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jtftfx Hi» prm^M Yi i V- II miWfrJWi s fa VSÌJ < ( PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE."-—MARK xn. 15. VOL. XXY. PITTSBURGH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1868. NO. 41 Sleep and Death. Dr. Claiming on the General Council. cy: but this I will say: that while Chris- And here let me allude to what is called i strike at the root of many an error and tian Europe changes again and again, BY ISIDORE G. ASCIIER. At the morning service in St. Mary's Establishment. The Catholic Church I will draw towards him the people of this the Church passes through mutation and pro-Cathedral, Moorfields, on Sunday, can never be established. The genius, country. He reminded them that re- vicissitude; dynasties change, and peo- The gentle night, tranquil as Eden's calm, Dr. Manning, Roman Catholic Arch- nature, and Divine origin of the Catho- hellion and anarchy were sins against ple fade away, until you can scarcely Beforo the voice of Sin disturbed the air, bishop of Westminster, preached a ser- he Church all alike refuse establishment. God, and therefore urged them that find a trace of them—the throne of the O'er crept and nestled to the weary earth. mon in relation to the day of supplica- The Catholic Church will be treated as whilst they should endeavor to persuade The the moonbeams stole to kiss her loveliness, I ^ icar of Christ stands, as it has always tion for the Pope's General Council.— a monument of God on earth, and will and convince others, they should work And blent their mellowed splendor w ith the dark, ! stood, unchanged and unchangeable.— Preaching from the text, "Of His King- accept its relation with civil powers; but with all charity, and having the perfect To beautify the shadows of the world. j Nay, this I will say, is a throne which dom there shall be no end," he said the to be established—never. It is degrad- light of the truth, and confidence in God And then, the unchanging galaxies of Heaven contains the spirit of civil power, and intention of the Pope in calling the ing to mind, heart, and spirit to admit of whose Kingdom there is no end. Flashed out eternal rays, to stamp the night I the true ultimate basis of the civil order th at a work of this nature is dependent With glory and immutability. Council, is to make intercession for the j of the world. The spirit of the Chris- on a superior power, and cannot stand Then flew with lightning wing, through quickened whole Church, as spread throughout the I tian order of the world is to be found in alone. What is the meaning of Church space, whole world in all its branches, and for j the jjQj gee *OFel Protestant Services. She has that spir.t of Establishment? It means a Church Two messengers from Heaven, clad alike the extirpation of heresy-that bitter, | that uni{y and universality which be- which rests for its support on the Crown On Sunday Mr. James Dupe, assisted In purity and calm ineffable. serpentine heresy with which the intel- longs to the Catholic Church alone.— by a host of "Christian followers," held The splendid vesture of the gentle night I lect of the world would taint the be- or the Legislature—the Crown may And observe that this unity produces three extraordinary religious services in Clung to the skirts of both: a crown of stars lief in the religion of God. Another in- make laws even as to its ritual, disci- authority. What is it that excludes from Circled the head of one, whose beauty seemed tention is to allay schism. One more pline, and doctrines—a Church from the Market Place, Nottingham, England. the Catholic Church all the controver- Di?iner than her sister's; soon they touched intention of the head of the great Coun- whose judgment even in spiritual things The brethren took up a position on sies, divisions, and subdivisions which The summit of an undulating hill. cil—scorned as it may be by the proud | there is an appeal to the civil power.— Messrs. Patch and Bennett's theatrical we see round about us in this our own Bordering the noisy haunts of busy men: | intellects of men—is to interpret the It is bondage, not establishment; and in exhibition, and as if to identify them- country? Because we all hold the faith And the red moon, showering yellow flames. will of God on earth; and disbelieve it the whole canon law of the Catholic selves with the profession, one of the every day of our lives. The merest Illumed the clumps of furze and trailing weeds as men will, it will leave its mark upon Church there can be found no words speakers (J. Birch) was brought forward child begins with it—the theologian To seeming asphodels and amaranths ! the history of mankind; it will form an equivalent to the words, "Established to play a banjo. Large bills had been holds it likewise. The hearts and minds With arms enfolded tenderly o'er each, epoch in a century of revolution; and, Church." placarded announcing the services, and and will of the faithful are all under one As if a subtle sympathy of love I more than this, it will paralyze the It was an invention of Henry VIII.