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Q' KF.N Strkkt. 1 ■ 1 ■^■1 4 ^'t i\ t\ F ill J »mmummmimmi^m ^^' THE RULE OF FAITH ~ (y- OU a The lather Damea's Great Lecture Church and Bible," Dearly Beloved Christians :— When our Divine baviour .sent out His Apostles and Disciples throuL^i- out the world with the commission and authority to preach the Gospel to every creature, He lai'd down the condition of salvation, and He said- '^He thatbeheveth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that beheveth not shall be condemned " In the Protestant version of the Bible you read * " He thit beheveth not is damned." In this our Divine Saviour laid down the two conditions of salvation, namely Faith and Baptism. " He that believeth and IS baptized shall be saved." : 3re are two con- ditions without which we cannot be saved -Faith and Baptism. The words of the Saviour on this sub- ject are very clear and very plain, and need no explanation. Ihey are proposed in the plainest , and simplest way-" He that believeth and is bap- tized shall be saved, but he that believeth not is uaiiine. .n my sermon to-uloht, 1 will speak on Uiat condition necessary to salvation, namely, Faith i^aith, then, is absolutely necessary for salvation and without Faith there is no salvation, but eternal damnation. Now, the question arises, what faith "^"«t a man ha ^^^mt re J '"•^ivo n man i ] - 1 " « * *■ ^'t' in or(k>r to } )c s, '^ 'f. « matter of I ()t ir>i. 1 "^ i s;rK;:-:r*-.' mJ'rir-r man, a {. govo .w;^.. .ins, a nian is it we - '!'-t;:^H;e;4;r-'on w.:, - re ^ ::!:;;;^>^''"f^-'to,:^..::':I.rJ'-';'^^'^l■o' myth H'/iat let or to ^^'iiat rel lis] t ,"'";' "man ,„„,^, "'''""'" ''' "'diffbren, ^'> leijgion or (> oe ^^a« it iorrM • . '^'^ "<^ ^ 'I iOl (Jiri.st to eshiK '"y clinrch w] ;!\^^»0' church, ti '11 anvthii i.'Jt.soe iVOA' If 'I'^'^'^'^'o what religion ^.^.'^"ot, ,1,0,,. ',.:'"■■'' f?««tab- a or I matter of it r"" ^^^-^^ • ^ m..t beJieve aJI th '8'^ ^ ir he me ludit: what ••.^. Mcneve a the rpv«i f "^"'"'« to be saved Iw. L r-^i^^^'^^r^^n^tha^es^h^.^^^^^ ^^^e reli^i,. <'0(1 h ..V m wi 'tt'S a right to tJi established h gnm <^'»'e upon eartl t*l the ^oo^.i. __ 1 ^^ the hear A\ith fK I ^^' "' file reason i,r^"^*nt, an T'l'.T^'.' "nd ^''^mts and ril r, T^'"-'" ^^'^ observe Hi« ^ ''^^'^^ '^», ana wiio sh«n ^7 '^^oejieve wJmf t God t ir. »...! ' „ ^" tljlS tWO-fV^]^ iiot bi !sn ot God tho auth author ^♦^ . '^ii^eiiect, OS Tv^ii _. two-fold man IS ner ^ tl or 1 ere is i»i ?!" -v-'i a;,7'o,,r,.r'' -. He our in telli- M i-e mail our hZ, »J?r '« "'« leart - '^' i^aii IS ine work nf n T' ' ^* ^ ^"^" of this two4>L M'^^.^^^l^ndGod ^"d of the will o-ibldiacultyof natsoerer requires -^' the inteirr^ ^^'^ ^^ *^^ ^ ^"teilect and of tlu t> -nv dear ladie .t 1 i . ui'";;,',"""""'-^- ^""Vow, " Ofe,„„.,se ; been,,.;, if ,:„{ t rj, , J f,;;' :^"'' -^ ^ l^t-Leve what I tell l,i,n, he .al Is ,,.' ;, ;''^«'\»"t K'-a.^e, a liar ; an.] ol' course LL,', '.'H?" ''"- "I like inannef, iC we do no I '•'"""'-•J; Now, fiaehe.s, then we rU W •''''"'''''^ "'""' «"'' wi^lon/and the inll! 'e n ';;;,• ^^ f''V."'^"''« I'C ...so to believe what God eaol i f ^^^'" '"'' •nto ,,nestion Ili.s triUhlnhess n II' '" •''" '^^'" l« a very reasonable tl i ^ o hi ''"■''.""^- ^' teaehes-everv(;hristl- " • '■'''''■' '^'"'t ^^o'l Kvery Protesti ' ;:; i'^;;,';?';;'';!'-' admit, that. '-lieve what God tea.'le"" v'^ '":':;, .""^T T^T^ commands me to believe wl,..f i/ T >' '"^ '' ^^"'l ^JnstOod. he wi 1 e4',' ,1 1 .''"^'''■•'' '^'^"^^^ timt is impossible. f^hen r H '"'" "' '' '""'"g I '« pain ot-dananatio't behave XtT'r ""l""' lie iim.st first oive me tliP ,,, T , *"-' '""ches, a..d the means fl 'Ji 's us to kn"o ^T "'^ '''"' as infUlibie as Jlimsel r " ^'^ "'"'' '""«* be all times withi t he ."T'lrT^, *'"'' •""«* !-« at th.y shall know w It they a" eli^M^''' "''"^^■^^' to be saved. Secondlv fhl Mieve in order ".s to know -^-hrhltlobl: ZTl ^'^ ^"? fe''^- 'apacities o! all intelleefr? ''^ 'i'^^V^ed to the understandings hale a riVh^^^^^ .