The San Francisco call., 1895-12-20
FATHER Y0RKE REPLIES TO c, A, HUBBARD.
co and rector Of the Cathed-


further state that familiar with the his
tory of the Catholic church, with its teachings and
with its ritual, and that the oath entitled PRIESTS
Oath forms part of that ritual is opposed to its
teachings and is not and never has been taken by
priests of the Roman Catholic church.
As TO the alleged oath entitled Extreme Oath of
the Jesuits," know and declare that said oath is
not, and never has been, administered to members
Of the Jesuit order, and that any one who would
take or administer such an oath would be violating
the laws OF the Catholic church, would burden his
conscience with sin and would be rendered unfit to
exercise his ministry to receive the sacraments.
j. j. PRENDERGAST, V. q.
subscribed and sworn to before me this 19 tn day
TSeal. CHARLES T. STANLEY,
Notary Public in and for City and County of
San Francisco, State of California
l also wrote to Very Rev. Father Imoda as
follows:
SAN Francisco Dec. l9, 1895.
Very ReU Father InlOdG, Superior Of the Society Of
JeSuS-VERY REV. AND DEAR FATHER: Here
with l send you edition of the San Francisco
MoRNING CALL OF this date containing an alleged
copy OF oath represented by q. A. Hubbard
to be a correct copy of an oath taken by members
OF the Jesuit order OF course, l know of nv own
knowledge that the oath is forgery from begin
ning to end and never has been and never could
be administered TO or taken by any member of the
Catholic church.
1 do not think that any American possessed of
ordinary intelligence believes in the genuneness
been published in paper of wide circulation
think il well for you, the Superior OF the Society
of Jesus on the Pacific Coast, TO notice the same
and give it an emphatic denial under oath. Yours
truly. PETER G. YoRKE.
This is Father Imoda's sworn reply:
STATE OF CALIFoRNIA,
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. 90
Henry Imoda, being duly sworn, deposes and
says:
/ have read in the san Francisco CALL of this
date copy OF alleged oaths entitled, Extreme Oath
of the JesuitS," and represented by one G. a. Hub
bard TO be oath administered to and taken by
members OF the Jesuit order.
l was educated in Jesuit college; I was re-
ceived into the Jesuit order, more properly called
the Society OF Jesus at the age OF eighteen (lS)
a
eighth (Sth) day OF April 1850 L have been
officiating continuously since my ordination as a
Jesuit priest. 1 thoroughly familiar with the
origin and history of the Jesuits, or the Society Of
Jesus so called.
legged oath is a forgery. l know that said oath
never has been or never could be administered TO
any member OF the Jesuit order The declarations
and sentiments therein contained are vile, brutal
and utterly at variance with he teachings OF said
order the teachings OF the Catholic cburcn and the
teachings of natural law.
said purported oath and oaths of similar import
have been for two centuries past circulated with
other charges against the Jesuit order, and the
falsity Of the same has been repeatedly proven.
HENRY IMoDA, 5. j.,
Superintendent of the Jesuits in California
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 18th day
OF December, A. D. 1895.
Notary Public in and for the City and County Of
San Francisco, State OF California.
1 do not imagine that anything more would
be required 10 convince even the most prelu-
diced OF the utter falsity of the oaths ascribed
both TO priests and to JeSuitS. However, |
thought ii we'll to call in third party and one
who is familiar with every diocese in America
The Paulists' community has lately settled in
San Francisco. Its mem bers by reason OF their
missionary labors know the condition OF every
State in the Union. The superior is Puritan
OF the Purltans, convert 10 catholicism. l
thought it well to call him, too, into court,
and TO have him declare his opinion on the
matter in question.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 49, 1895.
Very Reverend Father Uynian, c. S. P.-NERY
REVEREND AND DEAR FATHER: Please read al
legged oaths printed and published in the San Fran.
cisco CALL OF this date entitled the Priests OATH
and Extreme oath OF the Jesuits."
AS the superior on the Pacific Coast of an organi-
Zation of priests founded in America and for the
needs of America | wish YOU would state under
oath your opinion as to the genuineness or fasity
or said oaths. not that imagine that fair-Ininded
Americans require any other proof than the inler-
nal improbability of the oaths themselves but that
we may contradict with all the authority possible
these forgerles III the paper in which they were
published Yours truly, PETER Z. YoRKE-
This is Father Wyman's reply:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. Do
], Henry H. Nyman, being duly sworn, depose
and say: That have read in the san Francisco
CALL OF this date letter signed ty G. a. Hubbard,
in which letter are published two alleged oaths.
one enti led Priests Oath" and the other entitled
'EXtTeme oath of the Jesuts."
depose and say that was ordained priest of
the Catholic church on the Sth DAY or March, 1876
and that neither at said ordination. any time
that given BY g. A. Hubbard and entitled Priests
OATH or "Extreme Oath OF the Jesuils'' or any
other oath. / have attended and have as
sisted at many ordinations OF Catholic
priests and never heard such oath administered to
taken by any priest at before or after oriina-
tion; tha said oaths from beginning to end
false calumny upon the Catholic church and It's
priesthood and every sentence in each said oaths
is forgery; that neither OF said oaths shas been
nor ever could be sanctioned by the Catholic
hood.
further state concerning said oaths that they
are weIl-known forgeries, which have been ex-
posed many times; that the sentiments contained
in them opposed TO the known teachings of the
Jesuits and OF the Catholic church.
HENRY II. WYMAN
Superior OF the Paulist Community in California.
Subscribed and sworn to before me- this 18th day
of Decem Der, a. d. 1885.
[Sea.l CHARLES T. STANLEY,
Notary Public in and for the City and County OF
San Francisco, State OF California.
Iassure you Mr.. Editor that it is with deep
pain and humiliation that publish this cor
respondence and these affiaavits. 1t is a scan
dal and shame that men who since the in
fancy of this City have devoted themselves to
works OF benehcence and philanthropy should
be compelled TO come before the public and
deny every caIumny which unnaturaliZed and
characterlesS adventures may circulate against
them. Yet because the press of San Francisco
has been too cowardly to speak out in its own
name for truth and justice this thing must be.
1t is q sad commentary on our boasted civiliZa-
ton that such a letter as this should be neces-
sary in a civilized community, among Chris |
tian people and under the stars and stripes.
These testimonies should be sufficient, Mr..
Editor, to convict G. A. Hubbard of forgery;
but have more direct and more cogent proof.
With great parade of learning he appealed to
his authorities. The first of them was Dow
Gng's History of Ronlanlsm. With this letter
| send you that book. ask you to examine it |
from cover to cover-"new and enlarged edi- |
ton" though it is-and tell me if it contains
the faintest vestige of the so-called "priests |
oath" Mr.. Hubbard and his associates have
appealed TO the dry bones of the anti-popery
ranters of the first half of the century, and
though these bones rattle and join and come
forward with their ghastly testimony, as on
the night in Caiphas' hall, their testimonies
do not agree.
Look on page COS and see the alleged Jesuits |
oath and compare it with the one given by
G. A. Hubbard. Submit the book to the exami- |
nation of any one who cares to visit your office
that men may see for themselves the value of |
Hubbard's references. Dowlfngs oath is, OF |
course, forgery, but 1t is forgery in embryo |
1t took the associated genius of the A. ?. A. to
add the accumulated horrors of burning, boil |
ing, burying, poisoning. strangling and |
poniarding. will leave the book with you |
for the remainder of this week. so that men /
may have an opportunity of seeing with their |
eyes the growth OF forgery ard of studying at |
short range the evolution of SANDER and ca |
umny.
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