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TWO PASTORAL LETTERS -ON- / The Providential Expulsion OF Catholic Children From the Public Schools, •BY.- . t • • • • • • • , . * • • • • • • • • I • . ■ : • Rt. REV. JAMES VINCENT CLEAR7, S. T. D. it- BISHOP OF KINGSTON. ■ C 58J: * • • J • • « • • • » : .:...:••: * • -I B. Q. R. &.vr CONTEXTS, First Pastoral Letter states the cause nf ('(implaiut against the I'ubUc School Board 1 Second I'astoral Letter 7 Predicted Results Have Been Attained s Orijiin of ti>e (Quarrel— Tiic Ins|iector's Statements... 10 Statistics of Cutholic Cliildren in Public Schools 1" 'riie Board's f'luanpions 1(1 Profi'ssor Mars liall, of (Queen's — The Toronto ."Mail... 17 ivettiT of Rev..!. II. .M(d)ona>.'h, repelling a slander... 2') The Bishop Speaks in Brockville 27 The Whole Body of tlu^ Clergy Addr.'SS the Bishop... iJd The Bisliop's Reply o.") The Holv leather's .Jubilee Offering 4(i 5900! P3T TWO PAS TO UAL LKTTKUS (IF Till-; BISHOP OF KINGSTON (IX — The Providential Expulsion of Catholic Children from the Puhlic Schools. - ■^^\ iV ^ L/ .lAMES VIXCKXT CLKAUY, S.T.J). Hv riiK i) and 1\\vu); oi- Tin; lldi.v Arosioiir Si:k 1^1 SHOP OF KIXdSTOX. TO THE FAITJ/rrL OF TIJF CTTY OF K/NGSTOX DiuiiLY Beloved in Christ : OccUj 1 '1 though We are with the arduous work of pastoral visitation in 'he renidt^ districts of our Diocese, we cannot forbear coriimunicating to you without delay our ghidness of heart and thankfulness to God for the signal favor conferreil by ilis goodness unon the most helpless and most pitiable of out- tlock in our Episcopal City within the last tueuty-four hours. For the public journals have this day convt yed to us the following resolution adopted by the PuIjHc School Board of Kingston in last niglit's meeting : — " That the jiupils, children of Se})arate School supporters, now reported to be in attendanct- at the King.-ton Bulilic school-, be crprllcd at the end of the month, mid no fur- ther Separate School supporters be allowed to have their children at the schools.'" Carried. \\ (jlcoino, tlirico wclroinc iim tlif jovl'iil tidiii/^s tlmt u\(- few ( iitliolic c'liildi't'ii, clmltv th< ()ll's[)riii^f ol mixed inar- ^lll^(^s, \v lio luiv«' liitlici'lo lu^eii tori) iiwav from the lovi n< eiirt! ol' their Hpiritiiil luotlier, the holy Chm'ch of God, and have he. 11 haiuh'd over I y one or hoth of the r seiiii-(.'iitliolic or apostiite pareiitsto the perilous "iiardiiiiiship of the I'liithc School Hoard, for the foniiiilioii. as it, were, ol their minds and morals nii i 'miniK rs, and their boaltid'ul traiiiin^ in all the d )mesti(i and social virtiioH, have heeii delivered from the terrihle diiii,'j;er of >hii)\vieck of tiieir faith, and consecfueiit loss of relii^ion and morality, to wiiieh tiii'V have heen ex- l)Osed in tlu< s(dio()ls {•ontrolled and directed hy the declared enemies (»f their hiith and their Church. We have ail the more riMisou to rejoice and he thankliil for the ha[)))y termin- ation of our ,<,u'ave anxieties in re-pect of the i)urity of faith and moijils of this small tia^jjment of less than one pei cent, of the risin<^ Catholic oar(l will effectually save from incuirin^f similar danfj^er throu<^h the \enality or religious indilference or cowardly weakness oj' their parents. It was competent to us, as to other Bishops in this Pro vince, to employ the various methods of correction p)ovided by (iod and His Church for enforcement of l^ipiscopal author- ity and the prote(ttion of the lambs of the fold against be- trayal by their unnatural parents. We preferred, however, to follow tlie ways of patience and gentle persuasion, especially becansi; the laws ol Catholic life on the subject of education of the .young are observed with such edifying unanimity and steadfastness by our faithful people of Kingston, whereas the instances of wilful disobedience have beenremiirkably few — in fact so few that we venture to express our conviction of the inability of any other city wdiatevor in this Province to unfold so cresj»i*- w •' mixed iiiiir- oMi tlic loving' 