The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-07

her upon the same grounds. He was o man
would not easily love another, hence, to him
the blank produced by the separation from
Bertha was greater than it would have ap-
peaIed to most men. The world was an empty
been centered in Miss Hamburg. With her
faded the bright visions of home and family
ties, and in the agony of his heart lie deter
her, to blot out, as far as might be, her MEM
DRY from his soul.
In his travels on the Continent Revisited ut
times Catholic churches, and listened to ser.
mons, IN order to confirm himself in bis belief
that the Church of Rome was the church of
error. In this unsettled state, both of mind
and of abode, Hugh continued during six years.
church, till he stood in that holy city. which
was less happy in having been the abode of the
Caesars than in being the dwelling of the Vice
gerent of Jesus Christ.
Here he found the monuments of pagan an
tiquity side by side with those of the early
ages Of Christianity. and could gaze upon the
gorgeous erections of Catholic faith and love.
Still he cherished his old prejudices and en-
shronded himself moro and more in tho gloom
of bis own creed. At length, in small viii
lage in the south of France, he CHANGED to
meet an Englishman like himself, in quest of
information upon the doctrines of the Church
Of Rome Mr.. Stanhope was some few years
his junior, devoid of all prejudices: and evil
pened to be both staying at the modest hotel
| Of the village. On returning from the service
at the rural church, at which the good cure had
addressed simple but practical sermon to his
had hoped that here, at least, in a remote
village like this, one would have escaped the
innumerable bows and scrapes and ceremonies
of this pomp-loving church. For my part,
put in . nutsbell.a
"No doubt" replied Stanhope, laughing,
*b ssG %9s Of not
slider that all that trash about religious sim
plieity, which is SO freely banded about, is, in
vulgar .parlance. all humbug. believe these
nearest to that church Of the Gentiles which
Malachy declared would OFFER from the rising
Of the sun to the going down Of the same. sac
rihce and clean oblation to the name of the
Lord. Only in this manner could His name be
great among the Gentiles even rs it was
among the Jewish people. Each of these
apparently trifing ceremonies of the Catholic
Church has beautiful mystical signifioation,
all relating, in 3 greater or less degree to the
Sacrifice of the Mass, in which they believe
Christ to be truly present at the altar"
pervert."
"Conrert, if you please, mon ami. Well, will
cen confess that l am seriously thinking of
joining the Church Of Rome Will you con-
sent to go with mo and hear at least for your
self the instructions shall receive I"
Catholic"
Thus hundreds have spoken who, thanks be
to God, are now members Of the one fold. We
will not weary our readers by following Hugh
Chambers through all the difficulties of lis
path towards the truth. Suffice it that we in
form them that Charles Stanhope and Hugh
Chambers were received in the bosom of the
Catholic Church in the picturesque church of
Chambery. From the moment however, that
Chambers became convinced of the truths of
Catholicity he also comprehended that higher
| state of perfection to which man might be
called, and to which the apostle alluded when
he said: "To widows and the unmarried saw
remain even rs l." He had seen the marriage
| her (; anyhow his course was clear.
Faithful to the call of Divine Grace he en-
| tered with Stanhope the Company of Jesus.
For some underlined reasons, never fully ex-
| planned to himself, Hugh Chambers never COM
! municated the change to Bertha.
Four years after the marriage Of Count de la
Tore to Bertha Hamburg, they both knelt in
| the church of the Jesuits at N. Scarcely
had the last words of the gospel been uttered,
when tall, digni6ed form assembled the pulpit,
and in clear, ringing tones delivered his text
IF any man come to me, and hate not his
father and mother, and wife and children, and
brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also,
he cannot be my disciple"
@Bertha de la Zorro bowed her head in aston
ishmept and shame. The preacher was Hugh
Chambers
That evening, when they were alone in their
hotel, the Countess revealed to her husband
the cause of the emotion she had that morning
manifested at church. At the close of her con-
fession he said, smiling, So at last am with
out a rival"
1t was even so, and thus was dspelled the
last shadow which separated Bertha from Ray
mond.-London Lamp:
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