*''" •'""'•••^' ''^ f"'-e. a right to the m^a f, S^f^". ^d; 'here- what they are to believe an d to rl . ^ ''"'" ^"°^ -"!«. The means thZi^tt^l*? ?^^^ their teaches must be nn InKTiiMi"'" '"^ "' """"' '''*'»' man makes u^ of ul^^^Sfi^ f" "' " ^'^^^ ^^ ^^'^ fear of mistake or error \ II a wi brought to a ,1 .; now ,..,1^.0 01 all the trutl.H of Go.l. lU, God .nvon ns sue , a .ueans ? " Why, oCcourHo," «ay,s .n/ > , ' .'•s ant Inc., , " Go.l hu.s given uh m,<.h a .„oa,„i " ■oul «,, «ayH the (J.tholie. Certainly (iod I.mm ..ivJu 't» such a ,uean« wht-rehy we shall lu.ow all that II,. Has aai,l ilowM as nec..«.an' to the salvation, „f onv •■«-n Houl.s. What i.-, that i.h'ans ? "The Itil,].. " ■avH onr I'mtestant liiend. '-The Bible, «ir ; the whole li.hle. that is the w.rd ol' God ; that is the .leans wherehy we shall lean, the truths that God w Ttlli' ''■'::?""'■ """''*•" ^"^ "'^' O'thoiics 7i H-i *; ^^''' "' "'■ *'"-' P"^'"*"-' interpretation tl e I ihle, but the Church of the living G.d llmt Uuireh is the teacher appointed by God to leach us all the things we have.,', believe ^ I ,11 i"''.ve, then, that the ]}il,!e is not the guide or the .eacher otnian but that the Cluueh established by les . Ghris rs the only teaeher which God has on h to n.struct II,s ch.l, ..e... If, ,„y a.av Chris- n . s m.i Uiyine baMour had meant that man should .ea n tus rebg.on from a book, why certah.ly He g.ve that book to man, if that was His intentio.., I a man .hould lean, his religio.i from a ba«k. Bu Clnistdid not give that book to man; Christ did "ot give us the Bible. Christ left thi earth and He neve,- wrote a line of that Bible_«o, Z l^. 1 defy all the teachers in the world to prove that Gtinst has ever given us a line, or that we have re- Wlnt ;l'"'^M''"■';i."™^^ the hand of Christ What, then, did our Divine Saviour do ? lie said to His apostles and to His disciples, «Go. ve therefor mto the world and teach all nations^ ^ti ,' the, n' 111 the nyimt^ of the F-^^- ,..i r .1' o^ ^^''^^'0 i^ntm Ifn^' r\'~T V ^"^. ^'^— -^ '^i^^^i ine Son ana of the lloi}^ Ghost teaclung them to observe all thinos --utsoover I h.u- commanded you/' and Paul .a n^. •1 Ni htf^lton t) u; •«V • Ji\sus .said to him tli;it tliey wore to tench mII (1;ivs even unto the conHuiniuatiuii of the worliJ." (:hri'>t ascended into heaven, and the apostles carried out the direction of the KSavioiir, and they wentont into the whole worKl, preaching everywhere, teaching all inuioiiM, and haptizing them and receiving tijeni into the Church, and the Churcii wuh cstahlishtd all over the earth, and there was not a Bible thon.rhtof Nota lineof the New Testament, which cojitaTns all the doctrines of Christianity ; seven vears elHi)se(l the Church was established all over the knowji world, and not a line of the New Testament was written until St. Matthew wrote his Gospel, and this was nearly seven years after Christ had' bit this earth. Well, now, I ask inj dear Protestant friends, were those Christians that lived within those seven years, between the writingof 'he Oospel of St. Matthew and the ascension of Christ into heaven, were they Christians^ - Whv," .say my Pro- testant friends, "they were the* very best*^ot Chns- tians; they were the first and best fruits of Chris- tianity." How did tho.se ])e()ple know what they were to bel eve, or what they had to do in order to save their .souls ? Did th-y know it fro-n the Bible v VVhy, no; for there >vas n(» Bible in those days How, then, did they know it ? Th<'y knew it pre- ci.sely in the same way as you my Oear Catholics know It now^, and you know it from the teaching of the Church of God, and we have no other means of knowing. St. xMark wrote his Gospel ten years after Christ left this earth. St. Luke wiote hi.s twenty- 'our years after Christ ascended into heaven. St. John wrote his Gospel sixty-three vears jiftei- the ascension ot Christ ; and the Revelatioiis of the Apocalypse, the last portions of the Bible, w^^re written sjxty-llve year.s after Christ had left this the CMu,rcl of God XW "■ "'/r'" .""