stent aggression.

It is the religious incubus of the hour, the spiritual paralysis of
nations and their most dangerous political menace.

With brazen effrontery and calculating boldness it has its clutch
upon the throat of this Republic, controls its government from the
Presidential office down through army and navy, has open mass in the
shipyards of the latter, in camp and barracks its priests are
masters and its wily knights of Columbus have obtained governmental
favours and consideration the Young Men's Christian Association
would not dare to claim.

It rules your cities, holds the balance of political power and can,
when it will, elect a President, and will promptly do so when the
candidate for that high office shall be willing, as already it has
been done by the present occupant of that office, to visit the
Vatican or officially recognize the civil as well as religious
authority of the Pope or receive the Apostolic delegate of the Papal
See.

The clutch of Romanism with its strangle hold is on the throat of
what remains of Protestantism.

Protestantism is the after birth of the Reformation.

Protestantism repudiated all the temporalities of Rome but held on
to the proposition that the Church is the kingdom of Christ on
earth.

Protestantism is to-day broken up into multiplying fragments. If
there be any unity remaining in it it is the unity that comes from
the compromising denial of the convictions that led to the original
break into fragments; a unity that hopes to maintain itself by
classifying many of its former convictions as "non-essentials" and
thus constitutes a combination that must become more and more
colourless and inefficient in respect to doctrine.

Some of its theological institutions are nothing better than
clearing houses of infidelity and the curricula made up of Jericho
theology. It has universities in which many of the professors have
been graduated in Germany, having passed through the poison gas
factory of the Berlin university, and under the camouflage
department of "sacred literature" are sending out the mentally and
spiritually asphyxiating poison of German rationalism, inoculating
every fresh lot of newly made ministers and would-be missionaries
with rank unbelief and Bible repudiation, distributing the poison
into the back counties as well as municipal centers until there are
scores of men who once stood for a whole Gospel and a certified Word
of God who now stand first on one