Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-05-01

dennis the Catholic church and
prove that condemnation from the
said chapter? When l say prove, /
DO not mean to make a sweeping
statement backed up by no reliable
authority. | want the meaning as
devoid from the context and sup
ported by an irrefragible argument
as IN matter of such supreme inn
portance we cannot take the iDse
dIxIf OF Reverend Whitaker. have
a protestant bible here, before me
and 1T makes no mention OF the
word Catholic, much less condemn
the Catholic church. l do not re-
member heretofore making any
statement derogotary to any church
but when the church of which [ am
proud TO be a member, the church
of two thousand years, is rnalici-
ously attacked my position gives
me the right to defend that church
and myself. My church is falsely
accused that she is true only in
bloody sense. Have not right to
refute and defend her, backed up as
am by the highest grade even of
protestant intelligence. Goblet. in
his History of the Reformation
himself protestant, devotes one
hundred and thirty-fve pages to
the wholesale bloodshed, bigotry
and plumber of that church which
is the glorious ancestor of Rever-
end Whitaker's? How is that Rev
erend Whitaker? Craig's "Christian
Prosecutions which is another
protestant authority, will probably
refresh our Reverend's memory con-
s1derably on Saint BarthoIomew's
10
and your mind will gradually de-
yelop.
The history of the Catholic
Church is history of corruption"
Strange, indeed! Who ever heard
of a human body filled with corrup-
ton, proPortionately as full as Rev
erend Whitaker's Catholic church"
that this corruption would
not eat. it up in time? Yet
what do we behold? Not
one individual body but 225, 900 900
individuals, the world over, united
in one body "Teeming with corrup-
ton and lasting for two Thousand
years with no symptoms of decay.
what a grand argument for the
Immortality of the Catholic church!
"The church 10 different is this
county,"
Who told you Reverend Whitaker?
For we have standing argument to
the opposite in our own communi-
ty. We have four nationalities all
united in the same faith theoreti-
cally and practically.
"The Catholic church is opposed
to the public schools.
This last proposition of the So
called reply is out of order. 1 did
dot condemn the public schools in
my article. All [ have to saw about
the school question is this: That we
consider the principals of christian
ity as necessary for the perfection
of the child's education, and we
have right to an opinion as we'll
as Reverend Whitaker.
almost forgot the Arsenal and
ammunition question 1 felt in
cllned to pass over unnoticed so sill
ly statement but in charity feel
bound to remind the Reverend Cen
tleman of Saint Paul,s wholesome
advice Ito put by the children's
toys and take up the ideas and aspi-
rations consistent with a sound
mind in sound body" It will be
time enough to consider any propo-
sitions offered by Reverend Whita-
ker after he has answered nv first
letter and the leading question
which l wish to have answered.
Was it fair-minded to import a
speaker whose very language and
actions were so filthy and uncouth
that even the local papers ignored
him by their silence:
Yours for business,
REV. JULIUS FAILENsCHMID.