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FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1895 16 THE o JA6 e e R e e e e s e e e s B el e S R R RE REV, DR, W, W, CASE RESTS HIS CASE Proofs Requested of Father| Yorke for Seventeen | Citations. ANSWERS DEMANDED. The Minister Declares Spain to Be Low in the Scale of Nations. WESLEY LOYAL TO HIS FLAG. Father Yorke Replies to Dr. Bovard on Questions of Catholic Doctrine. The Rev. Dr. W. W. Case submits the following reply to the letter of the Rev. Yorke as published in THE CALL Peter C ste: Sax FraNcIsco, Dec. 27, 1895. the San Francisco Call—DEAR Sir: My distinguished critic returns to his lost cause with superheated blood and a surplus of bile, Tt is 10 be regretted that he has quite lost and that in his agitated condition he 1 the compliments of the season ) other heretics. But his excited may be pardoned, since he is hard he galley. He has the laboring oar. 1g against the stream puts him out 1es, but with the recovery of his s &s hard as ever. Lreally pity ottom of my heart. It is natural vs sympathize with the under stmas did not have a more n his spirits and bring to more avself, I am as v as & California oriole in springtime. It ive me real pleasure to see my eritic in yment of the same ‘‘sweeiness and To the Editor o la othing m SOrTy P48 desperately to his ten proposi- clearly mauifest he dotes on them. »d turn deserves another 1 also v propositions: : has not_proven that his slander- 1S charges against Rev. J. H. Nelson havea scintilla of truth in them, and he nevercan ove it. He has not proven that religious liberty in < makes it comfortable for Protestant teachers there, or that Spain is not low in the scale of nations, nor can he ever prove it._ 3. He has not proven that Archbishop Hu was friend)y to our common school system, nor can he ever furnish the proof of it. 4 has not proven that John Weslev was o the flag of his country, the British h0r can he ever prove it. He has not furnished any creditable tes- 10 disprove my quotation from “The rd of the Valley,” nor can he ever bring sught no evidence to disprove n from Bronson'’s Quarterly Review 2, nor can he ever bring such ence. He has brought no_evidence to disprove my quotation from the New York Tablet, nor can he ever produce any creditable testimony against it. 8. He has not hled or misre; »m his Th he ever prove i roven his charge that I sented Hecker in my cita- hurch and the Age, nor ‘proven that he told the He has never truth when he said my quotation from Hecker was from the preface of the book, nor can he ever prove 10. He has not proven that the secti ry’s Compendium” which I quoted te decent morals, nor can he ever prove it. 11. He has 1ot proved 10 us, nor can he ever prove, that the moral teaching of “Gury’s Com- vile because “these” propositions ‘extraconstitutional, American law."” 12. He has not proven that Peter, who is claimed as his firsu Pope, was never married, nor can he ever prove it. 13. He has not proven that Peter's wife’s mother did not 1 of & fever, as the Bible declares, nor can he ever prove it. 14. He has not proven that the Apostle Peter was ever in Rome, nor can he ever prove it. . He has not proven, nor can he ever prove, that my quotations from Father Me- Glynn (wh he styles “apocryphal”) are either apocryphal or “extraconstitutional.” 16. He has not proven that Protestants are the enemies of the public school system of this country, as he charges, mor can he ever prove it. 7. Lastly, and most important of all, he has en that the priests, as Romanists, are jtics, and he never can prove it. e given, in my previous paper, a test of the unreliability of my critic. I furnished a perfect transcrint of ‘the section of Hecker from which I quoted. THE CALL printed it word for word as I copied it. But for lack of time and space 1 should certainly have used the whole section, comprising four pages, in my Temple address as bearing_directly on the point I was illustrating. As your readers have seen in the full quotation in my last communi- cation 1did not in any respect garble the text or pervert the meaning of the author quoted. My critic was clearly convicted of gross mis- Tepresentation, either willful or ignorant. He can take either horn of the dilemma as he may choose. So complete was the exposure of his undignified and unprincipied methods of con- troversy that it wrought him up toa tempestu- ous fury, in which condition probably he wrote his last paper. No doubt he is heartily asnamed of his ebullition of temper ere this and we must overlook it. 1t would be folly to stack up reference-books in your office to verify every quotation made when an intelligent public, with access to great public libraries, have the opportunity of verifying for themselves. It would be some- thing of & burden to pack my library, which consists of 5000 to 6000 volumes and weighs several tons, over to the newspaper office in order that my quotations should be verified. Every quotation 1 have given thus far has beena true transcript or translation of the book quoted. 1 feel like making an apology for having consumed so much of your valuable space dur- ing the last few weeks. Iam done for the present. When discussion of great questions degenerates into wrangling, I stop. Jangling words, like jangling voices, are very discord- ant. Enough has been said in your columns 1o awaker. public attention anew to the errors of Remanism, and the people are thinking for themselves and we are pleased. What the world needs is more light to dispel the dark- ness. My critic in his last communication says “the readers of this controversy are the members of my own church,” meaning, I suppose, Protestant people. What does he mean by this statement? Surely there are many Catholies who can read! Have they been commanded not to read the last page of THE CALL? What can this mean? Is THE CALL on the “Index Expurgatorius”? Liberty forbid it! TWOOD WRIGHT CASE. G. A. Hubbell, business manager of the Patriot, adds the following communication to the lengthening record of the ‘contro- versy. as we would call it in W, OFFICE AMERICAN PATRIOT, 819 Market 5 Editor San Francisco Call It ap- pears that Peter C. Yorke, Chancellor Arch- diocese, San Francisco, is uncontrollably angry because your readers have been informed of the fact that Jesuits are so bad in every conceiva- ble manner under the sun, as soon as they get the power nud the opportunity, that even the Pope of Rome had 1o destroy them. He is ex- ceedingly angry because vour readers have been informed that most, if not all, the civil- ized countries of the world, for seli-preserva- tion, had to run these Jesuit priests out. Peter C. Yorke says that the long list of goy- ernments expelling the Jesuits mentioned in iy last communication is incorrect. Weadmit that this iist wasa iittle incorrect; we laid this trap to catch Peter C. Yorke. The incorrect- ness of the long iist consisted in it not being longer. We know, however, that one-quarter of the list is sufficient to convince any one who has not sworn his first_allegiance 10 the Pope of Rome, that the Jesuit is & knave. “Jesuit?”’ Why, even the schoolchildren know that the Eoman Jesuit 1s a crafty, de- this: “After saying aloud, ‘I swear that I have not done that,”to add in a low voice, ‘to-day’; or, after saying aloud, ‘I swear,’ to interpose in awhisper ‘that] say, and then continue aloud, “that I have not done that.’ This, you perceive, is telling the truth.” Peter C. Yorke may not know of the above author His rending seems limited toa | few Catholic schoolbooks. He has read noth- ingof history, except little squibs about his native Ireland. He seems to know little or nothing of the ‘expulsion of the Jesuits from every civilized nation except the United He doesn’t know that Cardinal Man- rote work called *Vatican Decrees in c Bearing on Civil Allegiance,” which, like Mr. Gladstone’s work of exactly the same is quoted “Vatican Decrees.” He esn’t seem to know anything but his native | billingsgate, “You are a liar,” “‘you are a | liar.” this he brought with’ him irom the | bogs of Ireland. It is his birthmark; but | then this is in keeping with the majority of Roman priests who proiess to follow the meek and lowly Jesus. : Peopie who lived in Mexico at the time of the expulsion of the priests from that country tell us thatin 1848 and 1867 scores of priests were hanged there beceuse of their treason, and the sight of their carcasses looked like that of beeves hanging up at slaughter-houses and in front of meat markets. 1t must be re- membered that it was the Catholic people who were thus compelled to take such summary action ngainst those Jesuit priests. In Cathoiic France the tyranny, oppression and devices of the priesthood led,in 1792 and 1793, to such | extremes that the people rose in their frenzy and guillotined the priests and threw them in piles for the soap vats. P. C. Yorke in his communication refers to the ‘‘Bovard-Brewer- Case- Hubbell-Morgan- Quitzow, et al.” controversy. This Saint Bill- | ingsgate, editor of the religious pape; (?) called : Monitor, forgets that he is not in lreland and that the holiday season in California is | not fair time at Donnybrook. The motto of the festive Mick in his native bog, “when you see a head, hit it,” is, however, being consist- ently followed by Saint Billingsgate, the apologist for Rome. Priest Yorke (Saint Billingsgate) suggests that he cannot “meet this moral leper” with- out instinctively raising the cry, “‘unclean, unclean.” Very well, Father Mick, and may you keep crying “unclean, unciean” so long as the olice permit you to live outside the pest- Fouse. "You evidently intend o apply thase words to me, but out ot thine own mouth shalt thou be judged, thou wicked servant. n Holy Writ we read that when he who had the leper was ¥ leprosy met another in the w. obliged to cover his mouth and issue the warn: ing ery, “Unclean, unclean.” When he had suffered from his loathsome disease for many | vears, this cry became doubtless “instinctive.” | Even so, when P, C. Yorke meets the busin manager of the Patriot he complies with the | law of Moses, and. conscious of his own filthi- ness, he_cri nelean, unelean.” When he | meets Rev. Mr. Bovard, a minister of God, he turns aside into & wilderness of his own | imaginings crying, “Unclean, Unclean.” When | by Dr. Case, the man of God, he hears men tioned the words “Light and truth,” h shrinks back into his own loathsome seli, cry- | ing, instinctively, “Unclean, unclean. | And again, Mr. Editor, of what v | priest’s oath when the follpwing may be the | measure of his moral character according to | canon law, found in “Elements of Ecciesi- | | | lue 1s a astical Law,” by Smith, a standard work in this dios : “Question—Is it allowable to transfer priests of bad morals irom one parish | to another instead of deposing them? “Answer—If the character of such priesis is unknown in the new perish, and if there is a reasonable hope that by the change they will | reform, it is unquestionably lawiful to transfer | them to another parish.” ! Imegine, if you please, the moral value of | the word of & priest who comes into & new parish because of his bad morals. Imagin such & man in the confessional putting ques tions to and sitting as judge over your wiie | and daughters and the good_sisters of charity, | who live devoted and unselfisk: lives. Why was R. Becker, the parish priest of St. Helena, Cal., removed to_Green Bay (Mich.) diocese? For his health? If P. C. Yorke does | not know, possibly he might ascertain upon | inquiring of his Archbishop. Fostscriptum ditor, we mignt as well allude in ciosing to P. C. Yor facility for crying liar, liar, as & very natural result. Itis shown in this ation that the Jesuit code justifies dissembling and Iying as a means 10 anend. And if Jesuits can lie, why not Romish priests? The answer is, they can and they do. And P. C. Yorke is but a sample copy. scrapbook collections. For their benefit the fol: lowing narration is quoted from & well-known Roman Catholic book, showing that lying is Romish church when thie members of that faith are thereby benefited. THE LIE TAUGHT. “Father Razzi of the Order of Camaldoti re- Jates that a certain youth having lost his father, was sent by his mother to the court of a prince. The mother, who had a great devotion to Mary, when she parted with him made him promise to recite every day a ‘Hail Mary’ and add_these words: ‘Blessed Virgin, help me in the hour of my death.” The youth arrived at court, but soon began to lead so dissolute a life that his master was obliged to send him away. “In despair, without means of support, h went into the country and_became & highw: robber; but even then he did not omit to recommend himself to Our Lady,as his mother hed directed him. At length he fell into the hands of justice and was condemned to death. Being in prison the evening before his execu: tion and thinking of his disgrace, the grief o his mother and the death which awaited him, he fell to weeping bitterly. The devil, seeing him so oppressed by melancholy, appeared 1o him in the form of & beautiful young man, and said to him that he would Telease him from death and prison if he would follow bis directions. The convict engaged to do all that he required. Then the pretended youth meade known to him that he was the devil and had come to his assistance. In the first place he ordered him to renounce Jesus Christ and the holy sacraments. The youth consented. “iIe then required him to renounce the Virgin Mary and her protection. ‘This,” exclaimed the young man, ‘I will never do,’ and turning to Mary, repeated the customary prayer his mother had taught him: ‘Blessed Virgin, help me in the hour of death.’ At these words the devil disappeared. The youth remained in great affliction for the wickedness he had com- mitted in denying Jesus Christ. He invoked the Blessd Virgin and she obtained for him, by her own prayers, a great sorrow for all his sins s0 that weeping and contrition. “On his way 10 the gallows, happening to pass before a statue of Mary, he saluted her with his usual prayer: ‘Blessed Virgin, help me in im. Deeply moved he begged to be allowed to kiss the feet of the image. The executioners refused, but afterward consented on account of the clamor of the people. The youth stooped to kiss her, feet, and Mary extended her arm from that statue, took him by the hand and held him so strongly thet nopower could move him. At this prodigy the multitude shouted Pardon! pardon! And pardon was granted Having returned to his country he led an ex: emplary life, and was always most devoted to Mary, who had delivered him from temporal and eternal death.” 212-214.] Posteriptum No. 2—In regard to Roman priests’ oath, we find one recorded in ‘““Roman- ism; The Danger Ahead,” by A. J. Grover, page readers recently, because it has in it this dam- nable and consistent clause with Romanish hatred to our system of government as follows : ““That the zeal of the priest is to be against all heretical kings, princes, states or powers.” In confirmation of the ubove, Archbishop Man- ning says in *‘Essays on Religion and Litera- ture,” published in 1867, on page 416: “More- over, the right of deposing kiugs is inherent in the supreme sovereignty, which the Popes, as vicegerents of Christ, exercise over all Christian nations.” A. HUBBELL. Sl “THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH.” Father Yorke Replies to Dr. Bovard on Ques- tions of Catholic Doctrine. The Rev. Father Yorke coatributes the following in answer to a recent communi- cation of the Rev. Dr. Bovard of Alameda: SAN Fraxcisco, Dec. 27, 1895. To the Editor of the San’ Francisco Call— DEAR SIR: In & communication which ap- peared in your magnificent Christmas number ev. F. D. Bovard gives his views on certan phases of the present controversy. The tone of ihat communication was excellent, and I hope to be able to answer it in the same good spirit. Iagree with him that ““there are some funda- mental differences between Catholicism and Protestantism to which attention can be called ceitful, perjuring fraud. And why shouldn’t every {rue American place & Jesuit beneath his contempt and put no reliance whatever upon & Jesuit oath in the face of such damnable jug- glery as this. Under the heading -*Mental Reservations,” Sanchez, a Jesuit writer and authority, says: A man may swear that he never did sucha thing (though he actually did it), meaning within himself that he did not do so on a cer- tein day, or before he was born, or understand- ing any other circumstance, while the words which he employs have no such meaning. And this isvery convenlent in many cases, and quite innocent when necessary or cons venient to one’s health, honor or advantage.” Filutius, another Jesuit authority, says: “Itis the intention that determines the quality of the action.” (Transecript 25, chapter 2, ques- tions 328 and 331.) And he suggests a still surer method of avoiding falsehood, which is without unjust reflection on either.” I might add that if we couid only confme our contro- venf' 10 these points on which one communion really differs {rom the other we might more easily rezch if not an agreement at least tole- rance and mutual respect. (1) Iam inclined to believe that Dr. Bovard has been mislead by his authorities concern- ing the attitude of the Catholic church toward the Bible. He states: *“The Catholics hold that by virtue of the supernatural power stowed on the church in the beginning 1t has the right. through properly constituted coun- cils, to add to the doctrines of the Bible. They hold further that the decrees and dogmas of the church are of equal authority with the Bible in all matters pertaining to conscience,” If 1 understand Dr. Bovard aright I am afraid that he has not caught the meaning of Catholic teaching on this matter. Catholics and Protestants agree that Christianity is are- not only permissible, but enjoined by the | | 1 | e made his confession with much | the hour of my death.’ And the siatue, in the | resence of all, inclined its head and saluted | {“Glories of Mary,” pp. | 3 | their abandonment of their theological theo- 115, that is as bad as that given to THE CALL | | for himself, reads it, studies it and gathers | this society wrote books. Some of your readers, we are told, are making | vealed religion. By that we mean that God has spoken to man and has told him certain truths. Let us call these truths the “de‘po!'“. of faith,” or more popularly “‘revelation.” Now, Catholics teach that this revelation was com- plete in Christ and the apostles, With them the telling of new truths ceased. Since their time no new dogma has been communicated to man. Neither Pope nor council can ada & single jot or tittle to the original deposit of aith This is the teaching of Catholic theologians, and Dr. Bovard will see that on this point we are a unit with Protestants. The difference between us lies in another direction. It is a difference in theory rather than a difference in prectice. It consistsin the diverging answers given to the question: Wherein is revelation contained? God has spoken to man. He has told him several truths. Where are we to find these truths? Protestants answer these truths are to be found in the Bible. God’s revelation is con- tainad in God’s book. Webster in his dic- tionary makes ‘revelation” synonymous with the Bible. This is only another way of ex- pressing the famous declaration of Chilling- worth, “The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants.” Catholics answer that the truths which God has revealed are 1o be found in the Bible and in the unwritten traditions. They do not | look upon the Bible as a complete record of revelation. They remark that churches were established and preaching carrfed on before the Bible was written. The truths which God bad revealed were carried to the ends of the earth before men knew what books made up the Bible. They appeal to the structure of the book itself as a demonstration that it was not intended to be & complete record of revelation and therefore they hold that there may be an are truths which were revealed by God to man ;t‘[ul which have not been set down in Holy Tit. The difference in the two answers may be ex- emplified in this manner. In the United States we have the statute law and the common law. The statute law is made up of specific enact- meuts set forth in more or less plain terms in writing. The common law is made up of en- actments which originally were not set forth in writing, but the tenor of which is discovered from the practices of courts and their formal decrees. Now, the Protestant theory declares