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Les difigrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^ :?■ m i mmm ^'■•tirammm- ^*fi-v:;: .;.■ ;.v':-.y BEING A SERIES OF SIX SERMONS DELIVERED HV JOSEPH WILD, M.A.,D.D. Pas/or Of the lio>ui Street Congregational Church, Toronto, Canada, AUTHOR OF "THE TEN LOST TRIBES." "HOW AND WHEN THE WORLD WILL END." -TALKS FOR THE TIMES." "SUNDAY MORNING SERMONS," ETC. Toronto, Canada : PirnMSUKF) AT TIIK OFMCK Ol-^ TlfK "CAXAIHAN ADVANCE." IQ^ ADELAIDE STREE I EAST. 19^^ 4f TITLES OF SERMONS. I'AdK The Jesuits 9 What to Do With the Jesuits 20 What the Jesuits Will Do 34 Great Britain and ProtestantisivI and Our Duty 46 St. Patrick and Ireland 5^ God, the Queen, and the Pope 68 mmammm. PREFACE. Much has been said of late about the Jesuit Oath. It is difficult to say exactly which is the correct one out of the several presented, though none of them differ very much. I think, however, the most trustworthy one is that given below. It is taken from the book, " Secret Instructions of the Jesuits," pubhshed by Thomas E. Leyden. Any one consult- ing this book will find his authority ; to me it appears satis- factory. J. W. THE JESUIT'S OATH. I, A. B., now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles St. Peter and St Paul and the saints and Sacred Host of Heaven, and to you my ghostly father, I do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that the Pope is Christ's Vicar General and is the true and only Head of the uni- versal church throughout the earth, and that by virtue of the Keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by Jesus Christ he hath power to depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States, Common- wealths and Governments, all being illegal without hisjsacred Con- firmation, and that they may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power, I will defend this doctrine and His Holiness's rights and customs against all Usurpers of tho Hnrntical or Protestant Authority whatsoever, especially against the now pretended Authority and Church in England and all Adherents, in regard that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the Sacred Mother Church of Rome. » ^ ■ VI, ^REFACE. .1 I do Renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to any heretical King, Prince or State, named Protestant, or obedience to any of their inferior Magistrates or Officers. I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvinists, Huguenots and other Protestants, to be damnable, and those to be damneci who will not forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, assist and advise all or any of His Holiness's agents, in any place wherever I shall be, and to do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended power, regal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother Church 's'interest to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circum- stance whatsoever, but to execute all which shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you my ghostly father, or by any one of this convent. All which I, A. B., do swear by the Blessed Trinity, and Blessed Sacrament which I am about to receive, to perform, on my part to keep inviolably ; and do call on all the Heavenly and Glorious Host of Heaven to witness my real intentions to keep this my oath. In testimony whereof, I take this most Holy and Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, and witness the same further with my hand and seal, in the face of this holy convent. I INTRODUCTION. f This little book is sent forth to meet a demand. I have preached six sermons on Jesuitism, in which the public seem to be interested. The Canadian Advance, which prints "weekly my Sunday evening discourses, issued extra editions, but they were all sold, and .inquiries and demands for the sermons came in from' many places. This being the case, I thought it best to give to the public this small volume. I hope it will do good and help on the agitation to a reasonable and peaceable result. My church is always full, but if it were possible it has been fuller during the delivery of these discourses. The three thousand packed inside were thought to be fortunate by the hundreds who failed to gain admission. The Jesuit question is a very important one for a young and growing country like Canada. It is a pity that Pope Clement's Bull of Annihilation of this Order was not more effective. The existence of the Order in Canada goes to show and prove the weakness and contradiction of Popes. Such things present the doctrine of infallibility in a poor light— in fact, argumentatively, they upset it completely. On July nth, 1773, Pope Clement XIV. signed the Bull of extinction, but durst not proclaim it from his Vatican throne till about two o'clock on the morning of July 23rd. At that time the Jesuits in St. Peter's were all in their rooms. Then order was given to fasten the doors and keep them there. In the middle of the night the Conclave assembled, the Pontiff ascended his throne and made the proclamation. This done, ^ ^^m VIll. IN iRonrmoN. i tlie bells raiiK and told the sleeping thonsands that some great deed had been dune in St. Peter's. The Jesuits for once were cauj^lit nappnig. Pope Clement said^when he signed the document, " It will cost me my lite, but I must abolish this dangerous Order." September 22nd, 1774, his prophecy came true. 0\\ his death- bed he said, '^ I am going to Eternity, and I know for what." Rightly or wrongly, history credits the Jesuits with many such foul and dastardly acts. Charity stretched to the utter- most leaves them very suspicious and of bad reputation. My own idea is, that neither God, the Church, the State, nor man needs such a society. I hope they will be suppressed in Canada. In ajlawful and Christian way I will do all I can in that direction. These sermons _have been reported by Thomas Pinkney, who for several years has proved himsell a faithful, good workman. I have left them as he presented them. The reader will make due allowance for want of style and finish in my addresses ; I have tried to be faithful and accurate. May the Good Lord bless my weak endeavour to His praise and glory. JOSEPH WILD. Toronto, March 29th, 1S89. CANADA AND THE JESUITS. t THE JESUITS. stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bonda-e.^^ Gal. v. I. " ' LIBERTY is a pleasant thing to enjoy, hut a hard thing to keep. We find hy experience, when put into the hands of a man, or men, that it Jias a very ready tendency to generate tyranny. Looking at liberty through the Gospel we find that it implies a certain kind of equality, which equahty is authorized by the brotherhood of man, whose very foundation is in the fatherhood of God, and Who, in His inspired Word, tells us that He is no respecter of persons. As British subjects, we recognize no temporal power higher than, or equal to, that of our own beloved Queen. As spiritual creatures, we acknowledge no authority or head but Jesus Christ. Nay, we will not allow our own beloved and honoured Queen to take the place of Jesus in the realm of our conscience, much less a Pope, a Cardinal an Archbishoi), a Bishop, a priest, a minister, an elder or a deacon. We believe what our Saviour said, as recorded in Matt, xxiii. 8 : " But be ye not called Rabbi ; for one is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren." No man in this brotherlinod is gifted with authority or called to lord and rule over God's '^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m 10 THE JF.SlMTS. */ . -: lieritage. On the worldly side of our existence we may hav( titles, but on the spiritual side, no man siiould assume supremacy or have a title that would imply that he is a special custodian of spiritual j^^races and sacra- ments, and that unless he f^rants us favours we are lost. No man on (lods earth can danm me. All the Churches put together cannot do it. 1 afn my own keeper in the si}.rht of my (iod, and ynce in the sun, bottle up the light, chain the tides of old ocean, and charge us for our water and the air we breathe. I am glad they are men of pretension only. Men of such pretensions, of course, need watching, and if it be found necessary, need resisting. We should not be in- different or ignorant, for these popes from time to time have published their creeds and have made known their intentions through Bulls and J!:nc3'clical Letters. The present Pope has issued about half-a-dozen already to tell the world what it ought to do, as if we did not know as much as an Italian shut up in a palace and knowing very little about the world. It he had a week carrying a hod, or working as a stone-mason, or in some machine shop, he v^ould have more judgment at the end than he has now. They mve made known their intention ; in fact they are not backward in proclainnng an absolute sovereignty, both spiritual and temporal. In plain lan- guage they tell us v. hat they want and what they would do if they had the power. They are working secretly and openly, with this object ever in view, and we have no reason to disbelieve them. If I have a Cathohc bro- ther or sister here to night, do you want me to disbelieve the utterances of your Pope ? You say, No. Well, he wants to have temporal power greater than our Queen : he says so. He wants me subject to him in spiritual as well as temporal things. J say I will not. I am not .lis- crediting his desires nor his intentions. In the presence &M^xsi^^miim^^m^s^mw^^mimsm^^^^^^^smtmif- 15 THE TliSUITS. If of such utterances, in the hglit of history, I am not warranted in beheving that mocle::ty would restrain them, or that th'j fear of God would keep them back, from perse- cuting or throtthng our hberties. With all the charity I can nnister 1 cannot persuade myself, as some people do, that our holy religion and altar and home and the state would be safe in their keeping. They have wrecked the whole of these four things in every nation where they have had control. They have made a burlesque and idolatry of religion. They have polluted and defiled the very altars. They have taken away the secrecy and chastity of the home. They have impoverished and enslaved the state, and you say, Put such men in power again because they have changed. I don't believe a bit of it. I will trust them wlien the millenium comes — not before. They will have to be well converted and filtered through a lot of generations before they wdl be all right. To you, my regular hearers of the last nine years, and to myself there is something very interesting in the pre- sent Jesuitical agitation going <^n in the pulpit^ on the platform and through the press. Yes, in the mouths of everybody I find on the streets and railway cars and in our very homes. Why this furore ? Why this excite- ment ? How comes it that we are just now being agi- tated all through our country ? Might I ask why we cry after the milk has been spilt ? Might 1 ask you why we are shutting the door of the stable after the horse has been stolen ? Is that our position ? It is with nine- tenths of you in this audience, and an equal number outside. You will never cry until your crying does not amount to anything, nor will you ever work at the proper time. You are afraid. You will not cheer that because tlinc is nobody J(.'ft to cheer. Now the Ix.'st ansu'tr I can gue to this fjuestion is, that we were not ^. J iiirim m^^ SS ^w iiilM i itm THF. JF.STTITS. ^?