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Last evening in Appleton Chapel the Reverend Brooke Herford, D. D., delivered the Dudleian lecture the third in the series of four lectures prescribed by the will of Judge Dudley in 1750. Dr. Herford's subject was "The answer of modern Liberalism to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church...
Contiuing he said that many persons would wonder that so late as one hundred and fifty years ago any man could have written such words against any Christian Church. It was not, however, as a religious body that the Roman Church appeared to the people of New England in 1750, but as a great ecclesiastical system which had acquired a marvelous power over men and kingdoms,- the body that had applauded Saint Bartholomew's Day and backed up Spain, England's inveterate enemy...
...authority and infallibility could not rest without being scouted. The impotency and falsity of the Catholic Church's policy are manifest. In so many ages it ought to have brought men to an earlier knowledge of learning and opened the way to the new discoveries in science. Instead the Roman Church retarded science in every possible way. It pronounced strong opinions, but wrong ones. Gallileo was persecuted, and the Copernican theory pronounced false and heretical. How can a church be infallible, which has made so many blunders? It has decreed the absolute verbal inspiration of the Bible, which every biblical...
...Herford will state "The answer of modern Liberalism to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church...
Dudleian Lecture. The Answer of Modern Liberalism to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D. Appleton Chapel...