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?e rt t-o ewibth th aproval of the . lesh l Archbishop of New Orlens dmtted want in New Orle -p n is VoeryRev. StO. Rand Cattholi Church. It will not intefend Very Rev. C. MoYicH, with Catholho rigbts, but will aat i Sre. Ti nJEN1 iy in bigh pie(, awnithout E z IRev. T. J. 8 .r Ct, Mp perous or paie.. Nextt o tho tteh pial O r l e a n s _ --s. - jE . ' -, " -4 p a u h o .t o f t- D i rcbis: oprig of l en, it wiln eepoxaly chba Rev. B. A. NEITr ARr, C. S. R. ap .: tVho tmpora! rights of the d o Rev . P. . ALLEY, Jo T. Opoltc Iec W R bs ery Re. C. L takog, ;fi ctxplyexl it to the Cathuelleorg Dev. J. CBESLENIY. ,I t of r l)i hih cepla Dev. T. BJ. "Y t .. M. AHciItIoxix ow Nw ()rL I ah Sommun Lea e " ealreseed to the f eni Edixoro~heMpa dCthoiictegempra, . Reu.caC&tl o-No. 11 oyrasstreet,cornerofCamp. "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THEM THAT BRING GLAD TIDINGS OF GOOD THINGS" Trs..-sirr, C. opyS.Cnt.,; yMna tlloin. aL VOLUME VIII. NEW ORLEAN, SUNDAY MORNIN(, I)ECEMBE1R 26, 1S75. -NUMBER 47. VOLUM -. VII. NEW ORLEAN.S, SUNDAY MORNING, L ..ECEMBER-,.,. 2.., -.,i ,- N''-.--.... aerning $Vtr and Catholic Messenger. aIW ORLEAN.-. SUNDAY. DECEMBER It. 1415. ClllSriSMAS CHIMES. bet it swingirg-set it tinging Loosen every pent-up chime; bet it hearing-not it pealing For the merry Christmas time. From a thousand gray old turrets. From a tlhoousand while robed choirs, Let it peal-the gratd old anthem Which the Chltistmaa time inspirea. Senfd ,:, !oad with hope and love, Ringlisg, up to God above. II. Set it ch:n!ing-quick and gladsomie. With a low melodioues well; Set it ringing--sharp and lighteome. With a chsety ding dong bell. Set it tolling-deep and solemn Ac the uirmur of thewaveo: Set it wai:u g-ladl and plaintive As the e.nd tounl dead men's graves: Feld it. winged wlth tear and love, l'ealt.. up to God above. If. T'hus li i 1 It a aci e'. i e ..; :r . In t v'.:un e i the in:lt: nWhlle Lin ,;.cloew, rat:.ant ba'Lu'*., Bcatte: t t:li-sa ut isr .a.;i.e - Iwn It'i, , ot h ('hr.annaa , !4, lotwn iron ea.h ginoseat hio e, 'Ihat glow lurigtter etiil aLd L: llht-I in the hily Chilrtnas :ea'.h, In the proee'ier ouf ile aLtrit. As they i: lted gent;r by AW their ..ta cloath oflt i nentls " iet, Filied th.e tlara} Ch'itnlti a eli. VI . bet it lig rg-s-ang thie a';:'l \oune oi.,v :ell Ihow swnet I. voicer . Set it rinngeg-let the dear one In their :cOat soUuls tloice Let tlhen: i..i.I in closest tension, Isand to L.id ind heart to heart; If the Ct.ltetiras grasp be faithful. evter c:orm threo eouls soall part. Let it cbLr_ i g-round the altar, Where, i..,: clouds o1 itreose sweet Vested ilrieiet. io lowly it,.elluce, Knel be:,tc' the Iiinfant's et ; Let it tec:, wlilot witching miiic bteprs abrh soul in r 'tent lis : While each ltart. in tlhrobbing gladnese Haile tie Feeot o' all the year. stend :t. bright with faith and love, tI:tl.iLh , r.p to God above. rl. Set it riegirg-through her valleys Let it teal writlh solemun swell Let the En.ctald of the ocean Gladden to the Christmas hell. Let it cheer each drooping spilrit. Let it nerve the true and brave : Like a sunbeam en the waters, Let It gild each patriot's gave. fScd it. vealltlng, hot with love W'ail :.g up to God above. rte. Set it rnit,rng--eo tly-gently O'er the lair. green. verdant sod, Where our :.t to ones Its sleeping In the peace and rest of God ; Ia the fragranct of their childhood, In the ritce 6f life's young love, In the whiteness of the garments, Cauried. all unstained. abore: Set It at .nting o'er the sod Solily. gently, up to God. 8et it ringiog-throughl the alleys Where the poor of God lie down . Where ear)l one one, sad and outcast. Gathers .er wel for his orown r Set it ringing-set it chiming Mas it g::l hie onward way! Shed!ini Ilght,. and grace soli beauty,. On the poor man's Christuna IDay. Set it r.igng,. loud and strong. 