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The Catholic World.Volume I.Issues 1-6.by E. Rameur.THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. I., NO. 1.--APRIL, 1865.From Le Correspondant.THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.BY E. RAMEUR.[The following article will no doubt be interesting to our readers, not
- 315 "He wished to a.s.sociate his efforts with mine to comfort my parents'old age! With what eagerness he a.s.sisted my mother!" thought Louise, trembling with emotion. "'Why can I not always replace you thus?' said he. 'My presence will permit you to
- 314 "I do not doubt it, my child; but you have promised me that you will go; go then, amuse yourself with your companions; dance, frolic, receive the homage which is your due. I am not a miser who hides his treasure, I wish that my diamond should s.h.i.+ne f
- 313 It was about this stage, also, that the master insisted on a special training in natural history and mathematics. In his youth Origen had been educated, as we have seen, by his father in the whole circle of the sciences of the day. Such an education was p
- 312 Wherever minstrel harp is strung, There too thy praise shall sound among The beauteous and the brave.And thou shalt slumber deep Beneath our chapel's cypress sheen; And there thy lord and his Christine Full oft shall watch at morn and e'en Around their
- 311 And the coal-black charger answers him From the s.p.a.ce beyond the gate, From the level s.p.a.ce, where dark and dim In the morning mists, like giant grim, The Fiend on his war-horse sate.Oh, the men at arms how they stared aghast When the Heir of Miolan
- 310 {343} Blinded they halt while the maiden hies, The murmuring Arc she can hear, And, lo! like a cloud on the s.h.i.+ning skies, Atop of yon perilous precipice, The castle of Miolan's Heir."Fail not, my steed!"--Round her Caliph's head The relic s.h.i.+
- 309 "Ay, quiver and quail in thy coat of mail, For hark to the eagle's shriek; See the red light burns for the coming bale!"And all knew as he lifted his aventayle The Knight of Pilate's Peak.From the heart of the ma.s.s rose a cry of wrath As they sprang
- 308 "But," said the other, "I have bad memories."The abbot answered: "They are but ghosts; fear not the dead, but the living."2. When Agatho was dying, his brethren would have asked him some matter of business. He said to them: "Do me this charity; spe
- 307 "And because your unde, James O'Keefe, heard the report that got about concerning that man and Miss Lorimer, he ran his own soul into a guilt that may by this time have deepened into the crime of murder. Oh, Eleanor! when shall we remember that 'vengea
- 306 "Your brother?" repeated Mr. Brewer to Jenifer, who stood stiff and upright by his side."My half-brother, James O'Keefe.""There is some one at the front door; will you open it?"Jenifer guessed at the personage to be found there. But she went steadi
- 305 Lady Greystock drove on briskly. They were out of the shadow of the trees and again on the broad, white gleaming gravelled road that led to the west lodge, and the turnpike road to Blagden. Not a word was spoken. On went the ponies, who knew the dark shad
- 304 [Footnote 52: We translate "Le Chant des Catacombes" into prose, that the n.o.ble ideas may be given with literal accuracy. The author intended it to be sung to the air of "Le Fil de La Vierge" (Scudo).We give one verse of the original: "Hier j'ai v
- 303 Long ages gone, the angels Hailed thee with pure delight.The blooming of thy day-time.The radiance of thy night; And e'en thy Maker named thee As pleasant in his sight-- Soon lost that early joyance, Brief worn that birth-day crown!The very stars of heav
