TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1792, 17 March 1888, Page 3

TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

TO XHR EDITOR. Sib,— Yonr issue of the 14th Inst. contained a letter signed "A Constant Reader," to which, with your kind indul-' gence, I beg briefly to refer. Your|correspondent's argument from beginning to end are most absurd, and soarcely worth noticing. The matter la one of "interpretation and authority / It resolves itself into the old controversy " Catholicism v. Protestantism." .... I naturally conclude that he upholds the teaching of the Church which is loud In boaot of its female Pope, Queen Elizabeth, and it will be for him to establish by proof the authority, the Cl.urch m question has for teaching, after which it will be his province to acquaint mo from whence do their Order — whom I regard aa gowned usurpers — oome : if through the female line or what. Then we will proceed with our controversy. Aa for hie query : " how can John XL. refer to the Sacrament when it bad not yet been Instituted ?" It clearly condemns your correspondent, and pronounces him an "ignoramus." Did St Jobn write his Gospel before Christ's death ? Certainly not ! It was after tho death of Our Lord that St John's Goapel waft written, and I would advise your correspondent to avoid rushing into print, and thus save himself being made a victim of ridicule. Any intelligent man will at once conclude that he dooß not know' what he is talking about, and, Eeforo bp attempts' to attack truths which 0 cannot effectively ridicule, ho had etter communicate with Bishop Sut6r — anpther of the reformed party — to help him m his work. Trusting that he will do as I ask of him at the beginning of my letter, and alao p}ace hia signature to bis letter, lam, etc., J.-0.-M. P. [Oar correspondent will observe that wo have omitted from his letter certain phrase 3 and paesages which have nothJng whatever'to do with hia argument, and savor unpleasantly of the odium tjifiologicum. Argument between Ohriatlan.3 should purely be capable of being conducted without the n«e cf termn calculated to give pain or offence. — Ed]

IfcThe new Commiseion of the Peaoe has just been issued as a supplement to the Gazette. The number of names included is 1489. The Patea paper says : — " Mr Hamerton, solioitor, opened the case and set out the points on which he lied for the verdict m bis fftYW" Bwd w ttw lawyer,