The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-02-28

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\ Could the Londoners who lived som,
SIXTY years age come % life again. and re
visit tfie metropolis which they have lef
for ever, how unspeakable would be tbeii
lbewildermeDt and surprise .emnlbusses
railways, gas, Hanscm cabs, copisnissa
ries, ssshoeblacks, and taffHkfng fountains--
nothing us they left it, but everything new
But anongss them there would be seen d
I few whose astoaishment would slrpass that
4 of alt the rest, and whose coantenancet
would exhibit joy strangely distinct from
the wonder and djsmay of all the others
the Catholics of London at the begsnningoi
the present century--tbe good old people
long time dead and gone-who used to
steal into the eide streets and down the OBJ
scure alleys, in order TO enter the meaneat
locking building there, which was the Ca
tholie Chapel of that day--the faithful few,
who used TO adore GoD in secret, aud not
always without fear of the Consequences
who lived among their fellow men without
the rights of men-s-a despicable handful
mere Papists, not worth thinking abQuti
How. the hearts of these would leap up with
hold the rising glories of the Catholic Church
in London, in England, nt the present day !!
And, for all we know, they ARE looking
down upon us with interest and love; for
it is their own work and that of those who.
went before them. 1t is the harvest of their
prayers WHICH we arc 6ntl6dVOAflIiSI 10 reap.
From beginning to end it is the old story
over again Heaven triumphfng over earth,
and God found too powerful for man. The
Catholic religion in this country has risen
up with spring (like o strong man who
WIS thought dead, but only siept), and has
taken Professionalism by the throat, and
there is no power able to loosen her grasp.
Go where you will, through the length aud
breadth Of what was once called Protestant
England, and you will find the Catholic
faith. Among the poor. throughout the
famiiiess of the nobility, on the Stock Ex
change, among the merchants, Mt the bar,
on the bench, through every class and grade
of English society, the grace of truth is
sending its rays, and multitudes are will
lingly opening their eyes to receive the
light. Is there a single Catholic service
that is not attended by Professionals Aud
they are present, not for the parpose of
Inockery or to while away their time, as is
evident from their behavior. Let any one
go the round of our London churches, and
judge for himself The most solemn@of our
functions are at present. qaite remarkable
for tie attendance of those who, Judging
from q certain awkwardness of manner,
we car easily see do not as yet belong to
us; but of whom; from their sdriousatten-
ton and most polite tlemeau9r, we may
safel v predicate that they will not long
refuse TO accept that fully, with which all
ready theySare more than half enamered.
Any man who. fifty years ago would have
foretold a tenth part of the success and pro-
gress of the Faith, which some of us have
ourselves witnessed, would have been
looked upon as a wild enthusiast. But the
ways of God are not as those of men, and
He comes when He is least<expected and
the most formidable power that puts itself
in opposition to any decree of this extra
ordinary providence, becomes remarkable
ever afterwards in the history of the>worid,
for the completeness OF it's overthrow and
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