Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-15

! press charges prepaid. He worked
| His miracles, which were His di
vine credentials, to show the world
| that He was what He claimed to
be-the Son OF God. And He gave
power to His disciples to work
miracles to prove that the church
| OF God was of divine origin.
Now in these verses the Catho-
lies base largely their claim of the
lnfallibility of the pope. But Jesus
said to Peter. Whom say ye that
ann" Peter said: Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God"
Jesus said: Blessed art thou, ST.
mon. Flesh and blood didn't re-
real that to you, but My Father
which is in heaven. / say unto We
that thou art flesh and bone. Upon
this rock will ] build the church,
and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it." He referred
to the fact that upon our confess
sion and upon our consistent liv-
ing He would build His church, and
there are not demons enough on
earth or in hell to rip one single
on the church of Jesus Christ.
So from that the Catholics af-
firm that Peter went to Rome A. d.
A, and he was crucified with his
head hanging downward, and his
body lies buried tonight beneath
the sixteenth chanceI in St. Pc
ter's, the grandest church ever
erected on the face of the earth for
the worship of the Son of God.
In nearly every city I visit I am
asked by some why | don't preach
against the Catholics. / will tell
you. We have got too much dirt
and rubbish in the Protestant
dooryard-it keeps me busy about
it.
There are just as good Chris
tians in the Protestant church as
there are in the Catholic, and there
are just as good hypocrits. too. I
don't want to make a bum Catholic
out of a good Protestant. nor a
bum Protestant out of a good Cath
Ollie. If you are a Catholic l hope
to God you will be a better one.
and if you are a Protestant 1 hope
you will be a better one.
The Roman Catholic church has
said high mass over the rotten re-
mains of Unitarianism in all ages
of the worlds history. Notwith-
standing that Harvard College
Unitarianism is becoming passive.
And l say the Roman Catholic
church has said high mass over
the remains of Unitarianism be-
cause the Roman Catholic church
has been loyal to the fact that
Jesus Christ was conceived by the
Holy Ghost, born OF the Virgin
Mary, suffered under Pontius Pr
late. And any church that elimin-
ates Jesus Christ's divinity will go
down, and it ought to go down
Now, 1 tell you l don't propose to
stand around and let anybody
make a battle on Jesus Christ.
And as a result, we have our
epistles of Paul and the gospels of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
and they are nothing but the pen
ned orders from our Divine Com
delivered by
friends to the apostolic staff Off
GERS, and by them in turn to the
rank and file. And they tell us
what to do and what not to do and
the reward if we do and the pun
ishment if we don't so you may
know now whether you are going
to heaven or hell. There is no fog
or mist over your mind.
Holy Spirits Soldier.
The church member is the Holy
Spirits soldier because he is
threatened by his public oath OF
and loyalty. He has
proclaimed before heaven and
earth his willingness to forsake /
house and land and wife and chill. /
dren for the gospels sake.
In the olden times the oath was I,
binding. There was Daniel, brave !
noble, loyal Jew, II years OF age. /
living in Babylon; and this city is /
a Sunday school compared to Bah F
ylon in those days; yet he refused 7
to hit the booze and become soak I
ed and saturated with the sin of /
the day, and there was a gang |
Of goodfor-nothing. God-forsaken
crooks who wanted TO get their
hand in and fitch from the public I
treasury, and against that bunch
Of pirates stood this brave, loyal
Jew. So they knew unless they
could frame something up on him
that they would never be able to
fitch anything from the treasury
And they could find no occasion of /
iault, for Daniel stood four-square.
my friends, and so they enveigled
he old king into issuing a decree
hat if anybody worshipped any
god except him for 80 days he
would put him in the den of lions.
And when Daniel knew the decree
was signed he used to open his
window toward Jerusalem-every
lew when he prayed opened hts
window toward Jerusalem the
same as every Mohammedan when
lie prayed spread his prayer rug
tut, turned his face toward Mecca
n Bagdad. We don't refer to
3agdad any more-we cut Bagdad
'ut of the prayer book. Did you
,ver hear me say anything good
lbout the Turk? If YOU hear me
iay anything good about him while
am here you will know l am
,ughouse and nuts.
l.
HerOd's High Rollers.
Then there was Herod. He had
bunch of high rollers that had
ome to see him and they were
III soused up and were lolling !
round, my friends. When the en-
was at its height. Her I
'dias showed Salome out into the
Dom to do her little stunt. He said
o her: Now, go like a twin-six.'' (
he had anklets and bracelets on.
ut she didn't have clothes enough /