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Title: Errors of the Roman Catholic Church : and its insidious influence in the United States and other countries by the most profound thinkers of the present day, and the history and progress of the American Protective Association (A.P.A.)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hershey, Scott Funk, 1852-
Subjects: Catholic Church
Publisher: St. Louis : J.H. Chambers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of being framed together, except upon theRoman plan, into the vast and symmetrical fabric which isto bear up, over whelming waves, the heart and hope andfaith of the world. By its claim of authority, and by this articulated bodyof doctrine, Romanism has a continual attractiveness formany fine minds. The Pope, by divine right, hath supreme right over thewhole world, both in ecclesiastical and civil affairs. CARDINAL BELLARMINE. The Roman Catholics of the United States owe no alleg-ience to any principle of Government, which is condemned bythe Church or Pope. Tablet. The insidious deadly encroachments of the Jesuit in-triguers are matters of history. Their approaches are snake-like, and embarrassed by no scruples. And when they havesucceeded in placing their emissaries at the head of our twogreat political parties, there is hardly any political revolutionthat is not possible. Protestants should arouse themselves,and take measures to make their displeasure felt. (370) Christian Standard.
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Jerome of Prague. Page 408, THE APPEAL OF ROMANISM. 371 3. There is, too, a vast and subtile power in the re-presentations which it presents of the invisible and spiritualworld, and the intimate relations which it declares as alwayssubsisting between that world and this. The human spirit, conscious of affections, and hauntedby premonitions, that overpass death, is always reachingout, with eager desire or with forecasting fear, after knowl-edge of the world which lies beyond its sense or science;a knowledge more exact and complete than God in hiswisdom has seen fit to bestow. So necromancy is neverdead ; and so Spiritism comes, in our own time, to tip itstables and rap its floors, in a juggling offer to disclose theUnseen. Its incitement is in the hunger of the soul forsome apprehension of the realms whose bounds, of beautyor fire, it has not reached. And now Protestantism, which limits itself to what liasbeen clearly expressed in the Bible, and which dealstimidly even with that, seems

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