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Vol. X1.—No. 7."
THE CATHOLIC 'NERALD ‘|
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THE SODALIST'S , HYMN. . pet
Ob! Virgin Mother of our Gos,
S| ET a beg thy heavenly care! |, );
21) 0 appa art the’ Mother of a King
‘\) His subjects ‘claim"thee too—
Oh Mary, Mother of the Pure’
, What loves isnot thy duet),
nee
Behold thy Mother!" Jesus cried,”
Whilst suff’ring on the tree— 1
His dying words teach us to pay
yop 1 ys DaF Warmest love to thee!
ies 0! Then plead thou, to thy Son for us,
cece py. That we may never stray:
~ "From outthe path which He hes mark’ ‘d
‘That leads to Heav'n's bright way!
te a Wd baad ia oe OR.
airiok"s Total Abstinence: has Tt
ir, President, the Rev. J.. J,
» Mallon on Making leave of him on 1 bie’ de-
“* parture’ fur Havre f°"
"Reverend and Déar ‘Stet
«i We; the members of St. Patrick's Teaiper:
cance Society, deem .ita sacred duty, which | ‘
we, owe to you, our distinguished President,
to acknowledge publicly with a grateful and
‘undivided heart, your untiring zeal in achiev-
ing the great ‘reform'1o which ‘this large
assembly of sober, industrious and moral men,
bear ample testimony... You have been the |
benefactor of society by associating us together
onder the banner of temperance.
*“You have by your powerful and’ eloquent
admonitions inducéd many of us, to’ consult
cour honor as men. our usefulness as citizens,
cand above all, our eternal happiness as Chris.
se Cis therefore with sentiments of the
lieepestregret that we are separated from you,
‘even for a time—you whom we all look up to
sas the Father Matthews of New Orleans—as
-our, indefatigable, pastor—as, the | staunch
advocate. of . the immaculate spouse of Jesus
‘Christ, the Church ‘of the living God, which
is now’ (we are sorry to say it) | undergoing
fin this city a severe ordeal, by her own nomi-
.We are happy
in having an opportunity . of expressing our
assurance to you, that we ‘will always enter-
tain the highest respect for our beloved Bish-
op, because we recognise him to’ be one of the
successors of the Apostles, because we read
in the Acts, of the Apostle’ these words ,of
St. Pau
|
Holy Ghost ‘placed you
ops wo rule tihe Chareti_o} of God, which he
‘hath purchased with his own blood ."
“91 We will always with the aesistance of God,
iremain his obedient and submissive children,
_in comptiance with the command of our divine
Saviour—* He that beareth you, heareth me,
‘and he that tdespiseth you, despiseth him that
“gent me.”
All- honest men who are conversant with
chistorys will admit with us, that calumny and
contempt of the P| segue are invariably the
weapons’ of the Infid ‘The cause of our
-worthy Bishop is the vane re ort atholicity. We
are seconded in our generous efforts by all the
» Catholic. periodicals of this. country; by all
y Me liberal portion of the. Protestant coumu:
pit wh) respect out, rights as citizens.—The
“enemies of the Bishop. must know that we
“are Americans; that we are freemen, and that
| communit:
| in’ attempting to subject the Ministers of
‘) Religion’ tothe “action ‘of ‘a ‘civil’ court,
:| ing authority, the people over whom you have
siastical discipline forced upon the chureh; b:
ber «connection. with , mmonarchical, govern-
ePheaks othe fathers of American freedom,
dignified instruments in’ the hands’ of \God,
who laid down the salutary principle, that ell
men are created free—and that it is our una-
lienable right, as freemen, to worship God
according to the dictates of our own consci-
with you citizens<of ‘a State whose laws as
respects religion, are in, accordance with the
constitution of the United States, whieh says,
* that Congress. shall make no law respecting
an establishment of Religion, or “Prohibiting
the free exercise thereof.’
