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SUESCRPTION Fay ABLE
IN ADVANCE.
VOL... XXIL
URLS 8 Sruth ts powertul and wll prevatl. .
a NEW-YORK.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1846.
- . OFFICE No 70 BAYARD-
STREET, IN THE REAR.
re NO, 8,
oT bs
1 : [For the Truth Teller.) ne
tHe ARISE PATRIOT’S LAMENT,
- BYP, cassiDY. i
“Tane—* Banks of the Dee”
Oh! IfL could mount on the Eagle's strong pinion,
fd seek the Green Island, my once happy home, :
Though tyrants now hold the bold race in subjection, ;
Who ot right should be frée, as the billows that foam,
Lenvy’ that bitd ir. her flight through the ether, :
Whose « compass the stars, atid whose | ru der, ‘a feather—"
How glad would I be, could we visit together,
The gem. of the ocean, Sweet Brin Machree!
Dear land of my birth! there my ‘eatt stil reposes,
My bosom is throbbing twixt, joy and despair,
T sigh for my country in pensive emotions, :
And fleet as a moment I fain would be there.
High flushed at the thought of an exile returning,
Dame nat re implores me to cease from my mourning,—
Oh! sadis my fate, for my poor heart is burning,
For matchless, Hibernia, Sweet Erin Machree !
On scenes of my childhood, I gaze with emotion,
‘Thougii reason still whispers, these thoughts are in vain ;
Each glimps¢ of the mind but endears my devotion,
‘And heightens the glow of my languishing pain,
Heart broken I wander without consolation,
‘An exile from home, from friend and relation, —
With hope that sheet anchor that clings to salvation,
To visit Hibernia, sweet Erin Machree!
no
Fond memory presses my heart with commotion,
‘And homewards I’m floating on fancy's broad wing—
First flower of the earth, when [ cross the wide ocean,
>Twill be my devotion thy praises to sing
‘Then joy and gay pleasures my theme sa environ, y
Tn raptures to join the wild notes of the siroi j
Proclaiming awve to the plundering tyranie O
That wasted Hibernia, sweet Erin Machree!
What wasted her land—"twas the hand of oppression,
Who riffled her temples—’twas Cromwell of yore;
Who fought the fierce battle—like faithful Kine Day,
‘And conquer’d the Dane on her tempest tossed shore:
*Twas brave royal Baray, an Irish defender,
‘Whose fame future ages shall proudly remember—
The hero who never was known to surrender,
Till victory crowned him, in Erin Machree! .
The chiettain has gone from his royal dominion,
Oh! where strays the minstrel of Tara's old hall!
And where is the harp that enlivened the nations,
Ye wild mountain echoes respond to my call!
Ah! silent they slumber, bedecked with white flowers,”
Beyond the blue waters in green:shady. bowers,
Where the monarch once dwelt. in. bis ivy crowned
towers,
In the Isle of Sr. Pararce, sweet Erin Machree !
Ah ! ong did the gibbet, high tax, and convietion,. 3
Affiict thee, poor Erin, my once happy home, ‘
But longer thou canst not endure the Festeitions rt
Beneath which thy, people now suffer and gro:
Though in slavery’s chains though art still macs, :
Thy thraldom methinks must be soon termina
‘When the unton’s’ RePeatep, and the tyrant’s defeated,
Tu yi Hibernia sweet Erin got Erin, Macs oe
Lagrine DeuvereD By THE Rev, C. @ Pise, D. D., aT
St. Perer’s Counce, Barciay-sTREET, ON THE 8UB-
v ‘JECT OF“ ‘Unity, ONE oF THE EssenTIAL CHARACTER-
ystics oF THe True Cuurcn oF Curist,”, on Sunpay
EVENING, THE 8TH OF Fepruary, 1846. ,,
:The reverend gentleman comment ced his ar; gument by
quotin the Holy Scriptures. He selected the 11th chap~
St Job John, the auth, 48th, 49th, 50th, ost and 52d
B
«Then gathered the Chief Priests and ihe Pharisees,
as council, and said : What do we? his man doeth
many miracles. e let him thus alone, all men will
believe on him; and th
away both our place ‘and ni
named Caiaphas, being the “High Priest that- same year,
said unto them, Ye know nothing atall; nor consider that
it is expedient for in. should die for. the
People, ‘and that the whole nation perish not. And this
spake, not of himsel High Priest that a
he prophesied that Jesus Should die for ja nation; and
not for’ that nation only, but that also he gather
together is in one the prildren of Gol, that were scattered
abroad?
