The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-27

We have much pleasure in publishing
the following letter;

II.
Bombay Mission, may be affirmed WIN +
equal truth of nearlyAall the Missions IN h
the East, they being all alike dependent IN p
q great measure on the pecnnlary ara a
YOUR readers who will refer to the last Il
II lumber Of the "Annals of the Propaga- q
ton of the Faith" which gives the details :
of the sums yearly allotted TO the severai ..
missions, will perceive how greatly the I
success of their efforts is likely to be Inn {
peded by the want of funds for the present.
Indeed, as respects the Indian missions, /
most OF which have, of late years, shown {
marked signs of progress, the Crisis Is
serious. The sums yearly received from
flOOO, representing, probably, half the
total income of the missions, setting aslde
Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, where the
Catholics are more influential and In better
circumstances than those of the faith else
where. European troops are located In
nearly twenty stations in Bengal, in six or
seven in Madras, and about as many In
Bombay, and the aggregate number OF "a
tholics, including their families, Is probably
no less than 10000 of pure European
diers is proverbial, but their means are
necessarily limited, while few European
Catholics are we'll off, and the mass OF the
native Christians are extremely poor: In
the Vicariate of Mysore and Coorg IN the
south of India, Of which Provinces had
the honor of administering the affairs
during eleven years, the Mission received
yearly about $1,000 from France, the whole
of the priests being from that country
Besides the Bishop. Mgr. Charbonneaux,
priests in the diocese, which numbers 10
600 native Christians, about 700 European,
and perhaps 800 Eurasian Catholics, the
; latter chiefly employees of the Government
and their families. Bangalore has SIX
: churches, orphanages for boys and girls,
! and convent, while, in the remainder of
! the Vicariate there are more than hfty
churches and chapels, some of the former,
: which are of recent construction, having
! entailed great expense ON the MISSION.
h ment to schools, and at the large military
(, station of Bangalore, as at other places
where troops are CHARTERED, two Catholic
Q chaplains receive the one EGO and the
g other e 10 from Government; these sums,
IS however, being made over by them to the
n Mission fund, and their personal expenses
}. being limited to about Ed monthly, such is
It the rare frugaiity exercised by the French
y missionaries. The construction within the
Is last ten years, of various churches and or
e phanages, has not only exhausted the Mis-
le sion funds, but has called for considerable
re sacrifices on the part of the poor native
> congregations. They have handsomely
b contributed according to their means, bu
L it may we'll be imagined that dithcuitie'
in are in store, not only for the Mysore Mis-
N sion, but for dozen other Ficar1ates IL
er India. deprived, as they doubtless will be
is for u time, of at least half their resources
is 1t seems to me that whatever aid may b'
is generously rendered by Catholics IN Eng
in land should, if possible, not be confined t.
10 any siugle Indian diocese, but be rateabl.
a distributed among the three Presideacies
n, of which Bengal, having the smallest mum
er Der of native Christians, is perhaps tn
ne most needy, while the majority OF our Eu
y, ropean troops are located in that part O
ry India. Affair proportion would perphap
OF be two to one in respect to the claims q
a Bengal relatively to those of Madras ar
n Bombay. The Archbishop at Calcutta an
sh the Bishops at the two other fresidenc
sh towns. would, no. doubt, distribute til
re funds received in the most equitable man
or ner, to the several Vicariates.
or The case Of China does not come HON
Ter to us SO nearly, but it is in itself quite
o. painful. The remarkable zeal OF th
'nt French missionaries is not like.y to be a
ger fected by recent events, either in France {
ne, in China, except funds should fail, but
ng this respect the Mission will be great
crippled for some time to come. The fiel
Sc is vast one, and the results attained a.
ri great. The "Sainte Enfance," notwitl
yer standing what has been said in the dali
ust papers by prejudiced writers, who deci
the what they envy or do not understand, hi
ust worked immense good, and has been e.
led be seen in the Missionary Reports.
her own experience, and have seen got
The deal of French Missions in India, is qui
our opposed to what has been said of their pr
In ceedngs in China, where also have SCI
our some of their work. Ultramontanism is
be senseless religious war-cry got up to delu,
lor, the ignorant, for the faith now taught
the French missionaries, and their mann
re- of teaching it, is precisely what it was
tSy, former days, when there were no Europe
the functionaries or gunboats in China, a
when the missionaries received tacit, if u
open, encouragement from several Empe
los ors. 1t has been stated that the Freq
,ar- officials in China back up all the unreaso
able demands of the missionaries. This
the an assertion for which l believe there is
of proof, and should say, on the contra
and that, 80 far from being ardent Propagan
lists, French officials, n rule, exhl
striking insouciance and Indifference in
em ligious matters.-I am, sir, yours obedie
a noS ly, L. b0W BOW
and Ellington, Torquay, Nov. ., 1870.
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