The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-04-27

tribHt0re. desires 10 Offer the " 'dSst pes'hle
latitude TOR FREQ discussion. II ia merelv
stipulated that communications shall con-
Germ matters of public interest," BE- put In
decent language and accompanied with the
names of the writers. not for publication,
but as . guarantee Of good faith.
For the Daily Record.
That Pleasant Book for Chill.
dren.
Mn. EDITOR:-A few days ago, under the
heading "a Pleasant Book for Children
there appeared in yous paper an extract
from the Manchester Examiner, condennipg
severely small book written BY Rev. Faith.
sr Furniss, C. S. R., and printed "psrmts-
sn superioruus," which means BY the per-
mission OF bis superiors and With their sane.
toin. Nov there are many wsys Of Witty
ing and misiepresentiug the words Of book
or person and the worst Of all is by making
isolated extracts, giving nothing whatever
Of the paris thst 20 before or come sfter. -
II this maoner OF quoting be allowable Il
could be proved that the Bible teaches inf
deity, because II says "There 10 no God"
Having the little book oil Father Furniss 10
my possession, looked for the places
whence the extracts were taken, and, 10 l
expected, l found that the Examiner omit
ted entirely what preceded, and the rss-
obs why the children ara 10 hall. With re-.
gard 10 tbs fret extract, Father Furnis,
takes from sacred scripture the example Of
the devil who struck Job (Job, chap. lily
with grievious ulcer from the top of hi 4
head to the sole OF his feet, and the fearful
effect of that one stroke, and from this ef-
feet deduces by analogy the terrible effects
OF such strokes repeated etrrnally. And
all this, occupying half page OF tue prin,
is omitted, aud then full quarter Of . page
succeeding 1t 10 omitted.
In the second example,, "The Drees OIL
Fire. the reason for the girl Of Gig hteen be.
Jog 10 bell 10 omitted entirely. will give
II 10 Father Furniss' own words: "When
that girl was alive she never thought abou
God Or her soul She cared obiy ior one
thiog, snd that was drsse. Instead of going
to mass on Sundays she went about the
town aud parks 10 show of her dress. She
dsobeyed her father and mother by going
to dancing houses and other kinds of bad
places to show off her drsss, aud now bel
dress is her pun shmeal, 20: By what thing
man sinneth by the same also is hs to be
tormented.' Wisdom xi.
The article cluoes with the following sar,
casm: "What dear, nice, excellent, tsu d,
er teacher OF little children this Father Fur.
niss mus. make! How ioby he incula,..
he doctrine of God being love in this inter
esting little book Of bis"
Now Father Furniss 10 the same book
Gays great deal about the love Of Almighty
God for little children. will give you Il
an extract the opening Of bis instruction or
this point:
"God loves little children 90 much tha,
ha wanted to be like them, 90 hs became q
little -chlid 10 the arms OF Mary bis mother.
jesus used to lay bis hsnds on children ssd
bless them. They brought infants to jesus
that hs might touch them" Luke xviii
He was very angry with those who would
not suffer little children to come to him, and
with those who scsndslz- them, Jesus
says: He that ebsll scandsize one OF
these little ones that believe in me, it were
better for him that milestone should bv
hanged about bis neck and that be should
be drowned in the depths of the sea-
Matt. xviii. Now it is due 10 justice to the
late Rev. Father Furniss that this misrep-
sentation OF his writing should be corrected,
aud that the whole truth should BE- known.
The otj-ct Of the Examiner in calling the
attention OF tho public to this statement il
not very hard to determine, and so there IL
double reason Tor correcting bis notice.
Thistle.