The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-19

the Very Rev. Dr.. Power.
susJscr-One God-One Faith One Baptism.
4th chapter, 9th verse.
This reasoning Of the apostle is founded q very
clear principle God is essentially one, and il also
sentially true. Truth in like is essentially one
and cannot be found in opposite and contradictory
systems; therefore, the apostle says zone God,
Faith one Baptism - The Christian religion Is op-
posed to every other system Of religion and every
other system Of religion is antsgonistic to 1t. 1t
therefore follows the Christian religion be true every
other system be essentially false many
who admire the Christian religion account Of the
submiy Of its doctrines the purity Of Its morals and
the majesty of its worship and who reject it account
OF its incorporating intolerance We maintain that
this intolerance is the farest feature Of the Christian
system and that without 1t could not uphold 1t
the religion of the God Of Truth Take away this in
Christian religion, he will say, be essentially true 1t
will not tolerate any opposite system; bat seeing
NIT its truth. You must hold it, then my brethren,
Is fixed principle that when man Is indifferent rs to
Opposite and oeutrsdctory systems cannot ali BE-
true When, then, any one says to me that he be-
svss that all are equally true, he asserts what he
knows In his heart TO be- false Is this fair Is this
candid No, my brethren, and yet this is the lesson
which false and modern philosophy teaches 1t tells
that ought to be Christian at Rome, Mahometan at
Constantnope and Jew in tho synagogue; that 1t is
consistent with the dictates Of common sense to
fall in with belief Of those among whom live than
to up opinion in opposition to theirs; that
this spirit Of dogmam has been and will to the end Of
be productive Of great mischief This my friends
is all defamation and this exclamation viii never in.
duce me to look upon indderensm with afsvorabe eye
We are not to purchase peace the expense OF truth
Why speak to Of the social beauty Of this system
when know that from one page of the Gospel
can learn more concersing my duty towards God,
can from all the volumes of the philosophers
This heavenly book or rather It's divine author says
that men would do unto you do you unto them in like
Manner This heavenly lesson teaches me to cultivate
tight which know to be wrong ana to cali that true
which know to be false As Christian, believe that
tho Jew thu. To- AS
Christian, believe that Christ is God cannot. there
As Catholic believe that the church of Rome is the
church Of Christi cannot therefore, to the conven-
and say that she the scarlet lady Of the Apooa
and you evidently that this tolerance Is downright
apostacy. or this apostacy, ell those well meaning
Christians who stckers for this tolerance are guilty
We would simply say to those that Christ himself
intoerant He whs does not believe says he. will be
damned y The Apostles were intolerant The holy
fathers were intoersnt The general councils in
tolerant from the first, which held at Nice In the
year 325 the holden Trent in the year 500
All maintained and adhered to this dogma OF theologi
cal intolerance. They well knew that their adherence
to it would bring them the severest prosecutions;
yet this did net move them from their duty A0eor-
dinghy them hurting their anathemas against
Arius at Nice against Nestorus at Ephesus; against
Chacedon; they have also anathematzsd the Protes-
tans at Trent The church could not have acted other
then it would follow that her children, who, with her
SELF would believe that Christ was God, could, with
Arius believe that he was not God Then would fol-
low that they would believe with herself that there
purgatory, and with Luther, that 1t is fable. Now
this would be preposerous In this event, how could
truth Common would compel me to call her the pill
lar and the ground of One God then faith
said viii any man say that the boosted Evangelical
alancen be the Church Of Christ, the pillar and
ns ground Of truth or any IArt or e parcel thereof
vantage: Open the Gospel according to st. John In
tenth chapter read the parable of the heepfod
hear my voice. The meaning is my followers, hear my
doctrine But Christ did not teach contradictory doc
Trajectory doctrines Again, in this same parable, he
that there must be one fold, and one shepherd,
how beautifully and euergetcslly ST. Paul describes the
unity Of this church which he calls the body Of Christ
In his first epstle to the Corinthians l2th chap he
| says You the body Of Christ and members
Of MEMBER and he goes on to say that "as
the body having many members, is one," so it
| is evident that the many members constitute
one body. Here the Apostle compares the union
Christ the union that exists between the members of
the human body But this union constitutes perfect
body Of Christ must be perfect Now will any man
in his tell that this alliance between sectarsns
given by St Paul! win any say that the union Of
the churchman and the socnian Of the calvanis and
methodist, of the and ranter can be typ
| members Of the human body? No, my brethren; and
until this sacred volume tells that Christ constituted
his church of opposite conflicting sects of which
will believe that to be orthodox which the other
holds to BIZ heteredox Of which offers to the AL
as s impiousWons p Of which adhsres ' to discipline
as established by Christ which the other rejects
tails sSa not sy as tbs
senters be the church Christ part parcel
thereof But may be said that those sects believing
In Christ in the other leading articles OF faith
form universal church. however different their
Of belief and modes OF discipline? This my brethren,
common remark and is also the of all the in
diYsrsntsm which overspreads the land Let
little on it, We know that the United States and Eng
land are governed by the same common law; will it.
constitute but kingdom! You all know that they
do not, and you all know the reason; severe logic,
therefore, impes us to say that the different forms
belief those societies and their ministerial indepen-
dence Of each other destructive Of the unity which
essential to the church Of Christ But after all is
this unity essential asserted? Let st. Paul
swer. In his epstle to the Galatians, the apostle
ranks hersses and sec U.s. among tne works OF
This teaching OF the apostle evidently bespeaks the
necessity of unity in the church of Christ. Do lima
CINE that this is the exclusive doctrine Of the Catholic
church Calvin teaches this doctrine In all its rigor
the 4h book of his institutes Beza teaches 1t In the
| chapter of his confession. The Huguenot catechism
teaches it. The Scotch in their confession of faith
made the year 1885, teach It, The church of England
teaches It in her 9Th article Let no one imagine says
the famous Bishop Person. in his exposition Of the
that Christ established two ways to far from
it, that we'll might they expect to be saved from the
Christians to expect be saved out of the true church
of Christ This is hard language from Protestant
Indeed the dogma Is inconsistent Protestant princ
pies We ali know that the Protestant prnople Take
the scripture and interpret them you please, Is not
productive conservative OF unity When the sacred
| psstors-when they are longer looked upon al
living tabernacles containing the law and the pro-
| nbets tae church of Christ cannot continue to
| be one-it must sink into Babel of confusion. II
| ia an historical fact that from the tAe of Luther's
aposacy 1917 until his death, in l546 there
less than two hundred duly organized and conflicting
societies Under the Influence Of this principle the
mind floats tide Of uncertainty, the weather.
beaten bark before every ba,t it is mpeled by
the vehemence of wild defamation and seduced by every
form Lord BoliDgbroke in the 4th OF his Pho-
sophical Essays Says We have emancpated ourselves
from spiritual tyranny and fallen into spiritual
Indeed, our Irish Grattan much consistent
Protestant when he said that he could think that
the kingdom of heaven like poor mans house
in bog wi h but single path leading to it" NV