The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-22
ALTOGE7HER roo SENS ITIyE

The Rev Dr. kittredgc told tho young men Of
the Christian Association the other day that
The President Of his Republic, for the sake Of
securing votes iusultcd the religious convictions
OF the vast majority OF our population by his gift,
~ your aud my name. TO the religious head Of the
Papal Church
Come, come, Doctor. don't 20 all 10 pieces on
little thing like that Brace up and take n gcncr-
Gus and broad Wow OF things II Is bad form 10
hunt Tor an evil motive when good one l. close
nj hand.
Mr.. Cleveland sont the Pope nm expression Of
good will. sort Of Happy New Year" on the 90
casion OF his jubilee II consisted Of copy OF our
glorious American Constitution. elegantly bound
nj least we hope II WIS. II was doubtless received
with pleasure. and as the Pope reads English he
will have very clear conception OF the Kind OF
government under which several millions Of his
ecclesiastical followers ARE living
There Is no special need Of feeling "insulted" at
that Doctor, Possess your soul In peace and don't
worry Al trlles.-Nar York Hcruid.
Brother Kittredgc is perhaps merely
piqued because bis church has not Pope
TO be thus honorcd, or perhaps Il Presi-
dent Cleveland had been NO ill.bred as TO
have ignored the iliiicth anniversary Of a
good priest, better Bishop and Cardinal
and still better Pope, II would have suited
DIR. Kittredge, who would get as mad rs
all outdoors II anybody was to accuse him
Of not obeying the Scrptural injunction to
love his neighbor M himself And yet
this is Just what DIR. Kittrcdge does.
The first article In his creed is evidently
hatred OF the Pope and OF the Roman
Catholic Church, OF which all other forms
Of Christianity arc at tho best but Off
shoots. This prejudice, no doubt pas
sion with him, has always proven
mlschievous one To clergymen, who
especially on account Of their own
lailings and weaknesses should be tolcr-
ant and patient Of what they regard the
weaknesses OF others. Brother kittrcdge
should get rid Of Il, and the best way for
him 10 do 80 would be 10 cultivate Arch
bishop McCloskey and Monsignor Pres
ton, who was once Protestant like him
self and thus by finding out for himself
by himself what the Catholic Church
means and does, no might como TO have
more respect for himself by having moro
for tho Church that has withstood the
flesh and the devil, from without as well
as within, for nearly nineteen centuries.
Indeed, without going to all that trouble,
Il the Doctor will lot his mind dwell ON
the history Of those centuries he will see
that the survival Of tho Catholic
Chrch is one Of the most marvellous Of
lis many lessons. lie will feel smaller ~
lac measures himself beside that history
and will realize as II grows upon him.
something perhaps Of the expressions that
are said to weigh upon the bcholder who
stands under the dome OF st. Peters, at
Rome, for the first limo and which convey
n sense Of inlnitudc, such rs can como TO
n man nowhere else In the world, not even
beside the eternal pyramids and the silent,
ever waichful sphinx, The endlesss
stream Of solemn men and women,
beginning with the carly martyrs
who FIRST ennobled the Christian
faith, a great column streaming into oter-
nifty that today numbers 3O0.0O0.OOO Of
men and women Is surely something 10
arrest attention, TO arrest even DIR. Kit.