ome would not go far wrong if she counted
in her membership 95 per cent of the men and women who are on their
road to hell, and if this assertion is true, and if I have not
overdrawn my estimation, then, pray, tell me what we can expect in
the future in this country should such characters as I have just
portrayed be permitted to dominate this government.

Every Roman Catholic that is born in the world comes into the world
alienated from God and God's teachings, and is taught from infancy
not to depend upon God Almighty for guidance, but to depend upon
Romanism for their everlasting future, and with such doctrines
everlastingly funnelled into childhood, what can we expect of the
child when it has grown to maturity?

Protestant children are born into the world of parents who look above
the horizon of earthly things for their inspirations, and these
children are taught from infancy that they must look to an all-wise
God for succor and support; but Popery ignores all of this and
teaches by heathenish symbols and by paganic practices. Thus it is an
easy matter for any sane man or woman to understand why character
cannot be found in such a class.

The followers of Catholicism are taught that by the payment of a few
dimes they can have their sins remitted and pardoned; thus you will
see that crime has no terrors for such a class, as they believe that
when they have committed a crime all they have to do is to go to the
priestcraft and have their sins pardoned, in exchange for perhaps a
part of the money which they gained in their criminal transaction.

To rule such men, no religion is required. A Romanist does not look
to God Almighty for his salvation, but to the church, and the church
gives him her unbounded sanction to commit sin, provided that he
returns after he commits the crime and pays a few dollars to have his
sins pardoned.

A Roman Catholic can swear, break the Sabbath, dishonor his parents,
lie, steal, commit adultery, get drunk and commit any other crime
that he chooses, provided that he returns to the confessional box and
pays for having his sins pardoned.

Now, what can you expect of a class of men and women who believe in
this doctrine, and can you expect to find anything but the character
of a criminal or a degenerate? If you do, you are undoubtedly as
ignorant as the followers of Romanism, as it is a physical
impossibility to reasonably expect a man or woman who has been taught
these abominations to ev