Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-09-18


committed by design, to favor their owl
Rebellion (styled reformation) against The
Catholic Church. These errors are moi
trivial or slight, such as may happen thro
the scarcely unavoidable mistakes of trans
scribers or printers. No! l accuse then
of wilfully corrupting and classifying th,
sacred ext against points of Faith ant
Morals. Now, all must admit that nc
crime can be more foul 10 its nature, more
prejudicial in its consequences, more near
y allied TO diabolical malignity than tina
Of designedly corrupting the Holy Scri
lures, and by such corruption, leading tn,
the food OF life into the poison of death.
All berelcs who ever waged war agains
Gods Holy Church have corrupted am
nnsinterpreted the letter and sense of Ho-
~ Scriplure-and all of them have mis-
represented, Knocked, and derided the
CATHOLIC Church. The pretended reform
ers have done this and the same vein has
still continued in the writings, preaching.
and teachings Of their successors, as if Proc
estantisn consisted only in scorning Cath
olics, eorrupting the Holy Scriptures, and
disappearing the Catholic church, have
never since the days of Simon Magu.
been more dexlerously or skilfully handled
than byEProtestants. will give you very
recent example of wiIful misrepresentation
from the very pen to my antagonist in hi,
last article. He quotes DR.. Doyle, Bishop
of Kildare, Ireland, in his opposition to he
reading of the Bible by children at school,
from which he concludes that the Catholic
clergy are hostile Of the reading of the
scriptures. gene tally. "A Protestant" is
cupable in this quotation, because he con-
ceals the truth, and trI,s to produce 3
wrong impression, the more SO. as he knows
how the matter stool; for when be quo
ted DR.. Doyle, stating ''that Catholic
persisling obslinately in reading the on
ttorieed version of the Scriptures, THAT is
Church of England version) would be ex-
Guided from the Sacrament In the Catholic
Church," he should have quoted from the
same page, as the SINE testimony, the
passage, wherein the prelate expresses his
strong and decided appreciation, of all the
Catholic people who could afford to pur-
chase Testament Of their own approved
version reading the same. No wonder
many innocent and we'll meaning people
entertain strange prejudice against the re-
lgion ofCatholics and dctesl alton ofCath-
olics, when we have been represented by
the pens # the teachers and ministerial
guides of Professionalism, as idolatrous su-
perstiiious, anti-christian, worshippers Of
stocks and stones, the beast of the revela
tons, DC, &C. Professionalism can only be
maintained by disappearing and ridicu-
lii g..Catholicity and by misinterpre ting the
Holy Scriptures, yea by abominably cor
rupiing the sacred word of God, as | will
now proceed to show.
lst. Protestanis have rejected from the
cannon of the sacred Scriptures the follow
ing books: Tobit, Judith, The rest of Es
dras, Wisdom, Eccleisasticus, Barruch and
Epistle of jeremiah, Song of the 3 Child
rem, Idol Bell and the Dragon, Story o
Susanna, l and ii Maccahees, Prayer O
Manesseth, Sd aud 4th Esdras. These
books, Protestants have condemned as A
pochryphal; they have torn them from the
cannon of the sacred Scriptures. Why
Because some things in these books are ST
manifestlY against t cir creed, that they
have no other answer but to reject theil
authority. Protestant writers themselves
have the candor 10 acknowledge that they
lave done this by the Instinct of the prl
yate Spirit in their hearts. Indeed! I
grand excu for their bold and licentiou'
manner of receiving and rejecting wha
they please. Tertullian says the heretlcI
/ of his day acted in the same way; in fac
what else do we see in the bold and pre-
Isumptuous conduct of Joe Smith aud Brig
ham Young Of Mormon notorleiy, wher
they testify that the Spirit Of God directs
and actuates them.
ID. In the Protestant Bible the wore
| Catholic is left out in the title OF tlo,e
Epi.tles which have been known by The
name of Catholic Epistles ever since The
Apostles time. The latter translation:
/ dealing somewhat moro honestly h..v,
/ turned the word catholic into general; "tht
general Epissle of James to Peter as
we should say in our creed, 81 believe n
the general church" instead then of cath
olics, We are generals. Is not this goot
stuff!
/ Sd. Listen now to the testimonies Prot
estants themselves, bear of one another.
!, translations. Zwinghies writes thus L
Luther concerning his corrupt translation
Thou eorruptesi the word of God, O Lu
Ither. thou art seen to be a manifest aut
eomnaen eorrupter and perverter of theHol,
i Scripture. heekerman SAYS of Luther'
1 translation: many great faults exist in Jo!
and the Prophets: be left out this text il
81. Johns Epistle: There be three VII,