Show views of ministers toleration WRITES an interesting letter on religious conflict versus restored truth in xay lack article I 1 treated somewhat briefly on the harmony existing doctrine of bad chinn also the harmony at the doc of confucius to that clr who hare accented tb of these two groat baye ben united in views and hive ut split off aiato iato and jarson as is the case with the of christendom it wald be impo in a cuple arti clr t recent rei ent t the reader ari thine like a narrative f the conflicting viena hold hy th catholic and Protea eh archea sot over hundred years tha abat barnd arn of hay accused each ether ef in doctrine tho conflict of our day lias ateon the alais clais f man religious nature aad ther of abo intellect arx royedon one bid is consternation over the aad f a hostile science nd y on the other over ui posed from religious credulity Creda lity the ef history hab conflict no doubt with deep regret but it may have good re sulf in tho futura the catholics claim that the i into existence with chrisc Chri fc but the scrutiny of a few moment will convince aty new teata bacht reader of tha difference which ax betl beto ec the church ajesm calab likht and the organization of tk catholics cardinal gibbous says thai church alone teaches doctrines which are ia all reap ecta identical with those of tha first teachers tea chera athe bal tb RUT dr fulem an eminent divine of brooklyn ceplius thus tha world needa light to clear the away that shuts out a true and corrace view of the gigantic the moat the moat powerful the world has ever known it ia here and we sea it not mystery hag it popery writes on th papal chair this is the seat of gd the throne of the infallible and the holy one he who sita here can pardon or retain mens sins save er destroy souls popery ignores god the a and mary instead it roba christ of his priestly oy buering a mass the priest not christa Cn rista to save the cardinal Car replies with anre ards in fallibility doa bot mean blat the pope i specially exempt fram liability to bin seventy bin at of tho tw hund add aid fifty liae that eat on the chair E peter are invoked ur altara ag arta eminent for their holiness the avowed denenea cf the church charge only five or six bopae with i this even admitting tho truth of the a cupat ioia braueht them we have forty threw virtuous to ene bad pope while there waa a judas amons ane twelve dr fulton our protestant lut henty peta IB a contrary light thu here then is what professes to be a c church aad yet it id an out am counterfeit every elsaie nt of strength and every principle of evl that were foaud in the ancient idela gnei live ver acain ia the pa acy that same i a aam v h re cradle bui ia youth pasted amid the olive kruvka and wa temples of greece bood was abid abe martial sound and iron of giue haa returned return ad anew ia the papacy cuvi with it the old the flowers the idease ie ease the lui ariter vr iter abe vest abe very soda but with in ehert B that were an old gagau to rise frem the dead le und himself hi eld cardinal gibbone re aliea ibus aha church giai aut henty from god t teach regarding dinc faith aid ai d morals ana in her teaching abe r pre from error bv tha gui laack of the ciely garst the tiye IB fallibility fal r t learly reduced ironi tha of the church already the church 13 ONO holy Gul hulic aud prea cUiL the amo breed very where and at all hadea alia n of burc un irrin ia fsr doctrine for what is one huly or a iele aanal be true dr celeb anaka thac utter anie ahr r afraid af aea of ioda word leot it ay butr h leold dpn the chudej and so hr ID eternal misery cardinal thinka different when our abal r bed th old lw l w aad ari hit did he intend that his pel should be disseminated by the cai culA of tha bible or by tho livier vice of li 1 I abaner av ahn Jar dral mot chat it was preaching aleno that he i convert the airn and bat by preaching alone abet wars beoni vat ltd ni nation his ever yet been by the aandy of the bibla in abo remarks of dr filton on bis atack of catholicism we find tk following words abil criminals crim inala are nearly all m church and hs tol I 1 his wera in xo som tithing t tha spirit of father carr a catholic priest said in ft late iett re that the britten word of gd ahn bible is not a ul rule of faith because it i of many ationo and the ints artta er may iby ia that it may b an infallible rale v auxt be absolutely certain that t its er eliat is the true sease of dip ted asaf catholics are certain because iliev received it iron an lafa biblo burch are uncertain for eacle aue ex plais iba accord ius f lii light the ral ot faith protestants Prote stanta is the kible rule abey aay was christ and is infallible yet the co aalta bibla wa not until mere chaa fifty aars afler christs into heaven and I 1 wald like to knew what was the rule of faith for those wh did in the mean time As there are forty three in america we have forty two against ou all the way Is not this a vary hot bed of hareey the catholic church trim ahl they all sprung looks upon them all a dalae and to s holy church for fifteen centuries this church benl OB in ita belief until jha calne started abw of thought bon spread estr the civilized world god ordained da ined caid luther I 1 should become a monk that being by experience 1 I might take up my pen against thae pope john calvin says toe sacred guidance of goda providence delivered him from the crt superstitions of iha papacy charlea the ninth complained that geneva was the of neleay