The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-10
Tho Pressytorianu and the Pope.

Tho sectarian scribbIersy knowing the Lille
influence they posses over the masses, seem to
have subsidized the secular press to effect
their purposes A writer in PutaGm's Magazine
lately essayed to prove that the Roman Ca
tholic Church was the established Church in
the State of New York. The Catholic WorlFs
answer entirely demolished the formid able ARA :
of pretended facts aid fallacious figures of
this inscriptions magazine. Again, ia regard
to the Pope's invitation to Professionals to attend
the Council, the New York Tribune comes ont
in column article defending the action of the
Presbyterian Assemblies in a manifesto which
they published replying to the Holy Fathers
invitation We give below article from
the New York florida Protestant paper
commenting this undiguifed document.
The Calvinistic organ in this city will perceive
that we are not alone in estimate of the
bad manners which characterizes the denomi-
nation to which it belongs. Says the Horld:
/" The moderatoFs have not shown themselves
to be very wise, or very courteous, very
logical" But to the article:
When it was proposed in the two General
Assemblies of the Presby terian Church which
met here last summer that reply should be
sent to the Man of Sin at Rome, in response to
his encyclical addressed to "all Professionals and
non-Catholics," some prudent members of the
assemblies expressed themselves as being
strongly of the opinion that it was inexpedient
to take any notice Of that poor foolish and
wicked old man, This view of the question,
however, did not prevail It was thought that
the ungodly would say, no replys-was made
to the Pope's letter, that 1T was because no
reply could be made; and it was ordered that
the 4noderatOrs of the two assemblies should
prepare a proper epistle, protest, manifesto,
cument shouldbe called What should be done
with the paper when prepared was left in
doubt. Whether it should be transmitted to
Rome, or Published here, or simply filed anon g
the archives of the assemblies, n question
that remained in doubt untii few days since,
when it was solved by the appearance, in the
New York Observer, of paper addressed ITO
Plus TX, Bishop of Rome and "signed, in
behalf of the two General Assemblies of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America" by M. w. Jacobus and p. H..
inclines one to fear that it would have been
better for the credit of the 3" five thousand
ministers of the gospel in whose behalf it is
written, had the counsel of those who recon-
mended that notice should be taken of 'the
poor old Pope" been followed. The moderators
have not shown themselves to be very wise,
or very courteous, or very logical. 1t is to be
feared that they have succeeded in doing but
little credit to their own cause, and that they
have offered themselves up an easy sacrifice
to the Paulist Fathers whole in wait on Fifty
ninth street for all such unwary souls. It is
tolerably easy to imagine the nature of the
replies which We shall presently see in the
Roman Catholic periodicals of New York and
Boston to this manifesto. The two moderators,
warned by the unhappy fate of poor DIR. Cum
ming, have, it is true, avoided the ptfall into
which he stumbled. They have not attempted
to air their Ecclesiastical Latin"-which,
perhaps, is somewhat musty-and have con-
sequentiy not Numbered about Presbyterms.
They have not coquetted with the Scarlet
Woman by addressing Antehrist as their Holy
Father and expressed their yenerafion for the
harlot drunk with the blood of the saints.
But, in steering clear of Scylla, they have
sailed into Charybds. In the first place. they
commit breach of etiquette in showing why
they must decline an invitation that has not
been given them. eve deem it right to say
in a few words" they say, "why we cannot
comply with your invitation or participate in
the deliberations of the approaching Council"
The Pope has not invited them to the Councils;
the Council is n convocation of Bishops of the
Catholic Church, and the only way in which
any of the five thousand ministers of the
gospel" represented by their two moderators,
could possibly participate in it's deliberations,
would be to get themselves changed from
Presbyterian clergymen into Catholic Bishops:
! The invitation W hich the Pope extends to "all
Protestants and non-Catholics" was not to
| come to the Council, but "to consider and
! seriously examine if they in truth follow the
path prescribed by our Lord Jesus Christ" and
| to address without ceasing the most fervent
| prayers to God that He should dissipate the
| cloud of error and bring them back into the
| bosom of the Church, our holy mother" This
| was the invitation and the only one given
| The Pope invited the Protcstants to pray fol-
| themselves, and these two moderators, in be-
| half of five theuSand of their brethren, take
up.two columns of the New York Observer tc
I ''say in few words" why they can not comply
with that invitation. They do not mean this
of course, but unhappily they say it; and tho
ungodly we fear will scott at the confession
which these cIergymen make of their own in
| ability to pray for thcfffsefFes The Pope mo-
| only invited the Professionals to pray for them
| selves, but he promised to pray for them
assuring them that he never ceased I" humbl,
to ask for them, both by day and night, TIN
| celestial light anu the abundance of grace from
| the eternal pastor of souls" The two modera
| tors do not thank the Pope for what they, M
doubt, consider his mistaken zeal for the healtl
! of their souls; they do not promise in return
| to pray for him, that he may be converted
| they do not even advise him to pray for him
| self-they probably consider him past praying
| for ; but civility is cheap, and the represents
| tives of five thousand Protestant clergymeI
| ought to display as much pofitencss, TO sa!
nothing of Christ ian charity, as that shown b!
| the ''poor, old, foolish Pope" The letter of thu
! two moderators, however, will probably >peve
be been by the Pope; it is apparently not in
| tended that it should>be sent to Rome and j
| is addressed to Plus IX.\oRly az the letters o
our excellent correspondent, the Parsee Mer
chant of Bombay, are addressed to Horac,
| Greeley. Mr.. Greeley, no doubt, does anC
l raad i,a 1attera of Mr. C,uriosibhoy and