^ ''^"'^'''"S of '■■■^vo loft he woi )i :i"r''''""'^ '*'^''»« S'^vfour t'ook-wit o„ t ... I I. •^r''"'' '""'""' that "ot. Not o, y d d Ch,is?i 'h'"'""'''-^' ''^' ^^'""''l <• -^ >jiiii.st leave the world (;■■. „;,.* Jive years witlu.iit the Bible , „, 'y."' '" ^oi w xt.v- iiimdied vear,s- for i, Vi.7 • ' • • ^ *'"' '"''"' ""«« tianity ther^we r,,' f.?;""'"'''" '^'^-^ '^'' Cl'n- tio„. There was tluP^ T ^mi.ti.re.s i„ oircula- and the Gospd of fe T, '" ^'"^"^-^ "^ •'''«"«. and which of the^wi '''^'"V'^P'^d or authentic, ..ot until the it "LrurXtT;' ii^'"-- ^' ^^- assembled toKether.M ir "' f"''*^ "^ "^onie of the world Tn COL n.i ff'ops and learned men wa,s decide? IhaT h^ JiS 'r." Catl'^r "T''' '■' to-day, is fho word f^f r I '■ !. • ^^..'''.o'.cs have it oi- Go^l. and .C l,°e ( Sel" SV""^"'' 3""^""^- '">.«. of Mar,, <.f tl.: iX -If J T'ttat 'tT'"- gnido, .2 dTd , e^^^^^^^^^^^^ the Bible for their t'.e Bible, „d, nl^;:: j^^:i^:^>' <«'-t't."'ej ><^' iruided bv i^'ortlie three ^liuiidrod ^ iiUL liiKe it lo ti.eestabiish„.entofti;vci:.r;:;'ri,nr:!;:i if T •i/i ow did ted over ibie wjirt ills, that d to do, tn read- ivas not How, el i eve ? ■tiiiig of Saviour It that 'Hiy for would .'«ixtv- ' three Chri8- iircula- Go.spel 'lesus, know lenticj It wa.s Rome i men iicil it ave it gimge icode- these three their tuted it to after .- did / J if 9 these people know what they were to believe, or what they were to do, through their ignorance of the Bible and its teachings ? They coulc^ only know them from the word of God. Not only for three hundred years, but for fourteen hundred years, for they were left without that essential book, the Bible. Before the art of printing Avas invented Bibles were rare things, and Bibles were costly things. Historians tell as that in the eleventh century Bibles were so rare and so costly, that only a man who had a fortune could procure himself one, and that it took the life-long work of a man to make a copy of the Bible. Now you all know that the art of printing was only invented in the fifteenth cen- tury, about the y ^r 1456. Before that time books were very rare and costly. In order to arrive at the probable cost of a Bible in these days, let us suppose for a moment that a man. should work at a copy of the Bible ten years, and he should earn a dollar a day— pretty good wages for a man— the cost of a Bible would be three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, and if he should work at it twenty years, and historians say that it could not have been done even in that time, for, in those days, there were no gold pens or steel pens, but all writing hii,d to be done on sheepskin parchment, and with the quills and feathers of birds, hence it was a very «low operation. Now, then, let us suppose that it would take a man twenty years, and he should earn a dollar a day, then the cost of a Bible would be neai'ly eight thousand dollars. Well, now, Protestants sa v thn RiM A ia ih l.Xi-s_i \^1X xj j^itivic ui luiin, jiFiu man H oniv teacher, and that it is from the Bible man learned what he is to believe and to do, in order to be saved. Now, my dear people, suppose I should come to New York and preach to you on the necessity and im- 10 ■^"ffer the Jol o? h" '^ ^'' ^""''^ ^^e whole m, ^^^^j lo&s of his own soul " whv '^^ ^"^ Uf course, Pathpp -^ • . .The «aIvatio„S 1? "°"''"g «* all." * '« the most iw,,orta„;t "°™'- ^"''"^'^ evervthi,,^ l^ere o> rth ^^"^0 -Jr: "'" "'^^ wife Father, what must T 1 ? *° "'^ = I should answer voi, j/l-, „ t^*^ '">' «°"I ?" and say: > ''^^"^ *"« ^'™tescu>u preacher ""^fq"ttatB,-Me. M,ehi,d,,o„..:' ,, ^'», tJ'e Lord save us fp; .,.•., Yes, my child. Is notf ^''' *''°"««nd dollars^" '^fhn ' as the Protest'irf \^ .^"J one ?" ^ _have„, 4 ejft thijV^lf °"*^'^« °f '^^ for •iiid 1 never e\iw.f + '"^^'''"a dollars to buv o p'l i . .