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We should explain by way of introduction that, thinking a let- ' er criticising the separate school policy of onr Dominion Govern- \ ^ent might if addressed to Sir Oliver Mowat, tend to damp his 5 3al somewhat in the good cause of Romanism; which, in the past lie has seemed much inclined to espouse, it was written and sent in him. And as this is a siibject of very general interest at pre- s nt, we have thought that its publication and cii-culation in p juphlet form might be a means of doing a much needed good to ( liers. AVith a veiy slight alteration in different parts, the following is •,\ oopy of the letter :~ ****** The entire abolition of Separal n Schools in th in this respect, in a state of moral and intellectual serfdom. 'I' dispossess all successive generations of men of all power and 1' t o Y — 2 — I freedom for all time to come to chanfj^e constitutional law or con- federate ol)lij:?ati()n, howevi^r unjustly or unwisely and imprudent- ly made were an act worthy, not of statesmen, but of intelletjtual pifjmies ! A would be progressives i-eform that is thus fettered by a dt^ad or nustaken past lies in hopeless chains and reminds one very forcibly of the cluu'chly end)argoes and dunp^eon fetters of f(U'mer times ! No my "Catholic" friend, not only should Manitoba not be al- lowed Roman Catholic Separate Schools, but to be just to Protes- tants in a Pr;)testant counti-y and under a i-eigning Protestant sovereign, as i)efore observenl, Ixd'oro the^ termination of another year separate schools in the Dominion, including the Protestant separate schools in Quebec, where the pid)lic schools are to all in- t;vnts and pur])oses Roman Catholic, shoidd J'.e closed, and on-^ uni- form system of national public schools should be established in every province of Uw Dominion. And so far from its being a "grievance" to Roman ('atholics to hav(> their separate schools clos(>d, they should regit rd it as a privilege, as v/ell as an un- doubted advantage to them to enter .-i jmblic school of great.!r ef- ficiency, and Tipon e(pial terms Vv'ith the Prot(>stant. Nor should the reading of a selection from the Bible and the offering of a prayer to the God of nations bo excluded. A hierarchy that ob- jects to this should enter into a compaci, and foi-mal alliance with the inlidels and atheists ; they would th(>n be ct)nsistent in their professionally expressed animosity to the Bible and anti-Christian opposition to the prescribed religious service of the public schools. Ignoring and irr^^spective of all past legislation on the subject, Rojuan Cyatholic Sejiarate Schools in a Protestant country should be forever abolislied ; and why? Because their catechisms and literature, v/itli the general teaching of their " church " a^e anti- Protestant, and avo therefore treasonable to our state and govern- ment. The justness and wisdom and safety of this ]n'incij)le of action and of government nmst, (Uie would think, be obvious to Jill ; since to sanction the existence of sepai'ate schools is to sanc- tion the setting up of a [Ionian engine for the destruction of Protestantism. And that our very consistent Prote.itant ]-5em- bers of pai'liament of the past have sanctioned it, and that our (Hjually consistent BoweIl-Tup})er g'>ntl(Mneii of tlie present ar(^ in- clined to sanction it, reminds one of certain iKsathen trilx's who endeavor to placate their deity, the devil. The in.ipiring motive of the existing governmei\t is, no doubt, the "solid (Catholic vote," which means to them conlinued power and pocket monev — the " Catholic vote," I say, the very same vote, that by its "Catholic" representatives in parlianifnt forced separ;ite school;^ upon On- tario against the wish, lioth o!' the pe()])le .'ind oi" the m;ijority of their I'epresentatives in ])arliam(-)jt at the time of Confetieration. . Thirty of its I'opresentatives at tliat time voted ;iga.inst the insane ' act. Moral sanity and political saiiity oi' statecraft, however, are not the same, as the vote of thn otlier representatives shows, But do Protestant members of parliament not know that in thus per- petrating a wrong foi' the sake of getting pecuniary or other ad- vantage, they are on(> and all morally guilty before God? Their consciences enlightened by the Divine Word, they must know it and know also that they will be called to account for it at the bar of God's judgment. \ / As wo have s.aid, ono uniform system oi" nalioiuil, iiiisootarian schnoLs should be estabhshed in ovory J'rovinec of the Oomiiiion, not excepting Quebec. And if tlie ilomaii hierarchy desire to teach their chil(h'en the rectitude and desirabihty of dethroning our Protestant sovereign and annihilating oiu* 3'i'otestant govern- ment, v/ith all the other little etceteras that might follow, they have, thanks to an unwise Protestant liberality, their priest- preach(n*s, churches, and Siuiday ScliooLs wh(>iewith to accom- plish this end. Furthermore, in view of the imconcealed hierar- chical an ti-l^rotestant designs, it i; obviously in accordance with reason and right that in a Protestant country there should be no eliminations irom public text-books of passages which from a Ro- man Catholic standpoint, are objectionable. On the contrary, in view of what Romanism is, and wliat it unblushingly and treason- ably incid;;ates, they sliould rathci- be, by set purpose, nudtiplied, and the books made much more distinctly Protestant. There is, moreover, not a learned man among them but nmst know, if he lias lookcvd into the m.itter at all, that our English Protr'stant Blbl;^ is a betti'r transI;ition, more closely and faith- fidly adhering to the original text, than the Dowie; although very much difference in the two translations tliere is not. I have ex- amined and compared the both, .ml ther is not a man among them, learned or unlearned, who is ;;. reader of his Bible— and he who is not a reader of it is so ignoi ant of these things as to be no judge in the matter at all, and so inconsistent withal in professing t<5 be a Clu'istian, a " Catholic" Christian, and yet not reading and becoming conversant with the Christian chart, the Divine Guide- Book given by God to men for the very purpose of ministering to their salvation and furnishing tlu-m with unerring directions as to how they may (\scape th(^ wiath to coine and seciu'e a final home in lieaven — V.nt there is not a jjian among them, learned or unlearned, if a reader of his Bil)le hut must know, ifhe has ordinary intelligence^ that tlie Protestant })rayers and v/ays of praying are more in accordances vritli the jn-ayers recorded in the Bd)le,and their mod3 of delivery thc^rein given as }):ung acceptable to 'Joil and prolitable to Mian tlian are the pr;>.yers and tiie manner of olTering them that universally obtain in the Roiuish church. Away then with yoiu' impious; nonsense about its being a matter of "conscience" with you not to r;'ad or hear read the Protestant BIl )]e or attend Protestiut priivers! Nothing but an inspira- tion of the wicked oik^ can iiave h-d you to take that stand Now, in viev^' of stern facts of Romis'i aggression that are rae?ting us continually, do not f dlovz-countrymen talk partisan twaddle abovd. stirring up sectjiiian f-trife: say i-ather, " do not us > means to protect yourselves ;i .rainst the stealthy or more open and persistent approaches of the Roman snake in the grass ;" for this woidd be Iiitting the n:',il square* on the head, wnether done- by Grit or Conservative, j^eace to-day that there may be war with redou))led fury to-juorrov/ is not a wis;dy coiunliatory course of action to pursue except on tiie wholly seliish i)i'inciple that so long as ther;^ is p.