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all nations, extends through all ages, and maintains 

 all truth." The mark of Apostolicity applies to her: 

 "because from the apostles has she received her 

 doctrine, her orders, and her mission." 



Yes, he found that to that Church, which was 

 ever the same; which though kingdoms and empires, 

 and states and people, have risen up and faded 

 away, was herself unchangeable; which teaches now 

 the same doctrine taught by her divine Founder on 

 the shores of the sea of Galilee, and which she will 

 teach until the end of time; that to that Church 

 only would these marks apply; and, resting his 

 fevered temples upon that holy mother's bosom, 

 beneath which throbbed the fountain of a vitality, 

 as enduring as the word of God, he wept for very 

 joy, that he had at last found the secure haven, 

 wherein he could anchor the frail bark of his mor- 

 tality, regardless of the storms that might howl 

 and the waves that might dash against her with 

 their broken fury, until the coming of the bright 

 day, when he might plant his ransomed feet upon the 

 shores of that land which is within the walls of the 

 heavenly paradise. 



Mr. Oertel is still living in the city of Baltimore, 

 where he edits a Catholic German newspaper. Dear 

 to him must be the memory of Bishop Quarter, 

 through whose instrumentality, under God, he 

 became reconciled to that Church, which ensures 

 him the prospect of meeting again his earthly 

 mediator in heaven. 



