WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS DOING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 3

WHAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS DOING.

Tn The Editor. Sir,--When yum- coircpomlent "];. .1. T. M-M-i-U that Hi,, Church "has dcparicd in 11 large measure from tlir pr'ni- pies of -elf sacrilicc ami ],rr. i Kiimil service laid down by Chrisp U c have a right to ask for .sumi' fads in .-upporl of so swc ■ping an a-scrt'on. Xone are g.ven, lint your corrcspoudent calmly and modestly constitutes liiin-elf accuser, judge and jury, and, without calling a single witness ,o sub,f.antiale the charge, proceeds to deliver .sentence of eondcniuation upon iiis own individual authority. In each of his letters the same tendency 'to sit in judgment on his neighbour has niauif,|4ed it-elf, Tn one letter he wenl so l"iii- a, to accuse a large'body of men of insiucer ty in the discharge of the most sacred functions. As a corrective of tlrs tendency 1 would suggest a careful study daily for u considerable time of that famous parable, the moil, and the beam. Perhaps nfler t his exorci-e has been practised ns directed the pronencss to carp and lind fault may have disappeared. To show that the Church to-day is not ■want ; ng in the spirit of self-sacrifice •-.lid personal service, T will, with your permission, ipiole some statistics of one of the I'niled States Cities:—ln N(. I.nuis there are seven Catholic orphan asylums caring for 001 children; (wo house, of the (>oo,l Shepherd containing lllii persons in the prescrvatine class: two deaf-mute asylums with lit) pupils, three industrial schools with l."> 0 pupils: si\teen hospitals and iulinnavies receiving 0,000 patients during the year; two Homes for the aged with :r,l) inmates; a young girl's home 8,120 girls admitted during the year; a i'eliiale Kinployment Agency;' flflli girls provided with, situations during the year: a light refuge for women, :!,3W admitted during the year; basl<e!s .-applied w't'i food and elolhing ilistr Initeil to 2.8117 poor people during the year: SI. Vincent's Institution for In.-ane 32!) pai'enis: e'Diimlling Asyllum, J/"> infani.s, :U old ladies. K7 patients: Si. Vincenl ,le 'Paul Society. 11.088 assisted during the year. This for one fa'r-sized city. It is simply an index of what is being done in every ! great cty of the civilised world.— I I am, etc.. | COSMOPOLITAN. I [This close, Ihe correspondence. —Ed.]