Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-04-17

we have them if we were not Just as
desirious ofknowlege as others?
AT the conclusion of this writing
[ must confess that l am sorry that
man like P. A. Leguin is permit to
come into this town to offend the re-
ligious convictions of good por-
ton of its citizens, and what l am
most sorry to think of is that man
who calls himself minister of the
gospel hires or imports man like
Z. A. Leguin and his foul speech
and gives publicly his applause to
it. had the opinion that he was
taking ten weeks course of theol-
ogy at the state capital and that
this divine science, provided that
its sublimity is understood, would
keep his brain busy, elevate his
mind and inspire him with nobler
intentions than to import into this
town the excrements of other cities.
[ am also sorry to state that the
same reverend gentleman and cler-
ical student allows P. A. Leguin's
filthy language and calumnies to
be used in his church.
l wish to call to the minds of
these two gentlemen that in spite of
oil such odious doings the True
Church of the Cross will continue
to exist, for she has promises of inn
mortality. There have been might
Ter ones, men of more talent and
power and influence than the above
mentioned two gentlemen, who
sought to give the church the death
blow and have not succeeded with
IN twenty Centuries, because she is
built upon rock from which no p.
A. Leguin and no christian minis
ter will remove her.
REV. JULIUS FAILENscHMID.
To all fair-mind people.-It has pleased
broad-mined (?) minister of Extra to bring
rascal, who calls himself an ex-priest,
here to SANDER certain religious denomi-
nations. especially the Catholics ina most
low, degrading, outrageous manner, In
stead of preaching divine truths, as min
listers and priests of GOD do, his so-called
sermons are one string of vile. malicious,
most unreasonable accusations, false
hoods and misrepresentation from begin
ing to end, aginst the Catholic church, and
to think that some of his listeners, who
call themselves chrsitains would, at the
end of his foul, profane speech rise and
cheer him. Ought not such rrow-mind-
ed preacher be banished from this country
Of freedom and liberty ? Are such people
are a disgrace to our town and our country.
I'VE are told that the reason we Catho-
lies cling so tenaciouSly to our faith, is be-
cause we have not become educated and
possessed of the highest intelligence.
| The dirty filthy scoundrel who says this
has something unholy and filthy in his life
| that obscures the revealed religion. Every
/, time man says he has left the Catholic
church because he has become too broad
| for it's teachings, he lies. Investigate and
+, you will find that it is his own unholy life
| and work that caused him to leave the
! church. Study any of the sciences and you
will learn that the great masters lived and
died Catholics.
by their fruits. shall We know them" is a
very good criterion to Judge any people.
This mans listeners were led to believe
that the practice of "auricular confession''
! to the priest has debasing influnce upon
Catholic girls. What are the facts? Do
] Catholic girls swarm in the na1neless and
shameless houses of our great cities? Such
the Catholics"
The Rev. Sunday, a non-Catholic minis
ter, a person highly respected by Extra
people, said in his special talk to women
| during his evangelistic work here, that
| Catholic women were notedfor their puri-
| ty.
| The Catholic church has lived and flour
| iShed through many prosecutions and /
presume will continue to do so after this
man has passed from the memory of men.
She does not vanish. nor does she grow
! old, for to her our Lord made the promise:
Upon this rock 1 will build my church.
and the gates of hell shall not prevail
| against her" (Matt. xvi. 1S)
| A Catholic.