Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1880, Page 6

THE CIUICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCI 18, 1880—TWELVE PAGS. ‘Tho poct, with his richnees of imagery and apt: if ‘ion, nrousing scenes of eplondor oughta thatdid unt appear in the Ontinnry mutine of overyday lif gifted with tho. powor to atic up tho feeltnes of men with the magic of his voico; the statesman, Who takes an important part in the political ovonts of tha day; those oiinent In ltornture, in kcicneo, in uri occasion, and must confess that before setting out T hesitated much whothor to come or not, In tho first place, I feared, ns I do now font, that L might disappoint you romowknat In tho matter or mannor of my discourse, and for this renson I wished that samebody elxo might have been chosen to address you. place, it waa not eaay for moto think of leaving home to colebrate elsewhere tho festival of St. Patrick, whtch my own people, who are for tho most part Irish people, regard os thoir own festival, and clotm that I vught to celebrite PATRICK. No Chicago Irishman Fails to Honor His. Patron fey tho orator ‘or in war,—all these gain the In tho second Rimiration of mon and’ enrn thoir This usage in sanctioned by Guided byt g y tho and by the tonoh of her encred hand sho twines Around her saints wreaths of githers up tho bones of muctyrs to her brenat, And rears nboya thom siered Lemples of beauty, She sprends bofore tho cyes of wil tho names of hor sons who havo filer Sehuimiptes and have made the | Dx Is Unmindful of His Suffer- i ing Kinsfolk Over the have como in answer tation, and as know with the good will of iny own tlook, who henrtily Joln you in whatover you do to honor St. Patrick, may I not hopo, as you honor mese much by your presence, that you will also favor mo with your kind attention and your generous indulgenco for whatover I mny say to you? I will remuavk at the outeot that I havo noticed to your kind invl- 35 wo philoanphie world Lest thoy should be forgotten, sho appoints certain days in tho yont on which thoy should be remembered, and to- day phe relaxes tho rigor of tho penitenttal seuson so that her children might join int rip: ture of thanksglying for hor tried and known enint, Patrick, {Lectures by Leading Cath. olic Prelates for the at elation tec cco] Reliof Fund, mare Of the world. tole fortune. her around tho altar to bear homage to that’ wroat aint. To-day tholr orlsons aud raycrs Are tinged with thelr furtuno is. THE ADSENOR OF MUCH OF THR DIAPLAY ‘usual on tho cclotration of St, Patrick's festival, [havo not seen tho long Ines of green and golt omblazoned with cross, and shamrock, and harp, and sunburaty tho steady trend of tha mon keep. beat of drum and sound of net, I could wish that th ick, whilo nuver wanting nny its religious should also bo never wanting. some pitbila demonstration of Joy of a natioaul charioter, tn order to do just honor to the grent patrivt, us well conquered a nation to the cross of 4 and imbued that nution with a luye of justice, epirit of tberty, and nstrength of fafth thatahall never «die so long ag the knell of time remaing But wo cannot bo always rofoicing, It is not ensy, oven If tt wore Lecuming, to nttompt to bo Joyful ond snd at tho saine timo, There 1s 0 tino ‘And the piesent has moro for us than A tings of sdnoss. Therefore it will purtoned us if on the present, occasion there be more tears than smites. Hut in truth we haveno timo for tears or riniles, 4s work—work of an carnest churncter. ‘k before un ts to help the poor. think of what thoy suffer, and why they suite that we may help them' tho bo think what charity 1s, and wh: in order to be the moro eme, and tho wrupgs that In this caso make charity necessury. St aul In tl lof, broken with sobs ul ones in olt Ireland; but, though sorrow, thoy will arise blended in union, till they reach tho throne of Rrace ng the orlsons of n persocuted but faltheu ‘Yo-day, with bleeding hoart and aching prayer for tho Jalnnd of (nith and virtus. Here, on the day of that great followor of Christ who Cross and bullt up the Church in they gather todo hoi id ‘appointed to go dnd forth His fruit,—that fruit which was to romain, ond had remained ever since. Tho birthplico of St. Patrick 1s 0 matter of Franco and Scatinnd both claimed the honor, but It {6 most generally belleved that ha of tho northern districts of ts, who eduented him nof tho youth of the Salnt, save thut in it he gave promise of winning that. perfection seldom attained by humanity, In his sixteenth sear ho was seized and led cupptive into Irctand, in which act tho mysteri- ft God was to seatter the cloud of superstition whieh wns overlying tho whola people, debas- pnralyzing all their efforts Tho Burning Words of the Bishops of Peoria, Dubuque, and rendered feoblo with their native land, reat hero and tho hin whom God freland’s Suffering Condition and the Crimes That Have Caused It. noblo p: plously, Rut little Xt Is Not ‘tho Coltic Blood Nor Is It the Catholic for ovory thing. Whit we have to do ing them and eople, mixed with them, and learned their wigitize, whl of which was to be brought to bear wfterwards when ho was enguged In teach- {ng thon tho Divino lesson. Patriok found tine to commine with God, and in his confessions ho tolls how 100 times a clay he was able to kneel down and the love which he felt to God. Aftor six yenrs eaped, andonce agnin reached fords could hardly describe tho Joyful seeno when ho again reuched his pn- Pale and emaciated though he was from his long exile and suffering, his heart was its loro us over, And When ho mot his parents ft was the beautiful, touching Scriptural story of Jacob nnd Joseph told over ayaln, aftor reaching bis_home famous Monastery of Tours, where ho read for four years, after whieh ho was raised to the oc- cleainatienl state, After n scason, during which he turned his attention to works of ho was agiin enslaved and tak ere ho remalned for sixtydnys, On to Gaul he had one nl BAW tL man who broug! number of letters, one of which was landed to Patrick, who read "upon it the word: treat you to come iguin among ur.” and nt once took “Speak, Lord, Thy sorvaut heareth." Pro tons wero at ened be; .Fiek pluced himeelf But the Greed and Cruelty of ,the English Govern- wo showtld do peral. Charity y: In all this tino ho thirtconth chapter and thire his firat epistio to the Corinth- “There remuin those three: Faith, Churlty; but the wreatest of those Is scourdo I will limit Ive axprossion to Banquet and Reception of the Second Regiment at the Sherman Churity iu this tonlmsgiviug. AS REGARDS TUIS DUTY OF ALMSGIVING, there are, } fear, nota few who aro under tho erroncots Impression that, though ft 1s good, aud laudable, and meritorious to cof thralldom ho exe lila native heath. poor, ¥4 8 nol t meats a nlatter of strict obligation, neglect of It docs not imply any yu punishment, Persons who labor under i ston of this kind aro very apt to neglect tho ovon in cireuntances Gathering of Numbers of Rep- ho went to the resentative Irishmen at duty” of almagiving tho Pacific. where this duty strictly binds ‘thom. through this neglect that we must account for tho actions of vory many rich people who rofuso to give absolutely, or who give Iittlo or nothing ne atl, when cnacs Of grout and pleading distress nro brought before thom. Addresses by the Mayor, Judges, Pein ni « and Several Other Chicago Notables. May I hope tht ‘on hero present belong to. this that you ull haye tho happiness of duty in this respect? Teall It bappiness, it is called tn Holy Scripture. * BI undorstandeth concerning tho needy and poor, in tho evil day the Lord will deliver bit.” 1 LT hope that alt hero in this city, and throughout this country ao distingutahed fur charity, are Ulesued with this happy knowledge, and more so with the disposition to put itin practice? But, lest thora imnay be any onohere present, orauy one not here, Wut to whont these words muy reach, who is not bicesed with this knowledge, or who muy have duty fo tell such persons ns tho substance of this ifo oried out, un for the work, and Pat- for the purpose of study immediately under the learned and plous St, Germaine of Auxerre. Here he romatned for ton yenrs In gcclusion, stecling hitnself nyninst tho temptations of tho world. After # sojourn Jn Great Britain he finally made up his mind to vissionary baud which was thon work- ing for the conversion of tho idalntrous