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?Itr OKOtflut Expositor. CLIAS VULEE, Editor, h Cl t'KDAY. OCTOBER ?3, 1H75. SALUTATORY. It may by some be rlet-aned strange end i m, 11 e . >nry Unit wo should publish a pa per like this, in view of the amiable, eon ,-1 niton and fespeotablc demeanor of the liit hop, Priests ami Laity of Georgia pro ll -.sing Roman Catholicism. lint th*- ne . Hhity and propiiety "ill appeal-, when it ik considered that all these amiable and < iim iflfttoiy parties speak only too tbein ... as men, and not us adherents to lto iintii rule, it the Bishop and all under him wre to announce to the world “We are Catholics, not Romanists, and do not hold ourselves hound hy tliu Pope's decrees, , cnii,rflm," wo should then agree that our publication >s unnecessary and out ol p'aoe, lint when we consider that all of tin s, parties glory ill the acknowledgment in. Kiev ar.- i.o,in sentiment, that tlu-y hold themselves bound to obey tin; decrees of the Pope, when made ... e./e.f as the commands of Cod, and superior to all other obligations, we are nstiliert m treating the toleration and other Christian grae.-s of chanty, which Huy protean in their lectures, speeches ,nd prints, as lucre idle words, amount ing to nothing, unless they mean thereby t.> deceive a too ciednlous public by lul ling it to lutal secuiity. We have there in,, to go to the Pope's decrees to dud out what Romanism is, and to what they com mit their adherents. We have to appeal to I'lcsar himself utid not to his prefects, vno are under him utni have to obey his . ..inmands. \\ lint is it to us what Cardi nals or Bishops may say ns to the workings ot Popery iu this country, when we ran go to the fountain-head and ascertain lor ourselves what we have to contend against, lor he assured that a power like that which its at the Vatican, inis a plan and knows 1., w lint eud it >h working ? However much wo may regard the de erees of the Pope as amounting to non sense in this enlightened age, wo must t..-nr in mind that a very large body of men puiee implicit faith in them. We know now .strong are men’s minds m the ninin i. linnet- ot mi.) creed, however absurd, it tlu-y eiul.iiii-e it in the fervour of religions zeai. All .1. nls have their great minds. Paganism Inul IIS Plato, its Zoroaster, and n host ot great and wonderful intellects. Cos Romanism lias in its fold men ot exalted, powerful and learned mimls. 'I In .- ii-ully liclieve they are serving (ioil in advancing Popish rule, 'these astute leaders i-liiillate among our people aud ,in them over hy specious pleas and Bi ns oue means nr another to tin- ranks of Romanism. What then limy we expert if we rest su pinely and allow the enemy ot tolcintinn, ot i-1 1 .■ iit v in its broad s.-iise, of human 111 , ii s of conscience, of liberal,-duration . . I i,m Constitution, to go on inorensiti" in numbers and thus control our destinies? Has not the time to ventilate the teachings of the Pope come, w hen his followers are Is,i,sting ot their increased nninbcrs mid 1.. 01tn-nl intluema- ? We shall do nothing captiously ; we shall'set down in,tight in in,ill,-, ,itwe do nothing extenuate. We Hull speak plainly, not to nfleml am man nut to t nligliteii on the situation, aud wo tiasi-a right to ask that as we shall treat the subject respectfully, though logically. >\.• shall in- answered not with rudeness and insult, but with arguments to show j that wo fir in our statements. Our task is as much in the interest of : tin ltomauists themselves ns in that ot 1 any one else. We would protect our com- ! molt liberties under our institutions lib- j cities that me really ns beneficial to them j lIM to US, We av, constantly reminded that Lord Halt nn i in the sittleiiieiit of Maryland, enacted tree toleration. Granting this, (though we have a hit of history that puts auoilu i face on this matter) yet if he was thus tolerant, what does it prove, but that In- was not a Romanist but simply a f'a tlndio, and that under the Papal decrees if earned out, he would have been ex communicated, and so would Cardinal or Bishop who looked ulteriorly to toleration, I oi the Pope's decrees would lie mere idle ; wind. There nro a hosts of men xvho were not Romanists though Catholics, such ■ s Lafayette. Napoleon I, and Victor Knianno). We might if necessary, cite pages of names. There is indeed scarcely a sever, n;n ot that faith, that is not anti- 1 Ronmnist and vot Catholic. Of w hat use thru is it to rite to us that tilts and that i all . lie is a liberal. Our contest is not " th fntholit i-tn but with Romanism, and - that charge l summons the party here to answer 1 shall quote the Pope’s de. I <s sand and want them to answer dis. tinctly whether they ala-t them, aud are : eir defenders or not? No oue has a right to l>e oft’ nded at onr i -ih -ation, as w, hut claim the right of ,-i Americau citizen to defend the Repub lic whenever he thinks it in danger . and j do think it is endangered, as we will abundantly show and prove by the evi i. ot t ndeia-ics ami designs of Romanism • li'y to t>e set toil!