The Portland daily press., 1894-07-02

stainers believe that the law can't be en-
forced and are against it.
| Mole than this there many prohibition
men who will vote for drinking men, and
| won't vote for men they know to be te-
totallers. Party first, andsProhibition after
wards.
| lie believed that we ought to vote less for
principles and more for men. We die for
| principle. We let the gist of the matter go
In order to carry out the principle.
| But the fact is that the people are not in
earnest about this. Editors and preachers
| may make statements, but they say nothing
| that any jury could convict them on were
they tried for libel. Every body says that
| they know that rumshops are open, that
| the sherlffs are corrupt. Why don't they say
where the shops are? Why don't they state
names and dates and places? Are they
afraid to do it?
| He had self-conceit enou gh to feel that
should he leave the ministry and become
| sheriff or mayor he would enforce that law,
but he knew better. He could not unless
the sentiment of the people was with him.
| Suppose Mr.. Plummer should announce in
| the paper that he should enforce that law,
shut up all the shops and hotel bars, do you
suppose he'd be elected?
| Mr.. Woodward closed by stating that the
problem lies with the people.
| We want fathers that will warn their
| sons against wine and not take brandy on
| the sly. We want women who will scorn the
man who drinks and gladly die in maiden
hood rather than marry such a man. We
want women that have got wit enough not
| to marry man to save him.
DIR. Blanchard's Sermon on Papal sover-
eighty.
AT Congress Square church, yesterday
morning, the pastor, Rev. DR.. Blanchard,
preached sermon on 1.-The Grandeur, the
Error, and the Danger of the Dogma of
| Papal Sovereignty" The text was taken
| from. Matthew XXII., q. Render, there
| fore, unto Caesar the things which are
Caesars and unto God the things that are
| God's.'
The American principle is that Church
and State shall be forever separate. Jesus
seems to be in sympathy with that principle.
But whether he was or not, or whether
the principle is wise. or not our fathers
| made it theirs. Their sons make it their
| own. An ecclesiastical power, however,
| would mako the church superior to and
uOluludut over bue state
He would speak, therefore, for two rea-
sons, on tThe Grandeur, the Error and the
Danger of the dogma of Papal Sovereignty. >"
| The Fourth of July is near. He was
always glad to use the first Sunday of July
for themes pertaining to the country. His
statements in a former sermon had been
| challenged by intelligent Catholics.
The doctrine exists although many
Catholics do not know of it's existence.
| Cardinal M tanning is good authority. He
| said on page 81 of the third volume of his
sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects-and
| speaking for the Pope-''I claim to be the
| supreme judge on earth and the director of
| the consciences of men-of the peasant that
| tills the field and of the prince that sits on
| the throne-of the household that lives in
| the shade of privacy and of the legislature
| that makes laws for Kingdoms. am the sole
| last supreme judge on earth of what is right
and wrong" f.any man denies that this
doctrine exists, let him inform himself If
| any man, layman, editor, priest or bishop
| denies it, the speaker would suspect his
| scholarship
| DR.. Blanchard then'dwelt upon the gran
| deur of the doctrine. He pictured Gregory
| VII. and Leo x ILL.,, dwelling in thought
upon the office as representing God and
magn flying their sovereignty over all the
world. He eulogized both popes. He said if
| the doctrine were true, he too would bow
down before the pope as supreme ruler of
men. There is error. however. That is in
taking insufficient evidence as foundation
| upon which to build this stupendous decla-
| ration. There is not evidence in the gospels
| to show that Jesus is God or that he an
i -. Tz4z L L.
There is not enough evidence that Peter
| was bishop at Rome. History shows the
successive steps by which the dogma arose.
| Besides the error, there is danger from this
! dogma of papal sovereignty. He who accepts
it owes his first allegiance to :the popessand
not to shis country. Said Vicar General
Preston in a sermon preached in New York,
in January l, 1888: Every word that Leo
speaks from his high chair is the voice OF
the Holy Ghost and must be obeyed. TO
every Catholic heart comes no thought hut
obedience. 1t is said that politics is not
| within the province of the church, and that
the church has only jurisdiction in matters
of faith. You say: Il will receive my faith
from the Pontiff, but will not receive my
politics from him." This assertion is dis.
loyal and untruthful. You must not think
as you choose, you must think as Catholics
The man who says: 81 will take my faitl
from Peter, but will not take my politics
from Peter,'' is not a true Catholic. The
church teaches that the supreme Pontiff
must be obeyed, ,:because he is the vicar OF
the Lord. Christ speaks through him. NJ
wonder Gladstone warned America O,
danger.
In closing, Mr. Blanchard asked thai
American Catholics should see that such
dogma will array Americans against the
church, that they, not believing it, should
| proclaim the fact, that they should defend
the public schools, that they should demand
| more democratic rule in their churches
Some already are claiming to have voic,
in selecting pastors and controlling finances
| Above all, let them study their countrys
history, and glory in being, first of all
| Americans.
Rev. Mr.. Pratt's Sermon.
Rev. Dwight NJ. Pratt of Williston churcl
gave an interesting discourse yesterday
The subject of the sermon was "Perilou
Times" The opening portion of the dis
| course referred to Congress- He said: