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Vol. XE.—No. 20,
THE, CATHOLIC. HERALD
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WARIT
"Phere stands a poor man by the high way side—look on
lus brow,
"Tis wrinkled o'er with many years of woe and care—see
. now 1
He seems 0 faint, with trembling hands be, clasps bis
aching head,
Fe reels! he fll! he eries in fainting accents now for
bread!—
Go raise him up! life’s not yet gone! the faint breath
comes and goes") |
Give him to eat, "twill warm his shivering limbs and sooth
» his woes. ry
There's one upon yon sickly couch—disease hath worn
aw
ay
‘The bloom and raddiness of youth and smile of Yesterdays
His thin white hands are lain across his weak and gut
breasi—
He seems to sleep, but wildly starts and wakes from bro-
en rest, |” .
The fever # raging through his blood ! go prese his burning
Wet hie shed lips with cordials sweet “oh try 10 sooth
his p
Go enter that old hoel—pnor wretches all are dwelling
the
Go besten to 0 the erie the moans ‘and listen to their
A guoupe or ebildren gathered round before their parent's
eyes, / :
And wildly scream for bread—one falls! ‘the cradled in-
fant dies!
‘Lhe father sis ares like one that's mad, the mother's eyes
0 feed them quick! and save
them from that sin. .
A ond suai weeping by you tomb-a fuir- aid lovely
Sho socks her Tens in that place, and wonders where
2 they're
“Come back dear mother’ now she erie, den father when
» you walked,
“You always took me with you then and of the flowers
alked;
But ow 1 never see you more—T'll stay here “till you
. come— : .
Oh! be a parcut to that child, and take it to thy home.
A witow ‘esting ia her room—Oh! hear her sigh—and
suit ie ‘ne book where Iast he read, and here's bin var
int hair;
A lovely boy sits en her knee--she looks into his fice,
‘Thon at a painting hanging by, as if she sought to trace
Some semblance there ; then presses bim to her and bursts
’ in tears;
Go give her consolation now and sooth her coming years:
Look in that lonely garret now—the light scarce struggles
in,
And fails upon that student's form; Oh sce how pale and
hn”
a
Tie is; deep thoaght is on his brow, there's genius in bis
eye,
And eloquence breathes on ) his Hps—ambition's child—
hat sigh!
Twas his! he draws his mantle round and dreads the
. coming night;
He's poor—go give him of “thy store he's worthy of thy
mite.
Look jn that dark and gloomy cell—how haggard, wild
orn .
‘The felon looks; they"ve patubered out his days—he dies
al morn,
gory knife--a headless trunk before his eyes—
lie erp the heavy chains—oh epare! oh spare! he cries
y—he chokes—Oh ge lo him botore Aife'
He tries to pra:
riven,
Perhaps its not too late to call his guilty soul to heaven.
Diet to bene hat Fearful seream! ‘(was yoo maniac’s
‘3 wild;
Hor reason's tone vehe’s croz'd-—she ever cries—" my
Philadelphia, Thursday, May, 1s, 1843. . ‘
Uer eyes seem starting from her head—see now she tears
+r hairt
sin ehe erin with horrid vie in tomes wid despair
ne Bends, sive me my child!” Oh teil her kiadly that
A soft ‘word god acts hike healing balm, that eweet sensation
From the U.S. Catholic Misselany,
LETTER VI.
To the Rev. Janes U1, Tuornwerr, Profes-
sor of the Evidences of Christianity §-¢.
