The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-30

be last His urgent call for authority and desper
ate hunger for historic lore makes IT absolutely obgatO
~ upon me-to nothing Of his delicate suggestions Of
ignorance aisehoOd Se-to try more to satisfy him
Heretofore fear in imitation Of preacher friends
have ranted and raved like any sucking dove " but
propose coming down business" Not that intend
seeking the Protestant for sueh holy expressions
as the Who're Of Babylon" the Scarlet Woman" Man
of Sin, Anti Christ" Seven Horned Dragon" &c.
propose simply to give the historic facts and let the read
er judge for himself who 'alses history have gone
to considerable trouble in accumulatng the necessary
works and am now prepared to give Veritas all the au-
thorty space viii admit Of Indeed am well supplied
iu this respect with both Protestant and Catholic authors
that feel much like the Irish gant-some thirty or
forty feet tall and big proportion-who attacked by
an ancient Tom Thumb. The dwarf charged away with
his little toasting for hour when the giant
happening to notice him. growled out:
Come little un, dry up that, will yezi Faix, the
first thing yez know yell gil sthept on
Come onr' howled the dwarf prancng and charging :
fits meself thatll chop yez into mncemate be jabers
At last the giant getting mad, exclaimed:
'Yez Iciu have it, thin We little odmahoun Well thin,
take and beblessed and with that he'll ont his big
foot and the presumptuous dwarf never heard Of
more.
Having no quarrel with the Catholic Church, would
have been content to let these world stories pass with
out bringing proof of their validity; but Veritas iriH
have it here foot the shape of ten or twelve
volumes boiled down to a column in the Chief.
IpropOse taking up ~ the facts he has denied
and bring reliable evis-- <kat tssy are true
THE CHRISTIAN RASAricIsM WAS LARGELY
TO BLAME FOR THE Loss ANCIENT LEARNING, &C.
Ruter in his History of the Christian Church,
"Theodosius commanded that all books antagonisc to
Chris tanty should be destroyed Also: Gregory the
Great although himself a voluminous writer destroyed
number of Pagan works among the rest the writ
ings of Lvy He also destoyedmany ancient monuments
and works Of art works often reminding the people
of a happier age and milder and more humane faith
Formey in his Ecclesiastical History, says From the
7h the 18th century, and much later the pries'
hood decried all learning. particularly among the aity
as both useless and detrimental to the soul In those ages
the library great King contained only few religious
homes tales of gaIlantry and knigterranry legends
of the saints &c. The sublime works of Greece and
Rome of Plato XenOcrates, Herodotus, XenophOn Ho
mer Virgil Horace, Tueydides. &c, were generally un-
known" 1t true the destruction of the Alexandrian
Library great loss to literature and history but
Egyptian darkness had already settled Chrisendom
Indeed this loss drop in the bucket compared
with the steady corrosive effects of Christian fanaticsm
through thousand years
ARAB HISTORY"
The Irish claim that glorious civilization rei2ned in
ireland long before Chrsts time According to Mooney
and other Irish historians the Irish highly enght
ened when all the of Europe sunk in the barbar
ism following the advent of the religious monomania
Great colleges magnificent palaces splendid Kngs-Ire-
land had them in plenty But strange fact in the 18th
century, Pope Adranone of those glorious defenders Of
liberty-respecers of peoples right to govern them
selves-issued bull commanding Henry IL, of England
to invade Ireland conquer and take possession of the
country and cvilize and ChidRize-Ob St Patrick -
its barbarous people, This bull issued without con
sulting single Irishman King, Prince people. Thus
to Pope of Rome ireland centuries of shame,
daor T,ap Dame nj ided Will ENGLAND
against Ireland until Henry VIII kicked Pope and priest
DOORS In the 18th century Froissat says the Irish
savages-'barbarous Kerns" OF all this boasted
glory and civilization n scrap leaf can now be pro-
duced 'yeritas at my Arabian enlightenment;
yet these of Allah have left behind them beautiful
system of archecure-MOorsh-th very alphabet used
by the Chief; innumerable works astronomy, mathe
matcs geography, history medicine and numerous pure
y literary works all of them far in advance of anything
Europe then capable of producing Which, most sl-
pient vertas is the most probable your Irish history
DR. my Arab hstOry?
IL. INFAMOUS CHARACTER OF SOME THE PoPEs.
have asserted that Ils ys guilty of poisoning
his guests. and that others were sad men:
Reuter- justly says: tis byho means to be held against
the Church of Rome that the long list of Popes
them elected by intrigue should prove of ina-
nous character
Tmotheus after ha, his predecessor murdered and
his body into the fire got elected head of the Church
by creeping around in the dark and pretending 10 be
angel r'-Reutcr's History Of the Church.
Innocent Y, to ignorance united the most shameless
prohigacy and the dupe of a cunning woman, with
whom he lived in infamous commerce. although the wild
ow of his brother"-TrTe's History Of the Church Hos
helm, de-
Samprier in his Universal Biography-an impartial
of ROderie Borga This the strong
IL reminding the dyspeptc vertas of the three black
Whether they the crows mentioned in that