The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-12-13

Scot IN fresby terians are beginning to have
organ in their churches, and stained glass
windoN g, and everything to make them as like
as possi, hle to Catholic churches: aud, after
endeayor,, 1g to live upon the Scotch idea OF
spiritualit, and very bitter and acrimonious
idea it is.n ey have at length begun no longer
to sing throUa h their noses, but to the accom-
panying soma of instrumental music. What
does ali this pre- .vef 1t only proves this: That
the people who an. trSing g TO ape catholic % oere-
who are RETURNING 10 Catholic doctrine in spite
of themselves, the pee, Ne who are setting up a
dead image and putting upon IL the rooes OF a
living Church. and fsrA S'' 'sey yr nave red sas
up as priest-they are bearh = she'r testimony on
that the Catholic religion n one neets the
natural wants of man, and ~ ," Necessity 10
man un to the end of time.
What wonder, then, that she staDA 8! Stanos, o.
Oh, 80 glorious as she has stood in II, e'anu Ior
fifteen hundred years; cast to tho eartn
robbed of her possessions, driven into The iast-
nesses OF the land, having nothing to sub ist
upon but the undying faith and love of t. Q
grand old Celtic race, who turned to her in tho
day of her sorrow, and swore their allegiance
to her for life.
Thy rival was honored as thou vert wronged and
Thy briars whilst gold her brows adorned.
She wooed me In temples whilst thou layest hid In
Her fenda all MASTERS whilst thine. alas,
Yet cold in The earth thy feet would rather be:
Than wed what love not, or turn one thoushtfrom
Thus did Ireland speak to the Catholic Church.
What wonder that she should stand whom
Ompipotence hath built up. They tried to
build q temple in Jerusalem after God had
thrown it down, and when they came to ex-
anime the ancient foundations to build them
up again and restore the Jewish religion,
flames of fire burst out from those stones and
consumed the impious ones; whereon ST. John
Chrysostom made this magnificent remark
" Behold the temple of Jerusalem-God has
pulled it down and no man conld rebuild 1T.
ID -. xlzT TnfH fH~lsa rob (NpA hos hnr
her up and no man can pull her down" If
further argument were wanted-if testimony
of father and son were wanting, If the martyrs
of other lands did not attest from their ensan-
guined graves the immortality of the principle
for which they died, Ireland alone-lreland
alone. rising in all her virgin beauty from out
the claspiDg waves Of the western sea-lre-
land, with her fifteen hundred years of sane
tity, and martyrdom, and glory upon her
brows, would be q grand and 10 a grand and
insurmountable argument of the vitality and
that could destroy principle was brought to
bear upon Ireland's religion. For three hum
dred years the Danes swept the land with fire
and sword, yet as often as they strove to
for her holy religion, and her altars, they
strove in vain. For three hundred years again
every agency and engine of persecution was at
work-confiscation prescription OF knowledge
infdel education, legal and civil penalties of
every kind, exile, imprisonment, death-all,
all have swept over the glorious and time
honored Church of Ireland, all have swept over
her; and today her enemies have laid her
rival disestablished and shattered at her feet,
while the glorious Church raises her head like
one of the imperishable columns on her hills.
The same in faith, the same in beauty, the
same in energy as when her great Apostle
waved his last blessing to her with his dying
hand there she stands, the Tower of David, a
thousand shields hanging upon her, all, the
and the bard, and the missionary and the mar
tyr; the nation in her shadow as of old. her
faithful hierarchy manning her walls as of old,
over her and around her, scattered out on the
wild, bleak field where they persisted, the
blanching and bleaching bones of every adver-
sary that ever dared to draw the sword and
raise his hand against the Church of God.