WARREN HASTINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 328, 5 February 1884, Page 2

WARREN HASTINGS.

S?B,—The privileges, pf Sunday, are. many, and' not the leagt the le.isurs thpreby given to revert tho§e great historical personages who made the most vivid impressions *qn q^t youthful imagjflatfun,' M 8 s^ and. t^fi prophets and the apostle^ mpnßßqUse op much of the day that a hero from profane history is as an oasis in the wilderaess t and the men' tion of Warren Hastings in the rostrum causes even the canine lictors to prick their, .ears, : The Jwonenjiv RiSFfe> h 9 R fc I s W^ in Bengal and' in 25 ycays Governor: General of British India, nevertheless de;, serves a sermon to himself. To trace his. story from the banks of the classic Isfy— ' (why was that name ojn'jtte4 when fhe plan., of Gore sras. ma^e, to fceacji f;he geography of, the English* rivers'? all the street £re ' English rivers' and the ■ Cam imd'th'e Is'ja omitted I)— the Isi's by w.hos.e Voters l^e pointed S' *?Ws A Mft3 c ifwiv* ff ? y ? a^ he ?' a Freehold Ffe(},!:,thr^gh the yariquj :g^agQ»' of his career, is far more inspiriting than any mere travellers' tales, whether professing jto be based on. fact or , painted from imagination. In the young- colonist his story plants the thoughtjof a "Fr«e Freehold." Be the sec • ilfift IS °F iQ ( °QO acres.it shftll be my own wd IKB f%t this ' Wag wasexotftl#tattSHti I this fotenbbninWtowßlßfiSp ove^ ! $he ffito incat, (t oam@ very neap it, Tb§ fno|4entftl reference made to the two converted storekeepers (partners) mentioned in tho apocry* pal .gospel of Moody and. Sankey (who after gave 10 per cent to the cause, though he circumspectly omitted that part of the anecdote) was such a climatic foil fiom the mdrai" dfawn from the life of Hastings. Wn'ije among heroes, }i«spo)ce of earthly attainments possible ana domprenensib^ aftd wheii he took to' flreams h'e"wks entertaining, but jwhen he proceeded to establish $ telephone between spirits and kea'y^n tfls K'earera dronped into phi* Jahd of Nijd sttpptfamg they descried agnostics jn the distance;'' l father wfiotjoldly Jpreapnes what is in «very man ! 8 thought— a-Eree Freehold 1" If honestly, for there arc gra^-e dbnbts' about the methods of Warren Hastings 1 Can you tell me where I can refresh my memory with^ a reading of the great Anglo-India Nabob's life TfcThat of Sir George Grey pales before r\ J M fJ^ * e^t n fe yfiSF ftirertising column.' HoY to get it J Diligenoe, Sobriety. and|Persever»ncel— ram/etc.; ' ' ' ' ! ' '■' r "' " • • ■' ■ - :■ :EkQUIBIE. Tte Hotel, Gore, 3rd Feb., 1884. '

aeal wifch which you aaye responded to thi s c»U. Althoug h comparatively few and poor* yon bare established many excellent schools for both aexes at your own sole expense. But though much has been done very much still remains to be don?. Renewed exertion*, therefore, will be demanded of all ; and the _-*«j faithful of this diocese must continues t» ' make great sacrifices in order to hand down ■to theircJ^dje£:*b>' taith once delivered to the Saints, 'ilind without which it isimpojsi* ble to please God." (Hebrews xi. t v. 10). You must trust in GotJaad your own exer* tion9 alone. The law of this country taxes us for education, aud excludes us from the public schoolrooms and all parQclpSon^S^!^ public educ&tion, except on the condition/ of apoetacy from our principles. This is eflScc<jious"exclupionforallßiDcere.Gatholi<%,^^ a&d ; imposes on them the iniquitous burden of double taxation. But what makes this . - burden particularly hard to bear is the con* sideration that it it a professedly Christian people which, abandoning Christian princi* pies deliberately sanctions . a^4,_enforee^»^ system.; of education which-, ignwes GhßsM'M the ChirJßtian Church; the Chfistiaj^ faratly^-% and Christian society. , -We, Christians; tod%* Catholics, cannot accept for our children an unchristian and consequently an anti-Chris-tian system of education; x Tb do so' would be to deny; the divinity of Christ and pro* claim fiim an impostor ; tp prove obrletyes^ f not the pastors and parents of children, butl f, their moat cruel ememies j and to proclaim ourselves, before HeaVen -krfd earth, the degenerate and apostate sons of faithful self, sacrificing fathers. No,- my dearly belovsd brethren, better suffer anything, however painful, rather than incur ijie djsgrace r and s ~ awful responsibility of such' unennstiss.c*n* • f 1 duct. Fathers, mothers, and guardians of children, your most important obligation is to bring up your children in " the discipline and fear of the JJord," and i.y_our neglecting to do so, by failing to discharge your per. Bpnal; ? bJjgatipnß. B^-^ tion, correction, and example, or by exposu^ them to the loss of faith and jaorality in godless schools amounts to ali tne criminality resulting from a. loss of faith. " He," mj* the Apostle, " who neglects Irioivny 'pmitximft^ 1 f those of his own household, has lpst the faith, and has become worse than an infidel.*'