By REV. J. MACLEOD, Greenock.
WE have in this generation many active forces that threaten the peace and natural security of hundreds of millions of human beings throughout the inhabited world. The whole generation seems to be in fervent movement which leads deeper and deeper into a state of mental, religious and political confusion. The whole of Asia, Europe, and North and South America, Africa, and the islands of the sea are all travelling towards destruction if God will not prevent it! Communists declare that they have a solution for all the ills and woes of the world, if the rest of the men and nations will listen to them. The Communist does not believe in God, a hereafter, religion, Bible, in heaven, hell; and evil is good, and good is evil; light, darkness; and darkness, light. It is the rule of the few over the many without God, and without any form of religion. The Moral Law of God to mankind is of no value, so that lies, truth, morality and immorality are of the same importance to the Communist! If the lie suits his purpose he will tell the lie; if truth happens to suit him, he will use it as a means to an end—not because that it is the truth. He is in this sense like the Jesuit, from whose school the blind Communist learned all his tricks, lies and cruelty. Civilised nations find it almost impossible to deal with the Communist leaders. The reasons are obvious. The Communist is a consummate actor in trying to deceive his fellow man. Lies and truth are the same to him. He is therefore a tyrant over all whom he rules, and his subjects must obey or suffer the consequence, if they shew the least objection to the Government of the Communist rulers! Freedom is crushed on the wheel of the tyrant. Political freedom must be burnt out of the minds of the people, and they must obey at the expense of their lives. The child must be taught to obey from the cradle to the grave. To protest means death! To air legitimate grievances such as bad food, bad housing conditions, low wages, is declared high treason against the State. For this mild protest (if it should happen) is sufficient reason to send the protester to the salt mines, to prison, or may be to the gallows! He must not protest, speak, or criticise, for he is supposed to have given over his mind, soul, and body to the State. He must confess faults where there are no faults; crime where there is no crime committed. For him there is no truth or error, light or darkness. If his judge will charge him with murder, or mentally plotting to murder, the prisoner at the bar must confess, and he can have no alternative but to confess to any crime laid to his charge however innocent he may be. His mind and body is the property of the State. He is a human being only in the sense that he is useful to the State. He has been told that there is no hereafter, no hell, no heaven, no God. He is like an ordinary animal. Communism is a curse, and the greatest deception that takes possession of mankind in these modern ages!
It is futile to try to deal with the Communist in politics, religion, morality, commerce, for in fact he is not prepared to deal honestly with any man outside his own Party. From whom learned he his lies and hypocrisy? From the Jesuits of the Roman Church. One will trace it all in the history of the Jesuits. The father and grandfather of the Communist are the Roman Catholic Jesuits. If our statesmen were so conversant with the history of the Jesuits as they are with the modern and recent history of the Communists, they could trace all the intrigues of the Jesuits in the policy of the Communists. The Communists are pupils from the school of the Jesuits. The Communists are mere children in the Jesuitical art of lying, immorality, hypocrisy, murder, and wickedness. They are not of age! They are growing more and more like their fathers. The Jesuit fathers are no doubt scheming and planning how and when they will acknowledge their own offspring, the Communists. The sons resemble their fathers in many respects, especially in the art of deception and lying. The Jesuit will argue backwards and forwards, up, down, in all conceivable directions, to avoid moral truth between man and man. The Jesuit and the Communist are on a par in this respect. Hitler was a trained son of the Jesuits.
