The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-12-10
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is in the eyes of men, he is greater still in the
eyes of God, for rs His Servant and HE Vicar
he has been found faithful to his trust and I'M
fAltering in his devotion. As Servant of the
Most High, he challenges the sdmiration even
of the angels by his humble virtues and heroic
patience; and as Christs Vicar here on earth
he compells the respect and veneration of man.
kind by his fearless sdherence to duty and his
apostolic zsal in the cause of truth.
Bellarmine declares: "Do you know of what
there is question when we speak of the Sow.
ereign Pontiff fi-Christianityp Outside the
Catholic Church, to-day, there is no authority,
no religion and no liberty. Within it there is
order, obedience and perfect peace. He who
stands at it's head is the symbol of all these
elements, the very em bodi ment of all authority,
all religion and all liberty.
Plus the Ninth is the mouth piece of God, he
is the word that speaks the divine will to man
he is the power that executes the DEGREES of
Heaven here on earth-he is the representative ve
in time of eternal truth and justice!
L. Christianity exists to-day, and with it
civilization, it is because there is somewhere on
earth an iufAllible guide in faith and morals,
an unerring teacher in all that concerns the
eternal interests of souls.
unity nor concord, the two certain marks of q
true Faith-of true God. He symbolizes
peace his utterances are always founded upon
Justice, and justice is peace. His aim in life is
two-fold, the glory of God and the salvation of
souls and as these two objects are always in
harmony, we find an enemy of the one is inva-
riably the enemy of the other.
Protes ssants have been pleased to find over
and over again, in the Apocalyp. the very day
and hour when the Papacy Was doomed to fall.
At times they have even cried aloud: At last
the Papacy is no more! But again and again it
has belle their prophecies, until with Macaulay
they begin to srspecs that the old Church Z"
is at once "unchangesble and imperishable."
Do Maistre tells US "that Protestants are
justly condemned to the double chastisement
of fuding in the Scriptures what is not in
them, and of not seeing what they really con-
tain" And again he asserts that the greatest
minds among them, without excepting the
philosopher Newton, can rarely study the
Scriptures without losing their judgment. As
proof of this lack of common sense when
fanaticism has sway, we find that they have
even dared to call the Pope Anti-Christ, and
that they pretend to see in the Church, the
harlot spoken of by St. Joh
Did they but see what the Scriptures really
clearly contain" as De Maistre expresses it,
they could not fail to recognize in him who ever
stands opposed to the world, the one unfslter
ing opponent of all that is contrary to the
spirit of Him who is his Master and his Model.
The Pope is the antithesis of the world the
unhiuching enemy of Anti Christ! The Apoca-
lypse points out "the ancient of days." thought
by some to be the present pontiff, as the great
servant of the Most High, before whom stand
t,Vice ten thousand times ten thousand horsemen,
and we could easily apply, as does the author
of "The Sword" all the words of this wonder
ful book to the glory of Gods Church and that
of His holy Vicar.
"The world will hate you" was uttered by
Inspired Truth-by God himself; and the
world hates no man with so great hatred as
it does the Pope. He is not of the world nor
with the world. He will not conform to its
teachings, nor gloss over its sins. He will not
yield to it's dictates nor subscribe to it's de,
crees. He will not approve of its scandals nor
ignore its ipjustices; and hence he is hated
de1ided, and made captive in the kingdom
given him by Pepin and Charlemagne. He has
welded the sceptre of Gods Church for over
eighteen hundred years, now in the catacombs
often in exile. many times in prison, and fol
brief periods in majesty and glory. But he hat
held it firmly all the while, ard only He who
gave it to him can wrest it from his graep.
Pius the Ninth ia in many respects the moa
remarkable of the Fishermsn's SUCCESSORS. tt
him has been given the longest pontiicate oil
record, justly emitting him to the appellatiol
of I" Ancient of Days." and to him alone wa
reserved the glory of promulgating tho dogm
of the immaculate Conception and that othe
glorious one of the Papal Infallibiiity. This
last as q dogma, although from the first
truth, may indeed be the iron rod mentioned
the Apocalypse which is to rule all nations.
AS iron is firm, unbending, sure, SO thi
authority of Christie Vicar is uuaDswerabl'
Interchangeable, iufallible.
This dogma is the crown with which th
Church has crowned its head in these days
trial aud unbelief. 1t is the diadem of SOY
I ereignty with which she presents him to ths