The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-07

To ReU. W. j. Shnea publisher, and Ber.
u. berger, editor, cf The Reii0ions 1elc-
scope.

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DAYTON, November g. 1866.
GENTLEMEN The writer of this letter is
sufficiently known TO you. lie has been in
your office to draw your attention to some
misstatements concerning his religion.
You promised to correct any mistake Of
which you wonld be convinced. Now
you have commenced new aggressions
against the Catholic Church. IIecomplain-
ed of them in private notes. The same adj
dresses you this open letter. You know
who he is.
Although through the medium of your
Telescope a man can rarely see any Of the
beauties and projections, which an eye
''not evil, but simple" (St. Matth. vi .,
23) perceivcs in the Catholic Church, you
have said once a good word Of the Visible
Head Of Christs Mystical Body. 1t was
this: The Pope knows not how soon he
will be without a place to lay his head
What a happy Pope that would be, with
cut a place to lay his headi" But lie would
not be the first thus made like to Christ,
who said "the foxes have holes, and the
birds of the air nests but the Sou of Man
hath not where TO lay his head.' (St.
Matth. viii, 2O) For having said that one
good word do not blame you. But why,
my friends, do You say, for one good word,
so many that are bad? Not to speak of
| talsehoods and contradictions, ! wish to
draw your attention to a fact of which you
are not, perhaps, aware. You ridtcule the
,oord Of Godi Nou ridicule the prayers OF
the Catholic Church the prayers of the
Catholic Church ara taken from the Bible I;
the Bible you and hold as the word of
God can't You sSe that you ridicule the
word Of God. when you ridicule the pray
ers OF the Catholic Church? And, indeed,
that corrupt body of religonists." az you
are pleased to call the Church, uses no
prayers that come from half crazy head,
or an unclean and hateful heart; but pray
ers dictated hy the Holy Ghost, taught by
the Son of God, said by the inhabitants of
Heaven, such as the Psalms, the Lords
Prayer, the Angels Salutations and Cantl-
ces, (St. Matth. vi, 9--l4; st. Luke |, 2S
and ii, II; Apoc. iv, 81 The prayer uni
Wersally said in the Catholic Church, not
only once on Wednesdays or Fridays, bue
manS times every day. by the Pope, bish-
ops and prieAts, and by men, women and
children ''of all nations, and tribes, and
peoples. and tongues, is the prayer which
Our Lord Jesus taught, when he said :
You shall pray In this manner: Our
fither, who art in heaven" This most per-
feet prayer, with the Angels Salutation, is
the one almost exclusively used by those
Catholics, who are not, as you say, "glut-
ted with wealth." but whose poverty or
oppression deprived them of the time and
meaI,s TO learn to read, without hinderng
them from learning to know God the Say-
ior. II Is Church aud the way TO heaven,
which y principally to "dcny ones self, take
up ones cross. and follow Jesus" Such
are the p rayers used in the Catholic Church; /;
and such You ri,licule!
You talk of "Roman Catholic aggres-
sion" What kind of aggression have you
ever receiv, a from any of the Catholic con-
gregatons dDayton, or from any Catholic
christian? Why. you sinners, is it not you
who are agg ressing US, without any provo
cation. misre presenting and mocklng what
we hold as m ost sacred?
But the Rol uish Church, you say, wants
Why, of cours e. That is her mission, ITO
go and teach al nations, And so You sre
thaty contra, iict yourself when you say,
''the Romish Ch urch makes ignorance the
mother of devoti J0." Certainly. the Cath
Ollie Church want 10 educate and christian
ize the poor negr, \ She desires his eternal
salvation. And ere Is the difference be-
tween you and hel :. She wishes to save the
poor mans immol ral soul. You wish to
gain his body. and to use him rs n tool to
kill the Catholics. Has not that been your
ungodly intention? ~ has you have told
me so yourself, throu sgh yOnr paper. WIN
you now abuse the Ca tholics for not having
Joined your party i'm fhe times of war?
They would have be an fools in doing so.
Why? Because they d ont love the Union?
Or, because they did'i 1t wish the negro
free? Oh no. They do fendly cherish tile
Union and pray that she may be preserved.
They also wished the nek tro free, and hoped
that they would mot be the mselYes enslaved.
Yet, they would have cen fools to join
fbui party DttduSt IL WAS NbuI lldflY
lesign to gain the black maj so as to kill
.he white. DO not misinteFpret my mean
ng, when | speak of such an evil design.
do not impute il to all the Union party.
There have been true and noble Union men.
Many Catholics stood on their side, fought
md died for She Union But still tits an
fact that there have been such
non who strove to win the uegro for the
9olish and ignoble purpose of throwing
nm into the way of the Cathol ic as a barto
stop the free exercise or the spread of his
'eligion,-a fact which has bten revealed
ly the Telescope itself
In last weeks number of your paper you
'ay, "treat all with Kindness" and In al
most the same breath you abusc the Cath
'lies. You brag of the Bible, and you
lardly ever speak of the Catholic Church,
without violating some of the first and
most important lessons taught in both The
Did and New Testaments. There are
,hings in the Bible that are no "heathen
1OW-NyONys or lu1ai 1inor carau,o,tos 3, I.,,t I