The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-15
FATHER GAVAZZI.
His Appearance and Lecture on
Sunday Evening.

Sunday Evening.
FL The lecture of this celebrated pa
0 ltriot was listened to by crowded
e audience in the Methodist Church,
!, on Sundayeyening. The lecturer is a
! tall, large-built man, three score and
r thirteen years of age, as he stated it,
! full of Yigor, earnest in his appeals
) flor his people, and imbued with a
full hatred to Popery-anywhsre
and everywhere. His long white
hair hung down on his shoulders;
his face is large, cold and unexpres-
! Isive when not talking; his voice
, deep and powerful, with a strong
Italian accent.
After prayer by DR.. Thompson,
and being introduced by Rev. w.
N. BarroWs, the lecturer sprang i'm
mediately into the subject of the
reformation of Italy. He did not
dwell upon the part taken by him in
the revolution in LOmbardy, nor his
popularity in Venice or his eXpul-
lsiOn from Florence, but glanced at
the history he had been prominent
in making in connection with Joseph
Garibaldi, his copatriot, when prin-
cipalities were added to the Italian
kingdom and liberty of speech was
acquired forthe Italians. He stated
that he was not a reformer of the
Popish Church, but an evangelizer.
Said the lecturer, when the finger or
the arm is poisoned and gangrened
the surgeon can amputate it and
save the body; but when the whole
body is gangrened no chopping or
reformation can save it, and the I'M |
dertaker is the only one to handle |
it. So with the Romish Church: it |
is gangrened from head to foot; he |
wished to be the undertaken.
The Free Church in Italy in 1870 |
numbered only twenty three |
churches and places of worship, now
it has over seventy; Sunday schools |
and day schools were established |
and normal school and theological
seminary existed in Rome. Native
teachers and ministers were prefer
able and more effective among |
Italians than American, English or
Scotch advocates of the faith. The |
Free Church was built upon the
teachings Of st. Paul to the Romans,
which, the lecturer said, the Romans
claimed as their Gown epistle," and in
confronting Papists on the errors of
their church, he asked if the title of
the Pope, the worship of images or
the Virgin Mary, the doctrine OF.
MISREPRESENTATION, the counting of
the roSarieS, the mass service, the
purchase of the souls after death by
money paid to the priests, were
commanded by st. Paul in the epistle
to the Romans Il If not, it was not a
doctrine of the Church of Christ,
whose great apostle ST. Paul was.
The building occupied by the col
legians in Rome is so closely adj
joining the Vatican, that when at
home and at his studies, GaYaZzi
could look up from his desk and
through his window see Pope Leo
at his studies in his chamber; thus
he could continuously face the mon
ster, whether lecturing to the multi
tude abroad or writing his epistleS
at home. He made the "lion" roar
and issue encyclical letters against
the Free Church" and he wished
to make him roar still louder, for
then he had evidence that Leo was
disturbed. The cardinals and the
priests had prosecuted his (GavaZ-
zi's) fellow believers, in the many
ways in their power, but no cardi-
nal could OYerturn the love for
Jesus which sprung up in the hearts
of true believers. In Italy, the
evangelical church was successful
in weaving the children of PapiSt
parents, by the means of schools,
from the church of their fathers,
and he was sorry to see in America
the Roman Catholics were seducing
the children of Protestant parents
by the means of the schools, and
planting in their minds the seeds of
The lecturer denounced
all such parents as assassins of the
welfare of their children, and stated
that the sisters of Mercy" sent on
this mission business were the
cream of the Catholic Church, while
the masses were debaSed, kept in
ignorance and the serfs of the JeS-
UitS, priests or friars.
The Free Church in Italy wants
help. Their local expenses keep
them from spending much means in
propagandism, and they had de-
sire to eYangeliZe the whole of Italy.
Their church was not wholly based
on Presbyterlanism, Congregational
ism or MethOdism, but had some
of the dOgmas of each in its organi-
ZatiOn it was composed In organi-
cations of elders, pastors and dea-
cons. The lecturer wound up in an
appeal to the liberalism of Ameri-
cans to liberate from ROmish serf-
dom the children of those people
where the first church of Christ was
The noticeable feature of the
evening was the gestures of the lee
turer, which were very prolific,
being natural to the impulsive
Italian, though to the attendant at
American lectures, they almost bOr-
dered on the ludicrous. The audi
ence was enrapped during the
lecture, which was long, and at the
close responded literally to the call
for the almighty dollar. 1t was evil
dent to all that, in the earlier days
of the orator, he was a power to be
feared by opponents and is now full
of zeal and fire that can maintain
the mastery over a large concOurse
of people.
AN UNPlUAIIFn uAIP nnEScINe