Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-02-24

Is your folTe-your "prcrogaiive.' a
Daniel has come TO Judgment yea a
Daniel
II. "The masses In this country
Acknowledges the power OF prayer, IN
theory or practice A very poor
compliment to said masses.
Isl "No law prohibits prayer then
no law was disobcyod consequently
no disobcdionce. Ergo education
must have been benefited by prayer.
Grand logic pretty like this; What
walks on two feet is a goose but man
walks on two feet, therefore man is
goose. asked, more than once, how
YOU knew that Goods bcncdiction'
would not be given for each individu
ais prayer on his own premises, al
well as for the heterogeneous piety OF
the Institute You have not "conde
scendcd" to reply as yet.
II. "No man, or society OF mon
dare assume TO control conscience
Except "thcse men of prayer" Rev
Messrs. Williams, Buckley, Gray
Guyer &c.
ID. Tho liberty of conscience of the
men in question, sanctioned by th'
Sainied Paul" No, sir; he, like his
Dipine Master, forced no one
l6. "He promised to answer my oh
iections." Yes, and l have kept my
promise. :.
II. "Christ founded the Catholic
| Church men made yours" What i
"unwarranted7 in this replyG Coul'
| say Christ made your creed ant
mine, then He would be the author o
contradictions "a blasphcmy. II
your "system," you dare not condemn
those who sar Christ is not God
therefore, if you say He made you
religion Protestantism-you maxi
Him the author of contradictions
blaspbemy.
You will not need, / hope, TO asl
again "why it is inconsistent for Cath
olics TO Join in any worship oxcep
their own !" nor will you he in hun
ry TO show their "inequality." Th
advice of an able and humorous Pro
testant paper in this connection,might
be safely followed by you, Rev. Sir
"The mere bug-bcar hue and cry !
found nowadays to dispose people i
fauor Of the Romanists, when they ar
actually proved, on acquaintance, L
be quito decent sort of persons
wearing shoes and stockings like tn
rest OF us, instead of h0gfs aud horns
and ready to argue, discuss, and Civ
reasons. '-( Gospel Messenger, Ep)
II is no wonder that many teacher
still think they have a right TO compC
Catholic children in the c0mmo
schools to listen to the reading of th
Protestant Bible, or TO their prayers
when men claiming 10 be Ministers o
God conspire with the State Superin
iendent to pervert the school laws
Rev. Mr.. W. attempted to palm on
perversion on the public, and he is 10
ashamed of it. "a large Bible part q
the apparatus of the school"-"thc Bi
Die as a text-book"-are two NOR
porversions found in Mr. Coburn'
: "Common School Laws Of Pa" pr
rs. SO. 81. and thisis the manual, ,th
gu.de, for school-directors, teachers
&c a most dangerous one, for ii len
even the learned Mr. w. into troubl
and disgrace. How cruel and ho'
bigoted this conspiracy is, any on
can know, when he remembers th
difference in religion and IN the vel
sions Of the Bible and that both vel
sions say he who adds to, or takt
from, the sacred volume, "his par
shall be taken from the Book of Life.
(Rev.. 22-1S. 49, Terrible respor
sibility.
Gods Law gives man "Free-will.
He who says the Constitutions (U. 5
and Pa are not framed in the sam
spirit, tutors "libel aud a lie" on GU
"Brave Fathers Legacy"
X. O'BRANIoAN, r. Z. p.
Feb. l3, 1862