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“ CHARLESTON, MAY 15,’ 1830,
owes) CL
tho Rev.
" UNITED STATES CATHOLIC ‘MISCELLANY,
taNTOR “Jones ¢o.—On Saturday, May 1, the bishop and|
. D. O'Reily arrived in ‘this town in-the: after-
noon, Ee staid ‘at the residence of captain Michael O’Sulli:
van, sent to request of the bi-
shop t to press ang having ‘procured the” vas of the church
VOL. IX. ~
MOBILE,
Rev. Gane Ciaton has kindly consented to act
> GEORGI. .
Sranra~-Hancock Co-— After leaving Locust: grove, on
bh of ‘April, the bishop and the
Rev. M. D. O’Reily arrived here to dinner, and soon after:
ards, some of
had been erected by the citi-
Methodist society was given in.g
r by the Rev. Mr. Bass
the préacher.—Mr, O’teily read the prayers, and at a little
before eight o’clock, the bishop having read the fith chap-
_ter.of the gospel according to. St. Matthew, preached on the
nature and characteristics of trao ‘Teligion, and enlarged!
which
ally d.and ‘mi d
the ceromonial : he next ‘explained the doctrine of tho
charch regarding the veneration, invocation, and interces-
of angels: and saints,- -the ‘acrament of Pe onance, the
nature of indulgence
daring two hours, Mr. O’Reily re
and the bishop | took his. leave with the expression ofa, yen
that he might have other opportunities of addressing
them
Th ‘collected upon s
short-a notive, wags extreme ely numerous, and respectable,
consisting of some hundreds of intelligent and very atten-
a
several kind invitations politely offered, which the shortness
: of ie stay compelled him tadecline forthe present. In the
tan early hour, the prelate and his companion de-
parted for Milledgeville. .
There. aro but three or four eatholics i in this town, of
whom only one, is a permanent ci
here
4 was given up to him, ho could not feel that he’ ought to take
Mitrescriruie, Baldwin 2 Ca,—The hichsp, and. tho Rov. up any of those subjects upon which unfortunately there |.
M. D. O'Reily, arrived here about noon on Friday, April 8a di © ;, but that ho should endeavour to meet.the
w.
30. The church of the Methodist society had been previous: |
ly .procured:- by a number of citizens for him to preach, and
heyafter prayer and reading the fifteenth chapter of the
gospel according to St. John, spoke for upwards of two hours
toa very large and bighly rospectable congregation ; be-
sides troating- of the general nature of religion, ho took up
.| the citize:
the Rev.‘ Mr. O’Roily at carly candle- dight read the usual
.| prayers, and the bishop having read the ninth | chapter and
that chapter which relates to the cure of the blind man of
the gospel according to SI t. John, preached for a considerable
time on the subject of the nature ofteligion, then | passed | to
late communication from the
several subscribers to ihe Miscellany, hae confirmed usin
that belief.
“We give below.a second communication from the same.
section of Alabama, exhibiting in a most favourable light _
ostolic zeal and exertions of. the Right Rev. Bishop
ts of the ¢ coun try]
hE:
tant writers wero guilty, in order to create a sombla ance of ;
justification for the separation of the English church under
Henry VIL, Edward VI,, and Elizabeth, from the commu-
ion of. tho cathélic world:—he, then entered at considera-
and. showed the ° -divine origin of confession, particularly
decrees of the council of Trent, and after. explaining the na-
findul ncludod b to avoid
Prayer was reqd
ash j ‘n d.to cultivate. charity,
as unual by Mr, O’Reily.
day morning at.an early hour Masses’ were “cele e-
be ated for the catholics at the residence of Mr. O° Sullivan.
