A Word to the Unwise.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, 5 January 1905, Page 1

A Word to the Unwise.

Full many a time and oft we are matte by Cathlolic correspon'dants here and those throughout New Zealand to feel that, to some extent, we have during all thtose long years been engaged in tflie useless and interminable labor of digging holes to bury heaps of earth— or, to cast the tAiaught i/n Cowper's more poetic phrase, in •' The toil Of dropping buckets kirto empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.' We can fairly claim that a special feature of our work has cofnsiste<d in the dynamiting of Calumnies againtot our religion, its ministers, and its institutions.! In cfcir ©Sorts to cope with the tribe of Ananias we 'have put ourselves into communication with the civil, military, or ecclesiastical authorities of almost every civilised qounibry under the sun, and with results which, we vdnture to hope, 1 have met with the approval of our readers, whom it is our duty, as well as a labor of love to serve. Yet each passing month brings us a - number of more or less urgent appeals from *• various parts of New Zealand , for statement pt the ' real facts ' of sundry cases jof calumny or misrepresentation that have already * been flully death with in our news or editorial dolumns. It is neddlesls to e'ay that such appeals come to us from tftie Catholics woo welcome to their homes the bociks and

papers that <adcastonially spit vW>m at the CKUrcJi anid its ins titmt ions, and who raise bolt and bar against the jjduitoal tltoat wipes from the fair fate of the Loived Mother of us all the m!ud any slime that are flung upon it biy the Uh<|ulghtle6S an)d the malicious. From motives of chjarity we have frequently repeated, ifr private cprres<po)nrie,nice, fior the benefit of inquiring noto-s)ubscribers, iiho of articles that have already appeared! in dur columns. Thisj, however, has entailed upon us an artdrmious aindu/nt of labor—^hamlperfng to some extent at times our ordinary and proper work. There is one obviojus and GOimm,on-se#se remedy o'pon to those !io!n-su,b-spri/ber,s w ( ho wish to keep in touch with Qathblic ■tfhioiugjhtj arid incident and tlo be armed against the slandelns upon aur faith that creelp — like bubonic rats— into New Zealand aver tjhe cable, or come iji tlhe ,h«(Ws of o|beain tr&mjps and a,re let loose in the oou&itry by the memibers of Hhe Scissors and Paste Brigade. A weekly ck^py of Uhe 'N.Z. Tablet ' in the htonie will Overtake Uhe evil.