Daily Republican., 1878-11-18

countless number Of young. lively
churches, to spring up against
her, some almo every y.sr, ~
we see even in Wilmington
Let N. A. member that God Is power
ful and eternal, and can afford TO wait.
In the delay Of His justice, no offender
can escape out OF His Jurisdiction.
Crossing seas, exchanging countries or
assuming new names do not help the
offender to escape His justice when the
day Of vengeance comes. God has given
TO all men free will aud time enough TO
exercise it, for good or evil, that they
may justly have for all eternity the
home they merited, either in heaven or
In hell. The existence of this free will
prevents God from stepping in wien
we think H. ought, to stop the evil
doer. When the Jealous servant point
ed out to the master tares growing up
among the good grain, and asked per-
mission To pull them up, he was for
bidden, and told to wait for har-
vest time, when the weeds would
be cast into the fire 10 burn
Herrsy, Schsm, Sects are enumerated
by 81. Paul in the long catalogue of
great crimes, that exclude from heav-
en-. But in this nineteenth century
civilization has progressed SO far that
there Is no longer any heresy. The
insulting word hereto has become OBJ
solete, and the word sect carries with II
scarcely any reproach. Men In the
name Of God condemn His church as
soul crushing and deserving the con
tempt Of all decent msn But the
church Of Christ must not grievs for
being treated as her founder Jesus
Christ was treated. All PrOtestants
unite heartily only in one thing, viz; In
the Catholic church. In
this condemnation they act as if possess
ed Of nfallibility.N In condemning on.
another they use more temperate, more
. laritable language.
now come to what NJ. A. thinks no
ioubt master stroke Of logic.
The Bishop maintains that Mary Il
the mother Of God. /. so we reason
thus: Mary Is the mother Of God. But
a mother Is Of necessity older than her
Therefore Mary is older than
God. ! hope M. A.. is achristisn, and
that he believes Jesus Christ is truly
the Son Of God. II fdid not presume
this, | would not have troubled myself
to reply to his article. Now let N. A.
turn owe rto the 10th chapter Of st. Mark,
and read over again what he probably
read often before IL; PETERS answer TO
Christ's question viz. "Thou are the
Christ the Son Of the living God. ."WillM.
A deny that Jesus Christ had a mothert
Will he deny that Mary was His moth.
.r. Perhaps little explanation will re-
nov. LAS difficulty N. A has or had
. nnther. While N. AS body is or was
. part Of his mothers body, his soul is
no part of his mothers soul. His soul,
| creature of God distinct from his body
orms with the body, both together, one
,erson and the one who gave him birth
'laims the right to be called his moth
" without distinguishing between soul
md body. Bishop Becker said as NJ.
\. admits that the blessed Virgin was
lot the mother Of the divinity. This
'ught to have been enough for NJ. A.
esus Christ is truly God, AZ most Prot
stants admit and the blessed Virgin
'.ing the mother of Jesus Christ, she is
therefore,, properly called the mother
{ God, all instructed christians know
hg we'll the restricted sense in which
er title of mother is used.
When learn that NJ. A. believes
hat Jesus Christ is God, will attend
0 his structures on ransubstantiation.
lot before. CATHOLIC.