The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-06-20
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The better to understand the following, IL is
proper I'd state that the charge of burning
Bibles was made agsipst n community of ladies
conducting Catholic orphanage at Market
Marlborough, England. The ladies conducting
the Orphanage were received into the Catholic
Church less than year ago-an the inmates
following their example. Having many nom
Catholic books, which, under the altered cir
cumstances, were useless and therefore packed
away, after several boxes were filed, few
books remained over, among them some Pro-
testant Bibles, and not wishing that these
should be put to base uses, as was SO common
among grocers and others, they were placed i'll
the fire. In further explanation, it is publicly
stated that this is the method adopted by the
Catholic Church herself when sacred things
are no longer fit for use, to save them from.
being put to profane purposes. The books be-
longed to the ladies, and as private property
they could rightfully dispose of them as they
pleased. The following reference is taken
fronr-an English paper:
We ought really to condole with certain of
our PROTESTANT friends theirs is hard fate,
ever to be grasping at objects apparently real
only to find them airy phantoms Nothing can
exceed the devotedpess with which they have
labored to manufacture a real substantial
grievance against Of course there have
been plenty of limitations, but like many other
articles their limitations will not Very
lately our English matronS were startled by
some fearful news in n town in Lcicestershire;
u Roman Catholic lady was reported to have
burnt some copies of the Holy Bible. What
audacity What profanity! Our matrons can
calmly and unmoved see their precious treas
ure in the hands of a grocer or of a butterman !;
they suffer their nephews and nieces to make
n horn book of the volume-but that this
treasure should be burnt! This is what eScitcs
the ire of our matrons. For days the tale floats
along the great Protestant atmosphere. Lead
ers are written bomilies are made, sermons are
preached, and our matrons are full of busy
fuss; but at last the bubble bursts. What
was construed into a direct act of irrcyerence
was, it seems, done out of reverence. The good
lady had SOME copies of the Bible, remnants of
her former bondage; and these she elected to
consign to the flames instead of leaving them
to be moth-eaten or consumed by rats; as a
rule, Burning is certainly the surest means of
disposing of property which you do not wish
to retain. Moreover, if the property be a per-
SONS own, as it was in this case, one has n
right to interfere. Shall an EnglishInan's
privileges be surrendered to certain little in
dividual, another edition of Paul Pryf Must
we render an account of our stewardship to
this irquisitorf We hardly think that those
who discourse so hippantly about Protestant
liberty VIII let us come to so cruel pass. But
if Protestants feel so keenly any slight, let 1t
be n mere imaginary one which is offered to
their version of Holy Writ, we have remedy
to suggest just let The supply be stopped.
The Protestant Bible has been thought a pan
acea for every i'll; it has been forced alike on
the Irish cotter and on the Spanish peasant.
The results only too painfully apparent
Men who have not the due knowledge requisite
for such task have taken this book, and using
that license which Professionalism accords them,
they have interpreted tho maXims of this vol
ume according to their will and fancy. Hence
in these latter days a multiplicity of
Bects but u paucity of well-doers. Some men,
we grant, have read the Protestant Bible
Alright, and with all singleness of purpose
Ie iSa.. we s, fss 1' 10 e
the one true Church for even in their garbled
n ard Wien o r@btv read they call forth
longiugs and aspirations which no Anglicansm
other g ism" can satisfy, hut which of ne
cessity must urge on him to whom these
promptings are sent, to seek rest where alone
it is dttanable, and that is in the Church
of truth, that Church whose mission it is to
interpret the Holy Bible.