The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-11

no one can be regarded clothed with the authority who
has receiv cd il from those who Immediately succeed
ed Christ and were appointed by him. This is Catholic
truth and accordingly find the primitive fathers urging
Of m,son agahs, cse do we Gomez You are
| not in the church" You have no authority Ana
this truth has been also defined by the Council OF iren.
in their Odd section, It'll where they declare lhs
those only true presbyers whe have been regularly
ordained and by aposolical authory and the cou
Gil hurs her anathema against all who do not answer
this character For the maintenance Of unity, it Is
necessary that in the order OF pastors there shou1
be governing power in order 10 I'd dre Saen 'D the
refractory in subsection. Accordingly, we find IN the
gospels that Christ chose sevenytwo disciples repre-
the order of bishops and from the apostles themselves
| one was chosen to preside over the rest Ihon art
church. and the gates Of hell shall prevail against it
And again, Feed my lambs feed my sheep" Here we
the beautiful order and symmetry OF the myscsl
spouse of Christ We the faithful governed by their
pastors the pastors governed by their bishops and the
bishops governed by the Pope This is the bond Of unity
and whoever breaks this bond aeparates himself from thus
society and deprves himself of all the advantages con
rred on il by its divine founder in the church oil Christ
then every thing united by authority and submission
this authority not blind subection seeing that il is
just and necessary and OF divine origin And now allow
me to say word OF the Pope about whom yon have all
the Pope the vicar of Jesus Christ the successor Of 81
Peter the visible head Of the Christian church. and the
spiritual ia her of all Christians The Catholic also De
lieves that the Pope has received in the person Of st
Peter full power to govern the universal church I'M,
the language OF the Council OF Florence who awarded
to him these titles of power and supremacy and 1000
years before that find the fathers Of the council OF
b.. AL calling the Pope father" and themselves his
children" and they bumbly called him to confirm by
his authority their decisions Let no man deny that the
ministry Of st Peter survived Peter. Its foundation
the eternal church ITSELF and it will last as long
Let glance Of the leading features of the
church These are
!. Her Visibility.
2. Her Unity.
g. Her Sanctity.
A. Her Catholicity
uar A citx-
The visibility Of the Church of Christ briefly
noticed, was also her unity The integrity OF the
Church of Rome described in contrast to the dJ0nt'
ed and schismac character of the Protestant
The Armenians-the Calvaniststhe Arians--the Luz
theransthe Church Of England-the AnabaPtists
alluded to- and il then contended that this eternal
discord afforded evidence Of the heretcal character Of
the separasts from the Catholic Church Then the in
alby of the church was asserted and defended by the
usual arguments Without this infallibliy was con
tended that every mad bran-every cantng fanatic might
take himself to be good an a,nsss
councils that existed This, was alleged, was
monstrous and must lead to horrible COMMISSIONS and he
resy Next the sancy Of the church was adverted to-
That consisted In her internal and external holiness The
internal holiness again consisted in the number OF saints In
the bosom ofhe church. ana the external nonhess he
foundation, good order and ceremonies. And such was
the Catholic church. said Mr. p such was the beautiful
fabric which, in the 10Th century was attacked by Ger
rar in strain of invecve such as never be-
fore since asonished the world and whose anaticsm
after destroying all that sacred, dsordered s own
brain When the church was assailed by the followers OF
such man, time for her friends to speak out The
founders Of this Reformation were Luther and Calvin and
whoever could that they were holy has failed to
refer them to the history Ofthe Variations of
ISM" by the famous Mosheim Let us look little at
idea Of sanctity to tell man that God is the author OF
And yet this is the principle of Luther and it is also
taught by Calvin in the 18th chaper Of the LIST book of his
institutes" Does it SAVIOR of sancty to tell men that
Christ did not die for all, and that man cannot
resist the grace OF God? And yet such is the doctrine
taught by these men Good God could it enter into the
taught
by Christian teachers Do you call my language too
severe is too severe when in the whole Protestant
literature the Catholic church is reviled and magned
Where the Pope is habitually called the Anti Christ :
when in every low the reader is sure to find
ruian mark with reeking dagger and poisoned bowl
do you say that it is too severe, when you know that
the traveller and the novelist and the historian all unite
IN revng what they call the rapai supremacy, anu a
time to speak out and this vantage ground OF the
sancty of our church invunerabe by any assail
ant The Cathoicity of the church was the next point
The widespread ramfcatons of the church were alluded
to- and the designation in the Apostles creed urged as
proof of the exclusive claim of the Romsh church to this
appeatior. Then the discussion of the Apostolic
city of the church. The parable OF the shepherd and the
sheepfowas read order to show thaCh denounced
cept through him-"the door" II then urged that
tho of ST. Peter the See of Rome alone
sessed the divine right Of the priesthood But this point
pass thus hastily DR. p. merely briefly stated
the usual and wellknown argument without any novel
addition or Illustration Then turning to the newly.
of exhortaon from well acquainted with your merits
and your virtues. One of you have known from his
boyhood have the youthful bud Of genius unfold
itself and have seen it also in full expansion; and
thank God have been spared to behold 1t blessing
the house of the Lord Right Reverend DR.. McCloskey-
must be gratifying to you to know that the choice
of coaduor of this diocese had been given TO your fell
low aborers in the whey would certainly have fallen
upon you. With another of these preates have been
in close connection for years. and that connection has
given the greatest pleasure. Our union has been
of confidence of respect and Of love- The first urisdc
ton this prelae exercised, he received from my
SELF and that he has not concealed the talent in napkin
his great abors in the Church of St Marys fully prove
To the other Preate had the happiness of being intro
dnced many years ago. by him whose tomb genius
weeps and whose early death the American Church
deeply laments, for he, indeed was burning and a
shining lght-the Right Rev. Dr. England, late Bishop
of Charleston am pleased to say that time has
frmed for him my sincere esteem and respect.
Dr. Power then read several passages from the first and
second chapter OF Paul epstle to Titus and concluded
his discourse by pronouncng the benedicton.
Tur fp,eu oorrSo TIN John Allan who bas