The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-08-05
HE HAS CRADLES ROMANA."

DR.. Wayland Hoyt, of this city, regarding
the disturbance in Montreal during the
Christian Endeavor convention, add We
now again desire to comment upon his
utterances last Sunday in relation to the
Catholic Church. Referring to the re-
ception rendered to Mgr. Satolli in st.
Paul last week, DR.. Hoyt thought it a
proper thing for Catholics to honor the
"American pope," but he protested
against the arrogant claims made by the
Catholic Church in calling itself the only
true church, and declaring that it alone
of all the churches has the sole right to
impart religious instruction and to inter-
pref the scriptures, on the ground that
it is the only church of the living God.
DIR. Hoyt abhors the exclusive claims
made by the ancient church, but If he
consults the scriptures and the early
fathers of the church he will find that
the same claims are made by them con-
corning the church established by Christ
and His apostles, some eighteen hundred
years before the Baptist church was
heard off If DR.. Hoyt turns to St. Mark
he will find that evangelist say that she
that believes and isl baptized shall be
saved; but he that believeth not shall be
damned" Was st. Mark bigot for
writing thus? St. Paul, the apostle of the
1entiles, emphatically declares that
"without faith it is Impossible to please
God" Comfortably with this doctrine,
the same apostle iclasses heresy with
murder and adultery, and says that they
who do such..things shall not enter the
kingdom of Gods Accordingly, he orders
that man who is hereto shall be re-
jected; and it is related that he hastily
Withdrew from public building in which
he met hereto named Cerinthus, "le st, y
as he said, cit should fall down upon
him. Will DR.. Hoyt say that st. Paul
did not preach the true faith, or that he
was bigot for claiming exclusive saliva
ton for those who believed the true doc
trine taught by Christ and His disciples?
The Catholics of: today believe with St.
Paul that there is but zone God, one
faith, and one baptism and but one
sheepfold, namely, one church. What
church is that? It certainly cannot be
the modern church of which DIR. Hoyt is
pastor, which was started by a man
eighteen centuries after the establish
ment of Christ's church upon earth.
Let DR.. Hoyt next turn to St. Angus
tine who lived in the fifth century and
listen to what he says: Call the assem-
blies, or rather divisions, who call them
selves churches of Christ, but which, in
fact, have separated themselves from the
congregation of u;ity, do not belong to
the true church. They might indeed be-
long to her it the Holy Ghost could be
divided against himself; but as this is
impossible, they do not belong to her"
Addressing himself to the sectar,es of his
time, as the Catholic Church does today
to the Protestant sects, this great doctor
of the church said: "1f our communion
is the church of Christ, yours is not SO;
for the church of Christ is one, whichso-
ever she is; since it is said of her: My
dove, my undeiled is one; she is the only
one of her mother" Commenting on the
words of ST. Paul, already quoted, st.
Augustine continues: ''The apostle has
told us to reject a man that is hereto,
but those who defend false opinion,
without pertinacious obstinacy, especially
If they have not themselves invented it,
but have derive it from their parents,
and who seek the truth, with anxious
solicitude, being sincerely disposed to re-
nounce their error, as soon as they dis
cover it, such persons are not to be
deemed heretics." The same doctrine is
taught by the Catholic Church at the
present day, and though Dr.. Hoyt has
been exhibiting unmistakable symptoms
Of "rabies Romano" by misrepresenting
the Catholic Church, in season and out
of season, who knows but God himself
that by the sincerity Of his disposition
he may belong 10 the Catholic Church in
spite Of all his antagonism to her holy
doctrine.
AS regards the veneration paid to the
Blessed Virgin and the saints, and the
respect given to sacred relics, . Catholic
boy Of twelve years old could explain
these matters to DR. Hoyt. The Catholic