Irish, At Romo ho tnid at tho fect of tho P documenta, and bared tho secret of his soul to the Holy Vicar of Christ, who was greatly struck: nd pleased with his adilross, and, on ondation of St. Germaine, mado hin gave him the Apostoll Ball of the MWibernian Rifles—Speech by James Stephens, the Mend-Centre. Bormon by the Rev. Father Hodnett. to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, forgotten it, It is m that avery ony who world In excess Ife reasonably requires—that that overy ono who possesses moro thin needs—js strictly bound, he bas over and above his wants, to reliove the wants of the poor, and that if iny one so pos- sessing over and above what ho wants shall, in tfulness or dlaregard of this duty, person fs not the a ymissinnary aud benediction and tho kiss thon hurried back turrled for n fow days with his friends, who wero overwhelmed with grief at al fo Gaul and ree out of what The anniversary of Ireland's patron saint -was, celebrated In this elty yesterday in a manner far different from that of former years, Tho day was nll that could bo de sired,—warm and pleasant, an absence of mud on the streets, and was just such an one ‘as the St. Patrick’s-Day paraders would have ptayed and wished for had there been an in- tention toturn out. But the: Irishmen of Shis_ city,ns well as thelr countrymen all pyertho United States, showed thelr good sense, and wisdom by an absenco of pa- radea, and there were no long lines of banners of green tha prospect of his considerations could affect Patrick's determination, Ing all the mutural ties of I turned towards the irl tumongst thom, refuse to help the poor, such id but the enoiny of God, and tho charity of docs not abide fn him. henr what St.John, tho beloved disciple, tho npostlo of charity, days: “Ho that hath tho sub- stanco of this world, and need, nudaball shut up his bowels from hin, how doth tho charity of God abide in him? Mf,,.17) That t3 to say, that od docs not ubldo int who, possessing tore than he wants, and seeing his fellow-crenture In,want and not relieve his fellow croaturoe, but his cars and hordens hisheart ngalust hisnppeal. And thon, inorder to show that we should not contont ourselves with that kind of charity h consists in words, howovey pitiful, or in expressions of commiserntion devoid of cal resulta, which we may call Ilp-churity, or te only, he says yt us not love one but in deed and ish, mid he longed tobe Ilo tore himself from the em- braces of bis fathor and mother, and buried himgelf inn monastery to proparo for Eplscc ordination, after which he started with a companions for Ireland, When ho arrived thore tho people wore, paring for the celebration ot n great Dru! Teast, and itwas thon forbidden that any one should mako a fro until tho royal fiamo bad bean lit by tho heathon over, Ht i fro and bicased It, na is ordered for y of Enster Saturday, roused nery that tho stranger bid beon iullty: of treason, und Patrick was brought to the presence of the King, Preceded by tendunta bearing tho Holy Cross, with a mitre on bis brow rua graspiny the symbol of ecclesiastical nuthority, ppeared before the bonthon tnonnroh of ire- juid, Jt wos a strange sight,—the meck and In proof of this, scoth bla trothor 1 en marehin, * me charity on'tho to “My little childre: tnother in word, nor in to in truth" (Join, f. Epis, {lf.) 18). Iwittnow quote from tho Old Testament to show you that almsglving was always regarded us itt his hand a crozier,— Uvely musle of “VPatrick's Day” and “@arryowen.” Longlugly, no doubt, many ason of Erin looked at his regalin yesterday, and wished that ho might have a chance to ton in honorof St. Patrick, while proudly marching shoulderto shoulder with others of his countrymen similarly deckéd out. The only reminder of former years was the appearance of tha Ancient Order of Iibernians, escorted by the Iiber- nian Rifles, on the streets un thelr way to St. Patrick's Chureh to attend mags, In’ the evening the Hities Btephens from his hotel to the Exposition Bullding. And this was all tho parndo of cand monirch of tho Colt, sitting por umid surroundings of barbaric splendor and nt- tonded by Princes and Goncrala, nged Judges, bonrds descended down rulds, skilled in tho duric chnencteristio of thonn- Hon and of the time, Helns asked his rensons for daring to ylolato the Inw, Patrick, inspired by hope: and ehurity of soul, nobly and mantully roplied that he had no intention to insult elthor tho pected the Inw, but ended to noutrallze in his throno A DUTY OF BINICTEST OULIGATION, and leat you may suppose that tho Okt‘Testamont. {sg abrogated, and not now any longer binding, 1 will sny that this Is tra only as rogurds its cur emontal observances which morged Into, oF W fuiNied in bis dispensanon, contilued in tho Old ‘Testainent was not ane butwas confirmed in tho TU Heaven and earth ono Jot or ono tittle shill pass from the ‘The moral huw of the Old therefore to-day na binding on Christinns os It waa to tin Jews to whom it was In that nw, in the fifteonth chapter of Deuteronomy, wo ind these com- shall not bo wanting poor in the land of thy habitation, therefore Leommand thee to open thy hand to thy needy and poor if one of thy brethren come to pov= orty, thou shalt not hardon thy heart nor closo thy hand, but thou shalt open it to tho ain the fourth chaptor f Eecleslustions wo find this command: * defraud not the poor of alma, and turn not away thy cyos from the poor, (Bow dt tho poor, and pay what thou owest.” “Ni would boa waste of time, and not at al mioutury to you, wero! to stop onesveoni ton rove (a8 thoy do incon! ht to alma from tha ignore this rightot wear It ina proce: tho hards whose snowy, their broasts, and tho arts, Tt was a gatherin: But tho moral hw nulled ar abrogated King or his people. if any statute of tho Innd the doctrines of tho Church of which ho was in humblo advovnte ho could not obey it. whoin he adored as tho Head of Heads, he sald, wave the King that beautiful Sstand, stoked it with life, and crowned It with verdsire. then touched upon the Creation, tho full and tho redemption of man, ane terfes Of tho snnetified faith, Monarch urose and sald-that the stranger spoke ut the religion which he taught wus one Master was full of love und 68 for tho people.’ Still he could not bo- Neve fia religion whieh had for one of its doc trues tho 'Trinity,—tho unity of,threo porsoud in ‘onv God,—whivh seemed to hlin'to be pre} us tho: representative uf tho Bi it ip tho dliforunt t Inat th ‘There is no question but what our Irish fellow-citizens have acted right In this mat- ter. Lt would JIL become them to spend so mich money as usual on parades when thelr gountrymen across the sea are starving for bread. Recognizing this fact, they did tho most sensible thing possible, and In many an Trish cabin and from many un Irish heart prayers will be offered up for untold bless ihes upon those lu Chiengo who yesterday helpet to relieva the suffering in the old tand in the most substantin( munner . possible, Truc, sone of the societies gave banquets and bails; but those who partook of the tor- mer and danced at the Intter knew that part af the money they paid would bo sent to Ire- At the varlous Catholle churches mass usual, and finmense jown thy car to prayer to tho Alnighty, turned to the turf at his reet, and Kw thore tholittle dhamrock,—tho fittle trefall,— with which he mude a sinplo tilustration to the King of the oxistence of tho ‘Trinity, atthe sume time telling him that the fall mystory ‘ond the power of human mind to ‘he King then fell upon bis kices and God for sending His inlasionary amang thom, und, ufter dug instruction, was recelved into that those words bly) that the poor rich, and that the rich who tho poor are guilty of 4 wort of fraud and injus- Uee, Of course, Lilo not moan to say that they ure guilty of violating commutative ince thoy have received nothin tat they wre obliged to give bac reeolved from Almighty God, whoso Just law requires und commands thom to pay over to tha poor what thoy can spare of the suportluitics, Iwill now proceed to consider THM BANCTION WINCIE THIS LAW OF CHLANITY haw received from Almighty Gail tion Finenn the reward und He, the Great Lawylyor, attachus to tho observ- ance or violation of puntehinont, it 4 nothin of ctornal reprointion which tho Suprume Judge. of Mankind will pronounce againat the wicked on the great accounting-day. And what an awe> Inepiring scone