that there is nothing in revelation but statute law. Whatever has not been set down in writing in God’s code, the Bible, has no force. The Cath- olic theory contends that there is in revelation both stacite law and common law,and that there are some things which Christ revealed to his diseiples which have not been set down in the Bible. The reason for the Protestant answer is to be found in the theory of private judgment. When in the sixteenth century the reformers sought for a theological explanation to justify their separation from Rome, they promuigated the doctrine that the rule or standard of faith was the reason of each man working out for himself & religion from the Bible. They stated that God has written a letter to his caildren. This letter is the Bible. We are each of us to tudy it and from that study we shall find hat God wishes us to believe. In such a theory, of course, there is no room for tradition. Every man is his own Pope. He has before him all that God has said. He is to interpret it for himself. Revelation lies in the Bible like a child's building blocks in their case. One man takes them and builds one structure, another man takes them and builds anotner, He has no materials except what he finds in the Bible. He has no draw- ! ings, plans or specifications to guide him in his work, and the result is the natural one, that in the space of three centuries the struc- tures which have been erected from the same blocks have been almost infinite in their di- vers son of the Catholic answeris to be found in the conception of a teaching church. When men to-day wish to promulgate a re- ligious or a political doctrine they find that the most efficacious way is to found an organi- zation tospread their tenets. Catholics believe that Christ acted in this manner. He wrote nothing himself, but he organized his dis ciples into a society with a definite govern- ment and_definite officers, and to this society he gave the commission to teach his doctrines. The members of this iety wentforth and by word of mouth conveyed to others what the Master had told them. Their orders were not to write but to make disciples, He promised with his society and to oversee it ke care that it should never change or mutilate or corrupt or add to the revelation which he left in its charge. In the course of time certain membe: These book: written not as & constitution and by-laws for the soclety, but for quite other purpose. Four of the books were selected portions of the “Life of Christ, doctrines. doings of two of the apostles. were letters sent on various and oftentimes apparently trivial occasions either to particu- lar persons or to communities. A collection of these writings was made and is known as the New Testament. Now, from the fact that there is nothing in these documents show that they were intended to be a complete record of revelation, and from the fact that some'of them speak of matters which were not written down, but were afterward to be told by words of mouth, and from the fact that for 400 years no man knew how many books were in this New Testament, Catholics b2lieve that of together to prove certain there are points in Christs revelation which | have not been st down in the New Testament, and they believe, moreover, that the commis- sion which Christ gave to his society still holds, and that it js irom that society and not from the written word alone that we are to | learn what things God has spoken unto man. This theory makes room for tradition. It recognizes the existence of the common as well as of the statute law. - Istated in the beginning that the difference between Catholics and Protestants in this mat- ter is a difference in theory rather than a dif- erence in practice. he exception of a few insignificant sects, no Protestant denomination acts up to its theory of the Bible and nothing but the Bible. Let us take, for instance, the question of in- spiration. By inspiration’ we mean that such and such a book the word of God. Now whether any book has been inspired or notis a fact which cau be known only by revelation. Unless God tells man that he is the author of this volume or that there is no way for man to find itout. In the case therefore, say of the Gospel of 8t. Matthew, how are we to know whether it is inspired or not? The fact that it is inspired is a fact of revelation. If allrevela- tion is contained in the Bible then we must find in the Bible the statement that St. Mat- thew is inspired. But nowhere do we find such astatement. Nowhere do we find it said that this book or that is scripture. The fact that it is scripture is known some other way then from the Bible, and thus in the very beginning a big hole is made iu the theory of the Bible | and nothing but the Bible. In accepting their New Testament Protestantsaccept the Catholic theory which places in the custody of the church certain revealed truths not set down in Holy Writ. A more remarkable instance of contradiction is to be found in the observance of the first day in the week as the Sabbath. It is beyond all reasonable doubt that the commanaments hallow the seventh day. Yet with the excep- tion ot a few sectaries all Protestants observe Sunday. It istrue we can Erovc from Seript- ure that_the obligation to keep the seventh day has been abolished; but it is just as true that we cannot show from Scriptures that we are bound to keep the first day. The Christian Sunday is not a_Bible institution, but it isa church institution, and when Protestants ob- serve it they are acting in contradiction to ! their theory that the Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants. The most remarkable instance, however, is ries and their practical agreement with Cath- olics is to be found in their rejection of pri- vate judgment. The exercise of private judg- ment implies that each man takes the Bible therefrom the will of God 1n his regard. Hence each one is free to adopt his own inter- pretation of Holy Writ as his religion and his rule of life. Now, as a_matter of fact, all over the Prot- estant world this theory has been contradicted by the practice of having churches with definite creeds and articies of religion. The creeds and articles of religion are interpreta- tions of the Bible. They prociaim that such and such truths are contained in revelation. Instead of leaving their members free to dis- cover each his own creed they demand as a condition of entrance subscription to certain straight interpretations of the Bible. If after entrance any member interprets the Scripture by private judgment and reaches a conclusion contrary to the creeds, such member is incon- tinently tried for heresy and expelled. Chil- dren are not allowed to grow up with free and inprejudiced minds, but are from infancy indoctrinated with one or the other style of interpretation, and, as a matter of fact. the vast majority of the members of the Protestant churches aré members by inheritance. Thus you will see, Mr. Editor. that while in theory there is a wide difference between Protestants and Catholics, in practice the; liave come over to our side. They acknowl- edge the existence of revealed truths outside of the Bible, and they interpret the Bible just as we do through the churcn. The real diiter- ence between us is the historical difference, the difference of fact. Which church is the society established by Jesus Christ with the power to guard revelation and the power to communicate it? Is it the Methodist church or the Presbyterian church or any of the other churches which sprang up in the revolution of the sixteenth century, or is it that old church which goes back beyond the sixteenth century and beyond the sixth to the dsys of the martyrs, to the days of the Apostles,ito the gates of Damascus and 1o the upper chamber of Jerusalem? 