Correspondence.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 29, 16 November 1894, Page 9

Correspondence.

[We are not responsible for the opinions expressed by our Correspondents.] ♦ BIGOTRY. TO THE EDITOR N.Z. TABLET. Sib, — This is a word the meaning of which many people do not trouble themselves to ascertain. Intolerant, is the meaning given by some. I hold the true meaning to ba. intolerance on a subject that all parties to tht discussion hold to be an open question. A Catholic may be a bigot on any subject but religion ; there it is impossible, for with us orthodoxy is not an open question ; and, whatever may be said by Protestants or Masons, Jesus, our Lord, did promise tha gift of infallibility to His Church, and the promise was fulfilled on tha day of Pentecoßt and will continue to the end. To deny this is to brand Jesus as an empty boaster, and that which came on Pentecost as a Bleight-of-hand tiick of Pagans or Jews to delude tha Apostles. I read that one sect of Christians, whom the artifices of Satan have separated from us, hold as doctrine that " the whole world, clergy and laity, have been buried in groas and abominable idolatry for 800 years or more," and that they seclude the book containing this blasphemy on the ground that it is " couched in language too coarse for the refined notions of tbe age." What a flimsy excuse, as if there is no such thing as revision without altering the sense. Tha generations succeeding tbe great apostacy and their descendants are some* what innocent of this, but those who composed tbe blasphemy were either lunatics or knew full well what demonism they were doing. Thank God, the nations are awakening, and ere another century sincere-hearted people will no longer be estranged from each other.-I am, etc, Englishman.