Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-12-25
VOL. XVI, NO. s3l.--sSsssss vols No y
THE BIBLE QUESTION cC4sVINUED.

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ness ofmy statements about the corrup
lions Of the Protestant translations. >
Nearly SIX weeks have elapsed since h
, made that promise, and about as man
months since he first made the statement
TO Which he refers.
! / am pleased at his giving this promise
because it is an acknowledgement that h
has hitherto failed in his. effort But
must remind him, and | mean to k8el
him to it, that his promise covers oah
half the ground he took
! He not only charged that the Protes
tant translation was. corrupt, but also lha
1"the translations had corrupted the orig;
nal tert on purpose to suit the protest.n
creed" This wicked charge was mad,
through the pages Of the "Herald" and j
/ | had not come to the defense Of Protes
tantism it might have remained uncontra
Idicted. But as true Herald" You have
acted with noble impartiai'y. All tha
truth requires is a clear field, and free dis
cussion.
have learned from many of your read
ers that there is a very general and deer
Interest felt in this controversy; and a.
they have waited so long for.A Catholics
promised article and not got it. will con
Itinue my reply to bis letter of the 80 Oct
and then furnish you seperate article on
the Apocrypha. | proceed with further
evidence that the Church of Rome pro
|hibits the indiseriininate reading Of Til
Billie. ,.....
TO prevent the circ1lation of the bible
in London, by the Bible Society in 1913
"a Priest by the name Of GanloIply de
Iclared himself willing to circulate the BIZ
lie in English without note or comment
if he could be furnished with such transla-
tons as his church approved. Several
Protestant gentlemen examined the Douay
Bible, and concluded Notwithstanding It's
errors, there was sufficient truth to teach
the way Of salvation by Jesus Christ, if il
could be disncumbe:ed of the absurd notes
and Popsh safeguards. They determined
To- furnish large edition; but Priest can
doiphy then found out they could not be
put in circulation. He said sit would
Oppose principle of his Church. if Cath
lolics were to have the scriptures III the
vulgar tongue without notes; and they
Icoald not allow the English Bible without
them" He said further 'sihey could not
90 about to desire people toreceive tesla
mems because the Catholics did not CON
Si:ler the scriptures Necessary. They
learnt and taught their religion by means
of catechisms and elementary tracts. !"
| Published correspondence
In harmony with this letter was the
l.aaatisa,er,t of q circular sent foiLh about
the same period from the University If
France, TO the teachers of the Pnblc
schools in the department of Dor
dogne.
The Inspectors of schools states, in the
document, that several cures PRIESTS had
complained that bibles and testaments
were permitted in their schools, and he
says Il will without delay, in company
with thePliest visil..an i,inspeclsy our schools,
and every copy of these books that we
shall find we will cause to be burnt. I will
only allow three books in the rural schools,
viz.
l. The catechism Of the diocese.
2. 4 moral book Of lessons.
8 Abook of Arithmetic.
When il 1920 this subject was much
sgitated in IRELAND; at public meeting
held in Dublin, where there were Roman
Catholic Bishops and Priests with Coun-
sellor O'Connel as their mouth piece, he
said, "You cannot expect to have the
Catholic clergy submit when their atten
Il ton is reused, to have the Bible used Nth
out note or comment because they must
have tradition which we also call the
word of God. Every catholic is, bound in
I life and in death to assert this.3'
Tho Ga1,.lesl- { r MT, which decreed on
pain of damnatidn, that no one should read
the scriptures .-itAout PrestIy licence, de-
creed also that those who obtained such
permission should '.not dare, to interpret
them against tie unanimous consent Of the
Fathers" This is ofitself virtual pro-
hibilion. rag
1st. Because the Fathers are not anan.
imous. I'd Because ii would take a life
time to examine the writings of all the
Fathers. Sd Because the masses know
nothing Of the language in which they
wrote.
Miner in his tend of controversy Let
| III, says what amounts to the same
Thing. He labors to make it appear
that the church of Rome does not prohib-
it the scriptures because she allows the
Latin Vulgate to be real By the learned
f-She requires "he says by way ofprep-
Ieration for this most difficult and import
liant study,that they should have received
SO much education as would enable them
TO read The sacred books in their original
e. the Hebrew a. Creek or
| in that ancient and venerable version.
| (Latin) The fidelity of which she gn aran-
tees to them He further says ''in case
the Laity are DESTROYS to read the scrip
lures in a modern tongue, they must be
/ furnished with some atiesiation of their
piety and DocfllrY, in order to prevent
their turning this salutary good Of their
soul into poison" Here is an admission
THAT toread the bible,' THE Laity must have