The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-05-02

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"And is it laughing YOU arc, you
haythens ?" said Father Phil, reprov.
ing the merriment which he himself
had purposelt created, that he miqht
reprOUe it. Laughing is it you are,
at your backslidings and insensibility
to the honor of God laughing be-
cause when ysu come here to he saw
ed, You are lost entirely with the wet;
aud how, I ask you, are my words Of
comfort to enter your hearts when the
rain is pouring down your backs at
the same timer Sure l have no chance
Of turRing your hearts while you are
under rain that might turn a mill
but once put good roof on the house,
and | will inundate you with piety
MAYBE it's Father Dominick you
would like to have coming among you
who would grind your hearts to pow
dher with his heavy words" (Here a
low murmur of dissent ran through
the throng.) "Hal ha so you wouldn't
likeit, / see--yery we'll, very well,
take care, then, if l find you insensi-
BILE to my moderate reproofs, you hard
hearted baythens, you male-facthors
and cruel Prosecutors, that won't put
your hands in your pockets because
your mild and quiet fool of a pasthor
has no tongue in his head l say, your
mild, quiet, poor fool Of a pasthor, (for
l know my own faults partly, God
forgive mel and l can't spake to you
as you deserve, you hard-living vaga-
bonds, that are as insenisble to your
duties as you are to the weather. i
wish it was sugar or salt that you
we're made Of, and then the rain
might melt you if couldn't; but no,
the naked rafthers grins in your face
to no purpose-you chate the house
of God-but take care, maybe you
won't :hate the Divil so aisy." (Here
there was a sensation "Hat ha I!
that makes you open your ears, does
it? More shame for you; yon ought
to despise that dirty enemy of man,
depend on something better-but1 see
| must call you to a sense of your Sit
uation with the bottomIess pit undher
you, and no roof over you. Oh dear !
dear! dear! I'm ashamed of you
throth, if l had time and sthraw
enough, I'd rather thatch the place
myself than lose my time talking to
you sure the place is more like sta
Bile than a chapel. Oh, think ofthat!
the house. of God to be like a stable
for though our Redeemer WAS born
in stable, that is no reason why you
are to keep his house always like one.
"And now will read you the list
of subscribers, and it will make you
ashamed when you hear the names of
several good and worthy Protestants
in the parish, snd out of it too, who
have given more than the Catholics. -
He then proceeded to read the fol-
lowing list, which he interlarded CO.
piously with observations of his own
viva voce marginal notes, as it
were, upon the subscribers, which were
not unfrequeptly answered by the per-
sons so noticed, from the body of the
chapel /; and laughter was often the
consequence of these rejoinders, which
Father Phil never permitted to pass
retort. Nor must all this he
considered in the least irreyerent. A
certain period is allowed between two
portions of the mass, when
the priest may address his congrega4
ton on any public matter of interest,
an approaching fair, or the like, in
which exhortatious to propriety of con-
duct, or warnings against factions,
lights, etc., are his themes. Then they
listen only with reverence. But when
the subscription for such an object as
that already mentioned is under dis.
cussioB, the flock consider themselves
entitled to "put in word" in case of
necessity. This preliminary hint is
given to the reader, that he may better
enter into the spirit of Father Pills
list for the repairs and
enlargement of Ballysloughgutthery
chapel -
Mickey Hickey, Is Cd. "He might
as we'll have made it ten shillings but
half a leaf is better than no bread"
"Plaze your reverence, says Mick,
from the body of the chapel, "surs
seven and sixpenee is more than the
half of ten shillings." CA laugh.)
ooh how witty you are Faith, ifI
you knew your prayers as we'll as your
it would be better for you,
Micky."
Here the father turned the laugh
against Mick.
Billy Riley, IS. 4d. "Of course he
means to subscribe again" John
Dwyer, los. "That is something likel
I'll be bound he's keeping back the
odd five shillin's for a brush full o
paint for the alther; it's as black as q