The Wingham Times, 1889-06-28, Page 4r4,
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C'eareilT. . . The Late liattftlegcuit riteetthg,
e twogivuu Clinics Tr the eenter ot tee ilutaa..:
(CoitriNuEn rao.n r.itste NYDER.)
—1 1 think I have said enough on this
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FRIDAY, jtjahl 2S, 1880.
1101/8.148 05' REIMOZ.
An age of ehristway is an age of
philauthropy.` Plalanfltrople
'ence is pre-eminently a oheraoterietic
'of the age in which we live. Selene
eesuoinists, philauthro-
spiete and 'educa.tionist: have many
iprofeond problems to deal with in this
Sant charter a the nineteenth century.
There are those who tell us that the
enost momentous question agitating
the public mind is the struggle going
'ou between -Capital aud Labor, To
ay that there Ought to be no, autagoni
'son between these is simply begging,
e question. To say 'that each
itliviaual, physically incapacitated,
ought te be able to earn a livelihood
is repeating a teuistu. Notwith-
,etancling this, and the numerous
philanthropic agencies at work, the
number of ,poor and unprovided for
is apparently on the increase even in
prosperous countries like our own
•A realization of this fast brings the
patter of provision for this uufortun•
ate class prominently before the public mind. The grantiug of and sub-
dividing of charity is to day part of
the work of every urbaa and rural
municipality's assumed duties. A
'number of county councils have of
late years grappled with this question
practically by the erection and main-
tenance of Poor Honses. This has
peen accomplished iu the face of strong
and slowly removed prejudice'. The
discussion of this question absorbed
'the attention of more than one county
-council during the last month the
-local parliament of Huron ,ameggst
these. At the January session a pone
mittee was chosen to collect inform
atiou as to the cont of land, buildings,
erc ,in places where such institutions
—Poor Houses—exist. They pre.
rented an interesting and elaborate
!report which, appeared pretty fully
in our last issue. The report ii,
worthy of the consideration of every
reflecting citizen of the county. They
ie conyince& qg the fact that the
poor we have with us --that the num-
ber of such is increasing and that the
time has come when some more satis-
factory ranenod of providing for them
has to be devised. That many receive
id whek do not deserve it is beyond
itSPtete. The best method of helping
613.14 the really needy` then, is what
.
las now te be considered. The diffi.
eulty exists. How is the remedy to
be devised or applied 2 We purpose
reverting to this subject in subsequent
issues.
WE learn from the report of the
Secretary of the Congregational
Union that met at Brantford last
week that body had a year of steady
advance. Etever; pastors were settled,
089 members weeadded, only nine
churches reporting no increase. The
losns nuwbe*ed 560, a net gain of
43G. The financial value of church
edifices is $669,400, parsonages $18,-
1Q0, amount- of debt on property
$156,88.Q amount raised for local
church purposes $102,748, hum
miesions,$13357, foreign missious, $2,-
820, college, $2410 ; not increase
$3584 : general, pastors in office 68
stations without churches 40, preach.
lug stations 118, average attoudance
15,960, total pastoral care 26,375
The Sunday -school report shows 6605
obelus, 766 teachers.
Wroxeter.
ur 3 W Sanderson was in Toronto
this week on business.
Clinton.
Two young men named Win and
Robb elemieg, of Godericit township,
were convicted of stealing eatt e and
eheep on Monday last and imprisoned
at Golerich.—A man naiued eleCuy
swallowed an .ounce of Paris grew:
aleee Lith some liquor, on Tuesday,
otl. died in spite of all tfforts to save
hint,
moral uestion arid ask you to bear with
mo a little longer, while fatly a few
words about some other remarks ot
the spetaters. Bev 11.1r MoQuarrie
says (Times' report)the Jesuitical creed
must necessarily be always the same,
inasmuch as they claim infallibility in
their methods. The rev. gentleman
is right in the first part of Ilia sen
tence, The Jesuitical oreecl•is always
the same and will bo for all time
Their creed is the creed of the church
and must be always the same, but I
will feel extremely obliged to him if
he will give his authority for saying
tbat they claim, infallibility in their
methods. In the Turns' report the
Rev. Priu. Cavell is made to say, that
they, the Jesuits, have been more
opposed by Catholics tban any other
body. The italics are mine. The
Jesuits were never opposed by the
Catholic people. I 'Alive explained
that they have been opposed by cer-
tain writers of questionable veracity
and goveruments influenced by wumen
of questionable repute, but, I challenge
anyone to prove that the Jesuits are,
or were unpopular with the peeple.