‘After readicg this divine and infallible testimony, it is
not possible that there can be any doubt on fhis Point;
that unity: is essentially ‘necessary am e, fol-
lowers anil disciples St christs thatall the sheep ‘yetong
ing to his dock should be indissolubly.united ; and that
alf the members belonging to the true, ghureb; ‘shoul Id be,
gulte das
a
gathered together “ in one.” ., For the purpose of uniting
all the faithful in Judea, and throughout the world, into
one people and ehh, it was expedient that Jesus should
suffer, and should He died, that he might gather
into one, not merely “those who were Jews, but all the
faithtul of all times, who were to live after him, even to
the consummation of the world,. Having on last Sunday
evening ‘vindicated, and I hope, proved the necessity of
Cathoticity i in the church, and having shown that the irae
chuich of Christ must be Catholic, 1 undertake, this
ning, the task to prove that unity, likewise, is a cha matt.
eristic feature of , the true. chure! ch o! Christ ; that there
mu: st be unity among all true believers i in point of. doc,
trine ; an afterwards prove that there must be
int of go vernment, as far as that government
was instuated by the Divine founder of the Christian re-
ligio And, t therefore, that that church can only be the
true church. ji which this Shi this indissolubility, if I
may use the expression, of doctrine and of government,
can be Aiscovere sd; and, consequently, that unity, of the
church is another of the characteristics by which the true
church is designated, and by which the true ebeirch can
be separated from all other churches in the
comes me to prove this important rope
intended that thee. should be. but one
othet words, it was the intention of Christ that all eli.
vers in him, and all the members of his Church, should
te united i in| the same doctrine. . This is the first proposi-
tion, The second is, that it was the prayer of Christ that
all those who * were to believe in Him should be united as
one people, as one body, as one sheepfold, under the same
pastor, believing, teaching and perpetuating the saw
teachings and the same doctrines. which were received
originally from his divine lips, and taught by the apostles
heir successors. s the intention of Jesus Chr
that there should be but one religion. that intention ms
ave been carried out, for it would be absurd, as wel
blasphemous, to suppose for a moment that what he in-
tended has not been effected. If he prayed for unity,» we
rust, believe that his prayer has been efficacious ; “and i
eflieacious, that unity has been perpetuated from his day
down to the age in wl hich we live.
intention that there should be but one church.
~~ Thie~must FOV
From the text, it is evident that he died that his church
hat all who believed in Him sbould
1 repeat terete, wherever that church
exists in which unity has been preserved {rom the begin-
ing to the Present ey that chore has been, and is, the
true church of Chri It becomes every candid enquirer
after truth to investigate, among all de! me cane. which
is that church bleh cheriebeds from ing, and
retains now, that unity which Chris “tend, and fot
which Christ prayed, In the first is our cus~
tom—we hall have recourse to the ‘pases of “the sacred
Spnneeh in order to prove the intention of Christ, that
shere should be one religion. will adduce the
yer of our Divine Saviour put forth, to his Heaven}
nather, in order that unity should never be broken, but
should bind his diseip les—all true Christians—through
succeeding rei et you to St. John, 10th chapter,
15th and 16th verses;—As as the Father knoweth me,
even so I know the Falher, and [ lay down my life for
the sheep, and other sheep [ have which are not of this,
fold; them also fm ust ring, a and the ey shal en ny
voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.?-—
e words it is, manifest that it was the Cention
of our Divine Saviour to unite all to whom the fectines
of his Gospel were to be taught, into one and the
body} that all should form but one sheep. fold,and tl that
the sheep should be uniter one and the same head.. And
wherever that pastor and sheep existed, there unity must
be perpetuated, and there the true chur ch wasto be found,
and to countinue visibly enited, in all its parts for ever.—
Because, if the church, during the life of her Divine
Founder was composed of a head, of a shepherd and of
sheep, the church through all time was to be the came
Unity, t therefore, was intended, was necessi area was
be pervetgated.’ Consequently, that hare anh has
been characterized by this unity. and is now characterized
unity, can alone be the tre church | no matter how
many other “enomiations may claim the specious title.
