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Full Title	The Catholic Herald - Vol. III No. 35 Thursday, August 27, 1835, Whole Number: 139.
Contributor	O'Donnell, N., Rev.
Date Added	11 January 2014
Language	English
Publish Date	1835-08-27
Publisher	Philadelphia [PA. : s.n.]
Source	ACHS Newspapers and Magazines The Catholic Herald
Alternate Title	Catholic herald (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1833)
Topic	Catholic Americana. Newspapers > Catholic > 19th century. Catholic Church > Pennsylvania > Newspapers.
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OCR VOL, IIo. 35, . . “GO TEACH ALL NATIONS.” THObLIG HER Matt. xxviii. 10. “AS MY FATHER ATH SENT ME, 1 ALSO SEND YOU." at Ho . John xx. 2. 27, 182 1. WHOLE NUMBE . THE Cantus qeragp is published T |. E. Corner of Market ond Second Streets (up Sains ) oraans per annum, pay yable bal yeni in alva Any. per: 5 in advances shall receive two co Hera, for o| ntaining remittances,) must re irected to the ** Editor of ie: Zathoie Herald,”* Philadelphia, Penn. ‘© paper willbe discontinued until all sresarages are settle: Poetry. ac to. door ar For the Catholic Hera ‘The Following lines were suggested by knowing that a Pro- sen ody ‘complained that she could not pray, ina church he architectural ornaments, of whichshe saw a. cross, ihe sane spoiled her devotions. # The cross umites in bonds of love, . ‘Whom differing creeds divide ; ‘Then be the hallow'd sign display’d ‘ho’ zealots stern, deride. Symbo} and pledge of Christian vow ! Still dear, to Christian eyes j Whee eer our moules of faith may bo, ‘The precious cross we prize., ‘The eross upon the iain brow, With holy faith, imprest, To seal Chri ‘s nai follower — Isdea Bleat token of redeeming grace! a rom earth, nd heav'nward guide their Might. =, 1 Wide be the Chri istian Banner spread! oan ‘And shout Salvation's Song. ‘The cross victorious over sin! ‘The eross, on hope and sta Sul atta fet, my knoe he bent For there, my heart * Wo receive this child, with the congregation of Chris Mock, and do sign him seth Ue slo of the crocs, in token, he shall not ‘med to confess the faith of Soe aeceaeanied; and manly ta fight against sin, the wo “End the dovils aod to continue Chriv's fathtul soldier and ser- "gant unto ie e's end The office of Kafant Bapizn i th Protestant Episeapal Chu ES (From Moore's Irland. RSH MISSIONARIES. to convey to the reader any adequat. “notion of the apostolical labours of that crowd of |! * learned missionaries w reland sent forth, in the course of tis centurs S, to all parts of Europe, it would be necessary to transport. him to the heir es ective missions; to point out by keeping the dying embers of learn “and how gratefully their names are enshrined in _ the records of foreign lands, though but faintly, if at all, reanembe bered in their own. - It was, indeed, then, as it een ever since, the peculiar fate of + Treland, that both i in talent, and the fame that irabl not a Fo but made their country also a partak Hoe winning for-her that and Learne ed, which, throughout the night she so long Thus, the labours of the great Wore, fierhis death, in France and Ita- had. aco companied or joined him from I reland 5 3 and his favourite Gal- Jus, to whom, i ne bequeathed his pasto- eral staff, became the ieeer of an abbey in Switz erland, ‘which was in the thirteenth century er ed into a princedom, while the territ tory "elovg ing to it bass through all changes, borne e name of St. Gall.(a)_ From his great assi ro mulgating the Gospel, and training up Sisciples capable of succeeding him in the task, this pious {nshman, has been called, by a foreign martyro- | P logist, the Apostle of the Allemanian nation, Another dissiple and countryman of St. Columba- nus, named Deicola, or in Irish Dish enjoye like his master, the patronage and friendship of the monarch Clotaire II., who endowed the Te: “nastic establishment formed by him at Luthra, ona saaane name for themselves, | ker of their} it noble title of the | the hr - and proudly ¥ woe ‘olumbanus, and. of Feance, similar menio- To various other p: vials of Irish sanetny may be traced.