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The Huren News-Recora tI.26 a Yee—$1.00in Advance WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd. 1895. CURRENT TOPICS. A secret organization convention was held at Auburn the other day and the nomination on the independent ticket offered several likely candidates for West Huron, but all, it is said, de- clined. Among the possible candidates nn the Conservative side for West Huron the names of Capt. Beck of Saltford, Mayor Butler and Dr. Holmes of God- erich, Dr. Case of Dungannon, D. Weis - Miller of Hensall, and D. Patterson, reeve of East Wawanosh, have been mentioned. Any one of these gentle- men would make a capable representa- tive. West, Huron finds space in the lead- ing dailies of the Dominion and people read what will happen and what won't happen. Our own opinion is that a bye -election will take place ere long and the Grits must soon put on their war paint. The Tories of course will survive and cotne out on top. But they should also move toward organize, tion and be in readiness for battle. "In peace prepare for war" is a motto the Grits never overlook. •The Gritbrganizer, Srnith, paid an vfilcial visit to West Huron a few days ago. Embodied in his mission was the persuading of Mr. M. C. Cameron to be- come the Reform candidate for a bye - election, in this riding, but the old "war horse" refused to be persuaded. It is not likely. in the event of a bye - election, that there will he more candi- dates than Patron Forrester and a straight Conservative. The Reform arty, as a party, will of, course sup - ort Mr. Forrester. (1 ltttbol�'q'vf3'a Ii1 iP $.. aar, OBIONN Or,sz Ansey. litor :AreumR,cQrd D 4Ut SIIi,-AIS. A. S„ who wrote in your issue of Aug 28, was doubtless to blame in so ill rewarding the courtesy accorded him as to. indulge in covert criticisms adverse to the inte,I'ests and feelings of his hospitable entertainers, 'on bis visit to the Shrine of St. Anne- de-Beauppre; and had year correspond- ent confined himself to this phase of H. D. S.'s conduct, he and bis co -relig- ionists would merit the sympathy of the fair-minded even of those who do not agree with his doctrinal views which be is pleased to term Catholic doctrine, I3. D. S. too of Um acts the part of the restive, contentious little boy, whojueedlessly provokes a quarrel, the consuquences of which must be inflicted upon, and tamely borne by others, -ir in self-defence they are forced into the contest, while_the prime agent, in the initiative of the strafe becomes fi vanishing quantity. `The writer styling hiniselt Catholic (?) with instincts getepane to his cultusveems eager for the fray, and seizes 'gvith alacrity on the pretext afforded him by the indiscretion or temerity of N. U, S. to assail a large number of people who he imagines differ from the views of his somewhat modern religious system, but who nevertheless are quiet- ly attending to their own duties and in no way offensive to either the writer or the Italian Schism of Christendom to which he apparently belongs. "Malicious calumnies" and "old stereo- typed falsehoods" are not in good taste ; and are, to say the least, un- pleasant offences to be charged with ; and that only for the simple cause that we are unable to accept a large body of doctrine and practice which is neither scriptural, primitive, catholic nor necessarily Christian, and by no means necessary to good living or the salvation of souls. When your corres- pondent subscribes himself "Catholic" he is unwittingly, perhaps, in error, a very common error of his sect ; the term Catholic in his case is really a misnomer, for his writing is that of a Romanist, 1 use the term in its proper and respectful sense and not in the least with an offensive meaning. If be were an intelligent Catholic he ought to have known that the Catholic, pt•iln- itive, and Christian church, especially that branch of it having its centre in the City of Rome, began' to fall into apostacy and to incorporate error with primitive" Christianity during the dos- ing decades of the 4th century, gradu- ally and almost imperceptible was the falling away from purity at first, but with greater celerity and momentum as the power of the old Roman .Empire waned, and that of the bishops of the patriarchate of Rome increased, and an ever growing increment of pagan cere- monial and heathen superstition be- came embodied with the rites and teachings of the