THE RECORD OF THE PAPACY.
The following record shows what the papacy has done. It is a long list of terrible outrages and insults against both earth and Heaven. These facts are well authenticated by history. Is it any wonder that this power should be pointed out, and the church warned against it, in the word of God? What a striking fulfillment of prophecy is here. Hear Daniel: “He shall wear out the saints of the Most High;” and Paul: “He shall exalt himself above all that is called God;” and John: “It was given unto him to make war with the saints, and overcome them.” But his day of triumph is about ended. The saints are to take the kingdom, and that soon. The writer says:— It has insulted Heaven.
It has oppressed earth.
It has perverted the truth.
It has trampled on kings.
It has opposed liberty.
It has inaugurated war.
It has incited murder.
It has sold “indulgences.”
It has taken away the Bible.
It has opposed education.
It has gloried in the Inquisition.
It has gloated over its Auto-da-fe.
It has blasphemed the name of God.
It has declared itself infallible.
It has spoken great words against the Most High.
It has worn out the saints of the Most High.
It has sought to change times and laws.
It has grasped political power.
It has sought to overthrow republican governments.
It has employed the dungeon, the halter, the rack, and the stake, in its war against the truth.
It has used lying, assassination, and wholesale massacres in propagating its power and crushing its enemies.
It is the sum of all religious villainies.
It has cursed men while living, and tried to damn them when dead.
Pope Julius put to death 200,000 Christian Protestants in seven years.
The French Catholics massacred 100,000 Christians in three months.
Roman Catholics killed fully 1,000,000 Waldenses.
The Jesuits destroyed 900,000 persons in thirty years.
Under the Catholic Duke of Alva 26,000 Protestants were executed by the hangman.
Irish Catholics massacred 150,000 men, women, and children.
It has placed upon record the awful day of St. Bartholomew.
The whole number of persons massacred by the papacy is estimated at fifty millions, and the estimate is a low one. This is the power that is fixing its fangs on our body politic; that is cursing our public schools, and relaxing no effort to wipe them out of existence; that is the sworn enemy of an open Bible, and of civil and religious liberty. This is the power that is creating cardinals in our midst; that is pouring out her money to bind our nation hand and foot. Do Protestants realize their danger? Are Americans on the watch? There is danger impending. Are we prepared to meet it?