HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1927.
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REV. HI
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A vicious and wicked attack is made
against the Catholic church by an
alleged preacher of the Gospel, who
calls himself Mr. Phelps. Three Fin
gered Jack a few years ago made a
similar attack, and now he is a pen
itentiary bird in the state of Wash
ington. Mr. Phelps may be irrespon
sible; but know, and take notice that
not only every Catholic, but every
pure-minded, fair-minded, self-respecting
person holds responsible the
people of Heppner that stand sponsor
for a man of the calibre of Mr.
Phelps. We want a square deal, we
want facts, not fiction, not lies, not
scandal, not slander, not rottenness.
As there are certain animals, insects,
vermin that feed and fatten on the
corruption that fills the sewer, so
there are certain human animals, hu
man insects, human vermin, always
and ever looking to the gutters for
their food. Such people with dark
ened, perverted, and vile minds, and
;orrupt hearts, relish filth. Filth is
food, and drink, and sleep to them.
There are many good people in Hepp
ner, but there are also a few bigots,
fanatics, Ku Kluxers as in every city.
They are to be pitied. They do not
think for themselves, they do not ver
ify their statements, they go by hear
say, by gossip. They crave after lies.
Now they shall have their fill. They
demand impurity, and here is the sup
ply. Mr. Phelps, your oracle, your
prophet, your idol, your paragon of
a preacher, is about to speak. You
vermin in human forms, go and lis
ten to him and drink in his rotten
ness. He has no message from the
Loving Master to give, no truth, no
doctrine, no good seed to sow. If
you sow corruption, and hate, what
kind of a harvest are you going to
reap? No wonder our law courts
stink with the stuff that pours forth
from the lips of girls in their teens
with unblushing cheeks no modesty,
no reserve, no respect, no decency,
i no sha.ie. There is a natural law
binding us to think as well as we can
of everyone, and this law is observed
by every noble and generous mind.
There is the golden rule, "Do unto
others as you wish others to do unto
ou." There is a commandment of
the Decalogue telling us, "Do not bear
false witness against Thy Neighbor."
The Law and the Prophets are fulfill
ed according to Our Divine Lord, by
Loving God above all things, and by
loving our neighbor as ourselves. St.
John the Evangelist tells: "If we
say we love God and hate our neigh
bors, we are liars and the truth is
not in us." We have all the same
Creator, the same Redeemer, the
bame destiny, and the criterion to
know that we are followers of the
Master is: "That we Love One An
other." There is a saying, "There is
some bad in the best of us, and some
good in the worst of us, and it ill be
comes any of us to talk about the rest
of us." What would any reasonable
person think of any priest that would
gather up all the scandals and sins
committed by Methodist preachers
and dish them out to his audience?
No self-respecting person would tol
erate it. He would be a disgrace to
the priesthood and to his office. Is
Mr. Phelps preaching the gospel?
"Woe to the man by whom scandal
cometh." When a man wants really
to get information on a subject, no
matter what it may be, political,
scientific, religious, etc., he eschews
reports, mistrusts understandings,
and betakes himself to headquarters.
Some good personal knowledge of
Catholics, and intercourse with them
in the way of sincere inquiry is worth
all the conclusions that you may
draw from rumors, false witneasings,
suspicions, morsels of history, mor
sels of theology, and from the cup
of scandals filled to the brim by
preachers of the ilk of Mr. Phelps or
Three Fingered Jack, Why do you
go to Mr. Phelps ot know the doc
trines of the Catholic church? What
are his credentials? What does he
know about fatholic Confession?
How often has he gone to Confession?
Could not any Catholic tell you more
about the Catholic church than Mr.
Phelps? Why not go . to a Catholic
priest to learn about the Confession,
and the conditions required to make
a good Confession? His subject on
Sunday is the Confession Unmasked.
The Priest and the Woman. Has he
a scandal to peddle? Is it made out
of whole cloth? Is it a figment of
his wild imagination? Is it a lie?
The poeple cry out for a real live
scandal. Please Mr. Phelps, be par
ticular this time. Go into the details.
leave out no important circumstance.
Do not say you heard it from anoth
er preacher, or got it from a book,
like Marin Monk. Let it be fresh
Let it be of recent date. Mention the
names of the priest and the woman
Tell us the place where it occurred.
Name the city, county, state. Tell us
the year, the month, the date. Be not
vague, Indefinite, general. Be defi
nite, particular, individual, specific,
personal. Swear that you personally
know that individual priest, and that
particular woman. Be careful not to
bear false witness against your neigh
bor. If you sincerely want to know
about the Confessional, go up to the
Catholic church in this city, examine
it, and examine the basement also to
see, can you find gunB and ammuni
tion. The doors of the Catholic
churches are open to everybody. The
Mothodist church can't be the church
founded by Christ for the simple rea
son that It is founded by John Wes
ley, and is seventeen centurieB too
late to be of Christ, God and not
Man is the founder and Institute of
Confession. In the Gospel of St.