-, in the columns of the Gxoroia Exivwitor We appeal to every thiukiug mind to * it, ltd to nsa generous ami encouraging - ■ it, m.t wc do not tianlt .sir iiwefnl. • - in th.- rans, ot enlightenment. Make ’ ine ..s. y. nr own. as it ÜBd>*il>U-d --ly is. an and w e shall have no feat of result ant good to all concerned. I/et 'shave light ' aton'd be your motto. < TO DEMOCRATIC EDITORS , t l may -A b- %>■ t '.' ed r t. :• : represented, I w.ll t*te or,qua: iedly that ij am, and have ever tern a Democrat cf the] itriMPH Jtfierwnlan -■ h<xl. I an an'l have j nlwrit* been oppof*d to the -RPhonal oppres sion of the Radical j rirty. My sympathy with the South, I leit Washington city ah oon a.a the ;tr broke out, and abandoned all I j had to join the South in arm*. I have never < vote t any bn* the straight Democratic ticket at any election, from youth to f *M age. Op posed, However, as I am and have been to j inDrule, I am equally opposed to Komani?m. This is the position my paper will assume, j. and hope to maintain. fn slating rny nnloce leiif and afiiilintiont* F do riot, however, wi“U to be understood that i mine is a partisan rheet. Its utterance?, therefore, will commit no party. The (Ikor oia Bxpohitor will tliseiihs public measure in an independent tone, uninfluenced by party procli v it Mr.’*. There is very little doubt that the question of Papal influence in our country will become of all ahnorbintj interest, ard override every other i*-tte. Jdo not mean the revival of Know-Nothingism, with its secret and dark i lantern doing*, its grips and signs, but an open, manly issue on the merits and designs Ipi Roman ism to overthrow Americanism. Ro man iit have so far increased in numbers that it has emboldened the Pope to declare that j the time lias now come for a forward move ment in this country, lie ha? made a Prince Cardinal for the Coifed States. Tne Catholic ! press throughout the land i* making a united and vigorous charge on our public school j yleni. The Free Man’- .J.urnnl says that ■ ‘the school tax in itself is an unjust impost | lion.” The Tablet announces that it is op ' posed to “purely secular schools.” The Tele graph in Ohio asserts that “it will be a glori , >us day for Catholics iu this country when j onr school system shall ho shivered." Ar- h ! bishop Purcell writes that “he does not ap prove the public school sy-tem." li-hop MoQujild, of Rochester, insists that the ques tion be brought, to the ballot box, and to cap the climax, and to let ns know what we may expect when the question conies to be decided between our institutions anti the Papal de cree**, Bi.-hop (liltriore, ot Cleveland, says; "Wo are Catholics first and citizens next." Now why all this objection to the public schools ? The objection is, that the Pope has decided, 'r Cathedra, that lie and his priests are the only proper instructors of youth ; that the schools should be under their authority. (See Syllabus Articles, l.>, 17 and IS.) In other words, that our public schools, which arc established by the States tor the moral ! and scientific training of our future citizens, ; without any sectarian bias, should, at any rate, so far as the Romanists arc concerned, 1 bo made sectarian, and so far, therefore, we are called upon to agree to the joining of the Mate to the Church in favor of Romanism. Ir is very evident that if the Romanists make 1 this a test question at the polls they will fail, j unless they can get the support **l the Demo- I erotic party in mass, which they will never do. that the Romanists expect “political favors" from the democratic party is avowed V-r- •*- u.