Thirty Years In Hell | Page 6

doctrine, regardless of what it might lead me to, consequently
I closed my eyes to reason and common sense and became a blind and
superstitious follower of Rome.
When I came to America I beheld her great civilization and at once my
conception of intelligent action presented itself again, but I fought hard
to drive these feelings from my bosom, but the more I fought the
stronger I became convinced that I was wrong and that my early
training was wrong, and that the entire machinery and mechanism of
the Catholic Church was founded upon abominations and superstitions,
but the teachings of my mother would prevail and I would slink back
into the trenches of Catholicism, and there I remained until less than a
year ago, when I resolved to burst the bands of iniquity and walk out
upon the plains of Protestantism, regardless of the deep feelings of
respect that I had for my early training.
If God is an intelligent God, then we are expected to worship Him in an
intelligent manner, and if he is not an intelligent God, it is impossible

for Him to be a God, and if the Lord of Hosts is an intelligent Creator
and expects us, as His children, to worship Him in an intelligent
manner, the Catholic Church and all of her followers are sinning
against God every day, as her mode of worship is steeped in the drugs
of heathenish superstitions.
In this volume I propose to set forth nothing but absolute truths, and I
call upon an intelligent God for my witness, and I am qualified to make
oath before any official that is qualified to bind me under oath that
every word that appears in this volume shall be the truth and nothing
but the truth, so help me God.
I will give $5,000.00 to any charitable institution named by any state of
the United States if any Catholic priest, bishop or cardinal will prove
by any of their church doctrines that I have misstated or misrepresented
the teachings of Catholicism in any letter, word or sentence.
I want to thoroughly impress the reader with the truthfulness of this
volume, so when he or she has perused these pages they may know that
it has been written by one who has served in the capacity of a Catholic
priest for the past thirty years, but who, to-day, stands out upon the
broad plains of spiritual emancipation, and from this time forward will
always be found upon the side of spiritual liberty and following the
doctrines of an intelligent God, and when my earthly race is run I hope
and pray to be ushered into the presence of an intelligent God.
[Illustration: "THE TWO INSPIRATIONS." PROTESTANTISM looks
to the Holy Bible for Wisdom--CATHOLICISM to the Pope!]
Chapter II.
Some of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the Name of
Blessed Saviour.
What I will now relate is not hear-say nor something that I have read
about, but it is something that I know about, and which I witnessed.
It is a well-known fact that Catholicism endeavors to impress her

subjects with the miraculousness of latter day miracles, as she will hold
up the bones of some supposed Catholic Saint, and declare to her
benighted followers that if they worship these relics, they will work
wonders and cure the ailment of any affliction they may be possessed
of.
For instance, they will take the bone of some Catholic Saint (?) and
admonish the followers of Catholicism to touch this bone, or to kiss it,
and declare to them that by so doing they will become entirely cured of
any malady that may rack their person with misery.
In fact, Catholicism will resort to all kinds of nonsensical practices in
order to completely keep their subjects in darkest ignorance, which will
enable the officials to "hoodwink" their followers and make them
believe anything the officials see fit to teach them.
I will now relate what I saw in Munster, Germany. The news spread all
through Germany that the "Mother Superior" of the house of Saint
Clement was living upon "Holy Communion" only.
Now that the reader may understand what "Holy Communion" is, I will
here state that it is a thin wafer, used for sacramental purposes, which
would not weigh more than the one-hundredth part of an ounce, and
this is what they claimed the Mother Superior of the house of Saint
Clement was existing upon, she only taking one of these wafers every
twenty-four hours.
Of course, this was given out by the dignitaries of the Catholic Church
in order to blind their followers, and I desire to state right here that I
also believed that this was the fact until it was demonstrated thoroughly
that it was an infamous lie