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OF SYDNEY. THE LATE MONS. CARR OLL, V.G., last days on earth. Though MonThe late Monsignor Carroll was 77 signor Carroll was not altogether 24, June on born being years of age, indiscriminate in the distribution of of parish the in l835, at Garvaman, us to comprohis alms, he was frequently chided of city "Looking back on his life so far as ly wisdom will urge the from Grange, four miles us be neither besitants nor who knew him well for giv- it is subject to our survey, and seemise-let those by five of of Kilkenny. He was a child ing to some who were undeserving point of compromisers, but let us be true to years when he arrived in Australia his sympathy, but he invariably an- ing now that we are on the to the promises we made at Baptism, mortal remains his settlconsigning with his parents. The family was better to be mis"it that swered in to seek first the Kingdom of God find gowe place, ed first at Windsor, afterwards than, through their last sleeping cases many in taken and His justice-let us be true to our Epistles of the passages finally one of the ing to Campbelltown, and discrimminute too a of exercise the of priestly vocation as Father Carroll rendering correct settling on a farm at Appin, which, ination, to send away unrelieved one of St. Paul the was." for will that the nature of the life by the wish of the Monsignor, was person." This was the ever shine amongst us as an edifybe to become ecclesiastical property on deserving spirit of his life. And as might ENGLISH AUTHOR'S ANTIing life, as an exemplary life, as a his death. He made his preliminary expected he had no money to belast the on CATHOLIC EYES OPENED BY us will accuse which Seminary life Mary's St. old at studies queath when he died. Of the £100 day. The main principle of MonsigA VISIT TO IRELAND. College, Benedictine the at I- and he promised at the blessing of the was ; it God was life decided had Carroll's He nor Glebe. "Lyndhurst," foundation stone of his new church Persons who admire the writings of to express to join the Benedictine Order, and last year he managed to raise £3o something St. Paul seemed live Harold Begbie (says the " Ave Mr. or die we whether chansaid He he when novice. a was for a time he inwill wonder at the change by the disposal of some little Maria") himto lives man went to of God no and are ; we however, ged his plans, he had. The balance is provicome over him when they terest has that Monsigto himself. dies secular the man for self, no Ireland to study there is nothing left. Lady Next Door," just for-and "The ded read himself, for live not did 2ith his Carroll in, nor priesthood. This was career was chaCarroll's Messrs. Hodder and Monsignor by boPublished whole the for Church, Melh'ray, thefor year. He entered Mount clear thinking and but by He used to be full of racterised Stoughton. upon called later When where he stayed for a while, devotion dy of the faithful. and a prejudice towards Caspeaking, straight and distrust amposition higher the Dubto assume going to All Hallows College, Where the saintly. religion. "I inherittruly was their that and tholics devoted to be was lin, where he completed his course, Church was concerned he was uncom- ongst the clergy "an almost violent us, tells he beto ed," invited 24, when its duties, and and was ordained priest on June promising, and he recalled with sa- come Vicar -General to the Cardinal antipathy to the Roman Catholic tisfaction the fact that once only his one thought through life was to Church." But he is rid of it now, IN VARIOUS PARISHES. had he celebrated a mixed marriage, and, like an honest man, seems to be see what his Eminence's mind was Returning to Australia in Novem- and then he was specially ordered to to see what his plans were, and he greatly relieved. The effect was prothe South of do so by the Bishop. Yet, however ber of the same year, he was for a thought of nothing else but cart ring (heed by a visit towrites :fervent and zealous he was in this them out. Ireland, of which he while attached to the staff of St. "In Ireland I came face to face Mary's Cathedral. Later he Norked connection, he was never known to WHEN DEATH CAME. with my problem. In the South, in Parramatta, and then came back have said a wounding word against "When death came the sante prinwhere Catholic influence is supreme, to the cathedral. For five years he a non-Catholic. He was, indeed, the life ciple that guided him through the people are almost enchanting in was stationed at Bombala, in charge ideal priest, who filled his office, guided him into with a full sense of its responsibilitheir sweetness of disposition, entireof the parish, and afterwards at more ly admirable in the beauty and will. He was urged to seek Carmel, Waterloo. From ties. Never a Sunday passed at the Mount the certain recovery in the special care of their domestic life, wonalo,unt Carmel he went to St. Augus- Sacred Heart but found him in pulpit either at one of the Masses or of the neighbouring hospital, but he derful in the wholesomeness and sanctine's, Balmain East, as successor drove said 'Only one person can uuu me tity of their chastity. Instead of a to the late Archpriest Therry, that at evening devotions, and heas deeply to do such a thing.' When that per- lazy, thriftless, discontented, and great champion of the faith in Aus- the shafts of good counsel tralia, who was mightily admired by as he could into the minds c' his son did ask him, no child could he squalid people-as I had imagined more docile. But after a little while them to he-the Irish of the South People with his clear reasoning and Monsignor Carroll, who had much in Twenty-seven his inflexible integrity asserted itsound logic, and his words Oro ight won my sympathy and compelled my common with him self. 