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renHArsl i -.it-I-o-We are informed that a
charity sermon will be preached soon in St.
Joseph's Church in aid of the funds of its Con
ference of the Society of t. Vincent do Paul.
Those connected with this association-ave-rso
to publicity, acting on the prini'plo -heot ot
thy left hand know what thy rig hand
doeth," are accustomed to lookl f toe contri
butions tiecessary to sustain /tlcir plas of
beneficence to itheir met ers eid e y.
SThey are now, 1i' tho e traor y pressure
_hrt ttheirsym pat , co "ed reluctantly to
- take some pu ep to replenish their ei
hauuted res. Fro tohe deplorable . tagna
o rusituiss :nt.the lrevaililg dlestitttion,
net u mbfrerinut appeal frtem this socitre n-ill,
we trust, ibe favraily resndthuel to byu thesen
outside tle Socity. - cere we at liberty to
give statinti.s of lthir lperation, the aumount
of good anccoulliwtlnd, and lheir .lf-shucnrihi lug
. labors, wie :rue srtair,- a t. " -giu'roIs ceo-oipetl-a
s , tittr,- hl :.u! lu iay ihhl hu . Tho f : i ,ll'ti-a anc
rentehers it a u, r li titr !miil-t. gr tt it;t' -. r a.c
nrtc th e l: ithe Je :u:t w-hu:thu ",rh ih -h ýo'to
will c "i hily "In ,1. ;n the : t , nro
P. C.
S Wion ih v " n. l,.,'.. . :(i.i., (......... .
. si t will bh gich\,- 1d ' n . m a, tlv;c l: , :--e
- u- s. ''Tiar c tvt(' in ; tt rvivU. ' «1 1 lie i:, l a;i..,,
te lii iom theigoid t'l g,.at ee. r..... . I}
e- -:iest.:in itic, tl I ro. . i t ll ti b e iati ni;r
tahe iClrit itn:the iin rt'ttfdthcirt.l thatluit Igc Lit.
The, rt ol irnun- i 'a'-r iol will retly othe ,lIg
uthe gentlrm. t wo i ll ]nrte - a i n'at their a iilran:
among -with,-lt 1hpds : "nlhie.,ur of i 1":s t'un
Sethier e' : er is .
Aremem-i.ered t ('i renders t't in ou, r tc
e ans, ite,:rh sh o ge:,t. hr ',, :o z fow. " i r tair, .1
scaruely r 'r rit l'al ou l n . t' ' e t ;t |l "ir
gto ay ; :thiasMt rlcev.eal s-iterse'.
next un er a lit of t ehe c n which cntly toill
take place t the Josiitrnt Churches dui honor'ig Letof
the heroiests who dcharged in tll y nding
the Ppcon territor, inga proi inrnt mtntion
Dthe gentlemei, whlo will pretr on the ohurcsio.h
-- o h -e bwi n tiihc, iftrtn f lint o o r.d
o thier e driteisej. I_ -" tiof
A'rt nli-rtE INT'MrxDATION.--It may be
remembered by usti readers that in our ac
count of the celebration i which recentlytkitn t
tplace artthel Jesuits Church i7n honoril of
thiat made- oindi serncei itt- l Ir nered ly lIe
-at leat bi-d tinhe ti 'for-dtht i r.
Reason and al -,
",sj-In many instances we l9ave fe. want
of a Catholi paper in ourmnidit, when,
ing in our secular papers, now h
facts, distorted by the prejudices, or' ij o
ix ranc, or w u iiiisitipese Eo-in Ti f secta
rian or infidel writers-then, he truths of
-religion, and the tenets of the Church gross
Sly fa ified,, misrepresented-or, at least,
represented. incorrectly, in a manner bor
r dering-an heresy, or-even impiety.
u To give an example: Some time ago we
felt exceedingly annoyed in readingi .one
I of our city papers a short article of twenty
xi or twenty-five lines, signed ' An Inquirer,"
. in -which it wjisa-iked why and'how Al
er mighty God could havegiven-us- Revela
Stion, since he has given us our reason, anid
- reason woil be destroyed by Revelation.
From'the tono the article itW_lsain
that this "Inquirer" di not inquire for the
truth, but wanted only to disturb simple
nmindd oulse bJ 5a (ilFu OifuiO uof
thoughts.
--Tnoswer-that short but perfidious attack
against Revelation and faith, woqil re
ii quire a more lengthy article thaui the limits
of a paper could admit; but we can at least
lsy down some principles whdich iill eluci
date this important subject.
