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Illinois, Jiiiil' 22, 1SS4. \

7V* //Is l.nrdslilp /^vik/i, .\n/i/>is//i)f> nf
7'i>riiiiti> :

My Lokd: 'I'Ik- utli inst., I promised
to answer vour letter of llie 1 ith, addressed
to the Re\ . Moderator and to the Ministers
of the General Asseinblv of the Presby-
terian Chureh. I eome, to-tlav, to fultil
mv promise, with the help of (iod.

I had ae.cused vour i-hurch to lielie\e
and say that she has received from (Jod
the power to kill us poor heretics, f said
that if yon do not slauj^hter us, to-day, in
Canada and elsewhere, it is only because
you are not stronj^ enou!j;h to do it. I
said, also, that where the Roman Catholic-
feel strong enougli, they do not tiiisik it a
sin to heat, stone or kill us when ihev can
do it without any 'danger to' their own
precious lives.

1 said that xour best theologians teach
that lieretics do not deserve to live, and
that \t)iu" great Saint 'I'homas Acpiinas,
whom \()ur clun'i'ii lias latelv put among
"the Holy Fathe"s, " jKisitively declares
that one of the most sacied rights and
duties of your churcli is to deliver the
heretics into the hands of the secuhu'
powers to be exterminated. . .

As I expected, you have hra\el_\' denied
what I said on that subject. In vour reply,
you complain that the cjuotations I made of
St. Thomas, on that suliject, are not correct.

Here is m\ answer to \ou)- denegations.
I h;n e the works of St. Thomas just now
on my table. I will copy word for worti
what he says in Latin, and translate it into
plain f^nglisli, respectfii!l\' asking \our
loritship to tell the '^anadian people
whether or not u^\ tran- .ion is correct:

" Qiianquam ha-ritit i tolerandi non sunt
ipso illorum demerito, usipie tamen iid
sccundam correptionem expectandi sunt ut
ad sanam redeant Kcclesiasia' tidenL Qin
vero, jiost •-ecuiulam corre}itionem, in suo
errore obstinati permanent, iion motlo e\-
communicationis -entcntia. seii etiam siv-
cularilnts princi]iibus exterininandi trailendi
sunt."

TR \\.>L \ rioN.

" Though heretics must not be tolerat<a|^
because the\ deser\ed it. we must bear
with them till, by a second admonition,
they m;iy he brought back to the faith of
the Church, ihit tliose who. after a second
admonition, leniain obstinate in their er-
rors, nuist not only be excommunicated,
but tbiy nuisr he delivered to ihe secular
power to be exterminated." (St. 'l'lu)mas
Aquinas, 4th \ .. page </). )

At the page <>i, he says: ■■ 'Jliough here-
tics who repent must always be acceptetl to
penance a- often as the\ liave fallen, thev

• nuist not, in consetiuence of. that, always
be jiermitted to enjo\ the benefits of this
life. . . . • When they fall again, they

are admittetl to repent

Hut the ..entence of ileath must not be
removed." (St. 'I'homas, v. 4, jiage yi.)

Your lordshiivhas the just reputation to
bt an ex)>ert man. \ o\\ then know that,
in such solemn (piestions as are discussed
just now, the ti-.tii'iu)ny of only one wit-
ness does not suHice 1 will then, gi\e you
another testimony to prove the unpalatable
truths which I proclaimed in the presence
of the (ieneral Assend)l\ f)f the Presbyter-
ian Church of Canada, \i/: That we poor
heretics are condemned to death, and are
declared unworthy to live side by side with
our Roman Catholic neiglibors. That tes-
timony will, no il(nibt, be accepted as good
and sutficient by the people of Canada, if
not by you, since it is the testimon\ of \-our
own infallible chiu'ch, speaking through
the Council of the Lateran, held in IJ15:

■•■ We excomnumit-ate and anathematize
e\eryhe«-esy that exalts itself against the
holy orthodox and Catholic- faith, con-
demning all iberetics, by whatever name
the\ may be know n for though their faces.
differ, they are tied together h\ their tails.
Such as are condemned are to be delivered
()\er to the existing secidar powers, to re-
i'ei\e due punishment. If la\ men, their
goods must be confiscated. If priests, thev
shall be degraded from their respective or-
ders and tluir property applied to the use
of the church in which they officiated.
Seculal' powers of all ranks and degrees
are to be w arned, induced, anil if necessary,

■ conij^elled by ecclesiastiial censures, to
swear that the\ will exert tiiemseUes to
the utmost in tlie defense of the faith, and
extirpate all heretics denounced b\ the
church who shall be found in their terri-
tories. And whenever any person shall
assume government, w hether it be spiritual
or tempo.ial, he shall be bound to abide by
this tlecree.