'Tli..e l , ,Christmas song. Set it tingtl:g-t-tloiitgh the 'oeadowe Fair ac l:,en' pt heal splring ; 'Set it chiln.:g for tee matdens, pottless as the wild dove's cing ; et it peat.og for the valiant. Trneol hoiett andl strong of hand ; May it wake one chord within the,- (iO,. tald Fi'iii. end NATItg LAe': Set it I eating. loud and high, Tlr'ecL.td Itave men ow to doie. Set it ringl:ig-set it ringing 'Tic the u.er y Chrilstmans chime' bet it hea-;r.,g-set it peallut- For the happy Christmas time ! bet it chini:.g.sett it tolling Let it scatter fresce and love' Angels' wlngs shall waft it upwards To the ttnuone of God above! Set it ewing.og--seet it ringing Till it gird the earth around; Set it ohiming--till the ocean Echo wilh the ioyoue sound! Set it tolling-deep and solemn Till Jehovah's gracious voice, Ia'tiaug backt in Christmas greting, Bitiddeth a.i the w*ori Id--RI eoiicE. It. Set it ringer . sang the angel- Oet It eiinug too we plSv: Il nging, wiih God's t'.esoing on it. For the merry Chlt itlea Day. Siend It. throbbilng, hot with lorve ltlgrgig, up to God abees. IIELIGOIt'" ITE'MSS. The Convetit: of the Sisters of Mercy, at Porteuuouth, ArkLiasas, was destroyed by lire ou the 8th. No insurance. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union oe America, Utnder the Presidoncy of the Very Rev. Dean Bytes, of New Jersey, now uutwlers 4dO Societies. Rt. Rev. J,,lui Ireland. D). D, BIiehop of Lirba in partib::s ietiduliutt, and Coadjutor Bishop of St. Paul, blinu., was consecrated in the Cathedra: is that city on Tuesday, Dec. 2lst, the Feast of St. Thoruias. The Galveston (',i,,,',- a.ttionutce the death o- Mr. Dargar, o0 the great: honse of DIargan do Tol)yn, of Galveston. Mr. Dargan was hiar in Carlow, Ireland, in 1918, and went to Texas in La.i. lie was a moot devout and zealous Catholic. Rev. Father Giesen, C. SS. It, passed through this city on Thnroday last (ma:;s the Galveston Catholic of the 19th) en route to New Orleans. lie was in excellent health, and promises to return to Texas for missionary work early in' January. The Redemptorist Fathers Keitz, Cook, En right, Grain. Eberhardt, and Bhagemann have just concluded a grand Mission at St. Patrick's Church, Chicago, Rev. P. J. Conway, pastor. They had 5,300 Communions. a number of con verts, and It. Rev. Bishop Foley administered the Sacraments to 447 candidates. Moses Fowler, Esq., of I, fayette, Indiana, although not a Catholic, has donated half a section of the finest land in the world, joiining the town of Fowler, for a Benedictine convent and college. The lands donated are worth $32,06i0. The Abbeys of St. Boniface, Munich, Bavaria, and St. Moeiurad, Ind., will unite in the establishment of this new foundation. At the Chnrch of the Annunciation, in Ilous ton, on yesterday, Bishop Dullnis r'ecefived the profes ions of Sisters Stanislas and Elizabeth. We regret thult it is impossible for us to give the prticnlars in this issanue of the ('alholic, but w:11 do so in the next issue. One of these lidirs was born in Ireland; the other, Sister Elizabeth, was reared ly the good Sisters of the Incarnate Word in this city.-Gulr~ston Ca tholic, l:-th. Catheldral buitliag is going on very actively in America at the, present time. To say noth ing of the New York Cathedral, which, com menced by Archbishop Hughes, is still in pro aress, a flue new cathedral is being built by Bisiop Gross, at Savannah, which will cost ,0Jif(10. Tbo corner stone of a new cathedral at Erie, Pa., to cost bW$0,000, was laid lately by Bishop Mullen. The cathedral at Boston was dedicated by Archbishop Williams on lelcem her 8th, and the foundation of a new cathedral for the diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, will be laid this fall. Father James Gore, who has for a anlmber of years bien an assistant pastor of St. Franoin' Church, for colored people, has bisen ordered to Charleston. On Sunday evening, the 2'ch nit., he preached his farewell sermnon, alluded in feeling terms to his sojourn in this city, and said that he would carry with him to his new mission none lint the most pleasant recollec tions. The entire congregation was deeply moved, and sobs were heard on all sides. All greatly regret the loss of the Rev. gentleman, who during his stay had endeared himself to the congregation.