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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 14, 2 August 1895, Page 13

Dr Brownson wrote : "I never in a single insta 1 cc found a single article, dogma, proposition or definition, of faith which embarrassed me as a logician, or which I would, so far as mv own reason is concerned, have changed or modified, or in any way altered fr ,m what I found it, even if I had be«n free to do so. I have never found my reason struggling against the tenchings of the Ohurcb, or felt it testrained, or myself reduced to a state of mental slavery. I have, as a Catholic, felt and enjoyed a mental freedom which I never conceived possible when I was a noc -Catholic, All who are in want of a good suit of clothes— men's or boy's— will do well to call on Messrs W. H. Tribe and Co, bigh street, Chrisichurch, who will provide for their needs in the most satisfactory manner possible. Messrs Brown Ewing and Co., Princes street Dunedin, are in constant receipt of n»w good. Every taste is provided for and every want anticipated by the firm, Messrs A. and T. Tnglis's great annual sale will commence on Thursday, August 8. The gnods offered will bj. as usual, of unsur. passable qualities. The stock to be disDnssd of is very largp, and the reductions will be almost incredible. All who can value a bargain will do well to not lose tLa opportunity thus placed wi hin their reach At the New York Academy of Music on Sunday,. May 26, tbe Bey Thomas Dixon, a Protestant minister, created something of a sensation when he pronounced Protestantism in New York a failure, " For twenty year?," he said, " Protestantism in New York bas been a colossal failure. As at present constituted, the majority of the churches ia the city are doing nothing, but are a positive hindrance to >hft pmgreeiof Christianity, and are repudiated by the spirit of Christ. They are an iacuoabra-ca on the face of the earth, a plague and a hindrance to tbe advancement of truth, because they rtp, as Christ says in the gospel, 'neither hot nor cold 1 The Baptist denomina'ion in this ci'y owns proper y worth 4,000,000 dols, and although wihia t'le last twenty years 15.000 children have been born into that f «itb, they have actually in tb*t time lost 2000 members, 'he combined wealth of the Baptist, Presbjtemn, and Methodist Churches is bern 16 000,000 dols There are in these Churches tre brainiest men of the age, and yet they sre uot holding their own. They are a curse, b cause they are only maintaining the traditions of a dead past. Th- ir machinery is so much sacred junk— holy junk, to be surp, but junk »11 the same— tliat should be put up at auction and sold to the highest and best bidder. What the people want is a new Church (applause and one hiss)— a Church that will be popular, a Church that will reich the masaes, and that is what the Churches of New York at the present time are trying to avoid."