The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-24
DR. ELIOT'S new
RELIGION FLAYED
BY BISHOP MFAUL
Former Harvard Head Not a
Christian, New Jersey
Prelate Says.
NEW CREED WILL NOT
BE CHRISTIANITY
The Old Faith Is Still STU
prenle, He De-
clareS.

A. McFaul, mead of the Catholic do
eese of Trenton, who recently created
a sensation by his statements relative
to the alleged moral depravity among
the students in American colleges,
has the advent of a new
religion of universal love, an
nounced by DR.. Charles w
Eliot, former president of Harvard
University, in his address before the
Harvard Summer School of Theology.
After being shown an alleged summary
of the address by DR.. Eliot the bishop
said:
TT appears that DIR. Eliot has now
assumed the role of a prophet. l am
sorry for this, because l have always
highly esteemed DR.. Eliot and nave
observed that modern prophets are not
very successful in their prognostica-
tons. In my comments apo reported
assertions of the doctor, my point OF
view must be that of a Christian ana
a Catholic. DR.. Eliot. l am informed,
is a Unitarian, and therefore denies
the trinity and the divinity of Jesus
Christ. Consequently. he Is not a
Christian. 1t is easy, therefore,, to
draw the conclusion that our ideas
upon religion must be very different.
"A ComfortIess Religion"
in the new religion no priests Will
be needed, and, consequently, no MN
lister will be necessary to improve so
called industrial conditions. Neither
will the new religion attempt to recon
cile people to present ills by the promise
of future compensation.
ut will, therefore, be a comfortless
religion. 1t will not produce men OF
the character of st. Paul, who was
sustained in all his trials and persecu-
lions by supreme confidence in God.
But in all these things we can over
come, because of Him that hath loved
us. For 1 am sure that neither death,
nor life. nor ~principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor the things to
come, shall be able to separate from
the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus, u Lord.
Let me assure the doctor that to
the Catholic Church hlone has the
promise been made by her Divine
Founder, that she shall never fail, and
that she shall be the church of the
auture until the contamination OF
ages.
Race Suicide Not Fashionable.
"All signs point to the fulfllment of
this promise, for we Catholics now
number between fifteen and twenty
millions in the United States, and we
are making converts to the Catholic
Church from among the non-Catholic
body at the rate Of over %. 200 a year.
Besides, race suicide is not fashionable
mons our people. Among us there
are not more deaths than births.
ut has become fashionable in the
last few years to speak of the church
In a very wide sense and as including
the doctrines of various non-Catholic
denominations, some of which are con-
Trajectory to one another. Thus some,
in speaking of the church, would In
clude Christians and non-Christians, or
Catholics, E~piscopalians, Baptists,
Methodists, etc. and Unitarians under
the term church When I speak of
the church. l mean the Catholic
Church, governed by the successor of
St. Peter and the vicar of Christ at
Rome. I consider her alone the Chris
tian church in the strict sense of the
word.
LudicrOus, but PitinbIe.
ut would be ludicrous were it not 50
pitiable to hear a man Of DIR. Eliot's
reputed learning AM character eoutlin-
ing the Church of the Future
God help humanity when it has to
deal with the so-called religion of the
future
Catholics have always held that re-
ligion is a necessity. and what had
been just as necessary in the past is
Just as necessary in the present, as it
will ever be in the future. We dc not
wander about in the mids of doubs
and confusion looking for religions of
the future and dissatisfied with that
which we possess, like the Unitarian
and other denominations. The Catholic
recognizes that God alone can be the
architect of true religion and he holds
rightly to the doctrine that Christi
anity Is a divine religion. a religion of
heaven, which the Irvine Savior Of
Mankind clearly announce when he
Asked in the third chapter of st. Johns
Gospel, V Is, II, Is and 10; For God
so loved the world. as to give His Only
Begotten Son, that whosoever believes
in Him may not perish, but may have
life everlasting
He that believes not in Him is not
judged. But he that doth not believe
is already judged, because he believes
not in the name of the Only Begotten
Son Of God. And this is the judgment,
because the light is come into the world,
n men love darkness rather than the
light for their works were evil.
Necessity of n Creed.
"The doctor says that the religion of
the future will be bound by no dogma
or creed In that case it will be a
sort OF nondescrlpt, jellyfish religion.
1t will be hard to find, not easily
caught and difficult TO retain. In fact,
very few even Will be able to recog-
nize it when brought into contact with
It.
II am amazed when / hear men of
~presumable learning talking of religion
without dogma or creed. 1t is like
talking of building a house without a
foundation. Where is the art or the
science that Is not fuFpis1ed with
principles, and how could any religion
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