Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . votions. Our fathers found delight in praise, and wereheard in their prayer, though offering it in rudest forms,under bleakest skies, because incense stifled them, and thegorgeous vestments seemed to them dipped in the blood ofthe saints. We do not maintain the passion of their reac-tion ; but we, too, are afraid of that sensuous pleasurewhich may be easily confounded with worship, while When the Pope (Pius IX) calls liberty of conscience apestilential error—a pest; when immunity from civil law isclaimed f
Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . votions. Our fathers found delight in praise, and wereheard in their prayer, though offering it in rudest forms,under bleakest skies, because incense stifled them, and thegorgeous vestments seemed to them dipped in the blood ofthe saints. We do not maintain the passion of their reac-tion ; but we, too, are afraid of that sensuous pleasurewhich may be easily confounded with worship, while When the Pope (Pius IX) calls liberty of conscience apestilential error—a pest; when immunity from civil law isclaimed for Roman Catholics; when the Pope says: I ac-knowledge no civil power. I claim to be the supreme judgeand director of the consciences of men; when the RomanChurch claims (Papal En., XLV) the right to arrange thestudies of the public schools and to choose the teachers;when we remember St. Bartholomew and the startling state-ments of Cardinal Gibbons that Rome never changes—wefeel it time for organized resistance to its encroachments.[382] Rev. W. H. Main, (Baptist), Buffalo, N. Execution of Jerome of Prague. Page 500. THE APPEAL OF ROMANISM. 383 wholly dissimilar; which may leave the soul intoxicatewith joy, while utterly wanting in the devout love whichlinks to God, and in the faith which conquers death. But the convert to Romanism delights himself in thisservice, so rich and tender, so various and so ancient, witha passionate fondness; while the occasional attempts ofambitious High-churchmen to emulate that which theblending genius of many centuries and lands has producedare to him simply ludicrous ; like building another equalSt. Peters of scantling and boards, or reproducing War-wick Castle in cake and sugar. 8. And, finally, let us not forget that Romanism offersto these men what they accept as the Church of the Future ;through which continuing to the end of time, and onlygrowing mightier with age, the perfect society shall berealized on earth. We have not reached t
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