The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-08
tenth verses Of ST. Pau Episle to the Thessalonians
as his text They read follows


Is his text. They read as follows
For the mystery inquity doth already work only he
who loteh will let 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
power. and signs. and lying wenders. And with all
deceivabeness Of unrghteousness in them that perish
because they received not the love OF the truth that
Such is the nervous and emphatic manner in which
Paul terms the ystery of nquitythe doctrine which
instanced by the corruption of the clergy &c By the
iniquity, Paul meant the Church OF Rome, and the
term wicked applied to the papsts. The remainder Of
the text predicts Its overthrow So that the text de-
pcts the rise and fall Of Popery Ono after another
this church put out the lights of religion till ut last
the son Of Bethlehem set at Rome. AS Popery rose
gradually so gradually it will lose its power II is
old that has OyershadOwed the earth and whose
roots have stretched down TO hell II win therefore
take some time TO debut the Lord will consume it
il must die. What is popery! As to its p0lity
1t is glaringy anti-scrip.ural and unhoy. AS
nal organization Of the Church ordng scrip
turc 1t has been settled long ago Popery despotc
and pompous and whence came 1t so AS 1t increased
in wealth it grew corrupt. 1t became allied to the
State. AS Rome the metropolis. her bishops be-
came influential the State sought its aid, and the
Church sought its interest Ii initiated the State
every particular and the was that 1t was
converted into kingdom Of this world The Roman
Empire has passed away but in that ecclesiastical
nization called Popery We see the lineamcnts of the
system by which the Jzars ruled the world The
fate awaits the Church The Pope has fled the sue
cessor Of the voluptuous Leo is begging for
tholic countries Of Europe. 1t is equally Inconsistent
with scripture in its doctrines The doctrine OF Pop.ry
is just opposed to christianity truth is to false
hood The speaker here reviewed and the
doctrines of the Romish Church, especially those on
the subjects of the atonement-- mediation bap-
tism-the confessional, and the mass aEi said -
Popery teaches that although ths Bible Is inspired,
that it cannot be understood by man without the aid
of the Church 1t claims that system supports the
Bible but it claims the right of revising and expound
ing it. Again, it alters aud changes the Bible and
even after doing oil it could to Papalize tn. Bible it
will all rs tn has Ipffa
doctrine of Christianity in Its primitive purity there
is not truth in the system which it has clouded
Such is Foperya mere caricasre OF Christianity in
doctrine and dcspot in poty 1t sits in the tenn pie
Of God claiming to exercise the power of God Stand
ing upon nallibility it neither for God
Like tyrant kings she can do no wrong; its spiritual
tariff the bread of ife its lcves, and its
tyrannes not to b. borne The Lord Will consume
IL with the breath of his mouth Now, how to exter
inmate Popery! Its peculiar doctrines should be clear
ly spread before the world That is the most eec tua
way Of destroying it, or its real doctrines the Profess
tant world is very ignorant and the Catholcsare
so and he would assert that plain aud lucid expla
nation of its doctrines and polity, would be the
best way to exterminate Popery Let the mind
understand them, and it Will reject thcm hold
up its damnabe decisions as they really exist
and the end will be reached In holding them up the
pulpit and the press should unite The pulpit has not
abOred in this for past it ought to
have done Our Protestant forefathers called fOpery
gangrene. Are to be silent about Popery when
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 Popery which, history shows is nothing
but system of politics. artfuy contrived to CONTROL
not only mems minds, but the State itself. Who
believe that putting salt in chid's mouth, applying
priests spittle to its ears will drive out the devl Our
doctrine then is that if we wish to put down Popery
must educate tho 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 decned-or, at least has not ad
vanced 4 he right of every man to read the Bible
should be vndicatcd Those means to be used
civy morally and religously in order to destroy Po
perry In order to show the necessity of tho work let
Ireland Mexico, and South America, what those coun-
tries are Nothing but Pepery which keeps the people
in ignorance, that it may the better control their
minds. And if it get the ascendancy here, then
the kncll of liberties will be rung But 1t is painful
to define such system at length How it is that such
system could live at all in the present age is wonder
Go and its vetaries doing penance their knees to
the decrepid going around the holy wells to the
confessional and see its victims kneeng to the wicked
priests go mass and greater of absurdty
never known and see the deuded victims ofpopery max
ing the sign of the cross and weting themselves with
priests attending the cock yet these
damnabe decisions which hundred and twenty mil
lions of people believe to be the religion Of Saviour
Again, what difference is there between Popery and
Paganism! None at ALL and why should try to e
form and not the other? If 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 the means to be used Unless love
goes hand in hand with zeal the work cannot be
pshed the system and the priests should be indignant
~ but the preudices of its victims should
be regarded should deal gently with the latter but
consideration should be showed to the osher. In
clusion he said it settled principle that Popery
must become extinct for it's overthrow is predicted It
must die; and if it fall not by the weight Of its
corruption, the Lord will consume it. There
time when Popery was young-whcn 1t exercised q
his frown death; but is 1t so now when her chief i'm
poster refugee at Gaeta praying Catholic countries
restore him. and when gunpowder is being sent for
his relief to aid him in putting down the spirit of free
dom in Italy! Has its power, then, not waned Its
superstition has reached the age Of dotage In the last
he O fear
from Popery. Europe, it may be said is pouring
her thousands of Papsts but for every cargo of them
God should be thanked for he has raised up this
try their exodus. The work must be carried. The
Bible is with the enemies of Popery; the spirit of the
age is with them; God Is with them.
After the sermon concluded, collection for put
ting down Pepery was made.
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