The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-01 00:00:00

THE SON, LONI

ciples of our Divine Master. For near twenty years
Pius IX. has stood inflexible in the midst of menace
and of temptation. Every kind of compromise and
concession has been proposed to induce him to betray
his twofold trust. The sovereignty both spiritual
and temporal committed to him is the embodiment
and the guarantee of the Christian social order, and
of the consecration of the civil powers of the world.
To separate them would be to desecrate the govern-
ment of nations. Therefore the whole weight of the
assault is made upon him. If only he would abdi-
cate his contact with the temporal government of
society, the last bond between Christianity and
society would be dissolved. For this cause all
visions of imaginary good are set before him. All
who aim at excluding the action and supremacy of
the Christian faith and of the Christian Church
from the sphere of government labour to overthrow
the temporal power of the Pope. But God does not
return upon His steps, nor will He suffer His
Church to be turned backward in its mission to the
world. lts destinies are as yet only in part accom-
plished. The Vicars of Jesus Christ will not with-
draw from contact with the nations of the world,
nor from the direction of their corporate life. They
have only begun their toil in guiding the Christian
order of Europe, as the centre of a vaster common-
wealth of nations which shall hereafter touch upon
the sunrise and the sunset. But this moment is
once more a time of danger and of conflict; and
your prayers are needed to sustain the hands of
our guide and head, which are always lifted up in
intercession for the Church and for the world. We
therefore appoint as follows :-1. On Rosary Sun-
day let the chief mass, if possible, be offered in
behalf of the Holy Father and for his intentions;
and let each priest, on that or the first free day,
offer the holy sacrifice once, and the faithful offer
their communion with the same intention. 2.
Let the Blessed Sacrament be exposed after
the chief mass, and the Miserere and Litany of the
Saints be recited. 3. In the afternoon or evening
let the Rosary be,recited by the whole congregation,
and be followed by procession and benediction. 4.
Let the faithful be instructed by the priests at the
chief mass as to the intentions of this solemn act of
intercession. Finally, we commend you to the
prayers of the immaculate Mother of God, through
whose ever-prevailing intercession we hope to obtain
from the sacred heart of her Divine Sou the accom-
plishment of this our fervent desire and trust. And
may the God of Hope keep you always in his holy
fear and in the multitude of peace.

Given at Westminster on the Feast of S. Matthew
in the year 1866 ; and ordered to be read in all
churches and chapels of the diocese on Sunday the
30th of September.
HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster.
JOHN CANNON MORRIS, Secretary.

Th 3 Bishop of Southwark on the Pope's
Temporal Power.

A pastoral letter by the Roman Catholic Bishop
of Southwark (Dr. Grant) was read yesterday
morning in the various Catholic churches in his dio-
cese. The bishop pointed out the great dangers and
difficulties by which the Holy Father was surrounded,
and invited the " faithful" to pray earnestly for his
safety on Sunday next, the festival of the Holy
Rosary. "No petitions (he said) will be so wel-
come as those which are accompanied on that day
by a sincere and contrite confession, and by a de-
vout and affectionate communion. The clergy will
show their filial loyalty to his Holiness by offering
the holy sacrifice for his welfare, and to the end that
he may be freed from all danger, and may regain all,
that has been wrested from him. . . . On the day
mentioned the clergy will be pleased to pray at mass
for the protection of his Holiness. Immediately
after,:mass the psalm Miserere' and the Litany of
the Saints' are to be chanted or read. 'lhe blessed
Sacrament may be exposed during the chant of the
psalm and litanies, and benediction given afterwards
in the usual form. Let the people be instructed in
the duty of praying for the Pope, who bears the
solicitude of all the Churches, and has the charge
of feeding the sheep and lambs of the
vast fold of Christ, and of confirming the breth-
ren, add is continually occupied in providing
for the salvation of immortal souls. Beg them to
hear mass and offer their communions for him as
often as they are able during this time of anxiety.''
In referring to the present critical position of Pius
IX. the right reverend prelate said—" The faithful
children of the Church are full of anxiety when they
think of the position of his Holiness, who is their
spiritual father on earth. They hear, day by day,
of the differentplans and calculations that are formed
respecting him and the small span of territory on
which he dwells. But they do not find in those
plans any that promise help or support, or even con-
solation to him. If his children are troubled by these
thoughts, their surprise is even beyond their trouble.
Events have passed so rapidly in our times that their
history seems already to belong to some remote and
ancient period. They who were beginning life 20
years ago hear with wonder that at that date lived a
Pontiff whose first act when he had been, after a
short conclave, given to the Church, was to open the
prisons, and give freedom to those who had been
once, and were to be again, the enemies of his throne.
When his subjects believed that the institutions of
other countries would offer new rules and principles
of government to his States, he yielded with fatherly
confidence in their loyalty and in their justice and
obedience. When he was surrounded by thousands,
and was hailed everywhere with acclamations, his
heart was amongst the poor, who had enjoyed the
chief part of his episcopal revenues; amongst child-
ren, whom he wished to train in virtue and inno-
cence ; amongst the lowly sufferers, who in Ireland
and in other lands were wasted by famine, ruined
by fires or inundations, or shaken by earthquakes.
Great indeed must be the wonder of those who
hear the story of his reign, and are told that after
he had desired eagerly the happiness of his peo-
ple, had toiled for their prosperity, and had
shown sympathy and tenderness towards all who
were afflicted, he was obliged to become an exile,
and to leave the palaces that had been a home to
every one but himself. Such will be their sur-
prise that gratitude has been forgotten, and that
even pity towards the vanquished_has lost its power,
that they will scarcely be able to believe how the
extremes of glory and disregard should be con-
trastedin the same reign, and that he whom all once
sought to honour is to be deprived of the little that
now remains to him. But he still retains the affec-
tion of the devoted children of whom he is the
shepherd, and they are encouraged by his confi-
dence in God, and by his hereditary trust in the
powerful intercession of Mary the Immaculate
Mother of God. . . . There have been strange
and sudden changes since we saw him give his first
blessing in 1846, and since we saw him return to
his cathedral in 1850. We must not be disheartened
if the clouds are now dark and deep. The star of
the sea can penetrate this darkness. Mary can urge
her Divine Son to rise up and bid the winds and the
waves
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The Pacific and New Zealand mail packets after
leaving New Zealand for Panama only go near the Pit-
cairn and Galapagas Islands in the Pacific. A coal depot
for the packets is to be established on ono of the latter
islands. Another of the Galapagos is a convict settlement
belonging to the Republic of Ecuador. This Pacific mail
line having been established, a man can now travel round
the world in about 100 days, touching twice at Europe,
once at Africa, twice at Asia, four times at Australasia,
and four times at America. Thirty years ago a:mail
packet took forty days to reach America from England;
now a person can travel by sea nearly ten times that dis-
tance in a little more than twice the time.

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