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n P R û T r 'found everywhere in Catholic homes. i in order to be able to drink all the that the Jews at the time of Christ quotes are as usual wild, idiotic state
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bible is old . by —
millions
in wine in the Mass. When the grotes
Catholic book stores. (3) Portions of queness of this wu exposed by ths
One of a Series of Articles Be- it are read in public every Sunday 1 fact that only one, two or three table
tween N. W. Phdp* and
in every Catholic church. (4) The spoonfuls of wine are used in each
Frank Davey.
Bible is the soul of every portion of Mass, he resorted to foolish jokes to
Catholic liturgy and devotional exer cloak his dishonesty. Because an in
(By Frank Davey)
cises.
dividual may have taken intoxicating
WHAT WILL THE OPEN MIND
WHAT DO LOVERS OF FAIR liquor in addition to the few drops at
ED INTELLIGENT PUBLIC SAY OF
PLAY THINK ABOUT PHELP’S Mass, this hardly proves that the
THE FLAGRANT INSINCERITY
RETENDED QUOTATIONS FROM Catholic church kept the bible away
OF PREACHER PHELPS WHO
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, GREG from the people so that the laity
PASSES OFF MY LETTER OF
ORY XVI, ETC. WHEN HE IN might not find out that they are en
MARCH 14th WITH A FEW GLIB
VARIABLY FAILS TO SHOW titled to some of the wine in the Mass.
JIBES; when in that letter I proved
WHERE THESE “QUOTATIONS" The with-holding of sacramental wine
to every sensible person that each
CAN BE FOUND?
He evidently from the laity involved no change in
statement and line of Phelp’s original
knows that for me or anyone else to the doctrines of the church, as anyone
lecture, as reported in the Headlight
selfprove that these are garbled, mis who knows these doctrines can testify.
was a falsehood, whole and entire: i.
construed, one must search through It was merely a change of discipline.
e. (1) That “the average Catholic has
libraries to find them. Of course, he While it is true that the Catholic
to get written permission from the
himself can easily give us Crowleys church never reverses her official in
Hielarchy to read the Bible;” (2) that
or Menaces as authorities, but the terpretations of Christ teaching in
“The Roman Catholies do worship
Father of Lies could probably give matters of faith and morals, her pol
metal images for God;” (3) his insin
better proof of sincerity than can icy, discipline and customs are reform-
uations aboiqt ¡the celibacy of the
these. In “quoting” the Council of ' able, subject to revision; of course I
Popes and the clergy; (4) that “the
Trent in his disquisition dated Jan I do not expect Phelps to see the diff-
Catholic Hierarchy ‘as a church’ is
uary 18th Phelps represents the Coun i erence.
active in politics;” (5) that “several
cil as limiting the “reading of the | WHAT DO THOSE WHO STILL
of the presidents of the United States
bible translated into the vulgar ton RESPECT THE HOLY SCRIPTURE
had been killed by Catholics;” (6)
gue.” To suit his purpose, he later SAY OF A PREACHER WHO PRE
that former Governor Olcott was seen
changes this to make it read: “The TENDS THAT WHEN THE BIBLE
being initiated as a Knights of Colum
Council of Trent denied the right of SAYS “BLACK” IT MEANS
bus, etc. etc. Let the reader refer to
anyone to read the Bible in any lan- WHITE?” Such impiety is implicit
the March 22nd copy of the Headlight
guarge," etc. Such dishonesty is typ ly contained in Phelp’s statement: “Of
and see if the calm, clear, logical pre
ical of all these anti-Catholic “writ course, Mr. Davey does not intend us
sentation of facts therein can correct
to think that Christ drank or made
ers and lecturers'.”
ly be compared to a “busted toy ba-
fermented wine.” All history proves
WHAT
MORE
MONUMENTAL
loon” as Phelps vulgarly puts it.
WHAT DOES THE FAIR-MINDED EXAMPLE OF TRICKERY COULD
PUBLIC THINK OF PHELPS’ ONE MEET WITH THAN THIS:
BOASTFUL REPETITION OF IN- Because the Catholic church is op
ERMINABLE IRRELEVENT STATE posed to having every individual in
MENTS STREWN AROUND IN HIS terpret doubtful, difficult passages of
PREVIOUS ARTICLE WHICH HE scripture for himself or herself, there
DESIGNATES AS “UNANSWER fore according to the impression giv
ABLE EVIDENCE?” Evidence of en by Phelps Catholics are not sl
what? What if Al Smith is a Cath owed to read the bible. He dishonest
olic; what if the Benedictines used to ly distorts in pretending to quote me.
manufacture wine for public sale, etc. "Bible reading, he (Davey) says,
If illiteracy in Bo-called Catholic would make each one a pope." These
countries is due to the Catholic are Phelp’s words not mine.