- 302 In the second place, we may take this argument as a method of manifesting the way in which the action of the first cause is shown forth in the universe. The idea of G.o.d is first affirmed, and the due explication of the facts of the universe is then demo
- 301 {289} THE CATHOLIC WORLD.VOL. III., NO. 15.--JUNE, 1866.[ORIGINAL]PROBLEMS OF THE AGE. III.THE BELIEF IN G.o.d IS THE FIRST ARTICLE OF A RELIGIOUS CREED.The first article of the Christian Creed is "Credo in Deum"--"I believe in G.o.d." The Christian c
- 300 We trust as the enterprise becomes more extensively known that generous hearts will be found to feel a voluntary interest in this work and prompted to aid it without further solicitation. Let it not be forgotten that one of the objects of this society is
- 296 CHAPTER x.x.xV.The reader will recollect that the incidents recorded in the two last chapters took place toward the latter end of June. We will, therefore, have time, before the a.s.sizes come on, to let him know how far Winny's fancy map was perfected.F
- 295 CHAPTER x.x.xIV.It was still about an hour after noon when Winny beheld from the parlor window at which she stood a very exciting cavalcade upon the road, slowly approaching the house. At once she became acquainted with the whole concern. "The chief" ha
- 294 "I never doubted it, Winny dear.""And you shall not doubt it now. You shall die declaring it. Emon-- Emon, my own Emon-a-knock, I am come to claim the promise you gave me to make me your wife.""Great G.o.d, Winny I are you mad?--she not mad. Father F
- 293 Jamesy Doyle was the princ.i.p.al witness "before the fact." His evidence was like himself all over. Having been sworn by the coroner, he did not think that sufficient, but began his statement with another oath of his own--the reader knows by this time
- 292 "What are you laughin' at, Mr. Cotter? Maybe it's what you don't give in to me; but I tell you I seen the flash of lightning take him down ov the horse, as plain as the daylight. Where's Miss Winny?""Whist, whist, boy, don't be talking that way. N
- 291 No, no, Emon--Emon-a-knock! demon as he is, he could not murder you.Heaven would not permit so much wickedness!"Emon looked at her again. A faint but beautiful smile--beautiful now, for the color had returned to his cheeks--beamed upon his lips as he sho
- 290 When the sun strikes through from the opposite extremity of this grotto, which is open at both ends, lighting up its living mosaic-work, and showing the play of the soft fringes whenever the animals are open, it would be difficult to find any artificial g
- 299 Should our taste or curiosity lead us to follow the mob to the Mount road we behold one of those singular exhibitions which excite almost to frenzy--a hideous, straw-stuffed figure, or effigy, of Pontius Pilate, tied on the back of a poor, miserable, lean
- 298 At an early hour of the Monday morning in the first week in Lent the ordinary stillness of the town is interrupted by loud and clamorous sounds, such as sometimes a.s.sail the ear in a European town, at midnight, when bands of revellers are reeling toward
- 297 Old Ned was the first witness, Winny the second, Jamesy Doyle the third. Then Biddy Murtagh and Pat Lennon, and finally, before the doctor's medical evidence was given, the policemen who came to the rescue, particularly he who had seen the shot fired and
- 289 [Footnote 39: We have found it impossible to deal with so important and authoritative a e as his Grace's "Letter" in our present paper.]We must first, however, speak of a work put forth by Dr. Pusey as a sequel or a companion to the "Eirenicon." This
- 288 According to the prescribed ceremonial, I raised my two hands, a gesture which was immediately imitated by the khan and others present; then I recited a verse from the Koran, followed by a prayer much used beginning with the words: '_Allahuma Rabbina_.'
