The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-08
American Protestant Society.

these points, the Dr. concluded when the society ad-
journed.
American Protestant Society.
The Rev. DR.. Murray, Of Elizabethtown, (Kirwan)
preached the anniversary sermon before the members
Of this society," in the church the of Eleventh
and Fifth street in this city, last evening The
audience very large and very fashionable and the
discourse very attentively listened to.
The reverend gentleman selected the seventh to the
tenth of St. Pauls Epise to the Thessaonians
as his text. They read follows
"For the fnquity doth already work only he
who letteth will until he be taken out of the way
And then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord
shall with the spirit of his mouth and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming Even him,
whose coming is after the working Of Satan, with all
unrghteousness in them that PERISH
because they received not the love Of the truth that
they might be saved"
Such is the nervous and emphatic manner in which
Paul terms the mystery of nquitythe doctrine which
led to the great apostacy, which then working
nstanced by the corruption Of the clergy &C. By the
niquity, Paul meant the Church of Rome and the
term wicked applied to the papists The remainder of
the text predicts its overthrow So that the de-
this church put out the lights of religion till last
the of Bethlehem set ut Rome. As Popery
gradually, gradually it will lose its power 1t is
old tree that has overshadowcd the earth and whose
roots have stretched down to hell. 1t will therefore,
take time to debut the Lord will consume it
IT must die. What is popery' As to its polty
1t is gsringy anti scriptural and unholy As to the
external organization Of the Church according scrip
ture it has been settled long Popery is despotc
and pompous, and whence came it so As it increased
in wealth it grew corrupt. 1t became allied to the
State. AS Rome was the metropolis her bishops be-
came influential the State sought its aid, and the
Church sought its interest 1t initiated the State in
every particular and the consequence was that it
converted into kingdom Of this world. The Roman
Empire has passed away but in that ecclesiastical orga
nizaton called Popery we see the lineaments of the
system by which the Cars ruled the world The
fate awaits the Church. The Pope has fed the
cessor Of the vouptuous Leo begging for
the successor Of Gregory is calling for aid on the Ca
tholic countries Of Europe 1t is equally inconsistent
with scripture in its doctrines The doctrine of Popery
is just opposed to Christianity as truth is to false
hood The speaker here reviewed and denounced all the
doctrines of the Romish Church, especially those on
the subjects of the atonement--me diation-bap
Popery teaches that although the Bible is inspired
that cannot be understood by without the aid
Of the Church. 1t claims that its system supports the
Bible, but 1t claims the right Of revising and expound
ing 1t. Again. 1t alters aud changes the Bible, and
after doing all 1t could to Papalike the Bible 1t
doctrine of Christianity in its phitye purity there
is NOT truth in the system which 1t has not clouded
Such is Poperya mere caricatsre Of Christianity in
doctrine and despot in polty 1t sits in the temple
of God, claiming to exercise the power Of God Stand
ing upon nfallibty it neither for God nor man.
Like tyrant kings, she can do wrong its spiritual
tariff its taxes the bread of life, Its eves and its
tyrannies, not to BIZ borne. The Lord will consume
itwith the breath Of his mouth Now, how to exter-
inmate Popery! Its peculiar doctrines should be clear
y spread before the world That is the most ectul
way OF destroying it. OF real doctrines the Protes
go; and he would assert that plain and lucid expa
nation of its doctrines and polity would be the
understand them, and it Will reject them; hold
up its damnable decisions they realy exist
and the end will be reached In holding them up the
pulpit and the press should unite. The pulpit has
abored in this for years past 1t ought to
have done Our Protestant forefathers called Popery
q gaDgrenc Are to be silent about Popery when
warn mankind against infdelity and atheism which
1t resembles The press, too, should speak out with
its ten thousand tongues to put down the perncious
influence of Popcry, which, history shows nothing
but system of politics. artfuly conrived to CONTROL
not only mems minds, but the State itself Who can
believe that putting salt in a child mouth, applying
priests spittle to its will drive out the devi Our
doctrine them is that If wish to put down Popery,
we must educate the people. The Bible, the prayer
book, and spelling book will do the business
We must scatter far and wide the doctrines Of the
Reformation for wherever those doctrines have been
spread Popery has declined-or ut least has not ad
yanced. he right Of every man to read the Bible
should be indicated. Those means are to be used
civily morally and regiousy in order to destroy Po
perry In order to show the necessity Of the work let
us ask, what has made France, Austria, Italy Spain
Ireland, Mexico and South America what those
tries Nothing but Pepery, which keeps the people
in ignorance that it may the better control their
minds And If IL ever get the ascendancy here, then
the knell of liberties will be rung But IL s painful
define such system at length How it Is that such
system could live at all in the present age wonder
Go and its votares doing pcnance on their knees to
see the decrepd going around the holy wells go TO the
confessional and its victims kneeng to the wicked
priests to mass land greater mass OF absurdty was
and the deluded victims popery max
ing the sign Of the and wcttng themselves with
what Is termed holy water Go to Mexico and see the
priests attending the cock hghts-and yet these tn
damnable delusions which one hundred and twenty mil
lions OF people believe to be the religion Of our Saviour
Again, what difference is there between Popery
Paganism! None at oil; and why should we try to
form and not the other! II France, and Italy and
Austria and Spain were only Christian nations what
tide Of salvation would be let loose in Europe Such
Of the motives have for destroying Popery
In conclusion, to the means to be used Unless love
goes hand in hand with zeal the work cannot be accom-
pshed the system and the priests should be indignant
ly denounced but the prejudces OF its victims shou