The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-01-19
PRIESTS MEET AFTER 20 YEARS.
Fr. Tubman and FIR. Guinan in JOY
full Reunion at All HaIIows.


schoolmates who attended college an
took church orders together in Irelan'
: more than a score of years ago, whel
: the very Reverend Father Tubman O
Christ Church diocese, Tiraru, Ney
Zealand, and the Rev. Father Jame
Guinan, of All Hallows' college, greet
ed each other Sunday afternoon
after separation of twenty
years.
Father Tubman, who arrived her
Sunday from New York after
most interesting trip extending nearl.
. around the World, will leave today t,
visit his brother, Rev. Father Thomas
Tubman.. who is now stationed q
Reno, Nevada. after which he will con
tinue his journey to the coast and ther
sail for his home.
Father Tubman and Father Guinar
were educated together with the Mar.
list fathers in Dundalk and Dublin
Father Guinan came to America fol
service in his church and Father Tub
Tan, after serving for two years as
a parish priest in Ireland, went to New
Zealand, where he has since been sta
! tened
In his trip around the world Father
Tubman visited Tasmania, Melbourne
Adelaide, Perth, Colombo, Alden, Port
Said and Cairo. Port Said he speaks
of as the wickedest place in the world.
| filled with remittance men and the off
scouringS of the civilized world From
Cairo he went to Palestine and re-
NAMED week in Jerusalem, celebrat-
ing mass in the church of The Nativity.
THE Jews of Jerusalem he said,
have most peculiar religious cere-
! mony which l had the pleasure of wit
Messing. Every Friday. which is their
Sabbath. the faithful gather at the
walls of the ruined Temple of Jerusa-
lem. and there after a reading of the
Scripture, not the Christian Bible, but
the original Scripture. they wall and
weep and press their heads 20 the cold
stones of the wall, praying for The res
toratfon of the temple Their strong
religious conviction is wonderful and
their faith that the temple will be re-
stored is remarkable, to have endured
these many centuries
After visiting the sacred sites and
scenes in the holy land. Father Tub
man went to Brindisi, Italy and thence
II Naples, where he arrived shortly
after the last eruption of Vesuvius.
The railroad was still clogged with
lava dust and scoria, and the traffic
He also visited the disinterred city of
Pompeii. after which he went to Rome,
and was granted an interview by Pope
Plus Y. participating in the service Of
the qualification of st. Julia Bavia. At
Milan he visited the great cathedral,
and thence went to Paris and London.
The immoral writings of Voltaire
and Rosseau have been the first cause
of the uprising against the church in
France" he said. THE oriental lodge
of Free Masonry, which abhors the
name of God and detests the ten COM
and which objects to all
religious belief. was another factor
which led to the unpleasant state of
affairs existing there. Many of the
French people are still Christians. but
the enemies of the church and of the
faith are more active than those that
are friendly to religion.
THE universal CONSUMPTION law pre-
vailing in France has also been fac
tor in this dissatisfaction with the
church. The two or three years of i'm
moral life in the barracks to which the
youth of the land is subjected has n
strong tendency to break down the in
herent sense Of morality and religious
AT :he same time there is a great
deal of religious conviction in France |
The present persecution will lead to a |
great revival of Christianity in
France in the future 1t will tend in |
time to develop all that is good in the
people of that country. It will cause
MITIGATION of the Christian people
They will coalesce and stand solidly to-
sether- There is a spirit of opposition
o the restraining influence of religious
ife, and religious training, and reli-
sious thought rampant at this time
md the outbreak is the result. This
will be overcome when the people have
heir fill of license. and in the end the
church will gain by the present dis
OF the government of New Zealand.
Father Tubman is enthusiastic
Il believe it the best country in the
World he said. THE climate is ideal.
The average temperature on the north
IN island is 81 degrees, and of the
southern island 81 degrees. There are
lever extremes of heat and cold.
There are no droughts as in Australia
The government is in my opinion. the
advanced. The labor laws are lust
md beneficial To the laboring classes.
Wages are regulated by law. Tho
minimum wage for common labor is 81
or eight hours work. The skilled
vorkmen make greater wages of
curse.
There is equal suffrage. Old per-
ons are provided with 4 pension Any
person who has lived in the country
wen!y-eight years ami has attained
he age of 81 years receives a pension |,
rom the government of 26>pounds ster-
ing Fer year. There are no poor
'ouSes.
THE government can condemn large
states and purchase them from their
wners, dividing the land and selling
to the people. The prices TO be paid
or the land are fixed by board IF !
FILTRATION, whose decision is final.
'hus all the people have the chance !
o buy their own farms. Great estates
hat formerly supported only few
hepherds have become prosperous and
.ell settled communities under the CD
ration of this law
The absence of sucE law has been
he curse of Ireland. where the rich
WI the best land am the poor are
riven to the mountains and the bar
en- land"
After leaving France Father Tub
mn went to London, thence to Ire
and, where he remained six months
the scenes of his bovhood ,
nd early manhood. He then went di {
ect to New York {
Just because the tortoise beat the c