Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-29
FIRST Gun of the Democracy.
4 sermon With q Stump Speech
n its Dsllf-oatheiic Opposi-
tieA 70 the 0ommon School Sys-
tsn--A Few Words In Behalf
Of Cen. Aosecrans.


Of Cen. Aosscrans.
From the Eston Regisssr. -.uly Isl
| In accordance with previous appoint
meat. Archbishop Purcell. accompanied
BY Father d'Arco and two other priests
came 10 Eaton on the 9th, and going
ct once to the Chapel of St. Patrick, OF
Msin street, engaged in talk to th'
children and also in the rite of con
frmation, laying hands upon and thus
formally inducting into the Church
some twenty-five applicants, this beins
one Of the two ordinances which non,
but bishops are permitted to admins
ter. the other being ordination. In tht
afternoon he addressed large audience
mostly of heretics, of course, at the
Court House, taking for his text these
words:
"For testify unto every man thai
heareth the words of the prophecy o.
this book. If any man shall add unto
these things, God shall add unto him
the plaques that are written in this
book.
"And if any man shall take away
from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his
part out of the book of life, and out of
the holy city, and from the things
which are written in this book.-Rev.
xii, 18, 49,"
The archbishop introduced his dis
course by reference to Judge Alexander
Mitchell, in former years an estimable
citizen of Eaton, whose guest be had
been for some time when preaching in
Eaton many years ago. Judge Mitch
ell was not fixed in his faith, and was
yet an earnest seeker after truth. He
sought it among the Universalists,, the
Methodists, the Episcopalians and the
Campbellites, but his feet were all the
time on shifting sand until he found the
truth and embraced it as found in the
Catholic Church. He then stood upon
the rock. He illustrated his researches
by several anecdotes which the judge
had related to him. For instance he
answered the Universalist dogma that
God Furnishes the sins of men here, by
saying that while the Children of Israel
were laboring for 40 years through the
wilderness, singing an occasional hymn,
but enduring untold privations. Pha-
raoh and his hosts were singing the
song of the redeemed around the
throne of God. AS to the Methodists,
John Wesley had separated from the
Episcopal Church, and while he pro-
fessed sancti6cation he quarreled with
his wife. And in illustrating the po-
sition of the Episcopalians he declared
that they were like the boy who had
been brought up for cutting the pigs
tail of, who plead not guilty and proved
it, in that he held the pig up by the
tail, and cut the pig off instead of the
tail, giving the audience to understand
that the pig cut off was the Catholic
Church, embracing all that was valua
able and essential in all religion.
The Archbishop then proceeded to
establish the point that the truth was
in the Catholic Church and there only,
and that all other religions are false.
In the first place Catholics claimed
that while the Word of God was the
only basis of the church, yet the read
ing of it was not necessary to salvation,
since if it had been God would not
have suffered his children to be de-
prived of it for a day or an hour,
whereas there was not letter formed
or known for $500 years after God
wrote the first word on the tables of
stone on Sinai. And it was 1850 years
after this before it was completed. So,
also, after Christ came to the world,
not less than 100 years elapsed before
the Gospels were written. Meanwhile
God had his servants, his priests and
high priests, who spake the word OF
life to the people, as Catholics do now.
The Bible was not a necessity to the
masses of the people, was the point
enforced. Of course, this would be
the basis for keeping it from them in
Catholic countries, which he did not
care to advert to.
But how was the Bible made? BY
Catholics. In the early ages of the
Church, the Catholic bishops came to-
gether and examined all the books that
had been written, enough. said the
Archbishop, to gil this Court room,
and rejected all these except those now
known as the Catholic Bible, which
the entire sacred canon. But,
said he, when the Reformation came
this book was subjected to a further
scrutiny by the Reformers, and mutt
lated by striking out such books as
Esther, Tobit, Maccabees, Ecclesias-
tees, the Book of Wisdom, dc. The
Archbishop failed here to inform his
audience why the Reformers had not
lust as much right to throw out these
few books as the Catholic bishops had
10 discard all the Court room full, ex-
,ept what they chose to select.
Again, the entire Protestant connec-
ion discarded all the seven sacraments.
Only the other day, at Chicago, (he
the "a'' in it as in hat,
an Episcopalian Convention decided
hat baptism was not necessary to re-
generation. So marriage was no longer
sacrament, but only civil right to
be entered into lightly and dissolved at
pleasure; and to provide for easy dis
solution, it was said that in Chicago
hey were getting up new edition OF
he Bible, to which, in addition to the
blank pages for marriages, births, and
deaths, as now used, several were to be
added for divorces. And so with all
he sacred sacramento, confirmation,
the Eucharist, baptism,
extreme JUNCTION and orders,
Ill were discarded as non-essential.
But the Catholic Church not only
rept the Bible intact but the sacra-
nents also. 81