^ace in our day, never mind what iiusory and suffering may he entailed on oiu- posterity ! The Roman Catholics of Manitoba ninnber about 21,000, the Presbyterians 40,000 ; the Anglicans 80,000, and the Methoiiists about the same. Now, have not each of tl)(\s;' an (Hj^ial right, on / 4 -- \ doctrinal grounds, to apply foi' the privilogo of sectarian separate or denoiiiiiiational schools? And in th(^ event of either being refused by the Ijocal Legislature, ai-e they not e(|ually entitled to the remedial legislation of the Dominion Government? But should similar ai)plication be nwule by the Avhole, to the manifest destru'.ttion of the educational interests of the province, would Sii' Tupj)er and company be likely to accede to tneir reipiests by gr.inting to them each aud all, renu'dial legislation, and at the ileinanil, in this case, of th(^ majority of the p<'ople? They woidd not. On the ground of its nn'litating against the general educa- tional interests of the country, they would refuse it, saying, and saying truly, that such a con(;ession made to meet the denomina- tionally claimed interests of each, wtnild tend to the ntter destruc- tion of the educational systt'ui of the country and be ruinous, both as to enormity of expense nnd to the general educational in- terests of the ])eople as a whole. Bnt this ct)n(!ession that they would thus refus(> to each and all, in view of its genei-al educa- tional tendency, they grant t ) one denomination ! and this to an apostate clnu'cldy iirebrand whose distinctive watchword from centre to circinnfei-enccs I'rom popiwh throne to monastic cell is, " Live, but do not let live !" (By international law no such organ- ization, not to call it a "religion," should hv permitted to exist upon the earth). But is that fair? Is that granting equal rights to all ? If Goveriniient support given to the whole woidd be bad as to its educational teudency, is it not identically the same in its tendency, altlumgh limited, when given to one section of the connnunity? It might perhaps b(^ well for the dt^nominations in Manitoba to push the battle to the gate in this way, get up a " grievanc(s"' and stand oiit like the Romanists, for their alleged "rights " in this matti'r of sectarian educ.ition. Also in Ontario, where the "constitutional" services of Mr. Mowat Avould be again recpiired in the interests of the Roman as against the other churches. Tridy our nominally 'Protestant' ])olitica,l leaders are good Roman Catholic suppoi-ters. iVnd they have their reward in this world, no doubt, with the prospect of a counter reward, for their criminal, inichristian cupidity, in the next. Ho far at least as based on his championship of the so called "rights" of C.-itholic minorities, I do not enter into the spii-it of enthusiasm that »Sir Oliver's jn-oposed advent to tlie Federal Parliament seems to in- spire. Mr. Mowat is said to have a "clean parliamentary record." but no viian, I venture to ;rtth'm, has a cleau record who has been engaged in the discreditabh-, not to say dirty work of exL(^nding separate^ school "rights," so called, to pvoi'ewsional nnu'derers by the authority of church caiKin and creed. Mr. Mowat is an honest mau, vio doubt, but l\onesty may \h) din-eived, and ujirigiil. intention may bc> ])leared and blindci. Honesty is not infallibility, nor is apparent honesty of lU'ccediue always exempt from the prejudice that personal inti>resLs, ijolitical ami otlierwise, so I're- (piently inspire. W(U earn from the Glolie that Sir Oliver is a " corsLilnlional man," and therefoi-e thinks ii his d\ity to invariably r.dhere to aiul enforce the provisions of the constitution. Well, were 1 in his place, being opposed, as he was to the t^onfi'derate constitution when first framed, as (Mubodying the system of Ht>parate S-'liools, 1 should think it my duty t;o continue o])])o,'ing the system in at •ill' least every eon.stilxitional way that I could. And this woidd lead me, inst€!ad of granting privilege after privilege to the Catholies (as Mr. Mowat has done) which 1 was not constitutionally obliged to make, to limit and obstruent, and prevent the extension t)f privilege in this respect as far as I possibly could untler the exist- ing constitution. And Mr. Mowat, if (consistent with his [u-ofessed principles as an original opposer of Separate Schools in Ontario, would have done the same, instead of doing the very opposite from this which he has all along been doing 1 If the thing is in itself morally wrong, in view both of its treasonable and its anti- Christian tendencies, the (Jonfederate constitution has not made it and cannot make it riglit. And Mr. Mowat, while having one i'udieial eye upon the constitution, has, I fear, had the other ;eenly, and not too innocently, set upon the clerical and " (\itho- lic vote" which such a course of action has secured to him. But to thus sacrifice the very highest interests of the country and the world to ambition and tlu; lust of soi'did, worldly gain, is the characteristic not of a Christian, but of an enemy to Christianity. I persume they have a " constitution " of some kind in hell ; also that out of it constitutions are sometimes framed under its inspir- ation, and to sustain its principles -of this chiss is that Avhich em- braces Separate Schools for Roman Catholics in which to teach, presinnably, the treasonable and soul-damnig doctrines of their "church." Mr. Forster speaks of different way of si'ttling the Manitoba Sepai'ate School question ; t'lnd, among others, a "revision of the constitution ;" and this being the one which would strike directly at the root of the whole system of Separate Schools for the Domin- ion, it is the one which 1 would heartily ejidorse, and which I think every honest Protestant, Ik^ he Conservative or Reform, ought to endorse. Of coui'se we are all interested in the qiiestion of economic gov- ernment, tariff r; .form, etc. — every change made in the tariff, how- ever, whether protective or other\\ ise, is a refoiin in the estimation of those who make it — but the great question of questions for Protestants, both Conservative and Reform the world over, to grapple with in the present day is, " Romish Aggression." I voted for Dr. McDonald, member for Huron East, at the last general election, not because he came out on the "Reform" ticket, but because he was one of the "noble thirteen" that took an hercric and praiseworthy stand in the House against the Jesuit Estate's Act. And I purpose voting for him again at the coming election, not because he made a long speech before the House on the finan- ces of the country and tariff reform, but because he voted against the " Remedial Bill " recently introdxiced and pushed forward to the second reading by the iutei-ested Rome-trucklers of both parties. The question of Romish aggression, however, these men will, it is to be feared, push aside and ignore until it is absolutely forced upon them, and this probably at the point of the aggressor's sword I When, in Rome's estimation, the fitting moment has come, there will probably be a confederate Roman rising the world over, to punish and if possible fetter the Protestant simple- tons for their snort-sighted temerity in thus tolerating, through so many years past to the present, Roman intolerance ! And this (S too, U'licii (hey doiilil less li;ul iL in tluMi- powc^c to crnsi) i( cnlircly nut of the Protestant world. In lS2!i (licrc was neither a inoi\as- tei'v nor a convent, and very few Woman churehes in l']n^'ian counted l)\' iiundreds! And sueli is the de^ennvicy of the times in which we hvt\ tliat the Ani',lican chun-h itself is now lai-f^cly 7-ioman Catholic in its doctrinal teaching and idolatrous ceri-- nionial. Considering, 1 sui)pose, tliat no investigati<»n was needed, t'ae (Jovernment ])revious to the diss(»hition of Parliament, i)r<)eeeii('d on the assumi)tion that the ( "atholic nnnority (.f Aianitoha h.ave a "grievade{>," but tiiey have free access to the non-sectarian public scliools and this s'.u'ely caiuiot, be a griewmce. And r( fiisal to accede to the [jrieslly desire for sectarian scivools at the public ex- pense (to the great incoiivi'nienc{> of some ProLcvstant fa.nn'li(>s living among tliein) and in which to inculcate their anti-J'rotes- tant dog)uas, sin-ely cannot be legitimately construed into a "grie\'ance." Jla Dominion Parliament, insteail of lianding it over to the Privy Council for decision, taken it upon theiuselves to <;onsidei' wliether, all things considei'ed, it was a "gi'ievaiu'e" foi' the l^oman Cathparate. Schools- unVvTJ-ped by sellish desire and the hojjeof i>er,-onal gain, they would doubtless have decided that t hey hav(^ no grievan(;e to comjjlain of, facilities being madc^ for the ei'licient education of their chddv(>n in the ])id)lic schools and a.nipk' provision being also made t-o meet the scruples of the "Catholic" conscience; and of wlucu the pi'ui)le s I'eprc sentatives who legisl; in tile iriteiesls of the jK'ople should l)e the sole judges and not the intei'(\sted priests of the hierjirchy. Personally, I may achl, I have vevy little syuijiafhy for tlu ii' ten(h'r, anti-BiV)le, anti-praying consi-ienees ! The>' ai'e a, ja-iestly product and hence piu-ely m;>.u-mad(>. (lenuine prayer and the luiadultc-rated woi'd of (iod are too real for them — too I'eal to suit the popish retimrenients of idolatrous v/orshi]) and service^ ! If the "public schools," so-call(Ml in the pi'ovince of Quebec, "were as non-scH'tarian as are the public scliools in Ontario the Protestants there wcndcl not re(iuire and would not ask foj' sep- arate sfdK^ois. A selection frojn the Ijible, though it were from tlu' '"Douay." and a s\iitab!(> p,rayer oll'(>r{Hl to (iod (not to thi^ A'irgin or the "Saints") wctuld not be c;.