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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1896-02-12, Page 6, rti 0) bx, tilt James M. IV{olsor.on. CANCER ON THE LIP OU RED BY AYERS_; "I consulted doctors who prescribed for me, but to no purpo.e. I suffered lit agony seven long years. Finally, 1 began tit.g Ayer's Sarsaparilla. In a week or two 1 noticed a decided Improvement. Encour- aged by this result, 1 persovere•t, until 111 a month or so the sore began to heal, and, after using the Sarsaparilla, fur six innnths, JM lcclltt A$E. NIcuoLoN, Forenve,E. D. Ayerismiy. Sarsaparilla ra Admitted at the World's Fair..‘ R .7471 6 PILLS Ropulate l ,1fotpele. rhe Huron News -Record 81.26 a Year-81.00in Advance WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 1896. From Rev. Fr. West. Editor News -Record. - DEAR SIR,—The words, honor, re- spect, veneration and worship, says Cardinal Manning, were formerly ap- plied indifferently to God and the saints, but now as the last mentioned term has changed its English significa- tion it is used only with reference to God. When we Catholics ask those on earth or in heaven to guide or assist us the meaning is that we ask those on earth or in heaven to pray to 'God for us. We understand perfectly well that no one independently of God can assist us in the way of salvation, that Jesus Christ is our only Redeemer, and that in Him alone we must put all our trust, This is the doctrine of the Catholic church. Non -Catholics who desire to know the meaning of what oil we believe shad not only study Catholic doctrines from authorized Catholic works out should also view these doetrines from a Catholic stand- point, This would prevent a great deal of rnisundereta ndin . St. Paul i Cor. xvi. 22, says : "If any roan love not Jesus Christ let him be anathema." If the Catholic church sees fit to make use of this scriptural term, she is at once condemned as tyrannical. "An- athema, not being an English word, says the Catholoc Standard, has a terrifying sound to many non-Catholics who draw their early ideas of the Catholic religion and of the Popes from Sunday school histories of the style of Foxes Book of Martyrs. The term itself means putting away or avoidance of errors or of persons dangerous to society or morality. There can be no effective assertion of what is right without a warning against that which is opposed to the right." The rJat.holic church has always maintained that she is the true church of Christ. If this is true, and she is ever willing and anxious that every one should investigate her claims, there is certainly nothing un- charitable in her making the declara- tion. "The Church of Scotland in her Confession of faith. says : 'Out of the true church of Cbr ist there is no ordinary possibility of salvation. The Church of England declares as an article of her creed that except a man do keep the Catholic faith, whole and undefiled, without doubt he will perish everlastingly." '-Hay, p. 555. It these statements are true, no one will say that it is wrong to make thein. (Jath- olics have every word of the ten com- mandments both in their catechism and in their Bible. If a Catholic never read a catechism, he could read the commandments in his English i3ih'e. Targurn generally signifies the para- phrastic translation of the Hebrew Bible, or portions of 11 into the Aramaic tongue. The Targurn of Ionathan on the Pentateuch should not be con- founded with nn author Of the same name who has written on the Prophets. Both are Jews. The date when these works were written does not invalidate their authenticity. Sorne unjustly accuse Catholics of bigotry. We have not to go out of our own country for a contradiction of this. Who first established separate schools in Canada? The Protestants. Who concealed to them the right to establish such schools? The Cetholies of the Province of Quebec. This is as it should he. We are living in a mixed community. The rights of every one should he scrupul- ously respected. The Rev. W. F. Dickerson, pastor of the Universalist Church, at, New Ha- ven, (Jt., said, in a late lecture on the Catholic Church : "I willnow� so 's carat( something that 1. not g generally known. It this fact, that the Catholic colony of Maryland was the first to giant religious toler- ation. Some of the Puritans in Virgin- ia seemed to think such toleration so commendable that they moved into Maryland, and after enjoying the re- ligious toleration for some time they tried to pass legal enactments exclud- ing the Catholics from the colony. How generous of these Puritans 1" The historian Bancroft heats witness to this same fact. The reverend gen- tleman directed the attention of his hearers to another important fact. • "Many Protestants aaeclare that the Catholic Church is the enemy of the Bible. But the fact is historical that the Catholic Church preserved to us our Bible. Through the Dark Ages she also pteeerved the treasures of the classics, the grand literature of the Greeks and the Romans. We would have only a few relics if it were not for that Church. 