tfrst No. 69.-VOL. V.
luta CO* /kW. PERTH, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879.
PRICE 6D.
Sentital Sltanings.
ligion and politics they are "thorough," stancy ; you hold as your own eve ewman has said, "put. the for dissent of all kinds is sharp and nob1,41 Mitt. Ah ! poor and unfortu- Ca olic religion before anything else in definite. A Roman Catholic lady world nate couilltry I for thee I can do nothing ; the world," and find in it " their comGREAT BRITAIN. as soon think of figuring in the luper- but at least I tan say that thy name fort, their joy, their treasure, their calia as of attending a ..nic ball ; m4fpailleart beat with an ineffable boast, their compensation for a hundred HE CHURCH ON ENGLAND FUNERAL her Protestant neighborWo would esSitiotT. Thou art nigh as dear to me worldly disadvantages," he elsewhere AND MoujisG REFORM ASSOCIATION. forego the fitiof its subject was believed as my native land. Ah would that wrote " I have only shared Ireland's daily An association has been formed in to be negligent of Protestant interests. my accents could cross the sea and England entitled " The Church of Eng- The Duke and Duchess must have reach thee, not only thee, but all thy piety ; I have but seen in passing her land Funeral and Mourning Reform managed admirably, indeed, when they children in every land where exile may habitual trials and virtues. Often on Association," to encourage the adoption could pass from Rome to Geneva,ftom have flung them, in the forests of Aus- Sunday, when entering an Irish town, of such observances as are consistent with Convent to Castle Bernard, froteLord tralia, or at the foot of the Rocky I have seen the streets encumbered with the hope of a resurrection to eternal life, Bishop Delany to Lord Bishop Gregg, Mountains, lands of the mighty ocean, kneeling figures of laboring men in all and to discourage feasting on the day of and never excite jealousy or lose favor. to tell them all my love, to bring them directions, turning their looks always Probably they would not fare so well a consolation and an encouragement, and towards some low doorway, some obburial and all useless and extravagant exnenditure in the coffin and its furni- in the North. Protestant liberality. at the same time, a hope. Yes, gentle- scure lane which led to the Catholic Romanist intolerance-that is the men, a hope ! and by this word I wish chapel, built behind the houses in those ture, and in wearing of mourning. fabulous contrast of those capable ro- to console your hearts also, that I have times of persecution when the exercise mancers, the agent of the Irish Church saddened so much. Yea, I hope a of that worship was treason. The imANGLICAN SISTERHOODS. Missions. The ignorant and bigotted future more favourable for Ireland ; and mense crowd which endeavored to force The Very Rev. Canon Oakley, of Munster Papist sends Protestant already do I think I see in the distant an entrance into the narrow and hidden St. John's, Duncan Terrace, writes to members to Parliament, elects Conserva- hoe OD signs that portend better times interior prevented the approach of twoSir,-I tive mayors, and lives upon the whole an rophesyjt deliverance."-From thirds of the faithful, but they knew the editor of the Standard find that my name has been mentioned in peace with the few heretics in his his rdshiplf Sermon, for the poor that Mass was being said, and they in a somewhat animated controversy on midst. The free and enlightened Pres- Cat tics of Ireland, preached March knelt in the surrounding streets, joining byterian of Ulster would see his fellow 25ff the subject of Anglican Sisterhoods in 61. themselves in spirit to the priest of the general, and one in particular, between Christian at the faggot before he would Most High. Very often I have mixed a speaker at the Church Congress and admit him to equal rights of citizenship, with them and enjoyed their looks of a lady, who replies to him in the where he is strong enough to deny them. MONTALEMBERT IN IRELAND. astonishment when they saw a stranger, Standard. I think that I may throw Thus it is that the Protestant of station a man not poor like themselves, taking In 1829, Charles Comte de Montesome light on the subject, which will in the North is apt to show in manythe holy water with them and bowing have the effect of showing that both perhaps unintended-ways the spirit of lembert, author of "Monks of the West," before their altar. And often, also, parties in this controversy have truth that ascendancy whose substance he has visited Ireland. In his " Lettres sur le from the gallery reserved for the women, on their respective sides. The speaker lost. There is little or no aggresiveness Catholicisme en Irelande " he relates the one of the most curious sights which it at the Congress was correct in saying of the sort in the South. On the whole, following inci:lent is possible to imagine-the nave of the " I shall 'Myer forget the first Mass that an Anglican Sisterhood came over however, the bickerings and spites of Catholic chapel during the sermon. which I heard in a country chapel. I to us in a body some years ago, and diverse beliefs are far less in Ireland This part of the church was given up rode the of to foot a hill, the lower part after going through a short novitiate at than in countries where one might supto the men ; there were no seats, and of which was clothed with a thick plan- the population crowded into Paris, worked uniler me till called to pose the agreement or disagreement to it in floods, firs of and alighted from each tide rising Ireland, where they have ever since be smoother. Priest and parson- tation higher, till the first my hor to ascend- it. I had taken been living a most holy and devoted life always outside the area wherein the comers were pushed forward against the in the county of Leitrim, as Francis- socia. relations are poisoned by Orange- only a few steps on my way when my altar rails, and so crowded together, cans of the Third Order enclosed. It ism-are excellent friends. They sign attention was attracted by the appear- that they could not move a limb. All is equally true, as your correspondent together the address to the landlord or ance of a man who knelt at the foot of that could be seen of them was a moving states, that I never received under my the testimonial to the bank manager ; one of the firs ; several others became mass of dark-haired heads, so close tocare any community from Osnaburgh and when Lord Steyne is resident, visible in succession in the same atti- gether, that one could have walked street, nor, indeed, any other Anglican Father Mole and Dr. Trail are his tude ; and the higher I ascended the across them