The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-20

ElS and numerous provinces OF the
Christian world. The seed planted in
trial and watered with tears has now
grown into mighty tree. The virtue,
the strength, the beauty were all in
the seed-the faith of Christ never
fails to flourish when there is air and
light enough and liberty to grow. Per-
secution but impedes it only 70" a
while-and even while it impedes it's
t:ossoming, only strengthens the roots
pastor of Boston we'll knew this when
he gave to his little church the name
Of Holy Cross.
Between the Puritan and the Cath
clio in the beginning lay a dreadful
sulf. To begin even to understand
the true soul of things which hap
pelied during the past century that
gulf must be explained. Until 81
Midge has been thrown across that
chasm, still very deep, even if grow
ing rapidly narrower, the people Of
New England will never live in per-
feet concord. The first step in the
remedy of an ill is the admission Of
its existence. And if there is a place
where this holy endeavor for harmon
izing hearts is fitting, it is this place,
the mother church of this whole Prov
ince, and if there is one upon whom
that duty would seem to rest more
than upon any other, it is upon the
Metropolitan of the greatest religious
body in New England.
1.-THE child of the emigrant is called
to fill the place which the Puritan has
left. He must learn to fill it worthily
and we'll. And from the story of his
fathers struggles he must take TO
heart two salutary lessons-to keep
his faith undimmed and his charity
unquenched. The charity Of the Pur-
itsn was for his own only-the char
ity of the Catholic must be for all.
ned only for himself. The Catholic
must broaden his love to embrace all
as Christ did. He will not fail. The
Puritan frowned upon the coming Of
the stranger, and then wondered at
the estrangement which followed.
Beware of a like grave fault yourself
towards those who now enter you:'
gates. Your Church is Catholic--so
let your charity be also.
mo obstacles of ignorance of our
faith nor antipathy to race must dis
courage us. The sign of the Holy
Cross CLEANS high before us Catholics
of Boston and New England as it did
Upon the banners of Constantine when
the Church came forth from the cata.
Combs to take her rightful place. Of
glory and triumph among all tribes
and peoples. The procession has
started; the march towards our duty
| here, not merely to ourselves, but to
our surroundings, must proceed. God
vi ills tour country demands it. Let
the dead past bury its dead; but not
| all the past is dead"
| This is a solution of the race prob
lem, if one exists in Massachusetts,, as
President Eliot would have us be-
licvc, and a solution worked out by a
native of that state, though he does
| hear the name of Ireland's grea:
emancipation, whose praises were new
or sung more eloquently than by
Wendell Phillips, Yankee, and Bog
TONS great orator.
The writer Of these lines was him.
self born in that state-he knows
somewhat of the old animosity to-
wards the Celt, which still crops out
even among the people Of his genera
ton. The church in which he was
baptized was set on fire carly one
Sunday morning by bigots, but the
great-and in his day-the most not
ed priest Of that state-Father Boycc
better known under his pen name
Of Paul Peppergrass, author and lee
turer, so aroused public opinion and
by his manly courage brought into
play the part to be used by the
Church militant, in real sense, SO
that no like attempt was ever again
| made.
Truly the Celt has won his way in
New England until it now might well
be called New Ireland, and it Ill be-
comes President Eliot to fling his big
c+ry and bile into the faces Of an
American audience. He Is scheduled
to reach the cities Of the Middle West
very soon and readers of this paper
can now be prepared, thanks to the
courtesy Of our Southern Celtic
friend.
| Don'ts for Penitents.
Don't crowd into the confessional