The Jesuits are busy like moles underground. After the last war the Jesuits went underground, as they did after the first world war. They began their operations in Berlin, Japan and Italy. Where are they busy just now? In India, China, Russia (as splendid Communists), Egypt, Persia, South Africa and Middle East! They are as angels of peace in Britain, France, Italy, United States and Australia. What is the object in view? World dominion for the “Church.” Will they and their sons the Communists ever agree on the same policy? Why not? One Pope (in recent times) declared that he would agree with the devil if so the “cause of religion should be advanced.” We need not doubt from past history (we have plenty of evidence to convince any reasonable man) that the Church of Rome will kiss the feet of Stalin if Popery is thereby advanced as a world power. Communism and Popery are synonymous—expressing the same thing, using different methods to attain world power and dominion over the rest of mankind. The third evil spirit that has risen is the “World Council of Churches,” which is also synonymous with Popery and Communism in its Satanic aim—world power and world dominion over all other Churches and Missions, and has a place in what is called the “United Nations Organisation” alongside the Jesuits and Communism. Have any of the three “frogs” respect for the Word of God, the gospel, and to the Person of Jesus Christ? No! The “three frogs” have one end in view—world power and world-wide dominion over all the rest of mankind. The Communist, the Jesuit, and the “World Council” men can sit side by side in the “Assembly Council” with the same end in view, to wit: World power and universal dominion! The strange thing is that all three seek to counteract each other and destroy one another! This is the work of the devil, for all three organisations are the servants of the devil. The Church of Rome is the Mother of the “Three frogs.” Let no one be in the dark about the “World Council of Churches”—it is another branch of the Church of Rome. It is a most wicked organisation, composed of “Modernists,” atheists, infidels, and unbelievers of all grades and classes of hypocrites, collected from all nations, in direct opposition to the truth of God, the gospel of our Lord Jesus, the peace and harmony of the people of God in all nations. The leaders of the “World Council of Churches” are at home with the Pope, Jesuits, Communists, atheists, infidels, Jews, and Greek Churches. In fact, the “World Council of Churches” is a combination of them all, collected and gathered together to advance religion without the Word of God, truth, or righteousness. They must please the devil, while the hypocrites provoke God, and dishonour the Lord Jesus Christ. God will destroy them all. Let the Lord’s people in all nations witness against the “World Council of Churches,” and warn the poor people against them. They would destroy the Church of God from the face of this earth as sure as the Vatican and the Kremlin. Have the Churches in Russia freedom to worship God according to His Word? No. They have no such liberty, rights or privileges. They may gather in the form of worshippers in many parts of Russia, even in Moscow, but they dare not witness on the side of the Lord, truth, righteousness and morality, and against the wicked conduct, blasphemy, and hypocrisy of the Communists. “Liberty of conscience, and the right of private judgment” is not allowed in miserable Russia. Stalin and the Pope are identical in that respect.
There is a very erroneous opinion among people in general that the Vatican is not so very wicked as it used to be one hundred, or three hundred years ago. That is wrong, and a dangerous attitude on the part of Protestants of all nations. Mr. Paul Blanshard’s latest book, Freedom and Catholic Power, blasts that weak and unwarranted idea about the Church of Rome, and her low-bred and evil-minded priests. The activities of her priests in United States and Britain are on an unprecedented scale in Church, colleges, schools, press, Foreign Office, Parliament, marriages, and domestic life, etc., fomenting discontent among workers, and in common with the Communist foxes, causing workers to go on strikes which they know are illegal, but powerless to prevent it! The Jesuit can be a Communist, Modernist, Tory, Labour leader, if thereby he can advance the aims of the “Black Pope,” the head of the Jesuit Order.
We would like to warn those who are indifferent about this question of the Roman Catholic Church claims to be the sole judge of life, death, souls, bodies, lives, and property of nations, and individuals, that the Vatican has not changed its creed, policy, and objective for the last one thousand years. The Church of Rome is true to her creed. The Pope declares that there is no “Church” but the “holy Catholic Church of Rome.” The “laws of God” are the laws of the Vatican. The “Holy Gospels” are in the “Church,” and out of the Church there is no salvation. Those who die outside the pale of the “Church” must not enter “purgatory,” as that dungeon would be far too good a place for heretics. Poor Luther, Calvin and Knox are in a place far beneath the vaults of the Pope’s purifying furnace! All the Popes of Rome since the death of the Reformers must agree they are lost for ever! Let us now refer our readers to what the learned Rev. Dr. Grattan Guinness states in his book, The Approaching End of the Age. Here it is:—”As to the practice of this unchangeable Church there is not a statement in the following quotation which history does not abundantly substantiate, ‘As some luxurious emperors of Rome exhausted the whole art of pleasure, so that reward was promised to any who should invent a new one; so have Romish persecutors exhausted all the art of pain, so that it will now be difficult to discover or invent a new kind of it which they have not already practised upon those marked out for heretics. They have been shot, stabbed, stoned, drowned, beheaded, hanged, drawn, quartered, impaled, burnt, or buried alive, roasted on spits (an iron prong on which meat is roasted), baked in ovens, thrown into furnaces, tumbled over precipices, cast from the top of towers, sunk in mire and pits, starved with hunger and cold, hung on tenter hooks (tenter hooks means to be stretched by a machine made for the purpose), suspended by the hair of the head, by the hands or feet, stuffed and blown up with gunpowder, ripped with sword and sickles, tied to the tails of horses, dragged over streets and sharp flints, broken on the wheel, beaten on anvils with hammers, blown with bellows, bored with hot irons, torn piecemeal by red-hot pincers, slashed with knives, hacked with axes, hewed with chisels, planed with planes, stuck from head to foot with pins, choked with water, lime, rags, excrements, or mangled pieces of their own bodies crammed down their throats, shut up in caves and dungeons, tied to stakes, nailed to trees, tormented with lighted matches, scalding oil, burning pitch, melted lead, etc. They have been flayed alive, had their flesh scalped and torn from their bones; they have been trampled and danced upon till their bowels have been forced out, their guts have been tied to trees and pulled forth by degrees; their heads twisted with cords till the blood, or even their eyes started out; strings have been drawn through their noses, and they led about like swine, and butchered like sheep. To dig out eyes, tear off nails, cut off ears, lips, tongues, arms, breasts, etc., has been but ordinary sport with Rome’s converters and holy butchers. Persons have been compelled to lay violent hands on their dearest friends, to kill or to cast into the fire their parents, husbands, wives, children, etc., or to look on whilst they have been most cruelly and shamefully abused. Women and young maids have also suffered such barbarities accompanied with all the imaginable indignities, insult, shame, and pungent pangs to which their sex could expose them. Tender babies have been whipped, starved, drowned, stabbed and burnt to death, dashed against trees and stones, torn limb from limb, carried about on the point of spikes and spears, and thrown to the dogs and swine.”
