The Portland daily press., 1875-06-03

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| were worried by the prosecutor The episcopal
| authority of the Catholic church shows an un-
| broken chain from the apostles until now. he
| The authority which Christ conferred upon Pc
| ter ard his apostles has never been lost because
through all the ages the chain has never been
| broken or its connections lost.
The preacher then proceeded to show that
such chain of competent authorities was
| necessary, because no record was kept of sin
| gle sermon of Jesus, or, indeed, of his life.
| The mystery of the incarnation, birth, infancy,
are barely alluded to- One of his sermons
would make as much as an entire gospel. We
| have only few fragments, but no adequate
| account of the sacraments and what they are
intended to imply. Jesus did not intend to
! leave written record which should be suff-
Gent. Those who believe that it is are con-
| stantly disputiDg about the teachings OF the
| Bible he intended that the truth should be
continued in its purity by the means of living,
| sneakins and teaching of Catholic bishops, by
| tie volumes written by holy men in the first
| nine centuries, there being 5000 writer's, some
| of whom have written more than one OF us can
| read in life time The Catholic prelates
| preach the same truth all over the world-the
| same now and 10 the first century and will be
the same forever because it is Gods WORD
| The fact thai thousands of men through loCo
| years, thousands of miles apart, IN different
| languages have held to the same truth, IS
proof that it is Gods Truth Outside OF the
Catholic church is no unity.
He said that those who rely wholly upon tne
bible for religious teaching fall into difficulty.
1t comts from everybody interpreting the
scripture for himself. 1t is what he thinks,not
what God teaches. The bible doesn't say that
this or that is So but man uses his imperfect
reason in deciding What it teaches: The biDIe
alone is dead letter, and those who attempt
to make it the only means Of instruction sail
into heresy and schism. The living word,
handed down from Que living teacher to anoth-
err is the only nfallible source of truth. HAD
Jesui intended that all tie world should read
the bible aud make it the source OF religious
teaching. he would not have suffered fourteen
centuries to pass during which only the very
rich could obtain it. On the other hand he or
dained that his disciples should be endowed
with that zeal which led them to spread the
truth by living words all over the world. he
instanced the example of Philip entering the
chariot of the travelling king and there ex-
planning the word he did not understand, as
proof that the scripture was not intended for
the only teacher. Jesus also said to the Phar.
asees. search the scripture, meaning the laws OF
Moses. Indeed, the new testament was not
then written. He gave that advice TO the Jews
only-to little knot of men who doubted the
mission of Christ. He said that it will DE OBJ
served that st. Paul only advised the reading
of the scripture 10 one epistle, that directed to
Timothy, who was prelate: de gave no sucn
advice to the Romans and Ephesans.
The Catholic epscopacy is a teaching ruling
corporate body. Consequently, it is not SO
much upon the bible that we place our claim
of infallibIlty as upon the living word, handed
down through the centuries by the fathers.
The apostles creed that shibboeth of the globe
which says Il believe in the Holy Catholic
Church. is older than the bible.
In view of the fact that the PRONUNCIATION of
Gods truth depends almost wholly upon the
continuance off faithful clergy, this in
terestng ceremonial of conservation is observ-
edit The preate must be examined to see if he
holds to the truth as handed down to the
fathers He concluded by showing the power
of the church aud the secret OF its unity and
strength-loyalty to truth.
CONCLUSION.
At the conclusion of the sermon. the conse-
orator took the newly sconsecrated Bishop by
right hand, and the senior Assistant Bishop by
the left, and led him to his Bishops chair, aud
the consecrator placed the crozer in his left
hand-he being seated. Then the consecrator,
turning to the altar, began the TIE Deum, which
was continued by the choir, during which Bisn-
op Healy passed through the Cathedral dev-
ering his blessing upon the people who knelt to
receive it. Having returned TO the altar, he
gave the blessing as given by bishops. After
few other ceremonials the clergy retired, and
at o'clock the exercises closed.
DEDICATION AT CUMBERLAND MILLs.-Thir.
ty-nne members of the order of Knights of
Pythias accompanied by their ladies, left the
Portland & Rochester depot by special train at
7.30 last evening" On arriving at Cumberland
Mills they were met by an escort of members
of Presumpscot Valley Lodge and escorted to
their new hall where the service of dedication
were gone through with by Grand Chancellor
H. c. Peabody and Vice Grand Chancellor
Josiah FL. Drummond, assisted by members of
the Grand Lodge, after which Past Chancell
M. L. Stevens of Portland delivered very in
teresting address, which was listened to with
deep interest by the brothers and their friends
who had assembled in large numbers. Vice
Grand Chancellor j. Fl. Drummond made
few very interesting remarks for the good OF
the order, after which the members and their
friends adjourned to another large room ad-
joining the hall where COLLATION. was served.
After doing justice to the goodl things found
there they adjourned to the dance hall in the
same building, where those who enjoy social
dance spent very pleasant time. Perce's
quartette club furnished excellent music during
the exercises. The special train on its return
left Cumberland Mills at one o'clock, arriving
here at half-past one
WEATHER REPORT.-From the weather
monthly report for May of Sergeant Will P.
Boyd, of the signal service, (who, by the way,
furnishes very carefully prepared report), we