The record-union., 1894-04-14

mined and consistent opponent of the
public school system from the begin
ming. We suspect that the movement
to elect him Regent eff the University in
place of the Roman Catholic Bishop re-
Gently deceased is designed for its effect
upon Rome. Archbishop Corrigan would
naturally be solicitous TO show that the
dominant influence in this city is in sym
pathy with that wing in the Roman
Catholic Church, and thus hedge up the
way OF the liberal movement"
Speaking of the prevalence of suicide
the New York Observer (Pres.) says:
THE fact is that this indignant protest
against the injustice and inexorableness
OF the Creators laws is simply the out
cropping OF all that is feeble, willful and
resentful. in human nature. 1t is the
giving up of all heroic ideals of life, and
their replacement by pernicious and
nam by -pamby sentimentality which, if
allowed to grow, will make of society a
barren waste. The false philosophers
who defend and coddle it with fearful
sympathy are directly responsible for the
tragedies it produces. Oppressed with
cares, enfeebled by physical sufferings,
or harassed by veXatious associations,
men and women stumble across their
wretched pleadings, and with minds un-
settled, destroy themselves. the real
murderer is the defender of the right of
suicide. Yet SO far from feeling convic-
ton, he finds something noble and he
roic in closing the account with life when
1t becomes hard, and in willingness to
let others suffer than suffer himself. I'm
happily, nothing is more contagious than
this nerveless surrender when misfor-
tune comes, this cowardly giving way
before the ills of life. Men forget that
the characters which the world has most
admired have been thoae which have
been made by bearing ills which they
have deserved less and done more so re-
move than Others"
1.-THE detection of Father Lambert from
the Church of Rome is another sign of
the uneasiness which is felt by many of
the more learned and spiritually minded
of the Roman clergy under the Roman
yoke" observes The New York Church.
man p. E.). I'VE take no pleasure in
seeing any one turn his back upon any
branch of the historic church in order to
embrace, as Father Lambert has done,
the emotionalism of the ultra Protestant
bodies; and we prophesy that, after the
first excitement of his new experience is
over, he will long for some more perma-
nent organization than is found in such
bodies as DR.. Fulton's Mission of Christi
That aspect of the case is not subject
for rejoicing. The lesson we read from
the struggles after liberty which are made
by such men as McGlynn, Burtsell and
Lambert is, that there is no room in the
Roman fold for freedom of thought and
aspiration. Each of these men has evil
IDENTIFY done his best for years to conform
to a system which SuppresseS every sort
of individual freedom, and each, in his
own way, has soughtr relief. DIR. McGlynn
still holds quasi-allegiance to Rome;
DR.. Burtsell is still patiently enduring a
CALLING discipline, and Father Lambert
has thrown aside his entire confidence in
the Roman system. The result in each
case marks the effect upon intelligent,
God-fearing men. who differ in Temporal
ment, of hard and fast, inelastic, man
made theory of church government
whose aim is to suppress every kind and
form of independence. There must be
something radically wrong in the Roman
Church when a splendid preacher like
McGlynn, a learned canonist like Burt
sell, and an acute controversialist like
Lambert can find no settled home within
her pale.'