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Show Challenge to Bible Quoters. THE "Italiano in America" offers to pay $100 reward, to any Protestant Protest-ant who will answer the following follow-ing pestions, which Father Lambert translates for the convenience of those who do not understand Italian: First Protestants hold that the scriptures should te pur one rule 'in matters of faith. It is then required that they point out the text in the Scriptures which say that the Scriptures Scrip-tures should be our sole guide in mat-terers mat-terers of foth. Second Both Protestants and Catholics Catho-lics hold that the Scriptures are inspired, in-spired, but with this difference; the Catholic holds it because the church-infallible church-infallible in determining the inspired books teaches him that they are inspired, in-spired, and the Protestant believes they are inspired without knowing why. He Is then asked to cite the text of Scripture which tells him which books are inspired, and which are not. And if such' a text cannot be found as in fact it cannot hovr pan he believe be-lieve any of them is inspired? Third In 'what text of the sacred Scciotu.o 1a it fuUd tha-t nrivate judg- o ment . is the sole . interpreter of the Scriptures? ! Fourth Where was the visible church from the year 1100 to the year 1200, and from 1400 to 1500? If it be said that the church need not be visible, vis-ible, the Protestant must explain how it was possible to obey the commands of Scripture "hear the church." "tell the church," etc. And assuming that those commands were always observed in the church, where were they- observed ob-served from 1400 to 1500, that is, before the Protestant churches came into existence? ex-istence? Fifth Give .the name of him who first "invented" the mass, confession, j invocation of saints and where and when these "novelties" begin? ' The "Italiano in America" might have added another question:. "Where is the text commanding Sunday to be kept holy?" The "Italiano" not only promises $100 in cash, but further promises to proclaim pro-claim the lucky winner as the greatest great-est Biblical scholar in the world. This challenge affords a fine opportunity opportu-nity to the "Ideal American" to show its Biblical scholarship, remarks the Freeman's Journal. |
