THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND BIBLE SOCIETY MEETINGS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 128, 15 October 1875, Page 15

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND BIBLE SOCIETY MEETINGS.

The Cork ' Examiner, speaking of the usual assaults made on the Catholic Church at Bible Society meetings, says : " Not only has the Church been, the depository and guardian of the Bible during what were called the Dark Ages, but she is its sole defender in these enlightened times. It is amongst the creed of those assembled on the platform of the Protestant Hall its most dangerous enemies are found. It certainly is not the Catholic Church which produces Colensos or Tyndalls ; it is not the Catholic Church which impugns biblical authority or denies its inspiration ; it is not the Catholic Church which has decreedthat it is a clumsy, old-fashioned instrument, which needs refurbishing by the superior hands of the present day; it is not the Catholic Church which"" has deemed it desirable to alter the attribute* which the inspired volume has hitherto given to the Holy Ghost. The Church has, indeed and truly, reverenced the Bible. It has not held that it is to share with JEsop's Fables or the First Book of the National Schools the honor of being the primer for 7 children. But it has guarded it as the chief depository of faith, and as the testament in which was bequeathed its own authority to enlighten and guide mankind."