Bacon, Leonard; Kirk, Edward Norris. The Christian Alliance: Addresses of Rev. L. Bacon, D.D., and Rev. E. N. Kirk, at the Annual Meeting of The Christian Alliance, held in New York, May 8, 1845, with the Address of the Society and the Bull of the Pope against it. New York: S. W. Benedict, 1845. First Edition. [12340]
Lacks the wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 48 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
One of the primary aims of this Alliance was to spread the gospel "among the natives of Italy, and other papal countries."
This provoked a response by Pope Gregory XVI. in an Encyclical Letter, herein translated into English and reprinted.
"Amongst the principal machinations by which, in this our age, the Non-Catholics of various names endeavor to ensnare the adherents of the Catholic truth, and to turn away their minds from the holiness of the Faith, a prominent position is held by the Bible Societies...conspiring...to translate the books of the Divine Scriptures into all the vulgar tongues, - to issue immense numbers of copies, - to entice every individual to peruse them without any guide...they make common to the garrulous old woman, the doting old man, the wordy sophist, and to all men of every condition, provided only they can read, the art of understanding the Scriptures without an instructor; nay, which is absurdist of all, and almost unheard of, they do not even exclude unbelieving nations from such community of intelligence." - p. 38.
The addresses by the Revs. Bacon and Kirk, and of others, respond to this Encyclical and relate the progress of the Alliance in spreading Biblical truths amongst the advocates of Rome.
