The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-11-17

blow at his step church, un
consciously, it is true; nevertheless, l
cannot blame him for he spoke the
truth.
Now, since Professionalism has util-
lied the Orange societies for the Diff
fusing of its truth for the last hun
dred years and has gloried in it, it has
long series of misdeeds to answer
for. The tearing down of churches.
killing of priests aud defenseless peo-
pie, wanton acts Of treachery, and
all the various acts of lawlessness
which liberty-loving ~ religion could
inspire-how an organization of that
stamp could be ever accepted by Prot
estantism as the exponent of its ideas
surpasses the comprehension of any
rational man. 1t is rarely that min
lister speaks all the truth. DR.. Ryan
made kind confession in saying that
Ornngeism stands for Protestant ideas
and their maintenance. l am sorry
that lie did not continue to speak of IT,,
for he says afterwards that ireland
was the last country of western Europe
to concede any unusual honor to the
Pope of Rome" suppose he means
the first. 1 wonder what books of ref
erence Dr. Ryan had when he penned
those lines. One thing is certain; that
lie is not an adept in archaeological
matters; for If he We're he would have
found out that Ireland was perhaps
the first country in Western Europe
that showed unusual honors to the
Pope. In this matter, for want of
space l would refer DR.. Ryan to the
"Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick" and
to the writings of Mennius and Sedu-
Illus, all of which contain illusions
which show in an undoubted manner
the honor. veneration and respect of
the early Irish church to the Pope Of
Rome. In them we find the words
"Christian'' and "Romanist" are sy-
nonymous terms, although in the vo-
cabulary of DR.. Ryan he would scarce
ly concede such an honor to a Roman
list.
Now, for DR.. Ryan's enlightenment
l will cite n testimony of one Of the
Irish saints in the matter which the
stiniable clergyman will no doubt
consider a very unusual honor, and it
is among the first and not the last of
similar honors given by western Eu-
rope. 1t is taken from the fourth
epistle of the great and learned ST.
ColumhMnuS, Il graduate of those Irish
schools which DR.. Ryan with due re-
spect and in all sincerity eulogizes. to
Pope Boniface. Here are the saint s
words: ''Eo the most lovely of all Eu-
rope. to the, head of all the churches,
% the Reloved Father. to the exalted
prelate. to the Pastor of Pastors etc.
Proceeding. lie says: For we Irish
are disciples of Saints Peter and Paul
and of oil the divinely-inspired canon
ical writer's, adhering constantly to
the Evangelical and Apostolical doe
trine. Among us neither Jew, hereto
nor schismatic can he found, but the
Catholic faith, unaltered, mistaken,
precisely as we have received it from
you, who are the successors of the
Apostles For as T have already snitl,
we are attached to the chair of
Peter, and although Rome is great and
renowned, vet with us it is great and
iltustrious only on account of that
Apostolic chair etc.
Any person who reads that testi-
nloly when Western Europe was still
only half civilized must be forced to
confess that Ireland and Irislrnen held
the Pope Of Rome, to use DIR. Ryan's
own words, Gin unusual honor" Again,
DR.. Ryan says that after the Reforma-
ton, Professionalism took. Il foothOld in
Ulster Yes, il transportation from Eng.
land in it's maturity means a foothold.
For, to. use the language OF Mr.. Lowe,
tfseaking in the English house Of com
mons in 1868 on the Irish church dis
establishment act. it was transported
like IN exotic brought from a far
country, tended with infinite pains and
useless trouble, kept alive with the
greatest difficulty and at great expense
in IN uncongenial climate and in an
ungrateflll soil, with the curse of bar
renness upon it; it's leaves putting
forth no blossoms and yielding no
fruit These are the words of an UNI
prejudiced English statesman, himseli,
a Protestant This is the church which
DR.. Ryan says took foothold. | Won
der what a peculiar foothold it must
have been when a person competent
to judge pronounced it barren, leave
less, fruitless. even in Ulster.
What unblushing effrontery for a
man to say that the main cause of
bloodshed and feuds in Ireland was
the efforts of the papacy to maintain
itself in the land. 1t was not caused
by the efforts of the Gromwellians and
the Orange heroes to extirpate papacy,
oh, no. Evidently, DIR. Ryan does not
know that English Protestant histori-
ans attribute the blame to English