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YOLTJME I.
THE IMMORTAL
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CRATTAN.
One of Ireland's Most Eloquent, Illustrious
and Patriotic Sons—''The Hoblest
PfcOauui of them All."
AN HONORARY GRADUATE AT 17.
A Brief Sketch of tlie Life of this Fearless
Champion and Defender of Right and
Justice to His Native LOECI.
Sixty-six years ago in the fragrant
glory of a fair June day, the stately
portals of Westminister Abbey were
opened to receive the body of Henry
Grattan—and in that sepulchre of kings,
no kinglier ashes lie. Among the many
gifted and wonderful names that Ire
land has handed down to posterity,
there are few whose lives and deeds
shine with so undimmed a lustre, as
those of her gifted and immortal son
Henry Grattan. At seventeen years of
age, an honored graduate of Triuity
College, he is already preparing himself
for admission to the Irish bar, thus
taking upon liis boyish shoulders, that
mantle of toil, which in age still hung
upon his worn and enfeebled body, and
in which he died, in the cause of Cath
olic Emancipation. Who can fail to
give everlasting honor to the man,who,
though a Protestant himself, gave the
sympathy and friendship of his whole
life, and his last effort to public official
duty, to the oppressed Catholics of his
native isle.
rora the day when Grattan (per
suaded by liis friends to abandon law
and enter the Irish Parliament,) entered
upon his public career, until his last
fatal journey to London, from which he
never returned, hi8 life is a history
whose every page is bright with moral
and intellectual greatness. The fol
lowing extract taken from the speech
an. which he made his famous demand
for the constitutional independence of
the Irish Parliament and the Irish na
tion, needs no comment upon his patri
otism and eloquence. "I wish for
nothing," he exclaimed, ''but to breathe
in this our island, in common with my
fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I
have no ambition, unless it be the am
bition to break your chains and to con
template your glory, I will never be
satisfied so long us the meanest cottag
er in Ireland has a link of the British
chain clanking to his rags. He may be
naked, but he shall not be in irons!'?):
His gigantic labors may be considered
as one of the leading elements in the es
tablishment of legislative independence
for Ireland, which he saw accomplished
ill 1782 a fact which some writer says,
would have "preserved his memory in
•history, even if his eloquence had not
immortalized his name."
The personal love and reverence of all
classes of his countrymen were his in
life and in death and he compelled
even the most antagonistic of his col
leagues, in public life, to pay the trib
ute of unqualified respect to his charac
ter and integrity. As an exponent of
che greatness of Irish genius, as well as
an example of high rectitude in every
relation of life, his character is well
worth study.
In the forty-five years of his public
life he was the fearless champion and
defender of right and justice to his na
tiue land. His courage was undaunted
and his genius for mastering difficulties
astounding. Of wide information and
ready tact, he was never the victim of
au emergency. Of scholarly tastes and
industrious habits, his leisure was
.t spent in study and research, and in
mental acquirements he was among the
first men of his time. Being Irish, he
had a warm heart and a fertile fancy,
nifr'and was endowed with genuine humor.
He was none the less a sympathetic
friend and genial companion, because
he was a profound philosopher and
statesman. One of his biographers
says of him: "You may trace in his
eloquence, the vivid nature, the eager
vinmd, the cordial sympathy and aspir
ing soul of the Irishman while Byron
weaves this garland to his memory—
all thai Domosthenes wanted endowed,
And bis rival, or master, Snail he possessed."
He possessed no gift that was not his
country's every resource of his compre
hensive information was £axed in her
interests, and every energy of his loyal
nature compelled to subserve her needs.
-He knew no ambition save Ireland's
progress, aad shrunk from no condi
-^tion save treachery and dishonor.- It
would take the pen of a dramatist to
,* portray the scene of his last speech in
JVC the parliament house, when disunion
and English gold had done their de
f^structiye work, and the Irish Parlia
^ment was in its death-throes. Weak
**"aad wasted by illness, and so feeble
that he was unable to stand while
speakitig, he came and entered his pro
test to the Union a speech, which
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Circles his name with a charm against death,''
if it. were the only one he ever made.
This was his concluding sentence:
"Against such a proposition, were I ex
piring on the floor, I should beg to
utter my last breath, and record my dy
ing testimony."
