Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-06-10
BIBLE BURNING.

Will anyone doubt the need of Mis-
sion work in Louisiana and other sec
tions dominated by Romanism when he
reads this, from the Morning Star, the
official organ of the Roman Catholic
Church in the Diocese of New Orleans
'We are informed that the Protestant
sects are circulating through the coun
try parishes French Bible, and that
they have succeeded in selling quite a
number of these corrupt and mutilated
copies of Holy Writ We are surpris-
ed that any Catholics should have al
lowed themselves to be duped into
buying these Bibles, for every Catholic
ought to know that there is only one
version of the Bible that can be read
and that is the true and correct one,
approved by the Church. All others
are spurious and shopld be Stunned by
every Catholic. Our advice to those
who may have been innocently trapped
into spending their good money for
what they thought was an authorized
Bible is to place these books into a
stove or furnace where they can be
utilized for kindling material. Pres
byterian of The South.
1t is always in order to destroy coun-
terfeits. The Bible has counterfeits as
well as anything else and we have no
doubt that when the Morning Star
calls the edition corrupt or mutilat-
ed one that it is 50. A study of the
English Protestant versions -Tyndale s
New Testament, Crammer's Great BIZ
BILE 1889 A. d., the Bishops Bible
(156S A. d., the authorized Version
1911, and the Revised Version (1S91),
will show record Of grave omissions,
additions and changes in the sacred
text. Catholics approve the reading of
the Old Testament in the original texts
the Hebrew and the Septuagint-or
the approved Latin Vulgate version,
translated from the Hebrew by Jer-
ONE (430 A. d. which included the
translation from the Hebrew Of the Old
Testament, and the New Testament
from the Greek, but do not approve
of the reading of faulty editions, the
work of men who sought to break up
the Church and its teachings, any
more than the U. S. Government APP
proves the work of counterfeiters. and
allows it to pass current among the
good money of the realm. If they did
this at the will of every innovator who
appears on the horizon, they would
soon be placed in chaotic condition
so far as religion is concerned. The
Oxford edition of the Revised edition
of the Authorized Version king
James J, shows by marginal references
the differences in text which have
crept in, of which there are many.
Besides this the Catholic Bible con
tains seven books of the Old Tesla
ment. which contained in the Hebrew
should also appear in the modern bi-
BILE. Are not these good reasons why
the Morning Star should not be rallied
against for its stand for the destruc-
tion of erroneous and possibly mislead-
ing texts2
The paragraph from the "Presby-
terrain of the South" was published
by the Cumberland Banner of Tulla.
homa, Tenn, and we reprint it with
the above explanation, solely to cor
rect any misleading power it my have,
as much as possible, as the Banner has
a considerable circulation in this sec
ton. Catholics do not burn Bibles viii
fully and without good cause. They
have too much respect for the Sacred
Book for that