The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-12
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mended by, the Roman Catholic
church as fearful sins that MUST BE
CONFESSED, AND ATONED FOR
BY WHATEVER PENALTY. THE
PRIESTS SEE FIT TO IMPOSE, for,
remember, that church is a church
of LAW, POWER AND PENALTIES.
This is the great system of Jesuit
ism that has crushed the world for
thousand years wherever it has had
the POWER. This is the system
which has declared itself against our
PUBLIC SCHOOLS. This is the sys-
tenn which has declared it's purpose
to dominate the United States. This
is the system that has a great COM
mlttees to censor the PUBLIC PRESS
OF our country. This is the system
that has crushed religious and civil
liberty in every nation of the world
where it has had power to do so.
is 1T OUR DUTY TO TURN ON
THE LIGHT? Or timidly to fawn till
liberty is gone?
The tragedy of it ALL the deepest
tragedy, is not in any personal
tragedy of life that grows out of the
confessional, and there have been
many Of these, but the great tragedy
OF people look to the confessional
and the priests as the means Of get
ting rid of their sins, when the con-
fessional and the priests are wholly
unscriptural and the priests have no
right nor power whatever to forgive
sins. The whole thing is unscrintu-
raj.
In the New Testament, CHRIST
is the only PRIEST. ''He is a Priest
forever We are to Come to God
through Him" 'SThe blood of Jesus
Christ His son-God's Son-Aelean-
seth us from all sim He ever liv-
eth to make intercession for u.s."
There is NO OTHER NAME GIVEN
UNDER HEAVEN AMONG MEN
WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED.
He is "Our Priest" and He has been
Tempted in all points like as -
yet WITHOUT SIN" All, there is
the glory of Christ as our Priest.
He is WITHOUT SIN. There HAS
NEVER LIVED A HUMAN PRIEST
WHO WAS SUNLESS, for all human
beings 'have sinned and come short
Of the glory of God" Christ is the
way, the truth, and the life ''No
man cOmeth to the Father but by
Him" He is willing and able to
"save all who come unto God
through Him. Come unto me, all
We that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest" "He that
seeketh flndeth, to him that knock
eth it shall be opened, he that asketh
receiveth." Every soul may APP
proach Christ directly in prayer and
be fully and freely forgiven.
There is another thing about
Christ's forgiving power,-when He
forgives He gives power to live right.
He forgave the woman who came to
Him and said to her: go, and sin
no MORE" and He said that because
He had thoroughly cleansed her, and
given her power so that the evil she
once loved she now~hated. And this
is quite different from repeated con-
fessionals, repeated forgiveness
and reflected SHINING.
Besides all this, many things
which the Roman Catholic church
put down as sins, are not sins. It is
not a mortal sin not to go to the con-
fessional It is not a mortal sin not
to hear mass. Is it a sin to go to
Public schools? Is it a sin to read
good books which some priest hap
pened not to like? Is it a sin to go
to a Protestant church, church
that has suffered persecution in order
to keep an open Bible for the people?
is 1T a sin to associate with Protest
ants? The enlightened world does
not believe that these things are sin.