The Archbishop of Melbourne

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 19, 14 May 1908, Page 7

The Archbishop of Melbourne

His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne, who left for Europe ion April 28, delivered a valedictory address in St. Patrick's Cathedral on the previous .^unday eventing. Jn the c o urse of his address, his Grace sad :—

It is now just 21 years ago ['since I received the palJium from Leo XIII. I promised then (that every tenth year I would vist Rome, and give an (explicit statement of the religious affairs of my diocese. And now you will ask what account I shall jrive the Holy Father this tome. Shall I n o t be justified in saying that in no country in the world is 'there a livelier faith" or a ?«?• J eVot6d ' A lo Yalty towards the Holy See than here ? Isthink so. And now as to the evidence of that fai+*bj. win o™ } GUs us \ haj! faith without works is dead. Well, concrete examjpUcs of our work are in evidence ch,^n°' im ? vs '- Since m Y last visit, three magnificent Mebnm^ ha ?M ee^^ uilt in * the Archdiocese-at West Melbourne at North Melbourne, and at Carlton ; and 3 er, another Us being built at Malvern, which wlill (be 1 velv^iTh^f^ -^ SUbur i ) ' and Proof of that hiVt Ji , of Pnests land people, to which I have 2for 2\ + ? We ? aV ° the new conwnt at AbYn d£raX?m ° S& Wh ° haVG unha PP (fl y fal^» into n, degradation, or error may find reclamation .and peace. At Broadmeadows, children, who have known not care of an earthly mother, are tended with a love and revotic-n by 'their spiritual mothers, that the natuA+ wW Pare ? t x or its offs P™ n S could not exceed. f c [again, there is a uoble institution for tuose, who have fallen on evil days. N o questions are asked as to creed, there is no interference with) thedr religion. Here ithey may live an peace, and they may 1 repare for death, in a way which leaves n 0 doubt as to their salvation. But great and splendid as these results |are, as an evidence of faith, there is something that I may tell the Holy Father, which I think he will regard as finer than all these put together. I refer to the sacrifices that the faithful in. the jArchdiocese, in the State, and throughout the whole country, indeed, have made in the cause of religious education. Some general help has been proffered us from the outside but we have not sought it. We have borne our burden alone. Our schools have multiplied enormously throughout the .Commonwealth.