Heretics. A pleasant time it will he for the Romanists in this empire when the Irish get the " upper hand,'' and the Canadian Habitants overrun British America and New England. No; the Fiat of the Etkrnal GOD ha,s gone forth many a long century past, against the great Roman heresy, " She shall be utterly destroyed." Not yet, however, for there are prophecies to be fulfilled before the final end of the Papacy. , , , ; The home rule tor Ireland , ' • agitation now going on in Great Britain, it is to be hoped will never become legalized. The common .sense and British Protestant feeling of the English and Scottish people especially the House of Peers, will turn against the Irish home rulers, whom Mr. Gladstone ten or twelve years past, denounced in unmeasured terms, thus : " The Irish are " determined by any, and by all means, by rapine, by murder, and " bloodshed if not by legislation, to obtain their end, which it is " patent to all who take the trouble to investigate the matter, is " The dismemberment of the Empire." The late Historian Fronde thus writes upon that question. In a letter to a friend he .says, "Mr. Gladstone's contention that there is a marked " analogy between the political positions of Ireland and Canada must " fail when we reflect upon the facts as regard those countries ; " Ireland, as ontended by Mr. Gladstone, did improve commercially •' under Grattan's constitution as it is called, but solely, bear in mind, " in consequence of the removal of the restrictions which Iwre down " Irish trade, but such restrictions as existed were removed before " the passage of Grattan's Bill. The real efl'r^'.'t of that measure un- " doubtedly was to stimulate political feeling and conflict between the " Irish and the British Irish, and brought before the people numbers I' —67— •* of graceless agitators, and the increasing trade would, thfire can be " no doubt, have been greater than it was had such agitators remained " quiet and allowed the people to peaceubly attend to their own affairs. " There is a similarity between the Canadian French and the Irish. " The Irish Canadians are Roman Catholics, consciiuently disloyal to the " Protestant institutions of Britain, so are the Irish ; the Canadians " look to old France to release them from British rule, so do the " Irish. " The position, however, of Ireland and Canada are entirely dif- " ferent. The constitution granted to Canada was gotten up at a •' time when it was supposed that, that country would then in the " near future separate from the Mother Country. Things, and " political exigencies, have changed since then. Now the policy is to " gratify the loyal affection of the British Canadians for the land Of '• their Fathers. " Ireland, on the other hand is geographically and politically united " to Great Britain and cannot be permitted to separate from England " if she wishe" to do so ; for England cannot and will not allow an " independent or hostile power to establish itself within twenty mileS " of her coast. If Mr. Gladstone's measure should become law, there •' will be a dangerous and a desperate war in which other countries " may take part, who would gladly see the power of Britain broken. " Such respect for civilization, and submission to law and order as " exist or has existed in Ireland is entirely due to British authority. " Remove that, and the old anarchy will and it must return. Under " the union Ireland has prospered, and prospered better than she ever " did before ; and in parts where her prosperity is not so apparent it " is because agitation and fomenting of discontent and hatred of British " Protestant institutions has made such parts thn battle ground of '• political factions." The Irish Parliamentary party shows that their intention is by rude and course obstruction to legislation in the House of Commons to force the government to accede to their terms. Their game, however, will end in failure, for the energies of all parties of British freemen in the Houses — Lords and Commons, Tonesi Conservatives, Liberals, and Radicals — will eventually unite upon some measure to put down their obstruction, for how is legislation to proceed if a small minority is to have the power to stop the legislative wheels, as said Professor Goldwin Smith. '• The British people will not, cannot leave the Pro- testant Irish, the descendants of Britons, to the mercies of a people -68- r • '. 1.: Ij it It i ' I' t I Pi- who do not understand the giving morcy or fair play to those whom the Church of Homo denounces as heretics." Inferior reasoning capability — we quote Mr. Chamberlain — is the weakness of the Irish agitators, who have evidently more self suffi- cient conceit than cool and candid judgment. It can hardly be possible that they are ignorant of the provisions of British statutes passed within the last twenty years for the amelioration of the con- dition of the Irish tenantry, which statutes place the Irish Tenantry in a superior position to any other farm tenantry on the face of the wholt earth. Let us repeat the idea : THERE ARE NO TENANTRY IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD SO WELL, SO LIBERALLY TREATED AS THE IRISH FARM TENANTRY. "In the first place," continued Mr. Chamberlain, "the Irish tenant is absolutely secure in his holding, and cannot be disturbed so long as he fulfils the statutory oo dition of that holding ; paying his rent, which is fixed and regulated by an impartial court established for that purpose, is one of those conditions ; which conditions are far from being harsh and unreasonable, and not fixed by the landlord, but by the Court, which is tantamount to saying it is done by Act of Parlia- ment. He has the fullest property in all his improvements, and so much does that amount to, that in recent years, in numerous in- stances, even in these bad times, the interest of the tenant, the right and title to the land which he gives up, has been sold again and again for very near the whole value of the freehold of the land. He has the right to make this sale in cnen market. He has in addition, the right to apply to the Land Court, which, as above stated, is a disinterested tribunal, to nave his rent fixed ; and that entirely without regard to the value which competition gives the lane'.. And that is not all : In the subsequent Act, passed under Lord Ashbourne,, the tenant in Ireland, after agreeing with his landlord upon the price of the land, may become the owner of it, at the furthest time, the end of forty-nine years. By what means ? It seems incredible, but it is the law, by paying twenty -five per cent, less than the fair rent, which has been fixed for him, nocbjj his landlord, bat by the Court ; which to repeat, is a perfectly and undeniably impartial tribunal. Really," continued Mr. Chamberlain, " when we hear of the frightful injustice committed by England upon Ireland ; when we hear of the miseries which are endured by the fuedal tenure, and all such clap trap, such literal rubbish, at least, let us have the common fairness to admit that there are tens of thousands of tenants throughout England and Scot- land who would receive as inestimable benefits those opportunities !, -69— which the Irish tenant impudently and iinpratefuUy rejects." Thus declared Mr. Chamberliiin, a member of the British House of Commons and a leading man on the Liberal aide, in a speech delivered at Warwick, England, on :ird April, IHH'J, and republished in the Toronto Mail. Wo also give other quotations from that valuable journal. A masterly and exhaustive editorial therein of an issue during 1H91, also lashes the Irish on the grounds above stated ; and for their impudent deceit and their mean despicable whining and ingratitude. Mr. T. W. Russell, Member of the British House of Commons for South Tyrone, in a speech delivered in Toronto on IHth December, 1892, further discussed the Irish question. " It has been represented," said he, " that the Irish are oppressed, that squalor and abject misery prevails among-it the Peasantry, and that lil)erty and freedom are unheard of. I can show," continued he, " that such statemonts are not true, but are the inventions of agitators, ; and I shall lay before yon a true picture of the political ftnd social position of things in th.it country a3 they are to day. " Agriculture is the great staple industry of the Irish. The tenant who is evicted for non paymant of rent can recover in court from his landlord without a serious or costly proceedure, and very little trouble, every shilling's worth of improvement which he has mad ) to the farm and the buildings he has put up or improved upon it. Absolute security of tenure under the Imperial Statute of 18BI, is the fact {The burden under which the Irish tenant groans!!). If he piys hi.s rent he caanot ba evicted by anyone. His rant doos not dep3n'i upon the will of his landlord or his agent, but upm a court (the land court) which consists of three commissioners, who have heretofore shown themselves impartial men ; they arc not local men of the parish in which the land is situate, but brought from a distance, occasionally Englrsh. en or Scotchmen, who examine the soil as to quality and as practical men de ide impartially on a fair rent. If the tenant has invested rn^ney in the improvement of the land, erected buildings, kc. he has created a property for himself, a legal lien which if he should so desire, he can sell in open market, regardless of landlord or of any other person ; and if the tenant desiras to dispose of his property to his landlord ho can agree with him as to price ; then a government agent, appointed pursuant to the above quote i statute, is se t 14 on —60- n iH \ ;1 I- l it ' dGiuand by the tenant, who (the agent) certiHoH as to the value of the land, upon which the amount is advanced by government to the tenant, to bo repaid to government by the tenant by forty-nine an- nual instalments. Such payments arc rated at Twenty-five per cent, less than the annual rent agreed upon with the landlord. Could anything bo more considerate or kinder than this. At the end of 49 yeard the tenant is the owner of his land, the absolute owner in fee simplo, and that by the payment of a low rent, a rent twenty-five per cent, lower than that agrHod upon between himself and his landlord. "£140,000,000 stg., $700,000,000, has been placed by Parliament at the disposal of the Oovernuient for the purchase of tenants' farms as above described, under which 80,000 Irish tenants' farms have thus been transferred within six years ; those who were tenants have become landowners. " Further than Parliament had gone, they could not, in justice to British taxpayers, go. "The secret ballot has also been established by Parliament, which prevents the landlord from interfering in any manner at the polls. " It is a pity," said Mr. Russell, "that the Romish priesthood could not be restrained by some such summary means, instead of our being compelled to resort to the law and its delays, let us hope that after a time the law may be more speedy and satisfactory." The contrast between Irish and Scotch. "The Irish," says Lord Macaulcy, "are better or more liberally represented in the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland than are the Scotch. The Irish send a greater number of members according to population to that Parliament than do the Scotch, yet the Irish are by no means so well governed a people as the Scotch ; which fact proves that laws hav ^ neither a magical nor a supernatural virtue. It also shows a lack of self-reliant dignity aud a proper appreciation of the civilization of this time by the Irish. Where ignorance and bitter hatred, priestcraft and Romish bigotry exist, where pride and contending factions carry on their lawlessness, and rapine, drunken- ness and bloodthirstinoss run riot, — there, good institutions are uselesH and civilized observance of law is nil, and human freedom crushed. Hence civilization and the blessings of good government are comparatively unknown. " But where a rational respect for constituted authority, intelli- gence, industry, personal independence, sobriety and manly dignity prevail, — a high state of civilization is the fact. —61— " The Scotch in Scotland as well as in Ireland as ala."* the same peoples and their descendants in Canada and other colonies are a people whose instinctive frugality ivnd manly independent self reliance, in every quarter of the glol)e, have raised them above the masses amongst whom they are thrown. They are a people of such self- governed tempers that amid the most intense excitement of popular disturbances which the'r history records, they exhibited the gravity of judicial proceedings and the earnest solemnity of religious rites. Such a people are not diftlcult to govern. At the same time it 'vould be dangerous to attempt to coerce them or force them into compliance with usuages, laws or customs to which they are disinclined. Such are those two peoples. The Scotch are law abiding. The Irish are lawless. Statutes passed by an Irish Parliament in Dublin will be as ineffectual as were British statutes passed heretofore unless they are endorsed and favoured by the Homish priesthood. '• It is evident that nothing will satisfy the Irish but separation from the empire, their hatred of British Anglo Saxon government is immeasurable. Subject to British rule, however, it is safe to say, they arc to remain until the end.'' Yes, the Truth must he Told, the Irish want to pay no rent ; and the severance of Ireland from the British Empire is the game they arc plaving. Bear in mind that a great majority of the Saxon or British Irish have nothing to do with riuch political treachery. Instead of cultivating their holdings, the Pho'nocian Fenian Irish were and are for the most part, sleeping off previous nights' debauchery, previous nights' attending Fenian Lodges, League and Moonlighters' meetings, held tor drinking whiskey and for plotting and executing murder and other kinds of Inwlessness, against their neighbors and the Government, whicii enemies (to their I's core) of Britain and British Protestant freedom, can conceive and devilish ingenuity invent, backed and encouraged by the Priest- hr ^ of the Church of Rome, with some rational and honorable ex- ceptions, and then with consummate deceit whine over hardships which they have brought upon themselves by refusal to pay their rent, and being evicted, and justly evicted, in consequence ; and by mis- representation move the commiseration of kind-hearted Americans. What would we do in Ontario or in any other part of America with such shiftless, lazy, good for-nothing creatures ? We would turn them out, evict them, and that without mercy ; even their co- . -'I ^■■'i "t;? 1 1 ( i '■■ —62- 'i-h u religionists in this country have been compelled to live up to business necessities. What do the Irish ParHameutary party and other Agitators moan ? what can they expect to gain by attempting to deceive the British people as they are doing ? Separation from the empire they will never succeed in accomplishing ; they had best waste no more time and bring no more contempt upon themselves, by their endeavors to bring it about. The liberality and respect for the rights of free speech observed by the British Government under Lord Salisbury, the Irish obstructionists evidently cannot understand ; but comfort their in- telligences with the conceit that they are feared, and the British are Trembling in their Shoes. Ah ! British hearts are not composed of the kind of metal which melts bv the blast of ihe feverish breath of hate, nor do Britains tremble at trifles ; nor do they sink into insignificance at the howling of besotted bigots, oj: untutored mountaineers or bogtrotters. No, Britain's sons have a destiny to fulfil, a (i(^Ddirected destiny, and they hold at defiance all the hosts of Europe, which are allied against them, and to whom the Irish look with such intensity and longing confidence. The Irish agitators also seem ignorant of the manners and customs which obtain among civilized men, say nothing of the urbanity and politeness observed by gentlemen in their intercouse with all persons. Are they still, these agitators and their several loliowings, are they still uncivilized — are they ? Are they still so far sunk in the depths of Romish superstition as not to be able to understand what is going on in the world around them? Are they so carried away, are their faculties so benumbed, so stupified by conceit in their own perfection and supreme superiority as "Catholics" and the holiness of Romanism, and by hatred and envy of British Protestant advancement as to be totally incompetent to reason upon the civilization of this time. Do thoy think of nothing but gloating over Biddy O'Carrolan's dream of the upper hand ? Yes, separation from England is the game of the Irish, under the hope that the l-nited States will aid them. But that old fellow. The Kinj of Birds, will not wait until the Irish put salt on his tail. Throwing dust in his eyes is the worst move the Irish can make, for " he is a tartar when he gets his dander up." Uncle Sam will stand upon his r.ense -03— of honor, which our friend Pat will find to be stiff and stubborn for what is right ; and Pat's lying stories about being down-trodden by England, and all such rubbish, may as well be If^hined to the Wind. Facts, undeniable facts, must be laid before the people of the United States before they will bestir themselves in any way. All experience of them shows that there are m the United States as well as in Can- ada, pol'iicians who use and flatter the ignorant Irish Catholics for their votes. That fact may yet give serious trouble in America. The Nonconformists in the United Kingdom are at last awakening to what their blind trust in Mr. Gladstone has led them. The " ChiiHian Advocate^' a prominent Wesleyan journal published in Belfast, in an able article on the questioQ, ''Have the British Jionconformists condoned crime f" says: "It has always been our contention, and which we now reassert, that the true reply to that question is a simple affirm- ative, they have undoubtedly done so. And our contention that such judgment is correct becomes deeper and stronger as the subject de- velops on both sides nf the Irish sea. " Why did not and why do not Christian men make it a first con- dition, " a sine qua non," of their support of the Irish Nationalists. That they should cease from criminal and Kora dishoneat and lawless acts connected with what Agitators term ' The plan of campaign,' — murder, boycott ug, maiming cattle. Sic. " Boycotting, that late invention of the Irish League, is without doubt one of the most cruel and dastardly crimes conceived by human brains and which man can perpetrate. '' And all this has been going on for years with the tacit consent, the implied approval of the Nonconformists of Great Britain, who blindly — no doubt with honesty of intent — tr^.tet' to Mr. Gladstone, whose record of times past gives him celebrity, but what can have infatuated the " Old Champion " ? What can have blurred his once clear intellect ? Is he now favouring home rule under Irish intim-' ijation ? or is his mind weakened ? Is the weight of years heavy upon his brain ? No man in the empire knowd better ihan he, what un- principled schemers Irish agitators are. Some years past, in 1880, or it may be two or three years later, when Sir George Grey's measure of Home Rule for Ireland came before the pukl'c (said to be very similar to his (Gladstone's) measure of to-day, '89H), he, Gladstone, .■-.■■';/iC ■ '7,: :hi ■if- H yii -^nrrmpw^fWBT-^- -64— opposed it, scouted it, and used the words, " We cannot leave the British Protestant Irish to the tender mercies of the Koiiiish Priest- hood." lie opposed Sir George Grey's election for Newark and suc- ceeded in preventing his return. What can have caused his change of action, or, we should say, change of principle ? Have the Irish succeeded in intimidating the G. 0. M. ? " Had the Nonconformists of Great Britain peremptorily refused as- sociation with men who practised such deeds of lawlessness as above referred to, they would long since have been abandoned." But a short decade past, Mr. Gladstone, speaking to his con- stituents — 18th October, 1881 — used such language as the following : " Crime keeps pace with, in fact surrounds, the footsteps of the Irish Land League, with fatal and deplorable precision and certainty. Ruthless and merciless rapine is the primary move, the first object of the home rulers. But rapine is not the only lawlessness consequent to the league dictates. Boycotting, that invention of human demons, as well as murder, must and will follow. It is undoubtedly true that the Irish agitators are determined to, as they have boasted they will, march through rapine, bloodshed and any crime should it become necessary, in their futile attempt at disruption and dismemberment of the empire." But ten or eleven years past, Mr. Gladstone used those words, what has changed his mind ? Is it political expediency, or is it fear of Irish bullets or butcher knives ? Perhaps the old man — the G. 0. M. — is doating. Is Gladstone really a Protestant f !! •'*. 1 ■.. ■ i \i^: ¥,'■•■■'•' A wiiter to the London Times propounds the above question ; some of his acts will lead to the contention that he is not. At a public meeting held in Manchester during the year 1870, a gentleman in the audience said to him, "Are you a member of the Church of Rome or ar;' you a Protestant? " Instead of giving a straight honest reply to the question ho evaded it and did not declare himself. In 1858, when acting as High Commissioner of Her Majesty to the Ionian Islands, he assisted at the mass in a Romish Church, drank of the lustral water (holy water), kissed the hands of priests, kc, so that all Corfu was astonished, except the priests whom he as- sisted !! In 1807, he supported a Bill which literally gave the Pope co- -65- ordinate power in ^.ngianrl with the Sovereign.— London Times, March 21at, 1867. In 1869, he spolie of the British Irish in Ireland as a tall tree of noxious growth, darkening and poisoning the land. In 18G9, by statute, he disestablished the Irish Protestant Church and handed over to the Church of Rome no less a sum than £364,- 000, about $1,800,000 of Protestant church property obtained by the same statute. In 1891, he supported the religions disabilities removal bill, to permit Romanists to hold the oflicos of Lord Chancellor of England and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1880, he appointed a Roman Catholic, Viceroy to India, a pro- ceeding which shocked and angered many of his most devoted followers, and created discontent in the minds of Prominent Hindoos. In 1854, he supported the bill giving a grant to the Irish Romish College of Maynooth. In 1854, he opposed inquiry into conventual and monastic in- stitutions. In 1865, he supported the movement to establish a Romish Jesuit University in Ireland. In 1870. the Pope thanked him for his valuable services to the Church, stating that it is the duty of christians to advance the interests of the Church of GOD. London Standard of 8th Feb'y, 1871. In 1871, he released the Romish murderers of Mr. Murphy, a Protestant lecturer, after a short term of imprisonment, upon which the Morning Advertiser commented as follows: " Either owing to the political neces. ~jp of Mr. Gladstone or to some deeper and more mysterious cause we are now living in this Protestant country under Romish intimidation ! There seems to be no wonder if people ask Gladstone if he is a Protestant or a Papist. Mr. Chamherlain, before referred to, a member of the British House of Commons, had been travelling through the Northern part of England and South of Scotland during the early months of 1889. During his tour ho described the Irish question m all its phases. At Ayr, he said : " The Liberal Unionists are resisting double deahng, they are resisting out- rage, and they are supporting romKlial legislation for Ireland of a drastic nature. What he meant by saying that the Liberal Unionists '5 "K - ^\ \ I \ i )| I ' \ qui -66— are resisting double dealing, is that while the NationaHsts are pre- tending to work for land refor-.n, their real aim is separation from the empire." To establish this point, he quoted from tha proceedings at the Irisli J^atlo,.allst Gonveniioil held at Chicago in the summer of 1HH6. Mr. Redmond, M.P., British House of Commons, Par- nelite, who attended that convention, said, " Mr. Parnell and his followers were not wor1cin(j solely for the. removal of grievances > not simply laboring for the amelioration of the physical con- dition of the country, but to establish a free and independent island. The principle," said Mr. Redmond, "at the back of this movement to-day is the same principle which formed the soul of other Irish movements, a.s in the last rebellion, "^ against th^> rule of strangers." It is the principle which O'Neil vindicated on the banks of the Blackwater : which inspired Wolf-Tone, and for which Fitz- gerald and Emmet sacrificed their lives, I assort here to-day," said this Redmond at Chicago, " that the government of Ireland by England is an impossibility, and I believe it to he our duty to make it so-" Again, in a speech at Dundalk. an Irish town, East coast, he used the words (18th April. 1885), " I rejoice that in the " resolutiori just passed you declare your unalterable, ever living de- " termination to be satisfied with nothing that Englishmen or the " British Parliament can do so long as the hated flag of England is "seen where the green flag of Ireland ought to be." Such treasonable babbling this sapient individual indulged in on other occasions and once in the House of Commons and that without his having been given in charge to the Seargent at Arms. His im- pudent and insane folly did not meet with its deserts, but was treated with contemptuous indifference, though a Tory government (Lord Salisbury's) was ill power, British liberahty tempered with disgust for Irish blustering, vanity and rebellious conceit, would not set the law in motio • against him. Times are changed, indeed. Redmond's recent utterances (August, 1892) are an attempt to draw in his treason fangs. Yet they are under his tongue still I \ Let us fancy an impudent rebel and traitor like this man Redmond, he being English or Huguenot by descent, daring to use such treason- able language in the House of Commons during the time the Iron Duke was Premier. Verily the forbearance of British statesmen of this day to Irish dis- -67- loyalty and traitorous ranting, boasting and silly threatening, is surprising. " Fenianism," says Professor Goldwin Smith, in his pamphlet on the Conduct of England to Ireland, " at this time, besides terror- ism and boycotting, and murder and maiming of cattle and infernal machines and carding, has found another, and it must be owned, powerful engine of annoyance — Parliamentary obstruction. That too, will have to be put down, and put down with a firm hand, what- ever alteration of forms or abridgement of liberty of speech the process may involve. This is not the cause of Britain alone. Ob- struction threatens the integrity, nay the existence of Parliamentary inatitutions in all countries. How is Legislation to proceed anywhere if a small minority like the Irish obstructionists are always to have the power of stopping the wheels '? The privilege of speech is given for tuc furtherance of deliberation ; it is forfeited by those who abuse it, and avow their intention of abusing it for the hindrance of delib- eration. It is better no doubt to strike the guilty, than to curtail general liberties ; but few will deplore a certain reduction of the redundancy of speech which is swamping the national councils. Some would be glad if the minute glass could be added to the cloture." Prof. Tyndal writes to the London Times ■ " Your columns already contain the expression of the views which 1 venture to entertain re- garding Mr. Oladstone's Irish Pohcy. It is a mad, foolish and wicked policy; frauglit, if succes>ful, with unutterable woes both to England and Ireland." These are the deliberate words of a man, prepared whenever necessary, to fight the battle of oppressed tenants against oppressive landlords ; who knows Ireland and her people better than Mr. Gladstone can know them, and whose love for the land of his birth is free from the toint of party politics. Still further on this point : The Rev. Faihoi- Ilodgers, a Iloaian Catholic Priest, speaking at a pohtical meeting held at Leominster, England, in 1888, used these words: " They had hoord a great de I about Ireland lately. I am qualified to speak about Ireland," said he, " and I do not hesitate to say that fariners in that country enjoy advantages of which the agriculturists of ether England or Scotland have never dreamed ; what they want in Ireland is quiet and rest, and the banishment of that mischievioas agitation, that literal curse, the Irish land league, which Mr. Gladstot^e has done so much to develop. If they could banish the tyranny which exists there — the baneful power of that league — and bring out the real opinion of the 1 ■■%% • ■■'1 ■ \ _ . ''A I :V| M ir 1 8 ! ~m- roiddle class of tho Cfvtholics, it would bo beneficial. The conimorii sense and the intelligence of Irishmen well knows that the existence of Ireland is bound up with Great Britain. There are few farailiea of standing and respectability in England which are not honorably connected with those in Ireland. The policy introduced by Mr.. Gladstone is the very worst ever yet enunciated by any statesman^ which, if successful, will entail upon Ireland inconceivable evils. My words are the words of one ever determined, whenever or wherever necessary, to fight the battle of the Tenant against a cruel or opprossive Landlord, and who knows Ireland and the Irish people better than circumstances have permitted Mr. Gla-dstone to know theni ; and who can look at the position of things,, political or other- wise^ in his native land, free from the taint or the bias of partyism.'" Injustice to the British Iris/t. Not many years past, before the repeal by the British Parliament, of tho party possessions Act, the government, both Liberal and Con- servative, followed the same course of harsh treatment to the Grange processionists in Ulste)*, whilst in other parts of Ireland, Fenian pro- cessionists broke the same laws, but their law-breaking was winked at by the authorities, who punished the Orangemen. The reason, no doubt, being that both the English parties supposed that the British Protestant Irish would stand staunch and loyal not- withstanding any rude injustice being perpetrated upon them. And so they did, and showed true loyalty to the House of Hanover and conducted themselves with such sterling dignity and exemplary patience that the English n>embers of the House of Commond ac- corded them the highest praise and which was the n>eans of arousingf such feeling in their favor that the repeal of the obnoxious possession Act passed without much opposition- It may be supposed that the Liberals, (when enforcing the Act against the Orangemen, and forbearing to enforce it against the Fenians) dare not oilend tl>eir Irish contigent by mipartial admin- istration of the law ; and the Conservatives, when in power, did not hold themselves strong enough to oppose successfully (owing to Radical influence at home) the clamor which prosecuting the Fenian law breakers would have prod. 3ed. The reflection that such an i luparalleled prostitution of British law and justice, through party expediency, could be perpetrated in the 19th century is humiliating. It seems, however, in the this tenth decade of the century, to be —69- mmm ii perfectly understood, by British statesmen, and the majority of the electorate, except those who from party exigency or innate stupidity will not or cannot understand that the loyalty and patriotism of the British Irish are the only sure and safe dependence for the Imperial Government ; again, some extreme Liberals look upon that loyalty as Toryism and do all they can to belittle such a sentiment. Should the time arrive when the ignorant Priest-ridden Roman Catholic I"ish, misguided by unpnncipled and disloyal agitators, should attempt their treasonable designs, it is to the British Protestant loyalists that the Governn^ent, be that Government Conservative Tory, Whig or Liberal, must look to draw the fangs of treason and stamp out Jesuitical hate of Protestant Christianity and British freedom. Which dependence was fully shown and declared by States- men of both the leading BrHish parties at The Famous Ulster Demonstration. At the instance of the Premier, Lord Salisbury, the British Protes- tants of Ulster determined to hold a mass meeting of all the Protestants of Ireland to ascertain the feeling amongst the liritish Irish throughout the country, and if there would be a united deter- mination to resist the law in case Mr. Gladstone's home rule bii^ should become law. The demonstration came off in Belfast on Friday, tha 17th day of June, 1H92. The Duke of Abercorn being called to (he chair, and the mayor of Belfast to the vice chair. His grace took the chair at noon precisely, and the most Rev. Dr. Knox, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, offered up a prayer for the blessing of GOD upon the convention, and then wig sung that sublime song of adoration, the 40th Psalm, which com- mences, "GOD is our refuge and our strength, a very present ^«3lp " in trouble." The effect of that old Covenanters' Psalm as it rolled up from thousands of throats, it is said, was most intensely solemn and sublime. The people sang with the greatest fervor and especially :vlien they came to the last verse, ' The Lord of Hosts is witli lis. The GOD of Jacob is our refUfje," there were many handkei chiefs held to overflowing eyes. The opening address of the chairman evinced true and fterling Protestantism and Christian truth and loyalty to the Cro-vn and House ot Hanover Brunswick, and which was received with frequent, heartfelt and deafening cheers by the assembled thousands. His Grace in his speech used the following words : " The British Protes. '':'*! 