once pure church. The decay of learning on the dissolu- tion of the Roman Empire, followed by the dark ages, culminated in the establishment of the temporal and so- called spiritual power of the Bishops or popes of Rome. and in the degrada- tion, and, to a very great extent, the corruption of the church. In the six- teenth century it was pleasing to the Great Head of the church, who had promised His abiding presence to he vith i; till He should come again to ause the light of truth to shine once ore, and certain national and autoce- halous and independent churches, qually so as that of Rome, (by every ght due to God and man), by the race of God, the light of Scripture ded by the diffgcion of Greek learn - g circulating t-lre Gospel and the story of pure primitive Christianity, formed themselves, The branch of e church in Rome, however, and ose national churches which submit - d to the guidance of the pope and urch in home, refused to reform ewselyes; and at the Council of ent, the Italian or Latin communion rmulated decrees and new articles of ith, confirmatory of the errors of the 1•k ages, and anathematizing all who cold not accept them. These decrees the Council of Trent (1&15-1o6,31; de- erately adopted in the teetof ripture, and the primitive, Catholic urch of tie three first Christian nturies, and imposed as terms of mrnunion upon all other Christians is undoubtedly the formal act which parated the Roman see and its ad - rents from the true Catholic church, d constituted it the Italian sect or tin Schism. Before this final aact of nitration on their part, their position y be fairly designated by the hrase oman-Catholic,' but the Tridentine fession requires a new appellation, d the -only consistent one is Papist. o not mean this offensively, and I to give reasons for the appellative; s Council committed to the pope the. .petting interpretation of the new gion. From the pope it accepted direction and confirmation of its ceedings. In the pope it placed the tral link of communion with Christ. th the pope it left the absolute ereignty not of the church only but the conscience and the eternal ld. Finally, the pope imposed a v creed, well termed the creed of e Pius IV, to he henceforth the d of the Papal sect, as the Nicene d is that of the Catholic church. bus a commpalatively modern sect minting a novel system of religious cles, in which the Pope or Papa is sole and central figure, cannot onably object to being designated he official title of that figure, and ht to have the honesty to abjure title Catholic in name, as they have ually done in solemn act. ie casual obiter dicta of H. D. S. so iced the cacoethes scribendi of your tanist cderespondent as to raise the fission of three cardinal errors of religious system, viz: the Cultus elks, the Cultus of Images, and Invocation of Saints and Angels, ding prayers to the dead ; and he Scripture and the Saints, doctors fathers of the church, ostensibly in ort of his theology. ncerning Relics and Shrines or narks, 1 shall use the term wor- as rightly indicating the attitude omonists towards them, accepting isk of any aspersion worthy of my nent, if I fail in proof; and for- ake of convenience to your read - shall allow to your correspondent assumed name "Catholic." He s that "the Catholic church (mean- ie sect) says it is rank idolatry to or worship relics, hut," says we hogor therm as precious remains h brings to our remembrance die- ished sancity, &c." The second i1 of Nice, the decrees of which ceepted by all Romanists enjoin1 adoration of relics, and "Catholic s adoration the equivalent and atiye of' worship. But he would c m p e ri ai in hi re th th to ch th Tr fo fa da w ofi lig) Sc ch ce co WI se he an La sep ma con Id beg thi pet Telt the pro can Wi SOT Of mor ne Pop cree cree T forn art i the reas by t oug the vitt TI arca Ron disc his of R the inclu cites and sop Co reliqp shoffR the e opo the s ers, 1 the state ing h adore he, " w�i is tingu comic are a the make altern have'u to understand that ,relice are only elnployetl 'for,the purpose of evitin *went c'1'emembr'ai ees o lis., v401110 ed str'.tletity,'t l�nd yetis quotes approvinglyOirrysas,torur *pose ttr)., mos of the veneration of relies: far exceeds that. -of n}ere .recordator"y )tiid.s to devotion.. "We find the first, CMOs, thins honoring relics," be suss, mean- ing of course, if it has any significance for us, the relics of dead per'eous. This grossly