church, then illiteracy in our protest What I said was that the Protestant
ant southern states must also be due system, according to which each one
to the Protestant churches. It was is supposed to be enlightened by the
not the Catholic laymen but Atheistic Holy Ghost in his personal interpre
Masons of the Grand Orient lodge tation'of scripture—that this makes
that persecuted the church in France, a pope of each one, since light to un
etc. etc. Does the fairminded public derstand the scriptures correctly—
see in the reply to his questions any this is abut all we claim for the pope.
thing that justifies Phelps in cling Phelps also says: “Gregory makes it
ing stubbornly to the gross falsehoods plain that no Catholic layman should
of which I convicted him in my former dare to read and interpret the bible
letter? I did answer all his ravings for himself,” etc. Note ‘read and in
at least in a general way. Does any terpret’. On this very subject of diffi
sane person expect me or anyone else culty of correctly interpreting scrip
to take up every wild statement that ture, St. Peter (1-3-16) says of the
he can copy out of the hundreds of Epistles of St. Paul “in which are
disreputable sheets and books that some things hard to be understood,
are on the market, for revenue only? which they that are unlearned and un
All that Phelps is doing is, parrot like stable wrest as they do also other
to repeat these mendacities. If a man scriptures unto their own destruc
has been proven untruthful on ten, tion.” The United States government
twenty or thirty counts, we naturally has not yet come to that stage where
conclude that the rest of his "testi she permits every John or Jane to
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mony” is of the same nature. Will interpret the laws or the constitution
not sensible people say "it is useless for themselves. For this she has her
court. If a Catholic wishes
to argue with such a one.” That is supreme
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do
this
in regard to the Bible, he
true so far as he is concerned. But
for the sake of the public, it is well is physically free but he must politely
at least occasionably to expose quack- 1 step out of the church and join those
who justify the words of the Apostles:
ery of his brand.
WHAT WILL REASONABLE “For the time will come when they
PEOPLE THINK OF PHELP’S will not endure sound doctrine; but
STATEMENT THAT THE CATH-1 after their own lusts shall they heap
OLIO CHURCH “GATHERED UP to
1 themselves teachers having itch
ears. (11 Tim. 4-3).
BIBLES (CATHOLIC) FROM THE ing
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DID
YOU EVER HEAR A BLACK
CATHOLIC LAYMEN OF FRISCO,”
etc., in view of the fact that Catholic 1 ER FALSEHOOD THAN THIS? “It
400 years after the invention of
bibles are on sale every day of the was
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year in various stores of that city and 1 printing before a copy of the bible
every other city of any size in the ’ was printed in Rome; this was in
” when even prior to 1520
United States. He also wants to know Greek,
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why the Catholic church refuses to (Luther's excommunication) about
"operate Bible societies.” One rea- 1 twenty editions of the bible had been
son is that Christ never commanded printed in Italian. Whether they were
anyone to go out into the whole world actually printed in Rome, I do not
and scatter bibles. What He did say know, but tjiey certainly were in
was preach to the gospel to every language of and accessible to
living creature, teaching them to ob people of Rome, yet Phelps has
serve all things, etc. St. Paul also audacious mendacity to say that
clearly states that faith conies by late as 1879 no bible had been printed
hearing (Rom. 10-12) not by reading. in Rome in the language of the peo
The Catholic church both preaches ple.” The facts are these: Before
and teaches the Bible. The Catholic the first Protestant version appeared,
church kept the sacred scriptures in-1 there were 84 printed editions of
tact for over a thousand years before Holy Writ in the ancient languages;
Protestantism originated.
During in the modern languages there were
that time, her monks and scholars issued 198 editions of which 104 were
wrote my hand the only copies avail of the entire bible, comprising 20 in
able before, the printing press was 2 in Spanish, 6 in Bohemian, 1 in
invented. Her very severity to move Italian, 26 in French, 19 in Flemish.
ments which falsified the sacred texts Sclavonic, and 30 in German, and 94
and tried to palm off faulty vernacu of single portions of Holy Writ, con
lar translations, is a proof of her zeal sisting chiefly of copies of the New
rather than animosity. To under Testament and the Psalms. These
stand the scope and reasons for these had been issued from the press with
temporary restriction», upon ‘ bible
“ ‘ the sanction and at the instance of
reading in the vernacular the circnm-1
church, in countries whidh »he
stances under which they were given ¡ reigned supreme, before Luther’s
must lie understood. See how during I Garman version of the bible appeared
the late war, our government made all *n 153,t-
aorta of restrictions upon freedom of
WHAT DO RELIGIOUS MINDED
press and upon the freedom of speech.. PEOPLE THINK OF PHELP’S
not to destroy these precious boons BLASPHEMOUS RIBALDRY CON-
but precisely in order to preserve CERNING THE HOLY ELCHAR-
them. The temporary restrictions up- 1ST? The doctrine of the real pres
on reading the Bible in the vernacular. ence is not only held in honor by four
were for the same purpose.
I hundred millions of Catholics and
WHAT THEREFORE WILL : members of the Greek Orthodox
THOSE TO WHOM HONESTY IS | church but by millions of Episcopa
SACRED SAY ABOUT THIS lians, many Lutherans and others.
