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WHY ANOTHER "HOLY YEAR”?

EXAGGERATED PASSION FOR THE BEAUTIFUL

MORE ON THE HARPELL CASE

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THE RIGHTFUL DICTATOR

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Vol.XIV-No. 354

April 12, 1933

CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Wild Times Among Farmers . . 438

Relief in Pennsylvania .... 439

Evictions in New York in Ten

Months.........439

Wages of New York Teach' rs . . 439

Texas’ 75,000 Homeless .... 441

SOCIAL AND EDUCATION AL

Exaggerated Passion for th::

Beautiful

Blown Pollen

Homeless Boys to Be Helped . . 439

Achievements of the “Holy Year”

Further Light on the ILirpell Case 447

FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION

Business Failures in Tlnee Years . 439

R. F. C. Directors

Bankers as Scavengers

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Plea for Recognition of Russia . . 439 Forty-Hour Week in Legislation . 439 “With Bravest Apprehension-’ . . 440 Hitler Makes Germany a

Fascist State

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Transparent Aluminum Window Panes

Dogs Without Sleep Die in 5 Days 441

Torturing Pregnant Dogs . . . 441

Disemboweled Dogs at Toronto . . 441

A Great Medical Discovery (

Choking Kittens Scientifically . . 441

HOME AND HEALTH

Mexico Drops Vaccination . . . 440

TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY

Kidnaped the Pay-off Man . . . 439

One-Tenth of Moscow’s Churches

Remain.........439

Michigan Legion Official Goes Bad 439

Japanese Massacres near Fusb.un . 440

Palestine Found to Be Prosperous 440

Deportations from Land of Liberty 440

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Another “Holy Year’’

of La Bottega del Papa . . . 419

“They Pay Forever!-’ .... 430

“The Church Makes Me a

Hypocrite”........430

Liverpool Figuring on Earthquake 430

The Rightful Dictator .... 442

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The Golden Age

Volume XIV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 12, 1933 Number 354

Another “ Holy Year” of La Bottega del Papa

ITALIAN papers and magazines commonly refer to the papal system as “la bottega del papa” (the pope’s shop). Every year since Christ died has been a “holy year”. There is nothing about the year beginning April 2, 1933, to mark it as specially holy. Christ never asked us to make a special splurge once every century. The pope merely seizes upon the fact that Christ died nineteen centuries ago, to help his spring trade.

The pope had one “holy year” in 1929: we have not recovered from it. Why have another so soon? The answer is that the mere upkeep of Vatican City calls for a cash outlay annually of $9,360,000, and it is desperately necessary that the money come rolling in. Times are hard in Rome, a s elsewhere, and if a big pilgrimage to the “holy city” can b e arranged it will bring in much revenue.

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j ‘HOLY HOUR’ PLANNED

| Religions to Unite in World Appeal on April 2

| President Roosevelt plans either to attend person- | | ally or to speak by radio at the holy hour demonstra- | 1 tion sponsored by New York Catholics, Protestants g | and Jews in Radio City Music Hall at 10: 30 a.m. on | I Passion Sunday, April 2, according to the present | | schedule of arrangements. The purpose of the world- f g wide interdenominational service is “to reconsecrate | f the entire world to a new faith.” |

I Ministers, priests and rabbis will speak at the | I Radio City meeting and their inspirational addresses | | will be broadcast throughout the world. Throngs in | I the city parks and plazas will hear the service through | 1 amplifiers. Governors of every State have been asked 1 1 to arrange gatherings to hear the program. In every | | quarter of the globe, millions will kneel simultaneous- | | ly in prayer. |

I Those who win speak at Radio City include Gov. Leh- | s man, former Gov. Alfred 11. Smith and the Rev. Dr. S. g = Parkes Cadman. Rabbi Nathan Krass will also speak if g = his health permits. Otherwise he will name some one to s j take his place. A feature of the program will be the broad- j I casting from Rome of a desciiption of the celebration there, g

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It may be argued that, with 334,665,000 Roman Catholics in the world, a very little from each one would suffice to keep things going smoothly; and so it would. Even 1c apiece would mean an annual revenue of $3,346,650. But times are hard everywhere; there are 97,000 church centers that have to be kept up, and much that would otherwise come to Rome is sluiced away.

The successful operation of the papal system depends upon display, showmanship, and while this can be done to a good degree by such exhibitions as were manifested at Mundelein, Carthage, Sydney and Dublin, yet Rome itself is the best place, for here is the central plant, the greatest depot for the merchandising of superstition that man will ever see.

Not only is St. Peter’s the largest church in the world, coming to the huge dimensions of 619 feet in length, 449 feet in width, and 470 feet in height, but the Vatican palace which adjoins it is the largest building of any kind in the world, having no less than 11,000 rooms, 80 grand staircases, 200 other staircases, and literally priceless furniture and works of art. The V atiean palace has been in process of construction, addition and alteration since A.D. 498. The value of the Vatican plant is set at not less than $110,000,000.

So it is necessary, on one pretext or another, to get as many as possible to come to Rome to see for themselves what a colossal show is here staged. They come; they are deeply impressed; they return home and help sell the whole idea to those that could not afford to come.

The travel of tens of thousands to and from Rome is expensive, but that expense is borne by the washerwomen, the servant girls, and the man that works with pick and shovel in the trench. It makes a nice picnic for those that take the trip; and bishops and priests enjoy picnics. When the steamer went from Italy to the Carthage exhibition none were allowed on board except the papal delegate and fellow priests.

The Relic Business

"While the relic business is only a side show of the papal circus, yet in every first-class show the side show plays an important part. People flock in there to get a close look at curiosities, and whet their appetites for what goes on in the big tent. And so, when Mr. Ratti invited the people of the world to come to Rome in 1933, he did not forget to mention the so-called ‘Roly relics'-' there to be seen. We mention some of them:

At the Vatican itself are to be seen sacred relies of the true (?) cross and the centurion’s lance that pierced Jesus’ side. In the church of Santa Groce de Gerusalemme are to be seen three pieces of the true (?) cross, the title placed over the cross, two thorns from the crown of thorns, the sponge which was filled with vinegar and gall, Jesus’ teeth and hair, a phial full of His blood, the nails that nailed Him to the tree, a piece of the veil and some of the hair of the virgin Mary, and some of the manna gathered in the desert.