-IJaltinmore Mirror, Dec. 11. One of the finest religious edifices in the State of Vermont is the Roman Catholic church at Rutland, erected by Rev. Father Boylan at a cost of $120,000. In Burlington, Vicar Gen eral Lynch is erecting a convent for the Sisters of Mercy. Rev. P. O'Carroll has built a very neat church at Fairhaven, at a cost of $13,000. Rev. P. Cunningham, pastor of Middeliary, has invested about the same amount in a simi isr manner in Vergennes, and Rev. Henry Land, of BIrattltorough, has his bands full in providing school accommodation for the youth ful portion of his flock who were expelled from the public schools a year ago for absence on a church festival. A Brooklyn correspondent of the Tribune says: "Catholics ate establishing parochial schools with marvellous rapidity, and soon they will have all their children under Catho lic tuition. The statistics of 1574 show that they had then 1'.000 children attending the parochial schools of Brooklyn and 42 000 those of New York, and one-third of a trillion those of the IUnited Sltates. The question of taxa tion is growing serious. Is it fair to use the money of Catholics for the support of schools from which they derive loss and less benefit, and from which they are determined to with draw absolutely as soon as possible T This is the coming query which must unquestionably be some day met and settled at the ballot-box." " Why should not Catholics," says the Are Maria, " take an interest in Catholic affairs f Many of them do not seek for Catholic news do not interest themselves in the church at home or throughout the world-do not know what Catholic enterprises are afoot in their midst-and think they do enough for religion by subscribing something when solicited. This indifference particularly infects those whom God has blessed with prosperity. They are Catholics. But their chief aim is to make their Catholicity aid or at least not hurt them in their business. They never think of being prominent itn any project of charity or piety. They seldom it.quiro of their pastor whether he needs help for the poor and the orphans he must rglieve. The question with them is not how to help, but how to keep from being asked to help. Often they hold themselves studioisly aloof from participation in what interests the Catholic body." The Neow York 'Lablet, of last week, announces the death of Dr. IHenry J. Anderson, President t of the Superior Council Society St. Vincent de I Paul. New York, and also of the Catholic Pro tectory Society. lie died in India while rnakiibg a tour of the world. I)r. Anderson was one of the most zealous, intelligent and cultivated Catholic laymen in America, and his death will prove an irreparable loss to the Catholic works and charities of New York. The New York Ilorld contains the following brief notice of the Doctor: Professor IHenry James Anderson died at Lahore, East Indies, October It, of a diarrhbas, after an illness of three days. Hle was born in this city in 17C*'. In li14 he entered Columbia 1 College, and after graduating with the highest hs onors. studied medicine and obtained his de t gree. U'pon the retirement of Professor Adrain and upon his recommendation Dr. Anderson was appointed to the chair of mathematicsandl astronomy. lie was extremely popular with the students and never missed a recitation hour while he held the professorship. In 14:"l, he resigned his profersorship to take his wife, wiho was an invalid, abroad, and she died in Europe. He remained abroad nearly three years, forming an intimate acquaintance with the astronomer Arago, and sranslating for him from the Northern European languages several astro nomical treatises. He also beclame while abroad a convert, to the Roman Catholic faith, in which he has died. ie accompanied Captain Lynch in his exploration of the Dead Sea, and wrote the geological report of that exnedition. LUon a his retutn to this country, in 1.51, he was made a truateo of Columbia College. Last year bIe went to Australia to witness the transit of SVentos, andi from Australia travelled this year to India, visiting the Himalayas and ascend I ing one of their peaks. This was in his ser entry-,evenrh year- Hie was a highly ascmnl plished scholar, adding to his matherumic al studies remarkable attainments in cheniisrry, geology and mineralogy and a wide linguiitisc knowledge. We have been considerably surprised to learn, f from the Baltimore .litrror. of a nmost rildiculons exhibition of intolerance and bigotry on the part of some of the leading Protestants of Northumberland County, Va. For the irst time in its history a Catholic Bishop was to visit the county and speak in the courthouse at Lancaster, which had ben secured