| Show f RELIGIOUS TIIE THE bev hey rev francis george an ex monk has lately been delivering lectures against roman catholicism in mer liverpool T pool pooi i and drawing large and enthusiastic audiences at one of these lectures the rev mr butler presided ile he remarked that their roman catholic frenda always said that when chec a person left the church of rome they were villains and anti were immoral and all that sort of thins thing but bit if it a protestant went over to rome he was a saint so that it depended upon the nest in which they chev were hatched if protestants made saints so much for protestantism and if it the roman catholic church made villains and he could not see how it could aske ally arly anything thino thing else that went against the place here where they were hatched lie ile held that jesus christ was the biggest protestant that ever lived he was not ashamed of being C call cali called edby by that name these sentiments were indicative of bigotry in the man who uttered them the tha assumption that the catholic church is necessarily a villain factory was more than uncharitable it is beyond dispute that apostates from the catholic church are oar far tar more furious against the organization from which they secede than persons who leave the protestant faith falth are against the bodies to which they formerly belonged this Is not an evidence of the cat catholic nolle faith being more erroneous than the protestant but viewed f from rom a bible standpoint the contrary would be the more reasonable inference the greater the light attained when it is departed from the more dense the subsequent darkness and the more bitter the hostility this is as remarked by a correspondence in this issue strikingly manifested in ili cases of apostasy apo stacy f from the chu church ach of jesus christ ot of latter day saints the tile bitterness in some instances appears to amount to a species of insanity and the person allowing himself to be poss possessed posses essed sedof sedot of this inordinate feeling becomes an object of pit pity some men can withdraw aw from the church pro probably bibly never having progressed to any great degree in an understanding der of its genius and principles pies ples an and proceed proceed on the even aven tenor of tile lile their ir wa way without exhausting and pro prostrating t their ein eln energies ina in a fruitless en endeavor d eavor to demolish it such individuals frequently feel kindly to the rell neil religious alous community from which they have withdrawn and are generally respected spec ted but those who make themselves conspicuous by their intense hostility are generally viewed with distrust by all cz cu ses without exception indeed this is the case with apostates of that class from any organization if they were to be viewed as acting upon conscientious conviction it would necessarily lay jay their judgment open to question in ever having become con connected with an hu association which they appear by their subsequent course to believe to be deser descrying ying only of utter detestation A man may change his views without being liable to the suspicion of posses possessing bing poor judgment it is sometimes an evida evidence nce uce of enlightenment but when he keeps kicking with impotent and malicious rage at what he formerly sustained nobody wants to put implicit confidence in him frequently the more Vr progress ogress he has made in the tile cause he forsakes lor sakes the more unreasonable and vicious will be his bis opposition the light havin having I 1 been turned into fato darkness |