In the monastery of La Verna are exhibits of some of the clay of which Adam’s body was made, the rod of Aaron, the stone seats upon which the apostles sat when the spirit came upon them at Pentecost, the table of the last supper, the swaddling clothes in which Jesus was wrapped, a stone red with His blood, a piece of the ark of the covenant, the stone on which John was beheaded, Jesus’ bed in the desert, the stone on which He knelt when He washed the disciples’ feet, and the basin and cloth which He used on that occasion. Here also are to be seen numerous bones of Peter, Paul, James, Andrew, Thomas, Barnabas, Bartholomew, Matthew and Mary of Magdala.

In the church of Santa Maria Maggiore is exhibited the cradle of Jesus, i. e., a piece of the manger in which Christ was born. In the church of St. John Lateran is a twin of the table used at the last supper; also a twin of the towel Jesus used in washing the disciples' feet. In the Turin cathedral is the robe in which Joseph of Ari-mathea wrapped the body of Christ. It was declared bogus in 1898, when last shown, but is now O.K., for the times are hard; nobody expects a side show to be on the level anyway, and money is needed to keep up with the expenses.

In other churches are shown specimens of the bread and fish gathered up after Christ fed the five thousand and four thousand. A checkup of relics is said to have disclosed that some of the apostles and martyrs had three to four heads, seven feet, and four wrist bones. AVe have no details.

2,000 Papal Bulls

There are said to be 2,000 papal bulls, all in Latin. Fifteen of the oldest of these have been photographed. They all have names. We do not know the names of them. The encyclopedia mentions Aberdeen-Angus, Ayrshire, Brittany, Brown Swiss, Devon, Dexter, Dutch Belted, Guernsey, Hereford, Holstein-Friesian, Jersey, Kerry, Long Horn, Red Polled and Shorthorn varieties.

In the bull which came out January 15, 1933, the pope, after mentioning that Rome is a center for relics, said: "Here, as you know, is preserved the table on which tradition says our Lord Jesus Christ consecrated the bread of the angels.” This was an unscriptural expression. The bread which Jesus used to commemorate His death was not the bread of the angels, but ordinary, plain unleavened bread.

We have no desire to make this article too stiff and formal. The full name of the pope is Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, which, in English, is Achilles Ambrose Damian Ratti (or is it Rats?). To call him Ratti seems impolite; Achilles is too reminiscent of Greek mythology; Damian is Italian; but the name Ambrose is a good one; so this is really a letter to Ambrose about his business, which we identify with certainty as the greatest show on earth.

In his invitation to come to Rome, Ambrose mentions four churches, St. John Lateran, St. Peter in Vatican, St. Paul in Via Ostiense, and St. Mary Major. Visit each church three times and get a plenary indulgence for all punishment coming for sins for which pardon has been secured. As soon as you have visited one of these churches you can turn right around and visit it again, and again, and thus work in all three visits at once. Just why you must come out and go back in we do not know, but suspect that the real object is to rake in the three paid admissions.

The concession is made that if you die on the voyage, you get the same indulgence, provided you confess and communicate. We do not know what meaning is put upon "communicate” in this connection. It may be something that comes free, but we doubt it.

A Huge Enterprise

Let no one imagine that it is an easy thing to keep 334,665,000 people in line. Ambrose is 76 years of age on May 31, but is up every morning at 6: 00 o’clock and works hard until 6: 30 every night doing the things that experience shows have to be done to keep the show going properly.

All modern conveniences are at his hand; a printshop where they have six linotypes, the same number as at where The Golden Age is set; a newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, which it pains us to have to admit is not nearly as good a paper as The Golden Age; a telephone which, for Ambrose, is of gold and mother of pearl. Ours is of bakelite, but we can talk as far as he can, and are not afraid that anybody will steal it.

When he broadcasts he sits on a gilded red damask throne; we sit on an ordinary stool, and it is plenty good enough. But maybe he has hemorrhoids, so that he is not comfortable in an ordinary chair. They are said to be very painful. Probably his diet needs attention. If he will write to us about this we will make some suggestions.

When he travels he has a special three-car train for his own use. One car is for a throne room, another for a chapel, and in another one he eats and sleeps. When we travel at night we rock around in an upper berth, and glad to get it; in the daytime a day coach is plenty good enough. When Jesus wanted to go anywhere He had to walk, and so did the apostles. When we think how easy we have it, it makes us ashamed.

Ambrose has 'a standing army of 598 Swiss guards, noble guards, palatine guards and pontifical gendarmerie’ that all have to be uniformed and fed. That is besides the firemen. Their job is to strut around with the processions and watch the public and watch one another to keep down the stealage. If he lived in an ordinary house he would not even need a night watchman.

More Progressive than Most

Ambrose is more progressive than most of the popes. At one time he was an Alpine mountain climber, and something of this is still in his veins. At 73 years of age he climbed the 400-odd feet into the dome, to see the cracks which at any time may bring the whole edifice crashing in on the thousands beneath.

He negotiated for a fleet of helicopters; we do not know if they were purchased; it may have been merely to gain publicity, which is the life of the business. Or it may be that the gentleman is assuring himself that if Mussolini should have another bad spell, he could at least escape, anyway.

Ambrose has an automobile. His carriages used to have a throne in them. Up-to-date elevators are being installed, to replace the hesitating, dignified old hearses of yore. Ambrose has his own currency, coinage, post office and telegraph office.

He is thinking of heating the Vatican by electricity, manufactured in his new oil-burning electric plant. His railway, though only 600 feet long, and 300 feet of that underground, is as wide as if it were 600 miles long. The railway station is a quite pretentious structure, with a length of 180 feet.

Jesus said, ‘‘Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” When He said this He did not have reference to a "great big flock’ of 334,665,000. The management of the little flock and of the "great big flock’ are two entirely separate propositions.

