The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-26
Sunday and he had this to say:

wish this morning to allude to some
recent attacks made in Protestant pull
pits against the Catholic church. I
have in view to serve both Catholic and
non Catholics. Catholics cannot fail,
as they are made to remark those at
tacks, to have that faith strengthened
and their love for the holy church in
tensified. Is there not q potent argu.
ment for the solidity of the foundations
upon which rests their belief, that op-
ponents never dare, when speaking of
her, to give fair and truthful state.
ment of her position and her belief
They realize that the church. seen in
her own light, would be herself dem
onstration OF the truth OF her teaching.
Her opponents misrepresent, belle her.
They evoke from the mists of their
dark fancies spector black and hor.
rid Of mien, and name it "Romanisn. q
They awake hatred of it in the souls
Of their nearer, and cry out that the
Catholic church must be demolished, ii
men and nations are to be saved. There
is in their mode Of warfare q wondrous
Acknowledgement of the power resid'
| ing in the church and of the brilliancy
Of truth adhering to all her teachings.
I would also beg leaye to call the atten-
ton OF my NON Catholic fel!ow-citlzens
to chose attacks. / respect them:
hold them bound to me-, in many cases.
! by strongest bonds of sympathy. and
cannot allow them to be imposed upon
and be told that white is black and
light is darkness. Whether they are
to be Catholics or lot is question
left to be answered by their conscien-
COS, I owe to them this duty as a min
lister Of the church and as their fellow
| citizen, 60 have them SEQ the church as
she is. owe this duty to myself-for
if profess q religion black and cruel
and false, as our public opponents say
IT am not worthy Of their favor or
gbelr society,
as q we'll known ir,ss., ancGe- Of. .misrep-
resentatioa Of Catholic doctrine. ]
may quote the usual Protestant detini.
tlon Of an indulgence-a genition by
itself q sin, and. even All antici-
pated forgivness of sin. Gould aught
90 more untrue, more yepugnant 70
Catholic belief aud feeling. Yet; this
definition is re- echoed from hundred
pulpits, in our American Athens. and
the blue blood of the pilgrims, land
crowd the voting booths to put in
power men who will read this lie to
gheir children in the school room from
Swinton' s Outlines OF History" But
We will not to-day travel as far east
ward as Session. Let the instance suf-
dee which the sister city, Minneapolis,
furnishes, You have heard Of Rev. Mr.
MalMe's three lectures OF Ranlanisrn. !"
Mr.. Mabie, g. Baptisyminisier, preached
fo1 some two years in ST I'aul. He did
not waste his anti~Catholic eioquence
On The desert air of Eighth and Canada
streets. This rare gift he reserved
why, ( will not attempt to say~-for
Minneapolis. He says: ':Roxne's claim
is ail assumption of q right per Sc to
rule, 1t is pure assumption. self-cen-
tered. and has no authority iii the uni
vsrsal Judgments of men, This is Mr..
Mabie's opinion, evoked from his self
consciousness Of the absence of all au-
thor1ty Isom his ministry. The Bap-
list church very naturally makes nc
CLAIM to authority. 1t got 1T uot from
Christ, who left Che world feteen CEN
tu1ies before the small cloud Oh the re
ligious horizon told Of the birth of the
Baptist church. When he appears as
a teacher in Israel he is Mi, &Iabie, and
nothing else; and they who listen take
their religion fr5m Mr.. Mabie's guess
ings, and nothing else. He was not ex-
pected to yield to tbs claims of the
Catholic church, but he should have
stated them ;as she gives Them, and ar
sued against them-noG telling our
MINNEAPOLIS friends, right up and
down., that; her claims sis pure assum-
ption, as if she we've like the little Bap-
fist sect, avowediy freebooter, without
commission or warrant Of any kind. I
will do what Mr. Mabie forgot to dc
I will state the Catholic claim, The
Catholic church declares that she has
history of 1855 years: she fills time no
less than space. One hand on the
nineteenth century, the other rests OH
the first, and her commission is the
word spoken to her by Christ: LAS
the father sent me, so also I send you.
Go ye therefore, teach all ma
tions. II And behold I am with
you all days, even unto thu consumma~
tlou of the world Christ, he says or
ganized s. church, and she is that
church Mr.. Mabie may eonstrue
as he likes the premises, but he has no
right to say "Her claim is an assump-
ton of right per SCI Nor can he be
allowed simply to assert that If she
ever had right she haa forfeited it
long ago, without disproving her I'M