THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SPANISH ORDINATION OATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11685, 21 June 1901, Page 3

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SPANISH ORDINATION OATH.

TO THE ED ITO IS. Sir, — 111 tin l interests of the truth I wish to ttyte a few facts, which have just come to my knowledge, in order to show thu real character of the ordination oath, some time ago submitted by the Rev. W. E. Gillam for acceptation, as if genuine, to your readers. The "secret oath" of the Jesuits was invented in 3683. vide the Ladies' League Gazette for April, 1301 (enclosed), which is a periodical of » large and highly respectable society formed two years ago for the defence of the Protestantism of the Church of Englsud, and according to which hostile and unwilling witness, the so-called "secret oath" is an absurd and clumsy old forgery. Now, as the "secret Jesuit oath" is an admitted and proven forgery of over 200 years' standing, what can. your readers think, if I show, as I am about to do, that the Methodist Recorder's "Spanish ordination oath" is the Fame precisely as that exploded old forgery '( Both oaths were published recently in your columns, and are now side by side before mo as 1 write, and the only differences between them, which arc, of course, no differences properly speaking at all, are the following, e.g.: "Almighty God" in the notorious old forgery is replaced by "God Almighty" in the Methodist Recorder's ordination oath; the " hosts of Heaven" in tho former by "heavenly hosts" in tho latter ; the "blessed Michael, the Archangel" by the "blessed Archangel, ,St. Michael;" the " universal Church" by tho " Church universal; " and so on, the identity being otherwise complete): and as the Methodist Recorder did not exist until 1861, while the old forgery of the " secret Jesuit oath" had been in existence since 1683. it is manifest that the Methodist Recorder's so-called .'Spanish ordination oath" is nothing else than a very transparent forgery of the said very old forgery. Now, I have hunted the "pious" fraud to death.—l am, etc., A Catholic Layman*.