-..: I Gg: .. n„n pa pci says : “I.very Catholic should vote for the demo- i erotic ticket. Th6se who do not do it will be talsc to themselves and false to their own j interests. The only political favors which Catholics have ever had in this country have been received at the hands of the Democratic party." The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, the ! Cleveland Catholic V ill verse and Columbus j Catholic Columbian, all instructed the ultra i montanes to a similar course. I would ask, what possible “political fa- ' vors” can an American political party render j ■to a religious sect that would not make it the j j foe to universal toleration and equal liberty? j The Democracy opposed Know-Nothingism, 1 and I joined them in doing so, but the oppo- j ! fition of the party was not prompted by any love for Romanism, but becauao it was wrong i to make a man's religion the test for his hold- | ing offe e, I would oppose the same princi ple again. Different, however, is the question now pressing on us for a solution. It is now the Cathodes themselves who are the assail ants of our institutions, and whoare to be met by open argument against their claims, anil stern denial thereof. Doe- any other sect ask for “political ta xors ? " Why, then, should they ? unless it is I that their’s is a sect that cannot thrive with others, under the login of universal toleration, without having special favors granted to it. It is an outrage on the Democratic party that they should be asked to grant “political fa vors.’ and an insult to Ik? told it has granted them. If anything will tend to the defeat the hopes of the party in its career of suceess, it is this very outspoken favor of the Roman ists towards it as the dispenser of favors to them. I need not npoligite for giving this warning, as the opposite party have used with too much success in Ohio, the de clared support of the Romanists in favor of the party, and thereby turned thousands against your cause, and this they will do in all coming elections. Of course I know the charge of complicity is false, but this I will sav, that there is enough to warrant the ne cessity for the party to declare authoritatively t hat it will never yield to a single claim of the Romanists for any “political favor" to enable them to carry out Papal decrees. That the public educational funds shall be used for public schools conducted under State authority and State government alone; that no part of them shall be given to any denomination for denominational schools, and that the teach ers selected shall be subjected to no religious test. In fact, that the State will ignore secta rianism, and content itself with giving the children scientific training and that enlarged religion, which teaches love to (tod and man. leaving the parents and the clergy to supple ment this training with their own sectarian notions. This I take it is Americanism. It is a mistaken idea that the ( onstitution o: the l uited State* inculcate* no religion. It does inculcate the true, Christian religion which is the toleration of all religious opin-t ion* and beliefs, and insists on the grea principle of Christianity, upon which all the ! aw and the prophets are founded, w To love God above ail thing* and your neighbor a* yourself/ To do unto ether* as you would J have them to do unto you." I take !t th : 3 i* f rue Christianity, in a- mn-h a-: it come* from the mouth of its founder Himself. Our Con stitution is Protestant also, becau** r pr t*--t og&inst Kingcraft and Priestcraft. I do not mean that it is Prote'tant in the confined sen-e ,n applied to the tecta, o ceded, hut Prote-tant in the enlarged sense of protecting against bigotry and intolerance oi every kind. i A loan may be nn American ard not a | Christian, but he cannot be a Christian and not an American in principle; hence, all good men in Europe look to our shore* for hope i and I ight. Shall we Jet Romnniftn put out that hope and light ? The Romanists, after destroying the public schools, may wish to repress free speech and 'he liberty of the press, ami ask these as “po i litical favors.” Next, that the United States “hall make a Concordst or compact with the Pope that no other than hi* religion as he calls it,) shall be tolerated. Where i* this ! thing to end, if the Romanist* think they can, as a balance of power, force their measures on i political party. Certain it is they appear to give their votes only where they hope for ! the advancement of their own schemes, a* in our County, to obtain certain municipal fa j vors they voted with the Democrats to elect mayor and aldermen, and to carry the-county offices they united with the Radicals and elected their own people to nearly all of .them. I but state facts, and leave you to nppf.V the moral at your leisure. Under the rule of the Priestly power, con trolled by Koine, they form a foreign political power, whose end anti aim are to subvert our institutions as to every cardinal point. They know no other politics than such ns tend to ! Roman rule. J f they discuss our politics in i their papers it is but by play to fasten ! themselves to a party to obtain power and “po* | lifical favor?” in return. They avow “they ' are Catholic* first, citizens next.” Why should we disbelieve them :> Indeed, they cannot be ! otherwise, since Papal decree.