The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-20
THE .JEFFERSONEAN-

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necessary to possess and read the
Bible. No matter what God says or
teaches in His Holy Book, you are to
have no opinion of your own con-
corning it, for you don't know If
the Bible says that a certain horse is
Or was white, and the pope and his
infallible teaching society say it is
black, you are to believe the pope
and his infallible teaching society.
If Jesus Christ tells you to love and
pray for your enemies, and the pope
tells you to kill them, you are to be-
lieve and obey the pope upon pain
of the destruction Of your mortal
body here and the eternal damnation
Of your soul hereafter. In a word,
as RomaniGm teaches that there is
no salvation for 9ny human being
outside her own pale-her commu-
nion, her infallible teaching society,
her doctrine and order-she practi-
cally and substantially presumes to
annul all other systems, abrogate all
law, set at naught and dethrone the
eternal God and make the eternal
salvation Of sinners depend, not up
on God, not upon His mercy and
upon the pope of Rome, for when it
comes to a final showdown and last
analysis this is the substance Of Ro-
man Catholicism. But, so far as my
eternal salvation is concerned, | con-
fess that [ am not much afraid of
this little man-god of Romanism,
whose breath is in his nostrils, and
who, in the scale of Gods creation
and estimate, is nothing more than
a grasshopper, and is accounted
nothing and less than nothing and
venity, and if he does have three
hundred millions Of other grass
hoppers adoring and following him,
he is still grasshopper. (See Isa.,
40th chap Lafayette, our revolu-
tionary friend, who was born a Ro-
manist, says: eff the liberties of
the American people are ever de-
Surveyed, they will fail by the hands
Of the ROmigh clergy" Gladstone,
the grand old man Of England, says:
Rome requires convert who joins
her to forfeit his moral and mental
freedom, and to place his loyalty and
civil duty at the mercy of another"
Abraham Lincoln said: "If the
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know Of the fierce hatred Of the gen
crafty OF the priests Of Rome
against our institutions, our schools,
our most sacred rights, and our so
dearly bought liberties, they would
drive them away, tomorrow, from
among us, Or would shoot them as
traitors!i" And Lincoln prophesied
that the Catholics would bring on
here the bloodiest war in the records
Of human history, resulting in pop
cry being swept from this fair land
Of ours, and that after that we will
have peace. See "Americanism or
Romanism, which," by John T.
Christian, ''Hassells Church His
tory" 'Two Witnesses" etc. Rome's
history shows that her policy is to
be the most kind or the most cruel
according as her interests demand,
and her priests are among the
shrewdest schemers and politicians
in the world; and be it remembered
that success and prosperity from
her viewpoint meansSthe ruin, down
fall, and annihilation of our civil
and religious liberties. Now, Mr..
Editor, in view Of the facts and
principles to which l have called
your attention, which are but a bare
hint, at the whole, of which I pre-
sumo you are better informed than
| am [ desire you to write and tell
me how you, and our true American
journalists generally, can afford to
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