The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-17

| munisu. secret societies, biblical So
cieties, clerico-liberal societies.
REPUTATION.
Pests Of this kind are frequently re-
probated in terms of the severest con-
domination in the encyclical "Qui pluri-
/ bus" Nov 9th 1916; in the allocutlon
"QuibUs quantisque," April goth, l849;
in the enoyclicll ''Noscites ct nobiscum'
Dec. Sth. 1919; in tie allocution Sin
! guiari quadam," Dec. 9tn 1924; and IN
| the encyclical "Quanto conficiamuT,
Aug. 10th. 1863
The organization known as Free
Masonry" which is paving the way
for the advent of anti-Christ, aims at
| the total destruction of all existing
social institutions; it wages deadly
warfare against throne and altar, and
above all seeks the complete overthrow
of the Catholic church. it's most decid-
ed enemy, in order that it may be in a
| position to establish universal repub-
! lie upon what it is pleased to term the
religion of humanity, Feeling themsel-
| YES sufficiently strong. now that large
| portion Of the world is under their con-
troll. Free Masors make no secret of
| their purposes and plans; they tell US
openly that in the future republic no
! one will be permitted to fill any office
| of authority or even to exercise any of
the ordinary employEents of life unless
he be member Of their organization:
that as st. John says in his ADocalv-
pse, mo man shall buy or sell, but ne
| that hath the character. or the name
| of the beast, or the number of his
name" In this republic they are to
be the real and only rulers: they are
to exercise an unlimited sway over
property and life: and the people at
large will be like a drove of cattle.
ruled with rod of iron, and existing
solely for the pleasure of its masters.
They have repeatedly declared through
| their authorized organs that all who,
| having passed the twentieth year of
their age, refuse to affiliate with them,
will be Unfortunately put to death.
| The other societies mentioned in the
| heading of this section are all either
/ directly or indirectly connected with
Free Masong; they are subordinate to
! it, and cooperate bv means of their
! own special aims in the one grand aim
| Of effecting the total overthrow of ex-
! listing social institutions Hence the
names of socialist and radicaI-terms
applied to those misguided men. who,
| banded together in unholy union, seek
! to uproot the deepest foundations of
human society. The preEent order of
things is assaulted upon all sides. The
| Biblical societies seek to falsify CathO-
licism by sending among Catholics
! people wolves in sneep's clothing, and
by trading in the cOnsciences of the
poor and ignorant classes after the
manner of Simon NTagus. who desired
| to purchase the gifts of the Holy Ghost
with a piece of gold. They scatter
broadcast among the people altered
| and spurious editions of the scriptures
in order to deceive them as to the true
every SPECIES of cunning in the effort
to secure the wide spread discrimina-
ton of their corrupt bibles, selling them
at merely nominal price, and not hes
| itating even to give them away when
unable to dispose of them in any other
manner.
They know that once faith is weak
ened, charity grows cold, and it is thus
they hope to prepare the hearts of the
people for the reception of their schits-
| NAUTICAL and heretical opinions.
God, however, has covered their
efforts with sterility; their proselytes
are the scum of Catholicity, consisting
almost exclusively of wild and reckless
young men and a few unfrocked
and disgraced religous-unfortuna
wretches who have sold their birth
right for a paltry piece of gold; in
short, the Biblical societies are. to quote
from one of their own journals "the
broom which sweeps the garden of the
Vatican and purges it of all impuri-
ties" Their missions among the
, heathens of the Indies are equally de-
void of result; the faith of their fol-
lowers in those benighted lands lasts
while their gold continues to sparkle;
when the gold is exhausted TIE light
of the gospel no longer penetrates the
Christ gave the mission of converting
the nations not to wolves. but to lambs:
not to merchants, but to those who
were willing to abandon all things for
His sake. is not surprising then that
the agents of these Biblical societies do
not reap abundant harvests; they have
not been commissioned by the Lord ;
mon mist eos
In the darkness of their council
chambers the secret societies prepare
their plan of attack. Some devote
themselves to the task of slandering the
priesthood and the religious brother
hoods seeking to inspire the people
with suspicion of their motives and
with contempt for their character. and
thus neutralize the effect which their
instructions and warnings might other
wise produce on those entrusted to
their charge. The aim of these organ
izations is to hurl the servants Of the
Church from the lofty pinnacle of re-
spect and veneration to which a CRATE
full people has raised them, Well know
ing that. once this result is achieved.
religion will be mere abstraction in
capable of successfully opposing their
triumphant progress. Hence they are
continually asserting that the priests
and brothers are monsters of egotism
and hypocrisy, who keep the people in
ignorance and superstition for the sole
/ purpose of strengthening and perpetu-
| ating their own domination; that they
are the most inveterate enemies of
progress, and would fain bring the