The American Sentinel 10
January 10, 1895
“Editorial” American Sentinel 10, 2, pp. 9, 10.
ON the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X. issued a bull condemning Luther and the Reformation. AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.1
ONE of the forty-one propositions extracted from the writings of Luther, and condemned by Leo X., reads thus: “To burn heretics is contrary to the will of the Holy Ghost.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.2
EVERY one of the forty-one gospel propositions condemned by Pope Leo X., on the 15th of June, 1520, are condemned by Pope Leo XIII. to-day, Jan. 10, 1895, although three hundred and seventy-five years with their opportunities for enlightenment have passed. Rome never changes. AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.3
ON the 10th of December, 1520, Martin Luther burned the bull of Leo X., and the next day addressed the students of Wittenberg as follows: “If you do not contend with your whole heart against the impious government of the pope, you cannot be saved. Whoever takes delight in the religion and worship of popery, will be eternally lost in the world to come. If you reject it, you must expect to incur every kind of danger, and even to lose your lives. But it is far better to be exposed to such perils in this world than to keep silence. So long as I live I will denounce to my brethren the sore and the plague of Babylon, for fear that many who are with us may fall back like the rest into the bottomless pit of perdition.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.4
MARTIN LUTHER is dead. And the churches of the Reformation “keep silence” and “fall back.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.5
IN Germany, the home of Martin Luther, it is to-day a criminal offense, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to preach against Catholicism, or as Luther terms it, “the plague of Babylon.” In the United States, it is against the law of “propriety,” “good policy,” and “good taste,” to preach against Romanism. Instead, a Methodist minister in Ohio says, “God bless the Roman Catholic Church of to-day.” Another in Iowa holds a union service with a Roman Catholic priest,—the priest doing the preaching, of course. A Catholic priest is requested to tell the students of the Union Theological Seminary how to preach. He is introduced by a Presbyterian minister, who terms Luther’s “plague of Babylon” the “great mother church of Christendom,” and says that the recent encyclical of Pope Leo XIII., inviting princes and peoples back to the belief that to burn heretics is in harmony with the Holy Ghost, “breathed a spirit like that of the Master.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.6
THE Churchman, a Protestant Episcopal paper, under date of Dec. 15, 1894, criticises the propriety of inviting Catholic priests to teach Protestant candidates for the ministry how to preach, and for this faint echo of the Reformation, Bishop Potter, of the same church, promptly and severely rebuked the editor of the Churchman. The Outlook, a Presbyterian paper, in its issue of Dec. 29, prints the Bishop’s rebuke, under the title, “Bigotry Rebuked,” with the following editorial comment: “The Outlook was about to call its usually genial and courteous contemporary, the Churchman, to account for a bit of bigotry in connection with the lecture of Father Doyle at the Union Theological Seminary, when Bishop Potter stepped in and administered a rebuke more effectively, and, for the Churchman at least, more authoritatively, than the Outlook could possibly have done. Bishop Potter has said many brief things and preached many telling sermons, but we believe he has set no better lesson to be learned by a good many religious people in these days than that contained in the brief communication which we reprint herewith.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.7
THOUGH the professedly Protestant denominations of America have ceased to protest against the papacy, Protestantism is not dead. AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.8
THE people who publish the AMERICAN SENTINEL believe the words addressed by Luther to the students of Wittenberg, and “with a firm reliance on the protection of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, we mutually pledge to each other and to the world, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” to uncompromisingly contend with the “whole heart against the impious government of the pope.” From the cowardice of others we only gather courage, warmth from their coldness, and loyalty from their treason. While the Protestant world flatters and caresses the system which tortured and burned its ancestors, we will cease not to denounce its errors and faithfully warn the world of the on-rushing, overwhelming billows of the See of Rome. AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.9
LET it be ever remembered that the AMERICAN SENTINEL is opposing the papal system, not the individual. For the individual Roman Catholic we have only thoughts of love; and we are daily manifesting that love in this great center of population and poverty, by carrying food to the homes of destitute Roman Catholics, and watching by the bedside of their sick and dying. AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.10
WHAT can the little handful of less than fifty thousand souls who represent the constituency behind the AMERICAN SENTINEL do as against the millions upon millions of Roman Catholics and millions more of Romanizing Protestants? “You are alone,” says the enemy. “You are in the minority. The great and the wise are not with you.” We reply with the answer of Martin Luther: “Moses was alone at the departure from Egypt; Elijah was alone in the reign of King Ahab; Isaiah alone in Jerusalem; Ezekiel alone in Babylon. God never selected as a prophet either the high priest or any great personage; but ordinarily he chose low and despised men, once even the shepherd Amos. In every age, the saints have had to reprove the great, kings, princes, priests, and wise men, at the peril of their lives.... I do not say that I am a prophet, but I say that they ought to fear, precisely because I am alone and that they are many. I am sure of this, that the Word of God is with me, and it is not with them.... The majority has ever been on the side of falsehood, and the minority with truth. Truth has ever caused an outcry.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 9.11
