Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-05
Services At st. James Catholic
Church

Last Sunday evening, Father Pres
ton gave the first of a series of Len
ten sermons. His subject was: ''Is
One Religion AS Good AS Another
The speaker said that the majority
of people had fallen into the most
popular religion of the goth cen
tury; namely the religion of Indif-
ferentism The Indifferentist claims
that God is Indifferent to truth,
simply because he himself is so. The
assertion that one religion is as
good as another is self-cOntradic-
ton, because it is a first principle OF
logic and rock bottom common
sense, that two contradictory state
ments cannot both be true. If one
is true the other is undoubtedly
false Either there are many Gods
or there are not; either Jesus Christ
is the Son of God or He is not; !;
either Mohammed is prophet from
God or he is an impostor; either di-
yorce is lawful as held by many non
Catholic denominations or it is un
lawful as held by the Catholic
church: either Jesus Christ is really
and truly present i'll the Blessed
Sacrament as the Catholic church
teaches, or He is not as the Protest
ant church teaches. Therefore, TO
declare that Professionalism, MOham-
mechanism. Judaism, and Catholicity
are all equally true, is to deny the
existence of truth, and for any man
to say that God Who is Absolute
Truth Himself, does not care wheth-
er one denomination of Christians
believe in the Trinity and another
deny: whether one believes Jesus
Christ to be God, and another that
He is only man; whether one believ
ed in the real presence in the
Eucharist and another that the Last
Supper was only an empty formula,
is nothing short of blasphemy; to
assert that God of truth would
approve of falsehood, because one of
each of these contradictory state
ments must be false, they cannot
both be true. The Apostles always
insisted upon unity of belief in all OF
Christ's doctrines, and not some.
See l Cor. 1:10; Eph. Is; Gal.
1:9; Rom. xvi: II; End John 1:10.
Many millions are hoping to get into
heaven through the worlds religion
viz Indifferentism, the religion that
most suits their fancy. They
haven't the moral courage to stand
with Christ before the Highpriest OF
the mob, and stand for Truth as He
stood for it. He told the whole
Jewish hierarchy that they were
wrong, and that He was the Way,
the Truth and the Light. SO, the
Catholic church, like Himself, can
make no compromise or yield one
trines which He entrusted to her.
Either she has the truth or she has
not, and if having it she compro-
missed with error, she would be a
Judas to that trust which He gave
her when He said "Go We forth and
teach all nations whatever I have
commanded, and behold I am with
you all days even to the comsumma-
tion of the world Matt. xviii
1920.
Services will be held next Wednes-
day evening at 1880. The sermon
will be preached by Rev. FIR. Byrne,
former pastor of st. James Catholic
church of this city.
The solemn opening of the Forty
Hours devotion will take place Fri
day morning at 4. The closing will
take place Sunday evening at 1880.
There will be procession of boys
and girls of the parish. A Domini
can missionary priest will be here to
speak and hear confessions.
On Monday, March 9, at 1880 p.
M, Rev. FIR. Crock will be at st.
James to give an illustrated lec-
ture, and moving pictures of the
Holy Land. You will see where
Christ was actually born. where
was raised from the dead,
t1
r. b. Kraps On School Board
- Mr.. r. B. Kraps has, been chosen
as a member of the NJ. & M. board
OF education, to take the place left
vacant BY Lennard Sears moving to
Columbus,