CARDINAL CULLEN AND MR. GLADSTONE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 117, 23 July 1875, Page 13

CARDINAL CULLEN AND MR. GLADSTONE.

I clip the enclosed from a recent Pastoral of Cardinal Cullen. The sentiments it so well expresses have long been familiar to my mind. It is to be hoped every devout Catholic subject of the Queen will act on the Cardinal's suggestion and send up frequent prayers to God for Mr. Gladstone's conversion. Our religious and the priesthood in particular may well remember him specially in their prayers. I for one should not in the least be surprised to see him enter the Church ere he die. He is a most likely subject : "All that I can say is, that gratitude for past services should make us pray to God to open the eyes of this great statesman to make him understand the depth of the abyss into which he has fallen, to enable him to retrace his steps, and to give him grace and courage to make reparation for the unjust and unmerited charges he has been induced to make against the Church and its superior pastor. God must surely have important purposes yet to serve with so good and sincere a Christian and so great a statesman. He must now see that, in - opposing the Catholic Church, he is kicking against the good, and had better desist." ' • Laio.