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No. 75.-VoL. V.
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PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1879.
The Sister of the liberty to mention. most active supporters seemed to dread traditions which were violated, and time Charity rises at four in the winter and it. Lords and Commons appeared to be political interests which have from and labours seventeen hours. acting under a pressure which they to time been involved, the English summer, to perform night On the ttirteenth of April, 1829, would have resisted had theyonly known people have behaved liberally towards Once a week she has subject for a painter King George the Fourth signed the how. When Mr. Peel, in the month of Catholics, and show now an increasing duty. What a sisters making her Catholic Relief Bill. It follows, there- February 1829, argued in the Commons desire to do so. One more grateful ad- would be one of the military hospital of fore, that Easter Sunday will be the during four hours for Emancipation, mission we have to make. English night -round in the carryJubilee of Catholic Emancipation. We the House listened to him with mingled Catholics, when compared with many Gross Caillou, with an attendant light a union of What a lantern. ing favourable emana of enjoy fact the Catholics, other forgotten knowing almost scarcely have wonder and interest, of the people cipation in the long enjoyment of our whether to resist or applaud. Mr. Peel, political position. Remembering what and shade ! 'rho mass find in these sisters a woman, perhaps many Not liberties. Catholic religious like his predecessor Mr. Canning, had England was, and what its State reof us can recollect that period of politi- been born and had been nurtured a ligion still is, it is as creditable to the first and only real woman they have And as to the women, cal trouble which heralded the bright strict Protestant ; but, strange to say, politicians as it is creditable to Catholics ever met with. animates them. morn of emancipation. Those who can Mr. Canning had worked hard for the that, side by side, they have worked the sister elevates and .ihe makes them pray. That is the recollect it have better reason than we relief of the Catholics, while Mr. Peel together and in good will.-Tablet. crime of crime of which the sisters are have keenly to appreciate our present was always opposed to concessions. It accused. Go into the hospitals served privileges. But it seems a duty to re- was from necessity that Mr. Peel bean call, from time to time, the historic came an emancipator, not from education, The Sisters of Charity of St. by the sisters, and you will notice on their of melancholy shade unusual foreCatholic English our of exclusionist. a strict troubles for he had been bred Vincent de Paul. features, for the valiant women were fathers, if only as a homage to their But it is due to Mr. Peel to say that, I formerly always gay and smiling. their to a tribute faithfulness, and once thoroughly converted, he became have of Paris The Municipal Council said the other day to a young superWe may fancy, an advocate for the measure. " Accordservices to ourselves. an commenced a crusade, or, rather, if we think about it at all, that emanci- ing to my heart and conscience," he said, unholy war, against these good reli- ioress in a hospital : " What sacrifices, sister, day and night !" " Oh ! no," pation was a natural fruit of political " I believe that the time is come when gious, whose praise is in the mouths of she replied ; " I assure you we have progress, that it was won by the sheer less danger is to he apprehended to the all Christians of whatever faith, and our happy moments, when, for example, necessities of the times, and because to general interests of the empire in against the other sisterhoods serving we can pray alone." Ah ! you are have refused it would have been dis- attempting to adjust the Catholic quesA set of lay happy when on your knees ?" " Inthe hospitals of Paris. graceful. There would he ma, h truth tion, than in allowing it to remain any nurses is being trained for the great deed we are." " You gather yourjoys," the in yet., and ; view I . . easy . in that longer in its present state. The Sisters of I continued, "on your knees, as you hospital of Bicetre. twelve years which preceded the have for years attempted to maintain been dismissed from the gathered the wild strawberries in the have Charity been had there " Catholic Relief Bill" the exclusion of Roman Catholics from Hospice of the Rue de Sevres. Sad " Oh that's just it," she woods." continual bitter fighting over the sub- Parliament and the high offices of State. was their departure two by two. All replied, smiling and looking at me with ject. The pages of Hansard sometimes . . . I yield to a moral necessity the hospitals of Paris are, it is known, her pure timid eyes. Such is the angroan under the burden of the debates which I cannot control. . . . The served by religious. The Augustinians gelic gaity over which they have cast in the Commons about " the Catholics." universal voice of the country demands the llotel Dieu, the Lariboisiere, a cloud who wish to replace the charity It is true that it was the Irish, much that something must be done." And the serve La Charitie, Beaujon, etc. ; the Sisters of St. Vincent do Paul by the fraternity more than the English, Catholics who universal voice had its effect. of St. Martha, the hospitals of St. of I3ebeuf.-" Ignotus," in the Figaro. occupied the interests of politicians. 3rd of March the Bill was passed in the Anthony, Quinzevingts, etc. ; the We read that, in 1817, a moderate mea- Commons, in a house of 462 members, Sisters of St. Thomas of Villeneuve with debated was concession sure of by a majority of 178 ; and on the 18th have charge of the hospital for children but evenings, many angry feelings for of April it was passed in the Lords by in the Rue de Sevres ; and, finally, the The Marquis of Ripon and Dr. was rejected by a majority of twenty- a majority of 213 to 109. But Lord Newman. Sisters of St. Vincent have the care of four. We read again of Mr. Grattan, Eldon used his influence with the King civil, and of other the sick in most the in the year 1820, coming up to Parlia- to persuade him not to sanction the It is proin all the military hospitals. ment in his old age, " in the lowest measure. Lord Eldon conceived that At a meeting of the Catholic Union poposed to replace these by lay nurses, state of physical exhaustion," to make measure to be " the most dangerous that held in Willis's Rooms, the Duke of year, a 800 francs to receive who are a solemn protest against the penal laws ; was ever brought before Parliament ;" presisisters receive but two hun- Norfolk, who was again elected but he was too feeble to carry out his and he knew that the King shared his while the resolutions : following the moved dent, sisters against the rage This dred. generous project. In 1821 the House sentiments. But his