The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-13

The last article of Mr.. Ingle, which
was intended as a conclusion of the con-
troversy, evoked the following from FIR.
O'ROurke:
FATHER O'ROURKE'S REJoINDER.
So Mr.. Ingle retires from the contest. He
seems perfectly well satisfied. l certainly
am also and like him, l am perfectly will
ing to leave it to this fair-minded and intel
ligent community of Frederick to decide
whether he or have greater reason to be
satisfied l am glad of course, not for any
personal victory, but for triumph of truth
which is above all personal considerations.
"The truth of the Lord remaineth forever"
for God is truth 6 am the truth" Mr..
Ingle says that have not advanced beyond
the original proposition; and l am compel
led to admit the truth of what he asserts;
and furthermore had no intention of adj
vancing until he should compel me to move.
Might l not say that he has retreOteCI2
But shall not pursue this subject further.
still stick to the point the one, old point,
| the only one which called for notice, that
Henry the Eighth founded that church which
in the speech of all men now signifies the
Church of England. | meant to be humor-
Gus when alluded to delicate and dam
gerous questions" but suppose my humor
was awkward. This is the only thing re-
greet in this controversy: for like one of Mr..
Barrie's heroes (Lang Tammas, think, in
"Auld LIGHT Idylls,n have great ambi-
tion to be humorous. 1t is for this reason
that occasionally 1 like to stick to one thing
| Even that has at times its numerous side,
as in the present instance.
quite agree with Mr.. Ingle that ''those
| al.
not square their doctrines with the plain
facts of history and the teachings of the
Holy Scriptures. Let us hope that the
Holy Scripture receives better treatment
than we have seen given lately to the plain
facts of history.
l hardly agree with Mr.. Ingle that
church differences should not be discussed
in the secular press; when the press is con-
Quoted as impartially and as courteously as
the NeaOS, Mr.. Editor, and when the
] readers are as fair-minded and as truth
! loving as the people of Frederick proverbi
ally are, why should not the press be en-
plOyed to carry the highest message to men?
Some keen christian writer of our own time.
says that if st. Paul lived nowadays he
would be the editor of a daily newspaper,
and l believe it, No, in a fair, honest pa
per like the NeaOs, and with fair, honest
people like the people of Frederick, there is
no danger to be apprehended from fair,
honest discussion of the Truth. So con.
WINGED am l Of this that am ready to take
up any subject of Catholic teaching which
MIR. Ingle may elect only STIMULATING be-
forehand that we stick to the subject and
that we discuss one thing at time. :
thank you, Mr.. Editor for your cour-
tesy. The Catholic Church needs neither
laudatiOn nor vindication. Her enemies
have borne witness uncOnsciously of her
superhuman strength.
Her sacrifice is written on the walls OF
the catacombs; her veneration of the Blessed
Mother of God and the saints is spread
throughout the East by those who separated
from the See of Rome centuries before
Henry writhed in the bonds of matrimony.
There is probably no national church in the
world which bears more striking witness to
papal supremacy than the Old Church OF
England, with Augustine receiving his
orders from Gregory, and Paulinus sent to
York by the Bishop of Rome, and Wilfred's
three-fold pilgrimage to the successor of St
Peter to seek justice against prince and
people. There are no more glorious churches
in Christendom than those erected by the
old English Church 1.-THE Old Church of Eng
land), for the sacrifice of the mass, no more
stately abbeys than the old English monas
teries of the olden time. And before the
Church of England, even before the deal
old Church of England, which produced an
isle of saints, was there not the British
Church? And did not Pelagius, the hereto
claim hearing at the feet of Innocent the
First, because, as he said. 1--WE desire to be
corrected by thee who dost hold the faith
and See of Peter ?' Yes by all means
square doctrine with the plain facts o.
history" again proclaim fat denial Of
the claims of the English Church. And
Macaulay's famous traveller from New Zeal
and, sketching the ruins of ST. Paul's from
London Bridge, will remember perhaps
that there a00s Church of England when
King of England once ruled over that
then desolate land.
J. H. O'RoURKE, S. J.
| Quite Likely.