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Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives \u2013 Patrick was a Baptist – RCC Hold People in Poverty & Superstition – PART FOUR of EIGHT<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Even so cautious and reliable a historian as Green, in his “Short History of the English Bible,” says: “For a time it seemed as if the course of the world’s history was to be changed; as if that older Celtic race which the Roman and German had swept before them had turned to the moral conquest of their conquerors; as if Celtic and not Latin Christianity was to mould the destinies of the Church of the West.” 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was the beginning of the golden age of Ireland. It is forever true that when the Holy Word of God is opened and preached to the people, the chains of illiteracy and vice are broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The real Patrick was a Bible-reading, Bible-believing, Bible-preaching missionary and it was the unadulterated Gospel of the Son of God that lifted the Irish out of the darkness of paganism into the glorious light of the Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hands that once grasped the sword were now folded reverently in prayer. The heathen stone idols, known as Cromlechs, that once marked their graves gave way to the cross of Jesus. Druid paganism was crushed and the “buffer state of Europe” became known as the “Isle of Saints.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Odriscol, who, incidentally, was an Irish Catholic, in his work entitled, “Views of Ireland,” says: “The Christian church of that country, as founded by St. Patrick and his predecessors, existed for many ages, free and unshackelled. For 700 years this church maintained its independence. It had no connection with England and differed on points of importance with Rome.” 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was not until the year 1172 A.D., at the Council of Cashel, that Henry II of England and the Pope prevailed over this people and another great victory was won for the Roman Catholic hierarchy. But from the days of Patrick to the fateful Council of Cashel, many glorious victories were won for the cause of Christ by the Irish Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Study the pathetic history and you will be as firmly convinced as I that Catholicism has been more guilty of blighting the Irish than the invasion of the Danes from the North or the failure of the potato crop in which one-fourth of its entire population was destroyed. It takes no student of world economy to discover that wherever the Vatican holds sway the masses are kept in superstition and poverty. Stoddard says that: “Some terrible vampire has, for a thousand years, been draining the life blood of Ireland,” and he attributes it to the geographical location of the little isle. But if any person will, with unbiased mind, examine the record, he will be thoroughly assured that an intellectual and spiritual gloom settled upon the Emerald Isle when Romanism kidnapped the Irish Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from: A tract titled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Patrick was a Baptist by John Summerfield Wimbish, D.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7). Stoddard, John L., Stoddard’s Lectures — Ireland, Geo. L. Schuman & Co., Chicago, Copyright 1901, P. 148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8) Smith, Patrick of Ireland p.13<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n