CAMPAIGNERS FOR

CHRIST HANDBOOK

BY

DAVID GOLDSTEIN

THOMAS J. FLYNN & CO. INC.

PUBLISHERS
62-64 ESSEX STREET BOSTON MASS.
 THIS EDITION

OF THE

CAMPAIGNERS FOR CHRIST HANDBOOK

IS DEDICATED TO THE

Itnigbt5 of C:olumbu5
IN APPRECIATION OF ITS RESOLVE TO TRAIN ITS MEMBERS
IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS
FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING THE CATHOLIC
MESSAGE TO THE MAN IN THE STREET.

1931 - First printing 16,:156

193:1 - Second printing 16,473
1934 - Third printing 16,500

Nib" OfJl5tat
PATRICK J. WATERS, PH.D.
Censor Librorum
JEmprimatut
WILLIAM CARDINAL O'CONNELL
Archbishop of Boston

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 FOREWORD
This book of information is a handy compilation of doctrinal,
historical, and statistical data and arguments to be used by Campaigners
for Christ in their endeavor to reconcile their fellow-Americans of
differing beliefs to the cause of unity in Christ and His Church. In
it will be found the basic teachings of Catholicity as well as answers
to inquiries and objections with which campaigners are likely to be
confronted while addressing open-air meetings in the interest of things
Catholic.
The same motive that prompted my coworker, the late Mrs. Martha
Moore Avery, and myself to publish "Campaigning for Christ" under-
lies this Book of Information: It is to express gratitude to Almighty
God for the intellectual light and moral strength which, through
regeneration in the waters of Holy Baptism, brought me safely within
the Christ-given power, the beauty, the holiness, and the divinity of
the Catholic Church.
This Handbook is, in part, a re-assertion and continuance of the
work set forth in "Campaigning for Christ," which was written
seven years ago to tell the story of seven years' pioneer street cam-
paigning, a story that demonstrated the practicability of carrying the
Catholic message to the man in the street in hundreds of municipalities
between the Golden Gate City of San Francisco and the Capital of the
Old Bay State. It was an acknowledgment of our indebtedness to
His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston,
for the inauguration of this Catholic lay apostolate, the first of its
kind in modern times. It was an appreciation of the gracious privi-
lege accorded us by twenty-six Archbishops and Bishops who promoted
this unique work by permitting it to be carried on within their
ecclesiastical jurisdictions.
The hope (expressed in "Campaigning for Christ") to see others
of the laity put on the armor of God and go out into the highways and
hedges to bring atheistic, agnostic, and pantheistic fellow-Americans
to right-reason, and to God; to bring the lost sheep of the House of
Israel to the recognition of their Messiah; to bring Protestants back
to the Church of their forefathers seems on the verge of being realized.
The call of the Church for "the zeal of the laity" to be brought
"actively into play" for the "propagation of Christian truth and
warding off errors" is bringing favorable responses. Groups of
Oatholic laymen in various parts of our country are taking up the
study of apologetics with the object of becoming Campaigners for
Christ. May this Campaigners for Christ Handbook volume aid them
in their work.
May 21, 1931.
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 FOREWORD TO THIRD EDITION
Exactly three years have passed since the first edition of the Cam-
paigners for Christ Handbook was published, during which time
33,000 copies were sold, mostly at outdoor gatherings.
Every publication in which the book was reviewed expressed higheet
eommendations. To cite a few of many:
America called it "an eminently practical book."
The Bo8ton Pilot designated it "a laudable attempt to awaken the
propaganda spirit needed among his fellow-laymen."
