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Show PROTESTANTISM A FAILURE. rf In America and Fiigbuid today there exists a j crying need of a strut 'g. virile proselyting body of Catholic laymen educ ted in a priestly manner in church doctrines and precepts- to counteract the propaganda of lies, si.- '.iders and insults now being carried on by noiidest ript preachers of ever; sort of sect under the sun- irom holy rollerism to Athe- j ism offsprings of the "Great Reformation." j For four hundred years Protestantism, with all j the individual liberali'y that the name implies, has had full scope to do its will unchecked, and what in the uamu of justice ud charity has it brought forth? Multiplicity ol' sects, diversity of doctrine, individual freedom in interpreting the sacred text to the point of ecclesjiastical anarchy, ridiculous i-nd blind leaders of jibsurd sects that breed infidels in-fidels and loud guffaws rtroni a skeptic world; ministers minis-ters wearing the cloth oiChrist and gaining a livelihood live-lihood thereby, denying t teir Master or His doctrine, doc-trine, yet with brazen ciTY mtery holding their- pulpits, pul-pits, because of the absei ee of ultimate authority to check them or to'deiim for them what religious truths fere. From events vhich have occurred during dur-ing the past year, 'it is a; parent that ministers of the Baptist. Episcopalian. Methodist and other sects too numerous to me ition can express any absurd ab-surd opinion on Christiat ity they may conceive in their brains, and there i- do authority to say to I them nay. for even afte ' heresy trials they still retain their posts, the laughing stock of the non-Christian non-Christian world. Street reachers innumerable go through the cities and t. wns traducing the Catholic Cath-olic church and her nu 'S, priests and doctrine, without any reason anima ling them but hate, deep-seated deep-seated malice. If the Catholic Church had in every city men prepared .in every way to answer these lying insulters, wha r a boon it would be! It would be the means of c iverting many, a well as bringing back thousands of luke-warm Catholie-. In every age prior to tl f revolt of the sixteenth century, the True Faith had pious and learned monks preaching on the public highways. Subsequent Subse-quent to .this 'great' rebel ion, men taught Catholic truths in public. Then vhy not-now Tloly and erudite monks or even laymen .could, by public preaching, bring 15.000V people to the Church of Christ in a ' com para ' svely 'short "time in this country ab.-ne. If reiki -lc reports are looked up, it will be found that d' !0 out of every thousand atheists or disbelievers f any brand are Protestants Protes-tants by birth. . aneestr. ' or environment. All Ingersolls, with very fev ' exceptions, are products of non-Catholicism. Originators of laughable and unholy sects such as Dowie, CrefKcld and others were born to Pr testa nt parents and reared in Protestan; churches am", surroundings. In-.. tidels and Hebrew scholar- have asserted that if they could belkv in Oh. asks divinity, they 'would be C'atlvol p..-.. !. .. ankkav kail il' t!i re k to be any ( "... kkan n !:-.;..., a; a': v ; b -! ' "' '-" ; . :,ur. ' y e ,- a : . ' : i- r: i- i k i i . . . J a; . . .. ( I i S;. d ! i'a.-l- : -", ; :. !":-!: lie" - a. v. a-I a-I uiirs.-lvis ! a m-.i-e. a- . hv ;-..;k.t:d. . Iti f.-a.-i we baav In r: 1 : .-! If : "A -:,r:i st!l:i-S st!l:i-S t'.io.is i.. i i.e.-;; hm-er -M t . the j inr.naii com of ju--t ! a. prow kidr a ;.-ert to!- ; wheii !ay are in aoy way petv.ti.d and false voidd ;n !e; ;h: :,i ; ! -jt. th.dr u'terancr's. M -: of ;!,: p.,. . pr,..--!;,-!; s tin:! th- wriii-r I'a ' ne t bar r n ' v.k:i malici' u- hate -k iv. r i!ihi- Caki d' . ; v'-a ' 'a rd.y t!a;f kiey v- iv not t rue foii .a-. ( ;.;:,!. Ani'-viean ae.d L:..ri:-h eitiei -lemid bo ':.i ;-. :i vVi ( h,-lic as-cialioi-.s lor 'young me;i. vdrare prejudice, big !; a o! i:eo-C lholic eel, orJ f;,ba: ; - would is-.t , .: v. -1 ! :- ,'a . e in ne -i . '" -Inb--t'troiighoui ': land. W'i;!: ir.::-('.;;'a!ic c-uatri, rotten with divorce. di-vorce. !:ie imivr-r-diies a-;d public n-lrmb of a;:' own count i-y is adiing i: Ciiri oianiry. with heidek ity a thou-aad 1 1::- -trenL' a k ai if has ever lav;:, with the rida-ni o'- s!t!,;, - ; -,ii:i-t-. rs take for tin if it.'Xts, be sides many oka-:- r::-'-- ::' ave rppar? :.. to vi-ry reader and meditator, Prot"st.intis-t -.!' the la-f four hundn d years can be called, with Hit any malice, a consummate failure. |
