The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-13

the existence of God, has many ways of
magnifying his Protean powers. The
evidence of his possession of some peo-
pie is manifested by virulent hatred
of the "Old Pope" and the Catholic
church, calumny of the Sisters of Char
tty, and the denial of the existence OF q
God. That's the shape in which he has
Mr.. Williamson; and if the devil has
am satisfied he has, the guerdon of ex-
cellence will be awarded to those who
deny the existence of Him whom the de-
vii hates but cannot deny himself.
He says, "the Sisters go into converts
because they can't get married, or are
too cowardly to fight the battle OF life,
etc." The cruel malignity of this infa-
nous accusation! 1t would paralyze
the genius of the English language to
furnish suitable phraseclogy to express
my fathomsless contempt tor any man
who would make such a brutal charge
against woman. This malignant and
loathsome defamer says in one place that
they 20 into converts because they are
too cowardly to fight the battle of life,
and Immediately after Gays that no girl
who has not money can get into con-
vent at all. His black calumny has ov-
erleaped itself, and he makes one asser-
ton cut the throat of the other. A girl
with money can light the battle of lie
anywhere, and it is an important ele-
nent in this utilitarian age in enhcnc-
ing matrimonial opportunities. Be-
sides, he says, the convent is peniten-
tiary, and yet girls pay money for the
privilege of being victims of gloom and
despair" Mr.. Williamson possesses a
unique interest from the fact that most
men who are liars are so from one point
of view; but this man proves himself
to be the chief apostle of Ananias from
every point Of observation.
Women who leave parents and friends
home and kindred, devoting their lives
in Jealous fidelity to the physical and
spiritual interests of others, nursing the
sick, feeding the orphan, comforting the
widow, reclaiming the outcast, bunting
the sting of melancholy, gliding the
gloom and sorrow and painting the fra
grant rose of hope in the wilderness of
despair, often ending their lives, which
have been lived for others, by fearlessly
entering the portals of deadly conta-
gion, and in their efforts to subdue the
, lation, have become willing victims Of
his devouring wrath. Are such women
, towards?
THAT whether on the scaffold high
Or in the battles van;
The noblest place for man to die,
Is where he dies for man.
Measured by this criterion, in what
vocabulary can we find language that
would fifty damn a man to eternal in
fanny for calling her coward who would
risk her own life to save the life Of her
impious traducer?
He says: "Don you know the most
effective and destructive enemies of Po-
perry and priestcraft were raised in Cath
olicism?' We likewise know that the
most effective and destructive enemy of
Jesus Christ was one Of His Apostles.
He talks about the cruel treatment OF
the Pope by Napoleon. What became of
Napoleon after that? He was dragged
down from the empyrean of power and
aggrandizement to unsounded depths, of
humiliation and degradation. The poet
Byron said Of the hero of Marengo and
the genius of Austerlitz when at St. He
lena:
"'Tis done! hut yesterday king
And armed with kings to strive;
And now thou art a nameless thing,
So abject, yet alive"
The Pope whom be had imprisoned
said this to him after being offered
cockade through Gen. Bertnier, as a
French symbol and as a compliment:
Sir, can accept no ornoments except
those with which the church invests me,
the pastoral staff and this little crown
on my head And remember although
you may at present throw down the mo-
numents of the living and uproot the
tombs of the dead, you Will soon be
confined to the grave, and this little
crook and this crown I wear will govern
the universal earth when your name and
race and power are forgotten amongst
men,
He tells US Of the exploits of some bad
Catholics. A Catholic may go to the
devil like anyone else if he wants to,
and they very often do so. Mr.. Williams
son is a living exempliication of this
truth.
He says priests were killed like dogs
during the French Revolution. So were
Jesus Christ and eleven Of the twelve
Apostles.
Mr.. Williamson, by implication says
he is materialist, an .infidel and glo-
rious atheist; that is, he, don't believe
in spiritual existences, he has no faith