Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-13

lieve in the Eucharist no more than I'm prayer,
and in prayer no otherwise than in the |
church, and in the church no more than in |
any wisely appointed and definitely com
manded instrument OF the worlds salvation.
| believe il man does anything commanded
there is a reward, and that special one Incl
dent to the command, and, with these Iwing
liam extremes, |, an old man, consider II to
be certain that will never reconcile myself
to the sovereign pontih. Now, for insight
into your creed, the point wish To settle is,
W hat, in the opinion of your church, will
become of me when come to die ?''
And then Rev. Miller records the answer
of the archbishop, who, lining up both his
hands, said
alt is an ama2ement to me that Protestauts
should conceive such a question. There Is
no church so quick rs ours 10 teach that, in
outward things, what a man is not conscious
of as necessary cannot be n ground OF death,
or even subject of transgression. 1t IS
shame, after all our eNpliCtneSS, 10 doubt
that believing as you-brought up 10y your
venerable church i'll the thought that your
Protestant rule is binding, and all your out
ward things right and 10y the appointment of
the Master-simply hold on To that convic-
ton, we know that you suffer loss, as not
having the advantages Of what Is fuller and
more scriptural; but II YOU believe and re
rent, you Will be lust as certain 10 be saved
as or any other of more prescribed profes-
sion.
"lt were to guess why you ask such ques-
tons, II would be this that we tell our peo-
pie that they will be lost, and 50 do YOU tell
yours l mean that If a man has been bred
Catholic, and knows his duty, end admits
the obligation OF the mass aud our SaCraments
generally, aud lives IN u condition of neglect
he VIII perish and precisely this you would
declare i'll respect to the observance Of the
sabbath and any duty OF the closet thoroughly
confessed and yet wilfully furborne and
trampled.n
In further eluCidation of his meaning at
the conversation now recalled 10y Bev. Mil
Ter, the archbishop now calls to his notice
these authorities on the same interesting sub
ject:
Cardinal Manning says: "The doctrine
that out Of the Church there is no suirufiou,' >
Is to be interpreted both by dogtnatic and by
moral theology. As a dogma, theOlOgians
teach that many belong to the church who
are out of its visible unity as a moral truth,
that To be out of the church is no personal
sin, except to those who siu in being out uf
IT, That Is, they will be lost, not because
they are geographically out of 1t, but be-
cause they are cUipIbiV out of it They are
iacUlpd5iy out of it who are and have al.
ways been either physically or morally un-
aole to see their obligation to submit 20 it,
etc. ("England and Chrlstenttom," p. OIL
Cardinal Newman writes in a similar
sense: "As regards England, vast multi
| tudes are in a state of invincible ignorance.
| :. Now while they so think they are
| bound to act accordingly. Nor does it
| suffice, in order to throw them out of this
| irresponsible state, and to make them guilty
| of their ignorance that there are means
| actually in their power of getting rid OF it,
| etc. ("Anglican Difficulties" p. 3Ua)
| \ little book called Catholic Belief" pub
| lished by Benziger Brothers, says ''Catho-
| lies do not believe that PrOtestants who are
hiGHeleSSiV ignorant are excluded from
Heaven provided they believe in tiOd and
his Son, our redeemer, and repent, il they
have ever offended him by SIM
IN louisiana they hang wicked poliu,