| Show PERSECUTION HELPS ANY RELIGIOUS The the the Salvation the Christian Scientists and the Mormons grew and rapidly increased under they hung one Quaker in the early days of our two took his a Mormon missionary was mobbed or sympathetic people rushed to his read the Mormon and many converts were Senator Smoot did not have a handful of friends in the United States Senate he first entered that great but the persecution and vilification heaped upon him by his enemies caused an investigation and a vindication and the notoriety it gave Smoot brought to him and today he is one of the biggest men in our halls of The after facing the fierce storms of persecution for nearly are the strongest today of any Christian The Liverpool Times explains the reason for Catholic persecution in the Hostility to Catholic How is the first hostility displayed towards the Catholic church throughout the world to be accounted People who profess other creeds are not thus The antagonism shown towards the different forms of Protestantism and the schismatic churches of the east is mild compared with the opposition offered to the Catholics obedient to the Holy There is nothing else in the world like and the only explanation to be found for it is the strange and remarkable assurance of the Saviour that the world would hate His disciples because of their being it is that the incessant attacks made on the Catholic church appear not to have an injurious effect upon but rather to benefit Albert von professor of modern history at the Protestant University of has' just become a He did not come in contact with and no Catholic influence was brought to bear upon He was at first attracted to the Catholic church by the enmity she seemed to Some time as he explains in to the a work just published for him by Herman Walter of he studied Harnack's Wesen des and this impelled him still further in the safe He now regards the papacy and the Blessed Sacrament as the church's two great pillars of Liverpool |