So far as we know, Jesus spoke but the one language, Syriac. But when Ambrose broadcast one of his bulls he translated each Latin sentence into French and then German. No doubt he speaks Italian, Spanish and English.

At first it was published around the world that Ambrose himself would not actually broadcast; somebody else would do it for him. It is part of the business to maintain an air of great aloofness, and high and mighty mystery. The people love to be humbugged, and it was thought more would be gained by staying away from the ‘"mike”, but that was talked down.

Some Intimate Touches

Every Friday Ambrose confesses to his private confessor, the Jesuit priest Celebrano. Once a year, June 29, he goes down into the grotto beneath the cathedral and spends a few minutes in silent prayer before the place where he will be buried. On that occasion he is accompanied by torchbearers in red cloaks. Seems like a gruesome job.

There have been about 200 Dago popes, 15 French, 14 Greek, 8 Syrian, 6 German, 5 Spanish, 2 Austrian, and 1 each Portuguese, Swiss, English and Dutch. In its practical aspects the ‘"bottega del papa” is a strictly Wop racket. Its business is to make merchandise of certain mysteries supposedly based upon the Scriptures but actually in mortal conflict with them.

In 1929 Ambrose spent an entire week in “spiritual” exercises, granting no audiences during that time. This is a part of the system. In the four months July, August, September, October, Ambrose is one of the few around the Vatican who continue to work. His principal relaxation is feeding bread crumbs to a parrot.

When he took over the government of Vatican City, with its 994 citizens, he disappointed some of the cardinals by proclaiming himself dictator, and then revealed his human side by putting his nephew, Count Franco Ratti, in immediate charge of the governing work.

On January 7, of this year, Ambrose told 4,000 electric power workmen, during a special audience in the “Hall of Blessings” at the Vatican, that the pursuit of honest labor is the highest condition in which man can be; and that is the plain truth. Incidentally, this hall, which easily held 4,000 men, is only one of sixteen such halls in the Vatican palace.

Ambrose Has Wrong Idea

February 12, 1931, at the inauguration of the Vatican City radio station (11 kilowatts—11,000 watts), Ambrose started off by saying, “We, being through the high design of God, successors of the prince of the apostles.” We don’t like to irritate an older man by disagreeing with him, but, Ambrose, that is just plain tvrong.

Jesus never gave Peter mastery over the others; he told them to look to Him as the Master and to be subject to one another as brethren. In the days of the apostles there was no mention of a pope. When there was a conclave or council it was James, not Peter, who did the summing up. Paul rebuked the Paulites, and would have rebuked the Peterites if there had been any to rebuke. As it was, on one occasion he rebuked Peter himself. In all his writings Peter never had anything to say about his “primacy”; he knew better.

A little later on, in the same address, Ambrose, you addressed yourself to dissidents (those that differ with you) and said, “For you every day we offer prayers to God.” That being the case, we rather wonder why it is that you so often demand an end of protestant activities in Rome. You know the Scriptures say, “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Why can you not let other people go ahead and do what they think is right? Every man stands or falls to his own master, not to you, Ambrose.

We notice in your sermon of February 26, 1933, you say, “We are firmly confident humanity will be much better off before the end of the ‘holy year’.” January 16, 1933, when the year was first announced, you said “it should lead to social, political and international peace". That makes us think of the words of the prophet, “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.” (1 Thessalonians 5:3) The surest guaranty we would have that mankind would be in for the worst calamities it ever faced would be to have a prediction come from Rome that great blessings are just at hand.

For example, before the “holy year” was officially declared, back on December 24,1932, you predicted that debt payments and postponements, insolvencies, disarmament and lack of confidence will cease to preoccupy the universe during the “holy year” beginning April 2, 1933. Since then we have had the worst financial shake-up in America that the country has ever known.

Your Folks Are Crooked

Your folks are crooked, Ambrose. A few years ago a group of nuns came into Xew England from Quebec with hundreds of yards of choice laces hidden under their capacious Mother Hubbards. They claimed that they were so innocent and so godly that they did not know what they were doing. Rats 1

The London Daily News says that in September, 1927, a Roman Catholic priest, Martin Schichti, lied about tobacco and cigars he was trying to smuggle into Britain; also a revolver and 100 rounds of ammunition.

Here in New York, in the presence of Cardinal Hayes, “Father” Middleton said, “I wonder if God the Father, as he looks down on Catholic New York, can see the image of His Son.” To get the real answer to that, all you have to do is to turn to the Literary Digest of July 3, 1926, where you will see Jimmy Walker, then mayor of New York, photographed in the same row with eight of your cardinals. Jimmy is shown to have been one of the biggest crooks we ever had in America, but his face looks open and honest compared with at least six of your eight cardinals. Two of them have fairly honest-looking faces.

Just how do you feel about Jimmy Walker, anyway? He is a product of your religion, and important enough to pose in a picture with eight of your cardinals. His wife, who has been deserted now for over four years, the other day asked for a divorce. She knows that Walker resigned as mayor because he could not do otherwise, and that he sailed on the same boat as Miss Betty Compton, New York musical comedy actress, for long his friend. They are now in Cannes, France.

We don’t like the idea of your making marquises out of our private citizens. We notice that in February and March, 1931, your Cardinal Hayes had a five weeks’ trip to Texas, Florida and back in the private cai’ of George MacDonald, a marquis of the papal court. Maybe fares were paid, but we chance to know that this year Roman Catholic bishops go free on American railways, while the rest of us, wholly engaged in Christian work, must pay.

Why do you withhold the communion wine from laymen? Is it because the priests like it better than laymen do ? You know that Jesus said, “Drink ye, all, of it.” All of you drink all of it is what He meant. He never intended the selfish and lawless course pursued by your clergy.

Alms to Be Seen of Men

We noticed, in 1927, that it was widely published that you gave $100,000 for the relief of Mississippi flood victims. Why did you publish that? Jesus said, “Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly.” —Matthew 6:1-4.