' The'Catholic Church teaches us
1. That reason and Revelation wereequal
r ly from God.
s 2. That there is no oppstion bwot
i them; and therefore; -
- 3. Reason is neither subjecti y, nor ob
jectively, destroyed by Re tion. Then:
4. Reasoa-is not des yed by faith, since
it is through the of our reason that we
see the motive at prompt us to adhere to
faith.
- 5. truths presented to us by reaso
not. destroyed- nor altered, but th
ontrary developed and pe b'lve-J
lation.
Reason i teaches us that Almighty
Go e truth itself, the perfect nfinite,
and eternal truth; that no an mind,
nay, no created mind, ble to exhaust
that inexhaustible fo iiu of truth which
is in God, or rather ich is God himself.
It must be admitted, then, that beyond the
intellectual ight ofaur reason, there is an
infinite mennusity of truth, as beyond the
Riglhtoi4our corporeal eyes There in an idde-
finite va'st itude of space. The limits of our
reason are no miore the boundaries of the
truth,' than the limits of our corpol·li sight
are tlhe houndlarie or the-,physical greation.
It ii:.; t be admitt.td, therefore; by every
Snst.i!hi ll( n iu, that there are truths which
arc cnTt only alove oer undtle-star di, but
cvt it :aaboe't .our klnoleh-dg. These truths
::re Ct ; - ,,t c e iitt t ." ..\ ". . ...
and un turally we 4rave no idea of- ili.-l
Hiun .t i. cieidclt t that Alhtightv:God In:; tlhe
I ,,',( <-, mia!.ing kknow: to us thoe' t:uths
to, w;hici we- could nut ittaitir wierh---tln,f
xod; uni tis-Diviie act by itlii tiutis
un4 l11thiclle to our ic::son:re umauil4-sted to
uic- Crc: i sly what is called Ihevcl;tion.
,1'],,:I tuctlcs whicih ::, anrifested to us
, . 1:: :. lation, Ih ing beyond the reach of
t ut :". niral rca ot:., :aplurtaiu to What is
1c I:l ; t i Upernaltucal order, becau:;e they
' arc- : yvul uand :above the naturx-al s-trength
of o(ur intellcect; but theec sulllrnl:turLal
trilll are by no 1:a: in contraditlio
With the tirthis whibch arc kl: ow n to-u.; by
I lt :: nt- rel ie rf-- r "fI-rP- R yrat s -h; ytr
Iattial orehir, itar front being opI, l(d to
thti unta'ural oib r, i altogether bai~ d upon
it. To say, t1ewri ore, that Revelation de
•r SI' reIsttln, is 'lcl pfct nonseSe-an ('gre
11 gious albsurdity.
t. Let us elucidat- this. c subject by a plain
C comparison:
Wf We offer to a man a telescope which will
1 enable him to see celestial bodies, which he
could not reach with his eyes. No, says the
man, Almighty God has given me my eyes;
e that's enough; I will not insult Him, 6nd
dettroy His gifts by aiiking use of your
telescope. But, dear sir, we don't want you
f to pluck out your eyes, nor to give up their
use. On the contrary, the use of the tele
scope presupposes the use of your eyes; and
if you were blind, undoubtedly we would
consider it a mockery to hand you a tele
scope. This instrinuent is not a destroyer,
f Init rather a helper, since it will d"clxcopI
ic dt c(ct-nd- the sphere of your sight, and
prfict 1hc use of it.
S, iti with IRvelation ; it does not do
strcocv-ur rel'-conc, hut on the contirv, it
preeccplcoses and ret-i.cas i, nd its eflcct
ic., to perfect clOr 1:0 .ral ftcc., or, acid ti en
large tibicplh, cc of o,-criincclhlctual sight.
Next citurdcy. v ill l,- the Anniversary of
Wcacsington'ibirth-d:iy. Time was, when this
was kept asi national festival. Now,4t serves
to reinci us of a concctituticcibroken and trod
den cunhder foot by fn:natic-of Ii name once
venerated, now scoffed and cursed by enraged.
negropholictl. We must wait a mlore proiltToitis
aay c-efere this anniversary can bo fittingly I
cilobrated. .
sugui Polocy. and Irish Resuts.
