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VOL. IX.
ty to think as it scems good to us- anil to y believe Acs
cordingly.) i is the parent of disbelief ; this rotten| unity ”
bo} Cree
anc ce ‘of,
toleratio. -the concerns of religiou}can only
eustained. upon ‘these . two points, viz; igno
the truth, or indifference for the trut m-now, =
find ey pre nor the ouher of these wo Po in’
find a place'in: true religion—she cinnot?? 189°
rant of ihe teuth, ‘because the Ho iyoust ‘enches
her all truth, and because the div® founder has —_———- the capacities of all, -since he wishes all to be saved
Promised “to, be with her to nai “ ' [From the Catholic Pre) : and to come to the knowledge of truth, has founded :
ages,” to be her light and suppe**" is T oL “ — . it upon facts.: these. are intelligible as well to the
that the ‘! gate id helt shall aot prevail against ~~ > ON RELIGION, ‘)itli iterate as learned... ‘Thue the existence of the
her,” which promise will everftotect her from se-} Mn. Entron—If we look back upon ‘the history Trinity js a fact, the ration isa fact, the real
duction,.and from the spirit of effor—neither can of pasiage, we shall find that religion, whether true presence of Christ in the’ Eucharist is a fact: and
true religion be. accused ofindifference for -truth,|or false, has ever been a peculiar an iinportant con {as these and.many other.dogmas ligion are
because. such. indifferency would an infidelity} cern in ihe life of mankind : : so t, from | mysteries which.can never be comprehended by a
which..could not be ford in a religion essentially the very origin of the human race, wether among|human -understanding, the ing has no
holy ‘in her doctr rine, td be because she is obliged to/the - barbarous or civilized, a broa of distinc-| advantage, in respect to faith, over the man who
e
teach waatever per diving founder has revealed,| i
an
{Matt.:29.]- and e: she kno
0
dan
UNITED STATES
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this aig thousand fragments ; ‘error wre:
ie ollected a compou:
eco mes pleased with its own fanciful conceptions,
and calls this a religion, ‘forgetting that re ligion
comes from God alone, “not our: r3): but i given.
as far elevate:
From the knowledae of this fact,
that the tendency: to religion i is a law
above the latter.
we may infer
*GaTHOLIC MISCELLANY. * |
acder established by Christ, nad, shivers
ts from
the right of forming a new belief, and when
und of inconsistancies, it] ;
from. the mouth of Chri st, must be Bat un-
a ver
ny, q' ai
what “peculiar code o
gion have been established by the
what may appear favorableto their own views and
inclinations. God d wishing to adapt his religion’ to
the fact, and not into the ni
tom a choice .0 make up the sum of his belief ;| or principle implanted, by the Creator, in the very | existence, a-great deal of useless trouble and often
since one.and a! these points of doctrine, and then nature o! But end with such a principle, sinful curiosity would be .
from a choice. make up the sum of his belief ;/God has not left man to his own direction with re s to the principle and essence of the chiatan
since one andall these points of doctrine come from gard to ine adoption. of his religious creed, ut has religion, -t ver -been the same, from
the same ~fivine, source and have the same ne ved to himself the right of n posing sohich i is, time a promise of a Redeemer was made to our first
authority and consequently claim from us cubis at once, Mm most beneficial to the creature and most/parente., This Redemer was always the centre and
sion equelly: for all.as.. for one ; thie is the doctrine :
of true.and genuine religion, : We are’ assured by
the apsstte St. James, that though. a man should sub-|
rit te all'the points that religion teaches, yet b
ning in one ee, point, he weuld for this tng
» be exclu uded
”
g e meaning then of the apostle i is, that the
infrac' Go
and punicment-bonin ex integra causa, aia
eX quo cunque:¢ defectu.
Ta ow fully satisfied with our conference on
the unity vot the true religion, and trust we fe shall have
nyany inore upon the leading errors of th oll
© capital points, which either relate to God
himself or his divine word. the ages that preced-
od the coming of the ner; an almost
country,
individual
©
>
“f
"oS
ince: this
wherever the christian religion extended,.
fi nity of God-is re-established.—
led by n mentis
claring g veng' arent of a those
idolatrous worships which were ted, men,
flin opposition to that one true an ind ‘divine th
~} pleasing to
univers-}-the
error had changed the "belief in one God te that of
ore
Nevertheless, as
pleasing to him and
e has left him at fal liberty to
ce or reject what himself has proposed, but
sl ‘exponsble for the abuse oft hat free will which
as bim, of old, de-
worthy of his -sacred majesty.
none but'a free homage can be
ineritorto us for man, hi
Hen
ce against tthe
himself had-established : becatise, besides being an
infringement of his own ‘right of choosing in what
ved, they were mere subterfuges
for the’ ‘ndulgenee of ‘pas
uc
resent state of the wor
r
| gion every where. profe:
forms, as there
foliage of auturnn, still, all liable to exception as dis-
God, save the genuine and truc 6
ne can be the object of his complacency.