The above is awful, done in the name of religion! This is the Church that boasts that she is the same and can never change as she is the only “Catholic Church in the world.” This was the religion the Reformers revolted against. This is the religion that the Russians revolted against. Would Rev. Dr. Warr, of Edinburgh, like to restore the “ancient religion, with its mellow influence, back to Scotland”? But people will argue that the Papists would not do such cruel work in this age! What madness! The Pope declared over and over again that their Church never changes from generation to generation. It never repeated of its most awful persecutions, which is on record in the archives of the Vatican, Spain, France, Public Record Office, London, and in many history books, both by Roman Catholic and Protestant historians. Many Roman Catholics might be horrified, and even terrified, at the fearful atrocities committed by their Popes, Councils, bishops, priests and agents, and wish to deny it, or turn their eyes from the recorded facts of history. If the Papal Church had the same power in Britain as in the past, what would happen to the Protestants of this country? They would be persecuted, quartered, hanged, starved to death, burnt alive, till the last of them disappeared from the face of the earth! Bear in mind, the Church of Rome is the same Church, laws, rules, orders, and where her power is supreme she is above all laws, kings, governments, doctors, nurses, life, death, and property. If the priest decides that the life of the mother must be sacrificed for the sake of her child, the Roman Catholic doctor and nurse must obey the demands of the priest! See Paul Blanshard’s book to confirm the above statement verified from Roman Catholic enactments, by bishops and priests. The priest is the first and highest authority in the maternity sick-room in a Roman Catholic maternity hospital, and not the doctor, or maternity nurse! If need be the priest will dictate to the doctor what life is to be spared, whether that of the mother or unborn infant, if there is grave danger that either the one or the other must die! What servants of the devil the priests of Rome are!
Now for the press, newspapers, and magazines. The priest is active behind the scenes at the business manager’s office, watching and warning that nothing adverse to the “Catholic Church” be printed, otherwise that the “Church” will withdraw her support from his paper. The “so-called freedom of the press” is thus circumvented in all “freedom-loving nations” in case one sentence be printed against the “Church,” priest, or nun! In all nations of the west: Britain, Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, etc., the daily press is almost silent on the machinations of the Papal Church. The owners of the public press believe that it will pay them to keep silent on the intrigues of the agents of the Pope, who operate for the overthrow of the existing government of the Protestant nations, by fair, foul, or any means that will destroy “dying Protestantism,” root and branch. This is like what happened seventy years ago in Scotland, when contractors of cheap labour brought Irish navvies to Scotland by the thousand, with the painful results that we have now over six hundred thousand of their sons and daughters in Scotland. What a calamity! They are the “Nationalists” of Scotland, who clamour for a “Scottish Parliament” in Edinburgh. The Church of Rome dreads nothing like free and frank discussion of her creed, practice, idolatry, and wickedness. If the press is silenced, and kept silent whatever the expenses, the priestly-moles can work quietly and silently for our destruction. Let all our people realise that the Church of Rome is bent on the overthrow of our civil and religious liberties—to capture our schools, press, colleges, money and property. That is the aim of the hierarchy in Scotland. The Protestant pulpit and pew, schools, and religious magazines (there are a few of them in the nation), should take up the Roman Catholic challenge and educate the people, warn and exhort them against the machinations of the Papal power, priests, and their agents. It is high time Scotland should investigate and unearth the satanic intrigues of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in this nation. Communism is no doubt a great menace, but the chief and most dangerous enemy to the peace of Europe is the Roman Catholic Church. What a revelation is that last book by Paul Blanshard, Freedom and Catholic Power. Published in Great Britain, 1951, by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 7 John Street, Bloomsbury, London, W.C.1.