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Phe Middle ages. Nowhere were
..,,,t,.,,,#1gtntnoconc9ptions coarser or more
t an In England and the
,X,Ovihunia of :Scotland, among those
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peoples:"4: tik• e
Iier1341: Spencer, while, “bi_ncling
,the universe u into bundles,"—as
000Y Caliyle said of Comte,—has
not omitted to notice these gross
mecliejval conceptions. By educe-
tiom no leas than by temperament,
Xr. Spencer is unable to recognize
that the apparent incongruities
"between religious beliefs and social
states,"—in the middle ages at least,
would appear perfectly congruous
to a Roman Catholic, even to its
latest and perheps most scholarly
champion, Mr. W. S. Lilly. The
mystery -plays of the dark ages,
though certainly very much grosser,
re not a whit more enthropomor-
phis than --the ,...Passion -play of
• thellavarian hamlet Oberammergau,
which crowds of refined ladies and
gentlemen, both of England and,
America, throng to witness and to
which columns of descriptive articles
have been devoted by the most re-
spectable and influential London
newspapers. That the old plays
were exceedingly broad pictures,
as 'Wright terms then, is most un-
questionable. Nevertheless they
werepictures, and at their inception
they were intended,—as Popo Greg-
ory the Groat said of religious paint-
ings,—to servo as idiotation lThri, or
.. books for the illiterate, and, doubt -
from the Catholic standpoint, they
admirably fulfilled the function for
which they were designed.
The methods pursued by the Sal -
7 vation Army are those by which
Christianity was quickened imme-
.diately after the crucifixion andclis-
-nppeaVO_of its p*rotagonist, 'the
-en uslastic-Galilean. I have studied
those methods at the old head-
quarters of ,the Army •in White-
chapel, Londouovhere-I- have been
enabled to realize the immense effect
produced on the popular mind of
England by that Antionoraianism
which was the moving doctrine of
the reformation. Side by side with
this outbreak of fanaticism, however
another,—and I think a much more
praiseworthy,—movethent was being
conducted in a contiguous district of
the teeming East End of the great
city. Id Gravel Late,runs across
the k, and connects Rat-
ighway,=now MO rt3°
"6/at 661 1 y
called St. George's •East,—with
Highstreet, Wapping. 1 nevl hard-
ly add that all these are listorie
places, grim and forbidding though
they now are. Though shorn of its
ancient pre-eminence by the re-
moval of the larger portion of the
shipping to the newer and more
eastern docks,. this region is still
sacred to sailors, crimps, dance -
houses, liquor saloons and brothels,
—a terra incognita to the respect-
able citizens of the great metropolis.
The wretched &mits, alleys and by-
ways that spread from it on either
side are inhabited by laborers and
their families, .nearly all of whom
are of Milesian extraction and who
constitute the most numerous por-
tion of the Irish colony in London..
i, myself, have often heard the
original language of Connemara
spoken in this district, and Pstill
• remember an evening spent in Rat-
cliff, when I listened with as much
delight as Borrow, the ."Romany
Rye," to wild legends of Fingal,
Grace O'Malley and Brian Boroim-
he, sounding stringely•out of place
• .in this Gehenna of•-stpfaitir, misery
and- vice. T.I.ar'hien earned a pr
tio.tie-fatifwretched subsistence b
their Chance employments in the
docks. Every morning the gates
opened, while au official "takes on"
the -number of laborers deemed nee,
cesary for tho day, either in the
wino vaults, on the warehouse floors,
or on tho quays. Each man receives
a metal ticket, ,with the hour of his
entry stamped on it, and his name is
entered in the "taking -on -book" op-
posite the number of his ticket. The
feverish impatience and anxiety of
the crowds who linger near the
gates are genertiq very painful to
witness, and very few of these ad-
ministrators to the wealth .of this
overgrown metropolls average Moro
than throe days a week of regular
employment throughout the year.
The young women and girls aro em-
ployed in sack making at their own
'homes
,
" and at any time scores of
having- forms that a duehess
might envy, may bo met on the
Streets with heavy piles of rough
sacks on their heads. Being only
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.and Oriental women With
)y,;eter,pottisand vases en that heads
and shoulden.
