Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... J. L. BRADLEY, B.A. (Oxford), WASHINGTON, D. C. Sometime instructor at Beaumont College, England, recently tutor in the family of Count de Buisseret, Belgian Ambassador to St. Petersburg. There are many religious opinions in the world, but there is only one Divine Reality. The various forms of Protestantism are only different arrangements of opinions corresponding to human idiosyncrasies. Protestantism stands for the right of man to have "views" about God, and "Quot homines tot sententiae." Catholicism is the revelation of God's "view " about man and consequently the negation of man's right to have "views" about God. Supernatural faith is to the Catholic what reason is to the Mathematician and experience within the Catholic Church is little more than the realization of this fact. If a man desires to become a Catholic, he must sell his possessions, particularly his theoretical ones, for it will cost a great deal to buy the field wherein Divine Reality lies hidden from the gaze of men. The convert does not cease to think, but he begins to know and that knowledge, which is the result of the act of faith, is impatient of theories and opinions because it is the truth making us free. Perhaps, on the very eve of reception, assent of the Church's faith may seem an act of self-abnegation almost terrible in its intensity, but when once assent is given, faith becomes the proving of things unseen. The convert realizes that the Catholic Church sees the world as God sees it and therefore as it is. Catholicism brings a man into relation with reality and if he simply desires God's will disillusionment with the Church is impossible, for the soul cannot be disillusioned with God, but only with itself and with men: and the Church is the mystical body of Christ. But the act ...
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