ROME dreads true Protestants, however few in number. She could not endure the Waldenses, though few and hidden by the rugged Alps. They were a Mordecai in the gate, and refusing to bow to papal dogma they were tortured and burned. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.1
ROME sees in Seventh-day Adventists a Mordecai in the gate. Consistent Protestants are dreaded by the papacy as much now as of old; hence “Father” Elliott, whom the papacy has sent out to gather up the fragments of collapsed Protestantism, has come in contact with this people whom the Catholic Mirror terms the only consistent Protestants, and in writing of his experience with them in Michigan in the August number of the Catholic World, says: “The sect is the most venomous enemy of Catholicity in these parts.” “Seventh-day Adventists ... are making a propaganda of much energy—and not without results.” Again he terms them “the narrowest of sects, shown by their literature to be the most bitterly anti-Catholic,” and concludes by saying, “I thank God that ‘consistent Protestantism’ is narrowing down into this concentrated essence of bigotry.” Again, writing from Ohio, in the December number of the Catholic World, he says: “These new sectarians are making converts in many places full of deadly hatred of the Catholic Church.” “In the question box our only abundant matter was furnished by the Seventh-day Adventists.” “I dread their fanaticism.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.2
THANK God that there is a remnant of consistent Protestantism which the papacy dreads. But what a responsibility rests upon this remnant before God and the world! AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.3
“Rome Attempts to ‘Corner’ Secret Societies” American Sentinel 10, 2, p. 10.
IT is the policy of Rome to destroy what she cannot control. Especially is this true of any factor which effects the control of the masses. When the secret labor organizations came into being it was a question with her whether she should attempt to kill or control them. She decided to control. And in pursuance of this plan the Catholic priest, Dr. Buntsell, has been commissioned by the pope to promulgate papal principles within labor organizations, gather statistics and report to headquarters. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.1
Other secret organizations have fared differently. The society of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Sons of Temperance have been condemned, as the following letters from Rome and Washington indicate:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.2
Most Reverend and Illustrious Sir: Your excellency cannot fail to know that the archbishops set over the various ecclesiastical provinces of the Republic of the United States of America have, in more than one of their assemblies, taken counsel with respect to three societies which have grown up in the aforesaid Republic; namely, the Odd Fellows, the Sons of Temperance and the Knights of Pythias. And you must be also aware that the foresaid archbishops unanimously decided that the whole question as to these societies should be submitted to the judgment of the Apostolic See. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.3
His holiness therefore committed this question to eminent and most reverend cardinals of the Holy Roman Church and to the inquisitors generally. These, then, in general congregation, had on Wednesday, June 20, 1894, confirming a decision previously made as to the aforementioned societies, decreed that all the ordinaries throughout the United States must in every way strive to keep the faithful from becoming members of any of the said societies and msut not fail to admonish their people to that effect, and that any thus admonished must be debarred from the sacraments should they fail to abandon or keep aloof from the same societies. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.4
This decree his holiness fully confirmed and gave it complete effect. It is therefore communicated to your Excellency that through you it may be transmitted to all the archbishops, bishops and other ordinaries of the United States, and for the due custody of the souls of the faithful may be by these ordinaries carried into effect. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.5
In the meantime I beseech Almighty God to bestow upon you all benefits and blessings. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.6
R. CARDINAL MONACO. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.7
Rome, Aug. 20, 1894. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.8
To the Illustrious and Most Rev. Francis Stolli, Delegate Apostolic. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.9
Washington, D. C., Dec. 4, 1894. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.10
Your Eminence Illustrious and Most Reverend: AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.11
By letter transmitted to me on the 20th of November last, through Cardinal Rampolla, his holiness urges that the decree of the holy office, sent to me by Cardinal Monaco, and herewith delivered to you, shall be made public. The sovereign pontiff, therefore, wills that the decree in question shall be communicated by the archbishops to the respective suffragans and by them it may be promulgated. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.12
With all reverence and affection, I remain. Your Eminence Illustrious and Most Reverend, your faithful servant in Christ. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.13
FRANCIS (Archbishop) SATOLLI.
