Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-06-10
EXPOS|T|ONS OF ROMAN||SM.

LIN VhsAVSV VI hVlhlAllt~H
PRESBYTERIANS RAP ROME.
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
An Example Of Combined ROmanism an
Rum. What Foreigners do for a Town.
1.-THE general assembly view
with serious concern the growtl
and pernicious activity of tina
powerful politico religious organ
ization known as tho Church O
Rome, which is and always ha,
been a menace or blight to civi
and religious liberty of every kline
wherever it has obtained a foot
hold; that 1t views with serious
concern the dangerous apathy
pervading all Glasses cf Protes-
tants In this this county touching
this menace"
On May 25, the Southern Pres.
byterian general assembly, in ses
sion at Kansas City, reafirmed
the findings of the Synod of Vir-
giuia and declared Its purpose to
oppose the activities of the
Church of Rome in American
politics. Says the Kansas City
Star, in its report cf the proceed.
ings:
1T was made plain when the
debate on the overture was start
ed that the objection of the Pres
byterians to Catholicism is not
against any spiritual doctrine or
action directly connected with it,
but with the alleged political &C.
tivity of the Catholic church.
Assertions that the conditions
with respect to Catholic interfer-
ence in affairs of state are alarm
ing and that the Catholic church
hod gone 30 tar as to interfere in
national elections and that it was
in control of the Associated Press,
were made.
"The J. 8. Lyons of Louisville,
retiring moderator, who was one
of those who most strongly en-
phasizsd that the attitude was
directly on the ground of political
activity aid no more, said that
the assembly would have had to
surrender its charter unless it took
some quiet, conservative action
with regard to the Catholic church,
"'A condition menaces ou1
highest liberties, Doctor J. Addi.
son Smith of Murfreeshoro said :
1t is known that the edict from
the pope at Rome was found or
the body of Major Butt, who died
Oh the Titanic, commanding al
Cath holics TO vote for a candidate
other THAI Woodrow Wilson il
she presidential election. Ever
the Associated Press is controlled
by the fine hand Of the man on
the Tiber The facts are absolute
ly appslling.'"
The usual ccterie of opologistt
for Rome were present with theil
usual apologies and declarations
of faith in the goodness of papa
intentions; but the assembly
voiced the awakening sense of ths
American people in coming on
clearly against the greatest men
ace to civilization and popula
government.
THE GREATEST THING IN THE WoBLl
The greatest thing in the worlt
is LIFE. Human life is tn
highest form of life with whicl
we come in daily contact becaus
1T includes all the faculties inner
ent in other life and adds those o
the developed mind, thinking
feeling and willing. Life is tn
divine element in human exist
ence. To merely exist is no homo
TO man. for in 80 doing he re
mali 9 on q parity with the roc
and clod; but when he lives in tn
full meaning of the term, his rig b
to dominion over the earth be
comes apparent.
And what is life? 1t seems
be quality SO omnipresent as t
be wholly wanting IN practicall
nothing. But 1t is not the lowe
forms Of life that we have to des
with just now, we can leave thoa
finer points to the biologists
What is it in mankind that COL
stitutes living in distinction frol
existing? Here we come to
practical problem that bears o
everyday affairs. Do you live {
do 20 merely exist? To exist
merely to be; but to live is SOM
, thing more. Life is a conditio
of human beings which normal
extends over some thrse.scol
3 years or more, beginning with a
y innocent weakling, developing il
= to an adult, somewhat damage
and somewhat restored in the pr,
cess, and ending, go far as ii
earth state is concerned, in co
o lapse of the body and it's activitie
! Somewhere in that period ii
| question: occurs to the livin1
e where did l come from? Whit
- er going? And every individu