The Irish standard., 1899-02-18
A SERMON TO 0RANGEMEN.

an eulOgy of the late Pere Chiniquy be-
fore the followers Of King William on
horseback. We had fondly hoped that
Minneapolis had heard the last hiss Of
the anti Catholic preacher "Go-Lightly"
Morrill,. D. j. Burrill, Davy Tice, Way
land Hoyt. 0. L. Burgess and w. H..
| Geistwet made Rome howl" for a sea-
son. but their sibilant voices are heard
no more in the Flour City, and their
names are already we'll nigh forgotten.
Rome survives the venomous attacks OF
these clerical bigots and goes on majes-
tically in her divine mission, dispensing
| graces and blessings in her path and
praying for those who revile and calum-
Mate her. as Christ did of old.
Some men are born great, some ac
| quire greatness and some are born in
Ohio. To the last class belongs Rev. j.
| B. Helwig. About ten years ago he
achieved national notoriety by preach
ing a diatribe against "Romanism" in
the Buckeye state. in which he declared
on authority of the late Charles Chini-
guy, the Canadian ex-priest that Wilkes
Booth. the assassin Of Lincoln, was Il
Roman Catholic Prof Walter Sims,
the A. P. A. lecturer. went one better in
Milwaukee. vociferously shouting that on
the dead body of Booth was found Il
scapular-a positive proof that he was
a Romanist of the first water. and in the
! employ of the pope when he committed
the bloody deed. The Sage of Mimi
ger" refuted the false statement by pro-
ducing Bakers History of the Secret
Service" which showed that what Booth
had on his person when shot in the barn
were bills of exchange on Canada. where
Sims came from.
1t appears that the Orangemen Of
Minneapolis heard of the Rev. j. B.
Helwig away down in Ohio, and being a
man after their own kidney, he received
"call' from them to come to this me-
tropolis of the Northwest to fire his pop
gun at the "Romanists." He came. he
saw, but he has not yet
conquered Judging from his first
shots he will not injure the
ramparts of the church that sits on
the seven hills to any apprecablc ex-
tent.
Rev. J. B. Helwig seems to have read
Chinquys Fifty Years in the Church of
tn
thing he said last Sunday is contained in
that odifcrous volume.
Having been half century In the
ROmish church. seeing its vices" says
the Orange pastor. Father Chiniquy
tried. as Others had done. to reform that
church by staying in it. and like other
reformcrs he had failed because new
wine cannot be put in old bottles" La
ter" continues the Ohio man. Father
Chiniquy left tho Romish church and be-
came a Protestant. Had Chiniquy lived
would have taken his place with them as
one of the great rcformcrs of the world"
Has 1t ever occurred to this noisy
eulogist Of Chiniquy that it was about
time for the latter to get out of the cess
pool of Romish iniquity after wallowing
in the mire for fifty years. If the Church
was so contaminated rs Chiniquy paints
it? After emerging from the mud where
he was grovclng for an ordinary life
time. Rev. Helwig will agree with lis
that the first thing for him to do was to
take a Turkish bath. But the fact Of the
matter is that Chiniquy was bounced be-
cause he was dirty himself. and that the
church cast him out as an unclean thing,
as 1t had done with Luther. Knox and
others before him. AS n German Prot
cstant says. they were worm eaten APP
pies shaken off the papal tree"
We have not space to waste much
printers ink upon the beer-guzzling Lu-
Their. nor upon Knox. whom DR.. johnson
calls the ruifian Of the Reformation,
nor upon the sanity Calvin. who burned
Michael Servetus. We shall contlne our
self to the unfortunate Chiniquy. who
the advanced age OF 80 years We would
be willing to let him lie in his grave and
forget his neral and financial delin-
quencies IL the Hclwigs refrained from
| resurrecting his putrid corpse to Islander
the church to which he was traitor Of
the blacklist dye.
Chiniquy was a French Canadian by
birth, who received his preliminary edu-
cation for the priesthood at Nicollct
College Three Rivers, and finished his
ry, Montreal. After ordination he was
assigned to the pastorate at kamour!
aska, p. O.. where he soon got into
trouble in consequence of his excessive
vanity and was consigned to the Ob:ate
monastery at Montreal to learn humility
and do penance. Bishop Bouget saw
such synll toms of repentance in Chiniquy
that he was moved to tenderness, gave
him faculties, and also mission in his
| own diocese. Being an eloquent preacher
In his own language the fame of Chini-
guy spread throughout Canada. He felt
proud of his ability as temperance ora
tor. and as pride goeth before destruc-
tion," he fell like Lucifer never to rise