The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-11-17
FUTURE RELIGIOUS ISSUE.

terrible consequences to the human racel VIII the
| different sms and strange, unique doctrines be-
come welded together in marvellous organiza-
ton of infdelity! At the present time there IS
apparently a strong reaction in favor of the Cath
Ole Church, constant drift back to the faith of
our ancestors. Protestant bodies daily show
ing unmstakable signs of still greater dsintegra-
ton. Perhaps it would not be a wild prophecy to
assert that the time is rapidly approaching when
Methodsts, Episcopalians, Baptists, etc. viii have
to unite with the Mother Church of Chrstendom
for self-preservation and in order to present a
united front to all powerful opponents of Chris
tianity
A great many Socialists are materialists pure
and simple. May not few years find all these
men and measures political and non-religious,
welded together in great sect of atheism, whose
battle cry will be away with Christianity" VIII
infdelity lock arms with Roman Catholcity for the
very life of one or the other! If there be no God
the Catholic Church is bound to fall. She has no
earthly strength. Her commandments are harsh.
inhamonious and puerile to the free thinking spirit
of the age Only on her spiritual side can She
boast of superhuman power Without belief in the
Divinity of Christ, and promise of happiness o.
sorrow beyond the grave. she cannot keep her mil
lions of followers together.
Christianity was brought forth in sorrow and
travail Its life has borne testimony to the nature
of its birth. Greater sufferings may be before it
III the future. Its antagonists are most Jealous in
propagandlsm at the present time. Stronger energy
marks their efforts. Every vein and heart throbs
with keen yearning to efface belief in God
Where the Pauls and Demands to lead the van
guards of the Savior's followers! Some such
men at present in dreadful need Many of
those who linked to Christianity by birth,
education affection. or even duty, are growing
cold in their faith and charity. 1t is custom and
not vital conviction that makes thousands par
tcipate in sacred ceremonies. What is the rem
edy. Away from the pulpit human eloquence IS
dead. Out of the eighty-fve or ninety millions of
inhabitants in the United States. thirty millions
follow Christianity leaving between fifty and sixty
millions non-Christians 1t is useless and cow
ardly to evade the issue. All non Christian and
many sectarian bodies whose members in
cline more to hatred of the Catholic Church
than love of Christ are drifting rap
idly to the massive ranks of modern paganisno.
Atillas and Aarcs are rising in thousands secret
ing themselves in temporizing cunning behind
the palladium of various isms and theories When
the opportune time presents itself they will throw
OFF all Disguise the skull and crossbones will be
holsted; cutasses will be waved to the accompani.
ment of dreadful blasphemies, and neither women
nor children. nor anything held III reverence will
escape dissertation. BY such men they never were
and by such men they never will be. Ingersolians
and French infdels think no more of Christ than
Annas, Caiaphas, Herod, Judas and PLATE did
If he came again IN humility instead of as he will
come, IN terrible majestic power, grandeur and au-
thority, these are the men who would urge tbe
easily swayed multitudes to cry out for the re-
lease OF Barabbas and kill the Savior. They can
lot deny it because past history proves it.
The Sadducees and Pharisees were sectarian.
contentious, proud and self assumed reformers of
he theocratic government of God on earth as rem
resented by the Israelite religion of Judea There
never was and never will be religious reformer.
whether he be prompted by laudabe motives or not.
whose followers did not loot and desecrate. A re-
ormer of morals is God-given, but an iconoclast
# all that is holy and true who tries to CHANGE
he immutable doctrines of eternal omnipotence i
er1ly Of an evil source What do these modern
agan soldiers of Rome stand for? They stand
Nth serrled ranks for detestation of Christ and
IL he represents for the total abolition of spirit
al instruction in parochia or public schools. for
aslly contracted civil marriage and consequently
ehcltous violation of the sacred covenant between
IAN and woman, giving to the home the manners
the stable and the slime of the hog pen To sum
p, they stand for all things that are the incarna
on of evil with satan at their head urging them
H. In their own infatuous blindness, to eternal per-
ltlon What does Christianity represent. encour-
&c and propagate! Obedience to duly appointed
nd elected governors, rulers and laws; the sane
ty OF the home and the married state; the proper
Of children to reverence God and obey
elr parents; the indissolubility of the connubial
'ntract; IN fact, the incarnation of all that IS
'od and holy, with Christ and eternal life as the
lal unutteraby happy goal
The Catholic Church never was, is not now and
yer will be cowardly 1t accepts the challenge of
ITS numerous antagonists and those within her