1 <)(■ God, and scini-Catliulic of the I'll), he )l tlieir minds raiiiiii« in nil wed from ilie id c()nse([iient liive l>een t;x- tJie declared liavo all the appv termin- Jrity of faith mv per cent. hecRiisc the iBJy insulting mtee for the • Christ and ;)r whose un- 'athoiic chil- H'.blic school ilar danf^er or cowardly in this I'ro on p)ovided )pal aiithor- at^'ainst be- d, however, 1, especially dncation of nimity and whereas the )ly few — in ;ion of the e to unfold lOrd Jesus 11 comfort, i^), for that leh pain to the Holy rule the I ( hurch of dod" (Acts w. 2M) in the tevvitury ol K in j.'Hton dio- cese, has been done most effectually, albeit in sjiite and malice, by our enemies, whom .. hWeet directivt Trovidenci' has converted into our earnest coadjutors, ami tliiou^h them his worlu'd out in our lavor a b ess( d result for reli;4ion, directly the reverse of their malevolent intentions. Ilalaam, bribed with money, endeavored to utter his stipulated curse a^'ainst the People of (iod iNumliers wiii.) : l)uf an overtnas- terinij; lieaNcnly inlliu'nce compelled him to utter a bh ssin;; instead. ( uiaphas, fearful of losin<^' his plac(' of honoi- and emolument, af(!end(Ml the jud^'uient - seat and |)roceeded to deliver an ini(piitoua sentence a^'ainst ihe Holy One, the Head of our Church ; but the Holy (ihost o\('r-riileitatin;;ly told, should he consult anv of the hetter e(lunated ''entlenu'U of the Iciral d( I le^ai [JrofeHsion in this city of Kin^'ston. To he rude an( offensive to a {gentle and modest youn<^" priest in tlie dis- char^e of a i^'rave duty of iiis ministry, may not necessarily involve le^'al penalties against tlie offender; hut to proj)ose and insist n[)on and ultimately carry a resolution orderinj^ the "e\[)uUion" of poor children, whom neither the teaclier nor the trustees had eluirf^'ed with heing "so refractory that their presence in school is deemed injurious to other pupils," tiiis is a Clime pmiishahle hy common law, and it is in the [»()\ver of tlie parent or guardian of each one of the pu^jils marked out for "e\i)ulsion" hy last nifjht's resolution of the Public school hoard to institute an action against the mover and seconder and supporters of the criminal decree and ohtain damaj^'es from them under jndfi;ment of the Courts. Tliank (lod, the decemvirate, or the majority of them, have at last drawn the line heyond which no CJatholic parent, even the most venal or most indifferent, can ever pass again. The adoi)ti(m of a rule of Catholic exclusion from the common schools of the city, were it couched in terms wholly inoffensive, would sul'lice to prevent the most mean spirited of them from solicitinf]^ re-admission for his child. Hut, now the unexam- pled ferocity of the order for "expulsion," the phrensied spirit of hate and revenge that Sj)oke from within the proposer of the resolution and reverl)erated through the l>oarH room, "Yes, c.vpcUcd.' was the ]n'oper word;" shall serve for a perpetual warning to them and every one of them, and those who shall come after them, to give ear to the precepts and admonitions of tho Church of God, and ahlior the very thought of risking the faith and salvation of their offspring hy withdrawing them from the holy inlluence of religion and placing tit'iu under the care of men notorious for their hostility to the Catholic name. Dearly heloved in Christ, we ar(> fully assured, as \\c upon imoriciiil- "'Ktliin;^' more I'l' the I'liMic I 10, No. 81 I' of tni,sk'(rf '"1 tlie Scliool >\ tlic triistucs, it his pifsciico " I'lirllicniion' Hi'll-conceitttd olfl, .should lie t-'iiicu of the ) he rude and 't in the dis- ut necessarily nt to projjose tion orderinir 1" the teacher L'fnictory tiiat )ther pupils," it is in the 3f the pupils )lution of the ist the mover oe and ohtain ;s. ity of them, Jolic i)arent, pass again, the common yinoll'ensive, >f them from he nnexam- onsied spirit )poser()f tlie room, "\es, a perpetual se who shall Klmonitions t of risking awing tht'ni n under the iolic name, ii't'd, as Me hclif've you iiIho aro, thai the atrocious < (induct of those five or more tru'tecs <>|' tlic I'lilihc Scdiools of oiu' ( itv which we havf frit hound to cxjxisc ami condciun, does not iiccord with the Hcntinientsof tlie great hody of the Trot^'stant community amongst whom it is om* lot to live. They have in divers ways ami oftentimes evinced towiirds tht; (at holies, colh'ctively ami individually, a spirit of justice and fair play and the (dnirity of l)rotherho()d that axioms and sweetens social life. 