The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-05-17
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lieve is being born again; to be baptized
is to confess Christ before men and en-
ter the "Cburch Militant" Except we
confess Him before men, He will not
confess us before the Father. But Ro-
man Catholls laugh at our idea of being
born again" and identify the "new
birth" with baptism and make member
ship in the church dependent upon con-
tirmation.
He said-''To be real Protestant one
must first know the truth and then pro-
test against it,"
Answer-The sarcasm is fine but the
assertion is incorrect. To be protest
ant one must believe that the Bible and
Gods Spirit is his guide and must pro-
test against the doctrine that the pope,
councils, and the Roman Catholic church
have authority to say what one shall and
shall not believe. According to Rev.
Mr.. Harrison, our departed friends who
are saved, entered heaven Tor paradlse)
because Of their "invincible ignorance. y
that is, as heathens. But according to
Methodist belief, thousands ofpersons
who could not read and who never saw
priest knew enough of Christ to be-
lieve in Him and be 'born again" and
entered heaven, not as heathens but as
"blood-wasbed saints"
He said-In reference to "costly sacra-
ments"-p positively nothing germane to
the ques ion. (Any man who says that
my reference to Mayor Smiths donation
was intended by me to be any more
than grateful acknowleds ement of his
generosity and an encouragement to
others who were soliciting aid for the
church, utters that which is untrue.)
The reference to Apostolic Success.
sion" [ refuse tc discuss. am clergy
man of church whose ministers re-
ceive orders in line from the Anglican
Catholic church which lays as strong
claims to succession from St. Paul as the
Roman Catholic does to succession from
St. Peter.
He says-"so you admit that your es-
tabllshed churches are threatened with
final destruction"
Answer-1 spoke of what you sought
to do, not OF what could be done. If
you will recall the TACT that in the year
1900 A. D. there were so, 100000 of Ro-
man Catholics and no Professionals; and.
Chat now, to your ISL ,000, 900 of Catholics
there are 408,000,0CO of Protestan,s, it
will help you to believe that protestants
are not afraid of dying out. s..
The ''Tablet," New York City said ::
"Few insurance companies would take
risk on the national life of creed
which puts five hundred daily into the
grave for, one it wins over to it's COM
munion; and yet that is what the Catho.
lie church is doing, while we WRITE"
For every Negro Catholicism has gained
in America, it has lost thousands of its
own children. The "Irish World'' of
July 25th, 1874, maintained that $4,000
COO had been lost to Catholicity in this
Republic.
There are those who say that the Ro.
man Catholic church is in the throes Of
death and that in the frenzy of despair
it clutches at the Negro as drowning
man, after straw.
If getting the Afro American is essen.
tial to the perpetuity Of your church, 1
do no wonder at your zeal. If it is only
his soul that is wanted, would it not
have been more consistent for an infa]-
lible church to have begun working for
that centuries ago, and thus have been
least on par with the protestant?
He said-"The Rev. Mr.. Harrison is a
priest in Gods church and the Rev. Mr..
Henderson is public speaker in the
Rev. Mr.. Henderson's church."
Answer-As Roman Catholic he
must believe just what he said. Roman
Catholics claim that there is no church
but the one Of which the pope
is the head. He is consistent with
his doctrine. But according to the way
millions of Methodists understand the
Bible and history too, the Rev. Mr..
Henderson, if he Was called of God, is a
priest of the most high God and duly
accredited as such by the laying on of
holy and authorized hands. St. James
church is little flock within the HOLY
Catholic church and in the communion
with the largest and most powerful Ne
gro religious organization on earth and
while the Rev. Mr.. Henderson does not
have a pope to think for him and to d.
rect his motions, he has over Him, in
the person of the Rt. Rev. J. M. Brown.
D. D., d. c. L., a bishop whom he loves,
venerates and obeys as becometh duti-
full and an humble minister. He honors
the Rev. Mr.. Harrison for the reverence
with which he speaks of the venerable
archbishop who deservedly stands high
in ecclesiastical rank, and, high in the
esteem of his fellow citizens; If the
world had u few more such grand and
truly great men as the large hearted
archbishop, religious chickering's would
cease and all would be one indeed.
now close a long and expensive let.
ter the cost of the insertion of which
forbids me writing another such one.
l have tried to be fair and manly in
is said and ask indulgence for anything
unkind which may have unintentionally
crept IN. j. NJ. HENDERSON.
THE religious controversy which has
been carried on through the medium Of