1 , 1 n ■ I - r-> wv -70- • • taiits of Ulster are actuated by love for the empire united. Love and loyal all'ection for their sovereign, for their homes, their families, their open Bible and Christianity as taught in that Bible, as also a prayerful luid pitiable feeling for their enemies. They are determined to live and die British and to transmit to posterity, their country, Ireland, a free British kingdom as they received it from their ancestors. A great danger at this time threatens their civil and religious liberties, and they are determined to show that Protestant Christianity in Ireland is a reality, a stern reality. lie utterly repudiated the holding out any threa' or menance ; but I may declare," said he, " that the British in this country are fully determined to hold their own, and sound the clarion trumpet of freedom and repeat with deathless determination the fearless shout of the men of Derry, '* No surrender" to the last breath. Let it never be fancied by (ilad- stonians that the treedom which Britons fought for and won and the industries and prosperity of Ulster will be sacrificed for the wild and impossible scheme denominated Irish home rule. And in the name of the loyal British of Ulster, he appealed to the people of England and Scotland to disallow and crush to nothing the Jesuit home rule plot. His grace resumed his seat amid deafening cheers. A number of resolutions breathing the ideas enunciated by the chair- man were carried nem.con. Someof the resolutions iVjrcshadowed the probability of a resort to arms to maintain that political and religious freedom which was won by British Protestants during the great Reformation, and expressed determination to flinch from no duty which the honor of ttie empire, the freedom of the Protestant religion demands, and the maintainance and enjoyment of the liberty handed down to them by their ancestors. The Duke of ArgyU. His grace the Duke of Argyle, when giving the support of his name and potent influence to Lord Salisbury's Ulster demonstration, ex- pressed himself in the following terms at a political meeting held in London in the month of May, 1892: " If," said he, " the Province of Ulster is put under the merciless iron heel of Romish ecclesiastics, the British Protestunts as men pos- sessing the feelings of freemen — the descendants of Englishmen and Scotchmen — will most certainly resist, and that to the bitter end, to death itself. We may send an army to coerce them, but let us pause -71- befoi-e we do so ; Ruppose our troops— Protestant Britons— should get the command to fire upon or charge with the bayonette freoborn Britons, who are but standing up for that freedom which their ancestors won on hard fought battle fields— that priceless Protestant- ism, the heritage of all freemen. Let us fancy such soldiers upon the command " Fire " being given standing stock still, while a determined self-reliant spirit shows itself and a murmur quietly heard, letting their sommander know unmistakably a determination to dis- obey their orders, and occasionally are heard the words, ' we will not move. We will not fire upon our brother Christians, the descendants of our ancestors, to gratify Romish ecclesiastics. We will never fire upon men who are but resisting as we ourselves would resist if Romanists had the power to oppress us at home as Romanists but one hundred years past, oppressed the ancestors of these British Irish and our own.' " Let us not drive British Protestant soldiers to open mutiny ; for rest assured, if the Gladstone measure as now spoken of ever becomes law, such mutinous disobedience will certainly occur. Britons — be they Irish, English or Scotch— will never submit to be coerced or dominated by an inferior people (in fact, by any people), a people whose prominent characterists are bigoted Romanism and intense envious hatred of everything British. *' I emphatically declare my conviction," said his grace, " that the end and aim of all their political schemmg and cunning is dismem- berment of the empire, which is apparent in many ways. And resistance to such traitorous disloyalty is a duty which patriotic British subjects should not hesitate to make, even should the resort to arms become necessary. " If we neutralize or cast away the freedom and Christian in- stitutions of the British Protestant Irish and leave them at the mercy of the tvrant Irish majority, we have no right to expect them to remain quiescent and submissive, and we must hold ourselves bound to aid them. There seems to be uo doubt but that a thoroughly organized movement amongst the Orangemen and in fact amongst the whole of the British Irish in Ireland, which has its agents in England, Wales ond Scotland, to prepare for the worst — for civil war — should such a dreadful war be forced upon them." Such is the language of one of the oldest, the ablest of the Whig statesmen of this time, after years of eminent and patriotic service to the state. -::^.] !ih 1 M^ (h 1 —72— The Marquis of Londonderry, when addresaing the Ulster (Juae, '92,) demonstration said, " It ia a duty of Irish Unionists, as also of all I'rotestant freemen, to bring to the knowledge of the electorate of Dreat Britain that within twenty miles of the British coast we may hav^ a hostile people and Parlia- ment if heme rule becomes the law of the land ; in which case it would be impossilile to exaggerate the danger which would arise to Great Britain in case of a foreign war. '•A civil war," continued the Marquis, "will most assuredly devastate Ireland if homo rule be carried. British Irish freemen will never submit to be handed over to the domination of a merciless and alien Parliament led on and dictated to by the bigoted and fanatical ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome, whose words and acts show them unfit for the civiUzation of this time c^' this country. " Some orators seem to hold that the ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome are now more liberal than they were one hundred years past. Such men cannot know anything about such ecclesiastics. The aims and intentions of the Church of Rome are now, since the Jesuits have regained power in that church, as bigoted and intolerant as they were three hundred years past. Under Tyrconnel, about one hundre'l years past, British Irishmen had sufficient experience of Romish domination to cause their descendants of to-day to be determined to resist their encroachments to the last and disregard the promises of the Gladstonians. Therefore, lot us unite and show a determined front to the great enemy of civil and religious freedom, and as our ancestors did in old Derry — hurl defiance at Rome and Romanism and their friends in England and Scotland, and repeat the shout of the besieged in Derry, ' Xo surrender.' " Those soul stirring words were caught up as his Lordship sat down, and shouted amid deafen- ing and prolonged cheering, and cries of ' Ulster will fight," The Duke of Devonshire, addressing his constituents at a meeting held in Derby upon the home rule question, spoke thus : "This," said his Grace, "is the first time I have addressed a political meeting since my honoured father's death. I cannot now, however, remain silent when this momentous question, home rule for Ireland, is before the country, which i look upon as the first move, the insertion of the wedge for a dismemberment of the empire. " The position things have assumed at this time, seems a parallel —78- to what they were duriuf^ the awat rovohition. We have the same insatiable cueray to fight ; tlie samo hostile and foreign ereod against US, with the sauio bitTotecl eccloaiastics aspiring to supromacy and determined to put down Christianity and erect the Church of Rome in its stead ; with just as ignorant and uncivilized people to oppofo as our ancestors had Whit thun is our duty in this momentous crisis ? We cannot act the part of cowards and leave the British descendants of Englishmen and Scotchmen at the mercy of a Priest- hood whose acts in past times show that they do not now, nor did they in the past, understand anything about Christian charity. " The right to resist and the duty of resistance to wrong and de- privation of civil rights belonged to our ancestors, as the same now belongs to us ; as it also belongs to our iiindred in Ireland, and we must, and the British Irish must, avail ourselves of that right, and obey the behests of patriotic duty whatever be the risk. That duty is to GOD and the right of resistance is for our homes, our firesides, and our freedom." The Marquis of Salisburu, . ' , in his masterly and eloquent address to the Primrose league, in May, lSf)2, endorsed in the most emphatic terms, resistence by the British Irish to that gigantic and deceptive humbug, home rule for Ireland, — the last move of the Jesuits in their futile and shallow scheme to again bring Great Britain under the power of that great imposture, the Papacy. In which resistance by the British Irish, Englishmen ought to give them, in fact it would be cowardice to refuse them, such aid as may be possible. The endorsement and approval of the Ulster demonstration, by such statesmen as the Marquis of Salisbury, the Dukes of Devonshire and Argyle, and other English and Scotch noblemen, and prominent and talented statesmen in the House of Commons and outside its walls - Nobles, Knights and (lentleman of all parts of Great Britain and Ireland, of both, in fact of all politiciil parties, has caused a stirring sensation which shows the feeling ot British Protestants throughout Great Britain and Ireland as to the importance of the demonstration, and the determination of the British Irish to resist Romish aggression and the dismemberment of the empire. ■ , Seldom has a Prime Minister of our Sovereign used more manly, more far reaching language than the fallowing. In a speech de- livered by the Premier, Marquis of Salisbury, January, 1891, he said, " It has always been a pu/zle to lis (Englishmen) why Irish society was 80 dislocated, why it did not move in the ordinary way ; why •V > I!.;, ;, .'''ill ■ ■ ;#i —74- ■ / if- .1; men of education anil practical knowledge Heeined to have ho little influence with those who have neitlior. Now we k ow tlie reason; now we know that it in the Jesuits, that inaidiously power- ful organization, liolds sway — that organization which in every age has set evi ry otlier organization and inliiumce at dcHaiice, is and has been in the tiold against us. That organization has separated every social tie, and by working upon the ignorance and superstition of the people has set at naught every national and loyal feeling, en- gendered iugratitudo to the government, and exalts itself into a ridiculous and preposterous position of fancied superiority to the laws. We would be mad indeed to disregard, and not to take warning from, such discovery. •' During the political tempest which has recently passed over Ireland the disguise has for a moment been blown aside, and wo see that the antagonism with which we have to contend is the sinster and Jcvuiitical domination led by the Archbishops Croak and Welsh, to which the British Protestant Irish would be compelled to submit if home rule should be established in Ireland." Buch memorable ideas were expressed by the other statesmen mentioned above. Then let it never be thought that Great Britain will leave the British Irish to fightaloneagainst the enemies of British freedom in Ireland." "Then dread not aught ye loyal sons of William* Whilst fearless Cecil holds the helm of state." The following expressive lines by Lord Lytton upon the Premier Marquis, will not be out of place here. We give three stanzas of the poem : Philosopher and Paladin in one, i The Soldier's conriige, and the Sage's lore; '- A 8Corcliin{^ intellect, that leaves no stone \ ; ;. ■ Unturned on any path its thoufjhts explore. A re|>artce that not alone dazzles, But scathes like lightnin}»'s Hash, . ' The loaded fulness of a brooding mind Regardless of men, yet studious of mankind. Treasures of ileepened thought and a widened life, A well stored !ne!nory and rosdy wit, < Prone to reflection, yet inured to strife , Alike for study and for action fit. An English heart with highborn ardour rife, Fervid as Fo.x, but national as Pitt, -William III of England. —75— Born tlio scion of a House timt tiOBnta Hiatoric titlu tu itH rich (ioinain. ObHtitvu hiH mein ; ul)ove the Hpiicioua chest, The large Olympian forehoftfl, forward (IroopH; The inftBsivo teniplnd, us if tlius to reBt Tho crowdi^i hriviii their tirni bui't bastion coops, And thi< hir^e HlDuchiii;^' Hlioiihlorti as oppreBuod By the prone htiud, habitmilly stoops. / Above a world bin cdntmnplative >{aae, roriiBCH, HikIh little lieri^ to praise. " Littlo there to praise," ami less to point to as cornmendablo — Englishmen enjoying the right to elect their government, and ^ Rnglishinen ("for honest mindn are easiest to deceive") may bo duped by designing politicians, and m-nh' tho tools of friction and dotard statesmanship. And if the 0. O. M. arises to power again, then British Protestant Irishmen rally round the crimson banner and shout defiance and the war cry of your ancestors, " }f<) surrender.'^ A writer in Macmillan's Magazine thus speaks of Lord Salisbury : " Tho highest and most perfect literary finish is stamped upon every sentence tho IVhinjuis utters. You could scarcely transpose u sentence, much loss strike a word out without doing an injury. There is not a man in either the Lords or Commons to equal him in this respect. Mr. Gladstone is now somewhat deteriorated, in fact he is verbose at times ; agam he seems at a loss for the proper word, his sentences sometimes getting somewhat entangled, yet he shows a deal of dexterity in making himself intelligible. The clear intellect of the Marquis never wanders from his snbject, never introduces a parenthesis, never heaps up words unnecesarily, never uses a word too many. If he attacks a froward opponent, he strikes home, and that occasionally without mercy. Sometimes hia impetuosity betrays him into lack of caution, but at such times he expresses his opinion without the usual diplomatic reserve, he never speaks at random. Before he has uttered half a dozen sentences, you recognizifi the fact that he is a man who speaks from full knowledge of the subject under consideration, and from mature retlection, going straight to the hearts and intelligences of his audience. Such a rare combination of ex- cellence is seldom found in public speakers. , ;. ^ The Count CampeUo. •. Irish agitators might have been less enthusiastic at elections in favor of Mr. Gladstone and his nominees, had they read the ■ * ' i .. ^:A ..^■-1 m.\ * i —76— ( ' . !-^ description which a Roman nobleman, Count Campello, gave in a journal " Labciro," published by him in Home, of a conve.'sation he had with the British Liberal leader. Count Campello, as many will remember, was formerly a Canon of St. Peters, Rome, and is at present the head and leader of the old Catholic party in Italy, which party is now of espe.ial importance, constantly growing and increasiug in numbers. His relations with the Roman aristocracy, hi.s former intimate clerical connection with St. Peters, and his personal knowledge of the leaders of the two Italian camps, the National and the Papal, gives him a range of ex- perience which no other Italian can pretend to. In an issue of Labaro during February, 1H90, the Count gives an interesting detail of such conversation, which was held a few years previous, abouL uhe position of thirgs political and religious and the prospects of the Papacy in Italy. Mr. Gladstone said ; "I have been assured that the number of Papists in the City of Rome is now greater than it was before the fall of the Pope Irom temporal power." " Ah," said the Count. " the Romans who slill adhere to the Church of Rome are undoubtedly much more liberal in their ideas about religion and civil government than they formerly were. But," said the Count, " I emphatically declared that my experience shows beyond the possibility of successful contradiction, that their numbers had not increased, but that thoy had decreased and that to a very great extent. In Rome," concinued the count, " the Roman Catholic religion has very few adherents and very little weight — total inditferentism, in fact, prevails. The mere attendance at church for worship is almost nil." A writer in the fortnightly Review, says : " The old city of Rome has grown to be a French-like, mean looking place, especially the business quarters, and is hard to be distinguished from Lyons or Turin. In the middle of some streets yni see immense piles of i uins. Huge uninhabited Convents meet the perambulaior at many corners ; and what is most romarkabl.'. numbers of the churches seem to be going to ruins — left by the ecclesiastics to take care of themselves. Some of them are roofies?, others w ith the doors lying upon the Hoors, the windows smashed and abandoned to homeless dogs, the owls and bats. Extreme desolation is ihe aspect, especially on Sundays." The most, significant proof of careless apathy, and ill feeling on tho part of the Romans toward the Papacy," continued Count Campello, " is the decression in the payment of -77- Peter's Pence )mc It-he or ins. |i'3 ; be /es. )rs, incl Itho lo. by them. The highest yield .of that contribution in any one year since the fall of the Pope's temporal power from the cifcixens of Rome was 17,000 lire (a lire is 10 pence English). What are 17,000 ten- pennies, when we reniembea that over 80,000 Papal ecclesiastics in Rome are to share the contrihiition ; tlie greatest part of those ecclesiastics are old and infirm and unable to do anything at garden- ing or cultivating plots of ground. A miserably short allowance for the poor old men." A French paper says, Peter's pence after dwindling year after year in France, fell in 1898 to 472,000 and in 1S91 to less than t'40,000. " Then," said the Count Campello, " the Papacy in its religious aspect is literally dead in Rome, and alive and stirring only in its political character." Upon which Mr. Gladstone expressed great surprise, and said he, " ]\Ions. Thiers (French statesnuin) once made a somewhat odd confession of his religion to me. ' 1 am a Papist,' said Theirs, ' because of the useful influence of that religious system. But I am not a Catholic, I cannot fall down Defore and worship an image.' " Mr. Gladstone continued, " Do you not hold that the Papacy, separate from the temporal power or purely eaclesiastical, would prove acceptable to the Italians '?" " No," replied the Count, " not by any means. The Papacy must be either accepted as it is, with its own ridiculous assumptions and absurd estimate of itself, coupled with a declaration in favor of temporal power, or it must be rejected altogether. '' Romanism is incapable of any reformation or amendment. It is )iiore concerned about the direct and indirect temporal power whether with or without Monarchial dignity, than it is about the salvation of souls." " But," said Mr. Gladstone, "suppose a Pope with patriotic Italian sympathies' were elected, would not such a man be content with his spirit'ial authority, his power over the Church, the Catbolics through- out the world would no doubt continue as heretofc re." "Ah," rejoined the Count, "a Pope with sympathies for Italy )r the Italians is no longer a possibility. The despotic power and ruthless intrigue of the Jesuits would not tolerate him, he would soon Lie. You will recollect how secretly and surely they have made away with Popes who would not submit to their dictum. You must bear in min:l that J' ■ 'I . i —78- i.f r If i ■1 ( in Italy the very name Roman ^ Catholic is now the synonym, the cognomen of the anti-National pai-fcy. Besides, the Papacy in its spirit and pretensions is no longer acceptable to any thinking, reason- ing intelligence, or, in fact, to any one who is a believer in Jesls Christ as tbe Saviour of man. " Since the Vatican Council attempted to exalt the Popes into the absolute masters of the consciences in faith and morals of every Christian, the whole system has become the abhorance and detesta- tion, and the contemptuous mockery of Italians." " Then," said Mr. Gladstone, " there is no longer a place in Italy for the Popes." "No," rejoined the ('ount, "nor in any other country inhabit-d by freemen, by men possessing the attributes of reasoning capability. P'avish submission to the dictates of the ecclesiastics, and the belief in the power of a priest to consign a man to heaven or hell are the prominent doctrinal assumptions of Romanism." " Another matter," said Count Campello, " was referred to by the British statesman. The dogma of the Church of Rorrc that the Church of Christ was built upon St. Peter, and that the Church holds that the Popes are in direct line of descent from St. Peter, who wan the first Tope." As to 81' Peter being the First Pope, said Mr. Gladstone, " reliable history does not show that St. Peter ever was bishop of Rome nor was in Rome for any but a short time pre- vious to his death. St. Paul was there as shown by the '^Acts of the Apostles." St. Peter and St. Paul were boih in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Nero, and both suffered martyrdom by the order of that Emperor, but there is no mention by any credible historian that St. Peter ever was Bishop of Rome, or in any other official position in the Christian Church in that city. Dr. Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminster, than whom there is not at this time a more astute reasoner, or a deeper or more thoroughly read theo- logian or a fairer or more painstaking critic in theological matters, upon the dogma above referred to, writes, in his notes on The early Bishops of Rome : " The apostle St. Peter is claimed in the Apocraphal decrees of Pope Clement V. as tho first Bishop of Koine, but on grounds merely —79— and purely traditional and withoui a line of authentic history. We find it recorded in the Acts of the Apostles that he was in Jerusalem during the year •19, A. D., and in Antioch three or four years after- wards, about the year 53 A D. The Epistles read conjointly with the Acts of the Apostles, seem to prove conclusively that he (St. Peter) was not in Rome during the first and second imprisonments of St. Paul. If ''Babylon,' in the 1st Epistle of St. Peter, chapter V, and 13th verse means " Babylon " as a cryptogram for Rome, which cannot be possibly proved, then St. Peter was in Babylon about the year 63 A. D." (The commentator Matthew Henry states emphatically that St. Peter wr )te his Epistles in Babylon in Assyria.) Dr. Farrar continues, " The Church in the city of Rome was not founded by St. Peter; that fact is clearly indicated by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, undoubtedly St. Peter never was !n Rome before the year 73 A. D. History shows that St. Peter died for the faith in Rome, Dyonysius Corinthus says, St. Peter went from Asia to Rome passing through Corinth ; and that he as well as St. Paul r iiiVviu martrydom in Rome, St. Peter by crucifixion and St. Paul by dtictpitation during the latter time of Nero's persecution, supposed to be in the year 65 A. D. Dyonysius, one of the most reliable historians of that time says nothing about St. Peter being Bishop of Rome, or his having held any other promment position connected with the Church of Christ in that city. St. Peter, he saya^ travelled amongst the Italian towns and villages contiguous to Rome, preaching Christ and Him crucified, as he had done in Asia. The Presbyter Gains in the 2nd century refers to relics and trophies of St. Paul as having been exhibited in the \^ia Ostia, Rome. That St. Peter ever was in Rome as christian Bishop of that city, or was even pastor of the Church of Christian Jews there for twenty- five years, as stated by Pope Gregory VlII, is an assertion absolutely without foundation. Not one reliable historian gives that assertion a line of prominence. O'Brien, the Agitator. One William O'Brien, the editor of a disloyal Irish newspaper, came to Ontario in the year 1HH7, for the purpose of vilifying His Excellency, the Governor General, Lord Lansdowne. What could such a pestilent misrepreaentor expect to gain by this visit ? He said nothing about the liberal terras accorded to Irish tenants by British Acts of Parliament, us shown above ; no, not he. He descanted upon !' \ I li mm —80— l'. I' ;■ . -I f/ , 1 the misfortunes which the Irish tenants have brought upon them- selves by paying no rent for their holdings, in obedience to the maudatLS of ///at ciirsc, the Land Lcufjuc. We are pleased to be able to say that this man, O'iJrien, was permitted to leave this country, and that he was not tied neck to heels and pitched into one of our lakes. His paper shows him a blatent boaster, who cannot conceal his hate of Great Britain and everything British. By the time he arrived in Toronto ne had gathered sutlicient common sense to keep his treason to himself, and did not give us the trouble of his arrest, trial and punishment. We, British Canadians, are freemen, and take pride in compelling the lawless to be law-abiding. All men are equal before the law in this empire, except where the Irish are favored al)ove all other people in the empire, as shown above ; but all men do not know how to be freemen, nor understand the meaning of true liberty. If a man is a votary of any bigoted religious superstition, who cannot or who dare not think independently of priestly diction, upon the relations between GOD and himself; — if he thinks he must depend upon another man or some body of roen in masters ol faith, instead of being guided by the living Word of the Etkrnal god, the Scriptures, he is not a freeman; he is a nlavf and naught but a slave; lud mental slavery is of a lower type, an immeasur- ably lower type, than mere physical slavery. But to the Question, How are we British Canadians to chp the wings of our dragon ? How surmount our difficulty with Jesuits and thousands of itieir following blocking the way, who have through Protestant liberality, votes f The only course which presents itself to us,/^^ must follow. We must unite this British empire under a Federal system. The statute for such a Federal Union would in the first place be passed by the British Parliament, after which the consent of all the other Legis- latures already established throughout the Empire ought to be obtained. The Parliament ot the Federated Empire will then abolish the local Provincial Legislatures in this Dominion, which local Legislatures are the worst features in our governmental . ■system. They cost many millions of money every year, which this country can ill afford. The laws passed by them would much better emanate from the Dominion Legislature at Ottawa, in which Legislature we must have totally new parties, a great party of Proteacani Freemen agL inst the votaries of the Romish Heresy. There is no way of ( Vi —HI— ' • gettini? at the truth of this matter but by plainly seeking the truth — 80 the truth must be told. If we are compelled to use pointed and expressive language it is because we wish those whom we write about to understand us. "Hh who builds his argument upon facts and asserts that which cannot be denied," said JuJiius, " is not easily refuted ; nor is he to be answared by general assertions, undefined contradictions, general reproaches or the assumption of superior knowledge and natural intelligence. He may lack eloquence or the humorous power to please, but speaking truth, he will always convince honest minds. Stolidly stupid people who are governed by self-sufficient bigotry, in- tolerance and conceit it is useless to attempt to convince. To remove preconceived errors and superstitious fancies from such intelligences will prove extremely difficult and in most cases an impossibility." if we British Canadians, as before asserted, are to remain freemen, we must check the encroachments of the Roman Catholic eccles- iastics. To do so, there is in fact but one course open to us — a united confederacy of the whole empire. ALL CANADIAN PROTESTANTS MUST UNITE AND FORM ONE PARTY, CLAIMING EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL, AND HAVE BUT ONE LEGISLATURE IN THIS COUNTRY, THAT OF THE DOMINION, AND ONE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE - OUR OWN ENGLISH. Yes, our own English, Our peerless English. 