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Show IS 1 -. ". T - : t ; j CHURCH CALENDAR, j :vrn)ber. Devotion, the "Holy Pouls. i tund;i.v, J7. First of Advent. Epi.. I Rom. xiii, 11-14; gosp. l.uke xxi, I'.'-.T!. tff. .T ,-nnes of Interripus. JI"inlHv. i:x.st Ktfpheii u,c younger j mikI Comiianion. 'J'iii-s1.-iy. 29. St. Saturnimi?. J f "W-'.-liMrriay, St. Andrew. i i iwembT. InimaeuIrMe foncr-ptii-.n. ' J Thursday, 1. Dlessed Oaiuiiion and ; rvinpaninns. ni;irtyrs. ' 3"ridny. 2. St. HihiHtia, virgin. j Saturday. 3. SI. Francis .avh-r, con- j :' ss!-. Trotestant Editor and Paulists. j v alludr-d recently H the yujruesl in 1 T liirli din- MethniliPt t onteniporary. tli! I w York "hrislinn- AdvocaU', niak's. : I ili.it :t huidIkm-of Pniicsiaiit li:uiipinris , I l"- t' .ii 1 In all-ick lit.Iic do.-t lines. I f.eii us fiwi- missionaries in inin- 'atlin- :i. s ai'i- tra iiir-d to advance and dofvnd f!.- hi. Tli" editor of tlie ( 'hrist i.i u Ad- ...-,ite adi'iin-s the training: of .viirii I j'lissionaries no iFsihaii I he zeal which j 1h'-v vli.tw ill tl)e work. He justifies j ili'-ni in t h-ir .uteinjil lo -nvrt non- 'atlioli.-. alihoiih lie thinks that ilx-ir 1 : liniments in favor of Oatholii-itv .an ;' I 1.,- met t,y Protestants pmp. rh train. -d ' To iiKi-l tlifin. "in," lie says, "nt I :io waniingr to a certain young minis- I f r who. having had his attention ! -ir.rted to the .subject. has prepared J Jijtns'-'If 'in the, last werk' to meet any ; J'aulist. Ocir oinion fs that he would he ground to powder at the fust onset. ,; Til.- youne man referred to has c-onsiil- ' j crabie ability, hut he certainly can not j in tnre,.. day-s or three weeks, if he can j j in ihiw years, prepare hirn.elf to meet I I Th history and the subtle argumenia-I argumenia-I lion which will be employed against I h: n. We sympathize with him. for be- J.iro our eyes were open we rushed into 4 similar controversy, jnnd- after wrilii-I wrilii-I J''C a while retired ' in very "humble : jnond: and .it required two years of I niuly and observation to be satisfac- J torily prepared, to encounter a person i "whose whole life has been devoted to lercing- arg-uments to carry his point." ' This Methodist' editor is more frank s lhan many of his fellows who, no mat- . tir how often crushed by Catholic truth, rise again to iterate the same j old arguments. He is also more sensi- b!-, as well as more Christian in teni- ")-. for he says: "Aii aiuisiv" spirit on the part, of 1 -i h missionaries of Protestantism as v pi-opose would defeat the end. The Pino is past for the conflicts which the "traditional history of Donny brook Fair oiild illustrate, in this country, where "atholicism has been greatly modified lv otir institutions, and especially by ' tii" non-utnon of church and state, he v ho has no other materials than abue f of Catholics will not get a hearing from any clas which will long hold what they are taught." All this is very good, very sensible i ; iiid Christian, but is our friend sure t that "Catholicism has been greatly inodiiied by our institutions?" The I jnissior) of Catholicism in the world ij -was, and is. to biing all institution and ; ideas and nun "tto harmony-with the di spel. Our fri -nd desires to reverse tins divine programme. Sacred Heart ' , Jlcvii-w. A CATHOLIC PURITAN. ! M'hat wouh' .i. v w Kngland fathers I liuvo said c - i-i f have known of' '; the co, items : a . article which ap- l. 3 arcd in the " n nr number of the Catholic WorJ i. owing - the leaning i vhich Kichard Baxter had toward j Catholicism? I Kichard Uaxter v,i;s. so to sp"aki.one 1 i i ii--'Va i .i s- vitf'- I' i:rita nisni; To th5. j'iom-ers liift words v.-ere second only to- those of divine authority. His book.? ', v. i i c among ,'he few to be found in al- j most cvn-y homo and I hey held an hon- : ' ',! plac e t lose to the Bible. His j "Sainis" Y. t rlast ing llest" was a sweet i ' -oi,s..iaiim to the Puritans when they i 3i. d liitP- iud religion to make life tol- j .llde. j And now conns Dudley Daxter, au liii'ai descendant of the great Kichard, i .i;.il ith stal 'infills too well support- j d to admit of d ubt pliows that with j n'A the great Turitan'S devotion to non- j i onformity he held certain opinions That w..u!d hae shocked the early fa- j triers and led them to shun his book? J ' , ;i- the werk of the evil adversary. j I What would they have thought could i j they have known that Richard Baxter j 1 lieved in a continued visible church, j ' fnd that he held the views of the early j -i lurch concerning Scriptural interpretation interpre-tation as opposvd to private judgmentV !is sen; in'cnt;; regarding penitence! -were stiikingly like those of Roman j i 1 Catholics and in certain cases -he ac- j in. illy imp' sed confession bs tore he ad- j milted communicants to the- Isold's j Mipp-r. ' maintained I'bFulut ion to ho no I 5" re declaration, hut a delivery of: ' l-ardoii to the penitent, Kvideme is' ;i'so hrotig-ht forward to show that he v i: lied Saints' day to lie observed, j Millie some of his expressions eoncern-j;ig eoncern-j;ig llie d"ad lead lo the infer'ne that j e arhoeated prayers for thejr souls. j Chicago Chronicle. J |