It is not necessary to go back a
century or two and quote unreliable
authority, Let tis see right here in
our own province. Go to Guelph,
where these much abused men have
been stationed for about half a
century in charge of the Catholics of
the Royal City, and its adjacent
missions. Ask the Protestauts of
that place what they think of them.
Go to the ,:Fathers of the order
stationed in Algoma and Perry Sound,
See how they behave themselves, and
learn from Protestants of the zeal,
piety and self-saorificing spirit that ani-
mates them all. No sufferings or
privations are allowed to interfere in
their groat work among the acatlereu
flocks in'their charge. In all kinds of
weather, in dog sleighs, on foot, in
canoes, they work on in :Recharge of
their detiee, ,away from the comforts
and conveniences of civilization.
With scant food,tindifferent shelter,
and other privations they work on,
with no hope of ,any other -reward
than that which is promised us when
our Saviour says "Blessed are tho pure
in spirit for they shall obtain the
Kingdom of Heaven." Cn, on, they
go in their labor of love, looking
neither to the right nor the loft, seek-
ing not the approval of the world for
they treat this world with contempt.
They glory in beieg Maligned, persecu-
ted and having their works, aims and
objects misrepresented, for was not
this the fate of Him whose name
they bear ? And they are
happy to bear this resemblance to
their Master, and well may they say
as He did, "Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do." I will
now couclude this loug letter by ask-
ing reasonable thinking Protestants if
it is not time that this agitation should
cease. The Catholics of Canada are
here to stay and do not purpose being
looked upon, as merely tolerated.
Some may look upon us as foolish in
conforming to the teachings of our
church, which charch sway seem to
them very peculiar, but that is our
own business, and if we are wrong we
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will be the sufferers. As many of my
Protestant friends seem at sea in
regard to the Jesuits, it might be
well to say that they are merely
Catholic prieets,governed by superiors,
these superiors.in turn being subjoet
•to the general at Rome. . They have
no special privileges, teach no doc-
trines but that of the churph, and are
subject in every way to the rules and
regulations of whatever -didoese they
happen to be in, the same as the
secular clergy. It is an error to sup-
pose that they are foreigners. Nearly
all in Caned,. are Canadians, many
are the.sons of men well known in
the highest Canadian. circles, for
instance : Father Kenny, of Montreal,
is tbe son of the late Sir Edward
Kenny, of Halifax ; lather Drum-
mond isthe son of the late Judge
Drummond,of Quebec '• 'Father 'Jones,
of Montreal, is conuected With some
of the first families of Toronto. It is
said that they cannot be loyal to thein
country since they obey a foreigner.
Well this charge will soon be decided
at the -courts, Meanwhile we will
wait further events. The Jesuits are
known the world over for their leer:l-
ing, piety and zeal They carry out
the great motto of their order in all
the branches of theltwork, •"Ad . Me.
jorem Deigglorilten,)/ ttTo the grgeter
glory of God." Vein teackhave ciwge.
of parishes and 'go on foreign ..,and-
domestic: missions. The Catholic'
people deqly love them, and it is a
slander to ineinuate otherwise. But
what have the people of Ontario to be
tu.lotte about I There ttt;e,.. abed It
baker's do= in this province, about morality of the jeenit order, that is,
five in Guelph' the rest in The north- though, a subordinate matter, also a
ern portion ofthe proviuee, where very tuiportaiit one. Catholic Lay -
they are so busy working among the man thinks that Prof Caren and Dr
Indians, that they have no time to be Macdonale hare doubts about the
troublesome or mischievous and so immoral nature of the Seeietyof Jesus.
