The talk of Montgomery, in his speech at the celebration quoted in our last, was very plain; but, before passing to give the speech by Splivalo on the opposite side, I will introduce a few testimonies of Catholics of the ultramontane school, corresponding with that of Montgomery.
The first is a statement made by Archbishop Hughes, of New York city. When he was in Rome, in 1863, he wrote a document in defense of the papal temporal dominion, which was signed by three hundred cardinals and bishops, and made quite a sensation in Italy. The Boston Journal of that year thus speaks of the document prepared by Hughes:—
“The remarkable address was written by Archbishop Hughes, of New York, in behalf of the Catholic world, and more particularly of Italy, affected more than any other country upon earth by the question of the temporal power of the pope, and signed by three hundred cardinals and bishops now congregated at Rome. In this address, Archbishop Hughes asserts that ‘the temporal power of His Holiness, being granted to him by a peculiar desire of divine Providence, all the nations of the earth combined are powerless against it; that Rome and the papal domain do not belong to Italy, but to the Catholic world, and that they can never cease to be its property.’”
By comparing the statements of Hughes and Montgomery, this “gift of divine Providence” (?) was through France and other people. Certain it is that the temporal dominion of the pope never came from Christ, who said, “My kingdom is not of this world.” But the papists give that text a very peculiar explanation, so as to destroy its force against temporal dominion. The cardinal Jesuit, Bellarmino, says of the text, “Christ answered in this way because he was just about to die. He said, ‘My kingdom is not of this world’ because he was going to his Father; therefore his kingdom was not any longer of this world, but in the other, or everlasting world.”
Pope Pius IX., in one of his encyclical letters, openly affirms that “the spiritual power of the pope cannot be separated from his temporal.” This is only in harmony with the claims of former popes. Pope Celestin, writing to the emperor, says, “Remember, in the beginning God created two great luminaries, the greater, the sun, for the day, the smaller, the moon, for the night. The sun is the spiritual power of the pope, the moon the power of the emperor; and as the light of the moon is subject (being only reflected), so the power of the empire is a111reflection and condition of the temporal and spiritual power of the pope.” This statement ought to be plain enough to inform all what the pope would do when he has the power to enforce his temporal dominion. Of course he will make all kingdoms reflect and enforce his doctrines as he has done in the past.
The Catholic priests look with holy horror upon the fall of the temporal power of the pope in Rome. In their paper, called The Monitor, of 1870, they say: “The sacred city of St. Peter’s is overwhelmed by a deluge of wickedness and corruption; the vicegerent of God is deprived of the liberty which his sublime office imperatively demands.” The sovereign pontiff should be free. To deprive him of that liberty would be to do violence to the gospel of which he is the authorized interpreter and guardian, and to the human conscience of which he is the director and guide. But should the pope be subject to any civil government, it is obvious to any one who has given the matter a moment’s serious reflection that his spiritual liberty would be precarious and illusory.”
The clergy and laity of the diocese of New York in 1870 sent an address to Pius IX., in which they say: “With the indignation of honest men . . . who revere the sacred sovereignty of the holy see over its temporal domain, we repudiate and condemn the lawless injustice which has invaded your legitimate domain as a sovereign prince.”
“We also protest against the invasion of the liberty of the church in the person of its head, both as an outrage against the sacred prerogative of Your Holiness as supreme pontiff, and as the violation of a right which we as Catholics possess, of being governed by a chief completely exempt from and independent of all civil authority, for in no other condition could our intercourse with him be free and unrestricted.”
But that we may understand this matter more fully, I will make a few more quotations: The Catholic World, a paper published by L. T. Hecker, superior of the congregation of St. Paul, N. Y., indorsed by the archbishop of New York city, by Cardinal Barnabo of Rome, and by Pope Pius IX. (good Catholic authority sure), in its issue of June, 1871, copied into the N. Y. Tribune, of June 24, says, “While the State has rights, she has them only in virtue and by permission of the superior authority, and that authority can only be expressed through the church—that is, through the organic law infallibly announced and unchangeably asserted, regardless of temporal consequences.”
