Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-12-30

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There Is no tyrant OF consciences in
these countries A King or s ma Of his
agents does not tel you: Believe or die.
Every one is free to adore his God, accord
inr to his beIief; therefore there il neithtr
slave in religion, nor protestant, according
to the Specifications Of this word: They
are all, in religions matters, freemen, and
christians if they followthe teachings ofIhe
Gospel
The name Of protestantS was given in
the diete of Spire in 1929, to men who
were faithful to the tfie Catholic religion,
as it is contained in the creed of the Apo5'
ties. which you have learned from child
hood, but protested against a profession Of
faith which the emperor Charles the Fifth
would impose upon them after the order Of
the Bishop Of Rome who was almighty by
bis alliance with Kings 10 e~nslaye people
and nations. Whoever protests against q
~tyrannical act may be called a protestant,
and the new doctrines, against which these
true Catholic 0fSpire protested, can be de.
nominated under the names az popedom or
Romanism. SO Catholicism and Roman.
ism are two things quite different.
True Catholicism Is the religion ofJesus
Christ as it is in the Gospel, which Is The
word Of God, as it was taught by the apos-
ties and as our fathers protes=ed ii during
six hundred years. ROmanism, on the con-
trary, is, the +. ligion which the monks,
united with the pope, invented during the
middle ages. The bishop of Rome, favour
ed by the ignorance Of these dark ages,
as 4 God, sat in the temple of God, show
ing himselfthat he was God and caused his
bishops aud priests to be looked upon as
inferior TO God having the power TO for
give Or 10 retain sins. Whoever did not
/ submit to their doctrines was thrown into
! PRISONS or burnt at the stake.
In $50. they ordered to OUr fathers to
worship images, though the word of God
frbids it. In the same century, they in
vented the sacrament of extreme .oncti ms,
in order that they should be called ar
the dying people to impose upon them rich
donations 10 the monasteries and churches.
in exchange Of heaven which thy promised
to them. What they had not been able
to take away from the fathers, they found
the way of taking it from the children, by
the inventions Of purgatory and indulgen-
ces, for masses, and prayers to deliver
them from this place of torments. The
mass, invented in tho fifth century, expe.
riencpd in the following centuries, many
transformations before it was as It is In our
days. II was only, in 1915, that our faith
ers were obliged TO believe that the wine
and the bread OF the Lords supper, con
tained really the body, the blood, the soul
and divinity of Jesus Christ under the ap-
pearances Of bread and wine. In the same
epoch, the confessions, invented, in 627, in
Chalons on the Marine, for thu monks on
iy, was enioined by Innocent Ill to every
one. In the IL century, The pope, to imi-
tate the Kings who gave crosses of honor
and titles of nobility to their faithful SOL
diers, placed the supporters of bis dignity
and doctrines into the number ofthe saints
and saintesses, and ordered, TO pray to, and
worship them. He even found the means
of making money with their bones and
garments under the name of relics. He
sold them to the churches, and, lest he
should be cursed of receiving always with.
out giving any thing, he gave them, as
present to the Kings, in exchange of their
rich presents in gold and silver which be
received from them. So This ~ttafTic, this
religion Of money, the worship of images
f The mass, the purgatory, indulgences, con,
fession. worship Of saints and relics, p J.
migrages, the forbidding of meat, the dis
penses and chapelets, &C., this is the Ro-
manisn.
Frenrh of America, do you believe tc
the Romanism? know that you do no
! believe to il No man fgood understand
ing can believe such doctrines which ahas
ed men under the image of w~od, stone
or iron, which he has made with his hands.
You are not credulous enough to believe tc
the miracles of saints, as they are record
ed in their Legends, and which have been
F invented, says an author, to excite the
laughing ofthe old women. You 90 not
believe TO the divine power Of these cere
monies which cupidity invented to draw
from the superstitious man his money ant
submit him to its laws as the beast is sub
f mitled to its master. But RENE mber that
bOC All lEIGSE i1ISD uOCNfiUFB AIR SUBJECTS
t%itions, there is a true catholicism, the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, who is the prince O
life. If the Romanism abase man anc
render him superstitious. the religion o.
Christ digniies him and gives him the IN
derstanding and true liberty. Jesus Chris
is as the tree Of life, whose we are as the
branches; if we are cut Of from him, We
perish as the branches cut off from the
tree. 1t is in vain that we would form oul
religion after our own thoughts, God knows
and blesses only those who are submitted
to his wig L" If any man, says st. Pau
, preach ang other gospel unto you than thar
ye have received, let him be accursed."
When J. come among you, dear breth-
rem, | do not come to preach you supersti-
tious doctrines of the papal ~.eomanism;
will preach the true catholicism .christiani
", as it is contained in the Gospel of the
EternalSon Of God. TT can find fifty per-
sons who will be christians without supers
titinn, | will live among you; | shall visi
our french brethren along the river
shall establish different places Of meeting
to adore our God according to our belle
and as we are ordered to worship him, no
in vain ceremonies, but in Spirit and truth
Our religion will not be a roman catholic.
! ism, for we are no more slaves Of Rome
but it will be a Christian and French Ca
tholicisrn.
L,HOTE, French Catholic Minister.
The CHINA DIFFIcULrY.-NarGl.-
The celestial governor of Canton, as ba
been seen by eur extracts from foreigu