he Rev. Doctor Pierce, the preacher of the district, whose
tn it was to-do duty in tho church-on that morning, learn-
ineupen bie, arrivabin town that it Was ‘the wish of many of
intimated
in the moet hind “had polite, “manner his ‘consont, that the
morning service might be given by the p tever
manner ho thought best himself, and that he should feel him-
relate in wha
voner
this when the congregation assembled for their usual duties,
and thé ‘whole conduct of the serv’ vice'and use of the church
his own part he would
shop ‘did take up topies sree whi
« The ci congregat nunicrous wand re reepoc table.—
Mr, O’Rsily roi oad ‘thet usbal prayer, a after which the. bishop
read the 15th chapter of the go spel according to St. John
ch they diff
shewed how, ‘the prices of absolution and indulgences which Poss
ctr that prelate, which preceded his arrival in the Unit--
su
f the sacrament of penance,
‘dwelt upon the doctrine of justification. as.laid down in the | OUF
n.—This is what we anticipated, from the high cha-
anifest proofs.
mm the Editors of the United 8 States Cathotic Miscellany.]
L . " Moniz, April 26, 1830.
Gentlemen ma .
Th, Stor Rect hast bord ihrouch
ut the union.
hore, acc
‘0 pri
two clericks, Long had “the arte of thé catholics of Mo:
bile. wished for bis coming.
forte, and seem to promise a. long continuance of days de-
voted to the purest woraip.
On he good bishop afficiated, and preach=
ed in Paglia toa Fed congregation, which, for more :
‘than an hour, hang on his moving eloquence—the solemn |
singing, tie majestic. ceremonies, the piety of the faithful, ©
all struck with awe, and bespoke the grandeur of that reli-
gion which, from the days of. Christ, has floated downto
ourage. Prejudices will, no doubt, vanish in this city, be-
fore the luminous” exposition of the catholic tenete, which,
until now, we might say, had been totally disregard ed.
“Yesterday, bishop Fortier confirmed ‘t
who had been prepared to receive tha’ very
thing seems to foretell that the city of Mobile, will one day
bo conspicuous for the piety of its inhabitants. A seminary
of learning which the Bishop now erects, will ensaro tothe
{rising and unborn generations, tho benefit of a liberal and
religious education.
remain, gentlemen, :
~ You
gst them: were, the
these ho shewed ‘were matters of discipline, regulated by the
legislaturo of tho, church fon, principles of great public} ©
from ‘miracles; 3 then spoke.ot the necessity of. the redemption
from the fallen state of the human race, and Ho iputility of
y human works to obtain satvati tion, untes: hey were
livene d by t
of his institutions. Bis whieh rd
ed topic was the
charity which «the Savio ie!
structive to those who had been educated in tho church, and
to i Hoe}?
urs, Ke, &e.
G. COSMOPOLITE.
"Estat avs a letter dated.
Orurans, May 2nd, “1890.
ling to the. practice
tribute to Mr.
OrReily re re; ead the ‘concluding: prayer and the congregation
of the vi
ited the Cathedral in this
Jeavoared to enforce, sh Wiig ‘that i s the duty: of all mn yesterday evening Tr visi .
en to seck carofully and without prejudice for the truth city and beheld 0 . - oma re ‘onde : ne
asrevealed by God, and established by the apostles, that i been witnessed.-—One hundr y yen wie
ersons differed in doctri Tino one of them must al ed i o renew their baptismal
ach of
| c! cee win less ‘on hatred or persecution, & after e xhort- : The instructions wore give the French age.
The males w ore very neally reed and the females were
with white veils. On the whole it was a spectaclo
that the friends of religion could not look upon nor contein-
ne moment he landed 0 on .
greatly ‘miereprosenton was dis plate without pleasure. Great praise is duo the clergyinen
ts, and condemned the prin- or their laudable exertions, through which a great. change
a i. on conn bof Protestants, . hoi» lie nv lp Int the afternoons a largo nuinber: of Tespectable friends has been effected in thi city during the last ten or twelve
ciplo of attri uting. thid misconduct to their reli ne ancassombled at Mr. O’Sullivan’s to witness the baptism of hié| years, From what! can learn thenumber of the community
claimed the benefit of tie samo distinction for Rom man ca- cull. which the bishop porformed alter. ‘ha aving 1 at consider- has’ increased one hundred fold during that time. The firm-
tholics. Ho then adverted to the subject of Indulgences which he took hie departure in tho, western st nancand of the regation ist. is rye.
d tory, in ‘treatin. ‘which to the fat e stage. as well as the gou understan ing of U e public, have finn’
and Purgatory, in treating of which, owing to tho lateness Tho number of catholics in Jones co. is very smally, thero| put down the ‘eetion. who sattempted todistrub them at the -
of tho hour he wag necessarily brief, it being thon close up-
on ten o'clock. Mr. O*Reily. e r.