ange |e
“Thue,
the sacrifices of Saul, kihg as he was, were offen-
sive to God, ofted contrary to the order
which: he had established. [1 Kings c. xiii]. ”
m eternily and prior to ma
| views and. notions ; tee see whether it bears on its
dhesimilar, and whos
the unity of God, but. the unity of his word. thowat
inform us both are alike, one,
vor ofr man
d with 1
c the indignity. offered to his hots word by ‘the
multiplicity of religions as the call
The eternal word, Jes » Christ ist, i ohed one
religion.) his Apostles were “commissioned to preach
” this not twelve religions, and their associates in
d with them-not in opposition|
7 inistry was divine an
eause thelr thee nd of time ; the faithful ac-
ther their duty. to obey, tu believe
they believed, they Krew that
these men were. ‘hoe organs, the ministers anda
sadors dod's favours to them this const
the submission of faith ;-and tho religion of Chr’
established. propagated. with the divine promise
pledged for its perpetuity, cannot require any thing
leas, by this fidelity, the doctrines. of. Christ are
maintained inviol olate, orin other words the unity o
this divine word, or},
the promises] was
“ee venerable mark
1 ery reverse t takes place
ligion go back to its first institution un-.
der the old-law, and to the new form which was given |
it, by our Redeemer, ubder the pews we shal find it
capable of no improvement inference |
must be, that all we have t todo i is ‘to correspond wit
the d ns of God in order to its preservation, as
esig
originally instituted. As man could make no > chiang’
in religion under the old law, without the express or-
dinanee of God, so, under the new, the sare rule
holds good, and condoms every innovation. The
laws and: ordinu' of God are not like those. of
men," bsrvint | to time; where repeal amen
emg the constitution of things, might 1 wels
th regard to re-| fro
for the m
neither the pivots nor sockets appe
tion with high magnifiers, to have
slightest degree of ease
ty of Ar
i
ate t, and not
that which is confined to his person.
- OLD RELIGION.
° eee
"USE oF PLUMBAGO INSTEAD OF OIL In
CLO. AND CHRONOMETERS.
sdual change of oil, when
the machine az much a erbert ap-
pears to have overcome this difficulty all at:once, by
discarding the oil altogether, and using instead of it
well prepared plumb ago. -
e)plumbago by rep grit ashi
over, by wh ich means the ery "ries that occur,
ven in the t. black Jea: ved, and
which, ‘ralloweal to remain, oe neutrative ‘every”
advantage the pure plumbago is fuund to give. This
done, tie prepared substance is applied witha cam-
hair pencil, either in the state of powder, or mix-
upon another. but plumbago upon plumbago. 5
‘These surfaces, by their mutual action, speedily
acquire a polish only inferior to that of the diamond,
ven
of Mr. Herbert’s own making,
the pivots and holes and teeth of the escape whcel
been covered on. their rubbing parts-with fine
flumbago fourteen years before, was taken to pieces
by a committee of the Suciet ye of: Aris, and exam: .
ined ; the surfaces of plumbag fou
st part un broken and highly polished. ‘nd
ared on examin
undergone the
——Transsetions of ‘the Socie- .
=>
e
a
ments are ofte de with great propriety but be:
ing once inade, th ‘till t
the change. Whovefore: until it be clearly iment
that God has made_a& change in religion, and it is
certain he ha: as ml, since his divine Son ee
church, declar’ ing thaf ‘the gates 0
never prevail against it,’”? the same doctrine ‘whieh
then delivered, mvs be rigidly. maintaine
What then becomes of the Refurmation, impraper-
ly go called ? Should not the very name render it
jeuspicions ?
our ‘examination of religion,, our ru
should be, what’ seems right to our own often
“| graordered vvoaeen and‘ imagination, but "that of St.
Vincent of Lerins, ** quod “umbiqu e; quod semper,
uod ab omnibus creditum est :” and that other of
| the same author, “ Quod non inventum . sed tradi-
tum: joctrine. which been universally
2.8
the true religion. Insubordination runs. counter to|
som
diamonds ; and m
| Russran Dramonps. —li now 4 appears that among
OV
iscoveries, thore,is a great Probability of
| diamonds: being found, toa considerable extent.
the left. side ‘of the Ural ;
who accompanied the Jearned Baron Humbolt, ob-
tained seven of these precious stones from. the gold-
pasting by children, at a- place about tw
_as Count Vou Potier,
o hundred —
fifty werts from Prem, tole district Te-:
le® the:, Brazil. mountains, 60 rich | in gold and.
“They
that govern. must make least
You
see, when they row in a barge, they that “do le ivopen
work, sw bu
erns, sits gui ut, ‘the stern, and searce 1 is seen to!
slash, and puff, and sweat ; at gov-
stir | den. “€ .
Old ion are best; king James used i to call for
his old shocs; they were easiest t to his: feet aH.
The
the same, in every age, from the time it came Pare]
leapvily, mh regird to the: investigation of of eligon .
u prev
uv purify the oil as to pre--
injury ccchsioned to the going of.
S$ pos!
achines have been ordered to > Pros
secute’ this investigation more complet oy, :
‘