The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-12
CHURCH OF ROME ATTACKED
This Time 1t Is a Baptist Minister Who
Seeks to Overthrow Catholicism.
Things Rev. Whitney Objects To in It's Creed
and Practice-Rev. Dir. Daniels Adj
yocates Bellamyism.

The Rev. A. B. Whitney. of the South
street Baptist Church.. last night preached
the fourth of q series of sermons on The
Gospel Compared with Five Great Isms."
The subject of the discourse last night was
"Romanism." which was cdlled the "Rslig-
ion of the natural heart" The text was:
Jer. xvii, 9-The heart Is deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked. Who can know
1T
Mr.. Whitney noticed the spread of Ca
tholicism throughout the length and
breadth of the world and its claims OF
priority over other denomin atoms. sects or
reiigions. 1T has spread" he said. over
the entire earth, and, with Rome as q Gen.
ter. it claims the entire earth. Its Mission
airy Propaganda Society at Rome Is n tro-
meDdous machine, and the church claims
upward OF two hundred million ad-
herents to it's doctrine. l do not intend to-
night to assail these adherents TO
the precepts and teachings of Rome.
l have nothing but love for every sincere
follower of their teachings. l will only
endeavor to bring their theories under the
light of the gospel. hold Romanism to the
light of the New Testament" The sermon
was divioed into three main topics. CON-
sidcring what he called the ambition. the
receptions and the substitution of the
Church of Rome. Under the first main
topic Mr.. Whitney said the church coveted
wealth. power and was intOlerant and an
taaonistic to all that stood in the way of
Its attainment of these. Jesus was poor
for our sake" said the pastor. THE
Romanists Affect poverty In imitation
of His example. but l will quote from
Dr. McGlynn to the effect that Pope Leo
| Xii was worth 500, 00O, 900. From the
same authority we learn that the Jesuits
arc bound by q VOW of poverty, yet when
the order was abolished by one of the
Popes they bad property valued at $780,
0O0,OO0."
On the second sub-head. under the first
main division. he quoted the passage
wherein Christ declares that His kingdom
Is not of this world. and read from
O paper q portion OF o sermon. de-
livered by q Detroit priest. in which
he instructed his practitioners as to
the tickets they should vote at the election
then Gear at gave them as %instruc-
the conclusion that this was contrary to
the teachings of Christ in the new Testa-
ment and that the Catholic Church was
guilty Of an unwarranted assumption of
civil power.
Under the second main division, he OBJ
jected to the church's assumption
OF authority to grant indulgences. to
the doctrine of the Jesuits. the
infalhbility of the Pope, his claim TO being
the successor of Peter. the claim of the
church that he Is the supreme civil and
ecclesiastical ruler of the earth. aud that
there is no salvation outside of their
church. He also objected to their theory
In holding baptism to be q sacrament. and
upheld the Baptist doctrine on this point
that it follows and Is not concurrent with
Whitney read extracts from the Catholic
catechism and commented upon their pur-
port.
On the last main topic he touched lightly
upon the su INSTITUTIONS. He claimed the
church bad made Innovations upon the re-
ligloD 8s taught by the Bible. He main
tanned that the text. confess your sins to
one another" did not contain authority
for the institution of the confessional. that
the doctrine of absolution by the priest
was contrary to the word of God. In con-
clusion he spoke briefly of their acceptance
of tradition as auxiliary to the Bible anda
part of the word of God.
Says Nationaiism Is the Thing. ne
The Rev. f. ID. Daniels read a paper yes
terday afternoon before the Progress Club.
in the Mansur Block, entitled "Plutocracy,
Its Occasion. Excuses and Remedy" The
Progress Club is one composed of laboring
men who meet every Sunday afternoon,
listen to q paper or argument that looks
into the labor problem, or any other social
question OF the times. and discusses the
same in five-minute speeches afterward.
The paper read yesterday was one of con-
siderable length. and began with data con-
corning the milliOnaires of the country.
their number. and the wealth acquired by
them. together with their means of secnr-
Ing fortune and controlling governmental
affairs.
Great wealth. Mr.. Daniels said. was O
result of the present social system. The
characters of the wealthy could not and
should not be assailed as had that of the
the wealthy had been better so than If
the control had reverted to the laboring
classes. The working people were not as
yet sufficiently educated to use great
MA 49,
great wealth should fall to the possession
of any one individual. The trouble was
not with Jay Gould, but with Gonldism.
and by q discreet use of the ballot Could
Ism could be destroyed. I'VE admit" saId
Mr.. Daniels. that many of the wor king
Glasses are extray8gant, incorporate and
vicious; still this enormous capital held by
some makes 1t still harder for them TO have
the necessaries Of life. So long as O few
have such q colossal, surplus. the many
must be in dire want" The paper ran on
and on, treating the enterprising money
getters of the age roughly and without
gloves. 1t was no longer necessary for q
few to possess great capital. because the
country had been developed already by its
free use, and it was high time they give
over to the government the things which
had civilized the wildeTnesses. and the
powers that had spread colonization. No
man had q right to be a millionaire. The
present regime was referred TO as an eco
uomicsl anarchy whose greatest effort had
been the development of plutocracy.
The remedy was not to be found IN
strikes and boyootts, yet the last-named
disturbances had been good by way of fer
mentlng conditions that might lead to ma
tIonalism. Single tax was not the remedy;
anarchy was not quite the thing. A man
had a right to be rewarded according to his
position in the community and his serv-
ices, and TO bequeath the product of his
life to bis posterity. Beyond this there
was little left that should be desired by the
man of the coming regeneration. At
last. as the ulrimatum of all good,
every service should be mad national.
Railroads were no better than mail mat
tiers. Telegraph service. boot and shoe
business-in fact everything should be in
the hands of the government. A man
should work a day and receive a certificate
demanding the value of his services in
transportation, merchandise. ETC., for his
pay; and so the glittering bubble of ma
tionalism was blown out To its full size
and hunR ethereal before the club-"a
thing of beauty and q joy forever" All eyes
were turned In the direction of q time
when money would no longer be needed,
and when bread wonld grow on trees. The
paper was. all considered. a pleasant oplate
for O dull sabbath Afternoon, perhap DIS.
with as little in it of the practical or
logical as could not be dispensed with.
NAPOLEON's MOTHER.
She Had q Queer Way of Constantly Prac-