The New York herald., 1870-06-20
spirit and enects to the righteousness OF the scr
aud Pharisees.
ST. AyS,s FREE CHURCa.
Papal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by the Rev. DR..
Seymour.

Papal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by the Rev. DIR.
Seymour.
The Rev. DR.. Seymour delivered lecture on the
above subject last evening at st. AIMS church,
West Eighteenth street. TO moderate, but attentive
audience The preacher remarked that the Church OF
Rome had once possessed power which none could
withstand, but now her prestige was diminishing.
When Christ was born 1t was confessedy BY the head
OF Ithe nations; II ruled Palestine and Britain,
Arabia and the banks OF the Rhine During the first
three centuries, while persecution assailed Chris
tanity. she was shielded from danger incidental to
her position.
HER POWERS WERE SHAKEN
at last and she had never ceased to repel the at.
tacks OF supremacy which are now ana for scores
OF years past have been assang Rome. Lew.
Gregory l., Lyons, Constance Gregory VII. and
Others constantly maintained and promulgated the
idea OF supremacy. She claimed to be the see
OF all Sees and placed herself in competition with
all other governing bodies Rome in endeavoring
10 suostantiate the dogma shows that
SHE IS WEAK,
and it will demonstrate her weakness in the future
Rome has been IN the eddy for many century, and
II is now drawing In towards the abyss The doc.
trine OF Papal supremacy has been held for more
than hundred years II is an unfinished theory,
an incomplete system, beginning that has no end.
III has premises, bnt has no conclusion; II lacks
something and that Is infalbIlity. Whether the
dogma be declared now matters very little. II was
mere question OF ume IL was part anu parcel OF
supremacy and that by the law or thought must
nfalbility and allow that the Pope is the
successor OF Christ, and thus invest the Pope with
all ministerial, judicial and administrative func
tons; so that when he acts and speaks the Church
acts and speaks. The Pope claims that without
iniaiiibtltty is to make
cHRIsr's WORDS OF NO EFFECT
when He says that the gates OF hell shall not prevail
against His Church. Infallibillty not caprice
OF the papacy; IL was logical conclusion, and fol-
lows necessarily from the premises involved IN the
Roman supremacy which has ever been It's pet
theory. They would see that it was some hing 10
be looked for, and they need not be surprised at
It's promulgations. The crisis OF the Church will
then be at hand. When this dogma shall be formu-
lated and declared to be de nae, II will be the
DOCTRINE OF PRACTICAL ERROR
which has been assaillng the Patriarch at Rome No
one could lOre;e the crisis and suffering the Church
will In future endure. She will receive such q blurt
as Will ruin her for ages. The whole system was
false and her fate will be the result OF logical errors
IL VIII justify the great Church at COnstantlnope
ana tne Anglican Church In remaining ao0f from
her, In 1891 the dogma OF the immaculate C0ncep-
ton was promulgated eI cattedrd, and this error
would also be sent afoat. The Pope could not be
infallibe against sin and could never be proof
against error, for al the saints and patrarchs
grlevously fell and continued to transgress There
were Abraham, Solomon, Peter, John and many
others, who, above all, should have been m1aiDle
but were not. The Pope claims to be descended
from Peter. BE 1t so Great as Peters merits were,
yet his 1aith wavered, and he saved from ship.
wreck and many other deadly dangers, through his
own indiscrelion by special prayer and by the
mterposltion Of Christ