Reverend no. 15's story (Crowley, Romanism a menace to the nation, 50th thousand,1912)

Text: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3

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Rev. No. 15.—A Festive Fellow.

   He is a pastor of very loose morals. He associates with what are vulgarly known as "sporting characters." At 10 o'clock on the night of July 25, 1902, accompanied by a lewd woman, he went into a fashionable restaurant, and remained with her several hours in a private wine room. They left at 12:30 A. M. and got into a "runabout" that had remained hitched for them all that time. They drove furiously through the streets, the woman holding the reins and he holding her around the waist. The woman was a beautiful peroxide blonde, about twenty-five years of age, and had diamonds in her ears.

   At the Silver Jubilee of his church a bishop and some prominent priests were present and officiated at the Solemn High Mass, but the pastor appeared not. He and a clerical friend had entered heartily into some secular ante-jubilee festivities, and when the Sunday came he had only enough strength to attempt the six o'clock Low Mass. He retired from this ordeal completely exhausted, and was unable to be present at the Jubilee services at 11 o'clock to hear his friend, a Very Reverend Professor, portray him as "a pastor justly celebrated for his piety, learning and efficiency, a noble man."

Crowley, Jeremiah J., Romanism a menace to the nation (a new and original work) together with my former book "The parochial school, a curse to the church, a menace to the nation" (two books in one): a searchlight on the papal system startling charges against individuals in the hierarchy made and filed by the author and a score of prominent priests—with photographic proofs and illustrations, 50th thousand, Aurora, Missouri: The Menace Publishing Co. [, c1912], pp. 429-430.

Online Source: archive.org/details/romanismmenaceto00crowiala

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