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W ^burel? of I^o/T\e- BY FATHER CHINIQUY. AUTHOt "-v.«-fe?SBW'^*" loM^N. AND TH» tpterest iprchensWe as ^B andobjecte bind chaHenge* tst becoming a lth», and large I edition. The ,era o! liberty 8,lt l» «»n\"' 3reat Britain, Spain, India, A M 8« UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL Collection h/le Victor Morin BiBLIOTHEQUE rp*. cm «»• saftBi fO ZV!- ^e-^i papal Idolatry. AN EXPOSURE -OF THE- Dognia of Tire plain, simple, and > well as the most pro- lese words God Al- thing which is crea- eaven above." rial Gibbons and all Do they not take a d do they not change e that wafer, when their people to adore he Supreme Creator i i people in the desert not Idolatry? But B of Aaron and the imore, and all the lat the first one made ngs of the Israelites; lough baked between said to the people, n the ears of your and bring them unto earrings which were I. And he received . graving tool, after said, 'These be thy he land of Egypt.' " lie Cardinal Gibbons ay, say to their ser- lew Chris s; I have tur of wheat, mix it etween this heated -dinal and the priests water, and bake the A.nd a moment after, hands those wafers is is Jesus Christ the Lamb of God. God Himself, who, beii ited. This IS uou llimselt, wno, bemg mcarnr has saved you on the cross. . . Come and adore him." And the people say in their heart, and they sing with their lips, "This is our incarnated god, who, on the cross died to save us. . . Let us adore him." And prostrating their faces to the dust, they adore their goti whom their priest has just made before their eyes with a wafer baked in a heated graving tool! Is not the idolatry of Cardinal Gibbons and his priests as gross and criminal as the idolatry of Aaron and his people? Is not tlie wafer god of the Pope as contemptible, ridiculous, im- potent, powerless as the gold calf-god of Aaron? Are not the two forms of idolatry as insulting to the great God, who has said: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like- ness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth ])eneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them ?" In order that both the Roman Catholics and the Protestants may better understand the abominable idolatry of Rome, and how the Pope is absolutely and publicly mocking and daring God Almighty in the confection of the wafer-god, I will put the commandment of God and the orders of the Pope face to face. God Almighty to Moses and to all The Pope of Rome to the bishops and to the priests, and to the whole world: — the world: — " Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down th vself, nor serve them."— £•.%. xx. "Thou shalt make untoy ou graven images (called wafers) and a likeness of something which is in heaven (the body of Christ), and you shall bow down yourselves and serve them." — Council of Trent. Was it possible for the devil to mock God, and dare him in a more frightful way by inspiring the Pope of Rome with these rules and commandments of his councils? Is not the Pope of Rome renewing the awful mystery of iniquity performed just after Adam and Eve had been created ? Almighty God said to Adam : — "Of every tree of the garden thou may est freely eat. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, tliou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." — Genesis ii., i6, 17, And the serpent said to the woman : "Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? "Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." — Genesis When God Almightysays: — "Thou shalt not make unto thee [any graven images of anything that is in heaven; . . thou shalt lot bow down and serve them," the Pope boldly says, "Thou ihalt make engraven images of something which is in heaven, ind thou shalt bow down thyself and serve them." And like |he guilty mother Eve, who shuts her ears to the voice of God p.. and forgets his solemn command to listen to the voice of Satan, speaking through the serpent, so the guilty Church of Rome forgets the solemn laws of God, to follow the orders of Satan speaking through the popes. I know that Cardinal Gibbons with his priests will answer me: **Jesus Christ has given us the order and the power to change the wafer into our God when He said, 'This is my body, . . this is my bloc*'.. . . Do this in remembrance of Me.'" But I answer: **Christ has never received the power from His Father to ■ do a thing that the Eternal Father had forever forbidden." . . On Mount Sinai that Almighty God had given his command, ''Never to make an engraven image of anything . . . and turn that graven image into God . . . bow down before it, and adore it." Has God ever repealed that law? No! He can not! For himself speaking through Christ, has said, ''Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall never pass away." Has not Christ said, "I come to fulfill the commandments of my Father?" How could he have said these words if he had given to the popes and their priests the power to break the most solemn and sacred of them all? No! Christ would not allow His apostles and His church to take a wafer, make an image upon It, tun it into God, and adore it. We know He said, "This is my body" (Luke xxii. 19). But this was in a figurative way, to tell them that the bread was to be broken and eaten by them, that they might ever remember "His body nailed to the cross for them." A moment before we hear Christ saying, "This is my body." We hear the Holy Ghost and Jesus Christ Himself saying: 6. "Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passox>cr must be killed. 7. "And he sent Peter and John saying: 8. "Prepare us the passover that we may eat. ... 9. "And they said unto Him, Wliere wilt thou that we prepare? 10. "And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in, 11. "And ye shall say unto the good man of the house. The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guest chamber where I shall eat the passover withmy disciples f 12. "And he shall show you a large upper-room furnished: there make ready. 13. '-And they went, and found as he said unto them ; and they mm/^ ready the passover. 14. "And when the hour was come he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. 15. "And he said unto them. With desire I have desired to eat this pass- over with you before I suffer. 16. "For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be ful- filled in the Kingdom of God. 1 7. "And he took the cup, and gave thanks and said. Take this and divide it among yourselves. 18. "For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God shall come. jQl 4ii^^- assvxvr musthe 19. '* And he took bread, and gave thanks and brake it, and gave unto them saying: This is my body whiih is given for you; this do in remem- brance of me." Luke xxii. It is true that here Christ says, " This is my body." But the very moment before, looking on the roasted lamb, he had said, " This is the passover. I want to eat the passover. Prepare the passover. I have desired to eat this passover writh you." Could Christ really kill, prepare and eat the passover? No. Never. For the " passover " was the passage of the exterminat- ing angel over Egypt, when he killed the first-born of every family, on the du .'-post of which the blood of the Lamb was not seen. That " passage " or passover of the angel could neither be killed, roasted, nor eaten : for the simple good reason that a passage, a passover, can neither be killed, roasted, nor eaten. But as the Lamb was killed and eaten to make the Israelites re- member the " passage " of the angel over Egypt, that Lamb was called the "passage," the "passover." Then Christ, with all the Israelites, instead of saying, " We will kill, cook, and eat the Lamb which makes us remember the "passover;" they said, " We will kill, prepare and eat the ' passover.' " So Christ, having given the bread to be eaten by his disciples, that they might remember his crucified body, (do this in remem- brance of me), had to call that bread " his body." It was then as it is now; "When a thing is chosen to represent another thing, it is called by the name of the thing it represents." For instance, when a man shows the portrait of his' wife and children to his friends, he does not generally say, " This is the portrait, the remembrance of my dear wife and my beloved children ;" he simply says, " This is my wife, these are my children." When one looks at the large photographs of Cardinal Gibbons he says, "This is Cardinal Gibbons; look at his fine jolly face; see his jovial, or dignified mien." Nobody, except fools can be tempted to think and say that it is really the amfable Roman Catholic Cardinal of Baltimore, because he has heard "This is Cardinal Gibbons." He knows very well that it is only some paper, with the shades and colors put by the artist. Neverthe- less, he calls that paper and those shades and colors " Cardinal Gibbons," for the simple reason that it is, then, to make them remember his Lordship. So Christ said, " Kill the passover," though the passover co^ld not be killed. He said, "Prepare the passover," though the passover could not be prepared. He said, " I eat this pass- over," though he could not eat the passover. So he said, " This is my body," though it was not his body. He said, " Eat this, my body," though they could not eat his body. But, once more: As the bread was the representation of his body, Christ had to call that bread, " body." Christ could not eat his own body ; but he could eat what was to represent his body. He could not possibly give his body to be eateti and his 8 blood to be drunk, without making his disciples anthropophagi. But he could give what represented his body and his blood to be eaten and drunk without being guilty of that disgusting and criminal cannibalism. It is true that Christ said, **This is my body." But do you not read in Genesis Ixix. 9, "Judah is a lion's whelp." In the verse 14, "Issachar is a strong ass." Was Judah's father a lion, and Issachar's father an ass? No. But these were figures of speech, just as when Jesus said, "This is my body." St. Paul, speaking of the sinners, says, "Their throat is a sepulchre." Does the Cardinal of Baltimore really believe that the throat of sinners is a sepulchre? No. Then he has no more reason to believe that the body of Christ had taken the place of the bread, after he had said, "This is my body." In both cases the verb is means (represents) and brings to the mind a memorial. David says. Psalm cxxi. 105: — "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet." Will ever the Pope sufficiently forget all the laws of common sense, to tell us that the word of God is really a lampP And when Christ says "I am the door" (John X. 9), "I am the true vine" (John xv. i ), had he really the in- tention to make us believe that he was a door, or a vine? Does not Paul, speaking of the "Rock" from which Moses drew the waters in the desert, say, "That Rock was Christ?" Will the Roman Catholic bishops and priests, some day, try to persuade us that the Rock was really Christ, his body, soul, and divinity, because the Holy Ghost says, "That rock was Christ?" No. They acknowledge that the Rock -was not Christ, though Paul says "The Rock was Christ.'''' It was only a figure, a type, a memorial of Christ, and because it was so it was called "Christ." So when our Saviour says, "This (bread) is my body. . . Do this in remembrance of me," he makes us un- derstand that the bread was called "his body," because it was presented to us that we might remember "his body." Jesus speaking to the Samaritan woman, said, "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." (John iv. 14). Why does not the Church of Rome try to persuade those who believe in Christ that they have such a large well of water within themselves, that it will flow even during all eternity? That well of water which is in every Christian to quench his thirst, is just like the body o'f Christ, which is eaten by every one of his disciples, that they may never be hungry. Both are most beautiful and simple figures when taken in the sense they were given ; but both turn into a ridiculous and disgusting idea when taken as a material reality. SECOND CONSIDERATION. TRANSUBSTANTIATION IS THE MOST DEGRAD- ING FORM OF IDOLATRY. When the Persians adore the rising sun, they give their homages to the greatest and most glorious being which is pre- sented to our human vision. That magnificent fiery orb, which rises as a giant every morning from behind the horizon, to pass over the world and pour everywhere its floods of heat, light and life, can not be contemplated without feelings of respect, admira- tion, and awe. Man must raise his eyes up to see that glorious sun ; he must take up the eagle's wings to follow its giant march throughout the myriads of worlds which are suspended over our heads. It is easy to understand that poor fallen and blind humanity may take that great being for a God. Would not this world perish without the sun? What would become of the nations which inhabit the earth without its light and heat? Would not everything perish and die, if the sun would forget to come every day, and make us bathe and swim in its oceans of light and life. Then, when I see the Persian priests of the sun, in their magnificent temple waiting, with their censers in hand, for the appearance of its first rays, to chant their melodious hymns and sing their sublime canticles to its glory, I know their errors, but I can understand it. I was going to say, I can almost excuse it. I feel an immense compassion for those poor Idolaters. But, at the same time, I feel that they are raised above the dust of this earth, and that their minds must be filled with sentiments of gratitude and adoration for that great being. Their intelligence and their souls can not but receive some sparks of light and life from the contemplation of that inexhaustible focus of light and life. But the poor deluded Roman Catholic I Is he not a thousand times more worthy of our compassion and our tears, when we see him prostrated in the presence of that small "wafer-god," which the servant girl of the priest has baked a few hours before in her kitchen ? Is it possible to see a spectacle more disgraceful and ignominious than a multitude of men and women prostrating their faces to the dust, to adore a god whom the rats and mice have a thousand times, dragged and devoured in their dark little holes? Where are the rays of light and life from that little cake? In- stead of being enlarged and elevated, at the approach of that ridic- ulous modern divinity, is not human intelligence contracted, dim- inished, paralyzed,chilled,struck with idiotism and death at its feet? Can we be surprised that the Roman Catholic nations are so fast falling down into the abyss of infidelity and atheism, when they hear their priests telling them that this contemptible wafer is the great God who had created heaven and earth at the be- ginning, and saved this perishing world by dying on the cross, some eighteen hundred years ago? f '\ h lO Rome, by her grand and terrible apostacy at the feet of the wiifer-god, has overwhelmed Christianity under such a heap of infamous and outrageous impostures,that it has almostdisappeared from the minds of the nations whom God had the more endowed with intelligence, as the French and Italian people. Go to those countries, and ask the people if they believe that their priests can make a god out of wafer, and they will shrug their shoulders in disgust and laughter at your silly question. It is a f !