Character of Popery

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 26, 1871

Character of Popery.

POPERY is the greatest reactionary force now in the civilized world. It continually conspires against the Juarez progressive measures in Mexico, and the advanced people there are throwing it off. It is the chief embarrassment of every South-American republic, and keeps those struggling States in perpetual turmoil and revolution. It conspires with the Carlists, in Spain, against the liberal policy of Amadeus and the Republicans. It opposes the unification of Italy, and would nullify the emancipation of the Roman people. It is the chief embarrassment of Austria and the German Empire. It would restore Napoleon, or the Bourbon Henry V., in France. It ruins Ireland, and makes the greatest trouble of the British government. It is not only the ecclesiastical, but the political and social nuisance of the United States; giving us all our Fenian troubles and expenses; sustaining our Tweeds and other demagogues; making nearly all our mobs, and filling our prisons and pauper-houses.