> as timely as we should have been in this agitation ; but perhaps it is better late than never. Eight years ago I preaehed from this pulpit about the aims and movements of the Jesuits in Canada. They had just been expelled from Franee and were eoming in increashjg inniibers into Canada. What 1 stated at that time I hnd now to be eorrect, for from very reeent and present events I discover that 1 rightly interpreted their workings. It was^jiot as popular a subject in those days as it is at present. My deacons came and conversed with me at that time, and asked me if it was policy to deal with such a question. Some of my pew-holders resigned because I would persist in bringing sucli ques- tions before the public. I hope they are settled some- where better, and likely a few more of you may go ; but I think not. You are thoroughly trained now. Both religious and secular press had little to say on the subject then. They gave me but little encouragement, little praise and considerable criticism. The pulpit even was by no means in harmony with my sayings and doings in this matter. Both press and pulpit said I was a stirrer up of strife. Here and there a ministerial brother would now and again give me and Bond Street Church a good crack on the knuckles from their pulpit, and I suppose felt a good deal better after they had done it. I know in two or three cases we were piously and earnestly cri- ticized for allowing ourselves to smile and cheer in this church. These ministers so criticizing us were rewarded by their own congregations cheering and smiling, and I have not the slightest doubt they enjoyed it, anc? felt for once that they had said something worth being heanl and even cheered. My good Presbyterian friends in Knox Church actually cheered the pious Rev. Dr. Pier- son, of Philadelphia, who was preaching to them a short fir I S •^ m H THF. JF.SriTS. '.t time since. It is astonishing ! They are imitating Bond Street, for Iierc we do nothing but wliat is right and good. But times and things have changed, and I am glad of it. The pulpit and press, the Tories, Grits and Reformers are all getting alarmed at the increasing power of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and of the encroachments of Jesuitism. I said a short time ago that we should have begun this agitation some time before, and that we are a little late in the day now. Many forget, if they ever knew, that three Jesuit Bills have actually been passed, and the fun is the hue and cry is over the last one only, the one that we outside of Quebec have the least to do with whilst we allowed the other two to pass. I am not clear in my own mind but that the Parliament of Quebec had a perfect right to dispose of its money as it saw fit, especially to a corporate body in its own Province and a body recog- nized by its own laws. So far as the Province of Ontario goes 1 would claim such a right for it, and I should tell Quebec or any other province that sought to interfere with us as to what we should vote our money for, to mind their own business and to stand aside, as it is our own right and we can err or otherwise as we choose. I am not very clear in my own mind whether the Dominion Government, the Governor General, Sir John A. Macdonald, or either or all have a right or the power to interfere with the money grant of Quebec to an incorporated society of that province. Strictly speaking, I believe they have not. John A. Macdonald could not have disallowed that Bill, nor the Governo' General even, had they felt ever so much disposed ; < ley have not the power to do so. The wrong and liie error is back of that money grant. I I ■H HHH 'iMzl TIIF. jr.Sl'ITS. Some two years ago the Jesuits were incorporated by an Act of the Parliament of Quebec, and are to-day one of the constituted societies of that province sanc- tioned by the law of that province. That is the Act that could have and should have been disallowed. That was the time to have raised our voice, and made an effectual protest against the incorporation of that society. Our crying is too late. The Jesuits have been too sharp for us, excepting this pulpit, thank the good Lord. There was only one pulpit in the whole Dominion that joined hands with me, the Rev. John Borland, a Methodist minister who has since gone home to heaven. Then was our golden opportunity. Then it was in the power of the Ottawa Government ; then it was indisputably in the power of the Governor-General to have vetoed such an Act ! But the time has gone by, and we whine and cry about a thing we cannot touch at the present time. Then I preached a sermon on the subject on June 5, 1887, and did my very best to call public attention to what should be done. On Sunday, July 8, 1888, I again took up the subject, and preached for the Orangemen, when I called the attention of the public to ihe fact that the Jesuits being then an incorporated body, their next movement would be to get back some of the estates that were naturally escheated to the British crown at the time of the conquest of Quebec in 1759. They have done exactly as I had said. They now know as well as you and I that we cannot touch them on that money grant. I will now tell you their next movement. So do not cry until it is all over. In a few years they will come to the Dominion Parliament to ask that body to refund these 1^400,000 with interest to the Province of Quebec. . ' ! ;. ti' i6 THF JFSUITS. Then we will have the power because we are a part of the Dominion Parliament, and may properly resist such a demand. You will see this come to pass. I am a good prophet on the Ten-Lost-Tribes and Jesuitism. I do not think, however, that the Province of Quebec has the power to incorporate the Jesuits. I do not believe, in the sight of British law, that the Jesuits are now at this moment an incorporated body, and if I had dealings with a member of that society and could get him to sue me in a Dominion court they could not be recognized as having any status whatever, nor could they make any claim upon me, because British law and the Statutes of Great Britain forbid the existence of such a society. Those laws and statutes have never been repealed or even amended excepting in one case which I shall subsequently refer to. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth in 1685, ^ ^^^ ^^^ passed making it treason for even a Catholic priest to be found in England, and a felony to harbour one ; and the Jesuits were expelled on the penalty of death. That law has never been repealed, and is in force in Britain. In the conquest of Canada by Great Britain in 1759, nothing is said in the Articles of Capitulation about the Jesuits. It was simply agreed and stated that the Roman Catholics " shall be allowed to practise their own religion agreeably with the laws of Great Britain ; " not according to the laws of France nor of Rome. These were the very favours they asked, but the British General in reply to tlieir petition said, " You are by conquest British subjects, and you must be obedient to British law." (Applause) It came to pass then that as British law could not recognize the Jesuits their property was escheated, and they could have no exis- ence in Canada. The Jesuit, it is plain, could have M f ^mm tm IP "^•^^'Tt-V ■■ THK JESUITS. 17 no status after the Conquest. Hence the order; to disband and their property escheated to the Crown. In the Treaty of Paris nothing was said or alhided to favouring the Jesuits. In the Roman Cathohc Emancipation Act of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in 1829 (this is where the amendment I referred to previously comes in), an amendment was inserted providing against the recognition and freedom of the Jesuits. It gave freedom to the body of Catholics, but lest that should be interpreted to mean freedom to the Jesuits, they put in a special clause forbidding the Jesuits to enter the land or to form any organization in Great Britain. Now the common laws and general laws of Great Britain, when not otherwise provided for, are in force in Canada. The Jesuits have no standing in British law ; therefore, they can have no such right of incor- poration in the Dominion of Canada, except the same be given to them by the Government of the Dominion, with the consent of Great Britain. Such consent and such law have never yet been granted. Surely a province cannot set aside the general law of the Empire or assume the functions and powers of the general Government. The Jesuits cannot have any status in the Dominion courts or in the eye of the Dominion laws. It would be a strange thing if a province could pass laws to override the Dominion laws and Britain's laws. The British law says it is a penalty unto death for a Jesuit to be in our province. I do not want you to take the law in your own hands. (Applause) I don't want you to try the experiment, because at that point I might be a poor lawyer. Leaving this point, we want to go back to the Incorporation Bill, Some five or six years ago a ~mm ^ mm i« THR JKSUITS. number of those Jesuits expelled from France came to our country and selected a home in the Nortli-West, and took to themselves the title of Holy Fathers, or Oblats Peres. They did not go to Quebec for the incorporation. This was the entering of the wedge. Nine out of every ten of those Oblats Peres are known to be Jesuits. They went to the Dominion Parliament, asked for incorporation and it was granted to them. They are now up in the North-West accumulating property very rapidly, and in about twenty-five or thirty years hence they will be giving our brethren up there very serious trouble. At the same time the Orange- men asked for incorporation, but were refused. Now some of you say " We don't care for the Orangemen." Very well, there is one rule that the Dominion Parlia- ment should know. They should either reject or grant all incorporations. How, under the sun, the most loyal and patriotic people, true to the r country and Queen, should have been refused incorporation, and these rascals should receive it, I am at a loss to know; and men, too, who were expelled out of France, a Catholic country. They came here under disguise, and politicians were hoodwinked. I would rather let my right hand wither than vote for the Conservative or Reformer who voted against the Orange Bill at that time. Then was the time for us to have thrown in all our energies against the passing of that Bill, and I believe, had we acted to a man, we could have defeated it. • What we need, my dear friends, in Canada, is that the same spirit which pervades the Gospel should pervade us in our politics. In Colossians iii. ii, we read, " Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circum- cision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond ■:J^*f',}3.-^ atmm^iiuimmi Tlir. JESUITS. T9 .//or free; but Christ is all and in all." So politically wc .hould know neither the Englishman, Scotehman, Irishman, Welshman, Frenchman, German, Italian or any other race, but we should be known as British Canadians (applause), the highest type of manhood for privileges and opportunities, that walks the present earth. So long as we are known as Enghshmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Irishmen, and claim special exemptions, so long shall we be insecure. Are you Canadians ? Then let us be one-united. And the same on the line of religion— we must be one. The law should know no distinction. We must not be known to the law of the Dominion as Congregational- ists. Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, or Roman Catholics ; but we should be known as Christians and citizens, enjoying equally the laws of our country. This is the law I am going to teach you in the future. This is the law that is bringing a mighty force to the agitation that is now going on. I trust the good Lord will help us in the agitation, for I believe we can see the finger of God in the movement. I pray for His Divine guidance to us in all things. Amen. »*!M»«il>a>»™mi«»«»K!Mi«OTWss«»WP»»:'i«ais»s'.^^ WHAT TO DO WITH THE JESUITS. