Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-07
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
Or, Why L Became a Catholic
Lecture by Egbert L. Cleave
at Commercial Hall, Martins
Ferry, Last Evening.

Ferry, Last Evening.
Correspondence Of the Register.
The hall was well filled with members
OF all denominations 10 hear the lecture
OF Mr.. Edgar F. Cleave, OF Columbus,
Ohio, the recent clerical convert to Ca
thollcism, whose addresses have Occu
pied so large a space in the religious and
secular press of Ohio during the past
few months. The following summary
contains the stronger points OF the dis
course: To love one another as tie
loved u. 10 be ready to lay down the
life lie cave Us for the salvation OF souls,
i the religion Of Jesus Christ. Ii tins
spirit rriguei supreme IN our hearts,
crime. misery and poverty m their
millions ui hiieOus forms
and grades would hc unknown.
Heaven wou,l be- begun here. That
peace which pa~>cth all understanding
would be I'M our hedrt~-pruSperlty and
perfect content herr-thc beatItic vision
i'm immortality hereafter. There Is but
on, such ryli.j0u, In simple terms, but
one school iu which the child can couh-
IDENTITY aspire o. tu.S perfect state. ms
ON. religion. Tins one school, was cStab-
ta5i,hyi by our Lord Jesus Christ
Himself. ail others must be false, delu-
siol~ uli ,uIrc- | love my so-cdlied
Protestant relatives and brethren too
deeply tu ~Iy anything offensive. do
not believe there Is q true Protestant
pr,s.nt-all are merely uomjnally such,
as waS-callei a Protestant because
NV parents were SD designated. Aitcr
mature study and investigation, found
I hal been such without even my con-
sent. bv inheritance 1uG force of Clrcum-
stances. In total ignorance OF what l had
nncouSciouSlv protested against And
soft is with nearly an, and % YOU Will
investigate, humb,v calling ON God 20
direct YOU to C1uutrrJCt yuUr inherent
urrjuiice with spirit 81 justice and
charity. you too must amt Will
pr1fr-t AGAINST being Prutc>,antS,
a now do. Nor does the mere
declaration that man D.
Catholic maize him one. Words are
chrlp and light ~ AIR, mere symbols oI
truth or illScuOUj. Baptism mo- matter
av whom administered and the Sub-e-
uurnt deeds of life time alone dIStin-
guf,h us as Christians. 4 nominal FRO
fe-.gut NAV uuCOnsciUU~.y Dc > better
Catholic than u nominal Catholic, and
rjr. r.rsJ. -.
tu entire surrenlcrt1 the will ofGod
,-I fine y,1rnin., o. INV soul to obey the
cy,pJ Law m Christianity. sclt.sGcriice.
gt thr close uf a 'pug and painful minis
trv of what errynruusly considered as
G0l'- word, I'm two EVi>copl. Scct>. ana
lastly as "a Union Evangelist IN lutt'e et
forts To unite all the SectS, ieb me
a.liuSt my own Viii. 90 the only ohy
tru. church. tGv tJtuoIc Ohuv'u
then found tua, tine three hundred am.
ffrv protesting SgCtS are ~iui.N uNl
made religions, growing ont oi the pl.-
tirs founded by Luther, Henry VII
lE,isropalianiSmI, Calvin and Knox
lPrrshvtrriauism|, Wesley NcJ
oIlsmI. simon BJptisti>ml ROBIN
SON CougrrgutiouJliSm., and tie
r..t and are besides merely
raDrl,llctious under new names, with
mIlif aIous or cNag-er0tIons, OF the
new hrrrSicS that have sprung mp 40
various times since the foundation oi
Christianity. Their teachings ate but
tho opinions and theories Ut men Who
claim private Inspiration irpm Coo, or
the r.ght of private Interpretation e.. an
uuqutuputicatci book miSuaWet the
Bible. The first SacriliggOUs mutiltiOu
ri rhp true book which was ml>arpru-
rriatpl bv Martin Luther was ths eN-
nunains ui the Epl>,lrS oi -. Juu,~-
IN. very soul 90 the Ep,~,c>-' LlitH
w.thour wurk, is a-,,d Although
These EpiStIcs were retained 10y 'ther
sart.. this Slcri,r.y -lyr birth 90 sll Is
tbs uriuripIr. or lIci, oi ir. whjc. dis
t;,ani,h,s and Is the inhprItJrcc Ut
Pr1te,tauiSm .Lutherism to-day. VIZ:
that 0,gi works are not necessary to
make men good and .0dlISc, while the
Tfa of tine divine founder o' Christianity
US uauyht but works. ending m death
mn tbe cross. ! found that no'with-
st,rIinc all the "prcachiug' O. the
contrary bv comparison Professionalism
,.,,,.rIfss. charitvi,SS, that fireworks
nf flith. daily feeding the multitude
,ri,5 the loavrs and fishes, healing the
si.l. comforting the sorrOwm and
.o;s;,,, the dead formed no portion OF
;,sJnti.s That. while Individually, so
Ill Protesfants were liberal and
gsnerous enough, with alex Insignificant
Executions the seCts mad no institutions
or asvlums of charity for the orphan,
the fallen woman, the sick AMI the IN
firm: the poor no schools in which the