The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-17
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fine summer and autumn a
Duin5 American children OF the
good ne across the sea, at leisure,
ch1ftH 10 all impressions in that
n and i.;a5 old world" 1t is indeed
darh ,al,. If they. above all others,
40 Iool, far and see deeply and
% I9' EVERY Catholic is, in the tru-
WIDEN, Iong-descended person,
A 81 -,iritual ancestry and spiritual
win a old as Europe itself; his
uaal,ies if ne care TO draw upon
mei"' are of no common kind. Ger
tbei' bnrehts and emotions are his
tam ,or shared with his most aes-
a'n' l.insuan or neighbour, nor run
theD1s cl, and neck with those of the
pUs historical student. though the
mell' may look upon the evidences of
lau religion with interest, and
With respectful awe. Put par
eve" cooks tourists in an English
.sral There are one hundred
co. t3fty-seyen Of them, perhaps; and
aNu i,,gi,te cathedral for each. I'VE
Ia from within US, says Thack-
M .tbe world we see" To that al
e.,t unearthly beauty Of English
pl;,ec+ure. 50 full Of a certain di-
,,a dissatisfaction and mystic aspira-
VIZ never euualled on the continent
NJ can be SO sensitive as an in
N--.,..ad catholic? For what is this
= looks upon? Something ineXpress-
M, noble am beloved which is
lagged drueged, wronged. The spirit
beeu driven out Of it; il goes
iSro,,gb alien functions with a spu-
rors or galvanized energy. 1t is not
5.s5. il is only heart broken. They
Soye taken away my Lord, and l
inow not where they has laid Him
terrible, a pathetic emptiness
.,,-ssds from end to end, and from
si5e 10 side. Lamps do not fill it for
ns nor the exquisite voices of boys,
lsnning like crystal waves over the
snsces of the ritual choir. Sharply
snd inevitably the past, with harsh
tones. bridges all that lulling music.
md saws its incredible say. Long ago,
n cries was the Rood smashed down
from its sentinel post on the ramparts
If the sanctuary: and the alabaster
eaints struck from their delicate cary
en- inches yonder; and the useless piS-
cinas singularly chosen to hold pamph-
lets or fragments of masonry, and the
little aisle-chapelS, each with its in
diridual charm and JUNCTION, cleared
away to make room for a larger or
gan or a bigger vestry; and the
blessed dead cast out; and the glori-
ous painted windows blinded, and the
frescoes whitewashed, and the chan
tTv endoVments misapplied; and the
nigh altar put rUdely forth on the
flooded waters, and given over 10
homelessness. and the ingratitude of
man. Such is the record written for
those who viii heed, the rough out
line Of the national calamity brought |
TO pass by the strong rulers, full of
maet of the Tudor line.
1t is an operative calamity to this
DAY. severance and spoilation and |
seduction are written on those splen- /
did walls. They stand hushed with |
no breath of fire in them: stand de- |
cent and inexpensive. No place at all /
is this for passion or for tears, or for |
unleashed human repentance. and &C.
static human JOY any more. One is
grateful TO have them kept as care
fully as the now are at last, their |
shells Of souls being most fair and
dear. But less torturing. in way, is (
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where the grass surges in its pure nat
uyal gold, and wood-doves make their
nest high in the crannies of the pre-
Carious chancel arch against a sweet
pale sky. For there. at least. is real
DEATH aping no other fate; murdered
with all the arrows crumb-
ling from her wounds, lying quite
safe in the hands of time and decay.
Fv-1 a ~ I
as in that other interior, clothed in
legalized rebellion, and singing for
nearly three hundred years: l am far
better than the old! and then varying
the refrain, within the memory of
living men, until it sounds forth con-
idently and with a smile of light: I
An the Old.
Yes there is much in dispossessed
England, robbed" England Ito use a
famous word Of Cardinal Nanning's).
which arrests the gaze of those loyal
10 the Holy See the family heart
stone of the nations Ladies from
New York have been known TO sit in
NE yaulted porches and weep. not ir-
.auonallT. But why such romantic
uduigence when there is no question
d despair at all? on the contrary,
ga e'iAloNliiS uolSlS AoI lldHhSSiN-
hg and strengthened belief in the
nercies of God. Surely. most of the
''pu!ar portents TO the instructed eve J
ire hopeful though not Immediately
lppeiUL And a long line of saints
ma Nsionaries in every country have
oIeseen the broken-off branch" re-
5ofed To her sap and origin: for He
able to graft it in again" It is
reasonable. too, to be too sad where !
usTtyfS have died that faith might
I've: Tor the martys do not all fail in
,IeT investments. Then there are
ulusS TO do. it seems to some of US,
y me way Of actual cheer and COM
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