ADVICE TO CATHOLICS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 October 1917, Page 2

ADVICE TO CATHOLICS.

FROM ARCHBISHOP O'SHEA. In the course of a sermon at St. Joseph's Church ? Wellington, on "Forgiveness of Injuries." Archbishop O'Shea counselled Catholic s to bo patient and forgiving in regard to the attacks being made upon them of late. Such things, no doubt, were difficult to be borne with patiently, especially when they were so entirely without foundation, and when they so outraged every canon of decency. But they emanated from a very small section indeed, and their Protestant fel-low-citizens as a body had nothing whatever to do with them, and discountenanced them altogether. These attacks were made by men some of whom were only .half educated, an.l

could not speak the English language correctly His own impression, was that these people, knowing that a statement of the true things that might be charged e.gainst Catholics, would fall too flat and attract no audiences, had determined to find hearers by appealing to.the morbid-imag-ination and prurient curiosity of a class of persons who, unfortunately, are to be found in every community. Xo matter how trying these things (unprovoked as they were) might be to Catholics, and trying they certainly were, especially even when the honoured dead were subjected to vile treatment, let them have patience and endeavour to bear with it a little longer, hoping, like David of old "that the Lord may render (them) good for the cursing of this day."