docs the thought of that day cull up beforo our minds. The sounding of tho Inst trumpet; thosudien appearancoof all mankind; the coming of tha will bo fndced merey, & day of clouds’ and wi (Sophonias, L, 15.) Thon ahall many * Bexin to siy to tho mountulns, hills, cover ug." (Bt, dude will muke tho separation, ‘Vo tho ri Hore the good. There the wicked, And who aro tho wicked? They aro the violators if No doubt there will bo othor wicked siniiord there,—such as murderer, ndulterers, robber if those sinners will hearted vowird v ealind uit ond named as worso than tho reat. “Depart from Mo ye cursed into overinating Becnuso [was hungry, not to out; J was thirsty, ani to drinks naked, and you covered Mo not; sick nnd in prison, and yout di from the poot but they hive The conversion of Irolund waa now assured. Wherever Patrick went crowds flocked to hear ia of fricnds came to hin, fy on masse and nbsured superstition, throw down the tdols, and ¢nmo forward to be atinitted to Christlamty, begun to mold the storn and tnbending heart of id goon from the summit of y ill the stoeple nrosu; In the valley ap- ho convent and tho ol. and religious tne Tho vory atmos: was celebrated Tho Crows hud now As regards tho Jess than the sontunco ovening three prominent Catholic Bishops Jectured In this city,—ishop Hognn, of St. Joscph, at St. Joht's Church; Bishop Hen- nessey,of Dubuque, at the Church of the Holy and Bishop Spalding, of Peorln, at tho Church of the Holy Name. All were roe warded with Inrgo and appreeiative audl- ences. The balls and banquets were all woll attended and passed off pleasantly, and tho day was certainly a greater one for Ireland than any that has preeeded it ta this elty. The lectures of the eloquent prelates, do- Hvered under tho auspices of tho Lrish- American Council, and the proceedings’ at thu reception of the Second Regiment at the orman, of Irish citizens at the Paeiile, aud h Sbernian Rites nt the 2xposition Bullding, are given below. RELIGIOUS SERVICES. THE A. O. IL 2 BERVICES AT AT, VATIICK'S CHURCH, ‘The services at St. Patrick's Cathedral, on the corner of Desplaines and Adains streets, wore very jmpressive. Masa was conducted by Dr. MeMullen, celebrant, Father O'Nelll, Deacon, and Father O'Gallagan, Sub-Deacon, Mercadante’s Mansy, and Owen's beautiful trio “Ave Marla” was rendered with great effect by DMys. Dony, soprano, Mn. Egan, alto, aul Sr, Nonk, tenor, ‘Phe large ehureh was crowed long before the survives began, the seata In the nave belng occupied by the members of the Ancient Order of Hberninns, who marched to the Cathedral In procession to the number of nbout 20, clad In thelr rich ‘and beautiful uniform, und preceded by thelr band. In front of tho altar, which was tastefully decorated with flowers aud gre among which had the viuco of wired the inonustery eye arose Unt all oy stitutions were to by seen, phere iteelf was laden with tho balin of faith. “1 and to God asoribod jay of wrath dao trl i day of wrath. day of trilu. Miniee. the aul ge day of enluniity and be the oye and intellect of othor tunds; uns ta coolhig shudes the aged rested content Crom lis ibor. with full fruttion, he sank calmly to sleep among: the people he loved, guve up his spirit, ore ho ehnate soul to bis Makor, he dolivere ful prayer that the Lord would proverve the ro- t L gained, aud that prayer wus heard and had been granted, ‘Tho preacher drew a vivid and pathotio picture of the ruins of the leehlyes of stood In Ireland, where the Infalthafterst. Patrick which were destroyed in the dismal diye of Tudor and tho Commontwealth, when shrines wore profane and altars burned to the grounds when Catholics were hinted, and the most ree orous treatment aceorded to tho fulthful chil- drop of God, ‘Those rulus spoke of the nurtyre dom of tha Irish prieats, He spoko of tho history of tretand’s wrongs; how the couitry bad beon ata waste, her frosides made desolite, and how, through It all, tho nation remained true to tts rel! Even now, when the ine stalked abroad in the the young and tho old, tho strong ani the wenk, there was heard naanurinur ayalnt the will of God... Tho tomptur produces hia fo i, and offers thom If only the su ive'up tholr faith, but, strong dnt the Irivh soul slukena at tho thou would nut barter their falth fc earth could bring the td doubt tha “dura! They should all pray that tho day will hover cone when tho nume of Patrlok will ceaso to bo a soothing sound to tho Irish car, but that he be blessed on the Nps of bubes from gener. auton W generation. LECTURES. BISUOP HOGAN, AT AT, JONN'S CLLUUCIT At St. John’s Church, corner of Olark and Fourteenth streets, Bishop Hogan, of St. Joseph, spoke to a large gudience, the church belng comfortably filled, A large number of lags and banners decorated tho Interlor of the villice, propiinent among which were tho Stars and Stripes and the green flag of Erin. ‘The Blshop spoke as follows: Las hungry, and you gave mo to ent; 1 was wu to drink; naked, and ‘and you cumo to me.— Atriarch sat mid His ays crowned: Hut it seus us ‘be overlooked, or pardoned, joty which once Vela th b Wore educated Ad passed nway, but and you gave Mo id not visit So. tin wayine, * Lord, when did wa hungry, or thirsty, or naked, or Wd not minister unto Thon He shall answer thems + Amen I guy to yous as long as you did It not toons of cast anos, nulther did you do jt tu Me! and those shill go into everlasting punish: BMutthow, xxv. 41) Al humbly and fervent) in prigon, and di The Grand High mann \ hand, wtriking down dear brethren, while 'L pray for you fay not, but supposy ui should, happen to any ot accounting-da: ential pultit 0 The choir sang yor to be found wanting fn this es- holy Christian oharit not your griof and remonio be all t whou reminded by tho Suprenio Jule were placed in cireunistances and hil opportus pecullurly favorable for the vxercive of thle holy virtue, but watch you dit not aval) yourselves of, and wllowed to pass by? Would you huve to say for yourselves tat you were on One occuwlon in altluont clr Mistunces, that you were posscoused of you ved ina country whore wbounded, that you had whoredt to ont and drink and wear, aud'be comfortable and ons Joy yourselyes, and) that in the midst of thus plenty and enjoyment there eatue ta you 4 WAIL ACHOSS THE BEA, from unothor land, and that Jand not a strango ‘au, Where the pcople who were your own people wero hungry, ai without omploymont, meuns of support, x million of them on the they culled out to you fur Uisir hands towards you and you did not hear thuir ory; you closed your curs to tholr appeal; your baek Upan thom in the hour o! if this be to be sald of you, how cun toescape the terrible: on God bis already in Hia uyulnst Buch unmerciful doing? You know that, speaking of tho pour who aro your own poor, aud Ju alluding to that country i this known, ne f Patrick!s ouliieo, and wealth, that “deur Jittle 1 O'Brien, took position, tuking a lamin ceremonial which iadde ‘The Sort of cold, und naked; ¢ monoy, without the occasion was sf 6 Rey, Thoinas Pope Hoduett, ho chose fur his text St. John linve chosen you, and ordalned and bring forth fruit, ‘our frult sliould remain.” ‘There {6 8 tondency In man's nature w revere reutand ibe goul, ‘They admire a paint- ing in which the lines of the huaiun face or the scape are reveulod to them cod aNd forcu of wotual blag. Vergo of starvation: help, thoy stretchor of Dixon, wi 16: © y which Almighty: steve pronounecd falLhew, TEV. 3d. with a) the fresh A bave come w jong way fo address you on this beyond tho sen which 13 not a strange country to you, Dam directing your attention to that whieh may call owe mathor-country, which ave moat of us birth, and whero were born tmuny whose descendants nro sentlered far and wide through. tut this bear and overy country ander the sun. We are pleased to call that mothor-caun- try of ours bya nanto that datinguishes It very appropriately from wil uther, eotmtricg “that namo ts tho Emornid tale. And, taki emerald for what it is ndmitted to be, ns tho must bene tif and plensing of colors, thore {s no country go bountiful nnd plousing to avn te roland, hte is perpetually clothed in tho brightest’ nnd moat: unfading of green. Lodk whore you will in that country, many season of tho sear; along tho villloys and mondows: over the bila anid Knolls; Up the sloping aldes of the mountain, where tho breezes play, and where tho flytug clouds overs head