New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-03-28

Ing Faith and a falllble church, whereas
their church is infallible and their faith
changeless. So that when test your
correspondents statemen.. regarding
original sin either in the light of histori-
cal facts or by the principles which
govern Church Councils I find it absurd
ly untrue. Again he writes: ssThe hum
an reason and will power was perverted
(by sin) so that we can no longer see the
truth and have desire to do good"
This IS the doctrine. of total depravity
in other words. For the Lutheran it
holds, but the catholic does not believe
IN 1t. SO [ rm not called upon to de-
fend it. On this matter the catholic
church teaches that by original sin the
descendants of Adam and Eve were not
totally depraved,bu they lostthe friend
ship of God; their reason held their pas
sions no longer, in entire subjectioH, and
they were henccforth bound to suffering
and death. Moreover the faculty of the
will was SO weakened that it would not
always choose the good; and their minds
were so clouded that they did not clear
ly understand the things of God. One
may readily see how thir doctrine differs
from total depravity.
All catholics agree with your CORES
pondent that truth remains the same
whether accepted or rejected and that q
lie cannot change its nature by popular
acceptation. The catholic church for
ninteen hundred years has had to do with
heretical lies and liars so that she has
come to hate them both quite as heartily
as the in6del does. Her motto is that of
the divine Master: Love the truth and
the truth will make you free.
"Good and respectable citizens should
not be treated as depraved and criminal
because they refuse submission to church
doctrines" Very true. Such conduct
is unchristian and unreasonable. when
ever and wherever practiced. Christ
loved all men even His enemies: He
died in order that all might enter heaven; !;
His gospel is "ne of love and peace and
good-fellowship. Do any christians hate
or persecute or calumniate their fellow
men? Then they are christian in name
not in fact. Unfortunately there are
many outside the christian church who
have been driven to despair and to for
sake God by the unchristian character
and the unchristian conduit of these
nominal followers of our Blessed Re-
deemer. But the true christian loves
his fellow man and, while hating error.
has compassion on the err1ng; for he
knows that the Savior's blood was shed
for all without exception. These true
christians are known through their lives
and deeds: = 'by their fruits ye shall
know Them"
"Church doctrines have been changed
and magnited through the ages as
SNOWFALL is in rolling down hill"
OF heretical, pagan and infdel creeds
this statement is true-they have changed
essentially through the ages. But of the
Catholic creed it is not truth. Catholic
discipline has changed; the exposition of
catholic doctrine has grown by defni-
tions of Councils and by the activity of
catholic thinkers just as the princiales of
Mathematics have called for the treatises
in their definition or exposition from
mathematical thinkers; but the catholic
faith is tie same today as when our
Lord said to the first Pope, St. Peter !:
son this rock l will build my church
and the gates of hell (error) will not
prevail against it. 2 and 2 would as
easily make 5 as the catholic =dogmas Of
today added together would make more
than the catholic faith of the first cen
tury. Why2 Because truth is change
less. AS soon as a man OF body of men
tried to make 2 and 2 equal inside the
church or. what was the same thing, add
to and change catholic dogmas they were
at once es pelled, and your correspondent
may find these expelled children down the
ages from ex-p1iest Arius of the Sd CEN
tury to ex-monk, Luther, Of the 18th
century or, if he prefers wider range,
from Simon Magus Of Apostolic times to
the. recent Or. Doellinger of old catholik
fame. That the catholic creat halnok
changed can be learned from Professor
Adolph Horaaek ! Wf'o fndh as far back
as the year $50 A. D. catholic creed
identical in substance and almost identi-
cal in form with the one now held by
catholics; and, furthermore he finds that
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