The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-09
HOW READING THE BIBLE CON-
VERTS CATHOLICS TO
CHRISTIANITY

how the Roman Catholic priesthood
is Withholding the Bible from their
people, Names of the parties are
not given for personal reasons, but
the facts stated are true and can be
established in every particular
A young American woman who
had been brought up in the Protest
ant faith became intimately acquaint-
ed with an italian young woman who
had been reared in the Roman Gath
Ollie Church, and like many such
women was very devout in her re-
ligion. On several occasions these
young women occupied the same bed
room together.
The Italian woman remarked to
members Of the family Of her friend
that this friend did not say her Hail
Mary before retiring at night, but
simply talked to God in plain Eng
lish instead, just as one friend would
talk to another, The expressed as
constituent Of the Italian woman at
this method of prayer opened oppor-
tunity which the other young lady
gladly accepted to read the Bible
to her astonished and interested
friend.
The Italian woman was so deeply
interested and impressed that, when
her brother-in-laW came over from
Baltimore, she arranged for her
friend to read the Bible to him also.
He is an educated young Italian and
a devout Roman Catholic. He be-
came so interested that he made in
curry where he could obtain a Bible
and was told that any book store
could supply it or that most any
Protestant minister would give him
a copy if he were to ask for it.
Securing a copy of the Bible, he
proceeded to read it tC a number OF
the young people of italian descent
of his acquaintance in Washington
with such effect that he has thereby
produced the conditions described in
the following letter in which he is
mentioned as the brotherin-law Of
the woman mentioned in the letter
and who is the same Young Italian
woman first mentioned herein. The
letter with names omitted follows:
my Dear -: have not
been very we'll since I saw You and
have not been out much, but on
Sunday | went over TO the S. w
and it is strange what is. going on
there One woman has her mind
full of strange nOtiOnS-is excited
cannot eat or sleep we'll She seems
to have heard what set her wrong
from her brother-in-laW who came
from Baltimore, He has gathered
around him as many as twenty peo-
pie, mostly men. They meet every
evening and are noisy and excited.
When the American ladies go they
are Quieter, but still they have these
strange ideas. No American started
this. 1t is all italian. But they
read the Bible-say the Bible has
been kept from them by the Cath
Ollie Church. We did not give them
Bibles. suppose they brought
them from Baltimore,
But we, you know, think every
one ought to read the Bible. 1t is
the word of Cod Your priest viii
tell you that. He Will tell you he
reads it for you. But we think every
one ought to read it. And can
show you where the Pope-not this
one, the last--said it is mistake
not to give the Bible to the people.
All we-or any one in the world --
know Of the Father in heaven, the
Savior Jesus Christ. heaven, eternal
life we set from the Dib!e So
whenever we find people who want
to read it we help chem. WE arc
sorry these people nave these straG62
notions. Your true TREND,