Delegate Apostolic.
To His Eminence, Illustrious and Most Reverend James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.14
The AMERICAN SENTINEL is not the champion of secret societies, but points to this condemnation as one of the signs of the times. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.15
The church of Rome condemns secret societies, while at the same time it is itself the most secret of all secret societies. The very same day that the press published the condemnation of those secret societies, it published an official announcement of a Roman Catholic synod for the diocese of Brooklyn, which contained this paragraph:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.16
The proceedings will open with a pontifical high mass, which will be celebrated by the bishop, and immediately afterward the synod will go into session. Members of the laity may attend the mass, but the proceedings of the synod will be secret. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.17
This is a part of the grand policy of the church to control the mass. She proposes to get a “corner” on the whole secret society business and control it to accomplish her grand scheme for the supremacy of the world. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.18
“On Their Knees to the Pope” American Sentinel 10, 2, p. 10.
ONE of the significant signs of the times is the way non-Catholic American citizens tumble over each other in their efforts to get on their knees to the pope. The officers of the United States cruiser Detroit, which returned the Vatican relics exhibited at the World’s Fair, requested an audience with the pope which was granted Dec. 26. The spokesman imformed [sic.] the pope that no American citizen considered a visit to Rome complete without an audience with his holiness. The cabled report of the audience which appeared in the World of Dec. 27, quotes the following from the address of the pope:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.1
I feel a lively satisfaction to see the progress America makes steadily among civilized nations, which it outstrips, although younger. While I am happy to see your nation advance in numerous branches of civilization, I am particularly pleased to observe her religious progress. The Catholic Church flourishes there and I desire to see it still more flourishing. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.2
Though I express a special paternal solicitude for American Catholics, I receive you with peculiar pleasure because you are Americans. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.3
I hope to publish in a few weeks an encyclical to the episcopacy of the United States and Montreal, conveying the sentiments of my special affection for your country. Meantime I bless you all, and when you return to your Fatherland tell your families that the pope blesses them with the paternal affection which will accompany you in the midst of the fatigues of the long voyage you are about to undertake. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.4
The report adds:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.5
Although there was only one Catholic among them all the cruiser’s officers received the papal benediction kneeling. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.6
Shame on such truckling to the representative of that system that has murdered millions of men and women because they were loyal to an enlightened conscience. At one time this act of non-Catholics kneeling before Pope Leo XIII. would have misrepresented America, but not so now. They have fairly represented the fawning and truckling of American Protestantism and statesmanship to the arch-enemy of Protestantism and liberty. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.7
“The National Reform Association and the Pennsylvania Sunday Law” American Sentinel 10, 2, pp. 10, 11.