t aeinstot a nleutencted. incorrect annythig approaching to the common Holum veneration ot relics can be produced during the first 850 years of the Chris- tian era. But while he says this, the first authority he cites is St. Angustine, a.writer who lived at the close of the 4th century after Christ. Why does he not quote Hernias, Justin Martyr, Ignatius, Palycarp, Clement Bishop of Rosie, Tertullian, or some writer of the first Lhree centuries of pure Catho- lic Christianity in support of his eultus of relic adoration? Tertullian would tell hien in his famous saying: IVhat- ever is first is true ; whatever td more recent is spurious ;" in other words, the ven- eration of relics is recent and therefore spurious. If however Augustine be competent authority for "Catholic" on this matter, is not the same author equally valid against the Romish as- sumptions of the" supremacy of St. Peter and his pretended successors, the present. popes of Rome ; and if so, why do not Romanists accept Augus- tine's witness and judgment against modern papal assumptions. We need not trouble ourselves with Ohrysostorn, a later writer cited by "Catholic;" for, as I have shown, the church, especially in Rome and Constantinople, had by his time" well begun on the down grade of corrupt errors find practices on several matters. Permit, me dear "Catholic," to kindly inform you that the "fit st Christians" who were Jews, would not touch your modern relics, for fear of defilement, as their law relating to unclean things forbad their contact with them. and from the days of the NLtccabees they had too much horror of idolatry to think of it. Allow rue further to say that the veneration. of relics or any adoration of them is, in its origin and progress a custom of paganism, incor- porated with Christianity after the - persecutions of the churclr•ceased on the conversion of the Roman Empper- ors,•beginning with the time of Con- stantine, 324, A. D., whose conversion led many to come into the church, knowing little or nothing of its power; andethe poison spread rapidly, as the church, in a generation or so, became largely a community of only baptized paganism as has more or less been the results of the efforts of your sect in heathen lands in modern times. Proof of this will be forthcoming when called for. The grand objection to the venera- tion of relics, however innocent it may seein at its incipient stage, is the indis- putable fact that we have no authority for it in scripture, and the too reason- able apprehension that it will soon degenerate into a rank and degrading superstition. The passages of scrip- ture quoted by "Catholic" are all too irrelevant to form any adequate ground for the Roguish eultus of relic adoration. Every miracle recorded in Scripture, I devoutly receive; hut I cannot accept the portents, signs and wonders which are detailed by the thaumaturgiccalendar ofasuperstit ious church. The utterly unscriptural char- acter of the practice in favor of which these miracles are alleged to have been performed, the disgusting details of the istory of relic veneration, all make any mention of miracle worse than auspicious, and as the subjoined proof of the spuriousness of alleged miracul- ous cures at the fatnous shrine of Lourdes, in France, will show, the less said by Romanists in this nineteenth century respecting ,such apocryphal wonders, the more prudently they will act. THE LOURDES MIRACLES. GREAT 81788 OF PILGRIMS TO TOR 888188- 25000 ^ATIENT, 8118 To BE IN •IIIE VICINITY—CURIOUS CASE OF IMPOSITION. London, Aug. 25.—A special despatch received hero from Lourdes lust evening says that fourteen addi- tional trains, all crowded with pilgrims from Paris, arrived there yesterday. It is added that 17 of the pilgrims died while on their way to Lourdes, and that 25,000 sufferers are at that place, tomo of them lying helplessly about the station and streets, clamouring to be carried to the sacred grotto. Speaking of the alleged miracles, the London Figaro Rays :—"One of the most widelyadvertined of the 'miraculous' cum performed at this French Mecca was that of a man 'lamed Delia y, whose paralysis had for ten years baffled the skill of the most brilliant Ft each medicos, including even the famous Dr. Cher- oot. /io marvellous was his recovery considered that the worthy priest° of Lourdes retained him ee a per- manent show specimen of the virtues of the Virgin Mary's grotto. Eventually, however, the