*, e.r Cathedra, are to them a* the voice of God, which they will surely obey in preference to our laws, he | they ever so good and wie, nad however mu. h they may be founded on the tenehings of Heavenly truth leading to universal good. There is no doubt this Romanist influeqo in J politic* will be a prominent, perhaps an over shadowing issue in the next Presidential cam ! paig. How are you to meet it? As Senator ! Thurman has done in Ohio? He does not touch the issue that will be made. On one ! hand we have the Papal Syllabus and Vati i ean decrees, on the other hand we have the ’ Constitution. They are in direct conflict; one * or the other must prevail; which shall it be is the question. The Romanists will not deny that they are working to the establishment of the Papal teachings e.r Cathedra. They tell you their allegiance is due first to the Pope, next to the country. The Pope commands in his Syllabus—can they, dare they disobey ? They have commenced a skirmish at the out posts on the public school system, to be follow ed bye-and-bye by a general baffle. Is it best to wait till sheir army is recruited, or shall we engage and route them now ? This is what the people will be called upon to de cide. Are you, as a party, willing to go be fore the people, without elearly defining your position in -ueh an issue 7 It is true the Roraani*fs are yet a minority of our population, but as a balance of power they can make themselves terribly eft*etivc Dr. Newman says : “All political changes are wrought by a •ompaet and disciplined minority. The mass of mankind are shown by experience, and ap pear fated by the constitution of our nature to follow any vigorous impulse from a deter mined and incessantly aggressive few." Now in a minority, they are and can be very effective. Shall we wait till they become nearer to a majority ? Is it not better to preach and teach a little American doctrine lor the enlightenment of I the masses, and also for the laity of that ccf, | who may be enough American to prefer onr , free government, to that of the Autocracy of • Route. It is to be hoped, at least, that Ro manists, born and bred in this country, will ; have imbibed sufficiently of our love of liberty 1 to reverse the saying of the Bishop, nnd as citizens, give their firft allegiance to a < n -stitution like our*, so manifestly Christian, and which makes no distinction of creed, but tolerates every shade and variety of opinions, if not subversive of moral*, good order and? t‘qual rights. There is little doubt that but for the Catho -1 lies who fastened themselves upon the Demoo racy of Ohio as the horrible “Old man of the Sea” fastened himself on Sin bad the Sailor, the State would have been carried against the ; Bullionists, a and if the Democrats fail in their just hopes for the future it will be owing to , the same “Old Man,” who will insist on being carried along by them. (Had *hall I be to see the Catholic votes given in support of honest government, but it must be because as citizens they declare in Its favor, ami not because they expect “political favors” in return. The Democracy, T should think, have no favors to give to any sect, but will defend Cathotics, Protestants, Jews, idolaters and ill sects against the assaults of intolerance in accordance with our fundamental laws. E. Yri ft. THE CURRENCY OUESTION. About thirty-five years ago we published a pamphlet styled the “Republic Bank.” It is now out of print and perhaps no copy exists. Iu this pamphlet wo argued that it was of no consequence what medium of ex change we had, whether shells, bits of wood, paper, or gold, so long as the issne of this money be kept constant in volume. Prices would always adjust themselves to the amount. 2d. That if such money were re deemable in the products of the country, (as are our greenback?) it would always be held valuable, not only amongst ourselves, but in every commer cial mart in the world in which cotton, rice, tobacco, our manufactures, flour, hay or any other of our productions found a market. 