The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-15

tria 80 per cent of the people are
1lliterate; in Hungary, AZ per cent;
in Italy, 48 per cent; in Spain, 63
per cent, and in Portugal 80 per cent
of the people are illiterate. In Pro-
testant England the report shows
that 8 per cent of the people are
illiterate; in Scotland, per cent; in
Switzerland, 2 IA per cent; Norway
less than 1 per cent; Sweden, less
than l per cent; Denmark, less than
1 per cent, and Germany, the great
est Protestant nation on earth, less
than 1 per cent These statistics
from our own governmental report
are sufficient to show the emphasis
that Rome puts, or does not put, on
education
Mr.. Taft in his speech before the
New York Chamber Of Commerce
said that 80 per cent of the people
of the Philippines we're Gin a hope
less condition of ignorance" and
this after three hundred years of
upliftment and enlightenment by the
Roman Catholic Church. Mexico,
right at our doors is an example Just
as sorrowful
Surely, Rome loves darkness
rather than light
I stated in the beginning that the
three greatest educational agencies
of the world were the open Bible,
the Public Schools and the Public
Press, and that the Roman Catholic
Church stood uncompromisingl OPP
posed to all three. Let US take these
up separately, though briefly, and
see from ROme's own laws and Off
c1al declarations just what her atti-
tude towards these three things is,
what we may expect from her in re-
gard to them wherever and whenever
sch obtains sufficient power.
1. What is the attitude of the Ro-
man church to the Bible? How does
that church regard it's own Bible?
For the Catholic church has a Bible
of its own. 1t cuts out of it's Bible
much that is found in ours which
does not suit it's purposes. For in
stance, the second commandment.
The Catholic Bible is never put up
in a cheap edition and is not intended
for general circulation. A Baptist
minister stated that he walked all
over Louisville trying to purchase
cheap Catholic Bible and the cheap
est he could find was an $500 edi-
ton. For all the boosted reverence
OF the Catholic church for the Bible,
even it's own Bible is not taught in
one single seminary of the Catholic
church. The system by which the
young priests are taught is by Sc
rles Of catechisms and are never al
lowed the open and entire Bible. The
members of that church are supposed
to get their Bible knowledge from
the priest and the priest must get
his ideas from the superior fathers
Of the church and they get theirs
from some of the canonized saints;
but the Bible itself plays little part
in the theological training Of the
Catholic church. In fact, for humid
reds of years a member of the Ro-
man church was forbidden under
penalty of death to have a Bible in
his possession. The Council of Tou-
louise, A D., 1929, prohibited lay
men to have the books of the Old
and New Testament, unless Psal-
ter, Breviary, and a Rosary, and
they forbade their translation into
the vulgar tongue. Labbe, Vol.
13, p. 1880 While the Synod OF
TarrangOna, denounced as a hereto
any one who having a translation of
the Bible, refused to surrender it to
be burned within the space of eight
days" Glib. Univ. Knowl. Vol. 2, p.
516.)
This iron rule of Rome was slight
ly relaxed but still the reading of