The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-04-10
For the Voice of Freedom.
MADISON, Ia, March, 1916.
The Field is the West.

1y.--IHE OPPORTUNITY 1T PRESENTS
FOR USEFULNESS RENDERS 1T TRu-
LY INVITING FIELD.
| ln this, as in other new countries, the
emssaries of Saan are numerous and &C.
active, sowing the seeds Of infdelity and
all manner of heresies, and eradicating
those germs of true christianity, which,
under proper culture would flourish like
the green Bay.tree; or like the tree of
Life in the garden Of Eden--(planted on
either side Of the river whose waters are
pure and clear es crystal would" bear
twelve manner of fruis-yielding her
fruit every month, and whose leaves would
be for the healing ofthe nations" Truth
and error are especially here in perpetual
and deadly conflict. Here She who is
represented as drunk with The blood ofthe
ma!tys, has marsballed her clam in
broad and strong array. She is exultinge
y proud OF her successful warfare. She
leaves, in her traces, as she stalks in rap
lc strides over this fair land, as memorials
of her triumph, her cross crowned church.
es, cathedrals monasteries and nunneries
Her votaries are immensely numerous,
and their blind zeal peculiarly proverbial.
She has, for many years, had her raven.
eye fixed upon this garden OF America.
And, now ''ancient and modern Babylon"
that "mystery OF iniquity" is about to be
transferred from that continent, whose
princes she has so often and impiously de-
throned, whose thrones, leveled to the
dust, whose kingdoms, demolished, and
whose SOIL deluged with innocent blood,
and whose moral atmosphere, she has
tainted with ignorance and supers.tu,iop,
an element of spiritual death; she, q
repea' who has done all this, is about to
be transferred to the Eden of our happy
-
land. And for what purpose! All! lie,
those republican forms OF government that
in bygone days, have been waited to OBJ
livion by its consuming breath Of spiritual
and civil despotism tell the direful story I!
Let the horrors OF the internal inqus,ions
OF Europe rehearse the tale! And let the
the mirror of the last nine centuries reflect
its bloody, fendlike transactions. and
clearly develop the fact that Popery has
been and a0iU continue TO be an unreleat>
ing foe 10 cir'I and religious liberty -
These are solemn facts-naked truths d.
vested Of the garb of fiction And, oh
as such, would that they could be more
universally believed and feil--would that
as christians and phlanthropists we were
more oigilant and jealous Of the cnnning
wles and stra,agems of this arch deceiver,
80 iul oil fattery and chicsnery-wouId
that those watchmen, who stand with the
FURNISHED sword oftru!h, TO defend the city
OF the spiritual Jerusalem, could sound the
alarm, e'er the "enemy rush in upon them
like food" would that they were zeal
Gus in urging the volunteers of the Mos!
High TO buckle on the armor of faith. TO
seize the breasiplate of righteousness, and
10 be shod with the sandals Of The gospel,
10 GO forth to wage the battles OF the Lord.
The warfare has commenced, the onset
has already been made, and the event OF
the contest is soon TO be determined. The
enemy reIoices as she builds her oton, and
saps the very foundation OF our Institutions.
Recruits and detac hments must be drawn
from those quarters where least needed.
Whence then must they come! Univer-
sal response answers, "FRoM THE sHuREs
or New ENGLAND !"-from the "land
of the free aud the home OF the brave. "-@--
Will she hear this benevolent, urgent call
as it proceeds from the anguish-riven bo-
som Of christians and patriots? Will she
not send forth as many heralds OF the
Truth and guardians Of religious and civ
il liberty, or as many defenders Of chris.
tianitv, as this mystery ofiuiqniIy does, Of
its emissaries and Jesuilsl This the good
Of patriotism, humanity, aud christianity
imperiously demands.