New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-07

- sbaiI be tbe INSTRUMENT of his own rebuHe.
Tbie lecture is entitled The Decline OF FFotes-
,a.;arS and lis cause Ii purp0rts 20 have been
daI;yere3 in St Patrck's Cathedral, on Sunday
~,,e,,;rg: Nov TO- 1850, by the Most Reverend
Jbn Hughes D. D, Archb ,a0p OF NewYork.
A,cbbisbop Hughes procajms that Professionalism
;IecGuing and that he tittds the strongest aa-
.pr;.;ee Tor this opinion among PrOtestants them
elves who acknowledge, while they dePIore
"a o?o IN arrest this downward tendency
- iat nc settle what we mean by Pfotestan-
&c. H;shou Hughes is al loss tor dehnttion
40, will answer the purposes OF lo5lcAi VI U,o-
iogica accuracy though in It's popuinar sens nc
Guns the term is clearly UNDERSTOOD ii' nm
=, orises in his mind, from tue great diversity Va
t"aas ~ protestentism there are so many
NJ tfstort sects that n scientific man Is poHZIed
70 know what this thing you cal frotsstahtlsm Is.
fnrcnose to answer this question, Irst ny aSh!nS
onother What is Light Suppose TINS inquiry
49, he made by an unfortunate man, VINO has lived
al his life. like one possessed, among the tombs,
~ who has, by a strange perverslon Of reason or
bytbe stress circumstances and early preludces,
deliberately chosen a subteuanean habltaton,-
He ia suddenly brought ont into the sunshine, and
dazzled and blinded by the subtitle agent winch
Lyincs tears into his eyes, he asks with peevish
iupatience. What is this thing you call light =
He sees it, or blinks at it, as its rays tall upon the
nrisIn which hangs before his ble&red eye-balls,
and he cries out with indignant amazement:
Whit a confusion OF colors What worse than
confounded and confoundlng blending OF tints
and huesl Here this thing you call Light, looks
bne-apd here it IS aZure-and there 1t klntues
into purple-now it CLOVIS in crimson, and then 1t
is yellow, and it is green as the grass IN thc
Emerald Isle What is this thing youcaH Light
Away with the nonaescript Give me my SUB
terranean shade 3" Now, what is Professionalism
II is the light OF Gods truth The eitulGcnce That
kindles on the inner man, as the soul IS baptised
IN the glow ofreveoed religion! 1t is the religion
of the Bible The form which it takes or the hue
which il assumes depends upon the structure, and
the position and the capacity, and the conditions
of the mind that receives it. 1t strikes this mans
conscience and heart, and he IS a Methodist
warm and red, and glowing 1T tails upon another
and he * Presbyterian-t regular blue 1t
comes upon another like the light azure TINT OF wa
ter and he is 4 Baptist and so through all the
bright and eyeryarying, yet all-gloflous coiofs Oh
thc moral rainbow, it produces variety without tae
sacrifice of real unity. 1t is Gods DOW IN thc
clouds that hangs lowering over our land, the pea
con OF the covenant, promising that the hood OF
POpery shall never again delugc the EARTH or steep
It in blood and sorrow The blending OF all the
prsmatic colors is seen n the bright, coorcss
light and the moral influence of all the varieties
OF evangelical Christianity is perceptible IN the
general intelligence, happiness, and pIety-shGa'
ding peace, and contentment, and glory, upon the
land-divestng Professionalism OF all sectanan hue
by making holy living the essence OF the ren6loh
which it universally prescrlbes' These men VINO
who love darkness rather anlight--who hate the
light and will not come to it, lest their deeds be
reprovedi The same who suppress and lor0ld tue
free circulation of the Scriptures, who burn the
Bible and curse and anathematisc ali VINO READ
it without their pelversOns and without Their per
mission ..,
But Professionalism began in the year l5l7'
Softlv most Reverend Sir! The name was given
a little later than 1917, but the object designated
BY the name is as old as the canon OF the ne"
Testament Old things sometimes have ne"
names bestowed on them, and hence Protestant
ism. though as ancient as the doctrine OF the
Apostles Paul and John, obtained generic
name though for u specific purpose VIII h0t
Weld this question of antiquity. will not con
eedc that the Protestant faith Is an invention OF
yesterday, or only little more than 300 years Old
The champion Of the PapaCy asks, Where OaS
gour religion before Luther? | answer, it was IN
the Bible in the same book in which yourreligon
is also revealed with this difference, that the sys-
, lem you uphold stands forth as preaicteo apps
taCy which the Lord abhorsi and winch he WI
destroy This answer will not do, however w
~ are told, tbs religion Of y0Hrs hlS Professionalism
#EsA must dare tad same adfucHiyj now where ar'
lssW they Who wore they before the days
- "Brnther Martin Luther =
70 this answer, the armies dispatched by the
Pores of Rome, or at their instg0uon madc war
upon certain Christians dwelling in the vallies and
amid the mountain Businesses of Piedmont, cen
tnries before the birth Of Luther, because these
asages of the Papacy against which We protest
protested against the Pope as the Anti Christ
protested against the worship OF images and rehcs,
and canonized saints-protestcd against purSato,
~ and pilgrimages, and works OF satisfaction ana
and penance- protested against the mass ana a0
ricul ar confesson-and all the distinctive charac
teristics of the Papacy And because they were
Protcstants-bec they bore this unWaYeWn-
and consistent testimony against the abuses o
Rome from the very date OF their publication an(
on the other hand had commended Tor centuries be
fore with all earnest for the positive truths
the gospel the legions of the kingdoms, that LEM
their power to the P0pacy poured IN upon them
aevastating their country, and Staying men, We
men aud children, without pity Tor the gray hairS
OF age, or the tender helplessness OF infancy
and for centuries did this ruthless wrath beal
down upon them, until scores of thousands ano
hundreds of thousands were slain yet they
were not eXterminated; and to tins very day IN
the same Businesses, the candle oil the LORD IS
shining, and witnesses, lineai descendants OF tue
Waldensan Churches, still testify, amid poverty
and scorn with the ancient ardor OF their togeta
thers that the Pope is the Anti Christ, and that
his image worship, and saint worship, and man
worship are Sc much idolatry-that his pursatory
and penances, and masses, and 0uncular contes
sion are devices of Satan-a scandal to all good
Christians and an abominatiOn before God Say
YOU. "Protestautism began in the year l3il. -
Most Reverend Sir, you are learned man, and
YOU know better You have heard o / one John
Huss who suffered matyrdonl IN l4l5, more then
hundred years before Luther stood forth as a
Rciormer. lie porshed in the llanes as &C a rius-
leader Of Herctics, because he preached tie doe
,rines of the Waldonscs, suffering cruel death
despite of the safe conduct of the Emperor SlSlS-
unund, that monarch Yielding reluctant Obedience
tothe decree your WcUmenical Council Of Con
stance, which proclaimed and settled infalHbl
that Ne FAITH is TO BE Krrr WITH HERlrtcs!
A dogma winch stilldarkens thepages otyour stat
pte book wi;h It's infamy and which, On yoar owl
Tail to tell Of Jerome, Of Prague, Of Gerson Of tn,
Bohemian Brethren, of Savanarola, in Italy, O
INs.ll;A,, o,,I A., 1llar3s in Eu-ou1 Of tlf