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Show PALM FOR IMPUDENCE. j Those Who Carry It Off While Evan gelizing South America. We have .sometimes been forced to, 1 speak frankly and unpleasantly about Protestant "missionaries" to Catholic countries, and we have always .believed that there must be multitudes of our , , separated brethren who abhor their crooked ways and their malicious slanders as cordially as we do. It is? therefore, more a pleasure than a surprise to find the Rev. Dr. Starbuck. one of the most learned and fair-mind- ; ed Protestant clergyman we have ever known, writing thus in the Sacred Heart Review: "This chief organ of theirs is Spanish-America Spanish-America has now come regularly to me for several years, and leads me to sup- ; ' pose that whatever fragments of intelligence in-telligence and decency and conscience . ! these emissaries may have had on leaving leav-ing home (and they seem to have gone out slenderly provided with all three qualities), they lost them overboard on the way out. Certainly at home they would not have dared to publish an article sneering at marriage regarded as a spiritual union; coarsely declaring declar-ing it, like Luther, a mere outward thing, and mocking at those who are shocked at the notion of dissolving it. Yet this they do by way of evangelizing evangeliz-ing the Spanish-Americans." The sect referred to ia described as i ; that "one which carries off the palm ' for impudence in religious controversy as against the Catholics." We agree with Dr. Starbuck that he might as well have named it, since he describes it so unmistakably. "There is practically practi-cally no limit." he also says, "to the degree of effrontery of which a large ; proportion of the ministers and mem- ; bers of this denomination are capable , wheve the Catholic Church is concerned." con-cerned." Alas, no: Ave Maria. j |