The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-16

Dettingen, used the words, referring
to the Irish Brigade in the service of
France.
Tell me something of the four Evan
geIists. When did they write?
The evangelists were Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John. Matthew, one
of the twelve Apostles, was publican
before Christ called him. AS publ
car he had been known as Levi. Hs
wrote about six years after Christs as
rension and was the first OF the evan
gelists. He wrote in Hebrew or Syro-
Chaldaic, spoken by the Jews OF that
time The original has been lost. In
the Apostles own lifetime, st. Mark,
according to st. Jerome, was the dis
ciple and interpreter of st. Peter, chief
of the Apostles. He wrote his Gospel
about ten years after Christs ascen-
sion, and Peter gave it his approval.
Some authorities say that the original
was in Latin, but most think it was IN
Greek. Like all the rest of the orig
inal Bible, the manuscript has been
lost Luke was native of Antioch,
capital of Syria, and was physician.
He was converted by st. Paul and be-
came his disciple and travelling COM
paniOn. He wrote in Greek, about
twenty-four years after the ascension.
St. John was the most beloved OF
Christ's Apostles. The Greeks call him
the Divine He was with Christ at the
crucifxion, and his Gospel supplies
many things that the others omitted.
lie wrote about siXty-three years after
the ascension. His brethren in re-
ligion, having asked him to write,
prayed and tasted, at his request, in
preparation.
Is it stated in the Bible that an H.
legitimate child shall not enter into
the Kingdom of heaven, even unto the
third and fourth generation?
When God gave the ten command
ments to Moses EXODUS Xxx, 1-6), He
said, Il am the Lord thy God, mighty
Jealous, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them
that hate me-" This does not apply,
however, to the proposed question.
The words quoted are in connection
with the first commandment. Those
who violate it by worshipping false
gods, hating the true God, will bring
punishment upon themselves and
their children, unto the third and
fourth generation. But even in this
case the punishment, visiting the
iniquity," does not necessarily imply
by any means that the three or four
generations are predestined to hell.
So long as they hate God, worshipping
what they know to be false gods, they
cannot, of course, be saved. But if
they repent, if they turn from their
false gods, and give to the true God
the alteration that all owe to Him,
then God will be merciful, forgive
the injury done Him, and receive
into friendship again even the one
that had sinned. Of Gods readiness
to pardon the repentant sinner the
Scriptures are full. The great object
of Gods coming was to seek and to
save that which was lost. He is
the Good Shepherd. The faintest re-
Spouse to his grace he fosters, en-
courages, strengthens. The smoking
flax he will not quench, the bending
reed he will not break. He tells us
plainly also that each one will die
for his own sins, each will be re-
warded according to his works. The
illegitimate child is baptized with the
same baptism that the legitimate re-
ceives; each, when repentant, receives
the same pardon-the sacrament of
Penance, is nOuriShed with the same
Body of Christ in the Holy Eucharist,
strengthened with the same Holy
Spirit in confirmation, has the same
guarantee of salvation, the one as the
other. With God there is no distinc-
ton of persons.
Can a Catholic man marry a Prot.
estant woman who has been divorced,
if the marriage had been before a
Protestant minister; if before justice
of the peace2
So far as the Protestant is con
CbIHGu IudIIIdSG Is equally Ndllu
whether performed before a minister
or a justice of the peace. Each has
the same authority. The minister
is not classed with a Catholic priest;
nor does the law of the Church, for
bidding any one who is baptized in
the Catholic Church from being mar
ried except before a priest and two
witnesses and Withholding from them
the sacrament of matrimony, apply to
Protestants who have been baptized
In the given case if the woman
had been baptized, even in some
Protestant church, she received the
sacrament of matrimony and such
valid marriage may not be dissolved
by any human power. Even though
she has been divorced by the civil
law for any cause whatsoever, the
marriage in the eyes of God is bind
ing so long as her husband lives.
HE that shall marry her that is put
away committeth adultery" If the
woman and the man, whom she mar
ried, had never been baptized, even
then the contract was binding until
death. But in such cases if zone be-
comes a Catholic and the other, be-
cause of this fact refuses to live in