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Catholicity in Its Relationship to Protestantism and Romanism, Being Six Conferences Delivered at Newark, N.j., at the Request of Leading
Catholicity in Its Relationship to Protestantism and Romanism Being Six Conferences Delivered at Newark Nj at the Request of Leading Author:Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer Title: Catholicity in Its Relationship to Protestantism and Romanism, Being Six Conferences Delivered at Newark, N.j., at the Request of Leading Laymen of That City General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianit... more »y / Episcopalian Religion / Christianity / Protestant Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECOND CONFERENCE. Catholicity, A Life And An-Organizer ; Protestantism, A Dlsorganizer And A Death. Gentlemen, St. Thomas of Aquinas defines Life as a spontaneous motion. It is something more than this. It is a mysterious principle pervading the universe, which possesses a centralizing force. It organizes and harmonizes. It sustains in existence the organic form which it has constructed. It is the mother of order and beauty. It builds the crystalline forms with their glittering angles ; it works out for itself, and then produces the rustic tracery of the tree ; it frames and holds together the bird, the beast and man ; it constructs the family, the State, the Church; its fountain is God, and its sanction is, " Thou shalt do no murder." On the other hand, Death is a disorganizer. It is a despoiler of beauty. On its anvil it smites the diamond into powder; it lays the tree low ; it slays bird and beast and man ; it sends hate, divorce and orphanage into the family, feuds into the State, schism into the Church; its fountain is in hell, and its fiat is:" That which is, shall not be that which is gathering into unity, shall be scattered into severally; that which is organizing, shall be decompo...« less