The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-22
HISLETTER.W AS LOADED
PASTOR THOMPSON, OF CHARLES
TON, STIRS Up a SENSATION.

hc Writes Il Communication DcnonncinG
the prntes:an!s who Tooil Part III the
Reception of cardinal Gibbons and tie
Cathedral Corner Stone Ceremonies
Some .Ncu " ho arc 3iad.
CHARLESTON, S. G., jar. Il = .he letter
published this morning from the Rev.
D.. Thompson, pastor Of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church, deuourcing The
| PTotcstants vino took q prominent part
IN the RECEPTION Of Cardinal Gibbons and
in the ceremonies Of the laying OF the
corner stcne Of the new cathedral has
created something OF a sensation.
The Catholic portion of the connuni
ty is disposed to look oa and view the
quarrel from afar. The most indignant
are TIE Protestant chuTchmcu who are
Denounced By Mr.. Thompson. Among
those who took g prominent part in Tie
reception of tie Cardinal aud the cere-
moues we're the Rev DR.. Smart. pastor |
OF Bethe! NJ. Z. Chrrah; the Rev. DR.. |
Levy, Rabbi OF the Jewish synagogue;
Mayer Bryan and Colonel II. E. Young, |
WardeDs OF ST. Michael's P. E. Church;
Judge Magrsth and Maj. J. c.. Hemp
hill, of tee News and Courier. both
members of DR.. Thompson's church;
Geo. W. Williams, the leading lay men,
Der of Trinity N. Z. Church, and Il dozen
Or iaore prominent aud leading members
Of otoer Protestant churches iu the city.
Many of these are mad.
DR.. Thompson's Letter.
The following is the letter referred to
in the above dispatch, printed n the
News and Courier OF yesterday:
To the Editor OF the News and Courier:
| have noticed the accounts given in
your columns # the visit of Cardinal
Gibbons to our city and to ihe ceremo-
MES attending tie laying OF the corner
stone Of the Roman Catholic Cathedral.
Your report of the citizens upon the
platform includes some prominent
Protestant laymen and one Protestant
minister
The presence of those Protestauts was
doubtless intended only as courtesy,
but it was noce--it was virtual ea-
dorsement of those proceedings and a
Coo speed to the gigantic ecclesiastical!
that conducted them.
l! is the BOAST Of that church that 1t is
the only church of God. The Cardinal |
said as much on yesterday. 1t brands
I'll Others as hcreucs. A former Bishop
If Charleston declared within thirty
years the Protestant heresy will come to
IA end" It claims for itself tenpora!
md spiritual supremacy 1t tolerates
those who differ from it only where it {
has not the power to enforce its claims. !
The Archbishop OF ST. Louis said: "Her-
esy and unbeliei are crimes, aud IL J
Christian countries, as in Italy and
Spain, for instance, and where the Cath
bic religion is an essential part OF the
aw OF the land, they are punished as
other crimes" The Catholic Review
says: "Pro.estanisn, of every form, has
rot, and never can have, any right !
whe:e Ca::l1o.:cits :s.iss1a ,sesz s4zt s,s,, =
It's spirit has undergone no chapgef
since those days when 1t gave its order
for and sang its ''Te Deum" over the
Wholesale. iudiscriminate slaughter of
helpless Protestauts.
It's fundamental principles are antag-
onistic to our government and its cher
shed Institutions
Its growth in this country meuaces
some OF our dearest rights and privileges.
Notes of warning nave come to US from
many Of the foremost statesmen eud
thinkers as to what we may expect
should it ever gain the ascendency, and
ret we have the spectacle OF Protestant
preachers and laymen, some of them the
descendants of Huguenots, gloEifging
aomish Cardinal and encouraging the
extension OF the spiritual despotism he
.epreserts. Had the circumstances been
:cversed Romanists would have been !
by their absence. e
contend that Protestants are sacri- +
icing their history, and are putting con- i
empt upon their martyr dead, and are a
,tultifyiDg their former testimony and :
.re sweeping the ground from under their '
eet as to mission work in Romish .
ands, and are imperilliog the future of {
heir country, By thus faToring Romish :
oretension and progress. '
". +. THOMPSON.