Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-06
Eli PERKINS IN ENGLAND.
Quaint Speeches by a Catholic Worship
per& a Protestant Church.

upto the time Henry VIII. quarreled with
/ Pope Leo X, in the fifteenth century. Pre-
yious to Henry's quarrel with the Pope,
because he would not annul his marriage
with Catharine of Arragon, and permit
him to marry Annie Boleyn, this wicked
/ King was called the Prince of the
Church. Pope Leo sent him a sword from
Rome in 1914, labelled ITO the
Defender of the Faith" and the sword is
on exhibition at Oxford. But all at once
King Henry got mad all on account of
a woman), and whirled every Catholic
Church IN England round to Protestant
1 tism. Ii is safe TO say that, if Henry
VIII. hadn't fallen in love with Annie
Boleyn, England would have been as
Catholic as Spain to-day, and Warwick
/ Cathedral and Westminster Abbey would
have been presided over by Catholic Car
dinals. Even now all the old Catholic
affairs, pictures, crosses, and inscriptions
are left in the churches.
When the curate was showing US the
splendours of Beauchamp Chapel, and
the beautiful arched stone ceiling Of st.
Mary's. / asked him if Catholics ever
came into the church.
YES" he said, ''they sometimes come
in. The other day an Irishman came in
and crossed himself before the altar, and
knelt and said his Catholic prayer"
''What did you say to him. l asked.
s'Why, went up to him and told him
this wasn't a Catholic Church."
''And he! What did he sayg'
she said sBegOrry, it was built by the
1 Catholics, sure; it's the old Catholic altar,
/ and we'd all be worshiping here now if
/ YOU bloody Englishmen hadn't stolen it,
But the time will come when, by the Holy
/ Virgin, Wen have it back again-do you
| mind that, nowY'
| When look at all these Catholic relics
/ and see the thousands of carved ca
i thedrals, built and owned and worshiped
/ in by these Catholics, / can't help but feel,
/ Protestant though / am, that this poor
/ Irishman spoke some truth.
/ Since the time Henry VIII. deposed
/ Cardinal WOlsey, 1S3 religious sects have
1 been established in England. The RO-
manists still swear by the Pope, the Puri-
/ tans by John Knox, the PrOtestants by
/ Luther and Calvin, the Methodists by John
4 Wesley, the Salvationists by Gen. Booth,
and the Baptists by Sturgeon. Out Of
/ population of 81, 000, 600 souls in England
and her colonies, is, 600. 600 belong to the
! Church Of England, 14,500,0 600 are Method
list, 13,500,000 are Catholics, 10000, 900 are
Presbyterians, 100000 are Baptists, g.
100000 COngregationalists, 100000 Uni
tarians, and 100000 are professors.
New sects are springing up every day. A
London, and $4,000 has been subscribed
for new church.
The absorbing passion of Protestanism
in England is hatred of POpery and the
Catholic Church. Twenty years ago a
Catholic priest would have been mobbed
in London. Catholic priests and nuns are
not to be seen in England now. / have
not seen either yet on English soil-Eng-
land will never forget the Inquisition.
TRUTH FROM AN ENGLISH LABoRER.
The ordinary English laborer is happy.
ignorant and cOntented. He is as gener-
Gus and wholesouled as he is stupid. He
has no him in lite but present existence.
He knows nothing of theology. He is
always healthy, because he never has
money enough to overfeed. While his
master is eating plover, drinking old port
| and suffering with the govt, the broad
shouldered, red-faced labOrer eats his
/ blackbread and cheese, the perfect picture
of health. He knows nothing OF the
world. He has never been ten miles from
where he was born. America to him is
as totally unknown as the lost Atlantas
are to us.
The other day, while riding beyond
Hatherly, in North Devon county, West
ern England, | saw one of these West of !
England farm laborers in the field plOw-
ing. / sent my wife on to town, and
crawled through the hedge and spent
and hour with him. L wanted Informal
ton, not from books, but from its very
source, the man himself. He did not show
much curiosity when he saw me coming
over the plowed ground.
'sGoOd morning." | said.
''Mornin' Z yeu zir," pulling his horses /
to a stop.
"What are you doing here?' asked.
''LOr', EUR! l be plOwin'."
What are you going to raise here|
|
what he be plantin here"
Il expect you are summer following the !
ground for fall wheat" l said. Il am a
farmer myself"
''Lor,' be We that therel Weird y come
from?'' he asked for the first time showing
surprise.
81 come from New York." said.
ssLor', weird be that there!'
sWhy over in America"
''That be Mureky. You be tray'ler, be
We. you'd a come YrOm vurein paarts!
Accuse me zlr," he said, taking off his
hat. save 'erd tell on yang Jan Dobs?
He be out in Muriky, tu."
''What part of American l asked.
''Ahd know. | year tell as he ware in
the States. He'd leave ye'er lite year
acoome next Janewary."
II don't think I've seen John Dobs," /
said, and, continuing, | asked him if he
had been in London.
'Loondon, Lor' no. L beano tray'ler.
/ does stOpt 'Ome-bide my work."
''How much wages do you get year"
1 asked.
. 'Ide aget vourteen shillin' a week. l
be gen'ral day laberer. 'Arvestin' time
do get zaXpunce er 'Our after zunZet, and
Master giles us all re Zider us der want"
"How much do you lay up year%
''Ahd no. Us doa'nt save naught."
"Well, who'll take care of you then in
vor1r old a Oe .; asked
'sAhd no. S'pose gets odd jobs round
farm"
"How many children have youY'
'sLor', 1 a'got vive-dree byes an tn
gurls."
'sWhat do your girls do?'
''They both be out at suvice."
Sand your bOys?'
'sOne der list yer soger. He be zargent
now. Tother tn be workin' out"
''Do you own any land:"
s'Lor', naw?''
'SDo you want any!"
ssNaw."
s.What do you eat?'
s'Ait? Waul, bacon and butchers mate
once a week-a Zundays."
''Do you drinkS'
ssEs, sure do drink"
''What do you drink"'
'sZider, Deere, drop a gin-anything
as coomes andy"
eDoan know. Vaather, mother, grand
vaather and grandame all be buried in
yon church yard
what is your religious belief?'
'sDoan know" with a vacant stare.
sEBut you go to church sometimes, don't
your"
s'Es. Id'e 60 to Parish Church when
do clean myselv."
'sDo you believe in the Trinity?"
ssNever 'eard tell on him."
s'Are there any Presbyterians herew
ssWhat be them"'
"Are there any Methodists.'
sob, there be score ov UNI. They be
buddy rascals too"
"Do you think the wicked will be pun
/ ished?''
ssEs."
ssHow"
"Doan know. Spose dey be burned up"
ssWhat do you think Of the Irish ~
"Oah, they, be buddy rascals-the Irishie
be-"
FISHING IN ENGLAND.
| found that over west Of Warwick
! Castle ono of the farmers who rented