Vulgar and vicious as this dis;.
trint it; was, nevertheless, the
region selected to labor in by the
most self -devoted priest that has
ever adorned and honored the
hutch of England since the death
Of George Herbert., "Man is born
to boa doer of good," wrote The
Emperior Marcus Auteuil:46,—a
'maxim which • did not govern his
own conduct with reagent td the ris-
ing sect of Christians. Let net.
iatevet we. way think _of kw;
Mop, honeobly and &ow.
kodgo that Christianity bee
from itainception inspired ambition-
ulated a refined and elevated altru-
ism. The self-sacrifice of such men
es Herbert, Mompesson and Lowder
reflects honor on humanity none
the less, because their noble exer-
tions were in a great degree prompt-
ed by their religious convictions.
"St Peter's London docks," is situ-
ated in Old Gravel Lane. It was
.for many years the church of the
Rev. Charles Lowder, — "Eather
Lowder," as he was called by his
affectionate parishioners. Defying
alike the—prejudices of his co -re-
ligionists and the hostility of the
people among whom he volunteered
to lahor,—these being nearly'. all, at
least name, Roman Catholic,—
Father Lowder openly put in prac-
tise the highest ritual allowed him
by the law, caring, indeed, little or
nothing for_judical conunittoos or
for any secular court or ordinance
appointed by the State to restrain
High Churchmen from excess of
zeal, My pen almost shrinks from
the attempt to describe the nauseous
impurity and bestiality of the deni-
zens of these riverside purlieus.
Morning, noon and night the mind.
of this educated and refined gentle-
men must have been shocked by his
surroundings, the very children
playing in the gutters using all un-
consciously the vilest language of
the brothel. Throwing aside fasti-
diousness, this grand humanitarian
devoted himself to. the reclamation
of tho district, -Corpus Christi and
other processions wended their way,
under his guidance, down the Lane,
into.Wapping, and along the court-
esan -haunted Highway, while the
services inside the church were of
the very "highest" order possible.
For a long time the people did little
but scoff at the zealous priest, now
and then, however, manifesting, in
a way that called for the interfer-
ence of the police, that they "were
Ionian, not Anglican, Catholics.
Gradually, however, as it was found
that Lowder's religion was a practi-
cal one, embracing work of mercy,
kinduess and charity; when it was
seen that willing hands were ex-
tended. to rescue the fallen, and
that agpucies wore established to
promote tho welfare of the poor, to
encourage temperance and thrift,
and that St. Peter's was truly a
"light shining in a dark plaoe," the
demeanor of the "natives" • was.
changed. Then it was, too, that
the Roman Church, which claimed
the' allegiance of these outcasts,
awoke to the recognition of the fact •
that Ratcliffand ,Wapping were not
in • Tasmania- Or at the north pole,
but at its own door. Henceforth a
little of the.attention that had bean
confined to netting big fishes among
the aristocracy was . bestowed on,
East London, and Henry Edward,
of Westminster, appears to have
found the looality,. on a :map, and,
having found, made a note of it:
St. Peter's and its various agen-
cies,including even a dining and.
coffee-house for laborers,—has thriv-
en wondrously. Except in the Hall
of Science, Old Street, tho head-
quarters of the Secularists, there is
no 'other example of the rapid grow-
thbf a congregation composed main-
ly of the -laboring classes. "Father"
Lowder died,—I think about forty
years ago„ -but the work still con-
tinues vigoronsly as when lio was
alive to conduct it, his example hav-
ing encouraged others to follow in
his footsteps, Unlike tho Salva-
tionists, whose -frenzied appeals to
avoid "the wrath- to ,corno," and
lurid pictures of hell -fire tempor-
ily excite the ignorant mind only,
to •ovoke a terrible reaction in the
dire° ion of sensual indulgence and
profo'.1 nd debauchery, the Ritualists
t Loudon have worked en -
)n what I may term pro -Re -
:on linos. Amour, other
of Ea
tirely
form
things they have had recourse to
as means of instructions, is a modi-
fication of the passion -plays. Un-
like the peasants of Oberarnmergau,
the authorities of St. Peter's aro
mindful of the Horatian advice not
to ""introduce on the stage 'things
that ought to be enacted [i.e: sup-
posed to bo enacted] behind thu
scene." Of course this circumspec-
tion is a concession to modern pro.
gress;and it indicates, as Mr. Spen-
cer would say, the over -increasing
incongruity between religious be-
liefs and an improved social state
that the conception of the Virgin
M-ary-ortire-ertreifixim---of her son
would not now be made the subject
of a tableau caller on a public Or
private platform in England.
