CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 260, 3 November 1871, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

ANOTHER ANATHEMA "MARANATHA. To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail, Sir, — In your issue of Monday last you published, in an extract from the Guardian, the translation of a" speech of Strossmayer, Bishop of Bosnia, against the Infallibitity dogma. This speech seems to be iv the eyes of the enemies of the Catholic Churcb, a great triumph against the Pope, and a great step towards a Dew era. But what, does this prove ? but that the cause of that Bishop must be very weak, since he was only odo against eight hundred Bishops; it proves that he must have been a great hypocrite and a moßt barefaced perjurer; a hypocrite, since he must have disguised his opinions until then during the whole time that he officiated as a Priest and as a Bishop; and a perjurer, since, when he was ordained, he swore belief to the Apostolical Constitutions, and allegiance to the successor of ■• St. Peter; it would prove that when he said he was not mad; he was really so; and it is such a champion who would be the hero of the day !, But no; Bishop Stroesinayer was not mad, and he nover delivered 'a speech, sucb as you gave it in your paper. He always believed the infallibility of the Pope both before and after, the Council. So did the whole of. the Episcopate in Germany, as may be seen by the several paßtoral letters they unanimously addressed 'to th.eir.:plergy.t tt f • , =„,'r., li „ '/ In conclusion, the; whole speech ia spurious, a fabrication, and *a notorious lie. No wonder, therefore, that no other English paper than the Guardian pub-

lished such a forgery ; and the eloquent Bishop Strosemayer himself- has, months ago. already contradicted, in the Tablet, a similar falsehood which had been published about him in the Times. You had taken your information concerning the " Anathema Maranatha" from an English periodical eutitled Christian Works, this time concerning Bishop Stiossmeyer, you took it from the Guardian. Before you draw your water again from these sources, auother time, I hope you will take care to see that the bottom is clean. I am, yours, &c, A. M. GrAEIN. Nelson. October 31, 1871. P.S. — Lie, lie, said Voltaire, there will always remain something of it. If a lie, although immediately contradicted, will still work od, how much more will it do so if not contradicted immediately. I had already lost a day, for wnnt of time, before I could contradict the lie which had appeared in your paper (though you did not know the falsehood) and. it would seem that my letter has had the misfortuue of being put back these two last issues, and there were other articles which could have been put back without injustice or incouvenience, and by such a delay the lie must have worked its way in a more detrimental mauuer. I must be ignorant of the moaning of your notice to correspondents, that " letters for insertion in the Evening Mail mu9t be sent to the office before 12 o'clock noon, or they will not appear in that evening's paper " or the notice should be (hat " letters must be sent two or three days before ; " and this is not the first time that my replies to incorrect reports have been so put back. A. M. G-. [M. Garin has a very unpleasant way of applying the word "lie" to any statements, the ' correctness of which he happens to doubt. It is high time he learnt that there is a more courteous manuer of expressing dissension from articles or extracts with which he is not satisfied, than by giving the lie direct to the writers of them. With regard to his complaint that his letter has been shut out for two days, and that " this is not the first time his' replies to incorrect reports have been so put back," we have to say that in our opinion, and in that of a great number of our readers, M. Garin is largely indebted to our good nature for the facilities we have invariably afforded him for replying to any statements that have appeared in our columns, and which may have offended his too sensitive nature. As to shutting out " other articles "to make room for his communications, we wish M. Garin to understand that the decisioa as to what shall or shall not appear in our columns rests with us and not with him, and it may be well that he should, know for his future guidance in such matters that news of public interest will invariably take precedence of his querrulous effusions. — Ed. N.E.MJ]