2. This agreement in practice between Catho- lics and Protestants renders it easier to deal with Dr. Bovard’s secoud point, the Bible in the publie schools. Dr. Bovard’s contention is that there should be a standard of morals in the public schools. If the public school is to teach morality this contention is correct. Now he cays, we may do one of three things. (a) We may excogitate a natural system of moral- vere | stung ¢ One of them was a narrative of the | Most of them | themselves which wonid | As a matter of fact, with | b) We may adopt a revealed system of ty, or (¢) We may restore the Bible. Dr. Bovard says with truth that a natural system of morality is inadequate. I would not follow him as far as he goes in his descrip- tion of its inadequacy. There is in his denun- ciation of it a tinge of the doctrine of total depravity. We Catholics believe in the na- tural goodness of numan mnature. God’s merey and God’s grace are boundless. He is not u respecter of persons and in_every nation he that feareth him and ‘worketh justice is acceptable unto him. However, admitting that the natural system is inadequate, the choice lies between a re- vealed system of morality and a Bible system. By a revealed system of morality is meant a system which is based on certain truths which & society declares to be revealed by God. By a Bible system is meant the mere enunciation of the Bible words, leaving to the hearers the task of drawing from them moral lessons. Now, I think what I have already seid about the inconsistency of the Protestant theory with the Protestant practice shows that there is no real difference between these two sys- tems. 1am fully convinced that non-sectarian Bible-reading is either useless or a frand. My reasons are that the Bible was never intended to be & textbook of morals. The moral truths in it have to be selected, and all selection is interpretation, and all interpretation is sec- tarian. It does not matter whether a sotiety declares in its own words that such a doctrine is revealed by God or a teacher declares in the words of the Bible that such end such a law is established by God; both are equally sectarian. Just as in }’ncncc Protestants use the Catho- lic rule of faith so in practice non-sectarian Bible-reading must necessarily become sec- tarian. Another point. There is no such thing as Bible morality. Morality, like religion, evolves. The morality of the Peutateuch is i not the morality of the Gospel. Dr. Bovard | cnmrlains that Plato sanctioned lying. Iam | afraid that to the ordinary schooiboy he would have much difficulty in exculpating Abrakam and Jacob from the same charge. There are meny things in Holy Writ which the un- stable wrest to their own destruction, and Tam greatly afraid that if non-sectarian Bible- reading were possible the lessons inculcated would at times be more startling than useful. But as a matter of fact non-sectarian Bible- reading is & humbug. I the first place we must procure a non-sectarian Bible. King James’ version is corrupt. In 1o less than 300 places the translators tampered with it to make & point against Catholics. The revised version, which is_the admission by fair-minded Protestants of the Catholic charge against the authorized yersion, is an improvement, but it hds errors of its own. We | cannot ask Protestants to read any of sixteen Catholic translations. Then thereis the gues- tion of the Jews. They pay their taxes justas well as Christians. Shn?l we compel them to reed the New Testament? Then there are the | children of atheists and nothingarians, how are | we to treat them? What kind of non-sectarian reading will reconcile all these contending in- terests? Perhaps the genealogies in Genesis might be accepted as a compromise. In teaching morality as in teaching religion there are but two ways. Either teach a full definite code or leave it altogether to each in- dividual. In our vublic schools we ecannot teach a satisfactory code of morality without | teaching religion, and as long as our schools j are open to all children, Jew and Gentile, we cannot teach religion. Denominational schools are possible, purely secular schools are possi- { ble, but that moral monstrosity known as the non-sectarian religious school is & humbug be- fore God and man. 3. Dr. Bovard says that ‘it is unfortunate for the claix of the Catholic church that it can- not show by its nistory that it is friendly to the system of free education.” Again Dr. Bo- vard is misled by his authorities. From the very beginning of her history the Catholic cnurch favored free education.” Let me<quote from a Protestant who has oiten manifested his anti-popish tendencies, Canon Farrar: “‘Consider what the church did for educa- tion. Her 10,000 monasteries kept alive and transmitted that torch of learning which oth- e would have been extinguished long be- A religious education, incomparably s perior to the mere atnleticism of the noble’s hall, was extended to the meanest serf who wished for it. This fact alone, by proclaiming the dignity of the individual, elevated the en- tire hopes and destinies of the race. The hu- manizing machinery of schools and univi ties, the civilized propaganda of missionary zeal, were they not due to her? And, more than this, her very existence was a living edu- cation; it showed that the successive ages were not sporadic and accidental scenes, but were continuous and inhereut acts in the one | great drama. } ” “In Christendom the yearnings of the past | were fulfilled; the direction of the future de- | termined. In dim but magnificent procession ‘the giant formsof empires on_their way to ruin’ hed each ceded to her their scepters, | bequeathed to her their gifts. * * * Life be- | comes one broad, rejoicing river, whose tribu- taries, once severed, were not 10w united, and whose majestic stream, without one break in its continuity, flowed on, under the common sunlight, from its source beneath the throne of God.” (1 b., p.186, Lect. V, “Christianity and the Race.”) To this I