True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-02-22

that becomes necessary, the Pope aciN act
and denounce their colleges, and excom-
municate and damn all who presume to ut
ter such doctrines. This would be in ac-
cordance with the history of the Romish
Church. The councils of the Romish
Church are in the habit of condemning the
doctrines and DEGREES of the preceding
councils. What can be considered stable
in that Church, sir, which does not scruple
to condemn its own Pope as a hereto long
after he is dead! A general council, which
Bishop England, in letter read by the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, declared to
"be infallible in doctrinal decrees," con-
dsmned Pope Honorious as a HERETO =
and some of his doctrines as heretical! If
they can condemn dead Pope as here
tic, what may they not do with persons,
colleges and bishops! Honorius as Pope,
being infallible, must have gone to heaven
upon his death. The Romish Church in
culcates the idea that the Pope is bound
to go to heaven. But, sir, in the case Of
Honorious, the council pronounced him a
hereto (while he was in heaven and as a
hereto cannot go to heaven, the council,
of course, put him in purgatory, by their
decree of condemnation !! and this Church,
by their decree, virtually denies the pow
ers of Jesus Christ to keep this heretical
Pope in heaven. Sir, how long will it be
before St. Peter shall be condemned for
his old sin of denying his Master? How
long is st. Peter safe in the bosom of his
LoRD2 He will never be safe, sir, so long
as the Romish Church shall presume.
have no doubt he is alive to serious appre.
tensions. I have no doubt that since the
condemnation Of Honorious, his immortal
soul has been Jared every time the cock
croaos
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| propose no law to invade the sanctity
of the Roman Catholic altar-or to touch,
with rude hands, the sacerdotal robe.
invoke public opinion. Iwould expose its
absurdities, rebuke its idolatries, ridicule
its mockeries. Sir, to see the unlettered
PERUVIAN bowling and kneeling to the
SUN, and worshiping it as the Great God
Of ight-an admitted omnipotence-i
not surprising; nay, sir, there is something
awfully solemn, grand and ennobling in
the superstition. 1t exhibits the open and
humble admission of an over-ruling Divin
ity. But to see the best educated men o.
the country bowling down to images ant
baptizing bells, to scare away, with thei
sounds, the evil spirits of the air, is, in
deed, humiliating.
Sir, we do not wish our children taugh
that bell can scare awdy the deua. w,
wish to teach American wives that thei
wives are their only yconfessors; American
children chat their fathers and mothers ar,
their only confessors. To correct thes,
evils we invoke public opinion, and pro
claim that we intend to practice party pro
scription. We ask no law; but give us
pure ballot boz,
| And let no native suppose that he ha
before him an easy task. The Roman
| Catholic Church has already acquired i'm
mense power in America. Their system
is, never to relinquish an inch of SOIL
They do not build log cabins to preach in
they make no perishable plank houses tt
preach in. They are not humble enough
for that. They leave that to the heretica
Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, ant
others. In their staggering pride, the,
forget that the fathers of the Church wer
FISHERMEN" and "tent-makers." Whel
they build an edifce, its foundation is lai,
deep in American soil, and its spires ris
high into the American heavens. The,
are already millionsl This cuemy is for
midable. Then let every man go to worl
let every Protestant be sentinel on tn
watch towers of liberty.
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