"Justice lives, though judgment lint
and such lives as Grattan's are not
lived in vain. The country whose sun
light and smiling beauty cradled his
youth, and whose wrongs gave aim to
his manhood, is still giving to the world
sons who are worthy of her, and of him
and Charles Stewart Parnell is a living
proof that Ireland may be robbed of
many things but the power of produc
ing brave and loyal sons is still hers.
MARGUERITE.
Oharles Macklin.
He had begun life as a badgeman or
porter in Trinity college. Dublin then
he turned stroller. He made his first
appearance iu London at Lincoln's inn,
in 1725, and passed over to Diury Lane
in 178B. He anticipated Garrick
essaying a more natural style of acting,
which, however, was voted too familiar
by his contemporaries!. He made his
first hit under Fleetwood's manage
ment as Shvlock in a revival of Shake
speare's "Merchant of Venice," which
had not been played for forty years—a
spurious piece by Lord Landsdowne
called "The Jew of Venicd" having
usurped its place. Shylock had hither
to been played as a low comedy part,
and it was with many misgivings that
the manager consented to Macklin's
carrying cut his idea of giving a tragic
rendering of the character. Dogget had
played.Shylock, and made the people
roar with laup titer at his scene with
Tubal Macklin made them roar also,
but with deafening shouts of applause,
whye the terrible earnestness of his
trial scene held them spell-bound. It
was said that George II. was so im
pressed by this performance—and it
would halve been difficult to have found
a more unimaginable individual than
his Hanoverian majesty—that he could
not sleep all night after witnessing it.
The next morning while in council
with Walpole the latter happened to
remark: "I wish there was some way
of frightening the House of Commons."
"Send them to the theatre to see that
Irishman act if that does not frighten
them nothing will," replied the king.
Macklin's reputation was established
he was invited to ne with Boling
broke and Pope the latter wrote upon
him the well known couplet:
This is the Jew
That Bhakspeare drew:
and the play was the success of the
season.—15?he Gentleman's Magazine,
Sheridan's First Wife.
NotHing', indeed, sb exhibits the spell
and oisarro of this, fascinating creature
as the almost rapturous terms in which
the various friends and acquaintances
speak of her. A bishop, Dr. O'Beirne,
of Meath, declared with unepiscopal
rapture that she "v^as "the link between
an angel and a woman." It was im
possible to do justice to her exquisite
nature. Dr. Burney's tongue seems to
grow wanton in her praise. When
speaking of the loss of heir gifted
brother, Tom Linley, he says "This
amiable and promising youth was
drowned at an early age, to the great
affliction of his family, particularly his
matchless sister, Mrs. Sheridan, whom
this calamity rendered miserable for a
long time, during which her affection
and grief were distilled in verses of a
most sweet and affecting kind on the
sorrowful event. The beauty, talent,
and mental endowments of this Cecilia
Itediviva will be remembered to the
last hour of all who heard or ever saw
andconversed with her. The tone of
her voice and expressive manner ©f
singing were as enchanting as her
countenance and conversation. In her
singing, with a mellifluous-toned voice,
a perfect shake and intonation, she was
possessed of the double power of de
lighting an audience equally in pathetic
strains and songs of brilliant execution,
which is allowed to very tew singers.
When she oad seen the Agujari, the
Danzi, she astonished all hearers by
performing the Bravura Air, extend
ing the natural compass of her voice
above the highest note of the harp
sichord before additional keys were in
fashion." When Mr. Wilkes was in
Bath in 1772, lodging in the South
Parade, he passed an evening with Mr.
Breretonl's family and the Miss Linleys.
"The eldest," wrote this strange being,
"I think still superior to all the hand
some things I have heard of her. She
does not seem in the least spoiled by
any of the idle talk of out sex, and is
the most modest, pleasingly delicate
flower I have seen for a great while.
The youngest a mere coquette—no
sentiment." Such was the verdict of
this coolj experienced judge of the sex.
Indeed, we have only to look at Gains
borough's and Sir Joshua's paintings,
both evidently stimulated by love of
their subject, to gather an idea of what
this spell was. It seems to work by an
irrepressible sweetness joined with a
gentle and amiable espieglerie a
charming combination which some of
us have at times encountered in "life's
dull round."
Forty-seven country houses, with
shooting over 245,000 acres, were lately
advertised in one da^issue of a Scotch
paper. .' jf,*
The weather or late has been so ex
ceptionaUy severe in the south of Eng
land that large numbers of returning
song birds have been frozen to death. ,!
