Identifier: errorsofromancat00hers (find matches)
Title: Errors of the Roman Catholic Church : and its insidious influence in the United States and other countries by the most profound thinkers of the present day, and the history and progress of the American Protective Association (A.P.A.)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hershey, Scott Funk, 1852-
Subjects: Catholic Church
Publisher: St. Louis : J.H. Chambers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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thesethings may aid man in worshipping in spirit and in truth.But what are the natural and necessary tendency and effectof these things? Do not experience and observation teachthat, where the imagination and the emotional nature areunduly excited, reason is, to some extent, held in abeyance?Do not gorgeous ceremonials with their necessary attendantsaddress themselves wholly to these susceptibilities of mans This Pope, this foreigner, this Italian, is more powerful inthis country than any other one man, not excepting the King.He would use fire and sword against us if he had the power,and he, would confiscate our property, and would not spareour lives. Prince Bismarck. The Church of Rome is not a body of theological beliefsbut an immense secret society, animated in all parts of theworld with one ambition, moving everywhere and in all timestoward one end—the establishment of absolute power for itselfover all men, in all lands.—Robert Montague, Member ofthe Queens Privy Council. (344)
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ROMANISM ENSLAVES, DEGRADES, CORRUPTS. 345 nature, and thus, to a large degree, overawe and silencereason? The grand cathedral with its stained windowsand frescoed walls; the statuary and the paintings; theburning tapers; the solemn procession; the splendidlyadorned priests, flitting around the altar and along theshadowy aisle; the tremulous music floating out upon theaii-, all these fire the imagination, quicken the sensibilities,and stir the emotions. But do they touch the reason orthe conscience? If this be repeated and continued, as itis in the Catholic worship, to the exclusion of almost everything else, reason becomes a captive and religion degene-rates INTO MERE SENTIMENTALISM. Similar effects are produced by fiction and the drama.Men may be entranced by the story or the stage, and laughand weep with the varying drift of the scenes, and thenretire utterly unlit for the practical business of life, andwith hearts steeled to the real wants of suffering humanity.So they may be move

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