The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 19

THE SUNDAY CALL 19 of the Anglican sect in Ireland, while the Ritualistic party might make serious oVer- tures for reunion with Rome. .. T re XI. b ot l Meanwhile the Catholic church in Eng- - land enjoys a large measure of prosperity. | 3 The work of Wiseman, of Newman and v of Manning is bearin, it. While I |’ » was in London, St Moorflelds, | e the church In which Wiseman | . preache many of his lectures, was sold. Th ced the ! ble buflding of an Immense c t West. | . minster, which will be a wort rival | | even of the Abbey and St. Paul's. The | wazz | | | . r | | WEST TOWERS. : Ve _ WESTMINSTER ABBEY. oM DON STV - PAMG S | Py Iz LorN PO \ re C it & i : Jections that v Pa g K n v I was in 1 n the er e e o fury w ‘ the su T is a rty in 2 shed ¢ which’ be- H ~ 9 1 TRAFALGAR SQUARE. o ___ __ASND NATIONAL GALLERY.. LONDON b romer \\ e T e Y - ground was bought by Cardinal Manning efther the city of God or the city of the for the work, but it was left to his su vil. Some.return with tales of . ce Cardinal Vaughn, to bring it to and wickedness, others see its moral Y cor r i Truth to tell, Paris e XIL : the world, has two the worl There are many visitors to ¢ ter of the cisco who go home with the idea that ace with wo city had are a community of outlaws relieved that met New he m. On of Chinese virtue fa on- the ( N this isco know that wi demned and th on the « Francis- mall section of Oxford moveme co. all th ed and far as our re w 1 t The Liberal party ch accomplished contemplated n Par no better, no t v the disestablishmen the English When the cks of other church in Ire mpted the dis- ui to mak B in Paris c establishment inglish church in wié are do- go there to find dirt and N Wales, shows s x desire to make »d. find it easily enough, but"when Vil the present tr mment for in home with upraised hands and » o § s disestablishme ital eves to d d French, they cor Elizabeth would in two Protestant party I have not would form a denomination on the lines o € 2 n L rid where rous a ded in the On every si the outside 1 ks of our b wonder of the tourist best conducted exan A STREET IN QUEENSTOWN..CO. CORK. liarities supposed to have been banished forever at the reformation. In St. Al- bans, Holborn, they had as pretty a “erib” at Christma: as I have ever seen. The agitation against these practices was started by one Kensit, a London bookseller who has a little shop on Pater- ter row. Compared to the “Row" our flllam street or Adelaide place s a ard or a panhandle. Next door to Kensit's Is a Catholic bookstore, and it may be that it was the close proximity of statues, pictures, rosary beads and books of devotion that fired the “Protest- ant bookseller,” as he sty himseif, to his sensatio mpalign. His practice is tc enter one of the ritualistic churches during service, accompanied by a band of sympathizers. When tha objectionable usages appear Kensit rises and protest Then follows what the lawyers term brawl.” There s a trial, tremendous agi- tation, letters without end in the news- papers, and the virtuous British public induiges in its favorite recreation com- round of the jackr ich know how to us ielr are paved ement 1s glv- en the care attention that a good housekeeper will give a carpet. It is not left as our bitumen is to swelter in the sun, pitted with hoof marks, neither 1s it in damp weather as the surface of an ice pond for the beasts of burden. A layer of clean sand is carefuily spread over it before the day's traffic begins and is as , carefully renewed when oceasion requires The pavement is thus protected, the scav- enging operations facllitated and horses can be driven at a moderate speed with- out risking their necks and the necks of their drivers. XL T do not suppose that there Is any eity in the world of which we receive such conflicting accounts as of Paris. It s streets with aspha at aven retreats, asylum il r to combat e » which body or soul is there 1s much irreligion Paris, but there is much frrel cvery great city. As far as c rtune not a third of our pe o may be found in ¢ church. In Paris, unfortunately, ough historic circumstances, a pertion of this fIrre- liglous majority Is actively hc Christianity. With us the jority Is passive or well disposed. But the religious part of the population does more for its principles and its faith than any similar number of men In the whole world. The French contributions to re- liglous causes at home and abroad are stupendous. The devotion with which Frenchmen give themselves and thelr per- sonal services In France and out of France puts nations that boast more to the blush. T clergy of Paris work as no other priests work. The number and ingenuity of the devices to bring people to church and to the practices of their re- liglon are beyond description. And their work is not fruftless. One evening last to all January 1 was in the church of Roch and v it filled with thousands of men. It was on g: it was a L Weds vere of the th hands lothes as they occasion was rence Contra- od {dea of the parisk people; tk grimed with left the 10 dictolre, and gives us a kind of work done in P A preacher 1s chosen Ject usually a matter ussion be- tween Christians and their opponents The sermon, or conference, is well zdver- tised in the parish, and the churcn is re- served for men. On this occaslon the preacher had taken the question of the immortality of the soul—Does anything ot us exist after death, or do we wholly die and cease to be? Ag in the case of those long churches In France. the pul- pit is placed half way down the nave and against the left wall. Opposite the pulpit and facing it 1s a bench whereon sit the parish priest, his assistants and the church wardens. The rest of the congregation use chairs. which, to-night, are free. The exercise opens with the singing of a hymn in French and a short form of night prayers. Then the sermon commences. Hardly, however, has the preacher got well Into his subject when he is Interrupted. There is a dev- iI's advocate on the bench opposite. He is usually a priest of the parish, but he takes the argument of the speaker, tears it to pleces and throws at him the ob- sclects a sub hem at ered the child whose s her—the child of y As 1 stood befo: ) allegory f Aug from the tea Yet there was dia ful. too fine to Even so was it wit one may of the rev cesses; of century ation anc and follle cked and some it all has been. as it were, the aberration of freedom and the stumbiing of men whose eyes are fixed too intent ly upon the But all this ca ast ys. The coun £ St 1 and of vot be cast off f . The n blood will cool . I beat passionately; the will see more arly But here record of a war to see. %o much to speak about Call has limits and ers is short. Perhaps things merely as th When I began this pa down through Italy Tyrol, but Cublin the question of Irish r P so alluring that my plans went all ¢ However, | am not particularly This {s the record of my wander-vear and no lesson of my trip Was more interesting to me than that.