'J'liis spirit we reciprocate to tlu^m. They know that we lovo I»eace jind harmony iiiul seek to do good to all, irresix'ctive of creeds, and that our denunciatiojis and censures are re-erved for those only who follow the promptings of higotry ;ind strive to sow discord among neighhors and inflame the passions of the multitude againstthe children of the holy Catholic Church. In conclusion, We exhort you in the words of the Apostle St. Paul to "he patient towards r. men. See that none render evil for evil to any !uaii; hut ever follow that which is good towards eacdi other, and towards all men. And may the Clod of peace Himself ^-anctify you in al things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and hody, may he preserved hlameless in the coming of Our Lord Jesus (Jhrist." (I Thess. v.) Given from the church of St. Gregory the Great, Picton, Prince Edward County, on this twenty-first day of Octoher, in the year of Our liord 1HH7. ' JAMES VINCENT CLEAKY. ' TnoMAs IvELLV, Secretary. J^>ishop of Kingston. i!i^ii^i^iwiiiJWWp!ii P Wi i j i ^ SE(OXI) PASTOKAl. LETTER OF 'J'llE BISHOP OF KINGSTON ox The Providential Expulsion of Catholic Children from the Puhlic Schools. — ■ — /j^^-ri^v;-; JAMES VIXCKNT CLKARV. S. T. I)'. Bv IHK (iRACl-: OK Ciol) AM) I'.WOH «IF TIIK IIoLV Al'OSTOUC iSliK, lUSllOl' OF KIX(iST()X. TO THE FArJllF(^L OF THE CITY OF KINGSTON. Dearly liELOvEO in Christ: The Bishop of a diacese and tlie Hock intrusted to his care are one in Christ, hound into unity of si)irit and organic life hy the action of the Holy (ihost, who "abides with the Church forever," (John xiv. c. !(> v.,) and distributes its offices (I Cor. 12 c.) and supphes His graces abundantly to all, the rulers and the ruled, that in them may be ever ful- filled the prophecy and prayer of the Bedeemer uttered on the night of His passion . " That they may be all one, as thou, Father, in me, and 1 in thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (John wii)." The little ones of the tlock are the dearest to the heart of the good pastor. If the world despises them, or seeks to injure them or allure them into dangerous pastures, the zeal of the shepherd who would imitate the example of the Prince s of pastors, is instantly aronsed in their beliall", and at evory risk of liis own poaco and safety he will ext(;ud to thom his special protection. Mach one of them lias been purchased at the price of the blood of the Son of (iod; and for each, as for all, the Bishop must jjjive an account before the tribunal of the Sujireme Judge. The loss of the >east of tliosc little ones would be a loss to the fold ; and when danger threatens them, the whole fold is disturbed, and the hearts of all, the shepherd and the Hock, are stirred by a common sympathy for them — of grief for their peril, and yearning for their rescue. y to so Wo. •^^OB^^Itf^^h^JL^jii.'L' 1 nt every them liis ■chased at r each, as 3 tribunal hesc little threatens 3f all, the sympathy for their lire o. the to-day the t's precur- mnounce- from the gth come : til visited salvation bate us." INEI). gratitude 3 helpless d to the faith and salvation, ovidence, us" and )tiier, the ereby the ;ees who actment, less little to their timation ourse of directed 3S, so far indicate. egard to nd obsti- the legal declara- pon the to their llishup, it is evident that the whole weight of insult and religious liate fell epoii each and every Catholic i)upil in the schools, upon all who hear the Catholic name and own their allegiance to the IJishop as their divinely-appointed ])fistor and father and guardian of their souls" welfare. The adam- antine bond