The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-08-22
Bill Arp on Intolerance.

got batch of papers today, the
organ of the American Protective
Association-another party that some
political schemers have gotten up to
put down the Roman Catholics. |
don't want any more Sectarian pre-
iudice. It makes me sick. New Eng
land fanaticism was no worse than the
intolerance that possesses some of
the members of Christian churches
/ know Protestants who make them
selves miserable for fear the Roman
Catholics will take the country, and
some of them are nearly as bitter
against every other church.. and
would compass sea and land to make
proselyte. Contemptuous fiings are
made at other churches by those who
cali themselves Christians. Some
forty years ago when the elder Judge
Underwood joined the Episcopal
Church q cynical Baptist friend said
.Well, judge, I understand you have
joined the Episcopal Church. y
.Yes, = said the Judge "Got into
church that won't interfere with your
politics or your religion, y said
the Baptist, eyes," said the
judge" and you got into.
church where you thought the
doctrine of election would save you,
for you knew that nothing else
would. It is well, my friend, that
that election was held before you
were born for if it had to be held
over again you would never come
In"
don't know anything un.Christian
in modern Romanism. l don't be-
lieve in some of the dognas, but this
is land and an age of religious
liberty and thousands of good peo-
pie are Roman Catholics. Parents
are certainly conscientious in trying
to do what they think is best for their
children, and if a Roman Catholic
father wishes his children taught in
a school of that faith, it is his right
and privilege. If he wishes to do
homage to the Virgin Mary. let him
do it. The Romish Church is the
mother of all the churches. When
it got corrupt, and intolerant some
Of its adherents rebelled and formed
new societies and they grew and
prospered, and now their name is
legion The old mother Church was
sborn of her power and had to re-
form her methods, and is no longer
dictator Of kingdoms. No man can
make me fear the "secret insidious
machiaations,' - of the Romish Church
in this country while such men as
Pat Walsh belong to it. ! would
trust Pat Walsh with every interest
have in good government and the
religious liberty of my posterity.
Yes. trust him far sooner than many
of the bigots know in Protestant
churches. The Sisters Of Charity
took my mother when she was
friendless orphan in Savannah, when
the terrible scourge had carried her
parents to single grave, and the
panic-stricken people were fleeing the
doomed city They shielded her and
cared for her when no one else would,
aud she loved them all her life /
never see them in the great cities
moving so quietly along the streets
with their dark gowns and modest
hoods and kindly faces but what
think of their loving kindness to her
who was all the world to me.
We have one hundred aud fifty
beautifully bound hymn books in ou:
church that were presented by a
Northern lady. The book is the
staadard "Laudes Domini' by the
Presbyterian Church, and its hymns
are regarded as the best selection that
has ever been made, and yet many of
the most beautiful hymns were com.
posed by Roman Catholics John
Dryden the poet laureate of England,
has hymns there and he was Roman
Catholic, So was John Henry New
man, the cardinal who wrote that
beautiful hym. LEAD, Kindly Light"
F. w. Faber, who wrote, "There is
a wideness in Gods mercy" was
Catholic priest. Miss Adelaide
Proctor another Roman Catholic, has
hymns in this book. The whole
compilation should teach us charity
and tolerance While Watts and
the Wesleys have much the largest
number of. of hymns, the Presby-
terian authors are very few. The
Episcopal authors are the most
numerous of all. The Unita,ians are
well represented, having such noble
composers as William Cullen Bryant
and Mrs. Adams, who wrote Nearer
Nv God to Thee" Evans Alice and