Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-25
THE ST DAILY GLOBE MORNING MARCH 25 1878

salvation. He commanded, under penalty Of
damnatlon, belief in these truths. Now, truth
IS something essentially objective which has
an existence in itself, and which remains as it
Is IN Itself, whatever may be the opinions of
the individual mind concerning it. The sun
remains IN the armament unehanned Of what
ever form or color individuals, through defects
OF sight may deem it to be. Subjective truth,
truth in the mind, exists only when the mind
has grasped the objective truth as it is The
conditions OF salvation are unaltered, whether !
We understand them rightly or not $50, !,
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-=.stF POSITIVE, Objective meaning. The admis- |
sion OF any book as an authority, is of No profit
| unless we are in sure possession Of its mean
ing. Professionalism gives room for the belief
| that truth is merely something subjective, or
else it throws the individual into fearful and
| endless doubtings, affording him no room by
tive ideas with the objective truth, and further
more, it throws upon Christ the imputation
OF having commanded belief in objective
| truth, and having marked down conditions of
salvation, without having afforded to men the
means Of knowing with certainty this truth
and these conditions.
What then, did Christ do? History speaks
most loudly, and if her voice is but listened to,
religious communism disappears. He institu-
ted living teachers ''Going, therefore, teach
/ y
creature" Have these words of the Savior,
will ask Protestants. any meaning2 And if
| not the meaning which centuries have assigned
to them, what ineaning2 These teachers were
instituted to teach until the end Of time.
And behold am with you all days, even un-
to the contamination Of the world Having
instituted teachers, whom He has invested with
His Own authority, He commands all men to
believe them, as they should believe Himself:
He that believeth not, shall be condemned,
| o,Ao ua Lo;,,
but belief in truth, He promised to His teach
ers lasting protection in the fulhllment of their
Office. Behold I am with you all days.
This body of infallible teachers is Christ's
court, Christ's restraint upon the license of
thought, Christs remedy against religious
communism.
In subsection to Christs teachers there is
truth for He it is that speaks through them and
1 there is liberty, for it is supreme liberty to
submit to truth, to God. There is in the
contrary, the supreme use OF reason, for reason
is but suicidal when it turns away from truth.
Reason points out to us the church, upon whose
credentials it passes sentence, and the church
once proclaimed to be Gods court reason bids
) us to obey.
) The true nature of the submission of the in
; tellect to authority in religious matters is but
little understood by non-Catholics, and hence
J arises one of their chief objections against the
church. / will be allowed few moments to
|
: light before them. will read an extract from
lecture lately delivered in st. Louis, by Right
, Rev. Bishop Ryan, on the authority of the
church
8 Catholics do not believe that they are bound
5 to submit their intellects to the decision of q
] human Institution. They have first convinced
: themselves that the church to which they pay
4 allegiance and by which they are taught the
: truths of revelation is a divine institutional
unerring messenger from God to them. II
5 therefore, they sumbit to a decision of the
: church, they submit to decision of tribuna
n which their reason has already accepted as un
; erring. If they were obliged to receive de
b cisions on matters of faith without having beer
), already convinced that such decisions were
/ given by tribunal that could not. err, ther
8 Catholics would be slaves But there is no pos
/ sibility of slavery in our position. On the con
n trary, the real dignity and liberty of human
l reason are consulted; for having arrived at
d firm conviction on certain point, I shall neve
e yield the reason that God gave me, except t,
II the decision of tribunal, which that reason
has already accepted as unerring. The maj
L holds the balance in his hand. The seal
t. against the doctrine descends, the other as
re cends. Now comes a new reason, which he dit
IT did not know when he weighed the arguments
t. A decision has come to him from tribuna
y which his reason has accepted as unerl
at ing. 1t is new argument which he places i
at the scale that was lighter before This ne,
1T argument weighs down that scale, and bowin
n his head he says-his intelligence also bowling
II Credo, believe, my reason accepts it's. l al
st no slave in this decision. Bearer to me and t
to every man, dearer than was Isaac to Abraham
lg is reason which makes man all that he Ii
Abraham would have erred previously if
r. had offered his son upon the mountain, unlei
ct absolutely certain Of Gods stern behest. q
e: never could have offered that son on a prob;
ne bility that God required it. He never coul
~ have sacrificed that son upon a message frol
lie almighty God unless delivered by messeng,
o- rendered unerring by God, but having receive
r. the order he prepares to offer his son. So wit
CHI my reason. ] will offer it only on the mountai
be of God. will offer it only at Gods behes
ct, and even then, have only to offer it, not
al sacrifice it. Reason, like Isaac, is offered; bl
he reason, like Isaac, is not sacrificed becau
ng there comes in power that saves it. The
is comes in this decision of this unerring tribuns
Therefore, the dignity of human reason is on
tn preserved where the church is unerring. tt
re- dignity of human reason IS preserved on
ng where man is certain he hears the commar
'p- of Almighty God through a messenger tn
to cannot deliver Il false report.
70 The Protestant Episcopal church denies Il
w. existence upon earth of an infallible authorit
ed What restraint then has it in its possession
he limit the license of thought, to prevent COZ
ts. munism2 We receive for answer-the book
to common prayer, with the thirty-nine article
rb the constitution and canons of the gene1
convention-the creeds. What is all this b
,st simply so many words? Mr.. Ten Brock hi
he self, in his late lecture, refuses all binding
ore thority to books of prayer, articles, church
is crees, creeds, or aught else--except inasmu
Ii as they stand approved to individual reaso
mt What we want is some power to control I'M
to vidual reason; he names certain things that
ip- would call restraints and in the same brea
tells thai all these restraints must be udg
lat by that same individual reason. I will ri
is you his own expressions: The Bible, he tie
he us, is the only and supreme authority Of
the Episcopal church. She has the scriptr
of for her constitution, the con
on. tuition however, is interpreted by t
ch, supreme court, and the supreme cou
ms he adds, is reason. Not only Mr.. Ten Broe
ees does not refute my charge OF communism, b
he openly proclaims that the princip
ge: of communism are the principles of his chu,
ous tho supreme and unlimited power OF
individual reason.
dry After such declarations by himself, what
Of him to talk of prayer book, creeds, articl
the DEGREES Of constitution { He is only add
ion fuel to the fame, enlarging the communism
for his church, making wider and more extens
au- the field for discussions and discords. I
i'm enough is professionalism in general, with
red Bible for poor individual reason to understa
ned without adding church DEGREES and articles
its religion and creeds Of ancient church.
|, The prayer book and the articles! The
SIN. question is, what is the meaning of the pra
l is book and the articles? Whoever will read
1ge Bishop Brownies work or the articles--the t
nee book of the Episcopal Seminary of Faribaul
The will agree with me that
pom is a question most difficult
aid be solved. The many sections of the Epis
t is pal church, holding dootrinesi diametrics
lion opposite, all labor to reconcile their opini
The with prayer book and articles, and they seld
Of fail to discover some passage that will just
iple their ideas whatever their ideas NAV be n