3d. That founding paper on a gold basis, made the paper fluctuate jnt as the cold i markets flnetnate in vatne in the principal centres of gold, which enabled these cold j controlling centres* to rrdse or depress the value of our paper currency whenever they oho-'*to do so. Besides that, the j constant action of European governments by looking either or war, caused j & varving value in gold ; and this ot it self would tend to the instability of onr paper currency, founded on gold as a basis. Therefore no country could free itself from foreign influences, unless it had a currency of its own, independent of all other countries. Circumstances have forced the United states to have a legal tender currency of paper. The people like it. They can buy houses, lands, cotton, sugar, riee, tobacco, flour, and manufactured articles of all kinds with it, and the paper is redeemed by oil who have value to give for it. What other reden ption do we want? Is not gold redeemed in the same manner ? We do not eat gold, we do not drink it. Cold is not n house to live in, or lands to cul tivate. It is not cotton, it is not cloth, but i* only redeemed in these products ol toil. It paper, then will do the same, why is it not as good a medium of ex change ms gold ? But say the Solons of the gold idolatry school : Ist. Gold has an intrinsic value. So |it has; but not so much as iron. We could better do without .gold than without iron, lead, or copper. Its only intrinsic value is in the uses to which it can be ap ; plied;such as jewelry, ornmental branches I of art, etc. It is its use as money that gives 'it a preponderance of value, and this is artificial and not intrinsic to it. Let gold cense to ho used as money, aud it would command a price not much, if any, above copper. They say, 2d. It requires so much labor to get it out of the mines, and therefore repre sents so much labor. So it does ; but cotton, sugar, houses and manufactures cost labor too, and rep resent labor just as much ns gold does. 3d. That gold is more fixed in amount ;or volume and incapable of a sudden increase, ami is therefore a better standard of value. We know this is not entirely true, as year alter year the amount of gold has been ; steadily increasing by successful mining, hence that its increase year by year causes a change in values. Not so with paper, as it can be kept bv proper legisla tion, at one amount and volume as a me dium ot exchange. Paper therefore has the advantage in this over gold, namely : fixidity of volume, the great desideratum iu a medium oi exchange. It matters not it a circulating medium bo one hundred or five hundred millions, prices soon adjust themsoivcs to the amount circulated. If when the currency is one hundred millions ii circulation, flour be worth five dollars per barrel, its price would increase if the amount should be increased to live hundred millions. With a sound and healthy currency, demand and supply should bo the only cause for fluctuations lof price. England can make us sell our produce at any price she pleases by her manipulation of gold, because our paper is founded on the metal of which she lias a large amount. Our country can never prosper, lulmi will urver be protected, till we banish so unstable u currency as paper baaed on gold. When onr government promised to pay’ onr bonded debt and interest in gold, she handed the nation bound hand and foot, to European Gold Barons. She made two cur rencies, one for the people and another for the government, by requiring all Custom House dues to be paid in gold. Then commenced the rings, bulls and bears of the gold room. Then were our importing merchants at the mercy ot a set of gambit rs. Then was our currency so deranged that no values were stable. Hence too, the stoppage of manufactures on account of strikes and the distress of the millions of working men and laborers who could not obtain work at prices that would support them. A paper currency founded on gold, is the Pandora’s box from which has come the periodic panics that have occurred every stiued number ot years since its establishment, when banks were allowed to issue paper based on gold. If we must have gold for a currency’, let it be that and nothing else. Lot it be criminal to issue a circulation of paper based on that metal, as no such paper can he safe for any leugth of time. England can do it, because she owns the gold. If we had control of gold, and England as we are, deficient in that metal, we could have her at our feet, as she now has ns. What then is the remedy? Ist. Have one legal paper currency— uniform in kind—that is, have it all is sued by the government. 2d. Let this currency be receivable by the government for all debts to it in every department. 