THE LONG-WINDED LORDS.
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Mr. Labouchere1 Motion in the British
House of Oommons—The Hereditary^
^Principle Discussed.
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BANEFUL INFLUENCE OF PEERS.
What They Are Worth and What They
—A Brewer's First Step on Being
Promoted to the Peerage.
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iJn the Imperial House of Commons
recently, Mr. 'Labouchere introduced
his motion, of which due notice had
been given, dealing with the question
of hereditary principle in the House of
Lords.
Mr. Labouchere moved, "That in the
opini in of this House it is inconsistent
with the principle of representative
government that any member of either
House of the Legislature should derive
his title to legislate by hereditary de
scent." He trusted that this would be
left an open question by the Govern
ment, because he was sure there were
many gentlemen on the Treasury bench'
who were delighted to see the motion
on the paper and would be glad to have
the opportunity of voting for it.
(Laughter.) He reminded the House
that the English members had grievan
ces as well as the Irish members, and if
the Irish members desired the repeal of
the Union, there were others who de
sired the repeal of any species of union
between the elected representatives of
the.counrry and the hereditary legisla
tors in the other House. It was said
by the late Lord Beaconsfield that the
House of Lords represented 26 millions
of people who had not the vote but
the electorate had been taken away
from them, and then practically the de
cision of the House of Commons was
the decision of the whole nation.
Hereditary legislators were an anach
ronism in a democratic country. (Hear
hear.) The term Liberal was a some
what vague one. at the present moment.
(Laughter.) He himself was
Radical. If any gentleman told
him he was a Radical, and
took an opposite view on this ques
tion, he could only say—with the great
est respect-that he regarded him as a
humbug. (Laughter.) He believed
there was no Radical or Liberal meet
ing held during the late election at
which the present motion would not
have been carried almost unanimously.
(Hear, hear.] He himself was in favor
of one Chamber, but the motion did
not go so far and he did
not think the House had formed an
opinion as to whethar there ought to
be one or two. There was high author
ority in favour of one. Lord Beacons
field had said, "Nobody wants a Second
Chamber except a few disreputable in
dividvals. It is a valvable institution
for any man who has no distinction
either of character or talent." (Minis
terial laughter, and Opposition cries of
"When?") Oh, it was in one of 'his
early works. (Laughter.) He had
never heard that Lord Beaconsfield had
changed that opinion. (Hear, hear.)
An hereditary assembly was not such
an innocuous affair as some gentlemen
seemed to imagine. At the present
moment there was a permanent antag
onism between the two Houses. (Cheers
and cries of "No.") As a matter of
fact, clever men had not always clever
sons, although the Prime Minister had
contested that assertion but even the
most august persons had mothers as well
as fathers. They did not spring likeMin
ervia from the heads of their fathers,
and a mother had just as much to do
with the intellectual qualities of theson
as the father. (A Voice—"Andmore.")
Doctors, painters and poets did not oc
cupy hereditary offices. In order to be
consistent, we ought to discover the
most intelligent persons in the country,
to take them young,to bring them up to
be legislators, and when they arrived at
their minority to marry them to Girton
girls. (Great laughter.) Then probably
we might hope for good results. When
these hereditary legislators had condes
cended to be born, was their training
and education such as was likely to
quality them for their station? In the
House of Lords there were 217 Peers
connected with the services, but 110 one
could assert that the training of a sol
dier went to make a good legislator.
Again the mass of Peers did not attend
regularly to learn their business. There
were some who devoted themselves to
politics, and we were so exceedingly
gratefnl to them that we at once gave
them some office and salary, and felt
proud of their goodness in condescend
ing to take to their charge some por
tion of the affairs of this great Empire.
There were exceptions—there were
some exceedingly able men in the
House of Lords, but then there Were
Albinos in Africa. But the system was
bad. They might as well take a lady's,
lap-dog, bring it up in the drawing
room, and expect it to become a good
sheep-dog. We were told the House of
Lords was recruited from the cream of
the nation. (Hear, hear.) Was it?
Who were the gentlemen ordinarily
made Peers? There were some politi
cians-who had been bores and nuisances
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in that House, and who were kicked
upstairs.
