The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-01-28
N Calvin Was Sclrriaouas.
Fling Him QUIT OF the
u. S. Mails!

~SA~AAA~~
OUR Presbyterian brethren had better do
- around, and get ready to kill bears.
find that the Father Of their church wrote
lots Of stuff that was "scurrilous."
The Pope's American serfs are nightly
down upon any scurrility except their own;
and therefore, / am looking for John Calvin
Washington City, New York. Chicago, and
other towns where the Italian Pope rules the
roost
To show you how scurrlous was the
language of the Father of the Presbyterian
Church, / will quote few of his remarks
hoping that these few will not cause any adj
ditional arrests in Birmingham, Alabama:
God punished the drowsiness OF Eli, neglecting
as he did to punish his children But the apostle
PauI directs that the children Of a Christian
bishop should be Of good conversation and fear
ing the Lord. Now, pope, Paul Farnese, has
a son, and this son has children and moreover he
has bastards; and this old man, who stands on
the verge of the grave, this haf-corrupted carcass
looks still for children. Who is Peter Louis?
[ could relate the most horrible things of him,
and should only speak the truth. Italy has never
before produced such monster Why, then, do
you slumber, pope, while the debaucheries of your
son ascend to heaven; while the whole earth is
filled with their STENCIL and all the world cries
aloud against them? Would not this be the time
for you to exercise your severity? What shall
say Of his avarice; of his frauds; of his cruelty?
All are astounded at his Wickedness. His father
alone beholds it with Indifference If Eli then
was punished for his laxity, shall pope Paul re-
main UNPUBLISHED, when he closes both his eyes
and his mouth, and fosters such iniquty calling
1t good? Thou shameful pope, hast thou no fear
OF the judgments of God?
But we have spoken enough Of your natural
children. You boast yourself the father of all
Christians, and yet continue silent amidst the
distractions Of the world, which you are suffering
to perish If God then did not spare Eli what
punishment ought you not to expect? But will
press the matter still more strongly upon YOU
How is it with your family? What are your
Wears about? What is the work carried on?
How do your clergy behave themselves? Could
we find S0dom where greater wicledness Dre-
vailed where sin was less punished or where
1nlQulty more shamefully exalted itself? And
can you believe then that the wrath of God will
pursue you for this fault that is for suffering
the Protestants to enjoy peace and Justice till the
religious differences are settled?'
Calvin next shows, from church history that
the rlght OF assembling councils belonged to the
primitive times, to the emperor, and not to the
pope, and then continues in a style of ironv to
say: what marvellous change, the pope is
become SO pious, that if he only hears that the
Professionals are to be left in peace for while
he is seized With an ague! But it is as wonder
full to see, on the other side, with what perfect
security he confers with harIots. % thou goddess
apostate, what hast thou agreeing with these
words? Thou art the chief and leader of all that
IS athestic; thou spendest thy DAYS i'm framjna
reasons, wars and frauds of every kind: i'm snoiI-
ing and running the innocent or in Tnarrtno reli.
gIOn by the viIest plots; and what time then re-
mains to thee, thou devotest pleasantly to the
society OF thine epecurian friends or walIowest
like swine in the midst of thine harIots"
(Life and Times of John Calvin translated
from the German of Paul Henry, d. D. Robt
Carr & Bro, N Y, 1853 pps 482-3)