The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"238 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.contradict Himself, by commanding in one part ofScripture what He condemns in another. In Exodus (xxv. 18), for instance, He commands twocherubim of beaten gold to be made and placedon each side of the oracle ;and in Numbers (xxi,8) He commands Moses to make a brazen serpent,and to set itup for a sign, that whosoever beingstruck by the fiery serpents shall look upon it,shalllive." Are not cherubim and serpents the likenessesof creatures in heaven above, in the earth beneath, andin the waters under the earth ?for cherubim dwellin heaven, and serpents are found on land and sea.We should all, without exception, break the commandment, were we to take it in the Protestantsense. Have you not at home the portraits of living and departed relatives? And are not these thelikenesses of persons in heaven above, and on theearth beneath?Westminster Abbey, though once a Catholic Cathedral, is now a Protestant house of worship. It isfilled with the statues of illustrious men ; yet no onewill accuse the English church of idolatry in allowing those statues to remain there. But you will say :The worshippers in Westminster have no intentionof adoring these statues. Neither have we any intention of worshipping the statues of the saints.AnEnglish Parson once remarked to a Catholic friend:"Tom, don tyou pray to images?""Wepray before them," replied Tom ;"but we have no intention of praying to them." "Who cares for youi