The worst of it is that the distribution of the above relief was expressly and strictly confined to Roman Catholics. You were merely taking it out of one pocket, and an American pocket at that, and putting it into another. You were also advertised as making a cash gift to Mount Saint Mary Seminary in Cincinnati. The objection to advertising this is the same. You are also advertised as giving a chalice to the cathedral in ►Sydney. The objection is the same.

You do not divide up these cardinalates honestly. Most of the money to run your show comes from America, yet the last we knew there were 33 Italian cardinals, and only 4 in North America and 1 in South America, all told. It looks as if you were afraid that only a Dago is crooked enough to run the show properly. And you may be right at that.

The historian T. B. Macaulay said of your system, “Among all the institutions for deceiving and oppressing mankind, it occupies the very highest place.” lie had it right. There are no other people on earth as capable at operating mafias and vendettas as the Italians. It is for this reason that you insist that a majority of the cardinals be Italians, so as to keep this system in hands where it can be operated.

As to Infallibility

We understand the distinction which you make between infallibility and impeccability. You do not claim that the pope is sinless, but you do claim that God prevents him from making mistakes in doctrine. We mention some items that you can explain at your leisure.

Gregory I said that anybody would be antiChrist that would take the title of "Universal Bishop”. His successor Boniface III did that very thing. Paschalis II and Eugenius III authorized dueling; Pius IV forbade it. Hadrian II declared civil marriages valid; Pius VII condemned them. Sixtus V recommended reading the Scriptures; Pius VII condemned the reading' of them. Clement XIV abolished the order of the Jesuits; Pius VII reestablished it, and you confess to a Jesuit. Vigilius purchased the papacy from Belisarius but never paid the money. Agathon officially (ex cathedra) condemned his predecessor Honorius I for teaching heresy. Stephen VII exhumed the body of Formosus, mutilated it, and threw it into the Tiber. Sergius III murdered Christopher; John XI was his natural son by Marosia. These were all popes.

Reading in the Scriptures that “Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, today, and for ever” you naturally wish that your organization could make the same claim. Indeed, some do make it. On July 1, 1928, your “Father” Hurley, speaking in St. Francis Xavier’s Jesuit church, is alleged to have said, “If Christ were sitting in one confessional box and a priest in another, the priest could blot out sin just as effectively as could Christ” Ambrose, that all comes around through your misunderstanding of a few plain Scriptures. If Hurley knew what he was saying he was uttering blasphemy; as it is, we merely say that he is all wet.

Infant Baptism and Christmas

Infant baptism is as unscriptural as “Christ’s mass”. There is not a hint of either one in the Scriptures. We all had to laugh the other day when the queen of Bulgaria gave birth to a little daughter, and while she was still helpless her hubby rushed off and had the kid baptized in the “Orthodox” Greek church.

You put up an awful squawk. You said you had it in writing that any children of the union were to be brought up Roman Catholics. No doubt you told the truth, because you are just tyrannical enough to do a thing like that, i. e., your system is. But have you not learned yet that kings are like that bunch of ugly mugs that were pictured along with Jimmy Walker? You cannot believe a thing that they say.

You should cut out this title of “pope”. You know it means “papa”, or “father”, and it was Christ’s express command, “Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9) We notice that not only you yourself, but all those of your clergy, disobey this express command. Why do you do it? You are neither a father nor holy.

The Scriptures grant permission to bishops to be the husband of one wife, but since the reign of Gregory VII, A.D. 1075, you have done what you could to enforce celibacy in all the priesthood, forbidding them to marry. (1 Timothy 4:1-3) Nevertheless many of your priests are not celibates.

The foregoing passage says something about “commanding to abstain from meats”. You are strong for that too, but we notice that an archbishop can allow the faithful to eat sausage on Friday if he wishes, as was done recently in Texas, and as was similarly done by consent of your cardinals at Sydney, Mundelein and elsewhere. And just this past St. Patrick’s Day, which occurred on a Friday this year, the Catholics here in Brooklyn had to refrain from eating animal flesh, whereas over in New York, at the other end of the Brooklyn bridge the Catholics were given a special dispensation to eat flesh so as not to interfere with their celebrations in honor of Pat.

Why do you stick your nose into this matter of what your people eat ? Do not the Scriptures say, “Study to be quiet and to do your own business” ? The show business is your business; what they eat is their business. Why try to mix the two? You have enough to look after, running the show.

Cybele — Mother of the Gods

If you will look it up in any good encyclopedia you will see that the doctrine of the “immaculate conception-’, proclaimed by the “pope” in 1854, and the doctrine that 'Mary is the mother of God and ascended bodily into heaven’, not only are without a shred of support in the Scriptures, but are merely the dragging into a nominally Christian church of one of the most important of the Roman heathen goddesses.

A journal called The Catholic Mother, issue of September, 1927, describes Mary as “that beloved child who alone, of all the human race, was conceived without sin”. This is entirely unscriptural.

We have befoi'e proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin: as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that under-standeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.—Romans 3: 9-12.

Mary was a good woman, an excellent woman, but she was a sinner, and in the very nature of things could not be anything else. Her father was a sinner, and her mother a sinner, the same as she. They could not help it. It was born in them, as the sparks fly upward.

The same magazine, addressing Mary as “Queen of Heaven”, says further, “Thou art the Treasurer and the Dispenser of mercies.” That too is all wrong. There is not such a word nor such a thought in the Scriptures. To Jesus alone, not to Jesus and Mary, was given all power in heaven and in earth, and Jesus alone is the Father’s Dispenser of mercies. (1 Corinthians 8:6) Why do you allow such things to be published?

An Encyclical That Is Bull

In your plea of December 25, 1931, that “Christendom” should reunite under Christ and the virgin Mary, you are asking for the impossible; for those who know even the least little bit about the Scriptures know that all this about Mary is Simon-pure error.

You describe it as the “Nestorian Heresy’’ where some contending for the truth on one point said, ‘‘Let no one call Mary the mother of God, for Mary was a human." Alan alive! that is not a heresy; it is the gospel truth; and if you were not so carried away with the show business in which you are enmeshed, and would read the Scriptures, you could see it for yourself.

