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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
IIekk is another straw which
show which way the wiod blows in
Rome: "The pope has issued an order
which has been promulgated in Buda-
Pesih, declaring that the offspring of
mixed marriages shall be brought up
in the Catholic faith. This conflict
with the Iluogarian marriage law,
which gives the parents of children
born of such unions the choice of the
faith in which they shall be reared."
This is further evidence that where
the laws of the state conflict with the
laws of the church the laws of the
church are to be unhesitatingly obeyed
Father Chas. Chixiquy says:
"I have heard the confessions of more
than 200 priests, and say the truth, as
God knows it, I must declare that only
twenty-two bad not to weep over the
secret or public sins committed through
the irresistibly corrupting influences of
auricular confession! I am now more
than seventy seven years old, and in a
short time I shall be in my grave. I
shall have to give an account of what I
now say. Well, it is in the presence of
my great Judge, with my tomb before
my eyes, that I declare to the world
that very few yes, very few priests
escape from falling into the pit of the
most horrible moral depravity the
world has ever known through the con
fession of females."
The priesthood will soon have
to devise something more terrible than
a hell if they would keep "doubting
Thomases'' from expressing publicly
their disbelief in the actual existence
of such an 3odlv place. A corres
pondent to the World Herald from New
York in speaking cf one of these "doubt
ing Thomases" says: "Now wo have
the 'new preacher,' for, as the old
fashioned women have passed away, so
also have the antique clergymen, who
formerly talked about the golden seats
in Heaven and the roaring fires in an
eternal hell. One of the new preach
ers in this end of the universe is Rev.
Frank E. Mason of Brooklyn. At the
First Church of Christ the other night
Dr. Mason spoke in answer to the ques
tion, 'It there a hell?' and this is what
he said: 'Yes; if you make one.,Tiicre
is no local hell. Hell and" Heaven are
conditions of mind, not locations. 'Tell
is the abridgement of power. It is the
shriveling of the mind. Man carries
his own brimstone in the pocket of his
thought. It is set on fire by the fric
tion of negative ideas. The pessimist
relegates his Heaven to futurity The
op to mist enjojs it on earth. The one
who is continually siDging, 'Earth is a
desert drear, Heaven is my home,' lives
in perpetual hell. He is suffering
from ecclesiastical dyspepsia. He has
euten the forbidden apple and cannot
digest it.'"
V D. Powell, D. D., writes:
( Komanism encourages paganism. It
has never;; done anything to turn the
Mexicans' from paganism. The chap
lain of Max'milian, appointed by the
pope, wrote a tract which was pub
lished in Paris. He said: 'Mexicans
are not christians. 1. Because, they
are idolators.c 2. Their religion, ow
ing k ignorance, consists oi rites anu
ceremonies. They do not know what it
is to worshin Gi d in snirit and in
truth. Virtue is unknown to the Cath
olic clergy. Communion is administered
to children five years of age. Each
ceremony is made an article of mer
chandise.' There is not a robber in
Mexico who is not a fanatical Roman
ist. They are covered with charms to
keep the devil out. A noted robber
had made about a million dollars. He
became concerned and consulted the
priest. A large sum was paid and a
receipt takenj securing his salvation.
He afterwards returned to his old
trade. People are in ignorance of the
way of salvation. A leading man of
Mexico married his own sister. For
130,000 the pope gave him authority
for the marriage. For $1(5,000 a man
obtained from the church of Rome per
mission to marry his niece. I am per
sonally acquainted with this pian. For
baptizing a child a fee of from $1.50 to
$2 20 is charged. In Mexico, if the
government had not taken away the
cemeteries, the people could not bury
without exorbitant fees. Ihe lowest
marriage fee in thechurch is $1."), while
wages for a day's labor are twelve and
one-half cents. Two-thirds of the peo-
""j pie formerly lived without marriage.
4 Almost every priest has children of his
own.
