,
superstitions followers of Catholicism.

Now, what I relate above is true in every conceivable manner, and not
one sentence or statement is misrepresented.

This belief in the power of St. Anthony is simply abominable and
belongs to the dark ages of heathendom.

I have often wondered when I was acting as priest in the Catholic
Church why it was that Protestants, when they attended my church,
would look on in wonderment and surprise, and I attributed this
wonderment to a desire upon the part of Protestantism to make fun and
villify the teachings of the Catholic Church, but I now realize that
this bewilderment came from minds which had been elevated far above
the cungerings of the Catholic Church, and I am now surprised that
the Protestants who visit Catholic churches are not more bewildered
and mystified, as the teachings of Protestantism are based upon the
inspirations derived from the Word of God and the teachings of
Catholicism are naught but the rumblings of the dark ages.

[Illustration: "A LICENTIOUS PRIEST."
"A PROTESTANT PREACHER'S HOME"
"The unmarried life of the Priestcraft compared
to the married life of a Protestant minister."]

Chapter III.

All Children of Protestant Parents Are
Declared Bastards by Catholicism.

The Catholic Church declares that all of those who contract marriage
otherwise than in the presence of a Catholic Priest, that such
marriages are null and void.

Catholicism further declares that your darling child, which is the
fruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a common
bastard.

How do you Protestants like to hear this? How do you feel when you
know that this is the belief and opinion of all Catholic dignitaries,
and this belief is taught to all the Catholic world by those who
presume to dictate?

Your darling baby boy or girl is branded as an illegitimate offspring
by Catholicism, simply because their parents were not united in
wedlock by a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as hell
itself.

The reason why Catholicism so sternly demands that all should be
married by the priestcraft is from a monetary standpoint, as the
Catholic priest gets his fee, as he will not under any circumstances
unite any one in wedlock without a fee, and I have known in many
instances where the contracting parties were unable to pay a money
fee, and the grasping priestcraft would refuse to unite them in
marriage until they had given him some article of intrinsic va