Knox

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 36, 7 September 1905, Page 17

Knox

In a recent issue, the ' Edinburgh Evening Disipatch' (a non-Ga'tholic daily) wrote as follows : ' It is much to feio regard led that the character of Knox and his work was not presented ' (at the late quater-centenary celebrations) 'to their (the children's) youthfjul minds without uncharitable reflections being oast on Roman Oajthlolics of to-fdtiv.' A similar regret wais, ib substance, expressed by Ihe Very Rev. P. Power in reference to a panegyric on the Scottish ' Reformer ' tihat was ciroulufted through Ilawera and the surrounding district. In. one respect, however, the publication of the offondirog pamphlet was a ' felix culpa '—a blunder t)hat had a happy issue. For it led to the publication of an able and learned disaoiurse, in which the widely-read p.astoa- of Ilawera temperately examines, in. the light of the most reocn't Protestant historical research, the character a/nxl conduct of the ' Reformer,' and lets off a Long series of charges of rackarock under the amazing contention tliab Kruox was a champion of ' liberty of conscience.' Father Power's pamphlet deserves to bo widely read.