(Laughter.) Generally the
ver| rich men we re made Peers. Not
to be invidious, he would mention the
lateft, Sir Henry Allsopp. He brewed
bee$| and by brewing beer made a for
tunijfc He had. not distinguished him
self In any way politically although no
dou&t, he did good service to his party,
andsubscribed to the funds of the Carl
ton £lub. (Laughter.) He had been a
bardlet. He (Mr. Labouchere) had not
the flightest objection to any one being
ma|! a baronet. It would be impossi
ble i$pw, almost a cruelty to animals to
refuse anybody a baronetcy who asked
for it, (Laughter,) A Peerage, how
eveiii| conveyed not only a title, but a
right to legislate, and therefore people
had .an interest in the matter. What
wasf||r H. Allsopp's first step on beiag
promoted to the Peerage? He wrote
to Thl Times to assure the world that
although he had been a brewei, he had
ceased brewing. (Laughter.) Shortly
afterwards his tenants met him, and
congratulated him on having been made
a Peer, and at the same time, according
to a ^puutry newspaper, the suggestion
was made that be was descended from
one.# the Planbagenet Kings. (Laugh
tei Assuming Sir H, Allsopp had a
son, and that he went to the House of
Lords, what sort of a member would he
make? Would he speak about com
merce? Would he allude to the pater
nal butt? (Laughter.) He (Mr. Labou
chere) asked on what principle Sir II.
Allsopp's descendant should rule heredi
tarily over us? Our boast was that
every class was represented in this
country but the House of Lords con
sisted almost entirely of one class.
There were 402 Peers who sat heredi
tarily. They had 14 millions of acres
among them and 12 millions of rent—
an average of 35,000 acres to each Peer,
and an average income of £30,000 per
annum. We had heard a good deal of
the Land League,but could any oneim
agine a more pernicious Land League
than that which sat in the House of
Lords? (Cheers.) Of course being
landlords, they legislated for landlords,
the result being that our landlords
were a disgrace and opprobrium to civ
ilization. (Irish cheers.) Could any
thing be more absurd than to suppose
that anj^ single class since the world
began efer legislated for any class ex
cepli theSflselvesi1 We were told they
w^§6 rich and therefore independent. A
o^r^ t$tf-see£ihg body of iiien did not
this countrj?. Putting aside
grants to royal Princes and revenues of
Bishops, he found that these Peers re
ceived at the present time no less than
£336,776 per annum from the public
Treasury —an average of £700 each per
annum. (Hear, hear.) That was not
all, for they had relations who had re
ceived from 1855 to the present date
£120,000,000. (Laughter.) There might
be some mistake in that, so he would
knock off £20,000,000. (Laughter.) The
statistics showed that since 1855 each
Duke had 56 relations living upon the
public, .(lie understood why Conserva
tives should wish to perpetuate this
state of things, but he could not under
stand why Liberals should support it.
(Hear, hear.) Even in Liberal Govern
ments the Peers were not without a
baneful influence. The House of Lords
was the only institution he knew of
which had no advantage counterbal
ance its evil influence. (A laugh.) It
was said they prevented precipitate
legislation. To say that the House of
Commons was precipitate was absuid.
He never knew such a long-winded as
sembly in bis life. (Laughter.) He
ridiculed the idea that the abolition of
the House of Lords could only be ac
complished, by revolution. It would be
easy to create 300 new Peers and swamp
them. He was sure there was such pa
triotism on that side of the House that
300 gentlemen would be found ready to
ascend the altar and sacrifice themsel
ves in such a cause.
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The Orangmen were now on hand to
follow up the vanquished, whom they
valiantly slaughtered without mercy—
this being always their well chosen
avocation in war, for the grim fra
ternity were never soldiers to fight on
equal terms. A regiment of them
raised from Bandon Orangemen, and
known as the North Cork, became no
came notorious for the ingenious tor
tures they inflicted on those who fell
into their hands. This regiment was
in Castlebar when the few Frenchmen
that landed under Gen. Humbert ad
vanced on that town. There were six
thousand British troops in Castlebar at
the time, including the North Cork,
when, according to the historian Plow
den, Humbert attacked it with nine
hundred Frenchmen and fifteen hun
dred of the Mayo peasantry, making
twenty-four hundred in all and these,
it is an historic fact drove the sue thou
sand out of the town like so many
sheep. The North Cork, true to their
fighting qualities, gallantly Urn away,
never halting till they reached Tuam,
forty miles from the scene of action,
and yet, for turcner safetv. they started
for Atblone. This incident is still re
membered' as the "Castlebar races.^
These runaways were part of the army
that Gen. Abercrombie declared "dm
gerous to everybody but an armedfoe:"
and well they proved the trntb of this
saying*^
ROME AND ITS HOLY PLAGES.
