The Irish standard., 1903-08-22
MAN|FtSTOLETS
REV. MARTIN MAHoNY

the Catholic and one or two private
schools; of the former there passed 212,
or % per cent; of the latter %, or rs
per cent. OF these > ) special honor
marks were won by II, s from the
public schools, Is from the Catholic, ,
from the Nornals Training Depart
ment. and l from Il private school. The
public schools represented We're %. the
Catholic ID: so that one in every three
Of the former, and one in every two,
of the latter won horrors. Every hon
OF student of the former costs the city
SD annual educational tax, of the lat
ter only SD. At Il like examination
In Rochester passed Il per cent of the
public school pupils, and 81 per cent
of those the Catholic, and i'll the honor
degree 81, and lG per cent respective
ly. In Brooklyn at an examination
for entrance into the High School. OF
IS public school graduates s passed,
and of - from the local parish school,
all II. In Chicago, according to the
Popular Education for last December,
out OF 100 candidates for admission to
the Normal School, there passed g. OF
whom 10 were from the paroclial
schools. causing the papers cores
pondent to add: when one comes to
think of it. the Catholics of Chicago
are doing a great deal for the city,
When young Frederick w. Faber
told Wordsworth that he was about to-
assume the duties of an Anglican rect
or, Wordsworth said: Il do not say
you are wrong, but England loses Il
poet" And later when visiting Faber
at the Elton Rectory Wordsworth.
said: IF it We're not for Frederick
Faber's devoting himself so much to
his sacred calling. he would be the
poet of the age"
OF ''some very slsilfuily constructed
dramatic pieces that have come to us
from England during the past few
years, and that have been initiated by
our own playwrights. ......w witty, ill
eenious and truly dramatic. nothing
i'll their language or ti.eir persomges
to give any violent shock.... the char
acters ladies ard gentlemen" DR.. Har-
ry ThurstOn Peck says "it is not easy
to conceive of IL more insidiously ba1le-
full influence than that which these
plays must in the end exert upon those
of ripper years. For they represent Il
profound and corroding cynicism. arh
acceptance of evil as Il matter of:
course.
In Copenhagen pious folks anyhow,
will have none of the pagan practice of
covering collins with flowers The
friends of the deceased place on the
coffin neat cards which tell that some
offering has been made towards SOME
charitable object. towards abating suf-
fering, relieving destitution, doing some
real good
In the support of the press of their
own religious denomination the Jews;
are first. aux! the Catholics almost last.
For each 1000 the Jews have paper.
and their papers have an average circ->
u!ation Of 5000 copies.
1:here are Il great Manly holy per-
SONS who are not Catholic Christians
who. though geographically outside
the church. are not culpably outside Of
it, says the Ave Maria. And it quotes
Newman's testimony to the saintlike
resignation and penitential spirit of the
Anglican Bishop Weedall, who OIL his
deathbed scrupled at allowing his tenl-
pies to be moistened with some refresll~
Ing waters, and at taking some LIQUID.
to allay his distressing thirst; he fear.
81 it was too great a luxury. But I'M,
fortunately this instance, whilst illus
trating the Ave Maria editors fine
Catholic readiness to recognize good
ness. wherever found, quite missed the
mark. the devout Mgr. Weetlall having
been no Anglican at all, but a Roman
of the Romans.
Of the Roman Breviary Matthew Ar
mold, after spending lifetime ON read.
ing the best in the worlds literature
both sacred and profane, remarkea 4o,
Cardinal Manning: Il never knew t1,.t
such a beautiful hook existed: and if is
Il strange thing that should have lived
SO long without knowing it, It is IT
compilation of the Psalms of David
ana other Scriptures. of the homilies
OF the Fathers Of the Church, of the
llVes OF the saints, and of PRAYERS
which John Ruskin called the ONLY
ones written by man and fit to he Of
feresl to God.
Enough your teacher. or even nrofos-
sor. or even omniscient newspaper man
may not know it, it is still. the f,ct
that monks and clurchmen. represent
atives and products of the .:mediaev,1-
ISM or dark ages that it is the fash
ION with your ''wretched little cast
IRON gaSpipes" to refer to so scornfu1-
~ have had the first hand in giving us