retiect tho moving shitows as things of lifoy everywhere, evon to tho topdof these mist- coverad mmountaing, is aprend out bofore you the thick, velvoty surfaco of moss, and grass, and shninrocks, and daisica, Lverywhero, over tho polnted rocks, tho towering cliffs, tho beotling Aieeps, the castellated walls, the tall round tows ere, tho abbey ruling, the welrd cromicehs, this Rott tiantic of green ta spread, covering sharp edges, clothing bare surfaces with moss, and Ivy, and wall-(owers, over which aro gprend in Nie ture's wild but beautl{l Mending berries of ebon and red, and flosaes of white, and pink, and blue, From tha modest dalaios nnd swe rineiling = primroses with tho violeta nnd blue-betis ~~ that cluster = at your feet, to tho smiling: Iilnes and bright stately rhododondrona that skirt the lawns and frlnge tho glades, how many churning variotics of flower, and shrub, and’ tree, meet the eye and eproad tholr porfumes on tho alr, Tho hol- ty, tho laurel, the yow, the boxwood, tha bny- Tent, the nrbuttis, ‘tho Inburnumns, with their weulth of flowers: the hawthorns of whito and pink, that sostter thelr tiny blossoms on tha plain; tho rich yellow furze, that decorates: the marshes, and bogs, and crags that would be othorwise unsightly and bare. Surely is the Hinerald Isle the beautiful isle. And whero do tho birds sing sweeter? Whero do the brooks run clesrer and more mpi? Whero nro tho wnters brighter that roll aguinat tho bench and dance and sparkly in the buys? Nowhora, in- deed, in the world has Naturo Invished hor charms more profusely. Nowhero, never, never again cin your oyes behuld on carth a placo to Jovons well, Dutwhy is it that this country, which fa so Denutifiul, nnd withal so salubrious and fertile, isnlso soaflicted? Why is lt that THE ORY OF WRONG, AND INJOIY, AND BUFFER- Ni roaches ua so constantly from that ono country, and it 2 manner exceptional to ovary other country? [nnswer, first, that, In tho tght of Go's Holy Revelation, exceptional Uiessings and inorcles are often: attached to exceptionnt sulterings, Our blorsed Lord has sald; “ Blessed ure tho poor’; “Blessed nro tho mack"; “Blessed ure thoy who mourn “Pleased ara thoy who suffer persccution.” (Matthaw, v.. 3.) And His apostle tells us that “Tribulations Work for us above meseuro — oxvecding> ly nn oternil weight of glory." (II, Cor inthinng, iv. 17.) God's ways are not as our ways, Ils Ways extond far beyond our narrow horizon into. another life, whore, If wo could fathom His mneralful desigus, we would geo thut What we call sorrows tire, In reality, but tho be- winning of Joys. IIo chose 18 ITs own lot in Ifo the way of poverty, ‘and sorrow, and pal. Elo was born poor. Ho had not whereon to Iny His head. Ils Iifo may be sid to baye been ‘noth- Ing from, first to last but sufforing, In domy tho will of His Hoavenly Fathor Ho bore tho burd conditions which the wieked of this world, who werv In, wenlth and power, tad imposed upon Him. And, such us His lite waa, such also was tho life of thoso He specialiy loved and called to be Ils own. His ever’ Virgin Mother, whom. His heavenly grace had mady blessed among women, was tho one Ho loved most. And yet sho shares, Ifo allows hor toshare with Him, His suffering, His poverty, His rolf-denial, tho contempt Io recelves, His eruel treatment from others, Sho siifered in her feelings what Ie suffercd in tho body, As Ho wasn inan of sorrows und nequaluted with infirmity, 0 she was the Mother of Sorrows, whose soul the sword did plerco. Such, nlso, was tho lifo of tho Apostles and martyrs whom onr Lord called to shiro Lis sufferings with Him, in order to shnro with thom His roward, And if, in the wonderful’ ways of God's love, these sufferings here bolow of ty her Divine son, and Ilis Apostics and martyrs, be connected with that highor glory ubovo 8 their roward, to which Jesua was, for Hs obedience, by His Eternal Fathor exalted and wherewith Mary and the Apostles and murtyra wore for tholr pationva and humility orowned, surely, wo cannot be wrong In at- tributing to nitions tho reapective meeds due to them for patient, falthful suffering, Tf it bo, ag indeod it is lald down in God's Word ns n con: dition, that wo must auffer with Christ here In order to bo glorified with [lm heroufter(ltomans: vilt,, 17), surely there fa u0 nation thit can bo the equal of that ono tn heavenly gtory which for pationce and hunility aud fidelity to Christ boro below hag notonly maintatned a foremost flaca among nations, but hus stood fur aboye ho highest ranks, May wo not, thoroforo, fully hope, tirmly relying upon God's Word, that to Ireland capeehily among tha nations these words havo a consoling application: _ "You now, indeed, have. sorrow, but wilh seo you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your Joy'no man can take from you"? (John, xvi, 2) "Yos, this fulthful Rachel of ours shail notalways weep, God above hath beard her ory, © Thus sulth the Lord: Let thy yoico censo. from weeplng, und thy eyes from tenrs, for thoro fs 0 reward for thy labor, there Is hopo for thy Inst end, and thy children shat! roturn to thelr own burden,” (Jeremt No one can say that tho sulferings enn bo attributed to hor people for any want of complianes on thoir part with the Divino com- mand given to all people to earn thelr bread in tho awent of tholr brow. ‘This American Nation and overy nation under heaven enunot but bear honcat testimony thut the Irish peopto aro A HAMD-WORKING, INDUSTIIOUS PEOVLE, who Iny to heart na mtch ns any people in tho wortd tho good fpostolic injunction, “If any Y man will not work noither let him oat.” (1 ‘Thoss., {t., 10.) ofora I proceed to givo you some general freta, if wy bo needed in proof of this, lot mo adduce'ono of two examples out of miuny that were related to moor that enme under my observation during 1 viait of sume months in dreland lost summer, met 4 gontloman from Now York traveling in Ireland who tokl mo briefly tha following storys I landed in Dublin from Liverpool, and, towards nightfall, ng I was walking along one of the principal streots, a poor man, apparently a mechanic, caine up to mia and asked mo yory respectfully, but pititul- ly, fora little monoy to help him to gut a suppor and lodging that night, Hey told ino that he came from tho City of Limerick, which wis more than WO miles away, Whore his home was, and where ho hud left his wifo and ehlldron, Falling to got einployinent in Limerick, and finding his means dwind tig dows to the last, he loft with his wite und chitdron one shilling and sixponce, which was oj] ho had oxcept what was barely necessary fo pa y hls fare to Dublin, And when hearrived tin ubiin employment, but contd it nothing to do, Ht own sit condition and tho sud contition In which he bad tett bls wife and chiluren, to whom fio could not now rotum oar sont any ald, secre! to affect bim very much. give bim a little to help him for that night, and at tho anme tine took down in my note-book tho deseription of wher ho Ilved in Limerick, Next’ day, baving occasion to go to Limurick, and hn order to find out whethor that man hud told mo tho truth or not, Lwent to tho place na ho hid deseribed It whore ho Hived, and, surcly enough, 1 found thero his wife and children in the dls- tressed clretimstances ho bud told mo of. Lhetr little stock of provisions wits zone, sane thoy had nono, Whethor thoy could get creitit one meal of victuals was doubtful. Charity was all thoy could [oak ta. £¢ nd the conse for hulp, was worse, fur thoy yore contininily thinking Of tho poor man who hud gone ent to provide for them, not knowing but bu, too, was then in need and without home or employment. God help the honost, industrious poor of Troland, of Whom thore ure nimy auch thore, who would bo gia, to work for a living If thoy could got it to 0) ‘The next case I will cite camo under e MY OWN OBSERVATION, Twas walking one ovening nloug tho seaside at ‘Tramore, in County Waterfor whon J raw a wourn coming towards ma on tho strand, hor bead bent down, «Aa she approached [noticed that sho had a large basket Wpon her head which. was fastened by hay ropes ‘cross hor forchend aud around hor shoulders, Her gait was tlred- Jooking and slow. Her feot were swollon from, the cold and flattened from walking on tho eand and gravel. Iter gurments, which wore conrsa and worn, were dripping wet from the soa and ry Tauluted her respeettully. She returned. the sulute with oqual respeet, and, though lod. ed with the basket, nuule an olfort nt acourtesy, which showed sho was no stranger to good mans ner. In the course of conversation t leurned: tho following trom ber as aho told it tomes “U iyo bery in ‘Pramoro, and am trying to muko a lvl by guthoring cocklea. [have boon, out all diy on tho strand gathering those cockles you see tithe basketoniny back, which now am taking to town tosell ir tcan, My husband fs out of gmplaymiunt those five nionths, and cannot geta duy'a work or wages. Io fs now away from borne looking for work, and with very: Hide chance of getting Ht, My Htthe chitdron, of whom J hnye six to care for, aru at home with no, one to mind thent but themsolyes. ft ly at bona Jought to be minding thom and taking caro of thelr clothes, to send thom to school Rut now they have no clothes that ary worth carlig or mending. The Itty rigs they huve ure not ft te ko unywhey And before | getting thom clothow even Io iust yet then somethin; to ext first. 