--zs hergue, relentleoss-suach Is the ver
dict which his tory be stamped upoa Eng
land's policy towards Ireland.. Mostof our
era probably remember \'-). Cahill's
ftm philippics against the Bi.tish lo-
f einmeni wherein he-'so openly anso- ,or
peatedly it o.making duplicity and
bad-faith the dinal principles-of its for
eign diplomacy. _ of the disorders, the
diseisions the revolu' ns which agitated
antd eredother coon es, were, as he
argued, either originatedor tuated by
British intrigue,and ifnecessary, s baidised
with British gold. From their powerful
neighbor and rival across the channel, to
the remoteskt-ie of Tndia nr Soth Lme
ica, the domestic discord fostered by a-di
eet butunstinted use of money, was found
to be the cheapest and surest agency of
British-suprems. ---
In connection. with the very war which
they are now waging against an Ab
mo , we hear one day, forinstan
the progress is vey slow, -thereo
mismanagement,the camp sitfar
months befores formida scles;-next
day thetelegraph info us that the sooty
hero, Theodore, ,been flaked by a re
volt among wn subeet and is retirg
in co from the impregnable strong
holds ce he was to laugh at his inva
during, at least, one yearofec$r
Dr. CahilPl theory being accepted, this sad
den change of front would be easily
counted br.-
Whether tIat eloquentivine astrictl
correct in his assumption r wh
views may not have t ,ighly
tinted by the plep of his oratory,Jie
was certain alone in his opinion.; A
who opln have adopted the same esti
ate, and nationalized it in the phrase
Potfide Albos ."
A t least as to her policy in Ireland, Eng
land's treachery is a matter of history. She
has conquered by dividing, and btight
where shecould-not uyl. -Factions en
couraged, prejudices ministered to, inter
course debarred, leaders corrpiiited, gold,
titles, honorsliberally bestowed--such are
the weapons with which ttiit astute-govern
ment has made and-preserved this vu, nted
conquest. Even at this day, her paindspies
penetrate the -arcana, of foes.in secret ses
sion, and preside over the councils of Feni
ans. Sho Ands the gallows cheaper and
safer thia artillery. -
-- We shall not stickle, however, at the mo
rality of a policy- which creates rceolutini
1-abroad for its own profit, and -istigat-er it
at home in order to forestall its futui.
strenth; huat we must protest ai iinsttlci
relentlessness of that policy of destruction,
Ireland v ss conquered, and Ireland must
I.e kept -down; not only kept down with
ordinary c-rtainty, but crur:1. d Ibeyond the
plailll"ty of trying to rie. `ihis was tie,
end, and the means must accomnmodate
themselves to it. Through all the channels
which ingenuity co~uld devise, moral, intel
lectual aid lpllysical, dcgr-adation must
P flow in up,tn the doomed eqantry. For
centuries this plan'of cold-llooded safish
n1(.ss, of remorseless oppression, has Lbin
system'tiecally carried out, handed dowa
tr::itionall y'from-one cahlitlt to anotlº.
I [lish religio'n was outlawed, Irislh ca catictii
h was driven into the hedges, at Irish sub
i.4oritsiaes r4sod Iysv-. ence, or-more
cunning taxation, to tlh! a:mds of the gov
ertnment's ai nions. /
In the two forimtr 'espects, all these effor.ts
have been ,sinal failures. -Per.scution,
whether in the shape of the bl yonet or the
º soup plate, has never shaken Irish faithl
The'Island of Saints has n ver for otten its
greatest glory--Itellectually, thoug haf
ing in the fetters of enforced ignorance, the
native genius of-the race would escape oc
casionally from its thraldom and show by
individual illustrations, that its vital powers
were -strong -s ever. Buike, Goldsmith,
Moore, were glorious protests of a captive
national intellect.
Physically, the triumph of English policy
has been complete. She has pauperized her
victim niost successfully. Not only has she
wrested their wealth from the people, but
she has gradually sapped the foundation of
that wealth. We quote on this point fromnt
a-rsr--able document recently published by
some of the Catholic clergy of Ireland, as
emntlodying their views:
We contludo, then. firstly. that Treland is
ipors"dut lle.s, nst-tly any hfault of thc Irish
rne, lbut by th. force and fault. ofilnglish le- Ic
gislation. ;econdtly, that the said English lo
gislat ion exerci.sed ita power not onlu in ,anper
Sizing Ihland for a seanson, but iu *lestrqying
nearly all the sources of Irish national weali,
and tints mnaking poverty a poermancnt condi
tionof the country.
