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

The Last Gasp of the Anti-Catholic Faction.
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God."-John i. I3.
You tell us that in this easy and pleasant
way our Catholic brethren join the church.
Dear sir, does joining a church make a
man Christ-like? Christ says: "If ye have
my spirit, ye are mine; if ye have not my
spirit, ye are none of mine."-Romans viii. 9.
Read the whole chapter; it contains the
whole plan of salvation.
Our Catholic brethren are taught that the
Virgin Mary was born immaculate! What
blasphemy! And also that the church is
infallible! When Christ asked Peter and
the disciples, "Whom say ye that I am?"
Peter answered and said, "Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God." Upon
this acknowledgment or confession of Peter,
that Christ was the son of the living God,
Christ said, " I will build my church "-not
upon Peter, as the pope claims.
You say our Catholic brethren are not
ashamed to be found praying. Please turn
to the sixth chapter of Matthew, and read
the sixth verse, which is as follows: "But
thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy
closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,
pray to thy Father which is in secret; and
thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
You say the superintendent of the Catholic Sabbath-school you visited told you that
he had visited many of the Protestant Sabbath-schools and had copied after them.
I wonder where he found a Protestant Sabbath-school without the Bible!
You say that the Catholics expect to rule
in this country, and that ALL Protestant
children will be in their Sabbath-schools.
Let me say, "Let God be true, but every
man a liar."-Romans iii. 4. St. Paul has
prophesied that the time shall soon come
when the Sword of the Sp~it SHALL destroy the Man of Sin.
There are thousands of our Catholic
brethren in America that are sick of the
Catholic religion, and will soon leave it.
When I was engaged in teaching a Sab.
bath-school of Catholic children, a father
and mother called on me and wanted to put
their children in my school. I said, "Your
priest will not allow you to do so." They said
they did not care anything about their priest;
they had been brought up in ignorance; they
did not want their children brought up so.
You cannot tell us of a Sabbath-school
in all Italy, or in any other country where
the Roman Catholics rule, except those
that have been established by Protestants.
You tell us about Roman Catholic benevolent societies. Where, oh! where is there
an asylum for the blind and deaf and dumb,
that they may learn to read the word of
God, and get a knowledge of our Saviour
Christ Jesus, and learn the way to heaven?
You cannot show one in any Catholic
country.
Permit me to give you another graphic
picture from the Bible, giving a picture of
the priests' dresses. Please turn to Revelation xvii. 4, 5; "And the woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and
decked with gold and precious stones and
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand,"
etc.
Now, all this I have seen in the great
cathedral in Montreal. I have seen our
Catholic priests and brethren bhving down
to graven images for several minutes.
Mr. J. G. Parton, dear sir, I sincerely
pray that you will, after reading this communication, repent, (not do penance,) and
turn to the Lord, and not be under the necessity of calling upon the rocks and mountains to fall on you and hide you from the
face of the Lamb. (Revelation vi. i6.) Do
read, also, verse I 7: "For the great day of
his wrath is come; and who shall be able
to stand?" Do read this communication
carefully, and pray that it may be blessed to
your salvation.
No more at present, and I remain your
friend in Christ,
CHARLES W. GILBERT.