Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-25
THE ST PAUL DAILY GLOBE MORNING. FEBRUARY Is 1878

copies of it, translated it into Greek, Latin,
Persian, Chaldaic, Sanskrit, ETC., and then,
as best they could-a difficult task for twelve
penniless misunderstanding as modern blDle
societies have, scattered bibles to the four
corners of the earth. But no, they preached.
After eight years, a small portion of the new
testament was written, the Gospel OF st.
Matthew. In the meantime, tie church took
roots throughout the vast provinces OF the
Roman Empire; among the banks OF the
distant Ganges. Disciples, Luke and Mark,
wrote their gospels. Paul, James and Peter,
as occasion offered. sent letters to commu-
mites already grounded in the faith, converted
by oral teaching. At last, toward the close
of the first century, when the
church had in many places,
witnessed the second and third generations
of pastors, St. John wrote the fourth gospel
in refutation of the errors of Cerinthus.
This was the church during the first century
as Christ had instituted her, complete in all
her essentials-the rule of faith teachers ap-
pointed by Christ passing down to their sue
cessors, by oral tradition, the deposit of faith.
When the books of the New Testament
were written, an infallible court, the church,
was in perpetual session, capable of judging
of the supernatural characteristics of these
books, and she has set upon them the seal of
inspiration. Submissive to the DEGREES of
the church, we bow before the bible. The
Office of the bible is to serve as precious
storehouse of Gods truth. Before the COM
pletion of the New Testament, there was in
the church oral traditions, with court to
preserve, teach and interpret. The New
Testament completed, there was mixed
code, the common or unwritten law, and
the statute or written law. The New Testa-
ment, When completed, did
not include all previous oral ira
ditions. The apostles and disciples
wrote not to record, &c protesso, divine reve-
lation, but, as occasion offered, to oppose
heresy, and their writings were addressed to
people well instructed in the faith and in the
possession of oral tradition. St. Paul posi-
| lively tells the Corinthians to '.keep the OF
| dinances as l deliver them to ou,'-ordi-
nances not included in his Epistles. st.
Johns gospel tells us plainly that there are
many other things which Jesus did that was
| not written.
i For four centuries the canon of scripture
was not established. For 1000 years only
the richest of the land could have bible
the truths of His word being furnished by
the teaching ministry. Before the appear
%,
| 1880. there had appeared in the different
countries of Europe at least % different yer,
nacular tongues, which: during the seventy
years intervening between 1850 and 1880 had
passed through over seventy editions. But
still the charge will continue to be repeated
against the church that it is opposed to the
reading Of the bible, and at the meetings in
our own city of st. Paul, pious ministers will
tell their patient hearers of the superstition
and immortality of Catholic countries where
the bible is not allowed, and Rev. Mr.
VanMeter, in our st. Paul Baptist
church brings tears to the eyes of the devou1
by painting to them in glowing terms his
happiness three years ago, when with his
own hands he worked off from the press the
first Italian bible. OF course Mr.. Van Meter
had an object in view. Contributions were
asked to help him to print the bible in Ital
ian. No wonder that the calumny remains
Bible societies and their principles receive
of course, scant honor at the hands of Catho
lies 1t will be different whenever they viii
have answered the following questions:
First, is this book which you present t.
me the word of God, all of Gods word, ant
nothing but Gods word?
Second-Are you giving me a correc
version
Thirds the bible Christ's appointed
rule of faith
Fourth-Are all men obliged to read it
and what of those to whom the reading of i
was and is impossible ?
Fifth-What will do if I cannot under
stand it ?
1 repeat, it is the Catholic church who re
ceived the scriptures, to whom alone the,
belong they are her treasures, and sh'
alone has the key to their intelligence. Sh,
alone makes the use of them which God in
tended outside of her pale their authorit,
has no foundation. Protestants have M
right to quote them. The heretics of ole
quoted scripture. Tertullian, speaking fo1
the church, said to them: s'Who are youi
What business have you, strangers, with my
property? The estate is mine. I have the
title-deeds delivered to me by the origina
proprietors. am the heir of the apostles
they have made their will in my favor, while
they have disinherited and cast you off az
strangers and enemies. y