The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-18
ytdesh nos or as own kindred in the Lord Is worse

J. God'e house. being house OF order expect to
Community u society IN It's most compact form;
hence there Is the greater necessity for laws; as
where tnere Is no government there Ia no God"
Perfect liberty IN worldly sense means individual
ISOLATION from ali human association. Faith makes
ooedience practical and the burden and yoke
8. The probationary member is expected to place
MS property In the hands OF the elders trustees
returnaDe, without interest, until, by his own
faith and the consent OF the authorities he Is priv
| legged to dedicate it. 1t does not appear that 10
the nrst Pentecost they waited long for that cond
9. The society puts confidence in individuals as
they gam confidence in the Pentec0stal order OF
the Church. But the Ananias and sapphire spirit
should remain without
10. Married persons are not received unless the
husband ana wife come together; or that they
separate by mutual consent or legal agreement, In
relation to their marriage, their properly ana tneir
II. We neither take nor reject persons because
! of riches or poverty. Where many embrace our
iaith at ore time we may not always be able to
! provide home for them immediately; but Will do
Wishing to visit should notify US, il possible. before
they come; and none should come expecting, II
not received, the society 10 pay their expenses
IL. where a PERSONS treasure is, there will
their heart be also. Therefore, those who dispose
OF their property 10 relations III the world should
remain with 1t.
49, Persons who dedicate property ana after
wards withdraw may have their property re-
! turned without interest; but II Is optional with
! the society
| IA. Probationary members sign an agreement
! binding themselves to observe the rules of the
order during their soJOurn or until they are pre-
pared 10 sign the covenant oil the society,"
10. All correspondence is subject to the supervi-
sion OF the elders whether letters, &c, be sent or
received.
10. AS no person could Ioin the primitive Ouakers
or MetnodistS and change from their worldly ways
IN language dress and demeanor without suffer
ing degree or death, how much less shall they
become new creatures" in all things in this
Pentecostal Church, aud not become partakers Of
the sunerings OF Jesus, which He has "left behind
Tor His bOdys sake,n OF which lie only the mead.
s, H., our worship IS IN spirit and consists IN
speaking, singing, marching, and sometimes In
'battes OF shaking - and, again. IN solemn or
Joyiul Dances IN divers operations, as the spirit
commannss %where tae spirit OF the Iord Is.
there Is liberty"
v1sIrors
Casual visitors are expected to pay for their en-
tertainment.
Parents having children, or persons having rela-
tiveS among believers, are not expected TO make
those circumstances occasions for rendering our
societies places OF resort visit to the country
at the expense OF believers.
Visitors seeking religious information with q.
view oil uniting are always welcome.
Answer to .sCathoiic and Not \ jew"
To EDITOR or THE HERALD
Your sunday columns have recently been awaited
ofby some person with the de plume of Catho-
lie and Not a jew" whose chief object seems to
be to obtain for self and fellows, by whatever name
they may be known, the former title 1t may APP
pear unkind to say 1t, but still cannot help
being reminded by this writer's conduct, OF some
of Esop's fables, in which certain small and
homely animals are represented as striving to
emulate or simulate the beauty, strength and i'm
portance of n0bler species. II the writer how
ever, be sincere he may be disabused Of the de-
lusve hope Of attaining his object and set right
on the question to what denomination owns the
name as well as the attribute Of Catholic, by
nedltating on the lew sub)Oned quotations from
e s Nv @ ae
munion. A wealthy ana respected firm IN Scotland
Is now issuing TRANSACTIONS or their works and with
great care and elegance, Tor the Anglcans confess
great regard Tor the fathers OF the first four
i've centuries. Aurelus Augustine then Bishop
OF Hippo tdied 430), in his commentary on st.
Johns Gospel, chapter 3, thus wrltes:-"fnere are
many things which keep me IN the bosom
ron Peter himself the name itself OF Catholic
keeps me, which she alone has preserved amid SO
many hereses so that while all heretcs like to be
called Catholics yet il stranger asks where is the
Catholic Church none OF them dare show his own"
one would think he wrote yesterday, instead OF
l,400 years ago. In letter to Severinus, No. l.
''She IS the Catholic Church, so called by Greek
term, because she IS spread over the whole earth"
| Your correspondents community. Tor which he
would clam the same significant "Greek term,r is
probably confined 70 a few chapels in London and
chapter the same saint writes, "We must hold
last to the Christian religion and the communion
called Catholic not only by her own children, but
also, willingly or unwillingly, by all her enemies;
when they talk. no. among themselves, but with
strangers, call the Catholic Church nothing else
g. ne says, "Tne church IS everywhere, and SO is
heresy but the Church Is one and the same in all
places, while neresy differs widely in one place
from what ii in another, and therefore heTesy
can claim the title Catholic"
st. cyril. Archbishop OF Jerusalem (died 1867, in
his Catechism, No. Is, thus wrltes:-''H you are
going into strange city do not ask, where is the
church, where Is the house OF God, hereIics
too. claim to have church and house OF God;
but ask, where is the CathO1 church, for that Is
the own name OF this holy Church. the mother OF US
ALL II you put your question so, no hereto will
SDeW you ms own c0nNeutlcle." piece OF ADVICE
that VIII serve the emgrant to our shores just
well Today How these holy fathers, translated
rom the earth I,40o years ago, would have reason
bless God IL they revisited now, and found that
Providence still preserves this Church ike q city
on mountain toD light Oh the candlestick reveal.
ing herself TO the most literate in the very
name by which she is known OF meni Truly of her
IL may be SAID, None name her but to pralsen for
whenever they mention her they give her the
noble title OF Catholic, and contradict themselves
whenever they would delaIne her. for to say,
Tor example, that the Catholic Church is
idolatrous or supcrstitous, is the same as to say
the Church of Christ Is idolatrous superstitious.
since the term Catholic is exclusively the property
4 and synonyme Tor the Church OF Christ, '.the
mother OF us alln Thus, even though not iniend-
Ing blasphemy the reyiier OF the Church must
needs use basphemous terms From this also Que
understand why it Is thai the Italians say the
''Catholic Roman Church." tnat IS the church
Cat1oIic and Roman, and not the koman Catholic
Church." as II there we're any Catholic Church out
side of that which obeys "the succession o priests
from Peter himself.n Hence also it was unneces-
sary Tor the Catholic Rerte1c OF January 10 TO ex-
plain that it not only Catholic, but Roman
catholic. The Catholic Church Is one all the world
over, and one only; and this conserving to bear
the title of Roman Catholics to be accepting
the schismatcal position which English Protestans
wished US to occupy when they gave US the name,
it was they who probably did so, since IL Is
among English speaking people that the term pre-
walls ACADEMIC.
The Catholic Union of New Y ork.
At annual meeting OF the Catholic Union or
New York, held on Wednesday, the l4th inst, the
following named gentlemen were elected officers
Tor the ensuing year DIR. Henry J. Anderson,
President; Eugene Kelly, First Vice Presidents
Joseph Thoron second Vice President Dr. +. Il.
0'Calaghan, Corresponding Secretary; Charles n.
Morse. Recording Secretary: William J. Hughes,