2 have been out al day gathoring those fuw handfuls of cockles, Othor yenrg twice ay minny could be gathered tn anbour. And now that Chuve a fow after my day's lubor, Edo not kuow, when having takeiy Them to town, whether Lean bell thom or not, jwoney is 40 scarce. Father,” eatd shy, gurnin) towards ine and recognizing meas a pricat, wish you would pay a muss that our bleseed Lord inay be pledged to send as more cockles and Kend us bettor tlotes, that the people may bo able to buy thon. Ehave been hero all my life." she contiuned to aay; 1 was born here, 1 will cite ti Twoukd ko to stay here if [ could tonke a livtug bore, But [cannot go elsewhere. ‘Tha rich can gu whore thoy pluuay [i thls world ut leust. ut tho poor miuyt stay where they ure sutfor. Shia good woman went on to town to sell hor cocktes, and T contiaued my walk. Tn about an hour, When returning, whore the outekirte of (ho town oxtend toward’ tho bay, whom sould £ bev but thy eatue woman, ber Dusket now cnptyy her head now erect, As she approgehed her tou | Aittlo house, or eabla rather, which on tho billside Just over the buy, out run soveral ile children, burefooved and ‘burchoaded, with dlavot an education, of the ri; of the right to sue or plead in their own defense, Tho on! long timo was tho right to bo shut or to bo hnnged. And thore was cnough of that, [tout down the population of Trelan less than a mililon people. , Irish peoplo grow up again, In’ foot, tho Asn freal, young staminal race, will grow up and spread fast ns any race so Jong as thore is n trace of thom lett. It waa bad enough to seek ta root thom out by exterinination, but it was worsa to defame then, haa traduced uuiaee your titles forfeit; would who were no longor,your houses and lands, but that: thoy woutld loave you possession of thom provide ed you would pny thom a cortalnannunl sum per aero to bo fixod by themselves, and fu that you would say and do politically and ro- Ugtously as thoy would bid you, and that you ‘wou! sorvico thoy’ would moninl it may be. You auch us this {senough inashorttimo tw blight tho hopes of any poopie, And the wonder is that thoroaro uny Irish people loftalive, or thnt the few of thom who survivo aro not do- graded to tho loyel of tho Zultts, tho Hottentots, or tho Maories, I that mado tho ox-Premlor of England, the Hon, Mr. Gindstono, or. out th ublie meeting, 1 cannot ble conduat of muyny gon orntions, thore whereby tho tangnt-furmer can ted nt any tho from hfs holding by tho landlord at hia aleorst tons and which compels tho tonant-farmer pay his Inbor excopt so much ns is barely necessury for him and oxistonce, I do not. want to landlords. I say joy nothing lesa than justice, “Tho laborer 1s worthy of his hire.” (t. Luko, X17.) Tho landlords do not Inbor. As a clad they do nothing for thoir country but to corr! and demoralizo money, as the good peoplo of othor countries do, in Industries that would boneilt themselves and ive vlevatin, ene gacyt to tho Idle. ono such thing, setting thom the bad example of idicncss and ho wanlered up and down in search of Ht a dissipation, fast tims at tho club-bouses, to sny nothing nt all of olny allot which must bo pald hard-working tenant-farmers, who, for pays be ho and of of. dirty. cabins, and with rotton potatocs, sour nik, cabbyge-leaves, and tho bones of old with distemper, in the namo of God, from this sacred putpit,and by virtue of in; oO Word of Ge jon, and human! dn onde Emplre frotn starvation and degradation. Must tu a suld, or muy it not be otherwise thin this, mn THY MAINTENANCE OF LORDS NECESSATILY than you fe cheap: {have raise tho rent." And up tho rent goes, go that tho pour farmer has now to vuluto of tha land a value of tha tinprovemonts which ho bimsclt Innde an ite hineolf by working, and It would bh otter to’ have renmined idle, Or, sup) tenant-farmer keeps tt horse for himaelf to ride, or that he has something better than a common dirteeart for hiw wifo and childron 1 sends his von to school to or bisngent hears this, and the * great house "to the poor man's cabin, and gays to tho poor mnt © horse to FI very woll; and your son is golng to become a rent sebolnes but, ow. out of the land," Inst penny it Isablu to pay. niin secs that since doumed to by the tiwa of tha re fa red checks and whito erly halr, thelr hands atrotched out towards their thothor na thoy rin toinect hor. And oht think of tholr Joy! think of her Joy] when, as she. stooped down to cm- hraco them, alto ‘took from under her arm a Inindio of provisions, bral lonves.af nice white bread, and put those loaves Into tho hinds of her' I i Yellleh they rn before her Into tta howe ‘hanke Outof whieh sho took say Ittlo ones, with thoy have amother,—n mood, falth- F who will not let thom suffers's fund, mothor, who, at tho risk of her life, in exposure to wot aud cold, will work honestly and, decently for her children, and sanyo them from even one pang of hiner. hioment were Mm} humble homes, Janes’ Palace and seen the Queen of Kugiand escorted through tho raud streets of her great citys 1 hn tuly’s Queon Margaret amid on Canal of Venteo, and received in that gay city atthe Palace of St. Mark, whero 2,000 reeled hers J hind stood before und bi ry places of Versailles and the Luxembourg ancl the ‘Tuileries, and was introduced there to tho Em pe! tho daya of thalr greatest splendor; yet great 14 those personages were, hi Dright ng th And what nt that feellngs of reapeot for tho oor and reverence for tholr rnered had secon Buckingham Palace and St. the Towers of Windsor; [ had : seen In her roynl gonitoln flect. of gondolns in tho Grand neoplo eon in tho ror and Empress of the French nation in igh in the clouds and a battleinents and gilded domes of thelr patnees were, thoro was palace in my eatimation, more sacred, a domo which, thoug! humble, Hitt ch stood: tho senside, whe dwelt, where the jure of domestic affections abounded, whore virtues and affeutions so often found gonuine nd true In the poor whom tho rich despise or forget,—the poor who are tha truest friends and est suppo! thoir constant fitelity to duty, do honor to religion and to humin nature. cd Mtself higher towards heaven And er to Codd; it was that lowly cattuge by ro A grander than A Queen nent ho highest of virtues shone,— rts of country and creed, and who, by THR Inet ANS POOR, Alas, tt Is true! Let thom, hovever, tut get.a {alr chanco to work for tholr Hving, and it will beroon seen that thoy can holp themselves, and help othors also. They have alroady done mun. fully on every kind of. private onterprise. shire in buttdiny atructin hills, Nllug valleys mering inthe worl plowing tho lands. When thoy could not get worl to do at homo, they went to foreln coun- tries to work, They Biates, ‘Thoy went toCanada. They have gono to Austrniin, to New Zouland, to Good Hope, to tho East and West Indices, to Caf- fraria, to Zululand, In former times thoy ostab- lished thomeclyes in| Franee and Spain, in Bol- glum and Austria, whore thelr descondanta aro 10 fils iluy conspleuous in ecctesiastical and so- lui, life, persecuted — thom, Wibllo. improvement and 4 joy have taken 1 larzo cities, digging canals, con- raiiroads, bridging rivers, tunneling delving in tho minca, ham- shops, clearing the forcsta, cnine here to the United ho Capo of a8) well na in civ! Even Tnyland, the nation ‘thoy havo counticss and — military that hug bofrionded the oxtent of millions of to pounds sterling by the