We, of this Southern country, are much
more- capable nosi of sympathizing with
Ireland than we used to be. We know
what oppression is. We know something
of what poverty is. We know nothing yet,
however, of the deep-seated poverty-which
breaks o:t .ari. -ically in famines or pea
or yes but fr i~- ontur-iy
r There ismeng, tome
Sthis, and f w have sti ihes idea
that y'verty hich liks becoaetnie
4 ent" -4onditdn-of-s-eonntry.- No
p rosperity now, and nose possble; no easq,
no c.mfort, no relief forever! It is under
such a harden that are beginning to
i igh at last, the ever-springing hope, the
a buoyant spirit of the litest hearted
that ever breasted- misfortun:e. We
from.the samesource:
I t would.be an error and 4 say t
the dissfectioxiofthe coun t deep-seated
and extensive. Deplorab sucko- a ct maJ
no one who Qsne .
f-"y deo--e , a blank 4 sneo
r te e population, a dark
Sooing, all worse becuse. every day grow
ing i=in e. This hopelesmness operates
in two directions, and in every e p of
i , oi;- _ ' - p i o e ees-t
d res
lees very often, and-grdlsssof eonsee s
i States-have'their rn territories, whose.
historlyJis " te to be made, but o tar
no parallel to this policy g
an utter selshness in ., merci
rigor in its ap and fatal success,
i its results. -
We not wish tonilude the English
ople in this den . u louaf their govern
Smeat. They are ly Incapable, Andi
r- dually, of at cruelties, though when
the day of ibation comes, a whole peo
ple suffe for national crimes. And, in
truth,/G large portiou of the people have
made themselvesactive participant:in the
persecution, i *he iassuptien of scornfual
superiority tow the obpresed.n The
Svictim is degraded by conceivabliareth
t ods, then taunted with egradation. He
Sis reduced to starvation, th accused oif
improvidence; held forcibly in orance,
theru sneered at as a boor; rob lun
dared, exiled from home, then pointed a
a oautcast and a vagrant. With the same
I consistency his-holy church is involved in
i his social disgrace, beiause lie has called
her "Mother," in his day of humiliation,
and she has-clasped him to her bosom in his
i rags..- .
The injustice of all these taints, however,
is nmado manifest in the position which the
Irish race has taken ii-this country-. ITheir
energy, their' ability, their success, have
won for them here a ~ispect the Mnore
-iaed. n ýin triumph over prejudices
inherited from the mother'cSuntry. Let us
oITie ihe justice to say thit their chil
gratification from this source, lies i
Sfact that their beloved church h risen
with themnselves in public r~.ct. God
grant that their fIdelity to l tcaching may
be as humblle uhprospe 'fy, as it has been
s unfailing in adversit
t _PB TIC IOB . -
r "''ull: ITmrsI rItN uEIrCi ,u by Jclul I'rancis Ma
guire. 3M. P., anuthorof "Rome and its kRuler,"
'.lat her \l:ttlew, a Biograljhy," etc. Nt.w
York: 1). J. S:uliier --T5-
k" We are inderi-t d to Mr. P. I'. GogartyrCa'th
- olic Lo:akscllrr -an-1d stationcr, No. 131 Caump
i street, f,r a copy of the above work. The lnto
Shoutr o-f its rcleit ion precludcs such anut;ily`- -
-sis {,f4he- mu-em-a s wo--lh rdb j-nt-ico- -- it-}}
merits. Fronm the coummcnd:tion bLstowed ~byour
Northern contemporamries, there can be no doubt
that it Db wortliyor-t.he source -whence it enm- -
nates. We will recur to the sul)j.ct in our next
issue, and hlope to gratify our readers withiugc
extracts as will justify the encomiums univer- -
sally awarded to it. In the meantime, we I
wondd advise the admirers ofMr. Maguire-and I
their name is legion in this locality-to step i
3 into Mr. Gogarty's store andget the volume.
SWe have received a paper from Dover, 1
SN. H., containing an article to which our
notice s specially-malled. The auithor is
-mitaea-ia-the identily of ,mue----he very
important addenda, Catholic Messenger, be
ing wanting in his hebdomadal. Now, we
have not the least objection to his adding
that to his Star, provided it conforms to
Catholic faith and practice, which, however,
we doubt his ability to do sincerely, while
he adheres to a rule that elevates human
opinion above infallible verity.- As to the
impertinence implied in his caption, we
have only to saiy that the iguorannce betrayed
is only nanld hy iStttp#rui l. If ho
will turn to the fifth column of his own
sheet, he willfiud-himsclf properly placed.
"'I)lfcre is not hIlf thi-pirituality among
us that-thiere was thirty years ago." Judg
ing from the specimen before us,-we would
say, that instead of "half" the spirituality,
there is scarcely a vestige remaining.
