Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-03-29
M'oRAYn AaAIM.

En-. NKws: Last SundaNnight. contrary
10 my usual custom. I went TO hear Rev.
Mr.. McGrath lecture. I arrived just at
the opening Of his discourse. Tho Rever-
end gentlemsn's primitive remarks were
on the general diversity Of opinions-that
"H there Ia . variety Of compilations,
physiognomys .tempsraments and NATIONAL
titles. there must necessarily be . diversity
Of thought then he went on 70 state
about his being sent TO Carson a. q Meth
odist missionary. and hsw his family got
sick and his flock forsook him In the hour
Of distress, and would have starved but for
the helping hands Of '' infidels." Thought
TO myself, after the portrayal Of this heart
reuding picture, console yourself Most
Reverend Sir. for those wicked Carson
Methodists will surely have their part In
the "a lake Of fre and birthstone" Then
he took M "Observsr's" communication
and partially answered IL by emphatic de-
mails, and left IL partly unanswered a. I
have since learned on perusing II. One
part he attempted to justify. and that was
that "a the youth are educated perniciously
In the Roman Catholic Church 10 believe
that they can commit willfully any moral
wrong and DO completely absolved by the
priests. Is not that q pernicious education
Of the youth2 Here Is Harrington, the
condemned murderer. who, IL Is said, has
killed several men. has been taught from
HIS youth ND that no matter what crime or
tho number Of crimes he might commit.
the church, through Its priests, could ALB
.zl-- IL. ,u. all anil nj laaN aQnI him |
direct TO Heaven. Now. rs To the truth or
falsity Of this grave assertion. tho follow
ing extract from tho Manuals Of Catholic
Rsligion " will show:
The Roman Catholic Church does not
teach 10 tho youth nor TO adults that they
can with impunity recommit wiliul
crimes and DO absoivcd by priests. The
Catholic religion does teach and practice
that Its priests can absolve q truly penitent
by It's sacred rites, though II absolved, and
aitsrward knowingly commits thai which
he has promised to abstain from, he or
she 10 . hypocriio and further dissolution
10 invalid. Il
The Catholic religion does teach and
practice that, Though II performs all the
sacred rites within its power. 4 soul with
out sincere repentance can lind no favor
with God and IL e~tsrnally lost.
Then he spoke Of the atrocities committed
through religious ianaticism, commencing
with Inc Mountain Meadows Massacre. |
The Salem witchcrait, then st. Darthol-
omsw's MASSACRE, then the Spanish Inqui.
sition. then Germany's thirty years war. |
and is.tly. the Crusades. Now let us see
how much Of the misery, blood-sbedding
and atrocities committed In the name of
religion comparc with what has been lone
under tho preteIt Of State interests or
civil power. While in America We have
The Mountain Meadows Massacre and q
few victims OF tho Salem witchcraR per.
secution. ~ purely tho result Of religious
fanaticism. We look in turn upon the six
hunJrcd Thousand men sacrificed during |
o,r late four wears war IN civil interest, |
and the unsurpassed atrocities Of Port
Pillow. Andersonyille. Alamo and the slay.
;.a N Az ps,cc Indians. old and youpg. |
msle and female, indiseriminately. by the
ar,lers Of our "yaliant" General Shori- |
dan-tbo Thousands that we're slain during |
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