% dear pe'^ ^^ , tr:/''' l^'-^-hter.'')''"^'*'' ' tee , " "•""' ^''«» the Ail ,° "f "" S"'^'' '^"d i„! '^imselfj, Bible'" a';!, i'""" ^^^^"«'ind~could""nr "''''"' .'nd teacher oh,...^S,J--..^Id ... he^fS a teacherr But ?r '"'"'■ ""^ *v in peoph 1 1 *1 1 XLIUMI y> "What ^'^i'ld and ^011 would >> ; we have ul ?" preacher ; - "ou must Bible?" ihurch.'' hilars?" that ?" f time« iaven't 'J (i .say, it; for Bible, liable id in- four- Js of *»' 11 tor a moment that the Bible was from the beoinnina and that everyone had a Bible. What good would sucha -ook l)e to a man or woman who could not read ; ^< Well," they say, " we will hire a man and let him read the Bible for them." Ah, ha i Whit .doyou say about that? You are poor; you have , to earn your bread by the sweat of your brow. Now our Protestant nends tell you you must hire air.,' to read the Bible for you ! But you say you haven' money enough to hire a man. Well, then, if tha is the case, you have no alternative; you have -ot to go to hell. ■' ° You see how unreasonable this is. But let us suppose more than this. Let us suppose that every man and every woman has a Bible, and that every one knows how lo re.d, although even here in the United States there are about twelve millions of people who do not know how to read or write and if you take the whole population of the world ' vou will find that more than one-half of the people Ilvin n- cannot read at all. What use is that book to them '^ But let us^suppose that all know how to read ; even Sr the Bin"' '""'^- "-^^ ^f '''^"' «"»''^ ""d t^ache in cJ ^^ T °"8"'a!ly written in Hebrew and m Ureek You do not understand Hebrew and Oreek and, therefore, you could not read the Bib!,, in .he language in which it was first written " Oh' ^es sir you say, " we have the Bible translated n all the languages of the world." How do vou Sior^a' fT'l"" •, ^°^' '' '* ">' « wrong t,4s- lat ion, a faulty translation, it is not the word of hnZu!lV:t'^U°^'''''''''^".^^^^''^^ Bible you fu ave in the English language is a true and faith- I I iians union Y Well , you say, <'of course w And wbnf r *,,"T *^' "P"""" "f" tl'« learned. And what does the learned world tell you abou 12 the learned w^m" /a^alu "^ uf '' tT"- ?^'''^* <5- errors and full of fauL " 01 " » "'■ '' '^ '""" of friend " that i, what the Catholi •^'' ""' ^^otestant •« what the learned ProteT^^l ' '""y ' ^°! *'»«* what your own learned Pr!^"i T" '^^ ' *hat is Jo-.r own learned ProteHant t ^''''''''''''* ''*^ ' volumes have been written i^"/"^ '*'' ' ^hole '";d Protestant clergymen "i^f Protestant bishops all the various errors tiutajT?; V'"' "»* Eaghsh translation of the R;m ^'"'^ Protestant l«ct that about two yea,; ,„o ,h Y"" '"^^^ •■eeol- '' great movement Indthlf *"''' '"■'''" '" ^^''Sland ^y Protestant b^^"' iVZ^^'"/ T ''^^'^^ they petitioned the English P.^k'''*'"!'^''"-^^- a"d a ew thousand pounds te.I;n""''"^'°^«''''o'^ed wUh the great w^orirfardwl^t is H°;'''' '' ^" "» It 18 to give a new tran.lnfL ^ ''' ^reat work ? ^vorld; Ir these Prote tan h-\ " ^''''*' *« the were convi need thS th 'j" LenlZ r"? .'^''^''S^""' of the B ble is not the rijht woi <^ r ' '''^^'-''tion the people must have a tfuer Zl ° .' i'"'' ^^"^ correct translation of GodTHoy Ck "'''"' "'^ the true luoanin- of thT« • ! ^"^ -y^" really have -t the true me^i^f omTSV"'!'' ^"" '-- Bible at all. WhenGodinsnirel ?'^ "'''"^'' "ot the written the Bible, Be^aTl T """ *'"*t have which God intended hen v" ^ ''* """""'"< ; - " ^ iuiu ceacii I u ff of ( 4nr] Ti - " -• • liave the trup rn.?.?.^'' -•,^^5 «^^*^" e me anmgo.:he Scriptures if ;ou"l ^■<' tuu real Uuc- you know YOU on't i. Pi'otestant what does It is full of Protestant No; that y ; that is filers say; «o; whole 'it bishops point out f^rotestant "ay recol- ' ^'ngland IS headed ^''fe^y, and e alJowed to go on at Work ? 