El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-18
FATHER SHERMAN.
The Distinguished Jesuit Priest Lee
lures to Large House.

Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Sherman, son of
the late general of the L. 5. army,
spoke last night before crowded house
in the Myrtle avenue Catholic church.
His text was from the apostles creed.
He held in brief that the Roman Ca
tholic church was the true church, the
signs or indications of which were to
be noted by its unity, holiness, Catho-
licity or universally, its apostoliclty
aud unchangeab'lity. These points the
speaker elaborated under these heads:
l. Unity of government, faith and
worship.
2. Holiness of doctrine and practice
as exemplified in its models, miracles
and supernatural signs.
3. Catholicity or universally as en-
bracing the whole world from Christ to
our time and for the future.
+. ApoStolicity in its descent from
Peter the rock to Leo Mi and apos-
toicity in its doctrine and the spirit of
its members.
). Unchanged bility-as far as its
being always the same no matter what
happens.
DR.. Sherman in the course of his ad-
dress said that the night before our
Savior died, he prayed to his father for
US that we might be one even as ne and
the father are one, that the world mis- It
believe God had sent him. Where is
the one church, the external truth or
evidence that God sent Christ into the
world? The first mark or note by which
the true church of the living God is to
be distinguished from the spurious that
man has made, is the unity. the oneness
| of that church, the unity that must
ever be the evidence of government.
| Men can not act in unison except by
command, by the authority OF some one
at the head, and by the feeling that it
>l>0 N1 Ht-il
you tud this in its perfection, if not in
the Catholic church?
The speaker then quoted the passage
narrating Christ's talk to Peter about
the founding of his church ''oa thi:
rock" and repeated the claim of the
Catholic church that Peter was th'
rock upon which the true church wa
founded, that to Peter were given th'
KEYS of heaven, and the promisethat the
gates of hell should noJprevail agains
him. The Catholic church is the churc
founded in this direction of our Lord
aud which holds the spiritual K keyS;'au
it is this church that stands as hrml
3 after nineteen centuries as it did Il
r first. Power was deputed to Peter an
0 then through him to the bishops, the
to the priests and through them to tn
laity. Without unity of governor
i without unity of action I'VE would t
II of our church is that IL is united. w
y are all united under one fold of whic
:, Leo is the chief. You must have ont
p ness of faith to have true unity, an
q this lesson has come down from th
d ages.
q There can be no unity where thel
are differences of faith: and in this co
nection he cited the doctrine of purg
ID tory as one of the rules of faith, a do
g trire sanctioned by the book of Ma
i cabees. The speaker denied theiclai
T.. that MaccabecS was apOcryphal al
lie held it was as cannOuical as the gosp
r. of ST John. He defended also the actu
r. corporeal presence of the body of Chr
in the eucharist, for had not Chri
said at the last supper. take, es
s. this my body" Unity of faith cou
at not be found so much in the Bible
IT. through the external and person
source Q! TsGqgpiEed authority, 70