The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-12-07
The CHURCH VS.. lNFIDELITY
She is Divinely Instituted and En-
powered to Battle with and
Overcome the Evil
fOuL-MoU1HED MONSTERS,

FOUL-M0U1HED MONS ER S !.
The Church Stands Alone in the World
in Defence of the Doctrines Of
Jesus Christ
From many different quarters we
hear of frantic appeals being made by
the Protestant sects in Canada for an
organic union of their much divided
churches. In their synod meetings and
Juinisterial conventions the question OF
union receives more than passing
notice. Complete failure, however,
stares them in the face on every side,
and complete failure must be their
portion from the very necessities OF the
case. They admit that Jesus Christ
did really establish HIS Church on
earth, which was to continue his special
werk until the end of time, and they
pretend to be living members OF that
Church, but their acts, words and deeds
OF charity are strangely and obviously
inconsistent with the teachings of the
Apostles the doctrines of Jesus
Christ. They are rather living mem
bers Of a disunited portion seeking by .
variety gDf means to lnderlie and des
troy the fundaiGe entails OF Gods Holy
Church lHeaven forgive them for such
vain work) and we need not 90 far to
find proof of this statement. Webster
saws thatan Agnostic is zone who pro
fesses ignorance, refraining from dog
matte assertion; neither admitting or
denying the existence Of a Deity" and
an Anglican rector goes so far as to
advocate union between the various
Protestant sects and the Agnostics in
the following words:
"But beg even Agnostics to consider
these propositions; and since the public
mind is not ripe for their very advanced
views to see if even they could not CO.
operate with Christians in tolerating
some sort of National Church, if only
as presenting a barrier to the 'encroach-
ments of Rome.' against which Pro
testantism, as at present constituted,
oppose only rope of sand"
''uere we have an Anglican rector
placing his religion on par with ag-
nosticlsm, indiderentism, secularism,
etc, and we are naturally enough
forced to the conclusion that Protes
tantism, although protesting its belief
in Christianity, is not a bit better than
the MANY other s'isms' that are satisfied
to accept Nature as their sole guido
through life, and are perfectly indif-
ferent as to their spiritual we'll being
and their future beyond the grave.
Thus the religious question assumes the
phase of the Catholic Church standing
alone in the world in defense of the
doctrines of Jesus Christ-as the one
and only true Church-divinely instl
tuted and empowered to battle with
and overcome the progress of heresy
and infidelitY. Proofs are not wanting
OF the divine mission which has been
entrusted to her care. She has lived
through all ages, through the storms of
persecution and the most cruel tyranny.
and mas emerged from the most severe
trials more radiant, more grand, and
more divinely beautiful and powerful
than before. Even to day she is the
object of the most bitter hatred by every
imaginable sect. She is attacked in our
own country, n4aligned and slandered
by such foul -mouthed and filthv mon
stars as Justin 2. Fulton, who. devoid
of all manly instinct, and without the
slightest feeling of Christian charity
attacks the noble and heroic Sisters of
the Church, who, in open defiance Of
the vengeance of Heaven, declares the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to be q ''roar-
lng farce" andasays that the rgln
Mary was not much Of a virgin. {" Aud
IN the face Of all this we hnd the Bap.
fists. who recently held q meeting in
Ottawa, adopting the following resolu
tion: I54
/. e.itHi / QlS COUH0uGlOlS uGlCOY4 CAIAOeo OuA
sympathy with the Rev. DR.. & Fulton,
OF Brooklyn, n. z, In the zeal. energy
and ability displayed By him in the
work OF opposing Roman aggression
and seeking tos draw 70 Christ. those
who are held bv home il spiritual
darkness q ss5E y s5. .; 9
BY which we are forced % conclude
that such serpents as Fulton. and md such.
Idriyelling apostates at Chiniql who
fell from divine favor into the loathsolmle, 4 ,
dungeon of error. and hesitate not TO
openly attack and slanBer the Confes-s
aional, crawllng through society infect Il e
it with their pestllent breath ana exs d
tract from It'll members whatever good Cd
there Is Ill them; they. crawling reptsilletss,. y
fascinating tOrss !, leave the slime lt's
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