The Last Gasp of the Anti-Catholic Faction [pp. 848-855]

The Last Gasp of the Anti-Catholic Faction.
churches. Here in our city many would have
perished this last winter, had not our poormaster fed them.
You next give us a history of a wonderful
miracle that was performed in Washington
in i824. Dear sir, do you think any Protestant with one eye, and that half-open, can be
made to believe such nonsense? If you wish to
see miracles wrought in the nineteenth century,justgive the Bible to our Catholic brethren,
then you may see greater miraclesperformned
than you speak of; for to see a man that is
dead in sin changed to a spiritual man, made
alive in Christ, is a miracle.
Our Catholic brethren are taught that
their church was thefirst church. Let me inform you that there was no Roman Catholic
church on the earth for three hundred years
after the death of the apostles. Permit me
to quote a few passages from the word of
God. 2 Thessalonians ii. 3, 4: "Let no
man deceive you by any means: for that
day shall not come, except there come a
fallizng away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshipped; so that
he as God sitteth in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God." Could an
angel from heaven portray the character of
the pope in any plainer language?
I Timothy iv. I-5: "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having
their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstainfrom meats, which God hath created to
be received with thanksgiving of them which
believe and know the truth. For every
creature of God is good, and nothing to be
refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
for it is sanctified by the word of God and
prayer."
Paul speaks of visiting the churches;
that is to say, little bands of Christians. We
read in the Acts of the Apostles xv. 3:
"And being brought on our way by the
church;" that is to say, a few Christians.
Read, also, xvi. 5: "Likewise greet the
church that is in their house," etc.
You will now turn to Revelation xiii. x6i8: "And he causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor,free and bond, to receive
a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads." Now, every true Catholic receives
the sign of the cross in his forehead every
Ash-Wednesday; every priest, when he is
ordained for the ministry, receives the mark
of the cross in his right hand.
A converted Roman Catholic priest, going
through one of the streets in a Southern city,
picked up the thirteenth chapter of Revelation, and, reading it, he was convinced that he
was one of those that had received the mark
in his right hand, and was led by the Spirit to
see his error and was happily converted, and
became a Baptist minister.
Give the Bible to all our Roman Catholic
priests and brethren in America, and in less
thanfive years there would not be a Roman
Catholic church in existence. Rev. Mr. Hyacinthe, a Roman Catholic priest, in Paris,
France, has come out in favor of reading
the Bible. He is now preaching in the
Notre Dame cathedral to audiences of three
thousand. IIe presses upon the people, in the
most eloquent words, the study of the Bible.
The news from Italy is very interesting.
Thousands of our Catholic brethren are inquiring and receiving the Bible, that they
may learn the way to Christ. In less than
five years there cannot be found a Roman
Catholic in all that vast kingdom, except in
Rome, where the Catholic religion has to be
protected by an army. That is a curious
religion that has to be protected by the
SWORD. Shame! shame!
That great city is soon to be destroyed,
according to God's word. See Revelation xiv. 20: "And the wine-press was
trodden without the city, and BLOOD
came out of the wine-press, even unto
the horses' bridles, by the space of a
thousand and six hundred furlongs." You
are aware, I suppose, that the pope claims
two hundred miles square around Rome.
The above number of furlongs make just
that number of miles. Let Bonaparte send
ALL his armies to Rome, and he could not
prevent this prophecy from being fulfilled
when the time comes.
Dear sir, you have a great deal to say about
our Catholic brethren exercising great faith.
Paul says, "Faith without works is dead."
What are the works that God requires?
Let me tell you. It is not only to clothe the
naked and feed the hungry; but it is to go
out into the highways and hedges, and invite
the sinner, the wayward-yes, the poor
drunkard-to become reconciled to God; to
put off the old man with all his deeds, and
put on the new man which is after Christ.
Did you ever learn of one of our Catholic
brethren doing the like?
You speak of children being confirmed.
What does that mean? Why, made Christians. Dear sir, who can change the heart
of a child or a man? No one but God.
What saith the Bible, speaking of those that
were Christ's? "Which were born, not of
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