(b) Atl st. Comm took occa! on (a) In speaking of the learning ¢ dinplayed by in his famous Letter on nthe Paschal question, roof which it alba 2 was seen at priest, Caidoc, # to who: the Gallic Vand a grave.” mitage o practice among the he pious Anne of Austei visi the humility of her devoti whol Piao, on foot. and eminent Tbanen over into France; and, spread instruction, till his death, To like tries of Euro ritual mission, throu these holy advent names, forms one eee rec e erland he burial place of this saint, troiont point dana fe sanctuaire, et ed’ Al ceau jusqu’a Saint Fin: tendu que le nom de Fincres place. Parceaw ot fren giatord a “acre (en Brie) le 8 q This maint de nobilissimo gen ietines toh and moral corruptipn of the appercoit sang pen reguoient alors (es Prine: Seclestastiques d-iibernie ou Te tae principalement leur avari ils prenaient de a intra et vi woffa the i * \eréon,) rel 2,0 J be acknowled epistlo addressed by hian to his fri arum Sylloge. “one 1680 WO. that they "are barism Chap. ce doom of mi 1m that awaiter ve dabit, ‘imam gloris ‘The fallo owing wens task which his frie t pius ille poter ©) ‘Mitte, et ad ‘studinn mm vel Ee Sane ‘Lasso Sic-ego quiquondamstucio Esse pocta, modo cert Canin ‘mane "feero dietnn lolens | Nom und qui foram fest existen rod, ia Ireland, and by ne mean illor ¢ mentioned by the hop. named ‘Mark, who visited thet miadle of the ninth oe the Irish were, at that time, even at pf uncir ela cpan t ug stated otines Il my Wigemos nomme More, ont Ja retraite fat avantageuse aux etudes, tant par les fivut il augment au mark deja remarguo Huo ailfeure que lea gen doco pays pre's Ter. tromite du monde, avoient micux conserve la fitterature, parce- gurls toi jet mos poses aux rovolutions que lesautres par- Bes de l'Europe, : by Ce commerce de litteralure fentre,}es Gaules ot Batannique, en genre le. s'eatrec omnia Teura connoie aur es fies td trine, et de se preter de grands rend, genuine Eta, ot plusieurs autres Hibemois, presgite tous gen re, seeiveront dans nos peoineee Ht Litter. de sm. i¥* ie and repai t. Fiacre, another Trish d so consecrated a spot, that to go on a pil- grimage thither was, 0 alate fetiad a a frequent e told of ho di middie of the seventh century, was repa e aie of that monn taph from whicl the above Goulet cited way inscrl> ervie par les Benedictine; Ton romarque que la fei ‘venant en pelerinage en 1641, 3e conforma a cet usage, et quelle ht meme pied fo ehemin depuis Mow sors Inia perhaps, be thou Sinn ory, oenien: PE e fonia mollia verba ol tum Nee! rey vata, fisso cu in ret ‘fatal la eT at raeam reddere quassa sonum. rau rat ida ministra celebrated monastery of Centula, in Ponthied, lomb, engraved with golden letters, telling that there lay the remains of the venerable m nTeeland gave birth, and e of the ‘The Saint, outs ai we ay that when ind the shrine of this saint, so great was ion, that she wen! le of the ways from Monceau to the town of| Among the number of holy who thus extended their it. d th around iim the blessings of religious spanner through most of the other coun- we hear of tl and Foillan, founded an ee vo,() in Ghent, proceeded from thence, ° gh Flanders and Brabany pre- pared at every step fo for that crown of martyrdom, which at lengih, from the han 7 of Pagans, he the eame en \we fina ‘St Eeintin tomar theres iss erprising s vel u urers, thus traversing alone the land of the infidel and the stranger, the feeling of gratitude with which after-ages have clung to their e of the most Plessis topics 0 of reflection wupick history affords 5 jionaries left behind then more n, for centui f the course of Pridolin ‘the ‘Tra- veller, through, Lorraine, Alsace, Germany, and Sw (o Mole sub hectes Caidocus jure sacerdos, ‘quem genui Paganism, puesed building a monastery at Lagny, near the river Marne, remain