The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-29
THE DEVIL in THE CHURCH. !"

setting forth the merits of the volume
In whose distribution she is invited TO
take part. The profits are promised
to be quite extraordinary. The read
ing matter is warranted to prove
salacious enough for the most tried
taste, and altogether the proposition
seems to give earnest of excellent bust
ness-for those who like to engage in
that sort of thing.
The devil in question is lodged in
the Catholic church, of course. The
table of contents is a guarantee to the
prospective purchaser that his satanic
majesty is by no means idle in the
house which he has selected for him
self. Indeed so manifold are his
manifestations and so multiple his la
bors, that we may justly conclude that
he has brought with him seven other
devils worse than himself, for there
are very few crimes known to the
modern world which this marvellous
book is not prepared to exhibit as per-
! petrated under his generalship within
the pale of the Catholic church, and,
what is worse, priests and nuns and
other pious folk are proved the guilty
parties.
The table of contents gives promise
of feast merry enough for the most
devoted disciple of Bacchus. We may
! NC pVillllIlSu u give d lew neduIISS
while assuring our readers that the
most sensational are not reproduced
for reasons which may be surmised.
Under the general caption, THE Crimes
! of Priests" we find such promising
! topics as Confession of a Priest at
the Point of Death" Numerous Dead
| Bodies of Infants Found Near a
Nunnery," priests Baptize Infants
Mother Abbess Murders Them" One
Hundred Thousand Families Ruined in
One Year" THE Vatican a Residence
for Women" Priests Numbering Their
Own Parents" .'Worshipping the
Beast" THE Priest Plague" and
other delightful sensations by the
score.
The Confession of Nuns" is the
heading placed before another section
of the book. The topics treated are
numerous, and, in no way, suggest
lack of interesting material Let the
following suffice to give an idea of the
whole: "Out of the Coffin Into Shame"
Convent Life a He'll Upon Earth"
Murder of Beautiful Woman The
Burial Place of Infants" "A Frightful
Occurrence in a Convent, 1.-THE Mother
Superior Tells Why Priests Cannot
SIM" ETC., ETC., etc, at endless length
and with variety warranted to satiate
the most exacting.
Under the section of "The Wicked
Lives of the POpes," we find grouped
together such notorious criminals as
Hildebrand Plus TX and Leo XIII.
The horrors of the Inquisition are
dashed up in novel form and the Sham
Miracles, Image Worship and Other
Roman Catholic Fallacies," are treated
with acute analytical skill. "The aw-
full deeds of the priests in the Philip
g +
ter of course, while the dreadful re-
suits of auricular confession are merci-
lesSly laid bare. Human Monsters in
the Confession Box may be taken as
fair summary of the matter treated
in this division.
After reading about the manifold
iniquities of priests and nuns and pious
people, the purchaser of this wonderful
volume is amply prepared to peruse
in a sympathetic spirit the long chap
tiers which go to show that the Roman
church exercises an alarmingly evil
influence over the country in which we
live and where that Ubiquitous institu-
ton seems to flourish with the vigor of
renewed youth. The compiler of this
remarkable work is prepared to prove
to the satisfaction of all wise men that
Rome is responsible for the assassina-
ton of Abraham Lincoln as well as for
the civil war, and that Lincoln, Gar
field and Mckinley were murdered by
assassihs of the Roman Catholic faith,
and presumably at the instigation Of
the priests.
We have. not given 1.-THE of the
interesting things promised in the pros
pectus, but we have striven to be
fair to the publishers, and we trust
that our readers may gain a just
knowledge of the value of the book
from the heads of topics cited. Some
may doubtless wonder how such
volume can possibly prove good ven
ture in these days of phenomenal en-
lightenment It is not our business to
show cause why such an enterprise
should be launched forth. One thing,
however, may be set down as unde-
nabIe fact, if the book did not sell
for a profit it would not be so ex-
tensively advertised and kept on the
market. Indeed, the publishers claim
that their work enjoys the endorse
ment of American Protestant minis
tiers and church membArs''-which is
non-commital enough. They likewise
claim the special endorsement of the
Daughters of the American ReYo-
luton, the Odd Fellows, the knights
of Pythias, Grand Army of the Re
public, the Elks,' and, indeed, that of
almost every other fraternal and So
cial organization in the United States,
with the bare exception of the knights
of Columbus, the A. o. H., and a few
kindred organizations.
The publishers claim that "the mails
are burdened with petitions from
priests to some of their friends in
Washington asking to have the sale of
the book suppressed. They dare not
undertake it as they would call down
the wrath of the Protestant and patri-
otto people of America upon their
heads. Many Communications of the
work are reproduced in the prospectus.
We will give a single exhibit. 1t is
paraded under the caption of "a
School Teacher Interested" and is
credited to Charles Z. Perry of Con-
necticut. Mr.. Perry writes:
81 ordered copy of your marvellous
book, The Devil in the Church. solely
for my own use, but when 1 received
it and read it through I was so much
interested in it that I have determined
to place a copy in the hands of every
fellow school teacher l possibly can
1t is of vast interest to them. In
fact, | am sure that ninety-nine out
of every hundred teachers know
nothing of the dangers threatening our
public schools. This book is certainly
great revelation and l intend to
canvass every teacher at our country
institute this winter. Enclosed find |
order for fifteen copies, which 1 sold |
to patrons of my school,
We have consulted a list of teachers |
of the state of Connecticut for last |
year and nowhere find the name of |
Charles E. Perry. If he exists and |
holds the position assigned him and |
takes this marvellous book as a