You want everybody to come to the Liberian basilica and prostrate themselves before the mosaics celebrating the triumph of Alary in the Ephesian council. That is all idolatry, the worship of Cybele. You will never see it. Yrou say in the same letter, “AVe take refuge in her with prayers that she instantly beseech celestial aid.” Well, we don’t. Neither’ God nor Christ Jesus needs any woman to come to them beseeching them to do right.

You say that the mother of Christ ascended bodily into heaven (though the world had to wait 600 years to find it out). It is not true. To His own chosen disciples Jesus said, “As I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come: so now I say to you.” It was as necessary for Alary to lie quietly asleep in death awaiting Jesus’ awakening her out of it as it was for an}' of the apostles.

AVe have a picture of you, taken at your first consistory, published in the Sunday Star of January 14, 1923. It is enough to turn the head of any man that ever lived. The throne and canopy are magnificent, some 15 feet wide and 25 feet high. The thing about it that specially strikes us is that over your head was a picture representing Alary as the “Queen of Heaven”, dominating the whole scene. God and Jesus are both absent from the picture. Apparently it was the thought of the artist that you would yourself represent them. AVhat a monstrous blasphemy! It is written, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve”; nothing is said about serving you, Ambrose.

Vain Repetitions of Prayers

You ought to know that it is an offense to God to offer overmuch prayer to Him. “God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.” (Ecclesiastes 5:2) Jesus made this matter very clear when He said: “But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for* they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”—Alatthew 6: 7.

In the place of these plain statements we have the most astonishing violations of their provisions by your highest officials. Thus eleven bishops in the Cincinnati district issued a joint appeal to 2,500,000 members, each to offer up prayer No. 10 about the AIexican situation. This was to be followed by “Our Father” and “Hail Alary” prayers repeated three times, a total of seven prayers for each person praying. That figures out about 17,500,000 prayers to start with.

That brings us down to the rosary prayers which were to follow. Each was asked to say at least one decade of prayers (10) on the rosary daily. That is 25,000,000 more prayers, daily. But the faithful were urged to make five decades on the rosary daily, or 50 prayers each, daily, and if all did as requested the grand total for the first day was 142,500,000; and if that is not “much speaking”, won’t you kindly tell us, Ambrose, just what you think it is?

But what happened at Cincinnati is as nothing to what happened at Sydney. The New York Times of September 8, 1928, speaking of the recorded prayers in evidence at Sydney, which prayers were to be presented to you (presumably because you represent the god of this world), said:

The volume contains a list of several billion masses, communions, benedictions and rosaries. As Cardinal Cerretti left a men’s meeting on the show ground of the Eucharistic Congress last night, 150,000 voices burst forth into the song, “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow. ’ ’

The Making of a Saint

The word saint merely means “holy one”, one who is wholly devoted to Jehovah God. The epistles are addressed “to the saints which are at Ephesus” (Ephesians 1:1), “to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi” (Philip-pians 1:1), “all the saints which are in all Achaia.” (2 Corinthians 1:1) They are not addressed to somebody up in heaven.

September 6, 1929, the Associated Press circulated a lengthy dispatch from AYnice telling of what it described as “the long process of having Pius X proclaimed a saint”. Maybe it is not done yet. AVhat Paul could do without hesitation to the pool’ common people of Ephesus, Philippi and all Achaia (Greece), you have to do yourself at the A’atican, and then only after a “long process”. AVhat is wrong about Pius X that you have to wait so long? And why should it be necessary to write up a book of 425 pages of evidence?

It is said to have cost over $3,000,000 to have Joan of Arc sainted. In Psalm 106:16 Aaron is referred to as “the saint of Jehovah”. The making of that saint never cost anybody a red cent. Ninety-four times in the Scriptures they are mentioned in the plural, and refer to human creatures, almost always.

If it were not so serious, this matter of deceiving and being deceived, we should have to laugh about your antics. First you made the little girl Theresa a saint; you did it yourself. Then you say that you have “never failed to invoke her in all serious problems and always with good results”. Do you mind if we laugh, Ambrose?

Of course we know, “Brosie,” why it is that this sainting business is so expensive and requires so much time. It is on account of the purgatory mix-up. The theory is that it takes time and takes money to get out of purgatory, which is all the more peculiar in view of the fact that there isn’t any such place.

Everybody who has ever looked the matter up knows that the doctrine of purgatory (including masses and transubstantiation) was invented by Gregory I, who was pope from 590 to 604 (A.D.). When Phocas murdered Emperor Maurice and himself ascended the throne, Gregory wrote, “The Almighty has chosen you and put you on the throne.” Phocas was not ungrateful, and in return established the supremacy of the see of Rome over all the other sees. See?

The Expenses of Purgatory

Nobody has ever been able to explain to us just why there is so much expense connected with this matter of getting out of purgatory, and that despite the aphorism, “High money, high mass; low money, low mass; no money, no mass.”

It seems you fellows won’t do a thing for those poor fellows that are in your “purgatory” unless they slip you something substantial. For instance, here is this gem from your Sunday Visitor of November 4,1928: “It often happens that a person makes provision for masses for his own soul by will, and that the bequest for this purpose is released only after a whole year elapses, with the result that during the year immediately following death the soul is neglected.”

Now you claim to be Peter incarnate, or his successor, anyway, so listen to this from 1 Peter 5:2: “Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind.” What a scandal, therefore, for you to take a man’s good money all his lifetime, and then when he dies, and it takes a year to probate his will, you let him burn to a char without even so much as taking the fork and turning him over until you get the cash. Shame on you, Ambrose!

We can well believe what the “Reverend” C. J. McCabe, of St. Patrick’s cathedral, New York, is reported as having said (New York Times, November 5, 1928), i. e., that in purgatory “the pain is inexpressible”. It must be. How could it be otherwise, in a place that does not exist ?

How About This Indulgence Business?

Here is some advertising matter about the Pious Union of the Pardon Crucifix. It bears the O.K. of Cardinal Begin of Quebec, one of your men. It says: “Whoever carries on his person the Pardon Crucifix may thereby gain 300 days’ indulgence once a day. For devoutly kissing the Crucifix 100 days’ indulgence each time.”

