The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-21

gained by wearing the ordinary Scapu
lar may be gained by wearing or car
rying on our person the scapular
medal that has been blessed, provided
of course, that we have been enrolled
in the scapular.
Where can | obtain the red, black
blue and white scapulars? Can any
priest enroll one in these scapulars?
The red black, blue and white soap
ulars may be obtained through The
L. NJ. I,ohmann Co., st. Paul, Mimi.
To secure the indulgences granted
by the church to those who wear these
Scapulars, one must be enrolled by a
priest having the proper authority. A
priest that has not the required au-
thorization may obtain it from the Su-
perior General of the Order to which
each scapular primarily belongs. For
example, the faculty to enroll one in
the red scapular is granted to other
priests by the Superior General of the
Lazarists, to which order PiuX TX di-
rectly granted the faculty of blessing
this scapular and investing the faith
tul with it.
How did the Methodist church orisi-
nate?
The Methodist church was founded
by John Wesley, who was born in the
year 1903 and died in the year 1891.
He studied at Oxford University, Eng
land, and was an ordained minister OF
the Anglican church. After a short
period of ministerial activity, he re-
turned to Oxford and Joined small
band of students for the purpose of
more serious study and a more me-
thodical religious life. This probably
was the origin of the name "Metho-
dists." This group practiced frequent
prayer, regular fasting and reception
of the communion Of their church.
They met with opposition in the Angli-
can church; and after spending three
years III America and then assoCiating
himself with the Moravian sect, John
Wesley with George Whitefield organ
lied the first Methodist society in 1888.
They soon disagreed over the question
of salvation, and the first division of
the sect occurred. Wesley was soon
excluded entirely from the Anglican
communion and he was led by Circum-
stances to give his movement Il sepa-
rate organization. Wesley was very
religious man and really great man
ill moving the souls of men. He APP
pealed to the common, ignorant mass
es that other Protestant bodies had
neglected and considered hopeless.
He was great organizer, although a
great autocrat, and constituted him
self the first, last and only court of
appeal. In 1874 Wesley ordained
Thomas Coke as superintendent for
America and Methodism was introduc-
ed into this country. Wesley at first
preached the total depravity of man,
but in his ripening years, he practic-
ally abandoned this doctrine; he &C
copied the Bible as the one source of
divine knowledge and the supreme
test Of all theology; he admitted only
two Sacraments: Baptism and the
Lords Supper; he also maintained
what has been styled "Epochal CONVEX
Sion''-that man could determine the
exact place and precise moment when
he heard the voice Of the Lord speak
ing to him. In fine, Wesleyanism is
simply Professionalism. Disruption and
division followed close upon the death
of John Wesley, and in America there
are enumerated some sixteen Mctho-
dist sects. The Catholic objection to
the sect is that it did not proceed from
Christ and does not teach Christ's full
doctrine.
Do Catholics accept Llorente's state.
ment as correct when he says that the
Spanish lnquisition burned $1,000 per.
sons and punished 100000 in some 9th.
CIR fashion?
Not only Catholic authors, but also
Professionals, such as Prescott and
Ranke, have shown Llorente's Stats.
tics to be most improbable. Llorente
claims to have had access to Spanish
state papers, which he says he burned
after using them. Does this look as if
he were honest?
But supposing his reports were re-
liable. We must remember that these
$1,000 executions we're the fruit of $50
years. We must remember, too, that
the Inquisition had jurisdiction over
murder, adultery, and other kinds of
crimes besides heresy. How many of
the $1,000 were put to death for her
esy we cannot tell. Llorente destroy
cd the records.
We are told by unquestioned histor-
ians that Henry VIII put to death r.,
600 persons during his reign of TWEEN.
ty-eight years. Hamilton's History
of Quarter Sessions from Elizabeth to
Anne" gives for the year 1898, 500 ex-
ecutions in the forty English coun-
ties Mackay's Curious Supersti-
tions" is authority for the statement
that, under law passed through the
influence of John Knox, $4,000 witches
we're burned in Scotland up to the &C
Cession of James !. Between 1900 and
1850, 100000 supposed witches perish
ed in England. During the Long Par
lament, 5000 of these unfortunates
were done away with.
The crime of witchcraft was only
one of those which came before the
Inquisition; let us compare Llorente's
$1,000 executions in $50 years of her
esy. murder, witchcraft, adultery, etc,
with the 10000 English executions of
witches in eighty years, and we may
wnIl CIV that Ind 40 tho InulIiSitiO