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the Pope on certain points of doctrine such as the
prohibition of monastic marriage, the revering and bowing
down before images of the Apostles and Christian
leaders of the past, and various other religious practices
and ceremonies which were accretional to the ordinances
of the Gospel. Although at that period the
power of the Pope was so great and he was regarded
with such awe that the kings of Europe shook and
trembled before him, and he held control of all
Europe's major concerns in the grasp of his might--
nevertheless because Luther's position as regards the
freedom of religious leaders to marry, the abstention
from worshiping and making prostrations before
images and representations hung in the churches, and
the abrogation of ceremonials which had been added
on to the Gospel, was demonstrably correct, and because
the proper means were adopted for the promulgation
of his views: within these last four hundred and
some years the majority of the population of America,
four-fifths of Germany and England and a large percentage
of Austrians, in sum about one hundred and
twenty-five million people drawn from other Christian
denominations, have entered the Protestant Church.
The leaders of this religion are still making every effort
to promote it, and today on the East Coast of Africa,
ostensibly to emancipate the Sudanese and various
Negro peoples, they have established schools and colleges
and are training and civilizing completely savage
African tribes, while their true and primary purpose
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