The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-01
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CAREY, o., Sept. %, 1S7

CAREY, o., Sept. %, 1875.
EDS. JEFF: Having for some time
been desirous of knowing something of
the exact performance of Roman Catho
lie services, determined, on the second
day of the present month, that l would
attend their services in this place, and
by so doing add as much as possible to
my sufficiently limited knowledge of
Catholic Ways.
Of the services proper do not desire
to speak at this time, as l wish to pass
to scene which succeeded dismissal of
the audience. / refer to the reciting of
the CatechisTn by the children. They
were from four to twelve years of agr.
They missed the first question these
We're given in English) upon which the
Good Father said: IF you don't learn
your lesson, you might just as We'll 90 TO
Protestant Churches" " As Ia, spoke these
words he assumed look and tone
which intimated that he meant they
the hour, he was urging tine children to go
often To Confession, and "a. a persuasive
argument he said: Don't be afraid,
for what you confess To me will never be
known, not even in tire day of Judgment.
He said, il one of them would confess to
him that he had killed man, and lie
(the priest should be taken before the
court as Il witness III the case he would
say that he knew nothing about the mat
ter, and because as God he had heard
the confession, but as man was a wit
ness. l had thought that the day of
miracles was past, but it does seem that
GOO is still giving. dumb. asses power to
speak. l longed to have word with
those poor deluded little children; that
| might warn them of the dreadful de-
lusions of him whom they had learned
to call ''Good Father" He was teaching
them that to lie is right.
The scene recalled the sympathy
which l used to have for the colored
people of the South previous to 1868.
Here, not only the body was in custody,
but even those higher capabilities of the
Caucasian mind, were bound in chains.
More than ever thanked God for liber-
ty OF thought and action. While in this
train of Thought l could but wonder with
myself whether our Schools would ever
be in the hands of such men. God for
bid it. Yet they demand this. They are
not satisfied that we let them alone. l
suppose if it had been possible tor the
devil to be satisfied with justice and
right, lie would be yet in heaven.
Hence we may as well prepare to meet
their demands with decided No" The
German Lutheran minister of this place,
recently said to a. friend of the public
schools, "the Catholics are making an
attempt to overthrow the schools, and
we are going to join with them and see
that ii. is done" did not. inquire as to
which political party lie belongs, but
such..a man ought not to have a vote in
this Republic, nor should he enjoy its
privileges. The man, or the political
party that seeks the support of the Cath
olics, lis tile enemy of the public schools,
and hence the most deadly enemy of this
Republic. In view then, of the fact, that
even Catholics are not the only enemies
who propose to attack our cherished
schools, do hope that every Christian
voter, will be awake to his own interests,
and to the interests of his posterity, and
vote down a man, a set of men, party
that will give them countenance and aid.
JOHN PoR.