- 287 At the end of five days the pilgrims reached the mountain of Mazendran, the western slope of which extends its base to the Caspian sea. Here the sterility of the country yields to the freshest, the richest vegetation; splendid forests, prairies covered wi
- 286 {194} "Ring for night prayers then in five minutes, will you?" said Mr.Brewer. And Father Daniels, saying "Yes," walked on through the hall, and up the great stair-case to his own room and the chapel, which, were side by side. In five minutes the chap
- 285 "Oh, Mrs. Morier, you know she was very ill when she came. I never thought of love, but of every care and every attention that one woman could show to another. Had it been life for life, I am sure she might have had _my_ life--that was all that I _then_
- 284 Twine not your garland fair Till I have fallen fast asleep; Then to my silent pillow creep And leave it there-- There in the chapel yard!-- Come with twilight's earliest hush, Just as day's last purple flush Forsakes the sward.Stop where the white cross
- 283 Low bent the Wizard, till his plume O'ershadowed her like falling doom: She feels the cold casque touch her ear, She hears the whisper, hollow, clear,-- "From Acre's strand, from Holy Land, O'er mountain crag, through desert sand, By land, by sea, I c
- 282 Whom the Lord of Miolan deigned to spare In ruth to womanhood, And she, alas, is the maiden fair Who wept in the walnut wood.But who is he, with step of fate, Goes gloomily through the castle gate In me morning's virgin prime?Why scattereth he with frenz
- 281 He lived to become the friend of Charlemagne, and next to his venerable master was the greatest scholar and divine in Europe; he died about the year 790. John a.s.ser, a native of Pembrokes.h.i.+re, is another of these worthies. It is supposed that Alfred
- 280 That man was St. Benedict, who was born of n.o.ble parents about the year 480, at Norcia, a town in the Duchy of Spoleto; his father's name was Eutropius, his grandfather's Justinian. Although the glory of Rome was on the decline, her schools were still
- 279 From Peter F. Cunningham, Philadelphia: The Life of Blessed John Berchmans, of the Society of Jesus. Translated from the French. With an Appendix, giving an account of the Miracles after Death which have been approved by the Holy See. From the Italian of
- 278 MISCELLANY._Arabian Laughing Plant_.--In Palgrave's "Central and Eastern Arabia"some particulars are given in regard to a carious narcotic plant. Its seeds, in which the active princ.i.p.al seems chiefly to reside, when pounded and administered in a sm
- 277 When he graduated his father came to hear him speak, and at the close of the exercises gave him his blessing and told him to s.h.i.+ft for himself. So, there he was, twenty years old, with four dollars in his pocket and a profession yet to be acquired. He
- 276 In the notes which Mr. Fitzpatrick has appended to his biography of the "Sham Squire" as "addenda" we have some well-authenticated and racy revelations of many of the singular Irish characters who flourished during the last thirty or forty years of th
- 275 This "History" was not only a great literary success, it was more. It produced a decided revolution in historical science. The effect of it in Switzerland, Germany, and in fact the whole of Europe, was immense.The extraordinary part enacted by that grea
- 274 "I am not sure, but I think not He cannot have expected any opposition.""G.o.d grant it, Emon! I don't want to hould you back, but don't be 'fool-hardy,' dear boy.""Do you want to cow me, father, as you said yourself, just now?""No, Emon. But s
- 273 "Are you come to commit murder?" she cried, as they stopped her in the doorway; "or have you done it already? Let me to my father's room.""The sorra harm on him, miss, nor the sorra take the hair of his head well hurt no more nor your own. Come, put
- 272 The Sundays, however, were still available, and Emon did not lose the chance. He now because so regular an attendant at Rathcash chapel, and went up so regularly with old Ned and his daughter after prayers, that it was no wonder if people began to talk."
- 271 After what manner this was to be accomplished was only known to himself and three others, a.s.sociates in his villany.The matter had been already discussed in all its bearings. All the arguments in favor of, and opposed to, its success had been exhausted,
- 270 The chief, however, suggested the prudence, if not the necessity, of having a medical man to see him. "Not," said he, "but that I have as much, if not more, confidence in your own skill and experience than in any which is available in this wild distric
- 269 "I might. But I haven't time to attend to him, Margaret. Business is business, and cannot be interrupted."Mrs. Green sighed, and then remarked: "I wish you would call on Mr. Elden and have a talk with him about John.""I will, if you think it best."
