The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

PAPISTS ARE NOT CATHOLICS

To Messrs. BIRKETT and SHAND, Town Councillors.
GENTLEMEN,—As a member of the Established Church,
permit me to thank you publicly, through the press, for the
distinguished stand you made in council on the sth instant,
against the arrogant assumption of the Romanists, who con-
tinue to persist in styling themselves Catholics, though nei-
ther history nor revelation affords them any claim to be so
designated. Were it merely a matter of courtesy, that could
be conceded without injury to the Christian church and the
eternal interests of the poor deluded adherents of the Papacy,
I for one would feel pleasure in doing so, as no Christian
would willingly wound the feelings of any one ; but, alas !
gentlemen, this cannot be done, for many reasons, one o
which, from your elevated position in society, you may not
be' aw are of; permit me, therefore, to bring it under your
notice. It is this—the use made by the priests, on the minds
of their ignorant followers, of the words " Holy Catholic
Church" in the Apostles' Creed. Examine any of the lower
orders, however ignorant, and you will soon find what an
impregnable barrier it presents to the reception of Christian
truth. " Sure yer honor believes in the Holy Catholic
Church,' and are not we that same ? " is the substanc,c,enst,
their reasoning ; and, brought up frcm their youth to
deri-ion
der the argument unanswerable, they only look t. ,
on those who would attempt to convince them may be
trary. And how well aware the priests ate of this,
presumed from the perusal of one of the works triumphant
Ro-
manist Bishop Milner, wherein he adduces a with con-
!larch, that if a
argument of the universality of the POP
i he would be
stranger came into London, or any otheiarhsthoewpt: in the king-
dom, and asked for a Catholic place of r_
instantly directed to a mass-house.
adhere strictly to
Controversy.") Let Protestants,then,__
(Sewealllilner's " End of
Tbis only can overcome
the truth, and call Popery Popery.
the pertinacious and mischievous assumption of Popish

Pr
o,
Trusting to my motive for pardon for the liberty I have
taken in addressing you,
en, your obedient Fservant
I remain, gentlem
pH I LO-JUSTITIA.

--=----ic,,—On Sunday last, as a number
ACCIDENTS ON illiblea on the Mill Pool, Birmingham,
of persons were aSsfauiting, the ice suddenly broke, and five
w hi oro
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ay, were precipitated into the water, when
ofofrthttempuunrfpoorste4aofTisi'j'alive. The other four never again ftp..
only one was IT; "me afternoon, another young man was
peared. Cll•tijaing pool ; and on the following day a youth,
lost on an.aurcompleted his apprenticeship, was drowned,
on the reservoir in the same neighbourhood.
who ska"lngl-loax.—k 1 tt
. e er appeared in the Morning
announcing a dreadful accident at Combe
post 0
near Bath. It was stated that a wi,ole village, with
Down,
its beautiful new church, school-honse, &c., were buried in
the earth, owing to the workmen, in a quarry beneath, not
saving undermined with sufficient care. The village was
visited by numerous spectators ; but the mitcreant who for-
warded the letter has not been discovered. A name was at-
tached to it, which turns out to be a forgery.
THE Isis.—At Cobberley, near Cheltenham, is a stream
called the Seven Springs, said to be the highest source of the
river Thames ; near this spot is generally to be met an old
woman ready to point out to the curious the supposed source.
Whilst the old lady was attending a party she was asked if it
were clear that the stream had any connexion with the Isis?
" Ices '•" exclaimed the dame, " nothing to do with that ;
the water never freezes, and I will tell you for why'—yon may
put a snowball or a piece of ice in the water, and it always
melts directly."

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