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monks acquire their knowledge ? Pope for that purpose ? But in the adheres, fully and without any restric- two had traced out for them t' e topoWho all the to heart, and mind with tion, Methodist mind all this matter of of that part of the world which graphy Church, Catholic the of " crosses " and "blessings " is the vilest prescriptions Had to be unknown ? thought was the Sovereign of all particular A DIAMOND WEDDING. superstition ; and Mrs. Grant must bo and in mysterious those hands their in they in recently quite again and looked upon by the brethern as on the Pontiffs, A very rare event, has just taken place high road to perdition. Perhaps her respect to what your Holiness, in your maps which are attributed to the PorA few days teaches tuguese Jesuits, to whom neally the -Oise). -et at Breval (Seine sad 'Lyle fittpa the pure gospel of .recently -published Encyclical, Had they ago M. and Mme. Gourdin-Duhamel, sur- Methodism may be due to theevil example in regard to the temporal power of the whole universo.was known rounded by their children, grandchildren, of the lady who is thus spoken of in the Holy See. He deplores every grief the aid of those other travellers who great -grand-children, and numerous same Washington letter to the Daily that his writings and acts may have were the first courageous heralds of the ? We know not, but their work relatives and friends, celebrated the Graphic Mrs. Louis Dent, the caused your Holiness and your prede- Gospel sixty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. widow of the late Judge Dent, will soon cessor, having always entertained the exists, and proves that all the discoverAt the conclusion of the dinner, M. sail for Europe with her children, and most sincere feelings of filial homage and ies, all the sciences, all knowledge is Gourdin, who is 93 years of age, sang will remain there superintending their of every docile obedience towards the not born in these days. That precious a song which lie had written for the education. She is a Catholic, and is Vicar of Jesus Christ, to whom he sub- treasure of the Lyons library should of the scientific occasion, and Mme. Gourdin, who is Mrs. Grant's favourite relative. She mits his judgment, as unto the legiti- attract the attention 83, opened the ball with ono of her is passing this week in retreat in a con- mate and solely competent judge of all world, which should shed the homage grandsons, dancing as vis-a-vis to one vent at Baltimore." that belongs to the true usefulness and of its glory on these modest religious, others, of her great-grand-daughters. Another the true advantage of the Church, who, different from SO many young lady, in the same degree of and to the welfare of souls. He desires have never sought it, but have merited relationship to the old people, played the to make this declaration as a sincere it in abundance." PROTESTANT FUNERALS IN IRELAND. piano. Catholic, such as he has always been The Catholics of Ireland have been an still is ; and whilst he withdraws TEACHING vindicated from a shameful aspersion all that your Holiness would deem THE OBLIGATION OF NOT IRRELIGION. recently cast upon them by an evening worthy of oensure, he commits himself BEER AND WHISKEY AND CHURCH contemporary, which said, with refer- entirely to your Holiness's keeping, It was a somewhat difficult point BUILDING. ence to Lord Leitrim's funeral, that, ready to follow everywhere and at all which had to be decided by the Master guidshow no infallible times your Holiness's of the Rolls on the appeal of the Rev. Beer and whiskey have come to the as a body, the Irish Catholics The question to be rescue of fastly dying out Irish respect whatever to the grave of a ance.-Charles-Marie Curci, Priest." Frank Besant. Protestantism, and the Protestantism Protestant. In making that most un- Upon this noble and truly Catholic adjudicated was of this kind : When of Ireland rejoiceth. Notwithstanding called-for assertion, as the Daily Tele- document a single word of comment does a mother exhibit sufficient irreligion to disentitle her to the care of the millions of money which the clergy graph remarks, the asperser of the Irish in this place would be superfluous. her child ? Does she do so by the of the defunct " Established Church " thereby brought down upon himself a The publication of bad books, or by the in Ireland have quietly pocketed by deluge of denial and refutation. ANCIENT AFRICAN DISCOVERY. inculcation of injurious sentiments, or means of Mr. Gladstone's disestablish- historian, Mr. Lecky, among others, ment and disendowment measure, bore witness that every ono who knew While the life of a modern missionary by not teaching ordinary religious neither they nor even the members of Ireland was aware that the assertion in Africa has been shown, and that, too, principles, and by the general withtheir several congregations would give was untrue, quoting the memorial at a time when the world is ringing with holding of religious training ? Would a penny towards the preservation of the raised by the Catholic teneutry to the the great discoveries and the valuable any one of those oil pees constitute St. Patrick's and Christchurch Cathe- late Mr. Herbert, of Muckross, as a additions made to our knowledge of impediment, or would it be necessary Lord geography in Africa, it has been found that they should all be proved against drals, and only for Guinness, the clear proof to the 3ontrary. brewer, and Roe, the whiskey manu- Inchiquin wrote-" The funeral of Pro- that much of what is supposed to be her ? Vrom the judgment of the facturer, the two buildings would have testants are nearly always attended by new has been already known. In the Master of the Rolls, we should conclude To large numbers of Catholics, and their library of Lyons a magnificent terres- that any one of them would be sufficient. been allowed to drop into ruins, what a vast amount of desecration these graves are treated with equal respect," trial globe, two metres in diameter, the We confess to being gratified by the once sacred edifices have been subjected The Marquis of Waterford and Lord work of Father Gregory and of Father homage to Christianity which is Andpow to have as their only friends Leconfield gave the same testimony. Bonaventure, religious of the Third rendered by the arguments of the and props beer and whiskey ! Can the The Rev. W. G. Carroll, a Protestant Order of S. Francis, is found to con- Master. He not only urged that to be go clergyman in Dublin, says-" I never tain many countries, and rivers, and the authoress of bad books disentitled a fruits of the " Reformation " much further