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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 46, 21 August 1891, Page 23

There is nowhere a people more pious, more devout, and more truly religious than the people of Quito, notwithstanding the fact that they are a^ rapidly advancing in culture, in solid learning, and ia the arts and sciences— a Btrong argument against those wbo contend that Catholicity is opposed to civilisation. "Dei Bibel— Babel." How well the clever epigram of the German philosopher describes the dissensions in the various Proteitant camps to-day. That first principle of Protestantism, private iudement, exercised on the Bible, can produce only discord and / division— Babel. The Bible, to serve its true purpose, must have its interpreter, the infallible Church.— Pilot. Bismarck, in his despatch of condolence to the family of the late Field Martial Von Moltke, said :— " I pray God for the soul of mv friend of forty years, with whom I never had a misunderstandine " On which Father Phelan, editor of the Western Watchman, remarks :— " The sorrowing soul is naturally and unconsciously a Catholic."