An American Pilgrim on Sacred Soil—At
the Tomb of the Apostles Peter
and Paul.
CHAPEL OF THE CONFESSION,
Whither Pope Leo Goes to Pray, "When
the Long Weary Day, With its Labors
and its Anxieties, is Over."
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Rome, says Rev. Dr. O'Reilly in his
latest letter to the New York Sun, is a
saci'ed soil, not to the silly-minded
crowd who yearly flock hither, guide
book in hand, to "do Rome" in a week,
or to the cold critic or the bigot, who
have no difficulty in believing that the
Castor and Pollux with the bronze
horses on the Quirinal are the work of
Praxiteles but who will cast aside as
unworthy of serious consideration the
unanimous and unbroken testimony of
all ages, from that of St. lrenseus—
A. D. 180—relative to the imprison
ment, the trial,the martyrdom and bur
ial here in Rome of the two great apos
tles. The other day I met with the
journal of an English tour'st in Italy
fair-minded enough on the wole, but
who scouted the whole tradition re
specting the apostles,because their bod
ies ere said "to repose both in St. Paul's
outside the walls, and in the crypt of
St. Peter's. Any well-informed person
could have told this flippant writer
that the carefully preserved traditions
of the Roman church say that St.
Peterwas first buried on the Janiculum,
near the scene of his crucifixion, and
that St. Paul was buried on the Ostian
road, at the place of his martyrdom,
and where now arises the magnificent
church called after him. St. Gregory
the Great tells us that they were taken
from their resting-place and buried to
gether in the catacombs of St. Sebas
tian. This is entirely in accordance with
.what the most ancient Roman calendar,
published by Bucherius, states, namely,
that their solemn festival was held at
these catacombs on June 29 of each
year, the day of their martyrdom, ac
cording to Eusebius, the most ancient
church historian. After Constantine's
edict of freedom of conscience, the re
mains of St. Paul were brought back
to their former burial place on the Qs
l^Ayv^nd tfcose qflj
buried on the Vatican tlili, on that
part of the Circus of Nero where he
had so cruelly tortured and put to
death many Christians, as Tacitus
mentions. This spot, on which so much
Christian blood flowed, the theatre of
so much supernatural heroism, was the
fittest place in which the two men who
had withstood the tyrant, and upbraid
ed him to his face with his cruelty and
monstrous vices, should forever repose
together till the resurrection dawn. In
after years one-half the body of St.Peter
was taken to St. Paul's, and buried by
the side of his glorious companion and
one-half the body of St. Paul was taken
from his tomb and buried in the Vati
can by the side of St. Peter. The heads
of both apostles are in St. JohnLater
an, the Cathedral of Rome, and the
church first in dignity of the Catholic
world. The spot beneath the dome of
St. Peter's where the relics of the
martyr apostles repose in death has
been for more than eighteen centuries
the center and the heart of the Christ
ian world. Formerly, and before the
erection of the present sublime church
edifice, the only entrance to the crypt,
with its "grottoes" or catacombs, was
from the floor above, and through the
stairways around which the ninety-six
lamps burn day and night. I shall now
invite the reader with me to early mass
in the subterranean chapel of the con
fession. It is impossible to convey by
any mere description any idea of the
impressiveness of the interior of St.
Peter's, either at evening, just as the
sun is setting behind the ridge crowned
by the Vatican or the Janiculum, or at
dawn, when the first splendors of morn
ing stream across Rome from the east
ern mountains, and flood the palace of
the Popes and the towering mass of St.
Peter's with their golden radiance.
The silence, the vastness, the harmon
ized magnificence of the place, the soar
ing dome, with its rank upon rank of
heavenly images, and the soft ligh
of which to the interior sense is like a
fragrance of all-blended sweetness—all
combine to make the soul fancy it is
standing at the portal of heaven. Fol
low us, the sacristan and the priest,
down the dark, winding stair. It is
situated within the great pillar nearest
to the apse on your left as you come up
the nave. We are soon at the bottom.
The light penetrating from the nave
overhead and the lamps lit here enable
us. to discern everything distinctly.
We pass by the little Chapel of St.