We do not believe everything
we see in print about the fashionable
woman. While we do not doubt but
what she does many things which other
women do not do, yet some of the things
with which she is charged are so ludic
rous and so devoid of common horse
sense that we must perforce reject them
as below the level of even a fashlonabl
woman. One of these things is spoke
of in the following item; "The fashion
able woman pick up abroad now to
hang in her drawing-room a set of
priest's vestraen's. Tnese are ured for
window and door draperies, one hang.
ing as a lambrequin over a white win
dow, with perhaps the narrow case
ments in the same room conventionally
decorated. These pieces of rich era
broidery can be picked up in Spain
trance and Italy at very low prices,
and are regarded by the discriminating
collector as a unique and attractive
ornament. In using them as lambre
quins or doorway drapings, breadths of
soft silk of a contrasting or harmoniz
ing hue are drawn through the open
ings made in the robes for head and
arms, an arrangement which adds
pleasing grace to the rather stiff lines
of the splendid pieces."
1 he bowels oi the earth are
giving up many curious things in these
latter days; things which indicate a
higher civilization among the ancients
than they have been credited with. A
dispatch from Athens under date of
April 13, 1805, says: "The excavations
of the American school of Archaeology
at Ileraion and Argos, directed by Prof,
Charles Waldstein, has been resumed
this spring, giving employment to 250
workmen. The work has been success
ful. Besides the two temples and five
buildings previously discovered a large
colonnade forty-five feet long and well
preserved has been found 250 feet below
the surface and to the south of the sec
ond temple. The excavators have al
ready found parts of Metopes, two mar
ble heads of the bea. Greek period, a
hundred objects of bronze and gold
gems, vases ana terra cottas oi tne
Homeric period, also numerous scarads,
several Mycenan tombs and an argive
inscription of bronze, possibly of a re
ligious character. The excavations,
which are now in their fourth season,
will be completed this year. They rival
the French excavations at Delphi in
magnitude and importance, and the
objects found represent all the periods
of Greek life, from the prehisioric to
the Roman, and give epecimans of the
sculpture and architecture of the
Hricllean age. They have, already pro
duced more material for the hlstoy-of
the earliest ceramic art than was dis-
cavered in any previous ex ;avatlons,
including those of Dr. Schliemann."
.
Apropos of what we have just said on
this subject, we give the following dis
patch from Detroit, Mich. "A great
stone wall situated in Greenltaf town
ship, Sanilac county, four miles east
and one mile south of Cass City, is ex
citing no lit .le curiosity in the state.
The upper p irt of this mysterious struct
ure was laid bare by the recent forest
fires, and resembling at a distance a
huge white serpent lying in a swaup,
through which it passes. The wall is
about eight feet wide at the top but
wider at the base. At one place along
the line of the wall a ditch has been
made to drain the swamp. This wall
was cut through in several places, but
the bottom was never reached in any
case. How, when, or by whom this
mysterious piece of architecture was
constructed is a pot-er for antiquarians.
There are no breaks during its entire
length, and the nicks or interstices are
filled with a substance resembling ce
ment.
Mr. Noah Brooks recently
contributed a very interesting article
to the Century Mnqazine, from which
we take the following: "It is interest
ing to call to mind some of the forces
which mado Grant the geueral-in-chief
of the armies of the United States, and
some of the incidents that attended the
consummation of that historic work
It was by no means a grateful task for
the congressmen of that time to lend a
hand in creating the grade of lieutenant
general in the army, although there
was no question as to the man on whom
that distinction should be conferred. I
question very much if the bill to revive
the grade of lieutenant general would
have gone through congress then if it
hal not been for the very general dis
satisfaction with Gen. Halleek, who was
acting as general-in-chicf, with head
quarters at Washington. This dissat
isfaction was constantly increasing, and
although the country at large did not
seem to be very keenly alive to Halleck's
inadequacy to the situation, Washing
ton, and especially the chambers of
congress, resounded with complaints of
his sluggishness, his unwillingness to
take responsibilities, and his supposed
incapacity to grasp the whole military
situation. I doubt if the most out
spoken and malignant Copperhead in
congress was so disliked, so railed
against, and so reviled by the more
radical members as this unfortunate
general-in-chief. The belief that some
new man, no matter who he might be,
could vigorously prosecute the war and
brine a mhvJv weace if he were in
Halleck's place, made imssiblo the pas-
sace of the bill reviving tho rank of
lieutenant general of the army. Oddly
enough, men who complained that the
president clung tonaeioutly to Gen.
