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Vor. IX.—No. 45.
Philadelphia, Thursday, November 11, 1841.
‘Whole Number 461
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FLOWERS ON, THE ALTAR.
|. Flowers on the altar—'tis meet they should grace
= The temple of (od in its holiest place— *
Let the © suby-lipped rose,” and the jessamine fair,
And the delicate lily’s pure beauty be theres
...» That ibeir low-breathing perfume may frequently blend
" With the clouds of rich incense that slowly arcend,
While the organ is heard with its deep solemn tone—
« And the prayers of the faithful go ap tw the throne.
“They are tokens of mercy, whose beautifui bloom
* Can cheer when the spirit’s o'ershadowed with gloom,
And a breath of their fragrance can rouse the worn heart,
.:, Anda thrill to its slow troubled beatings impart.
'
‘And unto the worlding a lesson they read—
/ Who holds the false maxims of earth for bis creed—
Whore eyes are bent down the vain pleasures to crave
© “Of earth—that will soon yield him naught but a grave,
Who ne'er in his pride of adornment ansayed
Such an exquisite robe as the lily displayed ;
“And the bloom of whose cheek is found fading end brief,
When touched by the rose’s most delicate leaf. *
Flowers on the Altar—they tell the decay
(That will soon steal their brightness and feagrance away ;
- Is an emblem for us. of the change that must pass»
O'er our own frames—that all flesh is ag grass—
To the proud and the worldly—the vain aud the gay—
. ‘To the chesk flushed with youth, and the: brow that is gray—
They are “hving teachers,” then sull let them grace
The t mple of God, in iis holiest placs,
Phil: detphia,
SUL
oo "From the Catholic,
ON THE NAME OF PROTESTANT AND
ee CATHOLIC. c
“He wito pweLteTH 1N HEAVEN WILL LAUGH AT
THEM, AND THE LORD WILL DERIDE THEM.’ —Psalins
ii. 4,
Itis remarkable that,man, ia his. wicked machina-
tions, always outwits himself, A striking instance of
this appears in the conduet of our modern Reformists,
who, to express their «letermined opposition to the Ca-
tholie Church, have taken to themselves, in the Diet
of Spires, a. p. 1629, the name of ProTEsTaNT, an ap-
pellation which every refurming sect since has adopted;
not as denoting its dissent from the other Reformists,
but as expressing the only thingin which they all agree:
that is their common dissent from the only: church es-
tablished by the Redeemer. ‘They seem not, however,
aware that by having assumed the title of. Protestant,
they have ranked themselves with the most professed
enemies of God and His Church; with Jews, Turks,
and Pagans; for who, in the sense. of opposing ‘the
Catholic Church, are greater Protestant than they? 2
Protestant, as defined by Dr. Burgess, late Bishop of
Salisbury, and formerly of St. David's, is one who op-
poses the Church of Rome... Then all who oppose that
Church, must be true Protestants 2a large, indeed, but
most discordant, a motley, mixed, and, heterogeneous
association. |: : bei ee
Butthis is not the most. unobjectionable light in
which we view this title of PRoTESTANTe We con-
sider it—and_ what believer in the Holy Scriptures can
deny it—to be the very name of the Devil; for who
Protested first against the Word of God? . Was it not
Satan in Paradise? If you eat of the fruit of the tree
of knowleige, said God to Man. you shull die. , Fou
ginal opposer of ‘Truth—a /iar, as’ Christ ‘styles him,
and the father of lies. ~ my
He is called, also, in Scripture, theadversary, 1 Pet.
v, 8; Ps. Ixxiv. 10; Eccl. xxxvi. 93° Isa, i..8:—and
why? because ‘he is the opposer. © And is, not every
Protestant an opposer? jor to protest, or’ deny, is. to
SA. : a
Another of the Devil’s names in Scripture, is, in He-
brew, Abaddon,’ in Greek. Appolluon, meaning the
Destroyer. “Novy, as to affirm is tobuild up, so ‘to
ceny, is to pull down, or destroy.” But, as we ubserv-
ed, to protest against itis to deny, therefure, in this
sense Protestant is the same name as App.lluon.
