The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-12-07
Thursday, December 7, 1916. !
SHOULD THE STATE OFFER TO
FREE THESE SLAVES,

through the Menace. 1t stands to-
day the unchal1enged champion Of
Humanity and Christianity.
Excuse me for speaking straight
from the shoulder. I know no
language but plain words of one
meaning, for my past has a deeper
significance Of simplicity of life than
the ordinary use of that word.
The Good Book says, BLESSED are
the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the
Kingdom of Cod
What blessing is there for those
who are of normal talent and kept
a lifetime in stupid ignorance and
compulsory subsection, tyranny worse
than Death?
nave closely followed the &C
counts in the Menace of your persecu-
ton and trials, and in this mornings
paper l see that your life has been
one OF self-sacrifice and devotion to
the cause of good in general, and in
particular for the good Of the country
and posterity.
Who will stand an example for
those coming after US, if we all say,
as many do, LET those coming after
US, if we all say, as many do, LET
those coming after us fight it out for
themselVes?" Is that all the sense
of responsibility and character we
can gather as true Americans for
the blessing of protection under the
Flag of the Free and the ENJOYMENT
OF this prosperous Land of Liberty?
VINO Will stand for the Homes of our
nation, the Homes that were built
Dy our brave Fathers? Who will
stand for the principles that made
our glorious Nation, the principles
Tor which Washington, Franklin,
Jefferson, Lincoln and other great
champions of our free fundamental
Democracy stands, if not we who are
blessed with life now? Should we
not do our utmost to leave the world
better for having lived, or at least
as good as we found it when we
came upon it? Is the love of Lib
erty, Freedom, the loose spirit of
Independence dying in the American
people?
Shall we lose sight of all truths
that bring real happiness and join
hands with deceivers, money-graft-
ers, schemers, and return to worship
of the Golden Calf"
[ am thankful to Cod that we still
have men among us, Gods chosen
few they may me, who are great
enough in honor and loyalty and the
spirit Of righteous independence of
our fathers, who will not surrender
their inalienable right to any man
or power for money or any other
motive
| have been a Roman Catholic Sis
ter thirty-One years. prayed to-
God for Light and mightier power
than my own, the hand of Providence
has led me out of it's denominations.
1t will be four years on April 3rd,
1916, since I left the Sisterhood and
ROmanism, so [ am really only four
years old in the world, for under the
yoke of ROmanism as nun. the
rule of life means bound, tied and
gagged in abject slavery, a living
burial as their Religion tells us that
it is being buried with Christ.
No one but those who live it can
know what this burial in a Nunnery
means. 1t is impossible to escape
the inhumaniZing Influences behind
those walls. Under the Church and
Convent government, we have no
other, and we are not allowed to
read or know anything but the daily
routine which makes us a part of
that vast Notwithstanding and
money-making machine.
In this burial, as we girls believe
with Christ, we are cut off from
every natural and God-born privilege
and right. The mental and physical
faculties which cannot be entirely