Halleek as bis military adviser never
doubted for a moment that Mr. Lincoln
was more than willing that the rank
should be revived with the distinct
understanding that Grant should bo
the wearer of the title, ai.d by virtue
thereof become at ou"6 the general
issimo of all the military forces of the
United States. That the president did
cling to Halleek, in spito of the very
general popular disfavor with which
the general was regarded Is well known.
When I ventured one day to say to the
president that Halleek was disliked be
cause many people supitosed that he
was too timid and hesitating in his mil
itary conduct, Mr. Lincoln's face at
once wore a sober, almost severe, ex
pression as he said that he was Hal
leck's friend because nobody else was.
Other men had received from tho pres
ident a somewhat similar Impression;
and, whatever may have been thought
of the very remote possibility that any
other man than Gen. Grant would lie
called to the head of the armies, con
gressmen who were clamorous for a
more vigorous prosecution of the war
were eagerly turning to the "lieutenant
general bill," as it was called, as the
readiest way to be rid of Gen. Halleck's
alleged slowness. If there was any
doubt as to the popularity of Grant in
Washington, (and ho was disposed to
regard that city as a place of snares),
the arrival of the newly created lieu
tenant general effectually dissipated it.
lie had been called to the capital, and
had arrived there late in the afternoon
of March 8, 1804. That evening, as it
chanced, was the occasion of tho usual
weekly reception at the White House,
and thither Gen. Grant went by special
invitation. Thither, too, went throngs
cf people whn it was known that he
would be on view with the president.
So great was the crowd, and so wild
the rush to get near the general that
he was obliged at last to mount a sofa
where he could be soon, and where he
was secure, at least for a ti ne, from the
maripss of the muliitud. Women
wereeaught up and whirled in the
torrent which swept through the great
east room. Ladies suffered dire dis
aster in the crush and confusion; their
laces were torn and crinolines mashed;
and people got upon sofas, chairs aid
tables to he out of harm's way or to get
a better view of the spectacle. It was
the only real mob I ever saw in the
White House. It was an indescribable
scene or curiosity, i v and pleasure.
For once, at leasi, the president of the
United States was not the chief figure
in the picture. The little, scared look
ing man who stood on a crimson-
covered sofa was the idol of the hour.
He remained on view for a short time;
then he was quietly smuggled out by
friendly hands, and next day he de
parted from the city, which he then
ppeared to dread so much, to begin
the last and mightiest chapter in his
military career."
Down Hill.'
According to The Presbyterian, the
Roman Catholic church must do some
strong work if she "holds her own."
She is working hard in the United
States to balance her lot-s in other
countries, but the question arises, "Is
he worthy of success?" According to
the influence 03 nations for the good of
this nation, she should have a rapid,
own hill gait here. We do rot refer
to the people who are her followers,
but the religion, as it Is called, but it is
triple combination a politico religio-
semi-pagat'ism. Ihe 1 rcsbytcrmn says:
"In the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, as a whole, the
Catho'ics are now a million and a hal'
less than they were fifty years ao. In
841 there 1,000,000 Roman Catholics
in Great Britain and 6.000,000 in Ire
land, making a total of 7,000.000. In
8SU the British Roman Catholics had
ncreased to 2,000,000, chiefly by Irish
immigration, while the Irish Roman
Catholics had decreased to 3,500,000,
making a total for the United Kingdom
of 5.000,000, that is to say 1,500,000 less
than in 1841, although the population
had increased in the interval by 11,000,
000. That is to say, in 1841 the Roman
Catholics were 20 per cent of the whole
population, but in 1891 they had dropped
down to 10 per cent."
Now let the Roman Catholics take a
hint, and let the ball roll.
Ten Pins.
Recalled Stormy Times.
Well that looks natural" said the
old soldier, looking at a can of con
densed milk on the breakfast table in
ace of ordinary milk that failed on
account of the storm. "It's the Gail
Borden Eagle Brand we used during
the war."
4.KI l.OVFKNMKYr.
A Subject of Paramount Importance l
Fiery Intelligent American.