life of the cloister palled upon the oared paralytic, and one day he disappeared, taking with him a considerable sum fn hard cash. It was three years before the police were able to lay their hands on him, and when they did the old paralytical symptoms immediately re- turned. Delanoy was examined by two doctors, and they ware not long in discovering why Dr. Cheroot and hie colleague'. worn baffled. It was slmplybecause Delanoy, instead of being afflicted with locomotor ataxy, was a sound, able-bodied scoundrel, who had contrived to impose upon somo of the moot brilliant men in France, including M. ZOia. The end of It all la that Delaney will spend the next four years In gaol, and the priest of Lourdes is trying to reassure the faithful se to the genuineness o1 the miracles that have been performer:. But, In the opinion of all sane people, the bottom has been knocked out of the mireeulons mare business once and for an." I venture to assert that every case of alleged miracle cure, by virtue of relics, would, if an equally honest test were applied where the subject was possess- ed of sane mind, be found equally spurious as this one has been. The miracles of the apostolic age were per- formed openly before believers and un- believers alike, not so the pretended tniracles of -the devotees of the Italian Schism 'of to -day. I now pass on to consider 1,he state- ments of the writer on the matter of Image worship. "Catholic" says : "The language of the church is, "Curs- ed is he who commits idolatry, who prays to images or relics or worships them as God." Let me ask "Catholic," then, why does his church omit the second commandment in the table of the commandments placed in the hands of the people? Is it because a cunning priesthood fears that the people would detect the inconsistency between the profession and the practice of his church? The second commandment, I mean, is that contained in Exod. xx, vv. 4-6. Now the second council of Nice (A. D. 787), distinctly enjoins the adoration of the images of Jesus Chris,, the Virgin, and apostles, prophets and martyrs, under penalty of anathema or curse. Does the Roman church curse the people for doing the very thing which it would curse them, and does curse them, for not doing? Or what distinctive subtlety of meaning exits betbveen actor:ttiorland worship? "Catholic" says, "We only honor them as H. D. S. or any other intelligent protestant wonld honor the likeness of a dear relative who was absent by death or some other cause," and adds, "We honor them according to their dignity and invoke their aid." Yes, Tired but Sleepless Is a condition which gradually wears away the strength. Let the*blood be purified and tinriched by,Hood's Sar. saparilla and thiscondition will cease. "For two or three years I was subject to poor spells. I always felt tired, could not sleep at night and the little I could eat did not do me any good. I read about Hood's sarsaparilla and decided to try it. Before I had finished two bottles I began to Leel better and in a short time I felt an right and had gained 21 pounds in weight. I met stronger and healthier than I have ever been in my life," Joan W. COUOEILIN, Walraceburg, Ontario. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the. Only True Blood Purifier Prominently in the public eye today. Be euro to got Flood's and only Hood's. Do not be induced to buy and other. food's PiIIs nese, headache. 24o. core s 11 liver ills, bilious. "Catholic," that is more honest ; you invoke the aid of a picture, but what kind of aid ? Evidently' supernatural aid or such as only God can give ; and yet you tell us that the church of Rome curses those who "pray to images or worships them for God 1" But serious- ly, do protestants, so-called, invoke the aid, needful to either their tern poral or spirituel welfare, of the pictures of their dear absent, friends, whether dead or liying? Surely such special plead- ing were pitiable as it is absurd. But is it true, or who can believe that the honor paid by Romanists to images is only such as that paid by protestants, so termed, to the pictures of dear absent friends 1 1 verily believe, your correspondent is too much a casuist to be only a layman, but his casuistry is a little too specious to he that of aJesuit. The 2nd council of Nice declares, as set forth clearly by James of Clugiuni, that "the worship paid to an image of Christ is the very same in kind and degree as the worship paid to Christ himself." And as it matter of fact they do pray, and ;are enjoined to pray to images, and yet the very voice of God says : "Thou shalt riot make to thy self any graven image, or the likeness of any thing which is in heaven above, or In the earth beneath. Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them." I am aware, that the second Nicene council cursed all those persons who apply the name idols to the images which it required Romanists to.adore ; but if contrary to the second ceenrnandment, a statue he worship- ped, it needs an impossible discrimina- tion to discover how the nature of the act of adoration can be changed, by the mere verbal expedient of calling the statue an Image rather than an idol. St. Paul knew nothing of this sophis- tical sublets which Romanists have employed. With him the worship o/ an image was the worship of an idol (Roto. i, 23); and so, in the judgement of corn - mon sense it must always be. Hence to say that iinege-worship cannot and does not,lead to idolatry, is a palpable contradiction ; f r• image -worship and idolatry are identical. "Catholic' tries another effort at sophistical jugglery when he tells us that we honor God, His saints and men by the sane ex• t.erna;l acts of kneeling, bowing and un- covering the head, and cites the civil act of worship paid the Queen as an illustration, and by this reference he introduces the consideration of the third error of Romanism, noted in this discussion, but. as I have already taken up much of your valuable space, I must defer its examination, and ask your kind permission to treat of it in a future issue; and in conclusion, 1 wish to give one or two of many authenticat- ed instances to prove the fallacy of "Catholic's" plea that the veneration of images does not inculcate and foster idoiatr•y. Serenus, a bishop of Mar- seilles. in France, at the close of the 8th century when. the practice was only in its infancy, findingit impossible to. prevent his people fom worshipping the images which had been unadvised- ly set up in the churches, forthwith broke the contemptible puppets to pieces, es a vigilant and faithful bishop onght to do. The matter having beer referred to Gregory I, Bishop of Rome (590-604, A. D.) he admitted that the people did commit idolatry, and wor- shipped the images. Those images were introduced into those* churches exactly on the plea, set up by "Catholic," of their aiding devotion in the capacity of mere instructive memorials. This use of images soon led to their being worshipped ; and, such worship was pronounced to be idolatry by Serenus and Gregory, the latter a pope equally as infallible, I presume, as the present pope Leo XIII. Thus the matter stood at the close of the sixth century, thus also was image -worship viewed and condemned, in the year 754 A. D., by the council of Constantinople. The following specime'h, at least, of Romish devotion to images, among others from the book of the Hours of the Virgin, for the use of the church of Salisbury, (Paris Edition 1528) further illustrates the silly, not to say degrading tendency of the practice so highly com- mended by "Catholic." Referring to the use of a certain prayer, it says : "tali them that be in a state of grace{ who devoutly say this prayer before out blessed Lady r f pity, she will show ,them her blessed visage, and warn them of the day and hour of death ; and, in their last end, the angels of God shall yield their souls to heaven. Such a person shall obtain five hundred years and so many lents of pardon, granted by five holy fathers, popes of Rome." 1 might go on citing examples ad libitum, but surely enough have been adduced. Should this discussion he continued at length, I trust to -he able to convince "Catholic" that we who are esteemed Wterpro�fpo We are showing a °vel; large range 01 th �:... ' ���e �:gods .�+�� the coming wet season in all the leatfpg QQOQrs and miletures of Cloth. Among thein some of the newest Tweed mixtures which make very suitable fall 9ver— coats, all prices flora $2.50 to $14,50. The 'higher priced makes have large deep capes which are detach- able if necessary. - LadiesWaterproofs. 0 As the cold, ;wet, dissagreeable weather is almost here; every lady should' provide herself with one of our beautiful Tweed Waterproofs, with deep cape and smallercaplzsand ripples, very stylish, all Colors, in Plain, and Fancy Patterns, Every garment guaranteedYor four years. 