The Irish standard., 1896-12-26

the Te Deum was sung. He visited the
Ursuline Ladies and expressed his graf
itude for the prayers and vows they had
offered to heaven in behalf Of the Amer
ican army, and for the devotedness with
which they received and tended the sick
and wounded. While president he re-
visited the Ursuline convent. This is a
little matter which Congressman Linton
has evidently overlooked. When he has
succeeded in expelling Pere Marquette s
statute from the national gallery he
should offer a resolution that President
Jackson's body be dug up and burned.
Thomas Jefferson, who drew up the Dec
laration Of Independence, and James
Madison, the father of the constitution,
while occupying the presidency wrote to
these same nuns in the most compliment
tary manner, the former assuring them
that their educational institution should
have the patronage of the government,
the latter endorsing the letter OF his
predecessor. 1t is very evident that JEFF
ferson, Madison and jackson were all
"disguised Jesuits.'' Out upon these
papal hirelings! 'Rah for the A. p. Ape!
Let we'uns, who don't know 1.-The first
dadburned thing about our country's his
tory, "rally round the little red school
aouse!'
II would require more spacent than we
can spare to SO much as catalogue the in
fiuences for good which the Church OF
Rome is bringing to bear in single
American city. We glance into the beau
tiful chapel of the New Ursuline convent
and find the nuns praying before the
same statute of the Virgin which their
predecessors invoked on behalf of the
American army. Upon her head, and
that OF the Divine Infant in her arms,
blaze costly crowns, made Of gold and
Jewels contributed by the Catholic ladies'
OF Louisiana. They call this representa-
tion of the Madonna, "Our Lady OF
Prompt Succor,' and believe that she has
wrought miracles. I suspect that the
real ladies of prompt succor are the Cath
olic Sisters themselves, but will not
argue that point at present What
struck me most forcibly was the contrast
between the magnificence Of the affairs at
which the New Orleans priests officiate
and their own unostentatious apartments
and austere lives. We peep into the
Newsboys' Home, where Huckleberry
Finns and Little Gavroches ARE fed,
housed and taught, the Sisters striving
desperately to rescue these waits OF the
street from the maelstro1n of Ignorance
and infamy.. A Protestant preacher re-
Gently declared that but for the almost
superhuman efforts Of the Catholic
church to stem the tide Of crime, New
York would become chaos. Without it
what would New Orleans be today?
TO return for moment to the Jesuits,
at whose heads so many thunderbolts
have been hurled! They could doubtless
become very dangerous If they SO de-
sired for they are armed with the
weapons that must eventually subjugate
the world--a quick intelligence and SUI
perior education. No intellectual infant
can reach even the first vows Of the or
der-the curriculum would kill him. It
requires ten years to educaterza Jesuit
priest, while ten days is sufficient to
transform an ignorant horse joc'sey like
Sam Jones into successful Protestant
preacher cannot understand what at
traction the life of nun has for a wick
ed woman or that of Jesuit priest for
a man depraved. It is pretty safe to
judge a tree by its fruits; and when we
find men living frugal and labrious lives
inspiring thousand charities, filling the
world with scholars and holding them
selves ever ready for any sacrifice, and
all this without proelaiming their good
deeds from the housetops. we may as
sumo that they are making a reasonably
successful effort to follow inA the foot
steps Of the Master.