The Irish standard., 1909-03-20

Christian world. The seed planted in
trial and watered with tears has now
grown into a mighty tree. The virtue,
the strength, the beauty were all in
the seed-the faith Of Christ ncve:"
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
b:ossoming, only strengthens the roots
and invigorates the sap. The first
pastor of Boston we'll knew this when
lie gave to his little church the name
of Holy Cross.
Between the Puritan and the Cath
clio in the beginning lay dreadful
eulf. To begin even to understand
the true soul of things which hap.
peled during the past century that
Gulf must be explained. Until q
bridge 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 i'll is the admission OF
its existence. And if there is Il 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.
"The child of the cmigrant 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 70
| heart two salutary lessons-to keep
his faith undimmcd and his charity
unquenched. The charity of the Pur-
itan was for his own only-the char
ity of the Catholic must be for all
The Puritan failed because he pl IN
rel only for himself. The Catholic
!
as Christ did. He will not fail. The
Puritan frowned upon the coming o1
the stranger, and then wondered al
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 oul
faith nor antipathy to lace must dis
courage us. The sign of the Holy
Cross CLEANS high before us Catholics
uf Boston and New England as it did
Upon the banners of Constantine when
tho Church came forth from the cata.
combs to take her rightful place ol
glory and triumph among all tribes
and peoples. The procession hao
started; the march towards our duty
here not merely to ourselves, but to
our surroundings, must proceed. God
" ills it-our country demands it. Lei
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-
lcvc, and solution worked out by q
native of that state, though he does
hear the name of lrcand's grea:
crnancipator, whose praises were new
or sung more eloquently than by
Wendell Phillips, Yankee, and Bos-
tons great orator.
The writer of these lines was him
self born in that sta,c-hc knows
somewhat of the old animosity to-
even among the people Of his genera
ton. The church in which he was
baptized was set on fire early ono
Sunday morning by oigots, but the
Creat-and in his day-thc most not
ed priest of that state-lTather BOycc
--bctter known under his pen ramC
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, 81
that no like attempt was ever again
| made.
Truly the Colt has won his way in
New England until it now might well
he called New Ireland, and it Ill be-
comes President Eliot to fling his big
ctry 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.