'I he vocal communication between men who through GOD'S grace are Freemen, is undoubtedly destined to bo the language of the future, as facts show the truth of the assertion that English will be at no distant future time the language of all people throughout the world. For half a century and more, up to about twenty- five years past, French wiis the language generally spoken. No matter where the traveller went he heard French, as the usual language used in bus- iness. Now, in 1895, it is quite different ; English is now the medium of communication. Let the tourist travel where he may, in either of the quarters of the world, he speaks English and is spoken to in English, except in backward and uncivilized places. Seldom out of France does he hear French spoken, unless amongst French people. English is the Lanquage now spoken- GermaDH, Aus> I ! —86- the people who will oppose the abolition of the Legislature of that Province? The .Jesuits and other llouian Catholic ecclesiastics are the people benefitted by that Legislature ; by it thty have such laws AH they wish, enacted; by which laws they keep the Habitants in ignorance, and themselves in luxury and idleness. They are the people who will oppose the abolition of that Legislature, and they will undoubtedly be backed and aided by the poor Irish Romanists. Why should we hesitate to do away with a system which is sinking our fellow- men, although they are alien to us, deeper every year into poverty and ignorance of the most degrading description '? Yes ; Romish ecclesiastics are the people, and the only people, benefitted by the keeping in existence the Quebec Legislature. If we abolish the Quebec we must also abolish the Ontario and all other Local Legislatures; in fact, we will be much better off without any of them ; they are immenso'y costly, and we are forced to be at the expense of them. The French Canadians and their Irish allies are all aliens to us, and daily becoming more alienated, both lay and dene— e/ief/lies in fact, as yd comparativeJu /wwerless. We cannot forget the bitter alien-like hale evinced by the French Canadians and their Irish confreres m the Province of Quebec during the Riel embroglio, which they did not attempt to conceal. Then why should wo hesitate in bringing about that which is a palpably undoubted duty. A Case in Point, as to the loyalty of the Canadian French. A mob of Habitants parading in procession, in a village about ten miles from the city of Quebec, during the election in December, 1H80, carried a portrait of our beloved and matchless Queen to a public place in the village, then after a harangue in Habitant French, in which the words, " Abattic LaReine des Heretiqaes,'' ~ down with the Queen of the Heretics — were used several times, followed by " Vive La France,'' One of these French Canadian " loyalists " tore the portrait into pieces, throw the fragments down and trampled and spat upon them. At the same time another of them, decked out in Habitant finery, red liberty cap, {Bonnct-Roilfje,) red sash and pale gray cloth coat and pants, mounted upon a Canadian pony, trailing our time-honored Union Jack behind him, and calling upon all whom he approached to spit upon the •'British Rag!" at the same time the French tri -color was carried in the wind by another Habitant close in his rear. Just then, an Englishman, dressed —87— • ■ in English shooting garb, and currying a double barrollrd shot gun, was leisiirt'ly walking down the street. Mooting tho mob lie paused a short time and mentally took in the scene, he crossed the street to a small shop where sticks and canes were sold ; he laid down his gun in the shop, and without saying, with your permission, took up a stick and rushed into the street, and then at tho crowd. First he pulled the Habitant of}' the pony and left him sprawling on the ground, then sprang to the flag, took it up, and made for the shop where he had left his gun (which, by some means ! ! he never saw again). He had progressed some twelve or fifteen yards walking backward, fighting tho mob of Habitants, when a "Villian CaniK Behind II im" and struck him on the back of the head with a stone, a slunpr shot or some other weapon, which felled him to the earth. He had meanwhile, buttoned the flag inside his coat. The Englishman, being down, stunned and bleeding on the ground, the crowd rushed upon him, cursing the J'^nglish. Fortunately they were too many, for in- stead of striking the fallen man with their clubs, they in their eager- ness and blind intensity, struch each other. Then came to the rescue a Priest, a good, kind, C'hristianlike man, who stepped amongst the mob and ordered them to desist and not murder the fallen man. The EngUshman, however, soon awoke and sat up. " Who are you, and what have you been doing to these people ? " asked the good Priest in pure Parisian French. " I am an Paiglishman," said he in the same language, " and as to my actions, 1 have done nothing but knock that fellow ofi" his pony and took this Jack, (opening his coat) a Hag of my country, from this crowd of people who were insulting it and my national feelings, by their conduct." " Oh," said the Priest, »' what foolishness." Then took the Englishman to his own house, called in a surgeon and kindly tended the wounded man until he got better. Acts of kindness are not rare amongst the French Canadian Priesthood. The Canadian Habitant no doubt comforts himself with the thought that we, British Canadians, forget all about tho above incidents and many similar cases of insult to our Flag. Do we, Johnny? We shall see by and by. The Minerve Incident ! ! Towards the end of the summer of 1HH7, La Minerve, a French frigate, entered the 8t. Lawrence and steamed up to Quebec and i IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) / O 1.0 t I.I 1.25 "141 lis us 1.4 6' IIM 1.6 V] <^ /a ^2 />^ '/ /A Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (716) 872-«503 A^ (V -^ <> '^ ^ w^, 6^ rv '^ "(^ .^ '/s — «8— Montreal. She lay at each of these oitiea for some days — French Canadians in crowds visited her — many of whom came several miles. All kinds of honors were paid to the ship, her officers and crew — she and they were French— a-nd her flag the French iri color\ On her leaving, the ship Minerve — paid the usual courtesy of saluting the British flag and the Citadel of Quecec, over which it waved, which courtesy was of course returned. At the same moment, the British Union Jack, which was as customary flying over the City Hall, was hauled down and a French tri-color run up in Us place, where it remaiued for some time. The indignation of the British citls^ns of Quebec was intense, at the same time they were for a short time powerless to face such an unparalelled and disloyal outrage and never- to-be-forgotten insult. A prominent personage at the city of Montreal who was in Quebec (we do not name him — but what could have been his business in Quebec at the time ?) had the French flag hauled down, after its flying precisely eighty-seven minutes. Query ? Had he anythmg to do with the running it up 1 1 The French and Russian Alliance. Is the alliance offensive and defensive between France and Russia a reality or a more assertion ? Both of these powers by ironical inuendo repudiaH such tr ity, without positive denial of its existence. There are so many acts b} the French which tend to sho'v that there must be something upon which they with confldence depend. Why did France, " like a tall bully," send ships of war to the coast of Newfoundlaad to assert treaty rights? Then, again, the peremptory demand by France that Great Britain withdraw from Egypt. (The quiet indifference and dignified attitude assumed by Lord Salisbury's government was no doubt a bitter dose for the French to swallow.) Then the Canadian French hauling down the British flag, which was as usual flying over the City Hall. Quebec, and running up the French tri. color whilst the French war ship, Minerve was passing that city. If there is no understanding between France and Russia, no secret treaty, what does such bluster mean? It smacks of a defiant attitude toward Britain. If it is nothing but defiant incivility it is waste of time, "a» abortive attempt at showing off. "Perhaps it pleassa the French to suppose they can embarrass the British Government ; perhaps they have an idea that their statement of their army being over 2,600,000 men will frighten John Bull. Mayhap if those millions were stripped of French boasting they would dwindle to half the number. Whatever they have thought or done, they have noi —89- \ w yet toasei' those who hate Britai . '? Suppose the Vatican could compass terms ad- vantageous to, and for the aggrandisement of France, who can say what might occur ? Russia being allied to France — in case of a war with Great Britain serious trouble might result to us from Irish Catholic rebels and Canadian Catholic habitants as disloyal as the Irish. Senator Trudel's dream of New France, " a splendid Empire, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with J\few England" thrown in, we can- not forget. Looked at from another point of view, such an erabroglio might be the best thing that could occur for us, British Canadians ; for then the United States might unite with this Empire, for offence -91— low ;aiue 'eists ioaa_ ad- say war rish the and dufouce. What then •? The whole world would stand aghast, except, iet us hope, Germany. British Diplomatic Ability. A French gentleman, Mons. Paul liert, the French governmental agent at Ton(iiiin, told at a reception given him at Saigon what ho thought of British diplomatic ability, in the following terms : •• At Port Said the British reign alone by their language and their com- merce. Everywhere their tlag is waving — at Aden, at Colombo, at Singapore, and even in the Suez Canal it shows two for one of all nations besides — thdt canal which we call our own as it was built with French money and by French engineers, still it is not OUTS to-day. Wherever our flag and the British wave side by side, and our rights even predominate over all other nation.s ; there the ground upon which wo hold ourselves safe, is skilfully mined, and gives way under our feet. If we act in uni.son with them we work for their advantage. And if we are first in the field we are none the less crowded to the wall, disheartened and discomfuited ; such it has been, but we must amend our tactics. Confederation of the British Empire. The German Daron, Stookmar, the father of the present Baron, and the friend of our peerless Queen and Her Royal Consort, Albert the Good, was one of the most far-seeing and wi3o-thoughted of the most prominent of the German nobility of his day, and who wrote and worked for the unity of the German Empire ; strongly favored the maintainance of close, friendly relations between Germany and Great Britain. He also saw and spoke of the immense advantage we, in this Empire, would grasp by a Federal Union of" lliejvliQle, There is nothing more tiresome than arrogant assumption, es- pecially when the arrogant aosumer- reason.^ from a false hypothesis, it has been said a Mr. Edgar, an M. P. of Canada, is reported to have ^sitHtraro pBuuu o n ihe floor of the Dominion House of Commons, that Imperial Federation is a mere will-o-thc-wisp, an impracticable scheme. Let us suggest that it is neither the one nor the other, and by no means impracticable. There cannot be any reason why the Federal Parliament of this Empire would interfere in any manner with the Government or Par- liament of this Dominion. Sir John Macdonald once mentioned in conversation, " There can " be no cause why a Federal Government of the Empire should in —92— ( ! " any way interfere with the Government or Parliament of this " Dominion. A Uovornment and Parliament of the Empire can be " established which will undoubtedly prove satisfactory to a>l loyal " Britons." Let us suppose that the Imperial Federal Parliament, be composed of Her Majesty the Queen and the House of Lords as at present con- stituted, with such gentlemen added as Her Majesty might see fit to elevate to the Peerage, residing in the various Dependencies of the Crown ; with a House of Commons as hereinbefore proposed. Nothing but disloyalty could have induced any man to voice the idea that Jesuit led French Canadian Romanists ought to have been represented at the Conference of Colonial Delegates, who met in London during April and May, 1887, to discuss the preliminaries of Imperial Federation. The few French Canadians who are Protestant, we suppose to be, and no doubt they are, loyal to the British Crown. Yet the great majority of the Canadian French who are Roman Catholics are en qui vlve for another rebellion, to strut forth in the North-west or in Quebec, where the last was hatched. They try to smother their disloyalty since their defeat at the polls ; election in 1886 ; yet they have too much faith in Senator Trudel's dream of a New France on the shores of the St. Lawrence which seems to have given them, poor simple creatures, confidence, perfect confidence in their future, which is something like the Irish who are to chase the English out of Ireland f Send delegates with French and Jesuit Roman Catholic proclivities to the conference above referred to- No. Loyal British freemen could not think of sending such men to such a conference, for they would undoubtedly do all they could do to oppose such a scheme as the Confederation of this Empire, which would be the means of making an end of Jesuitical power in this country. Canadian politics are in too critical a position just now, to permit British Loyalists to act without due deliberation and forethought. I —98— The London Chamber of Commerce^ dnriog 1886, offered a pnze for the best essay upon th« subjeot of Imperial Federation. A lurge Dumber no doubt sent essays across to London on that subject. One essay left Toronto about the 81st July, 1886, which embodied the ideas in the appendix hereto set forth in the drafl of a Bill, ready for such alterations as the Committee of Judges might think necussary, should they approve of the idea« therein set forth ; which draft gives minute details of the several electoral subdivisions, as in the appendix hereto are set forth, into whi oh this Empire may be divided. It may be stii: how will the consent of the Canadian ParliamenI be olxained to the Federation of t^ Empii« Act, with the Canadian Bomiiih "Balance of Power " determinedly against it ? That is a vital que8ti(tn, and a serious dilBculty. At the same time the consent will be obtained thus : All our political parties must sink their differences, and form one party of Protestant Freemen ugainst Roman Cathobcs. There in no way to overcome the difficulty but that way, and that is the way it must be done, if done ac all. Let us have no nonsense about Stirring up Religious JHfferences, The religious differences constantly blazoned in our faces by the Boman Cithoiics are part of their religion, and are, in fact, the im- perative d ity of the Jesuits. It is positively peurile to urge such an idea as stiiring up religious differences ; then let us quit ourselves like men, and " beard this dragon in his den." Do Boman'sts hesitate to stir up religious differeuces in their impudent assumptions, now amongst uii ? Do they bridle their tongues when they tell us that all Protestiintism is not Christianity, and that the Pope will and must reign supromr over this Empire and the United States of America. Stirring up religious differences " and consequently strife." No, we do not wish to stir up strife, but we are determined to hold our own, and if in doing so we run counter to the assumptions of Boman Catholicism let Bomanists help themselves, for we must and will luaintain our institutions and freedom to worship GOD without rpgard to the presumptions aud bigoted dictation of Bomish ecclesiastics. Equal rights and fair play for all, both Protestants and Bomanists, and special privileges for none, is our motto. Are these Boman Catholic opponents of ours totally incapable of discerning the signs of the times ? Are they entirely ignorant of mm —04- historic focts'.* Do they ItD^w nothing tit all about the siihject in question ? Have they never got at, or do they care to get at the root of the uiattor, or in fact of any question, or have they merely got together a few shreds of ideas, picked up here and there and woven and contorted thein into amiserahle hotch potchof fancied philosophy Will experience never teach them ? It is evident y folly to expect it. Ah ! the " Lie " referred to by the apostle Kt. Paul nnd before men- tioned, again forces itself before us — that Christ has built Hrs Church upon St. I'eter, and that the Church of Home through him holds the Key of Heaven. It is upon that they place dependendence and the full confidence of their faith. " How great was the fall of the house which was built upon the sand," said Christ. Had it not been for the coming to this country of the Jesuits, we might have lived on in peace and harmony with our neighbors of the lioiiian Catholic faith ; but as i\ is, through Jesuit influence, it is diflicult iio form an idea of where it will. end. The Jesuits bold a votary of the Church of Rome recreant* cowardly, and impious, who would hesitate in making etTectual an assumption assumed by that Chutch, even if the bves of thousands of those whom Romanists denounce as heretics, were to be sacrificed. Whom have we to deal with? Are they friends or are they foes, enemies to, or supporters of, our christian freedom ? Ah ! there can be but one answer to that question. We Protestants have been com- forting ourselves with the hope that the Church of Rome and Roman Catholics are advancing in intielligence, and are not such abject slaves to bigotry and intolerance, or so bitter in their folly as they were in times past ; but recent events show to us Romish Ecclesiastic assumption and bigotry to be as ultra and bitter as they vt^ere GOO years past. We have to thank Mr. Blake and Mr. Edgar, members of the Canadian House of Commons of that day, for waking us to that iruth as it glared at us in the Province of Quebec during the last Reii rebellion. Ah, yes ! Rome knows no change either in spirit or policy ; she is the same now as she was in the 16th centurv when the Massacre of St' Bartholomew was planned and executed. How many thousand of Huguenot Pro- testant Christians were murdered at that time in cold blood in Paris and northern France simply because they were christians ? — GO.OOO, at least — some writers give the number as 70,000. The mere thought of that cruel massacre brings a shudder across a christian's feelings. To this day the Church of Rome celebrates that bloody and devilish —95— Pro- *ai'i8 000, ught nR8. ostles. And if the Church of Rome should ever get the ascendant and political supremacy in this country, to which Romanists look with such perfect confidence, have we any right to suppose they would give us better treatment than the Huguenots received in 1572? We ought to thank QOD that there is no fear of that now ; at the same time the Church of Rome knows no changes. Let us quote Z' Univers — the most prominent Romish organ in Europe. In that journal, issued in August, 1861, we find these words : **A heretic, examined and *' convicted by the Church, used formerly to be delivered over to •' secular power for the punishment of death. M'othing has ever " .ppeared to us more just and necessary; " alao in the same journal, issued in August, 1872, an article upon the St. Bartholomew- eve massacre, justifies and eulogizes that bloody, and devilish act, in- timating that it was merely an ebulition o' '^holy Catholic piety." Holy Catholic piety 1 1 What kind of an idea can this holy Catholic editor have of piety. The word is from the Latin " Pietas," which may be rendered into — Love, veneration, or adoration for GOD. How is it possible that any human intelligence can construe the word piety into seeing a living creature being bound to a stake, a fire built and Ignited around him, and listening with delight to his screams until they die away from nature being exhausted and his body becomes a shapeless, unrecognizable mass of charred flesh and bones? Can they, these " holy French and Spanish Catholics," think they are doing GOD, the merciful and all-pitying GOD, a service by such cruel and demoniac commission of murder'/ GOD'S command is, Thou shalt —97- Qot destroy the life of thy fellow man. Could there, be any people called Catholics found at this day who rould perpetrate su''^ diabolic work ? It is said by prominent Roman Catholics of the Canadian Government lliut there could not now be any found, and that the Jesuits are more ui^ciful now than they formerly wore. Whether we could find a Kouian Catholic in this country holding suoh ideas as held by the editor of L'UnivorH, is a question. How many yea's have passed eince thft -Irish reb*lMon of 1041 ? One of the scones during thi.t "ebulttion of holy Catholk piety *' is thus cnronicled I '* A large number of British Irish had taken refuge in a barn at a village called ScnUabogue, their dwellings having all been burned by the rebels, who set the bam on fire. During its burning, some poor mothers s6nt their little ones out to the rebels, supposing that their hel^fess innocence wbuld move the com- miseration of the Ynen who stood around as'a guard to prevent escape^i. The poor mothers begged of thent to spftfe the children, the reply which Was howled batk to them was; " take your heretic trats to yoa\us savages." Their ferocity and cruelty have been compared by another celebrated writer to the actions of famished wolves. This brutal and wolfish nature, when the individual is brought under the kindly and civilizing influences of Christianity, will be extinguished. Character of the Irish. The great misfortune of the Irish is Romanism — a foreign religion, a religion foreign to himself and to that religion taught by The Lord Chbist and his Aposti s and described and dictated in the scriptures; whic^ foreign faith holds him in a merciless and tyrant grasp. If his natural intelligence }caA it^b scope it undoubtedly would be (as in many instances it has been shown) well for him. But when he is kept down by a relentless tyranny, so cunningly exercised that he thinks his parish priest has the supernatural power to consign him to Hell or send him to Heaven, he oannot refer to the Bible the authority of the Christian in matters of faith, as his Protestant neighbor can, but he accepts the assumption of the Romish Eccles- iastic as truth. Poor fellow, there is no hope for him but to educate him and teach and induce him to read the Word of GOD. His attachment to his home, his cottage and plot of ground, be the " bit of land " (to use his own words) sufficient or not sufficient to give him and his family enough to sustain life, is a beautiful trait in his character. He is a brave and dauntless soldier. His natural I '. —09— lishtheartodnAss enablM him to look upon the bright aid* of things. He is honestly religious and has implicit faith in the faith of Rome. Ha is moral in hia domestic relations. He is thoughtless, unretleot- ing and unreasonable, 'vhioh leads him to submit to unprincipled agitators. Then when intoxicated by whiskey he will commit acts of violence, sometimes barbarously unjust and cruel; yet on the whole he possesses elements of character which if cultivated under favorable circumstances, freed from agitating harangues and priestly intoler- ence and brought under the influence of kindly Christian teachers, tbey would make him a useful, genial, as wrll as loyal British dubjeot, A short time before the Crown of England was presented to William, Prince of Orange, " English Protestantism and English freedom saw," ocntinues Mr. Smith, " an Irish army in the service of King Jar ^ 11. c. sampe'' t,i her gates, they saw a native Irish Parliament nnaer the t^ui^.^nce of the bigots.u v .d bloodthirsty Tyrconnell, passing sw':e|- /'^ Acts of A^"*inder against all men of British blood and Prot'^st.ao>. in religiou ; they saw the Irish fighting side by side with the troops of ^^e Bourbon tyrant and his fanatical Bishops on the morrow of the I)ragonac^'^ and the massacres of the Albigbnses and Waldenres in the Cevennes Mountains. They, and British liberty with them, we saved by almost a miracle, an interposition of Almighty GOD. " After their victory, they dealt out a stringent measure of regalia- tive repression to that religion which had identified itbelf with a orusade of reactionary despots against national independence .tnd human freedom. " In lands where the Protestants, instead of being victorious were vanquished by Roman Catholic powers, their lot was not merely social repression and political disfranchisement ; they were butchered, drawn and quartered, buried alive, burned at the s'jake, or driven into exife ; and in their persecution, we may be sure — as there is no lack of evidence to prove the fact — that the Irish priesthood glorified in and rejoiced at it. The Ulster British had experience of an Irish Parliament under the uncorapromiHing and execrable bigot, Talbot, Earl of Tyroonnel, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under King James II., a poRton joarnal. " The existence in tho Chinch of niembera (who are not few in number) who appear detta-mined (if words 8if,'nify anything) to Romanize tlie Clinrcli, to go back behind the HcfonnaliDn to intro- duce the Idolatrous Mass, the worship of the Idol crucifix, and to estabhsh tho confessional of the *"hurch of Rjmo and all its do- grading iivnurities into the communion of our Church, in a word, to revolutionize our C hurch service and establish llomanisni in its stead. I use the words " appear determined " advisedly- I under- stand perfectly why such perverts always deny that they have such intentions as I have described. To say ihe truth they do not read the Word of (iOD, and their intelligence becomes perverted by the show, the glitter, and tinsel embroidery of the sacerdotal vestments of Romish and high Church ecclesiastics and their eoniinuous aping of tlie Romish formulas of worship. -'^ That such heretical movement will never bo successful we must hope and trust in GOD for He is our only refuge in this dire and fearful crisis. I cannot believe that the people of England will allow the Eiitablished Church to go back to Rome, At the same time, if this Romish movement be not checked by the active and determined co- operation of Christian Protestant loyalists within the universal Church of Christ it will, ere many years pass over us, be the cause of disruption in the Chistrian Church. Above all I - believe that unless the laity can be made to understand that the points , which have been disputed before the courts of law are not mere petty questions about ornaments, vest- " ments, music, and decorations, as has been represented in high church journals, but attempts to subvert the Protsstant principles of '* the Church and to introduce some of the most dangerous doctrines of the Church of Rome, we must not be surprised if in a few years the Church of England goes to pieces. Those who are high church will go to Rome and ♦.hose who are not will go to Protestant churches. The apparent inability of the laity to realize the immense gravity of the questions of the doctrines in dispute and the deter- mination ot those who favor Romanism to deceive and triHe with them and represent that the questions are mere matters of taste and feeling and not scripture doctrines, is indeed an alarming symptom, and one of tho very wors*; in the whole question. ' Ah, yes," said the celebrated WiclifTe, "GOD is not mcckcd, nor will He bo mocked with impunity. He will not accept worship' which i 1 i —103- is mere 'pretty' form and empty show, lacking the spirit of Godli- ness." " Logicians," says iMacauley, " may reason about abstractions, may assert fact.s, deduce conclusions and propound hypotheses. IJut man, ignorant and uneducated, must have an image to worship. He must have something tactile for the physical sense. Something for the physical eye to rest upon. Something which human intelligence, however limited, can speculate upon, can think about. " The strong tendency of the uneducated multitude, the unlettered mass of mankind in all ages, and in all nations, to idolatry can be explained on no other principle. The first inhabitants of Greece, v 3 have reason to bolieve, worshipped along with their heathen Grds one invisible deity. At the lime St. Paul visited Athems he found there an alter built tO'tbe " unknown GOD." In after years the inclination for something* more definite to adore produced in a few centuries an innumerable crowd of gods and godesscs. But GOD, the uncreated, the incomprehensible, the invisible, attracted but few worshippers." The Israelites, from their exodus from Egypt to their last captivity, seemed to have constant inclination to set up idols, something that the physical eye could look at, and to forsake the worship of the true GOD, who had done such wonders for them, and to fall down before carved images of wood or stone or of metal •' graven by men's hands which could neither hear, nor see, nor spoak." Notwithstanding GOD, the great Crkator, had communicated with them by speech, and they had seen His wonderful and awe inspiring power, seen it tangibly with their eyes. Yet still the power of imagination led them away after Satanic folly and heathen idolatry as they sa-v their neigh- bors the Phrenecians'and others doing. Of all people, children are the most imaginative. They abandon themselves without reserve to every illusion. Every image which is strongly presented to their mental vision, produces on them the effect of undoubted reality. No man, be his sensibility what it may, is ever alTccted by Hamlet or Lear as a little girl is affected by the story of poor Red Uidinghood. She knows the story is a fallacv, that wolves ctinnot speak, and that there are none in England. Yet in spite of sucli knowledge she believes ; she weeps ; she trembles ; she dare not go into a dark room least she should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat Such is the despotic power of the imagination over uncultivated in- telligences. —104 — :i So It is with ynimg minds which cunning devices and the utmost and increasincr care have to look up to the images of Jesus, His Mother the Virgin Mary, and innumerable other saints as to the real persons ; at length they fancy that Jesus, or the other saint, whoever it may be, is really looking down upon them. Thus they grow up to youths and adults with all their childish fancies fresh and firmly fixed in their minds, which nothing but education can dispel- Where there is no enlargement of the intelligence by education, the man is still a child with a certain experience of the world, but no capability to reason, or draw conclusions from cause to effect. Such it is, a pitiable spectacle, a creature of mere imagination ; and that generally dull and one-idea-d. " As the Twig is bent so is ihe Tree Inclined." Yes, that aphorism is fully understood and appreciated by the Jesuits. " Train up a child in the worship of the Roman Catholic Church, and when he gets older he will not depart from his teachers," IS their maxim. In truth, it is usually so, if the teachers can prevent them from educating themselves by reading and study of scientific and theological works they must of necessity remain ignorant. Sometimes a Romanist reads books borrowed from Protestant ac. quaintance, (unknown to his Priest) and he finds that the teaching of Jesuits is not all truth. Let us not refer to such men as Newman and Manning, perverts from Christianity. Those two men, it has been said, were not Romanists, though Cardinals of the Church of Rome, but deists. Some letters have recently come to light which show that they scoffed at Christianity, those letters were published in a Lcndon paper by Cardinal Newman's brother, If this be true, it is a revelation. It seems paradoxical. The attempt of the Jesuits to get the