South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-19

swer before the throne OF God for
every thought word and deed
look around and see millions Of
Christians who profess 20 follow Jesus
and they are divided into two great
camps, those who deny the divinity Of
Jesus and those accept IL. am q
Catholic because I build nv Chris
tianiN upon the dogma that Christ IS
perfect and perfect God in one divine
personality, because I accept that
Jesus. Of his own power. rose from
the dead. am a Catholic because
I believe no one can profess 20 know
and follow Jesus unless he admits
the claim thar he is God with the
III ght of the allegiance Of every man
that comes into the world To deny
His divinity deprives Of the right TO
take His name.
4 am a Catholic because do not
build upon a dead boC1, which can not
answer when IL is questioned. be-
cause l reverence the entire Scriptures
which my church has safeguarded
and interpreted as the word OF God.
allowing no one 10 stay within her
fold who rejected any of the divinely
inspired books. l am a Catholic be
cause / know that a sublime and
mysterious collection of books does
not prove itself, but demands of
divine infallible witness. outside it
self. 10 guarantee its meaning and
safeguard the people from every
error that human prejudice can read
into the written or printed page.
am a Catholic because my church by
claim OF infallibility. is the only
church that processes to represent the
infallible Jesus, while others logically
declare they are but fallibie voices
that may lead men astray with regard
TO Christs doctrine and worship. Ny
church is the one divine society ruled
by St. Peter and his successors. the
bishops Of Rome. appointed by the
Christ to keep His church one in her
infallible witnesses TO His gospel. Ny
church is not tossed about by every
wind of doctrine. but sails secure and
certain toward the eternal promises
of God with one same teaching at all
times and places Nv church has the
perpetuatiOn of Christ in the euChar-
ist, the perpetuation OF His sacrifice
in the mass, the channels of His vivi-
fying blood in the seven channels Of
His atonement, the sacraments.
Not OF Modern Origin.
ct am a Catholic because my
church knows no modern origin in
Germany, or Switzerland or America.
no modern doctrines like Justification
ton Of the Bible She goes on as the
first church, with Jesus as the apostles
at the time Of the Roman occupation
OF Palestine, holding 70 all the old
doctrines preached 10 the world by
Jesus. My church is the mother Of
countless holy men and women who
lived, not lives Of goodness and truth
as many do in the outside churches,
but lives of heroic sanctity that are
unique in the history of the world.
My church knows no evil but sin. no
good but the grace of God. insisting
strongly at all times upon the one
great commandment of the law.
Thou shalt love the Lord. thy God
THE essence Of our cOuntrys con-
stitutiOn is an ardent love Of liberty.
When the cry Of liberty and the right
not to be taxed without representa-
ton rang out from Massachusetts to
Virginia, that cry might have died as
the utterance of a few enthusiasts if
there had not existed a Washington
10 concrete it. Although his own men
maligned and conspired against him,
he led the American forces in triumph
with the aid of old Catholic France.
until the final victory at Yorktown.
Useless would have been all the blood
shed if the government were not