Mathew, Our Lord thus addresses Pe
ter. "Thou are Peter, and upon this
Pock I will build my Church." Mind
the word church, not churches. Christ
built but one church. As there is
but one God, one baptism, one Christ,
there is ut one Church. Our Lord
again says, "I give to thee the keys
of the Kingdom of Heaven, nnd what
soever thou shalt bind on earth, shall
bo bound in Heaven, and whatever
thou shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in Heaven," Matthew, 16 Chap.
18th and 19th verses. Ho uses the
same forcible language to all the
Apostles assembled together, "What
soever you shall bind on earth shall
be bound also in Heaven, and what
soever you shall loose on earth shall
be loosed aho in Heaven." Matt.
XVI1I-18. The object of the mission
of Christ was to release the soul
from the bonds of sin. The very name
Jesus" indicates this important
truth. "Thou shalt call his name
Jesus," said the Angel, "for he shall
cave His people from their sins.
Matt I, 21. The soul is enchained by
sin. I give you power, says our Lord,
to release the penitent soul from its
galling fetters and to restore it to
the liberty of a Child of God. Jesus,
sfer His Resurrection, thus addressed
His disciples, "Peace be with you, as
the Father has' sent me, I also send
you. Receive you the Holy Ghost.
Whose sins you shall forgive, they
are forgiven them, whose sins you
shall retain they are retained." John
XX 21-23. The Father had sent his
only begotten Son into the world to
redeem it from sin. Our Lord tells
us Himself, that His Mission was to
save sinners, "For the Son of Man is
come to save that which is lost."
(Matt. XV, 24.) They that are- in
health need not a physician but they
that are ill, etc. For I am not come
to call the Just but sinners. (Matt.
IX 12-12, I 21) (Tim. I. 15) Our
Lord in His mortal life frequently
pardoned sinners their offiences. Mag
dalen, (Luke VII 47), the woman in
adultery (John VIII 11) St. Peter, the
Thief on the Cross, (Luke XXIII 23).
The Man sick with the palsy (Matt.
IX 2). In the last instance He insists
on this power of forgiveness as Son
of Man despite the objection of the
Scribes and their accusations of
blasphemy, (Matt IX 3). "But that
you may know that the Son of Man
hath power on earth to forgive sins,
then He said to the man sick with
palsey, 'rise, take up thy bed and go
into thy house." "All power is given
to me in heaven and on earth." "As
the Father had sent me to pardon sin,
1 also send you iothed with my di
vine authority and with my divine
power to pardon sin in my name."
"Whose sins you shall forgive they
are forgiven them, and whose sins
jou shall retain they are retained."
In the Apostles'' creed it is said "I
believe in the Holy Catholic Church,
in the forgiveness of sins." It is
plain from this that at the time of
the Apostles there was confession.
The Catholic Church continues the
mission, the work of Christ. Scrip
ture, or the Bible, is on the side of
tiie Catholic Church. The Catholic
Church is the kingdom of Christ on
earth. It is His body, His home, His
fold, His school. He uses it as an
instrument to teach, to govern, to
forgive sins and thus to save souls.
The Catholic Church teaches us with
power and authority, with certainty,
with infallibility. It is the divinely
appointed guardian, custodian, de
fender, interpreter of revelation. The
gates of -Hell, of ignorance, error,
calumny, scandal, shall not prevail
against it. As the Scribes, the Phar
isees, the Sadducees, .conspired
against Our Lord, so, also all the
sects, no matter how they differ and
dispute among themselves, unite in
persecuting the Catholic Church be
cause it is the moral body of Christ.
Our Lord said "Blessed are ye, when
they shall revile you, and persecute
you, and speak all that is evil against
you untruly for my namesake," Matt.
V. 11. Our Lord also said to the
Apostles, "I send you as sheep in the
midst of wolves. "Beware of men,
they will deliver you up in the Coun
cils, they will scourge you in the Syn
agogues, and you shall be hated by all
men for my namesake." "The Deciple
is not above the Master, nor the Ser
vant above the Lord. If they call the
good man to the house of Beelzebub,
how much more them of the house
hold." Matt X 16-24. It is a his
toric fact that from the time of Adam
to our own day God has always in
sisted on some confession or ack
nowledgement of sin before granting
pardon. Adam confessed, "I did eat."