.We, therefore, hope, that this . enlightened
will discountenance th
ional interference of interested i
for the’ purpose of having: them punished
for, the , honest andj conscientious discharge
of their , Leclesiastical functions. Rev. Sir,
in parting with you, we feel our. separa:
ration from a father-—a friend and a patrio-—
and we may add ‘with propriety, from another
Joshua, conducting with the power of one hav-
presided, into the promise land—our eternal
home.” But we are consoled with the hope of
seeing you return to tbe “land of the free, and
the home of the brave," to your own people
with a constitution so renovated as’ to proton,
for years the sphere of your usefulness among
us, in the cause of religion, aad morally
‘Asa mark of respect due to you, we pledge
ourselves to: sustain in your absence, by ‘our
influence—by our good example; the’ Tegene-
rating work of temperance, and to. offer. uy,
ic morning and evening orisons to the throng
ot the Almighty to protect you from all dan-
gers and restore yeu convalescent toa grateful
people, in in’ whos ory
Ge ey in whose "hea you ar
yt crane .
Wich: denial,
(Signed) ~~.
* On behalf of § st Patrick's
“DP. Scawuix,
D.'J. O’Carracnay,®
» Curustopuer Conro’
During the ‘reading’ of the above” alldress,
the Reverend Gentleman seemed much affect:
ed—even to shedding of tears—snd delivered
the following answer: |: H fet,
My Beloved Teetotallers:) {ss
anner in which you have been jpleas-
ed 10 honor me, on my departure from among
you fur a time, overwhelms me, because I fing
no ‘expressions adeqnate loa competent’ ac-
knowledgement of. the affection 1 entertain
for you, and the pastoral regard to which your
splendid example to my congregation—y our
heroic “self denial and your devotion’ to the
duties of your’ holy “religion, require from
me.’ The cause ‘you have espoused is, in-
deed, a glorious one—it .has gladdened the
hearts of many a desponding family; it has,
cHeetually, and I devowtedly trust, eternally,
expelled the demon of drunkenness fiom your
homes, and ‘your happy fire sides; it ‘has
brought to your: hearth. peace, contentment,
prosperity, respectability, and above all; the
benediction of heaven, to cheer your progress
onward 49 the rewards of the virtuous, in the
life to come. * How the soul expands ‘at the
contemplation of ‘so sublime and holy a spec-
tacle among the disciples of a Saviour of self-
What is impossible. to, the! faithful
teetotaller? He is ever suber, and his reason,
unclouded by the fumes of intemperance, sis
on her throne in’pristine majesty,’ capable,
always, of embracing- und placing to good
account, the graces which a God of infinite
mercy never fails to bestow on those .who
appreciate | them. He is greeted with coufi-
dence; he ‘carries “with him the passport tw
honor and respectability, and walks abroad
conscious of his own dignity, and assured of
the reepectin whieh he is held, by all honest
and upright men. Contrast his Position | with
with the drunkard. It is usual to begin with
and intend to have vnly one drink, or one
glass; bat to end vnly with the last droptou
jhe last penny.
lh debars drunkards of employment,
prives them of trast and confidence, and ws.
Ytey
de-
we will not be governed by any law of Eccle-
x
" Phitadetphia, ‘ahursday, February 15). 1844, “ :
jence, We are proud, Reverend Sit, of being | |
‘| ness, and renders thanks to his God. that he
5 "| Past year amounted to one hundred and nine-
‘Jand-within fifteen miles of Marietta, fifteen
that of the unhappy slave of intoxication— | 0
“\Wfires ‘all evil passions, and exposes ‘its
unhappy victims “to the © mont » lagitious
rimes. ,
’ lifies for rati tional i alien-
es friends ; creates quarrels and dissensions;
Bepara es friends 5 3 and begets the. deadliest
enmities.’
1’ Iv brings shame and sorrow to ‘parents ; ;
affliction, suffering and misery to children. !!
| It produces poverty, compels nakedness,
iofie hunger aud disease, and, finally causes
deat
e The frightful ‘catalogae of iniquity’ and
erime has no terrors for the ‘good teetotaller
she isa stranger to all these deeds of dark-
is indebted to the total abstinence pledge, for
the safety and happiness which he enjoys.
