The Irish standard., 1900-12-15

The Rev. James Nj. King, ID. d., Is
to the Methodist Church what Nasty
Fulton is to the Baptist Church. His
mind does not revel in nastiness like
that of his Protestant confrere, but lie
is equally fanatical, equally the victim
of anti-Catholic microbes. These de-
structive bacilli have nourished with
such morbid luXurancc as to affect
with strabismus his intellectual vision
says Rev. l.. A. Lambert, LII. d., the
accomplished editor of the N. " Free
mans Journal.
The Catholic Church is the Trojan
horse of his fcvcrish waking hours
and the nightmare of his frctful stunt
bcrS. 1t. or, rather. the monster in
his imagination which he takes for it,
is his al-ahsorbing hnllucnation.
Turn which way he will, it confrontS
him; it stands between him and al
sublunary things, and obstructS and
distorts his vision. 1t is the fly on his
telescope which. by miscalculation OF
distance, becomes n monster in Sidcrinl
space All his judgments Of men and
things are coIorr,l, shaded or ohSrnred
hy il. In his estimation his cO-rrlia
because they cannot see in the world
of realities anything to correspond
with the ghostly monster that haunts
his own unhealthy imagination. 1t is
this fact that frcts him aud makes him
fcvcrsh just as it flets the dipso-
maniac whose carctakcrS do not SEQ
the rats. monkeys and snakes he sees
The victim of hallucinatiOn, like sane
men. does not like to have his iu1g-
ment discounted by his friends. Their
stupidity irrtatcs him when they call
the lofty handicapped mountain he
secs before him mole hill.
The Nasty Fulton spent several
years Of a life that might have been
useful in trying to persuade the world
of the objective reality Of the unclcnn
monster his filthy imagination Great
cd. He failed, and was discrcdited by
his own denomination, to it's honor.
We hear of him no more. Like an
exploded bomb. he has fallen into
innocuous dcsuetudc, and the only
memory that remains Of him Is that of
Il bad smell that by evaporation has
ceased to disgust the most sensitive
nose. Nothing he says now hurts any
body-cven when lie gets 1t published.
He started out to convince the world
that the Catholic Church--his pet aver
sion--was the enemy Of everything
good; after several years of strenuous
labor he only convinced it that he was
Il malodorous crank
Exonerating DR.. King from Fulto-
nian nastncss, while crediting him
with all OF Fulton's blind and unrca-
soning fanatacism and disregard OF
truth, we venture to predict that in
a comparatively short time he will,
like his Baptist brother Fulton, he
rclegatcd to the museum of exploded
mischief makers where there is a
large variety of desiccatcd specimens
of the same genus.
The pious Methodist villificr of the
Catholic Church lecturcd recently in
Philadelphia. IL was secret address,
intended only for the ears Of Mctho-
dist preachers. No reporters were ad-
mitted, but n synopsis Of it was given
out. Judging from the brief synopsis,
Dr. King simply Refreshed the old
straw of anti-Romc with which the
public have been familiar these many
years While he made no addition to
the stack he varied the monOtony
somewhat by n number Of false state
mcns and false conclusions.
But, passing these for the present.
we wish to call attention to Il consider
alton that has occurred to us and
should occur to DR.. King and other
Methodist members Of the League for
Illc ITOlccLIOIl VI NlutiI'hh IIoliIu
tions." 1t is this: BY what title do
these Methodist preachers put them
selves forward as the special protect
ors of our institutions when their
founder, John Wesley, was the most
bitter opponent OF our institutions, and
did all in his power TO defeat the OBJ
icct for which the roloniSts, under
! Washington ana the Continental Con
.rcss. fought? While :hc Catholic
General, Lafayette, with his army of
Catholic Frcnchnirn. were fighting
side by side with the COloniStS to rs-
tablislI our institutions. John Wesley
was busy with voice and pen to ill.,
ducc his followers to prevent the es-
tablshment Of our institutions. j. X.
Graves, once editor Of ''The Tennessee