Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-03-09
From the Raleigh Standard.
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Of The Norm
From the Raleigh Standard.
Too Bad !---TOo Bnd!!
In one of Mr.. Rayners letters, puol lshed IN the A
mercan Organ, and copied in the Raleigh Star, he
says:
Bad as the Mormons are-and no one thinks
worse of them than | do-they not as bad as the
Roman Catholics Horrid are their superstltions
thew are not as shocking as those of the Romansts-
not so revolving to relation or to reason, to morality
or to decency."
Can it be possible that such language this ema-
mated from Mr. Rayner? Does that gentleman be-
Iieve il TO be true? Will he, after mature reflection,
re.assert il? The Church of CASTOR as depraVed,
nav worse than the Mormon organization worse
than den of thieves, polygamlss, and mulderers =
worse than the vile establishment of Joe Smith and
Brigham Young, which is, Of all frauds and Impos-
lures the most consummate and blasphemOus known
among men since the days of the prophet Moham-
med! Can it be credited that such men as Lafay-
cite and Charles Carroll, and William Castor, born
and raised as they were in that Church, could have
lived and died in ignorance of the existence OF this
depraVity and corruption charged by Mr. Rayner !?
Or Informed of ii. will any believe that they
would have concealed it and continued Catholics -
These are plain questions whc will answer them
We copy in connection with the subject the fol-
lowing excellent article from a late number OF the
Hartford Comm Courant, under the head of Super
sitiUns, east and west"
&" A council of very grave and learned prelates, I'M
der the direction of the Supreme Ponti of the Caho-
lie Church, have met lately at Rome to settle a fact
which occurred nearly nineteen hundred years ago,
and 10 decide whether that fact should be received
dogma of bele-that fact is whether Mary, the
mother of our Saviour was herself born in sin. We
all know how facts proved among rational men.
We all know what kind of testimony is employed 10
prove historicrl fact-an event that took place in
past ages. But it seems that the Immaculate Con-
ception of the Virgin Mary has been settled not by
reason testimony but by the decision of tbs Church
Asthat Church claims to be inallable and Ho-
Iy Father the Pope, has ordered on the strength of
that Availability, the dogma to be believed and re-
ceyed now fearlessly assert that Mary, the
mother Of Jesus and the wife of Joseph was herself
born free from the faint Of original sin inherited from
Adam. comfortable belief and full of practical re-
suits and saving faith /?
The assembled prelates were not unanimous in this
decision. The Archbishop of Paris thought that so
important dogma should not be received a doc
uine of the Church without the assent of general
Council. Now the question here arises among out
sders whether decision would have been made had
majority of the preates voted against it, and how
far a church be called infallibe that places an
important doctrine the votes of talllble men =
However, that is none Of our business.
The world can perceive the motive Of this decree.
Il has been done to sancfy and excuse, In part the
worship of Mary, as portion OF the great atone
ment of sin.
Now tuIn we to the West At about the same
period when the Christian world called to wor-
ship this woman because she not born in sin, a
meeting was held in large city i'll the midst of the
American Deserts, in which another Pontff, under
The claim of divine inspiration uttered decree IL
favor of the dogma of POIygamy as supported by di
vine authority. Elder Hyde, speaking as he asserted
by divine authority, declared that Jesus the O
tins dehIed Mary was polygamist; that it was a
ms own marriage at Cana in GaliIee, when wate
was made wine, the miracle being wrought by hi
authority as q bridegroom. Furthermore, he picket
out Martha and Mary at Bethany and Mary Mag
daIene, and others Of the women that attended him
as his UUeS! They call him Rabbon' or Master
which according TO Elder Hyde's Interpretation mean
husband" ana Elder Hyde claims the infalIibit
OF divine inspiration in the same manner as his bro
Their, Plus the Ninth, does. Thus those two fact
claimed TO be proved.
We are said to live in the enlightened age of tn
wOrll-we boast of the improvements of human rea
son and the freedom of human will. We talk
progress and advancement. But is there not a
I much superstition existing in this age of improve
n men, as in any former period of the world Hay
not designing men the same power over the huma
n mind that they ever had We NEEDLE not with an
mans abstract belief until that belief begins to tax
hold of his relations to society and 10 public mora
When dogmas, on the one hand, conduct to DEEPER
dence foreign power for their reception or, tn
other, lead to a destruction of the moralites thu
bind men together in society," then they TO
Ieprobatod?'
Elder Hyde, speaking for the Mormons, lal
guagein relation to the redeemer of the world whic
according to all our notions of Christianity, expos
him as a blasphemer to the damnation of hell ar
this basphemy is INDUCED in with the view of recon
cling men and women to a condition which will Ell
able Mormon elders, under the cloak of religion
crafty their passions, and to establish sort of Tu
ksh haem on the soil of this free Protestant countr
Worse than the Mormons take it back. Mr.. RAJ
ner-take it back. The shades of Carroll and Ga
ton-the wronged spirits of those noble Catholics
Maryland, who fell fighting for the liberties OF the
states in the of the revolution, appeal to you
recall those words
There are but few Catholics in North Carolina
not more, probably, than two thousand out of pop
,auon OF over eight hundred thousand. The organ
law, IN framing which Mr. Rayner in 1885 gave
GmImatye voice, tOlerates and protects them in the
'a'h and entities them 10 hold Office They could
y uS no haTm, if they would-they are week, persec
:e', and, 10 great extent, dispised Let us do the
yuSuce though the heavens should fall. The ma
1oou OF the country revolts at the idea of trampil
Aem down simply because their religious notions a
erroneous and unpopular.
!, we have indeed fallen upon harsh and uncharlt
we lines. GEORGE WASHINGToN and the true m
" 70 uttered no word of bitterness against Cathol
Vi adopted cizens-but
-. These days dangerous
lrue is chokd with foul ambition,
ana charity chas'd hence by rancour's hand"
M lEACHER ARRAIGNED FOR Furnishing Pupil.
MSS Martha }. Shepard was recently tried at Ne
Import, Mass, on the charge of assaulting a stu
bI boy, one OF her pupils. 1t is alleged that she Ii
tS hands and feet, and after making him stand 81
~. lew moments, fastened handkerchief over
E yes and laid him the floor. He was allowed
n '0ualn that nnStiOn ahnut thraO how. Il.