Rey. Sir,—In my last letter 1 began to refer
to the writers of he third century, and tolay be-
fore you their own words, in order to show that
in their age, as well as inthe first and in the
second centuries we find abundant’ testimony
to prove what the Council: of ‘Trent. affirm.
ed,—that from the beginning of Christianity
those works, which’ you object to, were - re-
‘}cognized in the Church as. inspired: and to
isprove your counter stateinent that the early
fathers ¢unanimously concurred” in rejecting
them as uninspired. © We examined St. Cy-
prian, who’wrote- about the middle of that
century giving hiny the precedence due to his
jority. His testimony was clear, ample
and unequivocal.’ ‘Let me now call your at-
tention to several other writers of the same
age, ely 64
St.\ Hyppolytus, one of the ‘earliest and
most ‘distinguished | writers of this century,
was a Bishop ‘of the Church. >\It is disputed
whether his See-was Ostia near Rome or
jaen i in Arabia,|known also under the name of
Portus Nomanus. We was honoured! by the
en | @2tly Christian writers* as a bright luminary
ofthe Church, and .as an eloquent and trust-
worthy witness of the truth handed down from
the beginning:
Buta small: portion of his works: has’ sur-
ived the ravages of time,*and [ have access
only wa small part of these.
“ ‘elerum Paticana col-
ectio, (vol. 1. published by’ the Co-
im of ‘Littrature, the eminent Cardinal
Angelo Mai, 1 find several fragments of the
Scholia of St Uppyolytus on the: Book of
Daniel; and among ‘them, (p. 38): one’ on
verses 47, 48, of the third chapter, being par:
of the “Song ofthe Three Children.” «The
Cardinal states that he had found ‘other frag-
ments which had been published before, and
mentions one on “ the History of Sussannah”
(chap. xiv.) published by Combefisius, » St.
u Ty ppoly (us allows not your rile, that as far
e Old, Testament is\,concerned, every
thing is to be rejected as uninspired, ‘merel
3 a human production’. save what is found in
the Jewish Canon. “He held the Hymn and
the History of Susannah to be integral por-
tions of the book of Daniel. .
In his refutation of Neotus,’ chap, ii. the
same Saint allows the inspiration of Baruch, |°
“For they (his opponents) say “itis written
thus; “Ihiy is‘our God, and ‘there shall no
other be accounted of in comparison of him.
He found out all the way” of knowledge, and
gave itto Jacob his servant and to Israel his be-
loved. And’ afterwards Le was’ seen upor
earth and: sfpagenstd with) men, Bar. iii.
36— . , Ant At another
place, i iv ay thou art
a hidden Gade the God ‘of Isroel the Saviour
(I Bt)
we
s
‘The Ser tures indeed speakfinhe
Jy, but Noetus has understood them erroneou
i. But the scriptures are not to be rejected,
because Noctus does not’ understand them.”
And in chapter v. the same text is aguin quoted
as part of the inspired scripturi
‘This is one of those ‘books “whiek you say
should be of ‘no mote authority ia the Church
an God than Sencea's letters or’ Tully's of-
ices.” In the beginning of the third Century
Christions ‘thought otherwise. The’ secta-
rians of those’ days thougtn they. established
their tenets by the Word of God, when they
quoted texts from this work to sustain them,
and in reply the Catholics so far from denying
its inspiration or appealing to your Jewish rule,
eapressly classed it sinong the. Scriptures and
laboured to | show that they had misinterpreted
its words.
I have several Tassapes apropos to our sub-
ject from minoniu is 1 decline to the
opinion thattheir Seine is ‘different from Am:
monius’ Saceas, the Christian Philosopher
who flourished and taught in Alexandria about
the year 210, whose ‘only’ work extant, 1 be-
lieve, is a *Marmony of ‘the Gospels,’ 1 - will
child! my child!”
omit them,
St. Dionysius of Alexandria, the second
successor of Origen in the Christian sclinol of
that city and saised to the Patriarchate in 248,
was looked on by the ancients as the most
glorious ornament of that see from the days of
Su Mark to St. Athanasius, We have frag-
ments of several of his works and Letters.
‘The following extracts will show that on this
question, whether the books you refer to,
form part of the scripture or are to be looked
on as of no more value than ‘the writing of the
Greek Philosophers,’ he follows in the, foot-
steps. of St, Clement of Alexandria,
In his epistle to Germanus, (Euseb, Hist.