The Bombay Examiner classified it as "a well-stocked arsenal of
dialectical weapons for the lay spostolste."
The Dominu:ano declared "this Campaigners for Christ HanrIbooi
should be read by the priest, the religious, the teacher and fifJr1
layman."
The Commonweal recommended it as "a splendid source book which
every Catholic layman who is a bit shaky in apologetics should study."
The EccleBiaatical Review saw in it "a range and pointedness of
information which gives the book a value beyond the field of c0n-
troversy and public exposition. "
To cite one of hundreds of personal commendations:
Bishop William J. Hafey (Raleigh) graciously wrote -"Your Cam-
paigners for Christ Handbook is providential. It is just the kind of
text-book I have been seeking for the study clubs of the Catholio
Daughters. "
With the appearance of the Handbook the author and his aseociated
campaigner for Christ started off on the most extensive and continu-
ous series of open air meetings ever conducted by the Catholic laity,
which series is still in progress as this third edition is off the pretlB.
During the period of three successive years hundreds of open air
meetings were addressed in cities along the Rio Grande, the Pacifio
Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Southern Atlantic States and
elsewhere. Whether in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida,
North Carolina, or Georgia, in fact everywhere (save in two places)
the people sssembled around the lecture car listened courteously,
asked questions, generally inquiringly, and often departed with a
copy of tAe Campaigner8 for Christ Handbook in their possession,
perhaps tlte first Catholic book that they had ever purchased. The
only exeeptioJll were in Sacramento, California, where the Communists
eadeavored to oheck the holding of a Catholic meeting on the Plaza
and Nelsonville, Ohio, where the K.K.K. exploded a bomb that shook
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the city and kept a cross burning during the two hours that the
meeting was in progress.
TM 80'1J.tkem M68aenger (San Antonio) said - "The remarkable
reception given the campaigners for Christ in Texas and the South-
west prove that the people want to hear what the Catholic Church
has to say, provided it is said in the right way."
TM CaOwlic Laymen.'8 Bulletin (Augusta, Ga.) said - "In
Georgia, these lay apostles received a most courteous hearing, they
fostered good-will. These eloquent, staunch, charitable laymen have
planted seeds which will provide harvests for untold years to come,
not only through the light they brought to non-Catholics, but through
the inspiration they have given to Catholics."
The Handbook and the nationwide tour that began with its publi-
cation had the encouragement of street speaking as one of its objec-
tives. The realization of this objective is at hand. The meetings
addressed from the lecture car in Oklahoma City, Baltimore and
Washington, D. C., marked the inaugural of campaigns for Christ by
local groups trained for the work. In addition to this activity, the
K. of C. resolved to prepare its members for the presentation of
Catholic truth to the populace assembled out in the open spaces of
America. Thus the much needed propaganda spirit among the laity
is being awakened.
A new and extended list of Catholic Universities will be found on
pages 316,317,318. In pages 75, 89, 101, 136-137, 214, 227, and 271,
answers have been inserted to some additional queries often presented
at Quiz Periods during the countrywide tour.
The practicability and timeliness of campaigning for Christ has
been successfully demonstrated.
Campaigners are needed.
May this Handbook rally them for the service.
May 21st, 1934.
 CAMPAIGNING FOR CHRIST
IS
CARRYING THE CATHOLIC MESSAGE TO THE
MAN IN THE STREET

