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Show - , . . , , IT GETS MEN TO THINKING. Perhaps it is through that undefined power wc call mental telepathy for want of a better name. Perhaps it is Only repeated evidence of theological harmony among Catholic priests the world over. Be it one or the other, we find Father Tiernan of -Xew York and our own "F. 1)." partners in a literary lit-erary clinic over the Protestant patient affected Mvilh '"higher criticism." Our own correspondent corres-pondent at Salt Lake through this -paper. JmdTathcr. Tiernan. through the iXcw. .York. Sun. -arc diagnosing the Protestant biblical malady and treating it pretty much on the same lines of log-' ; ical surgery. Occasionally tthe editor of the Sun "i a hand in the controversy. Altogether these ' articles and letters appearing in. the press' should. ; setmen thinking. 1 . - "I would ask the American Bible League," : writes Father Tiernan, "whether the doctrine or 'belief that 'the Bible is inspired of God' and that it .is 'the Word of God,' has been made in Christendom Chris-tendom by the Bible itself, or by' the principle of private judgment on the Bible Like the unsacri-ficial unsacri-ficial and therefore historically false observance of the Lord's day, may it not, by unwarranted constructionists, con-structionists, have slipped for them from a foundation foun-dation not laid by them, shipped moorings which are essential for safety in the rising tide and storms, now earning destruction to tli.'r ,lrt,.0 Appended to Father Tiernan's communication to the Sun is a letter directed to him by a retired chaplain of the United States navy.Mark the earnest appeal for prayer "to die in loyal obedience obedi-ence to the throne of Peter," which thisAnglican chaplain presents fo the Catholic priest. Mark the well intended efforts of evangelists to unite in a common understanding of faith go' aft aglee because of the irreconcilable "higher critics." The more the sects try to get together, the" stronger they pull apart. The hand of God is manifest in this confusion. Sober men arc beginning to think that out of it there is but one way the road that leads to Rome. . Following is the letter of -the Anglican chap-' lain to Father Tiernan: " Rev. and Dear Father: Tour letter to 'theSunt'his day s issue, relating: to the Lord's day, tells the whole truth relating to the matter. h0le J lm a,l AnSlican in religion. I am in holy orders trlhXe bfeTfPr ny years. I am of Dutch Hof-and Hof-and descent. I have a love for the Episcopal church though 1 am fully satisfied the system is incomplete ,ou ng to the lopping off. on the right and on the 5!" at the so-caled Reformation. Would that I had been born and educated a Catholic! How much haiS I would now be! It Is very hard to break loose fro" one s old associations, even when under an insnira tion of a sense that onVs church through force has been wrested from its prcper moorlngs-the chair of fnJeT' Ule Pri,1Ce f the APst!es? of our Divine Lord. I am now an old man. I pray God to make a way for me to pass over, and to die ir . Joya? obedi once to the throne of St. Peter. I trust vo x may Pra v for me. I es, continue to pray for the union nf Christendom. Very respectfully yours, T Chaplain United States Navy, Retired. |