might add that the City of Rome had a free school system as early as 1597. In 1 1179 the third Council of Lateran commanded | that every cathedral should have a free school. | In Rome not only the schools but the uni- versities and all other higher institutions of learning are free. The first free school syetem among English. | speaking peoples was founded in Cork by & | Catholic lady, Nano Nagle. Her successors | are the Presentation Sisters, who have two | houses in this City. All the Catholic teaching orders, and their name is legion, are attempts made by the church to promote out of her own resources free education. The Catholicchurch can challenge comparison with any church in her zeal for learnin?, Iought to be permitted to ask Dr. Bovard what his church has done for education? It is a common trick to claim our State school system as a Protestant institution. It is just as much Catholic as it is Protestant, as much Jewish as Christian. Our State sys- tem was not established by any church. The credit for it belongs to all the citizens. But what, I repeat, has Methodism done for free | edueation? The poor whites of the Carolinas | belong to some denomination of your church, | Dr. Bovard, and you know they ‘are the most ignorant, the most degraded geople in Christen- dom. You have not sent them missionaries, | you have not given them schools. In the whole | United States’ you have not a single parish school giving free education to a singie child, | while the Catholics give free education to nearly 1,000,000 children. It is not fair to compare the work of the State with its limitless ‘wealth to the work of a single church; but it is fair to compare church with church, and in that comparison we have nothing to fear., Over half a century ago a Scoteh Presbyterian, Laing, put his sentiments on record, and thesé sentiments I quote for the edification of those | who accuse the Catholic church of being op- | posed to free education. “In_Catholic Germany. in France, Italy, and even Spain, the education of the common peopie | in reading, writing, arithmetic, music, manners and morals_(whichl last two elements of true | education should be printed in capitals) is at | least as generally diffused and as faithfully i)romoted by the clerical body as in Scotland. tis by their own advance and not by keepin back of the people that the Popish nrleslhoos of the present day seek to keep ahead of the intellectual progress of the community in Catholic lands, and they might, perhaps, retort on our Presbyterian clergy, and ask if they, 100, are in their countries at the head of the intellectual movement of the age? “Education is, in reality, not only not re- pressed, but 1s encouraged by the Popish church, and is a mighty instrument in its hands and ably used. “In every street in Rome, for instance, there are at short distances public primary schools for the education of the children of the lower and middle classes in the neighborhood. Rome, with a population of 158,678 souls, has 372 public primary schools, with 482 teachers and 14,099 children attending them. 1 Has Edindurgh so many public schools for the instruction of those classes? Idoubt it. Ber- lin, with a Topullnon about double that of Rome, has only 264 schools. Rome, also, has her university, with an average attendance of 660 students, and the Papal States, with a population of 2,500.000- (in 1846) contain seven universities. Prussia, with a population of 14,000,000 (nearly s1x times as large), has but seven universities.” These are amusing statistical facts—and in- structive as well as amusing—when we re- member the boasfln%unfl Slorifins oaricd o a few years back, and even to this day, about the Prussian educational system for the people and the establishment of Governmental schools, and enforcing by police regulation the school attendance of the children of the lower classes. The statistical fact that Rome has above 100 schools more than Berlin, for a population little more than half of that of Berlin, puts to flight & world of humbug about systems of national education carried on by Governments and their moral effects on society. 4. Dr. Bovard makes a comparison between Catholic and Protestant countries. I regret that his comparison is not fair. He takes Ger- many, England and ‘the United States and compares them with Italy, Spain and Mexico. When asmall boy is bullled by 8 big one the buily is usually invited to tackle one of his ownsize. When Lr. Bovard was making com- parisons he should have set side by side nations of equal resources. Let him compare Protest- ant Germany with Catholic Germany, France with England, Belgium with Holland. Ulster with Leinster. In every point—in wealth, in intelligence, in morality, in art, in science, in literature, in popular happiness, in civil free- dom, in tolerance, in any other quality what- soever—the Catholic countries cannot only compare favorably but can outstrip Protestant countries. Evidently Dr. Bovard hias not mede astudy of this matter, else he would not have appealed so M‘“ml{: to the text, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” 5. Lastly in regard to our attitude toward the public schools, it hasundergone no change. The ch-nge has been in Dr. Bovard and not in the church. Calumny cannot last forever and that was raised nst us was a false at last to die down. Catholics have never been opposed to any system of education which will not do violence to their religious convictions. When scetarian preachers intro- duced their sectarian doctrines into the publie schools Catholics protested. When they pro- tested they were shouted down. With lungs of leather and throats of brass the preachers, like the coyote, howled and howled an howled. But Catholics were not to be intimi- dated with wind. They persevered and if to- day the parents of this country can send their children to the pubiic schools with the confi- dence that their religious sensibilities will not be outraged, they owe it to the gallant_fight Ibnwde by the Catholic citizens of the United States. As to parochial schools, we build them where the parents want them. Dr. Bovard seems to think that they do not give as good a literary edueation as the public schools. "1 know of my own knowledge that in this City of San Fran- cisco they give better. I am willing to take the work of the children of our parish schools and rn! it side by side with the work of children rom the common schools. and leave it to un- })xejudxced judges to decide which is superior. am not running down the vublic schools. Their work is good, but I know by my own ex- perience, and every teacher who visited our exhibit in the Mechanics’ Pavilion knows too, that the parish school work is better. There are a few more points_in Dr. Bovard’s letter which I should like to discuss, but [ am afraid your patience and the patience of your long-suffering readers is exhausted. Yours