The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-17
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Bishop Kain on the Eucharist,
respondence OF the Register,


Correspondence OF the Register.
Do we live in the nineteenth century
and is it in tbs boosted period OF en-
lightenment that we are called upon to
igaore the testimony of our senses2 Not
exactly the testimony OF our senses, for
our senses, We are told, IN effect, reveal
TO US only the external appearances OF
things. But We are asked TO disLrust the
iuterences which our reason draws from
those form. and appearances. In other
words we are invited NJ one and the
same time, TO disbeiieve the testimony OF
both our senses and reason. For what
purpose, therefore, it may be inquired,
we're those noble faculties bestowed
upon Us? and what right has Bishop
Kahn to use them that any other
man may not exercise? But to
put the matter still more plainly, we are
called upon 10 despIse and trample under
foot those very gifts OF the Almighty,
which, above ali others, eno6le and digul-
~ US as human beings. Is 1t mat
ter of wonder, therefore, that sucn q
preposterious demand should be- the
means of driving hundreds and thousands
Of thinking men into the wilds OF septic
ism and infde,ity? To such wanderers
we have only to say, that the Bible
teaches nothing Of the kind, but just the
reverse.
Surely the individual who can thus
coolly demand such q sacrifice 81 our
hands, 81 such tame surrender OF these
Heaven. born qualities, ought to be en-
dowed with the gilt Of inspi-
ration. Accordingly We find
the Romish hierarchy equal TO
this also. II it does not exactly claim
the gilt oGinspirstion-though we believe
1t does. 1t claims something even above
and beyond it it claims to be the only
lawful exposition of the Word of Cod
and no matter how pisinly that Word
may speak, it must be received only IN
the sense which the Romlsh priesthood
put upon it whose head "opposeth and
cxaltc.h himself above al that Is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that ne as
God stitch in the temple of God, slew
ing himself that he is God" w hat
shocking absurdities men may be driven
into, when once they have utterly aban-
doued themselves to q false theory, or q
false theology. Il is thus that "tEev are
given over to a strong delusIon that they
may believe lie."
Now the reasonsbieness OF demand
Tor such a surrender Is contrary not on y
To the testimony of cur senses and our
reason, out to universal experience and
observation, viz: in this, that those who
comp Sc the Romish hierarchy, from
the Pope down to the lowest subordinate
fi,er 10 the Church, are trail and talIl-
bic lie other men. That they are made
otherwise by any Divine arrangement or
appointment, irrespective of their good
qualities, Is = proposition we hold to be
entirely Cratuitous, and utterly unsuo-
ported by any clear Scripture warrant
Whv. it is only just now that
1t Is gwen out that tho pres
ont infa!hb.e Pope is about to
Grange the blind policy of the last lntaI-
ible Pope: fading that the former had
taken on more freight than he could well
carry, it has become necessary TO unload;
and we are told that the latter Ia going
to "sdopt more liberal policy" Ac-
cordingly we learn that even Bishop
la Is urging his people to "read the
Brplel' That is good. But then they
are to receive the Interpretation the
Priest puts upon il, and not their own.
That is bad. Let it be understood, how
ever, that the Church of Rome in theory
and dogma never chaDges-so that this
liberal policy" simply means change
in the position of the net to catch the
giddy flies that are constantly CIR
cling about it. The Church
Of Rome, In theory and dogma, never
chqnees-.except from bad to worse-nor
does it ever, IN good faith, give aid and
comfort to rational liberty. Let the
citizens OF free America make note OF
this, and look to their future.
With your permission, we propose TO
furnish YOU with another article dlspos-
ing of Bishop Kain's Scrlptural argu-
nent IN support of bis views of the
Eucharist. If Bishop Kain's views are
right, then all Professionalism is wrong
If he is wrong then Protestanism is
right, and the protest should be kept up
and continued, if need be, to the end Of
time. LATlhER'