The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-05-06
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q small IN your paper tAIS week. ana
/ VIII euGeaVor to be as i,rief Rs possible. As
''Soljcro' has indeIicateiy referred 70 legs OF
me V hen cav fhaE his last article very forcibIy
reminds Of the Irishruau's definition % no.
thlDE-'a fcOJics5 stocking without any lGg.'
!tls entire communication was a bundle OF as
serdons unsupported by either proof or argu-
ment; and may here say that am prepared
to prove from history eyery assertion have or
shall make. Without proof assertions amount
aud mot easily bridged over" L quoted ST
Jerome as historian without claiming to sail
in the same Sbip;' and SS ''S0iterO' knows that
am Lutheran, consider it an insult FOR him
TO ask me whether am in union with anything
so corrupt as the Popes of Rome. For his ben
ent, however VIII quote httle scrapoi hlsJo-
ry, first informing him that there were two
ban vi and Clement VII These rival Popes
hurled anathemas against eoch other. ExcoItI-
tion, land both preparedipiles to burn the parti-
zans OF the other rs heretcs. There We're now
lares and some of the Italian cities supported
Gregory the kings of Scotland and Spain ad-
hered to Benedict; while Alexander was recog-
uized b. the rest OF Christendom.' Can ''Soltc-
ro" inform your correspondent which of these
uine successor of St. Peter aud Vicar of Christ
on earth? Which ono of them would ''Soltero"
safety? [ presume there would be no danger
with either in regard to water, but III the mat
ter of fire could not be 50 sure.
/ again insist that George III of England was
not "a Lutheran, and L challenge ''SOitero'' to
from the English throne?
''soltero" grows eloquent in describing the
Catholics If Lutherans resorted to the s;n!e
means to extort money from the people that
Catholics have, every hill-topn the land might
to-day be crowned with ediice that would
rival the Egyptian pyramids. Had Tetze
with organized Dominican corps to travel
the world over and sell indulgences for the re-
mission OF sins to say nothing of the enormous
revenue the Church derives from praying for
the dead and releasing souls from purgatory,
indeed the eXpcdents the Catholic Church re-
sorts to in order TO obtSin money from IT'S ad-
herents would do credit TO 8 tinancier OF Wall
"SoItero" boasts that the Catholic Church is
the only true Church OF Christ, and that prior
to the time of Martin Luther there was no other
Church. On this point | will quote another
scrap of history, and for ''Sotero's" benefit in
brRced period of about one thousand years
from the NTH to the fifteenth centuries~and is
styled the dark ages: In these dark and
miserable times the human mind was debased
and neglected; books were extremely scarce
and were procured only ut immense price,
the cost OF single volume being equal to that
Wholly Unedncayed, While manV peopie ~fre h
highest ranks and in the most important sta
existed was confined to ecclesiastics and monks,
yet many priests did not understand the service
bishops had lever seen n copv of the IibIe 9 t,,E
ing their lives, The state Of morals both among
the iaity and clergy was exceedingly low, and
Christianity had lost most OF its original excel
lence and was corrupted into Il degrading
perstitiOn." Now, If the Church of Rome was
the only Church in existence at that time, is it
not responsible for the state OF morals preva-
lent in the ages referred to and yet .Soltero''
at a discount in the United States
had no existence prior to the Reformstion or
tho discovery of America. Lutheranism IS as
was and never viii be time when Christ viii
not have a people on earth: THE proof of this
growing lengthy and l do not wish to trespass
too much on your valuable space.]
Ny adversary impertlnently asserts that Lu-
ther and his follow ers have yet the first pagan
nation to convert to Christianity. L have al
ready referred in this article to the dark ages
of world. and L will '-SplrarO''
by Informing him that the Reformation WAS
tho sun whose glorious dawning broke in upon
and rolled away the dark clouds of ignorance,
crime and superstition in which Europe was en-
VeIopcd aud if Luther did moi convert nations
from paganisn, he did better work By saving
them from worse than paganiSm. Let refer
TO the map OF Europe as IL was i'll 1859 and see
how many governments were converted from
worse than heather idoIatry. Here they are:
" Weimar Eisenach, SAKE Altenburg, SAKE Co.
burg Schwerin, Denmark ffesse CasseI Prns-
STA, Mecklenburg Strebitz, Schaumburg Lippc,
Hanover, NaldSck, SchwaTZ5Urg RudOiStsGt,
Schwarzburg SCudersh, Reus Elder Line. RcIis
Younger Line, l. nhalt Dtssau, Lippe Detmold,
Belgium, HeSse Darmstadt, sweden and Nor
way, Greece, Oldenburg, Switzerland. Bruins
wick, Wurtemburg and Holland-somc thirty
governments III Europe alone which have
Uou7Ced modern t,aurillislu and have accented
the.gUSpei, the true word OF God, and in ali OF
which the doctrine taught by Luther is the spir-
itu&! element. l may also state that the con-
version of these nations was brought about by
allowing the people to possess ana read the BIZ
bic, ana by tue preaching OF the gospel in It's
mandates OF Charlenagne. who forced his
subjects to either EN- brace faith they despised,
or be sold into slavery or suffer death. L would
further remark, that in neither of those gov
eruments does absolute monarchy prevail,
al. OF them being either republican in form
EmiIed mOnarchics, while in each of them civil
aud religious liberty prevails. With regard to
science ana literatu in the Lutheran countries
To which | have referred, L would respectfully
request -'SClUero" TO ask Catholic Austria and
France, and they, presume, give him the
desired information The law that protects the
Lutheran also protects the Catholic. No Cali
~ IS te1ChIG5V n
correct system of astronomy. No Martara child
is kidnapped from its parents and conceAlcd be-
cause d Catholic servant girl hasibaptz0d il and
forced it to accept or believe Il 1aItn different
from that OF its parents But the power that
brought about these unjust transactions has
y;tncd. 1t never was sustained 10y Lutheran
Hesse Cessel princes. but by American gold and
by French peasants slaves sent there by the
shining eght that has recently eliminated at
'.Soltero'' refers to the blue laws Of New Eng
land and the penal laws of Great britain. l
and il those laws were odiCus Lutherans were
not responsible, for they never held the relns
OF power in either Old or New England. He
might with equal proprety refer me TO tue cru
cities practccd by the Spanish 1nquISltton, or
tn the fires that consumed q Huss a Cranmer,
and a Rogers Until 'Soitero" proves that Lli-
therans did persecute and that Catholics did
not, will; for his sake drop this part Of & the
him to produce the evidence, may deem II
worth while to continue the controversy IL that
Martin Luther, like other men, had his faults,
and no doubt committed errors, but rs the his
torian truly remarks, ave have no right to ex
pect that Luther, engaged as he was ia u strug-
gle for life death, should display the Inoder-
alton of IA modern controversialist; nor should
we look for the intelligence of the nineteenth
century at the beginning of the sixteenth Re-
mem berinE the school in which he was educa-
ted, il is reasonable to believe that many monk
ish absurditics must long have been percepubie
in his words and actions; need not therefore
deny that he was sometimes wronS-We need
not disguise or pallate his errors-for the cause
which he promoted depends not on the charac-
ter of him any other person..
In conclusion, eInphatically declare that no
minister has prepared, even assisted me TO
compose prepare, my communications. Can
''SCltero" say as muchf MAGGIE BLACK.
LOOK wITHIN.-The ancient Greeks used to
have maxim, know thyself." The proper
study of mankind is man. Look within. Go To
John ]. Murphy's store and look within, and
you will see sight worth seeing. Look within
at the old Mansion II louise C orner, just under the
Thousand strings, look within. Dry goods,