*ct that the wafer-god of the Pope has done more than anything else to destroy the religion of Christ from the minds of the learned and the intelligent. This diabolical doctrine of a god made with a little cake is, to-day, believed in France, Italy, Can- ada, Spain, etc., only by some old women and poor ignorant people who cannot write nor read their own names. The rest try to believe it; they make supreme efforts to believe it; but they cannot. We heard, a few years ago, that the Siamese had been over- whelmed with desolation, when their big white elephant died, after having been the object of their adorations for more than a century. But, fortunately, the numberless priests of the dead god had not lost a single hour; after they had buried their de- parted divinity with due honors, they had ransacked their deep and dark forests, and had soon come back with a bigger and younger living white elephant. The lucky animal was carried in triumph all over the kingdom, with a gold chain of fabulous value to his neck, gold cloth, sprinkled with the richest pearls and diamonds on his back. In the midst of the sweetest melo- dies, the hymns of adoration, and the clouds of incense from the golden censers which every priest carried in his hands, the new- ly found god was installed in his magnificent temple; and there from morning to night, he is adored by the millions of Siamese who recognize him for their god. All this is very sad, humiliating! Yes! But there is something more sad and humiliating than taking an elephant for the great God who has created and saved this world; it is to see the Pope of Rome, with his hundred of mil- lions of blind and deluded slaves, prostrated before a contempti- ble wafer, baked between two heated irons, and adoring it as the great, eternal, almighty God, creator of heaven and earth! The elephant of Siam is surely a noble God, when compared with the modern divinity of the Pope. That elephant may be taken as the symbol of strength, magnanimity, patience, etc. Let a man go and insult or attack him, he can protect himself; with his mighty trunk he will take his enemy, throw him up very high in the air, and cause him to fall a corpse on the ground. He can crush his foes under his feet; he can protect his friends, and save them in the hour of danger. There is life, motion and strength in that elephant god. He can go by him- the feet of the such a heap of lostdisappeared ! more endowed eople. Go to ieve that their ill shrug their uestion. done more than )m the minds of octrine of a god nee, Italy, Can- poor ignorant nes. The rest believe it; but had been over- elephant died, or more than a ts of the dead iiried their de- rived their deep 1 a bigger and ial was carried ain of fabulous J richest pearls sweetest melo- icense from the ands, the new- iple; and there 3ns of Siamese ig than taking and saved this mdred of mii- e a contempti- loring it as the nd earth! hen compared phant may be patience, etc. otect himself; irow him up orpse on the e can protect There is life, n go by him- 1 1 self from one place to the other. He can move with his feet, see with his eyes, hear with his ears. But look at the divinity of Rome. Come and see its hands in that wafer; they cannot move! The feet, they cannot walk! The eyes, they cannot see! The ears, they cannot hear! There is neither life, nor strength, nor motion in this Roman Catholic divinity. Let a rat or a mouse come and bite the elephant-god of Siam, and you will see how he will instantly punish it. But let a rat or a mouse come and attack the poor defenceless wafer-god of the Pope, as it very often occurs, and you will see how ' hat modern Majesty will be powerless to pro- tect itself, and how it will soon be crushed under the teeth of his weak enemies, and engulphed into their stomachs, to be digested as a crumb of common bread. THIRD CONSIDERATION. GOD HIMSELF TURNS THE WAFER-GOD OF ROME INTO RIDICULE. So speaks our almighty and eternal God, through his Prophet Isaiah, ch. xliv. 9 "They that make a graven image .are all of them vanity' : and their de- lectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not nor know ; that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god, or molten agraven image thatis profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed, and the workmen they are of men: let them all be gath- ered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. The smiths with the tongs, both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth ; he drinketh no water, and is faint. The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he iitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with a compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, that it may remain in the house. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest ; he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Then shall it be for a man to burn : for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindteth it, and baketh bread, yea, he maketh a god and worshippeth it ; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He burneth part thereof in the Are; with part thereof he eateth flesh ; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied ; yea. he warmeth himself, and saith. Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: and the resident thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image ; he falleth down unto it, and wo'ship- peth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, deliver me; for thou art my god. They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. And none con- sidereth in his heart, neither is their knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire ; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? He feed- eth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" Who can read those words of the old prophet without finding in them the condemnation of the monstrous imposure and idol- atry of the wafer-god. I }. n It r tf \!l S • ! 12 Let us put face to face the words of God and the facts con> nected with the confection and the usages of the wafer-god of Rome, to see the perfect similarity between the old idolatry of the days of Isaiah and the modern idolatry of Rome. ISAIAH. They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses ; they see not, nor know : that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioned it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms. The carpenter stretcheth out his rule, he maketh it out with a line ; he fitteth it with planes ; and he marketh it out with a compass, and maketh it with a figure of a man, that it may remain in the house. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest ; he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Then shall it be for a man to burn ; for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it; and baketh his bread ;j«a, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it ; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereunto. — Isaiah xltv. ij. He burneth part thereof in the fire ; with part thereof he eateth flesh ; he roasteth roast and is satisfied ;yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire — ." Isaiah xtiv. 16. And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image ; he fall- etn down unto it, and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my god." — Isaiah xliv. if. They have not known or under- stood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see and their hearts that they cannot understand. — Isaiah xliv. fS. And none considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge nor under- standing to say, I have burned part of THE POPK AND HIS PARTY. Every day they make innumerable graven images . . . which are all vanity : their delectable things can- not profit them. They are their own witnesses : they see not, nor know : that they may be ashamed. The Pope and his priests every day form a god with a molten or baked image that is profitable for nothing. The Pope and his priests put their irons on the coal; and with the strength of their hands they work the image and bake the wafers, which they will adore as their god. The Pope and his priests every day bake the wafer, on which they have put the figure of a man, with their round knife ; they cut it nicely, that it may remain in the house (the tabernacle of the church). The Pope and the priests every day select the finest flour of the wheat raised by farmers, and ground be- tween the grinding stones of a mill, and passed through the finest sieves of the coutry. The Pope and the priests take a part of the flour, and make fine loaves of bread and sweet cakes, with it ; and the other parts of the flour is baked into wafers, on which there are gra- ven images which they worship, and before which they fall down thereto The Pope anr the priests with a part of that fin j flour make fine pal- try, and eat tnem, and are satisfied ; and they say, "Aha, we are satisfied, we have eaten well." And the residue thereof they make a god, a god with an engraven image. They fall down unto it, and pray unto it, and say, "Deliver us; for thou art my god." The Popes and their priests have not known nor understood : for He (God Almighty) hathshut their eyeo, that they cannot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand. And none of the Popes and the priests have any knowledge and un- derstanding to say, "I have baked a I- '3 *ND HIS PARTY. it in fire; ^^ea, also I liave halted bread upon tlie coals thereof ; I h tve roasted flesh and eaten it : and I'lall Imaliethe residue thereof an al>omi- nation? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree ? — Isaiak xliv. ig. lie feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul nor say, " Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" — Isaiah xliv. ao. part of that dough to make a loaf of bread on the fire. . . . yea, I have baked pastry with another part there- of; and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down before a cake and a vile wafer? The"Pope, with his priests, feedeth on ashes; a deceitful heart has turned him aside, that he cannot de- liver his soul, nor jay, "Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" FOURTH CONSIDERATION. OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST FORETELLS THE ABOMINABLE IDOLATRY OF THE WAFER- CHRISTS OF ROME, AND WARNS HIS DIS- CIPLES AGAINST IT. We re.id this remarkable prophecy about the false Christs of Rome in Mathew, ch. xxiv., v. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. "And except those days shall be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. "Then, if any man say unto you, Lo, herew Christ or there, believe it not. "For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders ; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. "Behold, I have told you before. "Wherefore, if they shall say unto you; Behold, he is is in the desert; go not forth ; behold. He is in the secret chambers; believe it not." The Son of God prophesies, here, four things about the false Christs, against the worship of whom he warns us. I St. There will be many of those false Christs. 2d. Sometimes they will be here and sometimes there. 3d. That it will be told of that Christ that he is in the desert. 4th. That the false Christs will dwell in secret chambers - Those four characters by which our adorable Saviour invites us to recognize, and shun the false Christ of whom he speaks, coincide perfectly with the false wafer- Christ of Rome, and I here publicly challenge not only Cardinal Gibbons, but all the bishops and priests of Rome, to deny or explain away those four characters of their wafer-Christs. 