Daily globe., 1879-06-02
The Roman Catholic Ch,.rch

large audience assembled at the First
M. E. church last night, and noticeable
among those present were not few men,
bers of the Roman Catholic church. AS
announced in the GLOBE, the Rev. Mr.. Hull II
burd spoke upon the subject, "Our Mother
Church, the Roman Catholic Church" He
took for his text,
Nevertheless, l have something against
thee."-REvELATIONs II. 4.
Mr.. Hulburd introduced his discourse by
giving resume of of the sermon of Sunday,
a week ago, in which he was interrupted by
a want Of time to complete it. In substance
he alluded to the grand history of the
church, it's power through ages, steadfast-
ness against all mutations. He commended its
charitable institutions, discipline, harmony
and unity in spirit, if not in temporal organ
ism. In bri5f the speaker found much to
commend, and was unsparlng In his words
of praise for many of the features which |
marked 1t as church alike for the rich and
the poor.
The objections of the speaker were treated
of as follows under the head of,
THE pERILs FROM TIE CHURCH.
In the second place propose, in the light of
this brief examination of his his
tory and methods, to proceed to show what are
it's aims, and what our possible perlls there
from. And hope to deserve credit for candor
in criticism, which must be adverse, as have
accorded praise for what l have found COM
mendable; and my criticism will run parallel
with my Communications of this organization
and system. First, as to Its claims
the candid historian has never discovered one
particle of evidence in support of the idea that
St. Peter was ever in Rome, aside from the
traditions of the church. Our Lords words to
Peter on which the idea of his primacy is based
willIbe discussed some time in the near future
;lot ~, stCl1o cd
at all, must come through channels of unclean-
ness and crime in the persons of some
of the Popes, notably the Borgias and the
Medicis which, according to the testimony OF
some of the church's own historians,
estop its flow. Archbishop Kusiok
says that "some Popes of doubtful fame ap-
peared on the decline of the fifteenth century,
and one of acknowledged depravity at its
close" and to further back the same another
says, 1.-THE scandals of the tenth century dis
figured the church, since unworthy men strug-
gle to occupy the papel chair, or to place in it
their relatives adherents. The intrusion of
one or two youths and of several men of IL
centious habits disgraced the high Office"
And we are asked to believe that this myster-
ious grace flowed unobstructed through these,
and that this dogma Of papal infalibiy pro-
mSs'ted nnd includes in 1877 the 5Ssisssts
acts of these men guilty of simony, murder
and Righteousness!
But it is not to the doctrines Of the church
that SO much object. My criticism IS the pol
icy of its administration.
In regard TO the youth, have commended
the care she exercises on the childhood as wor-
thy of imitation. But still, the hostility of the
church t., that bulwark Of our institutions, the
free school system, is one to cause anxiety; and
propose to show you that this attitude is not
local or confined to individuals, but is univer-
sal aud uniform, is the attitude of the organi.
zation. Take few historic examples.
Austria after defeat at Sadowa, threw ove1
the concordat with the papal government and
Establishment of free schools, and against these
Plus TX delivered his famous Bull which was
directly aimed at her new school system
Spain tried to shake off the feiters that haC
bound her and instituted the system, declar
ing that the entire direction of the publi
schools was and must pertain to the civl
government. Plus TX ana, hematized the ide
and issued Bull against it.
The following resolution was published an
endorsed in the fireman Journal. On organ o
the church:
Resozued, that the. common sohoc
system in New York city
swindle on tho people, an outrage on justice
foul disgrace in the matter of morals, an
that it imports the State legislature to abolis
it forthwith The same Journal says: "Le
the public school system 60 to where it cam
from-the devil"
THE COMMON SCHOOLS.
Now then, that the main object is not sin
ply that the children may not be educate
away from the church, but is political supren
acy, I quote further. Bishop OConnor,
Pittsburgh, says: Religious liberty is even
endured until the opposite can be carried in
effect without peril to the Catholic world"
The archbishop of st. Louis says If Il
Catholics ever gain, which they certainly will
an immense numerical majority, religious fre
dom will be at an end" The Catholic Revue
in January, 1852, said: Professionalism of evel
form has not, and never can have any rig
when Catholicity is triumphant And, ther
fore we lose breath in declaiming against bi
otry and intolerance, and in favor of religiu1
liberty, or the right of any man to be of III
religion as best pleases him.
Father Hecker said: ''The Catholic chur
numbers one-thrd of the American populatio
and if its membership shall increase for t
next thirty years as it has for the thirty yea
past, in 1900 Rome will have majority al
keep it. There is ere long to be q state reE
ion in this country, and that religion will
The syllabus of Plus TX. declares that t
church has the power of civil and corpore
punishment and the concurdat concluded WI
the republics of South America in 1862 Ia
down in article 8, that the civil autho
ties are absolutely bound to execute eve
penalty decreed Sby the spiritual courts. "A
for this reason, regard the progress of Rom
Catholicism rs ininical to the interest Of
nation.
But again her appeal to her long histo
and in many chapters proves too mu,
While it records the heroic deeds of Catholi
their enterprise an daring, alas it includ
prosecutions that have made her drunk wi
the blood of those she reckoned as her enemi
have stood in that hall at Charemberg whit
are kept the instruments of torture of
Spanish inquisition, and as gazed shudd
ingly upon the Spanish horse, plank point
with iron, astride of which heritics are mou
ed and weights attached to their feet until
iron was driven into their bodies; the II
virgin, "a huge hollow figure of
woman opening longitudinally and operated
machinery in which victims were placed, a
it closed until pierced with spikes and crush
low. As I have read Schillers Thirty Yea
War and Motbey's Netherlands, and hear
Duke Of Aloso boast of $4,000 slain by
hands of executioners within few years;
Queen Mary who, during five years. burr
2SS persons for ofenses against the faith;
rejoicing of Popes and cardinals over the m
sacre of St. Bartholomew in 1872, I am G
strained, as q citizen Low ng his country,
hope and pray that production of Father Heel
as to Catholic supremacy in this fair land n
never come true. ggs
But, aside from its direct aims, am fear
of its influence. Irecur to history, and I
that the temporal power of Romanism is
blight of nation and the end of its progrt
I ask how she teaches science, and Galileo
swers from his dungeon, and Italy, once
teacher, becomes the blockhead of the natio
poor melancholy, magnificent Italy ACHE
unity and liberty only as the temporal po
of the church is broken. / ask how she teac
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