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Show DESTROYERS Of 'FAITH Non-Catholic Sunday Schools Throughout Through-out the Country Attempting to Draw Catholic Children Within Their Walk Only watchful Catholics can have an adequate idea of the efforts made by outsiders to .pervert young people belonging to the faith. Our Protestant Protest-ant fellowcitizens. or many of them, at least, have not much faith themselves, but they are restless with a purpose to destroy the faith of Catholics. A few days ago the editor of this journal was shown a pledge which an eight-year-old attendant of a Baptist Sunday school was induced to take. It was that she would not only attend punctually herself, but would ''bring another." One taker of such a pledge was later found terribly anxious to bring a Catholic companion on a day when there was to be much free music and a number of "gifts" given away. But it appears that this form of Protestant anxiety anx-iety does not exist in the east alone. In the current True Voice of Omaha we learn that the synod of Xebraska has sent out a circular postal to Protestant Pro-testant Sunday school workers, begging them to a special effort to gather in Catholic children in order or-der to save the Protestant church and the republic. The writer makes the point that most of the foreigners for-eigners now coming to this country are Catholics and if their children are not given the Protestant faith the nation is doomed. In what consists the Protestant faith is not stated, and it is perhaps as well that the author of the circular did not attempt to state it. There are in this country now several hundred varieties of Protestant faith, or, more properly, un-faith, each one claiming to be the -only simon-pure brand. Then there are about two-thirds of our present population who profess no faith at all, and do not belong to any church organization, though they are presumed to be Christian at least in namer" ' """""" " When the immigrants come to our shores they have faith, says the True Voice. They are Catholics Catho-lics moft of them profess a very definite belief" in God and in his church. Many of them may not be. as well instructed in their religion as we would wish, but, at least, they have faith and very decided opinions about right and wrong, and the obligation of the moral law. This living faith these misguided proselytizers. or canting hypocrites, would endeavor to kill. They have nothing to offer in its stead that can hold their victims from infidelity and anarchy once their faith is destroyed, but what care they for that I They would rather deprive a Catholic child of his religion reli-gion than try to repair some of the ruin they have already caused. If they were only striving to make Christians among the children of those who were themselves Protestants they would find plenty to do. In New England today we find the children of Puritans those of them who are left without any belief in church or God. They have lost their Protestant Pro-testant brand of unbelief and have gone the whole length into bold infidelity. Their story is being repeated throughout the country, and we find Protestantism Pro-testantism unable to hold its own people beyond one or two generations. Perhaps this is why the proselytizers pros-elytizers are so anxious to seek new recruits among the children of foreign parents. And to think that unbelief of this type is to be the safeguard of the nation ! What the nation needs is, religion something' oositive. something solid to which men can hold in time of stress and trial. The negations of Protestantism can never hoW men for long. It makes a good vestibule for infidelity, but serves no other purpose in the present day. And God help the nation that drifts into infidelity! Its ruin is writ large and plain in the history of the. world. We would advise the synod of Nebraska in the interests of patriotism, to give a little time to Christianizing the children of former Protestants, Protes-tants, instead of trying to rob the children of Catholic Cath-olic immigrants of. their faith. Catholic Sun. |