tha er and 20th, 2ist, 22d,
lowing: —~* Neither pray I
for these alone, but for hem: aso bleh sball believe on
me through ‘their word.’ ey may all be one, as
thou, Father, art in me, antl fi in thea, that they also may
be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast
sent me, and the slory which tou gavest me I have siven
them, that they may be o1 Was We are one—|
them and thou m me; that they may be made perfect in
one, and that the world. may know that thou ‘hast sent
je, and loved them as thou hast loved me.” Here
isthe prayer te our Divine Saviour. First, he made
Known his intention. He declares his will, with regard
to the establishinent of i church. That in the church
there should fe
sion, no heresy, but uninterry ted uni-
ty, and Sete Perpetuity. « His intention, ‘therefore,
is explicit... Meditate upon the, beautiful, sublime, and
athetic, prayer, he puts forth to his Divine Father, in
gules that that unity might exist for ever, be perpetuated
throug all ages, and that it might continue as he estab-
lished it! The o ject of the prayer of our blessed Lord
is, then, the perpetuity of unity in his church., He prays
not only for his own apostles, who heard his voice, and
received bis doctrines from himself ‘in person, but'for all
ose to whom they should communicate his blessed word,
that all should be united.’. But as they preached the gos.
pel to the. whole world, consequently, throughout the
rhole world, that unity was to spread, and be perpetua-
fore, disunion and disagreement, are only to
be Found without the sacred ' sheep-fold,' without the sa:
cred precinets of the ,charch ‘into whi ch it was pre!
jee h Dit ed tp dese ae Elon ce
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ask
It was, therefore, bis | t
that no disagreement should ever bes aie How. did
the disciples’ understand the meaning of , the, Divine Sa-
jour? They understood it iterally, as the church of
the present day understands it—that in the church there
should be perfect unity; y individual who should
array himself against the unity of the church was to be
abandoned as an heretic; and sn the language of St, Paul,
was to be “ avoided. n heretic, after
the first and ‘second admonition, avoid.” “Titus, ghap. 3,
v.10. St.Paul declares, in Epbes., chap, 1, v. 22, that
Christ is the head o! chureh. ; Then, as “there is one
head, Christ and his church is the body of Christy there is
a Necessary union, between the head and the
as long as the remains united with that, ye the
church continues; «and as long as the church continnes,
it is the vue church of Christ. Again, see the piste of
Paul to the Ephesians, the 4th chapter, and 4
verses—-' There is one body and en spirit, even as ve
are called in one hope of your calling; , one Lord, one
faith, one baptism.” . As there is but one Lord, so there
can be but one church. As there is but one faitb, so ail
who belong to the true church must be bound in one faith.
ere is butone baptism, perpetnated through | but one true
church. Any oni ne who rebels again} uilty of a
heinous crime. Any one that rebels against ‘the Yaith that
comes from God, or against the institutions of Christ, is
‘As faith and the saeraments emanated
r
from the argument of St. P:
tering those sacraments.
few passages from the Holy Serdtores |
sult the venerable and ancient oracles of the Christian
Church. After having seen the intention of Christ, hav-
t | ing heard the prayer which he put forth to his Heavenly
Father, and alter earning the doctrine of St. Paul on the
iS | subject, Jet us come down a little farther, and discover
what were the sentiments of the oracles of the primitive
church, who taught the doctrines of all the Chistian
world, which they ; represented Tet us what
the sentiments of rian, who liv ed} in the third cen.