Now let us suppose a man carries one of these crucifixes for sixty years and kisses it every time he takes a drink of water, which ought to be once an hour, for, say, ten hours a day. He thus gets 1,300 days’ indulgence in purgatory for each of the days of the 60 years he carries it. We thus see that for this one little job alone he gets respite from the fires of purgatory for 60 times 365| times 1,300 days, which comes to 78,000 years. Who would not carry a crucifix and kiss it ten times a day if he knew it was going to make him more comfortable in purgatory during 78,000 of the years he would be there? How much is one of these crucifixes, anyway?

Here is another piece of advertising matter put out by The Central Association of the Miraculous Medal, Reverend Joseph A. Skelly, C.M., Director, 100 East Price St., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. It is approved by Cardinal Dougherty. It says in part:

All who wear it suspended from the neck, after having been invested in it by a duly authorized priest, can gain an indulgence of 100 days (applicable to the Souls in Purgatory) as often as they repeat the invocation found on the medal: “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” (Pius X, July 6, 1904.) Those invested who simply carry the medal can gain an indulgence of a hundred days, each day.

Now isn’t that grand ? By a little calculation, say, for just wearing this second medal and repeating those 13 words 12 times a day for 60 years a man can get another 78,000 years of comfort in purgatory, making 156,000 years of comfort there if he never does another thing. But there are literally thousands of similar schemes, so it follows that for the outlay of a little ready cash a capable mathematician can book himself up for untold millions of years on the cool side of purgatory, and probably by that time he would be so used to the climate that he would not care whether he got out or not. O Ambrose!

Souls Insured for 25c

It was your man “Reverend” F. J. Huber, 552 Protectory Place, Pittsburgh, Pa., in his little folder entitled “The Greatest Value Ever Received for Twenty-five Cents”, that made it all clear to us about how to get a year’s insurance on a soul for twenty-five cents. In the subsection entitled “Spiritual Insurance” he said:

Safeguard your soul as you would your life and business. Wc insure our lives against death, our bodies against sickness and accident, our business against loss, our buildings against fire and storm, yet we often neglect to insure our most precious possession, our immortal soul, against spiritual mishap and subsequent eternal loss. Our Association presents a Spiritual Insurance Policy which you cannot afford to overlook. Enrollment in our Patron’s Membership will procure for you yearly the immeasurable benefits of a thousand masses, five novenas of masses and the daily prayers of our boys for 25 years. The period may bo doubled, trebled, or increased as you choose. An offering of 25 cents will entitle one person to these same benefits of the Association for one year.

That doesn’t look like a very big risk. Almost anybody would be willing to put up a quarter to make sure that his soul would get a fair deal. The difficulty seems to be that nobody is sure what Reverend Huber would do with the quarter. Would he see that the soul gets honest treatment, or would he wink with one eye and stick that quarter deep down in his pants pocket (or, if he wears skirts, hide it somewhere in the ruffles) ?

We were quite struck with one place in your long radio speech in 1931, Ambrose, where you said you were going to espouse the cause of the workingman. That is real good news. If that means anything at all, it means that the “church” of which you, and not Christ, are the head, will positively refuse to accept any more money from scrubwomen, ditch-diggers, and others of the poor and lowly, to get their relatives out of the “fires of purgatory”.

We have wondered all along, Ambrose, why you did not get after this purgatorj swindle, but we realize that when a fraud is deep-seated, and has been running along for hundreds of years, and there is good money in it, and the fellows that are working the scheme do not know how to do any kind of honest work, it is awfully hard to do anything in the way of reform. But you had better try it, anyway, for the whole show is going to break up soon, and when it does fold up, you will naturally want friends and a job.

Liberty and the Weaker Sex

We notice in your letter of February 8, 1930, that you want the Soviet government to grant your folks freedom of conscience, liberty of worship, and inviolability of church property. That shows that you appreciate liberty, and you ought to know that others do. We write it into the record.

On May 1,1929, in an interview with Cardinal O’Connell, of Boston, you are alleged to have said that “Catholics in the United States should be extremely happy to be enjoying religious liberty, because that was all that the church asked”.

We are not so sure about that. Your folks have had our folks locked up time and time again, and for no reason. That is something you will have to explain to Jehovah God sometime, Ambrose. Meantime, this is just to tell you that we shall exercise all our rights, anyway.

We should think you would be ashamed to try to interfere with the dress of young girls, with their athletic exercises, and, after they are married, with their most intimate and wholly private conjugal affairs. Why is it that you and the other priests cannot stand it to look at a girl’s dimpled elbows or to sec her in athletic togs ? Shame on you, Ambrose!

When it comes to deciding how many children a man and woman should have, it would seem that if there is anything in this world that is their own business, that comes pretty near being it. You have some inspired advice on this subject : “Study to be quiet, and to do your own business.”—1 Thessalonians 4:11.

We know that your “church” urges all procreation possible, caring nothing about indecent homes or the number of sick, feeble-minded or deformed, but other people do care. They want children, but not more than they can take care of. If you and your fellow priests are so excited about the subject, why don’t you get married? You have 24,990 unmarried priests in the United States alone. You Toller’ about contraceptive practices’ being unnatural, but it is unnatural for you to use spectacles and a razor, and you do both.

The Custodian of Morals (?)

We notice that in the year 1931 you made the claim that yours is “the Catholic Church to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals”. Did you think of Jimmy Walker and Tammany Hall when you ■wrote that?

July 2, 1928, Bertha Byron fell thirty feet while trying to escape from the Roman Catholic House of the Good Shepherd, Hunting Avenue, Boston. Her recovery was despaired of. In May, 1929, two young women tried to escape from a house of the same name, Peekskill, N. Y. One sustained a fractured skull, broken hip, fractured elbow, several broken toes, a broken ankle, and deep laceration of the forehead.