public schools of the United States and this country, Canada, under their beck and nod will fail, for it must end in failure. Americans, be they United States men or men of Ontario, are peoples who never will submit to clerical dic- tation. One newspaper published in Ohio went so far as to declare that American freemen will slioot down and hang up the Jesuits before they will submit to them. That is a fearful altewative, may it never be known under the British flag, or the " flag of the American Union." The Pope seems to have had an inkling of that feeling, for he has sent an ecclesiastic, Mons. Satolli, to the United States to take the command. Under his jurisdiction the Jesuits seem to be less aggressive than they were. -1 OS- be But to return to Europe. '• The blame of all that the Irish suffered in consequence of the attempt of the Stuarts aj,'ainst British liberty," says Professor Smith, " rests, not on the B Htish, but on the Stuarts themselves, on King Louis XIV., and on the other Romanists who conspired with them, including the unhappy, unreasoning Irish, who are now agitating for a home rule Parliament." Again, Mr. Smith, in the same essay, says : " Have Irishmen for over half a century had any real ground for complaint on the score of equality ? Have not the civil, the military and naval services been as open to them as to the natives of the other parts of the Empire ? Have they not found the way open to high command and to high honour ? Is not one half at least of the Indian civil service composed of Irishmen — Phcenician as well as Britit i — while their countrymen are yelling with joy over everything that threatens destruction to British rule in the Indian Empire ? Is any social circle closed against Irish luerit and distinction ? Have any oom- mercial restrictions been retained on Irish trade ? Have not the markets of England — beyond comparison the beat in the world to them — long since been thrown perfectly open both to the Irish buyer and the Irish seller ? " There are Irfshmen who will tell you that it is British jealousy of Irish trade that keeps the rock at the entrance of Cork harbour." Why should the corporation and people of Cork expect the Govern- ment to remove a sunkenjocM^ in their harbor ? Why not remove it themselves, or be satisfied with its being buoyed as has been done ? Did the people of New York city demand a subsidy from the Central or the State Government to cover the coat of blowing up the sub- merged rocks in their harbor, known as llell-gate ? No ; they went to work like men, and removed^ the rocks themselves. Perhaps the Cork people will be as independent as the New Yorkers ! ! again it has been suggested perhaps they won't. But to return — are Roman Catholics, be they Irish or be they French, people whose feelings we are to be cautious of woundi g ? What have we become '? Has our civilization degraded us below the status of common manhood ? Are we to sit still and allow this Heretical power to crush Christianity ? are we not to quench the fire which is burning the dwelling of our neighbor ? shall we not rise in our might, and as the Apostle Paul M'rote to us, " Qult yourselveS like men.'' The Romanists will say we are bigots. The mere idea of a Roman Catholic telling any man he is a bigot, is too absurd to — lOG— be noticed by more than a passing thought ! Our poUticians must nee the difficulty, the deadlock difficulty in our path, and Romish en- croachments upon our iu.stitutioua, in their true light and glaring impudence, and meet them like men ; and give up their petty, party differences and unite for the good of Christianity and the common weal of the country, upon new leaders should it become necessary, and form one united party, with a standard omblazoried " EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL "-THAT GREAT FUNDAMENTAL OF ALL PROTESTANT PRINCIPLES' ^"'' enemies are as relontles, as detnrinincd to succeed as ever they were, though since the great Reformation they have succeeded in nothing except the infatuation of a few miHcrable i)er- verts, which through GOD'S Providence will never be of importance, as large numbers are leaving the Church of Rome every year, and so it will continue to the end. ; . • The, New Protestant Party. In this movement, this truly great reform, our local Provincial Legislatures are absolutely nothing — the Dominion Parliament is ■ he field in which we must fight; — may the great Disposer of all evt/its so order it that we may not be compelled tn meet our Romanist enemies in any position more hostile than at polling hustings and the floorsof our legislative halls. If, then, Jesuitism Js not satisfied with just rights and that equality with ourselves which we an; now, and have always been, ready and willing to accord to Romanists — we are forced to appeal to arms- which we are extremely reluctant to do — Romanism, and Jesuitism, which is the forefront, the heart and soul of that religion, must and will go down ; and the crash will be the last gBsp of that intolerent, that insatiable system of human slavery in this country. But. oh let us strive to rectify this matter peaceably by legislation and avoid if possible a civil war. Let every citizen, every elector, take a share of the responsibility. Let every one be determined to do all he possibly can for the establishment and the eifectual working of the ^ew Party, the party the platform of wh:ch shall be Equal rights for all, hoth Protestants and Romanists, and special privileges for none. The only way to form such a party is for all Protestants, Conser- vatives and Reformers, Grits and Tories, to arrive at an under- r standing, — that t'.ieir partyism must remain in abeyance for a time until this Romanist question becomes settled. Yes, the old parties must remain neutral and allow the new party to work out the neutralizing of the Balance of Power. For as that power is wielded by the Jesuits as it is at this time, it is invincible. Neither the i #. -107- Doniinion nor the Ontano Governments can hold power for a month without Jesuit support. If partyiam does not give way as above suggested, we will, we must fail, utterly fail, in this momentous crisis in the politics of this country. It is given out by certain Toronto newspaperH that if the Conser- vative party lie ousted next election, " Mr. Laurier will of course be called upon by the Cioveruor-General to form a Government." That 13 more twaddle to catch the thoughtless. If the Protestants of Ontario arouse themselves to the question of the day and to their duty as Christians, as reports from all parts of Ontario and other Provinces of the Dominion, except ol course, Quebec, show they are doing— and send true and sterling British Pro!.estants to Parliament, men who will {nvov equal rights to all people in this country, and make it British in something more than the qame, — where will Mr. Laurier be ? Not at the head of the Government — no, he will be one ot a small minority ;— Colonel O'Brien or D'Alton McCarthy will be the men whom the Governor will call upon to form a Government. A correspondent of the Toronto Mail writing upon this subject, says, 1 have travelled over a very large extent of this Dominion. 1 have come in contact with all classes of the people of all shades of politics, and fearless of successful contradiction I here assert my conviction that by far the largest half of the electors are favorable to, 1 may say impatient, for a new party, and are fully deteriuined to unite upon a platform declaring for principles independent of the old parties, which is further shown by ihe strong support rendered to the Mail for its advocacy of independent thought and action (witness the unparalellcd circulation of that paper) and by the praise lavished by men of judgment on those members of Parliament who gave even an occasional vote independent of party. Let us suppose that there will be no new party, that ConHorvat' .es and UeforniHrs, Grits and Tories hold to their old parses and will have nothing to do with the new party, what will be t* ., consequence? The French Canadian Bihinse of Power — Jesuit dictation, Jesuit assumption, Jesuit money raids upon the Dominion Exchequer for the support of Romish schools and other devices for the maintain- ance of Romanism, will continue as at present and for another Parliamentary terra. Such degradation is aiost assuredly in store for us if we do not arouse ourselves to the duty which is undoubtedly ours at this time. Freeborn British Canadians, when will ye arouse yourselves to grapple with this hydra-headed monster, Jesuitism ? h . i i 5 'f ;'!■ 1 I I —108— All common sense politicians must see that the only hope for Pro- testant Christian Canada is in the formation of a new party — a party composed of such men as have suflicient intellectual strength, sufficient patriotism and love for human freedom to loose from their necks the tether ropes of party, and pitch to the winds such catch- words as Tory and Reformer, Conservative and Grit, and act as freemen ought to act. It will be extremely difficult to carry the Federation of the Empire without the formation, under staunch and true leaders, of such a party. Party names amount to nothing with men of sense, when all are working for the advancement of the country, and all must fight under the Banner of Christ for the con- servation of those free institutions, which, through (iOD'S favor, we have been enabled to build up. How thankful we Protestant Christians ought to be to Him that the power of the Jesuits for injury to religious freedom is at this time somewhat curtailed, com- pared with past times. The claims and aims of that Society are now, as ever they have been, diametrically opposed to the constitution of this Empire and that of the United States of America, and to the feelings and principles of both peoples ; — liberty of conscience — free dom of thought and speech — a free press — free schools — and the Bible, the living Word of the Eternal GOD, that sacred and in- estimable blessing, open, and to be read hy all, learned and unlearned. All, and each of which, we Br'tish and American Free- men hold sacred — all, and each of which Pius IX., the late Pope of Rome, in his encyclical letter of 8th December, 1801, denounced in no measured terms ; which denunciation was repeated by the present Pope, Leo XIII., to whom the Legislature of the BRITISH jlPROVINCE of Quebec referred the final confirmation of the Statute passed by that Legislature granting the $400,000 indemnity to the Jesuits as compensation for their pretended and illegally gotten up claim to certain lands once owned by the extinct Society of Jesuits, but in 1774 forfeited to the British Crown. / Thus, the Legislature of the] British Province of Quebec have attempted to set at naught the Sovereign of this Realm, and have appealed to a foreign Potentate. And we British Canadian freemen, at the dictum of that Legislature (which has shown us it is loyal only to a foreign power, and that power the Pope of Rome-— the holy Father — and master of the Jesuits, our most uncom- promising and relentless enemies, — their enmity being a part, in fact the substratum, the forefront and superstructure of their religion, — t iliii \-:%- —100— are to permit rights of a British Province of this Dominion of Canada to bo surrendered to auch potentate. Rights which it is im- possible for us to conceive, are not the property of all Canadians alike. It would have been unconstitutional for the Quebec Legislature to have invoked the interfcfenco of the President of the United States (a power in the closest amity with Great Britain), and the fact that the foreign Potentate whose interference was actually invoked was the Pope of Rome, who is the head and chief of the Jesuits — a society of sworn and open enemies to everything British, does not by any means diminish the unconstitutionality of the action, whilst it tends to create special grounds for alarm in view of the j^ .eposterously exhorbitant and absurd pretentions of the Church of Romo, and the influence '^ the holy father" wields over the benighted and super- stitious intelligence of such people as the Habitants of the Province of Quebec. Thu Encyclical of Pope Pius IX. uses the following words : " The Church (of Rome) has the right to exercise adthoritt without any LIMIT of any kind set to it by any Civil Power. " The Popo, who is the vicegerent of CnnisT jpon earth, and any and all of the Ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome have dominion over all temporal forces and armies. " The Churcli and her Ecclesiastics have the right to immunity from all sec- ular and civil laws. " In case of any conflict or dispute between the Church or any of her Eccles- iastics and any Civil Power, or any person deputed bj a Civil Power, the Church has the right to dictate to and treat with indifference the Civil Power." For argument sake, let us pause to ask— «;A6> or what has given such power to the Church of Rome ? GOD the Father has not— Christ the Son has /z^;^— then, v. hence is this power? Rational common sense must conclude it is m*ire assumption — a lot of conceits and fancies dictated by clerical pride and self- aggrandisement founded upon that falsely interpreted passage hereinbefore referred to, the 17th, 18th, and 19th verses of the 16th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, a false interpolation into the original text as written by St. Matthew, " The Lie," to use the words of St. Paul, which under strong delusion they — Romanists — are to believe, and which they do believe, and build all their fancied supremacy and superiority upon. Such absurd conceits and fancies the lowest sample of reasoning- free - intelligence will treat with contemptuous ridicule. '] ' -110- ' I ''■ i I ', How forcibly the words of Christ presont themselves, in connection with the assumption of certain doj,'mas by the Church of Ron:o -ns recorded by St. Matthow's Gospel, 15th chapter, 9th vorae, as also in Ht. Mirk's Gospel, 7th chapter and 7th verse, thus : " III vain do they worship tJjo Fathf.h, teaching for doctrines the oomrnand- mentf of men." The Jesuits tell us in plain words, that the Queen of this Empire musi and will be subservient to the Pope as the head of the Church and vicegerent of Christ, and Protestantism must bo totally annihil- ated and the " //ol// Catholic religion " put in itH place ! ! A com- forting reflection such a conceit is no c^oubt for the Jesuits, they will find it, however, a difficult matter to accomplish. Their assertion that the Roman Pontiff is the vicegerent of GOD tipon this Earth is a part of the great Lie referred to by the Apostle St. I'aul in his 2nd Epistle to the Thessalonians, llth verso of chapter 2. The Order of the Jesuits was established by P^pe Paul III. in the year 1510— Inago Yolola being the founder of it. By some means this man's name has been changed to IgnatiuH Loyola. It has been said that he was named after his birthplace, a Sijanish village on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, There is now a fishing village on that coast called "Yolola," — if there ever was a village on that coast called Loyola, there is none at this day. However that may be, this man, the first (General of the Jesuits, was canonized by Pope Gregory XV. " St. Ignatius Loyola." Paolo Sarpi Venelo, better known as " Fra Paolo Sarpi," in one of his strictures upon the Church of Rome, refers to the founder of the Order of the Jesuits as " /naffO Yolola." Sarpi lived in the sixteenth century. Since the canonization of Inago Yoloia by Pope Giegory his name has been spelled "Ignatius Loyola " at all events by modern writers. In the year 1778, Pope Clement XIV. abolished the order of the Jesuits. The Bull suppressing it declared that it should not have 'existence in ttny part or place in this world through all future time ; notwithstanding, another " infallible Pope," Pius VII., established another, a totally new order, under the same name, in the year 1814, The Society of the Jesuits, however, has not had legal existence in this Empire since the order was abolished by Pope Clement in 1778 — the abolition of it being recognized in this Empire and asserted by the Statute of King George III., passed in 1774, hereinbefore Il 1 ii ' -.ft -111- reforrcd to. it cannot now be supposed that the Legislature of the Province of Quebec, which being a BRITISH PROVINCE, AND MUST SUBMIT TO BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS, has the right or the power to acknowledge in any niunner that extinct Order of Jesuits. The new Order estubhshed by I'ope Pius VII. in IHll, was never in any manner acltnowledged by the laws of this Empire. It appears it was in no manner diverse from the first or extinct order, but was just as socially dangerous as its predecessor. Tn the Bull of Clement XIV , in which the first Society of the Jesuits was abolished, he, that wise and careful Pope, used these words: — "I do not give my reasons for the abolishment of the order of the Jesuits, because the practices and the precepts enunciated by them are so absolutely demoralizing, that I do not wish to use the language which is required to describe them, after four years of care- ful consideration and the utmost painstaking to ascertain the truth about this order. I am compelled to abolish it, it may cost my lie — notwithstandmg, I must do my duty to GOD, to the Church, and to the world— this order must no longer exist." A short time after the promulgation of the Bull, the good Pope Clement XIV. was found by his attendants dead in his bed— Ho had died by poison ! I Can it be possible that the Romish Clergy — who from en dto end of this country are preaching and teachincr all they can conceive in eulogy and exculpation of the Jesuits — are entirely ignorant of history ? Do they believe all that which history shows — history, written for the most part by historians of their own Church — against the Jesuits is false, " Protestant bigotry and intolerance ? " or, are they so simple as to suppose that we Protestants, like themselves, read nothing ? If they are not ignorant of history, then they must be Jesuits, and speak in their own behalf. No matter how wo look at, examine, or analyse this question, there seems some ulterior — some subtle scheme, deep laid by cunning brains, which is not yet apparent to honest intelligence. Ah I Bridget O'Carrolan's dream of the upper hand ! and Senator Trudell's Now France on the shores of the St. Lawrence. The worst of all, so far as British Canadians are concerned, is the acknowledgement, the incorporation and endowment of this Order of sworn enemies to every thin^^ British and Protestant by the Legis- lature of a British Province- Still, we remain pa8si\e thft stunning effect of Quebec folly and base truckling to Jesuitism, has not qiiite passed off yet ; we will awake to our duty before many years pass over us. —112- Rtcolht Claims. ! i r What will Quebec do if the Recolletfi — another order of Roniiflh roonkn, who '.vore in Canada half a century before the Jesuits, {vide Oarneau's hiHtory of Canada, whose lands, which lay principally in the vicinity of the old City of Qiiobec, the Jesuits appropriated) should make and urge a claim for compensation upon the treasury of the British Province of Quehce, and show that those lands (being part of what are called Jesuit estates,) belong of right and in Equity to thorn, the Reoolleta ! !— here is a " wheel within a wheel." No doubt the Dominion treasury will be compelled by the " balance of power " to "foot the bill," — as the same treasury will be com polled to pay the Jesuit indemnity of $400,000 hereinbefore referred to, unless the balance of power becomes neutralized by the forma- tion of the new party of Protestants througUuut this Dominion. In years gone by, the Government of Lower Canada, as also French Canadians generally, held the Jesuit estates as Crown lands, and as such they were the property in entirety of the British Crown. By the Statute of the Legislature of Lower Canada passed in 1882, 2nd William IV., chapter 41, the Jesuit estates were appropriated for educational purposes, pursuant to an order-in-Council of His Majesty King William IV. But now the Legislature of the " British Province " of Quebec has appropriated the endowment above referred to of public moneys to the Jesuits as compensation for those same Jesuit estates, which moneys are to be at the disposal of that foreign potentate, the Vope of Rome- Thus they have unmistakably acknowledged the Sovereignty of the Pope, and entirely ignored the Royal Boverign of this Empire. These Legislators of Quebec, who have all taken the '• oath of allegiance ' to the Sovereign of the Realm, are loyal men ! ! some will say. The day ot reckoning with such " loyal men " may not be so far off as some would wish. We shall see by and by. The aims and intentions of the Jesuits, as shown by their oath below, are : the total annihilation of Christianity, as the living protest against the great Arch-heresy, the Church of Rome, and its presump- tuous usurpations; as also, the destruction of civil and religious liberty, as established in this Empire at the Reformation, and as established in the United States of America. Wc give the Jesuits' Oath below, which we copy from "Ze Semeur-Franco-American" which is also published in the Omaha American. The Jesuit may \.\i ■118— may profess any rt:lij,'ion, and on oath, if rc«juirod, dony his ov/n~" the end Justi/'jjim/ the means. ■ . . Lord Robert Montague, Brother of the Diilio of Mancbesior, horn and bred in the Church of Kugiand, who, Hurrbundod by tho Ilomanizing doctrines which wore in vogue in his time at Oxford, bi-caino jjcrverted from the doctrines of his Church and went over to the Church of Home, but re- turned to his old Church, he says, writing to a College friend " Upon leaving Oxford, I thought I ought to sit down and carefully examine and compare the tenets and tho fundamental doctrines of the An- glican and Roman Churches. " Through ''Vc writings of Drs. Pusey and Newman, as also of Bomo profobv, d Rom in Catholic writers, which were plentifully sufiplicd to Oxford studeuts, left upon our tablss or sent to us by post. by which literature many men's minds were unhinged and doubts engendered, thus Roman Catholic Jesuit doctrines, and what is as bad, Deism, and Atheism in some instances, crept in. Conversations with Dr. Pusey as also Dr. Nowmau, who were at that time within the pale of the Church of England, both professedly Protestants, yet I am compelled to say, I now fear were at heart fioinanists, possibly Jesuits. From their cunning insinuations, their double-entcndres utterances, the frequency of their ^^ accidental I IJ " interviewing me, their cannot be a doubt but that they were working in favor of the Church of Rome, tlieir intent evidently being to engender doubt of Protestantism. At length I gave up the religion of my fathers and went over to Rome. Undoubtedly 1 was sincere. Yet with what absurd conceit in my own mental superiority, and fancied contempt for ray old Church I persuaded myself that protesting against the Church of Rome is bigoted absurdity and shallow philosophy. " Rut my folly after I had had experience of what 1 now see are the ridiculous assumptions of the Church of Rome, began to dawn upon my intelligence ; when the light began to break through the darkness, the thick glamor brought over me by Romish priestcraft, I read the Word of (iOD continually, I may say day and night, until I became cnnvineod that I had committed an egregious mistake in leaving the old Church of England and becoming a Roman Catholic. Passage after par.^age of the scriptures struck my mind with irresistable force, the conviction that the bowing down before, and the literal worship ny some professors, of the Image of the man ■ ;) — 114- iJ I i: Jesus upon the Romftn Catholic crucifix, is idolatry. I could not resist, after reading that passage in St. Paul's Efiistle to the Romans — Ist chapter, from the; 21st to the 25th verses, inclusive — see post. " Again, Christ used the words: 'Thou shalt worship the Lord thy GOD and Iliin only shalt thou serve.' " How is it possible that any conioion r^r-:^ intelligence can Sup- pose that the adoration of a saint through the image of that saint or asking such saint for aid or assistance, is worshipping GOD the Almighty Creator of all things, 1 cannot now understand. " We inust worship the Father through the intercession of His only Son Jesus who is Christ, the one and only Mediator between GOD the Father and the children of men, and ignore, entirely ignore the dictates of men, and take the Word, the living Word of the Eternal GOD — the scripture of truth alone — as our guide in matters of faith. ' . " ' In vain do ye worship the Father teaching for doctrines the commandments of men,' are the words used by Christ, XV. chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, 9th verse. " Again, he says as recorded by St. Matthew in IV. chapter and 10th verse : ' Thou shalt worship The Lord thy GOD and Him only shalt thou serve.' " Such precepts and coinmands are diametrically opposite to the bowing down before and praying to saints and their images, which is undoubtedly worshipping such saints and images. " Romanists will say to you, the Virgin Mary was the Mother of GOD, therefore she ought to l)e worshipped, there lies one ol the greatest of the errors of the Church of Rome, Mary, the blessed Mary was not the Mother of GOD, for GOD never had a Mother. Mary was the Mother of the man Jesus ; Christ is the immortal spirit of the man Jesus — the word is from the Greek, Christos, and is interpreted ' The chosen representative, ' or ' the annointed one,' Jesus ''the Son of Man,'' so often said by himself, Christ, the Immortal Spirit. Jesus Christ the only Son of GOD the Father, who sent Him into this world to be born of the Virgin Mary and to die upon the Cross, the Redemption for His people. Marv was the Mother of the ''Son of Man "—Jesus, but not of His spirit, which is Christ. In the 17th ctiapter of the Gospel by St. John it is thus written, Christ prays, " And now Father Glorify me with thine own self with the Glory which T had with The;i before the world was." •• A woman is not the mcthor of the immortal spirit of the chid H ^ —116— 3 ! she bears, GOD gives the spirit to each child born ol woman. In the XII chapter of Ecclesiastics in the 5th and Gth verses the death of men is spoken of, then in the 7ch verse it is written : ' Then shall the dust return to the Earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto GOD who gave il. " I conceive," continued Lord Robert, " that I ought to i;rge upon my fellow christians the necessity for their guarding against the in- sidious movements of the Jesuits, who are untiring and ubiquitous workers for the supremacy of the Church of Rome, their great work, in which they are confident they will succeed, is the subjugation of Great Britain and the United States to the power of the Papacy and that pvtlitically as well as religiously, this I can confidently assert. Let U3 hope and trust that our GOD, the great disposer of all events, will neutralize and render void their machinations. To show their evil spirit and their unscrupulous designs, i ne instance will suffice. " When Pope Pius' life was despaired of," says Count Campello, an Ita ian nobleman, the editor of " Labero," a Romish journal, and an undoubted authority : " A Jesuit came to his bedside and said to him : " Ho!y Father, you have taken a poison of which your doctors know "nothing, and you will surely die if you do not get the antidote " which is known only to the Society of Jesu'i ! ! and "which will be given to you upou promulgation of the BilLL Dolo- '' mus inter aVa' ! ! The Pope, after some hesitation and con- sultation with friends, signed the Bull, took the antidote and recovered. - " It is mysterious," saiil Pope Pius, ^ and with reference to the Bull, suspicious, how that Order discovered that I had taken poison, and that members of tliat Order shon'd know the antidote. By what means or by whom was the potsun given to me ? ' The Bull Dolomns inter alia reinstated the Jesuits in ail their former power in the Church, in fact, they were by that Bull established the absolute rulers of the Church. Their intrigues are now as they were in former times, manifold and far reaching. The war of the secession in the United States was brought about by their intrigues, and President Lincoln murdered by their agent Booth, who was then recently, it was said, a pervert to the Romish faith, and who died with a Romish crucifix upon his breast. .^ ' , " The late war between Germany and France was the work of Jesuit intrigue, intending to crush Protestant Prussia, but which signally failed through the ability, energy and statesmanship of Prince Bismarck. -116- f r J* '• The Danish war of 1804 was another result of their intrigues. Nothing is too difficult for Jesuits to attempt to succeed in. Nothings if success will i i any manner henefit the Church of Rome. " The ridiculous dogm t of the infallibility of the Pope was invented and promulgated by .Jesuits, and all ItomanisLa ordered to helieve it upon pain of anathema ! ! and all the proceedings of the Vatican council are shaped and organized by them," Great Britain and the Jesuits. It is no secret that the Jesuits are confident of their ability to subjugate the British Empire to the power of the Papacy, at all events their endeavors to effect that object are ceaseless. But there is no doubt that the Great Disposer of all things is against them, consequently they will fail. Hisopposition is seen in many ways. Seven attempts to murder our good Queen Elizabeth were tuade by them, all of which were frustrated by events which show un- mistakably the hand of GOD, and which is shown by the failure of the attempt by Spam in the 16th century, 15H8, to subjugate Britain bnd to crush Christianity by means of the great Armada, and to ensure such destruction the Pope, Sextus V. sent a special Legale to bless the Armada fleet and to Curse the British. Notwithstanding which, GOD protected the Queen and the Pope-cursed people of England, for as soon as the Armada fleet got to sea He sent a ter- rible storm which destroyed a number of the Pope blessed ships and forced the rest of the fleet back into the harbor of Lisbon, from whence they came. A few days, however, were sufficient for the disabled ships to V)e refitted for another attempt to put to sea and disembark on the English coast 20,00() men, a pan of the land force of the Armada which had been taken aboard the Heel for that purpose. - ■ ;," That Armada fleet was coiiiposed, as recorded by the historian Hume, of 130 ships, the whole of the war fleet of Spain, about one hundred of which ships were p;alleons, the largest and best appointed consequently the most formidable ships of war of that time. The British fleet at the command of the English Admiral, Lord Howard of Effingliam, assisted by Captains Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher, all sailors of renown, the most daring marinerH of their time, consisted of but 80 ships and those very much inferior in all points to the Spanish ships. Aa the Armada fleet hove in sight of Portsmouth the English ws —117— Admiral sailed out. to meet it, but kept at long range, notwithstand- ing two of the immense galleons were sunk in an incredibly short time. Instead of attemptmg to land on the English coast, the Spaniards sailed up the channel followed by the English who har- raesed their rear and sunk some more of their Pope blessed ships ; on the morrow, the Spaniards ahowed they were beaten, for instead of turning to face the English they were seen sailing northward upon the North Sea. Effingham was seen at their heels pounding away. When oflf Flamborough Head another storm came down upon them and sank and stranded another twenty-six of their ships, about 6,000 men were drowned and washed ashore. The ships which could stand the storm pushed on (chased by the English) intending to pass around the Orkneys where more of them were cast ashore, some of them got around to Ireland where furious storms still assailed them and destroyed more of the ships and drowned many more of the men. Such was the fearful destruction sent by GOD upon the Pope blessed Armada fleet. But 55 of the ships got back to Spanish ports. It was said that some weeks elapsed before they all got home, and those 80 disabled by the storms and English shot and shell, that some of them sank at their moorings when the men had ceased to work the pumps. Thirty four thousand troops (a part of the land force of 54,000 of the Armada) ha(? been sent to Flanders under the Duke of Parma to be ready to embark when the fleet had debarked the 20,000 troops on the Enghsh coast. It is evident, however, that the Spanish Admiral — the Duke of Medino Sidoma, thought it best to save his white feather and get back to Spain as soon as possible, and so left the 34,000 and the Duke of Parma to do as best they could, for he did not attempt to take them on board his fleet. The destruction of over eighty ships of the Armada fleet with be- tween fifty and sixty thousand men, soldiers aud seamen, by storms and by English shot and shell, was under the dispensation of Almighty GOD, the annihilation of the supremacy of Spain on the high seas, and whiah that power never regained. Thus writes the German poet Schiller upon the destruction of that so-called invincible Armada : " BlesBed Island, Empress of the Sea ! The sea-born squadrons threaten thee. And thy great heart, Britania ; Woe to thy people, of their freedom proud, ■.i^juaaak [> ? Jl —US- She restB, a thunder heavy in its cloud ; Woe to thy lami tlie orb and sceptre gave, Tliat thou ahouldat be the sovereign of the nations ; To tyrant kinf,'s thou wert thyself the slave. Till FrotHlom dug from Law its deep foundations ; The mighty " Chai.t," thy citizens made kings, And kings to citizens sublimely bowed ; And thou thyself, upon thy realm of water. Hast thou not rendered thousands up to slaughter When thy ships brought upon their sailing wmgo The sceptre — and the shroud ? What shouldst thou thank ? Blush Earth to hear and feel, What shouldst thou thank ?