3d. Pay the interest of our bonded debt in this currency and no qther. When we do tins, weshadberid of panics created by the bulls aud bears in gold, and place ourselves in a position of unchanging prosperity, so tar as financial stability* can give us prosperity. It will be argued that this would be breaking onr pledge to the bondholders to pay interest in gold. But if we pay them in that, which wili buy any of onr products, and which will give them their coveted gold, how can we be said to wrong them ? We shall give all that gold could buy ; what more could they’ ask ? We can make our currency at any time as valuable and more so than gold, by so diminishing onr circulation that cotton would cost less in greenbacks than it would in gold. In asking their pound ot tb sh they have no right to take our blood with it. They have no right to destroy us, and make onr commerce, onr manufactures and agricul ture the plaything of this gold ring. Our countiy would have been most stable in its prosperity. There would have been 1 no c;i s for bread by those w illing to labor, no strikes, no shrinkage in values and ruin of thousands, had we a paper currency pure aud simple —uninflueuced by another kind ot currency. We have not enlarged on this subject, because we do not wish to present too long an article. What has been written is intended as suggestive aud to stimulate thought. Ihe cry to suffering ’abor is, *go to work." But of what use is it to go to work, if as last its they acquire anything it i* swept from them by the unsettling of values. Industry is paralysed, when men know not that they win reap anything troin their label's or ootlay of capital : and in tact, when they know that all they make will only go to enrich the Lord’s of the Gold King, who make gold scarce or plen- ! timi as they please aud thus depreciate or enhance ihe buying value of onr cur rency and rnin every industry by the fluctuation. ♦ TO MY ROMANIST FELLOW CITIZENS. FRIKXPS -AXP OorNTETUTN :- Yon have voluntarily come ro the la ml whose o-overnment was fonnUod hy the Pnritano. the 1 ami Protestants in general. The land of Washington. Jefferson, Madison, the Adamses, Franklin and a host ot similar spirits. As in the atmosphere and soil of Ireland, the serpnnt tribe cannot live so in this, our favored atmosphere, nothin'? contrary to freedom can he tolerated. Yon knew before you came here that uch was the case. Amon?s f ns, all errors are tolerated, providing’ reason is left free to combat them. Hence onr tree press and onr free speech. Your Bishop. Gross, is using this freedom. He circulates through' out tlie State, attended hy other Priests. He preaches, lie lectures, and endeavors to impress his views on large audiences made up mostly of Protestants. Amet t -1 cans hear all sides, try all things, and hold last to that which commends itsei c ito their reason as being true and good I I ask you to be as tolerant as are other Americans. I ask you to hear me as j our Protestants hear you Bishop. It is ! possible that your Piiests may command | you not to read my paper. It may be placed under an interdict, ft appears | as though your Priests are afraid to let a ray of light enter your understand-. ! ;ngs, or they would not place so many j restrictions on you. They scent to me | t o have erected a house built of slats | and chinked with clay, with no windows and whose doors is kept well guarded The only light to this house being a fire i enkindled by themselves. Should by j time or accident any of the c!ay fall off, ! nnd a rny of sunshine penetrate, imme' j diately the crack or crevice is carefully , closed ht’ the attendant Priests, so that : the enclosed inhabitants may never see ; bu; by the artificial light of the Priestly j fire of coals. From this confinement, friends and fellow-citizens, I would aid to deliver you. I will address myselt to your reason and understanding. Take noth ing from tne on trust, but if I give you a good reason tor what I advance, you will he false to yourselves, to the God, who gave yon the faculties of men, and to your country, if you fail to hear, to weigh and honestly determine as to the truth. Why should your Priests prohibit yott from hearing all sides of a question, if they think their house is built npona rock 1 Do those who inhabit such houses, fear the winds or floods ? Is it not rather evidence of having built ou sand that makes them afraid of even a zephyr or slight shower 1 Be men, therefore! Be Americans and use your freedom of investigation and ration i ality! You are living in an age of won - | derful progress ; from Ihe advantages |of which your guides would exclude ! you. They preach antiquity. One of the | Fathers, t 'yprian. wisely says: “The Pagans vaunt their antiquity as if truth hath need of being ancient. Jt is a. dia bolical custom to make antiquity an ar gument in favor of lies." Chtistianity, like every other Godlike j gift, is more and more developed with | the growth of time. Compare onr age with the barbarism of men of the first century of the Christian era; compare it with the dark and middle ages, and tell me if we have not advanced. True w’e have great crimes, but we also have great virtues to balance them. Here with us every man “may sit nnder his vine and fig tree, and none to make him afraid.’