84 PERILS. — ROMANISM. 



We have seen the fundamental principles of our free 

 institutions laid side by side with some of those of 

 Eomanism, expressed in the words of the highest possible 

 authorities in the Roman Catholic Church ; and thus pre- 

 sented they have declared for themselves the inherent 

 contradiction which exists between them. 



It has been shown that it is the avowed purpose of 

 Romanists to " make America Catholic." 



It has been shown that this could not be done without 

 bringing into active conflict the diametrically opposed 

 principles of Romanism and of the Republic, thus forc- 

 ing all Romanists in the United States to choose between 

 the two masters, both of whom they now profess to 

 serve. 



It has been shown that Roman Catholic training, from 



Roman Catechism, used in the parochial schools, bearing the imprimatur 

 of Cardinal Gibbons and strongly commended by many Roman prelates. 

 The following extracts are from No. IV. of the series. "The Pope could 

 not discharge his office as the teacher of all nations, unless he were able 

 with infallible certainty to jy^'oscrihe and condemn doctrines, logical, 

 scientific, physical, metaphysical, or political of any kind, which are at 

 variance with the Word of God, and imperil the integrity and purity of the 

 faith, or the salvation of souls" (p. 126). The italics are in all cases Father 

 Miiller's. Note the words ''political of any kind.'" "To be separated 

 from the divine authority of the Pope, is to be separated from God, and to 

 have no place in the Kingdom of Christ" (p. 126). "The church only can 

 judge how far her authority goes .... where the boundary line is to be 

 drawn, and in what attitude we have to place ourselves as to certain sub- 

 jects, these things are altogether beyond our power or our right, and are 

 wholly within the judgment of the Apostolic See " (p. 127). The writer de- 

 votes eighteen pages to inculcating the infallibility of the Pope. 



Twenty-five pages are devoted to " Reasons why no salvation is possible 

 outside the Roman Catholic Church." " Christ has .solemnly declai-ed that 

 only those will be saved, who have done God's will on earth as explained, 

 not by private interpretation, but by the infallible teaching of the Roman 

 Catholic Church" (p. 163). "All those who wish to be saved, must die 

 united to the Catholic Church; for out of her there is no salvation " (p. 164). 

 " Any one separated from her (the church), however praiseworthy a life 

 he may think he leads, by tJiis crime alone, i. e., by his separation from the 

 unity of Christ, he will be debarred from life eternal, and the lorath of God 

 trill remain upon him " (Appendix, p. 9). This doctrine is iterated and 

 reiterated a dozen times on a single page (p. 7. Appendix). The Allocution of 

 Pius IX. to the Cardinals, December 17, 1847, is quoted: "But quite recently 

 — we shudder to say it,— certain men have not hesitated to slander us by say- 