We have endeavored to make the best ar
rangement plossible to deliver the paper punc
tually to orr subscribers. Should there be any C
omissions, they will please be made knownr at I
the offlice.
a ehas been tous which
- was pa of te 5th tof
ii January,. an "Veri," and
o -which has -or to dogma
, ofthe Cone. e
r .who, sa good deatlot d-an
;o era a, speaks sometimes op ex
who had separatedfo m4,eChore
on accout ofthia dogmaand at othezilines
'as a Protestant. He admits, however, that
he. has-taken--al-his-quotationsi rem --the
work of Dr. -Pusey called the " irreuen,a
v #in has alreasy bee. lra.i edly r~i ted
k whether he ionsiders himselfex-Cathtoolior
.not, he is a r tis realiy ,lee-_
Sprotests against a deaned by , the
- The author itnores that
Ia known to all cah - eam ol
Serene=*beweena dpimund-a onsýeli e
dognea tis rut aEit g tahe d Whibial
Catholies must bheieve ahnre~Mahy
a eanmiyig heretics, anit a s i
I-m rtihptChe~,:r A is:a ith
Sthat the Charc oinded, htlf
e it does oblige Catholics to adrmit nder
of heresy. Then hureh .sthpas
i belif hecause, sheonsideits trwn oo~t
i- daee to piety; fir pilety is Useesesrily
is founded on tratand that belief would be
Sno longer pious which would be untrue;
h but if a belief be true, the Cbre
idoes e eitaily admit it, although she
i- mon not judge proper to iarpose the obli
a gation of believing it under pain of
heresy. This explainrs why, before the
a proclamAtion of the dogma of the Immaca
e late Conception, the Sovereigg,.ontis had
e forbidden those to be called heretics who
I denied this truth, although they pradibited
Sat the same time thepreaching rpr eachingsbf
- anything contrary to it. Thisalsoexplainsru '
e ath wisdom and charity i .anifested by Pius
af IX befrthe aefinition of the dogma. Hav
, ing consul, te th Bishops of the Catholic
- world,-ot concerning the truth of the be
lief; buatnencerning the fitne declaring
e at that time an article of faith, r
a intended to -give each Bishop
i liberty f expressing his own op' on;
a, Now, the were. found only ei or ten
a ishops who iseed doubts inst the
propriety of proc 'riing e dogma,- but
, not one expressed a t concerning the
i truth itself. Even t h Arc ishop of Paris,
r' to whom we w d not refe id not the
''author of t article .insist with ompla
a cencwy o e opiniontixpressed by th_ re
s bI te, .Luc t-mch noise and, scandal, an
Siiaosinson-.ast.tthat .te1uly Si.e a oen.
0 the Church itself had tiit the right to nam
Ser t-lt-Iemn culate Conception among the
I artielc- of faith. Although the prelate en-.
by deavored after;ard to interpret and soften
1 down his strange ...h proporsition, it is
nevertheless real heresy, taken: in its natural
and obvious sense. -
As to the other four prelates, whom the
author- of the article, in ordler to suit his
purposei, tii n oiti fto bc distinguished
theologians, they show in their observations
- a profound knowledge neither of Scripth ral
Sinterprflations nor of the writings of the
Holy Fathrrs ,-who mnake kne-mni to us tradi
tion. Space will not- runt t 1iti, aU-nswee
the objections of all ticlseprelates, who, it
r would )be easy to show, nituallyicntradict
each other. Onte ovf them asserts that. the
I octrine of the Immaculate Conception is
contained in the Sacred Scripturve only
Sfiguratively; but this is untrue. Besides
o the passage in Genesis, known to all, which
I has always been applied to the Holy Virgin,
and which taken in its literal and rigorous
sense suppdles the Immaculate Conception,
iteonly have to recall the words addressed
by the Angey to Mary in announcing to her
Sthe mystery of the inhearnstion. 'he title
of"i te "gives to ht it i an h absolute
manner, indicates a fofmal and complete
fullness which excludes no grace and must
extend to each and every instant ofher ex.
istence. It isthus understood by St. Jerome,
who applied to the Holy Virgin the words
of the Canticle of Canticles " Cons. thoes who
art liiibtaculatc." This proves tl'?-this
Passage and others like it-2Wose mehning
some would fain diminish by calling them
mnralyfgiuratire, have been applied to the
Holy Virgin in their widest sense from the
beginning. For St. Jerome, who lived in the
fourth century, had carefully studied the in
terpretation given by-the, orthodox writers
who preceded him-and-may be considered
as the surest witness of the traditions re
ceivedin the Church in his time. mist the
word tranilated in the vulgatofjll of grace,
is even more forcible in the Greek Text,- in
which it signifles properly "formed in grace."
Origenrwho lived at the end of the secoind
century, says concerning this: " I have not
found this word anywhere else in the whole
Scripture. This salutation has been ad-