'The classic treasures ex- tant were nearly all found among the monks. -N. Y. Freeman's Journal Bishop Mentgensery of Los Angeles, Cal., has taken the trouble to write to Rt. lion. W. E. Gladstone as to the authenticity of a statement attributed to him by the "Patriotic." It ran as follows: "No more cunnipg•,•pjlot was ever de - vised against the intelligepce, the free- dom, the pappinese and virtue of man- kind than Romanian)." Mr. Gladstone replied "Right Rev. and Dear Bishop: 1 think it a duty at once to answer your inquiry. It is hard to answer for a period of sixty years in active life, but, to the best of my knowledge and be • lief, I never wrote and never could have written the words which you cite. I disapprove of them highly. With my best respects, your obedient and faithful servant, V(7. E GLADSTONE. "Hrtwarden, Dec, 18, 1895. IT MUST COME. After all the Protestant sermons, lectures, pamphlets and treatises from Tillotson downwards against "Com- munion in One Kind," we have reached at length the conclusion to which bad reasoning, bad theology and untrue exposition of Sacred Scrip- ture must always come at last. The United Temperance Crusade, at its Wimbledon meeting, "Longs for the time when wine will be swept from the cornmunion table." -The Universe, London. A PROTESTANT BELIEF. THAT THERE IS A PLACE OF WAITING FOR ALL SOULS UNTIL JUDGMENT. At the Northwest Conference held last week at Spring City, Pa., Rev. Wallace MacMullen, of, Grace Metho- dist Episcopal Church, Broad and Master streets, this city, read a paper based on the nineteenth verse of the tlaird chapter of the first Epistle of St. eters which reads: "In which He al- so came and preached to those spirits who were in prison. As the report of the proceedings of the conference, as it appeared in at least one daily paper, conveyed the im- pression that the essay contended for a belief in purgatory, and that on this account it evoked considerable dis- cussion, a representative of The Cath- olic Times called on Rev. Mr. MacMul- len at ;his residence, 1402 North Fif- teenth street, believing that a state- ment from that gentleman woukl prove of interest. The interviewer was graciously re- ceived and bis queries politely answer- ed. At the Outset the writer of the paper in question took occasion to say that the report of the daily referred to was incorrect in the conclusion arrived at. He said that the point for which he contended was that the text in question would admit of no other con- struction than the literal sense of it conveyed ; that is, that Christ preach- ed to spirits that were in prison. The paper in fact did occasion much discus- sion, and the reverend gentleman states that his views are quite preval ent among Protestants and are sup• ported by the authority of the best ex- egetists. To be brief, this view of an inter- mediate state is that the soul after death enters this state in a condition of bliss or pain determined by its degree of sanctity or of sin as it was in at the moment of death, and continues in the same until the general judgment, when its state becomes fixed either in heaven or in hell. According to this view, no soul, however good, goes immediately to heaven, and no soul, however had, goes immediately to hell, but all souls go into this state of waiting to remain until the general judgment. This the Rev. Mr. MacMulien says, is no new doctrine, and is held by many Protestants, while that of progressive sanctification as taught. by Dr. Briggs is held onlyby a few individual Pro- testants.hen asked as to whether the denial of the existence of hell so common among those of Protestant birth and education was not due to the absence of any Protestant doctrine which provided for atemporary punish- ment of the less grevious sins, he ex- pressed his doubts of there being any real disbelief in a hell and intimated, to use a common expression, that the wish was father to the thought. The tendency among Protestants towards a belief in an intermediate state was not due, he said, to a reaction against the belief in only two extremes after death. but rather to the result of Scriptural study in the province of eschatology, which has,• he said, been least touched upon by theologians. From this it will be readily seen that as radical difference exists between his view of a ptobationary state and the Catholic doctrine of purgatory ; a logical reasan can be given for the ex- istence of the Catholic purgatory. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH MASS. THE REV. LEWIS WATTHON TELLS HIS CONGREGATION TO INVOKE THE AID OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. Kingston, Feb. 3. -The Rev. Lewis T. Wattson celebrated the Feast of the Purification in John's Protestant Episcopal Church to -day with a high 111 4ss this morning and by a sermon t)• night, which has caused not a little tiiIk, especially among his parishioners, who are not in perfect accord with his ritualistic tendencies. He took for his text, or theme, trio Magniflcat, saying that, the Virgin Mary, a.v the mother of (rod, should be especially venerated. 