Campaigning for Christ is positively proclaiming what Catholics

believe:
Campaigning· for Christ is an educational work of an expository
rather than a controversial character:
Campaigning for Christ is boldly, yet courteously, setting forth
. the principles, history, and practices of the Catholic Church:
Campaigning for Christ is answering questions - be they of an
inquiring, controversial or hostile character - in a spirit that
wins the respect, if not always the assent, of all classes of persons:
Campaigning for Christ is to win Protestants, Jews, and unbe-
lievers to an unbiased investigation of the claims of the Catholic
Church:
Campaigning for Christ is an endeavor to enlighten the unin-
formed, to dissipate misunderstanding, to coin public sentiment
into Catholic favor:
Campaigning for Christ wins, for it is never anti-Protestant, anti-
Jewish, nor anti-Anythingelse. It is always pro-Christian and
pro-American.

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APOSTLE TO THE MAN IN THE STREET
BORN DIED
STEUBEN, MAINE MARTHA MOORE AVERY MlIlDJ'ORD, KASS.
1851 1929
From the eulogy given by Rev. Dennis Murphy, pastor, Saint James
Church, Medford., a.t the solicitation of His Eminence William Cardinal
O'Connell, who requested that "credit be given to Mrs. Avery for the
work she has done."
"This work by its very nature together with the perfection of its
accomplishment is, I am sure, known and appreciated by thousands.
"The natural basis upon which God with her cooperation, raised her
to a supernatural state, was her love for humanity, and her desire for
its betterment. At first she thought that economic solution alone
would be sufficient to better the condition of mankind. At least, she
felt that this was the underlying and fundamental principle upon
which all movements for human betterment must rest.
"With her inquiring and critical mind, in the course of time, she
discovered that this alone was inadequate. To properly estimate
human relations, to encourage and promote their stability, and to
give man a measure of peace and contentment, Religion must be its
eye, and Eternity must be its goal.
"She sought the answer in Emerson, only to find that after resting
awhile in the shadows, she was still hungering for the substance. Her
mind open, honest, rugged, driving toward a conclusion which would
be not only satisfying to herself, but which would turn the bitterness
of the children of the race into gladness, and their sorrow into joy,
could not deceive itself, nor deceive others.

A LIVING EXAMPLE OF TRUTH

"Karl Marx, Socialist, with his materialistic conception of history
and his doctrine of determinism, would surely put the world aright
in its proper relation if it was only understood. But in this as in every
other quest the everlasting something was absent.
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"Truth, sheer, naked truth alone was the everlasting something

which she sought. It was not Emerson. It was not Marx. It was
Christ. And a child shall lead her, for it was her only child (Sister
St. Mary Martha, C.N.D.), whom she had sent to a Canadian convent
for its cultural advantages, who there found Christ and led her to Him.
"In 1904 she was received into the Catholic Church, and for the
last quarter of a century the Inspired Word, 'The Lip of Truth made
steadfast,' has found her a living and inspired example. The rider
of the white horse of the Apocalypse named Verax has found its
counterpart in this white-mantled champion of truth, who can offer
as her credential before the judgment seat of God these words, 'I spoke
of Thy testimonies, and I was not ashamed.'
"And where did she speak His testimony? To the simple vendor
who came to her door; to the intellectuals within classic walls; and
to the vast multitude to which she spoke on comer, in park and hall,
and public square.
"She was still a propagandist. For her, to possess Truth was to
share it. To go out into the open was her ambition, and she, with her
associate, Mr. Goldstein, with the approbation of His Eminence,
inaugurated the first open-air movement since St. Francis of Assisi
carried the message of Christ, 700 years ago, to the man in the street.