1. No priests or bishops will deny that there are many, very many, Christs in their midst. For it is a public fact that every church contains from a dozen to one and five hundred and more of those Christs who are shut up in the gold or silver ciboriums. I do not exaggerate when I say that there are more than a million of those Christs worshipped every day in the different churches of Rome. 2. No priests nor any bishops will dare to deny that their false Christ is "sometimes here and sometimes there." For every day they have to carry it to the sick and dying under the name of rHi ! I 1 • . ! r ^h u ifi.w"', ' 'f v »4 "Holy Viaticum." When Patrick O'Brien, for instance, is very sick in the morning, does not the priest of Rome carry his Christ to his house, at the northern part of the town, that the poor deluded man may adore and eat him ? and do not the deluded Catholics run to the house of the sick man when they hear that their Christ is "there" to adore him "there?" And when, at the end of the same day, that same priest hears that Bridget O'Donohue is sick and dying, at the southern extremity of the town, does he not again promptly carry his Christ, under the name of "Viaticum," that the poor deluded girl or married woman may adore and eat him ? And then, again, do not the blind and so cruelly-deceived Roman Catholics, when hearing that their Christ is "here," in this southern part of the town, run at the double-quick from every side to come and adore their Christ "here." This morning they were running to the northern side of the town to worship their Christ "there." . . And this evening they run at their full speed again towards the southern part, to adore him "here." The Saviour of the World had said, "If any man say unto you, Lo! here is Christ, or there, believe it not." But the Pope with his bishops, say to their poor blind slaves, " When your priests will lell you that here is Christ, or there, believe it." In this matter, as in every other question, the Pope is directly, ab- solutely, opposed tc Jesus Christ. Our Saviour positively says, '•When they tell you, Lo! here is Christ, or there, believe it not." The Pope says, "When they will tell you, Lo! here is Christ, or there, believe it!" The third character of the false Christ of Rome is as clear and evident as his Brst and second one, and I challenge the bishops and the priests to deny it. "If they shall say unto you, Behold He(Christ)i8 in thedesert.go not forth." What is a desert? A place where nobody dwells. A desert is a place where people may pass a few hours for some particular purpose, but they have no idea to live and reside in it. It is not a fit place to dwell in. . . After a few hours of stay in the desert or passage through it, they get out of it, leaving nothing behind them. And that place, after having seen several people in its bosom for some time, remains a desert, a perfect wilderness. So is the church where for an hour or two, the people go to pray or sing and hear a sermon. After the public service, every one goes out of it, and it remains a desert, a solitude. Nobody lives there except the rats and the mice. The fact of their Saviour Jesus Christ remaining alone in a deserted place, in a solitude where nobody attends him, has so painfully struck some devoted Roman Catholics, that they have written beautiful and tender pages on the want of love and respect of the people who left such a glorious Saviour, the Son of God alone, in a solitude, a desert, without any one to adore and praise Him. More than that, the Jesuits have >5 lately, instituted a new order of devotees, whose duties are never to let their so-called Saviour alone. Each member of that society IS bound to select an hour of the day or the night which they will Ipass in the church in adoring him. In that way, a certain num- Iber of chnrches have ceased from being a desert, a solitude .... {For in those churches there are always some worshippers who, one after the other, come to pass their hour before the altar and offer their homages to their wafer-Christ. But these very efforts made by the Jesuits to prevent the accomplishment of the prophecy of Christ, is its most undeniable confirmation. The Son of God, speaking of the false Christ, he said, '' If [they shall say unto you, Behold He (Christ) is in the desert, go not forth.". .But the Pope says, " When the priest tells you, Behold He (Christ) is in the desert, go forth and adore Him there in that desert." The fourth character by which our adorable Saviour warns us against the deception of the wafer-Christ and god of Rome is that " He will dwell in secret chambers." " Wherefore, if they shall say unto you, behold he is in the secret chambers, believe it not." (Matt, xxiv., 26.) Can any bishop or priest of Rome deny that their modern and false Christ is, day and night, in secret chambers^ where they themselves, with their own hand, shut him up, every morning? If any one of our readers, particularly among the Protestants, has any doubt about that fact, let them not believe what we say here, but let them go to the Roman Catholic bishop or priest of the nearest city or town, and let them politely invite the Pope's representative to come with them to hie chii^ch. And when there, let them walk around the church till they come before the altar, and then, let them stop, and look with attentipt^ at the altar. They will see, above the front table of the att^r, 'a beautiful door, which is almost invariably the most richly decorated part of the church. With very rare exceptions, the sculptor has put there the most perfect sculpture which his chisels could make ; and the gilder has plated or gilded it with his utmost skill and perfection. When the inquirer will have admired the workmanship of that door, let him ask the bishop or priest of Rome, " Is there a secret chamber behind that door?" and the bishop or his priest will have to answer, " Yes; there is a secret and a most sacred chamber behind that door, which we call * The Tabernacle.' " Let the inquirer continue his questions, and ask, *^Is there any- body in that secret and most sacred chamber which you call ' The Tabernacle? ' " and the Roman Catholic dignitary will be forced to answer, " Yefr; there is somebody in that sacred chamber." Then, let the inquirer ask, " Who is there? by what name do you call the being who dwells in that secret chamber? " And the Roman Catholic bishop, with his priests, will have to answer, '' It is Jesus Christ who is there? " The inquirer, puzzled at that ; I i 1 i ft E . ■ li 16 answer, will probably say to the bishop, "You do not mean, sir, that it is the living and glorified Christ, with his botly, soul and divinity, who is there in that secret chamber; .... you surely mean only that it is a memorial, a simple remembrance of Jesus Christ!" Assuming, then, an air of solemnity and awe, the Ro- man Catholic cardinal will answer, "Yes, sir! I mean that it is Jesus Christ Himself, the living Christ, the glorified Christ, in person with his body, soul and divinity, who is in that most holy tabernacle." I consent to be branded before the world as an impostor, and to be publicly punished as a sacrilegious calum- niator, if the bishop and the priest of Rome do not give these answers, or some others which come to the same sense But if this public acknowledgment of Christ in secret cham- bers is made by the Church of Rome herself, through her most accredited authorities, who can deny that the awful prophecy of the Son of God is accomplished in our very midst? Who will not see with his own eyes, and hear with his own ears, that the false Christs, foretold by the Saviour of the world are taking possession of the world; they are multiplied without measure in every city or town ; they are adored everywhere by the blind multitudes whom the Pope keeps abjectly prostrated at the feet of their idols in the secret chambers. With Paul, when contemplating that grand and terrible my- stery of iniquity, must we not say ? — "The mystery of Iniquity dotii already worlt: only he who now letteth will let, until he is talien out of the way. "And then shall that wiclied be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. "Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and l^'ing wonders. "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; be- cause they receive not, the love of the truth that they might be saved. "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie. "That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."— 2 Th. ii. FIFTH CONSIDERATION TRANSUBSTANTIATION MAKES GOD INFERIOR TO MAN, AND CHANGES MAN INTO GOD. The Creator is above the created thing, but it is evident that,in the impious dogma of Transubstantiation, the priest of Rome is put much above his God. It will not require long reflections to understand that, by his magical power, in the act of changing the wafer into their god,. rthe popes and the priests of Rome become infinitely stronger, more powerful, and superior to their poor ignominious divinity. For they assure us that the vtry moment the priest speaks, God obeys, and submits himself to the will of that priest; He can not ^>e who now lettettv itan with all power : the truth, but had »7 I'esist ; He can not delay ; He must come down from His throne,an(f lodge his humanity and divinity in that little round and thin cake on rhich tlie officiating priest has said, **//oc est enim corpus meum^'' The marvelous act of Joshua is nothing but a child's play, when :ompared with the miracle performed by the priest of Rome, ;very morning. Joshua had to deal only with two of the inanimate :reatures of God, when he stopped the sun and moon in their larch through the skies; but it is with the Creator, the Master of the sun, the moon, and the stars and all the worlds, that the priest las to deal, to whom he commands, and by whom he is obeyed. The power of the priest over God, in that dogma, is absolute, lersonal, without appeal. God has no power of resistance; He las no power of appeal, no power of delay. He must come jdown from His throne, quicker than lightning, into that cake and transform it into His divine, eternal, almighty person of the Son, it the will and bidding of the priest, not only once a day, but as )ften as it will be the pleasure of the priest to pronounce on a ('afer, or any other crumb of wheat bread, the magical words, YHoc est enim corfus meun:.'''' Let both the Roman Catholics and the Protestants well con- sider that the church of Rome, positively, says that her priests :an perform tnat tremendous miracle not only once a day, at lass ; but at every moment of the day and night it will please them to pronounce those words, with the required intention, the bread is changed into the body, blood, sonl and divinity of Jesus Christ. |For instance, let the Kishops and priests of Sydney and Mel- journe, of Paris and London, of Constantinople and Pekin, of Lome and Geneva, of New York and Quebec or Chicago, pass through the streets of those cities to-day, and, stopping before their bakeries, pronounce on the loaves of bread which are there, jimder their eyes, the words, "//or est enim corpus nieumj'' there Ivvill not remain a single loaf of bread in any one of those bakeries! ^very loaf will have been changed into the body, blood, soul and livinity of Jesus Christ. Every loaf will have become a god, Miich you must adore under the pain of eternal damnation! [More than that, every particle of those loaves if they are crushed into fragments and pulverized, will be changed into the true body, [blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ! and eternally cursed jinust be those who will not adore each one of those millions and |millions of fragments and atoms of bread as the great and merci- ful God who created the worlds with a word from his lips, and saved it when incarnated, by dying on the Cross. But if these considerations are not sufficient to convince the jmind of every intelligent Roman Catholic and Protestant of the ■diabolical character which the dogma of Transubstantiation bears Ion its face, let them reflect on the following propositions, which jl challenge the Catholic bishops of the whole world to deny. The Church of Rome not only teaches her blind followers A I I 9- P i8 that every {jooil priest has tiie tremendous power of trnnsfurining tlie wafers, and all the wheat loaves of bread which are on the earth, into }j[ods, at every hour of the day or night, in the churches, in the streets, in the bakers' carls and bakers' shops; but every '■'■dail priest ^'^ every drunken priest^ every interdicted and excom- municatcd priest, has the same power over God. And no pope, no bisliop, not (iod Almighty Himself, can take away from those bail, drunken, interdicted, excommunicated priests that super-di- vine power of changing the millions of loaves of bread which are on this globe into as many bodies, souls, divinities of Jesus Christ. For instance, do not the bishops, and the priests of Rome tell their people that I, the ex-priest Chiniquy, am one of the most wicked men the world has ever seen? Yes! this is what they have many times proclaimed in their press and in all their pulpits, on the five continents of the globe. Well, it is one of the articles of the religion taught by the infallible Church of Rome, that I, Chiniquy, the infamous, the interdicted, excommunicated priest, Chiniquy, still possess that supreme power over the God of Rome. Is it possible to find a more cruel and infamous being than Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati? That King of modern swindlers, as every one knows, has these last twenty ye^rs, made use of his high position in the Church of Rome to induce thousands and thousands of his poor people to lend and trust him their money, to the amount of nearly four millions of dollars. With it he has lived in luxury with his dissoluted nuns and priests; he has built splendid palaces, and a magnificent cathe- dral, where he has