>nstrued into a "grievance" by tlieni. And Langeviii and the rest of the clericals who are going about whining and jn-ating about a C;itholic "griiwanc'(>," and wlio thereby ])r()voke me and the rest of lis to opjjose tlu^ni know this very NX-ell, They evidently \\'aid:. to k;M>pthe childi en of the "fait-hful" isolated, a' for(M>'oi IS ;,11 "nncmand of tlie majority of the jxojjle, should see to it that it be maJi^ constitutional by' an appeal to the Im- perial Parliament. And in the eve,)it of " its beijig (h'uied th(>m, have recourse to indej)en(h*ncy of action and niakt^ it constitution- al themselves. A constitution sliould be made, reiuade, and amended at any time to suit t)ie re(iuirements of the times, if a / ~ rovolnlion r;in do tliis at/ any tiiric, a iiaticiii's i'cpr('s(Mitat.iv(>s in I'arlianu'ut should suicly lie aide to do il,. And if a rt'ij.':ninjL!; Anlocrat is a constiluiion in IdiiiscU", suvcly Mic i)('o|)l(<'s rcinc- scntativcs who rcpi'cscnl. tho wisdoiii ;ind will oi' thccntin" nation should be tlu> s!inH'. Tlicjusdicss of ! !iis position cannoL. I think, hi' disputed, The makers of law sliouhl in theii- collect ivi- cai),".- (tily, b(^ ahove law, (all statutoi-y enaclinents hein^;- by Iheju sub- ject- to chan^-e.) and hence above Tiivy and all other Councils enianatinsjj troni them. Human law, past and present , m;!de by the rejiresentat ives ol" tlu' peo])le, should alwa\'s be subordinated to the jK'ople's will, and hence alv/ays subject to chanj^e as ad- vancing; knov/ledge and exijcrience may dictate and elianj>in|:>' eii'- cunistance may ret'unre. lint Pr()te;U;intism, it is said, is tolerant. True, and I'it^ht and ]iro])er that it should be, inider reasonabh^ i-estrictiojis. lint should it be tolerant of intolerance;-' H,ome's intolerance of all crta'ds but its own is still, as ever, by tlie decrees and universal teaching- of Pope and ('ouncil, whicli constitute the authority of the '■ church," absolute. JA)r i'rotes'.intism to be tolerant of such, therefore, is to jjfo in direct opposition lo its own foundation ]ij'in- ciples. And its wlllinf>' permission of ihe existence and f^'rowth of an iatoleraJit civil and i\'li^ious hierarchy, by concedinj^' lo it Seijarate Schools and other t:"iinin,L,' iTistitutions to this end, is therefore manifestly inconsistent witli its fimdami'ntal jH-inciple of anti-intolerance. To be consistent with its own principles of tolerance it nuist opj)ose, and as far as i)ossible elfectually o])- pos' all ;'int()l(M;vnc(\ by weakeninj.';. and, as far as may be, des- i.ioying' the powei* of a\()W(-dly intolerant institutions. The tig'ei' or the lion, although chained, may l;rea.k their chain ; and hence iive not safe animals fov domestication. JMoreover, tlu^ lion though but lying in its lair v/atching an (>j)portunity, is as wicked ;vnd ravtMiou:-; and bloodthirsty as )h<»ugh actually eiigagi'd in tc^'iring it;S vir tim limb from lind). Aiul if h(> can be siu-prised and taktni a?ul eifectually mana.cled while crouching in his lair, it would l,>o a valiant and a. praiseworlliy act. Pai'tyism, politi«'n, ])osit ion, power, ;ind worldly self-inle're.sts in genera!, however, are evidently before religion and(hity wil-h oiu* Ottawa governing " power.-; that ho." And although rait jxH'sonally ji member of such, I will liei'O ad'. be it "Orange" and "se(;ret" or otherwise", as necessity may dicta! c, is perfectly legitimate, and sliould be (uicouraged by every tridy consistent and rightminded I'rotestant. I'"'m'tlu^i'nu)re, to favor or permit Tloman Catholic. Separate Schools in a, Pi'otestant country, th(> direct aim .'ind tendency of which is the imdermining of Proteslantism, the dethroning of our i^rotestaiit sovereign, and th.e overthrow of oiu' Protestant Government, civil and religious, is simply, wlu^her for a Pi'ovinee or the l>()min!on, a ])ohcy of sheei' madness! It is simi)ly and purely tlie licu'nsing of an institution by a Protestant Government lor its own destruction ! And for tlu' I)omini(m Govcn'innent to force Separate Scht)oLs upon Manitoba, is to jn'ove its(>lf covetous- ly cringing to a despotic hierarchy, and hence utterly imwovthy of the cv)niidence of nu intelligent people. Thisieiiacious adh(>vence to party and )>ai'tyism, also, both r?^ ' VOfc. I — 8 - Orit and Consorvativt'. is simply fontcmptihlc. Hut i( Is o tl c (country thi'ougli puity not ijiiiiciplr. W'ju'tlu'r tlic cttiudrv gains oi' loses by it iiionilly and r(*li^-nu will assuredly receive the same with large interest, but of an un- desirable kind, when the second and final reaping time CQni< :. As to the comparative merits, from a ^ ^testant standpoin\, of Tupper and Laurier as leaders, I do not know that, prju ricaiiy, there is much difference between a Protestant Catholic and a (-atholic Protestant, as they may each be described to be i'rom what they say or from what is said of them. When a m '.n r.t tli close of an interview with a Roman Archbishop asks hin for liis " blessing," as the papers tell us Tupper did, he must be, ' shonl<' say, already about two thirds into the pit ! Laurier, UTuler tlu same circumstances, could do no more than ask for the pr« iate's '•blessing" upon his undertakings, and Tupper, it seenis, did no less — the only difference between them being, that the oiu' wotilil f)erhaps ask it sincerely, and the other hypocrite i»!iy ox* )anteringly. But to refer again to the alleged " gi'ievance in Manitoba, I would say, the idea of the Catholic's "co i 'euce " not allowing him to attend a nonsectarian public school ^^ Mm ply hypocrite a!iy " of the .r-irioritv u iibsiu'.ll It is a men' sham and siil)t(M'J'iiKO, a Huhstlhitioii of the hiiM-archy's will for tin* people's coiiscieiict^ ; aiiil even tins is only regarded l)y Dw sympatlK^tiir (joiiscieiKie of the (Jovermneiit wiieu tile sulfei'iiig ciHisciences «)f ten or more liouselioldersare hi'oiiglil to l)ear upon it ! VVIiert^ tlu'n* are Imt. live, more or less, house- holds of them, the poor consc-itMices. although «>f llie same mater- ial as the otiu'rs, uuist, martyr-like Kult't'r on iiiidei- (he anti-relig- ious and lunuttical impositions of the puhlie schools ! Mut to show HU(;h partiality in favor of some ('atholie families to the exclusi»)n of others, must be a great grit^f to the tender conseienees of tho.ve still unp!'ovided for, and a "grievance" reidar government the majority must ride." It is to be Ik ;;ed ' that Mr. (jaurier's future course may be coi .stent with ilu'se nttecanctvs ; aiMl if so therc^ will be no "ri'inmlial bill" fon-ed upon an unvvilli ,,^ majority" with his cdusent. We shall ,iwait dcn'el- ctpments and set^ I hiive my doubts about him lie is a (Jatholic. Am. .'hat C'atholicsare t;iuglit to be, v,'hether ihey attain to such perfection of morals or not, may be gathercul from tli' following : "Are vassals and servants, and others freed from any private ob- ligation due to a hen^tic, and from keeping faitli with him? Annwer — ^'es. All are so by the clear disposal of the law,"- Decret. tit. 7, de Her, vl. p. 2!)5. "Faith given (,o heretics is not to be kept." Simanca, a Spanish doctor, l)e C'ath. Inst. "These things being established," says the distinguished Roman authority, St, Liguori, "it is a common .*\nd certain opinion among all divines, that it is Lawful to use equivocation in common (conversation, and to con- iirm it with an oath." M(U'. Theo. ii, US. "If a confessor is asked the truth known to him by confession, he ought to answer that he does not know it, and, if necessary, confirm thesjime by an oath." Den's Theol., De Pecc. "Ai ay a person who turns bankrupt, with a good conscience, keep back as nimdi of his personal estate as may lie necessary to maintain his family in a res})ectable w.ay — ne indecore vivat ? I hold, with Lessius, that he may, even- though he may have acquired his wealth unjustly, and by notorious crimes*; only in such a case he is not at liberty to retain so large an amount as he otherwise might." — Escobar, in his Moral Theol- ogy. I don't wonder much that this "moral theology," with the priests at its back, captured such a man as the notorious Holmes! Such morality must have been rare bait for him, and no wonder that he was so easily hooked by it. His past morals, moreover, had been so correspondent witn thi" Romish teaching, that he nuist have been a rare prize to those w.o captured him ! — Wonder how much he paid for "absolution" for his "unjustly acquired" but innocently retained "wealth ?" Wonder also why the U. S. judicial authorities would allow such a man to dispose of " his " I — 10 — wealth as he pleased, and thus defrr.'id Insurance Companies, and others. Wonder also how much the "lie on his mouth" that he died with cost him for absolution in oi-der to his admission first into purgatory, and then, unstained by it, into heaven ? Some "absolution" dupes prove to be fine fat fish for the priests, no doubt. Hell however, despite