The Pensacola journal., 1910-12-25

fetal career, toward the sister church
has been taccording to the history,
somewhat erratic.
Yet we should not blame ourselves
for it. nor should we do SO to the
church. Whereas we cannot blame.
nor hate our own mother. which per-
haps by reason of pleasure conceived
and drive us, but looking toward her
living affection, and the blessed life
hood that he had received by her,
We naturally keep blind honor, love
and obedience toward her, much more
faith. devotion, and strict obedience
we owe to the church, our spiritual
and eternal mother!
The True Church.
Therefore, if we aim to acquire and
enjoy her blessed pledges and to be
come equivalent sons of the one
Father? We should be much care
ful. submitting her villas to how
to perform her canons. that is her
holy transmissions. Keep my com
mandments" boldly dictates the heav-
emily voice (that includes the Holy
Scriptures and Apostolic Transmits
sions). Yet avowedly none obeys,
neglectly every allegiance. the most
Of the world, sadly, has TO COM
ply, according to the call of time. to
the call Of this debauched and licen-
tious modernism, with the exception
Of a single part of the entire herd,
that composes ChristeIdom. And
this Is the chosen flock whom the
Great Shepherd evidently excelled by
His predictive, yet admirable, con-
fession John XII:23) among man
kind. His true Israel His virgin
daughter of Zion. The Greek Ortho-
doX church. The only true Holy
Catholic and Apostolic Church of
Christ, the primitive church Of Je-
rusalem. The only Christian denomi-
nation existing that has hitherto main
tanned and preserved the etnIcal in.
structions of Christ and the Apostles
uncorrupted and unadulterated, the
only church that kept in the heart
Of her mem bers equal convictions,
costumes and observances, as those
Of the ancient and undivided church
Of the prior centuries, the dawn of the
Christian dispense ation. This ] should
say is the original trunk of the eter
nal oak whose radical branch, Pen
sacola, this progressive city of the
Land of Flowers, gladsomely possess
ed through the initiation Of the we'll
known Greek Society. the prompt
endeavor and liberality of the pros
porous Greeks. as we'll as the appre
ciative cooperation of her many pious
and eminent citizens. This very
branch is the representative of the
pioneer Of Christianity" The prime
star by which she (Pensacola) bound
ed and jecOratedh er spiritual relig
iOus galaxy. Of course it is true that
Pensacola has many churches of diff
ferent denominations. yet the most Of
them unfortunately, though ignorant
ly, abstain the ardent wish of Jesus
and the true biblical idealism. Drift
ing down the stream of prOselytism,
by the few "deceitful workers (Cor.
H:XII.) whose mind sadly tutored
by the instincts of individual haughti-
ness and despotism, they surrounded
them (churches) according to their
sacriligious ideas of the sO-called
spiritual modernism. the corruptive
reformation. the indirect source and
preceptor Of this dreadful epidemic,
that sweeping the modern thought
the element that threatened TO over
whelm and upset the entire Christen-
dom, the spirit of darkness and athe-
ism that spreading throughout the
many pious Christian, even over the
verification of those fundamental. bib
lical creeds, over the divine exist
ence. Undoubtedly feeding the immor-
tality Of churchlessness, that drifted
already millions OF men and women
from them (church) and carried
them out of their individual self, by
the promise Of more comfortable and
i luxurious practices and more pleas
ant creeds, that makes them lovers
OF pleasure rather and lovers of God.
Treading under foot the hOliest and
apostolic transmissions and sacre-
| ments without whom salvation can
not exist
As White AS Snow.
| While unlike these. Orthodoxy on
| the contrary the undivided church.
! that reasons the word of truth IS
| faithfully hitherto remained, in her
Christian principles as the unmoy-
able rock, continuing In the faith
| grounded and settled, and not moved
| away from the hope OF the Gospel,
overlooking at every peril of heresy.
| rejecting every mortal, and weakened
reformation. and innovation. yet
stands spotless. undefiled chaste, and
pure. Her &C 1ceptions and practices
are sprouting right Off the Holy Scrip,
ture. Her creeds. seven Sacraments,
rites, Observances, etc, are entirely.
yet carefully, placed upon the true
| biblical and apostolical ilealism. Not
one OF her posterior followers has
ever thought or had enough ambition.
to set profane hand upon the sacred
body Of the Orthodox platform, which
is as white as snow mere Bible
| sufficient creed-as ! said none has
ever stretched out sacriligious hand
to add. or to subtract even at least
a word.
Still the church of today (the
Schismatics) excepting those holy
and apostolic transmiSsiOns still blind
| ly follow the tracks of aDostacy that
daily grows sensitive. The new gen.
Grafton tells that all those ancient
rules" is too much inconyenient and
unequivalent TO the spirit Of the
twentieth century. And freque :tly
| the modern "1eader'' or nastor i