The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-04-22
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, APRIL 22, 1874.

Enghshmen and Americans-men
whose very instincts ought to have
told them better-aiding the Gun
ming Jesuit in promulgating a de-
cree, the tendency of which is tc
subvert all liberty, whether civil o,
religious, we had a feeling very
much akin to that which must have
agltated the breasts of the comrades
of Arnold when they first learned
his treachery.
Another essential doctrine of Po
perry IS the supremacy of the Pope
which means that the Bishop o.
Rome has power and jurisdiction
over all Christians.
The Church Of Rome also anathe
matizes all who deny the doctrine
of merits, which is, that the good
works of justified persons are in
themselves meritorious, and deser
wing Of eternal life. The Papists
distinguish between venial and NOR
tai sin: the first to be expiated by
the pains of purgatory, while the
second they regard as unpardona
bic, unless confessed to 8 priest
and the penance which he imposes
be performed for them.
The celibacy Of the clergy is ano
ther article which has been authori
tatively enjoined by the Church Of
Rome since about the year 1914.
Again it was decreed by the com.
Gil of Trent that ';all bishops and
pastors do diligently instruct then
d focks that it is good and profitable
to desire the intercession of saints
reigning with Christ in Heaven"
Lastly, the Church of Rome
! maintains that unwritten traditions
ought to be added to the Scriptures
in order to supply what defect:
they may contain, and, of course, K
be regarded as of equal authority.
Protestants and Romanists ar
again separated as wide as the poles
by the Spirit which animates each
Professionalism desires to extend it:
empire only by moral OF spritua
forces: Romanism has ever sought
and still seeks, to advance it's inter
ests by any and all means at it
command. The spirit of persecu
ton has been the spirit of Papa
Rome since it's rise to the presen
time.
For the accomplishment of it.
l:tt:nds, it has employed the power O.
'tlsings, the cruel sword of the mer
;enary, the dagger of the assassin
'',he cup of the poisoner, the axe ani
"Saggot Of the executioner, and al
& i;he hell-contrived machinery of TIN
y, .nquisition. Is this church still
Nominated by the same spirit? LIE
y ;;he following speech made not long
easince by Bishop Martin, Of Pander
lom, answer: II am Bishop not on
=, y of the Catholics, but also ovel
19he Protestants of my diocese. Tht
Catholic Church has the right tx
rllslt with the severest corporal pun
~ shment the Christians who trans
,,ress the Catholic laws, namely, The
+ }chismatics and heretics, that is tx
3 ay, the Greeks and Protestants
1cyor the Church is a spiritual but al
ano an earthly kingdom" In thu
C Wace of this declaration (and there
'et're many others Of similar import,
very sane man must believe that
III # it had the power, the Catholic
Church to-day would visit with thu
'severest corporal punishment al
who dissent from it's teaching; ant
that the revolving scenes of the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries
would be reenacted in the nine
teenth.
Although the genius of Protest
antism opposes it's making conquest
by other than spiritual weapons, ye
there is, Of necessity, political q.
well as moral side to this conquest
And although the day has long
past when the governments O
Christendom make treaties and DO
litical alliances based upon consid
erations for the interest of any par
ticular church poGty, yet it will as
sist us in arriving at an accurate es
innate of the success of Protestant
ism to contrast the political powes
of Protestant with that of Catholi,
nations.
At the present day there are bu
three great European powers; two
of which, England and Prussia, arr
Protestant, while the third, Russia
adheres to the Greek faith. O
these three powers, England is still
first; Austria since Sadorva, ant
France since Sedan have ceased tx
be what they were before. On th,
continent of Europe, Prussia ant
Russia are the only aggressive DOW