Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-02-17
WHO CAN FORGIVE SIN
The Little Boy at the
Hornets Nest.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. REV.
z. ID. LEWIS, THE
GREAT b. ID.


Thinking he'd done enough to
purchase
Thanksgi wing day among the churches
Wherein bis mette and brave worth
Might be explained by holder forth,
And registered by fame eternal
Ip deathlees pages OF t'iu'nais
Found IN lew moments to his cost
he did but count without his host;
And that a turnstile is more certain
Than, in events of war, Dame fortune.
Ny Didn't Bro. Lewis lose his temperi
Why, he got as mad as a hornet. He
tells us himself that am like the little
boy running into hornets nest. am
delighted with this simile and quite salts
fed to be 'the little boy" or "the little
priest" while according to his own
words, he and his must be the hornets. L
hardly think that his Baptist brethren
will thank him much for the compliment
which he has thus unconsciously paid
them.
As is customary with protestant con-
| troversialists, we find Bro. Lewis pitch
| ing dirt at old mother Church. She has
| survived treatment lar worse than this
| for nearly nineteen centuries, and ven
| ture to say, that she will get over this
| too. But, turning to you, sir, is it possi
BILE that the people are not aware of the
hollowness of the game you are playing?
| All your irrelevant excursions are but
| dodge, but by no means clever one, TO
4 call their attention of the real question
at issue.
"rhe fact, you say, that the Catholic
| Church has discouraged the reading of
the Bible, is evident from the issuing of
| the Encyclicsl Letter" l answer: /. The
letter is addressed to Bishops and
Priests. exhorting them to a critical
study of the Bible, aud according TO
your own words THEY are not discour-
aged from reading. 2. Did you ever ex-
hort the people TO read the Bible7 Ii so,
then, according to your own reasoning,
they never read il before.
II we believe that the Bible alone is a
dangerous Book, it is not our fault; our
frat Pope, st. Peter told us so. 10
which (Paufs epistiee) are some hard
things TO be understood which the un-
learned and unstable wrench, as also the
other Scriptures, to their. own perdition. "
2 Peter, 3:l6. We have good reason to
believe this also from tho beautiful ex
ample OF unity(?) which ws see before us
Bible in hand Episcopaliansa and Method.
lists tell US that children are to be bap
tized. From the same Bible Baptists
prove(?) that children must NOT be bap-
tized, while the Quakers prove from tbs
same Booze. that raprinra iB nct needed
-, all. From this also Il comes that the
! Raptists alone are divided into ak differ
ent denominations each one claiming 70
be right aud that from the same Bible
See Baptist Church Directory by Rev. L
I. Hiscox, p. 257.
Il doubt" you continue, that yov
could find single "copy of the Bit le il
a single Catholic home in this our city.
One momentl and will settle YOU
doubt.
! Although we believe the Bible alone t,
be an unsafe book, no one is forbidden t
read il; on the contrary, as | said, peopl
. are exhorted to read especially the NeV
, Testament. Againpt your statement
, now submit the following evidence, on
! from a white, the other from "A colore
! Catholic. both we'll known in this city.
John M. higgins, $50. 2l9 G0verno
St., writes as follows:
RICHMOND, FEB. 8, '94
Rev. l.. j. Welbers,
Dear Father
Your note Just received. {
course, as a good Catholic, 1 have a b
bic my house.
a Yours sincerely,
/ JOHN NJ. HIGGINS.
y The other is from Mrs E. Grimn, 81
a Leigh St:
s RICHMOND, Feb. 8, '9i
Y One Bible loaned out, bu
C we still have one at home.
r Respectfully yours,
ELLEN GRIFFIN.
How many more such proofs do yC
= want? You say again: Even RandolI
. 4 English could not produce one" l.
y the following speak for itself:
I RICHMOND, Feb. 8, %
d Father Welbers,
10 Dear Sir
k Your note to han
le We would be pleased to have your ord
le for Douay Bible aud can furnish "
% with any number of copies you mt
ell want.
III Respectfully.
!e T.. W PsUnOiPH & Co.
IT Things are commencing to get lively
ID the hornets nest, are they not? Ho
C. after such an exposure, you can dare ia
in the people, il hard to see, unless you a
dead to oil self-respect.
why not read the whole Bible?"
Because in the Old Testament. you Kno
well enough, there are many thin
which it IS not safe for every one to rea
2. challenge you to show us, quoti
chapter and verse, where Christ i'll Gle
terms commands every one to read I
g. Bible at all. i insist on a eatisfacto
On answe / may say in advance that,
~ you have nothing better than yo
ne search the Scriptures" to offer, / v
make short work of it.
nd Passing over personal remarks a
en- matter which has no more bearing
er the question under discussion, than
no treatise on potato planting, / come
" the sufj ct from which you have fore
re me to depart by your irrelevant disc
sion. Aiming myself with pipe, or
al ter still with a censer and incense-no
m cts cannot stand smoke-I intend
Al poke once more into that hornets ne
sm Let me again state the Catholic doctri
oil in question:
IT, Man as a creature, that is by his o
power. can of course not forgive sins a
Ia more than st. Peter by his own poN
Wa could raise DOrcas to life again.
rst 300, 600, ,0O0, however, believe, wi
ed: has been believed from the beginning
no Christianity, that Christ has appoin
st' certain men as His AGENTS, who, not
no their own power, but by the power cC
VIII municated to them by Himself are to
nts give the sins committed after Baptism
5O those who truly repent. You need
make yourself ridiculous by exclaim
with pharisaical horror, "Shamel' 4