been worshipi)ed as a god during many years. But when the day came for refunding the money into the hands of tiie poor orphans and widows who had trusted him their last cent he coldly rejected them, declared bankrupt and retired to one of his palaces to continue to live like a prince in the midst of his nunsi Well, day after day, for twenty years, when he was working that great iniquity, he ascended his altar, took the wafers in his hands, and pronounced the magical words, "/^oc cj/ cnim corpus meum^'' upon them, and turned them into his god! That God, though surely unwilling to come into such criminal liands, though abhorring that cruel heart, though reproving thjit guilty soul, was forced to come down, in person into those hands, rest in that heart, and unite most intimatelj' and person- ally with that soul ! That infamous Roman Catholic Bishop has still a supreme, direct, personal, irresistible power over his Jesus Christ. The Pope can interdict and excommunicate him, but he can not deprive him of that supreme power which he, once for all, gave him over his God Almighty and his eternal Son. That eternal and Almighty God of Rome is now tied to the will of that public swindler with a more powerful chain than the vil- est dog is tied by his chain to the hand of his master! he must SpSSCi^s^'isvs •a »9 (follow him wherever ht „oes, stops where he stops, go right )r left, up or tlown, according a* Archbishop PurcelI,of Cincin- Ktti, wishes him to go! Do not the Rom.in Ciitliolics agree with the Protestants, in confessing that their I'opc A1w.xjiii t !!i l! < n\ III [i 32 ed, through the Pope, to drag Him down from His throne and drown Him in the vomited matters rejected by the stomach of the priest! What a triumph for Satan in his war against God and His beloved and eternal Son ! What a victory, when he could persuade man that he had the power to create the God of Calvary with a wafer, eat him, vomit him and swallow him again I Evidently, Transubstantiation is the masterpiece of the devil. And if anyone has any doubt about this, let him come and see what I have seen several times, when a priest; let him come and see what the Church of Rome acknowledges to happen oftener than people suspect. Yes, let those who are not certain that Transubstantiation is the most stupendous blasphemy which has come out from hell, come and see the priest of Rome crea- ting his god with a wafer, vomiting him, and swallowing him again, to vomit him a second time as is generally the case. For it is next to impossible for the stomach to keep a second time putrid matter it has once ejected. When looking with amaze- ment, at that horrible spectacle, he will surely hear a voice from heaven whispering in his ears — "For this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure of un- righteousness." THE COD OF ROME EATEN BY A RAT. Has God given us ears to hear, eyes to see, and intelligence to understand? The Pope says no! But the Son of God says: Yes. One of the most severe rebukes of our Saviour to His disciples was for their not paying a si'^icient attention to what their eyes had seen, their ears heard and their intelligence perceived. "Per- ceive ye not, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not; having ears, hear ye not? and do not ye remember?" — (Mark viii. 17, 18.) This solemn appeal of our Saviour to our common sense is the most complete demolition of the whole fabric of Rome. The day that a man ceases to believe that God would give us our senses and our intelligence to ruin and deceive us, but that they were given to guide us, he is lost to the Church of Rome. The Pope knows it; hence the innumerable encyclicals, laws and reg- ulations by which the Roman Catholics are warned not to trust the testimony of their ears, eyes or intelligence. "Shut your eyes," says the Pope to his priests and people; "I will keep mine opened, and 1 will see for you. Shut your ears for it is most dangerous for you to hear what is said in the world, I will keep my ears opened, and will tell you what you must know. Remember, that to trust your own intelligence, in the research of truth and the knowledge of the Word of God, is sure M 23 j)erdition. If you want to know anything, come to me ; I am the lonly sure and infallible fountain of truth," says the Pope. And this stupendous imposture is accepted hy the people and [the priests of Rome with a mysteiious facility, and retained with {a most desolating tenacity. It is to them what the iron ring is to the nose of the ox, when la rope is once tied to it. The poor animal loses its self-control; [its natural strength and energies will avail it nothing; it must go [left or right, at the will of the one who holds the end of the rope. Reader, please have no contempt for the unfortunate priests land people of Rome, but pity them when you see them walking [in the ways into which intelligent beings ought not to make a [step. They cannot help it. The ring of the ox is at their nose, [and the Pope holds the end of the rope. Had it not been for that ring, I would not have been long at [the feet of the WAKER-GOi) of Rome. Let me tell one of the shining rays of truth, which were evidently sent by our merciful [God, with a mighty power to open my eyes. But I could not [follow it; the iron ring was at my nose, and the Pope was hold- ling the end of the rope. This was after I had been put at the head of the magnificent [parish of Beauport, in the spring of 1838. There was living at "La Jeune Lorette" an old retired priest, who was blind. He was [born in France, where he had been condemned to death, under [the Reign of Terror. Escaped from the guillotine, he had Hed to jCanada, where the Bishop of Quebec had i)ut him in the eleva- Ited post of Chaplain of the I'^rsuline Nunnery. He had a fine [voice, was a good musician, and had some])retensions to the title [of poet. Having composed a good number of Church hymns, he [had been called "Pere Cantique;" but his real name was "Pere jDaule." His faith and piety were of the most exalted character among the Roman Catholics; though this did not prevent him [from being one of the most amiable and jovial men I ever saw. [But his blue eyes, sweet as the eyes of the dove; his fine yellow [hair, falling on his shoulders as a golden Heece; his white rosy [cheeks and his constantly smiling lips had been too much for the [tender hearts of the good nuns. It was not a secret that "Pere Cantique," when young, had made several interesting conquests [when in the monastery. There was no wonder at that. Indeed, [how could that young and inexperienced l)utterfly escape dam- aging his golden wings at the numberless burning lamps of the [fair virgins? But the mantle of charity had been put on the (wounds which the old warrior had received on that formidable [battle-field, from which even the Davids, Samsons, Solomons and [many others had escaped only after being mortally wounded. To helj) the poor blind priest, the curates around Quebec used [to keep him, by turns, in their parsonages, and give him the care land marks of respect due to his old age. After the Rev. Mr. Roy, curate of Charlesbourg, had kept him five or six weeks, I :bs. At first, I did not know what to say; a thousand thoughts, )me very grave, some exceedingly ludicrous, crossed my mind ^ore rapidly than I can say them. I stood there as nailed to the )or, by the side of the old priest, who was weeping as a child, til he asked me, with a voice broken by his sobs, "What must [do, now?" I answered him, "The Church has foreseen occurrences of this |ind, and provided for them the remedy. The only thing you lave to do is to get a new wafer, consecrate it, and continue )ur mass, as if nothing strange had occurred. I will go and Jet you, just now, a new bread." I went without losing a moment, to the vestry, got and brought new wafer which he consecrated and turned into a new god, id finished his mass as I had told him. After it was over, I )ok the disconsolate old priest by the hand to my parsonage, for reakfast. But all along the way he rent the air with his cries Jf distress. He would hardly taste anything, for his soul was ;ally drowned in a sea of disconsolation. I vainly tried to calm is feelings, by telling him that there was no fault of his ; that lis strange and sad occurrence was not the first of that kind; Kit it had been calmly foreseen by the Church, which has told as ^hat to do in these circumstances; that there was no neglect, no iiilt, no offence against God or man on his part. But as he would not pay the least attention to what I said, I felt le only thing I had to do was to remain silent and respect his grief |y letting him unburden his heart by his lamentations and tears. 1 hoped that his good common sense would help him to over- come his feelings, but I was mistaken; his lamentations were as )ng as those of Jeremiah, and the expressions of his grief as bitter. 26 , I At last, I lost patience, and said: "My dear Father Daule, allow me to tell you, respectfully, that it is quite time to stop those lamentations and tears. Our great and just God cannot like such an excess of sorrow and regret about a thing which was only and entirely under the control of His power and eternal wisdom." "What do you say there?" replied the old priest, with a vivacity which resembled anger. "I say that as it was not in your power to foiesee or avoid that occurrence, you have not the least reason to act and speak as you do. Let us keep our regrets and our tears for our sins; we have both committed many, and we cannot weep for them too much. But there is no sin here ; and there must be some reasonable limits to our sorrow. If anybody had to weep and regret with out measure what has happened, it would be Christ. For he alone could foresee that event, and He alone could prevent it. Had it been His will to oppose this sad and mysterious fact, it was in His, not in our power, to prevent it. He alone has suffered from it, because it was His will to suffer it." "Mr. Chiniquy," he replied, "you are quite a young man; and I see you have the want of attention and experience which are too often seen among young priests. You do not pay a sufficient attention lo-the awful calamity which has just occurred in your Church. If you had more faith and piety, you would weep with me, instead of laughing at my grief. How can you speak so lightly of a thing which makes the angels of God weep? Our dear Saviour dragged and eaten by rats ! Oh ! great God ! does not this surpass the humiliation and horrors of Calvary?" "My dear Father Daule," I replied, "allow me respectfully to tell you that I understand, as well as you do, the nature of the deplorable event of this morning. I would have given my blood to prevent it. Kut let us look at the fact in its proper light; it is not a moral action for us; it did not depend on our will more than the spots on the sun. The only one who is accountable for that fact is our Ciod I For, again I say, that He was the only one who could see and prevent it. And to give you, plainly, my own mind, I tell you here, that if I were God Almighty, and a miserable rat would come and try to eat me, I would strike it dead before it could touch me." These is no need of confessing it here; every one who reads these lines, and pays attention to this conversation, will under- stand that my former so robust faith in r.-iy priestly power of changing the wafer into my god had melted 3way and evaporated from my mind, if not entirely, at least t.. a ^reat extent. Great and new lights had flashed thio.:ghmy soul in that hour Evidently my merciful (Jod wanted to epen my eyes to the awful absurdities and impieties of a religion whose God could be drag- ged and eaten by rats. Had I been faithful to the saving lights which were in me then, I was saved in that very hour: and before the end of that day, I would have broken the shameful chains by 27 lich the Pope had tied my neck to his idol of bread. In that wr, it seemed to me evident that the dogma of Transubstantia- lon was a most monstrous imposture, and my priesthood an Isult to God and man. My intelligence said to me, with a thundering voice, "Do not smain any longer the priest of a god whom you make every lay, and whom the rats can eat." Though blind, Father Daule understood well, by the stern kccents of my voice, that my faith in that god whom he had freated that morning, and whom the rats had eaten, had been jriously modified, if not entirely crumbled down. He remained ^ilent for some time; after which he invited me to sit by him. He len spoke to me with a pathos and authority which my youth knd his old age alone could justify. He gave me the most awful [ebuke I ever had; he really opened on my poor wavering intelli- jence, soul and heart all the cataracts of heaven. He over- whelmed me with a deluge of holy Fathers, Councils and Infal- lible Popes, who, he assured me, had believed and preached, be- JTore the whole world, in all ages, the dogma of Transubstantiation. If I had paid attention to the voice of my intelligence, and ac- :epted the lights which my my merciful God was giving me, I could lave easily smashed the arguments of the old priest. But what las human intelligence to do in the Church of Rome? What icould my intelligence say? I was forbidden to hear it. What [was the weight of my poor isolated intelligence when put in the (balance against so many learned, holy, infallible intelligences? Alas! I was not aware then that the weight of the intelligence f of God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost was on my side; and I that, weighted against the intelligence of the Popes, they were [greater than all the worlds against a grain of sand. One hour after, shedding tears of