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lie Church. lcctured 1aat evouing hoforo tho Un.
lou Catholic Library Association, Oh tho subject:
!" Some OF Tho Sooial Cn,iaos 10 which 1rotcst-
nntIBm Owes itB Origin" 4 largo and ilno-lool-
Ing asBomblago Of lalios mud gontlomon wus In
attondancc.
Tho lecturer, having beon introduced by Mr..
Washington 11eHillg, Hall llo should apehli on tho
cauHes Of tho 1lcform movement Of tho Bixtoonth
century, pointing out n few landmarks to guido
young people ii thor studies. ALL tho progress
and civilization Of today da!cd from tint movo-
mont. lie should show that 1t was not n re-
]ligious but d political and sooial movement. Il
was not 10 bo expected TINT tho Unity Of the
Christian society should ronlau intact to tho ond
Of timo. Falac guides arose, md horcscs and
nchislns existed from tho beginning
of tho, first century Of tho Christian
ora. Ihoso horosieB wcro commenced in
tho nanle. OF doctrines which thoir
most ardent adhcrents mover understood. and Of
which many Of them lad mover heard. They
rallied around bannor, caring NOT what was
written OIL its folds. So with later hercsies, n,ld
oyon to'dny thousands proclaimed themselves
Giiscipen Of ncstori'1Hs who never knew who
Nestoriua was. An .ahstruso point Of doctrine
waB nut forward rs bcariug upon tho salvation
OF 1nen Wlp did NOT oven understand tint doc
trinc. All thcno llerosics owed tllor rise aud
progress to external circumstances peculiar TO
tho times. At tho beginning Of tho sixteenth
century tho nations Of Europe owned ono spirit
unl head; Church md Stnso worked harmonious-
" together, mutually bonoilcia] to each otilor.
Learning and Tho tino arts reyived aad in tifty
iiftoon centuries boforo. It seemed TINT only
pence and prosperity woro loft 10 tho Church,
but tho strugglo Of Professionalism was yet to
COMO Fifty yoarg after Martin Luthor issued
Ills proclamation not u nation in Northern l3,,-
ropc. excepting England, acknowledged allo-
ganco TO tile See Of Romo. Tho constitution
Of tho Church was nttachcd. During fifty years
tho movement progressed, md then stopped,
and 1t WAS something to1oto that tho Protestant
bonndaricB in Europo wore tho ramo tlat they
wero tlon. Tho SUCCESS OF the Reformation waa
yarlously asorbed to tho desire to bo freed IRON
the intellectual dcspotisni a,,1 tho many abuses
of tho Church Of Rome to tho genills Of Lu-
scriptllro into familiar tongues while others
alleged that 1t ssas political movement alto
gotiler.
Either It WAS 4 ro1igions or political and
been toward q higher and moro rigorous stnntl-
ard Of morality. II not n religious movement
it must havo boon political nntlhocia1. This wns
2 question OF history, and it was admitted by
not religious character, and WIS not an Mt
tempt nt religious atnclioration. Thoro wero
abuses in tho Church OF Rome, and I.rthot's
protest against intulgonces was aetuatod by
noblo md houest purpose. Had that pro-
test received y proper appreciation by
those in authority, tEoro was no doubt that
Luther'n groat zeal aud talent would hive boen
TOR und with thu Church, instoad Of against it.
Tho oSistonee Of ahuacs. mover drove nntion
ont Of tho Church, though 1t sometimes drove
out weak-hcaacd people. Moreover, tho abuses
could only ho corrected within tho Church.
Whatoyor loctrinal bollof Luther hold in the
beginning, he WIS not slow in ropudiatiug OF
altering it, according, to crcumstanccu; md
to-day not o single church taught tho fayorito
doctrine Of Llther,-tlat of FREQ will in nnn,
DOCTRINES wcro not tho end for which they
labored, but only tho neans to oppose the
Church.
The popuar notion that tue Reformation owed
itR SUCCESS to the reading Of tho Scriptures waa
tho sano which now induced Protestant
churches to nttcmpt to convert the heatlon by
rcadng tho scripturcH-witl what succcss need
not bo mentioned. Before Luther began biz
translation there woro gavon editions Of the
Diblo in Bohemia. while thcro wero III MI thirty
thrco editions in tho Gcr1nan language. There
were Italian, Spanish, noman, Fe'iotian French,
nnd belgian versions Of tho Scriptures i'll exiHt.
enco boforo Iuthers translation. There wora
over 900 different editions in Europe up to 15GGs
milton noyor was, never could be converted to-
Christianity by tho reading or the bible; far bo-
yond this wns tho mighty spirit Of tho Church
| Of CHRIST, tho only powor which had revolutions
| lied the world, socially and morally. Tho Dibla
was the soul, tho Church tho body of rcligion;
| tho Blle tho Constitution, tho Church tho or
tuition was not potont to touch the latest cncrgca
| Of man.
Tho Reformation was, therefore, not Il ro1.g-
| ious movement. Tho causes which produced il
were wholly socal and political, peculiar to tho
timos md the moment tho caaseA coascd to OK.
| lst, tho progress Of tho movement ceased. In
tho hlteontl ccntrry movement wns going on
Which destroyed fendalism mud crcntcd the mon-
latter system was thon nntagonistic to tho
Church, Wllo it's relatiouB with ,foudalism
had been Of tho most intimato character,
The Roman PontH. aud various Bishops
ha A1bots wero fSaas lords The
tho innd: The Church possessions increased
continually, and B1teh IN order of things could
not 10 changed without injury to tho spiritual as
wcll as tho temporal interests of tho Church.
Everything connected with tho change tended to
wealon tito Poutificul influence, alll, added to
| tint, tho Pontiff nrraycd hmaolf against
Charles r., aud incurred tho hostility Of tho Ger
man Princes. All these cnuscs assistcd in bring
ing about tho state Of things which existed ut
tho timo tho Reformation began Tho Church
| might layo Abandoned foudnHsn with profit,
but it Was not dono. There wns then, as at Tho
! present time, q human and cllungcablo oloncut
III tho Church, whereby its cxtornaI regime WAS
| tho beginning ot tho sixtconth century, and led
| to opposition TO tho 1nonarclcnl systonl.
Tho Reformation grow out of tho political
changes, md was essentially q political moyo-
mont; eprnng from hunau motives, aud WAS de-
yised for the furtlcranco OF humsun interests:
| Tho contest today Was between CatIolicty and
iniiacity, botwoon liberty nul dcsl'otisnt.
BY tho alliance Of Professionalism md tho
absolute mouarcl,ics which prevailed Mt
| tho beginning of tho seventeenth con-
tury, tho Prince WIS the cxponeut
! Of tho religious faith Of tlo people, which hq
altered to auit his own intorcstH. protestantism
had therefore become religion of nations, ns-
simulated to nntional CHARACTERISTICS ana vary.
ing according to location. How different from
the Church from which it reyoltod,-the Church
Of thG universal world.
Tho lecture ,yas listened to with the closest
attention, md, Mt its close. tia lecturer was
warmly applnu1etl.
TIE Tl.stiEssEANH.
There arc Thousands OF pooplo In this city to
whom there aro 10 songs like tho old songs.
Theao lovers of old-faahoncd music will iii.
doubtelly go and hoar the Tonnosseal!s. There
ayo worry many enthusiastic doyotccR of music
who will avail themselves OF this opportunity to
study claBB Of 1nueio composed without nrt,
preserved without any system OF musical nota-
ton, aud attributable to no known composers.
Yhnro Ia lnst Of hnhifnnl cnf1rnrt .rnnra Win