The Fight with Rome (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fight With Rome

As Abraham Lincoln said Sooner or later, the light of com mon sense will make it clear to every one that no liberty of con science can be granted to men who are sworn to obey a pope who pretends to have the right to put to death those who differ from him in religion. Sooner or later, the people will be forced to put a restriétion, to that clause of unlimited toleration toward a papist 9 I am for liberty of conscience in its truest, noblest, broadest and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through their councils, theologians and canon laws, that their conscience orders them to burn my wife and strangle my children and cut my throat when they find an Opportunity. (washington in the Lap of Rome, p. Nor can the American people afford to have the youth of the Roman Catholic church educated to believe that either the priest or the church can give them a warrant to trample on the ordinances of the land, or set at defiance the commandments written by God's finger on the tables of stone amid the thunderings and lightnings ofquaking Sinai. The American people must care for God's cause, uphold his honor and obey the teachings of his word, and then may be assured that they will share his protection and care.

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