The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-07


from the Freeman's Journal.l
The glorious news has reached US that on the
eighth OF December Pope Plus TX, Of immortal re.
nown In the presence OF the Cardinals and Princes
OF the church. declared IL an Article of Divine Faith
tbaftbe Mother OF God, our Most Blessed Lady, was
conceived without original stain
he that has ears to hear, let him hear He that
10 athirst, let him leave OF waiting beside dry and
broken cisterns, and make haste to this CITY OF
which 10 made glad by the torrent OF river flowing
from the living fountain of waters.
The doctrine whish 10 now promulgated as an ar
tcle OF faith and which hencstorth It will be heresy
not to receive, has long since been believed
BY oil pious Catholics But this dogmstic defiui
ton OF its truth and character 10 favor beyond
II has given joy 70 the whole world. and 10 i too
much We expect from it the paciication Of the
paticns, and general prostration OF hereticsl ami
outing forces2 II s year of sorro vs. that has
preceded Its announcement. Pestilence has stslked
less var has carried mourning into tens Of thou
sands OF Christian homes. Famine has been stand
ing at the door, and general distress, not alto
getter unaccountable as to its Sources has disar-
mnltitudes. The church, too and her members, have
been prosecuted. In the midst Of these chastise-
ments. we must say It, men have not returned in
thei, hearts towards God. They have forgotten his
ways The very depths Of human misery and an
guish Rave plead before the throne Of God for
more powerful intercession; and the Holy Ghost,
the Comforter, has taught by His Church truths
Veriua Regis prodeunt.
A new banner is raised on the walls Of our saliva
ton. Il is set up by strong hand, and one that
cannot fail. When the soldiers see q ne standard
advanced by the orders of their chief they prepare
assiduously to follow it. The reason of our great
exultstion OF this new definition is, because the
saints and the holy ones of past ages who have de-
Tended this doctrine who desired to live tina, they
might see 1t defned-have predicted that this de-
claration would be followed by time of great rest
and advancement to the Holy Catholi, Church.
New graces were to be kndled in the hearts Of the
faithful, and new multitudes were to flock from the
truth.
Let the Catholics Of America acknowledge their
past tepidity OF faith, and hasten to shake it Off Let
betake ourselves to the great Patroness-Mary Of
Immaculate Con ,eption. Let faith, and hope, and
charity, grow sToog within u.. and let us remem.
Der that God has set our task before us-that of
being all OF us, in our various Places missionaries
sfthe Tabernacle of God with men," whose great
business 1t is to save our own souls, and to convert
this young and mighty nation to the love Of God who
was born, for love OF it and Us, of the Immaculate
Virgin.
The following is the despatch received by the
Univeys OF Paris by telegraph
SIENNA, Dec. TO- 1854
The Pope, officiating at ST. Peters, has promulgated
after the Gospel Cat eleven o'clock the expected
The Immaculate Conception declared the faith of the
Church, and whoever denies it is hereto.
Two hundred bishops were present. Never has such
multitude been seen. Rome is intoxicated with JOY
Louis veuillct accompanies this announcement
with the following words
Mary has been Conceived immaculate; It is the
faith OF the Church; whoever denies it Is hereto
What great things in these words, and what spec
tacle given to the world! Persuaded that the ma
orty Of those who have thought to raise serious OBJ
Jectons against this dogma itself, and against the
form OF its proclamation, have only wished to use
liberty which seemed to them still pc, mitted, and
are now submissive their very title OF Catholics
which they invoke to give more weight to their
reasoning, obges them to be, we should be tempted
to rejoice at opposition from viii ,h their obedi-
ence will draw more glory and merit. On the one
part, abandoning their vain opinions, hencsforward
abolished, they will see the high truth which they
had concealed from them they will bless God for
the honor that he has done to human naturein draw
ing from the midst even of its corruption that
creature 90 perfect 50 pure so Respondent with the
primeval innocence. Before bscom,ng Our Mother
by the Gift Of Jesus expiring on the cross Mary as
daughter Of Adam, was our sister. 1t as then,
human nature which God has wied to re pair in
her, and to remove the offence of sim which had its
part in all the rest of the human family. S1ch has
been the love of God for man, and the affection that
he has preserved for that work of his hands. Be.
fore redeemiDg by the blood of his only Son. and, if
we dare speak So as IL to encourage himself to this
incomprehensibe sacrifice, God has wished that
heaven light see upon the earth that innocence
which it had lost, that immaculate human nature
which ne had created TO reign over all visible things,
to love him and to be loved by him, and of which ne
had said in his fathery love: have done well!'--
PtdttqW Deus cunctG qua tecer1t; d Grant p1Lde
bona. And Mary appeared, according to the express
zion OF Boussuet, las Christ commenced, in orderto
be at the same time the and the image of Hi
whom the laDenting earth expected, and whom the
astonshed heaven was to contemplate of Hin
who, to save men, consented to be like them in
everything save ain, and to endure all the weight
Of tntir mseries, but not the shameful root of
those miseries; accepting the penalty of sin, and
rjectiog its stain. Therefore Mary was preserved
from the original stain and conceived immaculate,
in order to give blood sufficiently pure to cleanse
the world, and to be the pattern Of that creature
formerly so perfect and so glorious, for the benefit
of whom such blood was about to flow. Such is then
the deformity and the horror Of sin, that God has
been pleased for himself, and for his Holy Mother,
to undergo all the sorrows OF the Cross which
have been necessary TO abolish the empire of sin
but He has not submitted to the stain of sin for
himself nor for her. And such is the favor that We
have received through Mary and through Jesus,
that that indelible stain can be effsced. man,
said st. Leo, recognise then to day thy dignity,
and sanctifed as thou art by the grace which asso
ciates thee to the divine nature, do not fall again
AS to the proclamation of the dogma, such as il
has just been accomplished by the penitude of the
Pontifcal power, but according to the holy rules
which its prudence knows always how to impose on
itself, 1t would no longer be even a temerit' !, it
would be pure folly, and let us say the word,
childish folly to raise again any contest whatever
The dogma Is recognized; 1t exists as If 1t had been
proclaimed at Nice, or at Jerusalem in the ceuace.
IL exists since the commencement Of the Church;
II will exist until the contamination OF time IL is
true for all the duration Of the church, which will
lsst upon the earth as long the earth ITSELF aud
which will not perish with IT. 1t has for Q rampant
the blood Of the martyrs This is all that ia neces-
sary say, and such u.s. when the question Is of the
power given TO Peter, the determination Of all
tests, Of all the heresies, Of all the revolutions.
Peter arises. he speaks he commands, he Is victor.
-L'UnirsTs.
RAILROAD AccIDENTs-There were several rail.
road accidents yesterday on railroads running from
this city. In the morning. passenger train OF cars
nm a m RI Wilfame.