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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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these and a hundredmore unwarrantable assumptions gradually sprang into thelegislation of the papal hierarchy over the Christian world.Endless ceremonies—fasts, feasts and days ; with altars, can-dles, robes, images, crosses, banners, rosaries, relics andcharms; mingled with the worship of Mary, saints, angels, Question—Are Protestants willing to confess their sinsto a Catholic Bishop or Priest, who alone has power fromChrist to forgive sins? Answer—No, they generally have an utter aversion toconfession and therefore their sins will not be forgiven through-out all eternity. Q.—What follows from this? A.—That they will die in their sins and be damned. Q.—Why cannot Protestants have any faitri in Christ? A.—Because there never lived such a Christ as theyimagine and believe in. Q.—In what kind of a Christ do they believe. A. —In such a one of whom they can make a liar, etc., etc.—Pages 97 and 104 Catholic Text-Book for Schools, Sanc-tioned by Archbishop Bay ley. (J74)
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Many perished in the Mountains. Page 50G, THE ROMISH MASS. 175 pictures and even of the pope himself—all these grew, untilthe bondage of a system worse than Pharisaism was boundupon the backs of the idolatrous and superstitious devoteesof Romanism. Jesus and his apostles never dreamed ofthese additions to the gospel; and yet Rome claims inspi-ration from God for these things—nay, goes back to theoriginal scriptures to find most of them. We demand invain for her thus saith the Lord. The declarations of apope, ex cathedra, are all that can be replied ; but even hisinfallibility is an assumption unproved. Thus popery has grown—an entire historical novelty initself—and with it all, the sacrament of the Mass. Christand his apostles knew nothing of it. The apostolic fathersare silent upon the subject. The Epistles attributed toClement, Barnabas, Ignatius, Polycarp, Herenas and others,give no clue to such a doctrine as is set forth in the Council ofTrent. These were the companions an

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