The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-24
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,


xEvnw OF THE WEEK.
BnoUEsT.-By tho will of John Cunnin
man, o. Delawsre county, Pa, $1,000 are Civ.
inc College of St. Thomas, at villa Nov
ra.i $SOOO to the Roman Catholic Society
o. Joseph, for the education and maintenan,
OF poor orphan children; $1,000 to st. John
orphan Asylum, and $500 to the House Of Il
Good Shepherd.
APNG.-An Episcopal ipstitution 5anom;n,
ted the "Sheltering Arms.y for the cara of, -
Pnans In New York, was established a yes
ago, and placed under charge of q sisterboo,
many OF the rules under which they lived r.
sembled Catholic Institutes, even to canop
cal hours, !" which were drawn up by the chan
: lain, in which are contained PRAYERS for IN
dead. They have chapel and an oratorv an,
An altar. But with all these adiuuct. the n,
fairs have become SO tangled. that the q al.
ters" have withdrawn their countenanca from
the "sheltering Arms" and the newspapen
are now discussing the merits of this holy con
troversy.
A coNvEKr-The newspapers of the Ger
REFORMED church are are somewhat dis
sufDed by the detection" CT Rev. John A
wagner, Of Lancaster, Pa, to the Roman Ca
thohc Church. The anti-lturgical party in
that church charge that it represents the ma.
tural tendency of their opponents, who follow
Dr. Nevin; while the liturgical party reply
tnas MI. Wagner some time ago had resolved
70 seeede to the Catholic Church, but was only
prevented ct that time by the arguments of
Nevin, which then quite satisfied him to re-
main in the Reformed body. Both parties tes-
tlfy to the eminent ability and piety of Mr..
wagner, and We congratulate him on his safe
return to the true fold.
ANorHER.-Dr. c. Carter Blake of London.
has lately been received into the Catholic
Church. This is only one of many con versions
that has taken place since the commence
ment of Lent
CATHOLIC AND Protestant MIss1oNs.-No-
thing is more CALLING to Protestants than the
lnefficiency of their missionary system, as COM
pared with the fruitful and selfdenying labors
OF Catholics. Bit statistics are stubborn ar
gnments hard to overslaugh. Thus Theodore
Tnton in late number of his paper APOLOGIZE
cally says:
1--WE are very sorry that we cannot get from
frotestant sources accounts of the nature of
Ine Roman Catholic missionary work in China
We notice that the statistics of these mission
ers count up vastly larger than those of their
Protestant neighbors. Thus the Protestant
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cienes . ordained missionaries, 4 ordained ma
tives, 165 scholars in schools and 352 commn-
nicants, representing perhaps 1900 adhererts
put the Romanists claim in that single prov |
lnce % European missoners, % native priests |
sOOO children in schools, orphanages and col |
leges, and Il, 44O baptized adherents. These |
IN missionaries, than the Protestant figures Tor |
all CHINA inwhich there were last july rep |
f1esentlng all American and European societies,
!29 missionaries 10 native preachers, 1889 scho,
communicates al |
representing less than 10000 adherents. One
traveller says that nine-tenths of the missiona-
" work is IN the hands of Romanists, who ed
ncate as priests hundreds of boys, whom thew I
ouy tor small sum of destitute parents
FOR WHATf-Some person noticing the con-
tlnued increase of crime, asks, For what are
parsons preaching p To which a New York
paper replies, For from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year."
THE GREAT CUR1osrrY.-Durinp his recent
sojourn in England, the Greek Archbishop of
SYRIA was asked by fellow countryman long
resident in Great Britain, what hc considered
the most wonderful thing he had seen there
The Archbishop replied that what he admir-
ID most was the Crystal Palace, but that the
most extraordinary custom he had witnessed
was archoishops and bishops ,cith ,ciees." In the
Greek Church married men can be ordained
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lained, and it is only from amongst the celib-
ties that the bishops are selected. Amongst
Anglicans, however, the exact reverse appears ,
10 be the rnle q
PROTESTANT INFALLIBHrTY.-The following n
bit of sarcasm is from the Boston T,unscript:
BY way of an offset, why should not Prot y
ssants, at the spring anniversaries, vote an
nfallible head of each sect They could DOS A
bly, find candidates ready to accept the posi- -
ions, as characterizng their opinions in their
wn estimation" 1t is appalling to think how
many candidates for the Pontificate would an Y
'ear in each Protestant denominations if there
we're only q call for them. Not a few of them t
would put Plus TX to the blush by the AFRO. Il
ance OF their pretensions and the zeal with
which they would pursue "heretics."
ORLEANS DRAMATIC Assoc1Ar1oN.-Tbe I
'irst Annual Complimentary Entertain J..
lent of the above association will be given
the national Theatre on next Friday
vening, the 10Th inst. The play will be :, -
lamlet. We are indebted to the courtesy y
the gentlemen of the Committe Messrs.
go. w. Doll, E. M. Stella, VIM. H.
James Nut, Jr., and Chas. F =. -
uck, for tickets for that occasion, for - -
hich they will please accept our thanks.
We translate the folloing article from lie N
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