" If any temjioral lord, after ha\ ing been
admonislied and rec|uired b\ the ihurch,
shall neglect to clear his territory' of here-
tical depravity, the Metropolitan and Bis-
hop of the province shall unite in excom-
municating him. Shoidd he remain con-
tuniiicious a whole year, the fact -hall lie
signified to the Supreme Pontiff, w ho shall
declare his vassals released frf)m their al-
legiance from that time, and will bestow
his territory on Cafholii-s, to he occupied
In them, on the condition :)f exti'rminating
1 le heretii's and jireserving the saiti terri-
tory in the faith.

"Catholics, who shall as. -me the cross
for the extermination of heretics, -hall en-
joy the same indulgences and be protecteil
by the same privilege..; as are granted by
those who go to the help of the Holy Land.
We decree further, that all who ma\ have
dealings with heretics, and especially suih

tct.

that, iilways
K'tits of this
a^aiii, they

mist not be
. ixigeyi.)
(.piitution to

know that,
re diseiissed
ily one wit-
en, .ij;iN e yon

impalatable
he presence
e Preshyter-
lat we poor
itii, and are
by side with,
i. ' Tliat tes-
)ted as tjjood
f Canada, if
i()n\ of \()ur
ng throuj^h
d in IJ15:
natheniatize

ajiainst the

faith, eon-
tever name
h their faces
,• their tails,
he delivered
iwers, to re-
ynien, tiieir
jiriests, they
ispective or-
I to the use
V officiated,
md dejrrees
if necessary,
censures, to
emsei\es to
e faitli, and
ced h\ tlie

their terri-
lerson shall
t be spiritual

to abide by

ha\ intr l)eun
the tliiux'li,
)r\' of here-
in and His-
in excoin-
"eniain con-
icl Nhall be
ff, wlio shall
ni their al-
witl bestow
)e occupied
[terminating"
e saiti terri-

le the cros?;
c<, <hal! en-
be protecteil
tyrant ed by
I loly LaiuL
10 n)a\ ha\e
eciallv such

as receive, defend, and encou.ra,;j;e them,
shall be exconnnvmicated. He siiall not be
elij;ible to an V public otiice. He shall not
be"idmitted as a w itness. 1 le shall neither
have power to bequeath his i)ropetly by
will, nor to succeed to any inheritance. |
I le shall not brinj? any action aj^ainst any ,
person, but any oiie can bring ution 1
aifuinst him. Should he be a judge, his |
ticcision shall have no force, nor hall any j
cause be brought before him. Should he |
be an advocate, he shall not be allowed .0 |
plead. Should he be a lawyer, no instru-
ments made bv him shall be held valid, but |
shall be condemned with their autho •." _ i

I could give voii thousands of other in-
fallible documents to show the exactness
of what [ said of the savage, anti-social, anti-
Cliristian, and bloody law s of your Chm-ch, ,
in all ages, against" the heretics, but the I
short lin"its of a letter make it impossible, i
Those proofs are fullv given in my book,
" Kiftv Years in the Church of Rome,"
whicli is now published.

I suppose vou will answer me, " Have
not heretics also passed svicb bloody law si"
Yes, thev have passed such cruel laws;
but thev" have borrowed them from you.

Wheii those nations came out from the
dark dcmgeons of I'opery, they could not
see the light, at first, in its fulness and in ;
all its beaut v. It took some time before .
thev could cure tlieinselve> fr<nn the putrid '
lepi-osv which centuries of life inside the j
walls 'of the modern Babylon had engen-
dered everywhere. Hut you know as well
as I do tha"t these remnatits of Popery have
been repudiated more than a century ago
bv all the Christian chm-ches. Kvery year
since it has been my privilege to be a Pres-
byterian, I have "heard a constant and
unanimous protest against those laws of
blood and persecutions. They are kept in
our records only as a meiuorandum of the
bottomless abyss into which the people
were living when submitted to the Pope.
Tkit vou know well, my lord, that all those
laws'of blood and death have been sanc-
tioned in your last Council of the Vatican
in your Church. It was declared, then,
that you are' forever danmed if you have
any doubt about the rights and the duty of
vo'ur Church to punish the heretics by
bodily punishment.

Hut, my lord, let us forget, for a moment,
the numberless and undeniable proofs
which 1 might bring to the remembrance
of your lordship, to make you blush for
having denied what 1 had "said about the
unmanly un-Christian principles which
regulate the Roman Catholic Church to-
ward the Prot<.?.tants, when you have your
opportunitv . 'J'he pro\ idence of (i()«.i has
just put me in possession of a fact too pub-
lic to be ignored or denied even by you.

