'Errors' and ' Abominations'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 28, 13 July 1905, Page 1

'Errors ' and ' Abominations '

A Northern correspondent sends us a newspaper cutting, the date ami source of which are not stated. It contains a brief report of a July sermon in which a \ocif~ erous and reverend illuminator lays to the charge of the • Romish ' Church Dr. Martin Luther's doctrine that the end justifies the means, and sundry other ' errors ' and ' abominations ' besides. The good man's pulpit manners—or, rather, lack of manners— towards the first and most ancient Christian ciced constitute the most flagrant ' abomination ' in the report, and the worst 'error' contained therein is the calumnious imputation, to the Catholic Church, of doctrines and tenets which she utterly repudiates and abhors. The preacher seems to belong to a class of clerics of low biain-power or limited education, who cannot keep the domcs'tic pot boiling unless they throw on the dying embers beneath it, from time So time, a straw effigy of the Pope. Their proper \ocation is cabbage-growing, not preaching. At any rate, they would be more honorably and usefully occupied in raising Dtfumheads or Eaily Yorks than In outraging truth and the decencies of social lite from pulpits that are called— too often, alas ! by courtesy — Christian.