The Irish standard., 1909-12-18
The NEAllI|B||llE|. ||l !. BARK \ n
OF i ! PETER ! DESCRIBED.
An Eloquent Tribute to the
Catholic Church by Father
Day, . Celebrated English
Jesuit he Evil Of Spirit
uaIism Condemned more
than once asa Modern Sup
erstition and Worst off
spring Of Satan's Brood.


The following beautiful tribute to
: the infalltble baraue Of Peter is by
Father Day, the noted English Jesuit:
Her hull ID battered. Her sails are
torn. But she keeps her course and
sails slowly and majestically over sthe
water. Why slowly Because the bar.
nacles Of time have gathered upon her
keel. Why majestically? Because she;
is the royal ship of the Kingdom Of
God. 4 The pennant OF Christ is flying,
and all the ships Of the sea dip their
burgee as they pass. Dare we signal
her? Yes, why not? who are you?
Whence do you come? For what port
are you bound? Who's your captain?
And how is your crew? eve are the
Barque of Peter--the one holy Catholic
and Roman Church, come down from
Christ. Who is our Captain. We have
sailed 1000 years--carried cargoes Of
salvation for millions OF souls. Two
hundred million passengers. are now.
aboard, and we are bound for the City
OF God. Our pilot is the same who
stepped on. board when first we start.
ed. The other chief navigators have
been taken from US by death. But
Peter, in the person Of Plus, still steers
our ship by the, compass Of infallibls
trsilth Al are still psrseverlng in the
doctrine A Mare stu
submitting themselves to the infalltble
.seics# the liyins Apoatle a. |. 81
And So The grsaf ship passes she
''isftins On e!ksnr3 Christ Watch
her and wonder as she goes. She Is the
ship Of faith. Her timbers' are sound.
She is as firm and infallible now as in
the days Of the Apostles, and she was
as infallible during the medieval ages
Of pretended darkness as she was in the
years Of primitive purity There has
never been any break in the continuity
Of her. prerogative to believe and to
teach without failing. 81. i.
So She has been, and is, always and ev-
erywhere infallible. tIntallible in the
Catacombs whilst struggling against
the rage Of tyrants; infallible when,
having emerged from those caverns,
she covered east and west; s.infallible
when east and west separated: infall-
ible IN sunshine and darkness, In pros
perity and adversely, when all things
favored her. and when all things went
seemingly against her: infailible in
spite Of the weakness, errors, crimes
ana impenitent perversity Of many, Of
multitudes of her members; infallible
4 in spite Of the perpetual recurrence of
heresies and schisms; infallible withsa
divine and therefore unerring precision
which no lapse OF ages and no events
Of earth could influence, change or Inn
pair down to the contamination. ID
N Children Of the Catholic Church, give
thanks to God for having made you
members Of that communion in which
you are preserved from all errors in
faith, and from all illusions in the prac-
!. tice of virtue. Give thanks, moreover,
to God that you belong to q Church
which has also q keen sense to detect
and expose those moral and social
shams and religious frauds which pass
under the name Of morality, religion
and humanity, but which are In reality
subversive OF All faitl, and morality and
social progrsss. Neither Mormons nor