! Was it so anciently ? Then why appeal to antiquity, unles we wish to become again barbarians. The world moves and you have to move with it; j’ou cannot without loss refuse to partake with others of the benefits of an unfolding providence. I have therefore a right to hope that you will rise independent and will east off the shackles of those who would en slave the God'given rights ot free thought and free speech, and be willing to at least give attention to what I have to say: "Ask, seek, knock,’’ is the Lord's command to all, and no one should countermand him.” "The wisest man may be wiser to day than he was yesterday, and to morrow than lie is to day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error, but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone." The thing called Faith grows, and i9 subject to rising higher and higher ; as is very evident from Scripture, as in Luke 17.5 : “And the Apostle said unto the Lord, Increase our faith ; and Paul speaking of the Gospel of Christ says : ■ “For therein is the righteousness of God i revealed from faith to faith." Romans, 1.17, As the use of faith is to make i inen belter in their lives, therefore all faith must be founded on truths, and i the proof that a thing is true is that it leads to good. A false faith is as dead j as a corpse without life. Faith is not re ligion. Religion is the life of I.ove to God and man. Faith but leads to this : and yet. men are prone to call their I faith their religion. There is but one true religion in the world, and ir is universal : belonging to men ot the different faiths, and men of everv faith may belong to it if they but live the life of love one to another, for i'love is the fulfilling of the law. He who loves his fellow man, will not steal from him. will not speak falsely, will not commit adultery, will nor kill, or covet what belongs to him. and hence it is that the Lord says ; "Cpon love to God and man hang all the law and the prophats." That ail men of everv nation may be of this religion, which is the onlv saving one. we learn abun dantly from Scriptures. I will quote I but four passage® : 1 might quote many znorp • ' “And John skid : Master, we saw one easting out devil® in ihy name, ami we tnrbaif him, because he folioweth not us. Vnd Jesus said unto him : Forbid him not; for he that is not against us, is for us. ' Luke 9 49. To “cast out devils,” is to expel from the heart all evil affections. This may ' be done hy those of every faith, and in i the name or the Lord too, though thej’ i may never have heard of tile words i -jesus Christ;’’ because, whoever acts i front a sense of religious obligations, acts from the Divine Spirit, so that ; though lie may not follow Christ's ; special apostles and disciples, yet in truth he follows the unseen Jehovah; | whose mission to earth tvas to teach us I to avoid evils as silts against Him, and tints open the door to his heavenly j kingdom ot love to man. Therefore, the | Lord said: “He iimt is not against us, j is for us;” though they may not follow | you. i Again it is said. Acts 10.34: “Then | Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth 1 perCeieve that God is not a re specter of persons. But in every na tion he that feareth hint and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. ’ Raul says, 1 cor., 13. 2: “And though \ 1 have the gift of prophecy, and under stand all mysteries, and though 1 have j all failii so mat t could remove mouit | tains, and have not charity’, 1 am noth ! ing- ’ , , I The most conclusive and un-answerablo I text, however, is to be found in llev. —7 jt*. “Aher this I beheld, and lo a great j multitude, which no tnau can number, of ; alt nations, kindreds, and peo, ie, and j tongues, stood before the throne, and be ! tore the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms m their hands.” This shows, conelusively, that men of every faith find acceptance with God, who live in Hint by a spiritual life of good, J which all can do by shunning evils against his neighbor, as sin against God. The scriptures are lull of such decla rations, yet men will light for what they vainly call religion to establish their faith, and iu doing these snow they have not that faith which “woiketh by love,” which is the only faith recognized in the to vealed word ot God, as being avail able tor salvation, and which