The Tribune justly remarks that this is “a flat contradiction of the American doctrine that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. It is a virtual affirmation that the civil power is subordinate to the church. . . . The doctrine carried to its legitimate result would make the pope the master of the world.”
The Catholic World, in its number for August, 1871, says, “We of course deny that the Catholic hierarchy is a foreign hierarchy or anti-republican, for what is Catholic is universal, and what is universal is nowhere a foreigner, but yet, because the supreme pontiff does not reside personally in America, and its power does not emanate from the American people, Protestants, Jews, and infidels, will hold that it is a foreign power. . . . The Catholic hierarchy is supernatural, not natural, and, therefore, no more a foreigner in one nation than in another. But it is only the Catholics that can see and understand this.”
Again, the same article says, “We maintain that civil society can no more dispense with the church than the body with the soul. The secular is insufficient for itself, and needs the informing life and vigor of the spiritual. . . . There is no form of government more in need of the church than the republican; founded on the modern doctrine of popular sovereignty, and the maxim, ‘The majority must rule.’ . . . We need the church to consecrate the government, to give the laws a spiritual sanction, to create in us habits of reverence, of submission, and docility.”
As a matter of fact, however, the church has never condemned any particular form of civil polity, or erected one form or another into a Catholic dogma, and a man may be a monarchist, a republican, or a democrat, as he pleases, and at the same time be a good and irreproachable Catholic, if he holds the political power subordinate to the divine sovereignty.”
“The only question is, Shall the State be informed and directed by the infallible and holy church of God, or by the synagogue of Satan? No man who is at all competent to pass a judgment on the question but agrees with the syllabus in condemning not the distinction, but the separation of church and State. Candid, thinking men and women cannot fail to see what the above means. It means, if it means anything, we don’t care what your government is, provided in ALL things it advances the interests of the Romish church. The Catholics profess to be greatly in love with our republican government, and why? Because here they expect to spread themselves unmolested, until they are numerically strong enough to assert and enforce their own tenets upon the people, and then you will see how much they favor the republican principle of freedom of conscience.”
Bishop McQuaid, in a sermon, on the occasion of the consecration of Dr. Carrigan, as bishop of Newark, N. J., which sermon was published in the Boston Pilot, a Catholic paper, of May 17, 1873, says: “The spirit of nationality stood in the way of the Christians when the early apostles commenced their work. The same spirit exists at this very day. And why this opposition? Has not the divinely constituted church wisdom enough and power enough to overspread the world without regard to political forms of government?”
Of the bishops of Germany, in the contest there between church and State, he says: “Before God’s altar to-day, I would blush for shame if I thought that the bishops of the church of God would bend before any power on earth, however mighty. . . . Here in free and blessed America the Catholic church is prosperous.”
Prosperous; yes, indeed she is; and the figures that indicate their prosperity, numerically, are startling. I quote from the “Catholic Directory and Ordo,” a comparison of the Catholic statistics of the United States in 1840 and in 1870. “In 1840 there were 13 dioceses, 12 bishops, 373 priests, 300 churches and stations, and the Catholic population was 1,500,000. In 1870 there were 53 dioceses, 62 bishops, 3,483 priests, 5,219 churches, Catholic population 5,000,000.”
Before me is a still better statement from the Cleveland Herald of May 3, 1873: “Father Spaulding, a Roman Catholic priest of Louisville, delivered a parting lecture to his congregation, in which he indulged in the most sanguine anticipations of the final supremacy of the Romish religion in this country. . . . ‘Now,’ he said, ‘there are 64 dioceses in this country, and, go where you will, there is a priest. The number of priests has doubled in the last ten years, now reaching to 5,000. One-fifth of the natives, to wit, 8,000,000, are Roman Catholics, and they are making remarkable conversions.’”
