The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-09
From Seed of Papacy Was
Reaped the WhirIWind.
KNOX ANNIVERSARY
DR.. Moments Address Preparatory to
the Observance Of the 400th Birth
day of John Knox Which viii Take
Place in the Presbyterian
Church Next Sunday.

Preparatory to the 400th birthday
of John Knox. the great Scotch Re
former. which will be observed next
Sabbathin the First Presbyterian
Church, DR.. Moment keliytred on
Sunday evening a magnificent lecture
on the condition of the Christian
Church in the sixteenth century. He
prefaced his remarks by the words of
Hosea, viii:7: For they have sown
the wind and they shall reap the
whirlwind.'
DIR. Moments lecture-sermon was
heard by a, large congregation, and he
preached with wonderful eloquence
and force He reviewed the time
when the church of God was in dis
grace; the Bride, the Lambs wife,
clothed in shame; the sacred vessels
of the sanctuary filled with abomina-
tons. Then he spoke of the self
appointed view of Christ, the worlds
tyrant: the gospel of the crucified
relegated to the back ground, and
the teaching of men made to take its
place He concluded with PorePs
doctrine of justification by faith held
from the people; the Pope's doctine
of justification by money paid for
dead mems bones and old shoes worn
by the saints proclaimed on the house,
tops.
TT is the church of the sixteenth
century, he said, ''of which |
speak. The church. not of Christ,
bpt of papal usurpation; not the
Bride, the Lambs wife, wearing the
veil of her holy wedlock, and clothed
in the white linen of her spotless
righteousness, but a quasiwife, living
without marriage bands and having
on the polluted garments of her pros
titution.
'sWhen the wind is sown the whirl-
wind is reaped over all continental
Europe and the isles of the sea there
was whirlwind reaping i'll the six
tenth century; but the sowing had
gone on age long before that pc
riod of history arrived. The sowing
had gone on under. the claim of three
amonStrous falsehoods: that the ApoS-
tie Peter was the founder of the pa
pal church and that the popes were
his successors; that thes Pope was the
tmDoral head of the nations, and that
the authority of the Pope in doctrine
and discipline was above the Word of
God-the Church, not the Bible, held
the first place over the human con-
science.
1T was about the middle of the
fifth century when, under Pope Leo,
this high claim was authoritatively
made for Peter. III 500 A. d. Leo Ill
crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire-a pure act of
Nsurpation, but on that had far
reaching consequences, for it made
the greatest sovereign of the age feel
his subordination to the Pope; it set
forth the theory of the PoDe's tenn
M q
ance btween politics and religion that
proved a curse to church and state.
In 1875 Pope Hildebrand put the pa
pacyupon its permanent feet by rails
ing the spiritual power of the Pope
over the temporal power of the
kings: by declaring that the kings
must be subject to the church, and
not the church to the political sover-
eigns of the earth; by teaching that
God had established a new theocracy,
with all power vested in the success
ors of st. ctr. and by assuming the
right of communication.
''ThuSwass completedthe founding
of thepapal empire; which held on
with growing power the next 400
years. Just before the advent of the
sixteenth century the great council
of Florencesaid: We define the Ro-
man ontiff to have primary over the
whole earth; to be himself the sue
cessor of the blessed eter; the true
and only vicar of Christ; the had of
the whole church. and the father and
teacher of all Christians
Such was the wind sowing that
went on for more than a thousand
years, and the whirlwind reaping
came in the sixteenth century. The
church was unconverted; her clergy
and people were strangers to regen-
Grafton; despotism fraud, and abomi-
nable immoralities exceeded all
bounds; the Bible was a lost Book;
Jesus Christ as mans only Savior was
lost; the Holy Spirits power was lost.
and the doctrine of justification by
faith was lost. The doctrine of pur-