The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-05-12
ABOUT PROPAGATION OF TIE FAITH
Influence Of English Tongue on
People of the Earth.
FUTURE OF The CHURCH IN ENGLAND
Warm Greetings to the Catholic
Union of Great Britain.

The London Tablet, official organ Of
Cardinal Vaughan, publishes long let
ter from Archbishop ireland to the
Duke OF Norfolk, in which he says in
part:
/ descended stranger into the rail-
way station OF London; I went thence,
feeling as leaving city that had been
transformed for me into home.
Friendship and honors, the generous
gifts OF hospitablc hearts had come to
me in unstinted measure, and had stirred
my heart into most warm response.
From all sides those friendships and
llonors were offered to me; they came
from Protestants as we'll as from Catllo-
lies, and, in speaking now my thanks to
the Catholic Union, l speak my thanks
to all, Protcstants and Catholics, whose
favors have cndearcd London to me.
There was surely nothing narrow or
sectional in your city's proffcr of hos
pitality to me, and there must be moth
! ing narrow or sectional in my rcmcm-
brance of that hospitality.
The Catholics whom I had the honor
TO meet recognized in mc fellow
Catholic, and were pleased to give cvi-
dencc that the bonds Of faith do not
slackcn when strung across oceans and
continents: and with them the Protest
ants, whom I had the honor to meet,
recognized in me an American, and all
were pleased to embrace the opportunity
to indicate their regard for America by
their treatment OF one OF its citizens,
however small may have been the per-
sonal title OF that citizen to such treat
mcnt.
To have been brought into near rcla-
ton with the Catholic Union OF Great
Britain was an event in my life that l
prize most highly. Meeting the Union
realized was in the presence of body
OF men remarkable in singular degree
both for its membership and for the
manifest work set before it,
| In its membership saw the rcprcscn-
tativcs OF the families of heroes and
martyrs, who in penal days had, under
penalty OF such fearful sacrifices, stood
guard around the devastated altars OF
religion; and l saw there, too, the con-
vcrts OF recent times, whose coming
| into the bosom OF mother Church an
nounccs the Second spring" OF the
growth OF Catholicity in England. In
presence OF an assembly OF such nature,
what could my prayer have been but
what it was, that the glory Of the
church's future in England be no less
bright than that OF her past, and that
never again in her story there be re-
corded an interruption in her march Of
power and conquest.
In the membership OF the Union,
among old-timc Catholics and among
converts, saw men whose princcly
names and princcly deeds arc the pride
OF the British, empire; saw there men
whose exalted intellectual gifts reach
out in richest influence throughout the
whole English speaking world; and in
the presence OF all such could not but
have said, as l did say to myself
whatever such men undertake to do can
not fail OF being well done.
1t is broad, plain fact in the gcogra-
| ply OF the world-a fact daily becoming
broader and plaincr-tlat the English
language is circling the globe, that Eng
speaking countries arc constantly
growing with speed that nothing seems
able TO arrest in territory and i'll nilu-
cncc. certainly shall not bclittlc the
spheres OF influence oi languages other
than the English, or deny in the least
| the importance 10 the church OF coun-
tries speaking those languages; let due
place be given to all agencies in the
great work OF religion. But this said,
the truth is before us.'that in the pres
| Cnt. and more yet Ill the 1uturc, inc
mind of people spread over immense
regions OF the globe are to be reached
only through the Englisl! language, and
that very much OF the missionary work
OF the church is to be done under the
acgis of the Englsll-speaking countries.
This fact cannot, in the interest Of re-
ligion, be too strongly impressed upon
the representatives and leaders OF the
English-spcaking Catholics, and upon
Universal church herself. Whatever the
institutions and the influences that arc