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vols.; Herbert A. Gibbons, Foundation of the

Ottoman Empire, 1300-1403 (Oxford:

University Press, 1916); Arnold J. Toynbee

and Kenneth B. Kirkwood, Turkey (London,

1926).

Page 340. Withholding the Bible From the

People.—The reader will recognize that the

text of this volume was written prior to

Vatican Council II, with its somewhat altered

policies in regard to the reading of the

Scriptures.

Through the centuries, the attitude of the

Roman Catholic Church toward circulation of

the Holy Scriptures in vernacular versions

among the laity shows up as negative. See for

example G. P. Fisher, The Reformation, Ch. 15,

Par. 16 (1873 ed., pp. 530-532); J. Cardinal

Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers, ch. 8 (49th

ed., 1897), pp. 98-117; John Dowling, History