THE BEREDOS CONTROVERSY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1420, 30 November 1886, Page 2

THE BEREDOS CONTROVERSY.

TO THE EDITOB.

Sib —With your kind permission I would like to say a few more words on this subject. I think I have given your correspondents ample time to reply to my. letter, bat as they have not, I have looked up author! Ison th ■ subject I may be accused of being a poor Protestant, hut I bki justice. I find that the Homan Catholic Church approves of heir presence but in order to make her teaching valid 1 must prove her authority to u.i h, or else my arguments will go for nought. In es tablisbing His Holy Church, Christ said to St Peter, first Pope of Rome ; “ Thou art Peter, (a rook) and upon this rook I will build my Ohnroh. and I will give to tbea the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven;' 1 and again: “Peed My lamb", feed My sheep ‘(Matt. XVI; John XXI.) The last, text, in my bnmb’e op nfon, olves authority to that Church to teach, When t PiUl exhorte ', •‘tiei ttiere no no divi sions,” I dnnt t ; ink he meant th with ut divisions the human mind w .nld be enslaved by priestcraft, nor oid he mean that the same au'hority woo d hi exten ed to those divisions. When he said, ‘‘ Let h<re be no schisms In the body ” I don’t think he meant that the body s'-'ould be made up ..f schisms, and l>t all believe what tiey think fit ' ,T hen Christ said to Hi Apostles, “Go ye, therefore, teach all nations, and behold I am w th you always even to the end of the wortn” (Matt. XXVIIL, 19 20), I presume He >tid not mean : “ I am with y ;n only to the end of the third or foarth century, after which I shall desert you until the sixteenth century, when I will send yon reformers (such as Henry Y 11., Oranmor, etc ), who will b’ Ing yon ont of Idola’ry. ’’ When Christ said : “ And the ca’ea of Cell shall not prevail asa<- s'- it" (the Ohufoh). Matt. SVI . 18), surety He did not mean that He W' uld all 'W her to fall Into error. When Ohrii.t. nromised to send Ris Apostle* the Holy Ghost, the spirit of Truth, to teach the o » ! 1 tl i> gs ond abide with them for ever” (J ibn XIY ) did He mean for a time? Now, r.h's Ohurob says: “It is proper to show respect to the crucifix and religious p’ctures, because they represent Ohriet and Ris !vn*«, and rem’nd us of them." (tcts, XIX, 12 i Ma*t IX) I think I have said enough for this time With gratoude to you, Sir, for granting me space in your valuable journal,— I am, etc , The Enquirer. Temuka, November SO.