The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-08-18
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

OOClety TUG EE6eoINhlOu OA tbO AIiSh AeA-
guage. These successes seem to follow one
another rapidly enough to indicate great
energy and good management. 1t is not long
since we ohronicied the fact that the Society
succeeded in inducing the Irish Board of Edu-
cation to encourage the teaching of Irish in the
National Schools" 1t is unnecessary to state
that they have also been successful with the
Christian Brothers. The consequence is that
o grand cid language, in which q sufferipg
Catholic people have prayed during seven GEN.
turies of resie lnce t, robbery and perseou-
tion, is save A.! 1t can no longer be said of it
that:
Tt fading it is fading like the leaves the tree-
It 10 dying 1t is dying like the western ocean breeze
1t ia tsstiy disappearing like the footprints on the
Where the Barrow. and the Erne' al Loush swlly''
No, indeed, the tide is turned and the rising
generation Of Munster folk, like their friends
of Connaught, will learn their native language
At school, and supply teachers to spread the
knowledge of it into Leinster. And, perhaps.
in the next generation, when Prot sstantism
shall have collapsed, We may read Of q Munster
OF Conn aught bishop preaching an Irish ser
mon to the bi.lingual Dubliners in their own
grand old Patriek's Cathedral founded, il we
mistake not, by st. Lawrence o'roole and
fiched from them at the Reformation.
But We, at this side of the Atlantic, must
support the movement. Who would not give
2s cents to help on the ret toraton of the Irish
language7 Well, here is q chance. Buy this
First Irish Book for 25 cents In learning the
language of your ancestor 3 from it, you will
find great amusement as we'll as recreation.
An hour ago friend of mine who was look
ing over q copy of it asked me question about
it. 1 was busy, and said to him in Irish
"Fann go foil: [pron. tonn go foe i'll Although
not knowing Irish, he caught the sound, turn
ed to the end of the little book, and sought ont
the meaning of the words in the vocabulary.
When finished my work jokiugly asked him
if he had underk TODD me when ] said flnn 90
fo-H''
"Undonbsedly," said he, without blushiug
sit means stay awhile or wait awhile"
I was astonished, but, on examining the
book, found the voca bu'ary which had not
noticed before.
The incident shows how well adapted this
publication is for attaining it's object, viz the
instruction of beginners. 1t is surprisingly
chesp.
The Roman Catholic Church of To Day alone is our
Teacher IN Matters of Religion. lecture by
the Right Rev. P. J. Baltes, D D.. Bishop Of
Alton, llllpol9. b. deroers ~ Sout FIJI N
street, ST. Louis, 1878. 90 pages, price 25
cente.
When q Catholic Bishop delivers lecture,
or prints one, experience teaches us to expect
that he has had something to say, that he has
said it well, and that the question has been
disposed of in the ablest manner therefore,
our readers will not be ut all surprised to learn
that the work whose name heads this article
is one of great power, teeming with hist orcal
facts and references and plain texts of Script
ure, and that while the style is such as t , con-
vince and satisfy the most learned, the Ian
guage used is suited to the eempFetenshiea- of
the most illiterate-smple, clear and incisive.
The Right Rev. Bishop states his Object as
follows, Pc
81 shall prove to you this evening that the
Roman Catholic Church of to-day is the very
same Church which existed in the days Of the
Apostles and in the four or five fret ages of
our era and, consequently, that the Roman
Catholic Church Of day and no other church,
is the only teacher in matters of religion; that
abe alone is established and sent by God to
teach us what We must believe and do to be
saved. To prove this will show you l, that
the Roman Catholic Church of to-day has the
same founder whom the Church of the Apostles
and of the first ages bad; 3. that she has the
very same ministry; 3, the same doctrine; T.
the very same distinctive marks which that
church had; and 5, that God has never estsb
llshed another church to take her place. which
He most have done, if she had fallen il to error
or apoststized."
In proving these points, our author is mind
fol of the fact that they mnst be proved to the
satisfaction of Protestants and also, in his own
words, p Z:
eve have also u do with infidels, who,
whilst they believe in profsne history, do not
admit divine revelation at all. / must show
these, from other sources, and by some other
way of reasoning that, to cay the least, Catho.
lies are consistent, inasmuch as when they
admit certain antecedeuts, they also admit the
conclusions which logically flow from them;
something which we shall fiud wanting among
Protessants altogether. Intidels, as q rule, deal
more fairly with the church than Protestants
are in the habit of doing; for, whilst they be-
ieve her to be mere human institution, they
will admit in her behalf the same evidences
which they allow in behalf of all other human
institutions something which our Protestant t
friends are not always prepared to do"
He then proceeds to prove separately each of