The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-12-15

ueInallueu HOlHlHs5 less IMAM utt0f 0A-
t!nction. Clement XIV. WAS pressed
on all sides, and the so-called "Catho-
lic' Courts threatened him with schis,n
i'll case he did not comply with their
demand. Thus painfully placed, the
Pope accepted what he considered the
lesser and suppressed the society.
AS soon as the suppression took
place. the institutions of the Jesuit
Fathers were given up TO plumber,
desecration, and every kind of van
dalisr,, by most of the governments
Of Europe. Bruges was pillaged by the
Austrian government. Liege was de-
prived of it's income and its inmates
were expelled from the home which
they had made the seat of learning
and religion. The English-speaking
land whittier Father Carroll accom-
panied them. He acted az secretary
in their meetings, and, in fact, con-
Quoted their important correspondence
with the French government in rela-
ton 10 the property Of the suppressed
Society in France
In the summer of 1774 we find
Father Carroll back in the homo of his
mother at Rock Creek, Maryland,
which he had left at the age Of four
teen and to which he now returns at
the age of forty. For the next ten
years his labors were chiefly performed
in the neighboring country. He trav-
eled on horseback, making long and
frequent journeys to distant Catholic
families and settlements, riding fire.
quently thirty miles or more to sick
calls and paying monthly visits to a
small congregatfo OF Catholics in
Stafford County, Va, which was dis
tant fifty or sixty miles from his
home. :.
| At the time OF his return there was
| not one Catholic Church open in all
| Maryland. In the year 1890 the Cath
:oltc Church in the United States may
be said to have begun its mission az
an organized body, with a. Bishop at
its head. The field of labor was vast
and the laborers few. The majority
of the Catholics were poor. Most of
them were faithful Irish, who had fed
from British tyranny and spoliatton;
numbers of them were exiled French
and Germans. who had gladly escaped
from. the ruin and desolation that
threatened European society at the
thine. j. :. 80. ~. ="
DR.. Carrolls conservation took place
in England on August Is, 1890. Late
| in the. same year. he reached the shores
of America, and WAS joyfully welcomed
by his people. On the day of his in
sta1iation he said to them:
This day inpresses deeply on my
mind a lively sense of the new relation
tn which I stand before you. The shade
OF retirement and solitude must no
! longer be my hope and prospect of
consolation. Often have I -f1attered
myself that my declining years would
be INDUCED in such state of rest
from labor and solicitude from others
as would leave me- the best oppor-
tunity of attending to the great con-
Germ Of my own salvation, and OF con-
flr1ning myself to remember my past
:. years in the bitterness Of compunc-
ton. But it has pleased God to orde,
/ Otherwise; and though my: duty com.
mands submission, it cannot allay my
fears-those fears which feel for you
and for myself.
i "In God alone can / find: any con-
ISOLATION. He knows by what steps !
have been conducted to this Important
station, and how much have always
1 dreaded it. He will not abandon me
unless I first draw down HIS rnaledic-
ton by my unfaithfulness to- my
charge. Pray. dear brethren: pray In
oessantly, that may not incur %
dreadful q punishment. Alas! the pun
fsillIoilL WOulu I'LL OIL you AZ well at
myself-,ny unfaitlfulness would re-
dound on you and deprive you OF some
of the means Of salvation -
IN November, 1891, Bishop Carroll
convened his first synod in Baltimore
1t numbered twenty-five cIerKymen
and the salutary measures adopted by
that body remain to this day monu-
ment of it's wisdom. About this time
Dr. Carroll paid his first visit to the
capital Of New England. TT is won.
derful," he writes, "to tell what grea
civilities have been done to me ir
Boston, where a few years ago Z
popish priest was thought to be til,
greatest monster in creation. Man,
here even Of their principal peopl,
have acknowledged to mo that the,
would have crossed to tho opposite
side of the street rather than ,neet .