regret, I was at the feet of [Father Daule, in the confessional-box, confessing the great sin I [had committed by doubting, for a moment, of the power of the [priest to change the wafer into God. The old priest, whose voice had been like a lion's voice, when [speaking to the unbelieving curate of Beauport, had become [sweet as the voice of a lamb, when he had me at his feet confess- jing my unbelief. He gave me my pardon. For my penance, Ihe forbade me ever to say a word on the sad end of the god he rhad created that morning; because, said he, "This would destroy the faith of the most sincere Roman Catholics." For the other part of the penance, I had to go on my knees every day, during nine days, before the fourteen images of the way of the cross, and say a penitential psalm before every picture : which I did. But the sixth day, the skin of my knees was pierced, and the blood was flowing freely. I suffered real torture every time I knelt down and at every step I made. But it seemed to me that these terrible tortures were nothing compared to my great iniquity. I had refused for a moment, to believe that a man can create ■■■^■^jamnre-'- 28 his god with a wafer I and I had thought that a Church which adores a god eaten by rats must be an idolatrous Church! ' MM Vh i : ' liill ■ 1; tiiL MARIOLATRY. The learned Cardinal Gibbons, through his eloquent priest, Lynch, denied some time ago, that the Virgin Mary is adored and put above Christ in the Church of Rome. This denial, in the face of the undeniable facts which I will bring forth, is really one of the most inexplicable mysteries. If there is a thing which is as evident as two and two make four, it is that Romanism is the old idolatry of Bablyon, Egypt and Rome, under a Christian mask. But this new form of idol- atry is so boldly denied by some of the great dignitaries of Rome, and so skillfully concealed by otheis, under the spotless lobe of Jesus, that not only the too unsuspecting nominal Protestants, but even the "\ory elect," are in danger of being entrapped and deceived. (Jo to the magnificent cathedrals, as well as to the humblest chapels of .the Church of Rome, if you had any knowledge of the old mythology, and you will see that, to-day, Minerva, Juno, Venus are worshipped under the sweet and blessed name of Mary ; they see again the clouds of incense burning on their altars, and the multitude of male and female devotees humbly prostrated at the feet of their idols, asking them now, as formerly, to appease the wrath of their angry God. But, to-day, very few read the books which could throw any light on that subject, and among the few who read these books, unfortunately, the greater part remain under the impression that there is a great deal of exag- geration in what is said by Protestants against Rome. When they meet a Roman Catholic priest, or still more, a bishop, it seems to those Protestants a want of fairness, courtesy and Christian charity to accuse, or even suspect, such refined gentlemen of idolatry. It is that misguided charity, founded on sheer ignorance, which paralyzes to day the arm of the Church of Christ everywhere, and makes the Church of Rome so bold and so strong that she is carrying almost everything before her in Great Britain, the United States, in Canada, and even in Australia. In consequence of that misguided charity, foin»ded on the criminal ignorance of modern Protestants, the Church of Rome is surely marching to the conciuest of England and the United States, and, through them to the concjuest of the world, except (»od Almighty inter- feres, by a miracle, to stop her triumphs. To-day, the great Captain of our salvation sees his armies filled with multitudes who think more to live in peace with their implacable enemy than to fight him. For the foe has so skillfully given to his re- »9 ^Uious Hag the colors and appearance of the loyal one, that the tception is as complete as it is deplorable in its effects. It is to open the eyes of the good but too confident Protestants Baltimore that I write this short treatise to show that Cardinal gibbons and all the priests of Rome, in spite of their denials. It the Virgin Mary much above Christ, and that they attribute her powers, honors and praises which ought to be given to God lone. But like the horse thief, the Church of Rome has a thousand rays to conceal this, her great iniquity. If you meet the thief iding on the very horse he has just stolen, and ask him whose |orse he is riding, he has the most ingenious stories at hand to wove that he is honest; that there is nothing wrong about the iray he got that horse. He assures you that he has bought it in fuch a town, or from such a traveler, or that he has borrowed it, or jund it loose on the highway, and took it for a moment, with le honest determination to send it back to the owner. So it is irith the soul-stealing Church of Rome. Luther, Calvin, Knox ind a million other unimpeachable witnesses and martyrs, have letected that "hurch in the J/agran/e delicto of idolatry. They lave proved their charges with the clearest; the most crushing jvidence. But, at every time, she has denied her guilt with an Impudence which makes one remember the great Father of lies vho deceived our first parents in the garden of Eden. But I have been twenty-five years one of those — not horse- thieves, but soul-thieves and soul-murderers. I know all their jreat and small tricks, all their pious lies, all their dark caves and light recesses. I have been a quarter of a century swimming in the filthy waters in which the poor priests and the haughty :ardinals, and bishops are plunged, and, with the grace of God, Jl will show that Rome is idolatrous in her worship of Mary, with [such proofs that Cardinal Gibbons will not dare to deny them. There is a book in the Church of Rome which is esteemed [sacred above every other book. It is called "Breviarium." [Every bishop and priest of Rome is bound, und^r pain of eternal [damnation, to read every word of it at least once a year. Among [the things that the learned bishop is bound to read, repeat and •believe, from the bottom of his heart, every week to the glory of [Mary, from that book are the following words: "Gaude, Virgo Maria, quia cunctas hereses sola interemisti in universo mundo ;" "Rejoice, Virgin Mary, for thou alone hath destroyed all the heresies in the whole world." Of course, to address, in the presence of God and man, these blasphemous words to Mary; to believe that the Virgin Mary ALONE has destroyed "all" heresies which were in the world, the unfortunate priests and bishops of Rome must silence the voice of reason, which tells them that this is sheer absurdity and nonsense; they must silence the voice of the conscience, which tells them that this is a blasphemous as well as a ridiculous lie ; m iiii 30 they must make asses of themselves to i)lease their modern goddess. For if there is a thing \vhi( h is evident, it is that God has never yet seen fit to destroy all the heresies in the world. Go and con- sult the theologians of Rome. Ask them when all the heresies had been destroyed in the world, and they will answer you there has never been such happy days. Nay, they will assure you that all the old heresies have been continued, i)reached and revived by the arch heretics Luther, Calvin, Zuingle, Knox, Chiniquy, etc. If. from the theologians of Rome you go to consult the Roman Catholic historians, and ask them to tell you when all the heresies were destroyed, and the heretics confounded and silenced, they will, without a dissenting voice, answer you that this is one of the most egregious and stupendou.s lies that the world has ever heard. They will unanimously t^^V you that God Almighty -has never extinguished and destroyed all the heresies which were in the world. But to show to the Roman Catholics how the Virgin Mary is above God, the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Baltimore tells them at least once a week, "that the Virgin Mary alone has destroyed all the heresies which were in the world!" What would be the feelings and the surprise of the Virgin Mary if she heard from the lips of those reverend high dignita- ries of Rome that i)ious lie procla iT>ed at the feet of her altars? Many among the admirers of Cardinal Gibbons will hardly believe me, when I tell them he has to proclaim that puerile false- hood once a week I But it is an undeniable fact. If, in his hon- esty and in his perfect knowledge, he refuses to proffer that theo- logical as well as historical and scriptural falsehood, and shrinks from rei)eating it, his infallible church tells him that he will be forever damned I And T here, publicly, challenge him to deny it. In the famous encyclical of Pope Gregory XVI. (the prede- cessor of I'ius IX.) against liberty of conscience, dated September i(S, 18,32, which begins with these words: "Mirari vos," we read: "Sed ut omnia hac prospere et feliciter eveniant, levemus occulos manusgue ad sanclissiman Virginem Mariam, quaj sola universas hiereses interemit, nostra que maxima fiducia, imo, Tota ratio est spei nostriu." "But, in order that we may receive all these blessings, let us raise oiu' eyes and our hands to the most holy Virgin Mary, who Ai.oNi; has deslroyc'd all the heresies; who is the surest foundation of our hope; nay, who is all the foundation of our hope." Here, the infallible I'ope says again, "ex-cathedra," in his must infallible way. that tho holy Virgin Mary, alone, by her power without the help of God, alonk, has destroyed all the here- sies I But, fearing lest this infinite power given to Mary may not sufficiently convey the super-Divine power of that almighty (jueen of heaven and earth, the infallible Pope adds that the Virgin Mary is "all the foundation" of the hope of mankind! 3« •'ilic gioatest (m:irk tlic word *maxiina') source of tlicir confi- dence !" Voii see that if Cardinal (m1)1)oiis is allowed to jiut a great » onfidenco in Christ, he is bound, by his church, to put his great- e>l ("maxima") confidence in Mary I I congratulate the learned Roman Catholic Cardinal of Balti- more, who seems to have the good sense not to put all his confi- dence in Mary, but to keep some for Christ, his Saviour. I hope he will soon inform us that he has taken away the little (though very big) woid am. from before the name of Mary, and put it before the name of Jesus. Yes, I respectfully advise him to re- fuse to say any longer with his church that Ai,r. his confidence is in Mary, but to proclaim that it is am. in Je.sus. Then he will be a true Christian and a good Protestant. liut let us come again to the Kreviarium. In the office of the ••Immaculate Conception" we find the following prayer, which Cardinal Gibbons is bound to address, several times a year; "Ac- cipe quod offerimus, redona qupd rogamus, excusa quodtimemus; ([uia tu es spes unica peccatorum" — Receive what we oflfer, give what we ask, excuse what we fear; for thou art the only hope of sinners." No doubt that some of our readers here will again say: "Poor Father Chinicpiy is always exaggerating, but he will never per- suade us that such a refined gentleman, such a learned Christian as Cardinal Gibbons has ever said to the Virgin Mary that she was the only hope of sinners. No I Never such a blasphe- my has fallen from the lips of a Christian so universally known and esteemed as the present Cardinal of Baltimore." But such is nevertheless the case. And I here again solemnly challenge Cardinal Gibbons to deny it. That Cardinal Gibbons, with all his priests and people, are bound, under pain of eternal damnation, to say to the Virgin Mary, many times every year: "Thou art the only hope of sinners!" It is amusing to hear the bishops and priests of Rome speak- ing on that matter before Protestants. It is then evident that they see their idolatry — and they are ashamed of it. They then tell us that it is Jesus who is the "only" hope of sinners. Yes! when in the presence of a Protestant public, I am glad to hear that Cardinal Gibbons protests against the ordinances if his Church, which wants him to say t»o Mary, "Thou art the OKI, V hoi)e of sinners. " I know there are many priests of Rome to-day (and I hope Cardinal Ciibbons is one of them) who are disgusted with the idolatrous doctrines of their Church ; they see with true horror the abomination of her doctrines, but they feel they are her children, [and as such they jnit their mantle over her shoulders to conceal her Lshame as much as possible from -the eye of the outside world. 