The New York herald., 1879-12-01
BISHOP WILLIAMS "BULL.'
The Church, the Bible and the
Public Schools.
ROMANISM IN AMERICA.
Fierce Discussion Of the Subject Yesterday BY
Protestant DiyineS.

The Rev. G. L. Thompson. pastor of the james
Methodist Episcopal Church. Re.d avenue. corner OF
Monroe street. Brooklyn. prcac hed yesterday morn
ing "the recent bull of Archbishop Williams in
New England-Romanism in the United States Its
Spirit and Aims" He took his text from IL. Thessa-
lonians. H.. 4-"Who opposeth sI.d exalteth himself
above all that is called God. that is worshipped
that he God stteth in the pie of God wing
himself that he is God" This is strong indictment,
said tue preacher of the AntichIst whose character
and career variousy descrb in the epises and
the Revelation Nothing appears clearer in the pro-
phetic portion of the New Test lment than the rise
OF an anti-Christian power. whose influence will be
great. and whose mystery of iniquity will de-
ceive many. Against this the apostle
true believers. and 1 come speak of
the Romish Church wish to be understood
as believing that not all her COMMITMENTS
are personal apostates from Ch.ist In considering
this subject must hold in mid an important dis
tinctIon to be observed all discussions of this
kind between our duties to meI.'s opinions and
duties to them persons. We may find no ground
of fellowship for opinions aud systems of belief,
we may feel constrained even to hate .hem while
love the persons thus in error ard deceived
OBLIGATIONS AS PRoEEsTANTs
As Protestants under obligation to
slider the spirit and aim of the system that numbers
its adhercnts among us by mill sons The ignorance
in the average Catholic of the drift and purpose of
komanism as system renders him none the less
servceable to her interests under the leadership
a trained and astute priesthood The ordinary Ro-
manist knows but little of ms Church beyond
his personal and servile Obedience her author
tiles. He sees nothing. 1t may be. of the
movements OF the hierarchy for supremacy
that ignores and obliterates the right of
| private opinion aud an indiv. dual conscience. As
their knowledge and purpose eist III the governing
| fAu y ha mar hv fhn nnnfar a,ifra
and purpose OF those who const ute the true Church
| of Jesus Christ The Scripture Of text. while
scribe the Roman Catholic system, its policy, spirit
and intent: Romanism opposes and exalts itself
against God by making void II S law This has been
revealed to men by the Scriptures and includes His
will anu conduct toward them aud their duty
toward Him and their oblIgaticrls one to another. A
part OF the policy OF Ronanisia is to withhold these
Scriptures from men. No way more effective could
be desired than to make void tlts law of God. With
out the Scriptures how is ., corrupt and fallen,
to know the will of His maker and ii all he learns
of 1t is what his human teachers are pleased to COM
municate to him, what rity has he that he
taught the whole OF it, indeed. any part OF it'
The will of God is that hall search the Scrip
lures, and from this fountain rink OF living waters.
But this rendered impossible by the policy Of their
Church. 1t is not sufficient answer to this that
some adherents to the Catholic Church have
tain version OF the Scriptures. The aspects their
system that systematically robs men OF the knowl-
edge Of Gods law found in our own land have been
modified by an intelligent ana powerful Protestant
body Romanism Is too ola i'll her experience
to yisid to circumsta%ces' Yet nothing Seeis is
more surely verified by history than the
fact that requires only the power to execute her
has decreed in councils aud commanded her papers,
which accounted intallible, that the Bible
shall not be in the hands OF the people. The Coun-
Gil Of Trent convoked at the instance Luther. who
appealed from the will of Leo X general coun-
manifest from experience that il the holy Bible be
ndiscrminately allowed to every the temerity Of
men will cause more evil than good to arise from
it,"
LuruEn's CHAINS.
The chains which Luther found in The Bible Of
! his monastery only symbolized the chains their
famous council put around the Word OF God, and,
IL influence could prevail, binding it forever.
Let it not be Inferred because of the amable char
acter of many of Rome's adherents midst,
because OF their peaceful and quiet lives. that
these altogether the product of her teaching.
! In land like ours other influences oppose aud
modify the natural fruit OF their system of Bible
| suppression. 70 judge OF any system We must
look beyond the faults virtues OF few of its adj
herents to the principles and the teachings of its
thorities. John tells that the beast he saw
coming up out OF the earth had two horns like
lamb, but spake as dragon Thus
up out earth lifts up its horns of power
the commanding the religious and the other the
ment, deriving its authority aud support from the
popular WILL makes the duty imperative upon every
who loves liberty tor the souls and. bodies Of
men, to watch and oppose the insdous age ressions
OF the priestly world power of the papist.
INFALLIDrLITY OF THE POPE.
| The reign OF Plus lA. in some respects the most
| remarkable of the $50 popes OF Rome, emphasizes
| this duty. The two events of his reign that
doctrine Of the immaculate conception and OF the
infalbility Of the Pope by the council that gives
| Romanism its creed and government. The first is
question of worship and practically concerns only
! those within the Roman communion The second
is u question OF power and authority that
moro less every citizen in this Republic, where
the power of the Papacy is already an important
factor. The preacher then discussed at considerable
length the doctrine of nfallibity in its relations
the state, showing the dangers which it threatens.
Cardinal Manning fails. he continued. to DIS
| guise the fact that 1t Is the sentiment
of his Church that Catholics must obey the viii of
the Pope before the law vi the State when they
at variance. He readily admits that civil society
of God. The logical sequence OF this, he admits, is
that the state Is supreme IN Its sphere. In his
supreme within ITS sphere and in order
to its end" No line is drawn where the author
ity of the state ends aud that of the Church begins
| and Who shall judge when either
dinai shrcwGiy refrains from disclosing. The
'"'I as an infalbie head si directs it, "tSaf oniy
the State can trespass upon the Church. In concu.
intrigue out of sight OF the public eye Josuitical
| shrewdness. persistence and foresight doing all
the will OF the Pope. confirming the truth OF tho
text and admonishing Us that eternal vigilance is
the price Of liberty.
THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY ACCUSED OF SEEK
ING AscENDANcY OVER THE STATE.
| Rev. Frank Rogers Morse. pastor of the Tabcr-
naclc Baptist Church. corner of Clinton street and
Third place. Brooklyn preached in tho evening on
'rhe Papal Attitude Toward the Bible aud the Public
| Schools" His text was jeremiah, VII, IA
''saying. Peace, peace; when there is no peace"
Some telling us. he SAID, that tho
attitude of Rome toward the Bible aud the public
school is less bold and hostile than it was. but
opposite is true. Do not believe, said he, that hor
opposition to the OF the Bible in the school is
mere pretence. Do not think that IT, by common
consent the reading .of the Bible should
be discontinued in every school in the
land, the crusade of the Romish Church against
the American common school system would
cease. Tho prctonsions of Romanism were never
more bold or its uttcranccs more defiant than to-
day Its purpose is to set up tho pillars of universal
dominion in America. Roman priests would burn
every Bible in America No book in existence could
WELD favorable inf uence upon the learn
ing. laws. morality and social institutions
OF mankind the Bible. The truth
Is that tho principles of liberty and
the teachings of the Bible are coincdcnt. Yet how