the "absolution," will soon take all the fatness out of them ! "Theofrid having inherited an estate and concealed his wealth tc avoid paying his creditors, replies he has concealed nothing. Question— Is Theofrid to be condenmed as a liar? Answer— Theofrid has not sinned against the truth, because he in reality concealed nothing in the sense of the interrogation, or in the sense in which he covdd be justlv inten-ogated,' Just so, but al- though these are the morals of the bottomless pit, and which help to fill it, many a suitable fish for absolution and purgatory have been caught by this bait, no doubt ! / "A man may swear that he never did such a thing (though he / actually did it), meaning within himself that he did not do so on / a certam day, or before ne was boi'n, or understanding any other / such circumstance, while the words which he employs have no / such sense as would discover his meaning. And this is very con- / venient in many cases, and quite innocent, when necessary or con- 1 ducive to one's health, honor or advantage." — Sanchez. Yes, ' quite as " convenient " as " innocent," no doubt, especially when you have witnesses in court and a little lying and false swearing, or even a great deal of it, might be "convenient!" Very appropriate your specious baits to the many wholesale murderers, robbei-s, and liars, and others equally moral, that you have caught by them, no doubt, and very profitable to you withal ! But Satan himself I will add, could not desire better enunciators and exposi- tors and moral exponents of his creed ! Oh ! the folly and madness of men, intellectual men I Truly is it said that "the world by its wisdom knows not God," and that "they desire not a knowledge of His ways!" Is it any wonder that, under such teaching, certain Catholic members seem to have no conscience, or consciousness, of soul-damning moral wrong in connection with some of their pulilic transactions ? It would rather be matter of surprise if it wtire otherwise, and if an honest and truly conscientious man could be found among them ? Not but that there might perhaps be a Protestant of equally depraved character found, if the world were ransacked foi' one ; but if so, Protestant teaching and the Protestant religion certainly did not •^ make him so. But where there is a nest of Jesuits there will be appropriate fruit, whether the public treasury has to pay for it or not. ^ And near the public treasury, whether Pi'ovincial or Dominion, Jesuitically considered, is certainly not a bad place for the nest. Referring to the teaching in Roman Catholic Separate Schools, Mr. Laurier in his electioneering speech at Quebec, (May 6,) said : "It is one of the characteristics of the chui-ch to which I belong that it places on the same footing moral teaching and dogmatic teaching, and its members would think themselves persecuted if they have not the privilege of teaching both." The loi'egoing are specimens of their "moral" teaching ; the following, of their ••dogmatic." It also gives us a very definite idea of the "religious \\ 11 - liberty " thus iinblushingly referred to by the bishops in their " mandement," by whom in its fullest sense it is thus claimed, and for whom alone, in their judgment, it is fitted. "It is thus at present," the mandement reads, "The duty of Catholics, with the help of well thinking (!!) Protestants of our country, to join forces and their votes so as to assure the definite victory of religious liberty"— the "liberty" given by Roman canon and creed to Pro- testants, as follows : — And first, a part of the oath said to be taken by members of the ''Society ofJesm :" "I do renounce and disownT] my allegience as due to any heretical king, prince, or state, named Protestant, or obedience to any of their inferior magistrates or officers. I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness's agents in any place wherever I shall be, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or in any other territory or Kingdom I shall come to ; and do my utmost to extirpate the > heretical Protestant's doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended | powers, regal or otherwise." f "Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to our said Lord the Pope or his successors, I [every sworn bishop] will to my utmost power persecute and wage war with." Do not these solemn oaths speak volumes for "religious liberty," and ring loudly of loyalty to our Protestant Government and Throne ? They are moderated, how- ever, somewhat by the following Romish note on Matt. 1.3 : 28, as given or sanctioned in the present century by the Roman Arch- bishop of Ireland: "The good nnist tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger or disturbance of the whole church , otherwise, where ill men, be they heretics or other malefactors, may be punished or suppressed without dis- turbance or hazard of the good, thev may, and ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to l>e chastisedor executed." Much more might be quoted to the same effect, but the follow- ingjmay suffice : "When a Prince is denounced excommunicate on account of apostasy ||[from Popery,] by the Pope's decision, his subjects are immediately freed from their subjection, and oath of allegiance to him." — Aquinas Theol. par. ii. 12. "The Pope by Divine right, hath spiritual and temporal power, as supreme King of the world, so that he can impose taxes on all Christians, and destroy towns and castles for the preservation of [Popery] Christianity" — Id. Op. lib. iii. c. 10. These expressions ot loyalty to the Pope aud popish Governments, and to them only, speak for themselves — they need no comments. From some of the fore- going quotations, it is also apparent that any statement that either priest, bishop, archbishop, or other Roman Catholic, may make, having any bearing either directly or indirectly upon his "religioiv' or "church," must be taken for just what it is worth, and no more. Where lying is accounted a virtue, and a false oath "not a sin against the truth," as sure as God exists and the Bible is from Him, Christian morality and true religion are wholly wanting. Such moral teaching tends to the maladminis- tration of law, to a Government's insecurity, is a community's l)ane, and hell's dependence ! But Mr. Laurier "loves" such a church as this, as we gather from the speech to which we have referred. Well, this must needs be, I suppose, or he would not adhere to it ; nor would the Scripture be tul.'lled in his and his coreligionist's experience— / il __ 12 - "BocjuiHO they rocoivtHl not the love of the truth that they might be saved ; for this cause (iod shall send theui strong delusion, that they should believe a lie ; that they all might be damned who be- lieve not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness."— 2 Thess. 2 : 10-11. He evidently loves his so called " chiu'ch " more than the "truth," and hence the judgment upon him and the rest of his brethren. But, " ('omt xit of her," is God's call to those who would be saved, "that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." -Rev. 18: 4. Mr. Lfmrier is I believe out on the " Reform" ticket as its pro- fessed representative and leader. Well, he might represent a Avorse thing than "I'eforni," no doubt ; but if instead of talking so much about a "reform tariff," which for ought I know to the con- trary may need reforming, he woidd begin at the bottom or found- ation of economic government, and talk of a reduction of member- ship, and of sending say i50 members to parliament where they now send 100, the people might begin to think he meant business. And why, may I ask, might there not be such a reduction ? We might, I am siu'e, be better governed by 50 good representatives than by five times that nuinl)er who are of a different character. And why, may I ask also, is not one man sufltlcient to represent a city, whatever its size, and one man for each county, instead of the costly number that now represent them ? For the life of me I don't know why not, except on the principle that the country is proud of its costly retimie of servants, as a coxmtry squire might l)e! Begin at the bottom, Sir, I'educe membership, cut off "Hena- torials" and other hangers-on — all useles oflBces and employees- give fair salaries while in active service Init no retiring allowances; neither the merchant nor the professional man does liis clerks, and why should they ! All men who are reasonably paid should pro- vide retiring allowances for themselves. Maintain no murderers at the public expense in the penitentiaries, but let them, as justice demands, follow their victims into eternity. Also in many other things and ways economise ; and then the country's exchequer will not have to complain of emptiness, nor the people's pockets of the