Your Heritage; Or, New England Threatened (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. OUR ATTITUDE. It should be altogether unnecessary for a Protestant writer, at the close of the nineteenth century, writing under the shadow of the banner of a great Protestant nation, to explain his attitude toward Ultramontane Romanism and those who are held under its tyrannical sway. To have to do so, disturbs in a measure my Wp.lden- sian blood, and must disturb the peaceful silence of the ashes of the Puritans and Pilgrims, those noble fathers who suffered so much in the defense of those principles of evangelical truth, of Christian freedom and independence which are to-day so utterly distorted, that they are in the hands of an unscrupulous, politico-religious organization, used as weapons, to bring this nation into bondage. However paradoxical the statement may seem to be, it is none the less true. American liberties are turned into weapons of slavery by Romanism. Our purpose is, in a humble way, to help a great and good cause, and it is with that end in view that we make ourselves " all things to all men." We wish to free the three millions of French Canadians in the United States and Canada, from the burdens of Ultramontanism, because we love their souls and desire their salvation; because we desire them to attain unto that position among the nations of the world, which they would have reached had they been under Protestant influences; and finally because we are interested, as lovers of humanity, in the steady progress of both the British Empire of which we were once a citizen and the American Republic, to the Constitution of which we have now sworn allegiance. We are once again in Reformation days. The necessity of such a movement was perhaps never more felt since the days of Luther and Calvin than at the present hour. It is all the more need...