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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 19 October 1907, Page 5

"Scotland" (says, the Rev. Dr. Fordyce, in - ■ the Australian "Christian "is still more given to church-going than most other places. One sees crowds of men and women,, family parties, in the streets and 011 their way to the House of God. And yet there aro great and growing changes. I saw bovs selling gapers' hi' Princess- Street on Sunday '• morning, and I saw any number of people evidently.going t.ospcnd the day in picnics. Ve.-i, oven men with golf clubs on their shoulders might be seen on the streets. as ; , we were going to worship. One has only to . read the Saturday papers, and to study "railway advertisements, to see that the old quiet Sunday is a thing of the past. Perhaps our . fat-hors wore too sovcro and too austere in their ideas of Sunday, but after all they , " meant to honour God, and oho is much afraid,that,there is.not such 'splendid .purpose' in the eyes of i these pleasure-loving people:" . 'Cardinal 'Merry del Val, Papal Secretary . ' of State, has, been the recipient of an': im- - mouse number, of lottcrs aii'd telegrams oxprossivo of sympathy in connection with the assault which he recently suffered at , tlio hands of tho anti-clericals. Diplomatists, bishops, priests, and leading men in every walk of life hare written, or telegraphed from all« parts- of the world. - In receiving deputations his Eminence has spoken firmly on the ' necessity of Catholics beinii fearless ill their devotion to Catholic principles. -