of Catholic unity displays its strength lu-re. Cruel treatment of one member of the family is an offence against all, more i'si)rcially when it is proclaimed to l)e an attack uj>on the father. Therefore did We n Our former Pastoral Letter unhesitatingly deliver to you this prediction : •' The Public School hoard, who adopted the revolting ukase, have been foiled of their ini(iuitous purpose by ilie Holy Spirit who rules the destines of tln^ Catholic Church, and hiive been imide the unwitting and unwilling instruments of our poor children's protection against the irrelmious ihuA demoralizing infiut;nce of a system of education (Tomiiia,ted by men who were not ashamed to jip])rove a deci'ee so urjust to lielpless little child- en, so uncihristian in its violence, and so shockingly uuchiritable to their fellow-citizens. '" And We explained to you the reason of Our prediction, as follows : " Thank Cod, the decemvirate, or the niHJoriiy of them, have at last diawn the line l)eyond which no ('atholic parent, ev( n the most venal or most indifferent, can ever [)ass again. Tlie adoption of a rule of Catholic exclusion from the common schools of the city, were it couched in terms wholly inoffen- sive, would suffice to prevent the most mean-spirited of them from soliciting readmission for his child. But now the unex- ampled ferocity of the order fVu' "expulsion," the ])hreiisied spirit of hate and revenge that spoke from within the proposer of the resolution and reverberat d through the Board room, " \e-, ' ex})i'lled' was the pro])er word," shall serve Jor a perpetual warning to them and those who shall come after them, to give ear to the precepts and admonitions of the Church of (iod and abhor the very thought of risking the faith and salvation of their otfspring by withdrawing them from tile holy influence of reli ion and placing tli'in undt r the care of men notorious for their hostility to the Catliolic name."' And so it has come to pass. Parents and ehildreii, wlio hitherto Inive been coniiccted with the Pu])lic Schtxds, gathered around Us with alacrity this week on Our return from \'isitation of the missions, and yivofessed their loyal obedience and ready submission to the CInirch, that is, to the l)ishop, whom "tlie Ibdy (ihost has set to rule the (Jhurch of (iod, which He has purchased with His blood" in this diocese of Kingston (Acts xx ,) and on wh m the command is 10 // laid to " watcli as liavinjj; to render an account of tlioir souls." (Hob. \ll[.) The (':itliol)e pupu ;, children of ('atholic parents, resident in Kinifstori cityorits to\vns]ii|i,and liitlierto attending; tilt! Public Schools, have all, without a sin<^de excep- tion, l)een transferred tliis week to the Separate Schools. The Catholie pupils, born of mixed niarnaj^'e, and having Catholic fathers, resident in l\inf2;stoii city or its township, and hitherto attending- the Public Schools, have likewise been transferred, one and all, from the Public to the Separate Sclijols this weeic. Several children, some of them Catholics, and some Protestants, whose fathers are Protestants, resident in Khigston, and who have liitherto been attending Public Schools, have also been happily transferred to our Separate Schools. { )thers of this class will probably be transferred to the Separate Schools at or before the expiration of this term. Certainly rheir Catholic mothers will fulfil their duty in this re- s[)ect to their Catholic offspring, unless they be coerced contrari- wise. Thi-, is a blessed result. It is the fullilment of the law of faith delivered by the Apostles before the Christian Scriptures were written, and ex[)res8ed by St. Ignatius, an intimate dis- ciple of St. John the Evangelist, and successor of St. Peter in the See of Antioch, in these pithy words, " whosoever belong to Gou and Jesus C^hrist, these are with the Bishop." (Ei)istlo to the Philadelphians). OtitGIX OF THE (,)rAKPtEL. A year or more ago, when all was peace between us and the authorities of the Pul)lic Schools, a statement was made in the daily papers ni tlie name of the Public