The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-04-30

mass, observing Cne NH crowded. Will
worshippers unable to gain admittance,
but all enthusiastic in their devotions.
OF this visit he thus wrote: II received
communion at the Bishops mass, to-
gether with four or five hundred other
persons, whose fervor and devotion made
me at once envy them and ashamed Of
myself"
While in Ireland Montalembert could
nooth, the famous seat of learning. 1t
was opportune that after leaving O'Con-
nell, trif1e disappointed, he should visit
a Bishop peerless in Irish hierachry, who
Liberty" for his motto. At the college
table of Maynooth the tears rolled down
the cheeks of Montalembert as his health
was proposed to be drunk by the distin-
guished d. X. L." the Bishop of Kill
dare and Leighlin, the late DR.. Doyle.
After two months spent in Ireland.
which he declared were the happiest two
months of his life, Montacmbert re-
junction with this distinguished Lacor-
daire. who had abandoned the law and
entered the priesthood, and I4amennals.
the most illustrious erclesiastic of his
time, started L'Avenr, in the interest
of the Catholic faith in France.
Previous to 1880, the University OF
Paris m0nopoiZed all educational facli-
ties in France, but the new charter
(passed in the latter part of 1S30) had
promised with las little delay as posi-
BILE, liberty of teaching In order to
force the issue, Montalembert presented
a petition to the Chamber of Peers de-
handing that the promise Of the charter
be fulfilled; but no response came.
In 1917, when O'C1nnell decided to Wis
1t the Eternal City, Montalembert, as
the Representative OF the French Cham
Der, thus addressed him: Your glory is
not only Irish it is Catholic. Whenever
Catholics begin anew to produce civic
virtues and devote themselves to the con-
quest Of their civic rights, 1t is your
cipate itself from the thradom in which
several generations of sophists and logi-
clans have placed it, to you. after Cod
is religion indebted. May that thought
fortify you. revive you in your infirmi-
ties, and console you in the applications
with which your patriotic heart is now
overwhelmed. The wishes of Catholic
Franco will accompany you in your pill
grimage to Rome. The day Of your meet
ing with Plus lN.-when the greatest and
most illustrious Christian of our age
shall kneel at the feet Of Pontin who
recalls to our recollection the most bril-
momentous event in the history of our
time will take place.
III, in THAI instant CT extreme emotion,
your heart should entertain thought
not absorbed by Ireland or Rome, re-
member us; the homage Of the affection,
respect and devotion Of the Catholics of
France for the chief of the church would
not be better placed than on the life of
In 1Sli, the educational question was
opened, and discussion soon reached a
point OF warmth. 1t was at this time
that MOntalembert made his famous
speech ending with the following Words
Il add, in the name of Catholic laymcn
like myself, Catholics Of the nineteenth
century: We will not be nclots in the
midst of free people, We are the Sic
cessors OF the martyrs and we do not
tremble before the successors of Julian
the Apostate. We are the sons of the
Crusaders and we will never yield to the
progeny of Voltaire!"
Up to the revolution of 1913 Montalem
bert was the leader of the Catholic party
In France. The house of peers, having
been eXtinguished by the new politica!
conditions, he entered the French assem-
bly as a representative, having been
chosen by more than enc constituency.
He took front rank as debater in this
stormy assembly, and soon became a rec
ognizcd Political force. He adopted fer
-'A' iAt'''N ''iS oSNiSt' NIOu duu oOClGtN,
formerly it was God and Liberty" TO
the end he remained loyal to the prin-
ciples to which he had given his youth
tul allegiance. Freedom consistent with
the love of God, liberty controlled and
regulated by law, by the needs Of society.
and Indispensable peace and order
Following the election of Louis Napo-
leon to the presidency of the French re-
public, Montalembert quickly found the
conditions of public life ntolerable for a
man Of his principles and his unprom-
Using convictions Of duty He withdrew
altogether never again to re-enter the
political arena. and his voice was only
occasionally heard above the din and the
adulations of the worshippers of power.
He was disguised with the rule Of Napo-
leon and he protested strongly but vain
ly against the empire, the downfall Of
which he foresaw and predicted.
His only public appearance In the
years of his retirement was at the men,
orable Catholic congress of Malines, Bel
GUM, where he was received with the
greatest enthusiasm by an asscmbase of
1000 representative Catholics-lncluding