— just to satisfy the curiosity of our read- and the same Divine authority; for the Had knit their souls, they hushed their dreamy spirit of heresy. Only a few days ago It was a formula of.the tyranny which ers, who may not have seen the con- faith, wherever it is exe-rcised, has an flight;— we were warned that the prospects of I arose where the spiritual and civil power tents, we will reprint a copy:—"Goose authority in common. It has an indis- Then sleep, beneficent, scattered abroad his Southern people are so dark and so were in one hand. The English people Fair Sunday. The ransomed of the soluble bond ofunity in its eternal faith. Th' invisible seeds of slumber, taking root menacing for the Pope himself, that men have gradually emancipated themselves Lord will hold a large meeting in the From whence comes this authority, but Within the jaded hearts of human kind, I wonder he has the time to think of his from that bondage. Two-thirds of the great Market Place, to be conducted by To blossom into gossamer flowers of dreams, from the faith there is in the light of the I children abroad. It is indeed a time people have extricated themselves from a converted thief, sweep, doctor and Casting a fragrance through the restling brain authority of the jurisdiction which there when he is most solicitous for his chil- the confusion of things. It is not the miller. J. Birch, D. D., a converted Lightly and fleetly in an aerial maze. is in the spirit of the Vicar of Jesus dren throughout the world. We know English people that are established by nigger, will play his banjo, and as host Then palling Infancy, and fretful Age. Chri st. Therefore Rome is the source that Spain, in which he ruled as a Ca- authority. The English people never of Heaven's royal family. Morning And querulous Youth, and sighing Maidenhood, of the unity and universality of the tholic country promising support, has rejected the Catholic Church. They service at 10.30, afternoon 2, evening 6. Lay smiling in the beauty of repose; Church of God. The other day I saw fallen into the hands of revolution. were deprived of it by the tyranny of If the weather should prove unfavorable, And Heaven-born Peace, unconscious of her power it was asked, "Of what worth will the Royalty and the corruption of a Court the services will be held at the taber- Through shadowy chambers entered noiselessly, Austria has degenerated from its faith in the Holy See. I,i , L I R I*""grea"t Council be«V? Th» e piicaipriests uoif withe they who plundered the sacred house nacle, Durham Ox Inn, and the Mission And dimpled Innocenee with loveliness, Italy has snatched from Church are nothing more than the speak- and sanctuary of the Church of God,. Hall." The weather fortunately was And flung a chastening calm and tender smile the Pope his provincesrn vi n i*Po. I11t mmigh • >* kt # bue » I * « _ . they it was who robbed the Church of favorable, so that the "tabernacles" On faces harsh with cankering toil and care; added that Russia is beginning to perse- ing instruments whereby the voice of were cute the Catholic Bishops, and revoke the Pop- Je J is repeated, * ; he hears his own EnglanO d of the unit««'«*y J oVfS authorityttUHlVI J ; f buwilt l I not required. Each service was Then Sleep, enraptured at her marvellous work, echoes. It is a mechanical contrivance could they think that the people passed or dispute the supremacy of the Holv attended by hundreds of persona of all Like one aocused of kindness, who might droop wherebtcKo I«nktyf thf ken UniversaI T « . .. l 1 Churcr« 1 h I echoe1 s /• .1 • . « . _ r * See. Last night brought us fresh tidings from the Catholic Church? I have lived classes, and the singing of Birch who ac- A lowly glance, unwilling to be praised, back the voice of its own head. Well, In bright contentment gazed upon the earth, of persecution. But do these things dis- long among them, and I have been among companied the hymns on his banjo, it is a mechanical contrivance; it is a Cpon the happy dwellings wrapt in calm.