The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-24

To all religious bodies as donations. Not satisfied
In charge OF ST. vincenrs Hospital, BY saying they
refuse Protestant pauets the attendance OF their
iurtner that he gave the sisters donation mot a
ten dollar bill. we hope), all OF which the sisters
emphatlcay deny In their card OF February 70;
Sisters ever refused to admit Protestant cergymen
to their patients to substantlate the truth OF which
they call to witness Protestant ministers them
selves "Dexterous'' Hawkins should bear In mind
an old prOverD Never to throw stones where you
Protestant institution In receipt OF public moneys,
VIII not admit Catholic priest 10 attend "a sick or
dying patient on any pretext whatsoever.
The oft.rcpeatcd lasehood respecting the Cathe-
dral property has been often reuted that II would
be an Insult to your readers to dwell further on the
subject
Ali Catholics ask is truth and fair play. Liars
they cannot be guarded against.
a CATHOLIC SUBSCRIBER.
"Open Slnnder'-Some Points for Father
Damen to Ponder.
FATHER DAMEN:-
SIR-In your sermon Sunday evening, at the
Church OF the Holy Inn0cents, you said, speaking
OF Protestants. "They object to us because they do
not understand u.s. They tell us that Catholics are
not allowed to read the Bible. Now, you all know,
this Is open SANDER" Now, sir, presume that you
aware that the Council OF Toulouse, the year
1929, decreed thus-"We prohibit the laity from
having the books OF the Old and New Testaments."
And also that the Council OF Trent decreed ana the
decree ratified by Plus the Fourth. March "a,
1864, "Inasmuch as 1t is manifest from experience
that If the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar
tongue, be indiscriminately allowed TO every one,
the emerlty of men Will cause more evil than good
to arise from 1t, 1t is on this point referred
to the Judgment OF the Bishops or inquisitors
who may, by the advice OF the priest or coniessor
whose faith and piety they apprehend VIII be aug
mented and no. injured by It. and this PERMISSION
hnun In IlIIfff ana Ghn
have the presump ton to read possess 1t without
such written per emission he shall not receive aosO-
the ordinary" This, sir, Is not the Open slander'
Of Proteslants, "wno do not understand" you, out
the year 1912 Paul the Fifth revoked all power to
the priesthood TO grant license Tor the reading or
bS boo ae 'ne u s p wrI S
TO whom your fraternity owe SO much for its resur
reclion to LIE, IN the year 1914; alter It's death and
1873, so late as the year 1916 denounced Bible
societies and Bible reading to the "lowest he.r
Clement the Ninth, you are aware. denohnced
the Jansenlsts because OF their attachment to the
Scriptures, and Gregory the Sixteenth. In his
Of his espeo those acts
Paul the seventh and OF Benedict the Fourteenth.
whose hostility to the scriptures and Its cir
culalion among the people was without parallel.
and renew the DEGREES reclted abose. ae-
thorty against the publication, distrlbu-
tion, reading and possession OF books of the
HOLY scriptures translated into the vulgar tongue"
Now, SIR, do the utterances OF Protesants, with
these facts, conhrmatory OF the Church's teachings
upon o ms pont loSS IKE .,open SANDER vs. not
your own lnallible Church, and hence fail 70 be
true to your representation OF ProtestantsS But"
say you, 1.-THE Bible Is our bulwark, our sword and
shield or defence" Sir, Is this so is III Then SIR
living truths are fasehoods, and the past IN lis re-
cords Is an imposition. Why, sir, Is II,
II your Church has so revered the Bbla III the past
and loves II so fully al the present, that prOhors
Its reading TO each and every one OF ner communion
without license from priest? And why Is II that
to-day IL stands prohibited books upon your cata
countries where YOUR Church Is supreme the bible
Is wholly unknown Your own Poynter declared
before Inc committee OF the British House OF Com.
mons that "there Is English version OF the Bible
authorized by the see OF Rome" 1he Douay Bible
Is or no authority even among ROmanists, and Is
the American people. 'ROnld lONutd est: cdusa
Hnito esr'-"Rome has pronounced and the judy
Of the devices of your fraternity.
F. s. HAMMOND.
The Controversy ON the Immortality Of the
soul.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Having read in your issue OF the 18th inst. both
the article signed Cato" and reply to him by a
"Discipe." cannot refrain from endeavoring to
convince the former OF, what seems to me, the very
dark views which he enterJalns. He attempts to
prove by the Bible that the soul is not immortal
and that he Is convinced that 1t cannot sur.
we . separation o. body and spirit" He evidently
refers to the death of the body; but what does he
mean by the ''splrit'-that something which he
acknowledges is separated from the pody? And
what does ne mean by the ''soun which he asserts
cannot survive that separations Are we to infer
that by the "soul" he speaks OF that individual con-
sc,ousness which makes each and every one
Just what they are, unlike any other and by the
'Splrlp' Inc mere breath that Keeps this human
machinery IN motion and OF death 'separates''
4 - ~ a IN
the conscious eqO-to die out Ike the flame OF a
candle2 WHAT is a human being? Surely not tnat
part alone winch Is formed by gross matrer-animal
and vegetable substances and the more subtitle
| oxygen and carbon; Tor that part, the body, IS
changing every hour and IN seven years, we are
| told, we undergo a thorough transformation, and
not one particle OF our former bodies remains; but
lost, one acquisition of knowledge vansheds NO.
We this soul, this individual CONSCIOUSNESS, still
remains intact immortal. We NAV go even inrrner
than tnis and say that we not only
do not realize the loss OF any portion
OF our bodies when 1t falls away from
us gradually but that a finger All arm
or leg may be severed at once, anu we sull retain
the impression that We possess body entire. st.
Paul says there Is u natural body and there Is
spiritual body and tnat ..this mortal musr out on
Immortality" 1t Is this spiritual body which can.
not be INITIATED, the limbs OF which the pOssessor
IL ever conscious OF having, although the grOsser
matter OF the natural limbs have been severed and
long since returned TO the elements or which they
were composed. | think II was sir Isaac Newton
who remarked that "a smattering OF philosophy
made one an inlde, but a deeper knowledge OF us
tTutnS COMpeilcu one 10 DE u CIlrlStlan.' we may
90 TAR enough TO see the workings OF one material
substance upon another; To know tnat we are
dependent upon different forms OF matter digesied
into the system for existence; that were oxygen
denied us we should cease TO be living material
being: that the beautiful Clouds which IN childhood
we gazed upon In such rapt wonder, thinking
heaven lay inst beyond are only gray mist illu-
mined by the sun; that the bright stars only
worlds ike our own, "swlngng around the cIrcieb
and that all forms OF life and being may be traced
back rs an eject OF matter governed by natural law.
and so conclude that we are ourselves out "A con-
lnFTn nf NJ n af
subtlety which snail by the dlsintegratinR power
OF DEATH decompose into the different gases OF which
we were compounded, and ''tne spirit return 10
Goa. who gave lt' or, In other words according to
the PaDtheisic doctrine, go out into the great ocean
OF spirit winch surrounds all matter; that future
life beyond the grave Is but creation OF the fancy,
coDjured up by our own longings Tor an immortal
JOY, and that heaven itself Is out myth. Such
condition of mind certainly OF the stepping
stones which must be reached by a thinking, rea-