PREACHER who having made the Even Protestants who disbelieve this
carge that the “average Catholic lay. ancient doctrine usually have enough
man must get permission from the respect for sacred things to refrain
Hierarchy to read the Bible,” clings from ridiculing and blaspheming it.
stubbornly to this falsehood, in spite | In his former “unanswerable argu
of a multiplicity of easily known pres ment" Phelps had implied that the
ent day facta such as (1) the bible is priest kept the bible from the people
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drank wine.
The Bible says that
Christ made and used wine. St. Paul
goes so far as to tell Timothy to use
a little wine for his stomach’s sake.
(1 Tim. 523.) As for total abstinence
such organizations as the Knights of
Father Matthew (who was a priest)
were' preaching and trying to get men
to practice absolute prohibition half
a century before the 18th amendment
was enacted. The fact that the Cath
olic church has not seen fit to change
what she believes to be the divine
ordinance of Christ, by substituting
grape juice for wine is taken by
Phelps as another “evidence” that
“Rome and rum walk together.”
HOW WILL SINCERE PERSONS
FEEL ABOUT THIS PREACHER’S
STATISTICS “that 55 per cent of the
men who are fighting this Amendment
in congress were Roman Catholics.”
They will laugh, smile or be angry at
his low estimate of their intelligence.
What does he mean by “in Congress?”
Can it be that Phelps can not figure
any better than he can tell the truth?
Out of over 425 members of congress,
only approximately 30 are Catholics
even in name. Whence the 55 per
cent ? But if by “in Congress” Phelps
means out of congress, then it would
be interesting to learn how he was
able to figure out this percentage so
accurately.
The “authorities” he
ments, whose absurd falsity is self-
evident.
CAN THE PUBLIC SEE THE
DIFFERENCE? Phelps again brings
up infallibility, this time he “quotes”
from Strossmayer. Now these quota
tions from Strossmayer may or may
not be fictitious. I do not know or
care. I do know that this man was
at first an opponent of papal infalli
bility but I also know that various
forged documents were imputed to
him. I know likewise that later on,
he repeatedly proclaimed his submis
sion to the Pope, as in his pastoral
letter of Feb. 28, 1881 expressing his
deep devotion to the Apostolic See.
Whenever Phelps speaks of the Cath
olic doctrine of the infallibility of the
church through her head, the Pope,
he always displays crass ignorance.
Let the words of the Episcopalians
clergyman, Dr. Jos. Barry at a recent
convention of the Episcopal clergy
men at Philadelphia explain his own
view of the Pope’s position in the
head of the church. It resembles the
Catholic doctrine very closely. Here
are his words as reported in the
press: 'This is what it appears to
me we can accept as the basis of re
union: First the primacy of St. Peter
and of the bishops of Rome by divine
right; second, a jurisdiction differing
in extent at different times, but in all
cases allocated to the bishop of Rome the Master’s words:
by ecclesiastical law; third, an infalli prophets which come to JX* 0,1
bility which is the mind of the church clothing but inwardly the, '“’’S
through the Pope as its organ of ing wolves. Ye shall knL*??
their fruits.” (Matt. 7-15.1^^
statement" etc.
WHAT DO TRUTH LOVING PEO fruita have been hatred \
bitterness strife. For
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PLE THINK OF AN ARGUMENT
not
blame
the
other
LIKE THIS: “Mr. Davey has failed
thus far to secure that living witness are not accountable for the ” '
who has been in a Protestant institu their renegade associate! «uj
tion for 30 years who would come they do not cooperate with
forward at the end and say all this, of them. Throughout
time I worshipped images’.”
For have been long suffering k?1
once Phelps spoke the truth, even enee brought us nowhere,
though by these words he is trying lately have begun a mild, d Jt’’
to propogate a pernicious falsehood. fense of ourselves and
Do you ever see Catholics using the
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printed or spoken word to slander, ABLE PEOPLE THINK ¿3
abuse their Protestant or non-Catholic BRAINLESS, SHAMELEfl.il
brethren? Only rarely ¡have they LIKE THESE: “We ofX □
come out publicly even to defend them why Catholic laymen dò JI
selves from unjust, unprovoked, out themselves into committees XI
rageous assaults, and then only with for themselves what ungodly J
calmness, dignity, moderation. Fair- houses of shame a Nunnery ,3
minded persons who have heard or if our Catholic people did not J
read our defense invariably contrast from personal contact and -wl
Catholic mildness and charity with who and what are the saiijj
the abuse, hatred, self-evident false and their institutions. In their J
hood employed by our defamers. But thousand of Catholic mother« (J
such poisoned pabulum is constantly Protestant aslo) have acquired«!
offered to the citizens of Oregon. For education from, have lived ijl
some unexplained reason, the chief same roof with these devotedtal
propagators of this peculiar brand of shared their confidence; knoql
“christian charity and patriotism” still know them most mtuj
were and still are so-called ministers of
Christ who strongly remind one of
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