¥.Oh't- I could entertain’ you, my beloved
feetotallers, till: morning in the detail of, the
glorious advantages ,which , you enjoy, in
your present happy condition; but 1, am. ad-
manished thal should be brief.
ow fora short time ; ‘that by the
blessing rou good God, 1 may return renova-
ted to resume my duties in the midst of you and
my beloved congregation... Never forget, that
you are teetotallers—unite, ‘as a band of broth-
ers—dwell together in harmony, and may the
God of mercy'shed down upon you and yours,
{| bis: choicest». blessings ; cheer: your « way
through life ia peace and happiness and crown
you with glory eternal in the world to come—
piEU ! o ee .
) After the’ address, the immense multitude
gave three cheers for Mallon, and three ‘tre:
mendous cheers for Bishop Blane.
* hea
+
‘ Fro the Cmtbolic Telegraph«
«»s DIOCESE OF. CINCINNA’
.) The Distriet ander'the charge of the Rev.
amesMc’Caffrey, contains about seventy.nine
or eighty families.. Of these the congrega-
Gon of’ St. Mary, Marietta, has fifiy one ;_ Sul
‘ames, on Meigs Creek, twelve; B
Me'Connettites seven fend “Mr.
six of whom have lately made their first
communion, ‘There. have. been forty-nine
baptisms, four:marriages, and nine interments
of which six were adults, But five years ago,
Catholic families could not be found. .
"The following congregations under the
pastoral chargé of Rev. Mrs Lamy amount ag
closely as can be ascertained to three hundred
families: St. Luke’s Danville, Knox county,
consists of ninety families, ‘There have been
here within the past year twenty baptisms,
six’ marriages,” Ahirty- two first communions,
and eight interments.
') St. Joseph’s,.Mohican, Holmes county,
with ,a congregation in Pine run, Richland
county, Members, seventy -five families. Bap-
tisms twenty- four, marriages three, first com-
munions two, and seven interments,
St. Vincent of Paul, Mt.°Vernon, Knox
county, has about twenty families. * There
have been eight baptisms, three first commu-
nions, one wnatriage and three interments,
| St. Francis “of Sales, Newark, Licking
county, as one handred ‘and ten ' families.
Here there have! been thirty, baptisms,’ six
marriages and nine interments.
"Rev. Mr. Lamy has built four churches and
is, preparing to build two more. We wish
the same’ could be‘ said “of the ' Catholics of
this city and of all the congregations of the
diocese,; that he writes of thuse under his
carey * All the young persons from twelve
or, fifleen, to twenty five years of age, have
made their first communion since I have been
here, and they are in‘ great number. “They
also attend to their christiad duties, niany’ of
them monthly, and the others every three
months. . Scarcely a tuath passes by without
our gaining a convert, here ace now four,
or five faniilies preparing to become Catholics,
keeping all the rules of: the church and: at-
tenling Mass regularly.
Su Xavier's congregstion, Chippewa .
Wes ne county, Ohio, the number of Catho-
lics is about three hundred, In Fultin, church
if SS. Philip aud James, about the same
riumber. In Wooster, (no church) two bun-
dred and twenty three, In Akron, Cuyahoga
Falls’ sud Talmadge, two hundred and filty—
in all betwee# 1,050 and 1100: souls. ‘There
were during the pust “year, eighty. four: bap-
usme, seven deahs, (two adulis and. five
them outcasis in society,
1 ! V2 silt eueperd
nse four first communions. and
two marriages, .,The, catechism classes. of
these stationa are composed of one hundred _
hild, -whom will, probably, be
prepares. to make Meir first commanion, this
years! ;Phese missions are, onder the pastoral
are of Rev, Maurice Howard, ,Post office,
Chippewa, (Doylestown) Wayne ,Co., Ohio,
AtSu Patricks Fayetteville, Brown county,
St. *Philomensse Clermont county, and a few.