The question of good government Is a
subject of paramount Interest to every
puiv, Intelligent and loyal citizen of
America. In some of the large cities
of the United StaU so many discordant
elements constitute the bulk of the imp
utation that the question of good gov
ernment is rendered difficult and In
tricate. "It seems as though it were a
law of human Intercourse that when
races are commingled in largo masses
the worst qualities ol each appear In
tensified in the general iniquity."
(Farrar, "Life of St. Paul," Vol. I, page
201.) If the citizenry of the great cen
ters of America were a ooplo of prae
tlcally one language, of like training
and of like traditions, actuated by one
exalted and noble patriotic purpose,and
in whoso breasts tho spirit of civic
pride and national unity reigned sov
ereignly, the problem of good govern
ment would bo greatly simplified. The
average citizen of any of tho great cen
ters of France, Germany or England Is
more patriotic than the average citizen
of New York, Chicago or San Fran
cisco, It is a well known and a deplor
able fact that a largo per cent of our
urban population is composed of jier
sons who are totally out of harmony
and out of sympathy with the highest
Ideals of American citizenship and
American civilization. Undoubtedly
the radical and effectual restriction of
foreign immigration lsono of the meas
ures to which American adepts in state
craft must early apply their talents and
their energies. A continuance of the
present volume of immigration would
well-nigh ruin this country. "In the
present century (the nineteenth the
immigration of a large foreign popula
tion is seldom favorable to the moral
condition of a nation. Emigration has
become so easy and so familiar that it
is the resource of multitudes but little
remov d from simple pauperism. Men
of ordinary characters-usually deterior
ate when severed from the ties of home
traditions, associations and opinions;
and they seldom feel any strong attach
ment for a country which was not that
of th ?ir childhood." (Lecky, "England
In j'no Eighteenth. Century," Vol. 2,
pagK Men of low character con
stitute the class whose presence in the
United States has Imperilled the ctuse
of good government and threatened the
stability and perpetuity of the Ameri
can Republic. There have come hither
too many pertoas who seem to consider
the honors, emoluments and advan
tages of public office as legitimate prey
for needy adventurers. Prof 8-ional
foreigners exercise n ne mysterious
hypnotic power over vast multitudes of
American citizens of foreign birth.
Not all those who comt to us from oilier
lands, however, are professional office
seekers. Many of our citizens tf for
eign birth are home-seekers. They
merely seek homely felicity. And we
must be patient and deferential toward
those of our foreign-horn fellow citizens
who, while they are yet unable to speak
English fluently or thoroughly compre
hend the nature and scope of American
institutions, are eager to qualify them
selves for tho proper discharge of the
duties and responsibilities of free citi
zens, to become exemplars of liberty,
progress and enlightenment, and to
exalt and idealiz3 American life.
The best elements of the old world
are none tco good to become citizens
and residen's of this American Repub
lic. The United States must eventually
become a nation actually shaking one
great language, with universal freedom
and national unity enshrined in the
hearts of all the people. Clannishness
and sectionalism jeopardize the na
tional peace, prosperity and happiness.
Blessed is that American who never
has betrayed any civic trust reposed In
him. America needs a genuine revival
of old fashioned honesty. Only men of
undoubted honor and probity must
hereafter be intrusted with the conduct
of public affairs. Public servants should
be distinguished above all things for
their integrity. We cannot trust to
polite learning to swe the nation. His
tory teaches that the richest culture
may exist 6ide by side with the deepest
degradation. "No ages are worse, no
places more corrupt, than those that
draw the iridescent film of an intellec
tual culture over the deep stagnancy of
moral degradation." (Farrar, "Life of
St. Paul," Vol. i, page 28.) Many of
our most cultured citizens entirely ig
nore the science of civics and constantly
hold themselves aloof from civic con
cerns. Every American patriot should labor
and sacrifice for the advancement and
enthronement of the principles of pure
politics, for the actualization of good
government. We who love our country
and sincerely desire to see our land and
nation happy, exalted, peaceful and
prosperous must eject the enemies of
state and society from the strongholds
of official power. Ih-iuagoglstn Is tho
bane of American polities. Demagogue
are generally the Intransigent anlagon
Uts of simon pure A tnerleuiil-in; they
are generally In favor of making the
I nlted Slates a mere colony of Europe
Ignorant, Incompetent and iniquitous
Incumbents of public places should be
turned out of theollloes which they dis
grace. Parvlsclent, disloyal and ruf
flanly jiersons ought never to lie in
trusted with police Kwers In America.