'e to the "^Wmen nslation ind that iful and ea true then, I f man ; y have u have lot the 'thave certain ianiuir ai uuc- w you don't 13 Understand it correctly ? " Oh," says ray Methodist friend, " the Bible is such a plain book, such an easy book, that no one can go astray in it." Then what , i the reason there are so many going astray in it ? There are now three hundred and fifty different Protestant denominations on the face of the earth. 1 should say three hundred and fifty-four, for about a year before the fire in Chicngo there were two new religions started there. The one is called the United Church, and the other has not a name yet ; it has not yet been christened. (Laughter.) Then shortly after the fire, a Mrs. Sewell established a new religion, and she published a professional card of faiui in the Chicago limes mid Tribune. She calls her religion, lately started, the Church of the Divine Maternity. She says that her religion is only for ladies, as, according to her statement, men have no souls at all! (Laughter.) Hence, my dear people, there are now three bundled and fifty-four diflerent Protestant denominations; and all of* them say that the Bible is their guide and teacher, and all of them draw from the Bible doctrines in opposition and in contradiction of each other. Are all of them true ? Why, that is an impossibility, for the reason that all of them read the Bible, and all of thetn draw doctrines in opposition and in contradiction of the Bible " Why," says tny Methodist friend, '' it is be cause they don't read it in the right way." And how must they read it then ? " They must read it in a prayerful manner," he Well, now, let us examine this ; here is an Epis- copal clergyman ; he is a learned man, a pray eiiiil man, a Well-meaning man ; he reads his Bible, and u hero e „ :;^''^'"'"' the'S" ,^r"' 'V« -V"^'- «ir P'----'-!'c. a ,i^,^ ,'"""^^ '" '^ Bo ,t 1?"""'''^ over , \ " ;''^ baptized bv ^ n/^^'^"^ •" ' Was i„,,,,, ,, ' low were "■ ■■•r;s;r;r'"'' S'"■lS.:^''r e. e at ali ; y river.'' s to the con- ^^"e religion "^'liJ, and iie J f^^e Bible ^« .you, sir, '^^^O And •'I'Jti tliey 4her over J a learned ^Pi^cijerful *''jJo, and Methodist nays he, ^ to the ^v Were ^Ptism ^ hi the ^uter " ssyou * into J; he ming iking ^1^* 16 about baptism bj pouring and sprinkling, and by immersion, and tiie Quaker Hays : " Don't you baptizo at all ; itis altojrether useleaa" And he given the Bible for it. Next comes in another one, and hears them talking and quarrellinff over the matter of baptisn, by pouring, and sprink- ling, and immerHion, and no baptism at ail. *• Yes," says that one, " baptize," says he, " but baptize the men and let the women alone; for the Bible says ' Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter the K.^jrduin ofGof\''' i^^-Sauin " Now," says he, ^' don't you see, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost- don't you see, the Bible says nothing about the woman at all »" (Laughter.) *' Therefore," he says, -baptize the men, but let the women alone; they are all ripht- they will go to Heaven without it." (Renewed laughter.) Next comes iu a Shaker, and he says: '* My frienc's, allow me to quote the Bible to you. I think," says he, ''you are a very presumptuous set ot people. Have you never read in the Bible that we must work out our salvation in lear and in trembling?" "Yes, we have, and what v)f thit?" "Well," says the S'l iker, - withou-^^ shaking you will never be saved," and he givos the Bible for it. Next comes in a Uniiarian. ^- Why," saya he allow me, my brethrjn, to tell y(^u ih'it you are a presumptuous lot of beings, that you are worshippers Bible i^v It. Next comes in a Methodist ; he is a learned man, a sincere man, an honest man, a well-mcixning man.' i( II 16 " Well " '• ^n,a do'Jo^' y^" ever ge relf ^"P''«'' " ^11 feel it ?i'^' ^"•y^ t'-e Afetl^odtt ''^ '-eligion ?" ,,,7«'"''' And do ""^"'^ ^o" ever «M'eIJ "'""' ^"'K'ng HiKuit lioM : y";vorsali.st. fu u ' ""' ''e t"JI,s them H "" "''""* damnation "'"'' *''em "P"n it as tliP 1 ?