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Show LIGHT fROM VATICAN ! ! ' i Catholicism Congenial to All Classes. 1 Peculiar Attractiveness for All Classes : Dr. Young Gives Reason Rays From the Vatican The Man in the Street Answers Orthodoxy Free From Modern Mod-ern Errors Repudiates Higher Criticism Harvard Professor Makes Distinction. ; i : t lu nn address delivered by W. Harry Young, i Ph. I)., and published in the Home Field, he ad- . vi-cs his audhnco to study the trend of medem i; thought regarding Catholicism. Raised with t!;a illusion lint Catholicism was i en congenial to na- ' ' i tivr-born Americans, and only suitable to foreign- ' :v j ers, the cobwebs have fallen from his eyes, and hd . : has learned that Catholic teaching and cremoniei ; , possess "a peculiar attractiveness." Dr. oiing ox- ; ults over the decadence of faith in Catholic coun- ; tries, not because it gives new life and vigor to Protestantism, but because no religion, even athe- . ism, in those countries are preferable to Roman- ' : ism.' Why I This query is answered by another. ; .. Why was Christ ridiculed, maligned, scourged ami J crucified? - But we return to Dr. Young and hear his testimony. It is a refreshing piece of news. '. rie soys : ? , "We who have bemi trained to lo:k down upon ' Catholicism, and who entertain no fear of its influence in-fluence over us and our children, find it difficult to perceive any possibility of its popularity amongst native Americans. Notwithstanding this comforting comfort-ing assurance, there is rapidly developing a pe- culiar attractiveness in that denomination. ! : "Although we may have willingly turned over 1 ' all foreigners to the Roman Church, as we have no reason for doing, the Catholics have not returned the compliment. They are throwing all of their i marvellous organization into the shrewdest methods meth-ods for winning every class and creed in this great country. . . . Another ray from the Vatican j begins to gleam across Europe; and. though small - as a taper, it will soon become a conflagration such ) . as is liable to rush over our own land like a prairie V. fire. ' : . "Whilst we have exultantly observed the steady ; I ' decline in Catholic countries, the Roman Church I I ' has been stealthily encroaching upon Protestant- j ism. The historian Fronde called attention to this . new development when he said: 'Each day the Pope j ' has a firmer grasp upon the press, the schools and ) the government of those countries which revolted i ! : against him -with the greatest fierceness." In Ger- i many, the boasted land of the Reformation, out of ' j . a population of sixty millions, over twenty-two mil- , lions are now Catholics. In England there ha3 ' been an alarming drift of Episcopal clergymen to- : .! ward Romanism, which accompanied a correspond- , ing tendency of the masses." J "We have been trained," just so. You are like ; the man who 'trained' his horse with green gog- ' gles to mistake shavings for green grass. But the I ; illusion, substituting error for truth, did not help . . the poor horse that died of starvation. j ; You "have willingly turned all foreigners to the j i : Roman church." But, dear, good Doctor, nolens i ; volens (whether you will it or not) a church that ' ; claims to be Catholic, (universal everywhere in space and time), does not confine her work to what ".vou are willing" she should do. Her founder, to , i whom you profess allegiance, gave her universal ; jurisdiction. "Go teach all nations." ' ( Forgetting that the church claims universal . jurisdiction, or as "he has been trained," Dr. Young- I alleges that "Catholics have not returned the com- I '. T,li'mnn3 " J.. : 1 V. .1 . 1 .. : ' ,' juiuiLui;, imu is. wuiist ne, iioiens voiens, gave ' i the Catholic Church jurisdiction over foreigners, ! : "the Catholic Church has not returned the com- ! " pliment'' by leaving those, to the manor born, to v ' the Baptists and other kindred sects. Oh, the tyran- ny)f Rome, tolerated here for foreigners, in bap- ' tiziug, and raising children born in America, Cath- ' ! olics, and yet use all wiles imaginative, to wean !'!''' them away from the orthodox (Baptist) faith. j I "Another ray from the Vatican, and is liable i i to rush over our land like a prairie fire." Dr. ' Young, the bugbear of the Vatican, if you are sin- j i ' . . cere, honest, and well informed, need not disturb your religious "qulams. We know only of one re- t ligious dogma issued by the Vatican, the Pope, ) ' before the Council of the Vatican, that was the I decree of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed ' i Virgin, in lx")7. There are very few denominatiom j ' today who do not believe in tho Immaculate Con- ! j eeption of every child born. Even the church of j : which Mr. Young is an ardent member, adminis- -ters baptism only to adults. j I Another serious question propounded to his j ; hearers by Doctor Young is this: "Is it not true H that to the man in the street Roman Ctaholics ap- J 1 . pe-ar to be the only orthodox teachers ;' r j Yes, if they believe in the divinity of Christ, 1 that he founded a church and promised to remain ' with that church till the consummation of the world. j- j fK He promised, too. that the faith, entrusted to the 1 I apostles, would never fail. In the human side of H the church there may be Judases who betray the Master, but the faith would forever remain unsul- j lied and unchanged. This even Dr. Young admits, i I ; for leplying to his own question about "the man j j in the street," he answers: f ! "Xo other denomination bearing the name o ri' Christian is free from modern forms of error. ... The Catholics are wholly separated from one of j ' these popular delusions. The Roman Church ha I Continued on Page 5. ! - f . s . . .... . ' LIGHT FROM VATICAN. (Continued from page 1.) officially and distinctly repudaited Higher Criticism Bible. It is the only denomination that has dis-and dis-and every other denial of the Inspiration of the countenanced the prevalent pantheism, humanitar-ianism, humanitar-ianism, and similar 'advanced' opinions. And as of the demand for 'personal liberty' independent of restraint, it is the same Roman Church that stands out openly for law and order. . . . "Where else will the man who retains his infantile infan-tile reverence for God and the Bible and Christ find a guarantee of permanency in such old-fashioned sentiments? If he reads a little or makes a few inquiries, he will soon learn that many leading Baptist preachers, professors and authors have cast orthodoxy aside ; whereas not a single Roman Catholic Cath-olic of like standing has espoused these modern notions. "Professor James of Harvard recently delivered in England a course of lectures, in which he said that the teachings of the Bible have been gradually discarded in the universities of Europe and America, Amer-ica, with the exception of Roman Catholic institutions, institu-tions, in which the old doctrines are professed as firmly as ever. He went on to say that in the prominent universities, except those conducted by the Church of Rome, the foundations of the teaching, teach-ing, such as have endured unchanged for hundreds of years, have been reversed within a generation. . . "Can we blame the man who sees the Catholic Church holding to the old doctrnies of creation, God, sin, and the like, if he also holds to an institution insti-tution that apparently stands for what his parents taught him ? I say . 'apparently' the Catholic Church stands for these good old doctrines which are ridiculed in our leading universities. But is our Baptist reality worth as much as Catholic appearance, ap-pearance, when the Baptist reality is so nearly invisible in-visible ?" |