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. — 2 Epistle of John, verse 8. ^1 HERE is a great difference in the birthright herit- X age of people born into this world. For myself, I am glad that I was born a British subject, and of Christian parents who recognized no spiritual authority or headship higher than Jesus Christ, and who recog- nized no temporal authority over that of our beloved Queen Victoria. It is no mean estate that has been handed down to us for safe keeping as well as for improvement. This may easily be understood if we will only estimate its cost. Let us be careful not to dis- honoi r our departed fathers or rob the coming children of generations in the future of the birthright privileges that should go down unto them. Let us be careful, as in the text, that we lose not those things for which our heroic fathers and many of us have fought and are fighting to-day. It cannot fail to strengthen our nerves and increase our courage if we remember what our sires endured in persecution, in suffering, in the sacrifice of life, in money, that we might be the sons and daughters of freemen. The same wily and unscrupulous foes that our fathers had to contend with are also in our midst, unchanged in spirit and unchanged in their aim. They are still as determined as ever to centralize both tem- poral and spiritual power in the hands of yonder con- ^s^'«Si^ft£^QS&*S'*3*«l«K©«lW»»W^^ nm^ WHAT to no WITH THE JESUITS. it ceited and pompous Italian who dwells in the palace of the Vatican at Rome-no place for Britons to deposit their highest honour or their highest authority. Notice this last week in proof of what I say. Mr. Trudel a member of the Provincial Parliament of Quebec, ga've notice of a motion to the following effect— I will give you a portion of it : - That this House desires to express Its opinion that it would be a gracious act on the part of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, if she were to evince her good will by exerting her influence to obtain for our Sovereign Pontiff the restoration of the ancient patri- mony of St. Peter, bequeathed over a thousand years ago to the predecessors f Leo XIII., and whilst effect- ing this restoration to restore the temporal power of the great Pope." Now imagine that such a resolution could be proposed in a Parliament in the Dominion of Canada. This Romanist and his colleagues are not afraid to voice their sentiments ; they are not as timid as you and others. They are not afraid to prefer their Church to their party and the Pope to the Queen. They are not mealy- mouthed. W^hy should we be ? Who, I ask, among our Protestant politicians— Reformers, Conservatives or Independents— dare come out so boldly in favour of God, the Queen and the country ? There is no poli- tician in the land dare. We are crippled ; they have so ensnared us that we dare not say our own mind on the political line. The honourable member for East Simcoe has given notice of a motion in the Dominion Parliament in favour of Home Rule in Ireland. This gentleman could not have read the following : Of the 900 non-Episcopal ministers in Ireland, including Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists and Congregationalists, 864 signed the anti- Home Rule address to Lords Sahsbury and Hartington ■I (CvEai^ifSiviSf.'jt;'^ T'& • ■w)(w,i^i*ti;-^^iv»i:A?-'.'**r-^^'s;^^' hmwAh J^^ WHAT TO DO WITH THE JESUITS. ^7 A similar case to this was tried in France a short time ago In a will, amongst other things it was directed that a certain sum of money be set apart for he saymg of masses, and of course the church claimed the amount. The court, however, decided it was not definite enough to know who the parties were and what was their condition in purgatory to make the will valid. It would be just the same on this question. I do hope some of our Lower Province Protestants will band together. The question is not a political one. Neither Sir John A. Macdonald nor the Governor-General, nor any other man, could disallow it. It is a legal question, and the Jesuits well knew it. The point to be decided IS, can they as a Province create such an Order ? If the Court decides they can, then it is within the power of our Government to disallow it ; and if the case is tested, and the decision of the Court is that the Pro- vince of Quebec has power to incorporate the Jesuits then we will see that our Government disallow it or know the reason why. Our Superior Courts and Privy Council have interpreted and decided the vahdity and non-vahdity of several of our Provincial laws, and so they shall in this case. The duty of the members of the present Government IS to call the Dominion Government's attention to the irregular and unconstitutional action of the Provincial Parliament of Quebec. If Mr. Cook would bring in a resolution like that there would be some sense in it, because the Government then would have to appeal to' the Court for a decision, and we would know exactly where we stood. Our own Provincial Government, so mterested a short time ago in Home Rule for Ireland .ti^as-sa / ., ^jjpsais V ^ 28 WHAT TO DO WITH THE JESUITS. as to send resolutions to Parnell and others, might well now employ its time in asking about such unconstitu- tional conduct on the part of the sister Province. It would be more sensible than to interfere with the British Parliament in regulating Ireland. Quebec is nearer, and a part of the federation, and they should ask. What means this conduct in Quebec ? Perhaps they will now. The Province of Ontario, my friends, is ours, and we must keep it for ourselves. Let every Protestant gradu- ally be taken out of Quebec, and the sooner the people there are left alone, with the Roman Catholic religion the dominant one, the sooner they will fall behind in the progress of the age. Ontario belongs to the Ontarians, and the laws ruling them must be obeyed, and in Grenville and Prescott and the Eastern Town- ships there must not be allowed to exist any public school wherein French only is taught. Let them do as they like in Quebec, but tliis is Ontario. The Hon. Mr. Ross is going to furnish returns regarding the public schools in Eastern Ontario, and if it be found that there are schools so established wherein the French is taught solely, we are going to see that such be done away with. We are not going to allow our French neighbours to come in with their religion that way and subvert our schools by teaching only French in a British Province, where the English language is the legal one, and these are the legal schools. If our French brethren wish to share their lot with us they must stand upon the same plat- form. We are not going to create special schools for their liking. We have made one mistake already in granting Separate Schools, but we are going to be wiser for the future. Perhaps it may be necessary to form a new parly to balance these powers. 1 would not have a lengthy plat- '**m WHAT TO DO WITH THF JRSUITS. 2Q form such as has been pubhshed, but this simple one '' No Class legislation ; no special recognition of any Church; no race distinctions.' With these three points I believe, we could carry the whole of Ontario. The Jesuits must be suppressed and expelled from Canada. (Applause) They are too dangerous a foe lor a young country like this to have. We are too much in the building up process now, and they can seriously interfere with our welfare. I am surprised that the Rev. Father Flannery, of St. Thomas, should defend the Jesuits as he did in St. Michael's Cathedral, last Sunday evening. If the report of his sermon is correct, this gentleman has not read history very much, or if he has read history very much he has a very poor memory, or if he has a good memory he has not caught the truth, or at least if he did catch it he did not tell it. He had better stay in St. Thomas and write some more poetry. A couple of years ago there came to our city a gentlemen, Wilham O'Brien, and there was a mass meeting held in connection with his visit. This rev. father wrote a very fine piece of poetry, very sarcastic and abusive of myself, about a speech I made there. The fun of the thing is I was not at the meeting and, consequently, never made the speech attributed to me ;' yet this rev. father has never had the modesty to apolo- gize to me for that insult. I will leave that to himself, and if there be a purgatory it will make it a little hotter for him. In his sermon he is reported as saying: *' Why were not these men [referring to the Jesuits] brought before some judge and tried, and told that they were accused of certain crimes ? Was there ever any trial given them in Spain or in France ? They never had a trial." Now, imagine a man in the face of all history making a statement like this, They were tried hundreds iS; SiSieStSffiigPi^SS'SsBStl^*'^:! e«,.-.i ;tt-.a.iMAiiawas. > .;|i-Jtgg|»j. a ai igM atfta9ifeW n^^ lO WHAT TO DO WITH THF, JESUITS. fill of times in France, Spain and Portugal, by the regular courts and by special commissions. On September 27, 1540, Pope Paul ill. constituted the Order of the Jesuits. Ignatius Loyola was their first General. He was born in 1491 in Loyola, in the Basque Provinces; he died at Rome July 31, 1556. He was beatified in 1609, and made a Saint by Pope Gregory XV. in 1622, the next day after he left pur- gatory for anything we know. There are lots of things you can say which nobody can dispute. This society has been in existence, legally and illegally, 348 years. At the Conquest of Canada by Britain in 1759, the Jesuits really ceased to have a legal standing, still they kept together and drew the revenues of their property. The British Government finally had, by a royal Imperial decree in 1774, ^^ suppress them m Canada ; yet out of its generosity it did not turn one single Jesuit out on the street, but agreed to pay them an annuity sufficient to keep them so long as they lived, and the last of these poor rich Jesuits died in 1800. Was that not kind of the British Government ? More than they were worth by a long way. But the Crown, as I have said, sup- pressed them. On July 23, 1773, Pope Clement XIV. annulled this Order, and issued his celebrated Bull, Doniinns ac Rc- demptor noster. He would not give his reasons for anulling them, because they were so foul and filthy that he would not tell mybody. Pope Paul VII. restored them or created a new body in 181 4, so far as spiritual recognition goes. For 114 years, they have had no legal standing in any part of the world; but in 1887 they received this legal standing and status, as supposed, in the Province of Quebec, Canada ; the only place where they can sue and be sued. And novy a little WHAT TO DO WITH THR JESUITS. 31 information for my friend Flanncry. The Jesuits have been expelled from the different states and countries as follows :—Saragossa, 1555; La Palatine, 1558; Vienna, 1566; Avignon, 1570; Antwerp, 157^8; Portugal, 1578; Segovia, 1578; England, 1579; England, 1581; Eng- land, 1586 ; Japan, 1587 ; Hungary, 1588 ; Transyl- vania, 1588; Bordeaux, 1589; France, 1594 ; Holland, 1596 ; Toulon, 1597 ; Berne, 1597 ; England, 1602 \ England, 1604 ; Denmark, 1606 ; Thorn, 1606 ; Venice,' 1606; Venice, 1612 ; Japan, 1613 ; Bohemia, 1618 ;' Moravia, 1619 ; Naples, 1622 ; Netherlands, 1622 ;' China, 1623 ; India, 1623 I Malta, 1634 ; Russia, 1723 ;' Savoy, 1729; Paraguay, 1733; Portugal. 