ACCORDING to Dr. H. H. George, the one “really practical” theme discussed at the recent National Reform Convention in New Castle, Pa., was “The Present Crisis of the Pennsylvania Sabbath Law.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.1
This discussion was opened by Mr. J. W. Houston, of Pittsburg, a gentleman who has been very prominent in enforcing the Sunday law in Pittsburg and Allegheny. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.2
Mr. Houston explained the nature of the present Sunday law of the State and the manner of its enforcement, its penalty, etc. The law was passed in 1794, and provides a penalty of four dollars (one-half to go to the informer), to be recovered before any justice of the peace or other magistrate having concurrent jurisdiction with a justice of the peace, such as police justices, mayors, etc. Some years ago the penalty was, by a special act, increased to twenty-five dollars in Allegheny County. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.3
At the last session of the Pennsylvania legislature an effort was made to so modify the law as to permit the publication and sale of Sunday papers and the sale of cigars, soda water, etc. The bill also provided for a uniform fine of four dollars throughout the State, repealing the special act making the fine twenty-five dollars in Allegheny County. This bill passed both houses of the legislature, but was vetoed by Governor Pattison, who has shown himself the pliant tool of the National Reform forces. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.4
At the recent election a new governor was elected, and the man—Mr. Walter Lyon—who, above all others, was instrumental in securing the passage of the amendment which the Governor vetoed, was elected Lieutenant-Governor. Mr. Lyon was pledged to use his influence to secure certain modifications of the act of 1794, and for this cause the Sunday forces opposed his election. His ticket was however successful by an overwhelming majority, but owing to the religious boycott declared against him, Mr. Lyon ran behind his ticket about ten thousand votes. This would represent ten thousand voters in Pennsylvania who cared more for the maintenance of the Sunday law of 1794 than for the success of their party. These ten thousand voters are now styling themselves the “best people of the State,” the “law-abiding people of the commonwealth,” etc., and are demanding that instead of being modified in any degree the law of 1794 shall be so amended as to increase the penalty to twenty-five dollars throughout the State. To this end petitions are now being circulated and signed all over the State. These will be presented to the legislature at an early day and an effort will be made to secure the proposed legislation. AMS January 10, 1895, page 10.5
On the other hand, the forces opposed to the law of 1794 are determined to secure important changes in the law. The first thing they propose is to take away from justices of the peace and other magistrates, the power of summary conviction in cases arising under the Sunday law. Violators of the Sunday law will then have to be prosecuted, if at all, before the higher courts, and the chances of conviction will be materially lessened. In the first place, complaining witnesses must attend court from day to day awaiting the pleasure of the grand jury, and this at their own expense. Then, when an indictment is found and the case set for trial, the prosecuting witnesses must again attend court day after day until the case is called. Then, if for any reason the accused is not convicted, the prosecutor must pay the costs; and it is manifest that in many cases there would be no conviction, because it is only reasonable to suppose that upon almost every jury there would be at least one man not in sympathy with the law or at least in sympathy with the accused. Thus the friends of the Sunday-law would find themselves laboring under great difficulties. AMS January 10, 1895, page 11.1
But it is not expected that this change in the law can be accomplished without a sharp contest; and as a sop to the Sunday-law advocates the anti-Sunday-law forces will probably consent to an amendment raising the fine to twenty-five dollars throughout the entire State. The effect of this will be readily seen: those who are not conscientious in the matter and have “influence,” or who are willing to avail themselves of devious ways to escape the penalty of transgression, will nine times out of ten escape punishment, while the Seventh-day Adventist, who will not deny working on Sunday, but who, on the contrary, avows his right to labor on that day, will fall an easy prey to the amended law with its increased penalty. We do not say that this is the design of either party to the Sunday-law controversy in Pennsylvania, but it will be the inevitable result. AMS January 10, 1895, page 11.2
Another point of attack upon the Sunday law will be an amendment permitting the publication and sale of Sunday papaers, and the running of Sunday trains, etc., and the sale of cigars, soda water, etc., on Sunday. This amendment will be opposed first, last and all the time by the Sunday-law forces. The Sunday paper is declared to be the chief enemy of the “Sabbath;” the “principal offender against the Sunday law;” the “foe of Christian morality,” etc. The Sunday papers and their publishers were denounced in unmeasured terms in the New Castle convention, and it is evident there can be no compromise between them and the National Reformers. AMS January 10, 1895, page 11.3