w, if any, nsecrat- lineage , and all the elements of a great and “xmas power, and yet presenting the spectacle of a digpereed and disarmed, a de- graded snd defencelees tl Such are the Jews, but ie hae become ofthe Samaritans? ‘The reader is aware that the two ple were conterminous ii ation, and, wi one exception, (but an exce| pita of immenst ine portance Yn their eyes} consentient in religion. Both professed to revere Moses as their law-giver ; both looked ov the books of the Pentateuch as the revealed will of the Almighty. Now the law Pliree times in a year sball all thy males setae before the Lord y God in the place which he shall choose ;”* (Ben 16.) and the meaning of this passage gave Wiech to some of the fier eest kate and the most deadly hatre twee! ‘0 nations. Each conte tended that place which Goll hath chosen, vawiniensers territory. in the city of Jerusalem ; arizim, the mount of Ulessings. a That the latier was in error, we was 2 3 O41, tthe ‘ure ne here, testimony of our Saviour himself: ee his words were misunderstood, or his authority was despised; which was long called the e Irish ;| be asked, whether they i toate of the ssine fate and the elegant scholar, Se ivi) whom, by or whether the face 18, at length, become extinet, his own verses, we e to the tomb of § 0 absorbed among the tribes, which a | have sucetstlly emerged, fad eopled i the Bo vinces of West tthe descendents or “lhe Sonadiee suil See oe he eye of the goog apher may yet discover them at the foot of Garizim, the holy spountai forming tion pirit et, low as they are sunk in the Scale of nations the Samaritans stitutions, and re ‘They bes lieve thoneelves ts be descended from Ephraim, the son of Joseph, forming a race apart from al ouhers, and shunning. as a contamination, all con- n will or Turks, or Christians. ‘I’ Shey read ‘and study the Jaw of Moses; exhibit the highest veneration for the sacred books, forming the Fentateuch j 3 and submit to the spiritual direc- rE tion of a priest supposed to be of the tribe of Levi It is their indispensable duty to practise the ce lliea terra tegit ied towards | Monies the law, ciscamelsiony putifications, ired gilbert, | &c. to observe the prohibited degrees with re- “oi of Charemagnes whet spect to marriages and fo o keep the, sabbaths and t Fiacre est devenu. un bourg de la Feglisa ou es nen t. de Meauz. Tis eaud im another work, walang to this saint, “On a pre- avoit ete donne aux carat jestines a voiturer jusqu'a iy allerentten peloninage,” “royal descents re Seotorum.”— Bede, b samo chapter wil ‘be_ found an account ‘of those curious F revelations of St. Fursa, which are sup} ave been intended 198 ier 01 jutem Vi 19. 1 rrders in Irel Welles cetera veprimer iseiites ea Jes Eveques, ot aint. Tes. avort cg, leur oieivete, le Pew dosorn instruire les autres. eventh centuries (says in Ireland to such a Smxome sand are gent thither many of their priacer aid pine oHse8 mfit of x pious and lea ncore un ecrivain,” say the Benedictines, “que t en droit do partageravee Miberni » qui Tui (a) The epitaph which thia sit wrote upon St, Baro, and the rt,in sending him the vpitaphy may both be found in hers Vat. pia. Hiberni *, end Flor poems Dr. Lanigan rem: a1 (compositions, and do. great honour ¥o the classical tos oot the Insh schools of that period, while bar- greutest part of Western Europ (Tn his seis to St. Florbert, the Sint thus anticipates the a 7 Tarbarico gens exogitata temalta Tie Brabonta urit, meque eruenta petit thi pate, in referers tothe him, may no} tat precibus. tim io. ligan, ministr ‘opem. florente vielebar m8 To pede “ Etgni Ca Gasmlio deta “oe aden fe Lyra at il era Covi pla nec est modul mt ine lectus: ‘Gaalitch ea quenn, tol eruenta videust — THE JEWS AND THE SAMARITANS. know only of two nations, to w that day, an anomalous rave among ‘ople ol turalized nowl ages, g their losses § ent day, “wealth, intelige their descendants have contin the nations of the earth 5 We who menor the