The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-01-18
PRO -'ES IANTIsM| s ORIGIN.
Very Rev Canon searle Speaks at Tun'
bridge Wells on Protestants and
Their Proteges.
MARIA MONK NEVER WAS A NUN.

MONK NEVER WAS A NUN.
Her Book, He Asserted, Was Fraud
II. and Tissue Of
Falseh00ds.
At st. Augustine's church, Tun-
bridge Wells. the Very Rev. Canon
Searle recently delivered an address on
''Protestants and their Pr0teges." The
Very Rev. Canon said it was scholas-
tic custom very much neglected by
speakers and writer's Of our day to
define the terms which they made use
OF, especially when such terms in
volved the essence Of the matter about
which they intended to treat. The term
Protestant was derived from these fol.
lowers. of Martin Luther who, at the
Diet of Spires in 1879 protested against
the decree of the Emperor Charles v.
The origin of the terra was rather po-
litical than religious, and he supposed
now that the common meaning attach
Ing to the term was opposition to Porery.
If Popery was understood as such, what
was Professionalism in the moral and
religious sense? Was it persons who
protested against PoDery that were to
say against the Pope aud the Catholic
church, It so, persons Of any religion
might be Professionals. He could not
venture to decide the knotty point so
hotly debated by Anglican bishops,
clergy, and iaity. but if his humble
opinion were asked, he would say it was
anything they liked to make it. The
late Lord Chatham said that the Church
of England had issued a Popish liturgy,
a Calvinistic creed, and an Armenian
clergy, and to-day they saw that she
welcomed to her ritual Sosslnian men
who denied the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, repudiatlng future punishment
and the eternal Divinity of our Lord
and Saviour. But he was not going to
speak of good and conscientious Pro-
testants who were priests OF the Estab-
llshed Church, or Dissenters. lie had
many friends among them, and not
few of them clergymen in che Church Of
England, and he would be sorry to say
a word to hurt their feelings, or mis-
represent their religious convictions.
If they were opponents Of the Catholic
Church, they were 80 by the prejudice
of their education, which they knew
was so difficult to contend with, and as
long as their conscience told them they
could not become Catholics they must
not, Cardinal Newman said be became
a Catholic by faithfully following his
conscience, even while that conscience
was erroneous; he Cardinal Newmanl
made further remark, that a false
conscience, faithfully followed, led him
right at last. II any Protestant came
to him aud said it would be against bis
conscience to become a Catholic, ne
would say he could not come round
now; his duty would be to get his con-
science enlightened and be so guided
into the way of truth.
SOMETHING ABOUT oRANaEMEN.
1t was matter of notoriety in this
country and IN Ireland chat large
class of Pedestrians were a political
faction more than religious body,
and were perpetual traducsrs and cal
umniatOrs IF the Catholic Church; thev
were the disturbers Of che public peace,
strangers to genuine religious c0ntr0-
versy, whose constant and favorite
weapons were the poisoned ones of
misrepresentation and falseh0od. He
had no respect for such proteges, and
he could not lose an opportunity Of
unmasking them. He had great pity
for the instruments whom they hired.
Cardinal Newman said, In a volume of
lectures on 1.-The New Testament IN
equalled," that these Professionals were
obliged to cut their Ninth Command.
ment on false witnessing from the
Decalogue, the substance. force, and
edge of that condition being Islander.
Cardinal Newman added that false
witnessing was the principle of the
propagators Of these ISLANDERS. No one
would deny that ISLANDERS had occurred
and would occur in the Catholic Church,
but in the light Of the wondrous. mys.
terious life of the Catholic Church,
which had now lasted for nearly 1900
years, it would be incredible that u
Church. subsisting in 50 many countries
in the midst Of so N my civlllz ID, semi
civilized, and barbarous people, should
be free fr0ra scandals. JUDGED, were it
so she would aot b the Catholic Church
at all, for Jesus compared His Church
unto a net cast int0 the sea, into. which
was gathered fishes OF every kind. and
to field Of wheat. in which both the
wheat and the tares grew together till
the harvest; and in the time of our
Lord Himself, one. Of the Apostles.
trained b. Him in His own school, was
q thief and traitor, and che Apostles
had again aud again to dunonnce aud
expose heretics, false character, and