The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-11
Progress OF Catholicism I'm England
and America-Views ola Very En-.
ineDt CathOlic-CathOlic or In
L. ]. Jennings to the N. Y. World.

fidelity.
l.. ]. Jennings to the N. Y. World.
LONDON, September 26.-It is not pos
sible tor any man to travel much about
England in the present day without no.
ticing the number of new
churches, schools, moDssteries and con-
vents which the Catholics have built. A
dozen years or so ago they had compare
lively lew places OF worship in England,
and still fewer places of education. Now
90 where you will yon soon come into
contact with unmistakable signs Of
their progress. If your attention is at
trqcted in any town by church of more
than ordinary beauty the chances are
that you will find it has been erected by
the Roman Catholics. The social ban
which once attached to members of that
Church has disappeared as entirely as
| their political disabilities. A Protestant
! does not object to his son marrying a
Roman Catholic lady, nor does man
lose his office or appointment, or suffer ID
any way in his career, by joining the
| Romish Church. l remember the time
when it WAS all very different, More
than one personal friend OF my own has
bad his prospects completely ruined by
| embracing the Catholic religion. The
| change which has taken place in the tone
OF public teelIng, especially among the
upper classes" on this subject, would not
| be credited by sny man VINO knew Eng
land twelve or fifteen years ago and has
never visited it since.
1t struck me that many OF your readers
would be interested TO learn what are
the opinions which are entertained by
one of the most eminent and influential
Of all the Catholic leaders of the day on
this important subject-for need not
point out that it is important in both a
social and political sense. l, therefore,
| by the kindness of friend of mine, OBJ
tanned an introduction to Mgr. Cspel, OF
the pro-Cathedral at KensiDgten-the
most popular, persuasive and successful
Roman Catholic in England. l found
HIM mos. free and communicative,
Sinking no question that l had put to
INN, but meeting me with the greatest
| CsnGOr.
my belief is" be said when we got to
| The actual subject of our conversation,
that Catholics are not relatively more
numerous in England now than they
were some years ago. In some places
We have gained, in others we have lost.
| Take Kensington as an illustration.
we have l,200 Catholics fewer
here now than we had few years back"
The reason o this Decline" be went
on, sis that Albert Grant removed a
whole colony of poor Irish, numbering
over twelve hundred, and they went to
live elsewhere. We, therefore, show a
smaller Catholic population than former
| ly But there are other places where we
have, so to speak, created new popuIs-
ton. When | was boy went to school
! NJ ST. Leonard's lin Sussex. we'll re-
member one day coming down the street
when u mob OF twenty or thirty boys set
upon me with cries of Here comes the
Pope Presently they began throwing
stones at me. My father always had
taught me to meet danger and not run
away from it, so presently l turned
around and faced the little crowd, and
said to them: Il cannot fight twenty OF
thirty all at once, but if am Pope will
fight any one of you who chooses TO step
out. Upon this they gave loud cheer
and went their way and | went mine. A
few Years ago led large party OF Cath
ole pilgrims from that very town, and
! we sailed from Newhsven IAN adjoining
port) with the Papel flag at the PROV snc
! the Union Jack at the helm. When
recalled what had happened there wher
| was boy, and the altered state OF feel
ing that had grown up since, l fairly
broke down. 1t Is more than one could
have dared to hope for"
at is among the educated sn(
wealthy clssses, rs 1t seems to me, sal(
l. that you are making the greatest sd
vances"
"No doubt about it. We are winning
over the governing men OF the country
the men Ct thought and influence. Ii
NV opinion, however, we are not shown!
much progress among what l call tn
middle classes And yet, if Catholicism
Is to rest on sure footing in this coun
try, we must have middle class.
do not see how we can get on wlthou
it,"
"Is the RitualIstic party in the Ang
Icsn Church acting in some degre
MS training school for your religion?
at cannot fail to do that, although
have u hearty contempt for the Ritual
lists. Some Of them perhaps are SINGER
in their belief that they are but revivint
usaCes and forms o. their own Church
but the majority must know better. The
, sre well aware that they are but lmitsun
AS Tar as they dare the Roman service
and their hearts are with the Pope-bu
they are reluctant to relinquish their pc
sitions, and, therefore, still call themselve
Protestants. What am l to 90 with m
wife and family some of them will ask
!. and indeed, it Is for them very serlou
question. The effect of their presen
course Is undoubtedly to turn people
: nv Church. The ripe ;ruit is constant
failing INTO our lap. How can sry rs
tional man fail to prefer Catholicism
Rltualsm-tbe religion itself to mer
imitation of 1t?
/. al want you, however to observe ihs
where we are specially threngtheniD
ourselves in this country is IN our educ'
tional Appliances. Our schools :or CIR
are now BY far the best In England.
any body wished to see in exercise tn
finest educational machinery in the worl
| should unhesitstingly take him to thes
schools. Their merit is recogr lied by q
sects alike. Nothing like them was eve
seen in England before. Recollect, TO
. that We by no means study the rich slon
:, We look alter the poor more CAREFUL
i than you Protestants. As an illustration
;, let me tell you OF a little work in whic
/, have taken an sctive part.
F. ''Often have noticed how readily hel
is extended to the children of the viciou
and deprsved. But if poor woman keel
= her house clean, and makes her childre
e look tidy, every bojy SAYS: oh, she net'
8 no help She aud ner husband do lat
L squander their little esrLings In gil
therefore it is not necessary to do an.