Majesty, after will, therefore, cost the city of Paris 1. " That the Catholic Union of Great of Lords threw out a measure which much vacillation, and much complaint The Britain has received with profound 600 francs for each nurse ! had found a fair majority in the House that he " bad been deserted by an gratification intelligence of the desire of Charity of of the Sisters mother -house Lords, the of Commons. Indeed it was aristocracy which had supported his is situated in the Rue du Bac (near the his Holiness Pope Leo XIII. to confer a more than the Commons, who for father," and that, " instead of 45 peers The mother - upon the Very Rev. John Henry Newgreat number of years set their faces against the measure there were twice Missions Etrangeres). the command of man the dignity of a Cardinal of the has who general, against concessions to Catholics. In that number of peers for it ;" that by univer- holy Church ;" 2. " That the Catholic appointed is sisters, 26,000 1822 a measure was almost passed to everything was tending to revolution, last year Union desires to lay before the Apostolic superior The suffrage. sal enable Catholic peers to sit in Parlia- and that the peers and the aristocracy Arras. throne an expression of unfeigned gratiof Bishop the of the sister ment, but a majority of forty-two threw were giving way to it," reluctantly put was for Afighanistan. This tude at the honor thus shown to one started has She for best his did Wellesley it out. Lord his signature to the Bill, and manifested sisters and a semi- whose name is especially dear and Irish Catholics, but the time was still every sign of personal wretchedness. house contains 200word used) for 2,50 precious to the Catholics of the British is the naire (such 1828, in unripe for such justice. And In the diary of Lord Eldon we find this novices. Postulants are received from empire, and also justly venerated and immediately after the passing of the entry : " April 14, 1829. The fatal eighteen. At the end of cherished by his countrymen generally Test Act, the Duke of Wellington was Bill received the royal assent yesterday the age of they are admitted to the for his high moral and intellectual edmonths three credited with a desire to remedy the afternoon. After all I had heard in my Catholic which lasts from six to dowments ;" 3. " That the grievance which Mr. Pitt would have visits " (to the King) " not a day's noviceship, to congratulate premission begs Union receive then " They months. eight removed years before if it had not been delay ! God bless us, and His the deepest reverence the habit," but do not take the vows Dr. Newman with for the persistent opposition of George Church !" I visited this and regard upon this marked recognition later. years five till which alarm the was great III. So his eminent services We may gratefully echo the pious house last year. In the great saloon by the Holy See of this report excited that we find this to the Catholic Church." He remarked -general. mothers all the of portraits are in a though Eldon's, Lord of : prayer Eldon Lord entry in the diary of one perceives a that it was now many years since Dr. " There is a very general persuasion totally different spirit and meaning. From the windows two flights of Newman had stepped forward to defend reached by garden, large may we if allow, must yet we to And that the Duke intends, next session, court -yard of this the Holy See and the religion of his in the I met steps. opposers the that emancipate the Roman Catholics, as he allude to the subject, of Louis XIV. Catholic countrymen in every way that of the time mansion old It foresight. has the Dissenters ; and the world is of the measure had some of the ap- was width' his power (applause). He He knew Dupanloup. Mgr. uneasy." The presentimentwas proved was less from a desire to keep down and was remarked that those present looked the sisters, on attack proaching to be well grounded ; and though the " the Catholics " than from a fear of the But alas ! upon Dr. Newman's career from a point King laboured hard to oppose the mea- risk incurred to the Establishment, that preparing to defend them. silenced. He has of view somewhat different from that sure, " the Catholic Relief Bill " was the old Tory party disliked all conces- his voice is now on our Divine with which he must approach it. But so eloquently written the following Sunday the On the in sion. Commons the brought before heard from a he was quite confident that, with rehave might he that Lord the Bill, Relief of the Catholic passing year. March of the following Aquinas- gard to all classes of Catholics in this St. Thomas did his crucifix-as ordered Hackney again Rector of South over There is no need to fight hest country whether it was those who had scripsisti"-Thou me de Bens " very his gave and the battles of that period, so bitter, so bell to be tolled, had the happiness, the great happiness, a splendid What of me. well written "The Catholic But we prophetic explanation, prolonged, yet beneficent. of being born into the Church, or those of hand the the has of sisters defence naturally recur, when thinking of our Relief Bill is the " death -knell of the like himself, had been brought late who, must sister Every ! prevented The clergy death own privileges, and of the Jubilee which Church of England." in within her safe and sacred fold, life who " All this Easter brings round, to the conten- generally shared that presentiment. be of respectable origin. they would alike agree in doing honor tions which preceded and which accom- And though we know that that pre- are, or have been, in service are exthe distinguished man who had repanied-nay, which followed-Catholic sentiment was not realised, still we can- cluded from the postulantship," says to the ceived Within the last few days, he tell can never You the rules. of free action the admit but that if not Fourth, the George emancipation. I believed, so distinguished a mark of the he did little good in his reign, and the Catholic Church has somewhat quality of any of the Sisters. I hope favor of the Holy See. For himself he I if menindiscreet thought be may not the of grandeur old the obscured originated, perhaps, no grand idea, at felt that, in seconding the resolutions, he the of scions are them among tion that into is not a point This least gave his signature, though most Establishment. was only discharging a debt of gratitude De PuyseSoult, Mornay, of De houses save to enter, unwillingly, to one of the greatest which we would now to one whose writings bad been the Do D'Arragon, Montesquieu, De gur, measures of justice of this century. make this one grateful observationmain earthly come of conferring upon of lady also a is There The curious feature in the passing of that considering the giant prejudices Massiac, etc. Lim (the Marquis of Ripon) the greatest that great measure was that even its which were attacked, the force of the a royal house, whose name I am not at
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