The Penn's Grove record., 1919-01-10

the king" Does n rope honof hlng
Emmanuel of Italy? Did Peter ever
say: 81 am king. Fear me?"
Does the Pope send word from
Rome. Honor me. | am king over
kings and presidents or | will destroy
your business. Why should Caesar
Hyde be allowed to hide behind Jesus
Jekell?.
Benighted Austrians
In our editorial December 9th,
where it is alleged We insulted the
Pope and thru him his worshippers,
We spoke of the Pope's most be-
niqhted subjects, the Austrians.
In the n. Y. Christian Advocate,
January ?, 1919, was published the
following: "In that very city Of
Trieste, which Italy has redeemed,
Methodist preachers have been thrown
into prison for conducting public re-
ligious services. In several of the
Balkan States where the Greek Or,
thodox Church is by law established
the same medieval intolerance still
holds sway.
as it not incumbent upon America
and Great Britain, which have profit
ed longest and most from this funda-
mental principle of democracy, to
raise their united voices at the peace
table in favor of religious liberty
thruout all the lands affected by the
treaties of peace ~ ,
If the Pope's influence can extend
from Rome to Penns Grove and pre-
scribe what people shall read and
think. could he not advise religious
liberty nearer home when he advises
against constitutional liberty in Penns
Grove.
A protestant oma who was
amazed at the article in the Record
December 81 asked her husband by
what right the editor had to publish
such statements. He replied "They
were facts taken from other news
papers. histories and the Bible, Douay
Version"
The U. S. Constitution says: Con
gress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion or pro-
hibiting the free exercise thereof; or
~abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press"
The constitution of New Jersey
says: every person may freely
speak, write and publish his senti-
ments on all subjects. No law shall
be passed to restrain or abridge the
liberty of speech or of the press"
We grant the civil right and
ecclesiastical duty of Rev. L. j.
Travers that we claim for ourselves.
believe all will see that in speak
ing of the benighted Austrians, we
did not include the enlightened
Americans in this region who have
greater fealty to the rights and lib
critics they enjoy here than to any
mystic fetishism there may be in
Rome.
How Liberty Was Won
May | not recall the historic facts
that the first civil liberties won from
King John at Runnymede, in 1915,
by Magma Charta, was declared an
nulled by Pope Innocent III and no
liberty has ever been won by the peo-
pie from that time to 1918, except
what has been fought for and not
given by the Holy See.
At Salem, N. j., was the first
English Quaker settlement in 1851 by
John Fenwick, who was a captain in
Oliver Cromwell's army, who fought
sword in their hand, to win these lib
critics which all enjoy. When Fen
wick came to get away from the
Catholic rule of James II of England,
because religious liberty was prohibit
ed, John Bunyan was in prison writ
ing Pilgrims Progress, because he
would not conform to the methods of
Catholic religious worship established
by law.
The ancestors of the editor came
from Ireland about 200 years ago to
enjoy personal liberties. Is it very
becoming after 200 years for others
for which their ancestors never fought
nor their spiritual fathers never gave
them and ask us to conform to the
of a society to which one does
not belong, or to worship an ecclesias-
teal %potentate in foreign land.
Is u allegiance to be greater, thru
mystic fetishism, to a religious socie-
official head in Rome than to the
Constitution of the United States ?
Conformity. UncOnfOrmity
Walter E. Edge is Governor of New
Jersey, but outside of the state he has
jurisdiction and entitled to no more
official recognition, honors, nor emolu-
Joseph F. Berry is Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church and
to all other denominations he is a
plain American citizen. No one is
asked to recognize him otherwise.
Paul Matthews is Bishop of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church in New Jer-
sey, but outside of that religious So
ciety he is a plain citizen entitled to
personal nor political recognition.
Do you catch the idea that outside of
the particular society a man belongs
that the office in that society is en-
titled to no recognition?
When Joseph Sarto, an Italian citi-
zen, was elected to the highest office in
the Roman Catholic Church and be-
Pope Plus X, he was entitled to
the respect and allegiance of the mem
bers of that religious society, but not
any other persons on the earth.
When another Italian citizen was
Pope and became Pope Bene-