AUAI.IIF.KT llKACll.
The I inn go of the lleasl.
What is the Image of the beast, men
tioned, Rev. 13:11? John and Daniel
evidently describe tho same beast. The
"great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon
his head-" Rev. 12:3, Is Rome pagan.
The crowns were on the heads for the
empire of Rome was not yet divided
Into tho ten kingdoms. It is probably
called tho "great rod dragon" because
the dragon or Satan is the author and
supporter of tho pagan religion. "And
the dragon gave him bis owcr, his
seat, and great authority," Rev. 13:2.
That tho "great rod dragon" is Rome
pagan, Is believed by buth papists and
rrotcstants. I here Is no reason to
doubt it. But what is the beast with
seven heads and ten horns, with the
crowns on the horns, described In Rev.
13:1-10? It Is evidently the same as the
"great red dragon" in a changed form;
the same old dragon in a new dress, ho
has put on the Vatican collar and wrist
bands, but under his coat are the scales
of the dragon. Tho dominion has
passed from the heads to tho horns, but
U Is the san e beast, for the horns grew
out of the heads. The horns are tho
secular or civil power.
But another beast appears in the
scene. "And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the c arth, and he had
two horns like a lamb, and he spake as
a dragon." Rev. 13:11 18. What does
this beast represent? Evidently the
ecclesiastical power of Rome, the
papacy the false prophet the "man
of sin." If the "great red dragon" Is
Rome pagan, then the beast of the 13th
chapter, Is Rome papal, the secular and
priestly power. There Is clear evidence
of this and no fact against it. If the
two horns of the beast that spake, as a
dragon are significant, they may repre
sent the two orders of the clergy or the
union of the priestly and the civil power
in tho pope, the pretended "vicar of
Christ" and "prince of tho kings of
the earth." The pope claims not only
to be tho head if all churches, but
higher than the kings of earth, hence
claims au thority to depose kings and
absolve their subj -cts from allegiance.
Tne description of this two-horned
bea-t agrees with the pope exactly and
with the tyrannic.il and cru- 1 reign of
the popes. This beast is considered to
be tho same as the "little horn" of
Dan. chapter 7th. They are b th as
sociated with the ten-horned beast.
Papists admit their identity, and that
they corr spond to the great anti
Christ. They stand at the head of the
anti christian empire that has drenched
the earth with the blood of the martyrs
of Jesus. We know who slaughtered
the saints, it is a matter of history, no
Jesuit or vandal hand can blot out the
record. History atul prophecy run
parallel. John saw in vision, the ' har
lot" that vas "drunkea with the bWoi
of the saints."
Now, a question arises, what is the
' imago of the beast?" It will d ro
harm to express an opinion. Some say
it is tho papicy. But whatever con
stitutes the image of the Wast, the
pope is evidently the head of the com
hination.
My opinion is: that the image of the
beast that received the deadly wound
and was healed, isa union and co opera
tion of the ten-horned beat and the
two-horned beast the succession of
popes, the pope being supreme dictator,
tne head, center and bond of union. In
this combination, the empire was recon
structed, idolatry reestablished and
the deadly wound healed. The ton
horns agreed, sustained idolatry and
gave their power unto the beast The
papacy says to the civil powers, "Our
religion is tho only true religion and
ought to be the religion of all. You
mako my religion tho religion of the
land, then all your subjects will be my
subjects; make your subjects obey my
religion and I will make my subjects
obey your laws, hence the result is an
iron despotism. Such a tyranny has
long existed in papal nations. The
pope or court of the inquisition con
demns the victim to death and then
turns him over to the civil power to be
executed. Verse 12th shows a com
bination between the ten horned beast
and the two-horned beast. "And he
exerciseth all the power of the first
beast before him, and eauseth the earth
and them which dwell therein to wor
ship the first beast, whjse deadly
wound was healed," that is Rome
pagan. The revival of idolatrous wor
ship by the papacy, healed the deadly
wound. Next forties mplbli miracles
bogus miracles by which he declined
them, for a real miracle deceived no
one, heuce he is called tho "falso
prophet that wrought miracles In the
sight of the Wast."
