The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-12-28

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ley. They escaped by fleeing along
the coast until they passed out of the
township of their assailants. who then
paused. content to have driven the
supposed Indicators beyond their
own boundaries and caring nothing
what they may do elsewhere. The
patriotism of those people and their
antagonism to evil. real or supposed.
was strictly limited to few square
miles.
THE government of the Congrega-
tional church. as is we'll known, prac-
tfcally begins and ends with the local
congregation. 1t has certain common
agencies for foreign and other mis-
sions. but practically no central au-
thority. Its body OF doctrine has prac-
! tically no disciplinary machinery be-
hind it and, while it may be said that
there are certain principles on which
Congregationalists agree. these prin-
! ciples are ethical rather than doctrinal
disagree peaceably Within a mile of
where one Congregational preacher
expounded orthodox Calvanism, an.
other has been heard, within the ex-
perience of the writer. to deliver a
funeral sermon differing not at all in
thought from the we'll known agnostic
o1AroSS Of
similar occasion. While in one Con-
gregational church the stalwart and
militant faith in Jesus as the Son of
God is being preached, to the knowl-
edge of the writer, in one near by
some parents feel compelled to with
draw their children from the Sunday
school because the non-Christian pam
theisnn is being taught there. These
antagonistic teachings so on in
churches owning A. common name and
assuming themselves to be seeking a
common end, and there seems to be no
power to require obedience to any
definite standard. Such discord, no
matter what the agreement to ignore
it, can have but one effect upon an in
stitution, which though it claims, like
,, all Christian societies. divine origin,
must depend on human agencies to
carry on it's work in world of men.
With all respect to the Congregational
denomination to observant laymen, the
trouble with it and the cause of such
despair as DIR, 1Snytl exhibits would
seem to be ami excess of liberty. that
has become license
What discipline can church enforce
which teaches that each individual has
right to interptN the scriptures for
himself? What respect can a church
demand from it's members whose
preachers teach antagonistic doctrines,
and what right has a church to be
called Christian which. through some
Of it's ministers. denies the divinity of
Jesus Christi. So long as Protestant
churches. notwithstanding their revolt
against authority, continued to preach
most of the essential Christian doc
trines. they held the respect of their
adherents. even if they did lack the
power to require obedience to any
definite standard. but in recent years
the doctrine of individual interpreta-
ton and individual choice has led to
such a chaos that there no longer
exists any doctrine in most Protest.
ant churches This tendency is nat
ural. Give to any people liberty I'M
restrained by a. constitution, and with
out the guiding hand of regularly con-
stituted authority, and liberty surely
will become license Opposed to this
tendency in Professionalism. Catholic
ism Is today calling Christians to re-
turn to the Gospels of Jesus Christ.
Opposed to the despairing cry of such
men as the Rev. DR.. Smyth. the Christ
ian world can turn to the firm encycli-
cal of Plus X which condemns with
out reserve the errors that have grown
up among some people calling them
selves Catholics The Catholic church
is Catholic because she teaches unity
of doctrine; because she is universal
and has existed from the beginning:
because she has one communion for all
the faithful. There can be no new
| Catholicism" New Catholicism is
Inconsistent with the word catholic"
Referring to the bill introduced by
Congressman Clayton of Alabama to
prohibit third terms for presidents
the Washington Herald says:
"Mr. Clayton intends to see Speaker
Cannon and ask for recognition to call
it up for unanimous consent. and 1t
will then be up to the Republicans to
select some member to object to it's
consideration. The resolution is In
language exactly similar to the reso-
linton Offered h,. tho late Renresent, =