A BOOK rOR THE TIMES. 



Catholic Christianity and Modern Unbelief. 



A plain and brief statement of the real doctrines of the 

 Roman Catholic Church, as opposed to those falsely attri 

 buted to her, by Christians who reject her authority, and b 

 unbelievers in Revelation ; that thus a Contrast may be 

 easily drawn between tb^. " Faith once delivered to the 

 Saints," and the conflicting Theories and Scientific Guesses 

 of the present Age; and serving as a Refutation to the as- 

 saults of modern Infidelity. By Rt. Rev. J. D. Ricards, D.D., 

 Bishop of Retimo and Vicar -Apostolic of the Eastern 

 Vicariate of the Cape Colony. i2mo, cloth, net, $i.og 



This is a wonderfully able book, and treats in simple lan*« 

 guage and in a popular way, the religious theories now so 

 fashionable outside the Catholic Church, and contrasts them 

 with orthodox teaching. It states the difficulties urged by 

 Unbelief against Catholic Christianity plainly and even forcibly. 

 The answers are directed chiefly to common sense, and 

 are supported by plain matter-of-fact demonstrations, carefully 

 selected on account of their simplicity, from hosts of others 

 more suited to the schools. The whole plan of the work is 

 conceived on the same principles. If at times the author is led 

 into the path of controversy, he leaves the well beaten track as 

 soon as possible, satisfying himself with noting in characters 

 that cannot be mistaken by ordinary intelligence the essential 

 marks of true Catholic teaching. It is a book for the times, 

 the product of deep thought, mature years, and Christ- 

 ian zeal. A book for those who think, and much more for 

 those who do not, either within or without the Bishops commun- 

 ion, a book full of matters upon which all Christians can agree. 



As the Right Reverend author says in his Introduction: — " I 

 mean in this work to lay open with an unsparing hand the can- 

 cerous growth that is gnawing away almost imperceptibly the 

 vitals of our Christian civilization, to tear off the artificial 

 flowers and the frippery tinsel of fine phrases and dazzling fig* 

 ures of speech and polished verses that cover like the whited se- 

 pulchres described by our Divine Lord, the foul corruption that 

 is poisoning the heart's blood of nations; to expose thehollow- 

 ness of those fine-sounding narnes, ' the supremacy of reason,' 

 'glorious liberty of free thought,' 'universal brotherhood'— 

 which for the last few hundred years have lured so many 

 brave, and honest, and confiding hearts to destruction.' 1 



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