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THE AUTHORITY OF ROME.
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1t Is the height of spiritual, ignorant darknet
to assert that 1T makes difference what we thin
| OF Christ. The divine heart of the Savior, pierce
by the FURNISHED spear of the worlds ingrattud
will suffer until Justice regns. That great sacre
heart of love will be in agony whilever there eXis
| basphemy, infdelity and the dominion of carna
lusts. But to revert to the subject we had intende
to follow absolutely i. e., Professionalism has n
authoritative voice and cannot command obedience
Professionalism is an indisputable fact in history
The fundamental meaning of the word implies he
CATION. The whole force of its conception and be
ing is to deny certain claims of the Roman Catho
Church. SO long a a body of men pro
test these claims they Protestant. Individual
can believe and disbelieve in an unlimited degree
and still be Protestants. 1t embraces all doctrine
without regard to their truth or falsity Is Luther
ism Professionalism? Then so are Mcthodism Bap
lists, Dowieism Mrs. Baker Eddyism, Holy Roller
ISM Unitarianism, etc. ad nhnitum. No man cal
truly say what Professionalism is, except that it an
tagonizes Rome In that it is one. All these bodies
mentioned teach and practice diametrcally oppo
site ideas. How, then can disunion and conten
ton be as sincere and outspoken in condemna
ton of base and lewd conduct as firmly united
institution can be! Some of the branches of tho
Protestant tree teach as true that Christ was not
God. Others that there is no divine punishment
beyond the grave. How, then, enforce the moral
low. Powerless, indeed. would be human laws
which preserve order, if there were no empowered
judges and penal institutions to enforce obedience
Professionalism has done away to a great extent
with the moral and religious instruction of the
child. What we make the child We nine times out
of ten. make the man. Professionalism cannot by il.
very dsunited nature be as outspoken as the Cath
Ollie Church. Why does the former give birth to
many infdels and the latter convert such a mu
titude of Protestants! The Catholic Church i.
full Of prominent Protestant converts Nor do We
hold that all Catholics are what they should be
any more than all Catholic nations are
1t is certainly true that certain amount OF
depravity will remain in the world in spite OF
Heaven and the Creator. Christ Himself coull
not Danish the whole of it. But we by no means ad
NIT the depravity existing in the Latin nations as
standing in the light as depravity in Protest
ant countries. If Professionalism has given us al
our infdels in all Christian Kingdoms and deprav
ity springs from nfdelity, we can trace the de
pravity of Spain, Italy and France to Protestant
ISM Of course we must always allow for the in
herent depravity of human nature, but any society
of men which propagates the doctrine that there is
no righteous, Omnipotent ruling King who vii
reward and punish the soul of man, fosters deprav
ity and permits human passions, no matter how
beastly to have unbrdled sway. Many branches
of the Protestant body so teach, namely Unitarian
ism. How many secret, immoral sins mel
commit and escape all human law! Hundreds Ii
fact, there multitudes of above the tenn
poral law at least to certain extent. Kings, EN-
perors legislators and many men of wealth of
ten outside the power of human law to punish them
And commit crimes, too, which sufficient t.
cause God to come down from Heaven and dit
again, if that were possible How often do we reat
of Protestant ministers denying eternal justice anc
the judgment to come?
England is a great empire Rome, anC
she is wallowing in poverty, drunkenness domestic
evils. debauchery and Infamous lusts Her Jail
and warehouses are crowded with suffering human
ity. She is Protestant nation. America is part
1c,t
has not enough iails. If Catholics are dcpraved
they will tell you the infdeic sentiment of tht
world brought it about, and Professionalism fosters
the lnhdelic sentiment in many of its phases. The
very founder of Professionalism asserted that goot
works were not necessary for eternal 1te Prot
estant nations may be great IN material grandeur
but it takes the peasantry of Ireland Italy, France
and Spain to possess moral grandeur. If the pos
session of wealth and all manner of worldly good
is more pleasing to an Almighty Savior who pos
sessed nothing then Protestant nations and indi
viduas are ahead but if to have simplicity of char
acter moral grandeur firm faith in God and tht
Immortality of the soul is more pleasing to The
Creator then to Catholic peoples must be yielded
the palm of success. If Pontius PLATE King Her
od the child murderer and Julius Caesar, the con
quer represent all that is best, then non-Catholic
possess the way, the truth and the life. But if tC
be clothed in camels hair and possess no riches a
was John the Baptist, then the Catholic peasantry
of Europe stand highest in the sight OF a stable
born God.
10 religion can make all men what they SHOULD
be, but the Roman Catholic religion of Jesus Chris
has made innumerable millions of raw savages goot
living men. 1t has also developed more gigantic
men of sanity lies and marvellous intellecs thar
any other institution since the world began. With
in its folds were men like Alfred the Great Ed
ward the Confessor, Gregory the Great, the con
verters of nations, ST Augustine Kempis
Aquinas, Jerome the Bible scholar and translator
etc. We could fill the books of the world with The
names of virtuous kings, emperors, Legislators
saints and scholars who have died in the Catholi>
fold
Rome under the Caesars, the Neros and Cag
uas, whose choicest men and women became like
sows at banquets, was morally depraved. Yet tht
Romans had mental capacity. Commercial depra,
ity infidelity and divorce evils the prevailing