yon the sey of union. We will read from his
work, entitled “De Unitate Ecclesia. mee The church is
as the sun is one, though his rays are many—as the
tree, resting on on ne firm foundation, as mai co
as from one tiver'‘many si ugh they
pear numerous, from the « coy ious diffusion that. extends
abloed, still there is unity in the origin. Tear off a ray
from the body of the sun, and this division destroys unitys
break the branch from the ees and that branch .¢
produce fruit; cut off 1 1m from the fountain. ‘head,
and it will dry up, So the “church of God diffuses its
rays with universal light over the world; but its light is
ne wherever it is shed: nor is the unity separate from
the body. . There is s but one head, one origin, one m
womb we were born, with her milk nourish
with her spirit animated, votes us to She
mmakes us; whom ebe has generated, chidzen of this king-
tom. joever separates from the church, is separated
from the promises of the church: nor can he who aban-
dons the church obtain the rewards of it. He isa ftran:
ger, profane, an enemy.” ‘This is the powerful an! une-
quivocal deelauation of St. Cyprian. ‘It is the Cathal
language o! e most venerable, as well as ancient
fathers of the. “Christian Church. om the
West. Go into the Kast, and ask whether the sentiments
of St, Clement, of Alexandria, correspond with those of
St. Cyprian. what will you read in his third book,
styled “ Stromal.” ”. «That is the one true church, which
is clearly ancient, rbot heretics geek to spit into many
sects.” Remark the language of St. Clement:—* That
the true church wh hich heretacs seek 10 la into manys sect: ”
And the same characteristics by.which the true, church
was discovered in the fourth century, will distinguish it in
the nineteenth, . The church which is clear’y ancient is the
true church; and Task which church is it which is clear-
ly ancient? ‘whieh traces up, from the present day, through
ages of darkness an
the days of the fal
ted? find ‘when fou dis discovér the church
and w! an uninterrupted succession of
pastors, aed down te doctrine aught i in, the earliest
times, then nom any m are denominations
may. claim the ‘ile, ‘o thee chure we will look as the
true church of Christ... Again, Lactautius— cone z back
to the Western Church——in his fourth book of Divine In-
tite, chap, 30, « when the Novatians, er Valentinians,
or @ Marstionites or any other, are named after this
eae they cease to be true Christians: for, baving lost
the name of Christ, they assumed a human and stran;
pelation.:, Jt is the Catholic church alone that Telains the
true faith. ,, She is the fountain of truth, the abode of faith,
the temple of God ; wheever departs from her is estranged
from the hope o! of life and eternal salvation, ;. Let no one
deceive himself by obstinately contending against her for
lifeand salvation are at ‘ou see the argument of
Lactantius. vovatian ceased to. be styled Christians,
Valeutinians wete called after their founder. . ai-
sionites ceased, Jikewise to be Christians;.; but, notwith-
standing, all these sects, here aul existed the church
which was catholic, clearly ancient, united, and perpetu:
ated, wotwithstanding the heresies that sprang up around
her. “Here itis,” » he continues, “that @ Catholic church
alone r the true faith of Christ. ‘Shes is the founda-
tion of ‘ith, the templeof faith, the abode of God... Let no
an deceive himself, for. life and salvation are at stake,”
ow is it possible fora modern Catholic to use stronger
language than this? and is not bis fanguage the language
of the church at the present day ? Ii we adopt. his \lan.
guage and hold to bis doctrine, are we resumpluoca in
the former or bigoted | in the latter? But there remains a
grander authority yet, in the person of St, ~Augustines a
which is an oracle of the church, whose responses
at rf may 80 express abiaell must be heard with a
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now con-
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tention by all Christians of the present day. Here him
in his book entitled De Unitate Ecclesia, the 4th chapter-—
se All (bret isthe head and body. ' The only begotten
Son of God, the head—and the body, 3 the church. + Who-
ever ete from that head, and the sacred wri-
tin, 3 though they be found in all places where the charch
own, are not in the Chure! nd'again > W!
ever. dissent from the church, 80 ‘that their communion ‘
not with the whole—though it be ever-so extended, yete
in the smallest degree separated from that, it-is manifest
that they are not in the Catholic church.” This i
powerful and cogent language.’ ‘The church exists ;
though there are o enominaions still the one true
church does exist. gain he writes;—Ep. 208 Ad
Felicam’: e Catholic church, which is not con-
finned to africa, like the sect of Donatus,*but is extended
all over the world, there are good and bad.” He main-
tains the necessity of. union ; and that uniog & to’ be
found in the true church, and those who separate them-
selves from the true church cannot lay claim ‘0 he true
disciples of Christ. Another quotation f from bis 01
believe in e holy Catholic
church. “For heretics aaa eerie Mets hemselve:
ecclesiastical congregations. But the for vine, by. their false
hotions, violate faith, and the latter by theit et iminal di
sensions trample upon fatal charity, though th
lieve what we believ Anerefore, either hereties a.
pertain to the. Catholic church,
schismatics, because she requires the ‘ove of our neigh
bors.” ‘And let us not be frightened in this age of refine.
ment, at terms schismatic or heretic; for we find the
apostles pronounced against ecbismatics, awful denancia-
eresy as a dreadful crime.” If on=
sult the eystesol St. Paul, you will find» that “ «sects?
