Roman Catholics to Shun Protestants.
The Rev. Dr. Turner, Roman Catholic Bishop of Galloway, in a pastoral to the churches of the diocese, denounces the marriage of a Catholic with a Protestant as a crime and an abomination and an act of foul concubinage. He therefore holds that it is the duty of Catholics to God and to their own religious sense, that they should unreservedly shun all association and converse with anyone who should unhappily fall into such abomination, until he or she put away the foul thing. The Bishop further warns Roman Catholics against the dangers they incurred by mixing with Protestants in trade unions, or benefit societies, or social clubs, and intimates that it is only a consideration of the material advantages to be derived from such membership that restrains him from laying the bann of the Church upon it.
Religious Pictures.
In visiting the homes of our people it is not an uncommon thing to have our attention attracted by unsightly pictures and prints of the Virgin and the infant Saviour. These pictures are hawked about by Jewish pedlars, and many people, without realising that they are Roman Catholic workmanship and set forth Roman Catholic ideas, buy them as something to adorn the bare walls. But, apart altogether from their outstanding defects as works of art, there is the more serious matter of the recognition thus given to Romish ideas in pictorial representations. All true Protestants should prefer to look on bare walls rather than on these unsightly coloured prints.
Roman Catholics in Office.
The Protestant Observer for March gives a long list of names of Roman Catholics holding various offices in this country. It is to be printed by the Protestant Imperial Federation. What strikes one in reading this list is the extraordinary number of places of Trust that are in the hands of Roman Catholics.