The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-11-14

Democratic institution at all. I won
der when it repented of it's countless
murders and robberies; when it shed
bitter tears Of shame and remorse
over it's record, centuries long. a
record from which it seems hell it.
self might shrink with horror and
1oathing. | wonder when the petit
coated Papa of Rome came down
from his highly exalted throne, cast
aside his triple crown, surrendered
all his blasphemous titles and ack-
nowledged the truth that he and his
predecessors have constituted the gil
gantic fraud of the ages. For Rome
has been SO thoroughly revolution
lied, SO genuinely regenerated, so
entirely purged from her ancient un-
cleanness, and SO completely recon
structed upon an entirely different
foundation, that the Romish system
Of our day is as unlike the Romish
system of past ages, as the black,
winter midnight is unlike the cloud
less summer monday. And the
Papa has certainly clambered down
out Of ''St. Peters Chair" and gra-
ciously condescended to be regarded
merely as man, if that priest told
the truth, when on Sunday morning,
October the goth, 1912, in the
Catholic church," in Chattanooga,
Tenn, he declared in my hearing,
the Roman Catholic church" to be
the most Democratic institution on
the face of the earth. For an insti-
tuition that exalts it's own chief rep
resentative to the very heavens,
crowns him king of Kings, and
Lord of Lords" and claims for him
the right divine to rule supremacy
over the nations of earth, breathes
no more Of the spirit of Democracy,
than hell breathes Of the spirit Of
Christianity. A Democratic institu-
tion indeed! God save us from such
Democracy as Rome stood for,
taught and practiced when she was
mistress of the world: and has Rome
repented in sack cloths and ashes?
Has Rome shed bitter tears Of shame
and remorse over the awful record
of her oppression and her butcheries?
Has Rome lost her ambition to exer-
else supreme temporal authority,
and has she confined the jurisdiction
of the Pope to the spiritual realm?
Every informed man and woman in
America knows Rome has done none
Of these things.
A Democratic institution indeed!
God save our country always from
such Democracy as Rome practised
when the world lay bleeding under
her iron heel. And has Rome re-
pented Of the countless deeds that
hell itself, it seems might blush to
own? When she was mistress Of the
world, her law was that the Pope
was the supreme spiritual and tenn
pOral ruler in all the eartn, and her
policy was to enforce his DEGREES
with hellish instruments of torture,
and with sword and fire. Has Rome
repealed that law, and has she re-
pudiated that policy? Every in
formed man and woman in America
knows she has not.
A Democratic institution indeed!
Does Rome stand for the complete
and eternal separation of Church
and State? Does Rome stand for the
education of the masses, and the
maintenance of a school system in
dependent of church control? Does
Rome stand for free speech, and I'M
throttled press, and the right of all
men to search the Scriptures for
themselves, and to worship God &C
cording to the dictates of their own
conscience, unquestioned, and unmo-
Tested by any? Does Rome stand
for a government of the people, for
the people, by the people, and a code
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