The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-13
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| NEAR tne close OF the sixteenth century
Gregory XIII founded in Rome the CoDrrepa
ton of the Propaganda Eide which, from tina
moment until this, has sent forth its heroi
priests and fearless missionaries to ever
quarter of the globe, in order tn t glad tidipg
" should be preached to all Mon" In 1868, al
ofshoot of the Propaganda was established il
Paris under the name of College of the For
eign Missions" and from its holy walls passed
out the noble youth whose life and suffering s
and heroic death form the subject of the bool
| before US. 1t comes to us in an English garb
but retains all the delcacy of the French Ian
| guage, combined with the force and ease Of
our mother-tongue. But Lady Herberts OBJ.
jeot in giving us this beautiful translation, il
! not alone to win our love and venerAtion for
the noble young Corean martyr; but also to
point out o fertile vineyard of the Lord, and
to invite earnest souls to hasten to the tilIage.
England, to-day, has seriously taken up the
| subject of Foreign Missions, aud, remembering
her two hundred millions of pagan subjects,
is making noble efforts to send them light and
knowledge. This touching memoir is a reve-
lation to us of true heroism, inspired by the
love of God, and devoted to the salvation of
souls. We ask ourselves while reading it, is it
true that such soldiers of Christ still live-are
willing thus to sutherland really yearn for the
glory of o martyrs desth7 Yes it is true, and
in tho vast empire of China to-day, there are
noble athletes of the cross, depending them
selves and being spent" in the cause of souls
men, unknown to the world, who are living
lives of continual sacrifice, and dying deaths
as glorious and unselfish as were those of the
first apostles, and the Church's early martyrs.
May the young missionary who won the palm
of martyrdom in the Corea in 1866, inspire our
youth, not indeed with desire to die in q for
eign land; but to live, in this their own, more
in accordance with Gods holy laws and the
teachings of His Holy spouse, the Church
Life of Ihsophaue Tenard Martyr in Tonouin.
translated from the French by Lady Her.
bert. New York: Catholic Publication So
ciety. New Orleans: c. ID. Elder.
This life, if possible, is even more beautiful
than the last. We who cannot weep over
grand theatrical demonstrations, nor over the
pages of Dickens most pathetic death bed
scenes, felt the tears slowly trickling as we
read this simple narrative OF a life whose only
desire was to be made I" Fl for the Masters
use." Trained within the walls of the French
College of Foreign Missions, he, like Henry
Dorie, passed forth to the glorious battlefield
in Eastern Asia, and, like him, wat cred it's val
leys with his blood. And this life is one that
belongs to the nineteenth century, the circle
of whose years actually touched our own: on !
ly while we ate and drank and took our ease, |
he suffered imprisonment and chains, testified |
to the truth of Christ, and offered up his life |
joyfully for the souls of those he came to |
teach. Being asked by the brutal swordsnan
1t what he would give him to be executed
promptly and WE'LL" the answer wac: "The
longer it lasts the better it tciH be-" We would
advise all to read these pages They are worth |
thousand novels, and leave behind them holy |
ambition to be something better than the mere
idle, aimless beings, which too many of US are |
to-day. This book reveals a tender human |
love which, none the less, could give itself en-
sirely to God. His last letter, written from
MS cage to his cherished sister, shows the
tenderness of his heart towards Der, and at
The same time its sublime devotion to the one
lesre of his life. So strong is this feeling of nat
lral affection revealed in his farewell words,
hat it is impossible to read without shedding
ears and at the same time equally impossible to
egret the sacrifice, or mourn for the holy and
lerolc soul who gave to God "his all in life
lis all in DEATH" and whose name will be held
n dear remembrance long after those of world
y heroes shall have passed into forgetfulness.
Eid Times. By Miss Caddell. London Burns
Oates 81 Co. Now Orleans: C. d. Elder.
We seriously object to the title of this very
eautiful novel, because it fails to convey to
he reader a correct idea of the subject upon
Thich it treats. We first supposed it to be
ecord of mad-oap adventures or riotous mis- {
eeds but found it, instead, gracefully writ
On and most interesting account of the sad ],
nd terrible prosecutions endured by devoted
atholics, in the time of the penal laws:
throughout England. Borrowing from the
reface we find " The object of the Author
as been merely to create story of domestic
,terest by following persecution to those
MET homes where its wounds were deepest, if
OF most obvious and by marking its effect I
pom many high-hearted man, who, but for )
8 fell prescriptions, would have written his :
anne, not upon the prison walls where we find :
now, but upon the pages of English history,
nong the brightest and bravest of the band +
no form halo of glory round the throne of Z
ueen Elizabeth"