School Inspector of this city that " an unusually large number of lioman C'atholics" were applying for admission to the Public Schools that year. On the following Sunday, the Pector of St. Mary's Cathedral called the attention of the congregation to this statement, and declared that it could not possiMy be true, because "not for years had the Separate Schools been so largely or so generally attended as since the opening of that year ;■' and "in fact the number of pupils attending our schools at that time was very nearly one hundred above the attendance of the previous year." A copy of the Oaiiadlan FfeeiiKin containing this denial of the Inspector's statement was forwarded by mail to him, and the passage formally challenging him to })roof of his assertion wiis heavily marked in tlu! margin. He did not dare to accept the challenge. l>y Our direction the Clergy made diligent inquiry in every ([uarter of the city, but failed to discover the multitude of Catholic children referred to by the Inspector. For pru- the Kid muii lici as . l\d i 1 1 :lioir souls." )t" ('iitliolic aid liitlicrto iii.Ljle cxct^p- ,t(' Hcliools. md liaviii}^' s township, kewise been le Separate Q Catholics, its, resident [lin<^ I'ublie iir Separate ansl'erred to f this term. y in this re- ed contrari- Dt" the law 01 1 Scriptures itimate dis- )f St. Peter ' whosoever le Bishop." i^een us and was made ic School number of the Public I lector of >ngren;ation jossii ly be hools been ing of that nding our above the Oaiuidian statement e fovmally ily marked lenge. Jiy in every ultitude of For pru- dentuil reasons We remained silett and awaited practical (h'Velopments. INSPMCTOII KIDi). 'I'iie foregoing statement of the Inspector was made in the month of Si2)tumber, IHSC). About live months later Mr. Kidd, nothing daunted by the ofticial contradiction of what must be called his injurious accusations against the Catho- licity of St. IVIary's Catholic congregation, made bold to s]»€ak as follows at the meeting of the School Hoard on the !)th of l'\;briiary, IMHT : *' Mr. Kidd said that ([uite a number of " Catholics wished to take advantage of the Public Schools, "and that several parents had applied to the City Clerk to " have their names placed on the assessment roll as Public " School supporters, but they stated that their re(iuest could ''not be complied with. They were willing to pay the Public " School tax, but could not get their names on the roll." (Kinriston Daily Xeics, 11 th of Februarj', 1H.S7.) It was a relief to I's to get something definite out of the Inspector's mouth that coukl be verilied or proved false by unambiguous testimony. We accordingly ])roposed the following ([uestion in written form to the liighly honorable and universally respected City Clerk : To .M. l'i.\N.\(.AN, J'lsii., City ('k'rk : Is it IriH* tJKit " iniitc ;i iiutulior dI' ( 'uthdlics,"' wishiiiij; to take udvau- \:v^ij assessment roll as Public School snppiirters, and tliat yi>u tokl them their reijuest cnuid not ht^ complied with? f.lAMKS NINCKXT (Td'-AKY, J'.ishopof Kin.ustoii. Answkk — I have no recollP''tion that any nnnd)er of Catholics called on me at any time lur any sticii jmrpose. Had thiiy mad(> the demand referred In, I jHissessed no pouer td alter the assi'ssnient roll withnnt authcirity frnm the ( 'ourl, of Kevision. I would. howtncM', have jiiven them instrtu-tioiis how to proceed in pm\sinince of their purpnse, l)ut have no recollection of havin;^ been asked to do so. .M. FL.