A FEW COMMENTS ON MR. GLADSTONE'S EXPOSTULATION
London: B.M. Pickering, 1875. 1st Edition. Paperback. Disbound. 113p. Pages in very good condition. Item #122715
Excerpt: "On the 4th November, 1874, Mr. Gladstone, late Prime Minister, published and addressed to his Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen an "Expostulation on the Decrees of the Vatican Council in their bearing on Civil Allegiance." We must adopt the title 'Expostulation,' as its author has chosen it, but the work is not in the least an Expostulation. Its proper title would be something of this kind - "Animadversions on the Faith of Roman Catholics, since the Vatican Council, in which it is shown: 1, that no Catholic can be loyal; 2, that no man can become a Roman Catholic and retain possession of his mental and moral freedom; 3, that Catholic teaching is irreconcilable with past history and modern progress; 4, that the Catholic religion is to be tolerated only under satisfactory guarantees and explanations. It is now the middle of January, 1875, and amongst Catholics the Expostulation has been favorably responded to by only four."
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