^erence tC n-u^^"^'"'' "-evere Were m the C^^ .• American '-■"eO' one read ,V . f '"^''O". here i, *. /wt? wh^ifiiehadth. "ad there would never mist, <^ teJi ' ^o« ever ^^^•e beasts 'eason.'' '<^" never ' "lay be ^s tbei/i d so on, '"t it ij '•e you. ^e and e doc- ^ each 'sibJe. evere look J not ^ood ites. but ned can Jet Blf Br <^^>: 17 have been a nation, tliere nev s- would have been a Republic, we would have to-day been without a (jovernuieut. Tliero was uoconiusiou or disorder in the fbriniugof this GoveruuiLMit. What, then did George Washino-ton and his associates do in re' gard to the Aniencau people when thev had written the constitutiou and the law ? He appointed a su- preme court and a su[)ieme judge, 'i'hat supreme court aud that supreme judge were to prove to the American people the mojining of the constitution and the supreme law, and all, from the highest to the lowest, from the I'resident to the poorest man lu the land, all are bound to go by the interpreta- tion or the deiiision of that .supreine court, and that supreme judge, and whosoever refuses to submit to the decision of that tribunul, that man isan ouiliw and IS sent to prison, and he forfeits all the righta of an Ainerican citizen. So, in like manner,%ur Divine Saviour has ai)pf)inted a supreme church that is to give all the true meaning of all the revelations of God and of the Bible. And that Supreme Court and that Supreme Judge is the Catholic Church, and the Pope at the head of the Church. That Christ established a teaching Church is a matter of history, and is a histoiical fact. All Protestants admit that Christ has appointed a body of teachers, and that body of teachers were to go throughout the whole world and teach all nations, and that all nations were bound to hear and believe those teachers ap- pointed by Jesus Christ; all Protestants admit that. Now, what IS that body of teachers itself but the Church established by Jesus Christ, and that Church has been commissioned by the Saviour to teach all nations of the earth. It is again admitted by all Protestants that thrist established a Church o» earth, and that he ha& established but one Church 2b 16 i \ 1/ 11 n iH ndmitted hIho. That Church, the BlesHed Saviour has promiHed, shall exittt to the end of time, and that Church we must hear and helieve,for the Saviour H[iy»: *' He that doth not liear the Church, let him l)e unto you a heathen and publican." Now, we must inquire what is the Church we ^ust hear and we must believe { Wiiy, ot'coiifHe, the Church en- tabliHhed by Christ; that is the only true Church of God. Now, no Church can claim to be the Church of Jej^us Christ except thit one that has existed from Hie time that Jesus was upon the earth. How many years is it since He ascended into Heaven ? It is now 1,H40 years since Christ left the earth. He <'stablisbed His Church before He left the earth ; therefore, ths true Church of God must be 1,840 y(i^.YS old. Now, which is the Church, among all the Christian denominations in existence — which is the < /hurch that has existed 1,840 years ? There is but one on the whole face of this earth, and that is the Catholic Church, and the one all history can bear testimony to in that respect, not only all Catholic and Christian history, but Pagan history, Jewish history, Protestant history, Infidel history, and, in a word, the history of all nations and of all people is there to prove that the Catholic Church is the oldest and the first, and the one established bv Our Tiord and Saviour Jesus Christ. All the monuments f antiquity bear testimony to it, and all the nations of the earth acknowledge it. Ask any preached which is the oldest and the first Church, and he will tell vou it is the Catholic Church. And then vou snv ! *' If the f^ntlinlip rihiin'li is tb<> nl.lest, nnd tin* lirst, why don't 3'ou be a Catholic?" He says: '' Well, because the Catholic Church has fallen into error.'