32 They know well the errors of their guilty mother; but, as dutiful children, they don't like to hear any bad talking against her ; they, perhaps secretly, hope she will reform, give up her initjuities, and become a truly honest mother again. Though depraved in many things, she is such a good mother to her children, i)articularly when they are bishops or priests I She feeds, clothes and lodges them so well! She is so rich I Those with whom she prostitutes herself are so powerful, so numerous, so great, so noble! There are such splendors inside the walls of her house ! Does she not extend her powci all over the world? Does she not see several of the mightiest nations at her feet? Has she not a matchless unity? Does she not march to the con'Mary is the only hope for sinners," and very often he himself U obliged to say, "Mary is the only hope for sinners." But to lave appearances, and in order not to be forced to publicly ac- Lnowledge that his Church is idolatrous, and that he is himself an Idolater, he will tell you that the word "only" does not mean jt'only." He will bravely tell you that when he says, "Mary is le 'only' hope of sinners, this does not iViean at all that "Mary \s the only hope of sinners. " And if you ask him, What then, is the meaning of the word 'only?" he will tell you that the infamous Chiniquy is an apos- tate, who, for good reasons, has been a hundred times interdicted. I^uspended, excommunicated: which will be a clear argument to )rove that the Church of Rome does not insult Jesus Christ, and lat she is not only idolatrous when she says to Mary, "Thou art ie only hope for sinners." We have a French proverb which says, "Le menteur n'a pas de- lemoire et se contredit souvent" — "The liar has no memory and »ften contradicts himself." So the Church of Rome soon forgets ^nd contradicts the few good words she says about Jesus Christ. True to her tendency to idolatry, after having said that Jesus was le only Saviour of the world, she employed all the eloquence of ^er orators, all the science of her theologians to persuade sinners address themselves to Mary, by assuring them that "she is the |oor of heaven, and the only hope of sinners. The learned Cardinal will not be worse than his Church if he ills you that the word only, used in connection with the name ^f Mary, as the only hope of sinners, does not mean only. When speaking to the Protestants, and trying to deceive them ly her enchantments, that Church says, with great solemnity and pmphasis, "Jesus is the only hope — the only Saviour of sinners." lut laughs at these expressions when speaking to her obedient riests and blind slaves. She then says, "It is Mary, and Mary LONE, who destroys all the heresies of the world ! It is Mary, and [ary alone, who is the hope of sinners! It is to Mary, and .p I ,34 tludugh Mary ai.onk, that tlie pour riinner must look to besiived!' •Maria iinica spes pcccatorum !" 'Ihc more one studies and knows Rome as she is, the more he is slru( k by the duplicity with which she speaks and the audacity with which she denies what she has just said and done; the more he is saddened at the strange mixture of gold and dust whicn comi)ose her doctrines; the more he is alarmed at the deadly ])oison she puts into the bread which she offers to the world. The ignorant and blind multitudes of her followers eat the bread without suspecting the poison which is in it, and they die far from God and eternal life, in the arms of the modern goddess Mary. It is that du|)licity, that double-faced doctrine which makes the bold priest of Rome so strong, sometimes, when he is arguing with an unsuspecting Protestant. The ambassador of Rome shows only one side of his doctrine — the right side, the gospel side ; and the honest Protestant, finding everything right in his ad- versary, expresses his regret at having been unjust towards his Roman Catholic neighbor, and is soon caught in her trap. liut it is that duplicity, that double-faced doctrine of Rome which renders her priests so timid, so weak, so ridiculously ignor- ant when arguing with men like 1-uther, Calvir>; Knox, Gavazzi, or even the poor, a hundred times excommunicated, Chiniquy. For we know all the tricks of Rome; we have drank her poison- ous waters; we have plunged into the bottomless sea of her in- iquities; we have in our hands all the proofs that Rome is the great mother of abominations, the great Babylon who has made the kings and nations drunk with the wine of her prostitution ; but we know also that the Lord will destroy her with he bright- ness of His coming. Let the Protestants of Baltimore and the whole of the United States read the following extracts, which I copy, word by word, from one of the most approved books of the Church of Rome, and they will understand what brazen iaces Cardinal Gibbons and his priests have, when they deny that their Church is idola- trous in her worship of Mary : "The High Chancellor of Paris, John Gerson, meditating on the words of David— 'These two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God, and mercy to thee, O Lord,' (Psl. Ixi. 12) — says, that the kingdom of God, consisting of justice and mercy, the Lord has divided it; He has reserved the kingdom of justice for Himself, and He has granted the kingdom of mercy to Mary, ordaining that all the mercies which are dispensed to man should pass through the hands of Mary, and should be bestowed accord- ing to her good pleasure. (Psl. iii. Tr. 4th, S. Magn.) St. Thomas confirms this in his preface to the Canonical Epistle, saying that the Holy Virgin, when she conceived the Divine Word in her womb, and brought Him forth, obtained the half of ihe Kingdom of God by becoming (^uecn of Mercy, Jesus Christ remaining King of Justice. 35 o be saved!' meditating on '•'1 lie Ettrnal l''ather constituted Jesus Christ King of Justice, md iheieioic made Him the Iniversal Judge of the world ; hence [the prophet sang. 'Give to the King Ihy Jiidgment, O God; and |to the King's Son Thy justice, (Pis. Ixxi. 2.) Here a learned [interpreter takes up the subject, and says: 'O Lord, thou hast l^iven Thy Son 'I'hy justice, because Thou hast given to the iMuther of the King Thy mercy.' And St. Bonaventure happily* [varies the passage above cpioted by saying, 'Give to the King Thy [judgment. C) God ; and to His Mother Thy mercy.' Ernest, 'Archbishop of Prague, also says, -That the Eternal Father has [given to the Son the office of judging and punishing, and to the [mother the office of compassionating and relieving the wretched." (Glories of Mary, by St. Eiguori, pages 27-29.) If these blasphemous words are not sufficieiit to prove that ■ Cardinal G'bbons and his priests give an idolatrous worship to Mary, let the Protestants of the United States read the following page, from the same book, which the three last Popes have ap- proved. They will see with their own eyes, and hear with their own ears, not from the lips of Chinicjuy, but from the I very lips of the Church of Rome, that the Virgin Mary is wor- shipped as being the intercessor between the sinner and God the Father. One of the most impudent falsehoods with which the priests of Rome blind their poor dupes, and even the Protestants who are not on their guard against the enchantments of the great mother sorceress of the Vatican, is that Mary is the only intercessor between the sinner and Christ. There they will see I how it is to God the Father directly she carries her petitions, and how she is considered by her devotees, and considers herself, the only m-'Jiator between the sinner and God the Father: "We read in the second book of Kings that the wise woman of Tekoa said to David: "My Lord, I had two sons, and for my misfortune one has killed the other, so that I have already lost a child; justice would not take from me my other and only son; I have mercy upon me, a poor mother, and not let me be deprived of both my children.' Then David had compassion on this i mother, liberated the criminal, and returned him to her. "It appears that Mary offers the same petition when God is angry with a sinner who has recourse to her. 'O my God!' she says to Him, 'I had two sons, Jesus and man; man has killed my Jesus.on the cross: Thy justice would now condemn man: my Lord, my Jesus is dead; have mercy upon me, and if I have lost :one, do not condemn me to lose the other also.' Ah, God assur- edly does not condemn the sinners who have recourse to Mary, and for whom she prays, sii^ce God has given the sinners to Mary for her children." (Gloriea 0/ Mary, by St. Liguori, pages 73-74) Here is the true doctrine of Rome about Mary, given not by me. nor any enemy of the Church of Rome, but given by one of the greatest saints and theologians of that Church. In this bias- ttiiS 36 phemous i)rayer, put on the lips of their modern goddess, the resurrection of Christ is forgotten and denied! He is dead. He can not be any more the intercessor between His F'ather and the guilty children of Adam ! but, happily, they don't want Him to pray and intercede for them. They have Mary, who says to God the Father, "Man has killed my son Jesus. Do not deprive me. then, of my only surviving son man!" * And with such a book in his hands — such doctrine in his mind — such blasphemies on his lijjs, Cardinal (iibbons bravely tells us, through his priest Lynch, that the relative worship of Mary is not idolatry! At page 118 of the same book we read: "Saint Intneus says that the Divine word, before incarnating himself in the womb ot Mary, sent the archangel to obtain her consent, because he would have the world indebted to Mary for the mystery of incarnation !" Has ever hell let more blasphemous words go from its dark recess than this? In the Church of Rome it is not the infinite compassion and love'of God that we are indebted to for the in- carnation of Christ — it is to Mary! On page 119 of the same book we read : "Also Idiot remarks that every grace, every blessing that men have received or will receive from God, to the end of the world, has come to them and will come to them through the intercession and by the means of Mary." (Glories of Mary, page 119) St. Germanus, recognizing Mary to be the source of every blessing, and the deliverance from every evil, thus invokes her: "O my Lady, thou alone art my help given me by God; thou art the guide of my pilgrimage, the support of my weakness, my- riches in poverty, my deliverance from bondage, the hope of my salvation; graciously listen, I pray thee, to my supplications, take compassion on my sighs, thou my Queen, my refuge, my life, my help, my hope, my strength." (Glories of Mary, page 120.) But in order to show in what manner Christ is exalted above Mary in the Church of Rome, let the Protestants, whom Car- dinal Gibbons wanted to blind on the 8th of December last, read the following story, published with the infallible authorities of the Popes : "In the Franciscan chronicle it is related of Brother Leo, that he once saw a red ladder, upon which Jesus Christ was standing, and a white one upon which stood His holy Mother. He saw many persons attempting to ascend the red ladder; they ascended a few steps and then fell. Then they were exhorted to ascend the white ladder, and on that he saw them succeed, for the blessed Virgin offered them her hand, and they arrived in that manner safe in Paradise. St. Denys, the Carthusian, asks : "Who will ever be saved? Who will ever reign in heaven? They are saved and will certainly reign for whom this Queen of Mercy offers her prayers." (Glories of Mary, page 279.) I may .here be asked by many, "How is it possible that a man 37 )t" the ability and learning of Cardinal Gibbons does not see that his church is idolatrous? How can he come so boldly before fhc world and deny that idolatry, when it is so evident?" There is only one way of answering that ciuestion ; it is to iread the second chapter of the 2nd Thessalonians: 'That mystery of ini^iuity doth already work. •And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord ^hail consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy ^vith the brightness of His coming. ■'Even Him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, nth all power and signs and lying wonders. •'And with all the deceivableness of unrighteousness in them Ithat perish ; because they received not the love of the truth, that (hey might be saved. "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, jthat they should believe a lie. "That they all might be damned who believe not the truth, nit had p-lcasure in unrighteousness." 1 will not accuse Cardinal Gibbons, or any of his priests, of lishonesty. My firm belief is that many, if not all, are honest in their awful errors. Yes, they are honest as many priests of the White Elephant in Siam, or the priests of the Sun in Persia, and jthe priests of Mahomet in Constantinople are honest. The priests ind bishops of Rome are as honest at the feet of the wafer-gods md their goddess Mary as the priests of Baal were at the feet of Iheir idols. Such honesty at the feet of mute and contemptible Idols is one of the saddest mysteries of our poor, corrupt and fal- len human nature. We must not insult or despise these men; ire must pity them, and pray for them. In order to enlist more surely the pity and compassion of the iisciplcs of the Gospel in favor of Cardinal Gibbons and his j>oor deluded and blind slaves, I will end this short treatise by Copying two facts given by St. Liguori in that most approved ^nd circulated book of Rome, "The Glories of Mary." These |wo facts will explain why the Roman Catholics are fallen, every- irhere, into such a bottomless abyss of immorality and degradation Ihat they seem unable to be raised again to the level of the Chris- tian atmosphere of honesty. In reading these histories, which Ihe bishops and priests of Rome present to the people as most pdifying ones, every one will see how the modern idolatry of lome, as its old idolatry, has brought her into the most deplor- kble state of moral degradation and intellectual depravity. ble that a man .18 1 I IKsr SIOKV. "Our advocate (the Virgin ^^ary) has shown how great is her kinchiess towards sinners by her mercy to Beatrix, a nun in the monastery of Fontebraldo, as related by Cesarius and Father Rho. This iinhaiipy nun, having contracted a passion for a certain youth, agreed to Hee with him from the convent; and, in fact, she went one day before a statue of the blessed Virgin, there deposi- ted the keys of the monastery — for she was portress — and boldly departed. Arrived in another country, she led the miserable life of a prostitute for fifteen years. It happened that she met, one day, the agent of the monastery in the city where she was living, and asked of him, thinking he would not recognize her again, if he knew Sister Beatrice? 