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PERTH, WI:DM:WAY, JANUARY 26, 1944.
NO. 3,112.
PRIG! TIERNIPIENOZ.
131INTZNTY-FIRST YEAR.
A Methodist Tells
"What
I Like About Catholics"
*They Hold High the Cross of Christ faith in Christ. Perhaps some of them Sisters of Mercy who walk the streets have that attitude, but as our own to rescue the helpless, the vast hospiArticles of Religion put it, 'good works tals built to give healing to the people, are pleasing and acceptable to God in the orphanages, the rescue homes, the schools and colleges, the hostels, in daisChrist.' Certainly, when it comes to organised charity, to an army of men gerous regions-all these things speak and women who give themselves to do of a practical and militant Christianity. good deeds in the world, the Catholic "We Oen Learn . . ." Church can claim a tremendous accom"Show me thy faith without thy plishment. works, and I will show thee my faith Orphanages. "Of course, be sure, the works of Ca- by my works.' So St. James admontrue tholicism have not always been as ished those who had missed the naively good as they appear. They nature of Christian faith. So the does not world can, and have used their purposes of propaganda, their orphan- tian theology does understand the dogs ages and missions for the same end'. of Saint Bernard searching in the snow for the lost traveller, and does underSome of their Hierarchy in command stand the lay workers of St. Vincent de of the vast, far-sung network of charitable organisations and various 'Or- Paul, 'whose only cloister is the city the ders' within the Church, has at times streets; whose only monastery we Miracles. used this powerful machinery for ends hovels of the poor.' From all this "I like the Roman Catholic empha- which were not as perfect as might can learn-and should."-"Irish Weeksis upon the miraculous in Christian he supposed. But, with all that, the ly." While the rest of us go around life. New the in miracles for apologising Testament, and trying to explain them in terms which we hope will please a scientifically trained and rather COMPANY LIMITED. sardonic world, the Catholic not only affirms past miracles; he claims preOF INSURANCE, INCLUDING FIRE, HOUSEALL CLASSES FOR sent ones. The Mass, the centre of OWNER, and HOUSEHOLDER'S COMPREHENSIVE, BURGLARY, his worship, is to him a perpetual mirPLATE GLASS, MOTOR VEHICLE, CROPS, FIDELITY, GUARANacle. TEE, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, THIRD PARTY. "Healing shrines at Lourdes and to shock no NO. 33 BARRACK STREET, PERTH. give Saint-Ann-de-Beaupre the Catholic. We think he is mistakW. L. CARTER, Manager. en in these evaluations, and we are not mirare sure that any of his miracles acles at all, but we also think that he has a profound truth in his conviction that the God Whom we all worship is a God Who is above space and time and able to do far more than we can (Registered Secondary and Primary School). ever ask or think. supernatural "'You cannot take the Pupils are prepared for the Leaving Certificate, ,out of Christianity,' said Professor EdIt has Matriculation, Junior Certificate, Public Service. Nor can you! win Lewis. been tried numberless times and by followpowerful a with great teachers Curriculum includes Religion, English, History, But where are these teachers, ing. Latin, Mathematics, Science, Art. and where is their following to -day? The graveyard of dead cults shows All students in the Post Primary (VII. Grade their names upon its tombstones, and and upwards) Classes are granted free railway the great on -going stream of Christianity moves ahead holding at its centre transport from Claremont and intermediate something more than humanistic. Stations.
While Protestants Apologise, Catholics Affirm Miracles in
the Past and Present .
*Tremendous Accomplishment in
Organised Charity & Benevolence Writing in "The Christian Advocate" (Chicago), Methodist publication, on what he likes about Catholics, Nolan B. Harmon, junr., lists principally: "the way they hold high the Cross of Christ"; ''Catholic emphasis upon the miraculous," and "Catholic emphasis on good works." The article is one of a series by the author, himself a Methodist, telling what he likes about the various religiThe following is ous denominations. his article, as published in "The Chris-
tian Advocate": "Although we differ greatly from the Roman Catholics in many fundamental emphases, they have some special as tivities and attitudes which can be appreciated by Protestants. The Oros. "I like the way they hold high the Let it be admitted Cross of Christ. that they, as the Reformers affirmed, have made somewhat of a fetish or the Cross, and that they have overdone the symbolic in their frequent kneeling before the Crucifix. Nevertheless, the Roman Church has unfailingly and unerringly emphasised first, last and always the death of Christ as something vital and of transcendent importance in the life of every man. "They never let that fact be forgotten. They put the Cross high on their churches; they wear it about their necks; they hold it up before the dying eyes of men and women, and carve it in the marble over their head. In recoil against the emblematic we brush much of this aside as idle superstition, but For Christianity is a it has a value. crucicentric gospel.
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