STRONG SPIRIT AND MIGHTY WILL

"The approbation of His Eminence was really a commission. For,
with these two modem disciples of Francis on either side of His
Eminence as he blessed their auto-van and their work, he sent them
forth to do all in their power to promote our country's good and the
honor and glory of God.
"With her strong spirit and her mighty will, with her wealth of
ideas, she always had a charming saving grace of knowing her place.
She loved her cause better than herself. She sought not office, but
rather a successful accomplishment for which a movement or a society
was organized.
"The lip of truth was steadfast. Her last appeal to the crowd
which she loved (as she stood on Boston Common the Sunday before
her death) was from the words of that day's Gospel, 'He spoke right.'
"May we not hope that the morning sun that brought to her the
shadows of death,also presaged the Light which has not failed, will
not fail, is the same yesterday, today and forever, Christ. May
that light be hers forever."
R. I. P.
 CONTENTS
PAGE
FOREWORD . iii
AN A1'osTLB TO THE MAN IN THE 8TBmrr v
CHAPTER
I. HAPPINlIl88 1
II. GoD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
"Is the Catholic Church Opposed to Science?" 6
III. RELIGION • 7
IV. EVOLUTION • • • 10
The Existence of Man 10
Term ''Evolution'' 11
The Soul . . . . . 12
The Monkey Origin of Man 14
Natural Selection . . • 16
Missing LinklI • • 19
The Book of Genesis 22
V. THE JEWS • 25
Terminology 25
Judaism. . . . . . 26
Basic Points of Agreement 27
Jewish Population. . • 27
Divisions in Judaic World 29
Rationalism • • . . . . 31
Einstein - Spinoza - Pantheism 31
The Wise FaIJilly • • • . . 33
Was Not Jesus a Jew? 36
The Crucifixion 37
The Trinity 39
The Prophecies 41
The Messiah 42
VI. THE INQUISITION 52
Dogmas. . . . • 53
~~za ~er~y:r~ : 54
55
The ganish Inquisition 55
Baptism of Jews . . . 56
Inquisition Misrepresented 57
Punishment . . 57
Inquisition Political 59
VII. JESUS CHBIST • • • 61
Some Miracles of Christ 66
The Resurrection . 68
VIII; MARY • • • • • • • . • • 70
"Do Not Catholics Worship Mary?" 70
The "Brethren" of Our Lord . . 74
Perpetual Virginity of Mary 75
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CH.A.PTEB PAGJI
IX. CmuST'S CHURCH 76
Church Defined . . . 77
The Congregat:wnali3t Editor 78
Communion of Saints. . 79
Church Established . 79
Marks of Christ's Church 81
Catholic or Roman Catholic? . . 88
Protestants and the Apostles Creed • 89
X. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH . 90
Doctrine and Organization 90
The Pope . . . . . 91
The Cai'dinals . 92
The Curia . . . 92
The Vatican State . 93
Vatican Ambassadors. 0 • 94
United States and the Vatican 95
Religions of the World 95
Missions 0 • 0 • • 96
Educational Institutions . 96
Charitable Institutions . 96
Personnel of Church in U. So 96
Religious Statistics . . . . . . . . 97
Percentage of Church Attendance in Each State 0 98
State Record of First Place in Church Membership 99
Members ~r Church. . . . . . ., 100
Academic Training of Clergymen . . : . . 100
Growth of the Catholic Church 101
XI. THE HEAD OP CHRIST'S CHURCH 102
The Rock . 102
Petros ~ Petra . 0 • • •
105
Gospel Proof of Peter's Primacy 106
Peter's Denial of Christ . . . 109
Peter in Rome 0 •
110
Sovereign Pontiffs. . . . . 113
"Were There Three Popes?" . 136
"Can Only an Italian Be Pope?" 136
Who Is the 666? . . . . . 136
XII. GoD'S CHURCH INFALLIBLE 138
Truth Infallible • . . . . . . . . . . 138
Bible Testimony . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Miseonceptions of Infallibility . . 0 • • • •
144
Manifest Infallibility . . . . . . 0 • • •
146
"Can a Man Who Accepts the Infallibility of the Pope
Be Loyal to His Country?" 156
XIII. THE CHRISTIAN BmLE • 157
Sin of Adam . . . . 158
"Search the Scriptures" . 160
The Rule of Faith. . . 0 •
161
Making Up the Bible. . . . 164
The Bible Belongs to the Church 167
Some Protestant Versions 169
Cain's Wife. 0
171
Luther's Discovery . . . 172
Man's Word lOS. God's Word. . . . 173