* To this we ansv^er, that if the Catholic Church Las been once the true Church of God, she o 1 .y .1 -*.* fwf W.n«iiui.«,.|M 19 >avioiir e, and 5aviour et him )W, we rdv and roll ey- Jhuivli Jhurcli id from r many It is h. He earth ; i 1,840 J all the li is the e is but t is the m bear ]athohc Jewish and, in people h is the bv Our iument« nations ) reached he will lien vou and the e savs : len into Catholic lod, she I .>v is the true Church of God vet, and shall be the true Ciurch of God until the ^\\A of time, for our Blessed Saviour has promised that He would build His Churcli upon a rock, and the gates ol hell shall never pre- vail against it. He has said He would build it upon a rock to iudiciiteits stability and indestru('til)ility. '\ind the gates of hell," says He, "shall never prevail against that Church.'' Now, if the Catholic Chureh has fallen into error, as our Protestant friends say it has, then the gates of hell have prevailed against the (jhurch, and if the gates of hell have prevailed against the Church, tlien Christ has decf^ved us: then He is an imposter ; then He is not (Jod. It would be blasphemy for me to say that Christ has deceived us. He has not deceived us, therefore the Catholic Church is now what it was 1,840 years ago, and the gates of hell have never prevailed against her. Again our Divine Saviour says that he will remain with the Church always, even until the consummation of the world. " Go, ye, therefore," says He, "and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatso- ever i have commanded you, and behold," says He <' 1, Jesus -I, the Son 'of the living God— I, the eternal God, 1 am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world." Now, my dear Chris- tians, if the Catholic Church has fallen into error, as Protestants say, then Christ has abandoned htr, for Christ cannot remain with a Church that is a falsehood, and if ile has abandoiied hor. He has broken His soU^mn oath and He has deceived us. it would be blasphemy for me to charge Him with this, therefore He has kept His woril, and has remained, and will remain, with the Church always, even to the end of time, and it shall never teach error 23 I Aoain our Divine Saviour h.ivh, '' I will hlmkI to you another («.)ini;,rter. the Spirit of Triitli, even the Ji' \y M»ost, who .shall leach .you all truth, and «hall fthiie Vith you forever." Christ nays that ** the iUy Ghost, t/m S^nrit of Truth, shall teach the ivhurch II truth, and uhjde with her forever." 7'o have all truth in to have Do error, and if there .should hii any error, then at once all truth would cea^e to be there. Tlicjefore, there never has heen, and thti'ft never can be, one single error in the (;hurch nt th i hvm- (UhI Moreover, Christ commands uh to believe the teachinnrs of the Church without anv reservation, and without any limitation. ''Hear the Church," says lie. U is an absolute command hnnn that very fact that Christ cemmands us tn '^ Hear the Church," and to believe what the Church teaches, it follows that Christ guarantees that the Church shall never teach error or falsehood. The Saviour tells us, moreover, that we must hear the truth m the same way as though He Himself was speaking to us. '' He that heareth you," He says Jo the Church, ^Mieareth Me," that' is, •' lie that believeth you, believeih Me, and he that despises you, despises Me;" so, then, if I believe what the ( hurch teaches, 1 believe what God teaches, and if 1 refuse to believe what the Church teaches, then I retuso to believe wh.^t God Himself teaches. There- lore St. Paul, in his epistle, says: 'The Church is the ground of the pillar," and tlie Church therefore can never iuii. As it is, then, a fact of history that the Cathohc Church is the Church i-.