'I know her well,' he said, 'she is a holy nun, and at present is Mistress of Novices.' "At this intelligence she was confounded and amazed, not knowing how to understand it. In order to ascertain the truth, she put on another dress and went to the monastery. She asked for Sister Beatrice, and, behold! the most holy Virgin appeared before her in the form of that same image to which, at parting, she had committed her keys and her dress. And the divine Mother spoke thus: 'Beatrice, be it known to thee, that, in order to prevent thy disgrace, I assumed thy form, and have filled thy office for the fifteen years that thou hast lived far from the mon astery and from Ciod. My child return and do penance : for my Son is still waiting for thee : and strive by thy holy life to pre- serve the good name I have gained thee.' "She spoke thus and disappeared. Beatrice re-entered the nun nery; and, gratified for the mercy of Mary, led the life of a saint. At her death she made known the foregoing incident, to the glory of this great Queen." (Glories of Mary, page 224.) SECOND STORY. "A servant of Mary went, one day, to visit a church of our Blessed Lady, without the knowledge of her husband, and she was prevented, by a severe storm, from returning that night to her own house. She felt a great fear lest her husband should be very angry with her; but she recommended herself to Mary, and when she returned home, her husband was very kind and gracious to her. Upon questioning him, she found that the evening before, the divine Mother had taken her form and attended to all the little affairs of the household. She then related the occurrence to her husband, and they both, afterwards, practiced great devotioi^ to the blessed Virgin." (dlories of Mary, page 701.) Thus it is that after having raised Mary above Christ, by cal- ling her the only hope of sinners, the only foundation of our sal- vation, the only destroyer of heresy, the gate of heaven, etc., etc.. 39 ihe Church of Rome degrades and dishonors her liy hringing ler down to a level with women we cannot name. Thus it is that, everywhere, the idolatrous Churrli of Rome las killed and destroyed the idea of what is pure and right. Ehonest and holy among men. C. CHINIQUY. [why we must put our trust in JESUS ALONE AND NOT INVOKE MARY. I'HE CRUCIFIED JESUS AND THE PENITENT THIEF. "And when one of the malefactors which were hu iged railed ?on him, saying, Tf thou he Christ, save thyself and us.' But the i other, answering, rebuked him, saying, 'Dost thou not fear (iod, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we, indeed I justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man hntli done nothing amiss.' And he said unto Jesus, 'Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.' And Jesus said unto him, 'Verily I say unto you, to-day, shalt thou 'be with me in Paradise I' (Luke 23: 39-43.) This sublime dialogue between Jesus dying on the cross and the repenting sinner, is tne most touching summary of the de- sign of the mission of Jesus Christ upon earth, as it is the measure of the unlimited confidence that the penitent sinner ought to place in the mercy of the Saviour. A few reflections upon what passed and was said upon these two crosses, are sufficient to enable us to comprehend the injury that the Church of Rome does to the Holy Virgin and to the gospel, in her eftorts to turn the thoughts and the hearts of sinners towards Mary, as the most solid foundation of their salvation. During this dialogue between the Saviour and the penitent thief, St. John tells us that Mary was at Lhe foot of the cross: I' then, we can believe that she knew what was passing there. And how she must have felt her heart thrill with joy, in si)ite of her bitter grief, when she heard with loving kindness Jesus saying to the companion of his sufferings, "To-day shalt thou be 'with me in Paradise." No doubt that the faith and conversion of the thief were infinitely pleasing to the holy mother of Jesus, and that they I brought, for a moment, a happy diversion from her sorrows. The spectacle which is presented to us upon Calvary is one of such sublimity and grandeur that man will never be able wor- thily to describe it. Whilst our thoughts go toward Jesus and the penitent thief, and whilst, in the stillness of reflection and meditation, we call to remembrance the words that these two sufferers on the cross interchanged, we feei ourselves penetrated 4° by such a seutiment of love and confidence in the Saviour, that we can no longer speak of him but with tears. We feel that to distrust Jesus, or doubt His love and mercy for sinners, is one of tlie greatest crimes of which man can be guilty. Hut let us suppose that the penitent thief, instead of address- ing the crucified Jesus, and turning all the thoughts and affec- tions of his heart toward the Saviour of the world, had turned his thoughts and hopes towards Mary, as the Roman Church advises all sinners, and especially dying sinners, to do — suppose the penitent thief, instead of saying to Jesus, "Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom," had said what all the popes, bisho|)s and i)riests of Rome put into the mouth of sin- ners, "Lord Jesus, I have been so wicked that I do not deserve to speak to you, nor to be heard by you. But, behold your mother I Her female heart must naturally be more feeling and more comi)assionate than yours; she, then, will listen to me better than you will; she will be more easily touched with pity for my unfortunate lot than you. Do not take it amiss, then, that 1 should address myself to her in preference to yoli,' in order to get help in the miseries that oppress me. I dare not speak to you myself, for you are the Holy of Holies, and I am a miserable sinner. But I will speak to you through your mother; she will demand from you grace and mercy for me. A good son refuses nothing to his mother! You cannot, then, refuse her what she will ask of you for me; for she has an authority over you that you cannot disown. The favor which, then, you would refuse to a criminal like me, will be easily granted to her, whom you can not refuse anything. You are come into the world, I know, armed with the inexorable justice of your Father to punish the guilty. But whilst God the Father has given to you the mission of justice and chastisement. He has given to your mother the mission of mercy and pardon. I know that with- out Mary I am lost; for it is she that is the gate ot heaven, the refuge of sinners. My chosen advocate is your mother; I fear nothing, for I know you can refuse nothing." We ask all men to whom God has given a spark of Christian intelligence, would such language in the mouth of the thief have been suitable? Would it have pleased and honored the Holy Virgin? In one word, would it have obtained from the Saviour this answer: "To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise?" Roman Catholics who read these lines, do you not understand that each of these words, if they had been spoken by the thief on the cross, would have been blasphemy — an outrage on Jesus Christ, and an insult to the Holy Virgin? But see, now. with- out any exaggeration, the sentiments with which your Roman Church wishes to inspire you! You know that these are the very words which she makes you learn by heart, that she makes you read in all your books, and that she announces to you by her priests, in order that you should address them to Jesus Christ! 41 Its, is one I,et lis go on and suppcsc that, after ihis lai.^iiage was addressed to Jesus upon the Cross, the thief, sp(.;akiiig to the Holy Virgin, had said to licr, "O Mary, the refuge of sinners, you are the only foundation of my hope and of my faith; you are the gate of heaven, the consolation of the afflicted, he salvation of sinners I It is through you a/ofte that all the grace and blessings of heaven descend upon the earth! It is by you a/ofie that all errors, here- sies and sins are destroyed in the world I Whilst your son Jesus has for his mission to cause the inexorable justice of the Father to reign in the world, it is your part to execute mercy. . . All those who put their confidence in you, and invoke the all-powerful aid of your prayer;, will be saved ! The arms of your son are always raised to punish and crush the sinner; it is yours, I know, to pre- vent his avenging arm from striking. I see that your son is angry with me; I feel that I have deserved his wrath. Be pleased then, O Mary, to appease him, and ask of him grace for me, for I am so guilty that he will not listen to me if I speak to him ! I put my salvation in your hands; I make myself your child, your servant, your slave. Regardme with compassion, since I deplore my sins. Cause him to remember you are his mother, and by that title you have full authority over him. O Mary, my hope and refuge, I throw myself in your arms. Save me!" Once more, we ask of the brethren of the Roman Church, would not each of these words, in the mouth of the thief on the cross, have been blasphemous against Christ? Would they not 'have been an insult to the Holy Virgin? Would the humble Mary, at the foot of Calvary, have received [with pleasure these insipid praises? Would she have felt herself Ihonored by these sacrilegious prayers which the Roman Catho- |lics repeat every day? No, a thousand times no! Never would [the Holy Virgin at the foot of Calvary, whilst the blood of the Igreat victim was falling dro]i by drop from the cross, have con- jsented to have heard herself called iAe salvation of the world, the Ehope of sinners, the gate of heaven ; she would have repelled with ihorror these words of blasphemy; she would have replied to the Ithief: "Ah! wretch, when so near h"m who atones for the sins of [the world, covered with his blood, a witness of his patience, of his jildness, and of his love even to his murderers, how can you doubt lis pity for you? If I am his mother according to the flesh, he is my God, he is my Saviour, as well as yours, by his grace. Do |you not know that it was to seek and to save sinners that he des- |cended from heaven; that it is for sinners that his body is broken, lis head lacerated by the thorns, his hands and his feet pierced by ^he nails, and it is from love for sinners that his blood is flowing ind that he will soon expire? He has spent his life in calling sinners to himself. To the greatest among them he said: 'Come iinto me and you shall be consoled and pardoned.' His wish was ko be with sinners — he was called the friend of sinners. Do not pear, then, to speak to him, for he is your most sincere friend. jfli If' 'i^lil 42 See the marks of mildness and love which shine through the blood which covers his face. It is he alone who is the salvation of the world, the refuge of sinners, the gate of heaven. It is on his name alone we must call to be saved. Your want of faith ii\ his mercy and love for you causes him more suffering than the nails which pierce his hands and feet. In order to obtain the grace and pardon you need, address yourself to him, and to /ttm tr/oHc, for he only is your true friend — your brother, full of afifec- tion — yoiu- father, full of love, and your merciful Saviour. Speak to him, then, yourself, and do hear from hi.s mouth the sentence of pardon which is already written in his heart! But cease to insult him, and to insult me thus, by thinking I can love you more than he loves you, and that I can be more compassion- ate towards you than he is himself!" Let not our dear brethren, who are still in the bonds of Romish superstition, be deceived by the idea that that which would have been unsuitable and blasphemous in the mouth of the penitent thief is altogetncr suitable and Christian to-day, when Jesus is in heaven. For our Lord, although in heaven, is as near to every sinner, to hear and pardon him, as he was to the thief on the cross ; His ear is no further Jistant from the mouth of the sinner who. to-day, asks mercy from Him than it was from the crucified thief: His heart is not less kind and compassionate to-day than it was at the day of His death ; poor sinners are not less dear to Him to-day than then. .