Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-07-22
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sion--"Go We into the whole world and
preach My gospel to every creature.
baptising them in the name of Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost,
teaching them to observe all things
have commanded you and behold /
am with you all days to the consum-
nation of the world" and he who
hears you hears Me and he who de-
spises you despises Me, and he who
! despiSeSs Me despises Him who sent
Me-" To every nation, to every crea-
ture therefore did He send them. But
remember, said He, You have not
chosen Me. | have chosen you that
you go forth that you bring forth
! fruit and that your fruit remain" You
| will go forth and teach not your own
opinions or fancies or the opinions
and fancies of the age and country in
which you may abide, but whatsoever
/ have commanded you, whatsoever |
have taught you during the three
years you were with Me -"One Lord,
one Faith. one Baptism, one Lord and
Father of all who is above all and
| through all and in us all. Go forth
and as all power in heaven and earth
! tEph. 14-5) is given me by the Father
/ send you with power to lead men by
regeneration in Baptism to new and
supernatural life," for unless a man
be born of water and the Holy Ghost
he cannot enter into the Kingdom of
Heaven" | send you with authority
to pardon then in the Sacrament of
Penance when they have lost their
baptismal innocence and have added
actual sin to original sin whose sins
ye shall forgive they are forgiven,
whose sins ye shall retain they are
retained" l send you with authority
over My own body which | sacrificed
on Calvary and | commission you to
perpetuate that sacrifice do this for
a commeration of Me" and to feed
them on My body which ! have offered
UP for the life of the world, "for My
flesh is meat indeed and My blood
drink indeed You will go forth and
pray for the sick, amounting them
with oil in the name of the Lord and
if the man sick be in sin they will
be forgiven him." Go forth and join
together in holy wedlock a Christian
man and Christian woman for the
propagation of holy generation and
teach them that what God hath join
ed together let not man separate"
fore as to time and place, as to power
and doctrine, restricted only by the
limits of the divine commission did He
send them to regenerate society and
to lead men to eternal felicity.
That this commission was under
stood to be divine deposit, that could
not be changed, added to or taken
from we learn from the words of st
Paul: Il beseech you brethren by the
name of the Lord Jesus that YOU
speak the one thing, that there be no
schism among you," and in another
place he exhorts his brethren and
through them future generations that
! though an angel from heaven teach a
doctrine other than that he had
taught not to believe him. I" The
heresy therefore that proclaims one
church or doctrine though differing
in teaching, is as good as another is
most anti-Christian, denial of the
divine principle in religion, heresy
prevailing in the present age, and |
am sorry to say nowhere with more
baneful consequences than in our own
fair America. With the Introduction
of private Interpretation applied to
the sacred scriptures, the bond of
unity was soon broken, sects soon be-
gan to multiply, until to-day in most
of them the idea of divine principle
in religion is entirely lost sight of
and their churches are mere clubs or
places of social gatherings, in conse-
quence of which men are going into
denial of all religious truths until
the spectacle confronts us that out of
about 80 millions of people in the
United States not more than 40 mill
ions belong to any church.
While all else changes the Catholic
church clings with tenacity to the
commission she received. Men of the
world cannot understand her and crit
icise her because she will make no
concession. All! they do not know
the .church-she was founded by the
Goldman, when he said go forth and
teach all nations | am with you to
the consummation of the world" She
is therefore divine, the doctrine she
teaches is not hers-it is Gods. This
is the commission the church, through
the apostles, accepted on Oliyet; this
is the doctrine she has since preached
and taught-a doctrine that changed
a pagan into Christian world, that
saved society from extinction by rea-
son of its own corruption, that
brought the Christian world to it's
present state of civilization, and,
which, if that civilization is not to re-
tard, must continue to be the prin-
ciple directing the lives of men,
Thoughtful men of our age and
country see signs of retrogression and
disintergration in the disturbed oon-
ditiOnS of society arising from fbn
lack of sympathy between capital and
labor, in the discomfort of men with
their social status, in the overweaning
cupidity for wealth and place so often
acquired by dishonest practices. While
schools are multiplying and erudition
is becoming more universal, faith is
declining and most of the churches,
especially in our cities, are woefully
deficient in Sunday worshipers, nor
are the absentees the poor and the ig-
norant alone, but the wealthy, the ed
ucated, the men of political and So
cial position. The cry is gone forth