Daily Republican., 1878-11-30
"Mors Anon to ..CathsIie. 1,

"1onns. GD'iuno '-~-uy cdtHoiic DIOtu
er is becoming more explicit, an
should he continue to "grow in grace,
in this direction, ] shall be charme,
with him before this discussion is ended
He asserts four Things in his last ar
ticle:
l. That all Protestants who liv,
such good lives as to entitle them tt
heaven, will, by the grace of God, b.
brought bofore death to embrace tn.
true faith and become members of the
Roman Catholic Church."
On this | remark-Protestants do
" live such good lives az to entitle them
to heaven" God be praised. This il
all that am contending for and az
my opponent grants it, have but to
make grateful bow and pass on. A.
to their embracing the true faith, u
and being /" brought into the Roman
Catholic Gu sreh," that is matter Of
total Indifference, inasmnch az their
lives, az Protestants, "eDtitle them to
heaven" Again ! say, thank God for
this admission. Hold to it, good Catho.
lie, and yon and will soon be at one
z. "Thers are certainly no more two
Holy Catholic Churches than there are
two Gods"
Exactly. But there is one Holy Cath
olic Church, and another Roman Cath
olic Church--and these two are not one.
| contend that "in every nation he tn at
f-areth God and worketh righteousness,
is accepted Of Him." and is thereby a
member Of the Holy Catholic Church,
and has an undisputed title to Heaven;
while "Cathoiic is reluctantly obliged
to admit the same, although he is per-
suad.d that eventually h. will come
into the other, the Roman Catholic, also.
Of this | have nothing to say, as it is
merely the opinion, or, at most, an
ardent desire Of my friend. Acts 10, 35.
3. We are assured that an "inEisi
bic Church " is " imaginary, that it
has no "existence outside of Protest
ant brains"
viii Bishop Becker be good enough
I" tell ns what Church M-lch-sedec he
Iong-d to, and how he entered it also,
vino took Hobab into Church, aud by
" hat ceremony win he tell the pub
lie what Church Cornelius belonged to
while he was fasting and praying"
to his s-rding for Peter
viii the good Bishop ask the people to
read carefully Acts 10, 1888, AMI ex-
plain the method OF the Centurion = in
luctoA into the Church In a word,
will my afable opponent, once for all,
give us a clear and cosent exegesis OF
Matt, Is, 20; Luke, 9, 49 50. May |
further hope that Bishop Becker will
'p-n to us the real meaning OF Chri,t's
'wn words, by John, 3, is, who declares
he that believeth Oh Him is not con
iemned ~ VIII Catholic" say that
no man, not a Romani5t, can believe on
md " love the Lord Jesus Christ 7"
ierm him both too reasonable ard too
to do anything so foolish.
Again, ask, if, Of all the untold myri
IDS of heather born into the world,
Who never heard of Christ or the Ro-
nan Catholic Church, there are none
Who fear God and work rlg ghteous-
less ~ will they ali inevitably he
Tanned "R- swept into he'll like dead
les" or, like Cornelius, may they
earn to pray and fast. and give alus,
md get to heaven II the latter Is true,
we're they saved out of the Church, or
II it II in the Churcn wnich uionc
$ redeemed by the blood Of Christ. will
iishop Becker say when, whore and hy
HON they were taken in Evidently
he large hearted arity of "Cathoic"
las wholly upset his logic. Stick to
hat charity which " beirveth all
hings," and let the logic 90. 1t will
ford you peace on earth and joy in
eaven.
4. But the Roman Catholic Church
: not so uncharitable as many Protest
nts suppose her to he. She teaches
hat all children of Protestants, etc. :,
'ho are correctly baptized by their min
'ters or any lay persons, will be saved,
they die before they lose their bap-
smal innocence by actual sin. And
he teaches that all Protestants who
We in invino'ble ignorance of the Ro
IAN Catholic being the only true
hurch of Chri t, will not be cond,ann.
d to hell for not becoming memberslot
er communion before death, although |
hey may be condemned to hell for
reaking somr of the ten command,
tents, having no means of obtaining
ardon."
Let us look at this. Protestants are
correctly baptized by their "minis-
'rs." So then, they do have "minis-
RS" who may perform truly minister
| functions. Many, many, very many
hanks How much good Protestants
re indebted to you for such an assur-
nee Of Apostolic succession" and the
tlvation of their children. Again
our benevoence gets the better Of
our head. But in contest between
cad and heart the latter usually wins.
ut what premium yon put upon
invincible ignorance. need only
'main in profound ignorance that the
oman Catholic is the only true Church
Christ on earth.in order to escape the
damnation of hell" Now am as ig-
orant of that fact-if it be fact
hich it clearly is not, as of the "con-
nts Of the leaves scattered upon the
inds by the tabled sybil:n and by yir