same. For a nation, no less than for an individual citizen, to keep too many servants, tends to bankruptcy. Having from an economic standpoint referred to the execution of all murderers, 1 woidd like here to say further that it seems to me that where the murderer has sanity enough to procure an in- strument with the intent to kill, the question of sanity should never be allowed to be professionally raisetl in court. And were this the case, I think at least 909 nuu-derers out of a thousand woidd be executed, in accordance with the ordination of Him who never decrees unwisely or uniustly— "He that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Under this law, even if they had no more sanity or sense of moral wrong than an ox, they had to die for it. And [ think it should be so still. No man (or woman) that tak(\s the life of another should be permitted himself to live. Nor should they, I think, bti r(»tained in life, at the public expense, so long as they usually are. Nor should they \m\ permit- ted to be fed but with the coarsest "brefid of affliction and water of affliction ;" as also should all the criminal inmates of our jails. And where the murderer is atrociously criminal, as in the case of Holme's just executed in the States, "he should be subjected to a L'D- ei's ■ice hor .vill /ion i to in- ula rere and kvho an's [n if [hey (or iself tblic mit- Bi* of Biils. bo a - 13 — series of tortures before his execution and exit from the world, and thus be made to suffer in kind something of the pain and tor- ment that he wickedly and diabolically inflicted on his victims. It would also be a warning to others, and would operate as a deter- rent. Wicked and conscienceless infidels, such as Ingersoll and his followers, may exclaim against this ; but by so doing they simply show their degenerate sympathy with crime and the prin- ciples and powers of darkness. The newspaper sympathy, also, which we see sometimes expressed in connection with the pro- longed suffering of executed murderers is simply weak and maw- kish sentimentalism. They should transfer and confine their sympathy to the suffering victims who were cruelly ushered, pre- pared or unprepared, without a moment's warning into eternity. To trace the crime to lunacy, when lust, jealousy, revenge, money, or other criminal motive, was the propelling cause of the murder, and where the criminal can give a rational account of his proceed- ings and doings, is simply absurd ; and wherever and by whomso- ever so adjudged but exemplifies the misconceptions and weakness, or something worse, of poor erring humanity. The murderer that is sane enough to procure a knife or a gun, and follow his intended victim with it, is sane enough to know what he is about to do ; and that being to kill, he should invariably be hung for it. He doesn't follow a horse or an ox as his intended victim, nor does he attempt to thrust his knife into a stone wall, or fire his gun at the sun or moon, or administer poison to a flower or a gate post ; if he did he might be adjudged mad in doing it. But the fact that he is sane enough to choose a human being for his victim, should, I think, be adjudged evidence that he had sanity enough to de- serve hanging for it. Lunatic in sojne respects or not, having shed man^ blood he should pay the penalty with his own life, and thus be made to follow his victim to the Supreme Court for final decision and sentence. But to return to the consideration of the Catholic "conscience;" whenever and wherever possible, these tender consciences, expres- sive of the hierarchy's will, should be respected no doubt ; and the more so, since that which is most obnoxious to them, and which stings them the most, is the reading of the Divine Word ! Yes, this hierarchically trained, anti-Bible conscience should be respected, no doubt ; but it should be so respected as to be politely bowed out of both the Provincial and Dominion courts of appeal. I am under the impression, however, that whichever party gets into power this so-called "grievance" will be settled by legislation in some way in favor, as usual, of the Catholics. And if so, fare- well to Manitoba's future as a united prosperous people. There will then probably be, and should be, a bone of contention be- tween the two Governments and between the two sections of the people until it finally mer^e into an agreement for a national institution worthy of a unitedly intelligent people and a pros- pectively great nation. Aside from Rome's bigotry and blindness, coupled with her ever existing treasonable designs, rightly and 'ntelligently con- sidered, it is, as we have said, no "grievance" to the Catholics to be without Separate Schools. It can be considered a grievance only in this sense (the view taken of it, I presume, by the Privy Council) : Mother, to quiet the fretful child, says, "You shall have 14 i'l i' it, dear," and gives it the carving knife to amuse itself w^ith, but which at the same time endangers the lives of the other children. Father comes along and takes the knife from the spoiled child, seeing that it is likely to do itself and the others harm with it. The child whines again and grieves for the loss of it. That is the only kind of "grievance" the Catholic child, "Minority," cradled in Manitoba, has. Romanists, both clerical and lay, can change to suit the times and circumstances ; but Romanism never, its anti-Protestant tenets are the same to-day as they were in the days of bloody Mary, and of the Bartholomew massacre. The persecuting canons of the "church," the creed and teaching of the popes and of popery, are the same to-day that they were in the age and times of pope Gregory the 7th and pope " Pious " the fourth. We have undeni- able proof of this in the Encyclicals, etc., of pope Pious U and others. With due foresight, to wisely guard against the recur- rence of the same or a similar state of things, is not to adopt their principles and churchly legalized practice of persecution, which we deprecate ; but is simply having a regard to the principle of self-protection, which is a primary law of our being. "Oh, but," say you, "times and seasons change, and Roman- ists and Romanism have changed with them." Have they indeed? A lion or a tiger that has been deprived of its teeth and claws by filing them down, has undergone a change, truly ; but neverthe- less, being natiu'ally bloodthirsty, it is dangerous to life and limb to allow it to run at large. The all-devouring teeth of Romanism had at one time a well-merited, rasping ; but since that time they have been alloAved to grow, and Protestantism, through its con- cessions, and hence, I may say, to its well deserved cost, has al- ready been made to feel tht; sharpness of their pressure. And the great, or the great, great grandchildi-en of the gentlemen Lords and Connnons who passed the "Catholic Emancipation Bill," will probably be compelled to feel them yet more keenly ! Sir John Thompson is said to have become a Roman Catholic. But how any man of intelligence and honesty, with the Bible in his hand, could accept the traditions and teachings of Rome and become a Roman Catholic passes my comprehension. Spiritually blind from birth, they certainly thereafter remain so. Their spe- cific doctrinal teaching alone should be enough to convince any man, having common sense and ordinary intelligence, that the Roman hierarchy is simply a worldwide oi-ganization of apostates from the faith ot the Gospel and the religion of the Bible. An or- ganization calling itself a "church" whose traditional teaching and doctrinal principles are not only not taught in the inspired Word of God, out are in direct collision with it throughout, the judgment of any man not under the blinding curse of 2 Thess. 