truly, P. C. YORKE. CREAMERIE IN TROUBLE Creditors Are Asking a Settle- ment of Their Various Claims. The Debts Amount to $32,000 and a Settlement at One-.Fifth That Sum Is Offered. The Original Creamerie, the yellow- fronted Market-street restaurant, on which so much was spent in fittingg and decora- tions, is in straits and creditors are clam- oring for some settlement of $32,000 in debts which the proprietors have managed to accumulate in the past two years. Within the past few days J. J. Rauer has placed several attachments on the place, and now several attorneys and the owners are wrestling with the problem of how the produce-dealers, poultrymen and coffee merchants can be satistied and the establishment still keep its doors open. It was mainly through trying to raise their own produce, poultry, meat and milk that Young & Weisman became in- volved in pecuniary entanglements. They conceived the idex that by starting aranch on a large scale they could supply all their own needs without having recourse to the commission merchants, and also increase the profits of the restaurant. So a large ranch near Petaluma was leased for a term of years and expensive improvements introduced. They rather expected that the place would be a drain on their resources at first, but when the time came that the ranch should have begun to pay they were amazed that the outgo continued greater than the income. Chickens that could be purchased in the market for 50 cents figured 6234 cents in their books, and vegetables,” milk and other commodities came at correspond- ingly high figures. Then the California violet craze struck the town and the firm went into the rais- ing of the modest flowers on a splendid scale. This venture also proved unprofit- able and a lack of funds began to stare them in the face. Then money-borrowing was resorted to and a number of friends and relatives soon held the firm’s paper representing consid- erable sums. BFinally some of the larger creditors be- gan to scent danger and had the attach- ments placed on the place to save them- selves. Weisman’s mother is said to be possessed of large means, and she came to her son’s rescue with funds sufficient to relieve the pressure until the creditors could have a chance to think the matter | overand decide how the affairs of the firm couid best be settled. Several meetings were held and a com- mitte, of which N. Whitney and E. B. Pond were members, was appointod. Several conferences were had with Young and Weisman, and the result was an offer of compromise. The firm was willing to settle for 20 cents on the dollar, 10 per cent in cash and 10 per cent in six months, the latter payment to be secured by notes signed by Mrs. Weisman. The committee held a meeting yester- day and decided to recommend the accept- ance of this offer. The matter was to have been settled last night, but a hitch oc- curred, and the meeting was adjourned until 10 o’clock this morning, when an- other effort will be made to agree ona settlement. Attorney E. J. Humphrey represents the creditors in the case. ““As a matter of fact,” he said yesterday, “the Creamerie has always been a paying concern, and Young and Weisman lost their money in outside ventures. A ranch on which they expected to raise nearly everything used in the place was started near Petaluma. “Everything was on a grand scale— which took money. They built forty chicken-houses at about $50 each, and went into other things on a corresponding scale. Before long theyv were in $12,000 or $14,000, and the ranch was still going behind at the rate of $700 to $800 per month. They tried to get the owner of the place to take back his property, but he saw that he had a good thing and pushed it along. Asa matter of fact their produce, eggsand other things cost them more than they would have had to pay had they bought them in the open market. “Then they dropped $3000 trying to raise California violets which soon became a drug on the market and could not be made topay. If a settlement can be reached so that the Creamerie can be kept open they will be all right after a while.” It 100ks now as though the 20 cents on the dollar will be accepted. The principal creditors of the concern are Whitney & Co., $5000; Harry Corbett, $3600; H. Solo- man, $2200; C. J. List, $1200; T. D. Burn, $1200; Natnan & Dolirman, ; E. Guit- tard, $500; G. Fedora, $350; emglayes $2000. In addition to these there are butch- ers and bakers whose claims make up the grand total of $32,000. GET your speciat office account books made now at the binding department of the Mysell- Rollins Company, 22 Clay street. - e e A Laborer Suicides. Gustav Cailly, a laborer who resided at 432 Jeckson street, committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn on Somp's tract early yester- day morning. The body was discovered by E. F.Somps at 9 A. M, and he notified the Cor- oner, who removed the body to the Morgue. It is not known what prompted Cailly to commit his rash act, but it is presumed that he was de- spondent as he had been out of a position for some time and was without funds. e A suit of Jaros Hygienic Underwear worth a barrel of cures. Morgan Bros., 229 Moutg. st.* ————— Charged With Robbery. Lee You was booked at the Central station yesterday on a charge of robbery preferred by ‘Taom Quok, living at 82114 Sacramento street. On Christmas night You entered the place of the complaining witness, and at the point of a gun secured $20 and a silk umbrella. ——————— Office draughts don’t bother wearer of Jaros Hyglenic Underwear. He is protected from clfmmc changes. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. st.* e s Crook Davis Convicted. Charles H. Davis, the Eastern crook captured by Detective Gibson. a few nights ago, was con victed before Judge Joachimsen yesterday on acharge of haviug burglar tools in his posses- sion. He will be sentenced to-day. ——————— Jaros Hygienic Underwear the one under- wear that is comfortable; absorbs moisture; keeps folks well. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. st.