The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-07-08

living representative Of Christ, 20 all
be sanctions for Us becomes the voice OF
God on earth.
| am sending you, under separate
cover, a June sth, Cdihoho SeAfiAeL,
published IN this city, and wish to
make a few remarks on the article which
appears o. the front page about me.
l admit that | was very "unfortun-
ato' by having been a Sister Of Charity,
% Providence For thirty-one years in tho
Roman CRtholbc church, but fortunate in
having made my escape before | had 70
die brokOn. hearted, like l have seen
many other sisters die.
was transferred against my will, but
not TO Vancouver, to Cranbrook, Il. c.,
and in a tyTannical, unjust manner. Dur
ing eight months / tried " get redress
from Archbishop Christie, who was my
highest church Christ. never even re-
cciyed an answer from him. Whsn that
system Is through 9th the Strls, u docs
not care Vhdt becomes Of them.
left because l could . live that in
human, unjust, oppressiy eold.hearted
machinery hfo any longer That system
does the devil = work clio, ked with re-
ligiOn. We 20 10 converts under decep-
tive inducements We are brought up IN
ignorance and error. Parochial schools
and the confessional gets US there. ANY
means TO gain their ends. When they
have US, and when We can not serve their
ends, tthe SYSTEM is done with us and
the quicker we can die the better they
like IL. / am living because | could not
die. ! wished aud prayed many, many
times that l might die to end 4 all, but
could not, and now | am going 10 do
what good | yan 20 put an end 70 this
awful slavery in this glorious country OF
ours
In the article in the SeHtiRel, you win
notice that there u statement that 1
/ received a considerable sum Of money for
my services TO them. After / left the
sistcrhood / brought suit against them
I for salary due me for my ser zee in 81.
| Vinceut's Hospital in this ely. That
/ suit was settled out Of court, they pay
| ing 70 me little less than two dollars
| ($2.0O) a week for the thirty-one year .
/ service | rendered 20 them. ] will have
/ to admit that, that is a considerable sum
or salary 70 pay 20 one Of their sisters
They have been bounding and boycott,
ing me ever since | left 30 | could
scarcely get work. Now comes mill
tary committee Of eleven Of their sblest
and noblest X. Of CO 10 take action
against one poor old ey.nun.
Tho "holy' paper vas very sure 10
print that | was turned down at the
White Temple, and they were just as sure
not TO print what did happen. After the
trustees Of the White Temple cancelled
the engagement that had been announced
for over two weeks, rented hall, the
best [ could get on short notice, that
seated about FIVE hundred. One and .
half hours before / was due 20 speak,
the hall was packed and the doors locked
so no more would crowd in. When
arrived, foTty-hve minutes before the
hour set 10 begin, there were about
twenty five hundred women in the street
waiting 20 get in the hall. II was i'm
possible for me 10 get In the hall, my
self, and after obtaining police protec-
tior, and q goodly number Cf the true
hlooded Americans around me, Il was
announced to the crowd, that would
speak in the Plaza, in front Of the court
house. After talked there for short
time, DR.. Frank L. Loveland, pastor OF
the First Methodist church, sent word
that his church was open 10 me in the
evening " L Nhnteu IL NeeNlcSS =" sos
!. that I readily accepted, and on that
|. short notice the church. which seats about
twelve hundred, was packed. Our worthy
! friend and brother, Father o O'Hara heard
Of this meeting even on such short notice,
, and informed DR.. Lovelsnd's secretary
that I could not speak in that church OF
course, DIR. Lovelsnd very gently in
formed the atore mentioned o 'Hara, who
was running the First Methodist church
Rev. Loveland's Introduction
In introducing Miss Schofen,
| on the evening Of June 9Th, the
Rev. DR.. Frank L. Loveland, pestor
,, Of the First Methodist church, Of
Portland, said,
; It came to me not very many hours