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Show Some Glorious Christians. A bigoted minister of Hamilton, Ontario, who recently asserted that the Catholic Church was not Christian, received the following rebuke from the Hamilton Herald, a Protestant journal: ' "As for the statement that Roman Catholicism is not Christianity at all, is it not bitter and unfair? Consider what this implies. It means that, between the establishment of the Papacy and the dawn of the Reformation that is, for many hundreds of years there was virtually no Christianity . in the xvorld, certainly no organized Christianity. Surely euch a statement is unfair and untrue, and we regard re-gard it as evidence of a bitter, narrow and intolerant spirit. Is it not Christianity that nourished such pure and heroic souls as the English Alfred, St. fLuois of France. St. Francis of Assisi, Thomas a Kerapis, Francis Xavier, Vincent de Paul, an- a host of others then Christianity must be shorn of some of its most glorious achievements." |