The Penn's Grove record., 1919-05-02
Whence Personal Freedom
Professionalism The Foundation
of Great Britain and Amer
ica's Greatness
Protestant Laity Get Mass Same As
Apostles

The last lecture on the Reforma-
ton by Eli Eriksen in the Tabernacle
on Wednesday, evening was the larg-
est attended. Over a thousand were
present, many from the surrounding
region for miles.
Last Saturday evening the lecture
was on the Pope and Vactican. 1t
contains 1000 rooms and eight pal
aces. 1t was paid for by taxes on
people ali over the world. 1t costs
over a million every year to main
ain it by mostly poor people, many
OF whom need the money more than
they need to maintain a regal retinue
under the delusion that the Pope is
Christ on earth.
Sunday afternoon the lecture was
to men only on what -abominable
scenes go on behind the stone wall of
monasteries, converts and n~unneries
which should have public investiga-
tim.
Monday evening views were given
Of great reformers; John Wickliff
1324-13S4 in England, translated the
Bible from Hebrew and Greek into
Latin so it could be read by all learned
men.
John Huss, 1~373-1415, reformer, in
Bohemia, burned at the stake. His
religious teachings are being revived
by the fall of the Austrian empire.
John Calvin 1509-1564, made &C.
neva. Switzerland, the head of the re-
formed Church, where the League of
Nations will have their headquarters.
His doctrines are taught in the Pres
hvytayian on1 pcn+icf Cb,,rohne
John Knox, 1505-1572, Scottish re-
former.
Savonarola, born in 1852, put to
death in 1893. As a result of his
teaching a republic was formed in
Florence, Italy.
Martin Luther, 1483-1546, ~translat-
ed the Bible into German, protested
against the sale of indulgences and
established the doctrine of Justifica-
ton by faith, the denial of the belief
that the very flesh, bone and blood of
Jesus Christ as born from the Virgin
Mary, was crucified and rose from the
grave was in a little wafer and alco-
holic wine a priest drinks at the
mass, or sacrament
At the beginning of the Reforma-
ton in Luther's time the Pope con-
trolled the temporal power of eleven
kingdoms and 6S,00O,0 900 persons.
With the fall of the Austrian and
German powers the last strongest
temporal powers of the Pope fell.
Still the temporal power of the Pope
is claimed thru his subjects in the
offices in republics.
One Mediator
Luther taught what St. Paul wrote
to Timothy LIS, "For there is n God
and one mediator of God and man,
the man Christ Jesus" Douay YER
sion with the appreciation of James
Cardinal Gibbons.
Protestant Priesthood
According to the Council of Trent,
1534-6O, when a priest swallows a
wafer and wine every day he gets
the power to forgive sin. Luther
taught there is no transubstantiation.
The bread and wine are only symbols.
If a priest can change wafer and
wine into flesh and blood so can any
other man, if he believes. When pro-
hibition m he will have to change
water into wine. That is why most
priests are against prohibition. There
are doubts if they AN do 1t.
The Protestant Priests give the
bread and grape juice to all members
of the Church who have made a con-
fession of faith. If eating bread and
drinking wine by a priest makes him
Christ all the Protestant lalty belong
to a kingly priesthood and can for.
give their own sins and the sins OF
ofhers,if they believe such doctrine.
Justification By Faith
The best authority is st. Peter LIB,
SAYS: "By the power of God are we
kept by faith unto salvation" Verse
9th, Receiving the end OF your faith
even salvation of your souls.
Chapter 2 says: "Be you also as
living stones built up a spiritual
house, a holy priesthood" For con
frmation of the statement see Eccles-
iastical Review, January, 1918, page
IS. 2'
Douay version by appreciation of
Cardinal Gibbons.
Who To Confess To
Giving the Sacrament, bread and
wine, to the individual laiety makes
the person a living Christ as much as
it does a priest, according tor logic, IT
he believes. As a consequence the
Protestant individual does not have to
90 to confession. He is given the con-
secrated bread and grape juice-non-
alcoholics
If YOU have sinned against God, the
uoJ,, Eatbar the Good Spirit of Life,
Truth. and Love, take it to God in
prayer. Jesus Christ himself said in
his sermon on the Mount (Matthew
Coy "When thou prayest enter into
thy closet, and when thou hast shut
the door, pray to thy Father who is
in secret and thy Father who seeth
in secret shall pay thee"
Be sure and remember what Jesus
Christ says about confession in
Duoay edition of the Bible with the
appreciation of Cardinal Gibbons.
If one has sinned against another
Copfipued on paR6