Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-07

OF matrimony, so divinely laid, and
tvpified by our blessed Savior in His
union with hisspOuse, the church. That
their defiance OF the iniuntion, whom
God hath joined together let no man
put asunder," engrafted on our civil
statutes since the invention OF Protest
antism has entailed domestic mlserles,
misalliances, CanCerous social evils, the
crimes of ieticide and infantlclde, divorce
courts, and the murderOus "Baby farms
i'm the East. where the poor unbidden
waits mysteriously disappeared forever.
Three thousand, three hundred apph'
cants for divorce in Ohio last year. Some
two months since, Judge Lord oil MasSa-
chusetts, had thirty such cases IN one
day, from couples who had been married
but for periods ranging from six weeks
10 three years. He exclaimed, Il am
here to execute the laws, but God help
the country giving such appalling evl-
dence OF prostitution No woman Is
secure i'm her GOd-given marital rights;
hundreds daily awake TO hear for the
first time that they are divorced and
deserted-themselves and children beg
gars. BY the grace OF God have found,
as / pray all here tonight
may likewise, the one, the only
true church. Founded by God the
Father from the beginning Of the world,
Savior. when He came into the world
10 His church, and perpetuated by His
Wears, in an unbroken chain rs perfect
as the succession OF Presidents OF the
United States; the rock against which
the gates of hell shall not prevail, for
He is with His church, really present,
unto the cOnSummatiOn of the world
that she alone is the one, holy, catholic
and apostolic church; that no sect has
the remOteSt sign OF any one OF these
marks. She is one in faith, Il Ctrine
and works; united, temporarily and
spiritually; holy, in the lives OF her
millions of martyrs and saints; catholic,
in existence in all times and places;
apostolic, deriving her authority and
teachings from the apostles. While
Professionalism cannot be one, being
three hundred and fifty SectS; not
united, being eternally contending and
protesting against the church and each
other; not holy for its founders were
notoriously immoral, having no saints;
not catholic, being confined to states
and countries, and existing but three
hundred and fifty years; not apostolic;
being entirely without such authority
or succession. In truth, three hundred
and fifty associations or clubs in which
man may worship the God OF his own
conception. That She-lhe true Church
alOne-haS or can have the true Bible,
and the sense of that Bible, for she alone
ever has been and is the living authOri-
" 10 vouch for its authenticity by the
traditions and unwritten word in the
mouths OF the apostles, disciples, biSh-
ops, and priests, and by the written teS-
timony OF her popes and councils-au-
thOrity as unqueStlOnable andabSOlutely
necessary as is that Of living judges and
their established precedentS Tor the in
terpreta,ion and administration of the
laws of the Supreme Court OF the United
states. find i'm her alone the mys-
teal body of our divine Savior going
about doing good maniieSting her
faith bv works such rs he did, perform
inc miracles, feeding the multitude with
the lOayes and fishes, healing the sick,
the hal,, the lame, the blind, comforting
the sOrrOwtul, raising the dead. She
has i'm this land 5000 priests and 10000
sisters and brothers cOnSecrating their
lives % the service OF God and
man In states of perpetual chastity
and entire obedience i'm emulation
of the great High Priest Himself
teaching the religion OF Jesus, the way
of salvation, and caring tor suffering and
helpless thousands, IN emulation Ot the
same blessed SaviOr's sell-sacriicing eX-
ample. Supporting and educating near
lv 100000 orphans in her orphan aSy-
IumS. some 1900 of the poor fallen wo-
men in her Magdalen Homes, near 5000
Of the aged and intirm poor in her Little
Sisters OF the Poor and other institutions,
many thousands OF the diseased and in
iurad ofanv and all races and SectS, in
her hospitals, besides other thousands
i'm her insane, deaf and dumb and found
lin. asylUmS. Educating some 100000
of her children in the Christian religion,
as well as in reading, writing and arlth-
mrtic. at a saving of Sl2,OOO,OOO TO the
cities Of the United States, and paving
her taxes for the support OF the public
schools besideS-taxatiOn without repre-
sentatiOn.
Arrived at last at what | considered
the Truth, | could not COnscientiOuSiy
receive one penny more OF the S4O,OOO,
mO annually paid by the sects
Tor preaching and the mainten-
ance Of costly associations for the
diffusion OF spurious bibles 10
the heathcn who can neither read nor
write. could no longer presume 10
n,l
ppiniou of Gods word. nOthwithStand-
iug the fact that fattercd myself they
were superior 10 those of my theological
And most important OF all,
I ultimately shuddcrcd at the thought
that. bvmy own teaching and example,
my children would be cpcrlcCtly justified,
even iftheir maturrd private judgment
SHOULD conduct them 10 embrace MEM
bprShip i'm the Mormon or Free Love
communities: or worse, % become
fancied Abraham OF PucaSSct, murder
ing their daughters aS a sacrifice 10 God.
tn, charges ot idolatry, persecution,
ignorance. intolerance ant the rest,
which / once firmly believed, and as
earnestly preached, / have found 10 be
of diguiiiel controversy, but
fbe friction and competition by which
human passions and prCWdiCeS are fed
and intlamed against the truth, on
which alone Professionalism thrIvos and
lives. and without which It's rapidly eX-
hiring life would almost instantly die
ont. have sought 10 discard scientific
theology and % present substantial and
incnuteStable proofs of the one Church
of the living God.