The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-08-23
mo. Al.

unbridled excess of libertinage on the
very steps Of the altar. Luther says:
Priests, monks and nuns quarrel and
thwart and wage war with each other, :
: they altogether do the devils work"
But this Ia from the past ages, what Of
the present. 1t 10 said the church has
become purer and better. II 90, why?
She had full sway then. II che holds and
has held to that only which 10 pure and
good why was 1t not practiced then and
the debauchery stoppeds Now that che
Is influenced by purer and better chris
tianity from without not from within,
she is compelled to either quit these
abominable practices or hide them away
m professed holy seclusion. Which il it.
The sentiment is very general that the
latter is true, and what few DEVELOPMENTS
have been made prove this sentiment to
be correct. / give only one instance,
quoted from letter Of Rev. w. d. Powell,
d. D., in the Western Recorder, March,
1890, OF things he saw in the City OF
MEXICO. He says: I'm the national
Museum we saw in glass cases the bodies
of women and children which had been re-
moved from the walls Of Jesuit convent,
after it had been confiscated, and was
being reflted for school purposes. Under
one hoor OF q convent OF sisters OF charity,
the bodies of two hundred dead infants
were foundw Surely the Mexican govern
ment was full justified in in closing them
as "dens Of iniquity," and banishing the
inmates from the country. It IL terrible
to think that in the United States some
thoughtless Baptists land will add Pro-
testants) send their daughters to these
same institutions, while some of the teach-
ers are doubtless the same prostitutes who
were exiled from Mexico. Had I the
power, with Dixon's fire and DR.. Nc
Donald's charity, would sound the key
note Of alarm In the ear of every true
American citizen.
What has all of this to do with tho
Catholic church being the greatest curse
in Louisiana? Only this, il her doctrines
should prevail here in the United States
as they have in past ages, and do in Italy,
Spain and Mexico, the invariable result
would be to make us what the SECULAR
press sneeringly tells us was the ignorance
and superstitions OF the dark ages; and
what the above named countries are to-
day because it has undisputed sway!
The sooner the people OF this country
and State awake to their danger, and
use the God1given means Of fact, argu-
ment, reason and persuasion, entreaty
and enlightenment, using them kindly
yet firmly, to avert these pending calami-
ties, the better win it be Tor them, their
poeterity and their country.
Thus ! have shown that il the Catholic
church had its way-snd it never looses
sight Of the fact that this is what Il Is TO
fair State, onr education
al institutions, our holy Sabbath, our
habits, our morality, our vir-
tue, our political and religious liberty,
would all soon be wrecked. The proof Of
has been brief, but il has been
nor have !, Tor want Of space,
presented 1.-THE Of the proof have on
hand. / hope all will receive what has
been said by me in the same kindly spirit
L has been written, and for the same pur-
pose, which Is to fnd, embrace and per-
petuate the truth as it is for our good in
lime and eternity. A reply to Mr.. Rhorer
and Prosaic Protestant has been sent.
put has not appeared in the paper.
OLD CRUyrY.