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


things .hou art too superstitioas Ard saat
viii our Archbishop DO witd rae Nothodists AMI
the Presby teIia1s. and the Episc0paians and The
Baptizts ard the lutberGn> and the German Re.
formed. and Reformed Dutch and with all The
tribes oi our Protestant Israeli Let him remeul-
Der that if the Church OF ROME is adding to her
communion, SO are we, aEd ID q larger ratio than
size can equal by her importations from abroad.
tell you, Archbishop Hughes, you might IS We!
TN to pluck the rainbow from the clouds as 10
destroy the power of the Protestant Church in
America You may try % persuade the citizens
of this great Republic that the glmmer o. your
little taper is brighter ttan the hight OF the sun
in the armament, and il they VIII believe you,
this land will belong to YOU. and the Pope and
Satan, so long as its inhabitants prefer darkness
TO light
find no fault with Archbishop Hughes for
making this ayowaI. The spirit OF our free inst-
tutions gives to the Church Of Rome and 20 all
who prefer her communion the right of worship
ing in accordance with conscientious CONVICTIONS,
but it gives no more and when she assumes the
the air of a Queen and demands more than the
position which belongs to her, she steps upon
ground which will open a grave at her feet .
There is noble bird which scars high, and suffers
little birds to sing. The setpent may bask in the
sunshine, and cast his scaly skin, and mark his
pathway over the rock in glittering slime, and the
noble eagle heeds him not but when he climbs
the cliff on which she has built her nest, and
rears bis head to strike her eaglets in that very
instant her beak and talons are upon him, to tear
him skin and scales, Joint from joint, and hurl him
bleeding and torn back to his Shiny covert
AS Protestants, we are bound by the very prin-
ciples of our protession to accord to ALL and to de-
fend the right OF all men Co liberty OF conscience,
and to the free and open discussion OF the prlncl-
pies of their religion aud of our own; and rs Pro-
testants we claim the same privileges Tor our,
selves. W e demand no more, and we never VII
accept less and we say with all candor, that Il
any system OF religion cannot endure the ordeal OF
searching investigation and scrutiny it is because
God never intended that it should flourish on sou
consecrated to liberty.
We are told by Archbishop Hughes, that the
first exeency OF condition III Professionalism, was
10 III L U0W.S. Its first mission was not to Odud
up but to pull down. Truly nder the LeVHi,
cal law. when house was h0pelessly Injected
with the leprosv. the statute required that it
should be PULLED DOWN. And the inspired
Apostle has declared that the "mjssiono OF Christi
anitv is similar For says he, 1.-THE weapons
of our warfare are mighty, through God, to tue
PULLING DOWN OF strongholds!' We must pull
down the rubbish of the Papacy, before we can
build up believers as living temples OF the holy
Ghost.
The Archbishop ridicuIes the positive and mega.
tive elements of Professionalism; it says yes
and it saws no" Truly And what religion
does not We say yes to every word that pro
ceedeth out OF the mouth OF GOd-we say no to
every tradition which is wholly OF human nyen'
ton We will say as Protestants IN word, now
and forever No PoPERY.
Archbishop Hughes magines that because we
nyow. that we are, Protestants, we thereby Affirm
"that Christ established a church for the purpose
of propagatinn his doctrine, but that alter fifteen
hundred years, it had failed, and we had come to
renew it No. Most Reverend Sir That IS q
Tl,n a cd
old covenant, was corrupted and led away INTO
Babylonsh captivity, but though it became as
Sod0m and GomOrrah, and cast forth as an
abominabe branch, vet God preserved to hlmselt
remnant And the same is true IN the Now
Covenant God never has lett himself without
witnesses. Elijah mourned that he alone was
left of the Lord prophets, but God told HIM he
had reserved to himself more than seven thou.
sand who bad not bowed the knee to Baal, or
kissed his images. So in the darkest days OF
Papal supremacy, the Lord preserved remnant,
preserved it too despite OF all the power OF anti
Christ, and of all his efforts to destroy it. The
Church Of God is not failure because tor
season to prove her and instruct her, she Is made
to dwell in the wilderness When Archbishop
Hughes ventures the tremendous assertion, that
in tht. Church OF Rome perfect unity OF doctrine
ALWAYS has obtained he says the hodest thing
which he ever uttered in ST. Patrick Cathedral
will read the eXtract, and 1t IS the last winch
] shall notice. After stating thai in all PROF
ability. not ten Protestants out of the whole
number of fifty millions, " could be found to
agree on all points, 10 substance and detail
in the principles and doctrines OF Christian,
Revelations" he adds 4" On the other hand
the Catholic Church numbers two hundred mil
lions scattered all over the globe from the rising
to the setting of the sun and run no risk IN stat
ing that out of these two hundred millions there
could not be found ten in whose inmostsouls there
elic,l,t fptsiot
Of course original doctrines of the Church, IN re-
gard to the Revelations OF the Son OF God - This
audacily is beyond any parallel, which can be run
anywhere out OF the Church of Romel To all this
] answer; Take any ten Evangelical Christians
out OF rs many Protestant denominations, and IN
all the tundamentaf articles OF Christian la!th IN
all the points which involve the salvation OF the
soul and in the great practical duties enioined by
the religion OF Jesus Christ they Will speak with
one heart and one voice. They Will tell you, that
faith in Christ and holy living as its fruit, are the
only real evidences OF a rcgenerate heart. Has the
Church of Rome never devlated from the original
doctrines ofthe Church Of Christ? The very cues
tiouis aninsultt misunderstanding tanintellgent
Christian will vary the inquiry and ask, Has the
ChurchofRome always beend octrlnally consistent
with herself? Then how is it, that to this very
day. she cannot tell US where the Intaln0Illty OF
which she boasts, resides? Is it in the Pope, or
in the Councils, or in the Pope and Councils to-
gether2 Settle the Italian and Gallo dispute on
this point, which is rife at this very day for IN
ii ' you d. Archbishop your Boosting is too CON
temptibIe for sober argument. Remember the
feud respecting the immaculate conception OF the
Virgin Mary think Of your Dominican and Fran.
ciscan broiIs-caIl to mind few OF the great
schsms recorded in the history Of Papal home N
which rival Popes cursed and excomm9nlcated
each other aud before YOU step forth again to eH-
toll the unity of faith and practice, which you dis
th LAT Whenever you can find leisure for the task,
there are many Professionals vino will be ready to
receive the proof by which you can reconcile your
pureatory and your penances, ami your lndul'
gences, your marioatry and your distinctions be-
tween atreia and doucia, and your aurIcular con-
fession and your denial Of the Scriptures to the
iaitI. and your bead praying, and your scapuiars,
and ali yoar Roman notions with the original rev