The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-19

the Lutherans. Make note of this, and of his con-
demnation at Geneva by the Calvinists. He
turned to Venice and, quarreling with Mocenigo
and others, was denounced as enemy to Chris
tianity. In February 1898, he was sent to Rome,
tried convicted and by the state, the secular power
was II February 1900 burned at the stake at the
Campo del Fiori, Rome, mot only" the legal
record sets forth, because himself hereto, but
as a dangerous heresiarch, who had written things
injurious to religion" 1t would be serious blum
der for us to endeavor to form judgment of the
controversies and legislation of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries by the standards of our leg
islation and ideas of the present time. Burning
at the stake for certain specified ofenses obtained
in almost every country of Europe Catholic and
Protestant, down to comparatively recent times.
Calvin burned Servetus, Henry VIII slaughtered
hundreds for refusing to acknowledge his suprem
acy in the supernatural order, and read what
was done under Queen Elizabeth in Protestant
England.
Con Feb. 6, 1854, James Fenn George Hay
dock, John Mundon, John Nutter and Thomas
Hemeford, tried at Westminster for being made
priests beyond the and by the Pope's author
ity, were hanged, bowelled and quartered at Ty-
lie library, Cod. c. X .; and this from Maziere
Brady's English Hierarchy" page 49,
"The gaoler, moved by compassion, went to the
Protestant Bishop of London, John Aylmer who is
the chief of the inquisitors protestant Inquisi-
tom and told him of the needs of those committed
to his custody. The bishop told him bread and
water were enough to feed them on. But, said
the gaoler, who is to pay for this bread2 Wa
ter [ will freely give them without cost but bread
[ cannot The bishop was now angry, and said to
the gaoler: Go away What affair is that of
mine? Let the papists eat, if they WISH their own
excrements' Thirteen of these unhappy Cath
oEcs were hanged, their bowels torn out and their
bodies quartered.''
Are we not burning human beings alive today
in these United States because of uncomfortable
passion for insanity of lust? And this in the
twentieth century. Is it SO very long ago since
helpless women were burned in the public market
place in the towns of Protestant New England?
And that for no crime found among our statutes
today.
Now read this document from the pen of the
Puritan preacher, Cotton Mather, of Boston. This
document is in the possession of G. A. Reynolds,
clerk of the fire board of Boston,"
BOSTON Sept. We 18th, 16S2.-To We aged
and beloved John Higginson: There be at sea a
shippe called fYe Welcome,' R. Greenaway master,
which has aboard hundred or more of We heretics
and malignants called Quakers, with w. Penne,
who is ye chief scampe, at the head of them.
"Ye General court has accordingly given secret
orders to Master Malachi Huxett of ye Brig Pro
passe to waylaye sed Welcome as near ye coast of
Codde as may be and make captive yet sed Penne
and his ungodly crewe so that ye Lord may be
glorifed and not Knocked on We soil of this new
countre with ye heather worships of these people,
much spoyle may be made by selling We whole
lot to Barbados, where slaves fetch goode prices
in and sugar, and shall not only do ye Lord
great service in furnishing We wicked, but we shall
make great goode to his ministers and people, Mas
ter Huxettfeels hopeful and I will set down We
news when his shippe comes back. Yours in We love
of Christ. COTTON MATHER"
Readers of West Indian history know to what
a hell Mather was sending William Penn and the
first colony of Quakers when to Huxett he proposed
their sale.
We reluctantly recall these melancholy exam
pies of savagery that the Telegram may remember
that those who live in glass houses should heave
no bricks.
Let us throw shroud over the mistakes of
other times Let the dead past bury its dead. Let
US have peace, and if you can't give us peace give
US rest We are tired of the Spanish Inquisition,
of Calico, of Bruno. Relegate them to the back
woods preacher, Danish them to the rural Sunday
school and be done with them