'I cannot go to my grave from admiration by qualities the very opyears ago he was appointed P.P. of many back to the straight track to a hospital,' he said ; 'I will go posite. It seemed to me that these the Sacred Heart parish, and short- again. Nor did he divide preaching retirmy grave from my own home.' So hard-working, simple-living, family ly after his arrival in 18kt-towards from practice. He rose early, and loving and most warm-hearted peohe returned to his own room, the close of the year, in fact - the ed betimes, lived sparingly, was poor Blessed ple had done what we in England late Cardinal chose Dr. Carroll as as any of his people, and filled ev- Pointing to a picture of the mantel, Virgin, which hung over the ery day with a hundred duties-ever have largely failed to do, even in his Vicar -General. fighting for the faith, ever carrying he said, 'She will take care of me.' our villages-to wit, solved the probBUT ONE HOLIDAY. consolation into the sunless homes It is not for us to think that he lem of life. The charm which every one but took Monsignor Carroll Almight have been spared longer. He traveller feels in the South of Ireland of the forlorn and miserable. holiday in his life, and that was af- most tip to the last, though frail and was characteristically himself to the is the character of the Irish people, priesthood, the ter his ordination to he carried out all his usual end, and now he is wearing the and my investigation forced me to feeble, while short when he travelled for a despite the entreaties of most crown he deserved as a priest wor- the judgment that this character is work, Rome, to in ,Europe. Then he cent thy of double honour, for he ruled the culture of Irish Catholicism. My who wished to relieve him. where he had an interview with Pepe Archbishop Kelly said believe," well both in word and in doctrine.' "T Problem lay, therefore, in squaring Pius IX. before returning to AustraMass for Mons. Monsignor Requiem the the admiration I felt for those gracdistinctly after remember "I lia to begin those long years of ar- Carroll, "that all that can he said carroll's expression with regard to ious people with my detestation of duous and self-sacrificing labour on of him may be expressed in the who the Church which has guarded Irish some of his own parishioners, the mission that only ended with his words 'He was a man of God.' In his came to early Mass on Sundays character from the dawn of its hisdeath. Stern and forceful was his heart, as I remarked, he was a tho- with their picnic baskets, and after tory. I was compelled to admit that lines Profile. the mouth chiseled on had greatly 'misjudged the Cathorough priest-priestly in the employworship of their Creator, hasty a the hut character, of full that were lic Church." ment of his time, priestly in all his went to spend the day in utter forthe of one covered ascetic exterior The frankness of this is as fine as utterances, inflexible in points of getfulness, of Him. It is a good and kindest of hearts, and in the Sacred greater patfection in ecclesiastical Praiseworthy thing to go to Mass, could be. Innumerable other outof tales many tell they tut, was his Heart parish but is the good sufficient, is the San - siders misjudge the Church, spoke discipline. Yes, inflexibility his hidden charity. He never characteristic when he was satisfied day sanctified, will the grace obtain- alas only a comparatively small ene was doings-he (4 himself or his that his view was the gospel view, ed be a sanctification of the St.nday number ever come to realise the fact. have their of the most 'modest of men-indeed, for, unlike the worldly wise, he given up to such practices ? Certain- Those whit do generally exthe to he carried self-effacement sought first the kingdom of God and ly, it would be no case for confes- eyes opened by the lives of faithful the from that to Di- sion, but there is a defect that is Catholics, though Catholic hooks treme-bet it is known a His justice, leaving all else day he returned from Ireland, Was he not inflexProvidence. vine telling on the Catholic spirit. In all may dispose them not to keep their to young priest, he devoted himself ible in the matter of mixed marthings I would claim that eyes tightly closed. such no I an the cause of the miserable, would answer, ' Too Some ? riages Carroll was a man of Monsignor his from one ever went empty-handed When he was a Listen so.' much spoke the truth, that he that God, Trish 1latioiAl foresters. Hospice his lot to as- he was the salt of the earth, which door. In the Sacred Heart as young priest it fell to attended he which Dying, the A Society for Irishmen. ter sist officially at a mixed marriage. God intends every priest to be, and which chaplain from the day of its founda- It was one of the category deNo Initiation Fee not will spirit his that trust I day Some of tion, 22 years ago, until the Cheapest Contributions part from us, that we will keep the hint, his we consider more promising. rebefore his last illness seized ideal of earnest and sincere religion FigANOgi8; Hugh O'Neill,Perth, every dis- the children of that union became exparticularly was noble charity before our minds, and try to bring alternate Thursday, Trades Hall. Beaufort the ligious, hut the wife, after her Fremantle, played. "I regard working in perience of life as the partner of a our people to live according, to it Street. Brian Boru Branch.Friendly of privileges Sothe of every alternate Tuesday. hospice as one mixed marriage, said, 'God forgive from their infancy onwards. never he Stuart Charles and Street High said, Hall, cieties me from my life." he often stop did not who priest the to ease Parnell. Boulder, Secretary's Address, 16 Thencepermitted any of his curates in- contracting the union I did.' Clancy Street, Boulder. "With a hopeful word I conclude," the burden of his work in that determined Carroll Father day forward, Moneyto Lend on application to the So"Let us shirk no stitution. At any hour of thego to that his face would he for ever set his Grace added. work ciety's Solicitors, Messrs J. and R. Marof the priestdifficulty in the or night he was ever ready to the which marriages these lead vell, Barrack Street, Perth, or the Genera who against hood, though temptation will the beside of the poor patients Secretary, sate of J. J. Snigg, Barrack St Church in her heart fears Catholic worldthough Charity us to procrastinate, had come to the Sisters of detests. and their for peace and comfort during :
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