Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1911-09-27
IsHoRARI, DtLuOEO AND supsRs1ITI0us

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Ignorance the Mother Of Worship. or th|
Ideal Conditions Desired BY Catholicism.
Naples. Sept. pa hurricane
swept over the province of Naples
today, killing twenty persons and
doing enormous damage to prop
srty. Hundreds are missing and
it Is bslievedathat the list of dead
will be greatly increased when re
ports from surrounding towns and
valleys are received.
The hurricane was accompa.
MED BY cloud busrt, (which
caused great rivers of mud to
flow dow the side of Mt. Vesuvi.
rs. The town of Resina, six
miles distant. was almost totally
destroyed, and at Tore del
Grsto five persons were drowned
and much damage was done by
the water which in some sections
reached second story windows.
The people CT Naples and out
lying towns ar7 terrorized and the
superssitlous recall the fact that
the blood of ST.. Janauris, which
10 kept in a smaIl vessel III tne
church named aftas that saint,
failed to liqaify last Tuesday, de-
spite the long and loud prayers
OF davout Neapolitaus to the
patron saint.
rhev predicted at that time
that the failure of the blood OF
the saint to liquily meant that
there would be an eruption OF
Mt. Vesuvius. epidemics and Ca
lamities.
This display of ignorance and
superstition comes from land
that has been dominated for COLI
turies by "the only true ohurch, "
the Roman Catholic A fai,
specimen of pretanslon to en-
tighten and lift up the masses t.
q higher moral and spiritual life
This condition is consid red ideal
by that church for it ls the author
of the dogma: Ignorance ls the
mother of worship" which ms ans
90 long as it can keep the masses
in ig lorance just so long can
they hope to control them. Thus
is revealed one of its objections
to the reading of thu Bible in our
public scho, ls, to their own mem-
hers reading and interpreting it,
and why efforts are made to pre-
vent its distribution IL Catholic
couotries, even burning them
when opportunity offers; but Of
eourss giving other reasons for
such conduct. In protestant
communities, however, il ia
forced to educate, within certain
limits, its followers for the pur-
pose Of making it possible for
them to keep pace with the more
enlightened and progressive
protestants. They do not hesi.
tate, just as the Mormons do, to
pretend any virtue or patriotism,
however absurd such conduct
compares with their practices.
With an eye singled for the con-
troll of governments and mate
rialism, q dagger il always kept
under it's so.oalled spiritual cloak
for every institution, the public
schools in particular, and persons
who become an obstacle to its
tricks and schemes. or who dares
descent.
Asto mans right to worship &C.
cordjng to the dictates of his own
conscieace, there should be the
widest possible tolerstion. True
christian worship does not cre>
ate avarice nor coeroive interfer-
ence with others, hence We belisve
all enlightened people do not raise
q question on this point; but the
church, or sect, that aims at the
control of governments aud their
institutions the instructive de-
partments in particular, sor here
is where Q hold on the coming
generation is to be secured; de-
signs through avaIice, intoller-
ancs. greed of power, not the
simple salvation of souls, to
squelch by the boycott and force,
boycott of the business man, boy
colt of the politician, and tn"
control of communities by cum
ming tricks, lying, or any other
me hods that may present itself
and &C me under the bead of 'the
end justifies the means, etc." an
inqulsitioa as surely and truly as
ever existed, for you know a
leopard cannot change its spots,
it 10 the same old beast. 'yester-
day, today and tomorrow" is
properly an object for publ,
confederation and condemnation.