1759; France,' 1754 ; Spain, 1767 ; Two Sicilies, 1767 ; Duchy of Parma, 1768 ; Maha, 1768 ; Russia, 1776 ; France, -804 ; Eripon, 1804 ; France, 1806 ; Naples, 1810 ; Moscow,' 1816; Soleure, 1816; Belgium, 1818 ; Brest, 1819; Russia, ' 1820; Spain, 1820; Rouen, 1825; Great Britain and Ireland, 1829; France, 1831 ; Saxony, 1831 ; Portugal, 1834; Spain, 1835; Rheims, 1838; Lucerne, 1842;' Lucerne, 1845; France, 1845; Bavaria, 1848 ; Switzer- land, 1848; Naples, 1848; Papal States, 1848; Liuz, 1848; Vienna, 1848; Styria, 1848; Austrian Empire, 1848 ; Galicia, 1848 ; Sardinia, 1848 ; Sicily, 1848 ; Paraguay, 1848 ; Italian States, 1859 ; Sicily, i860 ; France and several other countries since. From all these places have they been expelled, and so many times ; yet this man Flannery comes here to enlighten his followers by perverting history, and I dare say the people who were listening to him believed every word he said. This list I have collected and I will vouch for its accuracy. What is more I will challenge either Father Flannery, or any other Flannery, to dis- pute one single iigure or fact. And mark you, they ^^;i 'I I vmmmm^mi^simm'*- V 3^ WHAT To no WITH Till' JI'SIMT^". received the fiercest condemnatioii from Catholic coun tries and Popes. Pope Clement XIV. tells us that he had taken all pains to ascertain the true state of things before he declared them annulled. He found in them all manner of crimes. In 1761, the French Government appointed a special Commission to report on this Order. This Commission was made up and composed of thirty- fiv^e of the best and most prudent men that France had, only three of them being Protestants, the rest were Catholics. The conclusion of that Commission was that the Society by its teachings and examples autho- rized theft, lying, perjury, crime and murder, and that they were dangerous and disloyal to the state and cor- rupting to religion. That is what a Commission of Catholics said ; yet they want you and me to admit this people in Canada. These are the people and this the Order that has been incorporated in Quebec. Are you aware that the greatest and most deadly enemy that Great Britain has had for hundreds of years, has not been any one nation, but it has been the Roman Catholic Church, especially this Jesuitical element of it, that has inflamed nations against her. They have in- volved us in many wars and insurrections. It was a sad day for England, and especially so for Ireland, when Pope Gregory I. sent St. Augustine as Roman Catholic missionary to England, for they had none before that, and this same Pope consecrated him Archbishop of Canterbury and Metropolitan of England. In this act began the war that has raged from that day to this, especially in poor Ireland. Both countries had a church, a religion and a priesthood, and were at rest and peace until these people canie into their midst to disturb them. They will do it wherever they go, unless they are con- verted. They are not loyal ; and, if they are in har- iiPB WHAT TO no WITH Tin- jrsttits. 33 »f mony with Pope Pius IX. and with the present Pope- /.e., if they are j^ood Cathohcs -they rannot, as Mr Gladstone says in his Vatican Work, be good British subjects. If they obey the encycHcal of Pius IX. as well as that of the present Pope, they will destroy libe'rty of conscience, free schools, free speech and an open Bible. Are we prepared for this destruction ? I have a few Catholic friends here to-night. Are you good Catholics ? Then, if you are, you will have to seek to destroy all these things I have enumerated. If you can- not, you had better join Bond Street Church. My dear friends, I have given you another discourse on this subject. It will be widely spread. 1 have tried to be as careful in my statements as possible, and I shall remain open to correction or criticism by any man in the Dominion. If anybody can convince me that I have made any wilful error, I will honourably recant. May the good Lord guide us to the truth ! Amen. WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them : for this is the law and the prophets. - Matthew vii. 12. /T^HESE are wholesome words, expressive of a compre- X hensive principle that is very essential in our daily practice so long as we shall live together as families and as states and nations. The possibilities of the general application of the primary principle contained in these words stand very suitably over against the universal brotherhood of men. Family peace, state security and national prosperity, rest assured, can only be secured by acting on the Golden Rule. A noble few have strug- gled long and heroically in every age and in every country to enforce this rule. It has been tedious work to define and secure for the individual his birthright liberty, and it has taken a long time to define what the famil}' was and what were its claims and its sacred privileges. Unfortunately man has loved to rule and tyrannize over man, both in the Church and m the State. The masses have been and numerously are now under the iron rule of the autocrat or some oligarchy, or else subject to the kings, to the nobles, and to a rich favoured few ; but as sure as tlie mountains are levelling down under the influences of rain and moisture, frost and heat, so surely are these unreasonable and unchristian dis- tinctions gradually disappearing before the march of Christianity and civiHzation, as they spring from the Gospel. The Gospel of Jesus teaches us, and it means '•' 4J ;t ^•*, .•"■"fv^ '■Ml MMHMi WHAT TIIF. JKSUITS WII.I, DO. 35 that we are not to be slaves, nor to hold others in slavery, either in things temporal or in things spiritual ; and no man has authority, excepting; by the commission of his equal brethren, to lord it over them. We are brethren, and Christ only is our spiritual head. The Magna Charta of British hberty has not been rescinded, but it has been enlarged and will continue to grow until the full dawn of the millenial day. We are not going to turn our backs on the great privileges forged by the heroic fathers of that day for the liberties of the common people. As free men and Christians we cannot reasonably be expected to assent to the assumptions and claims of the Pope ; it is an outrageous demand to make upon a free man in the sight of his God even to consent to such a thing. By the authority of Heaven the Pope IS neither a temporal nor a spiritual sovereign. I will tell you what he is : he is simply the centre and head of a vast organization that has through the centuries grown to its present power and position ; an organization which history teaches us to interpret means power and wealth for a few and poverty and obedience for the many. In every case where it has absolute control, those are the real conditions of the people. The claims of the Pope, and the duties implied in the oath of a Cardinal or a Bishop or a Jesuit to his chief are incom- patible with the individual liberty and with natural freedom ; and I repeat to-night what the Hon. Mr. (jladstone said in his book on Vaticanism, " that no man can be a sincere and good Catholic and a loyal British subject." He has got to slight one or the other. I know some will say they can ; but I would simply point to what the church demands at their hands and asks faith in. If such persons are honest and true to their vows and oaths, they will labour to exterminate all heretics. I 36 WHAT TIIF. jr.SUITS WII.T. DO. ami subject all t:arthl}- tlirunt s and Dowers to the See of Rome. Where they have not the power they work anH wait, and when and where they have the power they vigorously carry out their own purposes and intentions. We tolerate them — nay, more, we have made them equal to ourselves before the law, both temporally and spiritually. This they have not done, and will not do voluntarily in any case where they have the privilege. Now, to sustain what I say, Roman Catholic Bishop O'Connor says : " Religious liberty is simply endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world." I believe, you, sir, I don't doubt you for a moment, because you have all history at your back. It has been so, and it will be so to-morrow as you say. The Cntholic Review says : " Protestant- ism of every form has not and never can have any rights where Catholicity is triumphant." There are lots of Catholics who do not believe that. You do not believe your Bishops. I believe them. I believe they tell the honest truth before their God. They would just do what they say if they had the power, and they are labouring in that direction as earnestly as do a hive of bees m a field of flowers to gather honey. The claims of the Pope are neatly summarized by Cardinal Man- ning, for he makes the Pope to say the following : '* I acknowledge no civil power ; I am the subject of no Prince ; and I claim more than this ; I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men — of the peasant that tills the fields and of the prince that sits upon the throne, and of the household that lives in privacy, and the legislator that makes laws for the king ; I am the sole, last and supreme judge of what is right and wrong." You are the supreme humbug (applause) and I might say a great deal worse. I simply say that :BSBamam mmmnmrnmrn I bf 4^ •m^Umitt. WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. 37 such language is blasphemous in the presence of God and makes us ashamed for the vanity of man. In the oath taken by the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church they have to swear tiie following : " Heretics, schismatics and rebels to our said Lord or liis aforesaid successors, I will to my utmost persecute and oppose." Now, friends, I ask you in all sincerity, Are we to believe the Pope and these men on their solemn oath ? I believe them. And that means for me that I must make a bold defence if 1 wish to preserve my liberties. If we do believe, we know that in the name of religion they are our sworn enemies, individu- ally, in the family, in the state and in the nation ; and I will defy Father Hands or any other Catholic priest or any Catholic brother m Toronto to reconcile freedom with a statement like that as given by their own authori- ties. There is no possibility of a reconciliation. And you and I as Christians and Protestants are positively pledged to be their triends. In the name of our religion we can not either persecute or force their consciences to our ideas. We stand before them with a liberal hand and ask for them what we ask for ourselves and in no case can we persecute them. If we took an oath when we were converted and gave ourselves to God it is that we accept the golden rule and do unto all men as we would that they should do unto us. That rule must govern. We cannot in the name of our religion and in the name of our country, and in the name of our child- ren, and in the name of liberty, and in the name of God persecute — we can resist ; we must restrain them from carrying cut their unauthorized and unholy mtentions. That is our duty and in doing tliis they at once raise the cry of persecution and many good uatured Pro- testants are misled and say, "Oh, let them alone," WBimTMlWWMIWWi 3« WHAT TIIK JKSUITS WILL DO. when it simply means, as they gain additional power, greater dangers to all the liberties of the human family. The Jesuits' oath is still more binding and obliga- tory on its members, and more blasphemous and dangerous to Protestants. This oath has been fre- quently printed in our public journals of late, hence I will not repeat it. Some of our Catholic friends deny that it is the real oath. They do nc"^ know any more about it than I do, unless they are Jesuits. What I simply want to say is, I have read that oath, and the published one is as nearly hke the original as one can possibly get. There may be a slight variation in the wording of it, but the main idea is there. As we have a few Jesuits in Toronto, they will, no doubt, correct this statement, if not true. It is not sufficient, nor is it evidence, for tliem to say that it is not so ; they nuist show wherein it is wrong and give us the correct one. If tiiey do so under conditions that are binding, why, of course, we will acknowledge our error. They do believe that the end justifies the means. They can hold the truth in mental reservation, hence it is hard to argue with them or to know when to believe them. 1 called your attention some time ago to a case that trans- pired in the Province of Quebec two years ago in con- nection with a lawsuit in which the Beaupr^ Asylum played a part. One of the lawyers engaged upon the case, a Roman Catholic too, asked a prominent gentle- man of Quebec, who was i.i the witness stand, whether, if he, knowing a thing to be true, could swear that it was not, if the Church required it, and he replied that he could, and what is more, that he would. Now, what could 1 do in court with such a man as that ? He could swear the truth to be a lie, if it were for the interest of his Church. Under such circumstances, if the real oath i iijii i .n i i ii iir i n wii MMH WHAT THE JliSUlTS WILL DO. 39 were produced, it would be very difticult for us to tell whether it was the true one or not ; so 1 will take