Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-06

The DnnVuJe Review on the Catholic
ChuI cti- ChrIstIan Lfberaltty.
Its questionable II what is called Christian
charity or liberality toward other denomina-
tions, IL consistent with religious duty.
What fellowship can Christ have with Belial7
II one is the true Church, the otheris schism-
attic. What donunciation Of 81. Paul is 20
violent as that Of schismatics and seceders9
How can we tolerate those who kill the soul,
{ when We demand the vengeance Of the law
J for The infpitely lighter Ofense Of killing
the body and even Of damaging the prop
erty7 If one believes that a doctrine leads
souls TO hell should he be charitable and
liberal toward it2 Then il the devil should
set up an organization here, IL would have
the same claim 10 charity.
These are hard sayings; to some stuni-
bling block to others foolishness. "They
that are able 10 receive it, let them receive
j. IL" Many are not. But we suspect that
the liberality of some denominations arises
from difidence to submit their own posi-
tion to the true test Of but one true Church.
So their liberality to other secis is for the
benefit of mutual recognition. The system
fosters tchisn.
The Danville (Presbyterian) RevieW is
troubled by no such weakness It takes
issue squarely with Congregationslism, and
pronounces il not a Church according to the
Bible. With "The Mystery of Iniquity," as
it calls the Catholic Church, it declares that
it can have mo compromise, no peace;"
zone or the other must be annihilated." "If
one is the Church of Christ the other is
the Synagogue of Satan"
Of course, the Danville RevieU does not
feel Opposed to give up that the Presbyterian
Church is the Synagogue of Satan without
a contest to prove the Catholic Church so.
From vigorous article, to that purport, we
extract the following, being only one of the
specifications of its charge on that Church
"THE CANN1BALIsM OF PoPERY.-Let us
pass still deeper into this sink of supersti-
ton, idolatry and blasphemy. Of all the
horrid and disgusting customs on earth, that
of eating human flesh is the most revolving.
When men reach this point of pollution and
degradation, they seem almost to have passed
the limits of humanity; devils in hell would
look with disgust and aversion upon them
and byenas and iackals would vie with them
to the Church of Rome, and what do we be-
hold? The Priest takes the bit of unleavened
bread called the Wafer, he pronounces the
words of consecration-lol according to
their decree, faith and practice, the whole
substance of the bread is changed into the
Blood, Body and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
In each one of the pieces of bread t. ere is
'Totum Christi Whole Christ. This con-
version of the Bread and Wine into Blood,
Body and Divinity of Christ is called by
them TransubstantiatioD. This doctrine is
SO absurd and horrible that it must be stated
in the very words of Rome herself; "a qHis
neQoUerit in Sdnctssim@ euehGrist9 Sdcrd-
msnto continent Uere, realiter ct SubStanttdhter
corpus et sdnguineB una ciin dniBld et dtUln,-
tate Domini nostri JeSu Christi, &C proinde
totupl Christun, dndthemd sit These very
words as quoted, also form part OF the Bull
of Pope Plus ", wherein the form of pro-
fession of Faith is'given.t According, then,
TO the creed, Councils and Bulls of Rome, a
whole Christ, body, soul and God head, is
contained in, or rather composes the Wafer
the Wafer is Christ And now what do the
Faithful do with this made Christi They
take the Wafer-the Blood and Body OF
Jesus; they receive it into their mouths
they melt it on their tongues; they receive
it into their stomach; they pass 1t through
their bowels. Great God! that such BIAS
, phemous cannibalism should pollute the
earthl Were the most degraded heather OF
) The darkest and most besotted portion oi
Africa guilty of such blasphemy and canni'
balism as to make and eat millions of Gods
we would cry out Away with such fellow
), from the earth Yet when such things arr
It practiced by the highly respectable and an
IS cient Church of Rome, we run the risk o
l. being called bigoted old Presbyterians to
even Indicating our horror at such besotteC
superstition and cannibalism. 1t may bt
: sfirmed that Rome, by her own confession
il and according to her own creed, has eater
y more human bodies, drank more human
blood, and made and murdered more Gods
9 than all the iendish cannibals who have in
ID tested the earth from the creation OF Adar
n. down to the present moment. In this fear
full climax of cannibalism, the superstition
20 blasphemy and idolatry of Rome eliminate
OF Satan himself grows disgusted at his ow
r. fayorite institute for running souls, bias
"a phemipg God, and filling his dark domai
with the spirits of the damned; and IS no
~ venting his spleen and amusing his inferns
n- malice by seeing into what mingled deptn
to of pollution and iDiquity, he can plung
q those who are led captive by him at his will
- and whom God has given over to blindnes
o. of mind, to work uncleanness with greed
lg ness, to believe lies that they may b
le damned.
ze We admire religious zeal. But may nj
u this charge of cannibalism, like other curse
I'd return to roost? Christ said, "Take, ca
or this is my body" )" drink, this is my blood.
IN Presby terians repeat these words in di;
n. pensing the bread and wine. If they mea
at what they say, this is the cannibalism whic
the Review charges. The charge returns o
themselves and on Christ. But we belev
they hold that these are the body and bloc
le of Christ in q spiritual sense. How doe
W that differ from the natural sense? Bres
and wine are not spiritual; nor are bod
ce and blood. But if the body and blood al
in eaten in a spiritual sense it is still spiritu
e. cannibalism, according to the Reaiew.
I'd What is it that revolts at cannibalism
"a The mind chiefy-the spiritual sense. "
ID the clergymen of the Review enjoy VIII
al they call the cannibalism of the body an
m blood of Christ, in the spiritual sense, whi
81 they would have their readers disguised wit
- the eating of the spiritually. consecrate
= wafer.
n 1t strikes US that this, like many of Il
~ questions which exhaust the intellect
Mt theologians, is chiefly distinction in te
IS. minology without any real difference whic
e the Review would care to own. And "
y think the ReVietO will find that when it hi
L" introduced the spiritual sense into que
he ton, it has placed it beyond the reach
r. rational discussion.
rs 1t is not for us to force the consciences
of our Presbyterian brethren to any larg'
is. charity. Our province is criticism, one
no the highest duties of journalism, and the fir
ut and last step in the progress of truth. b
ce if the Presbyterian be the only Chur'
he whereby men may be saved, will not the r