The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-08

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he had the name Of it. he defended the church
against Luther. He, moreover. was net self-
styled defender. Yet the path along which his
"erroneous perst ttsnce" led him, runs from o
weak, infantilo and diluted kind of CstSolicity,
through the very Lutheranism which he had
rightly opposed at ono time. and from that to
where he 10 now To be born Catholic 10
| not thing to brsg about. as if ones self had
managed it. 1t is something to always fer
| vently thank God for. was born o Catholic
| myself, but believe there is more joy in
Heaven over one convert than over ninety
nine, etc.
Bat as to the second part of the quotation
from me:
What 10 day of twenty -four hoorsf
Why, of course 1t is q natural day. an ordi.
nary day, like our days, measured by the sun
and all that-in fact q genuine literal day.
Now 1 ask any intelligent person whether q
natural day, suoh IS ours, measured by the son
and literally suoh rs we know q day to be in
these times, could hare erised before the creation
of the sunP A day produced by moving the
light and darkness round the earth would be
o miraculous and unnatural day. A day pro-
duced by the element of fre," scattered and
chaotic in its distribution, and quenohed, or
hidden, during the night. by dense and
chaotic atmosphere, would be an unnatural
and q miraculous day, no matter what might
be it's length.
That's the way you must talk to infidels.
Moses tells the truth. He says the sun was
created formally, Of oourse,) on the fourth
day, therefore the sun could not bave
measured the previous days. I say could
not because I believe Moses. 1t seems
going too far to say that the days Of
creation were measured at ell by any visible
means. We don't know their length or how
they were aeured We know very little
about them. Moses did not bother about them,
and Cardinal Wiseman thought that it would
be presumption even in him to decide one way
or the other (Lectures. p. 205), and don't see
why should care. In fact no one is exercised
about them bot D P s, and he seems desperate
about something connected with them. The
Church never taught anything about them, and
consequently what / said cannot be contrary
to her teaching. although D says 1t is, it
Is, it is-is, Is, is, zisll!
I have been very careful to say nothing not
warranted by Holy Scripture, and all have
ever learned on this sui jsot came to me from
gentlemen wbo se business 1t was to know all
about it-gentlemen who had received their
I'D. D." from the Pope himself, and in that
and all else were different from D SIS
friend, Croly, whose theology was that of q
ssotarian conventicle, and whose sd. D was
o sham.
Now, in tho light of what / have eaid,
the application of those different quotations,
brought forward by D. p s., viii be seen. He
| brought quotations calculated to prove every
| conceivable thing connected with creation,
bnt absolutely nothing to prove that 1 was
wrong; because, of course, his ideas about
creation were still "void and without form, 7"
and was right. When D admitted that
| q good Catholic migl hold that the days are
| fgurative he gave up all he claimed in his
! original aeeF- and curious criticism aud tie
| could not do otherwise than admit that, for
he was 81 as wrong as he could possibly be.
| He cannot fool the Catholic public as to what
| he said in bis letter published in the STAR OF
| August 4th. They can look at it and see what
| he said just as we'll as himself, if not bett sr.
1t is preposterously ridiculous or silly to talk
about Calico. Galileo made what he
thought E discovery in physical science
| and Insisted on it's truth, Bible no
Bible. have not claimed any discovery iu
| any science Whatsoever. l merely called peo-
ple's steention en- passant to the actual wording
OF the Bible, reminding them that the history
of the Gun commenced on the fourth day OF
creation, and alluded to theological opinion
that certainly ought to be known to most peo
pie, an d undoubtedly is. The trouble is thai
DIP 8 did not know enough about it to keeE
him still.
ttust that like q good ChristiaD, as ht
doubtless is, he will be pleased to And that
was right all along, and that, no matter how
any atheist or anybody else might invert the
Bible, or muquote the Fathers, am abun
dainty able to make manifeet the truth of what
say. G. JR