The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-16

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f.;.h and vitbout IL there can be no salva-
tion i'm resisting it eternal damnaSon d
the cost Gods Word must then % neoi ~
Now. God is Just, and cannot ASK n'"n "
attempt what he cannot comply VIII uhat
muet have given the means to Know VIZ"
He has taught, and these means mu' and at
been within the reach of all peoples anu ~
ali times, for all men have right 70 saws
ton. If the means be above our reach,
n thew DO fsllible, they are no meaus ~
ali. They must, then, be within our crazy,
and, above all, infallible, and m NUE. 10
adapted to all capacities and all 1htei 20
Has He given us such means nsantsd " brethren
saw it IL the Bible; We Catholics say ~ 10
the Church of the living God. / Will SPEAK
of the Bible. contend, in the hrst pace,
that it is not within the reach OF an III
the second place, it is not adapted W M
capacities and all inteilects, anu .i,;s,a
because it has led millions into all manner
of absurdities and errors: Ny sePara.ea
brethren, do not attack the Bible, out 'ne
abuse of the Bible.
On the first point it was not at all ti'nes
within our reach. The Church e1lsteu
seven years before line OF the new i ,sscas
only in the eighth year Of our Lord or az
the time when tho Gospel OF Jesus
had been preached over the known woria.
Nov. were all these men who accepted tne
Gospel in these eight years Chrlssa ans
Our separated brethren answer yes, tney
were the model Christians. Yet they never
saw the Bible, because it was yet unWrlt-
ten. The second book of the Gospel was
that by st. Mark, who wrote ten years after
the Lord had left the earth, ana then Ut
request of the Christians of Rome. Were
! it not for this, it is probable st: Marx woulu
never have written at all. st. Luxe was
the third, and he wrote twenty -nve years
after Christ, and did it for one lndlviouai'
% al, Protestants know, named TheOphilus.
ST. John, the last of all, wrote his Gospel
| sixtv.three wears after the death OF our
Lord. and the books which Professionals call
| the Revelations, and We Catholics the Apo
CALYPSO, sixty five years after Christ. Then
the Church had existed sixty-five years
hafore fhe GOSPELS were completed. Were
these Christians who believed in Christ all
this timef Our separated brethren say
YES. But, no Bible, no Christians. Then
we're the Apostles no Christians. Of all the
martyred Apostles, st. John alone lived,
and he completed it. If God, if Jesus, in
tended that God should have the woria
taught HIS religion from the Bible He would
not have left His Church sixty five years
without it. But more than this, for over
three hundred years the Church of God had
no Bible. In the Apostles days, and after
wards, there were many spurious scriptures
extant. There were the gospels OF Simon,
of N,codemus, of Joseph of Arimathea, of
Mary. and Of the Infancy of Jesus. Even
many of the bishops and clergy could not
decide between these gospels, as to whether
| they were inspired or not. In the fourth
century, the Pope of Rome called a council
which decided that the New Testament, as
we have it, and the Old Testament, were
But more than this, until the invention OF
printing, in the fifteenth century, Bibles
were not within tho reach of any save the
extremely rich they were rare and costly
!, A writer of the eleventh century says that
it took a lifetime to write Bible on parch.
, ment in those days when there was nc
paper, no gold or steel psps. Computing
It at twenty years. work, and the pay i
dollar day, that would cost nearly $4,000
Were a poor Protestant told that he mus
read the Bible to save his soul or go to hel
fire, and then offer him a Bible for $4,000
: he would probably says" guess must g.
, to hell, l cannot pay that much" Blu
certain that not half of the world coul.
a read it. Suppose every one could read
The Bibles were written In Hebre'
. and Greek. The translationsf Yes, bu
y centuries passed before such a thing W a
r attempted. Again, how do you know you
@ translation is correct oneI The mos
y learned among Protestant bishops say tha
n King James Bible is full of errors; on
!. man, a learned Presbyteria compute
"a them at thirty Thousand, and at present
" Protestant body is praying the Englis
:. Parliament for a sum of money to procul
,f a new and better translation. My sepa
+. ated brethren, that is a sandy foundatic
3. you are on. But let US suppose that ever
al man had a correct Bible, aud could read
r. still, say, private Interpretation is not
"a guide. 1t has produced $50 contradictol
er Protestant denominations, and yet men G
H. out of the difficulty 10y saying that they
ia. mean well. That is not enough. We C;
"a, suppose meeting Of Protestant minister
NO all learned, honest, sincere, well-meani
and prayerful men. The low Episcopali
M is accused of being yet half a Papist; t
We Presby terrain of having cut off too niue
mt the Methodist insists that one must feel t
ma, spirit working in him the Baptist SEQ
led at the baptism of the Others either
,us sprinkling OF pouring, and insists on bel
so, dipped in the river. The Quaker says, Ii
viii in peace and never mind baptism, and t
Hicksite will baptise onlysthe men, leavi
we the women to go to heaven aabaptiz
fits. The Unitarian calls the rest idolators
es- cause they believe in q divine Jesus, a
ng- says they will go to hell. The Universal
says, He'll there is no evidence of hell
day the Bible. Now, who is right The Bi
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