The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-06
SERMON BY REV. DIR. DOWLING.

SENMON KEW. DR. DOW LING.
Last evening sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. Dow
ling, in the Bedford street Baptist church, popry
and the Bible in Public Schools" a very large c9ustc-
CATION. The text chosen by the preacher was 7tlr
Of the 9Th chapter Of the Book of peat oaeay
And these words which command thee this ny shall
be in thine heart and thou shall teach them diligently
Thy children.
e then proceeded to show that the "words uentoned
in the pas sage meant the law which the words
of the Divine Being himself and to impress that they were
TO be taught the children ofhis people lie went on
TO show that the Bible teaches that be read by all
without making any distinction between priests other
individuals commanded his dscipcs 10 search
the Scriptures and ST Paul, ia writing 10 Timothy
says-"fom child thou hast known the holy Scriptures
also quoted other texts TO prove that
taught by God himself to read and study
his sacred w1fd and then undertook to show
that the church Of Rome opposed TO aud
reading Of the Scriptures, and that she de-
,ucton Of our public school system. in proof Of the
first point he spoke Of the persecution OF WckGe
fauslang the Bible into the English language and the
subsequent persecution OF rndei, who the Bible
the Dutch in their vulgar tongue next spoke on tho
history Of the Reoi nation, quoting Instances where
the bible was burned, at AK IN France Antwerp e!-
I'm, and other places lie also quoted instances where
the Scriptures burned recently by Roman Catholics
Mt thampian, near Canada, October 1912, ana Chile
u South America still more recently. lie showed from
the fourth canon Of the Council Of Trent assem-
bed in 1864 that the teaching OF the Ronsh church pro
hnits the free circulation Of the Roman Catholic version
oI IN language understood the
pie He quoted bulls issued by Pope Plus Seyenth in
1916, and Pope Gregory the Sixteenth in 1874 agans
the reading OF the Scriptures, except such conditions
made impossible tor the people To read them at ALL
He showed from Doctors Murray aud Clarke, Professor
Ackwoih and others, who have travelled Italy that
II impossible for the people 10 procure the Bible and
that II so litle known in the Papal headquarters that
there are millions OF the poiuiacc who never heard
ot such book. lie concluded his argument on
this head by showing that Catholic bishops priests
wherever they are, labor whenever they have oppor
tunty TO prohibit The reading Of the Bible and to exclude
from places OF education. Roman Catholics desire tho
destruction Of public schou system After excluding
the Bible from they will not be satisfied they then
pronounce our schools Goddess and am at destroying
them altogether The ignorance Of the people only
strength Of the church Of Rome. South America SPAIN
France, Portugal and every Roman Catholic country bear
evidence Of this and IL has always been object with
Romanism to throw obstacles in the way Of education
The countries whore the liberty Of the press not ex
ist Roman Catholic countries. II nvaon OF tho
rights Of American citizens TO prohibit the reading tho
Bible in schools. The Bible is the political and rcl
rous ark OF liberty TO our enlightened land The discourage
concluded by appeal to the congregation prevent
the Roman Catholics IN New York from driving the Bblo
from the public schools where Il is read.