The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-16

Sehteswlg-H -Holstein. 9s.b per cent fro- testant. PSI
 Saxony, s3.2 per cent Protestant, 245.
 Brandenhnrg. a7 per cent Protestant 2is
 Westphalia, 6e per cent Catholic, 90.
 Rhineland. 7s per cent Catholic, sS. F Prussian Poland. 5i per cent Catholic. az.
 The German paper (Protestant) remarks. These numbers are eloquent. From this table it may be calculated that in the Prnssian state, with purely evangelical population, if all other circumstances be alike, the number of suicides is three or four times greater than with purely Catholic population
 The Rev. Dr. Hayman. a Protestant clergyman. writing for the Fortnightly Review, October, lSS6 says: .1f map or Europe were before us, shaded in propor- tion to returns of known vice and crime. the darkest shadow would seem to rest ex- actly where the boast of intellectual light is greatest-in saxony, the very shrine of | modern eulture.n
 With regard 10 Senor Villarea1, will simply say that I am sorry indeed to see Mir School stand sponsor for him and 1 his acts. Of course, Mir School may. if | he will consider him a pure-souled patriot, twentieth century reformer. Many con- l sidered Aguinaldo such in days not so long 1 bygone. Few consider him so now. My opinion of the gentleman is contained in the following editorial from Catholic paper of recent date (By way of variety l will this once give Catholic testimony): Down in Mexico there lives a man whom the papers call Villareal. The for
 tunes of war have put some power in his 1 hand, and he has issued manifesto. 1 That is a common diversion in some countries. The document is grandilo- quent. That goes without saying. Such | documents always are. Some are issued
 in the interest of heaven, others on be- | half of the moon, still others in the l interests of hell, under the disguise of
 public health morality and justice" In | substance Nillarears manifesto is of the
 last kind; in phraseology 1t belongs to the moon species What it says is bad; ] what it implies is an outrageous indiet- ment of an honorable body of men and vomen; the way 1t does both Is worthy l of school boy trying Il new gold pen. NilareaI abolshes by words st sacrament of the church, penance. Every scoundre who stands in need of the cleansing of th, sacrament does the same. God waits llis day and the sacrament does not yield |, annihilatory phrases. Vilareal drives ou all religious priests, makes others hi iackeys. sets the hours when churche,
 may be opened, states who may and wh' may not officlate thereu This is. mos natural. Nilareat forbids people to en ter the sacrlsty His morbid soul fl
 stirred It's foul depths are stirred. Vii
 areal will die. Che church though man
 gled will live
 Oh joy. on rereadiug Mir. Schoel's let
 ter 1 find d statement that being purel, historical he and l can discuss withou the odium theologicum Ie says. Wit the reformation d desire Tor at least thu
 rudiments of learning was awakened. be
 cause the Bible had been translated D,
 Luther. and being printed in tn
 mother tongue. From the above on
 would infer that Luther discovered tn
 Bible and gave it to the masses Sucl
 indeed is the common belief. l understan'
 among non-Catholics What. however
 does modern historical research show? l
 shows that at least 22 versions or differ
 ent translations of the Bible existed il
 the various tongues of Europe befor
 Luther was born. Oyer 70 editions of tn
 entire Bible in vernacular tongues wer printed during the 70 years intervenin } from 1460 to l53O
 I The Bible was printed % times in tn } German tongue before Luther's transla , ton appeared Q530) Two copies of German Bible printed in l466 are preserve in the Senatorial library at Leipsic. Tn Mazarln Bible is considered the earles complete book published. It was printe
 about 1455. A German edition publishe
 in 146o is the earliest book published wit metal type and on both sides of tn leaf
 3 Maitland a learned Church of Englan 1 divine. estimates that 50 Latin edition , of the Bible were published before Luthe
 was born. ytf tt
 Sickendorf biographer and a disc pie of Luther mentions three German ea tions of the Bible published as Witter l burg in 1470 14s3 and 1i9a-
 Menzel in his history Of Germany say: Before the time of Luther the Bible ha I.,Ir aelo tad tVfA iot, a,, , Low Dutch"
 Fragments of Bishop Uphilas' transla t ton written in the fourth century ar our oldest specimens of the Gothic tongue
 The Venerable Bede and King Alfre , contributed Anglo-Saxon transatons c part of the Bible. In the fourteenth cer I, tury John de Tarrisa made full Ene e fish translation.
 9 Bishop Usher, a Protestant. asserts tha
 the first French translation was HIS, Thi
 was successfully published l6 times befor
 1546. A Flemish translation by Meilan in 1210 is mentioned also by Usher. Seve editions of this version appeared befor : Luthers translation. The complete Bibl Y in Spanish was edited by Boniface Fel
 Ter in 1405. The Spaniards are to T | credited, too. with the first polyglot cd ton of the Sacred Scriptures. This d ton was printed in six different language { in 15l5 under the auspices of .'ardln; f ximenes. Italian translations were pull
 ished at Venice, Florence, Naples sn , Rome, prior to Luther's times A B, hemian Bible was published at Prague e 1isS and some Danish authorities sta e that the 1celanders had an entire tram f laton of the Scriptures in the 'thi.teent
 century.
 /, Jew Protestant authorities q am yer :, fond of Protestant authorities) to sho