Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-01-06

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lence Of the Charleston Convention
for the nomination Of President
The controversy concerning the
person Of Christ then ragged about
the question of the union of the di-
vine and human natures in one per-
sonality; and as one and another
controversialist entered the cOun.
Gil, his opponent shouted, "Turn
him OUT" Turn out the hereto =
" He is no bishop; turn out the
fighter against God;" and such
cries and menaces surged to and
fro in the assembly, until the impc.
rial commissioners were compelled
to silence the uproar by their au-
thority. Yet, with all their imper-
tections, these early councils formed
the nucleus around which the faith
and order Of the Church gradually
crystaIlized.
The causes that separated the
Greek and Latin Churches, and
closed the series Of ecumcnical
councils, were various and gradual
in their operation. There was a
difference about the worship of i'm
ages; the Greek Church protested
against the addition to the creed Of
the fioque clause which describes
the Holy Ghost as proceeding from
the Father and the Son but chiefly
the Greek Church rebelled against
the arrogant demands Of the Bish-
Iop of Rome for the primacy Of the
whole Church. Thus, these two
great bodies have been held asun-
der for more than thousand years.
The last great council Of the Lat
in Church was held at Trent in the
sixteenth century, to combat the
Reformation; and its decisions
have been appealed to as final upon
all questions at issue between Ro-
manists and PrOtestants. But the
Reformation leavened the Latin
Church to a greater extent than
was indicated by the Protestant sep
aration: and there was within the
bosom of that Church an element
of liberalism, more or less active,
and Il party Of resistance to the alb
solute power Of the ~ pc The
italian or ultramontane diyines
have mainly held to the superiority
of the Pope over a general council
the Gallican Church, on the con-
trary, has vested in councils the
supreme authority in matters of
faith and rule. This is practically
the great question to be tried in the
present Council. Dogmatic ques-
tions will have a secondary place,
Since the accession Of Plus Ninth
and the reascendancy of the Jesu
its, there has been a reaction to-
ward papal absolutism, and the
leaders of this reactionary move
ment are now "preparing to take
possession Of the whole organic
life ofthe Church by means of this
Council" The Pope has omitted
no opportunity Of asserting his
pretcntions, and has only grown
the more audacious in proportion
as he has lost his hold upon gov
ernments and peoples, through the
progress of new ideas. In 1864 he
issued and cncyclican letter, in
which he openly declared war upon
all the distinctive features and
ideas of modern society.
The principles of this and pre-
ceding encyclicals were tabulated !
in Syllabus that accompanied it
a catalogue of orrors, numbering
eighty distinct specifications, un-
der the following heads l. Pan
theism, Naturalism, and Absolute
Rationalism; 2. Moderate Ration
nlism = 3. Indiffereutism,7 Tolera-
ton; 4. Socialism, Communism,
Secret Societies, Bible Societies,
Liberal Societies; 2. Err
rors respecting the Church and her
Rights; 6. Errors Of Civil Society
I. Errors in Natural and Christian
Morals; s. Errors as to Christian
8. Errors regarding the
Civil Power of the Sovereign Pom
if; 10. Errors referring to Mod
,rn Liberalism.
In opposition to these alleged
,rrors, the most extravagant claims
ire put forth, of the supremacy of
he Church over governments, and
Ter right to enforce her physical j
.oertion and corporal punishment {
Secular education, civil marriage, s
he freedom of the press, of con
cience, and of worship are de- '
and it is declared a dam t
lable heresy to hold that the Ro- ;
nan Pontiff should reconcile him
elf with progress, liberalism, and
modern civilization. 1t IS said to he (
he wish of the Pope that the arti- ,
les of this Syllabus shall be defined {
" the Council in the form Of posi-
i've dogmas, and that papal infalli- !
,ility shall be declared an article Of |
aith. 1t is also charged that the
youncil has been manipulated-or, f
n other words, that it has been Y
acked-for this end. /
It was the foresight of this ten f
ency that led Father Hyacinthe to S
tier his eloquent protest and |
ppcal. He is by no means alone. t
'rohsohammeE of Munich, one of {
he ablest of roman Catholic di-
ines, has published a Volume on |
he right of private judgment, in :
rhich he declares that the papacy, {
einc a temporal power, cannot be
lenGcal with the kingdom that
'hrist set up in the world. Other
}erman divines have taken the
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