2 : 11, nuist be that it is from beneath, and that it is no more the Church of God or a true religion than is Mormonism or Moham- med jin ism. Compare the two systems, Romanism and Protestantism, with the Bible, and to all, I will again say, but those who are under the blinding curse of God, it settles the matter at once. It pro- nounces Romanism a superstition, and Protestantism a religion— the religion, because the religion of the Bible. True, Rome has the name of having a Bible in her possession ; but it is, in her case, C" ._ 15 _ iis the apostle puts it, simply "holding the truth in unx'ighteous- ness," and for which she is, and wdl be forever, judged — ''the words that I have spoken unto you, the name" (not your traditions) Christ said, "shall judge you in the last day." I will add, that not only are nearly the whole of its funda- mental and general doctrinal teachings anti-Scriptural, and there- fore damning, but that both the spirit and the letter of the hier- iU'chy's very worst deeds of blood and persecution still exist in its creed and canons. And this spirit has been practically exempli- fied of late years in Chiniquy s j)ersecution and that of others. Witness also the late riot and scandalous disturbance of a Protes- tant lady evangelist in Huntingdon, near Ottawa, and almost tinder the very eyes of the Dominion Parliament I Aye, and they would persecute Paul himself for worshipping and daring to serve God "after the way which they call heresy" — if they could ! (Acts 24: 14.) And even St. Peter, the "heretical" Peter, as gauged by the Romish standard of doctrine, if brought within their power, would be no exception, as tha work of his life and the anti-Romish teaching of his epistles demonstrate. The Pope and Popery are on a par in this respect with Mohammed and Mohammedanism. A wolf has no le^al right in a sheepfold ; nor shoald a "Cath- olic" creed in a Dominion school. This huge, worldwide body of churchly corruption is, I believe, fated to destruction. Even its empire capital, Rome, under the name of wicked Babylon (which Romanist divines admit is figura- tively applied to it,) is destined, if the prediction be rightly ap- plied', to oe utterly burned with fire. And God's people therein, whom Protestant missionaries have been instrumental in convert- ing, are called upon to come out of her, (Rev. 18: 4,) as were some of the Jews from Jerusalem prior to its destruction. It should further be discountenanced, "frowned upon, held in check, and as far as possible suppressed in whatever guise its principles and teachings appear ; as, e. g., in mod(^rn ritualistic high churchism, where the aaninable principles of heretical, intolerant, and mur- derous Romanism are being revived, disseminated and extended in all their pristine fatality of idolatrous inculcation and deadli- ness of intolerant design ! The foregoing. Sir, are among the reasons why we are opposed to Roman Catholic Separate Schools, why every Protestant mthe country should be opposed to them, and why also every Protes- tant civil i>ower in the world should oppose them, as being a train- ing institution not simply to doctrinally damn the people, but, to the extent that such distinctive churchly doctrines are taught in them, to incite to treason, culminating ultimately in anarchy^ and inevit- able war ; as they are utterly and implacably inimical in their churchly canons and teachings to our Protestant religion and our Protestant government. I have the honor to be, Sir, Yours in Protestant Consistency, E. STEPHENS. Sir Oliver Mowat, Toronto, Ont. THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF ROMANISTS. III We will subjoin the following on the Civil Rights of Roman- ists, as an appropriate appendage to our "Counter Mandement." Failure ot the hierarchy to keep faith with Protestant "here- tics," so called, and a deprivation by Romish canon of their civil rights, is one of the cardinal old time as well |as present time doc- trines of their "church." They ^cannot therefore consistently complain if we, having weighty reasons arising out of this policy of theirs, are compelled to be learners from them in this respect, whether as to avowed constitutional obligations to them, or to their removal from public trusts. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," is not always an unwise policy, especially when it is to save the othei' eye and the other teeth from being knock- ed out. An "A.R.C. clergyman" asked in reference to the successor of our late premier, Sir John Thompson, "Will any one dare to raise his voice and ask if he is a Catholic or a Methodist or to what de- nomination he belongs?" And in replying, to this question, I would say that, duty demanding, I have the hardlihood to answer it affirmatively. Another gentleman, a Rev. Edgar Hill, of Mont- real, spoke of our late Premier being "hounded to death" on account of his having changed his "religion." Of this I know nothing ; but now that he is dead and beyond being "hounded" by it, I will say, that no man, in my judgment, with the Bible in his hand, can iiUeUii/enlly pass from Protestantism to Romanism ; and, more- over, that, doing so, he thereby demonstrates that he lacks Christian light and saving grace. To another question as proposed by the same Clergyman — "Is he fit for the position ?" — 1 wilt "dare" to answer. If he is a Roman Catholic he is not "fit for the position ;" and my reasons for so adjudging, Roman Catholic writers shall themselves here give: — "itjis of faith that the pope has the right of deposing heret- ical and rebel kings. Monarchs, so deposed by the pope, are converted into notorious tyrants, and may be killed by the first who can reach them." — Snnrez. "No good government can exis t, says the Bontou Pilot " without religi(m, and there can be no relig- ion without an Inqumtlon, which is wisely designed for the promo- tion and protection of the true faith" — but which "faith," oy the way, Pope and Papist, as such, never had. The following is the oath of the Sanfediste papal society, etitablinhed as fate ax 1S21, as given in a work in my possession : — "I the son of the holy faith. No. — , promise and swear to sus- tain the altfir and the papal throne, to exterminate heretics, liberals ami all the enemies oj the church, without pity for the cries of children or of men and women, " so help me God ! !" The last clause is, of course elliptical, meaning, "so help me Ootl of' this world ; so help me devil." Those who take that oatn in a Protestant country, should be hung by the neck iintil dead, and thus be themselves "exter- minated" by "falling into the pit" that they wickedly dig or strive to dig, and purpose digging for others. And all, I hesitate not to say, who, in their astoiniding spiritual blindness and scriptural ignorance, join that heaven-defying organiztition that originates and embodies such infamous and infernal societies, are spiritually - 17 - and Sci'ipturally dosicl and damned while they live ! The oath of allegiance to the Pope and popery, as taken by every Roman Catholic bishop, I may add, is utterly incompatal)le with civil freedom and loyalty to a Protestant throne. Loyalty that is merely time-serving, is not loyalty at all ; it is merely a hypocriti- cal semblance of if Pope Pious IX, in his Encyclical Letter, Aug. 15, 1854, said : "The absiu'd and erronious doctrines, or ravings, in defence of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error — a pest of all others most to be dreaded in a State." Listen to that, ye Protes- tant Separate School supporters! How wo\dd you like that "pious" old gentleman for the world's dictator ? Read it again. Read also the following : He further anathematized all "thosc^ who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship;" also "all such as maintain that the Church may not employ force."— Encyc. Dec. S, 1864. Thanks to a kind Providence and an enlightened progressive age, their "anathemas" are harmless, their "force" is shorn of its strength, and its employment is at present denied them. Their savage "bulls" also are all dehorned ; no thanks, however, to them for it. But again this "pious" pontiff speaks : "The profesaion of the papht is indispensable as a qualification for the exercise of civil and political rights." (March 14, 1848.) Is it, indeed ? Then " the profemion " of the Protextant in a Protestant country should also be "indispensable as a qualification for the exercise of civil and political rights." But yet again the old Pope would "Piovisly" speak. In delivering the decrees of the Vatican Council, July 18, 1870, he said: "All the faithful of Christ are bound to believe that the Holy Apostolic see and the Roman pontiff possess the primacy over the entire world ; [this and the next!] and that the Roman pontiff' himself is the successor of the blessed Peter, the prince of the apostles. [It has been conclusively proved that St. Peter never had a pontificate at Rome] and that he is the true vicar [enemy] of Christ, the Head of the whole [apostate] church, and the Father and Teacher of all [lying abominations] (christians [Papists] ; and that to him in blessed Peter [Peter knows you only to reprobate you !] has been delivered by our Lord Jesus Christ [in blasphemous assumption] the full power to feed, to rule, to govern [and to damn] the Universal [Papist] (Church, as it is also contained in the [treasonable and blasphem- ous] acts of the Ecumenical Councils and the Sacred [anti-Christ- ian] Canons. This is the doctrine of Catholic truth [Catholic lies] from which no one can deviate ivithout loss of [idolatrous] faith and [popish] salvation. To all which, with the interjected quali- fications, we can say. Amen and amen. And if, gentlemen, many thoughtful Pi'otestants are begin- ning to open their eyes to your astounding assumptions and wicked wifes, and to feel somewhat restive under them, you have nothing and no one to blame for it but your own unchanged doc- trinal teaching, and persistent claims, and continued aggressions in connection therewith. As in the past, you would still domin- ate the world ; but the 19th century world do not feel inclined to be dominated by you. Because Mr. Laurier has declared himself to be opposed to the Church interfering with the State and State affairs, and would say to the "church" of his choice, in accordance with the teaching ■':i - 18 — of the Word of insi)iration, "Be you subject in civil affairs to the powei\s that be which are ordained of God," ohe bishops come down on him, and say he "is not a Catholic at all ;" since, by the teachings of the Church, "Sovereigns, statesmen, deputies, gov- ernments, magistrates, and, in general all those who guide others, have for their duty and their first duty to conform their thoughts and their wishes to the instructions of the church in the exercise of their authority."