without danger. From community than the one mentioned. frequent guests, but his lordship will larger became the numbers of these moment to moment, this mass moved That which I did receive, and to which draw them into no polemics as at Gaunt kneeling peasants. At length, on reach- and waved, long groans and deep sighs ing the top of the hill, I saw a cruciI imagine that the speaker at the Con- House. became audible ; every gesture was form building, badly built of stone, gress refers, was previously established, understood on the instant, and the imwithout cement, and covered by thatch. not in Osnaburgh street, but in Marpression produced was not concealed." Around it knelt a crowd of robust and BISHOP DUPANLOUP ON IRELAND. garet street." vigoroes men, all uncovered, though the " Be it well understood, there is in rain fell in torrents, and the mud M. GAMBETTA. AMERICA. the heart and bosom of a priest and a quivered beneath them. Profound The Liverpool Catholic Times re- bishop something more than the figures silence reigned everywhere. It was the minds its readers that " when M. Gam- of science. In the account of battles Catholic chapel of Blarney, and the priest HOT INSTEAD OF COLD WATER BATHS betta was at Valence he made a speech, let others be for the victorious and was saying Mass. FOR SUNSTROKE. I reached the door and in one of his flights of oratory he triumphant ; I am whole and entire for at the moment of the Elevation and all Dr. Herron, of Cincinnati, insists that saluted the sun of the Republic.' It the wounded and dying. My place this pious assembly had prostrated them- warm salt water, applied to persons so happened that the luminary was at allow me to say, is at the ambulance. selves with their faces on the earth. I affected by the heat of the sun, is the that moment disappearing behind the Neither do laurels console me for the made an effort to penetrate under the proper remedy, instead of ice, which hills, and the Conservative papers make loss of blood shed in the battlefield, roof of the chapel thus overflowed by only contributes to the congestive conhuge fun of the unlucky coincidence." nor do reasonings reconcile me to the worshippers. There were no seats, no dition of the brain, heart, and lungs. " It is always when the fortunes of the cries of hunger and despair. I see those decorations. not even a pavement ; the There appears to be sense in this, as country are low that those of the who are banished-I hear the cry of floor was of earth, damp and stony, the most persons experience the quickest Jesuits rise." "This was the utterance those that are outraged gather the roof dilapidated, and tallow candles reduction of the temperature of the of M. Gambetta, the other day says the tears-I stretch out my hand to the burnt on the altar in place of tapers. I body by i,aking a tepid, instead of a the same Journal. " Henry des II uox, poor and desolate. I am not a savant, heard the priest announce, in Irish, the cold bath. He says in La Defense, says that the orator must an economist ; I am a minister of Jesus language of the Catholic people, that on My treatment is simple, and good have a front of brass to hazard allusions Christ. Leave me entirely to my such a day he would go, in order to common sense, and always successful. to fortunes which are gathered out of pub- ministry, and if I shock your theories, save his parishioners the trouble of a I have never lost a case, even after exlic disasters. He became rich himself be not scandalized by my compassions. long journey, to a certain cabin' which cellent physicians have pronounced through the ruin of the country. He You shall reason to -morrow ; but men should for the motnent be turned into them hopeless, and had used ice and amassed riches from a dying nation as suffer, men weep, men hunger, men are the house of God-there to administer ice -water freely. the robber rifles spoil from a battlefield dying. To -day I even bold forth my the sacraments and receive the humble In the first place, under no circumon the night after the combat. If hand to those who reason for those who offerings with which his flock supported stances whatever, allow ice, ice-water, 'Jesuit' is a term of contempt for the weep. I do not blame science, but I him. When the Holy Sacrifice was or even cold water, to be applied to the man who grows fat on public misfor- feel pity. Science, I shall leave thee to ended, the priest mounted his horse and the patient, for the reason that the contune then (says Henry des Huox) be- theorise ; but leave me to infuse into rode away ; then each worshipper rose gestion already taken place will only be hold a Jesuit in Gambetta." The the hearts of all, in favour of Ireland, from his knees and went slowly home- increased, and death takes place if the charges of hostility to civilization and pity, tender compassion, active charity, ward ; some of them, wandering patient has not a strong constitution education on the part of the Catholic which alone can excel and assure thy harvestmen, carrying their reaping with good reactionary powers to overChurch are false and groundless. It is blessings. Allow me to send to Ire- hooks, turning their steps towards the come or withstand the ice-water or simply astonishing that an intelligent land, if not the millions which are not nearest cottage, to ask the hospitality to secondary shock. person should make such charges, when in my hands, at least the sypathies, the which they were considered to have a I know of several cases, and have the Church has been the great civilizer tendernesses which every Christian right ; others, with their wives riding heard of many, where patients have of man. heart feels for this unfortunate land. behind them, en troupe, went on to recovered, even after the cold and iceYes, dear Ireland-noble Catholic soil- their distant homes. Many remained water treatment had been applied, but old land of saints, country rich in vir- for a much longer time in prayer, the head has never been as clear as beIRELAND. tues and in sorrows-native land of kneeling in the mud, in that silent en- fore and the memory impaired. But faith, of honour, of courage-I am closure chosen by the poor and faithful never under hot water treatment have GOODNELLOWSHIP IN IRELAND. happy to say it of thee, the world regards people in the times of ancient persecu- I known any one to die, or any bad The gentry of Ireland, especially the thee with respect and love. It wails in effect to follow, even after the most ladies, are vehement partisans. In re - thy misfortunes ; it admires tby con - tions Ofthe daily life of that people who, severe and seemingly fatal cases. !
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