"Who Changed the Sabbath to Sunday?" 181
Thou Shalt Not Kill . . . . . . 183
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PAOlI
War • • . . . 183
Popes as Mediators 187
Capital Punishment 189
XIV. THE SECTS • • • • • 191
The Term "Sect" Defined . . . • . . 192
Chronological List of Sects That Are No More 193
Protestantism . . . . . . . . . 194
.The Term Protestant. . . . 195
Beginning of Protestant Churches 196
Luther . . . 197
Henry VIII. . 199
Origin of Churches . . . 204
Knights of Columbus' 'Oath" 214
xv. CHRIST'S SACRAMENTAL SYSTE)( 215
Grace . . . . . . 216
The Sacraments Defined . 217
Sacramenta1s . . . . . . . . . 217
"What Does the Sign of the Cross Mean?" 217
''What Is Holy Water?" 217
XVI. BAPTISM • 218
Original Sin . . . . 219
Christ and Baptism . . 220
Infant Baptism . . . 223
"Did the Jews Baptize?" . . . . . 226
The Baptism of John - The Baptism of Jesus 227
Catholics in Prisons . . . . . . . 227
XVII. CoNlI'IRMATION • • • • • 228
Protestantism and Confirmation . . . . . 230
Scripture and Confirmation . . . . . . . 231
"Do Catholics Believe That the ~piritual Gifts Re-
ceived in Confirmation Make Salvation Sure?" . 233
XVIII. THE HOLY EUCHARIST . . • . • • . . • . 234
"Why Does the Catholic Church Refuse to Give the
Cup to the Laity?". . . . . . ... . . 240
"Do Catholics Take Transubstantiation in the Literal
Sense as a Matter of Faith?" . 240
XIX. THE MASS . 242
The Sacrifice . . . . . . . . . . . 242
How the Mass Represents the Sufferings of Christ . 245
Some Historic Evidence . . . . . . . . . 247
"Why Is Latin, a Dead Language, Used in Catholic
Ceremonies?" . . . . . . . . . . . 249
xx. PENANCE • • • • • 250
The Process of Confession 253
A Popular Notion . 255
A Vicious View . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Secr~cy of the Confessional . . . . . . . . 256
The Healing Balm of Confession . . . . . . 257
"Why Not Go Straililit to God Instead of Going to
Mediators? The Bible Says That 'There Is One God,
and One Mediator of God and Man, the Man Jesus
Christ.' " . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
"Why Should One Confess to a Priest? He Can Go
Straight to God" . . . . . . 259
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CBAPTJIlB PAGlll
XXI. INDULGENCES. • • . . • . 260
Definition of Term "Indulgence" 260
Temporal Punishment . . . 261
What an Indulgence Is and Is Not 262
XXII. HOLY ORDERS . • • • • • . • • • . • 263
Celibacy of the Clergy . . . . . . . . . 268
"Does Not the Bible Say That All Christians Are
Priests?". . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
"Call No Man Father" 271
MATlUKONT • • 272
Indissolubility . 275
Impediments . . . 275
The Ne Temere Decree . . 276
Our American Divorce Record . . . 278
Divorces Relative to Population. . . 279
Terms -"Divorce" and "Annulment" 280
Historic Cases. . . . . . . . . 282
The Bible and Marria«e . . . . . . 285
Marriage a Relation - Not a Mere Contract 288
XXIV. ExTREIIE UNCTION • • . . • . . • • . • 290
"If, 88 Atheists Say, There Is No Soul, Then Extreme
Unction Becomes Nothinlt More or Less than a
Comfort to a Dying Catholic" ' . . 292
xxv. IIIMORTALITT OJ' THE SOUL • • • . • . • • 293
What Distinguishes the Soul. . . . . . . . 293
"My Dog Is Better than Most Men; Anyhow Haeek:el
Says, If Men Have Souls the Higher Animals Also
Have Souls" . 294
XXVI. HEAVEN ...•.... 295
"I Want M~eaven Here" . 296
"With Not' to Do, Heaven Wouid Be 'a i:>uIi.
Place for Me', • . . . . 296
XXVII. PuRGATORY 298
XXVIII. HELL '"' • • • . 300
Hell Out of Date . . . . 300
Recoiling from Belief in Hell . 301
Goodness of God . . 302
Protestants and Salvation 304
Goon WORKs. . . 306
Slavery. . . . 306
Church and State . 308
Conversion of Nations 310
Guilds 311
.Socialism . 312
Education . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Universities Established Before the Reformation 316
Universities Established Since the Reformation 317
Parochial and Public Schools 318
325
~tby'N~ : 327
Hospitals . . 327
CoNCLUSION 329
INDEX . 33li