Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-04

theory, sects and schisIns consttutve parts Of
the body Of Chr.t-provided, simply, that there be
In these sects and schsrns, bishops.
Christ instituted His church teacher Of truth,
cssuns over her. fog the sake Of her Office, His own
ual.e OF authority "Going ye. teach all nations
what OF this Office, in the Anglican theory? The
so-celied branches anathenatze another's doc
ulhes and with exception each branch is bed
lam OF contradictory opiniuns-the Episcopal branch
especially. This church the witness 10 truth Sh.
! = al least equally the witness to error, for her
are III sad contradiction Where is her tes
aiilohs 70 truth? How is the individual soul, hun
serlns Tor truth and believing that it must obtain
Possession OF 1t under penalty OF damnation, to find
~ IL erun something that changes from one couI-
-! ~ anoher! Is 1t lawful to adore the Eucharist
LII Italy and TO SCOT in England? Is confession
o s N rance and crime III America? The
cnufch teacher OF truth! Why, this theory,
confessedy SO, she has been dumb for 900 years
and must be dumb for all future ages so long as any
little sect having bishops Will choose to SET u csrtai,
| ideas of its OWL. We hear much of thu .ntboritv
long, long ago, of the undivided church Accordins
to Mr. Thomas lecture even the DEGREES of This nm.
divided church had to pass through the crucibe o.
private Interpretation before having final authrity
| This, then, the church Of living God He built her
to teach men, teach all generations until the end of
time, and He pledged his own power TO her for the
fuhllment of her office. Yet, i'll whatever way she
taught the world for few centuries, by the malice Of
men for one thousand or more years she s reduced
| TO silence God is defeated by his creatures. The
| gates of heu have prevailed. Gods promises have
proved inglorous failures. The Savior has declared
belief III His doctrines obligatory upon all men, upon
us, consequently, who live in the 18th century and
yet for centuries and centuries, there has been
| teacHer OF these doctrines the world, and
genulty can divine when there Will be 1t to
Is but bitter irony to hear you talk of the undivided
church. need living teacher, to teach my
GUY to-day. How can even know what the undi-
v1ded church, as you term it, did teach? Men do not
agree as to what taughtits DEGREES and creeds
| you give them 10 me- are dead letters No use to
Dlarne human malice for having INTERRUPTED unity
whether you place this malice in Greek or Roman,
or Anglican branch. God owed truth if faith Is
a necessary condition of salvation, and He should
have overrued, as he promised to do, the malice OF
| men and demons.
Look no longer, my friends, on a theory which in
presence of Christs promises blaspheny against
the Lord. Christ's work endures: This church lives
and teachesone and infallibe He constituted her.
''Ieach all nations,' He said to her. He that be-
heyeth not shall be condemned And she went
forth to her task in the fuIness of her splendor
His bride, with His mantle OF authority waving
from her queenly shoulders. She gathered unto her
spouse the uations Of the EARTH and fed them with
| His truth and graces. Rebels arose against her
heretics and schs'natics. She wep for their souls,
but LII justice to her spouse she hurled against
| her anathemas and continued, ore and holy her
| march through time. They called Gnostics,
Novations, Arians, HISTORIANS. Once Topped Off they
were branches-without sap Iife and they yithered
of the face of the earth. Other rebels appeared;
the same doom awaited them. They Iconoclasts,
Photlans or Greeks, Manicheans. The 10Th dawned
upon her with storms ahead. Lutherans, CalvinIsts
Apglicans arose; her anathema fell upon them, and
they are dead branches. The church pursued her
onward career held her councils, her apostles To
America and Asia, taught the nations, saved souls
Her name never changed; it is Catholic, the church
of nations.
A voice arises TO protest. Arglicans are not III
sehism. There was no sufficient cause to separate
them from the church A saint Firnilan, protested
against unjust separations No for the separ-
alton! Who is the judge? The party that has been
communicated. Did hereto schismatic ac-
knowledge his anatherna just one? Lucifer, e1-
PEELED from heaven, protested against the sentence
of the Almighty. The judge is Gods church, who
speaks through her recognized representatives and
whose sentence upon earth her spouse rattes in
heaven. A Firuilan quoted against the church.
sentence! Frnilian became saint iii his latter
days, but when he wrote his letter to Pope Stephen
the sword of accommodation hanging over his
own head, and i'll the tr1le spirit of schsm he de-
clared himself and his friends to be right and hin,
whom i'll the same letter he acknowledges be his
superior to be wrong.
God is not a. man; His work is stable. III the be-
ginning of time He poised the heavens III space, and
what hand has interrupted their revolutions or
paired their harmony. Eighteen centuries ago He
placed in the moral world His church to teach truth
and distribute grace, and she remains He consti-
tuted her. o. Savior of men direct towards her the
of those hungerng for truth and yet despair
because they know not where to find it. They will
easily discern the divine features of Thy BRIDE
vastly removed III her unity and her unchangeable-
ness from all human institutions, and her divine
authority acknowledged they Will thank Thee, 0
Lord, for having given light to their minds and peace
to their hearts.