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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 15, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 7.

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CATHOLIC RELICS.

By Editor

On December 18 a portion of one of the thigh bones of Saint Anthony of Padua was exposed for veneration in a church in New York City. A Protestant paper in the East spoke of the affair as "gross superstition," and an "abominable imposture," etc.
The editor of the Catholic Mirror thinks he finds much Scripture in favor of this "veneration of relics," and expresses deep pity and contempt for the "grossly ignorant preachers" of the Protestant faith. He says that for the benefit of these ignorant Protestants "we will henceforth advocate with unremitting earnestness the study of God's written Word."
We trust sincerely that the editor of the Mirror will stick to this good resolution. And we hope that he will urge Catholics as well as Protestants to faithfully and carefully study "God's written Word." And we trust that as they read the Book of God, it will not be through the biased eyesight of creed-bound prejudice, but that all will come to the living Word and drink in its deep and satisfying spiritual truth.
God is our heavenly Father, and He has given us His written Word. The respect that we owe to our Lord should lead us to come to Him direct through His Word, and not feel that we are dependent upon some one to tell us what our Father "means" by His Word. His Word "means" what it says, and once we learn the truth of this great fact, we can find comfort and strength and happiness and complete contentment in reading and meditating upon these sure and living words of God. T.