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priory and Ms church be proven .to be right thereby. The RomanChurch is thus praticlly supported by these very institutions that she' pro-fesses to support. * Take away the donations to her hospitals,orphanages etc., and the earnings of the aged people virtually incarcerated in herold folks homes and you would rob the* • .church of her support. Apply for entrance into a Roman Catjiolic Hospital, built by public donations and see how 4‘Free*9 it is. Again he deciares that the church mu«t be orthodox because it has fifty-six thousand nuns, or im wedded females who hedeclares to be “The Purest Women On*Earth” in these institutions called convents. In reply we assert that this a proof in the public mind that she is heretical and wrong Her convents are looked on by thinking people as mere modern harems, where high living, wine-drinking priests and monks may revel in the licentious magdale-mania that becomes their imbruted eel legacy. These women call themselves “Mothers Superior,” but self-styled “mothers” without husbands don’t need their purity boasted of and the 4 41teverend Fathers1 ’ without wi res are in much the same fix.Where did God ever license these self-styled “mothers” without husbands and “fathers” without wives, to condemn as unholy the sacred marri-age relation and set up a “superior” standard of unwedded concubinage of their own? Let Mr. Connor or his ‘•ghostly” adviser quote chapter and
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Montezuma Enterprise

Montezuma, Indiana, US

Thu, Apr 17, 1913

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