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Strong Doctrine.

That's all, sir-just all about Hobbery.-
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Strong Doctrine.
SERMON pY FATHER rRour TO TUE IRISH
PEAsANTRY.
From the Troy Times.
A correspondent supplies us with the fol-
lowing report of sermon by Father Prout,
which he has reason for believing has not
been published before in any American
paper:
ale that giveih to the poor lendeth to the Lord
Ye are not skilled in logic, nor indaad in
anythin' else that know, except playin'
hurly i the fields, skaming at cards i the
public houses for half gallons o porter, and
defraudin' yer clergy O. their lawful dues.
What is worse, there S no use in thryin' to
drive logic into yer heads, for indaad that
would be fulflment of anither tiki that
spakes O. throwin pearls to pigs.
But if yc did know logic. which yc don t,
ye would perceive at wanse the passage
have just quoted naturally devoids itsell in
to two branches. The first involves the
giyin', that is nationally and soyllogistically
consitherd what ye ought to do; and the
second involves the poor; that is the re-
ceiyers O the gifts, or the persons for
whom ye ought to do it.
First, thin, as to the "givin." " Now it
stand to rason that (as the Scriptur says in
some other PLACED, the blind can't lead the
blind, because may be they'd fall into the
bog holes, poor things, an get dhrowned,
an so altho' there is wonderful kindness to
each other among them, it's not to be ex-
pected that the poor can give to the poor
No, the givers must be the people who have
somethn' to give, which the poor have not
Some O yc will thry an get of on this
head and say, It's glad enough yed give,
but that really ye can't afford it. Can't ye?
If ye make up yer moinds any one O. ye, to
give up only single glass O sperrits livery
day o yer lives, see what it will come to in
the coorse of year, an devote that to the
church, that is, the clargy; an it will be
more than some O. the well-tO-do farmers
whom who have in me eye at this blissid
moment have had the heart to give me (bad
luck to them) during the last Il months
Why, as little as penny day comes to
more thin 80 shillins year, an eyin that
Insignificant thrife haven't had from some
O. ye that have had the maans and ought to
have known better. don't want to min
tion names, but, Tom Murphy o. glen, I'm
afraid | shall be compelled to name ye be-
fore the whole congregation some day be-
fore long if We don't pay up yer lawful dues.
| won't say more now upon this subject, as
ST. Augustine says, "a mods as good as
wink to blind horse.
Now, the moral of the first part bein'
clearly shown-that all wEo can give ought
to giye-the mkt branch is whom should it
be given to?
The blissid tiki Essentially states an de-
clares-"To the poor
Thin follows the inquiry-"who is the
poor ?" The whole matther depends on that
dare say, ignorant as yc are, some O. We
will think it's beggars an the cripples an
the blind thravelers who conthrye to git
t!ro' the lingth and bridth O. the country,
guided by Providence and little dog tied to
their fingers by bit o. stirring No, don't
want to say one word about that sort O. cat
tie, or to iniure them i their honest callin
God help him It's their thrade, their is
tate, their occupation, their bisness to beg,
list as mich as It's Pat NJ 'Carthy's bisness to
tailor, or Jerry Smiths to make carts, or
Tom Shineys to shoe horses, or Dan Cot
Tiers to make potheen, an my bisness to
praach sarmons, an save yer sowls, yc
bathens.
But these arn't the poor meant i the tiki.
They're used to beggin', an | for one
wouldn't be the man to disturb them i the
practice O. ther profeshun, an long NAV it
be provision for thin an their heirs ior.
liver.
Nav be ye maan sperritcd crathurs some
among yc i'll say, ITS ourselves is the
Door" Indaad, thin, it isn't. Poor enough
an niggardly enough ye arc. but ye are
not the poor contemplated i the tiki.
Shure it's yet natur, it is, to toll
an to slave >hurc it's what yer used
to. Therefore, if any one. were to give TO
yc he wouldn't be linden to the Lord
the slightest degree, but THROWN away his
money as complately as il he lint upon the
security o the land that's kiyercd by the
Lake o. Killarney
Don't father yersclycs, any o. ye, that ye
are the poor, for, indaad, ye are nothin OF
the sort.
Now thin. we've found ont who should he
the giyers. There's no mistake about that.
Rason and logic unite declarin that livery
one O. ye-man, woman and child-shOuld
give an sthrain pint to do it literally.
MAJ, We have ascertained that it ) the poor
who should receive what ye give. IhTdiy, |
We have ascertained who are not the poor.
Lastly, We must diskiyer who are.
Let ZACH O. ye put on his consithcrin cap
and think we'll. ! have paused that
We might do it, Dan Cotther is know
lcdgable man compared wi the bulk o ye.
wonder whether he has diskivercd "who
are the poor?' lie shakes his head, but
there isn't much in that
Well thin lc give it up? le lave it to
~e to enlighten ye all? Larn thin to yer
shame its the clergy that are the poor
oh ye perceive it now, do yeH The light
comes through yer thick heads, docs 1t ?
Yes Its an my brthrin Is the poor We
get our bread (coorsc enough and dhry
enough it usually ls) by film ye with sTer
ritual food, an judgin' by the congregation
now before me its ugly mouths yc have to
rccaiyc it. We toll not neither do We spin,
but if solomon in all his glory was not arfhay
ed better than We are, instead % his been
clothed in purple and fine linen, its many II
time he'd he wcarin' n threadbare black
coat-white o the sames an out % the c-
bows.
Its the opinion OF the most larncd scholar.
an docthcrs o divinity, aS laid down before
the council o Trnt, that the thranslation Is
not sufficiently exact in regard to this tiki.
an they rccommind that for the word of the
"poor' We should put the word 1.-THE
clargy." Thus corrected then the transla
ton or tiki would run thus: ''llc who gives
to the clargy linds to the Lord which IS,
no doubt, the pure an undiluted scrptur.
The words o the tiki being thus settled, an
ye havin heard the explanation Of it all, now
for the opPh'a''on.
Last Thursday was II week since Bartlemy
fair, and ! wint down to buy horse, for
this is II large parish an modification an
irettin' have pulled me up 80 that, tod
hclp p me, its little able am to answer all
the sick calls to say nothin' o stations, we'd
din'1 and christenin's. Well bought the
horse an it cost me more than cxpictid, 50
there was without penny in my pocket
after paid the dealer. Ii rained cats an