Yin\ know how the Roman C^ Uholics of
Quebec' ha\e given the lie, with a \en-
geance to yoiu- denials. \'ou know how
more than .\(K)t) good Romar. Catholics
came with sticks and stones to kill me, the

17th of this month, because 1 had preached
in a Presbsterian Church on the text,
"Whatnuiit 1 do to ha\ e eternal life .= "
More than one hundred stones struck me,
and if 1 had not providentially had two
hea\ v cloth overcoats, one to j.rotect my
shoulders and the other put around the
head to weaken the force and the weight
of tliose stones, 1 would siu-ely ha\ e been
killed on the spot. Hut though 1 was pro-
tected bv those overcoats. m\ head anil
shoulders are still as a jelly and cause me
great suffering. A kind friend, M r. Zotique
lA'febvre, H. C. L., who heroically put him-
self between my would-be nuu-derers and
me. to protect iuy life at the risk of his
ow n. came out from the broken carriage
with six bleeding wounds on bis face.

I'he cit\ of (iuebec is known to be the
most Roman Catholic city in .Xnierica,
and perhaps in the whole world, without
excepting Rome itself. Its population has
the weli-earned reputation to be moral,
peaceful, respectable, and religious, as they
understand those words among the Rom;ui
Catholics. The people who stoned me
were not a gatiiering of a low-bred mod;
it was composed of well-dressed men,
many with gold spectacles; itwasnotcom-
pose"d of drunkards; there was not a single
drunken man >cen by me there; they were
not, of course, w hat is called " liberal Cath-
olics. " for those "liberal Catholics," though
I born in the Church of Rome, have a str-
I preme contempt for the dogmas, practices,
and teachings of the priests. Those -ilibe-
j ral Catholics" who, thanks be to (iod, are
1 fast increasing, are only nominally Catho-
! lies thev remain there because their
' fathers aiid mothers were so: because, also,
thev want to attract the people to their
stores, sell their pills, or desire to be e* 'cted
to such and such otHces by the iiiHueuceof
the priests. They laugh lit your mitre, for
they know it is nothing but the old bonnets
of the priests of Hacchus, representing the
head of a Hsb. Those liberal Catholics are
disgusted with the bloody laws and
practices of the Church of Rome; they
wovdd not, for anything, molest, insult, or
maltreat a heretic." Those liberal Catholics
are in favor of liberty and conscience. Hut
the clergy hate and" fear them. Had this
class of liberal Catholics been numerous in
Quebec, I would not have had any trouble.
Hut Quebec is, with a very few exceptions,
composed of true, real, sincere, de\oted
Catholics. They believe sincerely, with
your grand St. "Thomas, and with your
"Roman Catholic Church, that heretics like
Chiniquy have no right to live; that it is a
good work to kill them.

This riot of Quebec, seen with the light
of the teachings of St. Thomi-., the Coun-
cils of Lateran, Constance and the \'atican,
show that your letter to the (leneral As-
sembly of our Presbyterian Church is one
of thegreatest blunders that your lordship
has ever made. The dust you wanted to
throw int(^ the eyes of my Presbyterian
brethren i^ all on your face, to-dav, as dark.

liidcou> sp()t>. \'<)ur fi'irul-< >iiut.M'.!\ f.i'l
ffir voiir iiiisfortiiiu'.

For, mv lent, Ihori.' i> ii xoici.' in tlu'
stoiifs thrown ill iiK'; tlifiv is n \ oico in ilu'
liriiisfs whith COM.'!- in\ «.lioulilcr> mikI inv
lieail, tlieiv is ;i \ oici,' ,i!-,() in iju' hiood -lied

1\V tllf friLMul who .-.IWli lll\ li£r ;|| llir

ptM-i! of hi> own, which sivais".-, IoiuI't iiiui
iiion- i.'!o(|in.iill\ tliaii _\ oil, to ^j\ tliiit son
iiavi' faiit'd in voiir aticni]<t ts defend \'our
fhurch a:L4aiiist wliat I >aid at tlii- (iriu'ra!

As.stM)ll)l\ .

Tliat \oii nia\ iK-tlcr und(.'i--land this,
aiul that _\<)ii niav he a little wm^vv iiiode<1
liereafler on that >-iihjei-l, I seiutvoii h\ the
hands of the N'euerahle Secivtai\ ot" our
<;eneral .\>seinhl_v. tlie Keve'rend Mr.
.Riid, I). 1)., one of" the huiuhed- ol slf>ne>
Avliich wounded iik\ with a jiarl of liie
JiandkeiTJiief reddeiU'tl with 'he hiood of
Mr. Zolit|iie Lefeln ri', IS. C ., who re-
eeiveii si:; wounds on Ids faee, when heroie-
aily standing- In nie in tiiat hour of sii-
jireiiie danger for inv life.