Mass in his apartment-for tho few catholics of this town, a
this ono of them, partook of the holy communion, and ro-
ceived the benefit of the indulgence.of the Jubiloe.. -.-
Betwoon seven a eight o'clock i in the morning, thoy
proceeded to Clin
In this section f the country the peo ore, goneraliy,
completely intho dark with regard.to
at him, to > request he would favour them with a sermon
sof thePresbyteri
others in the co
Macon. Bibb cn —The bishop arrived here i in the stage
in: Sunday night and found g few catholics.:-On the‘next
da jay a committee o most respectuble: citizens’ waited on
in ca-
SJ
are only th eo in Clinton, wud probably, pot over a dozen
TY:
which no accepted, and the hour.of four o’c lock, r. a1. was
fixed upon. : This. town-laid- out, little ‘more than seve
ar8 Since, has risen very rapidly a and, now contains about
nd-sow uls,
hurch was Aled with a very! numerous, attentiv
and Te clligent congregation; after the-usual prayer the bis
yoa|
wr sous
and their doctrines. All they know’ is derived from th
p read the third: vio ho of tho: Acts of the Apostles, and|
a the natare of. religi
| must ha
exorcise of their devotions.”
* THE-RULE OF FAITH.
ho-method of ascertaining divine truth is vay styled
the rule sof eit an.appellation which, for brevity and per-
,|spicuity, we shall hereafter adopt, in webosensee to ‘the more’ .
circuitous phrase which Wwe have hitherto employed.. It.
ve.cértain aualities i in order to be “rogardod as the .
infallible criterion of our b
is,it must .date its. origin from Christ, by. whom it was cs-
tablished, and it must havo: “gontinued in: existence, and
neral assortions of the Protestant preadhors ; ‘and theirig’
norance was se sucls thata great m any of them did-not know
that Roman catholics wero christian!
bishop in the upper part of the state, have been of gre:
rejudices havo been removod,
catholic church have nm e, and will continue to vjecompa ied by several ladies and gentlem ap- | P
made. All weask is investigation and impartiality in do-} ti25 two children, previously to administering u ment.
ciding upon our creed. Co’ @ bishop, or other clorgy-| he e explained the object‘and nature. of’ the coremouies, and
nen, as gifted as he is with power of speech, visit us ,
ave nothing to fear from time, inquiry,
nd investigation, ' on .
Tho visits of the
charity.— Ho co
a y~
try, the doctrine of penance and indulgences together with
ig this doctrine
~-the necessity, the nature and tho obligation of christian
included by the usual pray
er the services at thechurchi had concledede the prelate |
| dwelt at some length upon their wisdom and utility:
the num beri in the county 0 of Bi bb d
oes not
exceod that in the count;
e number of catholics in Macon Is greater than in Clin:
an
if. thi y Jet ene. This
ecclo-
} deci a. vt iy of eel: | 6 we concoive to be evident, since every method for. ascer-
and invocation veneer aed suinte, and the pature of idola- taining. ancient revelation must le cud us back t 2 and |
Christ no. doubt determined some certain means for erpote
uating his truthe, or in other, words. some certain and per-
petal rule of.faith for bis future-disciples. “To suppos
that he established nosuch rule, swould be to defeat tho very
urposes of his coming, and to impute to him improvidenc
impotency, or neglect. He knew tho difficulty which man |
has to embrace with unreserved faith the awful mysteries of
religion, and. the tendency @ of tho, human mind to. doubt,
pride, or passion, He was" conscious therefore, that the
The bishop deft Macon ot on r early hour i ig the West
Stage. .
would be totally f
st in the -firet place. ts. ancient and perpetual that
tet