The people of New Castle were informed that petitions had been prepared and would be sent to every pastor in the State, and would very shortly be presented to the people for their signatures. Dr. H. H. George said in substance: “Let every man and woman sign these petitions. Sign them every chance you get. Let even the children, who are old enough, sign them.” Doubtless this advice will be followed; the experience gained in the matter of the World’s Fair petitions has prepared the way for all sorts of unscrupulous methods in securing signatures to petitions asking for religious laws. The motto seems to be: “The end justifies the means.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 11.4
Another matter that excited much enthusiasm in the convention was a proposition to establish in Washington City a “Bureau of National Reforms,” or in other words, a National Reform lobby, modeled after the Roman Catholic bureau of Indian schools. It was Dr. H. H. George who proposed this, and he explained the work that could be done by the proposed lobby. One object would be to keep the “Christian people” informed in regard to every measure introduced having any bearing upon religion or morality, so that “proper” influence in favor of “good laws and against bad ones” might be brought to bear upon members of Congress by means of petitions, letters, and telegrams. He said that the “Christian people” of the country had but recently learned their power, and how to influence legislation; and declared, “We can secure from Congress anything we ask.” The scheme is to establish a permanent bureau from which information and appeals can be sent out to every church and pastor in the United States, thus securing in favor of any scheme in which the churches are interested the united influence of “orthodox” churches. Congress will be deluged with letters, petitions and telegrams, until members will be made to believe that the demand for religious laws is well nigh universal; in short, the dishonest methods pursued so successfully in intimidating and cajoling Congress in the matter of closing the World’s Fair, are to be made a permanent feature of National Reform tactics. This association, which for a time seemed to be overshadowed by the American Sabbath Union, appears to be destined to exert a far-reaching influence in perfecting the papal image in this country; and the spirit manifested in the New Castle convention, especially by Dr. H. H. George and a few others, shows that the men who would burn bodies to save souls are not all dead. The spirit of the Inquisition still lives; does the spirit of martyrdom likewise survive? Yea, verily; men are not wanting who would die for their faith, even as some have already gone to prison and into the chain-gang “for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” AMS January 10, 1895, page 11.5
“Abridging the Freedom of the Press” American Sentinel 10, 2, pp. 14, 15.
ONE of the most dangerous measures ever introduced in Congress is a bill to amend and to reënact section 3,877 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. The bill was introduced by Mr. Weadock, of Michigan, and is now in the hands of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. AMS January 10, 1895, page 14.1
Section 3,877, which it is proposed to reënact and amend, defines second class mail matter and Mr. Weadock’s bill proposes to add to the existing provision the following:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 14.2
Any newspaper or other matter of the second class which advises, abets, or suggests the commission of any offense against any law of the United States, or any State or Territory, or any country with which we are at peace, shall be excluded from the mails. AMS January 10, 1895, page 14.3
It is incredible that such a bill should ever become a law in “free America,” and yet equally strange things have happened within the last half decade; and nobody can feel sure that Mr. Weadock’s bill will not pass. But whether this bill passes or not, the fact that it has been introduced and is being seriously considered is ominous. An official censorship of the press is a thing utterly repugnant to the spirit of our free institutions, and yet that is just what this bill proposes to establish. AMS January 10, 1895, page 14.4
Already inroads have been made upon the First Amendment to the Constitution, and this bill proposes a still further attack; for whereas the First Amendment provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,” this bill proposes to put a bridle upon the press by excluding from the mails every publication of the second class which in the estimation of the postmaster-general shall advise, abet, or suggest the commission of any offense against any law of the United States, or of any State, or of any country with which we are at peace. AMS January 10, 1895, page 14.5
For instance, the AMERICAN SENTINEL says that Seventh-day Adventists cannot consistently obey Sunday laws. It would require no great stretch of the authority sought to be conferred by this bill for the postmaster-general to hold that the SENTINEL, indirectly at least, both advises, abets, and suggests offenses against the laws of every State having upon its statute books a Sunday law, and to therefore order its exclusion from the mails. AMS January 10, 1895, page 14.6
Again, the American Hebrew, which raised the fund for the release of W. B. Capps from jail, and which in common with the SENTINEL and many other papers denounced his imprisonment as religious persecution, and insisted that Mr. Capps had a right to work on Sunday, might be held to have abetted in the offense against the law of Tennessee, and so be excluded from the mails. In fact, there is scarcely any limit to the power which it proposes to confer upon the postmaster-general by this bill. It is a most dangerous and significant measure. AMS January 10, 1895, page 15.1
“Back Page” American Sentinel 10, 2, p. 16.