far as 1 heard do not . make speeches Macdonald can speak doubtless
oa Orangical Anglicanion prate about for himself, Prof (Area is not
Methodisttsh aggression or make in- here to reply, I may therefore say
temperate harangues to keep their pee. that your correspondent is at a dis-
advantage in not having been at the
meeting. Had lie boon there, he
might easily have seen that Dr Cam,
had no doubts. 1{e apoke in a chris-
tian spirit, said all he could in favor of
the Jesuits us individuals, but he
clearly showed that the Soolety as
stiouiis essentially,iininoral. The gist ot
his argument was this: The Jesuits
aro bound to implicit obedience
their superiors. They are to bo as
passive in his hand as it staff or
craciex, they 'ere in regard to their
owu will and power of thought to be
as a corpse Implicit oboclienee in all
things is required. Such a society,
Said the doctor, that requires men
to absolutely give up their God-given
will and intelligence to another is
Ps3en tiall7 immoral. To this might
be added further, that the head of
order is a foreigner residing iu Rome
and by virtue of this implicit obodi
once to him, they are liable at any
time if he so orders it, to be placed in
conflict with the laws and inatitutions
of the land where they may reside,
nu) professor further proceeded to
show that the Jesuits aspired by their
education to be the confessors of the
leading personages of Europe, and
that their flexibility in regard to morals
in this respect was great. In regard
to this latter question, we .may well
refer to Macaulay, ae he has beret
quoted by your correspondent. He
has given an extract in their favor.
.But, unlike Dr °even, ho has not given
the other side of the question. Hero
is the continuation of the passage :
"But with the admirable energy,
disinter:lewdness, and self-devotioe,
which were characteriptio of the So-
ciety, great vices were mingled. It
was allo'ged, and not without founda-
tion, that the ardent public spirit
which made the Jesuit regardless of
his ease. of his liberty and of his life
made him also - regardless of truth
and of mercy; that no means wbich
could promote the interests of his
religion.seenied to him unlawful and
that by tho interest of his religion he
too often Meant the interest of . his
scoiety. It wesolleged that, in the
most atrocious plots recorded in his-
tory, his agency could be distinctly
triteed,:that constant only in attacip,
ment to the fraternity to which he
belonged, he was in some countries
the mot dangerous enemy of ereedoin
and in others the most dangerous
enemy of order. The mighty victories
which he Wasted -that he had achiev.
ed in the cause of the church were,
in the eudgment of many illustrious
members of that oharch, rather
ple from, Xiettrhounig to the voiceof the Protestant missionaries, arousing feel-
ings of distrust, and, generating, bad
feeling among neighbors that should
live iu petite and concord.
ennoraa IckYSIA:•.t.
June, 15th, '89.
In the first portion of this letter
several errors crept in. The quotation
from Voltaire should have extended
from "Pascal" to "expense". The
next sentence "on acccount of their
immorality in bad times ;" should be
divided Its follows; ou account of
their immorality ; beel live:: ; in
speaking of Maclain De Poinpadour,
the words "like the daughter of Hero -
dine," should precede "she demauded
her price." For the tricks of christi-
anity,in speaking of the Jesuit Missione
in Paraguey,read tenets of Ohristianity.
To the Editor of the Wiugham Tants ;
Dear: Sin,—In your last issues I
notice a fetter signed "Catholic Lay.
man," in reference to which I think it
is well to male some remarke. Your
correspondent very eaaily disposes of
the legal aspects of the Jesuit bill by
assuming that they are finally settled
by the parliamentary majority against
disallowance. But let hien not be too
sure. . Who knows what the effect
of the numerous petitions that are to
be poured in before the 8th of August?
Further, the Act may yet be declared
unconstitutional by , the Supreme
Court or Privy Council. , Hon. Wm
McDougall has just given his opinion
at the West Zorea picnic that it is
unconstitutional, and the Law Journal
and Law. Times have written se forcibly
on the subject that the Gibe acknow
ledged its original opinion changed.