- 268 7. Though, then, common sense may determine for us that the line of prudence and propriety has been certainly pa.s.sed in the instance of certain statements about the Blessed Virgin, it is often not easy to prove the point logically; and in such cases aut
- 267 The words of the man born blind speak the common sense of nature: "If any man be a wors.h.i.+pper of G.o.d, him he heareth." {74} And apostles confirm them: "The prayer of a just man availeth much," and "whatever we ask we receive, because we keep hi
- 266 "Come ye virgins to a virgin, come ye who conceive to her who conceived, ye who bear to one who bore, mothers to a mother, ye that suckle to one who suckled, young girls to the young girl. It is for this reason that the Virgin Mary has taken on her in ou
- 265 Now these diversified modes of honoring G.o.d did not come to us in a day, or only from the apostles; they are the acc.u.mulations of centuries; and, as in the course of years some of them spring up, so others decline and die Some are local, in memory of
- 264 TO BE CONTINUED.{46} A LETTER TO THE REV. E. B. PUSEY, D.D., ON HIS RECENT EIRENICON.BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., OF THE ORATORY.Veni, Domine, et noli tardare, relaxa facinora plebi tuae; et rovoca dispersos in terram suam. No one who desires the union of
- 263 Uprising slowly from the ground, With short and frequent breath.In aimless circles, round and round, The Baron tottereth With trailing feet, a mourner meet For house of death.{42} Till, pausing by the shrine of Moan, He said, the while he wept, "Here, He
- 262 "Then with the flash of fire away Like sunbeam o'er the plain, Away, away with echoing neigh And wildly waving mane.Away he sped, loose from his head The flying rein."I watched the steed from pa.s.s to pa.s.s Unto the welkin's rim, I feared to turn my
- 261 In maiden beauty's crescent splendor.And never yet bent Minstrel knee To Mistress lovelier than she.{33} THE FIRST SONG.I. Ye have heard of the Castle of Miolan And how it hath stood since time began, Midway to yon mountain's brow, Guarding the beautifu
- 260 After a time--it was a long time--Claudia was said to be well."Perfectly recovered," said Dr. Rankin, "and in really satisfactory health." So she was when Minnie Lorimer stood in the room at the inn in Hull, talking to that very Horace Erskine, who wa
- 259 While they are travelling on their way, we, you and I, dear reader, will not only get on before them, but also turn back the pages of life's story, and read its secrets.They were going to a great house in a fine park, where fern waved its tall, mounted f
- 258 The Catholic World.Volume III.by E. Rameur.THE CATHOLIC WORLD.VOL. III., NO. 1.--APRIL, 1866. [ORIGINAL.]THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. [Footnote 1][Footnote 1: "L'Eglise Orientale, par Jaques G. Pitzipios, Fondateur de la Soci
- 257 THE CROPPY: A Tale of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. By the O'Hara Family, with Introduction by Michael Banim, Esq., the survivor of the O'Hara Family. 12mo., pp. 464. Boston: Patrick Donahoe.The scene of this story is laid princ.i.p.ally in the county of
- 256 _The Source of the Nile_.--Mr. S. W. Baker read a paper before the "Royal Geographical Society," London, giving an "Account of the Discovery of Lake Albert Nyanza." The author commenced by saying that he began in 1861 the preparation of an expedition,
- 255 "Beside," he said, as he and Sir Brian sat in conclave, while Redland and Eva were wandering on the banks of the lough--"beside, Sir Brian, a report has reached me that a stranger has intruded himself on your hospitality whom I think you ought to bewar
- 254 II.Like all inland lakes of considerable extent, that which lay before the windows of the Black Abbey was subject to violent changes of temper on slight and sudden provocation. In the morning it would lie dimpling and smiling before you, as full of placid
- 253 The poems we are now considering, and which have won such general admiration wherever they have become known, belong to the latter cla.s.s of works of art. Their simple, delicate beauty appeals alike to men and women, and to the soul of the young child; t
- 252 {836} 5. A brother said to Abbot Sisoi: "What must I do to keep my heart?"The old man made answer: Look to your tongue first, for it is nearest to the door.6. Abbot Abraham said: Pa.s.sions live even in the saints here below; but they are chained.7. Abb
- 251 Lord Arundel had already been discussing the "Catholic project" for nine months with the French king before Louis' minister, Colbert, was let into the secret. Colbert de Croissy, the minister's brother and French amba.s.sador to London, was now made a
