The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-23
STAR RISING OF
 NEW CATHOLICISM
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nople I heard a traveller was left Aft 1 CT the arrival of his vessel he was put in boat and sent ashore. But the
 Turkish officials at the landing found
 something wrong in his papers, and i sent him back to the ship. The off,
 cials of the ship refused to receive him I because he had no papers authoriz- ling him to embark. And the story left 1 him passing to and fro between the
 ship and. the shore with no power to
 rest either on land or in the ship.
 Such is the religious state of many Iminds Protestantism does not attract them, and Rome repels them. With
 all this Professionalism has utterly lost ! the unity of the church. The Roman
 church once was as a strong cable, one end of which was bound to the, External Power and the other end of which was fastened firmly to the whole mechanism of human life It controlled the world. and moved it whittier 1t would In Protestantism the rope on it's human end has frayed
 out into so many threads, No single strand of il is strong enough to move lthe whole social mechanism; it Is like so many revolvings; at best one thread may move a few wheels. l am not \ speaking of the causes for this; 1 am facing the facts. What do they mean? ] What is the significance of the fail- ure of the ages of Protestantism but I this-the new age is coming T sec" said the last Hampton lecturer in the pulpit oa St Mary's at oxford "the signs of a new religious order, the greatest that the world has known, drawn from all the nations and all 4 classes, and, what seems stranger yet, from all churches Is that true9 l Turn then to the signs of the coming | Catholicism l mean the Catholicism which is to fulfil alike the ages of Rot ,Eman absolntism and of Protestant 1 individualism. For there are signs of | 1t already above the horizon in both 4 quarters pr. Smyth described the 1 new Catholic movement | I the Roman church. Papal absolutism eliminated l In 1870 in the decrees of infalliblity. ! That produced a small reaction in the old Catholic church; but the papacy went on undisturbed. Has the papal absolutlsm passed it5 continuation, and has the breaking point of the wave been reached in the opening years of this century? Citations were read from the Pope's encyciical against modernism to show that this is a <. movement which Rome recognizes os no ordinary event, This new Catholic ism is represented popularly in the novel @The Saint" and recently in an appeal to the pope by a number of Italian priests which as printed in a book entitled What awe Want" has been put under the papal ban. On9 remarkable thing about it is that on reading it l, a child of Professionalism
 find my own religious thought and tendency so truly represented. The old Catholic movement was a scholars protest; Prof. Doellnger, its advocate
 ends his lectures on the unity of the churches with a desire and a hope
 These men are wrestling as loyaI Catholics with the problems of mod ern life; not with the tone of Bras mus the scholar but with something of the ring of Luthers voice they enc their appeal to the pope by declaring
 We will stand firm at our post, pre- pared to endure everything, to sacri- flee everything except the truth. They claim as their allies democracy and science, Turn again to Protest
 antism; behold above the horizon |; star in the east, There is coming ant to come a new Catholicism for ou
 Protestant faith. The signs of it presence are such as these: One is thu science For us now no one church no single church in existence, is bis enough to hold a big Christian man Another sign of the coming Protest
 ant Catholicism is the recovery amoni US of the truth of the Christian so
 ciety, the one, continuous Christian so
 ciety. This is the real apostolic sue
 cession that of the one unbroken If
 through all the years of the Christian society which the Lord first gathere
 around himself With this recovery O the sense of the unity of the one his
 toric and continuous Christian com
 munion may be resigned likewise
 greater spiritual authority and work
 ing control of the forces of life. Grow
 ing out of this there is an increasin
 and often eager readiness for large reconstruction of our churches. Thes
 two movements within the Roma church, and among the Protestau churches, have a vast deal in commo they may in the new order meet an match and complete each other; the
 the ages of papal absolutism and (
 Protestant individualism shall end
 the new order in which Christianit
 shall find stll greater fulfillment W
 ought to live and work in the expecta
 tion of the Christ we should hold ou
 own facilities in the larger loyalty (
 the greater faith. Our children sha
 behold a greater realization of the lii
 of the Christ on the earth than ol
 eyes may be permitted to behold.