Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-28
.PAULIS1 FATHERS.
GIVE CATHOLICS
idea OF Church.

Rejecting the principle that the Bible
is the means intended by Christ to bring
us to His ruls-even he Bible interpreted
by the individual guided by the Hoiy
Spirit, it is necessary to replace i by
Bible and the Bible alone has not done
as an historical fact. If we reject the
Bible as the complete principle what have
W. to put in its place? The answer Is
the Church.
The non.Catholic idea of church is this.
An organization of men who profess ana
confess Christ their Leader, which hmuy
of believers is divided into two parts
a teaching portion and a hearing pol':on'
of arriving at the teachings of this Christ
the very same principle that the hearing
portion has. Namely he Bible interpreted
by the individual getting help and sud
ance from the Holy Spirit. The authority
that the eaching portion has IS no %.li!t''l'..
ent in kind III in degree from that, Of
the hearing portion. They do not profess
O AVE an authority divine and iperrant
The authority they have Is a human all.
thority in degree more reliable h that
greater and more reliable klp%ledse OF
Theology History and Scripture :
The Catholic idea of Church is this. \
body of believers in Christ as the Son OF
God, become man for our Redemption"
The believers being divided in:o twD por,
tions-one the teaching the other the
hearing portion. The teaching portion has
an authoriy which is difteran N kind
from that of the hearing portion--in this
that it's authoriy is divine aul iner;ant
ion is human and liable to err. Tie Teach
ing portion of tie Church exercises its
authority over the revelation of Christ.
That is to say the Deposi Of Faith which
Christ left to His Apostles IS preserved in
that way intac until he presen day. A,,i
are going to be able TO 'nldl' the con-
inaGd OF Ciii-r vi II crrtain.y.
The necessity of the Touching oody of
the Church having the characteristics Of
Ing is clear from he fact chat !. ,np:t.
sents Him TEACHER of mankind. lie as
teacher had divine authority to teach and
in that teaching was without error. so
too that which has been left on earth Him
to teach mankind must have those marks
He Himself had as Teacher. Fri
There is no question as to Christ's hay.
ing divine authority and inerrancy in fiji:
teaching. He was the Son of God in real.
ity and not merely by adoption. Therefore
what He taught was final.
AS the Father has sent m" 50 do |
also send you. He said to the Apostles. He
that nearest me and he that iespiseth YOU
despieth Me. If they will not listen unto
you let them be and the Heatiucrs and
ZIG l. "oIu S VI ~
the Apostles are meaningless unless they
mean that the people were - listen Int0
Inn as though He Himself Were speaking
o them. And this obligation the people
could not in justice submit lntess they
who preached unto them were given by
Christ something that made :hem unto
them al equivalent teacher Of Chris.
1t demands then that the Apps Il rs ha v
no auhoriy o speak which Is beyond amy
that they have as mere men. As te acners
IF Nh tict > RI ~ ~ n f1nNy ~ -, Ia .-tN .hl
with Chris's authority.
Wha else can be drawn ont o. these
awful words spoken by Christ 10 the apOs-
ties, that if they go into a city ana the
people hereof rejec them hat it will 90
harder for ha people han it viii for the
people Of Sodom and Gomorraa III the
DAY of finar reckoning? Unless it be that
they are clothed with an authority Ivy
Christ equal to His W namely 4 divine
authority. Justice demands that the peu-
not be unless Christ sees to it Himself
that He protect His disciples 50 that hey
will no each as His doctrine hat Mich is
not His.
The Apostles themselves were cognizant
of the authority that they possessed and
we can refer to Paul himself who beasted
that he got his doctrine not from any
man but from Christ Himself. And We
hear him tell his early Christians that
they shall listen to none h teaches
tucIl d uOClIlue ullLcicIl 1IOIl MS ucCduSG
he has his not from man but from Christ.
What we say about divine authority can
equal degree be said about ~inerrancy-
namely that apostles were given this by
Christ to carry on the obligation he set
on them O each he world in His name.
Christ sent out the apostles to teach and
placed upon he people the obligauOn o
hear. This obligation placed by Christ or
the people to hear the Apostles is unjust
and he cannot condemn them for not lis
tening unless he have so guarued them
that error cannot be preached unit them.
Christ owes this much 10 them in Justice.
ties time is true of ours. The same obli-
gaion is given to. us today to believe
Christ under pain of d%anlnation as was
given to those who lived ilr the early days
If so we have the same right to protect
against error tina hey had. This canno
be unless there be too today in the
Church q teaching body that Is to us to-
day what the Apostles were to the people
of heir day-tlat is to say a body of men
who have been given by Christ through
the Apostles as their successors the same
powers Of teaching that they had namely
a divine authority and a power to teach
without error.
The only Church that claims to have
these two awful powers is the Catholic
Church. Yet the church that claims to re-
present Christ must teach as He taught.
He was infinite Truffhi and so eainiot be
adequately represeffted.by an Organization
which does not claim to teach as He laugh
with divine authority and inerrancy.
Friday night the lecture will be on the
subject why Confess to a Priest?"