The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-06-17
COMMUNICATION.
sMrCksBURG, INDIANA Co., PA, June 3. 1s7l

| Mr. EDITOR-You will perceive that am no
longer resident of Wilmore, Cambria county,
ana the delay of my friend i'll sending q
copy of your paper, and the fact that have
no no private messenger TO carry my communica-
Tor it appearing at such late date.
with regard TO this discussion, shall here
after ignore the existence of the youthful Mi
| lcsian, (as believe he has betaken himself to
blowing, which by the way, is q very honors-
Die occupation, and one at which / have
doubt he he is nore expert than at welding the
who is the real author of the COMMUNICATIONS
signed "Soltero,' first asking the Rev. gentle
man pardon for not giving him the honor at
-, Rey; SIR Permint me to say that your com
of your former ones, viz: the opening of new
| questions. You have made grand retrograde
movement, and got back again to the starting
| point singing the old sonnet, the chief note of
| which is, Miss Black is not the author of her
own Own communications" co % and closing with a ii
| Martin Lnther, and something more about per-
| proper time. Persecution is an exhaustless
theme. and as the Rev gentleman appears to
ing to it again, L shall devote my next commu-
nicot:on to that subject
! me whole OF your last article betrays an in
ward consciousness of defeat; yet you very
! kindly suggest that reUre from the contest,
ask pardon, ETC., in order to make it appear
| that am the yanquished party, when in real
| ity it is yourself, and the community will not
taii to comprehend the situation. For me to
! quit now might be very pleasing to you, but
/ your fond hopes cannot be realized, as we have
too many unsettled questions before But
| as you are already writing under the weight of
argument brought to bear on the questions in
| troduced by yourself, and which you have not
attempted to refute, shall be governed by the
generous spirit.
/ "'Tis cruelty to load fallen man.
Rev. sir, you charge me with losing sight of
! the subject, and that instead of defending the
9uestion hrst introduced, l am abusing the
Catholic Church. admit that we wandered
| far from the original question, but you led the
! way, and did not nor shall not cease to follow.
And as you have so bitterly assailed the Luther
an Church, which | consider the true Church of
Christ claim the same liberty to criticise the
! fallibility of the Catholic Church. You know
9o3 ene @
@ dhe Quotation: In my defence shall always
times even the truth is unpleasanti and if you
call ii abuse, tits no fault of mine, and would
most respectfully, Rev. Sir, ask you to remem-
Truth crushed to earth will rise again.
The reader will not fail to notice that every
leadl9g question 10 TINS controversy was intro
! duced by yourself, and that have remained
to do so as long life, liberty, and the grace
of God enables me to do so. In so doing shall
Jude, given to all Christians, to Contend earn
estly for the faith which was once delivered to
In your first letter you made a number Of
charges against me, all of which 1 answer clam
When this controversy began did not know
who "Soltero, was; consequently L was igno-
pousiy announced that he was Catholic and
Miesian, claiming very long ancestral line,
Patrick, and at the same time attacked Luther
anism, and introduced the question Of perSecu-
ton, which your letter of March 18th will show,
and from which 1 make the following extract,
Il am free to say that Atheism, bad as it is, is
no no worse IN many particulars than Luther
sickly, decrepid human institution, in which it
Let it be borne in mind that the first persecu
ten U2Tr in Ireland began in the days OF Henry
III, who tried to make US slaves, was a Lu-
Is It possible now, in the face of this testi-
mony, that you, Rev. sir, can summon sufficient
! q
Catholic Church.
! l shall now proceed to answer your three
questions: First, I acknowledged in my first
letter that read the Bible and prayed i'll school,
though meE yoa WeFe ON
one occasion the Lutheran minister called lust
for the day, and did ask him to pr pray va and if
! it had bsen:you, Rev. sir, should have extend
also told you that in this free land there is no
! law to prevent the reading of the Bible III
( school, or any where else, fOF which we thank
/ GOdD and where there is no law there is no
| law there IS no transgressiod. But positively
deny that ! ever attempted to explain the
| Scriptures or TO teach any religious tenets in
! school Third, where or in what manner did
! you prorc that am not the author of the
nunicatiOns that appear over my signature?
l have heard your Reverence breach, and about
| the only proof you ever bring to bear with
rare EXCEPTIONS upon question is, lis it so ?"
/ or rs it not so;' but assertion is not evidence,
/ and am compelled to say that you came just
/ about as near proving that am not the au-
| thor of any own communications. as you did
that the Catholic Church is the Church of Christ,
! and that the Lutheran Church is not Busacus,
| the jesuit. gives this advice to his disciples,
an advice which perhaps, it might have been
! well if your Reverence had needed. Although
! the question that the Catholic Church is the
| true Church of Christ, and that the Lutheran
Church is not, is not the polar star of your dis
! for you TO dwell upon, at the altar and else
where: | agree with you that there is but one
! do not believe that the Catholic Church is that
! church, and shall now proceed to give my
reasons for not so believing. The word of God
and history are the foundation for my convic-
tions. & The Bible says without holiness no no
| Church holy? The Popes of Rome the
| spiritual and temporal heads of the Church.
| They also claim TO be the Wears OF Christ
earth Have they lived holy and pious lives?
ted Schler to defend ItheP eP and 5 the nthGn
Church, you will certainly give credit to histo-
ownChurchand whose statements shall quote
| Castalier, the great Catholic leader i'll Spain,
cording to the Churchs own confession, Pope
! Callixtus was Labellian. For him there was
dwelt in the Son. Pope Liberia was a rian.
| The second person OF the Trinity was not in his
troyed grace and so. destroyed Christianity,
Pope Leo II ahathenlatized Pope Hoccurs;-
one OF his successors, dressed in political robes,
| tried in public. defended as Il criminal, and
three with which he used to bless the faithfully
and then to be thrown into The yellow waters
this alone sufficient to satisfy you that there
was no genuine holiness at the head OF your
| ChurchE But Will fnrther draw your atten-
tion to such Catholic historians as Thuanus,
Baranius, and Dupin. These historians inform
US that Theodore, q courteZan of noble family,
obtained supreme control of Rome-that she
| expelled the lawful Popes, and put violent and
nefarious men into the Papal chair-and that
Pope John was the lliegitimate son of Pope
Sergus III, and that he afterwards was made
Pope himself-Says that they were expostate
POpes and apostolical. He called the times
deplorable, and scandal overwhelming, and the
Church forgotten by God and that during the
lives of Popes Formous, Stephen VI, John TX,
Benedict ", &C., which for blood, debauch,
! murder, rapine, and manifold villainy, exceed
ed the worst days of heather Rome of Sergius
he says, This man is esteemed a monster, not
only for his ambition and the violent proceed
ings he guilty of, but on account OF his
| loose morals. He had an ilegitimate son that
| was made Pope as John the XI, and that this
John was monster. stephen vi was strangled
| Pope Alexander VI died August 18th, u5O5, by
poison which he had prepared for another, and
that Pope Alexander VI was, A ID. 1432, elect