The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-24
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AGO ye therefore, and teach all nations
baptizing them in the name OF the father,
aud of the Son, and of the Holy Ghosb teachI
sno them to observe all things whatsoever L
have commanded you and behold, am WIN
You all days, even to the consummation Oh the
world"
-S1snmented upon in a late number, is far from
having been exhausted. They are: in TACT IN
exhaustible. They take in the past, inc pres pres
fulfilled till time is no more, and one u1iVer
eternity begins. As we are told IN inc BOOK OF
Genesis that the world was f,t Hrs ID :"
IIaTIrened state until 90 The Light of the World
dawned upon mankind, made visible by that
heavenly and mysterious star to the hrst wor-
sh;ners of the Saviour of mankind. AS the
Great Jehovah ledrthe people OF Israel to the
Land of Promise-emblematical OF heaven
NV annearinp before them in q pillar oil hre by
1,Iplt and over them in a cloud by day, SO the
T2edeemer came to .enlighten the worla, ana
aDDointed apostles, whom DE cattett, fetatlVe
Ia Himself !" tho Light of the World !; ana as
TJe said to them again, " AS the Father hatn
sent Me, so also send you, an assurance uh..'
He and the ministers of His Church are ihsep
nrable and indivisible, for, as the Apostle says,
0T'he Church is the body of Christ ); IL Is, ne
saws again, 90 The pillar and the ground oil tae
truth, % which truths, he assures them, IN tle
coarse of his divine mission, would be proughs
to their remembrance by the " SPlrltof lTntn,
as we read in st. John" He (the Holy Ghost)
will teach you all things, and bTing all tnisngs
In x-our mind whatsoever shall have SAID TO
Won. We find again that Christ INSTRUCTED
Sntiesent forth before Him seventy-two disei,
Pies to preach the Gospel IN every CITY, ai 1f anu
Ghost for it was of them He said, Z" He that
heareth you heareth Me I; he who despiseth you
despiseth Me, and despiseth HIM VINO sent
Ne b a-,napifest proof of the trutbfulness and
immutability of the doctrines which they
taught. So again we read that, after ali the
apostles were dead, with the exception OF st.
john the, same unchangeableness of doctrine
existed, for st. John says, p" We are OF COO.
He that knoweth God heareth us; he that IS
not of God heareth us not. BY this we know
the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.1-A
criterion which stood good during the close OF
the first century must have stood good in the
second century and in every other succeeding
century, as it must in our present day other
wise we deny the omnipotence of God and the
efficacy of the Spirit of Truth. If we now, at
this point, revert to Protestantism-h you
maintain that it is the Church of Christ, you
must maintain it was the Church of Christ in
in the first and following centuries for no
page of profane or sacred history tells us OF
the institution of q second Church OF christ
by Jesus Christ, save the first, " built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets If, !
then, Professionalism be the Church OF Christ
now it must have been the Church of Christ |
them If this were so, then Christ and His
apostles must have taught the principles ana
the rule of faith of Professionals, VIZ: that we
are required and in duty bound to read and
examine the Bible, and TO follow our own in
depreciation of it if in opposition to that OF
our ministers. The following rs taken IRON
evvers on the Thirty-nine Articles" and asks
"What do Roman Catholics assert with re-
spect to the church, That we are 70 3nage OF
doctrines by the authority and decision OF the
Church What does our Church affirm IN OPP |
position to this assertionf That we are first
to examine the doctrine, and, according TO that,
To iudpe of the purity of the Church. III an
infsllibie Judge had been intended, 1t would
certainly be declared in Scripture; but there, |
ON the contrary, we are COMMANDED 70 exam
inc and judge for ourselves" 1t must appear
evident to every reasonable and appropriated
mind that such o principle as this wouid sub
vert the whole teaching OF Jesus Ght Iii LIS
midst RcsuFU c6ntradiction and inconsistency |
for what would be moro inconsistent and con-
tradictory-more absurd and unreasonable
were Jesus Christ to command, Go ye, minis !
tiers, and teach all nations; he who Will not
hear Won will not hear Me; he who despiseth |
ySg desBseth Me- and and dl be ipnSeet
them whose faith follow" and were the minis |
tiers at the same time told to instruct the peo- |
pie that they were not in duty bound to follow |
the teaching OF, their pastors if in opposition
to their own private Judgment, but were to ex- |
anime the doctrines taught them, and to Judge
for themselves and of the purity OF the
As to baptizing them in the name of the
Holy Trinity, a Protestant bishop, writing OF
the early Reformers, says; 4" In the Sacrament
of Rantism three ditferent- opinions are pro-
Calvin's baptism is regeneration by
fhe-dsa*h- of Christ; -Anin lins Regards hap
fiszn as q nero outward sign; Melancthon says 7
the child is free from original sim" The
Baptists administer baptism only to adults
SO a large proportion die without baptism
Some other sects ignore baptism entirely,
others believe the registering of births sniff
cient. Archdeacon Denison says of High and
Low Church: "The former hold regeneration
in and by holy baptism, and the Real Presence
4t'fy eesa,itt'',ti'tt i,,; Ter ntsi-
Their the one nor the other" There is pot a day
but we either read of or see the fearful yaccil-
ating effects of the principles of the Retorma
ton. 1t is not Pnly that Protestants are dis
united into hundreds of hostile scots, but in
England we are now threatened TO have relig-
ion entirely excluded from orr national system
of education, from the impossbility of recon
cling the teaching of uniform religion
to the spirit of Professionalism. A striking in
stance of this is given in one ofrthe daily
papers of the 5th of August. A benevolent
minded gentleman has lately endowed splendid
nedr birmingham, which cost E260,-
100 and it says; &c the deed provides that the i
Holy Scriptures only, without creed, catechism
IT formulary of any Church, shall be taught
The children" What an awful commentary
upon Professionalism. One OF heancients coun- I
els, "Teach a child tho way he should so, and