* e Three Milkmen Convicted. Three dairymen, J. Heineman, Frank and John Bowman, were convicted in Judge Low’s court yenardg of selling adulterated milk. They were fined $10 each. The cases have been pending since October. SIR CHARLES ROSS HERE, The Nobleman Has Developed a Gold Mine in British Columbia. THINKS IT IS A BUNANZA. He Opposes Stock Speculation—Does Not Believe There Will Be War Over Venezuela. Sir Charles Ross, who is descended from one of the oldest and most famous families of Scotland, is at the Palace. Everybody remembers his ancestor, Sir John Ross, the rear-admiral who was cele- brated 100 years ago in Arctic navigation, He passed through Baffin’s Bay to Lan- caster Sound, repeated the trip and was frozen in for a time in the frigid Guli of Boothia. Later he discovered a point in northern exploration which he believed was the magnetic pole. Since then, as for a long period before, the clans of the Rosses have distinguished themselves by many daring deeds. Sir Charles, the noble descendant of this renowned house, has been in this country since October. He has become interested in gold mining at Roslyn, British Colum- bia, north of Spokane. He is at present one of the leading owners in the Center Star mine ot that camp, and he says experts now estimate there are $700,000 worth of ore in sight in it. Thus, it appears, he may soon become owner of millions in the newer part of this continent. Sir Charles, who is above medium height, about 40 years of age, and with dark hair, eyes and mustache, isa very en- tertaining conversationalist. He says he 1s here partly for business and partly for pleasure. He 1is interested in extensive coal mines in Japan, ana for a time thought of going there to losk after them, but says his interests here will now com- mand all of his attention. The nobleman has never been in Califor- nia before and he finds the balmy atmos- phere a pleasant contrast to the frost and mud of Vancouver, where he has been for some time. Many cablegrams awaited hin on his ar- rival, and he received mecre during the evening. Sir Charles believes this country is a far better field for mining than South Africa. “I considered it unwise to invest in these properties,” he said; “but for one thing [ was not early enough. Sir Cecil Rhodes and his associates managed to gat the big properties, so that others who fol- lowed could only get what was left. “It is a singuiar thing that in the new districts of British Columbia, like Trail Creek and Slycan, all the big mines are owned by Americans. My associates in the Center Star are all Americans also. The Americans seem to be superior judees of mines and they act quickly and usually manage to get for $20,000 or $30,000 what it would cost English investors a good many thousands of pounds. “I am told that Cripple Creek is attract- ing many people now, and I am wonder- ing whether the mines are so good as to ho?d it up and keep the place growing or whether it will collapse and the population vanish. At Roslyn, where the Center Star is located, there was for a time great ex- citement. It looked as though an enor- mous camp would be built up, but after awhile it settled down on a steady basis. “These stock flurries, I am convinced, are very bad. I read the other day that in a single day in London forty firms failed, owing to the collapse in South African stocks. “In reference to the Venezuela difficulty it would hardly be fair for me to express an opinion, owing to the fact of my close connection with certain phases of the situa- tion. I received some letters and tele- grams the other day in regard to it. I believe from what I have seen, how- ever, that the majority of the people of the United States do not want war any more than England does. There is this about it: England won’t fight unless she has to. It all depends on what action Venezuela may take. If it takes no hasty position it will quiet down. That, at least, is my view of the matter from all I have been able to learn regarding it. *One thing has singularly impressed me in America, and that is the ease with #vhich Scotchmen and Americans get on together. The Americans seem to like us better than the English. I don’t know why it is, but it was a very pleasant reve- lation to me. *'T have never been so far West in this country before, and what I have seen thus far of California pleases me greatly. Itis certainly the most attractive part of the coast.” Sir Charles is uncertain how long he may remain here, but he will probably stay for some time. He is said to be very wealthy, his estates near Inverness and elsewhere in the north of Scotland being very extensivé. On these are some an- cient baronial castles. WHEN EREEK MET GREEK, Willis Polk and Harry Wilson, Two Society Men, Spar and -Part. It May Have Been the Rehearsal of a Duello, but the Assailant Adopts Parthian Tactics. Ever since that cotillon when Willis Polk, either by accident or design, pushed aside a chair in which Harry Wilson was about to seat himself, the two social lu- minaries have not been taking tea to- gether. Indeed, the blackest of black looks have been exchanged between the pair, while the atmosphere of upperten- dom has been rife with rumors of a duel, with seconds, surgeons, a grassy field of honor and all otber stage properties calied for by the ancient ceremonial. The trouble began after Mr. Wilson had taken a sudden and most undignified seat on the floor amid a crowd of fair ladies and gilded youth at the Christmas cotillon. He accused Mr. Polk of having maliciously intended to humiliate him before that brilliant company, and, despite apologies and explanations, gave that gentleman a sounding slap on the face in the presence of the assembled guests. And now Dame Rumor has it a real, old- fashioned duel is contemplated, whéreby Mr. Polk’s wounded honor and maitreated NEW TO-DAY. 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These gentlemen were also seen, but wita nosatisfactory resultso farasthe demanded apology was concerned. pYexlgrduy a brush between the two belligerents took place, but ‘the circum- stances surrounding it are enveloped in mystery. One eyewitness of tpe uffm‘r was said to have been Attorney CharlesS. Wheeler. e Mr. Wheeler, when spoken to in refer- ence to the supposed duel, laughed the story to scorn as being utterly without foundation. While not wishing to be quoted in connection with yesterday’s eucoun- ter, he is understood fo haye stated that a moment_before the? abortive street-battle he left his office in company with Mr. Wil- son. As they reached the stréet Mr. Polk ran toward them and commenced flourishe ing his arms and threatening Wilson with his fists. P Mr. Wilson appeared to resist this little familiarity ana straightway gave chase to its perpetrator. When Polk observed that his intended victim, far from taking to flight, was making for him under a full head of steam, lie recailed the ancient aphor= ism that “He who lives to run away .will live to fight unother day,”” and stood not on the order of Mis going, but flew like chaff before the wind. Mr. Wheeler, it i said, not wishing to see Mr. Wilson dragged into court in con= nection with a street quarrel, also gave chase and catching up swith Wilson held him by the arm. Mr. Polk was gyrating about the scene, taking good, care to keep the railings of a sidewalk elevator between himself ana his adversary ; but seeing that the latter was likely to escape from the clutches of his friendly captor the would- be slugger took to his heels onge more and continued to run until out of sight. This is understood to be all the light Mr. Wheeler could throw upon the affair if he- were willing to speak for publication. 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