Eccles. lid, vii. ce. 11.)he writes. “But since
as the scripture says, *it is good to hide the
secret of aking; but glor ious te confess ‘the
works of God.’ Tob.
In his Epistle against Peal ‘of Samosati, in
answer to the sixth question, he thus quotes
the book of Hisdom. ‘*For it is written,
‘The Holy Spirit of Wisdom will flee from
the deceitful, For the spicit of
Wisdom is benevolent, and will notacquit the
evil speaker from his lips; for God is a wit-
ness, of his reins and a searcher of bis hearts:
(Wisdom i, 5.,6.) ‘for the deep things of God,
the spirit knoweth, as_no one knoweth, the
things of a man, but the spirit of a man thatis
in him.’” (1. Cor. ii, 10, 11.) St. Dionysius
here unites the Book of /Visdom and the Epis-
tle of Ste Paul as of equal authority and equal-
ly decisive against the Heres for
doing was he ever charged with ‘intolerable
arrogance?’ A few setences farther on, the
saint again quotes the same passage of Wis-
dom? “This is therefore what is written:
“that He will not acquit the blasphemer and
the evil speaker from his Ips for God is a
witness of his teins’ jom. i. 6. e
again quotes this book in answering question
ix. and in his reply to the tenth, I find an allu-
sion to Baruch. :
I will now, Rev. Sir, beg you to turn. to
2 work generally inown under the name of
he Apostolic Constitutions. I believe the
learned De Marca acenrately, summoned up
the opinions of the erudite in regard to it,
when he declared that though manifes‘ly not
the work of St Clement of Rome, whom some
Be
a
3
ne
1 ; . . :
liad believed its author, it was by universal
consent attributed to same learned writer who
lived in’ the third Century, We need not
here examine how much or how littie autho-
rity is due to the author of those books in set
tling other points. ‘The question on which
we ask his testimony is a very. simple nes
Did he know that the Christian, Old Tes
ment contained no other books than those ad.
mitted by the Jews, or were the books, the
inspiration of which you contest, included
therein at his day? , Whatever objection you
might have to his authority on other points,
n this you can have none. » ‘Io suppose him
ignorant of the fact would be preeposterous.
¢ said that he intended that his books
should be believed 10 be the work of the Apos-
tles or at least of St. Clement. Ifso, he would
have been the the more careful to insert poth-
ing evidently opposed to what it was believed
at this day that the Aposts had taught. We | an
certainly would not have dared to quote as in-
spired any works which they rejected tas of
no more authority in the Church of God thao
Seneca’s Letters or Tully's offices’ or ‘the
writings of the Greek Philosophers.’ .. What
then does he say! "The fullowing passages
will convey his testimony. :
Book I. chap. xxxvii, For it happens
thateome through envy ox hstred bring against
a brother a false accusation, as did the two El-
ders against Susannah in Babylon, and ,the
Egy pian woman against Joseph.”
And again in chap. xlix. ‘From it fre-
quently happens that two or more bear wit-
ness to evil, and combine to npheld falsehood,
as did those two Elders against Susannah in
Babylon, and the sons of wicked men’ against
Nabuthai in Samaria and the ratte of the
Jews against the Lord in Jerus
* And likewise in chap, «Bu tif ye imi.
tate those Elders, who,. bearing falee witness
Whole Number 5.10
for they have borne false witness ageinether. u
Dan. xiii. 48,
Book VILt. chap. 1. “But neither did the
wise Daniel twice rescued from the mouth of
lions, nor the three children east into the fiery
furnace, despise the rest of their countrymen.”
From these testimonies itis clear that the
book of Daniel as used in this writer's time
contained the parts w “hich you reject.
ook VI. chap. xix. . “For even now,
Jews, assembled together, read the Lamenta-
tions of Jeremiah, in which it is written:
“The breath before our face, Christ the Lord,
is taken in their corruptions ;’ (Jer. Lament.