teaches us to regard every man whether Jew, Christian or Pagan, as our brother iu Christ, if he works righteousness in God. There is but one communion of saint's ! on earth, otic church ot the Lord —made i up ot the religiously good of every de | nomination, whatsoever his peculiar opinions or doctrines may be. This was clesrly illustrated a few weeks ago on the death t>f Mr. Solomon Cohen, a gentleman ot Jewish faith. Such was me purity of ltis character, that he had the respect ot every class ot the community. His funeral was at' tended bv puolie bodies, of which he was not a member. A universal public demonstration was made of respect for his memory. Why was this ? Did it not show that it was tiie matt who was regatded, anti not his laitli V Thus will it .ever be. .'superior worth as a good and ttseiui citizen, will ever command public respect, Bea mail’s creed what | ever it may. It we, being evil, pay re | speet to the good, how much more will Lie, who is goodness itself. We might also cite the respect paid j the memory ot Mr. A. lOinsteln, wnose j lunertU cortege, made up of all classes, j black and white, reached from his house jto the cemeteiy. Patti truly said: "He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, but who is one inwardly." the heathen themselves, show so called Christian’s lessons, we might do well to learn. The Kbauds of Orissa say in prayer : \\ e are ignorant of what is good to ask for : Ton know what is good tor us, give it us." What a contrast is this prayer, to our long winded appeals to De.ty tor this and that thing, ns if God does not * ’know what things we have need ot before we ask him," Can a man help being born a Catholic, or a Jew, or a Mahouamedan, or a Ra' gun ? Can lie help it, if from childhood he has been taught a peculiar set of doctrines? is lie to be condemned for these opinions, impressed by “paternal teachings on his tender mind.” Would God condemn him for that which is not his fault? assuredly not. But the man is condemned lor the deeds of his life, when dene from evil affections. lou may reply, but does not Christ say we must believe in his name, it we would be saved ? assuredly he j does,.and He also says, “by- this shall men know it you love mo, if you keep my- com mandments.” The test of is the keeping of his commandments, all which are meiuded in the two, “to love God and to love your neighbor.” This is his name ol Jesus and Christ. The word name im plies qua ity, hence all the teachings aud doings ot Const, are involved in the words: “His Name." This we may know from our every-day habit of mind, as when we call the name ol Washington, Franklin, Socrates, or any other worthy, we are im mediately impressed with the qualities peculiar to each; so, to believe in their names, is to approve of their qualities, and endeavor to follow them. Therefore, in like manner, to believe in the name of Jesus Christ, is to approve his divine ! qualities of truth and goodness. But have Christians no advantage then, over Pagans? j surely they have, because they 7 have the j inspired teachings of Christ to instruct | them more fully of their duty to God and | man, an advantage not enjoyed by any hut Christians. Woe, to them, however, ii in spite ot these advantages, they turn ! to the iove of selfish power and domin i ion; the loves of self, of the flesh and the devil, their condemnation will be the greater; tor it is written: “For nnto whom soever much is given. of him shall much be required.” '‘But he that knew not, and S did commit things worthy of stripes, 9hali I be beaten with few stripes.” Christians have the “Word,” the Pagans have not, each will be judged accordingly. : Let as not be fanatical, but willing to ex- I amine our faith and test it rationally to see I lf '* ia °f such a quality as leads to mutual | love. You may complain that we would show the i I>o P e to he in error, and very fallible. Well, suppose we do? Paul says: "Let God be true, but every man a liar.” -Tour priests reverse this scripture and say, "Let the Pope be true, but God, science and every man a liar." “Oh. the lover may Distrust mat look that steals his soul away. The bake may cease to think that it can play With heaven’s rainbow : Alchemists may doubt The shining gold their crucibles give out. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded !'a°t To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the lat.” Let me beg of you to discard fanatic Faith. Let us travel hand in hand, reasoning with each other, and not “fall out by the way.” ay as the Psalmist says: "o pen thou mine eyes, 0, Lord, to behold wondrous things out of tin* law.”