Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-04-11
THE MISSION AT The CATHOLIC
CHURCH

Sermon last evsniu, By Rev. Father
CogbIsn. The Subject rms Faith neces-
sarv to Salvation. sud where the true rl'e
Of Faith rsy be found"
The Rev Father began b. reei,ing 8
number Of passages from the Bible clearly
stating that Faith is necessary TO salvation
Faith, SAYS the writer Of he Epsds to
the Hebrews, as tie substance OF th.Ees hop
ed for, the evidence OF ,Iisgs not seer"
"H- ,hs, believes and il bsptised viii be
saved"
Faith Is Necessary 10 salvation
"Wishoa. Fai'h J., is impossible to please
God Chris, taught but one doctrine md
oas Fa,.a. There ia no conflict bst-een
reason su4 revealed religion. St. Pau.
Says E..ta u.asE BE- r-as1u.o'z
There sr, over 300 d.Es-ea. christiar
jocr.ass ,lch protesting to have tho s-as
FA,ib as laugh, b. Christ and bis ap7s-iss
when o1 esub low then are We 10 a.
termins what the true rule Of Faith is. and
where may ). be found? A large majority
0. she yArlous christian religions outside OF
the Catholic Church say the Bible as read
and under,tood by the reader thereof, is
the true rule Of Faith Can We safely trust -
DOR own understanding Of the meaning Of
the 4 bic, to arrive at the Faith ,Augh, by
Christ! St. PeNr, 10 his 2Dd Episte, says
Of the Epistles Of St. Paul "Soms things are
hard 10 be uRderstood, which they that are
uneArned and unstable wrest, az they o also
the other Scriptures, to their own depruc-
ton "
The Rev. Lecturer then procsede to show
where, in addition TO the difficulty Of End
ing the true meaning, many grave errors
may be found in the editions Of the Bible,
used in the other Christian denominations,
outside OF the Catholic Church.
! The Bible was 6rsi written in Hebrew,
then in Syro-chaldaic, then in Greek, after
wards 10 Latin, thence translated uto all
the modern languages. Errors iuDu merable
N ust have crept into the Bible by copying
aud translatious. Parts of the Bible we're
written 1909 years before Christ The first
Bible was printed IN A. d. 1850
CHANGER the English Poet died in a. D.
400, the English language used by him
would be nearly unin,elIigible to us. As a
humorous instance of the manner in which
an error in tho translation may occur the
lecturer told Of person who undertook to
translate into Chinese the sentence "Behold
the Lamb of God" There being no single
word IL that language to represent "lamb"
1t stood srAuslated-"Behold the Young
of the Sheep of God"
There are seven books Of 81 chapters OF
the original Bible that are not found in the
Protestant version of the present days.
Men OF learning can point out in that YER
sion sometimes more than twenty errors in
one chapter. The learned English autho,
D'Israeli, in his curiosites of literature u.
37s, N. Y. Ed.-under head of "The Pear
Bible writes as follows:
"As literary curiosity notice a sub;e ct
which might rather enter into the history o.
religion. II relates to the extraordiparv
state Of our English Bibles, which were 70,
some time suffered to be SO corrupted thai
no books ever yet swArmed with such in.
Vulnerable errors. These errors unquestior
ably we're In great part voluntary commiss-
ions, passages interpolsted and meanings
forged for certain purposes sometimes to
sanction the neN creed Of half Matched