Daily Republican., 1878-11-25
tFor the DAILY REPUBLICAN,
Catholic % More Anon.


For the DAILY REPUBLICAN,
Catholic 70 More Anon.
MgssRs. EDIroRs -" More Anon says
In your issue OF 23d inst: "The TACT
to be ascertainpd Is, not whether Bis
hop Becker IL In the church Of Peter or
Paul, but whather all others no mat
ter how diligently they may "frame
and fashion their lives /" according to
the doctrines Of Christ, must neverthe.
less perish forever for the mere accident
Of chosing to associat. with other com
munions, and using other forms Of wor
ship. Until this feature Of the discus.
sion Is settled it is a waste Of time to
examine further assertions. I"
In the above I'M. A. violates rule
Of logic; hs bsgs the question twice.
He erroneonsly implies that all others
not in Bishop B-cker's church, no mat.
ter how diligently they may frame
AID fashion their lives" according
to the doctrines Of Christ, mus
perish forever. "This Is not Catho.
lie doctrine No instructed Catho
lie will tell you this: hs will tell you
rather that all who sincerely and dill
gently frame their lives according to
the doctrines Of Christ, will be brought
before death, into the Catholic Church,
and be saved. God knows no chang.
in His course to His people. St.Luke tells
ms in the End chapter Of the Acts, the
Lord added daily to the church such as
should be saved" beg to refer IN.
A." to three instances, OF diligent seek
ers after truth being brought, even mi
"a culousiy, to the church. The first
is recorded in the second chapter OF St.
Matt. Three Wise men ca,nc from the
east to Jerusalem, guided by star, to
adore Jesus recently born. The prizes Is
assembled in council, told King llerod
that in Bethlehem Chris should be born.
The wise men now proceeded on their
way TO Bethlehem, and the star that
had conducted them to Jerusalem,
where they could learn from the church
what they desired TO know, there dis
appeared and now reappeared and
guided them t" the place where the
child Jesus was. The second instance
is recorded In the Sth chapter nf the
Acts where the deacon Philip was mirac
ulously sent to instruct and baptiz- the
travelling eunuch. The third is found
in the tenth chapter of the Acts, where
the Centurion Cornelius was directed
by an angelsto send for Peter to receive
him into the church.
The second petitio principii of NJ. A. is
his assumption that those prot.stants
who die without being received visibly
into the catholic church htd dill
gently framed their lives according
to the doctrines of Christ. Mere human
eyes are not good judges Of what, in
human appearance or conduct, pleases
God. When Jesus Himself appeared
among men He did not win tn appre,
citation and good opinion of all the re-
spectacle Jews or even of those who
thought themselves, and who were also
thought by others, to be religious. If
N. A. had been living at that time in
Judea he might have found it difficult,
when almost all wealthy and respecta,
BILE and pious Jews were by the act of
there own free will, ranged on the one
side and Jesus and His poor ignorant
followers on the other, to judg. that
Jesus was what He said Re was, and
that the others were in the eyes
of God, the very reverse of what
they believed themselves to be.
Many Protestants grow up from child
hood, living, humanity speaking, very
good lives, but with their souls indoo
trnated, with the poison of heretical
teaching, and they never seriously ex-
anime the claims or grounds of Catho
lie faith, and flatter themselves they
are justified in this neglect, by what
they suppose to be the idolatrous, pa
ganish, faith of soul crushing, soul
church. Can they b. sincere
and dilligent inquirers after TRUTH Can
a dispassionately sincere inquirer af
ter truth read the passages of The Bible
bearing on the controversial, or rath r
contradictory doctrines OF Protestant,
feel that he has hit on the true doctrine,
while he looks around and sees twenty
other PrOtestants equally entitled with
himself to he esteemed intelligent and
sinc-re2
Impossible Let 1t not be said, they
all agree in essentials. Th-2 swallow
DOWN this sophism with as much gusto
as naughty child eats stolen candy.
But this assumption cannot stand the
scrutiny of five minutes manly and
sincere examination. The Unitarian,
The Universalist, the Quaker differ from
most other Protestants on the most i'm.
portant doctrines of Christianity, and
they have the very same grounds for
,hrir belief that any other Protestant
denomination has. The Methodist has
no more right to condemn the Quaker,
Unitarian, or Universalist than the
Quaker, Unitarian or Univarsalist has
% condemn the Methodist or any other
Protestant for teaching heretical doc
rine. But modern Christians have
become dsgusted with the illiberal idea
hat there is such thing as heresy, or
chism. They have almost cast these