Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-10-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TUB CHMICII OONOIZESS.  The sermon pr ached by Canon Wilson • on Sunday last in indication of the Catholic Church as against that of the Established Church was exceptionally good from more than one standpoint. In the first place the wrangle the :Congress recently held at Cardiff as to which of the two churches in Wales belonged to prior to the Reformation savoured very little of diplomacy. There are few but that look back to those times with loathing, and whoever the church belonged to ecclesiastically it is nothing to feel exultant about, and everybody ought at any rate to thank God that such days of religious intolerance were buried in the Reformation. It is not very difficult also to observe the vein of sarcasm and also the strategy introduced anent the position of Nonconformity and the Church. But the Church—not the candle and iirapery part of it—can read between the lines, and it is not too much to say that they live more amicablytogetheratthepresentjuncturethanever they did. As regards the ritualists (the very small minority of worshippers) the sooner the better theyithrow up the 39 articles ana do the , thing properly. It is a misnomer to (All them a portion of the Anglican Church. If they have a liking for finery, let them have it by all MAWS, but not under the cover and cognomen,  of the Church that gave UR our religious liberty. If they are in Rome, let them do as the Romans do. The canon's plain remarks are destined to do a great deal of good, and it is strange that it requires a Roman Catholic to teach Anglicans their duty; but such it is, and the Church should take warning and live down the taunt and sneer levelled at them. But the remarks are perfectly true, and all members of the Catholic Church should feel very much obliged to the Canon tor his splendid sermon.  A TERRIBLE REFLECTION,  When doctors disagree who are to he judges. Such is au old axiom, but lie following taken from the liritish Medical foam& ja a question that few doctors' disagree upon, in fact, the evidence abroad hi so significant and clear, that it is not difficult forth° least observant to discern. How often do we see pansgraphs of sudden deaths, which have turned out to ho from aleholie poisons. It is a terrible thing that men should be so infatuated with drink that results of the kind should accrue ; but it is a fact nevertheless. Tne following. however, towhee a vital point in the chain of life, and like war is the great destroyer of thelconsanguinity of nations. 'The journal mentioned referring to M. Paul Sollier's Aubanel prize essay on "The Rale of Heredity in Aleoh-lism," says—"A more suggestive studi, for the physician and a more saddening one or the philanthropist it would be difficult to imagine. Here is original Kin in terms of modern wiener, and the punishment threatened in the Decalogue to the 'third and fourth generation' is exhibited at work in perhaps its most terrible form. By abundant and well-arranged statistics M. Sollier traces the afflictions of the idiot, the epileptic theentheoile, the hydrocephalic, the choreic, and the mentally debilitated , up to the alcoholic father, mother, or grand- I parent, ii, so many and such clearly-marked instanee.s that it is impossible to deny his conclusions from the data he gives. An alcoholic subject runs a terrible risk of conferring upon his descendants either insanity, or tendency to vice, or suicide, or hysteria, the milder nervous disorders, The legacy of evil may miss a generation, and then appear in the next like gout. It will generally manifest itself, if it appear in the form of dipsomania, in 14 taste for the same liquor tusthat preferred by the ancestor, and in its mildest form it will tend so to predispose the unhappy decendant to the evil of ebnety that lie will find the freedom of his will in that direction seriously imperilled."