All Children of Protestant Parents Are
Declared Bastards by Catholicism.
The Catholic Church declares that all of those who contract marriage
otherwise than in the presence of a Catholic Priest, that such
marriages are null and void.
Catholicism further declares that your darling child, which is the
fruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a common
bastard.
How do you Protestants like to hear this? How do you feel when you
know that this is the belief and opinion of all Catholic dignitaries,
and this belief is taught to all the Catholic world by those who
presume to dictate?
Your darling baby boy or girl is branded as an illegitimate offspring
by Catholicism, simply because their parents were not united in
wedlock by a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as hell
itself.
The reason why Catholicism so sternly demands that all should be
married by the priestcraft is from a monetary standpoint, as the
Catholic priest gets his fee, as he will not under any circumstances
unite any one in wedlock without a fee, and I have known in many
instances where the contracting parties were unable to pay a money
fee, and the grasping priestcraft would refuse to unite them in
marriage until they had given him some article of intrinsic value,
and I have often seen jewelry, silver-mounted pipes, watches and many
other things confiscated by the priestcraft before they would perform
the ceremony.
It is strange to me, indeed, that America, which is and should be by
every law of justice and right, a Protestant nation, is so
unconcerned and so listless over the insults that Catholicism daily
offers Protestantism, for if it is not a most damnable insult to
stigmatize your offspring as bastards, then we are unable to discern
and distinguish between a brazen insult and a flattering compliment.
Whenever America learns the actual and true meaning of Catholicism
and her teachings, there will be an awakening among the Protestant
world that will make the four corners of the government of the United
States tremble with a righteous indignation.
Now, if the offspring of that dear old mother is a bastard, then she
is nothing more nor less than a common whore, and you cannot arrive
at any other rational conclusion. This is only reasoning from
intelligent deductions; therefore, whenever Catholicism calls the
children of Protestant parents bastards simply because these parents
were not united in wedlock by a Catholic priest, they villify the
sacred name of father and mother, and trail in the slime of disgrace
the sweet memories of that sturdy old father and that angelic old
Protestant mother.
I am at a loss to know and to understand how Protestantism can sit so
unconcernedly by with folded hands and allow this vulturous foe of
human rights and human privileges to brazenly rear its institutions
in Protestant America, and teach such damnable doctrines about those
who have made America all she ever was, and is, or ever will be.
A creed or doctrine that exists upon the dwarfed ambitions of its
followers is undoubtedly an institution which exists upon the carrion
of human miseries, and is a menace to a nation, which possesses the
godly ambitions that permeate the minds of Protestantism.
We have in this country scores--yea, hundreds of Protestant fathers
and mothers who allow their children to attend Catholic schools, when
those who are teaching them in these Catholic institutions brazenly,
flagrantly and openly declare that those children are the offspring
of immorality, as they do not hesitate to say that all children are
bastards whose parents were not married by the priestcraft; but still
these Protestant parents allow their children to be taught by those
who villify and defame their parents' names.
This is one of the strangest things that has ever come under my
observation in the United States, as the Protestant world in general
knows that Catholicism teaches these things, and the Protestant
world also knows that under no circumstances nor conditions would
Catholicism allow their children to attend a Protestant college, but
Protestant parents go right ahead and allow their children to be
taught by a class of men and women who will boldly declare to these
children that their own parents are immoral, and that the teachings
of their youth were erroneous and would lead to everlasting
damnation.
Is it not about time that the Protestant world was arousing
themselves from this lethargetic sleep of unconcern, or do you
propose to allow Catholicism to convince you, by her doctrines of
degeneracy, that she is right, and that you acknowledge her as right
by you sending your children to her institutions of learning?
Catholicism has always made her boast that if she can control the
children until they are 7 to 10 years old, that they will control the
government in the future, and it seems as though Protestant America
is perfectly willing to risk the consequences, but let me sound a
warning in your ears in this chapter, which may not arouse you from
your national stupidity, but which, in after years, will rumble down
the avenues of the future the truthfulness of this assertion that
will make the Protestant world shudder. It is this: "_Unless you
guard the goddess of your American liberty with the patriotism of you
Protestant manhood, it will not be long until you will find this
government face to face with a problem more perplexing than the
government of France is wrestling with to-day, on account of this
Romish beast, whose jaws are dripping with the blood of doomed
ambition._"
Catholicism is like a thief in the night, as she goes about her
devastation of human rights with the tread of a thief and with the
cunning of a bold deceiver, which she is, and this country must
station trustworthy men upon the ramparts of this government to watch
her progress and batter down her foundation of superstition and
ignorance, or within the next fifty years America will find herself
bound hand and foot by this Romish creed of abominations, which has
caused every nation on the face of the earth that she has ever
controlled to wither and decay under her touch, like the tender plant
under the broiling rays of a tropical sun.
I have a right to sound this warning, as I know whereof I speak, as I
have traveled this Romish road of despair for thirty years, and I
know her cunning and dastardly deception so well that her history and
her teachings are to me like the primer is to the school boy or girl.
