The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-02-09
ooCe-s-4-.-e-s.-e-s-e-e- Observation-Disclosures
PULPIT.
Mass Meeting No. 3
CHURCH FEDERATION
Counting the Cost
What EpiscopaEans. Catholics and
-utherans Must Surrender.
Counting the Cost

OOC}s-s-s-s-s-S-s-s-s-s-s- -s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-sO
vestIgation of the Bible and further
Interpretation Of II by accepting our
theory by permitting us to grant you
recognition In some simple form Of the
rights Of apostolic authority through
our bishops II you do not do SO you
will more and more lose your hold on
the people, for we are coming more
and more To time of individual
thought on every topic.
The Scriptures Intimate that this
argument will ultimately prevail and
grept Protestant denominations be
thus vitallzed and, in cooperation
with Catholicism. for a short while
dominate Christendom socially and
politically. crushing out individual
thought and negativing and blacklist
ing all religious teachers outside the
Federation and Its Catholic Ally.
From this standpoint the Episcopal
system will lose nothing, but even be
a gamer Of prestige through the Fed
Grafton
What Catholics Would Surrender.
For Catholics TO join the Federation
would signify the surrender of great
deal. and yet. in the light Of the Twen-
ticth Century, surely much could be
surrendered without any sacrifice Of
mamie al merely with the sacrifice OF
a little pride. For the Church at Rome
to federate with the Protestant
Churches would mean that they ceas-
ed 10 protest and that she relinquished
her peculiar claims
ia That she alone is the Church OF
Christ and has authority to instruct:
90 That she Is more than a Church
or prospective kingfon1-that to her
has been committed 10y God the ruler
ship 81 the world in respect TO all mat
tiers temporal and spiritual. hence that
she Is the reigning Kingdom of God.
- That her Pope IL the authorized
representative Of christ. anointed and
commissioned Of God to fulfill all the
prophe, les uf the Scriptures respecting
Tia, reign ~ christ his Aiillennial
Kingdom. ct. This claim OF Papaey
thai the fope's reign is de faeto the
reign ~ Christ Is expressed in the
de- laFatien thar he is the rics-eerent Of
Christ The one fsigning instead Of
Christ
10 The doctrine Of trans-subsiantia-
tiou=fhat ~ the blessing Of priest
the ordinary bread and wine are trans
muted into the actual soul of Christ
(his aesh and his blood for sacrifice
afresh In each celebration of the Mass
~ In. . 10
remote past. assuredIs our Catholic
friends can no longer claim that all
the purity. all the faithfulness to God,
all the sanctity OF life amongst be-
levers in Christ are 70 be found In
her communion. -. Paul declares. II
any man nave not the Spirit Of Christ
he Is none II has sureiF all Chris
tisns admit bis standard and the e9f-
re.iness 81 the Apostles isbe hing
Hence the Ignoring and setting inside
% all c-r~el, Ana barriers Tub have
heretofore hsl,aars,d III. Unity II the
Church II Christ MiAeht he l.,as'lb,e.
Thur the fls.t Gatbs'lje Qpieftinn might
s6silT t.s ~ moved il tuvtr - ifedere-
;ieil. ~. ssiil better IN tnror Of ulun.
1e s#ii ~ 4fs#A=4iA4 AtfAiAtf LII ~
piefs fhai ihs Bfa,s''e tat suceessS,pu to
OralhsfjstB gaze eif bei greHtsf wisdom
- EBor@ graz "a ibs'ii fa.agy thup 20
other tuiaEster. ~ ibs Gospel iuigti
not auf retbVlif f'ie.'as rrsscitut,ly
admit iss .snoez
Tbe s@tsl elaIu ltst issgeey 10
Gsas kiBg1epl inat fas PeT,ee reign
40 ess!rei4 80 Cbilsas Nlse sss,fsli
should not t.e dies u8i ~ CsfhQi1es u
our dsr - iay ssis1s However strong
y it wa led ii Tie DARK pssi il 10
surely it'a~ APPRECIATED W esibolses
today ~ kussf d. the PeI&-s cVfnJ-
nate The eiyn rHlsf> u CbFls,sfs9ota-
Aud 70" l9n2er 10 The psoI,is consider
I, Wise that hes should do ~. More
aud more Tie massss appreciate The
fact that the original Kingdom ~ earth
was given 10 falbeT Adam sBd that
/ mankind rs his children are the nat
/ ural heirs Of the Inheritance More
and more t''e people aTe disposed TO
I consider popcs. czars. einperDrs and
kings ms merely nglire-heads. without
any real title or authority from heaven
+ to rule or 10 coefce the people More
/ aud more the masses demand Con
/ crosses. Parliament5. Relchstags and
Donnias. And more and more do they
demand That these shall reflect tho
sentiments Of the people In civil and
religious matters. The day Of dark
ness and ignorance In which the peo-
pie believed that popes and kings were
bivinely appointed TO rule them with
Divine authorit, has gone by. Gen
eral Intelligence has taught mankind
that It IL a mistake to suppose that
one God.appointed king and kingdom
were Divinely appointed to wipe anoth.
er Divinely appointed king and king
dom on the face OF the earth Hence
popes and kings now admit that they
reign by a popular sufferance, and
their appeals for money for armies
and navies. IL no longer ON the score
that they were Divinely instructed to