The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-10-25

can be done the wheels Of his /" Catholic and
Apostolic Church, must be lifted out OF
the Protestant, Calvanistic, and Lutheran
ruts, which they do not dt, never VIII, ana
worth while for tho Protestant churches to
look about them, and see whether it be in
deed true that this 10 the only fate reserved
for themi If they are net willing to b
| swallowed up by Rome, or by the church
which seeded from Rome, are they willing
that absorption 49,
Speaking strictly after the manner Of
| men, and with only worldly lights to guide
NJ, We are free to SAy that the Protestant
churshss have their fate in their own ha.ds.
There IL net . Protestant church IN this
city, We s.ppo:e. which win not indignantly
deny that half its menbsrs are either
"Psrksrites or infidsls," or that they BE-
lisvs the degnss Of PrstestentiAn oaly
iron habit, from early prejudice, or they
scarcely know Why Il IL nothing to oar
present purpose whsthsr Dr.. Ewsr's aeese-
tons on thsss points are true or fAlsol The
churches Themselves viii deny thor; aAa
it II from their stasdpoint that We afs
regarding the question. They cannet deny
the other accusation nsae by Dr.. Iwsf--
that to the poer the gospel 10 net preached,
and thst the niniseees are lete "straAasd
on the high rosks Of iAb, preaching - the
select rick" Are they contsnt tks1 this
w0eU1O CV&eA1 ~ W u 6DU4x k0H1OSNaA
Suppose case. On the corner Of HifSA
avenue and 4 stfest stands The church q
Saint Calvin. II 10 : costly pile e graz
it, occupies . lot ai1ty by one hundred
feet; il in built in the highest stX3s Of
American arehitseturs; it il filed with
softly ,cushioned pew, and i. altogether
hrst-class edi6ce. Within il worship ?
email congregation Of the "sslset RICH"
who own their pews, and carry the keys
thereof in their pockets SOmstinss .
we'll dressed stranger enters it, portal, and
the gentleman usher conducts him TO oAs
Of the seats reserved for visitors Should
q working man, humbly clad and aocompe-
chance stray within the gates Of this august
temple, he il greeted with q stare Of aston
ishment; but if he persists in remaining,
he, too, 10 accommodated with . sect near
the door, and made to feel thst be il Al
intruder. Stung by DR.. Ewsr's denunci2-
tions, the Nom srs Of this church suddenly
resolve to prove that they are Christians.
They sell their church. Our estimable cit
lien, ZachariAh B0underby, ESD, late Of
the firm of Bounderby & Gradgrind, pur-
chases the property for the sum of $500 200,
and, pulling down the church, erects upon
its site block of brown stene mansions
With al the modern improvements With
their $500, 600 what does the congregation
of the church of Saint Calvinf With one
hundred Thousand dollars they purchase
that amount of five-twenty bonds, which
will return to them an annual income of
$1,000 in gold; with the remaining $500 900
they purchase, in different parts of the city,
five lots OF land, atfst5st of $4,000 each,
and erect on each of them u church costing
$2o, 700 more. A yesy respectable church
can be built for e2A,OOO.. If good judg-
ment@nd taste be exercised, the new build
ings need be neither ,cheer1ess barns nor
architectural monstrosities.t The churches
finiShpH k.och of TO- 1aI xxy:%h +l,o
best preacher who can be procured for
$1,000 in gold-equivalentt to $500 in green
backs-and the $1,000 received annually
from the five-twenty investment will fur
nish this salary. One of these churches is
reserved for the congregation which for
the other four are thrown open to whoever
will enter them. In them to the poor the
gospel is preached; if the poor will not
come, that is their own lookout. The con
gregation of the late Church of Saint CAL
vim have at least done their share of the
work necessary to remove from the Profess
tant churches the stigma of the accusation
that three-fonrths of the population of New
York do not go to church, simply because
there are no churches for them to 20 to. II
men of talent, having a sincere love for
their work, are. placed in the pulpits of
these new churches, they will have no lack
of hearers. If they are filed by Chadbands
and Howlers, the people win probably stay
away. But for $1,000 year it would be
possible to command good preachers, and
instead of 600 people listening to one
preacher il church worth $500, 200, there
would be 5000 people listening to five
preachers in five churches that cost only
SAC, 900 each.
We do not suppose there is church in
New York which at this moment is edu-
Gated up to the degree of self-sacrfce and
abnegation necessary To induce them to do
such u work as this. What other remedy,
then, is there from the Protestant stand
point for the evils which DR.. Ever depicts,
which every one confesses, and for which
the cure which he proposes, even were it
are the facts: The Roman Catholic Church
reaches the masses the Protestant churches
have become the temples of the "select
Iich;" and, if DIR. Ever is to be believed,
even to these faynrnd few the Protestant