two weeks lofore for theoocasion Says the naria tor : "The separated brethren resolved on the very day of the lecture to fol,.d this honorable and learned gentleman the use of the court house. The parties had arrived on the ground when the messenger came (who was no less a personage than the county judge), saying ..ey could not have the court-house; *he then re voked the order (given two weeks previous) on I account of opposition by Protestants, whose names could be given if necessary. When told Iy so doing he )roved himself not a man of his word, he cried out in a loud voice he would have the voleuding individual-a gentleman known for his peaceful and polite demeanor put in j ail. The old judge aicing rather wrathy, or seemingly so, Rev. Father Ileluan, who ac cotmpanied the right Rev. Bishop, walked over ' to where he stood, perhaps to conciliate-at least to mend toutters. But there was not much conciliation. The judge ehijected that Catholics would not pray for him ; the Rev. Father said this was a mistake, Ih cause he would pray for him, as he had already prayed for every Pro testanut in Lancaster and Northumberland counties on his previous visit to the counties. Perhaps the judge still remained incredulous, t for he aain objected that Catholics would not allow "Protestant" Guibord burial in their 8 cemetery; this, no doubt, brought a smile of pity on the face of all who knew that Guibrd was not a Poutestant, but a Catholic. This is the justice too often thrust upon the Church a land judgment, knowing nothing, but thintk y ins they know all. Through the kindness of Col. B. Roberson, a house was obtained, in which the Right Rev. lishop gave a mosal in n struction, instead of the doctrinal lecture lihe a had intended to deliver. Owing to the corn lative spirit evinced this change was made. e Our DLvine Master first planted His Church in poverty, therefore lis followers well know the truth can be preached in an humlle shop as well as in a marble palace." It is not oqfen that the Mot.iNo SrT. is call 3 ed upon to publish local items of a similar na ture to the following, which we clip from the last numbers of the l'uiladelphia ,tandard: The Register of last week admitted to pro a bate the will of Georgians Diamond. It con tains public bequests as follows: 'Philadelphia Theologc.al Seminary of St. Charles S Borrnu ooa.... .................................. l'r'·i To the Roman Catholic Society of St. Joeph, for Educating and Malinttumag Poor Orphan Chil. irea in in'hdiladelphli ........................ . To the St. JuLi ' Uiphan Asylum .............. To the House of the Good Shepherdl............ .. u . To the St. Joseplh Hospital ..... ..... ." . To the Slsteis oft st. anuctis of tPhiladelphia, |or the benitit of St Mtaiy's Hospital. ............. To the St Vi nen 's ilome ................. ..... . To the Tlrustees of t Mary's Church for the support ol the taro hial c:heols.............. To tile Little Si-irna ,I thle Poor ................ I To the Itev. Jamies I. Wood, it. C( Bishop of Philadelpvia ................... .......... Total...... ........................... . I..... 1 A number of private bequests are malec, then the will provides: A' ll the rest, residue and remainder of niv estate, and the said trust estate. If any, I give and bequeath unto the Roman Catholic Society of St. Joseph's for Educating and sMaintainiing Poor Orphan Children in the City of Philadel phio, in the State of I'eunsylvaiia, and unto the St. John's I -phan Asylum, in the City of Philadelphia, share and share alike." The a ill of Bridget 1. Coetigan contains the following: To lRey. John il:zm.tlce i nitc of St. Agatha e Churti.h, Ir the ue oi l i ld Il!h.h........... . To Brother Nait for te usie of the Chrlstonu :I, thema ,t 'hi hit tilph:a ................. ......... : To lieter Ai!,:.'se. ,t thl Convent ofl the Iisl o :: late leaP t. at aln.u yunk ................ .... i Mr. RHskin is nrver weary of deploring t! e decline in manual skill and honesty and ex tolling the virtuous sincerity of earlier art. Mr. Carlyle has talked himself hoarse Ir c::a. ing for a return of the silent ages, and Mr. t Gladstone, teimprari.y escapirng from hi: , pressing duties witL respect to the Pope, savc | that the lugLish are 1,-oglers in art cu.;:artd i with his bh.verid i sre;s. t I raue:;ated h, thle Mturting i StLir tr.,m ith, Frei.i.ie u Mfgr. de Saeni 1 TII E 1WONDERS OF LOU1RIDES, r tContinued. I AI'P A IIIIiOY (iF' TIII ICSDA1 Y , t.VPit. . TuI T iill.I sI:CRIT'--AN IIM MlIRiACUI.ttiG 1Ve corne to the eighth day of the fortnight. AI countless multitude, almost wild with the eagerness of unrestrained ezpectanlcy, was janmmned into every available space in tho neighborhood of the grotto. As soon as Ber nadette nmade her appearance, all, sceptics as well as believers, tsut inctively nneover d their Leads. The admirable Mother of God, vouch. safed on this day, as on the preceding, to be punctual to the rendezvous. In no other ib hrine perhaps, has Mary s., multiplied her heavenly vibitatioIe. The Blessed Virgin began this interview by octiding to Bernadette her third secret. ".)y dauglhte', I wish, to entrst !ou witfh a lawta 'curet, tilwsti9 Jorr youmrself tlorn : riot mrore than tl, othere, you wilt nercr rtreal it to 1hi(u li bMingl .' Bernadette in blissful tranquility listened tr the melody of this voice, so soft, so gentle, so muaternal,-whose tones had ouce, at Nazareth, charmed the ear and captivated the heart of the child Jesus. "And now," resumed the Virgin after a mo went's silence, "go, drink and trash yourself ci the spring, and eat of the grass that is there." Bernadette all amazed cast her eyes around on all side. There was no water in the grot I to-there never had been. An arid heapos sandy soil, mixed nup with fragments of splin tered rock, obstructed the interior of the cavern, and reached within two yardsof the actual vault. Without losing sight of the Ap parition, Bernadette was directing her steps towards the torrent, when a sign and a look from the Virgin arrested her retrograde move ment, and pointed out the spot she was to ap proach. "Go not to the torresnt, I did not Lid you to drinL there ; go to the spring. It is there." ''he Vision extended her hand, and with her finger designated that very dry, parched-up corner, whither Bernadette, on the day before, had r been ordered to crawl on her knees. This was I at the very bottom of the grotto, to the left of i the spectator. SBernadette picked her way to the place, and when further progress was impeded by the solid rock, she began to search for the spring. She found it not; still, she wished to obey. Looking towards the Apparition, qhe mutely signitied her perplexity. A new sign responds to her appeal: the child bent forward, and with her tiny hands commenced to scoop out a hole in the ground. Suddenly the bottom of this little hollow be - came moist. Forcing its passage from the a bowels of the earth, throIgh rocks andt tlinty soil, a mysterious water sprang up beneath " the Lhard of the child of Mary, sad soon tilled I the recervoir fashioned out fTir its reception. About a glass full was thus collected together. It was of a mnuddy, ye'lloish hue. Three times d:d Bernadette carry soile of it to the lips : she could i,t muster sufilcient courage to swallow it. Tue bright Apparition euperin tended this strange scene, and followed at 'etAvely the movements of the child. This latter at length overcame her repugnance. Shie drank of the muddy water, and wetted her face with it. T1 the spectators all this was inexplicahle. "Oh Jook," exclaimed some, "see how she is dirt iiig herself." Others charitably sbyposed that she had lost her wits ; there was neither sense nor reason in what she was doing. WV'hi:st these remasks were heedlessly expressed, Bernadette with her wet fingers, p'icked up some of the blades of grass that grew around, and ate of them. At the same moment, the water of ttle i ip .Lt spriug passed over the edge of the dI. '.u teve bas:n hollowed out by the chi;-l, iri be gat: to il.w outwards in a mleag'r., t!. i..t tLr, a(, which for the first (day only tra:ce: a mul.strued pathway in tLe sand. Gradlu.siy, h.wever, inmpercept-bIy, the trace was iernttcning.out towards the torrent. W.tt her puny hand, Bernadette had ;incoisc:ouslv openedt the source of cures ard niiracles. The l'essed Virgin rewarded her iitt:e worker w.tL a smile of satisfaction, an l disappeared. The faithf.;: submissive chi:d tlen; returred ,ui war-, ra h Let auual n.ods:-t ard r..eeku-e.. i1 he wonldering bpeiuettors examined aLten tively the miraculous spring, an1d