Cain refused to confess. God gave
Adam the hope of pardon. To Cain
God said "Cursed thou shalt be upon
the earth." Gen. IV 12. The Mosaic
Law prescribed the confession for
sins not only for sins in general, but
for particular sins, Leviticuls IV to
VII. Confession was practised in the
time of John the Baptist. "Then went
out to him Jerusalem and all Judea
and the country about the Jordan,
and were baptized by him confessing
tneir sins. Matt. 111-18. The early
Catholics confessed their sins. Many
of them who believed came confess
ing and declaring their deed to the
Apostles. Acta XIX-18. And this is
why St. John said: "If we confess
our sins God is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins." (I. Jons I 9.)
All the fathers of the Church, from
the first to the last insist on the sac
ramental Confession as a divine in
stitution. Saints Basil, Ambrose,
Augustine, Jerome, and Chrysostem,
are called upon to give testimony
about confession in the Catholic
Church in the third and fourth cen
tury.
St. Basil writes: "In the confess
ion of sins the same method must be
observed as in laying open the in
firmities of the body; for as these are
not rashly communicated to every
one, but to those only who understand
by what method they may be cured,
so the confession of sins must be
made to such persons as have the
power to apply a remedy." In Reg.
Brev., quest CCXXIX. T II, P. 492,
Later on he tells us who those per-
sons are. "Necessarily, our sins must
be confessed to those to whom has
been committed the dispensation of
the mysteries of God. Thus, also are
they found to have acted who did pen
.ir.ee of old in regard of the saints,
It is written in the Acts, they con
fessed to the Apostles, by whom also
they were bapitzed."
Two conclusions obviously follow
from these passages of St. Basil
First, tho necessity of confession;
secondly, the obligation of declaring
our sins to a Priest whom in the New
Law is committed "the dispensation
of the mysteries of God.
St. Ambrose, of Milan, writes "The
poison of sin; the romedy, the accu
satlon of one a crime; the poison 1
iniquity; the confession is the remedy
of the relapse. And, therefore, it is
truly a remedy against poison, if thou
declare thine iniquities, that thou
mayest be justified. Art thou asham
ed. This shame will avail thee little
at the judgment seat of God."
St. Augustine writes: "Our merci
ful God wills to us to confess in this
world that we may not be confounded
in the other." And again: "Let no
one say to himself, I do penance to
God in private, I do it before God. Is
it in vain that Christ hath said,
Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven?" Is it in
vain that the keys have been given to
the Church? Do we make void the
Gospel, void the words of Christ?"
St. Chrysostem says, "Lo, we have
now, at length, reached the close of
Holy Lent; now especially we must
press forward in the career of fast
ing , . . and exhibit a full and accu
rate confession of our sins . . , that
with these good works, having come
to the day of Easter, we may enjoy
the bounty of the Lord. . , . For, as
the enemy knows that having con
fessed our sins and shown our wounds
to the physician we attain an abund
ance of cure, he in an especial man
ner opposes us."
St. Jerome writes. "If the serpent,
the devil, secretly bite a man and thus
infect him with the poison of sin,
and this man shall remain silent, and
do not penance, nor be willing to
make known his wound to his brother
and master; the master, who has a
tongue that can heal, cannot easily
serve, him. For if the ailing man be
ashamed to open his case to the phy
sician no cure can be expected; for
medicine does not cure that of which
it knows nothing." With us the
Bishop or Priest binds or looses
not them who are merely innocent or
guilty but having heard, as his duty
requires, the various qualities of sin,
he understands who should be bound
and who loosed."
Every Catholic doctrine is dearer
than life to the Catholic heart and
every Catholic is ready to shed his
blood for it, as the martyrs did of
old. Prejudice against Catholics and
their church comes not from observa
tion, not from facts, not from truth,
but from lies and slander. Many Pro
testants are too wise to form their
conceptions of the Catholic church
from productions like Maria Monk
and the shocking disclosures of es
caped nuns, runaway priests, and oth
ers of their ilk. How would protest
ants like to be judged from men that
have been expelled from the ministry.
Many a Methodist minister would
rather cut his throat than to defame
and slander the Mother Church, the
Catholic Church, the Church of An
tiquity, the Church of Christianity,
the Church of every Age, of ,every
place, of every race, the one, holy,
Catholic and apostolic church.
REV. THOS. J. CANTWELL.
