Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-27
Chief Lucas Looks Out For Sober
Sunday.
ATTEMPTED HORSE STEALING.
A Sermon For the Serious-Stolen and
Lost-Tracked and Trapped by
the Police-Travcled the
Wrong Road.
Prohibition Prohibited Yesterday.


yesterday, both at the front and rear.
The effect of it was noticeable, as not
drunk was to be seen on the streets, or
registered at police headquarters. Two
of the "beer jerkers" prolonged their
Saturday nights trade into Sunday
morning, thinking that the alert chief
would not be abroad at that unseasona-
BILE hour, but their illusion was abruptly
dispeled about o'clock, when that eff
cient officer collared them at their hole
in the-wall on the Row" and marched
them to the station. They were both
Ethiopians, and gave the names of Hen
ry Stuart and j. II. Robinson. They
gave bonds for their appearance this
morning. Stuart was "pinchcd' a few
days ago for being involved in Il free
for-all fight with his sister and other
members of the family.
Benson & Shepherd have lots in all
additions, especially toward the river.
Their titles are perfect on everything
they offer.
Last Sermon OF the Summer Series.
The pastors of the various churches
have given series of most excellent
sermons upon practical topics in the
union services held during the past
three months. The last of the series
was held last evening at the Broadway
Methodist church. The sermon was by
DIR. Cooley, of the First Baptist church,
and was fully up to the standard of those
that have preceded him.
The subject was "fhe strength of Ro-
manism." In opening he said: 1t is
we'll for every christian and intelligent
man to know the cause or reasons for any
institution which has lasted for centuries
and has exerted a controlling influence
over II large portion of the hu-
man race. Such an institution
is the Roman Catholic church.
1t claims to have existed since
the introduction of christianity and to be
coeval with it, and is acknowledged to
be over twelve hundred years old. 1t
is hoary with antiquity, and has sur
vived the rise and fall of empires, and
many succeeding dynasties and royal
families. During the middle
ages it restrained barbarism and culti
waited learning. In her monastaries she
preserved the literary productions of for
mer ages and the love of learning. 1t
is question whether the choice ltera-
tare of the classic ages of Greece and
Rome would have been lost to the world
had il not been for this church. All of
the scholars of the dark ages belonged
to the clergy. They were the teachers.
the writer's, as we'll as the preachers of
christendom. 1t was rare, in those
rude and turbulent times, to
find one outside of the
clergy who could write his own
name. Says Macaulay: 'There
is not, and never was on this earth, a
work of human policy so we'll deserving
examination as the Roman Catholic
church."
The history of that church joins to-
gether the two great ages of human
civilization. No other institution is
left standing which carries the mind
back to the times when the smoke of
sacrifice rose from the Pantheon and
when camelopards and tigers bounded
in the Flavian hmphitheatre. The
proudest royal houses are but of yester-
day when compared with the line of the
"Supreme Pontiffs.o
The papacy remains, not in decay,
not mere antique, but full OF life and
youthful vigor. The dominance
of the church by conflict ard acquisition
were detailed By the preacher.
| She now claims that she will
have under her dominion this fair
America. She is increasing here with
| wonderful rapidity and from this fact
we should study her sources of power
and ascertain what are her purposes for
| the future.
This strength is owing: First to her
extraordinary history, running back to
the earliest ages. We. are not disposed
to grant her claim to be coeval with
christianity and her descent from the
| apostles, for it was not till the COM
mencement of the seventh century that
the Roman Catholic church was fully
established and the primacy of the
bishop lof Rome confirmed. The per-
iod of eXistance covered by the various
churches was compared by the speaker
showing that none beside this can lay
claim to any antiquity. The same
chants and hymns that were sung dur
ing the first four centuries are sung
to-day, and sit is her boast that her
creed has never been changed"
The very fact that she has ex-
listed unchanged through the ages;
that she has lived and tlourished
through the varying circumstances OF
so many centuries; that she has en-
countered so many foes and has out
| llNeQ tnem. unaU she mas SUOOu rne leSl
of time, is, so far as 1T goes, proof OF
her adaptation to the wants of the
world and the truthfulness of her
claims. This argument is put forth as
unanswerable by her apologists and
kept in the foreground in all controver-
sizes. A church that has stood the strain
of centuries, say they, must be divine
Second: Her strength is OWING to the
great amount Of truth embodied in her
system. That truth will stand and error
must fall is automatic, but system
partly true and partly false is danger.
Gus because the truth connected with il
gives it life and vitality. Ali systems
of religion which have existed for q
great. period of time have more
or less truth connected with
them. Mahometanism lays great
stress on this unity of the
Godhead and the doctrine of future
rewards aud punishments. The heathen
religions had distinct idea of the evil
OF sin and the value of virtue. Confu-
cianism and Buddhism have these spe
cial truths. Each in some way has
spoken to the consciousness Of the hu