COMING EVENTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 109, 29 May 1875, Page 13

COMING EVENTS.

Peace ob War : Most men who read the public ioumals and reflect on their contents, have their own opinions on ißftbfi shoT^l fTf d t °l fche , fact that the p °p e » SpS Sa m 6 k v ly haS of tem P°ral power, both Mr. Gladstone of W^ lSl%a^ are *£ ° f 011 that never at anT formerperiod nowi^E???? 1141 fluence of the P<>Pe greater than it now is. Spiritual influence is near akin to political power • no question of that. If his Holiness were actuated by nSlhuVnS Koine shows a resolution of the war or revolutionary pirtytomlS one last desperate attempt to arrest the downf all of^eirWer Garibaldi m Italy, and Mr. Gladstone in England, aYe eqSSbSt on aiming a deadly blow at the Papal powef , but by Sv d£devout sincere Christian, not to speak of his splendid taknts He fZJ'^ti e ?»° v^ s comin S on him a t once, no doubt led to stone is ambitious; but his ambition is of the noblest andinosfc mean. We know that ambition is an infirmity, but it is an pure and good motive; for human nature is a myster? whteh nSie save the Creator himself can fully comprehend .BeSet Mr! SHr 6 IT n ? }On S B^ 0 ' " ™Wlity »in any se^J He may yet live to see that he wrote his pamphlet in error nofe knowing rightly what he said, nor whereofhe affirmed He n^v A seamim belonging to a French ship of wm had dlaa'iimisome remote island in the Pacific, and was toted tW? '"^?o dead that they may be released from their sins » WhatTdifferent feekug is this compared with that which pei-vaded the^nch See It^f if a ° Ugll ?? eC Hl Pmyer for the dead be a OWhoitoSLK face , yet it is a practice often neglected except by those Catholics « rt «T pc ? e J? de^ tl 7 sick and tired of evolutions. As the revolu. SfJ $ sh statesmen and warriors of the last generation the Pits, Wellingtons, and Nelsons knew well the valuS of Se PWa services in the interests of peace, loyalty, and liberty! BfJ&J

state, Catholic or Protestant, they exerted their influence on his behalf accordingly, in spite of their aversion to the Catholic faith. So did the late great Protestant French Minister, M. G-uizot. I would not mind predicting that we shall see the sam? thing repeated ere long ; if not by the present, at least by the coming English statesmen. The power of England, her moral influe nee in the world have not declined since the days when Wellington and Nelson fought and conquered. We must bear in mind, that to the courage and loyalty of the Catholic portion of the British army Wellington was in no slight degree indebted for those laurels which he was so proud to wear. He had the justice and manliness to proclaim this fact before the assembled Peers of England, when vindicating the claims of his Catholic subjects to an equality of civil rights with Protestants. The Catholic soldier of this day has not lost, nor is he likely to lose any of his hereditary co_urage and loyalty to the throne, even though he accept the Vatican decrees, and believe the Papal Infallibility. Laic.