If Jesus Christ tells you to love and
pray for your enemies, and the pope
tells you to kill them, you are to be
lieve and obey the pops upon pain
of the destruction of your mortal
body here and the eternal damnation
of your soul hereafter. In a word,
as Romanicm teaches that there is
no salvation for any human being
outside her own pale—her commu
nion, her infallible teaching society,
her doctrine and order —she practi
cally and substantially presumes to
annul all other systems, abrogate all
law r , set at naught and dethrone the
eternal God and make the eternal
salvation of sinners depend, not up
on God, not upon His mercy and
upon His dear Son, Jesus Christ, but
upon the pope of Rome, for when it
comes to a final show-down and last
analysis this is the substance of Ro
man Catholicism. But, so far as my
eternal salvation is concerned, I con
fess that I am not much afraid of
this little man-god of Romanism,
whose breath is in his nostrils, and
who, in the scale of God’s creation
and estimate, is nothing more than
a grasshopper, and is accounted
nothing and less than nothing and
vanity, and if he does have three
hundred millions of other grass
hoppers adoring and following him,
he is still a grasshopper. (See Isa.,
40th chap.) Lafayette, our revolu
tionary friend, who was born a Ro
manist, says: "If the liberties of
the American people are ever de
stroyed, they will fall by the hands
of the Romish clergy.” Gladstone,
the grand old man of England, says:
"Rome requires a convert who joins
her to forfeit his moral and mental
freedom, and to place his loyalty and
civil duty at the mercy of another.”
Abraham Lincoln said: "If the
American people could learn what I
know of the fierce hatred of the gen
erality of the priests of Rome
against our institutions, our schools,
our most sacred rights, and our so
dearly bought liberties, they would
drive them away, tomorrow, from
among us, or would shoot them as
traitors:” And Lincoln prophesied
that the Catholics would bring on
here the bloodiest war in the records
of human history, resulting in pop
ery being swept from this fair land
of ours, and that after that we will
have peace. See "Americanism or
Ronmnism, Which?” by John T.
