The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-03

DnsrRDNEss or TIN UN-cArHoLIo WORLD TO THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH"
Yesterday evening Dr.. MAEAHAr, Il Msuoh Chunk,
Pa, delivered lecture the above subject ct the
Stuyvesant Institute Broadway. large and highly 10
spectacle audience were present
The Lecturer said-Ths present age ladies and gentle
men, entertans high AMI enthusiastic admiration for
the natural powers Of man. The great progress already
made in human knowledge and SKILL and the constantly
growing prospects Of still greater advancement are ca,u
lated ousty the most atterng estimates that be
formed Of the Unborn faculty. and the extent and the
variety Of the natural Of man. Now perhaps
more fully than at any former period of the world
himself conscious Of the work that lies in him and in
his ehy favored nature and also the additional value
that his exerions give to the human glance
at what IL going around 10 sufficient to
vince NJ that the inventions which cover all the
globe with science the natural accomplishments
and achievements Of the race to whom 1t now belongs
While humanity thus gories in the consciousness Of its
present greatness there who wonder that
kind should have had long possession of this earth
without discovering and working out all the resources
which lay In himself and In this his beautiful do
main but In order to do justice to predecessors
shall be able to bring homo to our own bosoms the diff
Sues ina. .hsy ana the asa h saas We
alizs the condition Of that small group, gathered out
side Of Eden who began to till the hitherto untenanted
with those few families who aghted from the ark, and
found upon earth no remnant of human labor, but an
sbroad we shall acknowledge to Ourselves that being
like gifted with natural endowments have in spite
Of other influences marred the to human progress
they have done Could the resurrection Of nations
take place for us-could behold exhibition,
comprising not only ew nations at one given period
but all nations throughout all ages from the beginning
We might then have seine idea Of the extent Of
the faculties newborn and inherent In man;
and Il is tAis that inspires, mbues and nebrates the
nth yntA fhnso
nected with this question that demand part of mans
energies for is endowed with other natural attri-
remark that these natural faculties unlike the former
fBd allies but very strong opposition In his own body
and in the world around him Yet In whatsoever circum
regarding morality and religion, are such that he must
every be free reasonable and responsible being
Every carries about with him. engraven upon the
tablets Of his heart what called the Ten Com
mandments Where shall begin at this Metropolis of
pyramds-this city Of the dead? mere glance at it as
the soul with meaHchoy but few general impressions
will give you some idea Of the details you have been
spared There is no crime that man can commit that
from the alteration Of the Spirit of Evil through
every line of badness, to shedding human blood
upon the so. altar has BEEN PpeSa Everything
and the heart sckens and the stomach revots ct the
moral degradation Of in his naturalism This beau
fu man. still more beautiful by the exercise Of his other
natural powers, became through his wickednsss and
through his Weakness not only temple of false
hood but may be said without exaggeration uni
versal sink Of ASSESSMENT and age after age seemed to
demand another deuge to sweep away this deflement
Man has everywhere desecrated spot of EARTH and
the hills the streams the woods the valleys and the
everywhere tell Of the horrors Of his abom
Unable vices Poetry sculpture, and architecture, all
embo6iments Of his crimes When first dEering this do
main OF paturalism arei struck with the mountain
OF his enormites, and we might 60 find crime
overreschng crime and vice overlapping vice. Such Is
naturasm. Man has everywhere sought himself in this
world In his religion, and every voice cry
out, !" Man alone is good, man alone is great
unto God he has done all for his glory and in all the
history Of human e before and since the christian era
naurasm appears in the 70 ne light Strange, however,
may appear it will be difficult perhaps for you to
look through the disguise which natursism sometimes
and recognize in the very heart and bosom Of
prepared to for the appearance which
assumes in the better company IN which 1t finds itself
for does GEEK to reign in the bosom of chrstendom and
this Is all due to supernatural agency. Most human
particularly religious to great extent
their own biographers for there is generally something
about them that tells the observer from what region and
from what neiRhborhood they For instance,
look into collection of antique marbles, and you
can distinguish between AssyIian or Grecian tenn
pie, and in like manner most religious systems have
some popularity about them by which you trace
them home 90 the time and place Of their birth. This
trait OF patura easily understood 1t may be enter
tanning but it would lead far into the philosophy
Of these matters but this fact is certain that
Christian era this good and without any personal
application to Luther Calvin John Knox, Wesley,
good natured Fourier who should have been saint in
stead of socialist say that the universally Of
this naturasm account for many of the virtues that
we see among mankind Can any impartial mind look at
not the u naturasm The church.
in her treasury of truth keeps from all these
natural influences all the christian church and glance
at the Catholic church enough convince that there
is 10 naturalism there. for instead Of differing with
different nations the church makes all rations alike
(Appause) One glance will show that there is no
nAturasm in the Catholic church. for the light Of revea
ton, fed and tended by the sams divine hand that
in the sanctuary Of the house Of God. (Applause.)
Cicero struck with the variety of ancient OF
great that had maintained by Of the phi
losophsrs and the fsme natural disposition of mans
mind has acted in like manner under the same influences
with the truths OF christianity for the number OF scots
that have arisen from this natural adoption Of christian
ity are great that no count them Now natu
rslsm could not show itself plainly than in the
fact that all thoe outside of the Catholic church. VIII,
oil tDgy deny the supernatural claims Of the Catholic
church all unitedly deny every article Of the christian
creed Take LET in your hand containing every article
of doctrine and every and ask them what they
admit, and according as they admit ask them what they
whole and when you have called upon all these sects you
will find that article has been crossed That body
of christians outside Of the Catholic church deny
untedly every article Of christian belief, so thai
II convention were called to ballot, the result
would be-, that not an article of christian
faith would be left in the rs
is admitted by the Jansent yet they heretcs The
influences work the moral influences outside the Ca
theHc church influences which subject to,
and one will deny one point aud, one another Now,
take up your list and to every sect In Chrsteudom
OUTSIDE the CATHOLIC church. and ask what points ad
mted, and you will find that every point upon your
list every point Of the Catholic church is admitted
outside OF the Catholic church. [Applause) Both
great bodies admit alike all the difficulties Of the
Christian creeds and here you cannot fail to recognize
the influence of supernatural agency for some of them
take one and some another article of belief Is it
not therefore, deducibe. as legitimate consequence,
from this that besides the direct influence Of the Catholic
church upon the world shc may lay claim to all the
good that results to humanity and society by the adop
on OF the truth by and every and to say that
everything Christian in the world in civilization is
to the Catholic church, is not a assertion,
but . statement Of fact. We must believe all the
articles of Christianity or We must believe none,
for Christianity must all stand fall together
Whatever evils have arisen with and manners has
been from their spotscy from the Catholic Church and
Northern Africa and Western Asia witnesses OF this
What is the state Of society at this moment n those
Countries Yet there time when Northern Africa
and Western Asia could look forward to as bright future
Europe could ever hope to Barbarians and
invaded Northern Africa and Western Asia and Europe
and prevailed over the two first In consequences Of their
heresy Shall hope again visit the shores OF North
Africa add Akia, towards which Plus the