The warnings that I now sound in the ears of Protestant America are
not sounded by an alarmist, nor one who does not know whereof he
speaks, but these warnings come from one whose back has been lashed
for thirty long years with the whip of a Catholic tyrant, and I know
the history of Catholicism from beginning to end, for if one cannot
learn the history of an institution in thirty years' devout study,
then pray tell me of what use it is for man to apply himself to the
study of anything?
I was once as devout a Catholic as I am to-day a Protestant, and I am
only a Protestant to-day because I was forced to become such, after
having the scales of Catholicism brushed from my eyes, which had
been blinded by the superstition and fearful doctrines of this
abominable creed.
Arouse, ye men and women of America, or else the time will come when
you will not be permitted to make a protest; when your wives and
mothers are declared whores by Catholicism, and your fathers and
brothers are declared whore-mongers and your children bastards!
I have been a careful observer of events through my entire life, and
I never was more thoroughly convinced than to-day that we stand near
the threshold of Popish power in America, and I ask of the reader,
and of the Protestant world at large, Are we about to realize the
prediction made by the father of our country? Are we nearing the time
when liberty shall be bound to the stake by Catholicism? Are we
nearing the great Romish chasm that has swallowed up the hopes of
many nations? Are we nearing the crater of a Roman volcano that pours
out its desolation and devastation upon free men? Are we nearing the
inky night of servitude, where no light is possible, but the dim and
treacherous lamp of idolatrous Catholicism? Are we nearing the
stretch of waste lands that contains no friendly oasis for him who
seeks liberty? Are we building our own sepulchers to bury all the
hopes of liberty cherished by our forefathers? Are we willingly
carrying fuel for our own funeral pyres, there to be consumed by the
greedy and relentless ghouls of Catholicism?
These are questions that demand an answer and demand an answer at
once, as we are far along the road to the end of human rights in
Protestant America, unless we call a halt and kindle anew the fires
of patriotism that have so long been unnoticed by those who have been
left in charge to guard our interests.
Catholicism is a vile deceiver and a rank hypocrite, therefore we
must diligently watch her serpentine movements, for she will appear
where you least expect her, as she wraps about her the American flag
and other symbols of patriotism and goes about as a lamb in wolf's
clothing.
I have no reason for writing this book only a desire to help undo
what I have already done in my fifty-six years of the past, and by
writing this book I have cut every tie that binds me to those whom I
have associated with since my childhood, therefore the reader must
know that what I am doing is being done in the name of right, justice
and the love I bear my fellowman and my adopted country, which is the
"Garden of Eden" of all the universe.
"The fool doubts what a wise man tells him because the information is
new." You may doubt what I am telling you, but your doubt will cost
you your liberty.
I have your cause at heart and I have no ambition to gratify, as I am
an old man and have no other desire than to help those who need help,
and I have come as a friend to talk to you around your firesides,
with no mission but that of truth.
Many of us have never been told to our face that we were fools, but
because no man has been frank enough to tell us the truth is no
reason why we should not investigate what is told us, and which you
have no right nor reason to doubt.
The mission of this book is to get you to _think_ and to examine and
pry into the past history of Catholicism, and when you have examined
the pages of Catholic history and then scrutinize her present, you
must know that her future promises no more than her past and present
would indicate her future to hold.
This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who
was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant,
and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor
to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of
fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no
better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were
burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the
awful deeds of that _awful creed_.
We want you to consider this book as a friend, who has called at your
fireside to tell you _truths_ that you should know, and which, if you
do not learn, will lower you and your posterity to the level of the
commonest slave and place over the most brutal despots the world has
ever known, and these despots are nothing more nor less than the
Catholic Church.
This book comes from a man who does not court the friendship of any
sect of class of men; therefore, it comes to you with intentions as
pure as it is possible for a book to come from the hands of a poor
mortal, who fears _nothing_ but the wrath of a living God.
Catholicism is taught her cunning from her childhood, as she is
taught to watch the ranks of Protestantism and whenever she finds a
weak spot, she turns her forces upon this weakened line, and is
further instructed never to weaken in her continual march of
devastation.
Could the tears that have been shed on account of heartless
Catholicism be gathered in one body, the mighty oceans of the earth
would appear as silvery mountain brooks. Could the innocent blood of
Protestants shed by the heartless hand of Catholicism be congealed,
it would build a purple mountain that would cast a shadow the length
and breadth of this land.
The nations of the earth have had wars from the creation of the
world, but the myriads of those who have fallen in all the battles of
the world would only be a small portion compared to the millions who
have laid down their lives that greedy, abhorrent Catholicism might
be appeased.
It is time for us as _American freemen_ to become free men in every
sense the word implies, and exercise both our franchise and our
brains in relegating this "Scarlet-Robed Hag of Rome" to her original
haunts.
Will you perform your American duty and band together and become a
Protestant army and march out under the blood-stained banner of King
Emanuel and help to make America the greatest Protestant nation the
sun has ever shone upon?
Be men, and by your manhood you can, if you make the start now, lull
into _eternal sleep_ this Romish power which villifies your ambitions
and brands your offspring with the stigma of disgrace.
[Illustration:
"LOOK TO JESUS." "THE POPE AND ME."
"As the Twig is bent the Tree's inclined."
THE TWO WAYS.]