1t is time, he soul, to lay aside some of the Protestant prejudices on this sub- ject, and, when wP pray, to ask Mary to intercede for ns with (god. At the marriage feast Christ, at his mother's request. turned water into wine, and, taking this as an example, Father Wattson argued that if Christ listened to Mary then. why would he not, now when she is Queen of heaven ? Father Wattson said a woman living in Detroit had told him of a holy wo- nlan living there to whom many mothers brought their children to be healed of bodily infirmities, instead of going to a doctor. If this holy wo- man's prayers were so potent, he said, knw much more so would be those of Mary? In nddressing the Virgin, Father Wattson advocated the use of the expression : "Hail, Mary, Queen of Heaven. Blessed art thou among women. 0 Holy Mary, pray for us." - N. Y. Freemans Journal. Now having said this much, we are equally free to say that the Roman doctrine of the Invocation of Saints in- volves no such fearful apostacy as is commonly charged against it in the Protestant world. It does not deny, or in any way contravene the one in- communicable Mediatorship of Christ, as is commonly alleged against the doctrine, in the heat of controversial disputation. It does not involve the necessary possession of the Divine at- tribute of omniscience in the Saints. The discoveries of modern science are laying hare to our senses hitherto unheard of, tinthought of wonders in the natural world. With our bodily ears we can now hear and understand words softly uttered hundreds of miles away. Some day not very remote, men may be able to whisper "winged words," and be heard of others twelve is away, need • thousand �l�a a y. W� ti nett. be as infallibly certain, therefore, that the whispered words of their brethrela on earth, Ora pro nobia; may not reach the Saints at rest, or that their response would not be quicker and more energetic than like petitions made to Saints who are yet in the flesh. In itself, there is no mere wrong done to our Blessed Lord's inimitable, supreme, intercession, by asking a departed Saint to aid or pray for us, than in asking those who are hereupon the earth to aid or pray for us. -Rev, Mr. Wtlliains of the Church of Eng - laud, Omaha. LITERACY—M. J. RIORDAN To begin with : What is the mean- ingg of the word "illiterate" as applied to a body of people? According to Web- ster, it conveys the idea that they are "unlettered; ignorant of letters or books ; untaught ; unlearned ; unin- structed in science." How is the illit- eracy of a nation determined? By means of the science of statistics. How do statisticians arrive at the illit- eracy of a people? Simply by finding out, as nearly as may be, by any one of several methods, the approximate number of individuals, over a certain age, who are unable 'to read and to write. These individuals may know very well how to plough, and to sow, and to reap; they tnay know how to furnish the philosopher with that with- out which his philosophizing would come to a sudden end; and they may know how to serve their God in such perfect manner as the moralist may never be able to attain, and yet they are to the statistician, and very pro- ' periy so, simply illiterates -unable to read and write. Father Young calls attention to the fact that in some countries, those who are able to read but not to write are classed as illiter- ates. It is plain, then, that the word "illit- erate," as commonly used, is a techni- cal term of statistical science, and means, in its broadest extension, in- ability to read and write the vernacu- lar, and, in its narrowest comprehen- sion, inability to write alone. There- fore, when we are told that 60 per cent. _cif the population of a certain country isitlliterate, we are to understand that only forty people, over a certain age, otut of one hundred in that country are able to read and write, and this is all that we are to understand. There is not a whit of reason to conclude that the sixty people who can read and write are less honest, less pure, or less charitable than the forty who have acquired the art of reading and writ- ing. There is no reason in the world why the morals of the illiterates may notbe as good as those of the literate, and the fact is that very often , the former are far in advance of the latter in this respect. Nit only should we not understand illiterate to carry the meaning "defici- ent in mcrals," but we should not take it to mean anything whatsoever except lack of ability to read and write. The judgment may he as good in the one as in the other, and so with the ofi the power strength the affections, e of the will, and the keenness of the understanding. In the mouth of the statistician, not only has the word illiterate no refer- ence whatever to morals, or judgment, or affections, hut it does not concern itself at all with the degree of roan's attainments in the arts of reading and writing. He who is able to write his