-iablished by Jesus, so it is in lik^ manner an hisr/n^^il ^ict thf^t all of the other churches are the instuuuons of men. It is an historical fact that all present churches are the ir, ventions of m.in. Where was Protestantism iour ::^ulred years ago ? It was not in the world ; * it was not to be found anywhoro. If, throe liun- dred and wixtv oarn ajjro, you hii'\ travelled all over the world, and a you had p.t.d a million of dollars to find a Prot<'stant, you couU not have done it, because iherr was none in the word. Mart u Luther was the lirHt ^Votestant in the world, and he fell away from the Church about three hundiod and fifty years ago. He was a Catholic priest ; he was an excommunicated and suspeiuJcd Catholic priest. He married a nun, and (sonimenced a rvli-ion of his own in Germany. Martin Luther said himself, *' I stand alone, and the whole world is a^^unst me " that is to say, he acknowledt anybody on the face of the whohiearth that believe, i as he did. Martin Luther had a grrat matiy disci- ples, and to all his disciples he said that everv mart should take the Bible for his ^^uioe, and forui a religion of his own, and they took him at his word, and in the early days of Martin Lutlitr's new de- parture there were seventy difterent religions, for every one of his disciples took the Bible and ex- plained it as he thought proper, and established a re- ligion of his own, and then, when Martin Luther saw those new religions springing up so fast, he chided them for their boldness,^^nd said to them : *' You must take me for your teacher." *' No," they answered, *' not while Wi can get our Bible for our teacher." (Laughter.] Ar d every one of them set up for himself. Then can e John Calvin. He was in Geneva, and he thought he would take a hand in, so he formed the Presbyter- ian or Calvanisticjeligion. After him came Henry the Eighth, of iLngland, and he establish'^d the Church of England or the Episcopalian re igion, Henry the Eighth was a Catholic. He was ^ven a defender of the Catholic Faith, and he wrote a whole 23 Hi ab Hi C! hi b t t I ( 22 book against Afar,.-„r .l "'g >«>■ iast visi V' ^'^'""'e'-, which T I, ■•«''i"oVhad he "r^; '■■'"^^" '^^^SitjT''^' ''«-«r, r^ "t )ii« coun '''"'" «"«'' aiusH^ ""^ ^''"'"'lic :^^ ^'onor to J '• ' '''"•^ b^'-^utiftW „ ' '"""• '^''''^^''e "' '"vo u-i h Z ''"•'T"-AMne Co ;';™""' *''« -naid '^"rld couh)^h"e'^"'' '"'^" '^''•«a" ' 1 V'""0- her, °"e wasiiv,-,,,,, ""."r^ ""Other w fe '""" '" ""e l/( 1 "•e Chur 'l ^^ ');:'' I'o -as ej,^.'^:-*; "'« i^ighth ':« «"v another • "'''"" "--'"0 h.d r"''"'= ''« ''^ /""' than Anne n''. '""' ''« t''o"hth "'"''"'-''%. have hen , "e fiolevn s„ I, ,,'"''' ""'re be^m l';--""^^'' ^bVlV'y 'Adopted cefe" '^''i^'"" ^^^'-^OcierCarni -, W? %"''"' 'K -tin "'"''''' i^J''»''oforn,edthe'.<(?::;y';™« I ii m ii ik ii ^]^ve seen dur- -^^^^g^'th never ] ^^'^ C'at/,oI/c ^ ^"'i". There ''^"' tiiemaid —and lie fejj ^^^Miarryher, V^^^^ j» the ^'^« ^ope /or ^Jo divorce ;^^' oi' Jesus,' ' tu ujarry '{?• C/irist ^'it'o beau- ^^e must ^^Jtl then ^ ^his is ^ i^U the ^fter he John '^len iie t^'odist '^'gion caJied came eJlite 23 Creed '' about forty years ago. Then, later stilj came Mrs. bhevvoll, of Chicago, and established her religion tor the women. And Mrs. Woodhuil she esiablLshed sometliing, too, I believe; you 'have heard ol her, no d(uibt. She established somethincr whereby a woman can choose a different husband every day-the religion of Free Love. You have heard of //.<,^ So that all these different religions are all the inventions of mnii or ot woman. [Laughter.] We know when thev started into existence. We know the names of all rh^e ori'"" must love ^'«'« "ill no ?«v^^ •'«"'• people tobp^"^"- All «nd cl,a«te am IV""- '^>"" are Lf*''^- *^«""t'> \t, that «e van/ :i ,, '"* ™a«ter n,, i , '""ervant " '«' an irnmoroi ^ <^'atholic „,.,' *, "P«« and "«-^t «'orIda^oM) V^.^'^f'^^'ic shall r "P"''« «"rf and doe. .ot S"i''' ''« '. '>«eau.s.e Sn'r?-'" '^" <^''"stian lad,?, ,• ^»' 'hen, wv rf" ? '"'^•'="V "'d chaste «, ' ''/*' "^P to your r r-'^y ''eloved lU'Pure won'?' •'^/'""' Pa^ions J^^' ^'"^ henevo-' etcrna^. - ">-«, and ^-o,, «hal b;f,"^"»:«'. ^G Lrod 8 for "TW^^ END.