Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-15

language the acknowledgment Of Papal
authority. He was summarily dismissed
from his position in the royal college and
Vanished to Chatellerault, and his writings
condemned. Yet this is the man Mr.. ID.
has the audscity to call ian eminent Cath
ole authority" What a whopper
Fifth-Passing ever a lot Of merest rig
marole from the pen Of this aspiring but
too presumptuOus young Divine, let me
ask him whether the Methodist church has
ever disciplined. DR.. Ryan, as the Catholic
church has DR.. McGlynB; and IT not, why
notP In q few Sundays more, Mr. D., beg
gipg the question so far as Catho les are con-
cerned, will denonnce Communion under
ope'kind,-HalfC Communion, as hestyleslt
Will he present it as a heresY against the
n~e0atire doctrine CT the Protestant Euchar-
Isl? If it is so opposed to the Scripture,
let me ask, was Dr.. Ryan, at that time
Presiding Elder Of this district, suspended
from the Methodist ministry or IN any way
disciplined, for publicly teaching that very
thing-half communion lin our city, say
ing the bread was enough for both the
ministers and the people, and Eiae not at
all necessary?
Sixth-But, Mr.. ElitOr, l bring my i'm
parchment of Rev. Mr.. Dryden to q close
by proving his utter ignorancs Of the art OF
correct reasoning, although ~pompously
pretending to be an adept in it
First, be does not, evidently, understand
one of the best known forms of argument,
called ~bylogicians drgHmeutAm dd homineHn.
When an adversary admits a proposition,
whether true or not, all cOncede that we
have q perfect right to hold him
to his own admitted principles. 1t
is n of the very strongest forms Of
argument and perfectly Legitimate. In
my last letter / made use Of q principle
which Mr.. D. and all Protestants boast OF
as the very mainstay Of their system-the
right and duty of every Christrian to read
and interpret the Bible. Mr.. ID. stupidity
concludes that / myself must admit the
truth of that principle before / can use it
against those who do admit it. Beautiful
specimen of logic! Yes, Mr.. D, / am
proud to say We have schOolbOys bright
enough 10 reason more correctly than the
pastor Of North Street Methodist Church,
Secondly: AS q confirmation Of my
charge against the Rev. D. that be is ut
lerly ignorant of dialectics or the system Of
correct reasoning, l will produce a spec
linen of his foolish attempt 10 use intel
lestnal tools that he does not understand
~ we'll as some of our Parochial School
children. Mr.. ID should blush whenever
be hears the word s~yLOgism. Iquots from
tho REGISTER Of February 4, 1888: Mr..
D. is writing a pOrerfGl o. article against
Rev. Ulfert, which he thus summarizes
'Now to put his (UlGeIt's) argument in the
form of a sylIOgiSm, it would appear thus:
81. All men ere free.
~. God leaves every man to follow his
own ways. Therefore, the State should
allow every man to do as he pleases."
Shades of Aristotle, of TheophTastus, OF
Eudemus, of Sir William Hamilton! Could
anything more sublimely ridiculous, in the
line of argument, be conceived than this
monstrosity of a syllogjsm? How a any
conclusion be drawn from premises that
have no possible connection with each
Other? By such a perversion Of dialectics,
Mr. D., l willingly admit, would
have no trouble in proving, to his own sat
isfaction, not only that there is nothing
bat bread il the Eucharist, but that the
moon is made out Of green cheese. By a
syllogism more correct at least in form,
one can deduce O conclusion that is a man,
ifest contradiction. Thus: First, whatever
is rare is dear; second, but a good cheap
preacher is rare; therefore o good cheap
preacher is dear!
/ have done with Mr.. D. Why should
l waste my time in arguing with a man,
whose sole apparent qualification as q dis
patant is his towering selfeonceit?
JOHN J. KAHN,
Bishop of Wheeling.
Wheeling, March IA, 1888.