name, or to transform print into script, can write, however poorly it may be, and so far is as eligible to be classed in the literate column as the finest pen- man in the land. Whether he can spell or not, or whether anyone else can read his writing or not makes no difference. The statistician classes hint as literate on the fact that he does not make a cross in signing his name. Were this not so, Horace Greeley, Napoleon, and many of the world's great men, would find themselves in the illiterate class, for, considering their penmanship alone, apart from knowledge of their literary proficiency obtained in other ways, but very few would say that the personages men- tioned knew how to write. In the same way, to the statistician, he is literate who is able to read, though he may not have the least idea of the meaning intended to be convey- ed by the words repeated. On the other hand, one who might have the keenest appreciation of what he hears read, if he be unable to decipher the printed words for himself, would fall into the illiterate class. So we see that the term illiterate. as used by statisticians, means simply and only that a man is unable to read and write. I Fo into this detailed explanation to avoid the possibility of the meaning of the term illiterate being misunderstood. That it is misunderstood by many 1 am quite sure. They are not a few to whom it expresses vice, savagery, supersti- tion, and war ions other horrible hirers. The very word conjures up in the mind Of HnmP, visions of people with hay- seed in their hair, stubble on their fart' es, and patches on their overfills ; and in another some, of leering, cruel sava- ges, without conscience or hear t. 'rho contrary of this is quite possible to he the actual condition of the illiterate. Ile may he a very paragon of taste, qs wax his mustache, crease his trousers and turn them up in awn nr'at folds frhrn the bottom when it is said to he raining in London, just as his literate brother does. He may be of warm heart, in fact usually is; may be very lovable, and, hest of all, may serve his God with a depth of love of which it would seers than only the illiterate are capable. We have now seen what illiterates are and what they aro not from the point of view of the statistician. Is it with the meaning of the statistician in mind that Protestants speak when they ask Catholics to "Look at Mexico," and that Catholics retort, "Look at Swe- den"? It certainly is. They quote fig- ures to one auother, and these figures are furnished by the statisticians, and mean simply that so many people out of a hundred in a certain country can not rend and write. But isn't illiteracy a crime? Surely it must be, else why do Catholics trou- ble themselves when they hear the "Look at Mexico" argument; and why do Protestants fame at the retort? Is illiteracy a crime; in other words, is it a crime not to know how to read and write? As well ask, is it a crime to have but one leg or one eye. Of course it's not a crime. But like being minus a leg or an eye, it's a great inconven, 'ence at times, -a misfortune if you will. The fact is that this question of illit- erecy.is becoming very much a hug -a - boo. Protestants frighten their chil- dren with it, and wave it ns a conven- tet\t red rag before their Catholic brethren. I think I may safely say that Catholics make use of it, unless in exceptional cases, only by way of re- itunitialed rniflg to corufor ellp1ip Gkierutielves by the tln- ante In kind, --when lust taunts or th rr app nente. I real, rze that 'Protests * is imply in their sneers about illiteracy in some Catholic countries that the church is the direct cause of that condition, and the same may be said, in some measure of there - torts. That the implication, so far as the Catholic Church is concerned, is unmerited. I think the following re- marks, out of many that might be made, will show. In the first place the Church was not Pounded for the purpose of teaching reading and writing. There isnothing in its charter requiring it to do this work. The Church was given a com- mission "to teach elf nations," but not to teach all things. Christ said to His apostles, "teach them to observe all thins whatsoever I have commanded you, but in no place can it he found that He commanded them to teach reading and writinv, or geology, or as- tronomy. He only ordered them to teach such things as would bring the world to the loving service of "His Father, who is in Heaven," and it is not at all necessary to have a knowledge of human science ur' art in order to servo God well. The simple, un- doubting faith of the child is the per- fection toward which we should strive • not the technical, hair-splitting belief of the scientist. "Unless you become as, little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." The mission of the Church is solely and en- tirely to teach mankind the way of salvation as pointed out by Christ, Whether it does this teaching by oral instruction, by example, or by means of books, makes no difference what- ever. The