National Republican., 1883-03-16
ENGLISH RITUALlsM.
An Example That Night Probably He
Initiated.
Catholic ReuietV.


We will select two men TO whom we think
ritualsm owes its largest succcss-Charlcs
Lowdcr and Alexander Maconachie. And
mark, this success is due, not to millinery and
upholstery, but to that which will always
bring success-a manly effort to better tho
condition Of the poor. The Rev. Charles
Lowder was vicar of st. Peters, London
dock. 1t was u most dreadful parish Any
one acquainted with "Our Mutual Frend,H
will recollect the horrible scene depicted in
the opening chapter. His curate had been u
dashing life guardsman, and IL must have
been an awful sacrifice to come and live where
he did. Ratclif highway, thronged with
thieves and loose women, abounding in dens
of debauchery and MURDER was the scene of
their labors. Mr.. Statham, the Curate lived
with high-bred wife and three lovely chill
dren in close little house bounded ON one
side by soap factory and on the other by II
fat-boiler When they began their work rot.
ten eggs rose in price as an agreeable missile
for pelting. When LOwder was carried 20
his grave it was amid the tears of the poor
and the audible benedctions Of the miserable
for whom he had labOred thirty weary years
The Catholic priest of the neighborhood said (:
" lie had every virtue except the true faith"
lie was tall, spare man, with very ascetic
appearance, about tho last one would expect
to see whore he chose to live and die. Stat
ham, his curate, who succumbed to an infec-
tious disease,was cut out for a garrison dandy
The vicar Of st. Alban's Ilolborn, Is of the
same stamp IL is parish which was once
the headquarters of n school of thieves. A
noted thieves Kitchen supposed TO be the
same painted in "Olivor Twist" stood whore
the altar now stands. The neighborhood Is
composed of italian image makers and fabrica-
tors of articles. that sell retail for Id Twelve
thousand are squeezed into Il few wretched
gip Nsy.t tuh l.
epidemcs aud always by want. MacOnachie Is
nobly helped by Stanton, his senior curate. He
Is in all particulars splendid fellow.
duchess called some time ago TO see him. and
insisted, notwithstanding many dcnials upon
being taken where he was. Stanton was
found In miserable court, with large apron
tied around him, busily engaged in white
washing a room where u smallpox patient
had just died to fit it for "a poor family. No
workman had been willing TO do it for any
money These men are samples of tho real
ritualist. They try to improve the poor
mans home. They start penny banks, coal
clubs, clothes clubs, cooperative stores,
blanket clubs, shoe clubs, and what not.
They have a Club for youths and boys, moth
ers' meetings maternity clubs, temperance
societies, homes for the outcasts, hospitals Is for
the sick, ree dispensares, and gratuitous
doctors. Gentle and high horn women nurse
poor waits that perhaps never knew before
what II was TO sleep in n bed or enjoy Il
wholesome meal Maconachie has earned the
love Of many of the Irish poor of London
Last year u lady sent him f5 to buy warm
oyercoat, his own being thin aud threadbare.
A fire broke out soon after and poor carpen-
ter lost all his tools MacOnaChie took him
the 60 and continued to wear his old coat
These poor Irish will do anything for him but
go to his church, and the ingenious excuse
we once heard poor lrishwoman make who
was too kind hearted to wound his feelings
was; Sure, yer reverence, there's no holy
water In yer church, and l can't go to church
where there's no holy water"