The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-06-06

Alliance.a AT oSS ~ u hts hsSetipks the
speakers y hs mois th4f slsualiy zspl Athed
and denuleiak aryA-so InVch 90, that secular
spailer of tast cirsulatie ion conceived it proper
To xtlministas AsqttiAg febake. Tho exigeney
sehst bo nfeas Indeed when such sentiments
as tIissS md favor among tho dissordant eie-
meIts Sf the sects, and slle terror 81 tina Pope
overwhelming: am willing TO ancept the
code Of any one sect, Baptist, Presbyteriau,
Methoaist or Episcopaliani win willingly
be immersed ything, everything wliI do
and suffcr, If yon viii only save me from the
Fopsir When 1t Is known that these denomi-
nations deem each others Visss on sone points,
angels were created to be damned, as g a doc
triue of devils,n tho emergency which caused
them to coaIesce must BIO great. The New York
World-the journal alluded tots edited by q
Massachusetts, gentIeman and Protestant, ID.
Marble, Esq, who, being disinterested party,
his views are the more entitled to weight.
Though greatly pressed for room, we.dislike to
abridge it, SO give the article ehsfee sAy 90
Is it possible that the speakers at the meet:
ing of " the NewsYork branch of fthe Asa9gel
what they said or are they, ike MT. Charles
sgmnef Of pn6 Inc the iOs ss
~--oSS
honored and influential of them all, the great
work of the Alliance in the United States was
to enlist all evangelical Christians in earnest,
prayerful; ana vigorous eff0rts to resist tne ass
gressions made upon our religious and civil
liberties our educational and religious insti-
buttons, by Roman Catholics, and to stay. the
alarming progress of ratiOnalism and infideli-
ty" One reverend gentleman "spoke of the
encroachments of the Roman Church in this
country, and the alarming increase of ration
speakers" advocated 9the nnion of all the
Christian Denominations in the world and q
united ministry as the only hope against the
success of Romanism, rationalism and infidel-
ity.r What do these words mennf "Aggres-
sions," "encroaehment so-these are ugly words.
An aggression is the first act of injury; an en-
croachment is an unlawful intrusion into the
territories or Jurisdiction of another. When
. o large number of clergymen" apply these
TERMS to the progress which certain church
is making among the people, they signify that
is an unlawful intruder in the land. DO the
speakers at tho meeting of the Evangelical AL
lance wish to be understood as assuming this
CHURCH in the United States Do they mean
to say that Archbishop McC1oskey has not the
same rights here which Bishop Potter has Do
they mean to say that Father Heeker has not
as good right to print his Catholic magazine
and circulate his" amusing little tracts as they
have to print their magazines and circulate
their little tracts, WHICH are not amusing al
that the 203 Roman Catholic priests in this
city are unlawful intruders, and that their ITO
churches, 81 chapels, colleges, academies,
Is select schools, "a parochial schools, 81 con-
vents and religious houses IL asylurns, and 3
hospitals, should be torn down and their sites
sown with salt or confiscated and given over
to the support of evangelical" Christianity.
so that it could no longer be said, as it was
said on Sunday night, that the great want of
the Alliance now was funds Z" Or, if they do
not mean all this, what in the name of common
sense do they mean If they really believe
that ( Rnrsaa Catholics are making aggres-
md our iaaR8a aRa i ihsEftISSs
tions," and that they are "encroaching"
lawfully by daring to build churches, maintain
schools, and establish asy1ums, they must be-
lieve that it would be a good thing to put
stop to all this; and every ono else must be-
lieve that if they had the power they would
use il, quickly and mercifessfy, to accomplish
that end. 1t is well to be frank VIII these
gentlemen say, in SO many words, that they
look forward to the time when, by the efiiCien-
CIV of the Evan eiicai Alliance, or some other
yet undiscovered means, all evangelical
Christians shall be enlisted" in grand ar
my, arrayed against the Roman Catholic
Church III the United States and that they
will refrain from exercising the power which
viii be in their hands and hesitate for q mo-
ment in carrying their religion into their poll
tics and framing legislation so as TO crush out
Romanismi' from the landf "The great
question of the day. said one of the speakers
at this Alliance meeting, was, " Is Or is not the
Church capable of standing alone by itself,
without the aid of the State OF any other out
side influencesp Evidently, the evangelical
allies are inclined to take the negative side of
this questiOn-that is, if by the Church" they
mean the churches they represent They are
weff-speTsuNtRed-eha tlsey-eaasaet q stand
-alrney Y that they go in for the "oHtside inhu-
ence" of the Alliance in the first place. and
evidently contemplate using the Alliance as a
means of getting, aid from the State" in the
work of repelliDg the entertainments aud re-
yenging the aggressions of the Pope and his
myrmidons. The carelessness of the reporters
has left us in ignorance of the name of the
speaker who ennnciated this statement of "the
great questions of the dsy.n If he was the
same individual who spoke concerning "the
action of the British government in regard to
the Church of England aud the attempts to
free the Church of Spain," his ideas concern
ing foreign affairs are slightly mixed. The
British government has taken no action IS in
regard to the Church of England, p although q
few things have been done in regard to the
Irish Church, greatly to tho disgust of those
who think, as our evangelical allies do, that a
church cannot stand alone by itself without
the aid of the State." There have been no at
tenpts to free the Church of Spain :" there
is no Church of Spain save the Roman Church,
and its connection with the State is maintained
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