fabor of thelr strong shoulders and stout arma. Juzy and hag been always defaming thom, -to this taunt and took possess! where thoy have outworkod the English thom- selves. Itisnu fact that at this day tho sinews of labor in London, Liverpool, Bristol, Dirmingham, Manchester, Li are furnished oF Trishinen, to say nothing at all of what Ireland 1 tor islo in every one of hor rent naval cngn ments and hor stubborn lan no Irishman oyer struck lila colors orflinched an inch befaro a foe, Irolnnd Is poor, RUT WHAT 18 THE CAUSE OF ITEM FOVERTY? Oppression {s tho cause. poor, She Is n conquered nation, And her con- querers have not now, and never had, for her any gonso or fenting of justico or humanity, Gppronstorr deprived the Irish people of tho right Erlend ealled them ood-for-nothing, in fnet, Bngland And In‘reply oy went quictly over to England ion of tho English workshops, rent ees, and Glasgow hos done for the ungrateful als battler, in which Oppression makes her to possess ond practice thoir religion, of tho right to hold property, of tho right to hold aillce, of tho right to servo on Juries, of tho right to voto at elections, of the right to reevive ght lo protection of law, ly right oppression allowed thom fora at ono timo to But, thank God, tho Trish Strong, vigorous, virtuons, out as Oppression, to justify itself, tholr charactor and fnlsi- thoir history. It hns been always 80. with conquering nations, Tho Pagan maxim, " Vin viotis,” hns writton tho history of many A fallen nation, 18 Iroland’s history has been written by England, ented tho Jnnds of tho Irish poople, because thoy you not forswear thomsclyes to God and coun- ry. ‘usurper to rigo up hore umongst you, or anovor- Whelmtog Lorolgn powor inyndo your country Techtopous innda ane ty LVL a gente your lands and property, giving % coun! to thisth f “ fn town or cif theso, Oppression contis- How would you like It yoursolves woro a Hf defented you in battle, would con- that Gencral, and ly to another Gonersl, and thit , having now titles from tho usurpor, would tell you that wera horetafore your houses and lands fenoral aie, Acounty to rthormora, ready at nll times to do any Foptica of you, howover now that opprossion it waa Oppression such ns this 0 other ‘tay nt a forgot tho abominn- England towards Iroland thoso ls ono wbomination T cannot pass by Her aihnue calling it to your apeolal attention. nat 18 ‘THY LAND BYBTEM OF THNANOY-AT-WILIy, he ojec oyor to the Inandlon! tho wholo fruit of Is fomily to deng out n misorablo wrong tho ontitled to. tistion saya ‘aro But ‘up it. Thoy might invest their Dut thoy ‘hey domornilzo tha people Thoy prefer to keop hounds, rido orses, gitnitile, bot, drink, ani spend their ‘of thoirs of a less reputable character; if thoirs of a | eal au ti or by tholr poor, sthelr within floors: food ns must eontont to livo. mud walls mud such cows, t0 Old to Kell, or Infecteu 1 consulentioualy ' declare, sacred duty us proucher of thi [, that, in the Interest of Justice, re- ley, tho high lords of tho lirit- Etnpire out to let go somo of tholr wealth ler to raise up somewhat tho poor of that MEANS THK CREATION OF DEGGATS? Thave a fow words moro to say fied on tho pars Houhir Injustice under discugsio tonant-farmer nly he trios to du, by draining, loveling, inunur- jog, and subsoiling, und by oreatiny Jandlord or his agont hears thiv, and comes to tho tenant and suys to him: "This fs vory goud jund you have here,—much botter than L thought mn. When tho improves his land, as oocaslon- building’ houses, fences, and planting trees on it, the have A better house to 1 monly buds but this land lotitta you toa cheap, ve in js tov T must wy not only for tha ho gout ft, but also for tho punishes: Usuntly be verouas. pal puns ve pa ppOs0 1 to. rite Sunday, or that ho prepare him life, tho landlord comes down from to miss oon Q profession = in You have a nice quid your wifo and children dress Taee that | gan uptl nd now the poor from the begine Hing, remain in rage, and dirt, and {gnoratco, ho had bettor, thin i¢ what he and his posterity uro thoy live Or, suppose election duy the tenant farmer bus 4 vate, and that the landlord, wantlig a mun cleoted to olive wo fa no friend his nyent to the tonant with commands for that nan, which, if the tenune falls to do, or {f ho voto for anothor man, and lords heurs it, out the tenant gocs from his bold» tag with Cull portation to Ku to thy pour-house, orto Zululand, or to Van Dicman’s Ud, w the tenant, sends down to voto that tho lund. ud, Ws bo NOW THAT BYSTEM 1148 TO UA CHANGED, it has to be changed In thu interest of humunity, jumanity, religion, aud justice dunounce it naa rua MATURES tyranulcal vystem, It te a aye one and the Bepoplatiar of ucountsy. It means that # people were born, and the moans the exterminution of a peuple uve te right to live whorv tho; that thelr nativqeountey, and country of thelr race, 1s bo given to wild beasts and the fowls of tho wlr, ‘That system fs an finpossibly system. Mow can tho tenant-furmer of Lreland. pa 2) that 8 #15) uu were per avoum for lund, while land equally ae good Is Belgium, lu Germany, and ip tho United States, ‘reo in Franco, in ani while numerous raltronda and ocean stonm= hips, with tonnage of jmmenso eapneity, carry the produco ef one country into another at prices merely nominal? Tf nn vero of Innd tn ireland, as ride by Bile with the nerenge of other ecomntrles where Tand is free, has any rentable: Fala thnt Ie to ways ie it ya nbla to do more than pay those who till lt the fale wnges and tho falr living “that men of tho aime class got in other countrics,—lot that value he assussed, not by the landiord, who is no fair juize in his oy ease, but by aworn, Impartial, disinterested yaluators, And Jet tho Jantlord = receive auch = ront value, giving therefor.n title in perpetuity to tho tenant to accuro him in his interest and In tho Improvos mouthe makes, Or, what is better and fairor still Cor both parties, and moro for tho Interests of the country, let tho andlor! oll, or be com= pelled to sell, hig interest to tho tenant, recoly- Vie thorefor just payimont, in timo and manner ng inny bo fi. the power of tho tonant to do. THESE ARE THE REMEDIES FOR IRLAND'S rove EnTY, And until thoy aro applied there will be famino fu Ireland. When thoy will have been applied pauporism will conse In Ireland. ‘hen they alall have been npplicd, and not tli) thon, will and. tho world besides, begin ta England's | ox-Promlor sistently romorsefully calla “Ene pate abominable conduct towards Ire- and for many past genertions.” And ts itnotthe interest and duty of aAmorica, once hersvlf an ensinved country, to sympathize with those who ney yet cnslayed, to nid thom {1 tholr overty, toadvoente for them those monsutes of Justice und reform thoy need; and, if those Inenaures bo dented thom, to hold aut the assiur- ‘ince that tho strong, frea hand thnt smote tyranny boforo, will bo ready again if occasion offor to striko for hburty, andl to cee the one slaved out of the miro and slough in which thoy ure immorsed, ese Are the cnusea why thore is. famino in Ireland, and why tho people of that country nro obliged to stretch out their hunds towards us, and to. ani us for God's sake to help thom. ‘They are thero tn regiments; in ragged, fnrmished, squalid rogiments, A million and a half of people nro absolutely poor, and of those fully three-quarters of inflllon are starving. The poor-houses nro full, tha cabins by tho rondaldo: and tn tho anus of tho cities are full, the pees from house to house aro straguling full, beggugs bere and beg- gars thore, crawling and ‘tottering along, erying and weeping in tho cold and raln, crawling into andoutof thoir dirty cublns; thoir bare, long hands, gaunt faces, bre feet, matted und dis- hoveled hair, patehed and putrid sgarmonts, presenting a revolting nppeurance., Oh, God ot ninit meroy and tender compasaloni Why Is {t 8&0 many of Thy own chosen poor ary 60 nb- r= Ject? Hast’ Thow not beeomo man ‘Thy- wolf? “Why dost | Thou ruffor Thysclt in humnn. fiesh to be so wenk. 80 Vilo, so abject, xo trodden undorfoot, 50 do- splsed by men? Oh, Jesus, Thou art there in tho poor. Thou lurkest in thogo rags, ‘Thou art alck in this cabin. ‘Thou art hungry, aud thirsty, and naked; and ‘Thou askest us, poor ng Thou art tw visit Thee, Oh, the day will como, iy brethren, when IIo will say to you,—Ho who ig" now in these poor was hungry, and you