The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-04-09
.WARN1yG 70 PROTESTANT FRIENDS
IS. ] BLANCHARD, IN NEW ORLEANS CHRISTIAN
ADVOCATE"

wears in q convent, wrote an eIaoorate at''oio
in Fraztr's Magazine, if We remember rlgnuS'
the drift of which was to show that Engiish
com posit ion could not be we'll taught In some
of the converts of continental Europe. Inc
| London Tablet republisbed the whole article
with some remarks to the effect that 1t was so
correctly and elegantly written, that it might
| be accepted as q proof of the very opposite OF
| what the writer wished to inculcate.
1t would be absurd to look for genius or or
| ieinalty in every newspaper article; oot'
correctness in grammar and style, and an ao-
ssnes of scurrilous language, would hardly be
| too much to expect of those VINO un-
dertake to enlighten their neighbors.
| writer who calls those who devote thelr
ives to God "semi-lunatics," and charges
| them with iiolatry, is either whole luna
| tic or base calumniator.
| Educational establishments are not always
to be blam sd for the non-pro6cency OF their
| pupils Some minds seem to be inoapaole OF
| cnltiyatiop. send q fule to France" sayB
| the Scotch proverb, "and you'll get a fule back
again." Otherwise, the hazy, iil-constructed
composition Of S. j. B weak in sense. silly in
idea. slapderous in tone, would be a Warning
tn Protestant Friends" to shun the schools
| that indict on society such specimens OF
scholarship.
Eide 81 have had opportunity of knowing
many young ladies educated within the Con
4 vent of C. and Others" Others Others
/ what
| "The catalogues of study are the same
| What con vent uses the term Catalogues oi
studya" And where are "the catalogues Of
| study the samef" And what are "the cats
logues of etudy the same as 7" "The faculties
| of our collegeo, we know, are able to do al
thew promise, while of those Of the convent
We know nothing" Who are -ef And no"
do ue know itf Are 1e capable of examining
"she faculties" of all our colleges Where
are tour colleges :" Will "the faculties" allow
us to examine themi And if "pe know no
thing of the faculties of convents," why tra
duce themf Would it not be more charitable
to give them the beneft of the doubt -
, have known but few who come from thel
converts" From whose conventsf Tb'
converts of the "few,"or the converts of th
Image worsbipersf'
: "And see how poorly they are taught. The!
are well qualified, many of them, in ornamen
tai branches, while their minds are like 81
uncultiv ated garden, filled with weeds AM
brambles."
: .WAo are "poorly taughtf' The "few" o
3 the "semi-luuatics = And who are "we
q qualified :" TIE teachers or the pupilsf
II YOU know nothing of the faculties of COZ
d vents,n how can you say "they are we'll quail
o fed" in anythiDg7 What good have the
- ever done y Have eho ever done ! Now
the time TO watch and pray" Now Sine
"a vheni We thought our dear Lord said, wv
n ought al.eays pray" My language is to
>. poor to express the danger We are in by expo
oi ing our young children to their forms an
ceremonies"
10 How can we "expose children to forms an
40 ceremonies And what about older chile
ID rem And what, if the readers of this elequer
" warning" have NO childrenf
's' To whose forms and ceremonies 7" The form
~ and ceremonies of "the sant-like face of soz
40 Sister," or of "the weeds and brambles,' or
u' the semi-lunaticsi" 7"
my language is too poor" 1t certainly
w. tie poorest We ever had the i'll luck to e
ke counter Penny-a-line English is CONNIE
l'' enough, but your English is not worth peni
q ton.
og Look how much Ca holics are doing to 6
CO foothold here" BIZ they had possession he
10 before you. Catholics discovered AmeriH
Ior The whole Continent is called after CAtho
no navigator. The beads are coeval with
ne Bible here. COLUMBUS himself was teller
beads, and even a member of religious ord
when he discovered this great country.
walked from his Convent of La Rabids
jig having heard Mass and received Holy Co
munion-witb his Superior, Father Juan Per
nu- to his ship Santa Maria, the memora
neA thiri Of August, 1892, when he commenced
!" successful quest of new world, to conquer
n" same for Christ. Where were Luther, Cal
n" aud Wesley thenf The grandfsthers of
AIN Pilgrim Fathers" were as yet unborn;
Naysotrer was in the forest.
our But all Protestauts who write about Cat
IN lies are not so destitute of candor and ability
'n's the misty author of the classically wri
Oh Warning" We could point out volume
ing proof of this, but few lines must suffice.
rch Memorandums in Ireland,"' by Sir j.
'ith Forbes, MD, FRS, an English Protestant,