PROTESTANT TESTIMONY TO THE CHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 20, 11 September 1885, Page 7

PROTESTANT TESTIMONY TO THE CHURCH.

Rev. Spf.ncer H. Br\y preached to a large audience in the Davenport Church, his subject being, "Things of Good Report in the Roman Catholic Church, which Protestants will do well to Consider and Imitate." •• Roman Catholics," said Mr. Bray, "are followers of Christ. What would the condition of this country be if it was not for the gup of the Roman Catholic Church upon us people ; and whit would be the condition if the Catholic Church was swept into infidelity.' Roman Catholics may leirn many things from Protestants, and it is for us to ask what we, as Protestants, can learn from Toman Catholics. Look at the religious training of their children. You may siy that their Church is an imperfect one. So arc all Christian churches. But though the standard may be imperfect, whatever the standard is. they hung their children up to it. Tnat'a the point. Consider their adherence to the Church when once brought into it. The Ca'liolic crosses the ocean, and even forgets to speak his native tongue : but tmougti all ihese changes the Roman Cnholic holds to hi-, religion. No sea is wide enough to divorce him from his religion. "Then, again, remember the free and continuous giving by Roman Catholics. They contract enormous debts and Duild the most costly c<uh<-dial& ; and this is done, not by the rich, but by people who are poor. Did jou ever bear of a Catholic church going uiidjr the auctioneer's hammer, and being sold to Protestants 1 But you ''now the icver&e has been the case. Fiom the Pope to the labomer, th.' Koraan Catholics give continuously, and give according t > their means. There is not to-day in this woild, a better managed institution than the Roman Catholic Church. The wealth of Piotestantism is not con-eciated. Another tt ing among the Roman Catholic- th.io is of good report is the woik-> of me Si&tera of Chanty." — New Har m Palladium.