Thirty Years In Hell

Thirty Years In Hell

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Title: Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
Author: Bernard Fresenborg
Release Date: March 23, 2006 [EBook #18040]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Yours in His name Bernard Fresenborg.]

"Thirty Years in Hell"

... OR ...
"From Darkness to Light."
BY
Ex-Priest, Bernard Fresenborg,
Who for thirty long years tread the slippery and deceitful path of
abhorrent Catholicism, but who to-day stands at the Vatican's door,
with the torch of Protestant wisdom, and denounces Popery with a
tongue livid with the power of a living God.
Like a Meteor From God's Throne,
This great book has stirred America from center to circumference.
About 400 Large Pages,
And each Page a stinging rebuke to Roman Catholicism.
Published by North-American Book House, St. Louis, Mo.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1904, by
NORTH-AMERICAN BOOK HOUSE, In the Office of the Librarian
of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors found in the
original text have been corrected in this version. A list of these errors is
provided at the end of the book.

Author's Announcement.
A structure of enlightenment is to be built in this land, which to finish,
every man of intellectual power must contribute.

The structure which I refer to, is the structure of "SPIRITUAL
LIBERTY," as the spiritual part of man must have room to expand and
grow the same as any other God-given privilege that man is blessed
with.
Unless we grow in faith we become dwarfs in the worship of God.
Those who go forth into the world and profess to be the teachers of
men should be giants of intellect and fully prepared to contribute to this
monument of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY."
These giants are the "KNIGHTS OF THE SPIRIT," who stand upon the
summit of righteousness and proclaim an intelligent God to a sinful
world.
Many say they do not feel that they possess the ability to contribute to
this structure of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY," but I say, none who possess
the power to reason are exempt, for if they cannot place in the arch of
this structure the golden "key-stone" that shall securely bind this
structure together, they can carry mortar or stones, which is as
imperative in this structure, as the polished "Cap stone" which shall
complete this great pyramid of emancipation.
I do not crave to have my name engraven in bold letters upon the "Cap
stone" of this structure, but I do desire to contribute my mite towards
the completion of this grand structure of free thought, which, when
completed, will stand out upon the horizon of time as a towering
monument to Christ and his cause.
Roman Catholicism, as taught by our modern priests and inspired by
the papal power at Rome is naught but the distant rumblings of an
antiquated chariot of darkness, as the teachings of this
MONARCHICAL creed has naught in view but the enslavement of
reason for the financial gain and benefit of the "Robed" few who claim
the right to think for the masses.
For thirty long years I was bound to this bewitching spirit of darkness
by the chords of superstition and never dared to look above my blind

superiors for wisdom, until a "something" which I will call "fate" broke
the windows of my mental dungeon and permitted the light of
"SPIRITUAL LIBERTY" to filter through my being which awoke
"reason and common sense" from her long sleep of lethargy.
Now, what I once thought "Holy" I detest as abominable; What I once
worshipped, I now hate.
It is not the glitter of gold nor the applaudits of the protestant world that
I crave, but it is the Master's approval that I desire. Therefore I deem it
my duty to both God and mankind to proclaim to the world what I
know of the awfulness of Roman Catholicism, and I know enough to
make my poor soul often wonder if I shall ever be permitted to sing
with the blest around that GREAT WHITE THRONE in the New
Jerusalem.
As you peruse these pages, I pray that you may whisper a prayer to God
in my behalf, as I am now fifty-six years old and only a child in
wisdom.
With pity for the blind