The masses look on this picture of Catholic prosperity with indifference, but, we ask in all candor, what means this rapid increase of numbers? and what do the Catholics design? The answer is at hand, in the words of Gavazzi, a Catholic priest, a chaplain in the Roman army, who was exiled from Italy in 1848 for having favored Italy’s freedom. “America, beware! Note the signs that everywhere mark the progress of papal dominion—forget not the ecclesiastical pride, haughtiness, arrogance, cupidity, oppression, cruelty, assassinations! This is no story to divert you. These are facts written by history, written for the instruction of men. . . . Now do the Jesuits plot; they have lost in Italy; and they dare to boast that they will gain in England. Yes, they wish to gain in England, but more particularly in America. Hither their eyes turn fondly. Here is a fresh stage; what they have lost in Italy they hope to gain in the New World.”
The Duke of Richmond, formerly governor of Canada, in a speech, said: “The government of the United States will be destroyed by subversion. The Church of Rome has a design upon that country; popery will in time be the established religion, and will aid in the destruction of that republic. I have conversed with many of the sovereigns and princes of Europe, and they have unanimously expressed their opinion relative to the government of the United States and their desire to subvert it.” He goes on to describe the modus operandi as follows: “To send over the surplus population of Europe, who would come among us with foreign views and feelings, and in the course of time be prepared to rise and overthrow the government.”
Papists profess to admire our government. They dare not do otherwise while in a minority here, or their scheme would be at once exploded. But are they really tolerant? One of the later popes said: “Liberty of conscience is a most pestilential error. . . . Unbridled liberty of opinion is that of all others most to be dreaded in the State.”
In a work on “Roman Unity,” which appeared in Rome in 1870, written by the Jesuit, Clement Schrader, and welcomed by Pius IX., we read: “Christian kings and princes must, on no account, admit of liberty of faith and worship in their territories, if they can prevent it.”
Said Bishop O’Connor, of Pittsburg: “Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world.” A Catholic periodical called The Shepherd of the Valley, the organ of the archbishop of St. Louis, says: “The church is of necessity intolerant; heresy she endures when and where she must; but she hates it, and directs all her energies to its destruction. If Catholics ever gain—which they surely will—an immense numerical majority, religious freedom in this country will be at an end.”
Do they mean simply that they will teach against religious freedom, or will this Roman sun (Catholic church) cause the moon (the civil government) to compel obedience? Let us hear the voice of the great Catholic Ecumenical Council of 1870 on the subject. See Canon XII. “Whosoever says that Christ, our Saviour and sovereign, has conferred upon the church the power to direct only by advice and persuasion those who turn aside, not to compel them by orders, by coercion, by external verdicts and statutory punishments, let him be anathema.”
J. N. Loughborough.
ALL FOR CHRIST.
By J. A. Gregory
“Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me, cannot be my disciple.”
Why fear to trust thyself to me?
Or place thy trembling hand in mine?
Why fear to let thy future blend
Its fading hues and forms with mine?
Why fear to give up all for me?
My life was given all for thee.
I left a glorious home above
In the blest mansions bright and fair;
I took the form of sinful men,
That I thy grief and woe might share.
Fear not to peril all for me
When all my love I gave for thee.
Each precept of God's holy law
My grace shall aid thee to fulfill.
No hand but mine can wake the chord
To harmonize thy human will.
No other voice can calm thy heart
And give to thee the better part.
Dear Saviour, though with vision dim
Thy wondrous, matchless love I see,
I'll take the consecrated cross
And gladly haste to follow thee.
I will not act a double part,
But yield my undivided heart.
J. A. GREGORY.
Labors in Wisconsin: Books, Subscribers, and Sabbath Interest
By D. Downer
Wisconsin.
I have labored here ten days with some success. Sold some books. Obtained eight more subscribers for REVIEW, making in all, thirty-three. I have spoken on prophecy and the Sabbath. I think five or six will keep the Sabbath here. Many are favorable. Wicked men, old and young, are melted down by the power of God. I am trying to humble myself more and more as God blesses me more. In good courage I am laboring with all my might. I need the prayers of all. D. DOWNER.
Feb. 28, 1874.
ADEMAR VUILLEUMIER
By Ademar Vuilleumier
From Switzerland and Italy.