From notes made at the time, I
1.1
einithleigrA9fterthe• O4n. of;,,thool
at.4hori,' wmoTc. proporl$ tho ;ow.
pcso4.11.fai.ttO.Rov.:014arlos 'Lovaler:
hitassitapcl, of NUM, inarn
oJ-
jeat waft to coablo congregation
wore vividly to realize the salient
events connected with the..incarna,
tion and early life upon earth of
"the eon of Gott." The PIy open-
ed by the Choragus ("the master of
playa") and chorus, eaueisting of
twelve ladies attired. in looso White
dresses, six of which were orna-
mented with blue and six with
pink trimmings. These recited the
prologue, after which the curtain
was drawn and a tableau represent-
ir./.‘the Annunciation" Appeared..
Thle welt followed by the "Nativity,"
tIto,,.."4,dotlition of the Shepherds,'
tho "Preseutatiouin the Temple,"
tlie•..'"Flight into' Egypt," etc. By
Sa.;, the most effective tableau was
ilia of the simplehouse and work-
shop of the carpenterjoseph, show-
ing Mary carding flax, the child
Jesus with a broom in hand, and
Joseph himself at a rude work-
bench. Quito as reverently as
though engaged in regular worship
the chorus sang a hymn, from which
I cull the following verses :
•_..
"Sous of Adam, sons of sorrow,
Would ye wis who is this
Laboring at Nazareth ?
"Very God, the Angels call hitn,
And adose,:evermore,
Bonding low before him,
"Very Luau, yet now behold him.
Mary's child, week and mild, •
Called the Sun of Joseph.
• •
"Know'st thou what it is to hunger,
Barely fed with daily bread ? --
Jesus, too, did'hungcr !
• •
Know'st thou what it is to labor,—
Toiling on till youth is gone
All His life He labored !
• •
"Is thy labor very lowly ?
Brother, see, at Nazareth he
Swept the floor for Mary.
• • •
"Man! whate'er thy lot and station,
Rich and glad, or poor and
God was Mau at Nazareth 1"
The reader, will, I thiuk, agree
with me that there was nothing
ridiculous or what. the most rigid
Evangelical Christain would regard
as profane in this gospel -play.
Doubtless it was conceived, as it
was most certainly represented, in a
spirit of religious reverence. In
this respect it presented a marked
contrast no less to the ribaldry of
the Salvation Army than to. the
coarse buffoonery of the mediaeval
passion -plays. Theobject alined at
was to bring the doctrine of the In-
carnation before the people in a
manner best. calculated fo perma-
nently impress them with its signifi-
cance. The old 'Romanist method,
on the contrary, tended to bring re-
ligion into contempt, and thus, in
some measure, it prepared the way
for the great Protestant revolt.
Whit, or instance, could be more
absurdly ridiculous than the Festi-
val of the Ass, formerly, celebrated
at Beauvais? In commemoration of
the patient animal upon which
Joseph and Mary.were presumed to
have fled into Egypt, tha people of
Beauvais used once a year to capar-
ison a donkey in cloth of gad, and
place upon its back a' richly dressed
maiden, to represent the Virgin
Mary. A long procession of priests
and people.. Aondiacted these from,
the cathedral to the parish .church
of St. Stephen. Girl and donkey
were placed near the altar, and dur-
ing the celebratioUof high mass the
well-trained animal_ was compelled
to kneel at the most solemn parts of
the "sacrifice." Du Cringe (Book
III, - pp. 426, 427) has preserved
the hymn, with its French chorus,
which same not -too -faithful an in-
terpreter has tendered into English,
some.specimen stanzas being as fol-
lows
"The ass eemos hitiwr from Eastern
climes ;
Sir Donkey !
He is handsome and lit for his load at all
• times.
Sing, Father Ass; and you shall have grass,
And straw, too, and hay in plenty.
"The ass is slow and lazy too ;
Heigh -lie, Sir Donkey !
But the whip and the spinr will make hint
go. •
Sing, Father Ass, and yon shall have
grass,
And straw, tin), and hay implenty.—
"The ass Win born with stiff long cars
Heigh-ho, Sir Donkey 1
And yet he the lori of asses appears.
Sine:, Fathe .Ass, and yon 'shall have
grass,
And strawtoo, and hay in plenty."
"At a kap the ass excels the hind ;
Heighlio, Sir Donkey !
And he leaves the goat and the camel
behind.
Bray, Father Ass, and you skill have
grass,
Aod straw, too, and hay in plenty."
