The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-19
Vigilance of tho Church.


In our last we noticed, under the head of
" Now Publications." the lecture delivered by
T. w. M. Marshall, at Loyola College, Baiti-
more. entitled "Order and Chaos" The fol-
lowing isnn extract from that eloquent pro
duction :: 7e-~.S-
To record all that the Church has done from
the beginning to preserve the faith from cor
ruption would be to write her history. You
know how in every age she alone mas pa lI.ei
the deposit entrusted to her keeping. Will
not remind you of her victories over every
heresy in ages gone by, but win ask you 10
notice only single example in our own time
1t will amply suffice rs IN illustration OF the
point which we are considering. 1t SO nap
pens that during the present generation iour
Of the most eminent of her priests, CON
spicuous by the splendor of their intellectual
Gifts have merited tho adinorition or pro-
voked the censures of the Church. we neea
not hesitate to recall the fact, for 1t Will be
found only to add new lustre to her imperish-
able glory. De Lamennais and Giobert,, Kos
mini and Vcutura--of whom the tyo lsat save
been imitators of the iow1y Fenelon, the two
first of the arrogant TertulliaHy-are examples
in our own day of tho ceaselrss vigilance OF
the SUCCESSORS of st, Peter in rebukIng ana de,
stroying error The two first resisted nm, ana
withered away like tree blasted by lightning;
tho two last obeyed his paternal remonstrance
and by their humility acquired fresh titles TO
the love and respects of Christians. TO whom
they have bequeathed so excellent an example
Such is the sleepless fidelity of Gods vicar,
and such are the fruits OF his Divine nission
70 preserve tho children entrusted TO MN IN
the purity and simplicity of our most hoiy
! faith. Before his presence error hides her lace
and the spirits of darkness, despalrinS OF sue
! cess return to tho abyss from which they came
out.
And how is it with the sectsf Far from
| warning against religious error, they exist only
| to maintain and defend its sovereign rites !!
| They claim to believe what their own diseased
| lamentations may persuade them to accept,
and to teach whatever the itching ears oil
! others may induce them to hear. What Is fee
! bly, repudiatcd by sect is cordially vel
! coined by another and oven in the same sect
! every conflicting Interpretation of revealed
truth has exactly the same title to respect, be-
cause it has its origin III the same right OF
private Judgment, and appeals to the same
personal iufallibiIity in those to whom it is
addressed. The Church of England, the most
powerful of all Protestant communities, by
reason of her vast endowments and connectioh
with the State, differs from other sects mainly
in this that within her fold are tauSnt-at the
same time all the errors maintained IN every
other, in addition to those which have been
| invented by herself And they are all taught
| with equal authority, and with the same
| absolute immunity from remonstrance or cor
| rection. How should one man demonstrate
| with another for doing what he claims the
right to do himself or correct in his neighbor
! the alterations which he may adopt as his
! own whenever he feels inclined to do so I
! And thus the external confusion of the King
| dom of Chaos is renewed from generation 10
generation, as eHe-wave follows another in n
stormy and tumRltuons sea, and while the
Church reflects in every age the unbroken
! Unity of God, the Seets represent only the
strife and disorder which is the eternal portion
of the fallen spirits in their own home, and
which they have succeeded too well in in
| Producing into ours, wherever they are not
| confronted by those invincible allies, the
| Mother of God and the Vicar of Christ.