Pastor Chiniguy's Lecture.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3453, 19 January 1880, Page 2

Pastor Chiniguy's Lecture.

" dan gees ahead to england and the Colonies by the Chuech of .Eome."

The above subject was announced for Pastor Chiniquy's lecture at the Theatre Eoyal on Saturday cvi ning. There was but a moderate attendance.

The Rev. Mr Watkin occupied the Chair, and after singing and prayer he introduced to the audience the Rev. lecturer^who, after giving a brief account of the condition of England at the time of the Reformation, asked the indulgence of the audience as he was unwell. He requested that Mr Bratne might be permitted to read the remainder of the lecture which was immediately assented to by the audience. Mr Brame then read the lecture, in which the writer asserted' that the Church of Rome was the deadly enrmy of liberty. She was for ever plotting against the laws of God, and the liberties of men. If to-day she could take away her natural hatred of liberty of conscience, to-morrow she would fall. Her Councils for the past ten centuries had established the principle that it~ was the duty ot Catholics to kiil heretics. He challenged any priest or bishop to deny this. One of the Catholic standard works, the " Sumna Theologica,"enjoined the destruction of heretics, and when he was a priest he was glad to hear of the murders of Protestants. His church told him Protestants were the enemies of God and he believed her. He hated Protestants, and there was not a single priest who=«fo,uld not make the same confession. References were made to the attempts made by the Bishops of the United States to destroy him, and he stated that the last Council held at Home declared that the Bishops were bound to believe that the laws of extermination came from God, and should be put in force directly everywhere they had the power. Extracts from Ottoman Catholic journals containing attacks on liberty of conscience and paragraphs urging the extirpation of Protestants were read. In continuation he said : Catholics would tell them that Protestants had killed Catholics.. He knew ifc and acknowledged it because Protestants were forced to punish their murderers. The Church of Rome had not repealed her ancient laws of blood, Iv conclusion the lecturer said: Now, my friends, what I must we conclude ? Must we go to the Roman Catfiblics and bate them, and slander them, and pun;sh them? No; among the Komau Catholics there ar.e two kinds—good and bad. You have nothing to fear from the bad Roman Catholics. If the priest of Rome told them to molest you they would not do it, But a good Roman Catholic would cut your throat as soon as he would cut the throat of a-rat. The good Roman Catholic would obey his priest, in everything. But by chance there are many Roman Catholics who have more sense than that. They have mixed with you Protestants, and the light of the Gospel, the spirit of tbe Gospel, the principles of the Gospel, the principles of humanity ancfecharity which are your life, the atmosphere which you Christian nationi^breathe, the atmosphere of liberty, of fair* play, these things have had a powerful influence on them. They breathe in this atmosphere of liberty; and though they retain the name of Roman Catholics, they see that it is Protestant liberty which makes a nation great, and they will not obey their priests in these things. And that is you? security. But pray God the time will

never come when the Church of Home will have the upper hand. I can prove to you by their own writings, which are in my own hands, that Manning's indention is to do ull in his power to bring a general war of extermination against the Protestants, and against all those who are ogposed to his government. When Mr Brame had finished. Pastor Chiniquy thanked him for reading the lecture, and after prayer and doxology, the proceedings terminated.