The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-05-06


Then he proceeds to say what Either Horde
man Will do and what he won't do Father
Hardeman will do just the opposite to what this
liar and coward says he will do lie will face the
Protestant husbands and wives of Franklin and
tell them the truth about the laws OF his Church.
His Church nowhere teaches that says that
their marriages invalid and that their children
are Legitimate FAt1Cr I-&rdemans parents are
both PTotestants and married by ? Protest
ant minister; Lis two sisters and their husbands
are Protestants ard were married by Protestant
ministers; he has many relatives in Franklin and
Williamson county who PrOteGtants and
married by Protestant ministers. Do you suppose
that he WoNEd teach or believe or belong to a
Church that taught or believed that these
riages are invalid and their offsp9ngs bastards?
The Catholic Church teaches such thing
this vile creature says teaches, and it il
enable to think thGt Father Hardem2n knows
more about her teachings than this nameless
thing that sets itself up to tell decent people
what other decent people believe.
Softly, "Father": that kind of talk will
pass for Christianity among the bgots of
your church. but will not make a favorable
impression upon well-bred gentlemen, much
less upon real lovers of Christ.
Violent and abusive epithets do not con-
vince: they tend tPcreate the impression that
the angry person who resorts to them, SEEKS
thereby to substitute aZzoy for gold.
In his Encyclical of 1864, Plus TX. pro-
nounces the Course of Rome" upon "all who
teach tibet marriage among Protesta1ats IS
65nding." Consequently, the nfallibIe spokes-
man of Catholic doctrine condemns Harde-
man. and lays him under anathema, for teach
ing that his parents, his sisters, and his Pro
testant relatives lived, or are living, in mar
rage under form that was 'binding."
Plus TX. went further, and he declared
I0f oil tod to
than filthy concubinage."
Let Hardeman order from The Benziger
Brothers. of New York, the book DiSc0rsi d.
Pho Nomo, Ronea, 1872, 1873. (Discourses Of
Plus Ninth, Rome.)
Let him read Vol. 1, page 1913, and Vol 2,
page 355.
Tn those Discourses, the Head Of the Roman
Catholic Church. delivering the doctrine
a0Aich Catholics are bo3uod to receive as IN
faz2i6ze, declared that all Protestant mar
riages, accre no marriages at all.
He said that the living together of Protest
ants, under their forms and ceremonies, was
'merely concubinagc,' "only concubinage,"
"fztAy eo@cu6inoge,' and this lascivious Ital-
ian priest, Pope Plus TX, added, 'the State
prevents the tac0 c0nco5jna1y parties from
repeating and abandoning their gbizty re1a-
TONS TO one anOth@r."
Ehe rotten Old nOeftlne who announced
this infamous doctrine. IN his published dis
courses, was merely reasserting the atrocious
DEGREES Of the Council of Trent
Poor Hardeman! He really does not APP
pear to have known that under the laws Of his
chmch-Iaws $50 years old-he Is a 6asta1d
the fruit Of 'flthy concubinage," the inno-
cent product Of the. guilty relations of his
parents
What about it, Hardenan?
If you had known what was the infamous
position of the Roman Catholic Church as to
Protestant marriages, would you have stig-
matized vOnr father. Your mother. and Your