- 250 "No, I can't.""And there won't be a pin's-worth the matter with young Lennon in a few days; and sure, Tom, every one knows it was an accident.""No, not _every_ one," thought Tom to himself. The other interruptions were aloud to Kate; but she kept
- 249 "Arra, didn't I know they'd dance?" said Murrin, giving two or three dumb squeezes with his elbow before the music came, like the three or four first pulls at a pump before the water flows.It then ran like lightning through the crowd that the dance wa
- 248 She gives no authority for her statement as to the religion of the daughters, Barbara and Gillies, and the probabilities, in the absence of evidence, seem all to lie the other way. But in any case, it is obvious that they were Catholics in Antwerp.Miss St
- 247 about fifteen, and then receive company alone, and go out alone with young men to dances and other places of amus.e.m.e.nt. In this there is a great error: too much liberty is allowed to girls in the states on the Atlantic slope, and still greater {810} l
- 246 The love of souls and the love of wealth do not, indeed, grow in the same heart. We have already faintly sketched the result of the Church's love of souls on the temporal and spiritual well-being of the indigenous population of California. Under her gent
- 245 UNSHED TEARS.Once I believed that tears alone Could tell of sorrow deep; O blessed those whose eyes overflow!Within my heart I weep.And many think me calm, because My cheek unwet appears; The happy ones! they never know The pain of unshed tears.{790} Fro
- 244 CHAPTER XXVIII.The deep clear azure of the French sky, the lightsome pure air, the quaint houses, and outlandish dresses of the people in Calais; the sound of a foreign tongue understood, but not familiar, for a brief time distracted my mind from painful
- 243 I do often think of that evening in the great chamber of the castle--the young earl in the vigorous strength and beauty of manhood, his comely and fair face now bending over his writing, now raised with a n.o.ble and manly grief, as he read aloud portions
- 242 "O, for G.o.d's sake, what aileth you, dearest lady?" I said, uneasily gazing on her agitated countenance."Nothing ails me," she answered; "only I fear to frighten thee, albeit in a joyful manner.""Frightened with joy!" I sadly answered. "O, tha
- 241 {761} To which he mildly answered, "I know not, Mr. Topcliffe, in what I have offended my dear anointed princess; if I have offended her or any other person in anything, I would willingly ask her and all the world forgiveness. If she be offended with me
- 240 [Footnote 143: See also "_Acta Sanctorum Augustii_;" tom. ii., p.193. Antverpiae, 1735.]When St. Patrick was on his way to Ireland, with full powers from Pope Celestine, it is recorded that he was detained at Boulogne by the request of Sts. Germa.n.u.s
- 239 [Footnote 129: Malbrancq, Jacobus, "_De Morinis et Morinrum rebus_."Tornaci Nerviorum,1639--1654.]The critical question is, whether the four names given by St. Patrick himself, and by St. Fiech, can be identified with any localities now known either in
- 238 Where there are a number of the same articles of clothing to be made, it is advisable to cut out one garment first, being careful to take the pattern in paper, and to complete it before cutting out the rest of the material. By this means an opinion can be
- 237 Moreover, religious faith, far from decreasing, is actually progressing, and, if it has not yet recovered all the ground it had lost, its gains since the commencement of the present century have been far greater than its losses.It is not difficult to dete
- 236 However, human intelligence must have an ideal: "The ideal is its dream and its wors.h.i.+p. Now what will be its ideal?Humanity itself. Humanity has a real existence; it is the great Being, really a great collective body, having a regular growth of its
- 235 ------ {721} Translated from Le Correspondant POSITIVISM.A. COMTE, LITTRe, H. TAINE.An exposition of the various philosophical systems constructed in our times against Christianity, either as means of combatting it or as subst.i.tutes for it, and showing
- 234 JOURNAL OF EUGENIE DE GUeRIN.Edited by G. S. Trebutien. 12mo., pp. 460. Alexander Strahan, London and New York.This very remarkable and most attractive book has already received a lengthened notice in THE CATHOLIC WORLD, and we have only to add that never
- 233 "_Donnerwetter!_" e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.ed the now infuriated _rentier_; "this is too much of a good thing. Just send round for my banker and he will tell you who and what I am. I'll sue you, sir--I'll sue you, sir, as sure as you are born," repeated the
- 232 In return for these advantages, Lichtenstein had to provide a contingent of ninety men and one drummer to the federal army. It is important not to lose sight of these ninety men and one drummer, for they play a princ.i.p.al part in the impending question.