Having received a letter from Switzerland lately, I will translate a few lines from it, believing that they will be of some interest to the readers of the Review.
In Review Vol. 42, p. 80, mention is made of a Baptist evangelist living in Italy, who there embraced the third angel’s message. As he desired to become more acquainted with our views, he visited the brethren in Switzerland. After remaining there some time, he returned to Italy, where he is now preaching the seventh-day Sabbath and the second coming of Christ. They now write concerning him:—
“We have rejoicing news from Bro. Ferraris from Italy. He is a faithful missionary, though very poor. He is obliged to support his family of seven children with $10 a month, and some little gifts that we send him besides. He is working hard, speaking of the coming of Christ to every one with whom he has the privilege of conversing. He is also holding meetings wherever he can. He proclaims our views to all, Protestants or Catholics, telling them to prepare themselves for the soon coming of Christ. There are now five or six in Italy keeping the seventh-day Sabbath. He asks me for some French tracts, and questions on different subjects. We feel greatly the need of tracts to help.
“May the Lord bless and give wisdom to those who have the burden of the work, that this message may go forth to every nation, preparing a people to meet our Saviour in the air. Give our Christian love to the brethren of America.
“Your brother in Christ,
“ALBERT VUILLEUMIER.
As “many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of Heaven,” let us be willing to consecrate ourselves to God, and devote our talents to his service. May the Lord help us to be faithful.
ADEMAR VUILLEUMIER
Battle Creek, Mich.
Self-Examination.
By M. E. Haskell
“EXAMINE yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.” 2 Cor. 13:5.
Dear brethren and sisters, are we heeding this command? and if so, how? Are we digging deep, and making sure and thorough work for the kingdom? or is it only a surface work? The vast importance attached to this work demands an assurance with each of us that it is deep and thorough; for nothing short of this will stand the test of the Judgment. It is true that
“To study self is earnest work,
And poise the scale with care;
And weigh the motive for each work
That we're achieving here;
“To watch our love for ease and pelf,
Then take the steady helm,
And steer between the rocks of self
And reckless martyrdom.”
But it is possible for us to do it; and every day should witness an advance step in this direction until we are prepared to stand “without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing.” The sands of probationary time are “fast ebbing to their finish.” What is done for ourselves and others must be done quickly, else we shall ere long be “weighed in the balance and found wanting.”
I am well aware that it is far from a pleasing task. So much of self is revealed that in deep anguish of spirit we would often cry out, “Who is sufficient for these things?” did we not know that help was laid upon One who is mighty to save. And we also know that he is sitting “as a refiner and purifier of silver,” and will perfect that which concerns us, if we put forth the requisite effort on our part.
“Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”
And setting our faces like a flint Zion-ward, let us press our way henceforth steadily onward “toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Then, and only then will, our influence tell on the right side, and gather ever with Christ. And only then, with all that we have and are fully consecrated to God, can we be successful co-workers in scattering light and truth, and winning precious souls to the knowledge and practice of the truth as it is in Jesus. M. E. HASKELL.
The Great Commandment.
By Jos. Clarke
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” Luke 10:27.
This precept is connected in the Old Testament with some of the most precious promises which are to be found in the Bible; and in almost every case, it is found so connected. Please turn to the above-mentioned references, and read the context in each case.
In almost all pursuits, there is some leading idea which, when fully understood and comprehended, seems to lie at the foundation of all good moral action, impelling and guiding the whole; and it is this, Love to God; not a mere friendship, but a love, passionate and warm, undying and true, and constant as the sun; it must be the ruling passion of the soul, and hold control of every thought, and word, and act.
Nothing short of this strong and constant flame of love will purify the heart; it must be so strong as to hold every other lawful love in the most complete subjection, and so full as to purge out every impure and unholy passion.
Such love will quickly purify, not the life and words only, but the motives; it will permeate the whole man, and create him anew; and lacking this, all “the moral machinery is out of order.” Jos. CLARKE.
Gospel, vs. Choirs.