Since, to protest against'is to deny, before we can
deny, there must be something affirmed to be denied,
Hence, the affirmation must precede the’ negation,
Now, God’s revelation, which is all affirmation, must
necessarily precede Protestantism, which is negation.
That God’s revelation is all affirmation, the » Aposile
Paul thus testifies: “Our preaching td you was not yea
and nay ; for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was
preached among you by us, was not yea and nay, but
yea was in him, for all the promises of God. were in
him yea, therefore also by him,’ Amen.””—2 Cor. i.,
18,19 3-and ayam, Rev. iji. 14,—Thus saith Amen,
the faithful and true witness. Now the Hebrew op-
tative Amen, signifying be it xo, is affirmative, and the
very name of the faithful ani true witness. ‘The name
therefore, of the unfaithful and false wilness, must be
the opposite of Amen; that is, be it not so; I deny it,
I protest against it. : ae ,
Protestants however,begin at last to be ashameil of their
name, ‘and would gladly exchange it for Catholic. But
this were ouly exchanging the odious for the absurd.
For which of all their countless sects is the universal
one as to time and place; fur that as all the learned in
language know, is the meaning of Catholic. Is itthe
Church of Englahd or of Scotland? © Of Luther, Calvin,
Wesley, or who you please? ° ‘hese are sects but uf
particular nations and individuals, all of late formation.
but in no sense Catuonic, or universal, Catholic’ is
aname which canapply but to cne chureh; to her,
who alone converted the Pagan vorld to Christianity 5
who has existed in all ages since the Saviour; whose
pastors he had commissioned ‘to go and teach,” netany
particular country or people, but. all nafions. °* ‘Their
sound,’ says the prophet, ‘has gone forth into all the
land; and their words to the ends of the earth:’. Ps.
xviii. 4. ‘Phat church, as the appointed Directress of
ALL, is made’ visible to aLL.—Like a ‘city built, upon
a mountain, which cannot be hid.’ For Christdid not
intend that the light which he brought into the world
should be ‘put under a bushbel;”. but that it should shine
forth to all in his holy household, : .
As the Protestant public, particularly those of the
Church of England, are beginning, and no wonder, to
take a particular fancy to the name of Catuotic, ‘as a
more scriptural and Christian one; their interested teach-
ers, whose livings depend upon the numbers ‘of their
followers, to prevent their desertion and return to the
only Chureh called Catholic, have invented, to content
them, the sapient distinction between Catholic and Ro-
man Cath: lic, assuring their ignorant and uninquiring
adherents, that theirs is the truly. Catholic, though not
the Roman Catholic Church, — But were not Protestants
the most easily imposed on of mortals, would they not
inquire of their teachers what the meaning of the word
Catholic is 2’ And could these give any other meaning
to the word than universaL? © ‘Shen let them ask in
what sense the Church of England, of Scotland, or of
any other Protestant Church, is universal. ‘The im-
possibility of answering’ satisfactorily this question,
would dissipate the delusion; for.as I. said, this ttle of
Catholic can belong to no other than the Church of
Rome. : . :
But why, then, some may ask, should the ‘Catholic
Church be called Roman Catholic or the Church ‘of
Rome?’ They who pretend -t0 make the Scriptires
their only rule of faith, should surely know that the
Saviour was foretold to be the ‘expectation of the Gen-
tiles." Gen: xlix. 10.—that ‘in him all the tribes: of
the earth should be blessed, and that all, the nations
should magnify him.’ Ps. Ixxi, 17," Now, it was just
at the time that Rome was the acknowledged Mistress
shall not de, said the Devil. .; He is therefore, the ori-
of all the nations, that the Jews made over their long
foretold and expected Christ, to the representative of
the Romans, Pontius Pilate. “The Jews then resigned
thelr Messiah to the Romens, and wiih Him their re-
ligion, which necessarily followed Him, the God whom,
through it, they worshipped—*A way. with him,’ away
with him,’ they. exelaimed, ‘crucify him, crucify him.”
hey henceforth ceased to be His people, .who were
His people, and they who were not His people, became
His people. Oseas, ii. 24. Rome then was destined
to be what Jerusalem had hitherto been, the capital of
the people of -Ged;. and’ the Jewish temple, now
abandoned by, its ‘divinity, was’ doomed to destrnetion.
