New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1923, Page 3

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925, ey ——— J } | ““Another interesting fact is that the Bible as we have it now, was not | |printed 1n any language at all till R |about 1500 years after the birth of Christ for the simple reason that there was no such thing as printing known, Priest Explaing Its Origin - and| How We Got It till John Gooseflesh came upon the {scene. ? “We have become so accustomed to | {the use of the printing press that we of the from the original langu-| age was explained by Rev. J. L. Sullivan, at a meeting of the Holy can scarcely conceive of the ages The origin Name society of $t. Joseph's church translation Bible and its { when the only books known to men | were in handwriting. But it is a fact | |that had we lived before John Goose- flesh discovered the art of printing In |the 15th century we should have had to read our testaments, and our gos- pels from the manuscript of monk or | triar, from the page of parchment or | |vellum, or paper covered with the, last evening. | handwriting, sometimes very beautiful | The address was as follows: and ornamental, of the scribe that had “The greatest book of all time, lundertaken the slow and laborious | whether you regard it as divinely in- [task of copying the Sacred Word spired, or merely as a literary master- | “Phe world can never sufficiently piece, it stands forth like a giant |thank the Catholic church for the part | mountain, defying the assaults of de- |ghe played in guarding and pr l\mg‘ cay and destruction, |the sacred scriptures for poster he Bible is a book written by | “For the first three centuries of the | men divinely inspired but it is a book | Christian era we found the Bible in | not a religion, not an infallible guide |scattered fragments spread over dif- to salvation. The Bible was not writ- | fcrent parts of Christendom. Mean- | ten all at once or by one man, like | while many spurious books under the most other books with which we are {name of scripture were circulated | acquainted, but 1500 years elapsed be- among the faithful. There were tween the writing of Genesis (the first | instance, thn purious_gospel of St.| book of the Old Testament) and the ! Peter, one of St. James, and St. Mat- Apocalypse or Revelation of St. John | thias, Tho t noite church In the | (the last book of the New) It is plentitude of authority, in the third made up of a collection of different | council of Carthage (A.D. 397) sepa- books, by different authors, forming |rated the chaff from the wheat and in short a library, instead of a sim- declared what books were canonical ple work, and hence called in Greek |and what were apocryphal. In the | ‘Biblia’ or the books. | fourth century of the Christian era St. | “If you had lived tine days im- | Jerome, a priest, and the most learn- medietely succeedng the death of |ed scholar of his da anslated the Moses, all you would have had given |Bible from Hebrew and Greek into to you to represent the Bible would |Latin, This is ca the Vulgate, the have been the first five books of the | common or current or accepted ver- Old Testament, written by that pa- sion. Regarding the New Testament triareh himself; that was the Bible in |it is quite illuminating to note that 40 embryo, to speak, the little seed [years passed away between the writ- | that was to grow subsequently into a |ing of the first (probably the gospel of great tree, the first sfone laid on |St. Matthew) and the last (the apoca- which was gradually to be erectéd, lypse of St, John). | the beautiful temple of the Written| *“As far know our Divine Word throughout the centuries that Lord never wrote a line 80 s we of seripture certainly none been preser n the at hes that of the ] * *he th ear. lestament was Greek and s> he commanded them “Thus our Bibles, to 8 precisely did Himself toduy for reading, are transiations; | deliver the word of God to the pogple that is, are u rendering or equivalent [by the living voice—convinee, per- | in English of the original Hebrew and suade, instruct, convert them ad- Greek, as it from the pen of |dressing themsolves face to prophet and apostie and evangelist, living men and women: not = every Heb eth you as we have them lo what by face to intrust came tosy =P | T Jows CITY HALL Ry | guide in faith and Doesn’t it interest you to know that have a that pend upon for the new- you store vou can de- est and finest things in We distinction men's wear? claim that pendability because it is of de- a distinction. Every ar- ticle of our merchandise to be know we style- right, We not only want to tell you that it's and up-to-date but we're new anxious to tell you the reason for it's being stylish and worn by the best dressers, | preserving {the !whole truth of God, |ing the ! not did land their message to a dead book, AI|I(|\I might perish and be destroyed and be | misunderstood and misinterpreted, | and corrupted, but adopt the nmr:] safe and natural way of presenting | the truth to them by word of mouth, and of training others to do the| same, after they themselves were gone, and by a iiving tradition nd handing down the word of God as they had received it to all gencrations. “This is exactly what the did. Only five out of the 12 down anything av all that is preser ed to us, and of that not a line was | penned till at least 10 years after the death of Christ, for Jesus Christ was crucified in 33 A.D. Now it logically the New Testament hooks was not written till 45 A.D. Now it logically follows that the church and the faith | founded by our Lord existed before | Bible. Thousands of pcople be- came Christians, through the work of the apostles and missionaries of Christ varions lands, and belicved the as we believe it and hecame saints, before ever they saw or read a single sentence of inspired scripture of the New Testa- | ment for the simple reason that such seripture did not exist, “How then did they hecome tians? In the same way that become Catholics nowadays, | truth of God from the missionaries. When apostics met together in and portioned out the known world among themselves for purposes of evangelization, allotting one country to one apostle India to St. Thom- , and another to another, how did they propose to evangelize these peo- ple? By presenting each one with a New Testament? Such a thing did not exist, and 1 may safely say was even thought of. Why did our Lord promise them the gift of the Holy Ghost and command them to he ‘witnesses’ of Him? And why, in fact, the Holy Ghost come down upon twelve and endow them with the | speaking in various lan- Whq but that they might be to every | 50 now, Chris- lips of the 12 rusalem, Christ's the power B abl books of the New Testament were pro duced and called forth by special cir cumsta that were written to meet certain demands and emer- gencies, Nothing was further from the minds of the apostles and evan- gelists, than the idea of composing works, which should be collected and tormed into one volume, and so con- stitute the Holy Book of the Chris- | ces arose | tians, “And we imagine St. Paul staring in amazement if he had been told that his episties and St, Peter's St John's and the others would be tied up together and olevated into the position of a complete and ex- haustive statement of the doctrines of Christianity, to he placed in man's hands as an easy and infallible | morals, independ- ent of any living and teaching author- ity to interpret them “No one would have shocked at the idea of usurping the place of the tive teacher, the chureh, great apostle who himself said ‘How shall they hear without a preachoer? How shall they preach unless they he sent? Faith cometh by hearing, and Learing by the word of Christ.' “Such I8 the proper perspective in the the Moly Seripture. The | chureh has preserved and guarded the acred writing from the heginning and iowe hay the Db today then wa thank her for this priceloss can each been his authorata than the more letters study of st treasure The Bible 2] bers (aposties and priests), it is | exeellonce, and hence it belong to her to interpret and declare what it Tt intended instrue. Iit spiritual reading, en Ievotion and also serves timony of the church's authority; but gnide every man was and never could be” New mem her | written (the church, hy evangelists, he book Testamer means, for courage proof and t tr and divine as « complete and exelusive to heaven, in the ha of NEW SLEEPER TO NEW YORK Beginning Mon Decomber 17, 4 continw a theroufter El het ween both i iy ew through sleoping nd New York i operated by the New ording to sched. ’ v by the General tepartment Hart the Sate of M York, Grand Central ter 7:40 a. m. Northbound the will leave New York al 2 a. m seept morning, the rd at 4:36 express HAD STORE A DAY BESSE LELAND’S To Women and Young Women ometimes Stores Like eople Talk Too Much Mid-Season Clearance Sale of —m8 — Women’s ‘and Misses’ Coats $14 $27 $17 $34 §21 $49 We trust every one in need of a good coat will take advantage of this sale. 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