PIERCE IB
(Continued from First Page)
collect the monex necessary for state
activities from sources other than a
tax on visible property;
"For arousing the people to the
necessity for more equitable assess
ment laws;
"For creating public sentiment for
law enforcement, including prohibi
tion; "For changing the policy in regard
to guaranteeing interest pn irrigation
bonds and the use of state credit;
"For initiating a program that will
eventually make the penitentiary
self-supporting;
"For changing the highway program
from a bonding policy to a "pay-as-you-go"
plan;
"For changing road construction
from "black-top" to oiled macadams,
and
For an active, earnest interest in
ull matters pertaining to education.
"I am laying down my work as gov
ernor of this state with ill will tow
ard none, with friendship for all. I
again reaffirm my faith in American
institutions. I am grateful for the
opportunity to live in this wondrous
age of human activity, in a country
of which we are all a part and parcel,
reaching from ocean to shining ocean,
using one language, of practically one
religion, with free public schools and
libraries everywhere, without .tariff
walls at state boundaries, and with
modern means for the transportation
of freight and intelligence that are
the marvel of all the centuries.
Closes With Poem.
"I extend to my successor the kind
liest of greetings. It is my sincere
hope that his administration may be
as successful as I believe the future
historian will proclaim mine to have
been. Let me close my message to
you, and the final moment of my term
as governor of Oregon, with these
thoughts:
"I hold that man alone succeeds,
Whose life is crowned by noble
deeds,
Who cares not for the world's ap
plause, But scorns custom's outgrown laws;
Who feels not dwarfed by nature's
show,
But deep within himself doth
know
That conscious man is greater far
Than ocean, land or distant star;
Who does not count his wealth by
gold,
His worth by office he may hold,
But feels himself, as man alone,
As good as king upon a throne;
Who, battling 'gainst each seeming
wrong,
Can meet disaster with a song,
Feel sure of victory in defeat,
And rise refreshed the foe to meet,
Who only lives the world to bless,
Can never fail he Is Success!"
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derful privilege of being American
citizens. They simply don't care. The
rich and the powerful must be made
to see that it is not only their duty,
but is necessary for their safety, to
help the less fortunate to secure po
sitions where they can earn a com
petence. Equal opportunity to earn
and acquire is necessary above all
hings. Free institutions will be ap
proaching the end when men and wo
men accumulate in numbers and are
,iot able to secure employment at re
munerative wages, and these great
fortunes of the rich and the powerful
may melt in a night, before the angry,
unreasoning mob, demanding bread,
ust as such fortunes have melted
away many times in centuries past.
"Prohibition and the enforcement
f the Eighteenth Amendment is here
to stay. The bootlegger and the man
ufacturer of moonshine whiskey must
be driven from the boundaries of our
state. The product sold as whiskey
s killing and blinding hundreds and
disabling and impairing thousands.
No man can with safety today drink
the moonshine whiskey that is be
ing illicitly sold."
Mr. Pierce stated the belief that
law enforcement is on the upgrade
n Oregon and will continue to im
prove.
Recommendations Made.
After giving a brief survey of the
condition of irrigation and irrigation
districts in Oregon, the ex-governor
made the following recommendations
with regard to this issue: "(1) that
it be declared that the state in no
way assumes responsibiliy for the
bonds issued by the irrigation dis-
tncts; (2) that you propose the re
peal of the constitutional amendment
guaranteeing interest on these bonds;
(3) that the right of the bondholder
to all of the property in the districts
be freely acknowledged; (4) that you
do not provide for a commission or
commitete to invesitgate. , . ."
Going on through the line of all
slate institutions and charges, Mr.
Pierce made recommendaions with
regard to each. He told of savings
made m highway maintenance and
construction by the use of oil; recom
mended that the state market agent
be retained with increased powers;
explained the work carried on toward
making the penitentiary self-sustain
in K. He asked that the legislature
oppose any change in the industrial
accident law, and then went on to
recommendations for all state insti
tutions. A strong plea was made for
continued educational aid, with the
recommendation also for the full
state library appropriation.
- Accomplishments Cited.
After paying tribute to the place
of women in public life, Mr. Pierce
closed his address with the following
otirring remarks:
"For four years my every official act
has been controlled by my earnest do
ire to do that which was best for all
the people. Fear of opponent, friend
ship, or hope of reward have in no
way swayed me or affected my decis
ions. Bitter and unjust criticism
has been the cause of much worry
and many headaches, but has in no
way affected my official course. I
faced threat of recall because I would
not bow to a powerful group that do
manded certain action from me. I
knew at the time that their full pow
er and strength would be used to pre
vent my reelection. I felt their ef
fectlveness in the campaign Just
closed. In my inner consciousness I
knew I was right, and I held for the
verdict of tho future.
"I believe that in the years to come
my administration will be given cred
it
"For arousing interest in hydro
electric development;
"For an earnest effort to brin
about a state reforestation program
"For beginning the movement to
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