THE Evangelist, a leading Presbyterian paper published in this city, contained the following paragraph, under date of Dec. 27th:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.1
The new secretary of the Papal Legation in this country, Father Rooker, recently appointed by the pope to succeed Dr. Papi, appears to have been nominated in accordance with a recognition of this relative condition of things. Father Rooker is an American and of the liberal school represented by Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland and the brilliant Paulist Father who recently lectured to the students in Union Seminary. His choice appears to be a good omen for America, and for the church of which he is a representative. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.2
“A good omen for America!” Blind, indeed, must be the American Protestant who can see a good omen for America in the appointment of any Roman Catholic to secretaryship of the Papal Legation at Washington. The more he is like “Archbishop Ireland and the brilliant Paulist Father who recently lectured to the students in Union Seminary,” the sooner will the scheme of Rome be realized. Shades of Martin Luther! Are American Protestants drunk? Yes, drunk with the wine of Babylon. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.3
THE real spirit of National Reform was well exemplified in the recent New Castle convention by the means used to counteract the influence of certain religious liberty publications, distributed there prior to the meeting. These publications were, “Limitations of Civil Authority from the Standpoint of Natural Right and Divine Obligation;” and, “Why Do Seventh-day Adventists Suffer Imprisonment Rather Than Keep Sunday?” Reference was made to these publications several times, and always in a way to prejudice the people against them. But the climax of misrepresentation was reached when Mr. D. McAllister exhibited a copy of the Truth Seeker to the audience, and calling attention to the cartoons on the first and last pages, said that such was secularism gone to seed; that such was the logical conclusion of opposition to their movement, etc.; and classed the AMERICAN SENTINEL with the paper he was exhibiting. This was grossly unfair, for the SENTINEL has nothing in common with the Truth Seeker, except opposition to National Reform, and even this is from so widely different a standpoint that it can scarcely be said to be in common. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.4
But unfair and misleading as was Dr. McAllister’s statement, it was not sufficiently so to satisfy Dr. H. H. George, and he arose in the convention, and referring again to the religious liberty publications, said, “They all emanate from the same source and are of the same character.” Nothing could be more false, for while the Truth Seeker is intensely hostile to all revealed religion, the tracts to which reference has been made are consistently Christian, and breathe a spirit of genuine Christian piety; and this every honest man must admit, whether he agrees with the conclusions reached or not. The statements made were nothing short of palpable violations of the ninth commandment, and especially is this true of that made by Dr. George; indeed, it is hard to believe that his was not a deliberate purpose to deceive the audience as to the character of the tracts in question. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.5
But is infidelity “opposition to National Reform gone to seed”? Is it the logical conclusion of opposition to the so-called “Christian theory of civil government”? By no means; for as we have repeatedly shown in these columns, National Reform is itself anti-Christian. Moreover, it is no more logical to class the Truth Seeker and the AMERICAN SENTINEL together because they both oppose National Reform, than it would be to class the Truth Seeker and the Christian Statesman together because they both oppose Romanism. The Roman Catholic can just as consistently argue that infidelity is simply opposition to Romanism gone to seed, as the National Reformers can argue that infidelity is simply opposition to National Reform gone to seed. Either is a begging of the question and is unworthy of honest men. Let the National Reformers meet and refute, if they can, from the Scriptures to which we constantly appeal, the arguments of the SENTINEL. Yea, let them clear themselves of the charge that their so-called reform is not subversive of the very foundation principles of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ which they profess to serve. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.6
IN a speech to the pontifical household, Dec. 24, as reported by the World, the pope said:— AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.7
The faith is reviving among the nations, which have come to recognize that civil virtues and laws are not sufficient to restrain the masses. It is of great importance, therefore, that all work together to make religion a forced in public as well as in private life. It is the duty of rulers to lend their support to religious creeds. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.8
The one great scheme which the pope is working to being the world in submission at his feet is here briefly stated. “The masses cannot be controlled with religion. The Protestant religion commenced in anarchy and ends with anarchy. The only religion which can restrain the masses if the Roman Catholic religion.” Therefore, “it is the duty of rulers to lend their support to religious [Roman Catholic] creeds.” Rome breeds anarchy in her followers by telling them that the nation which does not recognize the Roman Catholic creed is a heretical nation, unstable, and must sooner or later come to ruin. When this teaching bears fruit in social unrest, riots and Coxyeism, she points to these social disturbances and charges it upon a failure to recognize the papal creed, and offers to calm the troubled waters in exchange for power. The Catholic World of August last, closed its observations on the Coxey movement which were similar to the statement of the pope here quoted, with the significant remark: “What possibilities there are in the old church!” This game of the pope will succeed and that soon, but this very success will preface the everlasting overthrow of this anti-Christian system. See Revelation, chaps. 17, 18, 19. AMS January 10, 1895, page 16.9