Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-14

Executive Committee should experience
little difficulty in selecting u OF their
number who measures up to this standard.
Rev. NJ. r. Dry denis Reply to Rt. Rev.
Bishop Ksin.
To ne Editor ofAe Register.
SIR he TT. Rev. Bishop Kahn, in his
reply to ms article OF the 10th inst begins
with a resentment of what he is pleased to
call q ''djsc0UTieoaS GaSjHudfOn." he says
Catholic priests and prelatss will be found
quite as cordial and in every respect as
gen~tleIlanly as Wesleyan ministers" Let
us see: The Bishop invited me to hear his
lecture on last Sunday atternooph | ac-
Cepted the Invitation AMI was present.. 10
return | invited the Bishop 10 hear my
lecture on Sunday night and he was con-
s~picuOus by his absence. But perhaps the
explanation Is 20 he sought In the Ninth
Canon Of the Council of ISodicea, the tN-
act time Of which ia Pin, al eminent
Catholic authority, says is not Known The
Canon referred to reads thus: The faithful
ought To he forbidden to GO To the GENE
teries or churches of heretics 10 pray there
with them, and that those who do 1t fought
10 be communicated, aud DO penance for
their fault" lithlsi is the reason, then We
should not ccnsure him too severely, for,
while we differ widely on the holy Euchar-
ist, we would regret very muchto have the
Bishop suffer the sad fate of Dr.. MCGlynn
In my first article | used these words, He
quoted from st. Cyprisn who wrote (hy
Proxy in the middle of the 10th century
after the hereSy OF transubStantiatiOn hsd
taken deep root in the church Ibid not
think it necessary TO add the words, by
PROXY % above, suppOslng that a hint to
the wise wOald be sufficient, but alas,
what stupidity.
l now say that many Of the HWmcrOUs
editions OF st. Cyprian's works ere unreliI-
bic, and among them the Antwerp edition
OF l5GS, from which Bishop h. quoted,
Du Pin Saysin his Ecclesiastical History
Vol. l, page 1872, The lirst edition OF ST.
'Cyprian, which appeared q little after the
invention Of printing, neither bears the
name of the printer, nor the city where it
vas printed. 1t is more correct and freer
from faults than the following ones"
Aud Immediately aiterward he mentions
no less than fourteen different editions, and
Smong these the Antwerp edition from
which Bishop X. quoted. And in con
Guiding this chapter the author says, IL
have been informed that q Doctor OF the
faculty of Paris, . man OF p:odigiOUs learn.
ing, designs to Oblige the world with
q new edition OF st. CypriaU."
lie then says when this is done
1.-THE works OF this father might without
any danger be put into the hands of the
people, Evidently the eminent DuPIn
regarded 10 n dangerous rOrk for the peO-
pie, and l suppose Bishop X. will hardly
dispute with the historian o. his own
church. Aud while l am on this subject
| would remind the Bishop that st. Cy-
pr!an gives his testimony in favor of the
spiritual presence only, in the holy Euchar-
lat.
10 his ODD letter addressed 10 Caecilius
be says: Because his blood by which we
are redeemed and quickened canno: seem
to be in the cup, If the wine which repre-
ssais the blood OF Christ be not in the cup"
Take the words seems and represents and
tell ne if they do not bare witness TO the
truth OF Protestant teaching upon this sub
isct. Had he been a teacher of transub-
sanitation NO would have said, IF the
wine he not int IL the cup, 'hen the blood
Cypyian's language here in the explica-
ton Of these words We may understand
them in the mystical sense" That is rs
flyoring the spiritual presence OHiy,"
and against the doCtTiue OF Christ's
Corporal presence in the Sacrament,
See DuPin, Fec. Hist. vol. l, page 127.
Aud now the public must Judge as to who
is rusty in Ecclesiastical history, the good
Bishop OF myself. The Bishop would do
we'll to remember the words, Let not
him that buckleth on his armor boast ~
be that taketh il oil"
He also makes 4 very generous offer.
He says: "Rev. MI. D. quoted Tertullian.
Ols word ONLY: Can Mr.. d. tell me on
what 5ubject Tertullisn Is writing in the
40th chapter of his fourth book against
the hereto MascIOn, from which he has
cited that passage ?' He then offers fifty
dollars il / will furaiah the answer in the
next issue Of the REGIsIER. This is, in
deed, y generous Offer, and / accept 1t
here and now
Answer, lie is writing against MarciOn's
''DOcetecism" that il, that Christ acted
and suffered only in appearance. Tertul-
liaa held that de had q real 6Odg and SUI
fercd - real iuth. See the Aute-Nicene
Fathers, Vol 3, page IL and Ais, edited
by Rev. Alexander Roberts, D. ID, aud
James Donaldson, l.. l. b. And Du Pin
says of Tertulliau: "He was very we'll fur
nishSd with knowledge aud learning which
he sufficiently knew how 10 make use Of
20 good purpose
Now sir, here is the answer 10 your quCS-
ti"a. Bat "a I neither favor betting nor
gambling, | suggest that you keep the
ish Your library, add TINS inform
yourself better on this subject.
The good Bishop also refers to Faber on
the "Di1iculties q R1manism, " and l
have this author under my eye while |
write. | admit that the quotation cited
is correct Tie accepts the Roman Cath.
OliC plea Of mystery, only to expose the
hCresy Of transubsiantiatiou ami whip the
RomaniSts on their wi ground But in
doing this he conceded more than was nee
eSsdry. Faber says: "In the question Of
trausubstantiatiOn DR.. WIseman this an
.tsgOniSt) has commjHela theological suicide.
For, if the principle which he lays down as
a matter OF universal knowledge he true,
then his cherished doctrine OF transubstap-
must BY his Orh Snoring b. false.
See page 81.
The gentleman attempted 20 display bis
eruditioa by stating a "ihle'' ~syllOgism,
and here it is:
First. Whatever doctrine any Christian
c~onscient0u9ly believes to be taught in tie
Bible, that doctrine he is bound 10 accept
rs being Gods UGerUing revelation. We
need 60 10 further, the very first premise
is false aud the conclusion IS necessarily
fI!se This is certainly q very liberal prop
Tor q Catholic prelate, but it does
net COMFORT with the teaching Of the Rom.