Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-04

Our Obscene Morning Contemporary severe
Wand Properly Rebuked in the Pulpit---
The School of Friendship---Bishop Ire
land on the Catholic Doctrine of Justifca-
t;on--a Temperance Lecture by Mrs.
Foster.
H;shop ireland or Original Sin and Justi-
fcation.
There we've upwards of three thousand per
sons present at the Cathedral last night to
hear Bishop Ireland's lecture on s'rhe Catho-
Ii, Doctrine of Justification
He took for his text these words, -For if by
one mans offence death reigned, by one much
more they which received abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteouness shall reign in
life by one Jesus Christ. Therefore as by the
offence of one, judgment came upon all men to
condemnation, even SO by the righteousness of
one, the free gift came upon all men with JUS
LITIGATION of life. Romans, chapter, 1913.
In introducing his subject the learned
bishop showed the importance of ascertaining
the meaning Of justification as applied to
each individual soul and the merits of Jesus
Christ in lifting the soul into the way Of
salvation. AS a rule of eternal life
we should consider it solemn
Quty 10 KNOW al WIS COLI
ditions of justification. here is no excuse
for negecting the salvation given by
Christ. He argued that all that was neces-
sary was to ascertain on what conditions
Christ offered salvation, and to determine
to act according to these ideas. And that
man may know these conditions Christ has
established his church which teaches the
same doctrine to-day as it taught a thousand
years ago. This is not SO with those outside
the pale of the church. Not only do differ
ent sects teach and believe differently one
from another, but the same sects hold opin-
ions to-day contrary to those they held in
time past, and it is often the case that min
listers of the same sect differ from each
other; this is not the case with the Catholic
church; her teachings are always the
same, and are founded upon the
promises of God. Protestant church
es on the other hand have departed from
the teachings of their founders. He
contended that the Catholic church taught
fhe fundamental truths of the gospel and the
bible, but the church was the interpreter of
the bible. This idea he apty illustrated by
referring to the code of Minnesota laws
which were not left to the Interpretation Of
every careless and thoughtless reader to turn
to his own DESIRES but the legislature has
wisely instituted a court for that purpose,
and so the Supreme Father of all has not left
us to find out and grope our way in the dark
but he has established his church. The
learned prelate said he did not deny the
truth of the bible as Gods book, but he de-
MED that all interpretations were the truth.
Before the subject of justification could
be understood it was necessary to consider
the condition of the soul before justification,
so as to be ablo to understand what is re-
quired, and also the effect of justification.
He thought it was needless to refer the con-
gregation to the history of Eden. They all
knew how God made man in his own image
and likeness, and placed him in the garden
of pleasure-Paradise: his privilege to eat
of all the trees but that of knowledge, of
good and evil, and the penalty if he trans
gressed-thou shalt surely die; and how
Adam fell and was expelled from the
garden OF pleasure and condemned to till
the ground with the sweat of his brow, and
thorns and thistles should impede his toll.
Many passages of scripture tell of Eden; and
traditions of all nations speak of it. Plato,
Plutarch, Strabo, all allude to it. It is called
the Golden Age. But after the fall is the
Iron Age for Adam and his posterity-the
Iron Age is the penalty for disobedience.
Adam i'll Paradise represented the entire
race, and it was left with him to transmit his
gifts to posterity OF lose them in disobedi-
ence. Adam fell, and we bear the penalty.
On the doctrine of transmission of sin the
Catholic church is clear and precise. BY quo
tations from tho council of Trent he showed
this fully, and by reference to the scriptures
explained that it's edicts arc true to the holy
writings. All have sinned, and death is the
penalty, which extends even to new born
babes. BY one mans sin many (multitudes)
are made sinners.
The sin Of Adam was the occasion of re-
demption. The fact of original sin was the
occasion Of extra dispensation of Providence
in our regard. God in his mercy gave the
consoling promise, "Ihe seed of the woman
shall bruise the serpents head.'' The deal
ings of God to his creatures are to certain
extent mystery, but we can Oh his word
accept the fact, if man fell and we inherit
original sin, a Saviour was given us by whom
we shall have eternal life. '.Where sin hath
abounded grace hath more abounded.' We
must enter more into detail of the effects of
Adams sin on us. How are we accountable
for sin committed a thousand years ago?
The reformers of the sixteenth century
would not follow the teachings of the church
further than Adam fell, and orig
inal sin was the inheritance of his
race and then introduced ideas
of their own. The basis of the entire sys-
tenn of justification is in there being two
meanings to the word sin. The one is q
transgression of the law and actual sin in
an act OF deed Adams sin was actual as
related to himself, but not for US. Another
meaning of sin is "a state of SIM OF the
condition of the soul after actual sin-the
soul guilty of sin is ''dead in SIM What
precisely is the condition of the soul in a
state of sin we must go back to Adam and
see HIM before and after his fall. The
bishop went on to show the difference be-
tween natural, supernatural and prefer
natural attributes. Showing that
God gave Adam natural attributes,
human qualities to constitute him a man,
strength, physical aud mental, free from
sickness or death, supernatural holiness and
truth. The supernatural were given him in
the abundance Of Gods mercy and goodness.
But both in natural and supernatural God
saw that it was good. Adams folly did not
destroy his natural ability, but it took away
the holy gifts of the supernatural, and left
him still as man, 6 good not corrupt and
vile. If God had only made Adam with
natural gifts, still would he have pronounced
him good, but God loved intensely the work
of his hands, and gifts beyond requirement
he bestowed upon him Justice, holiness and
truth. Many passages from St. Paul and
st. Peter were quoted in support of this
doctrine. And then the very nature
of God HIMSELF makes the thought abhorent
that he could make man sinful corrupt and
polluted. How could God, being holy, create
that which ISL sinful. Adam stripped by his
disobedience of the supernatural, is driven
from paradise and begets his children out