The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-17
The Presbyterian. and tho Pope.

influence they posses over the masses, seem to
have subsidized the secular press to effect
their purposes A writer in PUtnan.'s Magazine
lately essayed to prove that the Roman Ca
tholic Church was the established Church in
the State of New York. the Catholic WorIPs
answer entirely demolished the formidable array
of pretended facts and fallacious figures of
this INSCRIPTIONS magazine. Again, ia regard
to tho Pope's invitation to Professionals to attend
the Council, the New York Tribune comes out
in a column article defending the action of the
Presbyterian Assemblies in o manifesto which
they published, replying to the Holy Fathers
invitation. We give below an article from
the Ne<y York WOrId--a Protestant paper.
comg6enting this undignifed document.
The CaIvinstic organ in this city win perceive
that we are not alone in estimate of the
bad manners which characterizes the denomi-
nation to which it belongs. Says the Horld:
"The moderators have not shown themselves
to be very wise, very courteous, or very
logical" But to the article:
When it was proposed in the two General
Assemblies of the Presby terian Church which
met here last summer that tt reply should be
sent to the Man of Sin at Rome in response to
his eucyclical addressed to "all Professionals and
non-Cathoiics," some prudent members of the
assemblies expressed themselves being
strongly of the opinion that 1t was inexpedlent
to take any notice of "thatpoor, foolish and
wicked old man." This view of the question,
however, did not prevail. bwas thought that
the ungodly would say if no reply was made
to the Pope's letter, that it was because no
reply could be made; and it was ordered that
the moderators of the two assemblies should
prepare q proper epistle, protest, manifesto,
pronunciamento, or whatever else such q doc
cument should be called. What should be done
with the paper when prepared was left in
doubt. Whether it should be transmitted to
Rome, or published here, or simply filed among
the archives of the assemblies was question
that remained in doubt until a few DAYS since
when it was solved by the appearance, in the
New York Observer, of paper addressed g To
Plus *, Bishop OF Rome and '.signed, in
Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America by I'M. w. Jacobus and p, II.
Fowler, Moderators." perusal of this paper
better for the credit of the five thousand
ministers of the gospel in whose behalf it is
written, had the counsel of those who recon-
mended that 40 notice should be taken of "the
poor old Pope been followed. The moderators
have not shown themselves to be very wise,
or very courteous, or very logical. 1t is to be
feared that they have succeeded in doing but
little credit to their own cause, and that they
have offered themselves mp as an easy sacrifice
to the Paulist Fathers who lie in wait on Fifty
ninth street for all such unwary souls. 1t is
tolerably easy to imagine the nature of the
replies which we shall presently see in the
Roman Catholic periodicals of New York and
Boston to this manifesto. The two moderators,
warned by the unhappy fate of poor DIR. Cum
ming have, it is true, avoided the pitfall into
which he stumbled They have not attempted
to air their " ecclesiastical Latin"-which,
perhaps is somewhat musty-and have con
sequentiy not Numbered about Presbuterus
They have not coquetted with the Scarlet
Woman by addressing Antichrist as their Holy
Father and expressed their veneration for the
harlot drunk with the blood of the saints.
But in steering clear Of Scylla, they have
sailed into Charybds- In the first place, they
commit breach of etiquette in showing why
they must decline an invitation that has not
been given them. 1--WE deem it right to say
in few words" they say, "why we cannot
comply with your invitation OF participate in
the deliberations of the approaching Council"
The Pope has not invited them to the Council;
the Council is n convention of Bishops of the
Catholic Church, and the only way in which
any of the " five thousand ministers of the
gospel, ;" represented by their two moderators,
could possibly participate in it's deliberations,
would be to get themselves changed from
Presbyterian clergymen into Catholic Bishops:
| The invitation which the Pope extends to AL
| Professionals and non-Catholics" was not to
| come to the Council. but "to consider and
seriously examine if they in truth follow the
! path prescribed by our Lord Jesus Christ" and
| to ''address without ceasing the most fervent
| PRAYERS to God that He should dissipate the
| cloud of error and bring them back into the
| bosom of the Church, our holy mother" This
was the invitation, and the only given.
| The Pope invited the Protestants to pray for
| themselves, and these two moderators, in be-
| halt OF nSe tnOubuno OF LnelT brethren, Jlke
| up two columns of the New York Observer to
! "say in a few words" why they can not comply
with that invitation They do not mean this,
of course, but unhapPily they say it; and the
ungodIy, we fear will scott at the confession
! which these clergymen make of their own in,
| ability to pray for themselves The Pope not
| only invited the Professionals to pray for them
selves, but he promised to pray for them
assuring them that he never ceased "humblS
| to ask for them, both by day and night, thu
| celestial light and the abundance of grace frou
the eternal pastor of seHis.A.- The two modera
tors do not thank the Pope for what they, nd
doubt, consider his mistaken zeal for the healtl
of sealsi they'd faEaIssiss IN Ert1I
TO pray for him, that he may be converted
they do not even advise him to pray for him
! self-they probably. consider him past praying
| for but civility is cheap, and the represents
| tives of five thousand Protestant clergymer
| ought to display as much politeness, to say
| nothing of Christian charity, Us that shown by
the ''poor old, foolish Pope" The letter of tn,
| two moderators, however, will probably neye
be been by tho Pope it is apparently not in
tended that il should be sent to Rome; and i
is addressed to Plus TX. only as the letters o
| our excellent correspondent, the PaTsee Mer
! chant of Bombay, are addressed to Horace
| Greeley. Mr.. Greeley, no doubt, does -afit
| read the letters of MIR, Curiosibhoy, and SEEK
n l. I,,,kr do, Mo-