The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-01
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NEW ORLRANS. SUNDAY, AUGUST l. 1852 VI
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I'D thrust their egosistica1 and bombastEe
oaasions on the acceptance OF the occupants;
and il their reception be not according to
evangelical etiquette, the colportaurs have
q fne field for capital in their reports for the
anniversary meetings, bearing such titles az,
4.Romanists Rejecting the Truth p P0pish
Priests Burning Tracts and Bibles !" " The
Country Sold to the Pope" This is fertile
way of augmentipg home missionary Golfers.
We have seen these emissaries carry on their
trade in this city in such a way as evidently to
provoke collision, so that the appeal might be
the more telling, and women and children con-
tribute the more literally to maintain their self
elected missionaries. The celebrated Thomas
Hood made it special object of his life to ex-
pose these hypocrites. Being restered and an
noyed by female neighbor with tracts and
rernonstrance, which he entitled my Tract"
one paragraph of which we snbjoin:
"And now, madam, farewell. Your mode of
recalling yourself to my memory reminds me
that your fanatical mother insulted mine in
the last days of her life, (Which was marked
of q tract addressed to infidels / remember,
also, that the same heartless woman intruded
herself, with less reverence than a Mohawk
sauaw would have exhibited on the chamber
of death, and interrupted with her jargon al
most my very last interview with my dying
parent. Such remi niscences warrant some
severity; but If more be wanting, know that
my poor sister has been excited by q circle OF
canters like yourself into a religious frenzy,
and is at this moment in q private mad-house."
OUR LEGIsLAToRs.-In q Fourth of July ad-
dress, delivered at Xenia, Ohio, the noted Don
Piatt gives us the following sketch of what he
saw in Washington. AS he is of the dominant
political faith, his portraiture may be received
as true. Describing the prevalent corruption,
he says:
I" Not the least dshearteniRg part of all this
is to be found in the utter indifference with
which the public ut large regard all this. 1t is
no longer a shame to steal. 1t has ceased to
be q dishcnor to defraud. saw Senators who
came to Washington with scarcely money
enough to pay boarding house bills, rolling
pertaining society ia palatial residences They
are now millionaires, and not only tolerated
but followed, fattered, sought and sued by
men and wopen who would be honest were It
the fashion to affect that virtue, and if YOU
turn from men who have made their fortunes
out of their places it is to stare at men who
bought their way in. These Senatorial chairs
are put up at auction, and knocked down to
the highest bidders. The longest purse brains
the opponent, and the Hon. Ingot or the Hon
Greenback stalks in with jnst brains enough
to make up, through q sale of votes, the money
he has expended in securing his seat"
can people must Dc greatly edited by Iue
shostly controversy between the Episcopal
Bishops of Chicago and Kentucky. By the
following paragraph it appears that the broth
rem in New Zealand are not behind their CO.
religionists in England and the United States
in fraternal unity:
Another Colonial bishop" difficulty has oc-
CURED, this time in New Zealand. DIR. Jenner,
who was cousecrated and sent out from Eng
land, claims the Bishopric of Otago and Dane
din; but he is Ritualist, and by four cleric
and by fifteen aic votes iii his favor, they have
refused to receive bin. But" says Church
paper, :" DR.. Jenner still intends to assert his
right to the nomination to that bishoprie"
RATHER Particular Some of our Protest
ant friends are wont to make merry on the
veracions statement of a traveller, who declared
Italian brigands had regularly appointed chap
lains in their ranks. We commend the follow
ing paragraph, which is well authenticated
unlike the brigana story-to their considera-
ton 70
Some Presbyterian convicts in the Irish
prison of Spike Island objected--so their chap
lain reports-to the use of hymns in lieu of
psalms, for the psalms were :" inspired" the
hymns not. In these days of Cotepso and other
critics, it is gratifying to find such superior
testimony upon disputed point; and if the
incarcerated gentlemen would go further, and
give-u their unbiased opinion on other parts
of the Old Testament, should all profit
(remnrks the London Daily IelegTaph).r For in
stance, in the Goth chapter of Exodus there is
text still occasionally quoted, Thou shalt
not steal" Might we ask our Christian breth-
rem whether that passage ever came under their
notice, and whether the fact was never borne
in upon them that It also was inspired ~ We
are, perhaps, ungratefu1 when we wish that
they had noticedit; for if they had might
have been deprived of the inestimable value
of their conYictions-in every sense of the
word. Some people, no doubt, will be gratified
to find that even convIets have scruples; others
win in the incident a curious proof that
men may cling to dogma long after they have
lost the spirit of all creeds
. CHURCH SFAEgs---The frivolous dis.incsiops
existing among the various Protestant sects is
well hit off by the following, which we take
from aE English paper: --1sJ siasa-4. ssl'.i
The preacher at the Chapel Royal Savoy,
London, on Sunday, July 4, alluded to the dis
sensions of the present day, and told story
on the authority of John Henry Newman. 4
naval chaplain, he said, who had long been ont
of the reach of English theological discussion,
was eagerly asked on his return homo by
hi soJ,n,