1g the sins excluding from the kingdom
Th terefere, we only actin conformity with spisit.
of Christianity, in denouncing,’ not individuals, for we
respect their personal convictions, making no truce
with heresy, no matter how resgetable ‘the individuals
who profess them, For it is not with’ individuals that
we have to do ; it is with trath and error in themselves.
One more text from the Holy Fathers, ands I" close
these volumes for the present. The same St. Augustines,
in -his 185th Epistle —*- The Cat halle Church only is
the hody of Christ, of which he, the Savior, is head, as
of his own body. Out of this body the spirit “vivifies
none. Whoever, therefore, wishes to have the Holy
Ghost, let him beware, lest he remain out of the Church.”
It was not, then, the Goetrine of his day, that erery man
could be saved ; that it matters nothin; e be.
ved or not. These may be styled * tolerant ‘and hibe+
tal” notiosn, but they are not the principles inculcated_b;
our Divine Savior, or the convictions of the. ancient
fathers of the church. They are principles that the
‘atholic Church cannot be reconciled to,- even though’
they may be: encouraged by most’ respectable « indivi-
uals ; ‘for if it be true that’ Christ is a Divine being,’
no matter how respectable or learned be may be who’
teaches the contrary’ ever if he were an angel from Hea-
ven, were to teach that church is not Divine, the two
propositions cannot bi inthis account the’
Catholic Church cannot fe reconeiled to error,’ But ‘yet’
she is charitabley and mi due allowances for indi+?
viduals, on account of ae Hrejudices, ignorance, or’
early education. ! From what 1 said, we must. all’
admit that Christ establisbed the church with the inten-»
tion that unity should exist in’ it, That he prayed for
perpetaal unity and that the early fathers of the eburch
recognised and taught the necessity of uuit
question naturally recente itself, are you convinced of
the necessity of unity’? . You are, or you are not, "If you i
ed that there is necessity jor this unity, ‘then’
no other argument is require @ not convinced,|
then you 72 contrary to the intention and prayer of Jesus’
Christ, and to the doctrines and teachings of ‘the: fathers!
of the primitive church. We will suppose that yon basi
lieve in the necessity of the existence of unity; but that it)
is impossible to find out where the true church isiwhere
unity exists.! Where that church is, there jethe ‘qnestion,®
and the test of the question is, which was the Hist church e
—The first chuich was the true chureb.. nA th opepas)
rated thonesives from that church were schismatics ; but’
notwithstanding their separation and hostility ‘to ‘the true!
church, and their efforts to propagate errors in opposition
‘o the true church, still the charch must: have -econtinned.
the same & it_ was established by eur divine Saviour,
This question of the unity of the church is one of the:
greatest importance, and seems to be attracting ;the inten-;
ot the cai nd learned, especially in certain quar;
ers an in my: hand a discourse delivered. in, St.
John’s church Brooklyn, by the Rey. Mr. Jobnson, and £
cannot but pay a just and public tribute’ of respect to the
candor, honesty, and sincerity which it breathes in every:
line, while, at the same time, iter perusing its pages, it
only confirms the doctrine which [ have been inculcating
this evening, viz ;~-the p necessity e ‘anity. in the ‘great
Christian ‘church. . He agrees exactly with me inthe
prayer of our divine Saviour for unity.—He argues that.
‘ihe prayer was answered at the time it was nade. | He
argues | that the church was in a state of unity :* for mai
years.” These'are the premises on which this excellent
clergyman founds his argument—but the conclusion ap-)
pears to me extremely erroneous; for, if Jesus Christ
tayed, and - was heard in the beginning, can it he Possi-;
Vie his prayer was not efficacious for icas)
cious, can it fail to besoatill NAnd ili it
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