August 3, 1930, seven young women battled police and nuns almost an hour in Philadelphia, trying to escape from a house of the same name in that city. One of these girls almost choked a policeman to death in her mad desire to escape. Wonder why she wanted to get away from such a “Christlike” atmosphere. The Toronto House of the Good Shepherd produced laundry work of the value of $100,000 in the year ending September, 1927. Ambrose! Ambrose!

In Spain a father shot four nuns to death because they had hung his daughter in the convent. At Namaesti, Rumania, February 27,1933, forty nuns beat to death a priest that tried to rape one of their number, a beautiful girl of 20. A nun divulged to her aged mother that she herself was the mother of 12 children, none of which she had ever seen.

On Good Friday of the “holy year” Ambrose presided in the Sistine Chapel. A New York photographer brought in photographs of the paintings in this chapel and was served with a notice that they were held as obscene, and asking him to show cause why they should not be destroyed. That was as silly as for you to insist that all women who see you must have high collars and long sleeves. What is wrong with you, Ambrose?

Not in Politics

You are always ready to swear by all that is holy that you are not in politics, and if that were the truth we would commend you for it. The apostle says, “Touch not the unclean thing”; and if there is anything more unclean than politics we do not know what it is, unless it be the system over which you preside.

What folly to say you are not in politics, when for more than a thousand years, you have been wrestling for control of earth’s civil governments, and even now maintain diplomatic relations with forty sovereign states.

It is probably true that you do not wish a place in the League of Nations. Most of the nations in the League are Catholics, and you do not wish to be involved in their quarrels.

We have not yet forgotten that when your man Cardinal Bonzano visited this city the great aldermanic chamber of the city of New York was temporarily converted into a Catholic cathedral; and the chair officially designated for the president of the board of aidermen was converted into a temporary papal throne.

And when your man Cardinal Cerretti went to Sydney, thousands knelt in the streets when he went into the town hall, and when the big show was on the very trains in the subway itself were stopped running. If you are not in politics why don’t you tell your men to keep away from city halls, town halls and other places where they have no business and where you have none?

You may not be in politics, but we wonder if it is just accident or deep design that at the moment the British ambassador to France is a Roman Catholic, and the British ambassador to America is also a Roman Catholic. You are alleged to be one of the master politicians of the world, and we wonder if it is not better politics for you to say you are not in politics, and to be in them up to your neck, than it would be for you to say that you are in politics and then to be only halfway in. A man inside a safe can clean it out more thoroughly than a man who is only halfway in.

Levites Had No Lands

When Israel went into the promised land the Levites were given no possessions in it. God said to them, “I am thy part and thine inheritance”; and that is the best part anybody can have. But, Ambrose, you and your folks have not been content with anything like that. You have wanted real estate, and lots of it. In the middle ages you had half of Italy, with other huge holdings in Franco, Spain and elsewhere.

You profess to think you are the personal representative of Christ, but He never did and never would do such things as you do. Do you suppose you could get Him to throw a dinner for “seventy diplomats, all wearing uniforms with their decorations’’ and all "grouped in order of precedence”.’

Just recently you put one over on Italy. For 1,116 years you tried to have your law, the so-called <,'cauon” law, installed as the governing law of Italy, and you finally got your desire. Mussolini took it on the chin and went down and out. Nevertheless you had better look out for him.

If you are not in politics how does it come that the recent national chairman of the Democratic party, John J. Raskob, is your private chamberlain, your Knight of St. Gregory and your Knight of Malta? And once again we remind you of Jimmy Walker. Samuel Seabury showed your whole Roman Catholic administration of New York city one reeking mass of corruption from top to bottom, and by “top” we mean you. “No man can serve two masters.”

In the new deal in Germany Hitler is a Catholic, vice chancellor von Papon is a Catholic, former chancellor Bruening is a Catholic, the minister of posts and transportation von Eltz-Rue-benach is a Catholic, and Dr. Paul J. Goebbels, the head of the newly created ministry of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment, is a Catholic. Is that all by accident or by design?

Your very title “pontiff” is a political one. When Julius Ca*sar became master of the Roman world he was made “pontiles maximus” (“chief bridge builder") for life. Your predecessors grabbed the title when your system became “the ghost of the Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof’’.

The Way of Peace

The Catholic News, in its issue of February 16, 1929, says of your words, at the time you regained your temporal power, that they are “the sure, unwavering light leading the individual in the way of eternal truth and nations in the way of peace”. If that is so, why is it that you have to have an army of about 600 men around you all the time ? We understand that your personal bodyguard consists of 10 officers and 110 men.

The very same paper, on the very same date, that told about your guiding the nations in the way of peace, said that you had blessed the troops and the Fascist militia. Blessed them for what ? In 1920, when you were “papal nuncio” in Poland you blessed the Polish guns and troops for an invasion of Russia, with the natural result that they got licked out of their shoes. YTou also blessed the Italian Alpine troops.

The Daily Tinies Star of September 29, 1927, lets fall the sentence: “The pontiff showed the keenest satisfaction at seeing so many American Legionnaires and thanked them for their desire to see him.” Why, if you are for peace, are you such a lover of the trappings of war?

We notice, too, that, when your man Cerretti was in Sydney, “during the procession through the city to the cathedral, the massive canopy above the sacred host (the little piece of bread) was borne by Australian soldiers, each of whom won the Victoria Cross in the World War.” If you are for peace, why glorify the soldiers? “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

We noticed in the Chicago Daily News of August 29, 1927, that some of Chicago’s business men, in their desperate desire to see better conditions in their city, appealed to you to have the crime gangs cleaned up. We think they went to the right shop to get the work done. Most gangsters are members of your “church”.

How About Alexander’s Monument?

In one of the big churches in the city of Rome there is a monument to the memory of “His Holiness Alexander VI”. This man, you will remember, had seven acknowledged bastards, and among his concubines numbered his own daughter. Like his daughter Lucretia, he was a splendid mixer of the death potion “cantarel-la”. He had all arrangements made to poison nine cardinals at one sitting, when somebody shifted the glasses and he was one of the ones bumped off. Why don’t you take Alexander’s monument down, Ambrose?

