The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-01-31

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classes Of men. he quoted Father
Crowley in saying that "One-ibird
Of the priests are rotten; one-thirl
are bad and the other third wall
stand Watching
Spurgeon read from the Douav
version (Catholic) Of the New Tes-
lament, / Tim. 4:i-3; IL Tim. 3;
"a and Rev. 18th chapter 10 show
that Rome is there referred 10 aud
that the past and present condition
Of the system perfectly fulfill these
prophecies. He contendcd that the
very system, from the inception 10
the present is inimical 10 the purity
Of the priesthood. He supported this
contention by reading Catholic
authors number Of them, aud
stating that all Others agreed with
these. Along this line he showed
that no less than eighty councils
had accused the Romish Clergy Of
lmpurity and had legislated against
It, passing laws upon every conceiy-
able sin known 10 man. He traced
the impurity Of the priesthood from
Paul III, who was publicly accused
of having Ia concubines, down
through an almost unbroken line
OF popes with their mistresscs and
bastard children, also naming n
humber Of the popes who them
selves were also bastards. Pastors
"Life of the Popes" was quoted
from 10 show the general wicked
uess Of the popes and the consequent
cussedness Of the lesser priests,
bringing out the fact that those prel-
ates and the priest Schmidt must
have been taught the same things
and were the result Of the same sys-
tenn. Extracts from Chiniquy's
"Priest, Woman and the Confes-
sionaP we're read 70 show there had
been no change from the earlier
times, and gave testimony from ex-
runs in support Of this contention.
PRIEST BoNIFAcE's FIRST SPEECH
The priest excused himself for
not having had time to prepare as
Spurgeon had, and he had not been
On the floor five minutes till the
listeners were forced to agree that
he had not prepared for the job he
had undertaken. He begged for
fair dealing and imputed unfairness
in arranging the debate, spending
several minutes in a bombastic APP
peal for effect, but finally switched
off onto Senate Document No. 100,
which had not yet been introduced,
claiming it the work OF ga bigoted
agent" He claimed that the fact
that so councils Of the church had
legislated against the wickedness
Of the priesthood was evidence that
the church and the clergy desired
TO be pure and "that there was some
good in the church" Said priest
Schmidt is crazy and should be in
an asylum.
Here the priest went up in the
air and accused Mr.. Spurgeon Of be-
ing a criminal, because he does not
take his wife with him all the time,
The chairman called him down, but
the priest contended that he had the
right to indulge in personalities
After several minutes contention,
he switched off onto some quota.
tions from the scriptures to prove
celibacy a scriptural condition. Not
quotation applied TO the question
and the audience sighed and cough
ed in derision. He said the church
does not forbid priests to marry,
but that he, cas- a priest, forbid him
self to marry" He then laid upon
Mr.. Spurgeon the task Of proving
every priest in the Catholic organi.
zation lecherous, which he contended
COu4u uOb ut uouc. OLt VI INC rs
founding courses of reasoning he
used was: "The mule is a member
Of the equine family, therefore all
horses are jackasses." This raised
o howl of mirth. His speech was Sc
childish that it would be a shame tc
use valuable MENACE space to re.
cord it. he said il all priests are
not indicted by the grand jury
Spurgeon has lost; that the ~iury
will be silly to decide for Spur.
geon." Unable to produce argu.
ment, he made Spurgeon a PROPOSE
ton to find one bad Protestant
preacher for every bad Catholic
priest he might find-offering to BET
$500 on it. Here the chairman
called him down again for leaving
the subject; priest disputes with
chairman, and Spurgeon rising tc
a point Of order laid the priest wide
open, asserting that he did not know
the first principles Of debate, and
demanding that he be held to the
subject. Priest completely ratified