— thy genius and thy steel ! Behold the hidden and the giant fires! Behold thj' glory trembling to its fall ; Thy coming doom the round P^arth shall appall, And the hoarts of freemen beat for thee, And all free souls their fort in thine toresee — There's is thy glory's fall ! One look below the Almighty gave, . , Where streamed the lion Hags of thy proud foe ; ;, ' And near and wider yawn'd the horrant grave. ' " And who," said He, " shall lay mine England low — The stem that blooms, with hero-deeds ' The rock when man from wrong a refuge needs — • ' The strongho'd where the tyrant comes in vain ? Who ahall bid Engl,%nd vanish from the main ? Ne'er be this only Eden Frcjedom knew, Man's stout defence irom Power, to Fate oonsignedj ' GOD the Almighty blew His atorins, :, ■. And the Armada went down to every wind." Writers ot that time elevated their style in pompous and vainglorious deaoription of the great Armada fleet, which they denominated " Invincible, the most magniiicent and unlimitedly powedul that " had ever appeared upon the ocean, striking terror and creating "almiratioD in the minds of all beholders. The lofty prows and *• towering masts of the magnificent galleons fiilled the minds of holy " Catholics with feelings of sacred pride and supreme thankfulness "tDthe holy Virgin, 'Mother of GODy' at the certamty of the •' power of the Invincible Armada, the Pope-blessed Armada ! ! to " conquer and to sink to the bottom of the sea the insignificant fleet " af the heretic English and trample into the dust their arch heretical "Queen and their damnable religion." But the Eternal GOD showed all the world that He is able to protect His people and hurl sure destruction upon their en«mieB. —119- n Tho winds obeyed His mandate and the storms destroyed the great Armada fleet, and His power annihilated the supremacy of Spain on the seas. Londoners. The conduct of the citizens of London on that memorable occasion ought to be remembered, ought never to be forgotten. When Queen Elizabeth heard of the preparations of King Philip and the Spaniards for the invasion of England, she called a council of her ministers, who decided upon defence and defiance, and sent for the Lord Mayor to ascertain what strength of contingent the old city would arm for the war. The Mayor asked: What force will your Majesty require of me ? The reply was, fifteen ships and five thousand men. After a day ar two of deliberation, the Londoners deLerinined to sead a contingent of double the number demanded by Queen. The Mayor called upon Lord Burleigh, the first Minister, and informed him of the resolution of the corporation. Come with me, my friend, said Lord Burleigh, that T. may present you to the Queen. Upon presenting the Mayor to good Queen Bess, Lord Bur- leigh said the Londoners had decided to send a contingent of 80 ships and 10,000 men. Ah, said the Queen, that is double the number that I asked for. Evensi/, your Majesty, said Lord Burleigh. What is thy name, my Lord Mayor ? ' I am Reginald Armstrong, and the serveut of my liege sovereign, Queen Elizabr-th.' ' Thy sword, my Lord of Burleigh ; kneel, my Lord Mayor," said the Queen; the Lord Mayor kneeled before his sovereign, who touched his shoulder with the sword and said, ' Arise, Sir Reginald Armstrong.' — OM legend. The attempt of the .Jesuits during the reign of King James Ist to' get Scotland back again under the Papacy by the agency of Count Aubigne, thiough divine interposition and the tiimneHS of the King, failed. Tneir intrigues in Denmark and Prussia, as also the war of secession in America have resulted only in disaster to the dupes they led on, and contempt, exposure and chagrin to themselvoa. GOD, the Almighty disposer of all events, is evidently against them, for they are against GOD. They teach that thiough the power conferred by Christ upon St. Peter and his successors in the Papal chair by delivering to him the key of Heaven (which is hereinbefore shown to be a mere invention) the Pope can if it is expedient and for the wel- fare of the Church, ALTER THE PRECEPTS OF THE APOSTLES, AND CAN MAKE THE CRIME OF KILLING A MAN A MERITORIOUS ACT, AND CAN MAKE ANY OTHER CRIME HARMLESS AND JUSTIFIABLE IF THE 120- BENEFIT OF THE MEANS. CHURCH REQUIRES IT. THE END JUSTIFYING THE i- \ i Protestants Increase. while Roman Tatholics decrease. A glance at the numbera of those who protest against the presumptuous dogmas and assumptions of the Church of Home as contrasted with those who adhered to that Church in this Empire and throughout the world at various epochs iQ history will be found interesting as well as to show that GOD, the All Wise, is decreasmg the number of Roman Catholics as He is at the same time increasing the numbers of Protestants. In the year 1841, as shown by papers filed, in the archives of the London Society of Antiquaries, " The population of Ireland was 8,- 176,12-1 and in 1891 it had decreased to 4,705,000, a decression of over 8,470,124 in 50 years. Which decression is much greater amongst the Catholics than it is amongst the Protestants, for during the years from 1861 to 1881 the whole decrease in the population of Ireland was 640,000, of which one- seventh were Protestants and six- sevenths Romanists. In 1801, the Protestants of the whole United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were about six-sevenths and the Roman Catholics somewhat less than one-seventh of the whole population. In the year 1795 the number of Protestants in Europe was 87,- 000,000 and the Romanists 80,000,000. The Greek Church being about 40,000,000. In about ninety years, 1886, the Prote.'stants had increased to over 150,000,000, or more than quadrupled the number they were in 1795; during the same ninety years the Roman Catholics had increased to 165,000,000, or but 5,000,000 over double the number they were in 1795. At the same time the Greek Church had increased to 82,000,000 or but 2.000,000 more than double they were in 1795. In America, as shown by the census of 1785-6 the number of Pro- testants was about 2,700,000 and the Cathohcs 190,000. In about one hundred years, as shown by the census of the United States of ifiSOand the census of Canada of 1881, the Protestants of the United 'Skies and Canada had increased to over 56,000,000 and the Roman .*> "aolics, including Mo.xico, Central America and other Roman iiolic countries of North America, to about 20,000,000. i» it not evident that our GOD in His Almighty Providence, la working against the Romanists when He has so increased the num- ber of Protestants and is so rapidly decreasing the Romani3ts, and irli -121- n turning into contempt the self glorification of the Roman Catholic Church and all they can do to belittle and denounce Protestant Christianity. — Froude. , Thus writes Macauloy on the advancement of Protestant Christi- anity : It cannot be doubted that since the middle of the 16th century, Protestant nations have made, undoubtedly made greater progress than their neighbors who are under Honian C .Iholin dom- ination. The progress of those nations, in which Protestant Christianity though not finally successful, yet maintained a long and earnest struggle for Christ, but were compelled to retire, yet leaving per- manent and indellible traces of their work, the effect has been lasting and considerable. But when we look at lands which for gen- erations have been under the domination of the Roman Catholic Church, to that part of Europe in which the first spark of the light of the Reformation was first stamped out, as soon as it appeared, and from which proceeded the retrogressive impulse which drove Pro- testant Christianity back, we find at least slow progress, in fact retrogression, and in some cases absolute degradation. Compare Denmark and Portugal. When Luther began to preach the superiority of Portugal over Denmark was unquestionable. What do statistics show at the present? The Danes are undoubtedly vastly more enlightened, and have attained to a position in civilization of which the Portugese have not the faintest idea. Compare Edin- borough and Florence. The former city has owed less to climate, to soil and to the fostering care of rulers, than any capital, either Protestant or Catholic In all these respects Florence has been sin- gularly happy. Yet, whoever knows what the Italian and Scotch cities were during the generation which preceeded the great Reform- ation and what thev are now, will acknowledge that some great cause" has L ing the last three centuries operated to raise one part of European peoples, and to depress the other. Compare the history of England with that of Spain during the past two centuries. In arms, in arts, the sciences, letters, commerce and , agriculture, the contrast is striking at the present day. The distinc- tion so palpably apparent on the eastern aide of the Atlantic h not difl'erent on the west.* The colonies planted by England in America have outgrown, immensely outgrown, in power. Wealth, ciyihzation and importance, those planted by Spain. Yet we have no reason to beheve that at the beginning of the 16th century the Castiliaii was r. ; ,;^ I i f : I r I .-122— in an J respect inferior to the Englishman. It is not too much to saj that facts and statistics show that Protestant nations owe their superior civilization and mental advancement chiefly to the moral and enlightning effect of Protestant Christianity as established at the Reformation. And the decay and retrogression of Roman Catholic countries to the torpifying effects of Roman Catholicism, and the revival of Romanism in the 16th century. Supremacy of the Papacy. A French writer, during February, 1889, boasted that the supremacy of the Church (of Rome) would not be long delayed. There are now, said he, over 160 members of the *' Order of Jesus " in Great Britain and Ireland who are clergymen of the Church of England, and a large nuinber of lay brothers in other positions, and also a larger number still, distributed amongst the dissenting churches in England, who are both ministers and laymen, all pretending to be Protestants. Have we not many — yes, hundreds of those wolves in sheep's clothing in Canada and the United States ? — even in the Orange Institution there are unmistakable signs of their presence ; they having, by purjury and deceit, got into lodges — their scheme being no doubt to gradually and imperceptibly, by sly deceit and cunning, introduce one after another, Romish formulas in worship — Puseyism, to wit, then after a time turn openly to the Church of Rome and lead with them as many dupes as possible. Cardinal Gibbons. Upon being interviewed by an agent of a New York newspaper Cardinal Gibbons expressed himself thus : "When we look at the humble origin of the Catholic Church in Araorioa, and then at her greatness at this day, 1898, we are moved with heartfelt thankfulness to GOD for its prosperity. (Benhabed Abu might say the same for Mahommedanism in Hindoostau). When we consider the humble origin of the Church in America," continued the Cardinal, " what she has passed thrt^ngh and all her difficulties, her missionaries work- ing single handed against the obstacles of nature, the hostilities of Indians, and afterwards by Protestant enemies of Catholioy ; when we consider this and the nothingness of her origin and the importance of what she is now, 10,000,000 Catholics to day (7,600,000 are shown by the last census of the United States). "Great numbers of Protestants are taking shelter within the fold of 128— ID )ld of the Church, and those numbers are annually increasing. Wo make no parade over those who come in, because in the first place we recognize the hand of GOD, and that our priests are but instruments. Then again it is dislaateful to most of those to have the matter talked about. There are everywhere signs of a return to the old church, not only in the extraordinary Growth of Ritualism in the Anglician church, but in the proceedings of Sects which were formerly antagonistic to the C hurch and to hor doctrines. Thus, for instance, there has lal-ely been established in the Methodist Church the order of Deaconesses, what is this but copying OUr unrivalled sisterhood {! !) And not only have the Methodists now their sister- hood, but the Presbyterians are also discussing the establishment of similar orders, and their formation is but a questi n of time. " The general tendency is toward Catholicism — slowly but steadily and unmistakably. There are many Protestant ministers who would join the Catholic Church but for the celibacy of oar clergy — they are, in fact longing to enter the Church, hindered solely by having wives and children to maintain. In their hearts they are true Catholics." Such is the style in which the Romanists are beginning to talk. No wonder they do so. Jesuits and Jesuitism in Protestant churches are hard at work, and Satan's emissaries are never idle. Lack of the spirit of Christianity — pride, vanity, and love of show in weak in- telligences ignorant or regardless of scripture dictates, and blind submission to cunning, plausible teachers who are fond of the vain show of high churchism in professedly Protestant Churches, are the causes of perversions to Rome ; the novelty of something new, " something pretty " for the physical eye to rest upon, something of which the Apostles in their ancient simplicity knew nothing. Such vanities and the glitter and tinsel embroidery of high church vest- ments are not dictated by the writings of Chkist or His Apostleb. Then, as wrote St. Paul, " whatsoever is not of faith is sin," may be quoted here ; the passage may be rendered, " not dictated by faith," "not required by faith." Not required by faith in Christ or the religion established by Him and described by His Apostles, What does Cardinal Gibbons mean by saying so emphatically that there are numbers of Protestant ministers who are longing to enter the Church of Rome. Does he speak from practical experience ? —124- ! ) kl Hub he the confidence of that hvrge number, he apeuks of, or is it nothing but word trickery, fathered by the wish, or superstition, that the supreujucy of the Paoacy is at hand. It is well that these con fidants of the Cardinal are determined that they will not put away their wives. That they will not be held by Christ as " Nicolitans," whose doctrines lie said He hates, vide Revelations, chapter 2, (5 and 15 verses ; see further herein " Celibacj/ condemned by Chrht '* They will not put away thair wives to enter the Church of Rome, to participate in that gorgeous exhibition the Romish Mass, and have the privilege or the duty " of worshiping and serving the creature more thun the Creator," (St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 1st chapter, 25th verse) represented by the idol crucifix of the Church of Rome. Pointed terms must be used on this subject, as fi ubiguous terms or soft words will ot set some minds thinking upon this important matter, i. e. the perversion of Protestant Christians to the Church of Rome. Apostolic Succession, has been productive of incalculable evil, and for which' there is not one sentence of scripture authority — it is simply an invention of the Church of Rome and strongly favored Dy Dr. Pusey. Could any one show it of any benetit to Christianity, there might be some excuse for upholding the doctrine ; as it is, it is fraught with nothing but injury to the cause of Christ. A short time past, a young clergyman of the Church of England, a graduate of Oxford (Oxford, which has sent forth into the world so uany Tractarians, Puseyites and Deists) observed in the hearing of the writer of this line : •' There can be no Church but our own (Church of England) and the ' Catholic ' Church, because it is through the Catholic Church our Apostolic succession comes //" He was then shown that the Church of Rome (which he, with a marked reverential tone ot voice, called the " Catholic " Church) is a Heretical Apostaoy, therefore the Apostolic succession is a myth, an absurdity, a useless, an evil dogma, a tower of strength for Jesuitical Puseyisin. He this Oxford graduate, did not and could not deny the historic facts as brought before him, vide Macauley's Essays, but still continued to hold to the doctrine of Apostolic succession as one of the most important doctrines " taught by the Church." What ceaselosa efliorts certain Oxford Professors must make to so thoroughly imbue young minds with that most pernicious dogma ! Verily, Jesuitism is a wily serpent. -126— u ?S30r8 most Thon again, Romish tendencieg, and the workings of Jfisuitism are shown in various ways in the Church of England. Sorry am I, the writer of this line, to be forced to say, the Church in which I was baptised and confirmed, soonis in some locahtios to be forgetting the doctrinog of Christianity, and turning baclt to the " mail of sin " — the great Apostacy. Tt has been said that straws ujton the .sea shi.w how the wind blows . the erection of crosses ; the burning of candles upon altars — the light of Heaven shining into the building not being enough for these poor ''poor blind leaders of the blind." In fact, all the absurdities authorized by tht First Book of Edward VI. : The erection of an altar in the chancel, which is decorated with a large cross, which has usually a carved or graven image of Jksuh erected upon it (in ab^H>lllt.e defiance of the Hubric, which directs that a plain table shall be used, covered with a decent cloth) ; manual crossings of the face and breast ; rood screens ; gorgeous habila- monts ; the use of the wafer (which is received upon crossed hands) instead of bread and wine, the emblems of the Body and Blood of the Kodeemer ; the elevation of the chalice containing wine, and the platter containing the bread, to the fall extent of the arms in front of the cross, in the administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ; as also the elevation of the offertory in fiont of the cross have been introduced and are practised by Tractarians and High Churchmen now in England, and the United States, as also in many churches in Ontario. What other absurdities will the Tractarians introduce ? The Church rubric is in some measure, no doubt, ac- countable for such useless formulas, such supererogatory absurdities. The Mash, in full Roman Catholic style, and the Confkssional, wi^.h all its evils, have also been adopted by certain high church clergymen in EngLnd and the United States. The question has been asked . Are such men .Tesuits who pretend they are Protestants ? Truly, as said above, Jesuitism is a wily Serpent. No doubt, 150 of them as given by the French writer above quoted, is within the number. As to the Apostolic succession coming down to us in an un- broken line from the Apostle St. Peter, who, it is claimed by some writers, was the first Pope, which is undoubtedly chimerical. History does not show that it is a fact vouched for by any credible writer that St. Peter ever was in Rome for any time. There are some Roman Catholic writers who assert that St. Peter preached in IJome and -126— 11 H a ftH8iim«}d tho nishopric of that city ; but such writerB are not cre ;>f some importance in his time, states emphatically that Geibert wao ascended the Papal chair as Pope Clement III. in the year 1073 obtained the Pontificate through evil influences, and through making friends of brigands and other lawless people, women as well as mtn, some of whom he had in his palace as servants and retainers, who through intimidation and terrorism overawed the leading spirits among tho Cardinals and 80 wrought upon their intelligences as to compel thom to favor his election to tho Papal chair. Ip the doctrine of Apostolic Succession to come down to the church of this «lay through such Popes as Clement 8rd, who was not by any —127- jy any nicanH fho only Popo who wan not irfliioneofl or povornod in any manner hy C'liriHtianity ? Tlio dogma is in fact utterly void of scriptural authority. History dooa not apouk of it as a doctrine of tho church until tho rci^n of King Charles Ist of Knghi.id. when that cunning and higotod I'relato Laud, Anshbinhop of Canterbury, perceived tho importanao of tho do^^nia to the high church or Uomish party (of which ho was tne leader) and as said by Crannier. ' to the Church of Home also." Laud, however, propounded the dogma and forced it upon lh(^ Pro- testant clergy. But, as said tho historian Hume, not without earnoHt protests by many IMnhops and inferior clergy. The description of Laud given by Lord Macauley, in his essay upon Lord Nugent's Memorials of John Hampden, is interesting as showing the kind of intelligence we have to deal with, thus : " Never was face of man more striknigly characteristic of low cunning and servility. Never did painting more skilfully portray the character of a man than does his which hangs in an ante room of tho House of Comm jns, painted by the most celebrated painter of the time. There it is fixed for all time upon that truth-telling canvas. The mean, low, narrow forehead, the pinched features, the peering, cunning eyes, the prominent and determined chin and sensual moulh of the Prelate bhow unmistakably his disposition, and mark him out as a proud, cruel, narrow-minded tyrant. We niay reasonably place him as a lower kind of St. Dominic, differing from that fierce and gloomy enthusiast who helped to found the Inquisition as we might imagine the familiar imp of a raalrcious witch to differ from the angel of the bottomless pit. " Laud mentions in his diary that he had dreamed he had turned Papist. Of all his dreams, that is the only one, wo suppose, which was realized. " Such is the man who aspired to lead and superintend the re- ligious and political opinions of l^nglishmen of his day." Thus Maceuley again speaks: " King Charles 1st and his creature. Laud, while they abjured trifles and inyignificant formulas of the worship and government of the Church of Rome, they retained its worst vices. The complete subjugation of common manly indepen- dence (and the right and duty to reason) to clerical authority. A weak preference of form to substantive and vital Christianity. A puerile preference, in fact passion, for the idolatrous mummeries aa practised and professed by Romanists and the superstitious vener- "J 128- V ]^il: ation lor the priesthood, and worse than all, luerciloss intolerence to\\^hrd those who would not conform to tho church government of the Anglican Church as favored by them. Tho ^'athers of the English Protestant Church before and during the lioformation said nothing about the dogma, Apostolic Succession. Wicliile, the first great reformer, who in Lincolnshire as also in the county of Bucks held livings in the Church during tho 14th century said nothing and of course knew nothing about it. The earnest and fearless Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester in the 17th century, denounced it as " Romanism, and Laud the propounder of it as merely a pretended Protestant, in fact a Romish Jesuit " From that time the dogmi. created very small stir in the christian church, until Dr. Pusey astonished the Protestant world by reviving it. Lord Macauley, in his essay on Mr. Gladstone's book on Church and State, says upon Apostohc Succession : " The transmission of of clerical orders from the Apostles to EInglish clergymen of this day must have been through a very great number of intermediate persons. Now, it is probable that there is not one clergyman of the Church of England who can trace his spiritual genealogy from Bishop to Bishop, so far back as the time of the conquest. There are centuries during which the transmission of his orders is buried m utter darkness. And whether he be a Priest by succession from the Apostles, depends upon the question whether during that long period, thousands of events took place, any one of which may, without any probability, be supposed not to have taken place, the lack of which would interrupt the succession. We have not a tittle of evidence pro. nor con. respecting such events * * * * * " In the utter absence of all evidence, we cannot but say we arc entitled to enquire and to demand that there should be very strong, sufficient and undoubted evidence, that the stricNost regularity was observed in every generation, and that the Episcopal functions were exercised by none who were not Bishops by legitimate succession from the Apostles. But we have no such evidence. " In tho first place we have not full and accurate information touching the polity of the Church during the whole century which followed tho persecution by Nero. That during that period the over- seers, elders or bishops of all the little christian societies vscattered throughout the Roman Empire held their spiritual authority by virtue of holy orders derived from the Apostles, cannot be shown by contemporary testimony, or by any testimony which can be regarded lif _ ii.aiSit.iJ ';■■ '♦tijJSiS.teS . -129— I nation which over- atlered •ity by wn by garded as decisive or authentic. Tlie ijueation whether the primitive eccles- iastical constitution bore a greater resemblance to the Anglican or the Calvanistic model has been freely disputed. It is a question on vihich men of eminent pints, learning and piety have differed, and do to this day differ very widely. It is a question on which a full half of the ability ind erudiiion of Protestant iiurope Ims ever since thiT Reformation been opposed to the pretentions of those who hold tj the Apjstolic Succession as taught by Laud and in our day by Pusey. " Extreme obscurity overhangs the history of the christian church daring the middle ages ; aijd that the focts which are discernible through that obscurity prove that the church was deplorably ill- regulated. We read of sees of high dignity openly sold, tran.sferred from one to another during tumultuous wrangling, and bestowed on one occanion by a profligate woman on her paramour, again a bishopric was bestowed by a warlike baron on a kinsman still a strippling and an incurable cripple, many of the Popes were mere boys when appointed. Undoubtedly we must arrive at the conclusion, that (there being a total want of evidence to show the fact) the Church of England does not possess the Apostolic Succession." ' Lord Bacon. In the V. century, says the famous Bacon in his " Cogitato et visa," Christianity had conquered paganism, but paganism had in- fected and polluted chiistiauity. The church was victorious but corrupted. Many of the heathen rites and the subtleties of the Idol worship of the Roman Pantheon had passed into and been incorpor- ated with the worsliip of the true COD. " In an evil day, though with great pomp and solemnity, the Satanic alliance was made between the philosophy of heathenism and the faith as professed by those of that time, who assumed the term Catholic, who in their zeal stopped at nothing to gain the chiefs of the Roman state and others to the christian religion. And the adoption of some of the pagan rites and ionnulas, and in some instances the doctrines of heathen mythology were resorted to by them."— " The. end justi/jjing the means " (now a doctrine of Jesuitical R manism, had not in the 5th century been propounded or advanced ; yet the Catholics in the above instance showed the same spirit, the same idea prevailing.) i •I S i -1 so- ft' Mi- in Thus writes Micauley on the same subject : Spain after Chris- tianity had achieved its triumph, the principle which had assisted in that triumph bef?an to corrupt it and it in fact became a paganized reUoion under the assumed name " Christianity." Patron saints were placed in the positions of household gods. Mars was changed into St. George, Venus into the Virgin Mary, &c. The fascinations of female loveliness were joined to celestial dignity, and chivalric homage became a religious duty. And thus writes Froude m his essay on the Oxford pprversion : A clergyman of the Church whom I once met, and who was afterward a Bishop of the Church Jn Ireland, said to me, that the theory of a christian priesthood as we have it in the Church, and as it is in the Church of Rome, is without the authority of scripture, therefore it is a mere human invention. The idea of the sacrament having any physical efficacy irrespective of their conscious effect upon the intelligence of the receiver, has originated with, and is an invention of the C hurch of Rome, and which is undoubtedly an idolatrous superstition. The churches since Apostolic times have been and are merely humanly established institutions by men acting under the best (let us say) dictates of their intelligence, yet the Church has varied in governiiient and formulas of worship time after time in different ages, and may and will no doubt again vary. It was always fallible and Christ never intended it to be infallible. The assumption that the head of the Church of Rome is infallible is a literal absurdity, with- out one sentence of scripture to give countenance, weight or reason- able status to the dugma, especially when the infamous lives led by some of the Popes and the degraded lives which history shows some of them bore, are taken into consideration. ■■ i I I. ! il Mar/jneau, in his book on " 27i(' Seat of Authority in Religion," on the inf<\mous doings of Pope Rodrego Borgia and his son. Cardinal Cfvsar, says, " Borgia and his son were fortunate in not having a Tacitus to chronicle their deeds of darkness ; but the disgust and horror of contemporary mankind have done the work of the historian and saved from oblivion a picture of ilagitic -isness, treachery, rapine and murder, unsurpassed in the records of crime. That Pope gained the Apostolic chair by bribery, treachery and intimidation ; and qirittted this life by a cup of poision which he had prepared for another. He dissolved the marriage of his daughter that he might marry her to ■m^immmsmmMm^^i^^^mm -181 — il .