\nd He has no more need now than then to be forced by His mother to pardon the penitent sinner. The penitent thief had no need of an intercessor to touch the heart of Jesus Although the mother of the Saviour was there present, he had not even a thought of addressing her. He understood that Jesus was his friend, his Saviour and his God: and he did not deceive himself. .... He put in Jesus, and Jesus alone, all his hope, and he was not disappointed. He spoke bold- ly to Jesus as one speaks to a friend, to a dear brother, and he did well ; for it was thus, as it is still thus, that Jesus wishes that we should speak to him. And to assert that Jesus has more need, to-day, than he had then to be urged and roused or appeased by his mother, in order to hear sinners who return to him, would be a childish absurdity, if not an awful blasphemy. When God, in His great mercy, opens the eyes of a Roman Catholic to the errors of his church, the first sentiment which he experiences is one of unspeakable joy for the favor which he has received. But the second thing which strikes his mind and heart is a feeling of astonishment at the facility and sort of sincerity with which he has received and believed, as incontestible truths, errors and superstitions the most palpable and anti-Christian. Now, the error which is dearest and most deep-rooted in the heart of a Roman Catholic is, that the shortest and surest way to be heard by Jesus Christ, and to draw upon us a look of His 43 nercy, is not to speak to him directly ourselves, but to get some )f the saints in heaven, that we believe arc most clear to His heart. to speak to him in our behalf. In order to support this error, all Ihe modern theologians of the vJhnrch of Rome assure us that (Jesus, being the Holy of Holies, it is quite natural that He should listen with more pleasure to the voice of one of the elect in heaven than to that of a sinner, such as we all arc. The Church of [Rome, then, assures us that the saints in heaven whom I address |will hear me with more pleasure, facility, readiness, mercy and love than Jesus Christ would do. For if the Church of Rome, returning to the evangelical truth, [which she has so long forgotten, should say to a sinner, "There is no saint in heaven who loves you so much as Jesus Christ; there is no ear so attentive as His to the voice of our repentance; Ithere is not in heaven a mind or heart so easily or so mercifully ftouched with compassion for all our miseries as the soul of Jesus [Christ; there is not a person in heaven who can have so much Ipleasiire in hearing himself invoked and in seeing himself ap- Iproached by the penitent sinner as Jesus," the people would put lall their confidence in Jesus, and in Jesus alone, and would ad- jdress him as the gospel directs. In short, would it not be the height of folly in any case to go |to any but Jesus to obtain any favors. If the Church of Rome, instead of losing herself and wander- ling away into foolish and vain traditions, would keep to the word lof God, she would say, with St. Paul, "And I count all things ibut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, my iLord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things." (Phil- tlippians, iii. 8.) If, laying aside the deplorable sophisms which [form the basis of her worship of the saints, the Church of Rome Iwould hold the language of Evangelical Truth, her people every- Iwhere would know that in Jems and in Jesus alone, they have fall the treasures of mercy, of love and of the power of God; their ■thoughts, their hearts and their hopes would turn towards Jesus, |and Jesus alone; they would know, then, that the power, the jercy and the compassion of Jesus are always active, always effi- ;acious, and above all, alwaysat the service of the penitent sinner, [er people would know, at the same time, that these treasures of ihe mercy of the Saviour, who is both God and man, are monopo- jjized by nobody; that they are not the property of any saints in )articular, but that they are the treasures of every sinner who has liberty to draw therefrom, according to his repentance, love and Faith. "Whatsoever ye shall ask from my Father in my name," said fesus Christ, "shall be given you." After such a declaration from the very lips of the Saviour, how can we believe that it is lecessary for one to address the saints in order to propitiate him? For why should Jesus Christ, in heaven, be less ready to listen |to me and pity me than St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Mary or any other •MS m. •' 44 Liill; ii :i: ill ri- i: w saint to whom i might wish to address my.^e'.t"? Can the human ity ot St.l'ctct. St. I'aul or St. Mary hv viiorc perfect than the humanity of Jcsiis Christ? Why should this be? And where shall we lind reason for such a monstrous doctrine? To assert, as the Church of Rome does, that the saints, being nothing above us l(y nature, and having been sinners like us, know better our miseries, and ought to symi)athise with us more than Jesus Christ, because he is incapable of sin, is to deny the humanity as well as the di\inity of the Saviour; it is to deny the gospel which teaches us that Jesus has not only known and understood our miseries in- tinitely better than all the saints, but also i)aid, even to the last farthing, the debt of our sins, and washed tliem away in his blood. How would Jesus have been able to bear our sins upon Him- self ? How could He have charged himself with our iniquities and paid all that was due to the justice of Cod, -unthout knowing them perfectly, without comprehending their number, their nature and their malignity? But, above all, how could the Saviour of the world have undertaken to pay the debt of our iniquities if these inifpiities had not e.\cited in His mind a degree of sympathy, of compassion and of love of which all the saints together are in- capable? Once more : let us forget, for a moment, that Jesus Christ is (iod; let us suppose that He is only a man, and let us fix our thoughts on this human person. We ask, can we find in the Sacred Scripture a single expression which would lead us to think that, as a man, Jesus is less kind, less patient or less merciful to- wards us than St. Peter, St. Paul or St. Mary? And moreover in order that I may address myself to one saint in preference to another, I must have reason to believe that this saint will be more favorable to me than he to whom I have preferred him. To ad- dress myself to St. Mary, for example, in preference to Jesus, and to ask this woman, blessed among all women, to speak for me to Jesus Christ, I must believe that she will hear and answer me more surely and more quickly than He. For, from the moment that I believe that Jesus will be more favorable to me and more compassionate to my miseries than Mary or any other saint, I would go to Jesus. Nothing more simple and more natural, amd for this very reason, nothing more powerful than this argument. Well, plain good sense, as well as the gospel, tells us that if Jesus were only a man in heaven, He would be there, as He was upon earth, the most compassionate, the mcst loving, the most charitable and the most influential of holy men. And consequently (al- ways supposing that He is only a man) even tljen I would ad- dress only Him in my prayers. It is in this man Jesus that I ought to put my greatest confidence, it is from this man Jesus that I should aspect the i)romptest aid; it is to this man Jesus that I ought to speak with most faith and pleasure. And the most igno-ant, as well as the most learned of my brethren of the Church of Rome will be forced to confess that -M'''ii;i'l,i!iir 45 am acting wisely, They could not but confess that those who ^ut their trust in saints, less kind, less influential, less merciful Jan my saint protector and friend Jesus, would, to say the least >f it, be deficient in wisdom. Hut would any one dare to say that the holy humanity of Jesus ias lost any of its love, its mercy, its inri'iencc or its kindness to- wards the sinner, by its perfect union with His divinity? No I It is impossible that any Roman Catholic would dare, lesignedly, to utter a word so wicked and senseless. Well, it is, nevertheless, what all Roman Catholics unconscious- ly do and say each time they shrink from speaking to Jesus 'hrist, under the pretext that He will not hear them because of Iheir sins, and when they address the saints whom they believe \o be more ready to hear! If it is possible that //tan in heaven )ves us and hears us with pleasure, it is still more possible and lore certain that the Go^ man will listen to us with pleasure, jlnd answer us in His infinite mercy. It is, then, inconceivable folly to leave the God man, to shrink rem speaking to the Go()>tli-s who would l-r ilic l'ii>t. llic I.i;ailti. llir l't'|"-'- He al- ways aii>wt'rcil tliat iheit would not lu- mk li I'iol. l.t-adcr or J'opc in Hi^ Cliiinli. More ihan thai, lie- i.osilivcl) aii>wfrf(l the mother of /el.cdcc'h chiidrcii that lie Iiail not nctivrd from J-Iis l''alhcr the power to eslahlish one of Hi> a|'o>tle> over the others. 'To >il on in\ lij^lit hand or on in) lelt in not mine to give.' (Matt. \.\. 23.) W v have an irrefutable and infallible proof that oiM- Saviour never put I'eteral the head of the apostles as the I'irst. the Leader, or the I'ope. as you call your Supreme I'ontitf, in the dispute which occurred aimtng the apostles a little before His deatii. 'And there was also a strife among them which of them should br counted greatest.' (Luke .xxii. 24.) Such a dispute would ne\er have o( curred if Jesus (Christ had established Peter the greatest or the l''irst of them. They would surely have known it, and Jesus Christ would have answered, 'Have you so soon forgotten that Leter is the greatest among you; that he is the first among you. from the day in which I ap- pointed him the fundamental stone of my church?' "Hut, far from answering tiuis, the Son of God rebukes His apostles, and tells them positively, 'The Kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. . . . 15ut it shall not be so among you.' (Luke xxii. 23-25.) Not only that modernly forged primacy of Peter has never been acknowledged by any of the apostles, but it has been openly and positively denied by St. Paul. 'For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, ' '^'''ve eligible to any pu ii '^' ' '^''^ ''■•;'--ommuntued H^T^;', ^'^^^nd ness. He sh"ill , . ^''''- ^^^ shall nn/K . • ''^'''11 "ot be by will n:.1;;' :;;^--^have the pov^ ^ bll^rh^h"' " ^ ^^•'^■ any action against^ ''">' '"heritance Tf. u ^" P'*°Pe'ty against him. ^ShouldlT'-'""' '^"^ •''nv 0,,^ ^^..^f^f . "ot bring force norshall any e^use b%' ^'''^^'^ ^is dec sion shin ? *'*'^^'°" CWrt^L-^of '^ottr^^^^ had never pain of eternal dl7"'''''^'^'''^^'veryt^^^^^^^^^ °f liis »f liberlv Zf ■ '=»<:'"nss of their Chn^.i, "'"''""'s 'o know Stkphen Moouk, Attorney. 52 THE JESUITS! THE GREATEST ENEMIES OF COMMON SENSE AND TRUTH. "That we may in all thin<^s attain the truth, that we may " not err in any thing, we ought ever to hold as a general "principle, that what I see white I believe to be black, if the "superior authorities of the Church define it to be so." — The Constitution of the Society of Jcsus^ by Ignatius Loyola. THE JESUITS ARE THE MOST IMPLACABLE ENEMIES OF HUMAN AND CHRISTIAN LIBERTY; THEY WANT TO BRING MAN DOWN BELOW THE BRUTE. " As for holy obedience, that virtue must be perfcrred in every " point. * * * Let every one persuade himself, that he "who lives under obedience should be' moved and directed, " under Divine Providence, by his superior, just as if he were a "corpse, (perinde ac si cadaver esset) which allows itself to be " moved and led in every direction." — The Constitution of the Society of fesus. THE JESUIT SOCIETY IS THE MOST IMPIOUS ENEMY OF THE LAWS OF GOD. " It seems good to us in the Lord, that excepting the express "vow by which the society is bound to the Pope for the time "being, and the three other essential vows of poverty, chastity " and obedience, no constitutions, declarations, or any order of "living can involve an obligation to sin, mortal or venial: "Unless the Superior command them in the name of our " Lord Jesus Christ, or in the virtue of holy obedience, which " shall be done in those cases or persons, wherein it shall be "judged that it will greatly conduce to the particular good of "each, or to the general advantage, and instead of the fear of " offense, let the love and desire of all perfection succeed, that " the greater glory and praise of Christ our Creator and Lord •« may follow." — 7 he Constitution of the Scciety of fesus. "Th •t. we may bt after a not onl secular v., page At th always 53 FATHER CHINIQUY. To MCR. LYNCH ARCHBISHOP OF TORONTO. St. Anne, Kankakee County, Illinois ) June 2 2, 1884. f To His Lordship Lynch, ARCHnisHop of Toronto: Mv Lord: — The 12th inst., I promised to answer your letter of the nth, addressed to the Rev. Moderator and to the Minis- ters of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. I come to-day, to fulfil my promise, with the help of God. I had accused your church to believe and say that she had re- ceived from God the power to kill us poor heretics. I said that if you did not slaughter us, to-day, in Canada and elsewhere, it is only because you are not strong enough to do it. I said also, that where the Roman Catholics feel strong enough they do not think it a sin to beat, stone, or kill us when they can do it with- out any danger to their own precious lives. I said that your best theologians teach that heretics do not de- serve to live, and that your great St. Thomas Aquinas, whom your church has lately put among "the Holy Fathers," positively declares that one of the most sacred rights and duties of your church is to deliver the heretics into the hands of the secular powers to be exterminated. As I expected, you Have bravely denied what I said on that subject. In your reply you complain that the quotations I made of St. Thomas, on that subject, are not correct. Here is my answer to your denegations. I have the works of St. Thomas just now on my table. I will copy word for word what he says in Latin and translate it into plain English, respect- fully asking your lordship to tell the Canadian people whether or not my translation is correct : "Quanquam haeritici tolerandi non sunt ipso illorum demerito, usque tamen ad secundam correptionem expectdndi sunt ut ad sanam repeant Ecclesiasine fidem. Qui vero, post secundam cor- reptionem, in suo errore obstinati permanent, non modo excom- municationis sententi, sed etiam stecularibus princibus exter- minandi tradendi sunt." TRANSLATION. ♦'Though heretics must not be tolerated because they deserved it, we must bear with them till, by a second admonition, they may be brought back to the faith of the Church. But those who, after a second admonition, remain obstinate in their errors, must not only be excommunicated, but they must be delivered to the secular power to be exterminated." (St. Thomas Aquinas, 4th v., page 90.) At the page 91, he says: "Though heretics who repent must always be accepted to penance as often as they have fallen, they • ■ 54 must not, in conscer to our free institutions from Romanism now, that there was from slavery in 1851." liSO pagrea, with portrait of the anthor, paper ooTer, 26 cents. Sent to any addreee on receipt of price. ADAM CRAIG, PUBLISHER, 77 & 70 JA0X80N STBEET, OHIOAOO.