The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-09

vert" that 1t IL the "ROman" Catholic Churcn
which he has joined in lieu of the Catholic Church.
The apostles preached under the influence OF the
Holy Ghost (the third person the Trinity about
| SIM about righteousness and abOut Judgment 10
come. The people were alarmed; fear got
the heart nam" and said. .What sball we
said, "Repent, every one OF you, and be baptized,
and you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost"
Three thousand were born agam anu aHuea 10 inc
| The apostles during their lives preached the
same doctrine; no addition was mace Tor some
They first introduced penance for sins against
Christ. Next penance was ordered for sins
sins on repentance. But they did not get the
power to know when the sinner had made a good
the sinner is forgiven. They introduced two
kinds Of sins-mortal and venai. Mortal
sins condemn to he'll. while yenal sins
sins be cancelled by The priest by the sinners
confession doing penance or giving aims to the
Church. But, II they are not cancelled in this life
the sinner will have to stay in Purgatory until the
last arthing is paid But he be got out Of Pur-
gatory If he has friends living who viii so to the
priest and engage him to say mass for him; or, II
his friends will do something for the Church, the
Piled to the sinner by giving the priest his name
The priest changes by miracle the bread and
wine into the bedy and blood Of Christ, but does
Next, baptism by the Church is absolutely neces-
sary to salvation. If child dies before 1t is bap-
essential. The Priests have power to make
water holy INTO to make the ,rr 6urying
one in it that is not q member Of their Church.
They likewise teach that but few are so holy but
that they will have to 60 through Purgatory to
the holy a' Mary the Mother Mother Oh" Of Cod the
having great influence; and that it is beneficial
to pray to the holy souls in Purgatory. They being
in prison cannot pray for themselves, but being
members of Chrlst's Church He viii hear them for
others.
Like the Jews they began right but like them
This Sis is the Church which has changed from
| the Catholic to the Roman Catholic Church, which
our American convert has joined. JUDGE YE.
| Genealogical Commemorative Elm
Up?''
| To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:--
In your issue of February % noticed, under the
| heading "Bble Truths Not Theological COnun-
| drums" reply to a former communication by 3D.
L. d." The writer begins by telling us that the
phrase ''The book OF the generation of means the
''genealogy Off or "famy record of" and that
..son Off denotes descendant Of" and quotes
Matthew l., l. to sustain him. To this we do not
object but we certainly do object when he states
that "these records by means imply that all the
links of the generations found in each or either
OF them.u Matthew, after stating that David was
the son Tor descendant Of Abraham, and that
Jesus Christ was the son Tor descendant OF David,
cceeding generation from abraham to David.
and from David to Christ, for the pur-
RtTath of his assertions. IN admits this,
as he says. these genealogies or family tables OF
jesus s Se WAS the seed Of Abraham" Now would
| respectfully ask, How Is anything to be proven
many Of the nss In ha e S eadn t Of
ant of some distinguished parsonage how are
we to know that what he says is true
parsonage down to hmseiff And what kind Of a
family record would that be in which, though ex-
forty names could be found enteredf What would
be the use in keeping record OF family OF which,
pass away before another is recorded The links
connecting the two names would be lost. No one
could tell whether they belonged 70 the same lam
contained names totally different. instead OF sup,
plying the missing links, 1t would make confused
and the genealogy of Jesus Christ given BY Mat
has or can be- by these family Records and
what m. En- calls Bible truths" are STILL and ever
WIN be, theological conundrums. When I'M. E."
thinks he has solved them he prOpOunds as great q
conundrum In trying to tell us how he has arrived
at the solution. He says the tables were intended
tended to prove anything, because many links in
the evidence are missing. Truly this Is y funny
diction! Ink.
| memQ-
ment.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
am heather and was brought up in far-od
land where the God Of the Christian did not dwell.
do not believe in the Christians God for accord
ing to the Christians story, he used to be very
bad God and not half so smart as their devil
Say they, God made the world and a pair Of hui
mans and pronounced them exceedingly good, and
In a few days the devil turned everything so bot.
n nrl q nrQu m nv fhOu
sand years before He could begin repairs After
eighteen hundred and seventy odd years OF hard
work their God Is turning OF such specimens oil
eroy, Esquires
such slim god as this into the immortal produc-
ton OF Tom Jefferson, which has withstOOd the
oSaS n, M eas OF s toaahes
record. Can such sacrtlegious injection be
II somebody must 60 into the constitution, let II
be the orthodox devil rather than the orthodox God
for the former has proved himself the ADLER party
by this move the constitutional Christians would
be sure to enlist the support OF the majority OF our
congressman. May the God OF the heather keer
you. ALLAH MASH ALLAH
The Good Works OF ssOld Trinity"
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
AS one Of your correspondents In your last Sun
days issue made very severe attack upon Trinity
church. implying that all its members were hypo
critics, with whom he did not wish TO be In com
munion, may 81 ask the privilege Of making few
statements in regard to that frequently abused
parish" In reply TO your correspondents assertion
that, with their millions millions OF dollars, they
are accommodating their property instead of spend
ing ii upon the poor, l would answer that for the
last two years the expenses OF Trinity parish have
| exceeded its income This will not seem at al
strange when we consider the variety and magni
tude OF the works In which that parish Is engaged
conducted, for the most part, among the poor
| Trinity parish has chapel on Governors Island
established at the time OF the war for the especial
benefit Of the soldiers stationed there;
free mission chapel in the Bowery, free
church in Thirty-ninth street, and four
others, these latter having an aggregate OF be-
tween one thousand and two thousand Tree sit