I'lease look at that stone, look at that
i)looil also; thev will te.ich \ou a lesson
Avhieh ills (juite time for _\oii"aiul all the
priests" to learn. 'rhe_\ will tell vou that
„-*ir>iir C'hureh of Rome is the same U)-da\
as she was when she slauylitered the hiiii-
dreds of thousands of I'iednionlese with
the sword of Frame : that stone and that
hiood will tell vou what e\erv one knows,
JU^ioiiii the diseiples of the' (Jospel. that
vour eluiiTh .)f to-dav is the \ erv same
tluin;li which planned the massaeres of .St.
Itartholomew, the i;iinpow(ler jdot, the re-
\ ocation of the Fdiet of Nantes, aiul the
«leaths of more than half a millioi. of
Freneh Hui^iionols on tneir wav to exile.
That stone and that hiood will tell von that
voiir tluirch to-da\, is the same as"she was
when she lighted the ti\e thou.saiui auto-'
<!a-fes, where ten millions ot inart\ rs lost
their lives in all the great cities of Europe,
before (iod raised the German giant w ho
gave it the deadiv hlow sou know .

Please, mv lord, put that stone and that
blood in one of the most conspicuous
place of vour palace, that sou ina\ look at
them w hen the devil vvilj come "again to
throw vou into some ignondnious and in-
extriiahle slough, as the one into w hich
you fell in your courageous hut > ain at-
tempt to refute me.

When that father of lies w ill try again to
make use of your pen to deny the blootiv
laws and bloody dct'df^ of your church, sou
will tell him, " (iet thee lience, Satan, for
it is written in our most appro\ ed hook of
theology, St. Thomas, that ' we must ex-
terminate all the heretics.' (iet thee
iience, Satan ; for \ou\vill not an\ more
induce me to call old Chinitpn in.sane for
saying that our church is as blood v as ever;
for it is written in the Council of Lateran
that those who arm themselves for the ex-
terndnation of heretics are as blessed bv
God as those who went formalh to the
rescue of the Holy I^and.'"

Yes, my lord; keep that stone and that
blood before \our eves, and when I or

sonuboily else will .igain w.irnthe disciples
of the (iospel against the dangers ahead
from Rome, \ ou wjll not compromise
yourself an\ more In w riting things which
are not only against "all the records of his.
tor\, hut against the public teachings of all
\o,ir po) I's, \oiu- councils, and your theo-
lo!4ians.

\\'it!i that blood, before \our i\i's, the
de\il will lose iiuiih of his power o\er \ou
and lie fort'eil to gi\c up his old tac-tic"- of
making xoii iK'ny, ileiiy, dein , the
most e\ iiient fads, and tl'u' niosi" u:iim-
peachable records (,f historv.

My dear i'.ishop I.\ncli, before taking
iea\eofyou this ila\, allow me to ask a
fiivor from \our lordshi)). if \(ni grant it,
I will retrait what I ha\esaii!()f tlie anti-
social and aiiti-C'hristi;ni law s and ]»ractii'es
of \ our church.

Let \<iur lorilsliip ,sa_\ aniilbemas to the
Councils of Constaiu-e and Lateran /or the
ilecrees of banishment and death, they
passed over all those who differed in relig-
ion from them. Tell us, in jilain aiitl gooil
Fnglish, that you condemn those Councils
for the burning of John IIuss, and the
blood they caused to be shed all over Ku-
rope, uniier the i)retext of religion ; tell us
that those Councils were the greatest ene-
mies of the (iospel th.'d instead of being
guided by the spirit of God, they were
guided by the spii-it of Satan, when they
caused so ma ^y millions of men, women,
and children to be slaughtered for refusing
to obey the I'ope.

.\iul when you will Iiave condemned the
action of the depra\ ed men who composed
those Councils, you will honestly and
bravely declare that your 'I'homas Acpiin-
as. instead of being a saint, was a bloodv
monster, w hen he w rote that the Church <)f
Christ is to deliver the heretics to the .sec-
ular power to be exterminated I

Tell us also, that the present Pope Leo
.\ n 1. ought to be the object of the execra-
tion of the whole world for having lately
ordered that that bloody monster's" theohi-
yiy should be taught "in all the '-oUegcs,
academies, seminaries, and universities of
the Church of Rome, all over the world, as
the best, truest, and most reliable exponent
of the doctrines of the Church of Christ.

If you grant me the favor I ask, w ,■ will
believ e that \our lordship was honest when
you denied w hat I said of the savage, cruel
and diabolical laws and practices of the
Church of Rome toward the heretics. But
if _\oii refuse to grant my recpiest, we will
believe that you are still", in heart and will,
subndtted to those laws and practices, and
that you tried to dei'eive us, after ha\ ing
deceived yourself, when you presented
\our bloodthirsty church with the rose
colors we lind in your letter to our General
Assembly.

Fn my next, I will give you the proofs of
what I said about the idolatr\ of vour
church, and, with the help of God, fwill
refute w hat \ou said to defend her prac-
1ici.'s. Trul\ \ours. *

C. CHIMQIV.