St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25

tons on O'ConnelPs granite tomb
ana ms dust will feel their meanine
and rekindle in the gloom.
Priest to. priest to sound the summons
,Iand the answer, man to man:
with the people round the standard
and the prelates in the van.
Let the hearts of Ireland's hopings
,r,,, keep this golden rule OF Cloyne
iii the Orange fades from Derry ana
the shadow from the Boyne.
Let the words be carried outward fill
the tarthest lands they reach:
AFTER CHRIST: their countrys freedom,
10 the Irish prelates preach
Ihere is no Apaism in Ireland. and
the teaching of the Maynooth-trained
clergy has been so broad that the
people never think of asking an as
piraht Tor parliamentary honors about
the altar whereat he worships.
SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Perhaps the easy proximity of Dub
M the proudest Capital i'll Europe,
mas some formative influence upon
the character of the student of Nav
hooth. The college is situated some
twelve miles from the Irish capitaI.
hard by the magnificent demesne of the
Duke OF Leinster. 1t stands upon his
torlc ground. The Leinster family if
self is at least historically dear to the
Irish people as being that to which the
Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzger-
aid belonged. To this same Geraldine
family belonged an earlier patriot.
S1lke1 Thorn IS, who dreamt his
dreams of revenge beneath the shade
OF a great yew tree which still -four
lshes within the College walls. On en-
terlhS the college gates, the shadow
OF the frowning castle of MAMMOTH.
that proud Norman fortress so rich
IN stirring story, falls upon the
traveller, The college itself is
from designs by the celebrated
Pug1n, and is one of the largest
institutions of its kind in the world.
It's development has been great and
rapid. One hundred years ago the
government appropriated for it's use
the paltry sum of $4,000 annually.
This was subsequently increased to
$751; co., This annual grant was dis
continued in 1869, when Mr.. Gladstone
passed bill disendowing the Prot
estant church in Ireland. He wanted
to put all churches on level as far as
the state is concerned. But the equal
ity was not complete, for Trinity COL
lege in Dublin still retains it's state en-
dowment In later years, when Mr..
Gladstone visited Maynooth, he de-
clared that the college was better off
to be without state aid, because it was
free from government interference.
Time has shown that Mr. Gladstone
was right. No breath of British Off
cialism taints its atmosphere; the Of
fensive oath administered to the stu
ir of CT low
reside in the college, and its large
staff of professors is second to none IN
the world
ITS LEADING LIGHTS.
1t is difficult to select for special
mention from the accomplished men
who directed the destinies of Maynooth
college during it's 100 years of exist
ence. The memory of it's first presi-
dent, DR.. Hussey, though ninety years
in his grave, is still cherished by Irish
ecclesiastics. He was the friend of
Sam Johnson and Edmund Burke; he
would he as happy in Trappist mon
astery as he was at the court of vi
emma; of him Johnson's biographer,
Boswell, wrote that he was "a man
eminent not only for his powerful elo-
quence, but for his various abilities
anu requirements. LII. ISuSSell, I'LL
other of it's presidents, and uncle of
the present chief justice of England,
was q scholar of European reputation.
His life of that linguistic freak Cardi-
nal MeZzofanti, is a marvel for scholar
ship. In more recent times the present
archbishop of Dublin presided over the
college, and so varied and vast are his
attainments that he is as much at
home on the question of bimetallism
as he is on a subject of scholastic
theology. Every department OF eccle-
siastical learning has been enriched by
its professors. They have covered the.
whole field, from church music, by DIR.
Lenistran, to works on Scripture by
Drs. Dixon and Mccarthy. and to
standard treats on theology by Della
hogue, Murray and Crolly And if the
literary output of Maynooth has not
been greater in quantity, the reason
assigned by Cardinal Logue is prob
ably correct, namely, that professors
who attend closely to their classes
have not much time for writing books
MaynoOth has done it's work well.
1t has disappointed the sinister hopes
of the government that endowed it.
OF the twenty-one bishops in ireland at
present who were educated at May
nooth, only two are out of sympathy
with the national aspirations of the
people. The clergy to man are with
their fiocks. Professionally they are
the best educated ecclesiastics in the
world. The coming centenary will
bring together Maynooth men from all
quarters of the globe. They will tell
of the needs of their respective coun-
tries. and all will truly say with their
national poet:
''And doth not meeting like this make
amends
For ali the long years I've been wan
dering aWay?"
VELASQUEz.