The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-17

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i the /" Msrgaret's reader in theology" write
Il from Cambridge to the Nmss, saying that +" a
1 the letter of Lord Shaftesbury on the question
likely TO cause alarm, be begs to remark tina,
the English Bible attained its present excel
ience by several revisions, and that the trans
"At the Convocation farce which was per
formed the other day, Protestant bishop sug
geeted that the new edition should be fur
nished with marginal notes." All this, v ere
not the subject 80 serious would DO exceed.
ingIy amusing to the Catholic reader. Why,
the very starting-point of the Bible societies TO-
that this spurious book Of theirs " shall be
a. their principle, "that the Bible add the
Bible alone II the foundation Of the Christian
faith" So now they are going to cat their own
x ~ofds, ana iail away from their hrst text In
and 20 many millions thrown away upon mul-
tiplying copies of their Scriptures, they are
coming around to the Catholic observance, and
their Bible is to be issued with comment and
explanatory notes. We must congratulate
them upon this approach to the sound method
adopted by the true Church. But what have
present excellence "of the Protestant Bible 2"
We might content ourselves with the encycli-
Gals Of Leo XII, in 1924, Of Plus VII, in 1929.
and of Gregory XVI. in 1874, all of which assert
that the Protestant Bible contains the gravest
errors in matters of faith" But such testi-
mony might be suspicious to our Protestant
readers (and we know we have many such,)
and therefore We will venture to give them the
judgments of . few men which they cannot but
respect. We have Islander writing to Luther"
and Zuinglius taunting him with these words,
Scriptures" we have also the solemn condem-
nation in 1913, passed upon Luthei's Bible by
the Protestant synod OF bort. Then comes
Beza saying to Calvin, Thou o Calvin hast
made the text tn n y1n md fO mi W
purpose" But Mr.. Selwyn would wish to con-
fine us to the " excellence" of the Bible of 1911,
King James's Bible" as it is called. This
have made 1000 corrections in it; so "exoel-
lent" that Mr.. Wall exclaimed, A man cannot
forbear having a strong stomach against our
translator who, with I'LL the ancient copies
before them, have nevertheless gone astray."
Whitaker wrote in 1735, Better it had never
been translated" Bengel, the great German
gate more faithfully expresses the sacred
original" and Walton, the editor of the London
potygt9t, says the same, adding these words,
" Our Reformers by putting the Bible into the
hands of the Ignorant have opened the mouth
of the bottomless pit" So much for the "excel-
lence" of the Protestant version of Scripture,
and of the good effected by senseless spread
thorities. But Mr. selwyn also states that the
translation of 1911 did not condemn form T |
versions. This is absolutely untrue, at least il
we are to believe the Protestant Bishop Wat |
son, author of the famous APOLOGY" the |
Collections" &c. He tells us that the Bibl, |
of Tindale, COverdale, and of Queen Elizabeth's |
bishops were SO notoriously corrupt that King
James ordered the translation of 1911. This is |
precisely the same that is used now, with q |
few alterations, which were made after the |
restoration. One of three things is therefore |
true: either the Bibles before that of 1911 were
not corrupt and then King James and Watson |
and host of others have been mistaken, or |
else they were corrupt, and yet were not con- |
denned by the translatOrs, and then these |
latter were knayes and seducers of the people !; |
Or lastly they were both corrupt, and, in con
were condemned, and then the |
. Margarets Reader in Theology" has ventured
to write upon subject upon which he is not |
fully instructed. To us Catholics the whole |
question of the Protestant Bible is Il sad farce |
A nation of rational beings, coming to the con- |
clusion that God is served, that Christianity is |
spread, aud salvation impaired, by putting |
leaving him alone to read it, While ConvOca-
lion is busying itself with the question of a
new translation of this book, the English
people (the hundreds of thousands of English
artisans especially are rejecting it altogether.
The fippancy of lsresy, its shocking levity
with all things holy, is beginning to reap its
'eward. Many in this country throwing
lside the Bible and all it contains; they have
Iad enough of 6Oohl faith. And since it is alto
,ether out of the power of heresy to speak
With living voice, and to exercise spiritual
VIE Ii dead letter, often most deadly (under
he circumstances in it's consequences; re- |
igiOus Englishmeu are slowly but surely COM
ng to the conclusion that Professionalism and
he Church of Christ do not in the least mean
be Same thing. Heaven speed all such through
heir present darkness into the light - Uni
erse.