some devout ly steeped their handkerchiefs in its muddy receptacle. On the nextday. the source of the Blessed Virgin, increasing minute by minute, had became a stream of the thickness of a tin ger. At the end of a few more days, the water issued pure and limpid from the earth, in a current as largeas a child's arm. At this point its growth ceased. The spling has since been measured with mathemratcal precision. From the very first weeks, it furnished eighty-live quarts per minute, live thousand one hundred per hour, or one hundred, and twenty-two thousand and four hundred per day. And yet, to the knowledge of all the inhall tauts of this district, neither mnoisture nor dampness of any kind ever appeared upon the sandy boil or the rocky sides of the grotto. The "stronglminded" beads of the locality proclailmed by word of mouth, and published through the mediu:1 of the press, that the whole circumstance could easily be explained. 'Tlhis was no real natural spring ; the crazed Bernadette habd simply, by the merest accident. placed her hand otn a reservior of water, which had gathered to one lspot fromt the oorings of the rocks. The supply being limited, would be soon ehbausted. 'Tfle miraculous water of Lourdes has been analysed by experienced chemists : it is a pure, native fluid, mingled with no element usually styled curative. XVI. FRIIDAY Fal. 2ti-ItgE '111s1" MIRIACCUIAOLC.S ClK. On this day, the Blessed Virgin did not manifest herself. From all sides, Bernadette was greeted with testimonies of respect and reverence, which were pushed even to the coutines of veneration W'henever she was seen to pasn., pIeole exclaitmedd aloud : "There goes the Saint !" The Mother of meekness and hurnility wished doubtless to put her on her guard against the iusidious advances ot vain-glory. In vail did Bernadette to-day pour out her soul in fervent aspirations, in burning prayers, in tears : Mary answered not ter cull. Ilumbled and downcast Bernadette was obliged to return home. The bitter tears did not cease to flow down her cheeks till she reached her humble roof. Instead of the accustomned ecstasy, the crowds were able to indulge their curiosity by a freer view of the new spring : that living witness of the presence of the mysterious Ladp. The worthy pastor of Lourdes had asked for some sign. In place of the very simple sign which he required, Mary gave a grandl token of her power, not to him alone, but to all, whether faithful or faithless. The blooming of the rose tree would have been an insignificant miracle, agreeable to behold. it is true, but of momeutary effects. The super natural spring was a magnific.alt miracle, al unceasing prodigy, the fountain hieadl of numberless other prodligies. 'lThe Blessedl Vr gin is better acInaintet, with our needs than we ourselves are. On this Friday, Feb. l;':h, the miraculous water worked its first wonder; a miracle of the tirst order, veritied and attested by science I the first place, and finally by ecclesiastical nuthority. At L ,urdes ::ved a p or qlarry TSn named BoarHirette, uoe of whose eyes had )been frightfully mangled twenty years prwvious to this date by the exploston of a rmlue. It was t!olg before he recovered from ti.e effects of the accident. N.)twithtantdintg th,, devoted carDe and itlfiagging attention of 1)r. D)oz)us, the same who exaumited Ilereadette iln ecstasy, the sight of the o,,ur miner grew weaker year after year. At the epoch of wh)ch we are speakit.g, hbir ight e yc;:ad I.,i lunvger distinguish be tweenl l"l-ets. It i::t1lrite was well known an I ,esti-eied ti tie wl.,oe town : he was, t ,r.r . r.r, a tira . of fi t I, as ild Chriustian. ft.e wtu s :.i : ',, a .d Lad a r.uierouus fatmily. Ac ci. s' siC,: . I u. , of tl.e marneious scj ns eat ' e rre: , a: t .e gr ttI, , a ld especially of t 'a "i.i, : . ; .:c:c wLic., hi.d scdden'ly co ne to ':i'. <'"t,,. arg we so:wLe of that water," laid he t . L. da:A'. :r. . " Ie Biessed Virgin, iW e' i a , tas -'in: to ;,sh it and I shall be tea. lia f a" !,, r after ti.e child returned wth .e ,,: th. e water, st::: muddiy. PIspa, th .s ci:.:y ,:ty water. "No mat ter," answered Ba'rrette, and b-gan to pray. H' tatl.i- t':.. '' reu , ey. w:'b the water. }.:c. L ., :-sts i .. _ cr. -a:: ex-lamna tiou of iy and wonider, Hih I hmb q-sake u- tder hii -a: tremntulous emotion masters hie f wholo framte. The dark shadows that for e twenty years hung over his sight, had disap ipeared. h'l erre remainted before his vision only a species of ganto-like minst, similar to the hasy r vapors that quiver before the first beams of the I rising sun. lie continued to pray and to bathe his eye Gradually the misuts roll away, and soon full I ness of sight is again reatured to his darkened orb. "I am cured," 'xclaiimed the, meeting with Dr. ILor,~ns the next lay in the public square of Lourdes. "Ilpossible," replied the doctor. "You are aoil:ctedi with an organic injury, which renders your hurt absolutely incurable. 'The treatment. which I Inake you follow only aims at southing the intensity of the pain; it canunot retoure your sight." " You have not lo red me." aonawered the qo.irrynan, still I nndtr the mitileunce of powerfull esliotion. "rhe SIlessed VirgKi of the (irotto has iesforumed the " operation." "That ltdrnadetth falls into in I explicale I raoces, cannllot hI denlied," continued the doctor, shrulgging his shoulders. " I have Sveritied that frct on the spot. But that this I water, which by snome unknown cause has re I cently found anll osae at the grotto, should in stantaneoaely cullr hopeless intirmities, sur passes my belief." ito drew out his memo , random book, and with a pencil wrote some words on the leaves. " tiere," said he to Bonrriette, placing a hand over his left eye, "read this. If you do so, I will believe you." A crowd hadl in the meantineo gathered around the two. lBourriette, without the slightest t hesitation, real: " BJiorriette is suffering frope e an irremediable arlulrosis, and lie will never I he cured." The doctor looked at him with stupefaction. I" cannot gainsay it. It is a miracle, a true mairacle, the opinions of the faculty to the con trary notwithstanding. This annihilated me, Sult the fact is indiiputable: it is beyond the Ssphtere of humlan ciencoe."' " lTh recovery of Louis lourriette became the t general topic of discussion. The good quarry : man unable to contain himself, through excess of happluess, related the details of his core to all who wished to listenl. The muiracle, to leave, as it were, a lastinlg ueemorial of its operation, dil not effiace the deci scars that Indn,ie:rd his face. Since that nlonluentI, a fresh iubrheak of en thusiasm, of lively faith, of gratiude, was no ticed anlong the luliltitudes. Before evening, nIo tone in Lourdes dared call in question the I indubitable evidence of the miracle. The Aa Ssoliation of quiarrymnu, among whom Boar f riette was enrolled, went in a body to the rocks, and traced uver the rough siuuositiee of the place a more colrmuodious pathway for the pilgrims. At the outlet of the uriraculous spring they placedl a wooden trough, and at the extrl''iity of the trough dug a smial basin, having the form matl dmllrnsions of a child's cradle. The nllae ot' the Blessed Virgin was on every tougue. Nobody was positively certain, but all were persuladed that it was no other but herself. After sunset hundreds of tapers illuminated the nllrovised sauctuary, and thousands of voices intoned with fervent emo tioa(he I.ita-iy of our Lady. Still noconcerted ilan, io tosugDvtiou froum any priest, had brought th(oe tog'ther : it was a slioutaneous outpouri 'l oI lve ant devotion towards the Imumaculaet Virgin. 'lhegrottoreulaiued thus ligrted up durliig the whole night. It'o, be oI:llrinud .) IIe who undertakes to give public lectures nee,'ds great l'lahties of nmud, varied and ex teusive readiri,, a Ip-,wer of illustration and word-plaintiiig, copiou.sness of diction and accuracy of ex'presci',l, natural and cultivated Iloquliece, with logical acitumen and a strong, cleardc; very,-ail these are necessary toseeare success, and all these are possessed by Mr. f(Cvnor Pl'owr. 'hen speaking, he stands erect and throws the lower of body anrd mind in his iuttera,,es. Ilts voice possesses a re markab:e rlclless, the tones are deep and musical, anrl reach the ear with a clearness and t ,rce that give weight and expressiveness Sto every word. L'Co.petent critics pronounee i:rli to be t, o-i' of the Il,,ie Rile party.' Wher.a s"+amsed'. up, a man never speaks of L :ut " (I w c',:, " ,e. fll a iscosatioos of ti:un.i ., e *_ - -' eve' ; his praise nesve4