The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-27
coNTRAD1c11oHs OF pRorEsrANr1sx.

CONTRADICTIONS OF PR0rEsTANT1sM.
The Protestant Churchn,an assumes to be
an organ of extreme liberality. In late
number, one of its contributors throws open
the portals of the Church to the whole
world. Hear him:
No, brethren, it will never do for us to
close the door upon any of the Redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb; for they have a
right and title to be admitted to Chris
tan Communion and Christian fellow
ship. But the Church of Christ is not
close corporation, nor may her officers, with
out peril to themselves and solemn account
ability to the Great Head of the Church.
presume to exclude those whom His love
has received, and whom His precious blood
of sprinkling has hidden go in peace.
Every penitent believer, every one who
of God, receiving the Holy Scriptures as
the Rule of Faith, the Creeds and other
Standards, so far as they are .Scriptu,ul,
every such man has n right to ask baptism,
contrmation, or communion in the Protest
ant Episcopal Church if, indeed, she would
be Christ's Catholic Church.
Now observe the qualification "Every
one who has the witness that he is child
of God, receiving the Scriptures as the Rule
of Faith, and the creeds SO far as they are
Scriptural.' just so. Who is to decide
when two Protestants disagree as to the
deductions from this rule of faith. This is
the very point at issue; and to take it for
granted is simply begging the question.
We have known a minister of this city and
three members of his church to disagree
upon vital point which formed the text
of his mornings discourse. What extreme
} liberality! How truly did they belong to
one fold! But, after column of liberality
and Christian fellowship, the writer in the
Churchman veers round, and says:
But, has every one that asks, right to
our ordination, that he may become q
teacher of othersi No. Because history
and Christian experience both teach us that
>. certain things ought to be required of the
J. clergy, which need not be demanded of the
laity We are, it is assumed, bound to re-
gard the welfare of the whole Christian
Church, and to maintain and insist upon
>, that which is necessary to her purity, her
- efficiency, and the saving purpose for which
~ she was established among men. And here
-, we again affirm that no branch of the
y Church has preserved purity of doctrine
J" and of worship without the three orders of
- the ministry, and without IL liturgy in the
:. language of the common people. Not pos
y, =. session Of the Bible alone is the safeguard OF
~ tie Church; for Genera storrs this.
VI Then the experiment was tried of a
, church without bishops and without a
u Liturgy. But behold Geneva and Ration
u alistic Germany! The very Church in
~ which Calvin preached, has become reso-
~ nant with blasphemies of the saving name
sp of Jesus. The chapel in which Matthew
81 Henry proclaimed redemption through the
u. blood of the Lamb, is thoroughly
er Socinian; and SO Of other independent
~ congregations of England. Therefore, We
have no sure guarantee what will be thu
, ;, faith of our children, without the conserv
-. ing power of a Scriptural Liturgy, in tn
Of /
zee zee especially illustrated in the late condition
..n of doctrinal teaching in New England
~. Every nOn-Episcopal church in Boston, &c
cept the old South and that, too, ,cas stdgger
- ing for a time, became radically unsound i
10 doctrine, during the great Unitarian more
90 ment
HE Verify, the contradiction of Protestant
Ihe the gates are thrown open to all who re
Inv ceive the Bible as the Rule of Faith, and
the exclude any would be damnablc. Presto
change: But the creed deduced from tn
nS- rule must conform to the maxims and I'll
do liturgy of the Protestant Church. The
sed the writer tells us: "Not the possession
ou' the Bible alone is the safeguard of I'll
, of Church, for Geneva shows this" And
INT, New England we are told: Every no.
the Episcopal church in Boston, except tt
,tIV South Church, became radically unsound
and doctrine during the great Unitarian NOV
left ment,"-that is, believed that Jesus Chri
j in 80. .,,ou,, ,,,o,,, xuho,oo,,-roooro;1o =
nd was u ne mem "A' o .,r,
he contradictions of Professionalism Who
t of the coming mani Can he do it
QUITE DIsTINcTIoN.-In face of t
The awful calamity at Abergile. Wales,