The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-01-10
Blasphemous Pictures Shown in Socialist
Magazine Make Sport of all
Things Sacred
Articles Attacking all Churches and Church
Goers, Catholic and Non-Catholic
Answered by Hon. Bird S. Coler

| list mind of Eastman tortured the
declarations:
us 1T surprise, then, to hear
his Martin Luther's) own spiritual
offspring. this Protestant Episcopal
church of America, in the year 1913
endorsing the perpetuation of child
labor on grounds of Christian vir.
tue?"
The Roman Catholic church as we'll
as the Protestant Episcopal must re-
ceive it's share of calumny from this
Socialist. He describes beautifully
vesper service in an Italian church
where the Italian mothers contributed
their pennies at the collection There
may be those who would see in this
sacrifice of the poor for the glory of
God and the charities maintained by
the Catholic church, a measure of the
stupendous meaning her message has
for them. There may be those in
whose minds are images of ST. Francis
laboring among strangers, in poverty
and amid dangers and hardships that
might daunt the most heroic spirit:
of Father Marquette carrying the
cross into our own black wilder
nesses; Of Father Damien ministering
to the lepers; but such images have
no place in the mind of Mr.. Max East
man, whose activity in the intellectual
world somehow suggests menace to
civilization not less sinister than the
recent activity of Mr.. Monk Eastman
in the social underworld. Like the
cheapest of bigots he knows no priests
except fat priests. So this is the lie
with which he concludes his descrip-
tion of that vesper service:
Poor anguished dupes of the
hope of Heaven, poor mothers.
pinching your own children's bellies
to fatten the wallets of those fat
priests. The Roman Catholic church
is the most tragically stupendous
swindle that human and animal ma
ture ever combined to produce"
Protestantism Assaiied.
Does Professionalism generally es-
cape the attention of Mr.. Eastman?
Oh, no! There is in it that hated be-
lief in the divinity of Christ, in the
justice and power and wisdom of
God, which will in no wise correspond
with the basic postulate of Socialism
the materialistic conception of his.
tory" This is Mr.. Eastman's COM
ment on Professionalism:
And then the Reformation! Great
indignation and revolt against foreign
authority and exploitation-a removal
of external symptoms, redisposition
of internal dogmas, some small in.
clination perhaps to social reform
but the same proud bigotry of resist
ance to democracy and all true knowl-
edge and the doctrine of love. Here
is Luther replying to the moderate
demands of the peasant revolt in Ger
many in 1924:
There should be no serfs because
Christ has freed us all! What is
that we hear? That is to make
Christian freedom wholly bodily.
Did not Abraham and the other
patriarchs and prophets have serfs?
Read what st. Paul says of servants
who in all times have been serfs.
So this article is straight against
the gospel, and moreover it is rob-
berry; since each man would take
his person from his lord to whom It
belongs. This article would
make all men equal and convert the
Ispiritual kingdom of Christ into an
external worldly one. @
THAT is your recently Reformed
Church of Christ condemning the de-
spised and rejected to three centuries H
or more of despisal and rejection be- 4
fore their humble asking for some lit
tie breath of the free air of God
should be granted. That is your great.
believing champion Of the right Of
the individual in religion, Martin /.
Luther" 3
All Religion Repudiated.
And of the Christian church in gen.
eral, Mr. Eastman has this to say \,
which logically he might say Of al 4
belief in God, for that is the heart Of (
his hatred: g.
Jesus Christ. That revolutionary III
spirit quenched and lost to civilixa- 4
ton because this institution which
seized upon his name betrayed him ,S5I
for silver. For let there be no MI