Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28
MEDICATION
OF CATHOLIC IRELAND BY AN EMINENT
 PREsBYTERIAN DIVINE.


 OF CATHOLIC IRELAND BY AN EMINENT
 PREsBYTERIAN DIVINE.
 To the Ago. Herald: DsIz s'asz
 The following clipping from the New York Review tells its own story. Iris complete vindication of the dear old land love so we'll and of the faith at whose shrine was first taught to worship my creator. As a constant reader and admirer of your journal, and for the sake of the many Irish readers you have throughout the state, ask that you publish this data. 'Tls a fact to be regretted that our native American fellow citizens know very little of the history of Ireland, or the situation surrounding her. Many are astonished when informed that to the English laws governing Ireland should be charged up the great amount of ignorance, in book sense, to be found in the strictly Catholic portion of our country. Up to the days of Catholic emancipation it was penal offense for a Catholic priest to teach or preach to his people. They were not per- mitted to preach in their native language, and every effort was made by English law to stamp out and destroy our mother tongue. Thank God, that day has passed and gone, and schools of Celtic are in ex- istence hroughout the entire island and her sons and daughters can worship their maker according to the dictates Of their conscience. iafsa#4 ifss RIBBON.
 Rev. MT. wark, prominent minister of Memphis, Tenn, recently delivered lecture on Ireland which is being widely published. owing to the truthfulness of the matter contained therein. The min- ister introd uced. his speech by remarking: ''Long live old Irelandl Green be her fields, bright be her skies, and happiness be the portion of her sons and daughters. In his allusions to Catholic aud Protestant Ireland he said: My business is to state facts, not to make them. Of course l had ever been taught-in fact had read it Il the Sunday school books, that the north of Ireland, which is supposed to be Pro- testant, is greatly superior to the south of Ireland, which is supposed to be Catholic. Now have been through Ireland from the extreme south to the north, and aver upon the honor of gentleman and Chris tian that greater fraud than the assumed superiority of the Protestant over the Catholic population of Ireland was never palmed off upon an innocent and un- suspecting public. It is pitifnl when men attempt to coin religious capital out of such material. On the other hand, saw more squalor, more abject misery, more poverty and wretchedness in Glasgow and Edin- burgh than in the whole of Ireland put to- gether. Scotland is Protestant, Ireland is Catholic. l say itis my duty to state facts as l see them, and not allow religious prejudice to blind my eyes to the truth. The sun of Heaven shines On no fairer spot tn an the south of Ireland, From Mallow on the ckwater-tO Cork on the Lee 1t was pure and beautiful as the dream in the heart of a sinless maiden. saw just two cities in Europe that 1 should care to live in. One of these is Dundee in Scotland, the other Cork in Ireland-with a decided preference for Cork. Everywhere in Ire- land was treated like @ gentlemen. Never for an instant was mistreated by a human being"