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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC. MISCELLANY
VOL. IX: °
, REPUBLICANS BEWARE
Lovitig our excellént republican form of government, wo
feel it would be on our part criminal, to aolsy a moment,
exhibiting to our readers thé dreadful source. of dan,
Wo copy tho article from the . Hartford Eni Watet
man,” he copies from the“ Christian Watch:
appears to have caught the firo fron, Doclor
uary 23rd,
Tile DANGERS: OF OUR COUNTRY.’
On Thanksgiving evenin, ng, Dr. Be:
on this subject, in Park-street Meeting-House, Bus-
on.
naming some
preacher alluded, we notice,—
UR DANGERS ARISING FROM INFIDELIT
off v8 8 are now making to spread wmnungst d us the
odious ductri
which ae anki with a
a better cause, are not to be lightly regarded by the
religious cuomvaunity.
free-thinkers should pervade the muss of oui
gen
an? and he
Beecher" Who
is Doctor Bocchér?” . The dato of tho’ Hariford paper is Jan-
cecher preached |”
of the dangers to which | the
a system and zeal worthy of
If the theories of our modern
cominu-
nity, the scenes which have desolated France, may be |"
t fa
prince in-Europe, who would not pour out the abun-
dance of his treasures to the hierarchy o
SUCC
Now w we shall leave our brethren the French Infidels who
wero praised by tho godly oi’ New England and of Old Eng-
land, usthe blessed children of liberty and the executioners
oF Anticlcih when they butchered the catholic. clergy,
ofend themsolves against tho serious charge of being the
see thangs of monarchs... Wo shail merely romark upon the
extraordinary change which has taken place within the lust
two yeats rospocting American Catholics, A short time
ince wo wore said to be, beneath notice,—a few thousand}
dupe witha few ees Pe laed te to extinguished
c proclaimed to be more nuine-
rous than svo reall ly are, ° and we are fancied to bo formida-
ble! .Whathas caused this change? We shall not eay.—
But let-us count up the
are othe obedient subjects ofa forcign Prince. | oe Tho Po
ha
ome,|Chief Justices, Sir John Nicholl,
could fhe plot afford the hope and the promise ‘of
other falsehoods.—1, Catholics.
wee
op of London, the Bishop of Lincoln, the three
Sir Christopher
Robinson, and three or four other persons of equa’
abs scurity a and congenial hostility to the Establish-
ment in Church and State
{ - Alterations i in nthe Litur ey
To THe Arcuetsuor or Ca RY.
My Lord.—A_ report having obtained eireulation,
and yhich i is generally credited, that it is in contem-
Piation to make some alteration in the Liturgy of
of the Established “Chu rch. I beg to suggest to vour
sionate Christian can object ; for in various pagsa-
gesof the sacred writings, our Saviour himself ex-
pressly declared, that prayers! were to be offered to
the Father, cand to him o:
the ere efore, propose, instead of the four
f the Litany, to substitute the fullows-
3.7
tho bodies of the catholics, 4. They huve the com:
the wealth of the Catholics, 5. ar the Catholics of the United
Pope and his associates in tho Hierarchy haye command ee
mand of
g:—O Ged, the Father Almighty, m naker ‘ert
on mond Earth, and of all things that are therein, the
God and Pa ther of our Lord esus Chri ist, and of all
ankind, hi rable siiners—
is
ies]
acted over agai voured land. Mobs may
be collected to overawe aud controt our elections,
and to introduce an aristocracy of ou st dema-| kaows that the Catholics aro not the persons who are-mak-
Bogues, Mobs in. Europe are the playthings of;ing the effort, bat he eople of America know that tho Ca-
ona tholics hav ought to put members of their church.
ba in. Mur
They are 3;
sacrifice ofa few lives ut it would
our free country. Such a body of men here, ueting
in concert with some popular prejudice. v woun
dear experiment on.our lperties,t the !
arnot be the
eine hore alluded
he
peedily dispersed ‘with the;!
But not be so in
ld all 1 1
‘ We suspect Dr. Beocher
are four cn falsehoods and ono ridi-
acute and apsurd assertion. We now 0 to unproved
know ptibl oof vot, an
some at them utterly false. lL American principles oflbery
4! God.
mis
‘And ins: mat “ot mercy upon against sudden death,
pray against untimely death. .
T would likewise propose, instead of the follow~
the Father, and to the Son,,
A
and to th Holy host. Answer: As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be. world without
end. - Amen, to “substitute the following : No
unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
nswer i Be honour and glory. through Jespes
Christ, for ever nen, ‘This latter dox
will aj r
e my, Proves “like; change ils appearance at yp P
It will make, however. but Tittl e difurence hi iples have I li play? 2.Th
‘whether the etd declaration be made, Th 3) the right of private jadginent wit open men's eyes to tho
no God,” or whether fut anda us! that those
rv. Am
y bein; 2 strictly seep. as
I. Tim. i. 17.
ern the Creed, denominated the Apostles’, instead
day of judgment, and the inspiration of the Serip-
tures, be denied. It will all come to the same result,
and will give to man the debasing. liberty of blas-
pheming God, with the assurance of perishing like
the
GERS ERO
Tho perils from « a spread of "Popery were exhibit-|"
ed in glaring colours.
hundred thousand, some say a‘ million of {Roman}
Cattiolics, who are scattered all over the Tngth and
bre adil of tho-land, and whose foinples, are pising in
our populous cities and villag: ll these are the
obedient subjects of a foreign vrince, the Pope, » who/®
has at his control the expenditure of immense funds.
