ORIGIN CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 437, 21 September 1877, Page 2

ORIGIN CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THK KDITOII <>F Til 14 KVKNJNU MA Sin, tirm." as reported in the M.ui,, ] Jim following :—" What is now the eoiiditit (Germany (which has a like provision one of prominence among the nations? what, 1 ask, is the condition of Spain, tugal, etc.? What but omc of dchtiMCi of rottenness, of superstition ?" The u these oppiobimts epithets, ilihunriticnt, r nexx, and mijirrutilion, is insulting t Catholics. It is making an effort to f, upon our r ligioii everything vile ; to 1 us all for the crimes of Spain and J'ort if they be gni ty of such. 1 presume are, for 1 know no nation without its fii and failings, and crimes. Sure y it i right or just to elui'ge religion with vices of nations, as if religion is not th< moter of virtue, but of vice. Mr. 1 seems to hold, he so cxpressc-i himself, the Roman Catholic religion is inconsi with reason; that the countries spot Catholic are in a state of rotlenness, de meiit, and superstition ; and mark, Eidlor is a Governun nt teacher, to v care Catholic children are to be entri umler compulsion by Act of Parliament my opinion he gives a practical proof oi necessity < 'atholies are under of mt every sacrilicc rather th«n entrust children to such as Mr. Kidlcr, who Roman Catholicism to be inconsistent reason, and productive of rottenness, b.tsement, ant superstition. As to the niinence of Germany among the rial owing to a like provision —»'.«., secular cation—this gent email seems to mo to error, for Germany has not secular e< tion, but denoinina ional, unless the cl was made very lately ; if that bo n<! statement is worthless. But Gonnai now piominont among the nations foi persecution and imprisonment of Ca' bishops and priests, and for its in hatred of Catholicity. And from the

and vile expressions used by Mr. Fidler in speaking of C.-itholic nations and of Catholicity, it would seem that he looks for like favours at the hands of the secular sect in New Zealand. The Catholics may well rejoice at the kinduess of our Government in giving them such teachers for their children. lam, &c, William Coleman. [for continuation of News see Fourth P'ly.J