The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-07-18

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yndifIarentism 10 ono Of the modern phAses
Of Protostantisn, % Rationalism is another |;
latter. for as we srs told, aif the root be holy,
% ne As 1sS e s = Il s
In fact, though Rstionnlism is considered o
late phase in religion in Germany, and which
has, in this semblsnce, found root IN England
than the principle Of the inflammation having
reached to maturity, man having, by the
process Of human reasoning, IN his vain
cndeavors to unrayel the mysteries of Fevela-
ton, Tenounced belief IN Christianity, and has
thus fallen into his original state of infdelity,
and atheism itself The religions system of
Professionalism is thus called Rationalism, or the
religion of reason, but it can lay no claim oven
to this title; calling it SO La quite a misnomer ;
1t should be entitled Irratfonalism, for it is
impossible for the human understanding to
conceive q more IRA .ional system than the
principle of the Reformation, and the rule of
faith of Professionals. 1t is entirely void of
in an Omnipotent GOD, and as the founder and
upholder of Christianity, could not possibly
produce more impracticable system of belief.
Intworldly and material affairs man is never
guilty of such consummate folly as is involved
in the whole system of Protestantism. When
we seriously weigh it and analyse 1T, we are
forced to allow-that even those who unhapPily
become infidels, 80 common nowadays, show
sounder reasoning in their conclusions than
those who still cling to the untenable ground
work Of Professionalism. 1t does not appear to
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Of holiness, immutabflity, and truth, rs the
religious system of those who profess to believe
in these divine attributes Of the Deity, yetwill
maintain that this Godhead is the founder OF
Professionalism, and that its RumDcrless seces
constitute His Church.
1t has been said that man, in worldly matters,
acts quito in opposition to the principle of the
Observation-Disclosures our Parliament. Here
the representatives of the whole intelligence
and wisdom of the nation are congregated and
cenfraIised to enact laws and rescind others
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being of the commonwealth Mt large BY those
acts and laws, judges and courts of law are
guided and controlled, aud, besides the decision
of certain cases, requires the assent of the
sovereign, as being the chief magistrate of the
people; thus the nation becomes prosperous,
peaceful, powerful, and united Let us now
suppose this Parliament in its wisdom, or
rather folly, had enacted n decree that all acts
of Parliament were to be printed, and that
millions and millions of copies We're to be
distributed to the people tarou ghout the United
Kfngdom and were told that it was the duty of
every man and woman in the Kingdom to read
the same, and that they were to be guided III
their interpretations of these acts by their own
private judgment, that neither judge nor any
court of law had any right authority TO
dictate to them what was the law, or control
them in their acts, ii in opposition to their own
private opinions.
Let us suppose another case. In England
and elsewhere there numerous and enor-
nous manufactures wherein there may be in
each from tive to three thousand work-peopie,
ments are fitted up with different machineries,
of most complicated and dangerous character
to those unacquainted with the use of them.
1t requires the highest science and greatest
skill to bring the whole mechanical arrange
ments of these places to completeness.
Suppose when all these manufactures were in
taken it into their heads to discharge all the
people in their employment, and were to
engage others in their place, persons wholly
ignorant of the different machines and how
hay To I.a aat mr. "a WAY 1tav
had to perform, aud that they were merely
told by their masters, There are all the
machines, and there are all the raw materials,
and you must work them or starve We do
not consider it necessary that any one should
instruct you, you must therefore, be guided by
yonr, own. Judgment and understanding" 1t
must appear self-eyident what would be the
consequence, were these ignorant people to
attempt to set the different machines In motion
that they would be torn To pieces, and that
finally all the buildings would be blown up by
a fearful explosion OF the boiler. Yet, mon
strously absurd as all this would be, it would
be wisdom to the absurdity and impractica-
bility of the principle of the Reformation,
when educated aud intelligent men will say to
millions and millions of ignorant people,
the greater part of whom cannot read, Here
is the Bible, you are all bound in duty to read
it, to ascertain, by your own examination of
Scripture, if it had been written by the in
spiration of the Holy Ghost-what books
canonical, and what are the real truths of
Christianity, for we do not profess to instruct
you, or to claim any divine authority to guide
and direct you in matters of faith, and with
regard to your eternal salvation, for we are,
like yourselves, liable to and~lead you
astray; you are therefore to be guided, in
your faith, by your own private judgment, and
to follow your own interpretation of Scripture,
If in opposition to ours' celebrated Pro-
testant writer, and who is no friend to the Ca
tholic Church, has been constrained to say, "
see choice between CathOlicity and in
fidelity. "-LORdoR Tablet,
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The PRosELYTERs.-At the present time the
Protestant sects are yerv busy in sendiuu