in 1520 luther yaa called heretic of the most danger 0 a character the following aoa between the religious philoa ephy ot london an dHenry ward beecher of america will doubt leea be interesting spurgeon says m higens hi Gems in hell there is no hop they davs not even the hop of dying the hope of being annihilated they are marever fa rever forever lomeyer lost on every chain in bell there in written forever in the fires there blaze out the words forever up above their heads abay read forever their eyes are galled and their hearts are pained with the thought that thia is forever fore vr oh I 1 if I 1 could toll you to night that hell would one flay be burnt out and that those wha are lost might be there would be a jubile in hell at the very thought of it but it cannot be it a forever fo rover they aro cast into utter contrast thia with the following arm henry ward baecht go is love tant is the first is the middle and that is tue last echo of the sacred word but it never hides tho fact if all hi law will carry men on to their penalty he does not sit on the throne is a universal executioner but h will not clear the cuilty unless they suffer themselves them selve to be drawn to him men who violate his eswa and will not be warned or drawn with boig suffering and patience iuca who will bt withdraw from anat which is evil to themselves and others must go on and take the consequences those are penal how long they will last I 1 do not know that they will last forever I 1 do not believe that there ia an eternity tern ity af conaci eua torment after all hope ot change and amelioration is glae I 1 shall never believe outside th bars of a lunatic asylum 1 am pervaded with thia one thought living or dying 10 bear to the glory of divine loye and to bring to bear on that every thought and illustration and imagery that ia within my range that hag been my happy work I 1 have in it if nobody else has I 1 have not sought the honor of men in iti have not ought to ariae higher among ray believers by it oat I 1 would not go to heaven with that infernal confession to which I 1 once subscribed cod forgive my ignorance ig again we find the great spurgeon say ins these worda the canon of revelation ia closed there is no more to ba added gd does not give a areah revelation but be the old ona contrast Con this utterance with the follow ms frem theodora parker can it be then as bo many tell us that bending time and space has fo man retreated frum the in the holy of hollas to the court of the gentiles that now be will aid but leave hia tottering children to wander on amid the palpably obscure eyeless and fatherless without a path without no guida but his wards and works grasping after god if happily ba may and him avd learning at least that he ia but a god afar adf to he approached only by abil attorn aya not face to face aa before a contrast spurgeon says be libyer there is enough in the bible for thee to live naoia forever if thou outnumber the years sf ane methuselah there would be no need of a fresh revelation rey elation if thou till christ should come upon the earth there would be no necessity for tha addition of a single word if thou go down aa deep as jonah or eva descend as david said he did into the belly of uell still there would be enough in the to comfort th without a supplementary atlace j but says theodore parker cai it be aba t thought shall fly through hia pinions glittering in tha ray star burnished bv a million suns and then come dropping back with gamad plume and flagging win gand eye which once looked nn dazzled on the eun now spiritless and cold camu back to tell us god is no father that ha veils hia baca faca and will not look upon hia children as erring children no more can this be true love is yet mighty to cast out fear ih soul detill searches the ceapa of god the pure in heart aee him the substance aub stance of the infinite is not yet ex hausted nor the well ef life drunk dry rhe father ie near us as ever else reason were a traitor morality a hoi lew aham religion a mockery and lova a hideous lie in view of thin in conflict in religion 13 ihnot tinaa for go 1 to speak and pont out unerringly tho path to endless clory 7 reader it is done the truth bhines with a lustra ao bright that the dari kest mind may be radiated by it but men love darkness rather than light they asme notto tha light leat chev may be reproved by it adt the citadel of error must fall no matter how venerable and leaby with e bor how elaborately adorned with human eloquence thoughtful mn every where are beginning to aak among the religious sects ahall I 1 find the true church in answer to a query of this kind propounded propound ad by a ee archar after truth a member of one ef th sects replied the church of christ ie to be found among all the seeta then replied ane 1 must be a member of all the christian sects to be a member of the church this losic was so plain aa to confound hiltha trus church ti 9 and of the ancient anci apostolic church that th C k colica is not that church a moments seran a a son with tha kew L tB lament auy person ilen are confused and thinkers everywhere ars becoming with the empty tenets the lifeless aad formal cue Is of modern chorcie tb brightest mind minds or ivadine intellects of all the ara in open conflict if god has no true church ou earth then indeed are mans hopes blighted he is a forlorn wreck cast upon a tha light has come that error and let in a reign of unit ersal 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