"And he docth great wonders, so
thai he uiaketh Ore come down from
heaven on the earth In tho sight of
men, and dceelveth them that dwell on
the earth by means of those miracles
which he bad power to do In the sight
of the beast, eto." Rome to lay, claims
to work miracles. Cardinal Newman
Improving Rome's claim to miraculous
ower, says, "Our church is hung
with miracles." The two-horned beast
"spake as a dragon." His pretensions
were pious and lamb-like, but his lan
guage and character Is that of tho
dragon. By re establishing Idolatry
and demon worship under the papacy,
by the union of thn secular and priestly
Hwer, with the pope at the hod, tho
deadly wound is healed and there exists
tho image of the beast, In the old em
pire restored. The seven heads passed
away successively and then the empire
was divided and the dominion passed to
the horns. "These have one mind, and
shall give their power and strength
unto tho beast. These shall make war
with the lamb and the lamb shall over
come them, eto." Rev. 17:13. "And tho
licast that was, and Is not, even ho ia
the eighth, and is of tho seven, and
goeth into perdition." Rev. 17:11. That
Is, tho empire is restored in the image
of the boast, hence tho beast is tho
Ighth and last head of the beast, yet
s of the seven, because it is tho old
empire restored or revived. In this
form tho beast goes Into perdition,
Rome Is In the last stage of her existe
nce and the papacy will have no suc
cessor; when It falls, it will rise no
moro.
Tho dreadful end of popery Is pre
dicted. "And the beast was taken and
with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before hlra, with which ho do
c .lved them which had received the
mark of the beast and them that wor
shlK)d his image. Those were both
cast alive into a lake of fire burning
with brimstone." Rev. 1) 20. This ia
the end of popery, it can jxtrsccule no
more, and the millennium Is then at
the door. The doom of the beast ia
predicted in Dan. 7:1120, Rev. 17:10.
What wo have said, may not bo very
eh ar to tho reader, but we havo tried
to express our opinion. We consider
the last form of the empire, combined
with the two-horned beast, to be the
imago of the beast, the opo being the
supreme head and dictator.
Well, what about It? It is this, you
urn warned that a terrible and cruel
enemy confronts you. The bi mt has
sethis cloven foot upon the American
shore. If God has seen it important to
forewarn the church and the world of
the rise of this terrible power, it is
surely right and a duty to call the at
tention of men to this prophetic warn
ing. Tnus wj write. Wo are not writ
ing as a politician, but as a patriot and
a friend of liberty and morality. Nor
are we guessing or ba-ing our thoughts)
on human opini in, but on tho infallible
word of God. Prjphecy is history
written before the event. God has
written tho history o' the beast before
it was organized. Din. "th chapter.
This prophecy was not writ en to at
tract the curious or furnish material
for speculation, but are the true, sayings
of God, to warn His people against the
sorceries of the "mother of harlots."
And it is no wonder that Rome is op
posed to our public schools aud tho
reading of the Bible in them. We see
why she does not allo'.v her ditelples to
road the Bible, it brands h.T as "the
mother of harlots." Her whole char
acter Is delineated in the Scriptures.
Her history anJ doings confirm the
prophecy. The history was painted by
Daniel the prophet, long before her
risa. Popery answers exactly to the
"little horn" and the two-horned beast
of John. Every intelligent reader of
tho Bible recognizes the likeness, so
the Bible is a dangerous book tor Rome,
and she knows it. Among the fellest
evidences that Rome is anti-Christ is
her treatment of the Scriptures. But
the Biblj is the hope of the world.
Reader, cling to it and walk in the
light of it. It will free the nations.
It would spoil the creed of every papist
if he would study it honestly. I have a
neighbor, a Catholic, that never saw
even the Douy Bible, the Romish ver
sion of the Scriptures. Rome pagan is
the "great red dragon;" Rome papal is
the anti-christian empire and successor
to Rome pagan. This is not prophecy
only, but it is history. Americans, do
not sleep, do not be deceived.
Calvin.
Do you subscribe and pay for Ths
Akkrican? Yes or no will decide
how much you are interested in the
advancement of Americanism.