Veronica at the foot of the circular
stairs, and enter a long passage straight
before and leading to a semicircular
corridor around the Chapel of the Con
fession. Every portion of this wonderful
underground church, or assemblage of
chapels is filled with mosaics and fres
coesi/ i?Here hundreds ot Chrristian
men and women perished, sacrificed to
hatred of the faith. Yonder, to our
left and outside the modern semicircu-«
lar corridor is a large quadrangular
space filled with the bones discovered
here during the excavations, the re
mains, most likely, of some, at least, of
Nero's victims, Of those whom he clad
in envelopes of pitch and bitumen, aud
set on fire to light the games of his cir
cus, or amuse the Roman populace, on
whom the spectacles of the Coliseum
fell dull and palling. One hundred and
thirty-one Popes are buried here. It is
therefore full of an awful and inde
scribable solemnity, this spot, where
Nero's feet trod in Christian blood, and
laughed at the fiendish devices of his,^
own inhumanity. Arrived at the cir-^1"'"
cular corridor, we turn to our right and
pass on our way two chapels of consid
erable dimensions extending outward
at right angles to our path. Just oppo
site these we enter the Chapel of Con
fession through a much narrower pas
sage. The gem-like altar is above the
tomb. Shining as every portion of this
coming hither with the dawn to offer
up the sacrifice of his church over the
very tomb of the Apostles, and almost
in immediate contact with their re-SMft^
mains, has an eye for outward thingst
or a thought for anything but the vic-v /{Mj
tim he is about to offer up on that al-'
tar, and for the sacred dust of the two
great witnesses to His name. From
a a I
noises reach you, as if they were the
eclioes of the great city outside, and
the music of the church bells of Rome
comes floating in and dies away in
faint murmurs at the gilded gratings
of the crypt, where Canova's kneeling
statue of Pius VI. seems looking in on
the tomb of the apostles and praying
unceasingly for the afflicted church.
With what fervor Leo XIII. comes
down here to pray—the living Pontiff
—near the magnificent statue of the
first of the line of these imprisoned
Popesi When the long, weary day,
with its labors, its caies and its anxie
ties is over, the meek old man in
so like oue of Fra Angelico's sainted
figures, steals in the silence and soli
tude and gloom to lay before God on
the tomb of the great parents of Rome
the heavy burden of his responsibilities
and his fears. And sometimes in the
morning, when piety urges, or some
more thorny care is pressing on his
heart, Pop6 Leo ebmes comsa to be
seech the Master's special inspiration
near the remains of those whp here
taught His truth, here glorified His
name and bore Him such heroic wit
ness. To look on the face of the Pope,
so careworn, so wasted with super
human toil, one would think that such
a man only needed the tenderest watch
ing and nursing to keep the flame of
lifefrom going out. But he is equal to
such fatigue as would seem incredible
were I here to detail the labors of a
single day, which to him are the labors
of every day.
The Significance and Grandeur of Papacy,
Papacy is the great question of the
day. Indeed, the interest and impor
tance of the subject can scarcely be ex
aggerated. Whether viewed histori
cally, politically, socially or religiously,
it looms up with a grandeur and a sig
nificance far exceeding all other ques
tions of, the age. Simply as a histori
cal study one would naturally suppose
that an institution that had outlived
all the dynasties of the world, that had
occupied such a distinguished position
in the world's history and exerted such
a powerful influence on the destinies of
nations, iVould be esteemed worthy of
the deepest interest and most profound
study. Great force is added to these
considerations by the more recent de
velopement of Protestant thought
throughout the world. The deplorable
evils of divisions among Christian peo
ple are being, pressed home upon every
candid, thoughtful mind with con
stantly increasing foree, and a gemeral
movement has commenced in favor of
union Indeed, the candid and out-r
spoken manner in which the evils of
Protestant sectarianism are criticized
and laid bare by Protestant writers
themselves, is as surprising as it is
hopeful for the revival of Catholic
truth on this all-important subject. In
telligent, thinking men will not always
be satisfied to grope in the dark* to
amuse themselves with vague specula
tions and impossible theories of Chris
tian union. The impatient, self-opin.
ionated, the skeptically inclined will,
of course develop their individual,
private judgment theories logically
into infidelity and. unbelief, while, on
the other hand the conservative and
more religiously inclined will come to
see that the only hope of a true and
solid Christian union lies in connection
with the old, historic Church of which
the Papacy is the grand center and di8
tinguishing feati»r».-?-Er.
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