# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1893_S42 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 42 es - The Lutheran Pioneer. of their hearers, are simply the inventions of| were appropriated to the Gold Hill Mission these priests. which is greatly in need of a house of worship. We believe that our correspondent and many | The same is the case with several other places. To the great detriment of the work we are com- Our Answer to a Catholic Layman. ‘A “Catholic Iayman,’’ who ‘‘was shown by a Lutheran neighbor the article in the October} others in the Roman church do not know the number of the Pioneer on Rome and Religious| true spirit of their church as to religious lib-| pelled to conduct our services in small public Liberty,” has sent us Judge Dunne’s speech| erty. They do not know the principles held | school-houses. Help is needed and that right recently delivered at Chicago. Together with| and followed by the leaders of their church.| early. Despite the difficulties, however, with the speech he also sends some remarks of his} The Roman church is best studied in coun-} which the missionaries have to contend, the own. We have read the speech of Judge Dunne, | tries where it has been working out its real| work is growing all along the line. May the a member of the Roman church, but we see in| principles and spirit, uninfluenced by Prot-| Lord continue to establish the work of our it no refutation of the statements given in our] estantism, for hundreds of years. Asa speci-| hands. article. The Judge says that the Roman church | men of its intolerance in such a country we in| Concord, Oct. 17, 1893. Missionary. is a friend of civil and religious liberty and tries | conclusion give our correspondent the follow- mee to prove this from the history of our country. | ing notice lately circulated extensively in Leon, : We did not deny that the Roman church favors | Nicaragua: ; ; A Noble Gift! ‘Teligious liberty in our country. We expressly “Arrention, Catuotics! ; 7 said: ‘In Protestant countries the Church of} The wolf of Protestantism has found its way ae Baasai poke te ee aa ata Rome. pretends to favor religious liberty.’’ | into the Catholic flock. A minister of the sect of the Leaks eeelinatten have mane wadtn Our country is still a Protestant country and | of Luther and Voltaire is in Leon, accompanied ane gift. “Two Colored raiGean eharehes ep omanoruncn pete Speake for religious by various mercenaries, who are busy selling} 4 New Ores Rey. Lankenau seein have Jiberty,. oueeer is Be ee But] in the streets Protestant Bibles and a false a led by the Spirit of God to eateries . whenever the Roman church is in the majority, | hook of the Gospels. ... Scorn the propagan- al Seek u ste she does not favor religious liberty. In proof] gists divorced Pon the Catholic Cheech sere mars Pane eee one me rei aes me Noite ee sean Sie the | Let us hurl them away. No law authorizes The St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church ment ollowing from a French writer, highly ap-| their coming here. ..: Nicaragua belongs to us $5.00 and the Mt. Zion Colored Lutheran proved at Rome: ‘‘When there is a Protestant| Goq- Protestantism to the devil. Away with i - 2 majority we claim religious liberty because them!” ; Rare eee ase LA eae Benita ccrane it ts Nee et ah - ei Such is the spirit of the Romish chorch us that these poor Colored brethren and sis- Judge Dunne in his speech points to ‘‘the ters come so nobly to our assistance, but it Catholic Lafayette,’’ of whose ‘‘valuable serv- demonstrates a living faith. : May God richly ices not a school-boy in America of ten years Bless) these donorsiinitimelwiei.al strong fetth of age is ignorant.” But he did not tell his} Drar Pioneer: —On the 16th day of July Cae) CCR GHD te ALS LATA Cot HES IEE hearers that this same Lafayette, during his| Rev. Mr. F. Herm. Meyer, a graduate from Scranton, Miss. , Oct. 25, 1893. visit to America, said: ‘‘It is my opinion that, | our Theological Seminary at St. Louis, was : C. J. Bropers. if ever the liberties ‘of this country are de-| set apart for the service of the Colored Mis- SS eT ee -stroyed, it will be by the subtilty of the Roman| sion by your missionary at the-Grace. Church Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most| in Concord. On the Sunday following we con- crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and relig-} ducted him into his office at a joint service of] A farmer sold a load of corn in a town one ious liberty.’’ : the Colored Lutherans of Alamance. In the} day. When it was weighed, he slyly stepped We had quoted the following from Bossuet: | afternoon of the same day Rey. Meyer deliv-|on the scales and then drove off to unload. “T declare that I have always been of the opin-| ered his inaugural sermon based on Acts 8,/ When the empty wagon was weighed, he took -ion that princes have the right to pass penal| 29—40. The Revs. Holt and Clapp, who last] good care not to be in it, and congratulated laws to compel heretics to conform to the rites| winter resigned their charges, were present to} himself that he had cheated the buyer in good ;and observances of the Catholic church; and; | receive the new missionary. Like Cornelius} shape. ‘he grain dealer called him in, and, secondly, that this doctrine is a standing one| and his house upon the arrival of the holy| after figuring up the load, paid him in full. pee in the church.”’ Our correspondent seems to} Apostle Peter, the few Lutherans, gathered] As the farmer buttoned up his coat to go out, = doubt the correctness of our quotation. He} at the little school-house in Alamance County,| the buyer kindly asked him to smoke with ‘reminds us “‘of the fact that Bossuet was of| expressed their joy at the coming of their pas-| him, and then talked over the crops and the the opinion that Protestants should not be com-| tor. May the working together of pastor and| price of hogs, and the likelihood of the Maple * pelled to attend the mass.’” Now, we know] people redound to the glory of God and the} Valley Railroad building up that way, until that Bossuet, in his debate with the Bishop| salvation of souls. the farmer fairly squirmed in his chair with FE of Montauban as to whether Protestants con-| On the last Sunday of September the Col-| uneasiness about-his chores at home. At last «verted by the dragoons were to be compelled ored Lutherans of Cabarrus, Rowan and Stan-| he could stand it no longer, and said he must to attend mass, was of the opinion that they| ley counties celebrated their first Mission Fes-| go. The dealer quietly said that was not to be Should not be compelled. “But why not? Not tival under the shady trees at the Emmanuel] thought of; that he had bought the farmer at ———=—» -o-=