The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-09-06
THE TRAPPisT ORDER.
Bishop Gibney and His BIiasion for til
AbOriRRnes or Kimberley.

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for distant Kimberley with the inten-
/ ton Of establishing on the shores Of
King Sound s missionary settlement
/ for the beneft Of aborigines. The
work Of Outstanding and civilizing
the blacks is one very dear to the
Bishops heart, as may be judged from
the fact that this is the second attempt
to place it on . practical basis. The
former expedition failed through want,
Of adequate means. It5was not, and I'M
fortunately could not be, sufficiently
furnished with either men or money.
It was no slight difficulty which caused
the venerable leader, Father McNab, to
retire from work in which his heart
was so deeply engaged. He and his
companion for long time bravely and
uncomplainingly endured all the hard
ships incident to pioneer life in trying
climate. and all worries arising from re-
stricted means, relinquishing 81 almos t
superhuman struggle against untoward
circumstances only when sickness made
it impossible for them any longer to
continue it. The ill-success of this
effort by no means damped Bishop
Gihney's zeal for the welfare of the
natives. He Immediately had recourse
to the ecclesiastical authorities in
Europe, putting strongly before them
the urgency and Importance of tho
work and impressing upon them the
strong ACCESSIBILITY of committing it
to the care of one of the religious
Orders. The Trappists having been
appealed to on his behalf declared
themselves willing to come to his assis-
tance, and have SO promptly followed
up their expression of good will that
two of their number are already on the
way to the scene Of their future labor
and, of future triumps in the
cause Of religion and civilization,
The mission to the Kimberly ma
tives, humble as is its beginning, starts
with prospects which encourage the
brightest expectations. It is not too
sanguine to hope that under the ex-
perienced management of the devoted
Trappists it will in time, from merely
diocesan enterprise, develop into a
work of National Importance and fairly
lay claim to the assistance promised by
the Plenary Council of Sydney to any
well-considered undertaking of the
kind ,@5 E
The advantage Of taking the work out
Of the hands of small body of secular
clergy already overburdened by their
duties to widely scattered population
and entrusting it to religious order
are quite apparent. The great primary
difficulty which stood in the way Of the
scarcity of hands, is thus finally re-
moved, for religious order, humanity
speaking, never dies. When some of
it's members fall stricken down by
death or sickness, their places are i'm
mediately filed by their comrades, and
their good work suffers no interruption.
Of the army of devoted men who now
look this way for new scope for their
zeal, Fathers Ambrose and Alphonsus
form but the advance guard. Their
first business is TO report on the pros
poets of the Kimberley as field for
missionary effort, a work for which
they are particularly we'll Qualified by
experience gained during u nine years
donia. Should they report favorably,
as there is little reason to doubt will
be the case-for they seek only scope
to ply their vocation of leading the
more benighted members of the human
race from a state Of paganism and saw
agery to knowledge of better things
their hands will be at once strengthened
L r.,
house. The Trappists are already
engaged in their work in South Africa,
in China and in the Pacific Islands, and
every where have proved sing ularly
successful. Their methods are thor
oughly practical, and fortunately are
quite in accord with the recommends
tions of the Bishops assembled in
Council at Sydney, who desired to see
the aborigines instructed "not only in
those things which pertain to religion,
but also in the neoessaries of life"
DEATH OF FATHER MAGlNN.
He was Pastor Of St. xav1er's Churcn in
Philade ipllia.
Rev. James Maginn, pastor of St.
AAV1oI > SuuIcu, 1AA4duoAPAAo, 40 eAVaAs
Born in the townland of Aughioga4
parish of Termonmaguirk, county Of
Tyrone and archdiocese of Armagh, Ire
land, on June II, 1926, he had just en-.
tered his sixty-ffth year. Inheriting
pious traditions from family that had
given many of its sons to the priest
hood, among them first cousin of his
own and uncle Of the pastor of the
Immaculate Conception Church in Phil
adelphia, and the celebrated Bishop
Maginn, of Derry, being also q distant
relative, he too in early life had strong
aspirations for the sacred ministry,
studied the Latin and Greek classics at
schools in Sixmilecross and Carriok-
more, parish; and looking for field
in which to carry out his aspirations,
he went to Philadelphia in 1850 and en-
tered the Theological Seminary of ST..
Charles Barromeo. After spending
little over four years there, whore he