0) and Baruch also, wherein itis written :
is is cur God, and there shall no other be
accounted of in comparison of Him. Ne
found outall the way of knowledge and gave it
to Jacob his servant and to Israel his beloved.
Aflerwards he was seen wpon earth and con-
versed with men.’?” Bar. 36—3!
In Book VIL chap. xxiii., among other quo-
tations of Scripture f find the following, “And
again: *We are happy, O Israel. because the
things that are rieesing to God are made
known to us,’*" ve 4.
In the first of those two passages, the wre
had probably in view the [ellenist Jews, who,
as we learned from Walton, united those books
in the same volume with the other Scriptrues.
From both together it evidently results that
he classed the, book of Baruch among the in-
spired works of Scripture.
Jn Book VI. chap. xxix. “And also inthe
departure of those that sleep, follow them with
ing, if they have been faithful in the Lord.
or ‘precious in the sightofthe Lordi is ue death
of his. saints,’ (Psal. exv. -14 again
“Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: ‘or the Lord
hath been bountiful to thee’: (Psal.. exiv. 7.)
and elsewhere : fhe memory of the. just is
with praises,’ (Prov. x. 7.) and ‘the souls of
the just arein thehand of God.” JFisdom
5
ary
Wok I. chap. vii. As therefore the
most wise Judith praised for her chastity, be-
sought God night and day, in behalfof Israel ;
so too, a widow like her will offer unceasing
prayer to God for the Church.’”
Book V. chap. .xix. "So the Ninevites
fasting three days and three nights escaped the
danger of the wrath of God; and beter and
Mordecai and Judith fasting, eseaped the op-
presion of the wicked Holophernes and [a-
wan.
Reference is again made to Judith in con-
junction with Anna,in Book VIIL chap. xxv.
and in the second chapter of the same book
she is classed among those women who pro-
phesied in aucienttimes,
Rev. Sir, | have .by no means exhausted
the subject, but the quotations | have brought
forward in the last and in this letter will, L
trust, abundantly show thatin the third cen-
tury we have ample evidence that all the books
d.x *Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Barach, with
the Episile of Jeremiah, History of Susannah,
of Bel andthe Dragon, the Hymn of the
three children, Ecclesiasticus and the books
ofthe Maccabees have all been quoted, ‘or
alluded to, in such express terms as to. leave
ne doubt that they were admitted as inspired,
Call you this uoanimously concurring in‘re-
jeesing them as uninspired a
emain, ier. Sir,
urs, Ke
ALP. Fy
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CATHOLIC EDUCATION.
The zealous Editor of the Tublet, is man-
fully defending the freedom of education
against some who from timidity, or mistaken
liberality are ready to betray it. . In England
as well as here, the’ Protestant Version of the
Scripture is being obtruded on Catholic chil-
the National system of education, and in di-
againet Susannah in Babylon, condemned her
unjustly to death, ye shall receive their judg-
ment and condemnation.» For through Daniel
the Lord delivered Susannab from the hands of
those evil men, and condemned to the fire the
Elders guilty of her blood; and through him
He chides you, saying ; ‘Are ye so foolish, ye
children of Israel, that without examination
or knowledge of the truth, youhave condemn-
ed a daughter of Israel? Return to judgment,
rert violation of the religious rights of Catho-
lics. ~ Mr. Lucas has called to his support
the authority of the former Vicar Apostolic of
the London District. We commend his so-
lemn testimony to those who may be tempted
to continue at this abuse. *-
“Itis no other than that of Dr. Poynter in
his examination before the Committee of the
House of Commons on Education in 1816,
the tenth day of the “month Gorpiaeus, the:
and parts of books which you. impugn were -
recognise’ as partof the inspired word -of
dren, contrary to the professed principles of .
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