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It is this fact which gives Christianity perennial youth. ism degrades, destroys and impoverishes, and so it is forever and everywhere a curse and must be abated, or the nation cursed by it must be ruined. In 1622 Jesuitism went down in massacre in Japan, and Romanism is dead in the Sunrise kingdom, while Christianity, recognized on Plymouth Rock in 1622, is now the glory of Japan and the hope of the world.

The America that is to be is not the cramped, priest-ridden, Biblehating and pope-loving country that Romanists dream it will be. There is an outlook for freedom left. God never made these beauteous plains, these towering forests, these lovely groves, these golden landscapes, to be the heritage of serfs and vassals.

In the uprising among Romanists of the old world, more than of the new, we behold indications which promise much for the future. There the truth has been proclaimed. Here it has been suppressed. For nearly a quarter of a century it has been thought to be ungracious, inhospitable, bigoted and sectarian to say a word against the church of Rome. It is a mistake. Romanists live for themselves and not for the republic. With the richest establishments their people are the poorest. They beg of all. They give to none. The west begins to see it. Let the truth be told and there is no danger.

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It is now known that Rome is on the make. for friendship's sake. Rome does her pleasure and is indifferent. alike to the behests of patriotism and the interests of society.

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Says the Cincinnati Telegraph, the organ of Rome: "The Democratic party is what it is because of the Roman Catholic vote. that party serves us, she can have our support; when she hesitates or halts, she will lose it." Such is the faithlessness and selfishness of Rome.

Vices, immorality, ingratitude, indifference, apathy-these are the consequences of the doctrines of the priests in open antagonism to the existence of families.

Let Americans protect the home from the inroads of the priest and they will not furnish such numerous contingents to convents and monasteries, which are the curse of humanity, the schools of laziness, the sinks of obscenity, of vices and crimes. The corpses which are so continually discovered there are there to attest it.

In King's County penitentiary is a woman who has been in prison

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eighteen years for infanticide, and who is condemned to stay there for life. That which is a crime in the state is a practice in the convent. Luther in his Table Talk says that in his time a pool was cleaned out in the vicinity of a convent and the bottom was almost literally paved with the bones of infants.

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Romanists believe in the what is to be. A foreign writer in the Catholic World, describing the condition of affairs in England, despairs of victory and turns to the United States, and says that here is the only land where the pope rules supreme. They expect to hold this land because of the cowardice of Protestants and the wariness of Jesuits.

In Germany schools are under a superintendent. All institutions are open to search. In the United States Rome is supreme. Laws which govern citizens of the republic are trampled on by Romanists. Teachers in our public schools have to be examined. gray nuns are exempted by act of legislature.

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No officer of the state has any authority to visit the educational institutions of Romanists for the purpose of inquiring into their course of study and rules of discipline, nor indeed is any special information obtainable as to the number and situation of their schools. If a sister or a friend be there immured, she may be put out of the way, thrown into a pit and covered with lime, but no friend can hear her piteous wail to be delivered from that place of banishment and confinement. America owes it to free institutions to change all this.

3. America will resemble Italy if we neglect national education. Ignorance is on the increase in the south and in the north, and ignorance is the sheet anchor of Romanism.

The mind must feed on truth or it must become stagnant and stupid. Take the enlightening truth out of the path of the young and you force them to make a desert march.

4. We must talk plainly of the designs of Rome. Among them of chief importance is their faith in a ballot controlled, not by judgment or interest or the welfare of country, but by a foreign potentate. Says a distinguished prelate: "Popery will in time be established in America, and then religious liberty is at an end."

It is known that, no matter how strong be the appeal to vote for any given cause, the only question asked is: Will it help Rome? Parties may come and parties may go, but Rome is for Rome forever.

We owe it to our children to adopt an amendment to the constitution which shall forbid appropriations for the benefit of any institution under sectarian control or for any religious or non-religious sect. All ecclesiastical property shall be held in trust by a board of trustees numbering not less than five members of the congregation owning or donating the property. No property shall be exempt from taxation except it belong to the state or nation. All new voters

shall be able to read and write. Unless such an amendment be passed, Rome will hold the republic in her grasp. not free. Romanists are slaves of a foreign master.

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The plan is thus outlined to subvert our free institutions and to papalize America: "Send over the surplus population of Europe. They will come with foreign views and feelings and will form a heterogeneous mass, and in the course of time rise and overthrow the republic."

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Keep such facts before the people, and there will be a coming out from Rome or a coming out against Rome. I would not be an alarmist. The republic cannot afford to forget the peril : free immigration, which is bringing to America the scum of Europe. 2. The surrender to Rome through marriage, in which the children are given to Rome. 3. The constant inculcation of fertility, ostensibly to carry out the Biblical injunction but really to increase political power. 4. The influence of the women's rights craze, which is giving our school interests over to Roman Catholics.

It is my hope that Americans will wake up and determine that America shall be ruled by lovers of the Bible and of humanity. Before the progress of free thought can be checked there must be a total surrender to Rome of the God-given rights won by the blood of our sires and brothers. The pulpit is free, the press unmuzzled, the church as a rule is in line with God's purpose. Then let us resist what cursed Italy, and keep America for God and the brotherhood of man.

GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA, OR HOW RO

MANISM HATES REFORM.

"Only acknowledge thine iniquities." Jer. 3: 13.

Girolamo Savonarola illustrates, in his life and death, not only how Romanists persecute Romanists, but how utterly hopeless it is for a Romanist in Rome to hope to reform Romanism. There is but one thing to do, and that is to come out from her and leave her, "that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues." Savonarola stayed in, and suffered the consequences. "Go and proclaim these words," said Jeremiah, "and say Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep mine anger forever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree; and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord."

That is what Romanists do not propose to do. No matter how bad their faith and practice may be proven to be, they excuse themselves because of the authority of the church to grant indulgences for sin and make apologies for crime.

Savonarola, the most illustrious preacher of his time, saw the wickedness of Romanism and cried out against it, and was rewarded with being burned at the stake. The times in which he lived were horrid beyond description. Priests illustrated every vice and scandalized every virtue. They gambled, drank to drunkenness, fought in the churches disguised as soldiers, debauched married women, seduced young girls, converted their homes into houses of ill-fame, and heartlessly compelled their children to beg their bread from door to door, without a father's care or a mother's love. Scandals were the rule, virtues the exception; and yet even then the claim of infallibility was pressed.

Savonarola saw all this, and believed if he only called attention to