one thing necessary to the fulfillment of its mission is that it teach the doctrine of Christ; And with the individual, on the other hand, the one thing necessary is to learn suf- ficient of the doctrine of Christ to enable hire to save his soul. Though he know all about square root, and psychology, and the laws of gravitation, it will not advance the salvation of his soul one infinitesi- mal bit, if he have not learned the love of God ; while if he know nothing of these things and yet keep the com- mandments to the best of his power, how close he is to the heart of God we shall know and wonder at only on the last great day. If the illiteracy of a country is to stand as a charge against the Church, it is hard to unc:erstand why the same indictment may not with even greater force he made against Christ and His apostles. It will hardly he denied that the percentage (if illiterates 'within the meaning of the statisticians was very ) 1 high among the Jewish people e and among those to whom the apostles preached Christ's message. Yet we do not find that either Christ or the apost- Iles made any effort to change for the better this condition of the people among whom they labored. Ineed it is an open question whether some of the apostles were themselves able to read or write. This being so, those who found their belief in the Christian dispensation upon Scripture alone, as all Protestants claim to do, have no shadow of right to find fault with the Church if it follow exactly in the foot- steps of Christ and His apostles and altogeter ignore the scientific attain- ments of the people. Chriet had no thought whatever of founding an in- tellectual kingdom ; His mission was solely to establish a reign of righteous- ness, and literacy, is in no manner an adjunct of i ight liying. 1t is true that the popular mind insists on a relation between learning and morality, to the advantage of the hitter. If there were in reality such a ralattion, it would surely not be too much to expect that Christ would have pointed it out in some wanner. But he has not done so. On the contrary, there is nothing in His whole life, as related in the Gospels, unless it he His love for the lowly, that stands out so prominently as His detestation of the thoughts and deeds of the lettered class of the Jewish na, tion -the Scribes and Pharisees. He seems to have missed no opportunity of letting His 'judgment of them be known. in no place does He praise their learning nor indeed the secular learning of any plan or any na- tion. the Gospels are a record of the mind of the Sa.viour, and as th,ey in no way make re- ference to a dependence of morality upon learning, we may reasonably con- clude that Christ did not recognize any such dependence, and that, in reality, there is no such thing, notwithstand- ing the popular belief to t he contrary. Morality and literary run in entirely distinct channels, and shall nlwlays continue to do so. This is very finely put by Cardinal Newman in the follow- ing sentence from his "idea of a Uni- versity" "Quarry the granite rock with raz- ors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk ; then you may hope with such keen and delicate 1nstrnulentsas human knocvlr•dge and human reason to con- tend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man." The Its'v..i. M. Ma'••ker, of St. Paul's Methodist. Episcopal Church, Cincin- nati, expressed the sane thought, in more homely furan, though not less un- mistakably, in it sermon, selections from which were quoted on the editor - al page of the Telegraph, issue of Sep- ternher 19, 1895. The following sen- tepassnce from the Rev. Mr. Meeker's ser- mon tells mach truth in small coin - "The °'The peenliar not.inn that, 0(1 )1C0 to in carries morality with it is a delusion and a snare." From the foregoing, i think it will begin to he clear that, it is no essential part of the mission of the Catholic Church, or of any other, to tench the sciences, even the rudimentary ones of reading and writing. When it can be shown that a elan earl not HAVP his soul unless he know how to read and write, then only can it, he demonstrated that the teaching of these arts is a necessary part of the business of the Church, and when it shall he shown that it is impossible to save your soul without a knowledge of reading and writing, at that moment must the whole fabric of the Christian belief crumble into nothingness. As a matter of fact, the causes of the great percentage of illiterates in coun- tries such as Mexico are entirely be- yond the control of either Church or gtate. They .exist in the character of the population. For instance, In Mexi- co 98 per cent. of the population is pure -Indian; 43 per cent. of mixed Indian and Spanish blood, and only 19 per cent. of pure white stock. If 81 per cent. of the population of the United States was of negro and mulatto blood who would be so foolish as to expect that our present rate of literacy, or anything approximating to it, would he maintained. 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