blessed Lord communicated, in person, the truths of eternal ie the Jews and ii tory of the Jews the ou familiar. ‘They rejected, persecuted, and eruc the anger of heaven reader mu everal millions without a chicks Vos Tes without oon existing every wher re and y Macctted in all and i in ail “ages ving their oppressors, possessing, &| ce, members, iosed bj hhadow forth the vole cal | tan netruction at the Samaritans, nied to form atl unity of that ore ia the heaven, festivals at the tin scribed by the Jewish eae ingand eening sacri ice they are, indeed, excused; o| because, if we may believe them, that institution was attached exckusively to the tabernacle of Mo- ses, and, consequently, the obligation ceased from | . e moment that the tabernacle was destroyed ; though in its place has been substituted a certain "| fo he manner pre lator ‘Vion the morn- orm of y the authority of their ancient jie poatifs. Wi ith the paschal sacrifice it is other- i Vi ‘That zite was ordained to last forever, vi the h masters they ha |ter, for 1 alune am thy God, the mighty and the jealous. Afier sucha prolibition, show could we worship the image of-a dovi Jur yrorship i is that of God alone, as is written in the law: ship the Lord thy God. As for the worship of fikenesses of other birds or animal far be it, ver is law,” Ih self Gods of guld or of silver. only God, the Eternal Being, without beginning and wilhout end, the Creator of birds and men, of animale and spi that the Samaritans are, at the prevent day, not lene faithful lly ond devotedly attached to the law of Moses than the Jews thein- selves. Yet, the two nations! maritans have been per- e | mitted to. vegetate, during eighteen centnries, on their original seat, while the Tews have been con- demned, for the same period, to wander without a resting pee through all the nations -of the earth; and, what is most surprising, the latter fave become numerically a greater nation during the term of their pilgrimage, than they ever were in the most flourishing epoch of their eee dw Itis generally i idle, the weak reason of man to speculate or signs of infinite wisdom. But, in the present case, wwe feripe self furnishes a slew to the purpose f thi ‘itans had no ¢ tingt sighed part allotted to them i in the great drama of the world: they were, therefore, subjected to the operation of all those moral causes, whieh af. fect the birth, the growth, and the decay of na- tions: but the Jews were ted for particular y | savage conquerors, Innoce} » how different has been the Jot of} Lat Eastern Europe; Livonia and Servia, were over- ron, and d they had penetrated to Silesia and Hun- gary. e force arrayed by th ¢ Emper- F Genmony? they ceased their inroads and tired to new fields of carnage. onvert there nt IV, sent (1246-7) Wm. de Rubruquis to the Tartar in Mongols: bat their endeavours to grin admission to the try, were frustrated by ferocity of the hordes through which their Fouls lay. Subsequent in 1253, the same mission was again n the interim the zealous Rubraquis b {iad aa ureyed over the eresiest portion of Europe ecompanie! my of St. e yous to foe whenee he visited the Holy, Sui undaunted by the proepect of repeating the cheer- si dreadful hardships he pad undergone. tered the fiel race bending under the yok broken into a thousand ‘verse tribes all in dialect and customs, separates nd dwell through th posed, no *mmediate prospec! - hideous festores of the peopl se counten- ances would al suggest that one shad fallen on race of demons ‘Their ‘ferocity and cruelty made his route appear—to use his own forcible expres sion, “like onto passing one of the gates of hell. through Armenia and Syri: the silence of the cloister, whence he gave to the world a narrative of his missionary travels. ‘Towards the end of the 13th century, Chin: Jers | small Traction of the of Naplouse, the purpos cs: they were made the suhjects | of pro- uppos veght,—exploring ancient Sicem and. oe ing a large phecy : their dispersion