Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-09-14
A Confession Of Fnllh.

Mrs Swisshelm, of the Pittsburgh Sat
urday Visitor, reviews the sermons o.
Archbishop Hughes on the recent dedica
ton of the Cathedral in that city, n a re-
markably intrepid fashion, for lady tbe
ologian. In the course of her article she
gives a confession of faith which is explicit
enough, on the topics embraced in it,:
We do believe in all the forms Of The
church that we have yet seen. This is, We
believe the priests wear black petlcoals,
and the Bishops wear purple petticoals and
pasteboard caps. We believe the Cathed-
raj is the handsomest church in Pitts
burgh, if the alter was covered with brown
muslin, rough pine boards, or almost any
thing else. We believe it cost more mon
ey than any other church-so much more
that if the surplus had been devoted to
supporting poor Catholics in our city, last
winter, it would have prevented any Of them
from being a public charity.
We believe the tall white saints on the
walls are all made of plaster; that they
were made in Pittsburgh, and that they are
very good saints In short we believe all
the Journal reporter said about the church
and the ceremonies of dedication; and more
over, we believe if sprinkling did the walls
any good, the Archbishop should have gone
clear round the house, and not have left
that south transept without drop, and that
if We went to that church we should not
sit in that part Of it, for fear of something
happening. We believe that that blanket
or whatever it was that Bishop Hughes
wore around him that day, was about the
reddest thing we ever saw, and had the
brightest yellow border, and to have worn
it would have made horse sweat as much
as it did the Bishop. We believe the
Bishops should petition the Pope for dis
pensaton from the labor of carrying so
much fnery on warm day, and that il
would have saved great deal of labor and
answered the purpose Just as well if all the
dresses had been put upon wire frames
such as are used in dry goods stores-and
carried in the procession. We believe too,
tha! the price paid for those dresses would
have bought good deal Of corn for the
poor Catholics of Ireland in famine time,
and we most devoutly believe that every
Bishop looks as if the price of his wine and
oysters would feed all the widows in any
congregation. We never saw a set Of men
look better fed, and when we look at poor
women toiling over the wash-tub for pitt
a1ee, and giving part of it to support these
ljolly-looking fellows and 10 buy their fine
clothes, We believe that they are like the
shepherds God speaks Of, who "eat the fat
and clothe themselves with the wool, and
care not for the flock"
We do not know if this is the right way to
believe in the forms Of the Church; but this
verifes the old prediction of our friends
that we should come to confession; but it is
very likely that this belief is mortal sin,
and that we shall fail to get forgiveness.
Some more things we believe, and one of
them is, that Christ and his apostles never
dressed up like a set of circus bufoons and
exhibited themselves to the people at so
much head; and the protesting ministers
OF bis, who use such means to get money,
are burning disgrace 10 his name, and that
they might very consistently let themselves
and their robes out to Barnum, who could,
no doubt realize something handsome for
both himself aud them by exhibiting them
at his Museum. So much for hopes of sal
Vation through belief in the forms of the
church. s.