If the measure is finally allowed to
stand,it certainly behooves the Protes-
tants of Canada to see that such an
amendinent is made to the B N A
Act as to render any further legiala•
tion of the kind impossible. Your
correspondent also disposes, withequal
facility,. of that portion of the -resolution
at the late meeting, which says - the
Bill is derogatory to the supremacy
of the Queen. But the Law Journal,
above referred to, takes the opposite
view to his. So do' several leading
newspapers of the DOminion, as the
Globe, Mail and Montreal Witness,.
besides the able lawyers, profeseors and
others who have spoken at the large
and enthusiastic meetings held; in
Montreal and Toronto. Many think
the Bill should be disallowed on this
ground, if - on
noground, other. Your comes
poudent then comes to what he calls
han
"the great objection of the speakers apparent t -real. He had indeed
at the meeting of the 4th inst, viz: The labored with a- wonderful show of
immorality of the Jesuits. Herein success to retinae the world under her
:your correspondent makes a great lavis ; but he had done so by relaxing'
mistake. The great objection I .have -h we to 'tthe tf the
and 1 presume the others also, la to world: instead of toiling to elevate
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the endowment of religious bodies by. human nature to the standard fixed
the state at all. As Professor Caven
by divine percept and example, he bad
remarked whatever views may be lowerea -tho el d till it was b
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held in regard to such endowment in neath the average level of 'human
the abstracenon•endewment is the only . nature. He gloried in multitudes of
way for the different bodies •to get converts who had been '-baptised in
along harmoniously in this country. the remote regions Of the east, ,but
We supposed 'time this principle was it was reported' that from some of
settled, ninon the Clergy Reserves those converts, the facts on which the
questionwas ' disposed of, and the whole theology of the'..lospel depended
Jesuit question certainly ought to be had been cunningly concealed, and
settled,when the Government pension- that others, were permitted to avoid
ed the last -of the Jesuits, and their persecution by bowing down before
estates in 1800 escheated to the the images of false gods, while inter -
Crown. The Crown transferred the nally repeating Paters and Aves for
estates to Quebec, on condition that was it only in lo,t,then countries.. that
they be used or educational ' purposes such arts were said to be pranticed.
exolusively, but the Quebec Govern-
Iwanot strange.that people. of all
ment has betrayed its trust, selling the . reeks,
't s
and especially of the. highest
estates and virtually givingto' .:the. ranks, crowded to the cotifessiouals
Pope $400,000 to dispose ofar
_l's, -10; .i,ii, the Josuit temples foe from those
pleases alteng• din .RPIttett ve, -he;
confessionals none went' discontented
'powers in -Cantaudsai.60:0eoecooardnidntgillep bahie. ta.17ii,g„s ta aTheremeut.hojeriesshtuwweacia jut
gives the jostle
anoeiio divides between the Bishop% as much vi vi as might not drive
Laval and the Seccursal.111 additiene these'who knelt's/ his spiritual tensor
•IrtprairioCommon is donated to`the me woo Dominican or Franciscan,
'Jesuits. We rbgard this as a danger- nieeax,. 'If ludiad to deal with a
ous preoodent. We believe that if mind, trely derout,'he spoke in the
the Mattel -be left unoheiiked, further ettintly toneaef the primitive fathers,
raids will be made on the public trete, but with that large part of inaukintl
sury, and as Prof. Caven observed, the who have relinion enough to make
language of the Jesuits themsolveslo thorn uneasy When they clo • wrong,
the Government give 1-18 amble and snot religions enough to keep them
ground for thisfear. All we ask from wrong doh g, he followed a •dif..
for • is,
'equal rightsfor all, When forma system, since he could not save
we 't ' .; . th 11 o 1 r i
. taem front ricei-it was Iva business 4
to stand, by us in this, your corms. t„ soe thorn from remorse, lie had I
pondent says we are asking them ab his .coloomm an immense divan.
to join in an unholy crusade, I. say of mod),ors, for wnuntled eon -1f
Mark this well, Protestants. When Sele11008: In the hooka of casuistry i
we oppose the movement a bhe R• 0 which '.had been written by his
Church and stand up for equal rights
brethren and printed with the appro.
for all, we are told we are engaged i n
A
found doctrines eonaolator
gressora of every class.
W. K
(ro CONTINUSD.)
Tho seripture 30631111v .4404W.
To tho Edit ot tixo "limos:"
Dias; 61u, --In reading. the reply of
Pett,ypieee to my letter in fernier
issue of you paper, one would suppose
1 haa colnuatoa some grievous oilet.ce
by not signing my name or that 1 hal.
no right ko Criticise his flOtS. DLit
may tell him Unit 3.3 lung as
it public; position, whether it be that
of chief conetalee or sehool truetee,
the community has it perfect right to
eriticise anything whioli he does in
his pu‘blio capacity, so long as the
°ALL:isms are not era libeildits nature.
