The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-04-21

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In his Golden Legend, which lie located In
Italy, Lopgfellow pays this beautiful tF'on'e
to the Virgin-M Mother of our LORD aho no
one can read it without wondering how one
who sees the truth 30 vividly should sSin hoio
himself outside it's glorious portals
And YET much as he appreciates the b'essea
Virein's character, he fails to assign TO IL l's
proper sphere. 1t is not rs sister that tne
Catholic regards Mary, but as mother; ana
hence the idea of her tenderness towards man
and that of her influence over the heart OF ner
| divine Son.
A sisters love is indesd @ pure and molly az
| feotion, but it bears NO comparison to that Oh
| a trus mother.-A mothers love alone Is the
type Of all that is enduring, Interchangeable ana
strong.
IT In the mothers love which stiles its own
anguish for it's offspring's sake N the case
of the woman who held back the sword' wnlon
| at solomon's command was to sever the oaDe
| in two. and bsde them give the child to the
| one who claimed him.
1t is the mothers influence which ohangee
the iron will and the revengeful determinstion'
I-as in the case of the mother Of Corioianus,
whose prayers prevailed where love, fame and
| patriotism had all failed alike.
Itjs the mothers strength which upholds and
cheers and endures unto the end AS in the
case of the mother of the Maccsbees, who oaoe
he- noble sons look to the heaven above them'
and to remember that the struggle was Dut
brief. while the victory was for all eternity.
It ia the mothers pride which values all treas
urss as worthless, compared to the children OIL
her heart,-as in the case Of the Roman matron
who clasped her ohildren's hands upon her
arms and s1ound her neck and bsde the world
-"Behold my jewels !"
It is the mothers patience which suffers IN
silence through years of anguish and desoia
, tion as in the case of tie mother Of Moses
, who bore reproach and servitude and captivity
for the son who knew her not.
Yes. il is as tho mother that Mary stands
before the Christian world,-the mother OF sor
rows, the mother of holy joy, the mother mos
pure, the mother of all sinners, the mother
all Saints, the mother of all help, the mothe
of all hope, the mother of mercy-in q word
r the Mother of Him who was, and is, and eve
Q will be our Light, our Life, our Way
The American poet, with bland uncon nscious
D ness. declares that if sour Faitk had given u
!. nothing more," etc. Does he ignore the fac
l.. that not single Protestant sect, and only
e few individuals of the High Church party
:. ever pay this blessed Lady the homage of eve
;. respectful thought. proclaiming her to be n
g more than other women although an Arch
81 angel, commissioned from on high, declare
l. that she was favored among all women, Will
q her own prophetic lips, inspired by the Hol
y Ghost bade all future generations, call ut
: blessed!
d Rnt I.onpfellow owes most of his poet
10 fame to those pieces, to adorn which he hi
ed the beauty and glory and grace
10 our Holy Religion. The Golden Legend is one
:, these, filled with Catholic imagery, and radia
- with Catholic precepts. Evangeline is anothe
!, aa beautiful in it's robes of Faith as the po
describes his heroine to be, when forth fro
n' the tribunal of Penance "she walks, with God
benediotion upon her,"
Church and may we not hope that Longt
IT low-who has but lately finished his labor
We love in translating Dsnte's immortal Dtr'
ch Consmedia, and who has followed the footste
No. of one who made the Blessed Queen, the Gt
of tie Lady, the ever August Mary, the guide
a. comforter of his life-may, like the 1tall
- poet, one day experience all the joy and pes
-. and blessedness which few from her PV
1"S love and gracious tenderness towards erri
NU souls.
we Then indeed will he realize that this one
las "exsmple of all womanhood" Is enough
prove that the Catholic Church sis high
hal truer, than all the creeds the world had kno
the before"
fly In one of his sonnets he speaks of the OF
in and rest and happiness which he exPerien
rue upon entering the quiet aisles of one Of Eurol
,+or vast cathedrals. The noioe and din OF cal
;ka akruoolea and ifa anrrow6, its yoarni