ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 179, 1 September 1876, Page 12

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL.

The ' Courrier de Bruxelles' comments on the late celebration of the tercentenary of St. Vincent de Paul, and, after eloquently describing- the wonderful triumphs wrought by the members of the confraternity, concludes as follows: — St. Vincent de Paul is the great master of the "hierarchy of souls," and of the Christian order of the heii-ts, the intelligence, the rcarrow, and the life of society. To him wa« confided by God a mission of regeneration, the importance of which is beyond measure. To him it has been given to combat without resting for the overthrow of Liberalism and its congeners— free thought, free pleasure, and free morals. St. Vincent de Paul has almost covered the world with his missionaries, his devoted daughters of charity. Measuring his efforts by the necessities of the times, he has inspired for our day the conferences which bear his honored name. These conferences are the great Christian reservoirs from which are drawn, hour by hour, the elements of salvation from the miseries of the age ; and in this sense St. Vincent de Paul can be justly proclaimed as a promoter of all the great works of modern times. He is the bond which unites us all to Jesus ; and there is no act of devotion of abnegction, and of renunciation which it is possible for us to make, that does not add a fresh wreath to his crown of glory. Therefore, the joyous celebration of the third centenary of St. Vincent de Paul opens a new era for the holy Church of Christ. His disciples multiply as the stars of heaven, forming a sacred line against the brutal ci c 'sses of liberal systems, and saving society from the overthrow which menaced it through the imbecile arrogance of Liberalism.