Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-13
MIR. .HASKINs' LECTURE.
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Democrat the report of Rev, Thomas w. Haskins' initial lecture, delivered 10 a chosen audience of Tombstone's cti- zens. As think it proper to make some remarks on the opinions of the Reverend speaker as expressed in the aforesaid paper, allow me, dear sir, little space in your columns.
 The Reverend gentleman, commenting on the school laws of Arizona, concludes: "Sectarianism is forbidden" He eX- plains the sisniication of the word "Sectarian;s by it's etymology, dcriv- ing it from the Latin "seco-secarc" which, amongst other sgnihcations, has that of "cut of a part of whole body" or separate portion of the rest. This signifca,ion he applies to the re- ligous sects and states "Romanism, Protestantism, e.c. are Sectarian, and, as such, are forbidden" can very easily verify this statement for Protestantism and it's manifold offspring, because it has been "cut off whole body" called the Catholic Church, since the year I5oo But as to where is the Christian relig- ous body of which Roman Catholicism was ever cut off Tracing back its his tory, we see St. Peter transferred his Apostolic sects from Antioch to Rome, where he founded the Roman Catholic Church and sealed it with his blood, un- der Emperor Nero, in the year 64. From that date till to day the legitimate sue cessors of the Prince of the Apostles continue his glorious mission.
 Now conclude: The Roman Catho- lie Church is the religion from which all the other sects are cut off. She is that portion that always remained and was Never cut of, and was never Sectarian. It follows out of the premises given by Rev. T. A. Haskins, that the Catholic religion alone, as not being Sectarian, IS commanded by the law of this Territory to be taught in the public schools.
 As Catholic priest, thank the Rever- end gentleman for his good principles, but l doubt whether he will admit their consequences.
 Further on, the Reverend gentleman challenges any school official, lawyer or judge in the United States to prove that God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments or the Lords Prayer are Sectarian. Surely the Good God, His command ments and that sublme-Our Father are not Sectarian; they are only a little too much neglected and forgotten. But, with regard to the Bible, l have serious difficulty. To speak alone of the New Testament, we know by history that not before the Fourth Century the different parts of the Bible were gathered and the Canon of Scripture framed, as the Catho- lie Church possesses it now.
 In the same century St. Jerome-the most learned linguist of his time-made by order of Pope Damasus, a complete translation of the Bible into the Latin language, which was then the living language of the civilized world. Thi edition was disseminated throughout Christendom, and on that account called the Vulgate or popular edition. In the following centuries the modern languages of Europe began to spring up like so many shoots of the parent Latin stock. The scriptures soon also found, under the guidance of the Catholic Church, their way into these languages. The fact is that before Luther put his pen to paper no fewer than hfty-seven editions of the Bible had appeared on the con- tinent of Europe and in Great Britain. Since the time of Luther, every new fedged divine, with some superficial education, imagined that he had received a call from Heaven to inaugurate new | TCllSiOIi, duo, III uiS dNioitioh oi lldnuiHS down his fame to Posterity, stamped his name on a new sect; and every one O these champions of modern creeds ap
 pealed to the unchanging Bible in sup
 port of his .ever-chaaging doctrines
 The consequence is that parts of tn.
 Bible, too clear to be falsified according
 to their religious views, were rejected
 others adulterated, different text
 left out or changed, SO that to-day W,
 have as many bibles as there are secls
 Very recently several hundred Mormon
 women presented petition at Washing
 ton, protesting against any interference
 with their abominable system of polyga my. They also insist that their cherishe
 system is sustained by the Bible.
 Now, ask the Reverend gentleman
 where is his un-Sectarian Bible? cor
 clude that the old Catholic Bible alone f un-Sectarian. and moreover, that tn , Catholic religion, with her genuin s Chr;st;an doomas and sanctifyinp teacl