You are supposed to have received 2,000,000,-000 lire from Italy for settlement of your rights of sovereignty. That is a lot of money, something like $105,000,000, but you are in a bad business. The Mexican government officially accused you (your system) of murdering their president, Obregon.

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strongly that you are a liar in some of the things you said about them. We do not know as to that, not understanding Spanish, and Latin but indifferently. If they say you lied, then we presume you lied, for our experience confirms the statement of your former priest, William Hogan.

You remember Mr. Hogan said, on page 172 of his book Popery: “I pronounce all Roman Catholic priests, bishops, popes, monks, friars and liars that ever infested this or any other country, or disgraced the name of religion.”

For a concrete illustration of how one of your publications, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Indiana, lied about Judge Rutherford, and about our friend Maria Neuffer, formerly “Mother Raphael” in several of your convents, see our issue of February 3,1932.

(To be continued)

“They Pay

AN ADVERTISEMENT of the Franciscan

Friars of the Atonement, Graymoor, Garrison, N. Y., carried on the back cover of The Lamp, bears the title “They pay forever”. And when you come to think of it, it is a wonderful thing that they do, but they still continue to pay, and pay, and pay, as long as there is a cent in the house.

But wait! Maybe we have not the right thought. Maybe it is not the poor servant girls and other unfortunates that are forever paying a bunch of idle, useless, well fed and well saturated priests, but somebody else does the paying. Wonder who it could be. We read on, and then we get the light all at once. It says:

Yes, forever! The Rock-of-Peter Annuity Bonds pay you cash dividends as long as you live and then, when your need for material things is past, they begin to pay spiritual dividends.

Ah! That is it. You send in the cash, your whole wad. The more you send in, the better. And then, at rates ranging from 5 percent to 73/2 percent per annum, you get some of it back until you die, when, of course, you won’t want it any more. But the payments don’t stop. Not a bit of it. Every month, if we have the right idea, Peter sends you a cheek written on asbestos paper with fireproof ink, and you can exchange these for ice-cold drinks if you can find any place where they sell them in the place where you are going.

But the chances are that you will be carrying those checks around with you till you get out, trying to find somebody to cash them or else trying to locate the man that gave them to you. But you won’t be able to do either. Do you suppose Peter is going to muss his temper all up visiting such a place, and run the constant risk of being hounded by people that want their money back 1 Of course, after you get to heaven you won’t need the checks, but they will keep right on com-

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ing for ever and ever and ever. Why should we tell you that you are going to get them for ever if you are not?

Liverpool Figuring on an Earthquake

ON MONDAY, June 5, the foundation stone for the new Roman Catholic cathedral at Liverpool will be blessed and laid. It is announced that it will take the personal attendance of trvo cardinals and forty bishops to handle the thing properly. How long it will be after the blessing before the bottom falls out of the place which is blessed is all a matter of guesswork, but, after what happened to Nobile’s airship, it ought not to take long, a few’ hours at most. Meantime, if you are afraid of earthquakes, better stay away from Liverpool until after June. It is risky enough to be blessed by just one Roman Catholic dignitary, but to have forty-two of them on the job is just too much of a muchness for any use whatever. The cathedral will cost $15,000,000, and have 4G chapels. Appropriately, it is being built on the site of the old workhouse.

“The Church Makes Me a Hypocrite”

WRITING in the London Daily Herald, but requesting that his name be not published, a clergyman of the Church of England is quoted as saying: “It is not a nice thing to have to confess hypocrisy. Yet in so far as hypocrisy means 'acting a part’, the Church of England is making me a hypocrite of the deepest dye. There is more venom to be found in the editorials of many ecclesiastical publications than in whole columns of the secular press.” This gentleman seems to have the right idea. Now, when all the rest of them in his line of business get it, and they think of some other way to make a living, what a wonderful world it will be!

Exaggerated Passion for the Beautiful

IT SEEMS to be a law of nature that it is the men that have the most exaggerated passion for the beautiful, and that are willing to sacrifice even life itself to have it in their possession. Adam was not deceived; he forfeited everything that he might have, even temporarily, the beautiful Eve. Some of the angelic sons of God lost their poise when they saw how fair were the daughters of men. (Genesis 6:1,2) Hence it is the men that will be chiefly interested in this article. If curiosity leads some of our women subscribers to read, it is not our fault; it is not for them, but for the men.

It is literally true that God ‘‘hath made every thing beautiful in his time’’. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) Every tree, and flower, and star and face is different from every other tree, and flower, and star and face, but there is beauty in every line of every one of them. Every sky is a panorama sublime, and every landscape a picture gallery; and all are different.

The natural result of the union of men and women who love each other unselfishly is that their children will be beautiful, well and happy; and the greater the degree of love between the parents, the more beautiful the children will be. God is the Author of the laws of biology, and rewards in a fitting manner those who shape their course in accordance therewith.

How inconceivably exquisite is “the beauty of Jehovah our God” (Psalm 90:17) we cannot even imagine, though we all hope that some happy day we may have such eyes as will enable us to behold it.—Psalm 27: 4.

The Scriptures do not hesitate to mention the beauty of the two morning stars: the Logos, “fairer than the children of men” (Psalm 45: 2), “altogether lovely” (Canticles 5:16), and Lucifer, “perfect in beauty” (Ezekiel 28:12) as he emerged from his Maker’s hands.

Various men are mentioned. “Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured” (Genesis 39:6); Moses was “a goodly child” (Exodus 2: 2), “a proper child” (Hebrews 11: 23) of such worthy and loving parents; David was “of a beautiful countenance” (1 Samuel 16:12); and “in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him”.—2 Samuel 14: 25.

The Holy Anointing Oil

The holy anointing oil mentioned in the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, and there described as composed of myrrh, cinnamon, calamus and cassia, was to be used only upon Aaron and upon his sons. It was to be compounded for that purpose only. Whoever would compound any like it, or use it for any other purpose, was to be put to death. It was for these men, exclusively. This was “the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard; that went down to the skirts of his garments”. (Psalm 133:1,2) Our readers know well what this holy anointing oil represented. The point we here make is that it was used as a perfume on men, not women, and that by divine direction.

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