"The worship," writes the Rev:
ILIChristrnas, "concluded with a
mutual braying between the clergy
and laity in honor of the ass. The
officiating priest turned to the peo-
ple, and in a fine treble voice, and
with great devotion, brayed throe
times like an ass, whose fair repre-
sentative he was ; while the people,
imitating his example in thanking
God, brayed three times in concert.
This was truly an edifying act of
worship, and one which Popo Leo
III might do well to re-establish
as a sort of complement to the
dogma of papal infallibility, _by
voting for which on the I8th of
Ala
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Boglau4 thbo,o-called Wiggle
reviral,—nnt the Room) Catholic
he it noted,is extending itself
downward Iv well as upwerd. Hew
far mirecle-plays IOU hap -to recover
the masses 1cannot state, but it is
note -worthy that tho national church
is sparing no effort both to ameliors
ate the physical condition of the
people, to improve their morals,
and to counteract the lapid growth
of skepticism. It has ono associa
tiou,—The Guild of St. Matthew,—
especially designed to confront the
Secularists, and which endeavors to
meet them rationally and admits
them to its platforms in fair and
open argument.In so dein., it has,
I believe, challenged and obtained
the respect of Mr. Bradlaugh, who
desire's nothing better than that the
conflict between Secularism and
Christianity shall be conducted
more generously and courteously
then in the old time of vituperation
and abuse.
THE LIME KILN CLUB.
"It .Catalina Rombustus Pierson
ar' in do hall to-uight I should like
to hay him step dis way," said
Brother Gardner as he wiped ,his
spectacles on his elbow and turned
his gaze into the southeast corner.
Cataliue, who is a young man of
22, very stiff in tho back and of
ancient ancestry, came forward with
a bland smile on his face and his
coat' buttoned tightly around him.
".Brudder Pierson," continued
the President in a fatherly way, "I
haf had au eye on you fur some
time back. Ar' dat a dim up pin
you has on '1"
"No, sah—It's
I thought so. Is dam' anything
at de end of that watch chaiu ?"
',No. sah."
"Gold chaiu ?"
sah."
"flows dat suit of cloz, Brudder
Pierson—Paid for or not?"
"N -no, sah but Fzegwine to pay."
'Oh, your ar' ! De tailor was
ober to see mo las' nite abotit. 'em.
Please -lemme pee dat big roll of
money you war carryin! around
yesterday."
"I'ze dun took it apart, sali. It
was only a two -dollar hill wrapped
around a rag."
"Jist as I !spected! How's yer
bo'd; prodder Pierson?"
"Throe weeks behind, sal:, but I'ze
gwine to pay up." .
"Dat's good news. Owe any bor-
rowed money ? "
"Y -yes, sah, but I'zo gwiu to pay
it back."
"Den, to sum up, you doan,' own
de cloze on your back. You ar'
cheatin" do public wid a glass dim-
braswatch chain, an' you -am
dodgin'creditors in ebery direction.
All die far what I To p,ut on a
leedle. style. Bruddee'Pierson you
• anr.a deceiver ; you am a hypocrite;
you am a liar. Dili and a heap ob
white folks just like you.- Sooner
dan lot the world know cloy am poo'
-cloy will commit a crime. What
doy orter w'ar kaliko dey will buy
velvets; whar doy orter pay deir
milk bills (ley will usedeir money
to go to do grand opera. Meet 'ein
on de street an' you'd think dey
owned a bank. Go to deir home§
an' you'd think you'd stumbled in-
to de poo' -house..
"1 doan' undsrstano,' Brudder
Pierson., why you feel called upon
to .swell. . Dem clew won't hide yer
black face ; dem fashnubal miters
won't reduce de size of ycfrPvNA ;
brass watch chain an' a glass dia,
mun am not pine to boost ye into
high society an' holcl ye thar very
long. How does you reason dis case,
Brudder Pierson ?"
"I-4 doan' know."
"Well, sah you resoom yer seat.
1)e nex' time you appear .heali dat
chain an' dimun must bo missin'..
I'll give you just two weeks to Part
yer ha'r away from de middle. In
fo' weeks, if dat bo'd bill ain't
paid up an' do tailor feelin' safe
about his money, main' will drop.
It will drop hard, an' it will hit
you!" Dis club believes in kaliker
shirts an' cash down fur grub; in
stogy shoos an' house -rent all paid
up ; in Kentucky jeans an' no bill
at do butcher's ; in paper collars an'
no dodging creditors. Sit down,
Brudder Pierson, an' think it ober."
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