# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1893_S38 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 38 The Lutheran Pioneer. | pel, the people at once began to sing ‘‘O God! |imately put them to death, and deprive them look down from heav’n and see.’” Thus the] of their possessions, even if they do not cor- of Lubeck with this simple hymn sung | rupt others; for they are blasphemers against God and observers of a false faith, so that they deserve more severe punishment than those who are guilty of high treason or of coin- ing false money.””? Bossuet, another Romish great wonder, how deep a root these hymns At the Catholic Congress in Chicago speak-| writer, says: ‘‘I declare that I have always have taken, which, coming in numbers from | ers of the Romish church spoke of their church | been of opinion that princes have the right to Luther’s workshop, are now sung in all houses | as the advocate and defender of religious lib- | pass penal laws to compel heretics to conform and shops, markets, streets, and country |erty. All that they said belies the history of|to the rites and observances of the Catholic Janes.”’ ; the pope’s church in the past and present. church; and, secondly, that this doctrine is ~ At Brunswick, in the year 1527, the people | Our country is still, thank God, a Protestant |a standing one in the church, which has not “met in one of the churches to do away with | country, and the Romish church in our coun- | only followed, but also requested from princes the popish ceremonies. The town-council, | try pretends to be what she is not, in order to | the enaction of such ordinances.’’ who were of Romish opinions, had called to make herself popular. We must look at coun-| Such statements of Romish writers, recently their aid a Doctor of theology from Magde- tries where the Romish church is mistress of | quoted in a London paper, clearly show the burg. This Dr. Sprengle proudly promised the situation, to know what she really is, and | true spirit of the Roman church. La Fayette, that, by three sermons, he would root out all what she will do in this country if she ever] the great friend of General Washington, was ‘‘Dutheran heresy” in Brunswick. He was re- gains the majority. Let none be deceived. | well aware of this spirit. He therefore said: ceived in great pomp by the priests and monks In Protestant countries the church of Rome | ‘‘It is my opinion that, if ever the liberties of and soon began to preach. But when, in the pretends to favor religious liberty ; but when- | this country — the United States of America — middle of his sermon, he tried to prove from a | ever she has it in her power to do so, she stip-| are destroyed, it will be by the subtilty of the passage in the New Testament that man could ulates the absolute exclusion of.Protestants. | Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are get salvation by good works, one of his hear- Avery distinguished French writer, mosthighly |the most crafty, dangerous enemies to ‘civil ers rose up and cried out with a loud voice: approved at Rome, M. Louis Veuillot, said: | and religious liberty.’” ‘The day may not be ‘Doctor, you are misquoting the text; in the | “When there is a Protestant majority we claim | far distant when the Protestants of this land Holy Scriptures it is written differently.’ Vis- religious liberty because such is their prin-| will have their eyes opened to the true spirit ibly annoyed, the Doctor answered: ‘!Good| ciple; but when we are in majority we refuse | of the disloyal and scheming adherents of a friend, you perhaps have a different transla-|it because that is ours.” Quite recently the | foreign power. tion; in mine itis thus written.’ However, he | Present pope Leo XIII., when foolishly com- — went on preaching and again said that every plaining to the whole world of the outrages Rome’s Blessings. man can be saved by his own good works. An | to which he was subjected, mentioned, as the honest citizen now cried out: ‘‘Priest, you | Worst of all, the erection of Protestant chapels| In his ‘¢Capitals of. Spanish America,’’ lie,’? and in a clear voice began to sing Lu- and the exercise of Protestant worship in the|Mr. W. E. Curtis says: ‘‘In Ecuador there city of the popes. When, in 1815, the king is a Catholic Church for every 150 inhabitants. of Holland granted to his realm a constitution Ten per cent of the population are priests, according freedom of worship, the Romish monks and nuns. One-fourtl of all the prop- bishops had it thrown out, because, they said, | erty in Ecuador belongs to the bishop. Two this liberty is directly opposed to the prin- hundred and seventy-two days of the year are ciples of the Roman church. In the agree- feast or fast days. The clerical party controls ment made with Spain (1850), by the late pope | the government. The priests rule the country as : Pius LX., one of the articles is as follows: absolutely as if the pope were king. Seventy- The whole congregation at once joined in the | ‘The Catholic religion shall be maintained as five per cent of the children are born illegiti- hymn. The words of the second verse, which | the exclusive religion of the realm, in such | mate. There is not a railroad nor a stage speak of “lies of man’s invention not founded | sort that the practice of all other worship shall | coach in the entire country. They know noth- on God’s word,”” were like heavy blows to the | be forbidden and prevented.”? “And, in fact, |ing but what the priests tell them. They have Romish priest. Ashamed, he left the pulpit, | till the revolution of 1869, the Spanish Prot-|no amusements but cock-fights and bull-fights, pressed his way through the crowd out of the} estants were condemned to prison. In the |no literature, no hope of political freedom church, and went away crest-fallen. The con-|pope’s agreement with the republic of Ecua- under priestly leadership, no prospect of in- gregation cheerfully separated. dor (1862), there is the following stipulation: | dustrial advancement, although the territory, The same thing happened, twoyears later, at | ‘The Roman Catholic and Apostolic religion |in proportion to its area, is naturally one of Lubeck. A poor blind man had sung Luther’s | is to continue to be the religion of the Repub- | the richest on the globe.”” This is a graphic hymns before the houses, and was expelled |lic of Ecuador. Consequently, no other wor- picture of what Romanism does for a country. from the town by the Roman Catholic Coun- | ship may be practiced or any other’sect tol- ee cil, When, OME following Sunday, the chap-| erated in the republic.’”? When freedom of St. Paul ‘a Lutheran lain of St. James’s Church, after the sermon, | worship was proclaimed in Mexico, the pope’s paca ‘ began the customary prayers for the dead, | letter of December 15th, 1856, denounced it] A Bishop of Augsburg found in an inn the : ae ey re ibaa a cee. OSE hymn to the world as an abominable act destined | New Testament behind the table. Opening it, BPsiiiic people tell on etic ona ee Ree ee men’s mind and te root out the] he noticed the words of St. Paul (Rom. 3, 28): jemnly sang the hymn to the end crits ct holy religion, thatis, the pope’sreligion. The|‘*Therefore we conclude that a man is justi- 4 ° present pope strongly insists that St. Thom- the first German hymn sung in the church at | as’s works should be the basis of Catholic in- Reformation sung in by Luther’s Hymn. Luther gave to the people not only the Bible | people and the Catechism, but also a number of Gos- in the Reformation. pel hymns which aided greatly in spreading the SS work of the Reformation. A Spanish monk Rome and Religious Liberty. writes of Luther’s hymns: ‘‘It is a matter of ther’s hymn: ~ 3 «{Q God! look down from heav’n, and see A sight that well may move Thee! Thy saints, how few! How wretchedly Forsaken we who love Thee! Thy Word no.more shall have its right; And faith itself is vanished quite ¥rom all this generation.’’ Having read this, he said: ‘See there, art thou —_—— ~