it for granted that the one that has been published is the true one until a better one is substituted. The Kev. Father Whelan lectured last Sunday even- ing Feb. 24th, in the city of Ottawa, in defence of the Jesuits. I take the following from the Ottawa Citizen of Feb. 25th : " He said that it had been urged that obedience even unto sin was a tenet of the Jesuits ; but no one who knows Latin could hold any such belief. They promise in all cases obedience where there is no sin." That is craftily put, and no one will gain the reward he has offered. The chief point in \ne Jesuit oath is obedience. Whatever they do, be it in the nature of good or bad, if they obey their superior, they believe tliey are doing right. They do not swear in the whole oath to do the right and be the judges of the right individually themselves. Obedience is their virtue and disobedience is a sin. How can they sin then when they obey their superiors in everything ? Father Whelan knows perfectly well that no individual Jesuit has liberty to determine what is right or what is wrong. A Jesuit swears to implicitly obey his superiors in all he is commanded to do ; hence, in all cases, they promise obedience where there is no sin for the simple reason there cannot be sin in their meaning while they are obeying their commands. Father Whelan having, as he thinks, hid $500 in the Jesuit web of sophistry goes on to say the following: " I will give $500 to any one who can produce a bona fide passage from Jesuit pre- cepts to show that the end justifies the means. The offer is good until the 12th of July next." That is so, I suppose, that the Orangemen may have a chance. Now, I will become liberal also. 1 will give ^^501 to Father 40 WHAT THE JESUITS VVlI-l. DO. Whelan or any other person who will produce the bona fide precepts and oath of the Jesuits so as to satisfy the Jesuits. This will be easy, as he can have access to the Jesuit authorities. He must know more than I do. Let him produce the oath and the precepts of secret instructions to the Jesuits before a jury of six Catholics and six Protestants in the city of Toronto. My offer shall stand good until July 13th next. If Father Whelan should lose his caie and be out of pocket by coming to Toronto, I will put him in the way of earning II502 by proving before the same jury that my late friend, Arch- bishop Lynch, is in purgatory or out of it. I do not care which side he takes ; he can have his choice. I want to show you this — that a man can ask a question which no man can prove or disprove. His offer of $500 is on a line that he knows no man can prove or disprove ; so is my offer. I daresay his audience thought he was very manly when he offered what he knew, Jesuitically, nobody could get. This last offer of mine shall stand until the 12th July, 1890, to give him a good chance. The Jesuits will continue their craity policy of crush- ing out Protestantism when, how, and wherever they can. They will divide the State, weaken the throne, as they have the power and opportunity ; they will incite to rebellion, insurrection and war to carry their point, as they have done in the past. They beheve in the temporal and spiritual sovereignty of the Pope, and they will work night and day to bring the same to pass. They want everbody under the I'ope, and the Pope under them. History will have to be rewTitten, even by Roman Catholic historians, before rx:iy one of conunon sense can honestly believe to the contrary. Anyway the Roman Catholic Chmcli has too much political -:)«| MMMBK' WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. 41 influence to make for the prosperity, the peace, and the unity of the Province of Ontario or the Dominion of Canada. I have no objections to its religion ; nor would I trouble myself five minutes about it ; but I do object that men shall take an oath to exterminate me, and then, if I happen to say a Jesuit might be shot, if you could find one, meaning that under the British law there is no such a person and, therefore, you could not find one to shoot at ; yet even, if I said it literally, I did not take an oath ; still these men have taken the oath, and if they had the power, they would persecute and ex- tinguish me. There is nothing wrong in their taking the oath, oh, no ; but what I said is called a rebellious utterance. We should remember that foreign allegiance spiritu- ally, always and everywhere is political insecurity and danger at home. We have had a fine illustration in the short history of Canada, on this point. The Episcopal Methodists of Canada were one and the same body with those in the United States, but in the agitations that culminated in the rebellion of 1837 they were obliged to separate from their friends in the United States, as public opinion would not favour a religious body in Canadc* that had its headquarters in the United States. Why, then, should it be thought strange that we do not look favourably upon the Jesuits whose headquarters are in Italy and who are a hundred times more dangerous than all the Methodists put together, and ten times more disloyal than a Methodist ever knew how to be ? If Canadians demanded that the Methodists should sepa- rate from their brethren in the United States lest it might influence them, so on that same ground I demand that Roman Catholics and all be separated from Italy, a country far away over the ocean. They have no more n i i ninnr'i i ' i i i ' \ rf >--^■~^~«mm■«o^^•^lL■^^:g■-i^ tflk^MMMMH 42 WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. right to that recognition than my Methodist brethren had. We dismantled the Church of England and the old kirk, and placed them on an equal level with all tlie other churches. Their clergy reserves we brought into the common market and levelled them up with ours. Why should we be afraid of the Jesuits and the Roman Catholics ; why not equalize and level them up ? They are the least worthy in this respect than any of them, that is a public recognition. It were far better to have recognized the Church of England as a state church, and to have allowed her her privileges and reserves than to allow these people to gain their properly and special privileges as they are doing in our Dominion. What have the Jesuits done the last seven years since they have been driven out of France and made our country a special rendezvous ? First. Under the disguised name of Oblat Fat^c''s they are incorporated in the North West TeriitOiies. Large tracts of land have been conveyed unto them, I am credibly informed by a man who knows, and accumu- lations of other property have been made easy at their hands, and they are gathering a large amount of farming lands and the best sites of that North Western country mto their possession, In the second place, they then began to interfere with legislation wherever that legisla- tion might seem to be opposed to them ; hence came their resistance to the Orange Bill, which, I am sorry to say, was only too successful. In the third place, they then got an Act of Incorporation in their own real name in the Province of Quebec. In the fourth place, they then claimed the ancient estates of the Jesuitical Order that existed more than one liundred years ago, and actually to keep them quiet the}- have received $400,000. What would be thought in Ontario if, when after the m m:m '^r'- r WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. last Of these English Church ministers and old kirk m.n,sters who were commuted by the Governmem shall have passed from oflF this scene of existence a new order should arise some years hence, and dema'nd these clergy reserves back, and will not be satisfied unless they get the land, or their equivalent in mo^ ' -what would we say to that ? This is the proper waj o present th.s question so that the public can seeThe hemous nature of it. In the fifth place, then, they Legisla ure, as they d.d a couple of weeks ago. In the sixth p ace. then, they make the people of Quebec place, they then began to force to the front, and to ^egahze as far as prudent, the temporal pow^r of the Pope. True, Dr. Trudel's motion to that effect in the one hke it. will be passed through that Legislature before long You see how they are at work They eld a pubhc meeting in our Capital. Ottawa, last ^Neek. and our Senators and Members of Parliament were there to advocate the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope. They are not slow workers you must remember In the eighth place, they began to attack Ontario through our public schools, in the teach- ■ng of a foreign language and the Roman Catholic Cate- chism 11. the schools in the Eastern Townships and in Essex to the West ; and so they have come within our borders In the ninth place they began to divide our political parties, and so gain power and special legis- lation, and they have that power at this present day. 1 he great problem for Protestants and liberal Catholics t<>day is, \\'hat balance of power is to be raised up to offset this Catholic power ? They can put .n a Liberal I : 44 WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. Government or a Conservative one in either Dominion or Ontario Legislature whenever they choose. Will we allow them to have this power much longer, or shall we by some method agree to sink our party differences for the time and give them what is their due, and our- selves our just rights. I believe it will be done. In the tenth place, they are preparing for education on a large scale in Quebec by having a university which will have the blessings and special degrees granted from the Pope of Rome. They will, I have not the slightest doubt, when that college is established, receive support for it from the Province of Quebec, as Maynooth Col- lege, in Ireland, received nearly $2,000,000 from the British Government, for they never could keep a school going of their own money. The most astonishing thing to my mind is this, that nine out of every ten of the priests who graduate from Maynooth, as soon as they leave the college, curse our Queen until they are black in their faces. Whenever I see these men at a meeting where " God save the Queen " is being sung, and see that they refuse to lift their hats during the singing, I am vexed, especially when I remember, as the fact is, that if it had not been for the Queen's money they would not have hats to wear nor boots upon their feet, but would have been, many of them, wearing brogans and trampling through the bogs of Ireland this day. They are actually educated by British money, and this is the return they give. They will make Quebec sup- port their university. In the eleventh place, they will raise the cry of religious toleration, and so divide Pro- testants throughout the Dominion. That is what they are doing now, and I have no doubt Father Hand will harp on this string a little to-night in his discourse. In the twelfth place, they will not cease to work until they are put down. ,«i.ii'.rnijj.j WHAT THE JESUITS WILL DO. I believe we must cultivate a Canadian sentiment. Our schools must become .more Canadian I have a little poem here from the Third Reader that was once used m our public schools many years ago. It ou^ht to be read m our public schools again. Hurrah ! hurrah for Canada, Her woods and valleys green, Hurrah for dear old England, Hurrah for England's Queen ; Good ships be on her waters, Firm friends upon her shore, Peace, peace within her borders, And plenty in her store. Right loyally we are singing, To all nations make it known That we love the land we live in. And our Queen upon her throne. Long may the sons of Canada Continue as they have been. True to their native country And faithful to their Queen. Let us, my friends, whilst we agitate this question, do so earnestly and kindly, praying always that Divine Providence will guide us, and that our work may reach a successful issue. Amen. wmft0iiiSRmsmmmmtmimm*'<'>i^^ V GREAT BRITAIN AND PROTES- TANTISM AND OUR DUTY. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work ; only He who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way. — 2 Thes- SALONIANSii. 7. LOOKED at trom a human standpoint, with our limited knowledge of an over-ruHng Providence, we are sometimes led to wonder why God lets some people live and some institutions exist. The mystery of iniquity worketh confusion and destruction. This is especially true of the Jesuit Society. When and wherever they have had a civil status in any state or country on an average of twenty-five years, they have caused rebellion and war without a single exception. What will they do in Canada ? What has the future in reserve ? Will they and we be an exception to the past ? I hope so. I will do my best in that direction. Their incorporation in the Province of Quebec forces a choice of two things upon us as Canadians, either to suppress them by constitutional means now, or by the sword and force later on. W'e can do either; for the first is our privilege, and power simply waits on our willingness to suppress them if they rise. I have no sympathy with those among us who cry peace at the cost of a future war. I would rather fight myself than leave the legacy for my children. (Applause) Let us remember that this Jesuit question can be easier handled now, both for the good of Protestants and Roman CathoHcs, than it can in future years. GREAT HRITAIN AND PROTESTANTISM. 47 Again, I have no sympathy with those among us who fear and predict that the agitation of this question will lead to the breaking up of our Confederation. It will do nothing of the kind. Confederation is here to stay, with Imperial Federation right behind it. Pro- testantism is here to stay; Britain is hereto stay; the Queen is on her throne to stay ; free schools are here to stay ; free speech is here to stay, and liberty of con- science is an heritage that will never again be taken from us. Neither from threats nor through evils of tolerated aggression, which in our country the last few years have been great, must we infer that Protestantism will become the servant of Roman Catholicism, or Canadians be ruled by Quebec, or Britain become sub- ject to the See of Rome. Not one of these things can be. The Jesuits and Roman Catholics and the French are old foes that Britain and Protestantism have met before in contests and wars many times, and in every case she has finally come off victorious, and will do so any other time, and if forced to it will fight to victory again. The Wolfes, the Wolseleys and the Middletons are not all dead, nor are their trusty followers, and it may be that some brave Montcalm shall lead our oppo- nents, and, like him, say when dying: " I have got my death by fighting against the bravest soldiers in the world, at the head ot the greatest cowards that ever carried muskets." The Roman Catholic laity may thank God for the existence of Great Britain and Protestantism. Had it not been for these two forces Rome would have kept them in ignorance, in poverty and in slavery as she did in the middle ages, and as she does now wherever she has full control. There is no exception to this thing. Cardinal Manning, that earnest Roman Catholic and '8iB*i ■■»f»«#-»' wwiS'^sf^^vsm-'.- ' 48 r.RF.AT BRITAIN AND PROTESTANTISM. ,t V ^ very good Englishman in many respects, perceives what a strong fort Britain is against the aggressive policy of Rome : so in one of his speeches delivered a few years ago in the city of London, England, he said the follow- ing : " If ever there was a land in which work was to be done and perhaps much to suffer, it is here. I shall not say too much if I say we have to subjugate and subdue, to conquer and rule an imperial race. We have to bend or break that will which nations and kingdoms have found inflexible. Were heresy conquered in England, it would be conquered throughout the world." I believe you, sir. You are a far-seeing man. Britain stands in defence of liberty which both my Roman Catholic friends and we are enjoying to-day, which neither of us would have had had it not been for her. As surely as God fixed the bounds of old ocean, saying, " Here shalt thy proud waves go, and no further ! " so has Great Britain set and bound the proud ambition of Rome for hundreds of years. The claims and aims of Jesuitism are most certainly incompatible with our ideas of freedom. They are against our constitution and against the very things we hold the most sacred. We claim liberty of conscience, freedom of speech, a free press, free schools, and an open Bible Pope Pius IX., in his encyclical letter of December 8, 1864, denounced in severe terms these things, and the present Pope has united with him in several of his encyclical letters. Now is it to be sup- posed that at the bidding of the Pope, an Italian, we will yield up these rights that we enjoy so much — never. In one of these letters the Pope makes the following statements — I want you to notice them for they are remarkable : First — " The Romish Church has a right to exercise its authority without any limit set to it by ■aMHkMWHMMMa GREAT BRITAIN AND PROTESTANTISM. 49 the civil power." Second—" The Pope and the priests ought to have dominion over the temporal forces." — Third — " The Romish Church and her ecclesiastics have a right to immunity from civil laws." Fourth — " In case of conflict between the ecclesiastical and civil powers, the ecclesiastical powers ought to prevail." Besides, the Jesuits tell us plainly what they want. They want our Queen to be subject to the Pope, and Protestantism totally annihilated and Roman Catholic- ism to take its place. I, for one, am not favourable to any such change. The Pope's demand and Jesuits' claims we cannot concede without losing our liberty and the whole of our Constitution ; and I am surprised that any man or woman who has breathed the free air of Britain should ever ask for such things, even though he or she be a Jesuit or a Roman Catholic. It seems so inconsistent. Her Majesty is a Protestant ruler, and her successors must be so by law. Her throne is a Protestant throne, independent and absolute by law. Now to a people with such claims and aims as the Jesuits, should we grant special favours, ai 1 put into their hands special powers by legislation, which powers they shall use to our destruction ? I say, No, a thou- sand times ? (Applause) All you have got to do is to believe what they say. They just say what I have stated : they would turn us up side down and put us under side. Still they wonder that we are not patient and quiet, and why we do not take this thing kindly, and they charge us with insolence and bigotry ! The Lord bless us, a man has got to live some way. We may tolerate them in a limited way, but we should not be guilty of hastening our own destruction by giving them all they want, and even liberties and favours we deny to Protestant organizations, I have no objection to these ■ViffiKKWiatK*''' ^ ■I 50 GRF.Ar r.RITAIN WD PROTF.ST.WTISM. B brethren kissing the Pope's toe as a matter of etiquette and as a matter of reverence, if they will allow mr to do the same thinj; for fun if I choose to do so ; hut not compel mc. Now a word or two with reference to priests Whelan and Hand. Priest Whelan has not yet produced the true Jesuit oath, so I have yet my $501. He has not yet proved whether my late friend Archbishop Lynch is in purgatory or out of it. Indeed, I see by an Ottawa evening journal, March 4th, that priest Whelan now says that there is no such a thini^ as a Jesuit oath. So that settles it, if \ ou can believe him. He still clings to the statement he made that no Roman Catholic writer or Jesuit author says that the end justifies the means. I will give you one or two quotations : Rev. Herman Busembaum, born in Westphalia in 1600, died January 31st, 1668, in Miinster, in his lifetime was Rector of a Jesuit College in Miinster. He pub- lished a work called " Medulla Theologiae Moralis," from which I will make the following quotation : " Ciun fiuis est licitus, etiam niedta sunt licita,'' which, when literally translated is : " When the end is lawful, the means are likewise lawful." And still worse than that he says: " C«/ licitus est finis, etiam licent media,'' which means : " To whom the end is lawful the means also have a price put upon them (or the means are also for sale)." The doctrine of indulgence is more than hinted at in a passage like that. The Rev. Paul Lay- mann, the German Jesuit, and author of several works, was born in 1576 at Innsbriick, and died November 13th, 1635, ^t Constance. In his book " Morahs Theologiae," he says: ''Cut concessns est finis, concessa etiam sunt media ad finem ordinate,'' meaning " To whom the end is conceded, the means are likewise granted, in order to S'.-Ji^-^* i'^vga^Pi£j^^.ii3fc GRF.AT BRITAIN NN'D PROTI'ST ANTISM. 51 the end." Quotations of this kind, from Jesuit authors, I could give you by the hundred had I the time. I sec by the paper that when priest Whelan's attention was called to these two authorities he said he did not know them. That may bo so ; but if he be as i* PROTESTANTISM. ^'ivu to priest Hand, or lie can go to tlie Statutes of 1883 and he will find it there. These people were incorporated on the very day the Oranj^fe Bill was rejected. This Provincial Secretary of Manitoba must be a new man. When his Parliament meets, I hope he will ask for the complete returns of the various incor- porated Societies in the North-West, that my friend, priest Hand, may be a little better informed. I have a farm of about 200 acres, which I bought and paid for with my own money. I pay taxes on it. I accept no allowance or rebate, but pay my taxes in full, as every honest man ought to do. I would like my friend. Arch- bishop Tach^ to give me, as a brother farmer, some little information as to how he gets along with his big farm, 5,120 acres of choice land that the Government' gave him for the part he took in settling the first Riel rebellion, a rebellion that, if he did not take part in creating, I am under the conviction he could have stopped had he been so disposed. No doubt his ^^rm is better than mine, for the simple reason that, b( ^s its being entirely free, he has no taxes of any kind to pay, and he got with it several thousands in cash as a bonus also. The next time he sends down a despatch to Toronto to priest Hand, I hope my neighbour will be good enough to ask him how he is getting on with his farm, because he evidently does not know anything about incorporated institutions, but may be posted in farming for aught I know. The Superiors of the Jesuit and Oblat Orders know nothing about it, he says. Well, if they do not, they are very ignorant. It is really hard to speak kindly of men who will persist in proclaiming broadcast positive untruths. Then as to the Cabinet minister at Ottawa. If he really said what priest Hand avers he said he ought to C.RKAT BRITAIN AND PROTESTANTISM. 