■irsar, a Prince. His son he made a Cardinal whilst still a youth, a mere boy, and to do so fathered him on the husband he had wronged, and forced that son into the Orsina faction. The orgies and proflip;acy of the Vatican palace, the assassinations in the streets, the sale of justice and of divorce, of spiritual offices and honors, turned the Vatican into an asylum of debauchery and passion, and startled men into the behef *,hat Antichrist had come. Is the doctrine of Apostolic Succession to come down to the tenth decade of the I'.^tih century through such a character as Rodrigo Borgia ? If so, it is simply an oftshoot of degraded infamy. Legit- imate Ecclesiastical Succession from the Apostles cannot by any possibility be shown. Let us suppose that it cannot be shown, it is a matter of no importance to Christianity, and it :s at best and in very fact, nothing but a historical continuity. Archbishop Laud thought, no doubt, that " ApostoUc Succession " would, if he could show it, aid him in his scheme to establish the Papacy in England. " The Irish gentleman who used that language above referred to," continues Mr. Froude, " was an evangelical churchman who had devoted his whole Ufo to the service of the great Master, and who thought of, and cated for, nothing else. Such cheerfully devout and God fearing christians as he and his family and friends I never met since I visited them. " I feel constrained." continues Mr. Froude, " to say that Protes- tant Christianity has more to say for itself than my Oxford associates and teachers had allowed. We usually heard religious sincerity and earnest Protestant worship, ridiculed, and stigmatised as puritanical cant. The scriptures were by such people hold of small account and the Church as everything." During the middle ages, history shows that the theology of that time and the relations between matter and spirit were for the most part imaginative conceptions and by no means studied by reasoning intelligence, nnd conclusions were arrived at without proper care and due observation and deh! eration. Human intelligence can influence and act upon matter only through the physical system of the body which it inhabits. Ideas are communicated to the mind by the senses, by acts, by method and sequence, which, so far as experience has gone or can go cannot be departed from. Dining medieval times, on the other hand, people believed in witchcraft, magic and incantations. Incantation, they thought, could call up demons and spirits, and could control the W^ I I I I -1»2 — '-ft- elements. The Roman Catholic theory of the Sacraments was the counterpart of enchantments, and was looked upon by the laity with a certain superstituous dread. Outward physical acts, which, except as symbols and having no intellectual importance, were supposed to produce spiritual changes in material substance and words spoken by a priest, to proc^uce the elfect of spells to bless or blifjrht. The im- position of the hands of a Uishop was supposed to confer supernatural powers (which to this day is held by Roman Catholics). Jt was believed that an ordained priest had the power to alter the nature of the bread and wine, the emblems of the Body and Blood, used in the Sacrament of the Lord*'. Supper, into the real body iind biood of CfiKisT by saving a oree referred to ii.s ^'iven in thi- Hull unain sanctum has never been abandoned by any prominent Kotnan Catholic eccleaiaatic, the reverse of that is shown ny the fact that the Jesuits have tauj^ht under anathema of the Church in case of refusal to believe the dogmatical assumptions contained in the Bull above sot forth. It is a dupiorable lad that men are found at this age of the christian era to believe the absurd assumptions SLt forth in the above inentit)ned bull. The lij^ht of Christianity has not yet shone into the intelligences of millions of the hunjan race. The Roman Catholic believes that his church is a divine institution, upon the dogrra that it is built upon St. I'etor, because IVter or Petrus means "a stone," in some instances in Latin authors, " a rock," and that St. Peter the Apostle had the key of heaven given to him by Christ lo let into heaven whom he thinks fit, and keep out of heaven all but those who will not submit to the Roman Pontiff, which is in this book shown to be a mere fallacy, an absolute invention and a ridiculous assumption which is not borne out by one sentence of scripture. Any doctrine or dopina professed to be christian which cannot be proved by the words and dictum of our Lord Chkist or some one or more of His Apostles or Evangelists is simply and undoubtedly false, and whatever is a false invention, not found in the Word of (JOD, is not of faith. And, as said St. Pan', '* whatsoever is not of faith is sin-" Kpistle to the Romans, chap. 11, 28 verse. In a mixed community like this of ours in Canada we cannot recognize such a nonsensical and ridiculous absurdity as that con- tained in the Bull of Pope Boniface the 8th above referred to. American Romanism, " The Rjmanism of .\merica." says a writer in the Anglo Saxon, is likely to be better and more charitable than the Romanism of Europe, yet it is a religious system which Canadians as Freemen ought especially to avoid. It obscui'es and conceals the Fatherhood t GOD behind the Motherhood of the Church, and the Brother- hood of Jesus behind the Motherhood of the Virgin Mary. It de- grades the atonement by making its benefits a matter of barter — pui chased by money — and of pei'sonal merit. Its image worship -156— 111 V.I fs. I< leads to — and in "faot with Romanists is in the majority of cases — Idolatry, vide St. Paul's Epistle to Romans, chapter 1 : 2l8t and subsequent verses. It snatches from the believer the great gift of eternal life given to us by .Jesus Christ, by thrusting ;i Priest betwten the Heavenly Father and the believer. It has denied the people the reading of the Bible, the revealed Word of GOD, and compelled them to accept the dictum of the Council of Trent in matters of faith. It has lowered the tone of morality by inculcating lieing, deceit, and prevarication. It has quenched freedom of thought, stifled free speech, and threatens to (and will if it can; see the .Jesuits oath) throttle free government. It has limited, and in some states stopped, advancement of knowledge and civil freedom. The mumbling of the words of a dead language in the Romish Church service, in total disregard of the teaching of St. Paul ; the degrading superstitions it has engendered ; the ignorance which prevails amongst the people of all countries over which its blighting and atupifying influence and despotic power extends ; the alarms of its ecclesiastics at the idea of free discussion, free thought and en- lightenment in the minds of the laity, are all peculiarly and solely Romish attributes. The history of the dark ages, when that fearful and Satanic insti- tution, the Inquisition, reigned supreme in all its vigor and demoniac power, together with recent experience of Jesuitism in such countries as tlrnt order has full power, show that Romanism is unchanged and unchangeable, and is a system founded on darkness, ignorance, and imbecility in human minds, and can flourish only where the spirit of christian freedom is dead, and where the power of free thought does not exist, or has been crushed, in the minds of men- Cominp Events Cast iheir Shadows Before. The Boston Committee of One Hundred, it appears, have thoughts of taking an important step with regard to the last encyclical letter of the Pope, which they criticise in a very searching manner, and show that according to that encyclical letter no man can be an obedient and loyal Roman Catholic and at the same time a loyal citizen of the United States or Great Britain. The committee propose no loss a drastic method of dealing with the matter than by disfran- chising all Romanists^ and among the arguments used they say : " Let such Romanists who would becom-- citizens of the United States be required not only to take the oath of allegiance to the -157- Govornment, but to take an oath also renouncing uU political alle- giance to the Pope of Rome. This is not a question of religions intolerance, nor is it nno of anta^'onisni to foreigners who are willing to homologate, with v..-^ m accordi'nce with tlie spirit of our institutions. But thihi is a queslion of selfprdLoction and self preservation, the hvw of .self preservation is supreme in all social and political organizations. Rome is a politico 1 system. It is a political power ; as a poilical power it must he met ; as a political force it must be treated when viewed in its rchition to our institutions, ft does not make any dif- fer^ince whether the political power that assails us or our institutions is on the shores of the Bulli:;, or the shores of the Ihitish (ihannel, or on the shores of the Tiber, it must be met. We can have no divided citizenship. No man should be allowed to participate in the poli./ical affairs of this country who is the subject or ally of a foreign power that is at war either openly or covertly with her national in- stitutions. No ballot, then, for the man who takes his poli'uics from the \'atican." It is an extreme moasino to disfranchise nearly a million voters, yet it is spoken of in forcible and reasonable language, and that by men who stand in the foremost rank of freedom's truest sons. What other move can be made to stop the advance of the enemy of all civil and religious freedom '? Enemies are Romanists, and " enemies have 710 rights " — no right to participate iv: electiui.. established by laws enacted by freemen, which laws Romanists are undoubtedly deteriuined to crush, if they ever got the power. One point comes home to every free citizen of the United States and British Empire, we must and will hand down to posteritv the FREE institutions WHICH OUR FATHERS BEQUEATHED TO US — we ore and will continue freemen, and all people in this country must be made free //' wc can make them so. I»ut what is the use of li.M'cing a Rouumist to f)res\vear 'is alleguuice to the Pope, when — suppose he swears such oath, he can go to a priest of his church and be ab.sulved froui his nntb. Komanists may swiuir to renounce political allegiance to tiio Pope, but that will anu)unt to sim{)ly nothing at all. Disfrauobise them : deijrive them of the elective franchi.se is the only elff'-tiial remedy to stay their impudent assump- tions. Nothing will or can make a Romanist loyal to the Government of either the United Stales or the British i'^mpiro but conversion, true conversion to Christianity. v - -158- II French Canadians, says the celebrated Fi-oude, as well as the French of old France, as also others who were born Romanists and become Atheists or DeistP, which so often occurs, who through ecclesiastical or some other lu- iluence are inclined to return to the Church of R)ino, usually become zealots and make theuiselves politically useful to the ecclesiastics. Such people fail to perceive that the Church of Rome is unchanging, not * because she is in the possession of eternal truth, but because she is imperinous to that truth." The over- earing attitude and the assumptions of that (Miurch overawe their imaginations, and they finally and fearfully take it at its absurdly and falsely assumed estimate of itself, and ra ke themselves over, body and soul, to be the slaves, as well physically as mentally, of Rome for evermore, fancying that there is no salvation unless a man is a Papist. The tinae is past when faith in Ciikist »va3 stronger than it is now, when faithful Protesiants were not afraid of Christian truth and to declare it manfully. How is it that theologians seem to forget the meaning, the signification of that word ^Protestant ' ? Why do they not still recognize that that name implies a constant and unceasing protest aiid determined opposition to tlie false and insolent assumptions of the Church of Rome ; that wo are, or ought to be, soldiers of truth, whose duty is to fight against falsehood wherever and when'.n'er it is found.'" — Froude. The Pope and. the American Flag. I fc In the English News, ilarch 8th, 1880, — Toronto Mail appears an item to this effect : " A despatch from Rome says, the President's cabinet is satisfactory to the Pope." What docs that luean ? Is the President of the United States a Romanist ? Has he boon consulting Romish Ecclesiastics about the personnel '.^i his Cah'inet^ What does the President or any other freeborn American care if the Pope of Rome is satisfied or is not satisfied with the Cabinet of the President of the Great Republic ? What will the Pope of Rome say next— suppose ho may happen to be dissatisfied with the Cabinet of any future President of the United States, will he dare to voice his dissatisfaction ? We shall see. Men of the free soil of America, ye are not all asleep, nor are ye dreamers — but how is it ye do not perceive the advance of your deadly, your eerpent like foe ? During the early part of 1889 a number of Araorican Roman —159— Catholic ^/Jgiims went to Palestine to visit the sacred places there. Ofl their way, of course, they stayed some days in Rome, and were receivca by their Sovereign and King, ihe Pope Leo XIII., who, in his reply to an address presented by those pilgrims, used the words (vide New York Herald, Mvirch Hth, lKS!))~goius: toward the banner carried by the pilgrims, and looking at the eagle and the American ting painted upon the banner, said he: ''That is the standard of a brave "■ and free people,'' and I hope GOD will bless them and enable " them to maintain their freedom " Has such duplicity as that ever baen exceeded ? Is American freedom endangered f What are the agents of the Pope, the Jesuits, sworn to do with American as well as other freedom—//' they can. Ah ! there's the rub, if they can! their oath given above shows their intention. There will un- doubtedly be trouble with them in America before we can put them in their proper position. It is best, however, to treat the bluster and boasting of the Romanist with contemptuous silence, and quit our- selves like men and leave the isbue to GOD. What has lie raised up such an . . Army of Pyihians • for? Over one million in .Tune, 1895, of perfectly armed, uniformed and equipped men, and, as said by 'a British officer: " they are drilled soldiers, equal to the best at this day." Time will show. Ye Pythians — .-.worn friends of right and of civil and religious freedom, be on your guard against Jesuits, for depend upon it they will get in amongst you if deceit and purjury can aid them. A Jesuit may swear the binding oath "hich ye intend shall keep your Order free from base and infamous .laracters, with the full mental intent and determination of divulging each and all your intents, your secret signs and passwords, to his superior Jesuit. The fight for supremacy Detween the Romanists and freemen in America, in whit^h the Pythians will no doubt be engaged bef*)re many years, will not bo altogether political ; the sword, the bayonette will eventually deeido the fate of ibis great heretical apostacy, Romanism, on this continent. One fact let us bear in mind, and we shall repeat words used by the cale'irated Washington Irving, in conversaticm with a friend : " The " superstitions and bigotted fanaticism of Konninisls never did, and ♦' we must conclude never will, yield to reason, in fact to nothing but "force," If we can use moral reasoning force and bring it to bear upon the Rimanists, it is well, but almost hopeless. Then we have ■MM "*t :i'..l. ^% **i\ i^'i^ 4- —100- a civil war to pass through. Perhaps the cunning of the Jesuits may po3toni such war. As i.=i above intimated, the Pope ot Rome interjdH to he the absohite Montfch and autocratic Sovereign of Nortn and South America. Tho:-(e are j^lain words and a fair warning, the declaration is not like an empty boast. The -Tesuit evidently holds himself sa/'c, and sure to win, fancying he can depend upon GOD'S assiptance in his dcvdish mechinations. He knows nothing about the fearful judge- ment and utter destruction denounced by the Prophets against " 2'/ie miistery of iniquity,'' " the man of sin," and lie looks forward to the domination of the Church of Rome over America, with perfect confidence. Ah, yes ; the dreaais of Biddy O'Cavroian and Senator Trudell — the upper hand ! ! and the " Pope of Rome their Sovereign and Kinq.'" Writing from Mexico, a correspondent of a Boston paper (October, l(SiS9), says, "The Church of Home in Mexico hales the United States, because of the liberality of conscience permitted there. He adds : "It hates our Public schools, regards our progress in material well-being as an advance towards perdition, and ourselves as ' ex- amples of prosperity without GOD.' And prayers are made on certain occasions at the Mass for the advent of the tinio when that Church will be enabled to put down and utterly banish from the Earth all such " damnable heresies as Protestantism, Frce- ihouqhtism and licpubticanism-" Ah ! the advent of that lime will be a long time coining. " GOD will not be mocked with impunity by such prayers as above referred to lo Ecuador, where the people uncivilized by contact with modern society, allow the Church of Home to reigu supreme, the peo[)le are wretchedly ignorant, and social life is reduced to the narrow limits prescribed by the ilhtenite and fanatical priesthood. In Colombia, a modus Vivendi has been arranged with tlie Church, and civil society IS not utterly demoralized by the licentious and arrogant clergy, in Central America the Je'uits are not tolerated, but are proniptly tteportcd- In most of the South American countries the Liberal party, the c'eterminod foe of the ecclesiastical tyrants, rules, and civ- ilization advances with all its accompanying blessings and elevating customs. Here in Mexico the Honiish Church is tireless and aggres- sive, but is still subject to the strong and unsympathetic rule of the government. Its priests sorve at their altars and perform the rites -161- of their idolatrous worship in confiscated churches, its convents are broken up, and it in barely tolerated by a government vvhiL'h openly encoarafjes Cliristian nilsslonaries. Hut the Ilomish party papers continue to show their hatred for the United States, a country where their religion has unrestricted room for expansion. 1 coafeHs that such hatred is inexplicable, and can exist only in minds wholly at enmity with that freedom which we have throurh Christianity." Let us now consider words of the Apostle Ht. Paul, who wrote in his 1st Epistle to Timothy, chapter iv., let to 7th verse, as given below. That passage unmistakably refers to the Jesuits, bluf^plicni- ()U.sl!/-—\G'i us repeat tlie word, Blaspht'rnousljj ! ! — styled iht society of Jesus ; there is, in fact, no people unless other Roman Catb.olics, to whom the passage can possibly apply. We know that the Church of Rome forbids her clergy to marry, and command'-, all Romamsts to abstain from moats. They may eat fish, but no beef, mutton, (I'c, on the Friday of each week, and some other days. Yet the sueaking of lies with hypocrisy does not apply generally to Romanists, but does undoubtedly to the Jesuits, who may (see their oath above), by lies and hypocrisy, profess any re igion, and assume their own false and heretical, enter any society, and swear the oaths of secrecy of that society with the full intention of divulging all connected with that society, they may swear that oath in the most binding and sacred manner, according to the foruiula prescribed by the Church of Rome, and ihat truth is false a'ld falsehood is truth, without, as they fancy, committing sin — " The end justifying the means." The passage of Scripture last above referred to is as follows: " 1. Now tlie Bpirit 8|)oak:!th expressly, tliat in the latter times aornc shall det)art from the faith, giving heed to s.Hlucii;.',; spirits, and doctrines of devil« : "2. Speakinf* lies iii hypoeriBV ; havinjj tt'f'ir conncience seared os with a hot iron : "3. rorbidding to marrv, and couini!i.ndiii^ to abstain from meats which GOD hath created, to be received with tl.ankHgivini,' of tlieni whiidi believe anil know the truth: 'A. For R very crcnt lire of GQD i-i goixl, and nothing to he refused, if it be received with thanks}|i\ing. "5. For it is sanctified with tiie Word of (JOK and prayer, "(jif thou put the brethren i" ramombranco of these things, thou slialt be a good minister of .JkiUis Ciiuist, ..onrished up in the words of faith and good doetriiie, whereuiito thou hast attained. '• 7. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto GodlincsB." ■■« —162- : I +'■.■ t I- i We will here enumerate the countries, cities, kc, from which the Jesuits have been expelled, as pubUc and social pests, as also the years in which such expu!s:ona occurred. Italy, From Venice, in . . " " also, in . . " Napleti, in . . " " also, in . . " " also, in _. . '• Sicily, in . . " " in " Parma, in " Sardinia, in " whole Kingdom, including the City of Rome, in . . " whole Kingdom, including the City of Home, also iu Spai.n, From Earagossa, in Sagonia, in. . Galioia, in whole Kingdom, in " " again, in " " and again in I OBTCOAIi, From whole Kingiiom, in " '• " again, in " " " and again, in . . France, From Le Palatine, in •' Avignon, in " Ilordt'aux, in " whole Kingdom, in " Toulon, in . . " Havoi, in. . •* whole Kingdom, in " " " again, in " " " again, m " '• *' again, in " " " again, in " Brest, in . . • " Ilhoims. in " HoufiH, in . . •' Holland, in " Denmark, in Gkhmany; From Baxony, in . . " Bavaria, in " whole Empire, in.. Year. KiOt) 1(512 1()22 1810 1848 1776 1800 174 "The number burnt in effigy" (Princes and otliera who defiad their minions and whom they could not get at) . . . . . . . 18,(597 " The numbor condemned to other punishments, (imprisonment for life, slavery, &c.) 283,5.-53 Again during the reign of Philip H., King of S jain, and the Vice- royalty of the Nethtirlands under his sister Margaret, Duchess of I'arraa, says Motley, over 100,()00 Flemings were by the order of the Inquisiou in the >seLhcrlands (which had been established by that King) destroyed. Afterwards during the Viceroyalty of the Duke of Alva, successor of the Duchess of Parma, hundreds of thousands of Flemish christians were destroyed during the seven years of his dom- ination. Motley's Dutch Republic, vol. 3 pg. W]l. How many hundreds of thousands men and women were buried alive or murdered in some other way, or burned alive, punished in some other manner -jy the ChLrch of Rome, for the sole cause that —171 — they wore christians, who took the sacred Word ol GOD for their f^uide in matters of faith and defied the power of the great and all- powerful, Heretical Church of Rome and her Satanic Inquisition. The above holij Caiholic will experience inexpressibly /loli/ feel- ings when he sees —"Ah, there's the rub," when he sees- Protestant Christians writhing in the flames of //oil/ Inquisition. Think of the wretch bla.sphemously thanking GOD for being able to commit or stand by looking at Romish Priests committmg murder ! Can a man who is governed by chr'stian feelings he conceived, who could derive pleasure upon seeing a mad dog, which had hUten /lim— from which bite he feels sure he must die in agony — writhing in flames f No ; it is impossible to conceive any christian such a ferocious savaj^e. Is it a small minority, or is it a largo majority of the adherents to the Roiuish Church who now hold with the above holij- minded Catholic ?— it is quite impossible for Protestant in- telligence to say which. Romaniste will tell us that the small minority is the fact, — at the same time wo cannot put confidence in such assertion. Jesuitism leads their Church at this time ; and we know th.it the Jesuits may assert, may even swear that he repudiates the above Jioly soliliquy, if he does not repudiate it. What con- clusion are we to arrive at? that is a question. The knowledge that Romanists never will be able to re-establish that engine of the power of Satan, the Inquisition, sets our mind at ease. In former times persecution on religious grounds was ascribed by bigotied intelligences to zeal for faith and for the lov« of GOD. At a later time, to fanaticism. But now, in the latter part of the 19th century, surely civilized intelligence ought to confess and emphatically declare that the plea for burying a man alive or harninq him at a stake for nonconformity to the religion of the Church of Rome was and still is a blasphemous pretence for the indulgence of brutally savage and satanic natures, impatient of contradiction and swift to destroy those whom the arguments and dictation of ecclesiastics have failed to convince, Bible reading people, that the Church of Rome is th« only Christian church and that the read to heaven can be shown by none but ecclesiastics of that church, i.nd that to protest against her doctines and assumptions will bring lought but eternal burning in the llaines of hell — that hades, so fu'ly described in the hcftthen writings of Homer, as also in more rece.it times by Virgil, and again by Dante. It is interesting in view of former persecutions to read of the per- ^ .'. »\.*% iaU«i> . ^.*rjj:4 i -172- H;>;-- 1.^ [v^.- f ■:;', J 1 i' "''-'■'<■ ■ 5 ^ I'U'^^ 1 ! 1 1 ^■■>' ^;s:.-. H;-;,.f. i ' ?''ftv '■ IfiH. ?.^:^ ■■ ■ &^:j ' ■ V - \ ■ ' !#:> ki'- 1 ', - secution at this time, 1H92, of the Jaws by Russia, and the spirit of p«rsecution shown by the "Catholic Banner'' above referred to. Home has lost the power to persecute nonconformists to her doctrines, whilst Russia still retains the power, and mercilesg y uses it sgainst the Jews, who are powerleis to resist the barbarous RuFisians. , , . . Dr. Swift and the Inquisition- V, A passage from Dr. Swift's sermons {before he became an intimate of Alexander Pope) may not be out of place or void of interest here. " Go with me," said he, "into the prisons of the Inquisition, Behold Christianity, as well as humanly conceived mercy, justice and charity ^^as taught by the founders of the christian religion) under the feet of the 'I uifsh Inquisitors. There, sitting pale and ghastly upon a black bench propped up by the acco upanyments of racks and instruments of torture, sits a Heretic, a christian who has declared that the 'Vord of GOD shall be his guide in mat:>ers of faith, and that he protests against the assumptions of the Church of Rome. Hark to thf 5 pitious agonized mean, see the iael:*ucholy woebegone creature (ome a stalwart man) just brought forth to undergo the anguish, the insults, and the disgust of a trial which is a mere luockery, and to endure the utmost pain which that hell-born system of religious cruelty has been able to invent, liehold the helpless unfortunate who still refuses to abjure the religion of Christ and em- brace the Romish heresy, delivered to the minions of the Inquisition for more tortures. His poor body wasted by paiu and confinement, you see every muscle convulsed and every nerve quiveriag with the intensity of his sufferings. Observe the last turn of that horrid engine, what writhing convulsions the almost insensible sufterer is thrown into. Consider the position in which he is now, stretclied by the rack, his body suspended above the floor by ropes tied around his wrists and his ankles, how exquisite must be his tortures. Can human nature endure more. See how his weary spirit is kept hanging between his pale trembling lips, anxious to take iis leave, but not permitted to do so. See the demoniac inquisitor is smiling as the helpless and exhausted victim of nis vengence is drnggud away, again in a few days to undergo thi same fiendish barbarity, then to be iin- ally l)uried alive or burned to death ^it a stake. Harken to the jeers and insults at hia Protestantism (called by the minions, heresy) during his last agonies, which that religion taught by Romish Jesuits can heap upon or howl at him." i^ it:., ■■..'J . ■t —173— Can such inquisitors iuive known anything about the reliofion of mercy, justice and charity whi^h the benificont and kindly Saviour and his Apostles taught ? No, such christian attributes were not known to thera. The holy Catholic soliloquy above given shows that KonianiRts, at all oventa Spanish Romanists, are the same to day as they were three hundred years past. One fact to the credit of 8pain is patent to those who read the European news. The Spaniards of this day are not all Jesuit led. Torquernada, the Grand Inquisitor, Jean Antoino Florento. a French writer says, that in eighteen years of his officiate as Chief Inquisitor, Cardinal Thomas do Torquemada, "luring the latter part of the 15th century, buried alive 8H,00 victims, and punished 90,000 others in various ways. Not for olTences against the moral law, or crimes apainst society, but for simply being chris- tians who dared express their thoughts about Christianity and their fa;th in Christ, a privilege allowed by GOD to all his creatures, hut which the Pope assumed the right to disallow. Or for being Jews who would not apostatize from their old faith. And others for re- fusing on the rack to confess what they had never done. When this man, " this Cardinal Deamon,' had carried out in Spain his terrible and satanic resolution to clear ihe Kingdom of Spain of nonconformists to the Church of Rome whom he denounced as heretics, and had procured in the year 1492 a royal edict requiring the whole Jewish population (not leas than 800,000, some writers give the number over 800,000) to leave Spain within four months without taking with them any property, goods or money. Isaac Aberbanol gaining audieuce of King Ferdinand and his Queen Isabella, pleaded for his p«ople, the Jews, with expostulation so pathetic, and offers of money so profuse, that the minds of the King and his Consort were softened by compassion, as also by avarice and cupidity and were upon the point of yielding ; but with his usual in- stincliive cunning for critical moments, the Cardinal Inquisitor, Tor- quciirida, appeared upon the sceiii;, and elevating the cruci/icnl idol, exclaimed, " Judas of old for thirty pieces of silver betrayed his Lord, asd now again your majtHiies are ready to sell Ilira for thirty thousand pieces of gold. Here he is (pointing to the crucifix), take Ilim and sell Him as you will." That voice and authoritative manner touched the springs of royal superstition, and brought back fanaticism -# —174— with fnll forcc'. The bribe was rejected and with it all pity for the poor Jews, who were driven oat of Spain, murdered by hundreds and robbed by thousands — men, women aul children- and left without any kind of subsistence to perish by the highways. And some ot them who, attempting to escape by boats, being cast ashore on the coast of Spain, were driven oft' with threats by the cruel and merciless Spaniards. Ere four months had expired, Spain had lost, as said above, 800,000 of the best element in her population. Thus adding new traditions of heroism to the life of a people, whose history is littlo else than records of tyranical persecutions, in the memory and traditions of exiles. Henry Fill, of England and the Inquisition. The spirit of enterprise, says Mr. Froude, the historian, in England grew with the Reformation. Merchant companies opened trade relations with Russia, t)ie Levant and some other countries. Adven- turous sea captains went to Guinea for gold ; Sir Hugh Willoughby followed the phantom of the North-west passsago, turned eastward and perished in the ice. English comnierce was beginning to grow, but a n^w and infinitely dangerous element hod come to the front by the change of religion during the reign of Henry VIII., betwrten British seaman and the power of Romanism, especially in Spain. The Spanish (iovernment to keep heresy out of the country placed all the harbora of Spain under the control and command of the chief inquisitor. Any vessel in which a heretic was found or a copy of the holy scriptures was discovered, was confiscated and her crew carried o(T to the dungeons of the inquisition. The inquisitors attempted to treat independence of judgement in religious matters as heresy and arrested all English- men found in Spanish ports. It was not necessary to his being condemned that the poor sailor was found reading the Word of GOD, either alone or to others. If he had a Bible or an Anglician prayer book in his kit, it was enough to condemn him to either the galleys or to be burned at a stake. Stories would be carried to English ports of such Spanish barbarities and demon like acts, and the relatives of sailors soon found out what was going on. Dill or Tom or Jack were seized for no crime but protesting against Romisii assumptions, and fluny into a dungeae, and there starved, or taken out for torture or set to work in galleys, then perhaps taken to a public square in Saville and either buried , .i,«;.".fi.' ■•_(!)