— Bishop Lafleche's Electioneering Sermon. But what says a higher authority than that of either pope or bishop on the subject? As though foreseeing their after apostasy and rebellion in this respect, Paul forewarns the Romans them- selves, the Roman church and the Cyhurch as a whole, including bishops, deacons, and all connected therewith, by writing to them thus on this very subject : "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God ; the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God ; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then rot be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is the minister of jrod to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain ; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wr.ath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also ; for they are God's ministers, at- tending continual] V upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor." — Rom. 13: 1-7. This is the word of inspiration, making it incumbent upon the church to obey the civil powers that be. And, setting aside his other snecific doctrinal teaching, (which, like Paul's, is directly opposed to Romish teaching, as any one, not having the judicial "veil over his eves," may see for himself,) Peter says to the church as a whole : "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake ; whether it be to the King as Supreme [not the pope, you see] or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by Him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men."— 1 Pet. 2: 13-15. St. Peter and the Roman "bishops" are therefore at var- iance in this as in many other things. Christ said: "The time conu^th, that whosoever killeth you rvill think that he doeth God Ke7'vice."—3n. 16: 2. That time came with the papal polity of the Roman church ; and this churchly persecut- ing delusion predicted, has never left it from that day to this ! They believe this doctrine, Christ further says, (v. .S.) "because they know not the Father nor Me." But to think of such being professedly a tenet of a Christian church !! It is truly amazing ; hut then it fulfils the prediction, and sets the Divine signet upon that church's apostasy and inherent and universal blindness Christ says also : "Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear ; Fear Him who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I say ^uuto you. Fear Him." -Luke IIL the yov- — 19 — 12:4-5. "And whi>n thoy bring you unto the synagojifuos, nnd xujto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought liovv or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say ; for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say." {v8.11-12.) But how many times has Popery even dared to attempt to im- piously gag the Holy Ghost in his saints by forbidding them to speak Jit all ! Unto many a popish " synjigogue " and popish "magistrate" have God's people since that day l)een brought for popish judgement and slaughter, andjin f ulHlment of the predicted delusion, that "they who kill you will think that they do God service !" Oh, the amazing blindness of men, when thus judicially given over "to believe a lie." "Thou shalt not kill" is the coni- mand of Jehovah. "Thou ahalt kill, in our interests," is the counter command of the pope and popery ! Could any devil be in more direct and daring opposition to the Alniiglity ? And still they think that they thereby "do God service !" Was ever blind infatuation more absolute ? or creature rebellion more insanely daring ? So doing, however, Christ tells the whole of the Roman hierarchy, that "it were better for them that a millstone were hanged about their neck and that they were drowned in the depths of the sea."— Matt- 18: 0. Bishop Lafleche continues to enlighten his Catholic auditors thus: "As a successor of the apostles, it is the WoiyI of God which I break andjdistribute unto you!!" And here is a further distribution of this "Word of God"— Referring to Mr. Laurier's "standpoint" of political procedure independent of the church, whether (.catho- lic or Protestant, this "bishop" says ; "Undi>r existing cii'cimi^ stances, a Catholic cannot, untler pain of committing mortal sin, vote for the leader of a party who so publicly formulated su(rh an error." To this we need only to reply, that we have already upon a previous page seen what Divinely scheduled crimen ave pro- nounced "no sin" by the Papacy, ana here we have it set forth what constitutes not only sin Imt "mortal sin !" Well, Mr. Laurier is to be congratvdated that it is only an authority of his dearly beloved "church" that so designates it. But if the sin of voting for him is "mortal," what must the sinner himself that is thus voted for be 1 If however, to give it another turn, the sin is but "mortal," like all othin* mortal things, it will be short-lived and will doubtless soon pass away. Not so the sin of the bishops, however, who thus preach and teach. Their all-pervading, wiae- sprcad sin of "formulating error" will be much more likely to bie "immortal ;" that is, undying in its criminal issvies and penal con- sequences, both to the hierarchy and to those who, blindly led by them, will ultimately fall with them into the same " pit " of perdition. But let us, to \ise an appropriate word fiunished us by pope Pious, refer to some more of their hierarchical and churchly "rav- ings." The following refers to the popish conc^uest of the United States: "Undoubtedly it is the intention of the pope to possess this country. In this intention he is aided by the .Jesuits and all the Catholic prelates and priests." — Brownson's Review, May, I8G4. "You should do all in your power to carry ouf the intentions of his Holiness, the pope. Where you have the electoral franchise, give your votes to none but those who assist you in so holy a struggle."— Daitiei O'ConneU. The Rev. L.L.Pickett, in his "Danger .1 — 2() — Signal," page 202, comniontingon those (»iiiisions, says : "The pope is trying by evtu-y strategy at his oonnnand to take possession of these United States, and ah'eady thousands of voters are (quietly turning the poHtical scales in his favor. My coiuitrynien, you are sleeping on a volcano. Study this chapter, then turn back and r(>-read the chapter on bloodshed." Bishop O'Connor speaks : "Religious liberty is merely endur- j (m1 \xntil the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to / the Catholic world." Is that so, O'Connor ? Then my advice-trrv/ Protestants is, that they be prudentially up and doing. The prowling biu'glar that is simply peaceable and harmless while waiting for midnight darkness, shoidd be seized as a thief and handcuffed at the first indication of his intentions. _. The ''Catholic Revieto" speaks ; "Protestsintism, of every form, has not, and never can have, any right where Catholicity is tri- umphant." Then Romanism shoxdd have "no right" where gise*^ testantism is "triumphant ;" and all the more so, since the former not oidy is and always has been a deadly evil and a scourge to humanity, both for time and eternity, but because, also, self-pro- tection, which is the first-law of our being, should impel us to take stejps accordingly. Archbishop Hendrick, of St. Lewis, has also something to say: "Heresy and unbelief are crimes; and in Christian countrit;s, as in Italy and Spain' (!!) for instance, where all the people are Catholics, and where the Catholic religion is an essential part of the law of the land, they are punished as other crimes." "Hereny" and "Christian" countries, as Italy and Spain, forsooth I New Testa- ment Christianity is a "crime," no doubt, in the eyes of Popery and popish countries ; and being punishable there as svich, in view of its unchanged and unchangeable character and designs upon Protestantism everywhere, therefore