in its insults to knew an instance of Catholic hostility lakes which have been discovered again mother to protect her child, but that or disrespect at a Protestant funeral." in our own day. This globe was con- the mere withholding of a religious Christianity ? It is thus satisfactory, as the Telegraph structed towards the end of the seven- education was an oficrice which would remarks, to discover that the scenes at teenth century. Under the name of constitute disability. The fact that Lord Leitrim's funeral, greatly exagger- Father Gregory was concealed from the Mrs. Besant had prohibited her MRS. GRANT AND POPE LEO XIII. ated in the first report, were exceptional, world the very able and celebrated governess from giving the child any partly due, no doubt, to the peculiar was in itself a An announcement has just come with circumstances of the career and fate of mechanician Henri Marchaud, of the religious education startling effect as follows from Rome to the deceased, and partly to the neigh- Academy of Lyons, born in that city justification for removing the child from Washington When Mrs. Grant was borhood in which the place of interment in 1673, and who died at Marseilles in the custody of so unnatural a parent. The Master of the Rolls said that a presented to the Pope she asked him to lies. The simple fact that in Ireland 1750. Strange to say, on this globe are girl would be unfitted to associate with bless for her a silver cross which her hus- the law of burial permits all kiads of band had given her when they celebrated religious services in the same church- marked in red colour Darfur and Cordo- ordinary members of society, from the their silver wedding at Long Branch, yard would in itself indicate that, high fun, the mountains Al-Kamar-those mere fact that she had been taught that celebrated mountains near which the to believe in a God was not an essential in August, 1873. She said on account as sectarian feeling runs during life, it of its being her husband's gift on the is, as a rule, subdued in the presence of Nile rises-and before these mountains of the feminine mind. It was a fortunate proviso which was twenty-fifth anniversary of their mar- death. Protestants and Catholics lie the lakes Albert and Victoria, recently discovered by travellers and explorers appended to the " Infants Custody riage, she felt it to be particularly side by side. One day the priest reads whose names have been praised with Act," that the Court should not sacred, and desired the Pope to bless it a service ; on the next, or at another acclamation throughout the world. sanction any arrangement between for her, which he did." On receiving hour of the same day, he is followed by " Stanley, Burton, Speke, Living- parents, in regard to the custody of this shocking intimation, says the the parson. It is also a curious fact stone, and Baker," writes the Unita their children, " if it would not be for Catholic Review, the mental agony that that, while the other services of the Catcolica, " have acquired glorious the benefit of the infant to give effect " " Bishop " " Chaplain Newman and Established Church are never heard by names by having been the first who thereto." Before the passing of that been Simpson experienced must have the mass of the people, the Burial Service have, in their perilous journeyings, met Act it was not competent to a father to intense. Here are two most unpleasant -the most beautiful part of its liturgy with these internal seas of Africa ; Nand divest himself of the right of custody of revelations ! It was bad enough that is constantly listened to, and invariably President Grant-the man whom the with respect, by large open-air congre- yet here are these two seas already his children ; or, by a deed of separation, indicated on a map of the world (or to hand over his children to the custody Methodists had looked upon as their tions of Catholics. globe) 200 years ago. They are depic- of the mother alone. Such an arrange.. Own, and whom they had wished to ted there under our eyes with their ment is now lawful, but the Court parade before the country as a champion islands, their aMuents, and their mouths. holds the power to adjudicate on its of pure Protestant principles-it was FA.THER CURCI. The The third lake towards the West, the propriety or reasonableness. bad enough to find that he had given to Father Curci, in a letter addressed to Tanganyika, which was the object of Master of the Rolls, in exercising this his wife as a wedding souvenir a cross ; the very emblem of Popery ! But to the Holy Father on the 29th April, new and recent discoveries' is likewise power, has done a service to all learn also that she had carried this has placed at the feet of his Holiness indicated here, as are also the sources members of society. He has vindicated retractation. The and courses of the Zambesi, of the the right of children to be religiously idolatrous and superstitious arcticle to the completest Rome, had taken it to the " Man of Sin," Venerable Jesuit theologian, writing Congo, and of all that,network of rivers educated, whether their parents choose and had besought him " to bless" it for under date Rome, the 29th April, 1878, and torrents which have raised so much so be sceptics or pap* It may not do to stretch this judgment beyond its Most Holy Fither,-The talk in the journals." her-this, indeed, is terrible I What says The wonder is that this globe, in the actual limits, or to seek to make it does it mean ? Are not the Abana, and priest Charles-Marie Curci, knowing the Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, that occasion for scandal has arisen library of Lyons, was not known to file mean more than it expresses. It may better than all the waters of Israel ? If from a few of his recent writings and learned and scientific world, and that not do to say that the judgment Mrs. Grant must have a cross, and must acts, as pious and learned personages voyagers and travellers had not followed obliges all gnglish parents to bring q,p have it blessed, why did she not get have pointed out to him, anxious, on in the lines marked by Father Bonaven- their children as Christians ; for it doe, Bishop Simpson or Chaplain Newman his part, to remove even the shadow of tare and Father Gregory in tracing the not do this ; it only asserts that all to bless it for her, instead of hiding it offence, comes to mat himself at the sources of the great Euptian river. English paCcots must tomb some sort of Where did these religion to IlaAr children l or rather that for five years and then taking it to the kerof your Holiness to declare that he The Unite asks
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