I Would Drown You In The
River.'" A Missionary Writes:
"A young fellow called out after me, 'I
renounce you, Satan,' but as that is not my name, I did not turn
back.
During the meeting on Sunday evening, the priest came riding up
to the window, and shouted that he would soon put a stop to us.
Today he has had a number of bills printed, warning his parishioners
to have nothing to do with us. To-night one of the bills was pasted on
the door. Br. Arena took it off, and no sooner had he the door shut
than two shots were fired, but they did no more harm than to pierce
the door - thank God! I have been informed that a number of young men
will either beat or shoot me, and that as I am the only one left they
are going to make me leave, too, by foul or by fair means. The
following is a translation of the priest's warning:
"To the faithful of Candelaria. Beware.
This parish has been invaded by one of the
wicked sects of Protestantism, and, having the
sacred duty of warning my parishioners, I give
them to understand that should any one of
them attend, even from mere curiosity, to hear
the false and pernicious propaganda, or accept
tracts or books that come from the propagators
of Protestantism, he will be excommunicated
from the true and only Church of Jesus Christ,
Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman, wherein resides
the infallible authority. Beware, then, oh, ye
faithful, and listen to your parish priest, who
advises you of the danger of your souls."
Yet with all this darkness and error, the majority are well
contented, and quite willing to obey "warnings" like this and the
following, published in Los Principios, of Cordoba:
"It has come to our knowledge that there are
amongst us various Protestant ministers, that
distribute with profusion leaflets containing their
erroneous doctrines and calumnies against the
Catholic Church. Some of these leaflets and booklets
have fallen into our hands, and in them we
have found confirmation of what we say above.
In one of these leaflets, for example, they treat
as idolatry the worship that we Catholics tribute
to the Mother of God. They treat as superstition
the veneration they have in Rome for the holy
staircase by which our Lord Jesus Christ went
up to the judgment hall of Pilate. They combat
the worship of images, relics, and things of that
description.
"Catholics ought to know that it is not lawful
for them to read these leaflets, nor the Sacred
Bible distributed by the Protestants, because it
has been falsified by them, accommodating its
texts to their errors. The Church has prohibited
its children many times these pernicious readings.
Let us reject, according to the counsel
of St. Paul, these ravenous wolves that come in
sheep's clothing, for they come to kill and to
destroy souls, thrusting them into the ways of
error, being separated from the true Church of
Jesus Christ, from which Luther, Calvin,
Zuinglio, Henry VIII, and others separated
themselves, of whom Cobbell, the Protestant
historian, himself has said:
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