*■ t. -175- alive or burned to death at a stake, and form an item in that holy show, the Auto-dafe, with a sack called the ^' fools coat " over his shoulders. • ., ' ■ The object of the Inquisition was undoubtedly political as well as religious, and intended to impede and euibarass trade, atid cause dis- content amongst the English people, and by cunning devices the ecclesiastics of the Church of Home sought to induce th«m to think that the misfortunes in trade were occasioned by Divmo displeasure for their heresy. The effect, however, was the opposite from that which ecclesiastical " wisdom " anticipated. There grew up amongst the seafaring people of the Channel ports, in fact the whole British coast, the most intense hatred for every- thing Spanish, especially the Romish Inquisition, and a determined and passionate desire for vengence. King Henry sent an envoy to the Spanish King, Charleu V., and wrote him in such a determinedly independent and dictatorial manner that Charles issued an order to the chief inquisitor to ceasu his bloody work and allow the English to come and go as they pleased. The Madrid correspondent of the London ])aily ^CWS, v^rites (June, 1889,): "The Civic Government of the City of Bilboa has asked the Public Prosecutor to direct an official investigation into recent demonstrations of the Jesuits cad their pupils at the Catholic University, situate in a suburb of that city. It appears that they (the Jesuits) recently not only made speeches in favor of Don Carlos und Carlism, but have on other occasions also paraded their peculiar dogmas, attacking the present Royal Dynasty of Spain and the con- stitution of that Empire, and advocating there-establishment of the in- quisition ! Tlie Jesuits have lately b*:>en developing; their mtlueace, not only in the old Caiiist Provinjc\4 of Spain, but pU over the Kingdum. They have been extremely active ever since the Govern- ment tolerated their return in 187G. The last expulsion of these wolves in sheep's clothing from Spain occurred in 18;t.'3 ; no doubt we shall soon hear of thia being done again. " Fncmics Have no Riijhts. It is a principle, declared by Blaekstone, Coke and other English iariRts, a« also by Storey and other American jurists, that " Enemies have no Rn/kis," The question, from transpiring events in this P^iupire and the United States of Americp, taken in connection with liiatoric facts, forces itself upon us, are Jesuit-Ud Romanists (self- —170— styled Catholic) ene.mU'.f^f are they enemies of our Queen, our imma- culate Sovereign, Victoria ; — would they, had they the power, destroy all Protestant freedom, and our Christiar. Institutions, displace our Royal House of Hanover Brunswick, and dethrone our Sovereign? There can be but the atHrinative',rBply to these quoationg by thopo who observe and closely watch the working of that Church and its ad- herents at this time, in this Empire and the United States, and who have read the history of the Papacy. The policy, the aims, the in- tentions, and aspirations of thi.t syst«m, are at this day, as ever they have been, for universal (Catholic) ,9 ^/j/w/ir/C'// throuffhout the world, and the destruction by all, or by any means, of everything or any- thing which will neither favor nor succumb to its a^isumptiona, see ante, " Jesuits' oath." ''Our Sovereign and King I" When a people acknowledge a Potentate their Sovereign and King, rational sense leads to the conclusion that they are his subjects ; this instance shows Romanist.s the subjects— the political liegemen of the Pope of Rome. Both politically and religiously they are un- doubtedly his subjects, and it is simply absurd and false for anyone to asscrii it is not so. Queen Victoria, the Christian Sovereign of this Realm, is not the Sovereign acknowledged by the Romanists of the Empire — no ; the Church of Rome and her Ecclesiastics, im- pudently and falsely assert that she is a heretic. Again, when that French Canadian Ecclesiastic, Bishop Taschereau, was, in 1887, made a Cardinal (Prince— save ihe mark) of that Church (we have no Princes in this Empire but those of our Royal House of Brunswick,) and banqueted in Toronto, the Managing Committe dared to omit the toast of the Queen, thus insulting the loyal and Protestant feeling of Toronto city. Tt'e mere thought of such Romish impudence and brazened disloyalty is maddening. The quiet and dignified speech of Sir Oliver Mowat was the only rebuke they got ; at the same time, he aaid so liUle. and that so mildly and gentlemanly, that now it appears the Papists hold the whole demonstration a triumph for their Church and an evidence of their near at hand supreniucy, when they will pull down our time- honored banner of freedom and hoist in its stead the tricolor or the banner of the Pope of Rome, and ilestroy all which wo hold sacred and they denounce as heresy. -ji." i-^A —177— Asmmptlon of Foreign Titles. It, ought to be gonerally known that such titles and oivlors as are conferred by tho Pope of Rome are illegal in this Knipire unless endorsed by the Warrant of Ilor Majesty the Queen, who is the sole fountain of honor to all British subjects. In all cases when a British subject (whether lie likes his birthright or dislikes it) is offered a title or order by a foreign potentate he niuat —to cause his decoration to be acknowledged in this empire — first got her Miijesty'ti permission to have the honor coniorred, signilied by Her Mtijesty's waarunt, under her sign manual. The order in the books of the'Socretary of State is in these words : •' A British subject shall not accept any title or order from any "foreign Sovereign or Potentate, nor wear the insignia of such title or " order, without having previously obtained Her Majc ty's permission " t.) receive the title or order, signified by a warrant under the Royal " Sign Manual." ■ If French Canadian gentlemen, or any others who imve received titles or orders from ths Pope of Rome or any other foreign Poten- tate, and worn the insignia of such title or order without first conforming to that rule they have committed a contempt of the authoi'ity of the Sovereign of this Reabn, and are consequently liable to indictment, before a C'ourt. Wirdmoiitainism. ■ _' The ignorance and empty boasting, and the lack of truth and common civilized urbanity displayed in the following utterances of a Roman Catholic Piiwst are surprising, at the same ti'ne characteristic. One " Father " Brawn, of Montreal, who it hcems is high In fnvor with the Archbishop Hourget, says, " It is ctHtomary to regard Pro- " testantism as a rel'gion which has rights. This is an error, it is a " huge 7/V;-' Protestantism has not a single right. It possesses the ^' ' force of sefluctlon.' It is a rebellion in triumph. It is error " which iialters human nauiri.-. it is hore.^y from (iOl)'S Church *' and the emanation from Satan." * This man called " Father " Brawn (notwiuistandiiig the command of Chhist as recorded in St, Matthew's Gospel, ciiap. ^.H, 0th verse : "And call no man your Father upon the I'^arlh, for One is your Father which is in Heaven." Of course this Father Brawn is an Ultramontane, an out and out Papal poiverist. -17H — #^:.. Si--?"'". • - fc- I Now, in opposiiion to this impudent intramontiinc vaunting ' ' ' Have Romanists any Rights ' in thii Empire •? Are thoy enemies or are they friends of and up- holders of our free Protestant institutions and loyal to our 8ovoreiji;n ? An encyclical of Pope Leo XIII., the Pope regnant, shows emphat- ically that a man who is faithful to the Church of Homo cannot ho loypl to any Protestant sovereign or state. It ia childish folly to state it is not so, for there it is on a page ante of this hook in i)lain type, a part of tne said encyclical, and which amounts to a literal order of the Pope to Romanists to disregard our laws. There may he and no doubt there is, a certain percentage of the adherents of the Church of Rome in this empire who would act inde- pendently of ecclesiastical diction, men who have sworn the oath of allegiance to our Sovereign Victoria, and who have, to speak meta- phorically, eaten her bread, and thus their honor being pledged, would not listen to the arguments or dictation of any Jesuit or any other person to rise in rebellious hostility against us, and who would no doubt have sufficient wisdom to, at all events, remain neutral in case of war, or passively loyal to our Royal House. At the same time, where is the man who is faithful and true to the religion of the Church of Rome, and who fully and firmly believes that salvation is only attainable through that Church, would dare re- sist or disobey the positive, or the implied, order of his Hishop, who he thinks, ia able to consign him to eternal punishment or endless happiness. An ecclesiastic of the Church of Rome, vicar-general Preston, of New York City, in a sermon preached by him during January, IHKH, used these significant words : " Every word spoken by his holiness " Pope Leo from his high throne, is ike voice of GOD, and must be " obeyed. To every true Catholic heart comes no thought but obed- " icDce. " It is said that politics are not within the province of the Church "of Roma and that the Church has jurisdiction only in matters of " faith. 'You say I will receive my faith from the holy Father, 'nit I " -will not receive my politics from him. Such assertion is disloyal "to him, unfaithful and untruthful. You must not think and " reason as you choose, you must think and act as Catholics. The ' man who says I will not take my politics from the 'holy throm ' of " St. Peters is not a true Catholic. The Church teaches that tho -179- " Ponliff as i\w vicegerrrit uf (SOD must be oboyod; it is tlie voice of " GOD Hpealis throuf,'h him. llavo a care, my cliildren, that ye do " not bring the aniitheina of the Church upon yourselvos." Cardinal Manning, a pervert from Christianity, in the third vol. of his ecclesiastical sermons, pg. H8, Bays, " Why should the holy Father touch any matter, specially in politics — for this simple reason — because politics are a part of morals, in fact, politics are morals on the widest scale." In his encyclical, I'ope Leo deniea the right of private judgment in all Romanists in civil matters as well as in religion, thus, " It must be considered a duty by Catholics to be guided and ruled by the authority and leadership of the Bishops of the Church, or of the Holy Apostolic See through thein. Man's duties, what he ought to believe and what he ought to do, are by divine right laid down by the Church and m the Church by the .lupreme Pontiff, " who is infaUibU and cannot err," hence it is that he ought to judge with supreme authority what is contained in revelation ; what is consonant with and what disagrees with it ; and for the same reason it is incumbent on him to point out what is moral and what is i.i. moral ; what is necessary to do and what to avoid in order to attain salvation. The linger of the Pope like the needle in the compass, invariably points to the pole of Eternal Truth. And the mind of the Sovereign Pontiff is as certain to reflect the minu and will of GOD as a " mirror at one end of a sub-marine telegraph cable is to indicate what is trans- piring at the other end."— CaihoUc World, July, 1H90. All the above ridiculous assumption it founded upon that great lig that the Church of Christ is founded upon the Apostle St. Peter, and thatjCuuisT gave to him the Key of the Kingdom of Heaven, here- in before referred to. The reference to the mirror and the telegraph cable is unique ! That Romanists are enemies, we but refer the reader to the oath of the Jesuits published on a page herein, ante. Since the promulgation of the Bull of Pope Pius 9th, " Dolimus inter alia," the Church of Rome is ruled and governed by the Jes^uits, therefore Jioman Catholicism is Jesuitism; the Jesuits are sworn enemies, and ^^ en- emies have no rights" in any country. In Roman Chtholic countries Protestants are held as enemies and are not permitted to worship GOD. Our liberality and christian, kindly civilization dictates to no man how he ought to worship ; we allow Romanists the political f',.:,^ 180 and roIigiouH privilegos which we ourselves onjoy. At the Hanic tiino wo know that the goal at wliioli they all hope to attain is the aiip- prfssion of uur Protestant religion and free institutions and tho do- th onenient of our Sovereign. Thei'efore, Romanists are enemies, con- sequently ihey hane no r'Kjhts in this empire, the right to eat food and wear clothes, if they can got them, and the right to hreatho; such rights they have right to claim, but no others. Undoubtedly, it is part of the religion of the Jesuit led Roinanists to oppose and be disloyal to any Sovereign, any Potentate or (iovern- ment which does not submit to and uphold the Church of Rome as paramount to all other churches ; he must also hold and maintain that the Church of Home is the only christian church. Pope Gregory \'III. in one of his numerous letters, states emphatically that the ^'Catholic Church " is the only Christian Church, and that her doctrines and form of worship are those which will be taught and con- tinued by CnuisT when He comes to reign upon this earth, and that Catholics must exert themselves to the utmost, in fact, to death itself, to subvert and uproot all Protestant Potentates and Governments, and that any Sovereign or Potentate who does not support the Church is an arch heretic, and worthy ofily 0/ itxconimunication from the fellowship and the sacraments of the Church, and punish- ment in Eternal Hell \ and that any "Catholic" supporting or upholding any such heretic or his government without a dispensation from the Holy See, it is the *' signet" of his own damnation, the Church consigns him to the flames of eternal burning hell. It would not be consistent with christian charity to repeat the above words and preposterous assumptions of Pope Gregory or any other Pope or prominent ecclesiastic if the Church of Rome h|d at any time since Gregory's day, repudiated those sentiments of his, but such repudiation has never yet appeared. Jesuitism has made no difference in either the dogmas, the aims or the intents of the Church of Rome. There is a difference, however, now from their doings in past times. The Jesuits now speak out boldly, and their utterances bear the stamp of perfect confidence in their future. No rights, then, have Papists in any Protestant country hut the r/V/^/cf c;/'€7Z«/7i/mder the circumstances. Upon the surrender by the Governor of Canada, General Vaudreuil, of the whole of Canada, at Montreal, in 17G0, to the British General Amharst, a French envoy was sent to General Amherst, to ask for better terms than those offered. General Amherst replied. "1 am fully re- solved to grant nothing additional, because of the dishonorable, in faft, the infamous part the troops of France and Canadians have acted dur- ing the. whole of this war in permitting, and in same instances urging the savages to perpetrate the most horrid and unheardiof barbarities upon sick and wounded British soldiers and militia, in open and wan- ton violation of capitulatory stipulations, ei^pocially upon the taking of Fort William Henry, by the troops under Genenil Montcalm, and for open and flagrant breaches of faith, — and to manifest to all the world by the terms of this capitulation, my utter abhorrence and de- testation of such practices. My troops," said General Amherst, "will not disgrace themselves by thn least appearance of inhumanity or (insoldier-like conduct in taking vengeance or in retaliating in kind upon Canadians. Nor will I permit the Indians who are friendly to us to do 80. The Canadians, as British subjects, may rest as- sured of protection :\nd tivatiuent such as freemen tre entitled to, so long as they behave loyally, under his Majesty, King George." I'pon these words getting abroad amongst the Canadians, they manifested great surprise ami astonisliment, for they fully expected retaliation by the British, and that tlio Indians would have been let loose upon them; yet nothing of the kind occurred, which displeased the Indians, who went ofl" to their homes angry and disaatistied. When the French General Montcalm was dying in the house of Surgeon Arnou, after the fall of Quebec, he wrote to the French Brigadier-General, then in command, " Monsieur, the humanity of the English sets my mind at ease concerning the fate of the French i ^ -Ift6— prisonerB. I would be glad to hear that you feel to the English an they have caused mc to feel. Genensl Wolfe ia as chivalrous and honorable a man as he is an astute and daring commander, and I feel confident ho will treat his prisoners with kindness and humanity (he was not aware of the death of General Wolfe at the time he wrote that letter). 1 cannot," continued General Montcalm, "forget the kindness of the British soldiers, sharing their food, tobacco and rum with the prisoners whom they had taken." — (ParJcman M- H any one ask anything more ? If ihcy do^ they should ho denied. Wo should not tolernto the eat ruction of our citizenship and tho disinciuhoruient of our Empire, bo lonj? as we can make a h.ild Htioke aRninst it. We cannot afford to allow even the French in Qiiehf(% and the Phoenkiuns in Ireland to do this. That which we have wrought and huilt up has cost us great sacrifice, and we will do well to keep it. Tho long patience and forbearance of the Ikiiish I'lirliiunont haH <>mbddoned certain Irish agitatorw to go heyond reason. These men are forcing the British Government to join is.sue with them. They are close on the vergo of hloodnhed and eivil war ; and when blood is shed, it will be the fault of tho Irish. Every man of loyal intention and ordinary foresic^bt could see that it is tho wish of Irish agitators to force (ireat Ih-itain to the wall ; and thtt time will come when they will say to such agitators, " keep (juict, or you bhall be quieted in the grave." It is high time they were put down by tho common law or by a special law, or the army and navy must do that which peaceful measures should have sup- pressed. In years to come some of you young men who are listening to me, will reineiid)er what 1 have said on that iM)int, We must tol. erate and bo charital)le and endure to the utmost, but we must not barter our liberties ai the demand of any people or section of people in any part cf this Empire. In one respect he could .sympathize with the Irish agitators, because they had been deceived. The resolutions passed by our Pariiaments had increased tbcir blindncs.-! and boldnass, Thoso resolutions had led them to think that we, in t'anada, are in favor of the Irish plan of campaign. What other inference could they draw from the resoUitions passed by the Dominion and Ontario Lefji.slaiures ? By such meddle.somonesii our legislators have added fuel to the fire, and intensitiod the strife between sections of the people. They had also risked our peace, our prosperity, and the lives of our citizens. Was Mr. O'Brien worth a dozen lives, if such had been unfortunately lost ? We have had to tolerate that in whicli Wf do not believ'e, and by such toleration have received a bad reputation, and are now re- ferred to as intolerant. He thought that O'Brien would never have oome to Canada on such a mission if he had not been deceived by the Parliamentary resolutions ; and be charged the members of Parlia- —192 niont who had puHsed thuHu ruHoliilions will) the roK|K)nHibility of the .'liRturbance in Toronto and ulsewbcre, and tho cause of O'lirien com- ing to thJR country. •• The Rev. Doctor then proceeded to read from a speech of O'Brien delivered in Ireland, in which he announced that he would go to Canada to hunt and hoot Lord Lansdowno, th« (lovernor (icneral, from one end of the Dominion to i/ie other, and other like tem- pored and insane language. Imagine the presumption of the man using such language when there ware enough loyal Dritish Irishmen in Ontario to send him and all his gang to sleep. This man came to Canada to misrepresent and viiify ; he came with hatred of Eng- land and disloyalty in his heart, and revenge in his intention. Ho (Dr. Wild) questioned the wisdom and of the right to receive him. They were expected to protect and tolerate a man who came to Toronto to stir up strife and insult the citizens by insulting their guest, whom Lord Lansdowna, the Chief Oflicer of the Dominion, was, and because some could not suppress their rising blood and indigna- tion, they were called intolerant. It is a question whether they were. Would a man permit his guest to be insulted in his own house ? Just as strongly is he bound to see that the rights of hospitaiity are not violated when the visitor is the guest of his city. Had O'Brien come to speak of the alleged wrongs in Ireland, he would have re- ceived a patient heannr ; but when he declared he came to Canada to attack our Chief Oflicer, to hound him and to hoot him from one end of the Dominion to the other, we had a right to object and object strongly. One way to receive O'Brien, was that suggested by him (Dr. Wild) at the first intimation of his coming, whiuh was to treat him with silent contempt bobh in the press and as citi/ena. The other way was to have met him on his arrival at the railway station by a deputation, and then after refusing to allow him to go up to the city, put him on the first train going East ; thus we in Toronto would have got rid of him. •• Had O'Brien given any proof of the truth of his allegations, he might have had some claim to our forbearance. But instead, two- third parts of his speeches were given up to the vituperation of his audiences, except when addressing his friends exclusively. He was^ sfmply abusive, using the vilest kind of expletives, calling his audi- ences jackasses and such like terms. If any one would father any argument or assertion made by O'Brien, he, (Dr. Wild,) would under- ~I9B- takn to meet him btfom any audionce, and refuU ihe idea or acknow- Ittdgc himself Ixatfii. Toleration waa greatly strained when iiuch a man muHt he hospitably received. In Bonie of our ScIiooIh an fuldresa was got up in the name of the children in which words were put into the niGutlia of those children hiudatory of O'lirion and his noble mission. We, as citi/onn, must bear n part of the exponHe of these schools ; and yet tho scholars are taught to hold their rulers in dis- respect ! Was it fair that these people received such enlarged charily al; our handti, that they should dare to train children to laud and magnify such a disloyal and peace disturbing mission as that of this man O'llriun ? Wliat would these children la as men &nd women if faithful to their teachers — OOD only !• -^^s- tho children ar« to be pitied." (It will bo intere^iting to show joi> natters which are taught to those unfortunate children, both in the Lnited States and Canada, in the Romi.jh Schools. In one bool > is b^ttted, 'i.,iat Catholics " have made all ihe chief discoreries an- • inventions of modern *• timet, end that sine, ihe Refarma^ w t/iere had been a dis- " tinct decline in the power of invent/on amontjsi Protestants." This is quite in character, and perfect Jo niitism. The Apostle St. Paul propheKied that ihey would spenK lies, * having their Ouuscierces soared as with a hot iron '), It must noi be forgotlen," continued Dr. Wild, what O'Brien complained of and denounced as infamous in Ire- land, is counted mere justice and a business i.F>c.^ssity in this free Ontario. By the Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1HH7, chapter 118, section i\., it is provided ''that unlt.HS otherwise agreed upon, there " shall be taken to be included in lea^^es the right for the land- '* lord to evict a tenant if the rent or anu part of the rent be "unpaid for fifteen daus after the time such rent becomes due.". Yet the men who pas.sed that sthtute had i\\,i stultifying folly and presumption to vote for resolutions sympathizing with the Irish in their pretended hardships -Vihich resolutions were sent to England, where our logislatois /^;^/*^ t aciilfj told to mind their own a flairs The Rev'd Doctor concluiied his address by a reference to the signi- ficant utterances ol the Irish College in Dublin on Parnellisin and the Land League, remarking that the Pope now saw that if the Irish agitators got their way there would be an end lu Ireland not only to Imperial connection but alse to the Romish (Church." —194- 8o much for the Rev. Dr. Wild, Pastor of Bond street, Toronto, Co gregational Chnrch, and who, it has been said, is one ol the closest rcaisoiiers and best rend theologians on this continent. If the Orangemen of Ontario are ths kind of savages O'Brien has represented them, how is it that he or one of his party is alive to day ? — the ■imple tossing of a '■'■two- year-old paver" is but hoy's play, it has been suggested that from the deceitful character of the man, O'Brien, he, in the City of Ham- ilton, pretended to be badly hurt, (the shouting and hissing of the people in Toronto evidently cowed him) playing possum, as they say in the South, to gain the sympathy of Americans. Oh, Mr, O'Brien, the descendant of Irish Kings, and all nuch great bigness, you cannot blind tho King of Bird", ' by throwing dust in his eyes. Oh, what claws he has ! Has he not, Mr. O'Brien? It must be a hard struggle for you to keep your royal blood down to the level of the " common herd of humanity," and for you to submit to the dictation of the hated Saxon in a penitentiary or outside its walls, was hard to stand. Then, again, your royal uncle, the " great Smith O'Brien," to be compelled to hide his royal head from a sergeant's guard of police in a cabbage garden. And your cousin, " the brave, the doughty General O'Neil," the commander of two thousand invincible fenians — near Montreal, in Canada, you know — to be compelled to turn his war horse's tail to less than one hundred red coated Canadian Volunteers and gallop for his life, lis- tening to Britiah bullets hissing him. It was " inhuman of the British," Mr. O'Brien, was it not ? Oh yes, the fortune of war, you know, these red coats are so " hard on the poor Irish I !" A word upon our sad subject, ilomish aggression in Canada. It will not he difllcult to check it, if we go about the matter in tho proper way. Then let us be up and doing as recommended above. The formation of the new equal rights party is the first matter to bo accomplished ; then federate the Empire ; and lastly, abolish the local Legislatures, and the use of any language butourown — GOD created Eaglish in public institutions ; then we will cease to be the laughing stock of our neighbors to the South of us, because we seem to be asleep while th« Romanists are hard at work, and daily encroaching upon our free institutions. The " ugly, wrinkled front " —195- of the Romish heresy is indeed staring U8 in the face ; the sinister leer on the faces of her bigotted adherents, when we meet them on the Queen's highway, simply disgusts, as they fancy they " hurl at us in- solent defiance ; " evidently they seem to gloat over the con'^eit that soon they will have the upper hand, and all Trotestauts at their mercy. ■; In Conclusion. What are v;e iJhristian Freemen to do ? We see clearly that the Jesuit will mak,: good and fulfil his oath to the last possibility and will put under th« dominion of the Romish Church all peoples in this Empire, If he can do SO. We may comfort ourselves by the relleo- tion that there is no fear of that. That there is cause for serious consideration, let us reflect upon the state of things in Europe and America just at this time, 1895, Ro- manists, Deists, Atheists, including Anarchists, Nihilists and Scc;al- ists, are doing all that can be done for the restoration of the Papal power and supremacy. Romanism is into everything into ^''hich it can thrust its Ecclesiastics and its georgeously gilded habilaments. The palaces of our Royal House and the casilt^s of our Nobility are invaded by the cunning and hypocritical Jesuit, who tries to make himself at home in the villas of the wealthy and retired professionals and Tradesmen, as also in the houses and cottages of our Artisans and Rurulites. Bometimea he succeeds by various artfal subtleties and cunning representations of St. Peter having had the key of Heaven delivered to him by Chkist, hereinbefore referred to. The Deist and the Atheist will use the Romanist for money making or political advancement. The Romanists thinks another man, a priest, can forgive his sins and give him salvation in the life eternal, consequently he has naught to do but pay his dues to his priest and do the penance dictated by the Priest, and he troubles himself little about Christianity, or the political well-being of himself and contem- poraries in this world. The A*(9-6-'(9Z? 16'/ ?a_s to him : "These .Anglicians, Presbytt^rians and Methodists are all extreme bigots, and unfit for the civilization and liberty of tiiis age. We Liberals and the Cathol'cs are the only men who understand true freedom." The Jtsuit will fancy he can use his No GOD-ist coadjutors, Yet " bad company corrupts good man- ners," goes the adage. Undoubtedly the Jesuit cannot be improved by association with the " Fool who saijs in his heart their is no mt -196- GOD," yet it seems the two arc to work together for the suppression of Protestant Christianity. The lAMst or Atheist cares nothing for Christianity, and the Jesuit thinks mort about the edicts of the Tradentine Council and the supremacy of the Church of Home, tlian for the religion taught by Jesuu Ci-TWST and His ApoBtlea ; he thinks always of his sworn duty and the terrible terms of his oath, and obedience to the order of his superior Jesuit. The triumphing over and gottiog the better of anything con- nacted with Protestant Christianity is the aim of his life, the ultim- atum for which he is striving, his daily and nightly work. His coadjutor, the Deist, will use hiui for the suppression of our free Pro- testant Christianity if he can do so, and will if it can suit circum- stances, mount upon and use the cunning Jesuit to get his feet into the boots of political eminence and powar. The majority of Canadian politicians are at this time men thoroughly unprincipled, they ara either pretended christians, Deists, or disguised lay-brother Jesuit?