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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 9 January 1891, Page 15

Prinze Bismarck, who farms on a large scale at Varzin, is said to have cleared 10,000iols. by his cattle and geese during the last year, and bis profit trom yeast exceeded 3Cooodols. The German Ca hohc pre-s loses a leader by the death of the Rev. Bernard de Fiorencourr, a German ecclesiastic albeit of French nams and d> scent, some titm editor of the Gcrmania in Berlin, and of the Vaterland m Vienna. The Empress Frederic has just purchased the Castle of Kromberg, celebrated for having formerly beeu the residence of Luther. The Em press intends to transform it into a charitable institution in memory of her hueb md. Tbe question of Bocialism has been discus e ed very fully by the Catholics < f Grrnnny in recent times, and their Bishops have made it v c subject of a j jint Pas' oral. But thu German Catholics do not content themselves with mere words. They are going to work actively to combat Socialism by securing the redress of the grievances of the working class p>pulat>on. With this object thee has just been founded at M^yence, under the presiiency of Piiace Lowenstein, a Catholic Union f r Germ my. A central committee will be elected by a general assembly of the members and will be composed of representatives of cliff rent parties. The Ujion, f>r m-mberwh pof which there is an annual subscription of only one mark, proposes to establish Christian associate ns »f working m^n, to organise conferences a >d reunions, and to dissemina'e sound literature deiling with social questi )tis. Ttiis is a practical w*y of gai.nng th j . confiience of toe masses and d feating chiraencil and d 'nitrous experiments. The Rock has unwittingly put into our hands an unanswerable argument against the fun amen a' Protestan* theory that the Aim ghty intended the Bible to be thu one rule of f >i> b and practice for all men, Iv reviewing a book on " Bible Translations," by Dr. Oust, our contemporary points out that the philologist reck >ns more than two thousand forms of speech, no one of wtnch would be intel igible to a m»n who could speak only one of them — in other words more than two thousand distinct languages. Now, it is commonly assumed by Protestants that tince the invention of priutiug the argument from the fact th*t th 6 Scriptures were not accessible to all falls to the ground. But tbe Bible has only been translated into soms three hundred tongues ; so that alter three aud a half centuries of Bible printing and translating, after millions of money have been spent on the work, only about sixteen per cent, of the languages of the earth have been favoured by having the Scriptures translated into them. Nay, Dr Oust believes that some of the two thousand languages will have ceased to exist before those who speak them can ever see a Bible. On the Protestant theory, therefore, the Almighty adopted a method for making His revelation known to mao, which has been proved to be abßolu ely unworkable and insufficient for the end for which He tuleucted it. — Liverpool C<iikollc Toxics. It is reported in clerical circles that the delay in the delivery of judgmnt in tho Lincoln case is due to tha fact that tho Pi imatt; h»s been waiting lor the appearance of Dr. Garnet's work on " Bd ward the sixch and the book of Common Pia}er." This book will in all ptobdbility throw a gieai deal of new light on 'hs inteipietation of the rubrics, and s n>t likdly t ) etreng'hen the Hituilisiic powi ion. Dr. Gasquet i* a Bi-nedictine monk, of rernaikible le rning, who some ume since published a clever book on tne dissolution of 'he monasteries. Among other riiscoveiies which he has made about the Prayer-b >ok in the British Museum and c se where, he is said to have dug up a report of the debate on tbe Prayer-book — the eailiest debate which can bo .st of a report — as well as the notes of Cranmer and other Reformers upon the projected book.— Truth,