' Let us examine into this
doctrine. It is the doctrine of Christ, plain and straightforward;
enunciated in such simple words that even a child can understand
them. But the Church announces with a strident voice that there can
only be one interpreter,--the Pope. Nevertheless Truth has a more
resonant voice than even that of the Church. Truth cries out at this
present day, 'Unless you will listen to Me who am the absolute
utterance of God, who spake by the prophets, who spake through
Christ,--who speaks through Christ and all things still,--your
little systems, your uncertain churches, your inefficient creeds,
your quarrelsome sects, shall crumble away into dust and ruins! For
humanity is waiting for the true Church of Christ; the one pure
House of Praise from which all sophistry, all superstition and
vanity shall have fled, and only God in the Christ-Miracle and the
perfection of His Creation shall remain!' And there is no more sure
foundation for this much-needed House of Praise than the Catholic
Church,--the word 'catholic' being applied in its widest sense,
meaning a 'Universal' answering to the needs of all;--and I am
willing to maintain that the ROMAN Catholic Church has within it the
vital germ of a sprouting perfection.
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