0 GILROY & WISEMAN. - -- - Our Drugs are Reliable and our Stock always Com- plete and Fresh. WE .STUDY YOUR WANTS AT ALL SEASONS. �7PRTCES RIGHT. --- JAS H. COMBE Chemist and Druggist. by him as only benighted protest:nits, ignorant of (Jatholic doctrine (?) and accused of re -iterating "malicious columnies and stereotyped falsehoods," can "give to him that asketh us a rea- son for the hope that is in us"; and pray that "Catholic" anti his co -relig- ionists may yet come to the knowledge of the truth as it isin the pure Gospel of our Blessed Savior, and that they may accept Him as the sole mediator be- tween God and man. Yours truly, A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF TRUE CATHOLIC DOC- TRINE. Clinton, Sept. 25th, 1895. Biy�h. Great preparations are being made for holding i he annual fair of the Mor- ris Branch Agricultural Society, to be held in Blyth on the 8th and 9th inst. Should the weather only prove favor- able a bigger crowd than ever is antici- pated.—Mr. Herbert Young, of Toron- to, son of our respected Reeve, N. H. Young, Esq., who has been vis:ting under the parental roof for a couple of weeks, returned to the city on Monday. —A concert under the auspices of Blyth Maple Leaf Lodge, L O. G. T., is to be l gve.n in Industry Fall on the second night of the fair. Some first-class tal- ent has been secured from Toronto for the occasion.—Our townsman, Mr, Robert Howard, has disposed of his 50 acre farm on the gravel road north o. the village, to a man from the town- ship of Ashfield, for a very good figure. The purchaser takes possession in two weeks.—On Friday evening our band treated the natives to a few selections on the market square,—The weather for the past few days is remiriiiingg us that winter is fast approaching.—rhe different millinery establishments in town were well patronized by the fair sex at the fall openings.—Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered in St. Ardrews (Presbyterian) Church on Sunday motning.—On Sunday Mr. Will. Crawford officiated in Trinity Church in the absence of the rector Rev, T. E. Higley, and preached excellent discourses.—Our mail carrier, Mr. Jas. Moore and his family removed to Aub- urn, where he will reside in future, his duties having been changed. We are sorry to lose such a good citizen, but what is our loss is Auburn's gain. Methodist District Meeting. The financial district, Methodistrchurch, � wasf cheld in the Methodist church, Holmesvill , on Tuesday last, the chairman, Rev. W. Holmes, presiding; Rev. J. Edge, cial secretary. All the ministers in the district were present except Rev. J. Walker - the laymen present were Messrs. McKenzie and Millian, Gode• rich ; Breckenden and Holmes, Clin- ton ; Sheppard, Nile ; Hamlin, Dungan- non ; W. Murch, Holmesville ; Wal- lace, Bayfield, The first business disposed of was in reference to Bayfield circuit. This is a mission, and the members having laid out considerable in repairing the par- sonage, felt that they could not raise more than $300 this year towards min- isterial support, and it was decided to ask for the suns of $468 from, the mis- sion fund. The Superannuation Fund allot- ments are as follows : Minis• Con5re. Goderi&i, North St ter' notion, Goderich, Victoria St $22 $73 50 Clinton, Rattenbury St30 45 Clinton, Ontario St 24 43' Seeforth • 30 60' Holmesville 18 47 Hayfield 15 21 Vart : 17 70 39 19 951 15 64 Hensall, Mr. Swann " W. Wilson Ki en 18 75 .Dungannon 18 30 45 Nile 19 29 39 Benmil•e' 15 32 H. E. Currie (student.) 15 *The ;increment to Ontario street was originally $55, and to Seaforth $64, but each of these stations having lost an appointment, were reduced, the differ- ence being assumed by Londeebor•o. Arrangements were made for mislag sionary and educational work on each circuit. A /notion was also passed, urging the co-operation of congrega- tion in observing the recommendation of Conference, that the first Sunday in October be missionary Sunday, said services not to conflict with the usual missionary anniversaries, When Laurier comes this way will he "thank God there are no Orange- men among us—the Liberals ?" What have the Reform Orangemen of West Huron to say ? • We are doing a Great Business in Shoes at the above figures and shrewd buyers are realizing that they are extra, good value. We carry the best makers goods in the country and you can take your choice. JACIiSO% & JACNS11T. The New Shoe'Firm.