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of Martin Luther, on no man have devolved such fearful responsibilities as have rested upon him. The world will little note nor long remember what many of us say here; but it will note and long remember what this man shall say or leave unsaid. He must confess or deny Christ. He must move on, either to a position of unparalleled influence or to one of imbecility. Christ Jesus is his greatest need. It should be the prayer of all who pray that our Lord may find a welcome to this man's soul, that he may have power to become a son of God. Then will he scorn wealth, power and numbers, and will walk out upon the promises of Jehovah, and, standing upon a Thus saith the Lord, will defy the world. The gospel, the love, the help of Jesus Christ is the need of Romanists. Mighty issues begin to engage attention. It is proven that free thought cannot be tolerated by Romanists in Rome or in America. The pretense that Romish priests are forbidden to mix in political contests is only a pretense. In the old world, as in the new, they have worked as slaves, but, with few exceptions, none have been permitted to act the part of freemen. The cardinal can ring his bell, and cause the ballots of his people to be thrown for the man or the party he chooses to serve. It is this that makes Romanism a factor in politics which has to be counted and estimated. It is this which makes it worth while for men who seek positions of power to court the influence of those who control the Roman Catholic vote. There are members in congress, at this hour, because of their bargain with a priest. It is because it is believed that McGlynn can lead a great number of the disaffected Roman Catholics that he is urged, for the sake of politics, to deny his Lord and remain a nominal Catholic, while duty demands that he rise to a higher plane, and lead his fellow-men first to obey God and then to serve

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An opportunity is furnished McGlynn to stand boldly in favor of the word of God in the home and in the school. America needs that Bible truths be lodged in the minds and hearts of youth. Bible Luther found chained to the altar is now unchained. reception of the word of God into the heart giveth light. to be welcomed and read and used, and it will become a power in the land.

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The Bartholdi statue was built and dedicated. unlighted, and was a failure. The nation took it in hand and the

light was kindled. The nation without the Bible is a failure. That light is essential to the well being of the people. It is the light that lightens the world. Romanists need it as much as Protestants. The attempt to blot it out or to extinguish it is the beginning of the destruction of religious liberty. That gone, Romanism is without a protector. The theory of the world is the reverse of this. Men talk about Romanism as though it were tolerating Protestantism. Seven millions do not tolerate fifty millions. They are tolerated. Rome would be the first to suffer if religious liberty in America should die. The masses in America are exiles from lands where Romanism is regarded as the tap-root of despotism. Dr. McGlynn owes it to Roman Catholics to sound the note of alarm and warn them of their peril. The chart of Rome's future is boldly drawn. "For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities," and has commanded, saying, "Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works; in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine, and she shall be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord who judgeth her." Would that McGlynn could see this. Then would he flee the desolation, and would refuse longer to wear the collar of a slave, forced on him by those not loyal to the truth, but would come into the fellowship of Christ's love and join the brotherhood of the redeemed and stand with a multitude no man can number, of those who confess Christ here and serve him with delight, and shall cast their crowns at his feet in the better land, without passing through purgatory, because they have been washed and made clean in the blood of the Lamb. For the tried, persecuted and unfrocked priest, I have only sympathy and anxiety. He is adrift. He is lost if he is without Christ and the new birth.—He stands upon the verge of a life that may have in it the rewards which come to a Paul or to a Judson.

Stay where he is, dabble in politics, mingle with the Sabbathdesecrating crowd, keep with the men who reject Christ, and there is for him less and less the respect of the true. God cannot use him as an apostle, Christ cannot be to him an inspiration, and he will walk in a way that shall increase in shadows and shall end in temporal and eternal night. There is a better mission for him. A great brotherhood opens its arms, a field of immeasurable

usefulness stretches out before him, such as came to Father Chiniquy or Gavazzi, men who renounced the errors of Rome, and have told the people why, even while to all they have said: "Be ye followers of me, even as I follow Christ."

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THE CATHEDRAL DOOR SHUT.

"And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there." Rev. 21: 25.

There are utterances that sound through the community like the reverberation of a cannon shot over the surface of a quiet lake.

On Thursday morning, Dec. 9, 1886, two facts startled the reflecting people. One was the head line "The Cathedral Door Shut ;' the other was the announcement that a distinguished priest of the Roman Catholic church had been silenced and called to Rome because he had championed the cause of labor, despite the opposition of his archbishop.

These facts re-introduced the American people to the despotism of Rome. It is not dead. It may be latent. It may be quiet. It is not dead. Let us tell the truth. Ex-Judge Henry Alker died in his home, 46 West 55th street, New York, Nov. 23, 1886. It was announced that he was to be buried from the cathedral. The

notice was repeated on Nov. 25. On Nov. 26, the place of burial was given as St. Leo's church, and there it occurred. Undertaker Hart gave as an explanation that the notice that the funeral was to take place at the cathedral was due to a blunder on his part. Efforts were made to conceal the truth. In vain. This is America. It is now known that the funeral was not held at the cathedral because Archbishop Corrigan refused to allow the services to take place there, and the archbishop refused because Mr. Alker became one of the board of governors of the "house of refuge" on Randall's island. Judge Alker stood with America against Rome, and Rome seeks his destruction and defamation.

Nathaniel Jarvis, Jr., one of the managers of the "house of refuge," also a Roman Catholic, declares that, early in the year 1886, the archbishop asked that the board appoint a committee to confer with Vicar-General Quinn and Chancellor Preston, on the "freedom of worship" question, and see if it could not be arranged that the Catholic inmates of the house should enjoy their own

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