He, in connexion witlf his associates in the hie ‘are
chy, has the com: inaud © the bodies a
‘There are in ourcountry five
people aro found who evory day embrace thowe AnomMINATI-
ons! It tells badly for our virtue. 3. It must bo a leading
object with Catholics to destroy Republican government
and free institutions.-Yet Catholics cstublished pre-
ered the oldest, the most numerous, the most pure ecnd tho
of saying he descended in hell would propose to
say, he descended into the
Vith regard tothe Cr ced, ante -called the Athan
sian, T would suggest the propriety, for the sake of:
preserving an uniformity of belief, to omit italtoge-
ther. Indeed one of the most enlightened and
learned members ofthe Church of England, Arch-
is * eoinmummeated {rom us.— We love America but wo blush
for such folly as this, It reminus us of a
wo read a few days since upon a London paper, describing a
hugo countryman in a smock trock with a large oaken ciub,
wiwo-applied for employment as on officer at the Police office,
tating thatin his village he-had the reputation of boing the
\* cutest follow in six parishes.” Yot the magistrates were 80
ragrapl which | >
woalth te is numeruus adherents,. as really as the
armies of Bo snaparle were subject to him. It is the
policy of this blerarchy and its oeen uts to spread its
doctrines amongst us, ‘No w
Roman] C. hot
corcupt "dection, in whicha considerable number of
our citizens should agrec, a purpose may be accom-
, plished whieh ould unite political and ecclesiastical
d
jominion, ie ger reat injury, if not overthrow, of our
republican institato ng
Here the Doctor made a declaration of his theory
of religious liberty. He acknowledged the natural
right of the [Roman] Catholics i in common with all
professors of different doctrines, to propagate their
pinions. rey have a right to proselyte this whole ar
natioa, if they ¢
re
power of argument and sound reasoning. We hav
aright to know what-are the dogmas of the Romish-
native tendency.
great work to which we must direct our energie
eyes of men
that communion. It must,
sabes with [Roman] Ca:
tholics, to destroy our tiene ublican government, and
overthrow. our free. institutions, ‘They can do cam-
paratively put little in Ensope. Light is penetrat:
ing the darkness there ; ‘and the light hich they re. appointment of this formidable Coimmission. may be
ceive is communicate through us. Chis. found in the legal proceedings which have been ing
tian Romo can put out the light here. whi che 98es stituted, at 50 greaban expense, and with so unpro-
the Allantic, their grand o| bject will be secomplsh ble a result, in the case-of a Dr. Free, who was
"he United States subjected to a-| charged with rose indece ency. of conduct and gener-
tholie domination, and our liberties destroyed, the|al unfitness for the dischargo ot his sacred functions:
despots of Europe can then tauntingly say : See-the And, aaa we are de ceived, the duty of conduct.
in, of|o
Spoil as this. There is not a {Roma np Catholic
spr 4
f this one million of
| the Hturgy 8 and attacking the property ofthe Church
{Of England.
.|ing these inquiries, which are to shake the founda-
n j t oowtige but
tho sun shines upon other Poe also. We wish the good
peopte of Park-strect joy of Doctor Beecher, and hope that
ho may be- aided by thousands in, bringing the people to a
knowledgo of the dogmas of tha Rows vhurch.--May Go
abou: ke th uly energetic to exhi-|
bit our doctrinos in their native vendency, Barely the Ro-|
publicis i in danger!
‘ENGLAND.
The Liturgy of the Church of England.—We u
ata comunis sion has ineued, authorising a
. ‘To this we think no rational
un ods though ‘sonic timid zealots
her interested alarmists may found on it anew
of “The -Church iain daoger.” It has been
proposed, we believe, no omit the ° Athanasian Creed
jaltogether.~-Sunday Tin
Some ofthe London papers are pregnant withsing|
uendoes that the government contemplate altering
These - insinuations: the Co
swers after the following:ironical: manner.
“« We believe that the assaults on 1 the Church. will
resolve uhemselves 110 a which
be on ed by th he irown the course
tions a the property and the doctrines of the Church
of England, has been 1 he, committed to
those. Fell Known enemic# of he Church—the Bish-
d{ perhaps, in th
ourier an-
f
will
pos
° dividuals, 9
faye the honour-to
. You
within the walls of the: parish chi
strange that these philosophers think, it is so much
pleasure
Bis
competent
Christian’s creed
require a public declaration of our faith and beliefT
as those who lived: fifteen bundred yours ago. Ba q
@ present state wid, i
better to abolish the Creeds aogier. w i Tom
| persua aded, w uld be the means o}
Catholic spirit amongst the Sstinlos Of “Chiist 5 ;
since difference of opinion kept alive, perpetuate
partial views of religion ; and your Grace may be
assured, that there - will be ¢ no unity of faith while
the Creeds, at leastin-their present form, constitute
a portion of the service of the church.
Finally Prayer, 1 propose, that in-
stead of eaying lead us not into fempta ation, to say,,
abandon ta not when in temptation ; 3 and oe at
'teration would be strictly in accordance [as a
|by a work lovely published by Dr. Thornto om with
he ¢ original G as compared with the Hebrew
and the
The aerate ‘that I have snggested must ap-
our Grace not inconsistent with the spirit
and literal meaning of the s: as,.
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tian scriptures, T hope they will be taken into con~
sideration ; and should the: alterations I have pro-
sed fe adopted, Tam convinced that they will.
meet pith the concurrence of many thousands of in-
tin-and zealous supporters *
Bs
stablishinent af the Church. of England.
t Grace! 3 most obedient servant. : 2
10th December, 1 829.
Baron de-Grimm shrewdly observes fn a lette
relatiog to the anxiety of d’ Alembert to be buried
burch, * It is very;
to be in church after they are dead; and 60
much glory to be ous of it “rhea living.”