gave mo to ent; 1 was thirsty, and a guyo ine todrink; I was nuked, aud you clothod mo; I was sick, und you came to mo." My dear breth= ron, L do not ask you to go to those poor of Jesus Christ, ‘Tho journey would be too long for you, And it would be: too much, perhups, for your penne feelings of mercy ond comipussion to eur. HAVE YOU EVER SREN THESE ADODES O¥ TIT Poon? Look in. Thero is no fire on tho cheericss heurth, Its cold, bitterly cotd. Cold tho Murch wind blows thoro by tho wild seaside. Tho cold wind acreeches through tho thin roof, through tho ront wall, through upon the moro {8 10 ono to give thom bread. Tho father has just been taken outto tho church-yird, His grave is Dawly mindo there, No ono suvo One abovo knows how ho struggled; but his atruggles ure now ovor, He hnsloft one behind bliin in that cabin. The mother ts left, Shois lying ona bed of straw. The littlo bibo is at her bosotn, pony, seoking thore tho fountain of life; but that fountain is dried up; INE, has beon ather heart tuo, and cold—the cold of Peta jonth—is fast crocping over ber Mimbs; sho bas naught fo give ‘but tonrs, and fast thoy are full- ing on that Httle bale and thoso litto orphan ehitdron. But you need not 9, to help hor, ‘There nro there good Sisters of Charity, bistera of Mercy, the Presentation nina, tho St, Vincent do Paul's Boclatics, and tho devoted clergy. Thoy will go to the bedside of the poor for you, and, In your name, and especially in the name of God, will apply your alms foryou. ‘Thero- fore, “according to thy ability, moreiful, At thon bast thuch, give abundantly, hast little, tnko caro even so to bestow a littl willingly. Vor thus thou rterost up to thysclf 0. od roward for tho day of necessity." (Lobius, ¥., 10.) Your alms with have great efficacy for you with God, They will do more than treasures of fant Inid up for you. (Toblus, vil. 8) Thoy your will deliver you from all sin, and Hot for soul go into darkness. (Lobiis, tv., 11) Thoy will insure that God will notlot you waut (Prov., Xxvill., 27), and that No will repay you sovon times what you gave Him. (Ecoles, xxxv., 12.) Dut there is ONS THING THAT ALMS CANNOT DO YOR YOU. it cannot wanl off from you the stroke of denth, Xe. “It 1s appointed for ali men once to dio, andaftor death the Judgmont." (Hob. Ix. 22) Thoy can, however, help vou by mitigating tho pring of death, and disurinin, errora. * Blessed Is ho that undorstandeth coneerniny tho needy and the Peon} in tho evil das io will deliver hin. ‘ho Lord will holp him on hia bed of sorrow, Will turn his couch for him on hia bed of slckucss.” (Ps, x1.) Oh, when the hand of sickness will bo hard upon you, . when ill your powors of mind and buy, will bo prostrated and uttorly falling when you will bo feoblo, {t is then that the demon who bas been tempting you all your lifo will assall you with tonfold fury, and will redouble all bla enorgics to compass ourrain, But what will save you in that try- lng hour? Your alms-deeds ‘will ave you. “Shut up youralmsintho heart of the poor, aud better than tho shivid of the mighty, better than the Spear, tho; shall ight foryou againstall your eneni{ed," ols, XXX. 15.) And ob, whot tho gront struggle shall be over, whon the paln~ fulsoparntion of tho soul from the body shull have takon place, when tho soul of thoclarita~ bio Christian shall bo conducted by ita Angel Guardian before tho tribunal of Jesus Christ, Ho, tho Just Judgo, will suy to you: * Woll done, thou good and faithful servant. [was hungry, and you gaye mo tocat. Lwas thirsty, und you guve mo todrink. Twas naked, and you clothed Ino. 1 was sick, and you came to mo, Itis now timo that I fulllll tho promise I mundo to you, Como, ye blesacd of my Father, possess tho. ing: dom prepared for you.” Amen, BISHOP SPALDING. AT THE CATHEDRAL, Tho Rt-Kev. J. F. Spalding, Bishop of Peorin, lectured at the Cathedral, corner of Superior and Stato streets, to an immense audience, which Included many of the prontinent Irishmen of the city, The elo- quent prelate was too well known to need an Introduction. Ascending to tho pulplt, ho spoke substantially as follows: My Drate Fitrenps; Tho charm thero {s In tho study of ovonts which have been consceratod by tlme springs from a decp and rational instinct inthe human heart. Itisn part of tho dosiro for self-knowlodge—this yearning to. know tho past’s history; for wo cannot thoroughly unter. stand whut wo nro unicas wo know soimuthing of tho course of oyonts which have shuped und molded our character. ‘Tho past is not dead. It novor dics. [tisvver but tho fuller present; ach presunt moment in the life of 2 people, in the Ife of an sndiyidual, summing up the thousand agencios jd eausos which through long centuries havo boun. working to. tho cnd thet -now. is. Heneo it {snot fidlo ocremony to have — festal days cousecrated to tho freshening of ancient. imemorios, devoted to the reviving of i more thorough knowlodge of tho bistary’ of the clyll- {zation to which thoy belong,—of 1 peoplo of which wo are sprung. Henve, na the Irish rico js ono of tha most ancionc of all now living in the midst of Christian and olvilizing iitiluences, it 4a proper also that there should be an intenser cbarin for thom in tho study of tholr past. It is impossible for us to understand whit they aro to-day unless we also know somothing of thelr strugylos and trinls, of thelr supromo offorta, of tholr yndying hope, I doubt whother any ono hus over boon struck by A MORE NADIGAL CONTRAST that is offored to tho travélor who passea from England into Ireland, Horo aro two Ietands ly- ing weat of tho continent of Europe, separated fro oxch other by a little strip of water somo Atty or sixty miles wide, alike {n all thelr phy- sical surroundings and constituents, baving similar climates, similar soll, tho one twice ud Jarge a8 the other, Hound togothor by thisoloso wextapoatHans it woukl soem the vory flat ot ‘ato that thoy should bo bauded togethor in love of in hatred, io mutual helpfulness or for cack othor’s pain, Tho contrust, in spite of this ginilarity of ciimute, soll, and sconcry, is so stating that it scemng ut rat wight {mpossible to bellove thut man, and not Nature, has wrought Tn Tingland wo aco ovidonces of uattonal pros rity, and freedom, and an onterprisiug pooplo, Voulth t4 accumulated In euperabundance, From tho ports of ull the nntlons great lines of ships bear tho best and highest achloyement of the varth juto this imighty omporium of com merce. As you go furthor and furthor north trom Londan this mighty industrial Ifo ts 50 working up the row material of ull tho certh that it transforms the natural Rppearunes of the faland, and pent celtics have been bullt up withe iu agonuration, Tho population avems ulmost too donse to exit upon so amall aspot uf ourth. You poss over tl litele strip of water and and in roland, and ntonce you are ina difervut wi orld. EVERYTHING DMANS THH GTAMP OF DECAY. Everywhoro you beholl tho monuments of tyratiny, In tho very faces of tho people you road tho at pression. Tho tory of Wrongs and op; towns uro in decay, jue inbubited, Wholo populations have been bun- ished from cauuties, and tho custle of tho land= Tord ts surrounded by I and no human faces, crumbling villages anid haired men and women. The, yi t there, They aro seuttercd over God's bright eurth. ‘They have souylt a rofuge throughout tha habitable globe, ‘Thoy baye loft tho old home, You seo no fuptoriags 80 shriving towns epringlog up, no worklux of tho minus of Opy tas exist in tho Island; fow railways; no which nre most maghiile lenis, thin contrast a weft nen ol AtUre I these toy Inaidl fs th most wenlth iene’ Part of tho es nnd t@ tho. poorest. Tit ho earth, n England t ot manufacture ant Tieso hich hyp oxistet4 hoso which havo oxisted in past c fallen ta ruin, In England people wee dy Indepoudence. In ireland thoy are by the fact that there are two peo tho one, the relect fow, rep ernment and the nmuas of tho popu is surrounded hy hedges aud walls thnt froin tho viow of common men; and in eoply are imprisoned in narrow Innes, enuty of this choice and gifted part of turoisehut out from thom. “They nre tot overy step that thoy tro alien thore,—t! island oxtste for othe senting tho Cove and tho Iria and abovo all tho Irish Catholle: home tn their own country, TI ower that hotda thom absolute! fo body uf men is armed. Those ore the hired servanta of tholr senting un allen powor, spenking to you