was foreto e pun- the. Rhine for some “uninhabited” island, and at] which has been di into a temple, shops, and sshment of | the infidelity, and their ene Jength fixing himself upon Seckingen, where he tenement, “The jo not amount to more than | ment in Pa! subsequent act of the divine church, and agreligious house for fe-| two hundred foal or about thirty families; re- mercy in feeane of repentant people- Ia their h prosper under his] duced, if yo petwo oF three petty aesmen, present dispersion, they serve as unwilling her- . Next to the generous self-devotion of) to a state rthe | most abject pov aids of the truth of that gospel, whieh they abbor: heir hey will join with Christians, in the hat Messiah, whom their fathers 80 impiously and 80 ungratefully re- jected.~-Cath. Mag. futre restoration ul oft From the Catholic Telegraph. THE MISSIONARIES OF CHIN slight one to render to exalied merit ;—yet when we reflect that “Phe good (that men do) is oft'iaterrod with their bones,” we feel our duty partly accomplished, in recording with deep admirstion the labors, sufferings and “| martyrdoma of those devoted men, who carried the words of vite and light to Pogan nations, that until then, satin the darkness of the valley of the shadow w death. “ and teach all nations’ was the divine omm mand etait fully did the deputed and their] hi snecessors obey Of the many ‘fields of missionary labor, none was more extensive than that of China;—add to this the extreme difficulty of obtaining an entrance ativ gers, even at the presentday, they call barbarians) e | the deailly enmity of the mandarins and bonzes to le been content, ior the last forty 10 meetin th Mac- the congregation, and atu night is distributed to be e: bs this, they maintain, that tere is no prevarication | ; of the law, bec as Naplouse, is within the precincts of the mountai theystill offer the sacrifice ‘in the place which the Lord has cho- sen.” In the year 1808, the celebrwted Greg once the constitutional Bishop of Blois, ced the ity o! eine eons Srsaione to the |" at Naplouse, through: the agency of Mr. Courances, the French consul at Aleppo. ‘The answer was returned, with ec ° tig alure of Salome Kahenm Kahenm, the Tobias, priest and levite at Sichem. To: the inguy Te- scpecting their manner of worship, he replios : “Our prayers are such xs were ordained by Ged and our pontiff, of the race of Aaron, instead of the daily sacrifices, which were polished at ‘he destruction of the tabernacle of Mos: "tT have three prayers for the sabbath, and oe cules for ae festivals ; ft e passover, for ven days, during which we eat un- leavened bread, for the feast of pentecost, which is observed during the appointed number of days, and ends with a festival, when all are abligen to 6 allow don- arks appear before God. On that day ‘w W our selves uo sleep. We cease not to read the law, and God, oth day and night. The fi he fe: It has its peculiar ceremonies, and on it all nvust appear be- fore G At last, on the mony: ‘hecond, come: the feast whieh includes all the of the year, with peculiar ceremonies, tstablished by our high-priest. Ail these things are-done by the | command or God. It had bi 1 observed, that in the te jemple, the book of the Saw was kept behind a curtain, which no one but the pricst was mitted to touch. When he raised it, all the congregution ros8 from their seats, at the sight of the haly colon On which was engraved the igure of a ‘ill image ofa dove was atsosuspended over the desk whieh supported the book, when a suspicion 8 ‘fed and was indignantly re- that re But ihe cl charge “The and Sulom is the God hee said, I an the Lord thy God: thou shalt have one other in my presence ? thou shalt not ke statue or image of any of the beings on the carts or in the wa- re: nee arose that they might pay religiovs worship to | p: fis $ erin ne discovered by th missionaries, their overweening attachment to cus- toms—and we may paure in admiration while contemplating the zeal