53 be ashamed of himself. Such language would not have been allowed in the House of Commons ; the Speaker would have called him to order. My advice to that honourable gentleman is to take a course in etiquette, so as to find more appropriate words, even if he wants to tell a story or to manifest his ignorance ; let him do so in a more gentlemanly manner. In such a man, if he really sent that despatch, his ignorance is unpardon- able. Fancy a Cabinet minister stating such an incor- poration never took place. Of course I am crediting priest Hand with having received the despatches. I am not going to question him on that point. It would be a graceful act for those Superiors of the Jesuit Society and of the Oblats to tell us how many Jesuits there are. It would be a nice thing for them to make a return of how much land these Oblats are in possession of, and how much they paid for it. Let the Secretary of the Province of Manitoba ask these questions, and the answers would put him to shame, if the proper returns were made. Last Sunday evening, in Notre Dame church, Montreal, priest Daniel said " there was not a family in the country which prides itself on noble char- acter which has not a son a Jesuit." They are more general than we have any idea of. If we are to take this priest's statement they are widespread throughout the country, and we know not who they are ; yet they are our sworn enemies. We have the best right to banish such characters from our country, for it is neither right for me nor for my Catholic friends who are not Jesuits to be moving in society in the presence of such dangerous enemies as they are, through their oath and as they have exhibited in their past conduct. Priest Hand, last Sunday evening, gave a Hst of fifteen private bequests given to the Jesuits in the seventeenth i i' I llliiWll 1l'~ " ■"[illl •^" 54 GREAT BRITAIN AND PROTESTANTISM. century. I do not, nor does a single writer that I am aware of, deny this. This is not the point we are touch- ing, but it is a very convenient one for him to harp upon in order to avoid the riglit one. Let priest Hand tell his people that even these private gifts, like Crown pro- perty, were only in trust to the Jesuits and not their own. Besides these private gifts the Crown gave largely. J^ritain conquered Quebec from France in 1759. After that conquest Quebec became British. What belonged to Louis XV. went by right of conquest into the hands of George lit. His Majesty King George had a right to adminster these trusts and estates as it pleased him, whether they were crown trusts or private trusts. He gave the Jesuits time to wind up their affairs and sell all they could sell, and they sold much. Then he was generous enough, when some of them com- plained that they would be impoverished, to grant them a yearly annuity as long as they lived. Phre Cazot, who died in 1800, was the last of those who had received the annuity from the British Government. By the con- quest and the statutory laws of Great Britain the Jesuit Society was civilly disallowed by the very act of con- quest. That I proved to you by the laws of the land in a former sermon. But to make it sure, in 1774 a Royal Imperial Decree was issued for their extinction and sup- pression. Now, the Roman Catiiolic Church could not become the civil custodian of these Jesuit estates, becuse it was not, and is not now, an incorporation in any country in the world. A people not incorporated can- not receive trusts. That is common sense. Some writers say that because these Jesuits were Catholics that their property should have fallen to the Cluircli. 1 r^ay in reply, the Church was not then, and is not now an incorporated body ; hence, could not receive such ,r;^,y^^BFi»y^^'irr»wi \- tami GHRAT RR.TA.N AND PROTESTANTISM. 55 because on% "T"^"^ '^"^^ '^'^ '"-'^ -cessary because on July 23, .773, Pope Clement XIV had would ten an .n.uth -.Iro^ally td ^LTS surely forgets h.mself when he says that the Bull of s" pression .ssued by Pope clement did not include Cat hSe ffrh.s h" \" ''"'"' '"'^'^"^^ '»'-«' -Wch I hope for h,s honour he will correct. The Bull has no country or territorial limitations, and Canada lasTot exempt from ,t. It was directed against the oTder a says, .n all parts of the world wheresoever it exfs^;d Canada was then a part of the world, and is gomg to ema„, so to the end. How a man m the face of the e iosTt^rnoT^^* -"""^^ " '"' "' -" '^"<^- ' - -: The present Order is a new one. It is not a con V u ' ^"^' "^**^'' ^ "ew order of lesuits ago bo^h' :r ■"". "^"-Z- ^°- ' ''^' "-" '^eid 'o5 cwn states ''T J ""'' """^- '' "'^^ l'^^" -ithouf c.v,l status, or dead, 114 years. Quebec takes hold of No. a, created by Pms VII.. and g.ves it a civil status can'^ot^ ZT ""T T'r-'^' *°"^ '°"^ ^g°- ^^ cannot by law make the first claim upon what No. i had It .s a v.x,nder to me that some of these men don t make a c an„ upon some Jews for the thirty pieces of silver that Judas Iscadot threw down, and ask con,pound uUerest on it, for he „„,st have a successor ; and I have „o doubt that some of our politicians would be wilhng to make a grant towards the same if the Jesmls shouhl ask them. Pncst Hand sai.i, •' Strong is >e awof iheualions i„ lavour of the preservation of ll'e Jesuits estates." So strong, my dear sir. that none ■li mimmimsimmiff ■ S6 GREAT BRITAIN AND PROTESTANTISM. of the seventy nations and countries from which they were expelled ever gave them back their property. Britain is the only one that ever gave them an annuity, and how ungrateful they have been ! Do not talk so much like my name about these things, but let us have reason and truth. Now, my friendb, I have stated what 1 believe to be absolute truth. I am glad the agitation is going on, and I hope it will continue. I hope the result will be what we desire. Let us stand by the truth, by our rights. Let the disloyal man go under ; let the truthful man live, and loyal citizens enjoy their just rights in this country. May God guide and direct us through it all. Amen. ST. PATRICK AND IRELAND. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples ; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. — i Cor. x. ii. TJ E is a wise man who always walks in the light of his jl own experience, and they are a wise people who take counsel from the past. A nation should not be guilty of forgetting to read correctly its own history. To please a class or party or sect history should not be falsified, for both the successes and failures of the past will help us to a clearer knowledge of the present, and better qualify us for duty and for action. I am sorry that in our beloved Canada some of our school books have been * ST. PATRICK AND IREr.AND. ,y trimmed to a modesty that does not teach the scholar the whole truth. What tt^ ,«^ ^ scnoiar is the fact that h^PM,' ' " Congregationalist, olerant ' Whit ! f""' °^ ^'^ ^"«'^"d ^«^« '"' iul I . ^* " " '° ■"«' standing in the increased l.ght and charity of the close of the Jneteen h centu'v ■f they appear as a band of persecutors, and as a narrow minded and bigoted serf ? ifti, *k- "*"" "s a narrow- whether it }Jr ■ ^"""^ ^^ "^"«' »" "ght ; whether it be Congregationalism or anything else If you are going to write history, write U. and Veil the tti Fact h'^ '^""^ '^ ^""-' -d let it be rvtas a whol '~' T '''' '' '^"•'^""^ ^-^^ed, will o Jrow .1 ^''°'?°'"^ '«^=°" ""to "S- It is well enough o grow eloquent over the deep blue sea and the placid features of our beautiful lake^ h„t .f n """ '"^.P'^cid n^t Uf f "uciiui laKes, but at the same time do "Ot let us forget to buoy and mark the sunken rocks sand bars and the other dangerous places. Do not for-' ge to put beacon lights for the guidance of those iZ toil on these great waters. It ,s most necessary that the weajcnesses and dangers of the past be faithfully re an J'witt°"'^K"'' ^°"''" '^'''''""^ ^"-><1« •'— St tilt "\''^""^^ ^- ■■-*'' and write and want aught the true history of their popes, their hierarchy. he Jesuits and the church ? Why read and talk abou Ind m?th J^' P"^""'* ^"^ ^''«" be condemned and mouth-gagged about the persecution and the vile and incestuous conduct of the Jesuits .' Why do vou ITtln 1° TT" ""' '''^'"'' ^^ Congregationalists, and tell ine to close my mouth when 1 turn to the enor- m^s of a people of your faith ? Tell the truth about >oth of thern. That is the only fair and square way to do, and every man of us who wants to wince under the same, do so. If we believe the Roman historians, there '.ever was on earth a sect so corrupt, so villainous, so :l 5« ST. PATRICK AND IRELANb. deceptive and so hypocritical. Does it not strike you as strange that anybody would undertake to defend a vile corporation like this — that is, if you believe Roman Catholic historians. I shall not quote from the Protest- ants, because I could keep you a week quoting from the others. If I believe the Roman Catholic historians, I would just as soon set up to defend the devil as to defend the Jesuits. Remember what 1 have told you aforetime. These Jesuits were expelled from over seventy states and countries, four-fifths of which were Roman Catholic ; cursed and denounced as being hypocritical and corrupt by eleven popes ; and finally, after full examination, and being fully convinced of their hellish spirit and satanic work. Pope Clement dissolved them. He says : " We do out of our certain knowledge and the fulness of our Apostolic power suppress and abolish the said Com- pany, so that the name of llie Company shall be, and is forever, extinguished and suppressed. Our will and pleasure is that our letters shall forever and to all eter- nity be valid, permanent and efficacious." Tliat is pretty good. I don't think you could get stronger language than that. I don't think you could extinguish a man or society in stronger terms than these ; but in spite of this evidence — think of it — priest Flan- nery, of St. Thomas, priest Hand, of Toronto, and priest Whelan, of Ottawa, have actually had the auda- city to stand forth as defenders of this corrupt society, and by so doing traduce their OAvn Popes, defame their own church and belie their own historians. Shame on them. (Applause.) If these priests are right, then the otiiers are wrong. If the others are right, then these priests arc found false witnesses before God and before man. Anyway they are all Roman Catholics, so the lie and the libel is between lliem, and not with us, thank ^^m ST. PATRICK AND IRELAND. ^„ the good Lord. Honestly, why should anybody think ■t strange that a Protestant Queen, a Protestant Gole" ment, a Protestant people, a Protestant country and a Protestant Empire should not believe in the Jesuits when a majoruy of the Roman Catholics themse/ves do "ot ? Why does pr,est Hand ask me to be a believer ma sect condemned by h.s own people in a majo ty" He asks a very unrea.sonable thing, as any man wilHn a moment see. I had hoped that priest Hand, m h" ast Sunday evenmg's discourse, would have offs;t some of my arguments or given some fresh argumentsin favour of the Jesuits. His whole d.scourse. howevl . I find, as far as reported, was an indictment against France, agamst Italy, against Spain, against Poftuga and agamst Pope Clement, the latter of which he thS was m.smformed and unduly influenced. Too bad tha these Roman Catholic countries had not more piety and ense, and that the infallible Pope Clen.ent should have been so .gnorant and so weak as pointed out by Father Hand. I would recommend a little more infallibility for the present Pope, because he might commit about the same error, and some priest in fifty years stand up to condemn h,m for it is a serious thing to be condemn ■ng a ,nan who is infallible. I hope priest Hand will clear himself of the perjury 1 charged him with lit Sunday evening, or at least be manly enough to apolo- gize. By his own word^ he made it necessary for me to priest, not satisfied with deso- latinj^ a j^reater portion of the continent of Europe, has fastened upon and is eating away one of the fairest countries of the United Kingdom." He was right. Tf Romanism and Jesuitism were banished from Ireland, in fifty years thereafter the island and the people wouKl be one of the most prosperous and happy of nations on this earth. Some priests are always at some dirty and disloyal work. Talk about Home Rule! Out of over 1,000 Pro- testant ministers in Ireland only eight were in favour oi the Home Rule movement as ])roposed by Parnell. Every grand jury, every board of trade, and hundreds of the best Catholic families have i)ronounced against it, besides one and one-half millions of loyal Protestants; yet we have men here talking about Home Rule as wanted by a few priests. A certain measure of Homt Rule will be granted to Ireland without doubt, as also to England, Scotland and Wales; but it will not be of the kind those disloyal priests want. To hear them talk you would suppose the\ had the whole of Ireland at their back, when, as the fact is, they have only about two counties in the whole country. Ireland was never so prosperous as she is now, and the people never had more money in the