Show HAS LEARNED MUCH BUT NOT HOT ALL the rev bev mr comerie Mo merie merle one of the king kings a college london professors prof eaBon in metaphysics to la in ban francisco and has baa been riving lectures leot on alleged scientific and religious subjects mr comerie la Is quite a clever man and a fairly good speaker be also ban baa had chances for acquiring a great deal of information such as aa to to be derived IL ii college experience and in some respects has made good use ue of his opportunities port unities at the same time he places placed huoh an exalted value on his own abilities and qualifications that many people feel constrained to look upon him as conceited this faculty hu has led him to be very free in his criticisms criticism and assaults on those who differ with him in their views and in his polemic warfare he has not been to state truthfully the attitude of those who were the object of his attack about a week ago he delivered a discourse on medieval Med ceval seval science with a reference to geography st y la in which he be made a rather vicious at tack on the catholic church undoing in doing so BO by hie habit of uttering statements of an extreme if not inaccurate character acter he be laid himself open to a return blow which was administered with great force on sunday night by rev bev M D connolly the catholic priest at st paul paula church the report of the meeting says that the professor prof cesor was wae handled without gloves by the priest J and then roes goes on to show how that the handling was of a vigorously militant character it was pointed out how bow mr comerie had bad hied him to the pages of the infidel draper whose whole Couf conflict flot of science and religion Bel glon to the idol of the half educated and the laugh ing stock of serious blet historians and had drawn largely for his HUp up posed facts facto which the priest reviewed from the standpoint of history and logic and made a tolerably good showing bowing that as the priest expressed ills conclusion nothing could be further farther from the truth sruth J the drubbing which this thia protestant clergy clergyman man professor got may do him good in making him more careful in n his to assaults upon others other while in this country at any rate it should warn him that while the catholic pre preachers achem in hla his own land may not have deigned to notice him in discussion he be to in like ly to find a low lew of them here who are more outspoken and militant than in a country where the professors protessor Js church inthe to the dominant ecclesiastical tion he mj also realize that whatever weakness in ie on the Cat Lolio side aide of the question as aa a rule their priests who take up protestant chil challenges lenges exhibit strong indications of being thoroughly trained debaters on OB the points at issue between the roman church and those sects which broke away from it prof comerie made some reference of local interest atoo also not for the accuracy of his statements but because became he be set let forth certain alleged religious ideas which he described as aa modise val Mormon Mor tom 21 since siloe theme theae have no 00 connection with mormonism Mormon tom there to 10 no DO oco aalon IOn to discuss them in that relation their mention however suggests that possibly mr Mo merles s special pedal antagonism to the mormons cormons might have some connection with an event three or four years yeara ago in england when humble elders eiden of that faith had bad occasion to uphold the doctrine of the resurrection against the gent lemans assaults and to big discomfiture AS it to it probable however that he will pay utah a visit before returning to his native land it is to be hoped that he will learn sufficient of the mormons cormons while here bore so go that he will not misstate their religious views although Althou gb he has the scholastic attainment which entitle him to be a fellow ellow of cambridge he still has something to learn in the way of stating correctly the doctrines doctrine of the scrip tures tares and the views of his fel fol on religious matters |