The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-05-04

; no Nneon mon sound to hear the shaill
voice OF a Wcman shouting above the
din Same Word Of encouragement to an
! individual player and disputes that are
| almost as furious as the game are Tre-
gttent among the spectators as to the
sneriis OF the players. LII
| NUNS AND NuANERlES."
A ssistsrl,ood That Knows No Class
~: :. Or Greed Distinctions.
ssat4l-s5t. Charles Church last Sunday
evening, Father Clearys sermon was ON
Nuns Nuns and Nunneries.' The usual very
large attendance Was present. Father
Cleary said in part:
There is 40 misfortune to which poor
humanity fails aeir that Is not .allesiatsd
by the sssterllpods Of the Catholic church.
The soldiers oI tire republic who offered
their lives in defense OF the nation. bear
w'ssii3iE: asid generous Testimony to the
deyotedness. Of the Catholic sisters to
the sick and dying soldier, In their
ministrations Of Christian charity, our
sisters know no class nor creed distinc-
| tions; they serve with equal generosity,
alike the believer and the unbelieyer,
Protestant aud Catholic, white and
black. -
In their vows OF voluntary poverty,
1AGy solve the meaning of oIr Savior
wards: BLESSED are the poor in spirit. :"
In their abandonment of the world, and
IN savering family ties, they tell wen
derigg world, the meaning Of the Say
\ Ia he'd h0f !,
father and mother more than nae is not
promises OF Christ made to those who
have left all things and followed him.
Guke xviii, 25-3Ol -
The Catholic church honors marriage
as it has never been honored by any
other religious institution in the world
before. But Christ himself led the life
of virgin, his ever blessed mother was
nevertheless q virgin. The self immo-
lation of virgin life, in order to devote
all the best energies of mind and heart
to the service of God and humanity, is
the noblest sacrifice that the human
heart can offer to God. BY life of vol
untary chastity, the Catholic nun pre-
pares herself while here on earth, to
"follew the Lamb wherever He goeth" in
the brighter world beyond. BY her VOW
Of obedience for Gods sake, to the rules
and constitutions Of her community, ap-
proved by the church, the religious Of
fere that generous service of obedience
which the Holy Ghost tells us Is better
than sacrifice. Il. Sam. XIV, 22.)
No baSeness is more despica BILE and vile
than that of which those are guilty who
v'ilfrlIy nsli&;n and calrminalss the
noble women of any church o. csseii,
who spend their lives in personal sarti
location, unseldshly and without hope OF
human reward, serving God and minis
tcr!ns To human misfortune. Honest
lesopie are often deceived by the vile in
situations and bold misrepresentation
Ct interruptions enemies OF religion and
exalted virtue. The ESCAPED nun" has
..een abroad in the land. and TO the ever
LASTING shame of seIoe designing minis
taf Ct the gospel the more vile and more
revolving her disgusting story, the more
encS.lIas enaenS sic has received at their
hbudg.
Il, 1899 a eo<issGs assd vulgar book was
issued froG, tla publishing house OF Har-
Ger Rs,thess. 81 Ma=s York. bearing the
sensational tIts;, us Awful Disclosures"
BY Maria Monk. It pretended to unveil
dar., and hideous crimes committed in o
convent az Montreal. Col. W.. L. Stone,
editor O. the Commercial Advertiser"
made personal investigation of the villa
and ree.isiys charges contained In this
volume. Iis WAS 1ic friens, Of Catholics
OF the Catholic church, bit ise denounced
the bo5iz as 3 brazen ana paipable fraud.
The respectable protes.ants of Montreal,
in public meeting assembled: denounced
the improbable and Lying tales contained
ia this scurrilous fabrication. It was
proven beyond all question that the al
legged author had never been a nun, had
never bean in the caayens she had pre-
teaded to dascriba, bat MAS q wrstched
prostitute, who had basr: taken III hand
BY certain Rev. J. J. Sinsuln and others,
and made to appear as the aas:ha: OF the
dirty volume. The con.pdra could
not agree among Themselves. and in a
lawsuit among thers for this division OF
the spuils of their vile conspiracy the
admitted, and Maria Monks claim for a
share Of the anholy plunder rejected, on
the ground that she had never been the
author, or substantially aided In the
nasty je;,. More than SO years ago the
manufactured disclosures were proven 70
De wholly unwarranted. a.,d l;asely TIA.
true Maria. Me1.E died III 1855, liz dns
Of the institutions on Blac1lWeiis Island.
s victiai Of dissipation and drink; ne
g;ecfed and abandoned by the vile con-
spiratops, who had given her an infam-
Gus notDriety.
The fourth volume Of "Appleton's Cy-
slopedia Of Biography" gives a briet but
succient account of the notorious fraud.
here in this city, IN this
wear af enrichment and opportunities