Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . he fails of historical unity, and in herspirit she fails of actual unity. In her spirit the failure isseen in her factions and wrangling ; and even in those mat-ters in which she is one with herself, the spirit is not Chris-tian, but political, overbearing and wordly. This appearsin the very structure of her ecclesiasticism, in the coercionby which she maintains her unity, in her tenacious holdupon political dominion, and in her very terms of commu-nion. She claims to be a unit, and therefore the true Chur
Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, or, Centuries of oppression, persecution and ruin . he fails of historical unity, and in herspirit she fails of actual unity. In her spirit the failure isseen in her factions and wrangling ; and even in those mat-ters in which she is one with herself, the spirit is not Chris-tian, but political, overbearing and wordly. This appearsin the very structure of her ecclesiasticism, in the coercionby which she maintains her unity, in her tenacious holdupon political dominion, and in her very terms of commu-nion. She claims to be a unit, and therefore the true her claim of unity fails in essential facts, and whereshe presents unity it is not only wanting in Christian ele-ments, but it is essentially unchristian. Her plea of unity,herefore, avails her nothing, but, on the contrary, turnsagainst her, and destroys her. For she is organized uponan unscriptural and unchristian basis; the very pillars ofher support are anti-christian ; and she must be taken topieces and reconstructed upon another ic/ea, before she canbe properly Christian. Four Protestant Women led to Execution. Pa#e 478. The New York State Legislature for 1890 appropriatedto sixteen Catholic Institutions $1,079,936. Of the $7,000,000 paid from the City Treasury of Bostonlast year, $6,000,000 goes into the hands of the Catholics. The money donated by the City Government of NewYork to the Roman Catholic Church from 1869 to 1893 inclu-sive amounted to $14,081,990, besides five and one-half blocksof land in the best part of the City now worth $5,000,000, of $19,081,990. \jy~\ CHJLIFTEJR, Till. ENOCH MATHER MARVIN, LATE BISHOP OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH. i!nity of the church—the true idea. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body,eing many, are one body: so, also, is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into oneody, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all mad
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