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Romanism in America /
AMERICA.
BOSTON:
S. K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY,
100 Washington Street.
18 5 5.
Entered, according to Act of Congreae, in the year 1854, by
STEREOTTPED AT THE
BOSTON 3TEHE0TTFE FOUHDRT.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Ret. R. W. Clabk.
Dear Sir ; Having listened with much interest to your course
R. W. Clabk.
East Boston, November 20, 1854.
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CONTENTS.
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EOMAJS^ISM IN AMERICA.
effectually broken.
There is too much truth in the following
declaration ofMacaulay :
—
" The Papacy remains, not in decay, not a
free institutions.
As republicans, as Christians, as the friends
of civil and religious liberty, of a free press,
and the right of the whole people
free schools,
to possess and read the word of God, we are
bound to be thoroughly acquainted with this
system. Our responsibilities in relation to this
matter we cannot shake off. Our fathers were
true to our interests and happiness ; let us be
true to the generations who are to come after
us, that they may receive unimpaired those
great national institutions that are the source
of our prosperity, usefulness, and power.
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11.
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hement —
fearfully vehement. And as he is
only a man, sometimes he may be imprudent,
and both say and do things which subsequently
he regrets. But in the main he is honest —
terribly, gloriously honest. Let him, then,
speak out let him lay stunning blows on the
;
offered for the living and the dead, for their sins,
&c., let him be accursed." And again " If any :
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against it.
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endar. On
Bonaventura day, the faithful,
St.
up the following prayer " O
so called, offer :
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terceding."
So prevalent is this idolatry in Italy that,
Gavazzi tells us, the nation "is called the
nation of the Virgin, and of the Virgin's prod-
igality. At every step [he says] we stumble
!
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embroideries —
all wrung from the sweat and
obey!'
Bishop O' Conner, of Pittsburg, says, "Re-
is only endured till the opposite
ligious liberty
can be established with safety to the Catholic
world." The Bishop of St. Louis declares,
" America will soon be Catholic, and then re-
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"
At Rome, sisters, wives, and mothers, for
dropping some tears on the tombstones of
brothers, husbands, or children, were flung into
prison by Pius IX., '
Christ's vicar,' because to
shed tears upon the graves of martyrs for Ital-
ian freedom is considered more than a crime —
treason ! Our police is worse than the dreadful
ear of Dlonysius of Syracuse, who from the
bottom of a well could hear every word spoken
by his prisoners in their dungeons. We must
suspect every one —
frie;ids, relatives, domestics
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tended Germany,
over Italy, and the Nether-
lands whose
;
colonies were not surpassed by
those of any other sovereignty, and whose gold
and silver, possessions were so immense, has —
sadly fallen from her exalted position, and be-
come the object of the world's contempt. At
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Jesus Christ.
With the miserable condition of the Catholic
population of Ireland, and v/ith the debasement
of Mexico and the Catholic nations of South
America, you are more or less familiar. A son
of Ireland thus writes respecting his native
land: "There you find a warm-hearted, gener-
ous, impulsive people, and, as the world know?,
capable of the highest improvement; and what
is their state ? Go to their holy wells and holy
places, to their fairs, their villages, and their
cabins and what is their state ? * - - "phe
;
temperance cause —
what have they done to
deliver the victims of intemperance from the
power of this vice ? On this point the New
York Tribune Says, " We have looked to see
them uttering some decided and forcible con-
demnation of that trade in ardent liquors whose
horrible consequences no part of the clergy can
have better opportunities of appreciating than
themselves. We have hoped that they might
be led to use the authority they have, especially
among the Irish, for an end so beneficent and so
necessary ;
particularly now that so much odi-
um is excited against that class of our popula-
on account of their
tion, political subserviency
and intemperate habits. It would seem that
the Catholic priesthood ought to spare no effort
that could tend to put their flocks, or at least so
numerous a division of them, in another aspect
before the community at large.
" This hope does not seem likely to be grati-
ligious faith.
VI.
leaders.
We are now prepared to show the striking
resemblance that exists between Romanism
and paganism — a resemblance which warrants
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turn.
The various classes of priests and religious
orders in the Romish church have their counter-
part among the pagans. The cardinals of the
pope correspond with the flamines of the pa-
gans,who wore a purple robe and a conical
cap. Instead of the colleges of augurs, the
Roman church has its convents of friars. In-
stead of Vestal virgins, whose duty it was to
worship Vesta, and keep a fire constantly burn-
ing in her sanctuary, we find here nuns, whose
duty it is to worship the Virgin Mary. Both
orders had peculiar privileges, and wore gar-
ments that distinguished them from other fe-
males.
There were also orders of brothers among
the pagans, whose places are taken by the
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15*
;
THE INQUISITION.
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tortures.
" A Spaniard," says Tschude, " whose limbs
were me, in reply to
frightfully distorted, told
my had fallen into a machine
inquiries, that he
which had thus mangled him. A few days
before his death, however, he confided to me
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'
How dare you read the Scriptures to any of
my flock ? '
' Please your reverence,' said the
man, with the readiness for which an Irishman
is always distinguished, I have got a search '
is, in John v. 39 —
Search the Scriptures.'
Now, in the very clamor that the Roman
Catholics have raised in our country against
having the Bible in the public schools, and in
the arguments which they have used, they have
virtually declared that the word of God is op-
posed to their system of religion that Roman- ;
* By Dr. Cheever.
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"Blessed are they that heak the word of God and keep
IT." — Luke xi. 28.
England,
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