shows that their oxpor proven to tham the necesulty of enution. ‘WHAT 18 THE EXPLANATION ? How aro wo to account for this contrast? aro two.ctutees which havo. bi He which, I mny say, have recelved nceo; the public opinion of whieh Ei the i iresstony and . le) nf Iped to strengthen throughout the Engllsh-ape ‘Thogu two onusos aro th nd Englishinen have sald, oll the voices which thought, that tha Irish, by vi fro Inferior to the 5: for lborty, aro idle, aBtible, are, in n word, under cont who bene atng 0 race and thole i, and spokes vo uterine raat irtuo of tholr rao, English, nro lees fitted rifticss, ‘y characterizod by #0 man atonco explain tholr wretchodners and | un remedy, “Aud thos eee fect, whieh is. Inhorent in Celtic character, there isn degrad which has a strong and invetorate wople, and this is the Catbotic faith. Thi old and a strony charge, If ft plains many things, 1 added an infuit insult to wrongs tint spenkublo and to sorrows that oan novor be old, ‘The HMshop thon nnswored tho question: tho Celtie clmnracter ono. witleh 1 maa with liborty, with that It is witl aided to this de! tia trite, it ox rogreas, with industry, with those qualities which in; nen successful and ‘which ‘muko ihom respese a ‘THY, QUESTION OF RACE, enn populations, fa always hear people talk ot the ualities of tho Anglo-Saxon, but as a mattor of tet thore is no Anglo-Saxon. Tho English aro Lofore tho Anglo-Saxon came to England thore was its Celtic population, wiifch was not annlhilated, but whie) there nnd contributed o great. part of Its blood to tho Anglo-Saxon invaders. was invaded by the Danes, invaded by the Nor= mans. Tho miugting of mauy blond gor to form tho Buglish character. In tho sane way that the Enylishinan ts not av Any Irishman isnot a Celt. Troland, oy Europe, was also subjected to Inne inning, some of which formed land, leaving bohind thom populntion; the Dances, the Normans, the English. thamselves going Into Ircinad di wars that England made upon that country, sct- tling there, even becoming Catholics, even ine ing with the old Celtic that In the veina of the Irish people there {3 not only Norman and Danish, but a vast amount of Engilsh, blood. Tho Irish, therefore, aro not Celtic. Nevertheless, L will ndmit that thoy ara preponderntoly Celtic, while tho English aro preponderately Toutonie. Thi ropresentative of. the Coltig races of Europa, ure not, of course, England ry slons from the bo; colonies In tho uring different 10 French aro a. Col ut the French man representa moro the Coit than the ‘Touton or tho Norman, and = mi as the typical Celt under conditions not altogethor unfavorable. The French aro con- sidored, I believe, by Impartial ju moat civilized in Europe to-day, ja are more iuduetrious, moro. thrifty, moro porseyering, moro economical than the mosses of the English rou wish to know whothor this is 1 testimony of John Stuart Mill, Not rly is this tho cnse, but tho Fronchman has ipa mself capable of what may be consid- THE HIGHEST MODERN CULTURE. Ilia Hternturo ts without equal. In Franco 1s a vast population of thrifty, enterprising, hard- In England tho lower it, dograded, extrava- nu ven ‘to al vices, incomparably below the samo cinss of Fronchmon. Not only is this truc, but no poo- ple have shown a maro carnest love of Iberty than the French, Tholr political liberty hns not beon ns great as that of Englishmon, owing to aceldental causes. The surroundiny England from stronger nulghbors, and horefore sho has not boon compelled to creates Brent standing army,—bas not been compelled toturnnllthe national gonius ood energy wards military development, She has beon ablo io the improvement of working mon, class are stoi! to devote borsolf her commerce and hor manufacturing enterprise to” her the Continental nations of Europe stan with immonse bodies of trained soldiers, forved tohold thomsolves in this warlike attitude to rotcat thomsolves against one anuther, I doubt thit exists to-duy in Gere ir, though thore is'a Repub: Ic in Franco, there is 2 vast smount of political injustice, tyranny, and oppression) is duo to this A milltury state tends naturally and ine ovitnbly towards tyranny. With this drawback, tho French aro #4 frco ng tho English. Thoy have rent love of Iborty, and they have 0 men through No eart he i value of Mborty moro than any othor people; nnd Idouwht not that th Nborty which is go oped the wonderful country, 13 moro di and to French fniluence than to an Thorefore, you will once that tho Coltic nature will not olfer a suf- ficlent unswer, Hach rico has its botter endows ta and ita fechic points, Thero why tho Celt should not develop us high a civil: fantion ns the ‘Teuton. This question of race, thorefore, fa jnvonded, first, to confuse the polnt nt Isaue; and, sccondly, it is Absolutely unsatisfactory, It prot It proves that somo other oxplauation muat be fot that the tyrani imany and Franca ho modorn domocratic rized, which has so dovel- national prospority of this traceable to France national cause, Ing back to the TO COME BRIEFLY TO THE OTNER ACCUSATION, that it is tho Cathollo faith of the Irish people oor and unprogressivo, ‘Thoro are, for instance, France and Cutholio nations, people in Europo more oni thrifty, moro contented, covery way, than tha therd ts no countr: than Belgium. Ngion has not had ti tries, should {tin Ireland? 11 it would lead me far toentor full; arguments which would show you that tho very fountain-heud of our modorn clyilization, of our Uteraturo, of all philosophy, of nll that ts bost {n our social condition, tg to bo sou Cutholfo Chruoh. J leavo this queat! with this briof but guficient reference to It And Lcome to considor not thoorlos, but facts, Twill tenvo out this lyit tonsa stamped upon’ all ornturo, and consider thingy na thoy aro. Erighind i twice ns large us Ireland, Ita pops ulation has always been twice as gront. It nate urally had it inf nudon, aud it came to tho conquest of Irctand in tho latter twolfth contury—700 years ago and more, Fe 400 yours, thon, Ircland has minton somo was Tet us xn whothor or not {tin Ituelf is AN ALI-SUFVICIENT EXPLANATION of tho contrnat which I huve When Knyland conquered tries wore Catholic. bink thero ja no othor elginus; and cortain)) dn, Europe moro Catholl tho Catholic re- js tondonoy In othor cuun~ en tinder tho do- gland, history: and £06 atntad out to yous ireland both couns Row wero tho Irish ho Anglo-Normans whon bot! ‘Thoy were treuted as outlaws, driven Berend tho pale of law and of humaa rights, ‘Tho Irishman was looked upon 69 That is tho standard ex it and mountains; ralds cuttlo curried off bi wus driven into the bo; mindo upon his folds; corn burned; his houses destroyed, His only Uofense became that of wart Hinsolf; and tho sholo Irish thomselyea into bands of warriors, 20 hogan afoul the bitterest that can bo {mage ned, All tho stro England wero sont Into Ireland tod icaperation and starvatie is 18 truo history, Not strong speceh for offeot. It is the hi those throg hundred yours of Anglo-Normaa rossion In Ireland. . Irish peoplo during this time were reditcod not only to uttor misery und wretchedness, thoy lost much of their former civilization; for thoy woron civilized people when St. went to Ireland in tho fifth centu: country was divided into provinces, ‘King and provinolal Kings." Thoy bad many of the pees of anonlightencd tlou, All this was lost «during fede Ors, churches wera burn! ‘Thoy woro left without any instruction. They becamo desperate, Tholr land hud be Hscated, and given to Eurls, and Dukes, aud sorta of Norman noblomen. Now, my friends, upon this came A NRW AND 4 MOUS TERUIULE OPPRESSION After tho Cathollo Anglo-Normuns bad done all that it was pogutblo to do to degrado the I poople, to reduce thom to nbject povert! came a religious schlem, Engllsh bucatne Protestants, an od Cathollo; so that rm the fanaticism 0 religious hatrod. Tho Irish enomy now became the Popish tdolater, and for a double rr: ought he to bo extermi: hus never boen able to understand or to honestly und justly by thoso who are of o differ ent blood and a different religion from biy owl Bngllsh rule over ullons, over inun of blood and other mov,—is tho turned ean thero ‘and warlika po or It 1s not orator An tho sixtoen an it hus over stumped a mark rence upon national boa gone fanny, starvation, tho porish! wholo ruccs have shown that ki way Of yoveraiug uicn bus 49 reduce Mew of infinit abne