The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-26

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the baptistries of the Baptist churches
for constant use. The masses are so
thoroughly impregnated with this
heresy that they cannot be led into
their Church any other way.
BURIED ALIVE AND BURNED.
These are the men who sent Alva
into the Netherlands with his edict,
the execution of which marks the
blacklist page in the history of the hui
man race. Alva took an army into
the Netherlands to suppress heresy.
He went into the cause of the Truth of
Christ he said. His supports sent him
with his plan. He was serving God.
This edict for the suppression of here
tics provided that all heretics should
be executed as follows: If they did
not persist in their errors they were
allowed the sweet privilege Of dying,
the men by the sword, and the women
to be buried alive. If they were OBJ
stmate and persisted, no such tender
mercy was to be shown, but they were
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property in each case was forfeited to
the crown. Amy who failed to betray
a suspected hereto, or furnished any
with food, fire, or clothing, were pun
ished in the same manner. The vilest
and most ignoble principle of human
nature was appealed to in the provision
that an lrfOTner, in case of conviction,
should be entitled to one-half the prop
erty of the accused. This was ordered
in the names Of the Holy Church Of
| Jesus Christ. Under this awful edict
Alva, in six years, executed Is, 1000
persons besides the unnumbered hosts
that fell in battle.
THE BOGUS MONK.
We submit this edict to the vaga-
bond bogus monk, Rev. J. L. Lyme, So
called Father Ignatus, 0. S. B. We
think it would be to his taste, especially
the clause providing that one-half the
proceeds shall go to the i~nforner.
| Here is a fair modern specimen of your
heresy hunter. He has stolen the
| livery of the church of Rome to start
in u Protestant world in the name of
| unity and cheap n~OtOriety. He is him
self in his own church a hereto of such
| fragrant proportions that his very ex-
| istence is tolerated as a half joke in the
| spirit of a broad charity. He uses this
| liberation as the occasion of selflauda-
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bodies of his fellow ministers by strik-
| ing them down as heretics and walking
upon them. He, the rankest and most
vicious hereto, tolerated in the Epis-
copal Church today, destroying the
faith of the supplemented folk he has
! deluded into his establishment in
! Wales, and yet posing as the sole
| champion of the orthodoxy of the age.
If this be orthodoxy, good Lord de-
liver us!
HOW TO SPREAD HERESY.
Suppose we agree that heresy should
be suppressed? How are you going to
suppress it? Will you cruelty the
hereto? That is what the Jewish
Sanhedrim did with Christ. And when
they lifted him up on the Cross behold
He drew all men unto Him. The way
to make Heber Newton a mighty
power is to run him down with your
bloodhounds and cruelty him, that
will give wings to his words and magic
to his name. Let the Presbyterians
hound Professor Briggs down now and
cruelty him. They will rally hundreds
and thousands around the standard he
has raised. In proportion as a cause
is prosecuted in unrighteous ways and
devilish methods it is given power.
The day for the thumbscrew, rack,
and torch is gone. The world is toe
far advanced to tolerate much longer
the spirit of the Dark Ages. If Chris
tianity cannot rise above, Christianity
is not worthy to live. Unless Chris
tianity does repudiate these men and
their methods, it cannot possibly stand
the blazing light of the coming TWEEN
tieth century.
GIVE WINGS TO THOUGHT.
Let the earnest, loving, thoughtful.
men and women in the rank and flee
Christianity rise and demand a free
pulpit for the prophets of God! These
men who would muzzle and throttle
the pulpit r in reality towards who
believe that they are vOicing the ma
iority of noses among the groundlings
If not they simply voice the Ignorance
and superstitions Of a dark past il
their demand for the crucifixion of the
hereto. Let human thought have