The Romans were sent unconscious of their errand, to
revenge Messiah’s, wrongs on the decided and self-
anathematized race ; to‘ lay their city ‘and temple in
ashes, and scatier all, aver the world the surviving rem-
nant of the family of Israel.’ Saint Peter, then, the
chief Apostle—the mystical ** store detached without
hands from the mouniain’s side, Da ii, 45—at.length
reaches Rome, the chief city of Satan's empire, the
centre of idolatry, the, war waging capital of Mars,
the gory god of battle. ’ The humble fisherman once
so weak as to shrink at the voice of a silly maid, and
deny thrice his Lord; but now converted and confirm-
ed, dares to atiack the lordly demon in his own cita-
del; drives him from his stronghold and long ueurped
throne; beats duwn his standard; and erects in fine,
upon the ruins of infidelity, the triumphant sign of the
Redeemer—the cross, the Saviour’s sainted trophy :
and establishes there forever, the spiritual kingdom of
the Prince of Peace, which as the prophet Daniel fore-
told, ** shall never be destroyed.”’ Dan. ii. 44... So
suddenly’ was his conqvest achieved, and so widely
extended its fame, that-his contemporary ‘and fellow,
Aposile, St. Paul, in his epistle to the Roman converts
gives thanks to God, that their faith is already spoken
of in the whole world... Rom. i. 8.)
There then was laid the foundation of wisdom's.
house 3’ Prov. 9, grounded on her seven pillars, the
sacraments built upon the rock, and against which, 3»
the Saviour has declared, ‘the gates of hell shall not.
prevail,”” Mat, xvi, 18,
cession of the Roman Pontiffs for eighteen hundred
and forty years, outliving all the revolutions and chan-,
ges of kingdoms, states and empires ;is not this unin,
terrupted continuation down from St. Peter, of the
chief pastors of the Roman Church, a standing mira-
cle and a public proof, that the only church of Christ
is the Roman Catholic—that his church is Roman an
wellas Catholic. |” Cece bate
But let any one, or every one of the reforming sects
do their utmost to attach to itself the name of Catho-;
lie; they will thereby only. render themselves ridieu-
lons in the eyes of a discerning public. ‘That title has
too long been exclusively appropriated to the church :
of Rome, for any modern, local and particular sect, to
rive it from her. ‘The actor on the stage who wears a
tineel crown, is but a mock and momentary monarch. (
And such to the world at large must any” Protestant
sect appear, attempting to usurp her title, and emulate
her envied state and comliness. . St. Cyprian, in the
fourth century, writing on the holy Catholic charch, a«
expressed in the Aposile’s creed, says, that “the very 5
name of Catholic distinguishes her from. all heresies, ,
which labour in vain to usurp it. This name, contin-
ues he, always remains to the spouse of Christ; as
we see, if a stranger asks in any city where ix the.
Catholic Church 3” Cant. xviii, 26. He adds that she,
is Catholic, or universal, because she. is. spread over.:
the whole world from one enil to the other; that which
he proves from Malachy i, 21, where God speaking ~
by his Prophet, says, ‘*from, the rising of the sun t0,;
the going down thereof, great is my came among tho
Gentiles.’’. * Christian is my name,” says St. Pacian,
a father of the fourth century, ‘¢and, Catholic, is my:
sir name.”* © Indeed, so inseparable is this: name from
Roman Catholics to the present day, that, as in the:
enquiring in any place for the Catholie church or rles~
gyman, will never be directed, even hy Rrotestants. lo
their own church or minister, but to the Reman Cathu- :
lie one. . 1 : coe
,
That which war bitter to. enhusa: may, be sweet Yo
remember. : Nos wep y
And is not the unbroken ene-,”
time of Cyprian, fifteen hundred years ago, a suranger
see