The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-14


y highly respectable audience wbe ->Serowdsd
Of the address, testified tho -, daring the dehve-
ppAs's ApPl0'N " 'n1'''As"e
At the Le~-
~ appointed, the Padre made his appearance
ssd'he subject of the evening is the Inquisition.
shall prove that the quison is against the spirit OF
liberty granted by Christ in the Gospel that it is against
the spirit Of meeknes which must form the mission OF
the Christian clergy and finally that it is against tho
spirit Of charity which must found the true Church Of
Christ shall say only few words in Italian, because
my fellow countrymen know by experience what the
Inqusition il in Italy The reverend gentleman then
addressed the audience in Italian and the conclusion
sad in Engish the precepts Of Christianity are re-
dsced TO one, Go forth and preach the Gospel to every
creature: whoever belieyeh and is baptized shall be
saved and those who do not shall be ost therefore the
believing disbelisvipg was left to the free choice
erty, and without liberty man is nothing without
liberty this world Is nature without the
we viii use our liberty in order to choose our religion
Now. any in the Church Of Rome entertained any
doubt upon religious matters the lnquisition put their
hand upon him, imprisoned him, chained him. and tor
tured him order to restore his heart to his lost and
ancient faith, and called it mercy Man Is reasonable
being. and you present to him reasonable religion he
will brace it, and that is why the Gospe-he true
Gospel of the Protestant Church-has prospered in all
religion reasonable they would need to exert no
violence; but "a It Is not such one, they must by
cessty, resort to the Inquision Now the Church Of
violence and inquiston. whys Because in her there
Is nothing reasonable. The authority supremacy and
sanitation is unreasonable; the worship Of saints
and images, and relics, Is unreasonable-snd there
sustain these doctrines. lAppiauae.) The Church
of Rome will exist until the second coming Of Christ.
whys Because Christ said necessary have scam
dal In the world and because prophecy says that the
kingdom Of Anti.Christ .han be the kingdom Of many
days and many centuries until Christ shall again
klvn1,. n.kn <:noI-
has the Church Of Rome existed until the present mee
By miracle and by the special providence Of Cod for
son for mark my proposition that without the Inqui-
son all Europe would be Protestant and all America
That unhappy part of Spanish America where the nqu
Protestant as your America and my own Italy would be-
Christian country without Popes and without popery,
The Church of Christ church without of
any kind and was BY the Apostles in the spirit
Church Of Christ must live in harmony and meelness
and any church which abandons this doctrine is not the
true Church of Christ What the crime Of those people
Virgin Mary-but they worship Christ they refuse to
eognze the Virgin the Mother Of God but they
body and blood Of Christ Therefore, where is their
hesesy No. they were not hsi;scs nay brethren sSs
Hamilton and Cranmer, butehered, because they
their life to sustain The Gospel Ihsar the Papss
40 read the Bbes "Oh no' ITO choose your priest9'
ooh no" But they say 1--WE free to 60 to church,
Yes, and they to listen to the denunciatons Of
their priests against the pure and true Church Of Cod
Applause What is the true spirit OF the Christian
clergy Christ sending hia Apostles to preach The Gospel
everywhere, and when you enter house to say Peace
to this houe" But what has changed these ministers o
Christ from sheep into wolve'nay into tigers and hye
temporal Judge. condemnng his fellow men, in life and
substance, he is no more priest Of Christ but is the
s to 70
geont to galeys to be stranged and burned alives.
mol mol Everywhere the mission Of Christ and HE
Apostles free and benevolent mission, and there
fore the clergy of Rome is not Christian clergy,
Church is the clergy and laity and not the clergy alone
Applause Recommendations mean separation FROM
the visible Church. because the separation from the invi
tble Church belongs only to God Let me read part OF
the has DESTROYED what is SO essential to the
the true Churchnamely, mercy The lecturer read the
denuncation Of the Roman Church against sxcommuni
cants This is the benevolence Of the Popsh system and
the clergy cav they have the power to denounce and
curse because they are holy tribunal and the Inquisi
Of the Inquron to to possess the holt
ness of he'll (Appause In this country the people
happy IN Their for everything defence and trial
reason that Justice is well administered In the Tnqui
siton everything secret-executed by secret rufans
and they admit oil hcre,ics witnesses, which,
shows the Inconsistency fathers against soos and,
mothers against daughters The prisoner has FREQ
deenceno public sentence therefore, every sort Of
venge was and is perpetrated the Inqustion man
who is discharged from the nqusition must
to reveal the secrets and horrors which he Witnessed
ed. Do they not change the charity of Christi The
Romsh clergy, here and in England appear moral
sometimes not inclined to believe it; but the Romishs
clergy are, by nature and system, cruel clergy Hav.
ing DO domestic affection they have no relation st all
and revenge themselves upon u.s. What thall call,
those who invented species of fortunes for their
What the business Of the Inquistion according to
the Roman Catholic authorities? Why, fourteen species
Of fortunes. among which was one to prevent a man
Tor tive her he
tuIe of the cord which the uspenson Of man by
his arms, and weight of one hundred pounds was
attached to his feet he then hosed up to the cell
ing and in many stances, his dislocated.
The victim was that position Aogged and burned auT
did not confess he sent to his dungeon and taken
Of to be tortured again. There another torture
called the fire. which case the feet Of the victim were
wheel Was usually used against delicate Coura-
tortured by large funnel filed with water
placed over their mouths BY which they kept
slant state Of suocation for thirty minutes after which
PERIOD If the victim would not confess the torture was
resumed until he confessed or died This-this is the
Church of Christ cloud appause) ask you, Roman
Catholic is this the charity prescribed by Christ in the
Gospel? You priest-are you minister Of the altars
No you are murderer an assassn-you conse-
Grated cannibals. cloud appause) St. John never
prosecuted heretics heard in Scotland and England
cause the Inqusition vas lay tribunal My deal Ro-
man Catholic was not the inventor of the Inquiston
and did hot ss give
monks and franciscan friars,, and the
head OF the Inquistion Is the Pope, and Plus the
Ninth is the head OF IT, therefore all the crueltie.
must be imputed to the Roman Catholic priesthood.
One hundred thousand waldeneses and forty THOUSAND
Huguenots are nothing supposep Six and half mil
lions Of Indians Americans slaughtered by
lnquisiton as wild beasts nothing The Church Of
Rome has never prosecuted any one Oh, no cloud
appause They mel ciful priesthood. tApplause.l
Cardinal Wseman printed hook time since, IN.
which he sad My dear brethren the Inqustion exists
no longer In Austria Bavaria Switzerland and France
which are countries containing population Of mixed
religious faith and in Spain Portugal and Mexico which
are Roman Catholic countries the nquisition had been
abolished and therefore il his ceased exist With
respect for the Cardinal beg to make little Italian
dilemma in the ltion Of all the world for Card
nal Wiseman has forgotten Italy In the map of Europe
here is little place called Italy and therefore argue
he CaIdinsl is vesy .norans Cardinal He concealed
The existence Of H. h.y in order to introduce it into
England. Therefore, ssr he great mposter.
Ltughter) As said previous occasion, the Pope.
md Satan are always PERFECTLY equal applause Satan
alsays satan unfortunately for he changes and
he Pope Ia always Pope unfortunately, for he never
changes; and in like manner the ancient Popes
aimed the Inquiston have the modern aud the excel
ent Plus ia order to be grateful to God who restored