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CATHOLICISM IN PORTO RICO

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 33.

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CATHOLICISM IN PORTO RICO.

C. L. Thompson, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, says: “The Roman Catholic Church for 400 years has oppressed these millions of people. These are the crimes for which the Spanish Catholic Church must be arraigned at the bar of history: (1) It has kept that large population there all those years in extreme poverty and squalor; (2) it has held them in such ignorance that not fifteen per cent. can either read or write; (3) it has held them on a plane of morals so low that the sacredness of family life is but little regarded; (4) it has given them no Sabbath; (5) it has kept from them the knowledge of true Christianity; (6) it has driven most of the men into practical infidelity.”