CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7141, 19 February 1887, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE.

■ ■ ♦ ("Wo dc not hold ourselves responsible for the ipi.iiona expressed by oar correspondents,] '•" RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. * TO THH KDITOB. Sm,—l see there is a deal of talk aSont the railway carrying all the parcels themselves. May I. tell you, how they, -have served me ? In the shooting season last year I had a valuable crane sent down to me by railway parcel, and the authorities allowed it to stay in the office and spoil. Besides this one case, I frequently' get . parcels of birds down to stuff, and if they come through the Express Company they are always delivered directly they arrive, but if they come through the railway they are nearly always kept until they are spoilt. On one occasion I called at the railway office about a parcel that had lain there about eight days, and when they handed it to me it was so bad that I refused to take it. I was then politely told that if I did not take it away they would throw it out. These are only a few cases, but they show how the public will be served if the railway authorities have it all their own way.—lam, etc., Wm. Smyth, Taxidermist. Caversham, February 19. ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY. TO THE EDITOB. Sir,—ln canonising an author the Pope acts ex cathedra as head of the Roman Catholic Church, and as ex cathedra makes both himself and the Church responsible for every sentence in the published writings of said author (see Bishop Mullock's " Life of Liguori," pp. 134,163, and 164). It is wogse than foolish for Bishop Moran to try, aslie did last Sabbath evening in St. Joseph's Cathedral, to get out of the diffbully -by saying that Aquinas and Liguori were only individuals for whose opinions the Church is not responsible. Bishop Mullock says : "The writings (if he has published any) of the subject to be beatified (preparatory to canonisation] are rigorously examined he may have published anything which is not in total conformity with the purity of faith or morals; for otherwise the Church might appear in some sort to sanction a laxity of opinion by decreeing the.honors of beatification and canonisation to the writer" —pp. 163-4. The teaching of a canonised author is therefore just as binding, and authoritative as if written by the Pope himself. Of course we shall be told here that since we are neither theologians, nor bishops, nor canonists, such things are beyond our dull comprehension. The " children-and-fools-beware-of-edged-tools" argument' Is very convenient. I have shown what St. Aquinas and St. Liguori teach on the subject of civil and religious liberty. Let* me now call your attention to a few "modern instances." A few years ago Cardinal Patrizzi, as the Pope's mouthpiece, issued the following circular in Rome : Since the day when an aimed force occupied Rome 1 and the visible Head of the Church was constrained to remain a prisoner in the Vatican, mercenary apostates and ministers ol the reform,came huge from every part, with the intention of overthrowing Catholicism in its very seat, to corrupt this metropolis witn impious dootrineß, and to niakeher adhcipleof error instead of a mistress of truth. Profiting; by that liberty which, to the shame and detriment of the Catholio religion, is granted to aUjectS, they first began secretly to spread falsified Bibles, and then openly to invite prmcipauy, young people and Idiots to punlic conferences, which are now' so 'Multiplied and are held with so much external appearance as to excite grievous scandal among the people, and to put them in danger of, being subverted, we did not fail, 0 Romans, when a' fitting occasion offered itself, to warn ycu of the snares which the Protestants were spreading for your faith; but now that with grett .grief of our soul we .see the poison of heresy more and more, spread aqi diffused in the jjrly Qity we raise our voice not only by the duty of our office, but also by express command received from the Holy Father, and In the name and with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal Factor of our souls,: we exhort von to beware Of false prophets, who come to you in lamb's clothing, hut inaide are ravening wolves. What hut a hypocritical larva is that spoons name of Evangelical which Protestants give to themselves and tfelr conventicles? And what hut a lying appearance is that faith which they so much exalt and pretend if alone sufficient to justify, men and lead then to salvation 1 They do wrong