Romanism should V)e re- garded as a crime in Pr(u(!stant countries ; and being everywhere actively anti-Protestant, it should be punishal)le as such by a de- privation of their civil "rights" and powers which are by them at present but treasonably held in abeyance. If their "religion," so called, would allow them to let sensible Christians alone, and not by the tortuous strain of the rack, the stake, or at the point of the sword, attempt to force their damn- able tenets upon others who have no desire to be damned through them, we might let them alone, and simply allow them to be m- dividually responsible for their own destruction. But their "reli- gion," so called, being from beneath, it will not allow them to do this ; and hence, as God, according to prophecy, purposes putting a chain upon the devil (some time perhaps in tne near future,) for a thousand years, so should we, and so shall we, I believe, have to f>ut it upon Popery. It calls itself a "church" and a "religion," mt from a Scriptural standpoint it is neither one nor the other. Unanswerable proof of it is legion, but its anti-Christian, anti- Scriptural persecuting tenets alone prove its nether, apostate origin. It is not in its present state a Divinely recognized reli- gion, but an idolatry, compounded of heathenism, Judaism, and a blasphemously mangled and counterfeited Christianity. The following from the Rambler, a "Catholic" paper published in London, England, gives, in connection with the foregoing quo- tations, no uncertain sound : "Religious Liberty," says this issue - al of bly lie nd ilo nd of that barbaroiiH sheet, "in the sense of liberty possessed by every man to choose his religion, is one of* the most wicked delusions ever foisted npon this age by the father of all deceit. Tlie very name of liberty— except in the sense )f a permission to do certain definite acts— ought to be banished from the domain of religion. It is neither more nor less than falsehood, [Gauged by the papal standard of that popish virtue.] No man has the right to choose his religion. [What is your pedigree— that of an ape or an ass?) None but an atheist can uphold the principles of religious liberty. [None but a fool or a knave would discard and denounce them.] Shall I foster that danmable doctrine that Socinianism and (Cal- vinism and Anglicanism and Judaism are not every one of them mortal sins like nuirder and adultery ? [You have the Bihk, which enhances innneasurably your i-esponsibdity, as it does all others who have it, and hence no idolatrous ism, not even the worst forms of heathenism, is as thoroughly steeped in deep-died mortal sin as Homan-\sn\.\ Shall 1 hold out hopes to my erring Protestant brother that I will not meddle with his creed If he will not meddle with mine? [Who or what are you, your 'church,' or your pope, that you should meddle with it?] Shall I tempt him to forget that he has no more right to his religious views [than the pope has to his, if he could only behave himself like a sane man,] than he has to mj^ house, or to my life-blooi<1*'I>H'Ii, that yon luul resigned oltlce and given place to a L-lass ol |)oUti(ians tliat will legislate Tor Protestantism, and not servilely how the knee to the pope of Home and truckle to his minions. The fact is, I would here lurther observe, the "("atholic Emancipation Bill" in lilngland should lu^ver have been passe^ors such an extension of rights, is ;i IV i I] rl > ' If ! ''.'' — 24 — simply a patron of an Association of traitors, and this of the very worst type, being creedal and professedly religious. And hence, any man, be he Reform or Conservative, (except he be a known traitor to Protestantism,) should, ^without distinction and without hesitation, be by every Protestant voted fpr and re- turned to Parliament, rather than a Roman Catholic. The very name "Roman Catholic," as a symbol or designation, not of a re- ligion, but of an inherently, doctrinally, Jesuitically, and diabol- ically persecuting power, should be a name most odious to every Christianand every rightminded Protestant who isatall conversant with the history and doctrinal teaching of that so called religion. Chiniquy's "Fifty Years hi the Church of Rome" should be read by every Protestant, and by every truth-Qving "Catholic" in the Dominion — if there be any such. I should have said upon a previous page, that to further econ- omise, and as a further precaution against Government corruption and an unscrupulous defrauding of the public, you should see to it that there is no displacing of competent public servants — thereby causing a yearly expense to the country — to make room for per- sonal friends or favorites ; also that there is no unnecessary mul- tiplication of clerkships and other situations, and giving them to those whose only merit is bigotry and a party vote. See to it also, you who are at the head of the Government and who ought to be the guardians of the public treasury, that there is absolutely no bribery practised, no defiling of your fingers and bribing your money-loving patrons with "boodle," no unprincipled jobbing, no partizan and self-interested bonuses or subsidies, no robbery of the public chest for electioneering or other purposes; and no mean, dis- honest, unstatesmanlike maneuvering in connection with Gov- ernment contract-letting, subletting, etc., as certain departments of the present corrupt Government have been guilty of. Let every bigot to party, (if there be any such) and every political aspirant pay his own electioneei'ing expenses; and if parliamentary leaders and parties want heralds and helpers, let them hire and pay their expenses out of their own pockets. Why should the Suolic elect candidates for parliamentary honors and, either irectly or indirectly, pay them for applying for them too ? If either Mr. Tupper or Mr. Laurier had a household situation open to applicants, would they be willing to pay the travelling expenses etc., of those who choose to come from varying distances to make personal application for it ? I trow not. Then be equally econ- omical and true to the principles of honesty and fair dealing in public life and with the public money. You are not honest men unless you do. And there is no true religion. Catholic Laurier and Protestant Tupper and colleagues, without honesty, both public and private. Many of our public men are much in need of a series of cere- monial washings and purifications, and if they could be pushed through a filter as an after operation, and then allowed to shake themselves and dry off for awhile in jail, justice would have its due, and it might perhaps, for awhile at least, do thera a much needed good ! I think it likely that a change in the Government with honest Laurier at its head, would, morally and financially, be an im- ^^^^^^p !" in — Im- provement on the past ; and hence, on the whole, as an experi- ment at least, be a benefit to the country at lairge. Loyalty to Popery is no worse than treason to Protestantism. If Mr. Grieves, M. P.. whom I just heard upon the Laurier platform, is an Orangeman, or even a Protestant, and is in favor of granting to the Manitoba minority R. C. Separate Schools, it is very evident that he merits the honor of being accounted what he oisclaims to ber-a "wabbler." He wabljles, and most inconsist- ently, I might even say irrationally, froii^ Orangeism or Protes- tantism to the support of its unchanging antithesis and inveterate enemy, Romanism! Our public schools are not Protestant schools, but national and ncnsectarian, suited to all races and Christian or Bible creeds ; and therefore I would say tQ^ntlem,en whose elec- tion is "assured," and to those whose election the polls of the 23rd will assure, let there be no conciliator compromise with the "church" of: the ^(anitoba minority. 3e naen of, staunch, inde- pendent Protestant pripciples, and oppose Tripper and Laurier alike on this Separatp Sehool question* "flustice tp tlie minority" requires that an efficient,, nonsectarian public school be provided for them^ arid no more ; and no more should they have. Let the vote of the House and the desire of the people be the "constitu- tion." And) if -the Qoilfederate constitution kicks, let it, as it de- serves, be but "against the pricks" of a justly invulnerable Pro- testant opposition from both sides of the House. Green way has taken a noble stand against the demands of Rome so far; and I trust, that his knees will not get weak, and vacillation and compromise on his part be the issue of a Reform victory, for the Dominion should it be achived at the ensuing election. . • i, » . Yours, for a uni^^d people* on ^ Principles that will Stand the test of both Time and Eternity, B. STEPHENS. ,j , ,, PRICE FIVJE CENTS EACH, OR PIBTY CB>fT8 A DOZEN, P08T PAID, ,, LISTpWEt: J. A. MACklNa, PUBLISHED.