;Jut Mr P. sounds a kindly note of
walling and tele me to "he o:treful or
f will ttet myself into trouble,, for tho
Philistines will be upon tht oet Ile
admits that the Ross Bible is a politi-
cal questien, but he answers me by
asking the queStiOn, if I consider the
meeting tl Presbyterian church a
political meeting. 1 would certainly
say yes, but not from' a party point
of view, for it dealt with a political
question. He has evidently got the
words party and politics bacUy mixed.
Surely Mr Pettypooe's idemof a political
meeting door not carry him away back
to the year 1886 wLen the inhabitaute
of the private car eh:mania' visited
this town and gave a free exhibition
on our streets, at the country's ex
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pease, for the purpose at ging
the speeches of Dr. Macdonald, who
was then a esudidate for parliament.
That was also a political meeting, but
a strong party one which, I have no
doubt, suited Mr Pettypie4e's taste
better than: the one in the Proebyter-
ian ellUreh. • Now to prove that Mr
Pettypiecee: speech at the whorl
Board meeting ivas a political one,
have only to refer yon to his letter
where he hays that he would like to
shun "lr:lidos." But the-partisat.
spirit is too strong end he again must
have another slap at lelowatt as he
pastes along. Now let us see who
were the compilers of • the Scripture
Selections. Was it not representatives.
Of the English, Methodist, Presbyter-
ian, Congregational and. Baptist
churches, mostly residents ortee city
of Tort:me:el Now, I will give yuu the
names of them aud I will leave the
parents whose children. attend our
school to be the judges into whose
hands they would place their children
lit FAVOR OF TUB SMZOTIONS. I AOAINST.
for religious instruction : 1
Bev
he
rna
i)D3;er al,: oar ntosgd y
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jority of
Dr Castle ; School
"" Dr 6'ittbertand '
MrPar 3313°udrateYn. - o1301:113 aeo f
Dr Cavan. Winghtun.
Now these are men of greater men -
tet power than either the Writer or
pompiler of Mr P's letter. Tho Mai/
newspaper, after starting the rime and
revenge cry, franlky admitted, about a
year ago the, objectionable features
wore entirely removed in this revision
and that this country owed a debt of
gratitude to the Hon Mr R4s, for
having placed in the schools of this
province so excellent a book as the
Scripture Selections, which Mr
Pettypiecein his wisdom condemns.
In regard to his remarks about the
'whole Bible being used in the English
church, I admit it is, but are • there
not selections used in some parts of
their service as well? Why not con-
demn that as well as the selections in
school? 'But he cannot do that; as it
is part of his creed and the -other is
against his politics. Now I Will con-
clude by saying in connection with,
Mr P's lotteries did Isaac of old to his.
son Jacob ; The writing may be Ur.
Pitibut the composition seems- to be
-teem. the had of; a, •brethee the.
same party., Years,.
P:kmorm
Langsfide.
Don't know where to spend the lst.
-*Some of our weather prophets are.
predioting a wet day on the 12th of,
July. If they do not hit the . mark
they will oot,.be left much worse than
Mr. Wiggins is with his dry seasnn.—
Our athletes are exercising their.
muscles for the 1.0.—Master John
Mborhouse, while 4xing• feta the
othee•daf, carelessly, laid. the .draw..
knife in the giass.whi)e, ho took. up
some other tool, when, he inadvert-
ently ktieeled on. 'the ground where
the, knife was: lytiag and gave his
knee: a terrible tut, the .effeets of
which has left. Wild sick.—Miss Lavina
Pettypieee has ben visiting friends
Su vItu.itMinagey}.0-„r—ubisItreselelorbuy Ottawa
Win.iffin.
—Miss Parker of St. Marys is visitingT
elands here.—Mr. and 111re John Mo.
Gregor of Inverness, Scotland are the
guests ot Mrs McPherson, — Thei
SaeramInt of the Lord's Supper will bn
dispensed with in the Preebyterian
hurch on Sunday text at 11, O'eloakt.,
trans
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