The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-26
ntiriug in nv efforts to awaken a sus-

untiriug in nv efforts to awaken sus-
picion Of their purity, how my eye
would quail as l met the glance OF
innocence accused, my cheeks blanch
with conscious infamy, my head bow
under the weight Of self:reproach and
nv flesh tremble lest an avenging God
should take up the cause of the calum-
mated. On others these things may
press more lightly. All judgment l
leave to God, who only can discriml-
nate.
What has been said of caluminators
applies to their abettors, more or less.
Their guilt ia oftentimes greater than
that OF their principal. They usually
have more knowledge, more time for
calm reflection. OF all, God will judge
he who listens with curious or ap-
proving ear, he who sustains by his
means, encourages by his presence, or
in any other manner aids the calumni-
ator; he that gives wings to false
charges, he who lends position or infu-
ence to invest calumny with importance
all will God judge equitably and mer-
cifuly. We must learn our RESPONSE.
bility at His tribunal. | speak to
instruct, and what | have spoken is
without any real bitterness OF heart,
feeling ready to exclaim, Father, for
give them, they know not what they
do" If nv language is strong, it is to
declare the Divine law and to deter men
from fearful guilt.
There are in my remarks two points
especially to Catholics. The first Is that
this attack on our Church need occasion
them no surprise. The world will hate
us, will speak i'll of US, yet when men
revle Us and use US despiteiully then it
is Christ's blessing falls upon us.
There is nothing new in this being
eliminated by one who claimed to have
been a member OF the Church Of God
A Judas was formed among the d sci
pies Of Christ, and since his time
rep-obates have existed, have raised
their arms and their voices against the
Church and have passed away They
lived but 10 belle and Islander.
The Bishop here referred to the
statement that Edith OGorman claimed
to have escaped from the Convent
of the Sisters of Charity and
said the Sisters Of Charity take their
VOWS for but single year at a time,
and may at the expiration OF that
time renew them or not at their pleas
ure. Other orders, he said, took their
VOWS in perpetuity, but they may be
dispensed by the Bishop for good cause
shown, and referred to a lady who was
formerly a sister mere, and was very
we'll known, who finding convent life
distasteful to her was released of her
vows and afterwards married. She did
not find it necessary to escape nor to
renounce her religion. On the con.
trarv, her first husband became a
Catholic through her influence, and
when, after being made widow, she
married again her second husband also
| became a Catholic. To misrepresent
our doctrines and practices is almost
the only support our adversaries can
find for their arguments. He urged
, Catholics to be calm under all misrep.
resentatlon. Have charity. CHARITY
is patient is kind, i seeketh
not her own, is not provoked to anger,
n beareth all things, y
erdureth ali things" Disturbance is
what our opposers desire. See that
they do not gain their wish, for it will
give them victory over you.