The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1870-07-03

PROTESTANT MIssIoNs.-The Americans
have their emissions" and on pretty
large scale too. American missionaries
are found in every quarter of the globe,
Bxitish brethren produce. America is not
uiggardly ia its contributions, as it supplies
about half million sterling year for
Home and Foreign Missions, and various
Bible and Tract Societies. Tie Treasurer's
report of the Tract Sciety for last year is
a curious document; Its receipts, whlch
amounted to 400, ,00Ol., were expended in
the manufacture of periodicals, payment of
colportenrs, agencies and repositories, ap-
s,ropriations TO foreign and pagan lands,
&c. The cOlporteurs, who included prom
ising students from twenty three colleges
and seminaries, were engaged in nearly all
the States of the Union and Gin adjoining
provinces" One cannot understand what
they had to do " in that gallery" since the
Bible Societies of England, one would sup
pose, had made ample spiritual provisions
for British subjects in Canada. The col
POrteurs and sucking theologians did i'm
mense work last year. They held 10000
family visits, converstd on religion or
prayed with 1S9 ,331 families, found the
alarming number of 3S, SOL Protestant
families who habitually neglected Evan
gelical preaching, introduced ''thc Word"
TO 100, 600 Roman Catholic families, supplied
ask OF did not ask for them, and did 9th. T
wonderful things. The Bible Society, with
its headquarters in Boston, is the most i'm
posing OF the American Societies. Its an
nual income is about SI6O,000. This res
pectabie sum was expended in printing
and scattering abroad vast number OF
copies of the Protestant Scripture valued at
Gl00,oO0! If the circulation of Testaments
and tracts would Christianize the heather,
there would not now be an id0latOr in the
world. The American Bible Society alone
issued in the last Fifty years twenty seven
the English Bible Societies 3 Their print
ing presses in' the same time must have
tuFned out two hundred millions of vol
usaes. Now is there the slightest certainty
that's eingle soul was converted or per-
euMfled 70 abandon the wsys Of iniquity in
consequence of reading those books Z None
knew better than the Bible and Tract So
eieties themselves that no permanent re-
enlts are effected in any country, orramoDg
Any pesple, by the enormous expenditure
of alsoee missions. The traces of their mis-
aienAry iabOrs pass away with the oceans
of Bibles and tracts with which they lnun-
date the world. The Catholic Missionary
commences the work of heather reclama-
ti0n by different means, and his success is
attested in the real conversion of nations,
racea. and tribes. He practically illustrates
She high morality of the Gospel by estab-
lielinH schools, founding orphanages and
varions works of charity, aud every day
braves Vie cruel death that so often closes
:, ie career in llartyr,lom. He breaches the
Rar,l at God to the people, and, in his
omn example teaches its principles an'i its
e1unssir. He amasses DO wealth. He lives
poor and dies poor. 1t is this continual
=, nssr ia the liie of the Catholic Mission
,Fy That plants Christianity deep III the
,e,s.rIrn soil, aud makes itevery where nndG
isss,n !, :, s,Icce 81, yplile the PnOtektaDt Mis-
'isnssl ita, illt their miliiope "f BIl'I"s and
Ts.rs.an. i,ir, colIEIrttuIs aud paid agsnis,
~ ssSFsrn Of peF1manent gOtsd -DR6ttn
Fesus 5s's journal.