Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-05-09
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lecture entitled Exclusive Saliva
tion," to very large assemblage
at the Cathedral last evening. Be-
fore the beginning of the discourse
a select choir rendered some excel
lent music, and the lecture itself
was proceeded with promptly at
1880 P. NJ.
The Rev. Father took for his
subject text, the 10Th and 10th
verses of the 10th chapter of st.
Mark (Douay version), go we in.
to all the whole world and teach
all nations. He that believeth
and is baptized. shall be saved,
he that believeth not shall
be condemned" The lecturer
began by the remark, "Truth
is always intolerant of error. This
is true of both the natural and SUI
pernatural orders" The truths of
science are intolerant. There may
be many errors-there can be but
one truth concerning scientific
matter. Speaking of science, he
stated that its truths were all in
harmony with revelation, when
properly understood, and he who
stated otherwise, only showed him.
self to be half educated. The Cath
Ollie, the christian church, was dog
matically, doctrinally intolerant;
intoleranG of error, of wrong and
sin. Jesus Christ, its founder, was
similarly intolerant. Speaking of
the cities that would refuse to hear
His doctrines, Christ said,
st will be more tolerable for
Sodom and GomorIah in the day of
Judgement, than for that city"
Christ only founded one Church,
and that Church had only one set
of doctrines. HE that believeth
and is baptized shall DO saved.
He that believeth not shall be
condemned" or damned" as the
Protestant version has it. This is
the "exclusiveness" of the Bible.
This truth cannot be obliterated.
st. Paul pronounced heresy ga
deadly SIM" In his Epistle to the
RomaRs.
1t is absurd to suppose that more
than one Church can be right. 10
say that two Churches, like the
Church of England and the Scotch
Kirk, for instance, which, in
many respects, teach doctrines d.
ametrically opposed to each other,
is like saying that two and two
make four and five at the same
time; a fourth part of the thing is
equal to the whole, or that a MUIR
der can be a heinous crime and
virtue at one and the same time.
The speaker here cited great num-
bers Of scriptural quotations to
prove that there can be but one
true church aud church doctrine.
What would be thought, of the
Church of England, for instance,
ifshe should teach that both she and
the Presbyterian Church were the
true church, when their doctrines
are SO opposed to each other. A
church, to be sensible and con-
sistent, must, if it has any faith
in its claim to being the Church of
God, teach that 1t is the only true
church.
And the Protestant churches are
really as intolerant as the Catholic,
although they claim not to be, and
direct all their missiles against the
Catholic church. The eighteenth
of the thirty-nine Articles of
Faith of the Church of England,
the Confession of Faith of the
Scotch Kirk and the doctrine of the
Geneva Calvinists, all teach direct
ly that "there can be no ordinary
possibility of salvation" outside of
their respective churches. The
Protestant doctrine of fore .ordina.
ton, sends even infants to eternal
torment.
The Catholic church is also in.
tolerant. The Bible teaches that
none but those holding the true
christian faith can be saved. The
means of grace must also be OBJ
served. No person wllfully neg
Letting baptism can be saved. The
Bible says so. Heresy consists of a
knowing, willful and malicious
disregard of the means of grace.
Invincible ignorance may excuse
many, but the church is constrain-
ed to believe and teach that there
is no salvation outside of its pale.
Yet the church is kind mother.
She has nothing to do with those
who are dead. The soul of man is
left to its God, and none but He
can Judge it. A man may repent
and be forgiven in the last moment
of his existence. and like the thief
on Cavalry, die to be with the Lord
in Paradise.
The learned lecturer was listened
to with the closest attention
throughout and evidently created a
deep impression on the large aud
fence present.