The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-12-12
MARTIN LUTHER ON
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Gems From the Mind of the Man
Whose Hammer Cracked the
Crown of the Man of Sin

BY JOHN N. QUINN

BY JOHN-N. QUINN
"The authority of the Pope is not
superior but inferior to Scripture
"The time to be silent is past; the
time to speak has arrived"
"Let US preserve our liberty"
Neither pope, nor bishop, nor any
other man living, has authority to
impose the least thing upon a Chris,
tian without his own consent"
eve are free from all men,"
"The papacy is a general chaste
led by the bishop of Rome, and hav.
ing for it's object the sharing anG
running of souls"
"To be a Christian is to be not 8
Roman.
What numberless errors and frauds
have crept in among the poor delud.
ed people under the cover of the
church and the pretended infallibility
of the pope! How many souls have
been lost! How much blood shed!
How many murders committed! How
many Kingdoms laid waste"
"There is nothing under HEAVIER
more corrupt and hateful than the
Roman; court"
-D'Aubigne's History of the Reform.
alton, Book vi.
These serious charges and solemn
words of warning, made by a brave
and fearless man four centuries ago
are not less true and pertinent now
for "Rome never changes" She may
and does accommodate herself tc
changed conditions, and alter her ap.
pearance and utterances to deceive
and disarm OPPOSITION; but in principle
policy and ambition, she does moi
change. She still is the sapper and
miner of individual liberty and free
government and free institutions. Hel
ambition now, as in past ages, is to
convert the world, not to Christ, but
to Rom Catholicism. We're she
Christian, and had she the spirit
broad mindedness and charity of the
Master, she would not teach that
salvation can be. found only in hel
teachings and ministrations, but
would recognize. every movement, or.
ganization and effort to uplift man.
kind and make men better and more
Christlike, as of God, and bid it God.
speed.
Let Luther's words of warning still
be cherished and needed.
Romanists hate the Ku Klux Klar
with a hatred peculiar to the Roman
Catholic system of ecclesiasticism
The three KS, are a tremendous bar.
rier erected by American patriots tx
block her pathway to the goal she
has erected, America must be do.
minantly Roman Catholic. Were the
papacy to achieve it's goal, the doom
of the United States government
would be sealed. Rome is a bitter
opponent of Constitutional govern.
ment in the American sense; a demo.
cratic form of government she de.
scribes as mob; the sovereignty Of
the people in civil affairs she boast.
ingly rejects.
eve, the people, is Americanism
~, the pope," is Romanism.
The two systems can never be re.
conciled. Americanism must triumph
over the system of darkness, whose
crown was cracked by the "hammer'
of the brave Luther. The same ham.
mer is still needed. It should b.
welded today in such manner thai
the ecclesiastical crown of the papa
system shall be not only cracked but
crushed. The papacy triumphant
would mean world desolation; the pa,
pacy conquered would result in thu
establishment of Gods kingdom OF
earth, kingdom which, when estab
lished, will endure forever.
Gods eternal kingdom will not have
jot or title of the papal spirit
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