Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-28
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did not inform me that MT. Lucey was not only the self-appointed and Rome appointed censor of the Pine Bluff press, but that he is also the censor of the Protestant pupits of Pine Bluff. Had I known that he prac- tically stands around our church. houses i'll the person of his represen- tatives, neither daring to come in himself nor permitting them to come in, with the view of censoring the pulpit utterances, as he has done in this case, perhaps should have asked his holiness permission to discuss in my pulpit, the Roman Catholic Church in Prophecy. I have noted the readi- ness with which he rushes into print, censuring missionary societies for calling the Roman Catholic religion, sRomanism," when he knew in com mon usage the two expressions were synonyms. When you take out of the Roman Catholic religion, the dog mas born in Rome, Or deformed in Rome, you have so little left that it is not worthy of mention. While I approved of his strictures On the marriage at the rink, I could not help thinking it came with bad grace from celibate priest who for thirty five years ill Pine Bluff has repudi- ated all Protestant marriages by Whomsoever celebrated under the most sacred environments of our most sa- cred churches.
 Emboldened by the fact that his public strictures of Protestant de- partures from his Roman Catholic
 ideas have gone unchallenged, he again rushes into print with an lilly disguised effort to bring down upon my head public odium and to threat en my little flock with the Roman Catholic boycott, without giving to the public single sentence of the out line he claims to have seen nor yet single sentence of anything I either said or quoted. He seems to think that his thirty-five years of residence here a sufficient warrant for pro- nouncing sermon he did not hear, a "vilification of Catholics" Such a course may be regarded as fair treat ment by some of his followers, but an intelligent public will think other wise.
 What are the facts in the case?
 Many of the public know, if Mr. Lucey does not, that the discourse to which he refers is the twelfth of a series of discourses On the Fulfilled Prophecy of Daniel and Revelation. My Offense is to agree with and to voice from my pulpit the sentiments of Wyclif, Huss, Knox, Tyndale, Zwin- gle, Luther, Calvin, Melanchthon, Sa- vonarola, Bruno, Wesley, Clarke, Newton, Barnes, Elliott, Faber, Henry, Cunningham, Frere, Campbell, ,Thomp- son, Johnson, and a host of others in maintaining that the Papal Hierarchy, or in plain English, the Roman Cath ollie Church in all of it's several his toric forms, is the Little Horn" of Daniel, 7th chapter; the Man of Sin,' Or '.The Apostasy" of Paul in II Thess. 2:1-12; The. Beast whose number is .'"666" of Rev. 18th chapter; and "The Woman of Rev. 17th chapter. This discussion: has extended through sew Eeral- Sunday ,,nights. The last was a comparison of the Woman of Rev. 18th chapter and the Woman of the 17th chapter; "The Church of Christ" "Clothed with the Sum- of Righteousness, Standing on the Moon," the Old Testament system of Types and prophecies, and Wearing the diadem of Twelve Strars," the twelve Apostles, compared with "the Church of Rome seated upon the Seven- hilled city of Rome," clothed in pur- pie and scarlet" and drunken on the blood of Saints." If MT. Lucey wants to make in the public prints a review of the discourse or any other of the series, they are ready for the press and at his instance will appear, any or all of them.
 His efforts to secure the sympathy of the public by comparing my legiti- mate work as Protestant interpre- ter of the Scriptures backed by the Protestant Scholarship of Centuries, to one Hicks. whose life was spared by a Protestant mob at his instance, $ deplorably weak. He says "Catho- lie influence intervened to save the wretch"!!. Does MT. Lucey want me to inform the Pine Bluff public how Catholic influence intervenes to save L