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_005195863	Graham, Henry Grey, bp., 1874-	Where we got the Bible : our debt to the Catholic Church : being a Catholic contribution to the tercentenary celebrations	1911		.txt	text/plain	42559	1245	58	Many senseless charges are laid at the door of the Church of Rome ; but surely the accusation that, during the centuries preceding the sixteenth, she was the enemy of the Bible and of Bible reading must, to any one who does not wilfully shut his eyes to facts, appear of all accusations the most ludicrous ; and to tell the truth it is ridiculed and laughed out of court by all serious and impartial students of the questtion. I was speaking of the Church’s condemna- tion of Wycliff’s undesired and undesirable version. (5) This was the first time in England that the Church ever felt herself obliged to lay some restriction on Bible reading in the vrdgar tongue ; and that fact in itself is surely sufficient to prove that there must have been some very special reason for her acting so differently from what she had been accustomed to do before.	cache/_005195863.txt	txt/_005195863.txt