The Irish standard., 1893-07-08
SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1898.
IN VERY BAD TASTE.


IN VERY BAD TASTE.
The managers of the Methodist camp
meeting at Red Rock secured drawing
card last Sunday in the person of one
s'Rev." o. E. Murray, of Chicago, who is,
according to his own unsupported teati-
mony, a renegade from the Catholic faith.
To say the least of it, the Methodist
parsons who conducted the revival exer-
cises at Red Rock displayed very bad
taste in securing the services of the Chi
cago pulpit mountebank to assail the
Catholic Church, it's clergy and religious
women.
The subject selected for his diatribe by
this irreverent blackguard was "The
Black Pope" or Mgr. Satolli. After mis-
representing the character and mission
Of the apostolic delegate, whom he ac-
cused of plotting to destroy the public
schools, Murray directed his harapgue
against the priests and nuns, denounoing
the former as "a drunken lot OF Irish
mon, vile as the beasts of the field and
more wicked" He. applied the flthiest
language to the Catholic Sisters, but
seeing that the attack was not appreci-
a.ed by the astonished multitude he ex-
claimed: "No one need tell me lie, for
have been in the hot beds, down in the
dark pits of the vile earth, but I am now
as sweet and pure as lamb" i.
,He next turned his attention to Arch
bishop Ireland and elected applause and
cries OF that's so" when he charged that
eminent American prelate with pulling
the wool over their eyes and rolling them
in taffy for years." The charlatan wound
up his dirty diatribe by saying that he
did not hate Catholics; he loved them;
they were not to blame; they knew no
better, end he desired to convert them to
Christianity.
There was not Methodist clergyman
or layman present to repudiate the vile
attack made by this sensational scamp.
The s'boy evangelist" Rev. Thomas Har-
rison, was the only preacher who said to
a reporter that such q speech was inap-
propriate, that it would do more harm
than good and that Catholics were as
good as any other people. ss
The 'boy evangelist" was correct in
what he said of Murray's discourse. Such
vituperative mounting are calculated to
bring Methodist camp meetings into con-,
tempt and reflect discredit upon their
managers.
The Chicago Times in writing upon;
pulpit mountebanks like Murray says
that newspapers are to blame for pub
fishing their productions. They seek
notoriety, and being mon otsno ability,
they ignore for public theme the proper
topics appertaining to real religion and
branch ont into the ephemeral OF eensa-
tionalism. Confning themselves to doc
trinal points or to homilies that would
be entirely pertinent and acceptable,
they know that they cannot attain no.
toriety, which is the breath Of their
noatrils.
There is q class OF notoriesy- seeking
preachers who select for their themes
everything under the sun except the Cos
pol Of Christ, and they adroit)y manage
to get their noisy pulpit emanations into
print every Monday morning. The
mountebank in the pulpit is q religious
excreecence and reproach 70 the
churches who employ him. Wespannot
understand how sensible men and women
accompanied by children can go to
churches Of which sensational preachers
are pastors and listen to lengthy TRADES
against their neighbors whom the gospel
OF Christ teaches them TO love. No won.
der there is . growing lack Of condolences
ii such Evolves in shaep,s clothing, : and
that 30 many are drifting nto religious :! ,
indifference and infdelity.
III sssssS IL W.
HE 10TH or AUGUST