ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE BIBLE.
The Chronicle, a leading Protestant journal of the Bible, has this to say on the above, as quoted by the Literary Digest:— In recent years the Catholic Church has changed its tactics in regard to the Bible societies. It no longer contents itself merely with the negative policy of condemning the work of these associations, but seeks in a positive manner to meet them in their own field by issuing translations of the Scriptures that have been made with the approval of the church. It is especially interesting to note that it is the Latin races of Southern Europe who are taking the lead in this matter. The Osservatore Romana, which is the official journal of the Vatican, has repeatedly published articles on this subject. In No. 107 this paper reports that the Vatican press is now publishing an edition of the Gospels and Acts in Italian, with notes; and that a committee is busily engaged in preparing this book, the purpose being gradually to accustom the people to the reading of the Bible and to make it "just as popular as it is among the peoples of Northern Europe." But there is no change in purpose in this. The Catholic Church has been forced to this policy by two things: the work of the Bible societies, and the soul-hunger demand of the people. She meets it by a glossed translation of her own. But even of this we are glad. Some souls will read beyond the