banks than at the present time. Land in the county of York here is dearer per acre for rent than it is in Ireland. There they raise more per acre and get a better price for it than we do here. In Ireland the landlord cannot fix his own rent ; the tenant can have it fixed for him by the court. Then he can shirk it for four or five years, and cannot be put off for ST. PATRICK AND IRKJ.AN'n. 67 a certain time ; yet he ran sell his rigfit and his improve- Mients. and oftentimc.s can obtain more for thtm than the rent oi (ho far.n. Wnut mv out a farmer in any part of this world who is so proterled. You will have great difficulty in doing so. I can pul ;, tenant out of my house much sooner than can be done in Ireland. Why, then, with the protection they have, should they grumble ? They have been taught to grumble. In an essay on - The Times," written by a barrister, the Rev Father Rogers, a Roman Catholic priest, speaking at a meetmg of Conservatives, held at Leominster, in Ping- land, in January, 1888, said : - They had heard a ty. All right ! I wonder why they don't give us a chance. So long as they get what they want, it is not probable they will say very much ; but the moment we begin to ask for what we want they tell us to keep quiet. Thev are always ready to fight. Whether it is natural to the religion they profess, or not, I cannot say ; but a Roman l^atholic has no compunction in .sawing off the tail of a horse, maiming an animal, burning down a house, or even committing murder. Last Sunday evening when Father Chiniquv was lecturing in Shaftesbury Hall we are told a young woman arose in the congregation and cried out as she passed to the door, " You old turncoat, you ought to be burned at the stake." This poor, deluded servant girl had the spirit of the doctrine in her. That is what they would do to Chiniquy and some of us had they but the power. It is in the religion, is this spirit. In my opinion, any man who could and would blow Hngland up would get a mighty big indulgence from the Pope, and I am sure he would get a free pass through purgatory, and take a seat with Guy Fawkes and the other notables who tried to perform that feat but failed. Of these worthy scoundrels, Guy Fawkes & Co., Car- dinal Manning says : " On earth they wore the garb of felons ; in heaven they stand arrayed in white, and 74 GOD, THE gUREN, AND THE POPE. crowned. Here they were arraigned in the dock as malefactors; there they sit by the throne of God." Don't you think if some fellows could successfully blow Engjland up, that they would get as ^rood a place as the scoundnls of whom Cardinal Manning speaks ? Wherever Rome has had power she has used it. That is why I say that every Roman Catholic priest in this country should be compelled to take an oath of loy- alty to the sovereign, the country and its laws ; because while they hold these latent forces and powers we are always'in danger, not knowing when they will put them into operation. Let us take an instance. Pope Innocent III., knowing the English were much divided, issued a bull disposing of King John's crown, and absolving all the people from their allegiance to the Kmg. He ordered that the churches be closed, the dead be unburied, the Sacraments suspended. This interdict lasted for six 3^ears and three months. People buried their dead in their own gardens, in ditches and on the highways until poor Kmg John liad to yield the contest or the whole country, by fever and disease, would have been destroyed from the corrupting of the dead above the ground. When John, however, had submitted, in a short time after, the people rose in their might, and ni 1 215 forced from the King the great Magna Charta, and so hurled back the bull of the Pope, telling him that they were free men. And we are their children. Then let us prove worthy of our sires, and be men ourselves. It IS better for us to meet these encroachments in their infancy than in years to come. The Pope, after this charter was granted, issued a bull annulling it, which led to another war, in which the people were victorious. Give Rome liberty, and immediately the hierarchy abuse it ; hcncr in times past it was found necessary to clot), TIl!<: ()UEHN, AND THE POPE. 75 deprive them ot certain liberties and rights. Many, not understanding, look upon the thing as intolerant. The reason is, the Church invariably interfered by its bulls, decrees, and nullified or modified the laws of the land. The Roman Catholics may be said not to have been fully emancipated in England until 1867. Prior to that time no Roman Catholic could serve on a jury, for instance. Why keep him off a jury ? He ought to be kept off Just as soon as they were fully emancipated, which took place in 1867, as I have said, the Pope, in October, 1869, two years after they had this liberty, issued a bull in which excommunication is denounced against any one suing a priest. Just think of this. Let a priest be arrested for any guilt and brought before a court for trial with a mixed jury of Protestants and Catholics. /Vhich way are these Catholics going, whether the man be guilty or not ? Are they going to condemn ihe priest, and go to hell themselves, or set the priest free, and get free of purgatory ? They are going to do the latter. It is not possible for one Catholic out of 100 to be true and faithful to the evidence in England with such a law. Some people still say, Why deprive people? I ask, Why give them rights which they cannot rightfully use ? I would be very sorry to be tried before a mixed jury of that kind. The Hon. Mr. Gladstone has well said: " Rome requires a convert to forfeit his moral and mental freedom, and to place his loyalty and civil duty at the mercy of another." With the aims and claims of the Pope, the Jesuits and the Roman hierarchy, it seems to me our duty is clearly defined. In spite of our denominationaiism, in spite of our party politics, it does seem to me that every man and woman should stand up for the truth of equal- ity, for the brotherhood, for the fear of God, for the i'^3 iuMLiii: 76 GOD, THE yUEEN, AKD THE POl'E. honour of our Oueen, irrespective of our. sects, or races, or parties. At the next elections, both local and general, every candidate ought to be pledged on this point. No man, whatever he may be, whether Independent, Tory or Grit, should be given the suffrages of the people unless he will resist the encroachments of Jesuitism. This is fair to our party leaders. We blame them for not doing certain things ; but will we sacrifice our individual votes. If not, then we cannot consistently blame them ; we are forever debarred from criticising any goveriunent if we will not sacrifice our votes. Evidently the Pope has our political parties by the ear with a strong pull. I would like to know this : Why did not the leader of the Conservative party during the late session propose a set of resolutions sympathizing with their Protestant friends in Quebec, and protesting against the Jesuit Bill and their incorporation ? It seems to me that such a resolution would have come with as much grace from that side of the House as the resolution of sympathy and exhortation in favour of Home Rule for Ireland, sent by the Liberals of the Provincial Parliament to England some few years ago. 1 was at a loss for a reason for the conduct of the Con- servative party in this last session until I got the secret which I will tell you. Such a resolution would have broken Mr. Mowat's Ministry to fragments, for hardly a man would have dared to vote against it, for they are all from Ontario. Why did not Mr. Meredith take this chance to upset Mr. Mowat's Government ? The successor to my late friend. Archbishop Lynch, is going to be the man I picked out some months ago, Bishop Walsh, of London, who is a Conservative. When he is installed here he-has proiuised to give the Province ovi^r into the hands of the Conservatives. Thanks. I hope L GOD, tHE gUEEN, AND TME POPE. 11 at the next election they will be smashed to a thousand pieices, I am a party man myself, a very strong one, yet I withheld my vote at the last general election but one, when such trickery was going on, and I would withhold it forever rather than either party should fall prostrate at the feet of an archbishop. What I say I do, and trust the Lord will guide n.c and thousands of others throughout Ontario to do the right. The power is in our hands, and we can carry the day. Of course if it is resisied many votes will be thrown on the side of the Third Party, which is not to be despised. There must be a third party or a liberation of the old parties ; one or the other must come. Every man of common sense knows that. The battle is raging not only in Canada, in speeches, m discussion, in resolutions and in legislation, but also in Great Britain. From one end to the otlier they are forming what they call Protestant Leagues, and are now considering the reasons for banding together to resist the encroachments of Rome. It is so in every State of Eu- rope. Theyarealluneasy, all fretful, all uncertain. It is so in the United States, especially in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin and California. It is the most troublesome and dangerous question the United States have to deal with. It is the most trouble- some and dangerous question we have to handle in this Dominion. The Jesuits are working all along the line in Europe. They will foment war, and out of the wreck of that warj as the prophets have told us, will rise the temporal power of the Pope. He will once more be clothed with power among the kings of the earth. This is sure to coine,.and so wha-t-I preacli fdr in Canada is, that when ' the evil shall come it shall bear upon us lightly. He' Tl I -«n » t^ ^|i,n I /« ^ 7^ fiUD, iHli gUEEN, AND 1111': I'Ol'E. will live and rule for several years, and, as the prophet points out, he will make an alliance with Anti-Christ for the destruction of Great Britain, her one great enemy for hundreds of years. He will make an alliance with Russia and the mighty forces will go to meet our own fatherland in the great battle of Armageddon. But God will come to our help, and they will be wiped out of existence. Then we will hear of a Pope no more, nor of a Roman Catholic in the whole world. That is a little glimpse into the future which will conu; as sure as you and 1 are here. As 1 have said, the Jesuits are working all along the line. The Jesuits Estates Bill is not the great point we should battle against. If the liillof Incorpc^ration were annulled the Estates Bill would he of no avail. What we should fight against is the Bill of Incorporation. As long as they are a legal society in the Provnice they have a right, as a Provincial )vernment, to grant tliem the money. They had no iiglit, however, to appeal to the Pope. The $400,000 does not settle it at all. It is given simply for the privilege of allowing Quebec to sell the lands. It is not even part of the price of the lands, for if they sell very well they will want a little more than the $400,000. Then how often we overlook the Laprairit Common, which has been Heeded over to the Jesuits in fee simple, a beautiful piece of property at the foot of Lachine Rapids, Montreal, the very barrack ground of our conquering troops in the years gone by. Here in time past were the Kings mills, his farms, his post, a piece of land that really belonged to the Indians. No spot more sacredly and intimately connected witli British institutions in Canada. The Jesuits have got that fine land, worth Uiore than the $400,000, and who is saying anything about it ? We are nibbling at a thing c;<)n, riiK ...i.|.:kn, and the i-orc. ^y that is half right and is half wrong. The whole of that Lapra.r.e (,omn,on was Kranu.l to .i,u Ilur-n Indians of Lorr<.tto, l.y the K,n,. of France in ,6,i. The Jesuits ther.fore have not tl,,- ,rsl title toil; vet the (iovern'- ment have taken il fro.n the poor Indians and deeded It over to the JesuUs. 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