stations in Highland. and Clinton counties,
under the pastoral care of Rev. Claude. Gacon
and Rév, Williom Cheymol, there were sevs_
enty ‘two. baptisms; four marriages,.eight
interments, four hundred Easter communions,
twenty first communions, in a population of
two bundred. and twenty families consisting
of, at Jeast 1100 soyls,
Church of Nativity, Portemouth, baptisms ‘
thirty ‘five ;., marriages four; deaths, four;; *
Easter communions. eighty, pine; first com-
munions seventeen. Catholic population, two
hundred. Lite Scioto Sett}ement and three
stations neat it; baptisms nineteen ;. marriages
two; Eastern comounions eighteen Catho-
lic population one hundted.
r Pine Grove and other neighboring fornaces;
baptisms - twenty five; Easter communions.
sixty five; the’ church, or, chapel, of, Pine
Grove is Sty Mary's.
» Iq St, John's Ripley, and | the ‘ations of
Aberdeen, Straight Creek and West Union,
there were seventeen baptisms, one marriage,
one death, eleven Easter Communions. jAt
Straight Creek, the church is of. logs dedica-
ted to, St... Wendelin, a Scotch, or Irish Saint,
in great venesstion on the hinee ss, eit pou ti
» At.Quian'g Settlement, Gallia county, bap-
lisms two; dedth one; Easter: commenions
fourteen; Cailfolics only, twenty resident.
* A neat frame chyreh was built here, during
the past, summer and notwithstanding,, says.
the , Rev. Joseph, O’Mealy,. who. attends all
shese te falesne the Hee difficulties. we had “
ac!
Adame, Highland dew, there are about
hundred Catholice, aud there were, daring 1 the
last year, ninety eight baptisms; seven mat.
riages ; five deaths; one hundred and pinety. -”
seven Easter communions ; twenty five: first
communioné, and, there’ are. fire churches,
The reassonswhy the baptisms are more numers »
ous in proportion to, the Vatholic. population,
than elsewhere is that they had not been visi-
ted, until very, Jately,.by, a clergyman, and
were consequently deprived of, the opportu: |
nity of baving their, children presented atthe
Tepui ismal Font’?
Tue German Catuottcs oF Cixcixnati
—Ilave done themselves infinite’ honor during
the past week.’ ‘Ihe bisnop of: this diocese *
has ofien had to express to them the ardor of
his attachment and the strength of his affec-
lion,“ They have earned for themselves a
deathless name for ‘union, deacefulness and
fidelity | 10 all. the duties prescribed. by. our
Holy Religion.. And this notwitstanding the
malicious manesring of afew bad men, with
a Latheran spirit, who were ofien known to
gnsh their teeth with rage at the harmony that
kept them united and happy like the members
of a virtuous and blessed family.— After many,
years of evil brooding, seven men’ of th
stampstealthly, as if conscious that their ‘deeds
were evil and could wot bear the light, petis
tioned the Legislature to’grant them an act of
incorporation, with the name and style of the
German Catholic congregation of Cincionau!!
When this beconé known to the German
Catholics, they held one of the'largest meet-’,
ings ever- convened in this city, to express
their honest, but unqualified indignation at she
insult offered them by the notorious sevea ia,
the attempt to rob them of their good name,
and to usurp the management ‘of the affairs of
the Church.—The' meeting was-eloquently
and powerfully addressed by their long devo
ted. Pastor, RL Rev, J.) M. Henni, bisbop
elect of Milwaukie, Rev. we Ferneiting, Rev.
Mry ‘Tusch and Rev. Mr, Luhr, who ‘Thoogh
secently arrived from Germany, understood
the machinations’ of heresy and schism so,
well’ as to speak witl extraordinary effect of
the dangers | that would menace, us from th
operations in this hitherto most. happy § com=
munity, Never did Cath. lies better respond
to these ‘hear ng appeals ‘than ‘did ‘whe
children) two hundred and eight Easter
German Catholics of Cincinnati, and again
‘