jo, call themselves followers of the Gospel who falsify it according to their fancy. When the Son of God, made man in the fulness of time, designed to reveal and commanded His Apostles to preach 'the Gospel, Up constituted His Church, which He built upon Peter, to be its faithful depository and.. InfaUinie interpreter. To ber, therefore, belongs' the .definition of dogmas, the proscription of errors, tho correction of those who wander, insomuoh that whoever refuses to heat her must be held as a Qentile and a publican; nor can true faith be found where no other law is recognised but private spirit and individual reason, since the faith which justifies and saves is no other than that founded in the mastery of Peter, tor the duration of :wbrja»-faitt» Chrfot pnyed, enjoining him to confirm his brethren. Therefore, 0 faithful, it you hare at heart the eternal salvation of your souls, and you, 0 fathers of famines, by your strict duty of preserving fn'your children the treasure of faith, keep yourselves and you <*tWwi far away from the conventicles of Satan, and Jrom listening to impious doctrines injurious to{God. the .Virgin, and the Saints, to profess which be to incur the anathemas fulminated *y the Church, and to apostatise from the Catholio faitn, without*fbie*i there is no salvation, but eternal ruin*.; - : of supreme bitterness to the hearth fMiJn not to be able otherwise to impose* limit to so much -evil, as he osrtain.lv would do if he ooutyrrjake-iise of other means to bridle the insane license of tbi UDnops perverters of true doctrine. The impoßanffitru which he" finds himself, of .preventing tucV sentjus evils is a proof that be nb longer enjoys the full JUmty neoessaryfor the government of the Churchy- It is true that he pjminovionlv. Mhprt, admonish, and renew his prayers to the throne of God to remove from with which we are threatened by HisMvliie jußtloe;provolced tfttgfiMh utfquitjv •<■* »-■.!!'- 'v:N:u7*!-:sr)oß' i How aofor«gomg breathes th^irtttrf

' 1 ' ITpttrth—fiood-will to the Gospel! P eac h j e ret hren-P'tience, meek-men-love to the brethren w .F ont threaten . n eBB-enau»nco oi t t00( ther o ing , and revtog • of to ,J- egre L sword of persecution. What wielding the swoni i , , o{ S*tf32?b£. -h improve '^f e f ?t n t DC aTways borne in mind that forbids it; but wnen Si£tS«t. they do so on princg a J in accordance with their creeu. > Romish ecclesiastic as Is ngj^ FSJbie f Cd;&^P«^ can he any thing better thana petjeou or the best of his i ability,with- --ujat oath and standing convicted ol peijuiy the whole Christian world. A Montreal paper says :- r ™ olltreal( a Roman Catholic mou » murder was the troops were Mr committed in the atngj fa Muraire ventured to J Bt » D u and the Camp at ChSm preached beaten. When Father Ch««quy P Protestantism at Antigomsh, JNo in the of Montreal, he his bigotry and bad a Sabare as thick as nies, mm* hj oon » sits on his hind legs £ estabReligous liberty is now lorm liihed in Mexico; but, tne o every opportunity to stir up *r town not far from the «»P"» r ""fLSKntlhi aSants thought He was beaten until ™ t of Mex ico Protestant minority at 1 oluca,ououu j is BtreetS MATH TO THE PROTESTANTS! TO THK PKOPLB OF IOUJOA. fa*. If you are C.thoho in tt»n,g whn to to these „ n a important, and to make themselvesi appear .wi-e *w v att t B M uretothemßpJve9alutiue tt 'mou Und of that which they do not under**" , filthy scoundrels', deluded sons 01 u d , naif* in mass to *^ D °s£,Unu«l limlti of whose proper plaoo is wiwin«• e d(jath hell. With one»«» «"sserritledoath, a death of their fami.e . °« ve *s# extermination) to this as from a wild beast, a_ ™">'"' overthrow soct of accursed m *J?S for which we that the Pope „«to non .^f.^S re «» «i« oceurro* ad cow «»#*»/»« • haM cltl . am quod «<♦«»» aW»» l^ ™' aeiMforticaniw jwrZf 6 u• andW oil.til, an oath dispensation £!&U«i does not seem to lnve place (unless some m we™ itself hotter for the common advLnfMO-athini: which seems to bclonc wpecially ? of the Pope, universal Church), or again nnl>indinsr(full)rm\a Son, a hin? which also belo.ua to the Pope m h l {hlnrtßenenaiy which bclons to the.management of SasS affair?, over which he has plenary SSoriSrjart as it'alto belong tj every inuivi-luM ?o annul an oath which has been taken by thow who we under liU control, in relation to those th.»B» under his authority : just as (for mSnort a Wr can annul the oath of aeirl.anda nusbal the oath of a wife.-" Sum ol Theory/ partiii-quostion 89, section ix., under the hwd De Juramehto (oath?). -I am, etc., A. C. Gillies. Dunedin, February 17.