The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-24

a Teuton of the Teutons, I would suspect him of having some of the blood of my own race in his veins, and of hailing from South Cork and the neighborhood of that far-famed castle with the stone that
 Whoever kisses,
 Oh, he never misses To grow eloquent"
 Let me in turn, and, though a Cet, I am not from the vicinity of Blarney and iifnever kissed the stone, compliment MT. School on his most excellent article on the European war that appeared in last Sundays ge-Herald-August 16 am in- tensely interested in the history we are making today, no less than in the history of the past, for, on the battlefields of Flu rope today, as in days long bygone, Irish blood will flow.
 "on far foreign fields from Dunkirk to
 Belgrade
 Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish
 brigade.''
 Yes. truly for
 We are at Families,
 ~ We left our bones at Fortenoy
 And up in the Pyrenees
 Before Dunkirk, on Landen's plain, 1, Cremona, Lille and Ghent,
 We're all over Austria, France and
 Spain
 Wherever they pitched a tent,
 And so any article that sheds light on the present war and the causes leading thereto Is welcomed. I read MT. Schools article with interest and with sympathy, and called the attention of others to his very clear presentation. I hope he will not confine himself to one article merely, but will from time to time, pen others sim liar.
 Mir. Editor replying to Pusey's Eirenicon the great Cardinal Newman wrote, There was one of old times who wreathed his sword in myrtle; excuse me--you dis charge your olive branch as if from a eatapult.' l might so complain of MT. ySchoels conciliatory epistle. There lew things that I cannot without ex- Yianatory comment let go by. Did I Mo so, I would feel disloyal to my trust 2,
 MT. School says that the church for bade the use of scriptures in the vulgar tongue to the laity and quotes for this the council of Toulouse. l reply: The quotations ProtestanD in my last letter show that the Bible, prior to the reforma- tion, was known to and read by the peo- pie. Let me give two more Protestant au- thorities to support my reassertion.
 Dean Maitland: "I do not recollect any instance in which it is recorded that the scriptures or any part of them were treat eh with 1ndlgnlty or With les Sthan pro- found respect"
 Church Quarterly Review, October, 1879: The notion that the people in the mid- de ages did not read their Bibles is not simply mistake, it is one of the most ,ludicrous and grotesque blunders." Y That the church as the guardian and custodian of Gods holy word was careful of all translations and was in duty bound to warn her children against human trav- esties thereof goes without saying. She would be faithless to her mission, Go preach and teach" If she were not Hence laws against Bible reading in the yer nacular, except with proper safeguards We're promulgated at the synod of Tou- louse d229 A. D), of Tarragona O233 A D), of Oxford diQS A. D.). The rules of the index Q574 A. D., 1897 A. D) the laws of Benedict XIV. Q757 A. D.), Plus VIII QS29 A. D.), etc, all evidence the love and care of the church for the holy book. Why as certain writer well points out, the same principle guides the state in passing her laws against counterfeiters. Would you say our country Is opposed to the use of good money because she does not permit kivsiimited counterfeiting? ~ MT. School speaks of the Rjble heinz -ehained It certainly was. Dr. De Costa. a convert writing in the Catholic World in 1900, says. No doubt there was a chained Bible at Erfurt in 1507 Chained Bibles were found 200 years later as cnalned dicuonaries are seen Aoday in hotels. The preface of the pre-Luther German Bibles stated that the hook wa for the use of unlettered. simple folk. law and spirtual'''
 l pass by the statement about intoler- ance. "Transeat" Let it pass" as the schoolmen would say. Of course. the church is intolerant. What does intoler- ance mean, however? It means that it cannot compound with or tolerate error iThus explained, the church, guided by 'the Holy Spirit, ruled by the Christ, can no more make terms with error than mathematics can. We all know that twice two make four, that all the interior angles of any triangle are equal to two right | angles. No sane man will tolerate an- other view. Neither will the church toI- | erate-but here, fear am doing what !