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Show TAUGHT BY CATHOLICS. On he subject, "What Protestants Should Learn from Catholics," Rev. Madison C. Peters preached a forcible sermon in Broad Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Ta. He said in part: The rich Catholic hesitates not to kneel by the side of the poorest. Protestants have too keen a sense of smell. Protestants should learn from Catholics how to give. Catholics are generally poor. But behold their churches. Behold the earnings they lay upon the altar of the church. Every Catholic is identified with some parish. There are thousands of Protestants in this city whose church membership is in their trunks, or in the place where they used to live. They remind me of those matches that strike only on their boxes when you haven't the match you haven't the box. and when you have the box you haven't the match. In caring for their children Catholics teach us a lesson. The Protestant laity need to be awakaned fo the deep sense of the magnitude of their duty toward their children. Here is the source of strength in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon fith. Protestantism has swung to the other extreme and not put enough stress upon good works. Good works won't save, but faith without works is dead. The Catholic charities, covering every conceivable case of need and suffering, put Protestants to shame. . i |