The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-23

was picked mp on Common street last week !
and handed to us was, We suppose, intended I
for publication In one of our Camp street {
but as it is uncertain
which, we give it the benefit of our circu-
lation, 80 that the good lady to whom 1t Is
addressed may see it, and have an oppor-
tunity of answ eriDg the inquiries Of the
troubled writer:
"Ths Protestant Episcopal Church"
Dear Madam-I have read with deep interest
and great attention your very learned commu-
nication, under the above heading, in last
Sundays Times. Tho arguments and numerous
authorities cited by you against the claims OF
the monk" to having taught anything 10 tne
Saxons but mere Popery, and that 1.-THE ground
was preoccupied by branch OF the Holy "a
tholic (not Roman) Church." to which your
mother, the Holy Protestant Catholic Apostolic
Reformed Episcopal Church of England mas
succeeded, startled me, aud made me ponder
seriously if these things can be true
For you must know that up TO the appear
ance Of your communication l have been an
unmitigated Papist, and believed what Gon
bett says about your Branch of the holy
Church was true, namely, that the thing i'm
pudently called the Reformation was eDgen-
dered in beastly lust, lpardon me. madam, Tor
dnced the name of Henry the VIII: brought
forth in Hypocrisy and perhdy, and ny rivers |
of innocent English and Irish blood" have, |
however been somewhat restless aud uneasy |
Of late not indeed with the creed OF the Churcn
of Rome-for have rested US securely and
confidingly on her authority for my belief as
babe doth on its mothers breast. But 1t has De-
come too expensive for me to continue to 1--we
| respectable Papist much longer. We have SO
| many new churches, schools, converts and asy.
| lums building and so many orphans to support
that Icannot afford it; and as your branch Of the
| Holy Catholic Reformed Church has not many
| schools, asylums or orphans to support, ana so
~. Tn Il md
withal genteel religion, it is just the thing
| to suit my pocket, if I could only satisfy MY
conscience ; 80 l resolved, after pondering on
] your communication, to borrow one OF yonr
books of Common Prayer and study the matter
over leisurely. The boy returned with two
! COPIES and was busy at the moment, handed
them to my old woman, and this unlucky acct
dent has interrupted my contemplated inves-
| tigation of the Apostolic" claims OF yonr
"branch" ut present.
! 1t happened in this wise: Until lately my
| better half belonged to one or more branches"
of your Reformed Catholic Holy Protestant
Church, or perhaps to the original trunk OF
stem.for she was Presbyterian until con- on,
j verified by Maffit to the Methodist branch"
then went with her beloved pastor, Mr..
Dean, to the Millerito branch" where she
remained until the day of judgment had passed.
She says that in order to appear decent before
the Who'll, world when the last trumpet sound
ed, they had made up their resurrection gar
ments. pure white, and when the expected day
came they dressed themselves, the men in
white night caps, white dressing-gOwn white
vests, pants, and white shoes and stockings,
and the ladies in white long robes. They re-
manned praying and fasting for q whole day
: and night, looking like q house full of ghosts,
when they were told at last to go home and
Q ,ntnue in prayer, in expectation of the com
= iny, rs some miscalculat on had been made in
the Interpretation of the prophecies After
that disappointment she .emed to care very
Q little about any religion, and did not trouble
+. her on the subject. But Lot long ago she sur
prised me by informing me she was Catholic
Q having, without my knowledge or consent
gone to confession and been baptized by 8
Spanish priest. and she is now more decided
Il Papst Than what am.
C She, after examining the books, told me tina
one of them i"oked like Catholic prayer
@ it did look little suspicious; so said jest
n i nuSsa You "eAn' my os"F' f0p''N prayer
le "a fiddlestcks," says she whats the dit
-, ferencef Our old minister told US long az
~ that they were all the same, Catholis, Papis
at or Romanist. and that the Episcopal Chnrc
IA degenerate daughter of the Church of Rome
=" and aped her in every way, and by her snbsel
a. viency to the Kings of England, and her pei
-. secution of the saints, having disgraced Pre-
ST testant Christianity, and being filled wit
ut Popish corruptions, wishes to disown her oriSi
an and steal back the name of her old Baby lonis
Z" mother, and pass for the Holy Catholic Churc
as of England and America but she would
vc only too glad to get entirely back to Rome,
". they would receive her.
ar She then read list of saints taken from tn
,te Roman calendar-and said-if that was 20,
wv prayer book that the makers and users of
" could not believe what you say about Popis
ID corruptons, or they never would have p
POpish saints in the calendar. v,szsss' "
BIG took the book, and, to my great snrpris
a found il to DO the prayer book of your Motht
ms the Holy Protestant branch Of the Reforms
The Ireland printed at Oxford by authority-wi
calendar for every day in the year, aud not
=, Protestant Reformed Catholic saint in tn
TIL even Saint Wicliffe (whose gigantic efforts
m the nineteenth century, eliminated, in the vi
teenth century, in the great Reformation),
no. Saint Edward the Sixth, Saint Cranmer, n
int Saint Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen but
ha whole lot Of Popes, Popish Bishops aud Popi
oe holy men and women, ali put there so th
ow their anniversaries may be religionsly ce
tha brated in all the Churches of the Holy Ell
'n' lish Quot Roman) branch of the Catho
cen Church. And ! find even that the name M
as that Popish emissary, "Augustin the Moni
90 who first introduced the Romish corrupto
ru- among the Innocent Pagan Saxons, is set do,
Will for religious observance under date of the It
of May.
CO. Besides this stumbling block to !
ing conversion to the Aposlolical Protests
Catholic branch, my good lady ask