w cles and alate in n grond own blood er ti their bigh merits disputed. The ‘Atheists of France, admiration, have recorded the tri- uinphs oft ius and acquiremen an the prowscnn who but yesterda} ‘or in the same field, tributes of praise Tite. quent as foP\nstance, the following—from alate numer of a distinguished Episcopalian periodi- froistene with their a 32 gS ae a the 13th century, the Priests oft the Church of Tome planted the cross in China, and from that time to the present they have ‘been I laboring to propagate their faiths We can never Bie our sanction to error; but y @ cannot but honor the noble spirit that prompted these heralds of the cross to brave hardship and persecution, a id en- we pel a few on them among the e noble ontemplate the heroic example of Xavier. ‘without | burning with a holy desire to emulate the ardour and perseverance that The homely tribute of acknowledgment is but a| ¢ that ever le the Tai reign of Kal the a brted Venetian hich overcame all obsta-| lowe: " fe army of at a was ruled by fhe Mongol dynasty. “fhe greatest s Kublai Khan, who is thus 0 Polo. **Kublai Khan is the e descendant of Genghis, and the rightful eevereign of the ‘fartars. He is the sixth Khan, ant being then twenty-seven years of age. He ob- tained the sovereignty by his consummate valour, his virtues, and his prudence, in opposition to the designs of his brothers, qupporee yy many of the reat officers ani of his During cident convin us felt in the poner and justice of the e, like the Athenians, ignorantly wonh eae chief who had embraced chris- tant. * organised, a conspiracy and arrayed an a y in open rebelli Kublai ;—among his trope were man: christians ond one of his wane uers bore the Fepresentation With an overwhelming force, Kublai te kly crushed the rebel army, Rejoicing to see the banner of the cross in the dust, the Jews aad ‘Saracens tat wots ‘ed the christians, saying, ald the state to which your vaunted banners, and thos ‘ose who fol- jowed them, ate reduced!” Pi y the e ted b; revilings of the Infidels, the cine tsid hele complaint before Kublai ng to his presence the offenders, "severely “rebuked: them, -) saying “ wr the cross of Christ has not proved advantageous to the party of Navan the fleck has been consistent with reason and inas: much as he was a rebel and traitor lo “is ‘Lord, and to such wretches it could not afford its protec~ tion. t none therefore, presume to charge with ii dof the christians, who is him, oodness impelled | him, at midnight, to navigate the sea in an open boat, and the intense anxie- as he approached the confines of the ag yet impenetrable to the winged rene of mercy, wrung rom him the exclamation “0 Rock! rock} rock !—when wilt thou open to Oe ust ” To one fond of research i it might not be unin- teresting to investigate how far som own from some of the him as a inne being would seem to place the fact beyond d For entries prior to any permanent efforts to introduce into Chit ine {he crohs of Cheistianity, glnerngs of its tig! ho inhabited the, eet Ee & errors of N ester fans nee that a church wes 2ia a flourish ing Edition i in that civ AY Da Under the reign e rapacity engi “Jol the ‘Tartar h hordes threatened the sijogton of ajlent efforts of n lu, (now Pekin) the resis Chae ‘After alo ong sojou the court or this Panes they with to return to t Kublai Tartary compelled them to return. vering in the object dearest their hearts, the: parted from China by sea, and proceeding from China by sea, and proceeding by the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea, they entered the Persian ny adventures reached their home in 1293. Ku- biai, 1294 and was succeeded by his and: ty,G Oretted into the country. thro India. Such was his succes church in the capital of Cathay, and i lement V, sent out to his aesistance. asuall abo! George, an lation of the Psalter and New ‘Testament into the nd began his reign in the year 1256

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