Capt. Thos. P. Midgett, U.S. Lighthouse Keeper at Ridge, Md., passed thru Elizabeth City this week to visit his old home on Roanoke Island. Capt. Midgett stopped at The Independent office long enough to warn the editor that he is going to hell if he doesn’t repent of his ways and steer clear of Roman Catholics, Evolutionists and Science.
“Roman Catholicism, Evolution, and Science,” says Capt. Midgett are the three branches of the devil’s own church conspiring to undo God’s will upon earth and destroy the lives and souls of God’s children.
Capt. Midgett says the Roman Catholic Church was founded by the devil after the Lord had thrown the devil out of heaven and put him here on earth with an army of 666 rebellious angels to do his work. Capt. Midgett doesn’t explain why God didn’t drop the devil and his angels on Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter or some other place and give his Earth children a better chance.
“The next war,” says Capt. Midgett, “Will be between true Christians and the Catholics, and it will be the bloodiest war the world has ever known. I don’t know much about the Ku Klux in the South, but in the North the Christian people are rushing into the Ku Klux and preparing themselves for the great war.”
Capt. Midgett is strong for that sort of war and rearing to go when the soldiers of the Cross prepare to do battle.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Aug. 13, 1926
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