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Lexington May 13th 1842

My dear son,

Your letters April 10th and March 27th has come to hand
I am happy to hear that you will soon be home. I
am looking every night for you. I have no news to tell you
I hope you will be here to hear all I could say.
But I will not neglect this opportunity to tell you my
regret at some remarks of yours, in your last letters
on the Bible. You call it "nonsense and humbug"
Theodore is it not the hight of presumption in you
to pronounce so positively a sentence which was
with the opinions of more than three hundred
millions of people who took upon the Bible as
the language of inspiration, and therefore [?]
that "nonsense & humbug" of which you speak.
Would not such language seem to say that
you have more sense than all all them? But
what seems stranger still, is that you should
declare it to contain a great deal of "nonsense."
I think the term "Jack-ass" is a curse term to be
applyed to christian preachers. I admit however
that many who mount the holy rostrum as
you call the pulpit, deserve that term. But is
it or can it be applicable to the great body of the
Catholick Clergy who are generally admitted to be
learned and profoundly versed in the Sereptures.
Could you use such language to the late Bishop
England of Charleston, Bishop Hughes of N.--
York and thousands of such men in the
Catholic Church? Would you know less than