Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-12
Rrv. GEO. ?. aupoEfH.
Delivers a Lecture 70 an Immense
Audience.

up from the crowded house. The
speaker, Ex.Priest Rudolph. was In
troduced and received with more APP
plsuse, as one who would address
them on "Romanism, the great foe Of
American Institutions" He charged
that foreign pOtentate was seeking to
subvert this government and set up
the papal power to rule oyer Ameri-
can liberty.
Peter was the disciple who set in mo.
ton the great machine Of popery. In
325 Constantine set up the first state
church. He was a politician and
wanted the help of the church to put
down his enemies. Four centuries
later Pepin, King of France, granted
lands to the Pope Stephen. Charlie
magne went to Rome in 800 A. ID. and
was crowned emperor Of all Christen-
dom. He ridiculed the holy spikes,
that were used In the Sayior's cross, all
over the world-enough to build a rail-
road from New York to San Francisco
He attacked the dogmas of the church
and claimed that the church taught
that all who did not accept the doc
triDes Of the Holy church would oe ex-
terminated as heretics. Heretics are to
be condemned and to be turned over to
the secular powers TO be executed.
Llymen were to be exiled and their
property to be conflscated. He read
from the fourth council of Lateran,
cauon law of the fourth century. All
who were present were excommuni-
Gated. Any Catholics who attended
these meetings was thereby excom-
municated. Having been priest once
be was priest now and forever. He
mad been a priest twelve years and ten
months aud had all the power he ever
had.
The holy council of Trent condemned
all the teachings of Professionalism. The
doctrine of exterminating heretics was
as old as the church and still IN force.
The POpes had taught that it was no
crime to kill an communicated per-
son. One Of the later POpes had de
cared that the murder of Protestant
would atone for killing a Catholic.
He told story of one In 1868 when
a Catholic confessed that he had killed
a Protestant, the priest said to him:
"Go In peace, all thy sins are forgiven
thee.' He attacked Harrison and
Blaine for attending the opening of
Washington university at Washington,
D. c.. which taught 1t was no crime to
kill Protestant. He attributed Har-
rison's errors to "that Jesuit James @.
Blaine" He charged that the Jesuits
bad killed Abraham Lincoln. He had
defended Father Chinique against
Bishop O'Reagan, and cleared him,
and for proving the perjury of the
priests and bishop they had killed him.
The Pope had sought to elevate JEFF.
Davis aud the solid south into power
aud Lincoln thwarted them. They |
killed him. John Huss, q Roman
Catholic priest, was burned at the stake
for heresy. The decree Of exterminat
ing heretics has never been repealed. |
The church has always prosecuted
those who dared to differ from Il.
Arianism was prosecuted for thou
sand years. The French Waldenses
were ordered exterminated in the
eleventh century. 10 ll9S all France
was placed under the ban of the church.
st. Domlnick Is regarded as the great
est OF missionaries. He converted
thousands into corRses. Over 100 600
Albigenses aud Waldenses were exter-
minated In France and 5000 Hugue-
nots. Pope Gregory ordered songs Of
praise and thanksgiving for the
massacre Of St. Bartholomew. In
1893 Henry Fourth of France
published the edlct of Nantes guaran-
teeing liberty to the Calvainsts. 1t was
revoked 10y the influence of the church
aud no one but a Catholic could live In |
France. But the browning infamy of
the worlds history was the Spanish
Inquisitlon, IL cost thousands of lives
all over the world. The history Of Ro-
mRnism was written In blood. Heresy
and apostacy were the greatest crimes
of the church. Romish superstition
aud idolatry tolerated no departure
from its infaliible DEGREES. All here
were under the ban OF Rome. The
church had always taught that, but he
did not believe that any fair-minded
Catholic believed It, No educated
Roman Catholic believed lt. But the
average Catholic was anxious TO ex-
terminate heretics as ever la the days
Of the InQulsition. IL was the feeling
Of all such that il was lawful to as
sasslnate heretics. He had been shot
down AZ Indianapolis on stage ln
frOnt Of 1900 people. Persecution aud
the extermlnation Of heretlos was rs
dangerous today as In the middle ages.
He carried bullet la his body today