CHURCH AND LAW.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13782, 24 July 1913, Page 2

CHURCH AND LAW.

A little sparring match between the church and the law recently amused Dublin. The ease- concerned a certain kinematograph film of a biblical subject which is to bo shown in Dublin. Threatened with an injunction, the kinematograph syndicate produced several clergymen as witnesses to the edifying effect of the film. One of them was a distinguished Irish Jesuit.

"Do you approve of actions simulating such scenes in cold blood for the purpose of making money out of it?" he was asked.

"I can not answer yes or no," was the cautious reply.

"The question is a very plain one," said the judge, a well-known lion of the Bar a few years back.

"It is not a plain question to me," replied the Jesuit. "If a person asked me did I think it right that a judge on the Bench should distribute justice, which is one of the highest virtues, and do it for the sake of his salary "

"What on earth has that to do with it?" hastily interposed the judge.

"Persons may have several motives," replied the Jesuit. "We can not live in this world as ethereal beings, and if a person's motives are to do good and en passant he also makes his living by it, I see no objection."