The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-04-02
The Voice of History.

The London Quarterly, in reviewing a recent
publication, has the following deliberate statement
in regard to the teachings of history in connection
with the Romish ChurcE:
THE last remark we have to make is one which
constantly presses itself on the historian mind.
but which political leaders and writer's in our coun-
try seem if they could not possibly realize or lay
to heart. 1t is forced upon our attention in nearly
every page of this volume. 1t is this: That the
Catholics, wherever they are numerous and DOW
erfo In a Protestant nation, compel, as it we're by
law of their being, that nation to treat them
with stern repression and control. The very es-
sence and primary doctrine Of the Romish Church
involve undying and unavailable pretensons, which
are incompatible with the freedom or the equal
rights OF the rest OF the community. The expert
ment has been tried many times and in many coun.
tries, and always with the same result. Even in
this age it is still the crux of the strong Empire OF
Germany, OF the new Kingdom Of Italy of the
critically placed and much-mentioned State of Bel
GUM. Catholicism, II 1t be true to itself and to
its mission, cannot allow State, mixed or secular.
education 10 It's HJcks; cannot permit free voting
TO a Catholic electorate; cannot tolerate that its
votaIies should prefer the welfare OF their country
to the interests OF their Church-the good OF Ire.
land to the sway OF Rome; cannot allow the con.
gregations OF the faithful 10 think or act for them
selves III MhtteIS Vi tue greatest Importance TO
human progress; cannot, wherever and whenever
the opportunity Is afforded 1t, abstain from claim
ing, working for, ana grasping that supremacy and
paramount Influence aud control which it consclen-
tiousy believes 10 be its iLalienabe and universal
duo. By the force OF circumstances, by the mex.
orable logic of It's claims, 1t must be the intestine
foe or the disturbing element of every State 10
which it does not bear Swsy--and from the posi-
ton which the Romish Church has always held
aud recently avowed with more decision and max
edness than usual, Of direct enmity to the chief
agencies and achievements of modern civilization
and progress, 1t must now stand out in the esti
mate of all Professionals and thinkers the hosts
hunaani generiS (the enemy of the human race) it
has been Tor many centuries"
THE Katholische VoltSzatuRg. of Baltimore.
said lately that when the Catholics became the
ruling party here. they would make short process
with the rascally Office holders To this the Chris
Itch BeoJactter remarks: Well, then, the Ro.
manists Of New York will perhaps refund to the
plunder tax payers the millions which the rogues
OF New York have paid them to secure the votes
of the Irish Catholics, in order to remain longer in
office and be able to steal more. A glorious pros
pect The good BeobGchter seems in its sanguine
expectations to forget entirely, that when the only
saving Church receives anything from rogues the
money becomes sacred Church property, and the
Patrimonium Petri. To ask such property to be
restored is a sacrilege, which the Church OF Rome
threatens with the heaviest penalties. '-Luth-
erQner