The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-05-18
additional Letters From the People
"ASK AND We SHALL RECEIVE"

"ASK AND We SHALL RECEIVE"
Dear Sir: No doubt among your
readers are many who are amazed at
most OF your disclosures in your ar
tlcles on the Roman Hierarchy, but
there are others of us who, from
many years study of this wonderfully
interesting subject, are already IA
m1l1ar with what you are telling, and,
knowing that your statements may be
and are all substantiated and cor
roborated by the historians Of various
countries and times, only wonder
where you will strike next. You, by
placing these truths within easy reach
= of everybody, are doing your time
and your fellows a service that in
years to come will rebound to your
honor and pave the way largely for
their salvation. To your readers over
the whole country | would say a
word: Take warning tY what you
read on the subject under discussion
read all that comes to hand-pon-
der it and prove it-assimilate and
apply it-fOrewarned is forearmed.
And a further thought comes just
here: Keep note Of all the dogmas
doctrines, uSages, customs, supersti-
ton and pictures Of the Romish
church, and then take up your best
beloved brand of Professionalism and
note the close correspondence be-
tween it Ono matter which it isl and
ROmanism! 1t will make you gasp!
You will culver and grOan, and sigh
and vince, as the fact dawns upon
you that every brand of Protestant
ism that lives or has ever lived is a
lineal descendant Of the great who're
that sits enthrOned, scarlet-rObed
Rome, "the mother Of harlots"
Every article of faith, every feast
day, holy day; every rite, sacrament
and ordinance-that is incorporated
into the Protestant body, came to us
by way of Rome. If you don't believe
this, get your Bibles and. see what
you can find in them to sustain the
aforesaid observances.
The Waldurses, Luther, Calvin,
Knox, Huss, Wyckliffe, Wesley, the
Puritans, all made a gallant, glorious
fight against her power and hurled
fierce defiance in her face, and, in
their fight they were righteous and
true. But none of them entirely broke
her shackles, and today Professionalism
is strangled and manned, rendered
null and void because those who pro-
tested against Rome's authority sell
dom quarreled with her doctrines.
Every Protestant creed and ritual is
struggling for existence, loaded down
with Roman error and superstition.
And herein we find the call for church
union. Rome is willing enough, be-
cause it means, to her, they will all
unite to come back home! Have they
ever wandered very far away? When
the final fight is made to establish her
supremacy in this country, do you
know what her argument will be
her specious, crafty argument? GAS
we all believe alike, why not all unite
under one head-as of yore?" Of
course, the main things against which
the early Protestants rebelled are her
gravest faults, and Professionalism has
lulled her to sleep with the tuneful,
circelike song, that the she does not
possess these special errors she has
not kinship with the scarlet mother.
But, alas, let us look deeper and we
find, as usual, that "blood will tell"
and that the sins of a shameless
mother are visited upon her self-satis-
fed chillren.
"Thy Word is Truth" so said Him
who spake with His Fathers author
ity Take it in hand some day and