Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-26
&eliaions department.
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been great annoyance to the Cath
Ollie church, preached in New York
on the 18th inst, and the following
will give an idea of his beliefs:
The reformation had been forese en-
by the genius and piety of John Cal
vim, whose doctrines the Huguenots
embodied in their creed. He said,
81 also am Hueuenot, as you are.
Nv wish is not to divide the church,
but to reform it. | am called to adj
vocate unity, not separation. Yes,
/ am Huguenot like yourselves.
Their creed may be summed up in
the words essential ever to the
Church of Christ, but specially so to
the Gallican part of it. The first is
the spirit of liberty. This marked
the first centuries of the Christian
church, and from liberty of faith
sprang Liberty in politics, which has
been wrought out on the battlefield
of the ages, till you have it fully in
these United States. The reforma-
ton shook off all that trammelled
this liberty, and bestowed it as a
birthright upon Scotland, England,
Holland. But it was not a
liberty separated from authority.
Society Acknowledges three radical
sources of authority. In the family
it is the father; in the school, the
teacher; in the exterior world, the
ruler But the external ruler in mat
tiers of faith is not the master. 'One
is your MASTER said Jesus, l. How
ever good the authority of the exter-
nal ruler may be, it is inferior to that
of the internal ruler. The conscience
enables the soul to find the Supreme
truth, to bask in the illumination
shed from Gods own presence. 1t
was the reformation that brought this
out clearly that, above all things,
the man himself is to be first dealt
with. Not the man as society has
made him, but as he stands in his
own separate individuality before
God.
When the Samaritan woman asked
whom she was to worship, Jesus
pointed out to her that worship was
a thing essentially of the mind, and
tied to no exterior mode whatever
because God is spirit and they
that worship him must worship him
in spirit. This sentence comprises
the essence of Christianity. When
st. John saw the vision of the city OF
God, the church, is a type, he saw
no temple therein. What Where
man shall behold God face to face
when the emancipated soul shall fine
itself in the perfect embrace of love
and the full knowledge of truth, nc
temple! No, because the whole life
will be worship, and after the devel
opment of ages, will still discover
fresh themes for alteration and graf
itude. This spirituality is the char
acteristc of the reformed worship
Then there is the spirit of justice
Justice and law regulate the human
conscience. But it is a law having {
higher source than earth. 1t teaches
us to do to our brother whatever WI
would have him do to us. This Law
Of right is therefore from God. W.
are to see in man claims to right, be
holding in his form the very Son O
God, who came to declare all right
eousness. 1t is interior justice tina
produces the external. Mortifca
tons and asceticisms are constraint.
upon human nature, opposed fire
quently to common sense. Casuis
try and the thousand lies of theolog'
have obscured and defaced the glori
Gus righteousness of God. Truth i
arrived at by the enlighted con
science listening to the voice of God
Puritanism clave to the simple utter
ances of that voice and presente,
this moral subject for the imitation
of all times. The Puritans plante,
it here in this country, especially i
New England, where it has been tn
germ of your national moral life
The church always sighed after il
her champions fought for it, and he
martyrs bled for it.
/ know that | am in a land abound
ing in wealth that seems colossal an
magnificent, but let not wealth de
generate into luxury. for then 20
would emasculate your national life
And though you have a paradise BIZ
meath your feet, and boundless dc
main around you, though power an
prestige increase with every CROWN
year, yet God will cause the tempe
of his wrath to burst over the Ian
whose first and grandest aim is II,
justice. 1t is the law of the wor
that in politics and in religion, no /
form is accomplished without suffe
ing. do not believe in the infal
bility of martyrs any more than
that of Pope, yet it was chief
through her sufferers that the chur,
obtained reform. st. Bernard al
many more fathers and councils HI
cried out for ages, Reform reform
reform = But it never came I'm
the stake was erected, and the bio
of martyrs bowed on the scaffold a
the pyre, in massacres and butch,
les.
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