Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-12-25

iih some measure the.N stangency of their
rules. But this is only a>ma,ter. of poll
Icy, as showed from Milnef,ina former
7iletter. But Notwithstanding they Axelar''
IN some Instances, there stands the anee-
peated decree against 5he reading of the
bible, ia the vulgar tongue They only
'I''relor" when they are obliged Just as
YOU would play fish, rather than break
your rod, you let your line run off your
reel. When it is more to your purpose.
wind up. So these Roman "Fishers Of
men, rather than lose ali they "relat' but
Ithey hold the reclin their hand and wind
-up at will.
/ If Rome be not afraid Of The light Of the
Bible, why has she never given an authen.
) tic translation of :he scriptures in the.
English tongue? Why lookup the word OF
| God, in, a dead language.
She has never given translation to the
world, in the vulgar tongue, and Meier
uW. We have the Douay Bible and the
Rhemisli Testament, with absurd, aud III
Isome cases indecent notes, as safeguards,
but they are unauthorized by the church
II,ial nothing more than N re private enter
prise.
If from the existence Of these two YER
Isions Of private enterprise "A Catholic"
3a,akes an argument in favor of his whole
dchurth, lneed only hand him back his own
words. "This argument is illogical, only
fit for Il snob, because from particular
promise draws a universal conclusion"
Under the reign Of Queen Elizabeth,
inua Der Of English Papists, as well AS Pu-
lfitans, were obliged to leave the cpuntrv.-
| Many of the former settledin Rheims TO pre-
went their reading the protestant transa-
f'ion of the Bible, some Of their Ecclesias-
Etics went to work, and produced what is
called the Rhemisl testament in English.
! A copy Of which have now before me-
It is loaded with annotations, which makes
it SO costly sthat few can afford to purchase
lit, and there is little fear that those who
do will get much light from It; the notes so
.IeompleIely eclipse the truth.
| AS an apology for seeming to 90 con
trary to the prohibitory decree Of Trent,
these translators in thei- preface says
s'The (lhe Roman Chureh) allows not the
publishing nor reading absolutely and
without exception or limitation" Whence
Tile order Of the famous Council Of Trent,
that the Holy Scriptures though truly and
Catholically trans lated into vulgar tongues,
yet may not be indifafahily read by all
men, nor by any other than such as have
express license so to do from their lawful
Ordinaries, with good testimony from their
curates or confessors, that they be humble,
discreet and -aLNont rersons and like, to-take
much good and no harm by it." These
learned Doctors also set forth their mourn
| ful lamentations because the good old times
If ignoraiice were passing away. In those
happy times they say"lhe scholar taught
not his master,ihe sheep controlled not the
Pastor" The Holy Scriptures Astef6 thcr
in libraries monastries, colleges, churches;
! in Bishops, Priests and some devout prin-
/ cipal L..yInen's houses and hands. The
poor plouehman could then, in labouring
the ground, sing the hymns and psalms
either in known or unknown languages,
as they heard them in the holy church, tho
they could neither re d nor know the
sense, meaning and mysteries Of the sanies'
GLOW very edifying, to sing psalms in an
unknown tongue .sBut now" they say
since ALuther's revolt" Billes translated
into the vulgar tongues we're in the hands
Of every husbanlman, apprentice boys, mis-.
tress, maid. man; that they were sung and
played, alleged by every tinker, tavener;
rhymer, minstrel; that they were for table
talk for all benches, for boats and barges
in those better times men were neither SO
| i'll nor curious" What glorious; times for
Rolnish Priests those days must have been,
when every farmer, miner, mechanic and
MOI hing but what their confessors told
them, anI sang their pslams, as parrots
talk, without understanding the meaning.
These Romish Doctors make most pa
tietic appeal to induce us to 60 back to
those days when they were not obliged to
relax" Look, they say, "whether your
men be more ri,ttous, your women more
Ichdste, yoar servants more trusty, your
maids more modest, now than of old when
there was not so much rea ling and talking
about Gods word" So afraid were they
of its being Inferred that the church as
such, sanctioned theirtranslati5n that they
lpnt in the following disclaimer. ssThe
church has no9 by public authority pre-
scrihed, commanded !, or automatically ever
recommended any such Interpretation to
be indilferentIy used by all men,"
/ In the light Of all this evidence to the
contrary from bis own Church DEGREES of
councils; pope's bulls; bishops pastorals;;
fhistoriah's testimony: controversIalists adj
missions ;4theoIogian's declarations; and
"A Catholic himself as a witness. What
! ecomes of his assertion that his church
urges the Laity to read the Bible
Protestanls are not SO Ignorant, or do
Gle as to receive the ipse dlxlS OF any onei
be he priest, minister or layman. They
will have proof. 1t is certainly very per-
verse in them hot to believe every thing a
priest tells them; but they have held to
this obstinate way ever since Wickliffe
translated the Bible and ''Luther's revolt
and they will till the monstrous heresies Of