- 231 Father Farrell turned for a moment and whispered to his companion, "I'll see about the hurt man, and do you try and keep the boys quiet.I can see that Shanvilla is ready for a fight. Tell them that I'll be with them in a very few minutes, if the man is
- 230 {699} "No, Phil, that is the very point I want to settle with you. I have always remarked that when the winner of the toss throws the ball toward the other goal, it is always met by some good man who is on the watch for it; and as none of the opposite pa
- 229 To tell character by confining one's self to one exhibition of a faculty, would be like trying to tell the climate of a place by staying there one day. But in the other extreme, the collecting of facts proves nothing unless there have been opportunities
- 228 The misfortune was that there must of necessity be some contrast between this theoretical n.o.bility and the practical life of the physician. He must, if he would gain his living, go from house to house indiscriminately, and receive his pay from all cla.s
- 227 The next room was the wardrobe, where their articles of clothing and bedding were stored, and in an inner chamber was the tailory, where a number of lay brethren, with a vocation for that useful craft, were continually at work, making and repairing the cl
- 226 From All The Year Round.UP AND DOWN CANTON.Canton is a genuine Chinese city, and one of the most extraordinary places in the world. There are four American steamers which ply between Hong-Kong and Canton. They are fast commodious vessels, in fact floating
- 225 "Cursed," he cried, in a hoa.r.s.e voice,--"cursed be the b.l.o.o.d.y queen which reigneth in this land! Thrice accursed be the tyrants which hunt us to death! Tenfold accursed such as lure us to d.a.m.nation by the foul baits they do offer to tempt a
- 224 "I courteously saluted the young man, and inquired what countryman he was; and hearing that he was a Staffords.h.i.+reman, I began to conceive hopes it should be my brother; so I civilly demanded his name.Methought I should have betrayed myself at once w
- 223 {644} "Yea," he said, "your old friend Edmund.""Mr. Ironmonger is this reverend gentleman's name now-a-days," Mr.Wells said; and then we all three sat down, and by degrees in Edmund's present face I discerned the one I remembered in former years.
- 222 and she laid a wager of many pieces of gold he should not be able to prove his words. So he weighed in her presence the tobacco before he put it into his pipe, and the ashes after he had consumed it, and convinced her majesty that the deficiency did proce
- 221 Another while he went to the window and looked intently, now at the tower and the valley beyond it, now up to the sky, on which the last rays of the setting sun were throwing a deep red hue, as if the world had been on fire. Then turning back, he joined h
- 220 "Hath Master Gilbert called his friends together for to consider of it?" asked Mr. Wells."Yea," answered Mr. James. "Tomorrow, at ten of the clock, a meeting will be held, not at his house, for greater security, but at Master Brown's shop in Southwa
- 219 "And who did accuse you?" I asked."I know not," he answered; "we are never safe for one hour. A discontented groom or covetous neighbor may ruin us when they list.""But are you not in danger of being called before the council?" I said."Yea, more
- 218 BY LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON.CHAPTER XXII."Ah, ladies," exclaimed Mr. Cobham--pleased, I ween, to see how eagerly we looked for his news--"I promise you the eastern counties do exhibit their loyalty in a very commendable fas.h.i.+on, and so report saith
- 217 "The consultation was protracted, and the ultimate decision was to act in concert with France, and to demand the a.s.sistance of his very christian majesty: the house of Austria being no longer in a condition to co-operate."The Duke of York at once abju
- 216 The only pretence I have ever heard advanced is because the Church has fallen into error, interpreting the Scripture after a forced manner and contrary to its true sense, and that it has imposed on us articles of faith which are not authorized by the word