GEO. H. HEPWORTH, in the N. Y. Independent, says on this subject:—
Choirs, as a general thing, are a nuisance. They are the bane of the minister's life. Instead of occupying a subordinate place, they insist upon undue prominence. I once told my choir—it was in the days of my youth, before I had learned to bow before the authority of the soprano—that after the prayer a simple strain was enough. The first Sunday they sang a single verse; but the second Sunday, they gave me the whole of “Home, Sweet Home,” in five stanzas, with solos and chorus. I was reminded of a friend of mine, who, occupying a strange pulpit, asked the sexton in a whisper if the choir did anything after the prayer. “Yes,” responded the illiterate but truthful man; “they sing a little—just enough, you know, to do away with the effect of the prayer.”
When our new church was built, I took the precaution to have the pulpit end so constructed that a place for professional musicians is simply an impossibility. I can't describe my emancipation. I have the delightful consciousness—and how much it is worth only the minister can tell—that the simple gospel does not share the honors with any celebrated tenor or soprano. We save the expense and the wear and tear of a choir, and we have the very best kind of singing for a church; for we attempt only the old-fashioned tunes, and all the people feel that they are praising God with their own voices, and not by proxy.
But, says a friend at my elbow, a fine choir is a great attraction. I read in the paper the other day, among other notices, that on a given Sunday Mr. Blank would preach on “Regeneration,” and that the choir would furnish “elaborate music.” Well, if the gospel fails to draw a congregation, we will learn how to preach it in a way that will attract; but do not override the pulpit with opera. We cannot afford to make our church services spicy and toothsome with the pepper and vinegar of secular songs. Unmeaning or lustful attractiveness does not constitute religious success. I suppose we could all draw a crowd by having a trapeze hung above the pulpit, and an advertisement in the morning papers stating that the minister would read the fifth chapter of Matthew while balancing himself on one foot or turning a double summersault; but I doubt whether such a performance, or the crowd which might attend it, would indicate a healthy religious condition. The truth is, that our choirs are an element of sham, and that our present style of church singing lowers the standard of our services. The congregation are harmed because the simplicity of the gospel is mixed with the tawdry musical decorations of the stage; and the minister is fettered, because he is constantly overwhelmed with the feeling that the sermon is of little account, and must be cut short to give the organ gallery a fair chance.
It is a great deal better to have a small church built on the gospel than to have a large one founded on the choir. The best thing the religious world can do is to sweep the singing gallery clean, and come down to the hard-pan of the New Testament. Less opera and more Scripture is a good motto. Smaller numbers but greater power would be the result. Heaven is on the side of those who do their own singing and give the choir-money to the poor.
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Battle Creek, Mich., Feb. 16, 1874, Harriet S. Zoller, of Marquette Co., Wis., aged fifty-one years, two months, and eight days. Her disease was cancer in the stomach. She leaves three children to mourn their loss. Her remains were taken to her home in Wisconsin for burial. The funeral services were held in the Universalist meeting-house at Briggsville, Marquette Co., Wis. Words of comfort were spoken from Rev. 14:13, by Bro. F. S. Thurston, to a large congregation of sympathizing friends and acquaintances. Sister Zoller embraced the third angel’s message about six years ago. She has ever been a zealous, humble, and devoted Christian, having much of the missionary spirit. In her last sickness, she was reconciled to the will of God. N. M. Jordon.
Died, in Muir, Mich., on the morning of the 25th of February, 1874, my father, Horatio Flower, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. The last eighteen months he spent with his son, W. H. Flower, and died at his residence. W. H. Flower.
Died, in Belvidere, Ill., Jan. 23, 1874, after an illness of two days, little Lizzie, daughter of J. H. and Sarah Bennett, in the fifth year of her age. They laid her away to rest in sweet hope of meeting soon when the Life-giver shall come to gather his elect. Discourse by the writer, from 1 Thess. 4: 13-18. T. M. Steward.
Notices of Received Periodicals: Pastor and People, Biblical Messenger
We have received, the past week, a copy of The Pastor and People, a paper published in Boston, Mass., edited by Wm. M. Cornell, LL. D. Price, $1.00 per year, in advance.
