The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-07

/ lndenn2ble and indefenSible. you are
! very much mistaken"
The readiest way to convict me of
that will be to define it, and give me
good and valid reasons for believing
it,"
In becoming a Catholic you abjured
Professionalism. Am l to infer that you
abjured you knew not what"
Mr. Wilson pays me but a sorry
compliment, if he suppOses L shall vol
unfairly surrender what he terms the
true potential policy. The question is
not what | may or may not know of
Professionalism, what I may or may not
have abjured. on becoming Catholic,
but what Professionalism is, as under
stood by those who profess it?"
But. if you were not fully informed
as to what Professionalism really was.
how could you know that in abjuring
it you were not abjuring the TRUTH"
He who has the truth has no need
of knowing the systems opposed to it,
in order to know that they must be
false. But suppose you proceed with
your definition. You profess to be a
Protestant. and so able. experienced
and learned a man cannot be supposed
to profess to believe he knows not
what. If you know what it is. you can
easily tell me-
Il will give you DIR. OWENS defini-
ton. l dare say your brother James
has never read ovens works nor Bos-
toms. nor those of any other man who
was in breaches fifty years ago. 1t is
a shame to think how the old worthless
are neglected. Nobody reads them
nowadays. The study of school divin-
ity is wholly neglected. Our theOlogians
are frightened at a folio, tremble at
quarto. can hardly endure even an oc-
tayo. The demand is for works, short.
Dithy and pungent. 1t is the age of
petty tracts. penny magazines. Peter
Parleys Robert Merrys, trash, non
sense and humbug.'
And yet it is the glorious age on
which the glorious sun of the glorious
reformation beams in all it's effulgence.
If the reformers were here. they would
exclaim, Eft tn. Brute"
81 hope Mr.. Wilson will not heed my
brothers sneer." interposed James,
but proceed with his definition
Brother Milwood, have you Owens
works? No? No. 1 dare say not But
L presume you have Bowling. D'Au-
bigne and the last new novel"
II do not read novels
The best thing you have said for
yourself yet. Well, 1 see l must quote
y
Der 1 quote the great DR.. Owen, one
of those sound old English divines who
cared as little for prelacy as for pa
pacy, and would no more submit to
king than to pope. They were the men
1t will be long before we shall look
upon their like again. They were Gods
freemen. The pomps and vanitieS of
the world could not dazzle or blind
them. They cared not for crown or
mitre, and the blood of a king was to
them as the blood of a common man.
They went straight to their object.
was not worthy of them. The
Lord directed them here. Here they
laid the foundations of a noble empire. |
This is their work; this land is their
and, and their children after them, |
and a crying shame it is, that a miser- |
able. idolatrous papist should be suf |
'ered to pollute it with his accursed I
'oot.''
But you are thinking of the Indepen-
tents rather than of the Presbyterians.
The Presbyterians were from king and /
covenant, and pretend to have disap-
proved of the execution of Charles
stuart"
NO matter. The Independents only
what the Presbyterians be-
,an, and soon sank into insignificance
When left to struggle alone. In the
,lorious war against prelacy and pa
lacy they were unised as brothers, as +
trust will always be their children.
But the definition"
Remember l quote the words of the
'reat DR.. Owen, great and good, not
he left the Presbyterians
nd became a gregationalist; ex-
epting in matters of church govern
lent, rigidly orthodox, and as much
uperior to the degenerate race of min
sters in our day. as huge old folio
to a modern penny tract, and whose
yorks / recommend to both of you to
cad. Professionalism is: l. What was
evealed unto the church by our Lord
nd his apostles, and is the whole of
hat religion which the Lord doth and
ill accept 2. So far as needed unto
aith. obedience, and salvation of the
hurch. what they taught, revealed and
is contained in the Scrip
1res of the New Testament. witnessed
nto and confirmed by the Old. 3. All
hat is required, that we may please
cd, and be accepted with him, and
ONE to the eternal enjoyment of him.
that we truly and sincerely believe
hat is so revealed and taught yield
lg sincere obedience unto what is
in the Scriptures. 4. If any !
hing they CProtestants) teach be found
, deviate from them, if it (what they
each) exceed in any instance what is
} taught and commanded if it be
Elective in the faith or the practice
anything so revealed or commanded.
ley are ready to renounce it, What =
0 you ask more clear. brief, compre-
ensive and precise than that?"
CTo Be Continued)