The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-03-01
..The General sense of mankind.

The general sense OF mankind
THAT is against you. ana in favor Of
the church, as we have already seen.
and is conceded in the fact that the
church is allowed to plead prescrip-
ton"
Then to the written word inter
preted and its sense declared by the
Holy Ghost"
Establish the fact of such a court.
and she will not refuse to appear and
answer. But she claims to be that
court herself, and is in possession as
that court you must dispossess her by
direct impeachment of her claims, or
by establishing before a competent tri-
bunal, the rights of an adverse claim
ant before you can allege such a
court
The reformers were aided by the
private illumination of the Holy Ghost,
and what they did. they did i'll obedi-
ence to His commands.
THAT was for them to prove.
They did prove it."
Hove"
From the written word
But they could prove nothing from
the written word, for they had no legal
possession of it
"Thev had legal possession of it.
The Holy Ghost gave them legal pos
session of it
What and where was the evidence
of that fact, if fact it was?'
In the Scriptures
THAT is, they proved by the Holy
Spirit that they had legal possession
of the holy Scriptures, and by the holy
Scriptures that they had the Holy
Ghost. But this was to reason in a
vicious circle"
THE reformers set forth other and
conclusive reasons for rejecting the
/ church. which I will reproduce on an
other day; but you must excuse me
now, for l have some parochial duties
to which l must attend
so you give up the first reason.
namely, our Lord founded no such
church as the Catholic?"
Not by any means. I may have
erred in bringing that forward before
the others. 1 ought not to have de-
| parted from the example of the re-
formers. They did not allege that rea-
son first. and l see now that they were
wise in not doing so. They first proved
that the Church had forfeited her
rights by having abused her trusts.
Having thus elected her, they took
possession of the word and easily and
clearly demonstrated that she had
been null from the beginning, by show
such church,
That is, they dispossessed them
selves by acquiring possession. Very
good Protestant law and logic
You may spare your sneer. for per-
haps it will soon be retorted with
seven-fold vengeance"
'Oh, not so bad as that, I hope"
I'VE shall see. 1 will. God willing,
prove that the reformers were rigid
I i
AN herculean task. Clearing the
Augean stables was easy compared
with it
The reformers were great and glo-
rious men; rare men, the like of whom
will not soon be seen again.
Some consolation in that"
ITO call such men miserable petit
foggers and shallow sophists is
ITO use soft words, which turn away
wrath
ITO outrage common sense and COM
mon decency."
why, would you censure me for not
calling them by harder names?
might have easily done so. but
wished to spare your prejudices as
much as possible"
Il tell you. John, that in becoming
miserable, idolatrous Papist, and drunk
with the cup of that sorceress of Baby
Ion, the mother of every abomination,
you seem to have lost all sense of dig
nifty, all self-respect and all regard
for the proprieties of civilized life
Because L do not rave and rant
every time 1 have occasion to allude to
the chiefs of the Protestant rebel
lion?"
mo; you know that is not what I
mean. You degrade yourself in speak
ing so contemptuously of the glorious
reformers''
And what does my most excellent,
amiable, polite and sweet-spoken bro
Their do, when he calls Gods holy
Church the sorceress of Babylon, etc,
and brands the members of her holy
communion with the name of idol
aters?"
(To be Continued.)