* or Jesuit led Romanists, which was alearly demonstrated when but XIII. members of the Canadian House of Commons out of about CCI. voted to ignore the Jesuit endowment of $400,000. What is thi>, country coming to ? What is the duty of the Can- adian Christian Elector ? Ah, that duty is a simple a palpable fact, a stern and unyielding obligation. What prevents Protestant Chris- tians from doing that duty ? It strongly appt'ars to be this, the Ro- manists command sullicient money and wield sufficient influence in many instances to force tht Elector. Yes, to compel him to bend to their wishes and support and vote for the man who is literally the nominee of the party di<^tated to by the Jesuits. He tells the Elector any amount of miarepresentation, amongst which will be found, " If you don't support Mr. who is as good a Protestant as can be but he is liberal and neighborly to Catholics," you are bigotted and hold a persecuting gpirit. Catholics have ju.st as much right as we have in this country. • •'.*•/ . Protestant Freemen, what are you going to do, don't think of injury to the Romanists. But for the love of GOD be men and hold what He has blessed you with. Do not be cajoled into supporting men who are determined to crush all human freedom" and who wish to climb into power or enrich themselves by the elective franchise. Think of this, will your vote support the cause of Protestant Chris- tianity or will it support your enemy who is sworn to put down all -197- Christian frofidom, will your vot« help the Deistical under- strapper of the JeBuit. Will ye permit yourselves to be the sup|)le tools of, and be used by the emissaries of Satan to support and give force to his dictatfcs. Or will ye act like Freemen and send to Parlia-t ent, Pro- testants — true and Christian men who will put their shoulders against the Romish wheel and stay its apparently resistless revolving. Will ye do 80, or will ye renounce your proud name Protestant- Will ye be against or stultify that freedom which our Forefathers won for us during the great Reformation ? The Almighty GOD will undoubtedly approve a just an<' righteous act. But if ye will vote for the Jesuit nominee ye but s: rve Satan, and will hasten upon us civil war, the consequence of which will un- doubtedly be Triumph for the cause of Christ, but at what a dread- ful sacrifice of human life. On the contrary, if ye do your duty as Protestant Christians and bring in Legislation to correct this great evil, civil war may be averted. Finis. .M I i INDEX Aoadians, 182 Acasias Patriarch of CoiiBtantinople 48 Acts of the Apostles, . . . . . . . . ... 4t Altering Scripture Text. . 38 Aliiance Between France and Russia.. .. 15 to 88 America, Central and Routh.. 1*0 America to be Romish . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 American Indians Cannibals, . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 194 American Romanism . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . 16f Albigenses and Waldenses. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 69 American Eagle, The King of Birds. . '.. 6t American Rotnanism. . .. .. .. .... 156 Apoitacy of Rome from the Church of CHRIST M Apostolic Succession .. .... .. .. .,124 to 139 Apostolic Fathers 125 Armada, Great Spanish, Destroyed .. .. .. .. .. ..117 118 Aerumption of Foreign Titles.. 177 Assumption of the Church of Rome.. .. .. .. .. 17i A 'gyle, Duke of 70 Archbishop O'Brien of Plalifax 167 Archbishop Tiche of Mai.itoba .. .. .... .> .. .. II Arian Controversy 48 Arian Doctrines . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 48 Austin, A. M , B. D. and tlitiiil«i'WIP^' « 'j i w .' w < M i i i 'i t i' i i i> i '» H) i ini - Anntralia, EK'ctnnU PivtsifinB .. Ability of English Dbplomatista Amistrong, Luni Mayor of London . . .... ApoBtacy of the Ghuruli of Home. St. Paul to Romans lat Chap 83 Afl the Twig is hent. the Tree is inclined . . Allies (ProteBtarit* of the Jcsuiti 183 Autocratic and Constitutional Govornmenta Agitators, Plan of Camimign Army of Pythiana . . . . . . . . . . .... . . 169 Amherst, General, Refuses additional terms to the French 186 Appointments to Office of Incapable PTsr»ns Alpha and Omega — The First and Last— The Son of Man . . . . . 84 Arius Patriarch of Constantinople and the Alteration of Scripture. . All Important Question .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 187 Acts of the Apostles 42 Bacon, Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Balance of Power 7 85 89 Babylon a Cryptogram for Rome Bavarian Priest holds Himself equal to or above GOD .. .. .. 68 Baron Stockmar . . Bermardin Samson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... Bartholamew St. Mussacre of 96 Bismarck Prince. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 168 Bible — King Janus Ist 30 Bible — Douay Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Bible— DaSacy Version 32 Bible — Denounced by Romish Priests. . .. .. .. .. .. 82 Bishop Ilurst and the English Language . . . . . . . . . . 83 Bishop Latlechc .. .. .. .. .. .... 15 Bojton Committee of 100 16G British Canadians must Dictate to the French Canadians 91 British Diplomatic Ability .. .. .. .... 91 B/itiah and Foreign Bible Society British Jealousy of Irish Trade.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 105 British, Irish Injustice to 68 British In Ireland.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ,. 187 British In Ireland ought to use the words British Irish. . . . . . 189 British Freemen — Duty of 166 British Prisoners of War Murdered by Frenchmen . . British Flag hauled down and French Flag hoisted in its place 88 British Flag Dishonoured. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 86 British Canadians Dctormiued to hold their own 4 British Nonconformists have fostered Crime. . .. .. .. 63 Britith Irish a Law-abiding People Britons trembling in their Bhocfl. .. .. .. 63 Brazil .. .. J62 84 187 42 129 63 95 168 80 82 82 82 63 15 166 91 91 105 08 187 189 166 88 86 4 63 162 Bull of Popo nomfiwie 8th tuiiim aftnctum. . Bull of Pope Pint) IX Dolimus inter alia Bull of Pope Clement XIV Burying GhriBtianR alive Brilliant future of the Canadian French Bruno, murder of . . Boycotin(> and other Crimes Bridt{et O'Carolan'e Dream of the upper hand Bacon. Lord Bavarian Priest Banner, R. C. Journal (Hpauish) Binding and Leasing Bible Society, yearly publication of 4,000,000 copies of the Biblo Campagna— Origin of Campello, Count. . Canada.— Surrendered by Governor Vaudreuil . . Canada and Ireland, their connection with Great Britain Canada under Romibh Dictation .... Canadian Freuch- Briliiaiit Future Canadian French insult the British Flag Canadian French trample upon a portrait of Queen Victoria. . Canadian French Loyalty to Great Britain, of . . . . . . .... Canadian French will change their allegiance. . Canadian French hoisting the French tricolour. . . . . . .... Canadian French and the Irish compared.. Catholic, assumption of the term by Romanists.. .. .. .. Catholic, no people entitled to that term Catholic, superstitions belicjf in the use of that word Catholic Priesthood. . Catholic Banner, hopes to re establish the Inquisition. .. . Catholics have made all the discoverii^s and iaveutions of modern times Catholic Priest burns copies of tho Biblo. . .. .. .. .. .. Celibacy condemned by Cubist Celibacy, the doctrine of the Nicolitaiues (2nd chap. Revmuouu;. . Central America.. " CHRIST " The Rock upon which the Church is ' ailt " CHRIST " Breathing the Holy Spirit upon His Jisciples "CHRIST "The only Mediator, with the FATHER "CHRIST" "The Son of Man" not the FATHER Carlisle and Macaulay. . Character of the Irish . . Christian Fathers. . Cardinal Newman Cardinal Gibbons. . Crucifix of Romish Worship condemned by St. Paul. . 154 115 110 178 20 168 68 85 129 63 170 43 52 60 75 185 7 20 86 92 88 63 63 63 34-42 170 198 83 84 168 43 43 31 46 44 422 36 52 X ■■■■ Church of Rome, olaims of. are prepcBterous.. .. .. .. 6B Church of Rome Despotic. .' 25 Church of Rome claims authority over the Scriptures .. .... 48 Church of Rome claims to hold the Key of Heaven. . . . . . . . 43 Church of Rome claims a Kingdom and a Power 148 Church of Rome Heresy from the Christian Church. . .. .. .. 26 Church of Rome knows no change. .. .. .. .. .... 142 Ohurcli of Rome worships the Creature more than the CREATOR. ... 28 Church of Rome gains supremacy by chicanry . . . . . . 149 Church of Rome forbids to marry and commands to abstain from meats 161 Ohurih of Rome Adherents to decreasing. . .. .. .. .... 120 Churoh of Rome acknowledges the authority of Foripture. . . . . . 51 Church of Rome has lost her power to persecute . . . . 56 Church of Rome asBUiues authority over the scriptures . . . . . . 32 Church of Rome Is founded upon a he . . . . . . . . . . 33 Church of CHRIST not built upon St. Peter. . . . . . 39 Civilization of the French. . .. ., .. .. .. .. .. 181 Court which dxea the rental of Irish tenants . . . . . . . . 58 Clement of Alexandria. . .. .. .. ' .. .. .. .. 29 Clement Pope XIV. abolished the Ist order of Jesuits. . . . . . 110 Chamberl; n, Mr. M. B. H. C. and Homerule. . .. .. .. 66 Confidence in the old translation uf the Bible . . . . . . . . it Confederation of the British Empire .. .. .. .. .. 80-91 Chicago — Irish convention of 1886. . .. .. .. .. .. 66 Conspirators of the Gunpowder plot. . . .. .. .. 143 Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.'53 Coming events cast their shadows before .. .. .. ,. .. ]..,6 Count Campello, and the attempt to poison the J'ope. . .. .. 75 Count Campello and Mr. Gladstone. . .. .. 77 Coi trast between Irish and Scotch pi>oples . . . . . . . . . . 60 Canadian French insult the British Flag . . . . . . . . . . 86 Children teaching of .. .. .. .. .. 104 Copies of Scripture falsefted . . . . . . . . . . , . . . 29 CHRISTOS— the immortal Spirit of The Son of Man 36 CHRIST said, worship and prey to The FATHER . . . . . . 31 Central America. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ,. ,. 150 Conclusion .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 145 Oatholics won't have British domination in Canada. . . . . . . . 99 CHRIST the Son of Man .. 37 CHRIST enjoins to worship GOD and FATHER 28 Catholic Priesthood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Challenge to the World 48 Compelling R. C. Bishop to give evidence . . , . . . . . . . 144 Dauvede, I-. . . 24 bH '/5 48 4» L48 26 142 28 149 161 120 51 r.6 82 33 39 181 58 •29 110 65 4f. 8091 66 143 153 l!.6 75 77 60 86 104 29 36 ai 150 145 99 37 28 42 48 144 24 l>evonBliire Duke of . . .. ., .. .. ,. ,. Death of Gavazzi.. .. Despotictm of tho Church of Rome D'onyains-t'orinthus' account of St. Peter DiBloyalty of the Canadian Frencl". . .. ., .. ., Dollinger, Dr. and the English language Dousy Bible— Editions of 1635, 1816 and 1843 DeLncy Bible Down with the Queen of Heretics DolimuB intt r aha — a Bull of Pope Pius TX . . Dr Farrar and Ht, Peter as the first Pope Departmental clerkships in Ontario Government. . Duke of Argyle.. Duke of Devonshire Deists and Atheiv.ts, use the Romanists Deists and Atheists, write against Christianity. . Doctrines and worship of tho Church of Rome will not be taught by Duke of Wellington . Durham. Lord . . Electorate, Question for the .. .. .. .. Elizabeth Queen of England . . . . . . , . . . English our own English .. English language, will be the language of the world.. English laniiuago, the numl>er who now speak U English speaking people increasing in numbers English language abolished in parts of Quebec End to be attained by questionable acta, jiistifles the means used Encyclical letter of Pope lijs IX. absurdities of . . Equal Rights party . . Equal Rights, to all a primary v.rinciple of Protestanism Enemies have no rights .. .. .. .. .. Equatlor — d( graded status of Expulsion of the Jesuits . . Eusebius.. Electorate of Canada — duties of .. .. Ewart, Mr., and the R. C. of Manitoba. . Egyptians— when they knew not the true GOD Extinuatiop of Christ-ans in 17th Century. . Farrar, Dr.— Archdeacon of Westminster Farrar, Dr. -On the Idolatrous worship of the Church of Rome Flag of the CnnaJittn Frencli disloyal . . French savant, Mr. Rochard " Attempt t ) crush Christianity.. " Language " (Mvilization iri the 18th Century .. .. • " Ship of wa' Minerva '! Officers cognizant of a Massacre of sick and wounded Engl'sh prisoners of war.. " Claims upon Newfoundland coast " Rights in Manitoba — imaginery with " Canadians taking the part of France. . " " Win not put up with Protestant domination " " Doom of, fear of being choked " Tn -color hoisted over Quebec. . " And Russian alliance.. " Canadians tauL'ht (loyaltv of) when Colonies revolted 1774 " Gentlemen on board the Minerva . . " and Russian alliance . 7« 43 79 80 M 19 S3 86 115 78 45 77 72 191 195 195 65 35 130 140 81 81 83 83 13 18 22 164 175 151 182 H 134 66 37 140 7S 78 11 18 37 13 87 184 88 4 14 9 18 80 88 12 89 86 15 88 H Forciun titlt'H, AHHiimiition of . . .. .. .. ., .. 177 Frnnch Cann li.inH will change t'loir allegianco.. .. .. .. 10 FilHifji'ifj the Iviiiptiirp. . .. .. .. .. .. .. S'.l 40 Frt-ncli Fluv;, tilt) Flrtjj of FrPDoh CftnadiftiiB. , .. .. .. HI Oanican - HiHtoriivn of (3aimila . .. .. .. .. .. , 10 (JuvurnTiK'nt (IcpiirlrinntK, Clt-rks ill .. .. .. .. .. (I Gavnz/i Alcxaiidre, Hiscovurs St. Mutthewg Gospel. . .. .. .. 3 420 Death of .. .. .. .. .. 42 (tormiiiiB opiioHo the return >.f the JeBuitH to Gernmny. . . . . . KIS Gladtitono, DritiHh HtiitcBniaii— IH he n I'roteHtunt .. '>4 " Dfclarud some years past tliat ilisiuemburiuont of the Empire is *>5 " And the |ih\ii of campiiif{n. . .. .. .. .. .. (o " And Hir Georfje (Jrey'H Home Rule Bill for Ireland .. .. tVI " And Irish Home Rule. . .. .. .. .. ()4 ,' And Count Cannitlio .. ,. .. .. .. .. Tl " In GladstoiuMv I'rotfBtant .. . .. .. .. 4 llti 43 i44 144 17 50 122 184 18U IM'.) 2H 51 114 C 17<) 143 . 143 143 3'.l 52 22 m 5f, .. 100 145 . IHl 7U 83 38 1«0 177 4 3t> 135 13(1 22 'Jl 47 8G y IntrinuoBof tlir Joniiitn Indemnity of $400,000 to tbo .TeBoitfl. . InqniaitJoii — " Holy ofliceof the JcBiiits. . Inoned by the People " Attempts to murder Queen Clizabeth of Englanc • Attempt to |)oi8on Pope Pius IX. . . " In DiH^uise .. .. .. " Bociety Ulasphemoualy Btyled * 1 he Society of Jesua." " In S| ain. . " Doin>;8 in past timen •• W ritinjH quoted " Will cast aside the mask they now wear JcBiiiUam, a new .^hase of . . '• In former times •• Uppored to modern Civilization " In the United States. . Jbiiuitical Romanism " " Knows no chanije Justice to Catholics, pretended complaint. ... Justice to British Irish Jerome and Origen Julian the Apostate Junius, Letters of James I. King of England . . King Henry VIII. of England aud the Inquisition •' James I. of England .... •* James II. of England '• Henry III. of Germany murdered. . •• Henry IV. of France murdered .... " Louis* XV of France .... Kin;; of Birds, the American Eagle . . Key of Heaven, Church of Rome protends she holds, . Kindness of a French Canadian Priest Karmarker, Rev. Sumatnra visluma on Ruinish worship. Kankakee Times— Letter on Church of Rome. . Lau't, Archbishop of Canterbury .. Laurier, Wilfred Lfttin, Vulgate of Jerome Luther Martin . . Lefleche, Bishop and the French language. . League, the land, a curse of Ireland.. leLautre and his Mickmack Savages Lie, the great, referred to by St. Paul L'g.'ori, St. Alphonse, incident Landsdowne, Lord . . Lord Bacon . . . . . . • Lytton's panegyric upon Lord Salisbury 143 i);4 ii'i 11 ii'i HI 8 u lu-J 17 17 148 188 16» llli to 9 185 14()14*2 20 148 140 149 148 1 149 4 68 41 27-46 81 140 174 140 «4» 140 140 105 02 48 87 30 144 24 lt-2 37 i 129 74 London, Chaiiibpr oi (k>mniorce 98 London, acndH n toroa of aliipsaiid aoldiera to Aght the Spsniah Arnnda 118 Londonderry, Hit^o of .. .. .. .. ., .. J2 Loyul't, Ignatius, iind the ()rd<.-r of Jesuita .. .. .. .. 183 Loyalu, AsHortion tliiit lie aitw TranaubdlunttAtion take ; laoa . . . . i8U L'UniveiH llomaii Cutliolic .Journal. . .. .. 90 Loyalty of the Uritinli IriHli , .. .. .. .. IHH Londonderry, Munniiaof.. Lezauri, 8t Loyalty to King Louia of France, loyalty to GOI> .... " " Guorgo of Knglanc —loyalty tu Katao licLautre and lim Mickniac bavagea. . . . .. .. .. L'Univcra, 11. C. Journal. . .. .. .. ., 96 " and hit4 dociving the Anadiana .... Le Banieur France .\nieric>in .... Lever -British Irish Novaliat .. ' LaPatrio — newdpuper'a ridiculous Gaaconade .. .. ,. 100 Jjet the (t d her^lica atarve, Tyrconnel ! . . . . . . IQ Macaulay — hiatorian coinparen the Hcotch and Iriah {Niople . . . . 60 Macaulay . . . . . . . . . . OO Macaulay a.:d the (irogr^iaa of Protcatant nations. . . . . . 60 Mil -hy, IVAIton.. Mil. ilay on the Apoatolic .■tucceaaion Mulltr. Mii.x, and intellectual advancement .. .. .. .. I7 Macaulay and intellectual advancement ... . .. .. .. 47 Manning, Cardinal . . . . . . , . Manitoba Hchoola . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Manitoba, Itighta of the French in.. .. .. .. .. U Minerva, incident— dialoyalty of the Canadian French .... . . 87 MasKacreof Ciiriatiana, Ut. Barthoinew eve. . .. .. .. U4 MaKaaere of English priaoncra of War by Frenchmen . . . . 183 M*a8aore of English priaoners, Alhigenaea and Waldenaeea . . . . 188 Matthews, Ht Gospel by, perveraion of 3 veraea of Chap. 16 .. .. 16 Mercury, newspaper .. .. .. .. ., 18 Mercior, Mr., and the .Jesuits.. .. .. .. .. .. 181 Mexico, Jesuits not tolerated in . . . . Mexican Romanists hate the United Btatea Minister Rosa, Ontario Government .. Montcalm, Marquis, French General. . .. .. 183 Montague, Lord Robert. . .. .. .. .. .. .. ]»3 Montgomery, Capt. I'Jnd Scottish Highlanders .. .. .. .. 184 " Reprnmanded by General Wolfe . . . . . . 186 Motley's History of the Netherlands . . . . 141 Metis and Indians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Mental bIiv very worse than physical .. Tlethodists Mother of .JesuB, the Virgin Mary .. .. ..31114 Mystery of Iniquity Montreal, R. C. ^^riest and his statistica .... Mary, the blessed— not the Motbor CHRIST 28 Marquia of Londonderry .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 72 Marquis of Salisbury .... , . . . . . . . . . .... 73 Martineau on the seat of authority in religion . . . . . . . . 180 Men and Women murdered by the inquisition in Spain.. .. .. 135 Mental slavery is itnmeaaurably a lower ty[>o than physical slavery Mediator— CHRIST, the only, in the presence of the FATHER . . 31 Macdonald. Sir .lobn A., ann Confederation of tin; F.n pire .... . . IM .\i(. ill \ ( li Ji ti.itH .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 141 « i Mooiv, !^t(>p!i(ni, Lftter on Bisliop ToIh.v's oviflence. . Natioiiiil unity of I'hij^libh aad Fretich in Cavii-la impossiblo . . New r;irty (ind tlif Haliuico of Power New I'liaui! of JesuitiHin Nantes, Kevocalioti of 'lie Ediot of Newton, Sir Inaac . New Fianoo on the Shores of the 5t. Lawrenoe ... New Paiw inu.st be formed to keep Hoii'arnsiTJ in fheck . . Nunihar ()f Protiv-jtunt.-i a;i(l U. (Jatholice in Goverimj -ai. Ddpartmettts. Newniui), Cardinal Kcwman, (;, I rdinals brother Kuas in Pre.sbyti.'iian and Methodist Chu'cnes NewfDutidland ... N.ival Power of Spiin, d .'stroyud Nonconformist of Great IJritain .... No Surrender. Challenfj ? shout of Fr^^einen No Snrrondor enL;ra.en upon British Irisli Hearts . . Nicolitanisin (c/jbhai-y) condemned by CIHU.ST .... Never to be forj^ottun 'i'liirteen .Membera of the House of Commons . , . Neutralizing the Balance of Power .. New Grenada . . Nr. places for Rnmanisla Or}' Our Ow:j English, will be the language of the future Oran^';^ William Prince of Orang.mien of t;ntario and Canada .... Orangemen and the P. P. A's Origen aiul Jerome O'Rrien, Col ... li'Bricn, Irish Agitator .. .. ' . O'Brien. Jiiahop of Halifax O'Brien, Smith, and the C/abbage Garden .. ., O'Carralan, Bridget, dream of " the upper hand". . O'Neil and Wolfe Tauo O'Ned, " General" and invincible Fenians. . Oath of the Jesuits .... (;tlice appointments to, of incapable persons. . Protestants snould not vote for llonianistfi. . " Treatment of by various R jinish States " Protective .\saociation " Allies of the Jesuits . '• Missionaries getting fair play in IVfexico " War t.'ry -No Surrender .. " Who are anxious to go over to Rome . . " Tlie meaning of tlie word Protestant forgotten by some . . . " Increase and Romanists decrease .... " New Party of , . . " Christianity, the cause of the Bupremacy of Great Britain " Who favors tlie Romanists " Schools ' .. .... Schools will be driven out of Quebec " Signiiication of the word. . " Deterir.ined to hold their own " Not Christians -say the Romanists . . Prince of Orange, William III. King of England Paul, Apodtle . . Parties in British House of Commons will all unite. . Peter's Pence .... Paris, Treaty of 17(13 Phoeneciaii Irish . . 14^ 'J ia5 140 27 .",(> 10 149 4 21 88 118 0» 72 n 34 105 160 6 82 4 4 41 79 192 65 66 ()(> 138 140 5 134 4 133 120 10(1 90 3S 77 16 88 118 o;^ 72 34 105 loO 5 8-2 it',) 4 4 41 Ketaining and Eemittine Sins, Power conferred upon the Apostles Redmond, Mr., M. B. H7 C. at Chicago " " Trt'asonivb'e Langiiaj:;o in the Houae of Commons Recapitulation of Electorial DiviaioiiH of the Empire. . Revised Statuteri of Ontario, IHK? .. Rochard, M., French savant and Secret Inimigratioii from France Ruskin, George, letter from.. Recollet, Friars . . Rogers, Rev. Father . . .... Romanists, to assume the asocndan'' " Have departed from the True Faith of St. i'aul to Timothy Chap. 4 . '• Deny that the Pope claims ten>poral allegiance '* Deny their temporal allegiance to the Pope " AVho are en3mies have no rights in this country " Cannot be loyal i(j a I rotest ant government. . " Are decreasing in numbers " Dominant in Canada . Romanism in America " Mexico.. .. " Equarfor . . . . . . .... " On a par with lelamism. . " Root and Found-vtion of the Heresy Romish Clergy pretend to forgive Sin . . .... " Crucitix, Idolatrons " Ecclesiastics >iiscourage the readmg of the Scriptures " Priesthood pretend to forgive Sins. . " Bishop compelled to give evidence in Court Rome Church of, despotic . . " " a heresy from Church of CHRIST. . " " will depart from the Faith, St. Paul . . Russian Alliance with France. . .... .... .... Rights of French Rumanists in Manitol>:\ .... Russii. and Her Army not at the disposal of France. . Russiii to have a port in the South of France Russel., T. W., Meniber British Honse of Oommous. . .... R'lsseli, and Home Rule for Ireland .... Ritualism .... ••■. Romanists may have Separate Schools by their paying for them. . " Suporabnndiince of. in Government Departments. . " By strong delusion, believed lie, St. Paul .... Romish Bishop compelled to give evidence .... Religious difference stirring up .... .... Redmond, (Irish Agitator) .... .... Sir Itiaac Newton, a id N'oolitanism. . Salisbury, Marquis of.. Scriptures altered by Catholic Ecclesiastics .... " Burned by a Romisli Priest. .. . " 15,000 spurious copies in archives of B. and F. Bible Society Sala llegia, and the picture of the Massacre of St. Barlholamew Samson Barnardin . . Sculla begue Masaacre and American Indian warfare Separation of Ireland from the Empire .... .... Stirring up Religious differences .... .... .... .... Secret Immigration into Quebec from France ... Beci ft understanding between F. Canadians and Government of France Senator Trudels Drei.m Spanish Armada, destroyed S'r Ivigivahi .Vvnifltroiig. Lord Mayor of Lindon 101 li2» 1» 144 112 IGl i7r> 120 l.'JS 121 151 25 H2 144 17<> 26 88 5» 59 12» ,<> 37 14 93 f)(5 34 73 38 32 97 IKi 11 .1 Prrsidont of the United States and the Pope. . I'ivknmn, Hirttorimi Parliinufiitary obrtniction (Professor Guldwin Smith) Papists have no ri^htw in Protistant ComUries Protestant ('rjnntrios saporior to Koraanist Protestant Party Pariiell tlie Afjitator Pepin KintJ of Franks. . Prosliyterions {Joing over to Home Peopl", murdr of, murdered by the Inqnisition Power of Romihh I^riisthood to retain or remit sinp . . . , Point to be (gained Ijy iiervertinjj Scripture texts. . Pretei'ded He.avenly Vision Pytliians, Army of Papa(!y Supremacy of Pope; Pius ix.. aHcnii)t to Poison ... Pope of Itonie. to bo Kiuj; of all America . . " " The Sovereign of Canadian llonia ints . . . " Clement XIV. pDieoned by Jesuits after aijolishiug the Order. " " " Abolish the Order of the Jesuits . Grigor^ Vlir Se.xtuB V. send a Legato to curse the Enghbh and bless the Armada " Leo and the American Flag .... Perraull, French Canadian— Tlireatonp Great Britain with France and Russia, ... .... Professor Smith and the Irish .... Plan of Campaign .... .... .... .... Professor Tyndal ... ... .... .... ... .... Panama Scandal discreditable to France . .... .... Pri«st, K. C. attempts to sho.v increase of F. Canadians " " Burns a number of copies of the word of GOD Paolo Sarpi ...... Point to be gained by Clinrch of Rome .... Plullip, Aijoslle. . . . .... .... Part \ . the new .... Point to be gained by falsifying Scripture .... Phillip (Apostle) said to CIIHIST, Show us the FATHER .... Parnell, Wolf Jone and O'Ned Patrie, Le, qnotaiion from .... .... .... Queen Victoria, must submit to the Papacv .... Queen Elizabeth ..... .... .... .... Quebec, Province of . . ..... .... .... Mercury, newspaper " Jesuit Paradise. . City " Awxiliairy Bihle Society •' Mercury, new.spapar, and PVench Language . . " Legislature a Disloyal Body . . "Quit Yourselves like Men '(St. Paul) Question? How are British Canadians to hold their own . . Quotations from Jesuits and otl.ers. . Question, the Great .... ... .... .... iiock uaon which Christian Church is Built . . .... Rock ill (Jork Harbor . . .... .... Revocation of Edict of Nantes Reformation in Great Britain .. .... Ross, Minister of Eclucati in. Ontavin R'd'isof M n 158 121 135 60 3 a as 55 159 115 100 KiO 110 110 50 117 158 lOo 38 40 84 38 46 66 <) 140 13 8 33 18 10() 20 43 54 i oO Rt. Bartholamaw'seve MfthSftcro.. Bt. Ppter, Apostle, never lived in Rome .... " ' iiovur was bi.sliop of Rome or lat Pope •* " Tliu lirst Pope " '• Special Commission I. overgiven to him by CUBIST St. Matthew, .Apostle Gospel .... Ht. Mark, Iwanj^elist. , . . • .. •St. Luke, E vaiigelibl .... ... H. John, Apostle. . .. St. Mark, Evangelist, the iissociate of St. Peter. ... St. Jeroni'! and Origen St. Paul K Prophetic knowledge .... St- Paul 8 Enistle to Timothy .... .... St. Paul's Kpit'tle to Romans .... .... ... riivrpi I'ra Paoli .... Stockman Raron, German Ncblemnn .... Smith, Professor Gold win, and Parliani"ntary Obstruction.. ... Ship t!arfjo of Italians ... .... .... Statute, Imperial of 1774 voided by French Canadian Dialoya'ty. . Statute, Biitihh North America. . . .. Seige of D>-rry . . ... Spirit of man stiall return to GOD who gave it Sisterliootls in Methodist and Presl/Vterian Churcli.... Htillin;;fluet Bishop of Worcester, 17th Century Shins winch rt lie ved Derrv.. Surrender of Canada by Franco . . . . . . Schools, Protestant and Separate in Manitoba . . Signate of his dan nation by a Romanist .. St. Ann 1 vision of . . Swearing allegiance by .\cadian French to British Crown tantamount to damning their own souls. . .... Statue (Imperial) of 1774 neutralized by Canadian French disloyalty. . Siam affair, a discreic to France .... Statute of 1774 abrogated by French Canadian disloyalty. ... Scotoii and Iri,-ili pjopie ciinpared. . . . .... South an I Cential .America.. Scripture, falsifying of St. Matthew's Gosp'-d, passage foi.?tad into .. .. .. ..4 St. Paul's Epistle to the I'^pliesians, Cliap, 2, 18 verse. . Satin's influence has caused schisms in the Church .... Sliowing that the Scriptures have been falsifitul should not caus'^ waver- ing of the conlilenco in parts not altered. .. . .... Schiller upon Great Britain (German Poet). . Supposition that the ;iew party be not formed. . . . .... Separate Schools. . .. .. Secret Emigration from France .... Salisbury, Marquig of .... St. Peter. 1st Pope Slaughter of the Huguenots 17 .V2 . . .... Siijiremacy of the Papacy . . .... Substitution of Manuscripts . . St. Thomas quoted St. Lagouri quoted . . . . . . . . .... .... " The So.n of Man" CHRISTS designation of Himself Timothy. St. Paul's Epistle to Tallyrand, Marquis, de opinion of Romanists J'acherean, Cardinal . . Throwing dust into the eyes of the Ameiican Eagle .... ... 7« 78 78 7y 41 89 10 89 41 SS 8.1 36 110 07 98 72 123 72 4 14 14 45 3 et seq 62 117 118 4 . 17 22 iH 78 95 122 49 145 145 46 62 Thompson, Bir John . . . . . . . . Toronto Citv insulted by Romanists Toronto Mail nevvspappr clTorts of . . .. ♦ .. Trftfltarianism. ... .... .... . . : .... .... Tiiclie, Archbislioi): niisrepreat-iitationrf by.. Ireatment of tlie IriuM by England. .. . .. .. .. ' .. Treaty of Paria ot 17:vnin^ of tlia word Proteatssint . . Torquemada, Granil liui'iisitor. . .. .. .. .. • Those who have di'fiarted from the Fai th . . Through Satanic inrtuonoe «;hisni8 havo aris n in the Clmrch . . Transubtantiatioii. Loyalo saw taka placo !!.,..., Thirteen never to Im for>;otten BriCons .... .... .... Truth Must be Told Ulster, Unionists. . Ulster, Demon^'tration in Belfast . . Ultramontanisai .... .... .... (Tnam Biuictuni, null of Pope Boniface VIII Uncle Sam'^8L".i8i' of honour. . Ulster British «x|Kri(nec! of Iris'i bi<,'otry . . United States and British Empire on,:' People ... .... Ulrich Zwinf'lias .... .... .-. , . .... Union of Britisli Protestants and French Romanists in Canada ii hie Ulster British and Tyrconnel United States hnted by Romanisis in Mexico. . ... Virfiin "Alary, the Mother of Jesns. . The Mother of GOD " " not the Mother of GOD. . ■' " not an intercessor with GOD for us.... Venita, Paula Sarpi .... .... .... .... Vanity of worship according to commandments ot men Vulgate of St. Jerome. ... .... .... .... Vaudreuil, Marquis de Voltaire, and theslaughtef of the Huguenots ...... Vatican, Alnrder publicly commanded at .... .... William III., King of England Wellington, Duke of Washington, Irving ... William, the Silent, murdertHi Wolfe, General .... .... Wihlirte, Ruv. Dr. John Wales, Electorial Divisions of . . . . .... .... .... Wilde, Rev. Dr.... Wonders will never cease .... .... .... WoK, Tone Why the Chrtrch of Rome falsified the Scriptures What has given to the Church of Rome the Power she assumes What should wo tolerate . . .... Wors-liip the F.\THKR Zwingli, Ulrich...... npossi- 141 i'2r> 81 IG C7 100 17a 13f> l(.t5 (11 K7 m 182 154 '.>9 4i> 17 ;)•.> M U 31 31 185 (vr, l^'2 BID 49 I'.iO -,2 4U )()OSt HI 6'J 16 G7 100 17a i:{ft. i(.5 c.l f.T a*.) IS2 154 'J'J 4i> J7 31 a I 31 135 95 182 190 4<> 1!)0 4'J ■ J