A FEW NON-CATHOLIC TESTIMONIES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 46, 14 March 1874, Page 13

A FEW NON-CATHOLIC TESTIMONIES.

The Protestant journals of New York record the final proceedings of the " Evangelical Alliance" in that city. It appears that the builders of this new Babel tried to simulate an appearance of unity on the Nicene Creed, but the proposition was promptly rejected. The only thing in which they could agree whs to revile the Catholic faith. The Rev. O. B. Frothingham, an American, alluding to their pretensions to " promote unity," said :—": — " Everybody knows what bitterness of hate prevails among Protestants," and though "at a Comniuniou" in a Presbyterian Church " there participated the Dean of Canterbury and a Bombay delegate, and Moravian shepherds and others, when they all get home they will forget their temporary brotherhood, and fall into the old practice of assailing their neighbors." Then he added " The Alliance cannot fight Catholicism.' It has made the concession openly. Asa religion Koman Catholicism has every advantage over Protestantism, in wealth of resources and general influence over the people. How is the fight to be waged ? Not by force of doctrine, for Roman Catholicism is a more acceptable docti iue than Protestantism • not by force of organization, for the Roman Catholic organization has existed nearly 2000 years; not on the grouurl of faith and works, for in those regards Koman Catholicism is far ahead of Protestantism." A " Scientific Unbeliever," writing in the 'Westminster Review,' of October last, says — " Nothing is further from the truth ihan the common Protestant idea that the encouragement held cut by the Roman Catholic Church to a celibate life is an example of Papal corruptions. It is a legitimate deduction from the spirit of Christianity, as set forth by its founder, and is, indeed, based on his own utterances. His immediate followers entertained no doubts on the subject."