The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-12-27
DR.. xWER OF PRorEsrAHT1slr.

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The sensation which DR.. Ever has created
among the sects in New York and elsewhere is
undated. Thirty or moro answers, both from
pulpit and press, have been made to his adj
dresses" Professionalism Failure )" but the
Doctor maintains his ground valiantly, and his
latest demonstration thus winds up his part of
the controversy
We bring forward an additional charge to-
day. viz: That wherever YOU meet with re-
gion of country that has been burned over and
over again with the fires of "Revivalism,"
there an almost utter and very general indiffer-
ence to religion eventually supervenes. We
look not mnch to the immediate results of
the revival system, in making this additional
charge; they are deceptive. But we look to
the final frnits. The whole system is a stupen-
dous blunder. But even the Immediate results
are not to be passed over lightly. Take the
great revival of 1s59l6O in Ireland. What is
the testimony of Rev. Isaac Nelson, Presby-
terrain minister in Belfast He frankly says:
The revival was made to rest for it's reality on
certain extraordinary conversions, which have
since proved false and wicked (; the consequence
Ulster. Now" he says, will DIR. McCorle meet
us this assertion, put it to the test of sta
tistics' We know he will not dare not. The
morality of the Presby terrain people has been
ruined by REVEALS" Such, my brethren, was
the immediate result, one of the revivalists
himself being the judge Let me give you an
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is this, viz: "Many of the earlier revivalists,
whose mental calibre could not Withstand the
excitement of the movement, have found per-
manent home in 1unatic asylums while multi
tudes of Others pnffed up with spiritual pride,
have fallen into worse diseases than that of the
mind Many who, three years ago, were dis
tinguished as reyivaiist preachers of the purest
and most sanctificd kind, are now drunkards,
thieves, and immoral livers; and one, to our
certain knowledge, is now lying in prison,
charged with being concerned in alate coward
lnrI .nr rY-T1or Ssv,nn kt,A
began seduction has prevailed to an extent
never known before, as the large increase in the
number of illegitimate children SO fully proves.
Has drunkenness or immortality decreased in
the district where it chiefly PREVAILED The
very contrary is the fact. Judged, therefore,
by it's results, the revival movement of 1890
of Gods grace as some have not hesitated to
profanely call it, but a whitening blight,
which has parched the ground which it seemed
to refresh, and has LETT behind it fruits the full
bitterness of which will never be truly known
till the day of DOOM"
But do not intend, in this sermon, to dwell
Protestant revivals. / merely allude to it, and
return to one of the main charges, viz: That
wherever the fundamental principles of Pro-
testantism have taken deep root in the mind of
a thoughtful people, there, after number OF !
generations, infdelty prevails to a very gem !
cratic an alarming extent. The charge is that |
the loglcs,i conclusion OF the fundamental prin-
ciples of Professionalism is Rationalism, and that |
zerland, America, and other Protestant lands, |
substantiates the logical anticipation You |
perceive at once the seriousness OF this jndict- |
ment. Ii it is true, then Professionalism is what |
l have charged it to be, a heresy. Ii it is true,
it is not IL subject TO be provoked about; it is a |
matter to be~.rieved over; for mul.itudes of
good men have been, and are identified with the |
system. III it is true, Professionalism should be |
avoided by every one wflo-f loves his brother
man, and the cansc of Our Blessed Saviour. Its
houses of worship should not be entered by the
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true, then it is for Protcstants to let us know
why, which they have essayed but failed to do
hitherto If it is true, it is something You
ought to know, and not to turn aside from. If
it is true, it is criminal for the Christian to ig-
more it. 1t is too important to be pushed aside |
because it is an unpleasant subject.
If individuals will not hear the word the
world is hearing, and will hear, and will decide
the Issue, there are two counts, then, in the in
dictment, which i dwell this morning.
First, that a fact, infidelity prevails very
Secondly, that is because the logical issue of the
Protestant dogma is RatiOnalsm. Let us con-
slider the first count. Permit me to read to you
little 4ccoaRtof Religion IN Genera Scifserland.
1t is written by Protestant minister, and is
as follows, viz: " The statements made by Mr..
J.. Wright, a Unitarian, are, alas, too true, viz:
That the successors of the very magistrates Who
condemned Servetus of the pastors who
communicated him the denier of the Trinity,
now themselves unite in rejecting that doc
trine! The faith of the great Churches of Ge-
Calvin is almost extinct in the town where he
was once the spiritual tyrant. There be-
levers in the divinity of our Blessed Lord Jesus
existing in Geneva, it is true, who are divided
INTO several parties; but the National Church
of Geneva is Unitarian. The number of inhab-
1tants i'll Geneva amounts to about GA 900;
among them are about 10000 Unitarians, IL 900
Roman Catholics, and the miserable balance
are left to Protestant Trnitarianism"
We all know how things have turned out
after three centuries of Professionalism i'll Ger
many. There Is no need of testimony that
point We all know how it is i'll New Ei., land,
and wherever New England emigration has
spread But let me rcatl You an extract in illus
tration. Not many months stree the Hartford
Courdnt informed us that 4" the Comgrc s;.tional
ministers of Connections have thorou sl.iy can
Nassed their parishes 10 ascertain the actual