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Who would deny God, He to Whom we owe all that we have and are, to Whom we are indebted for each new day's lease of life, without Whose kindness we could not take another breath. Who made us to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him. Nay, many would rather serve themselves, worshipping only themselves, offering sacrifices of no benefit like Cain of which he offered the least, but Abel his best.

The grand "Conspiracy against truth" revealed in Protestant histories was exposed, the disingenuous and mendacious fables that have passed for truth are laid bare by the research of candid and disinterested historians and writers.

What did Germany, for instance, gain by the schism of Luther? In one word, it gained that fratricidal religious war which for thirty years made the German States a great battleground and deluged the land with the blood of contending brethren who should have dwelt together in peace and harmony. It was all about religion. Protestants threw off their allegiance to the Pope and the authority of the Church and allied themselves with the State. They protested not only against the Church, but against one another. There was, thus, no toleration. Calvin even ordered the burning of Servetus.

What did England gain by the schism of the brutal monarch, Henry VIII, and "good Queen Bess"? England gained endless strife and complete subjection to the State. There was never a tyrant more cruel, more selfish and reckless, more exacting than the man who dared, in the face of his own expressed principles, to throw off his allegiance to the Pope and make himself ten times more a "Pope" in his own dominions. Let it never be forgotten that Protestantism was Forced upon an unwilling people at the expense of thousands of innocent lives and saintly martyrs like Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher who both were murdered in cold blood simply because they could not conscientiously forswear themselves and abandon the religion which they believed to be true and binding.

In Russia's schism, the form of government of the Russian Church was remodeled for State Czar, Peter the Great. A rigid adherence to old customs (traditions of men) and complete obedience to the Czar is the supreme law of the schismatic Russian church. Even preaching is not allowed to its "priests" without police permission and the number of times the people may approach the "sacraments" is strictly fixed by secular law.

And this spiritual despotism was manifested in the most cruel, unheard of and barbarous persecution of the "Uniata" or Catholics who acknowledge their allegiance to the Pope. Whole villages were forced at the point of the bayonet to acknowledge and conform to the State religion with the alternative of being shot down or sent into exile. Then, what was opened to worse persecution later, because of no real authority, was Stalin, Lenin, and their Bolshevik's Revolution.

This brings to mind of also the degradation and superstition of the schismatical churches of the East which, through jealousy of the authority of Christ's Vicar, persisted in submitting to the galling despotism both of temporal and spiritual tyrants who keep them in ignorance and subjection from which our glorious Pontiff, Leo XIII, was most earnestly striving to deliver them. Many of their best ecclesiastics would have been glad to return to the certain faith, the supreme authority of the Chair of Peter and haven of rest, peace, and unity in Holy Church. But the ambition of princes and selfish politicians, as well as the jealousy of worldly ecclesiastics, has stood in the way.

What has that model Protestant State, Switzerland, gained by her schism? She gained Calvin with his ironbound system of unconditional predestination, subjection to the State and religious wars, divisions and persecutions the same as other locations spread through nations to this day.

Protestants are distinguished for the same overbearing, arbitrary, tyrannical policy which always characterizes Protestantism wherever it has gained ascendency. It is essentially a persecuting religion and inclined to ally itself with and depend upon the State for its support.

Our Protestant friends may flatter themselves that they are great gainers in truth and freedom, but for Catholics' part, we are content in preferring the settled fixed Faith, never-changing, non-divisional unity, and Diviine Tradition of the ages and the mild but infallible spiritual authority of the successor of Saint Peter.

While no Catholic ever repudiated the Church on their deathbed, many good and intelligent Protestants have sought admission into the true fold during their last moments.