Also, the Biblical Messenger, published at Plainfield, Vt., by A. A. Hoyt, edited by H. F. Carpenter and A. A. Hoyt. Terms, 60 cents per year, in advance.
M. L. WILLIAMS: See article on the connection of the tree of life with immortality, in present volume of REVIEW, No. 9.
Appointments for Tract Society and Church Quarterly Meetings
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.
By request of the presidents of the Tract Societies in Ohio and Michigan, I will meet with the brethren at Bowling Green, Ohio, March 21, 22. There will be a district quarterly meeting of the Tract Society in connection with this meeting; also their general quarterly meeting at Clyde, March 28, 29. Hillsdale, Mich., April 4, 5. There will be a quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 1 in connection with this meeting; also, the general quarterly meeting of the Tract Society of Mich., at Potterville, April 11, 12. There are special reasons why the officers of these Tract Societies and others should attend these meetings. S. N. Haskell.
Quarterly meeting of the Greenbush church, at the house of David Sevy, March 28, 29. All the members are desired to be present. Others are cordially invited. O. B. Sevy, Clerk.
Quarterly meeting of the church at Hundred Mile Grove, Wisconsin, April 4 and 5, 1874. We cordially invite Eld. Isaac Sanborn to meet with us on this occasion. N. M. Jordon.
The church at Rockville, Mo., will hold their first quarterly meeting Sabbath and first-day, March 28, 29. We invite all the brethren within reasonable distance to meet with us. We should be glad if Eld. T. J. Butler could be with us at that time. I. F. Klostermyer.
Quarterly meeting in Dist. No. 7 at Winterset, 28, 29. This is the most central place in the district; and as there are matters of importance to consider in this meeting, we shall expect a general turnout from Peru and Adel especially. Don't fail, dear friends, to be at this meeting. I will have publications with me to supply your libraries for missionary operations. H. Nicola.
No preventing providence, I will meet with the Belvidere, Iowa, church, at the Seaton school-house, Sabbath and first-day, March 28, 29. J. W. McWilliams.
Quarterly meeting at Kickapoo, Wis., the first Sabbath and first-day in April. Lorenzo Hill, Clerk.
Monthly meeting for Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., will be held at Randolph, Sabbath and first-day, March 21, 22, 1874. S. Thurston.
Hooks Point, Hamilton Co., Iowa, April 4, 5; Horton, Bremer Co., Apr. 11, 12; will also meet with the brethren at Bradford and Fredericksburg after the close of the Horton meeting. We expect Eld. C. A. Washburn to meet us at Horton, also our friends from Bradford and Fredericksburg. J. H. Morrison.
Meetings at the school-house south of Marshall, near Jas. Gilbert's, March 28, 29. M. B. Miller.
Quarterly meeting of the Clark Center church, Sabbath and first-day, March 28, 29. I desire to see every one present who can come. Bro. Solomon Wilson's, near Robinson, on Sabbath, April 4. Friends in Crawford Co., please meet me there. Jeffersonville, Wayne Co., where Bro. Scott may appoint, Sabbath and first-day, April 11 and 12, 1874. G. W. Colcord.
Quarterly meeting of the Allegany church at Niles Hill, N. Y., April 4 and 5, 1874. Members requested to be present or report. D. C. Phillips, Clerk.
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Sanctification and Growth in Grace
Sanctification
A correspondent writes: “Please tell us the difference, if there is any, between sanctification, and growth in grace.” The word sanctification occurs five times in our English version. In the Greek, however, it occurs ten times, being rendered five times, holiness. These latter texts are, Rom. 6:19, 22; 1 Thess. 4:7; 1 Tim. 2:15; Heb. 12:14; wherein it is set forth as that which is obtained by a holy life. Robinson defines the word, “Sanctification, purity of heart and life, holiness;” the Spirit, 2 Thess. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:2, being the means by which it is produced, and Christ, 1 Cor. 1:30, being its cause or author.