\XA(rAX. Mr. W. S. Cordon, City Commissioner, was likewise; in- terrogiited whetlier a])plications of that kind had been made to him by " qmte a number" of Catholics, and his answer precisely corresponded with that of the City Clerk. THK USE MADE OF THK IXSPECTOP'S STATEMENT. The Public School Board were then engaged in costly improvement of their institutions, and the statement of the Inspector, doubtless believed by him to be true, regardingthe un- usual iniiux <»f Catholic pupils, was eagerly ventilated through the city. The journals set down the number of Catholics in the PuVdic Schools at " fif tv or^ ixty." Perhaps the inspector 12 w wov had boon misliHl bv jmblic riiiuors of tlii-i kind At all ovonts ■bis statciiiciit siiit('(l ;i(lmii;ii)ly to tlio oxi^encios of tlio tiiiio as a special in(liic(3ment to Protostnut rate) >a.y era to reooiicilo tbcin^tlvcs to the heavy bill of expenses. Tilt! rule adoptoil i)y tbc Kjard insistin;,' on ]>ayinent of a monthly lint! by cNi'i'v ' 'utliolic j)Upil whose parents \V(a-(i not I'u 'lie Scliool supporters, looked like a virtual at'lirinatioii of the Inspector's stixy. i''oi', if that class of Catholic pu[)ils ere not presumed to bo very mnnorous, it would be hardly th whil(> for iho Hoard to adopt this new and in resi)(;ct of, iit ie;ist, the two Sepai'ate School su[)[) rt^-rs, distinctly illegal method of increjising their ri'sources by the \exy of a small imi)ost of 50 cents per inontli from them, which tlioy reduced to 'I~)C. for the children of soldiers. Accordingly W'v. deemed it high time to s(!ttle the (pu'stion of numbers. The task involved many dillicidties. Reference to tlie assessment rolls did not supply Is with exact information, since there might have been children in those schools whosc! parents' names do not appear as ratepayers, but who |)ay the monthly tax of 5()c. There might also have been, as tliere were, some persons who had come to reside in Kingst"n after the assessment had been otiiuially re istered, and others who, having been assessed as IViblic Sidiool sup[) )rters at the beginning of the year, had sub-5e(pientlv transferred their children to the Separate Schools. Then; might also have been, as there were, children of mixed marriages, really Pro^.estants and regular attendants in the Protestant ('luirches, whose father would be registered a Catholic on the Public School assessment roll. And, finally, there might have been, as there were, some pupils, children of soldiers residing in or about I'^ort; Henry, in the Township of Pittsburg, whose names would appear on the school roll, un- distinguished from the residents of Kingston, whilst their parents" names would not be found on either of the assess- ment rolls. Nothing therefore remained for Is but to adopt the f thcsi'liool in the ultcrnooii." - ."'■• W itli pleasiu'e We hear testimony to the courti'ous de- meanor of all and every of the school teachers. We le^ret our inability to say the same of the Trubieuc,. a numher of whom, on notice of the i)riest\s visit beins in regard to religious instruction in connci-tion with tho Public HcLiools, it is decided liy the < ouncil of rul)lic Instnulion that tlie cler).'y of any persuasion, or their authorized r.'presentativi's, shall lia\e the riiiht to <:ive reliijfioiis instruc- tion to tlie pujiils of their own church, in each school-house, at least oiico a week, after the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon It shall be lawfid for the I'rustiH's and clerLiyniei\ of any denomination to ajjree iil)on any hour of the day at which a cleriiynian, or his authorized repre- senta ive, may ^ive reli'_dons instruction to tiie pupils of his own church, [iro\ ided it he not ilurin,^ the rcjj;ular hours of the school." / •^ li \ ■J [n a letter addressed by Ts to the public journals, two months a;T;o, in defence of th: claim of this diocese to the foremost place of honor in the Province for its zealous sustain- ment of Separate School education, We referred incidentally to the action of the Inspector and Trustees ot the Public Schools in this city, and pointed out how ridiculous they had rendered themselves by their unwarranted and senseless boast- ing. Our remarks seem to have cut them to the quick; fur it was to revenge themselves of Us, («o they expressly avow) they projected their vvicked resolution of defaming and degrad- ing our poor little Catholic children by brandmg U])on them for life the stigm i of " expelled pupils." Intelligence of this infamous deed reached U.s in a distant i)art of our diocese the day after its i)ublication, and next morning We forwarded Our Pastoral Letter to Kingston, to be read for you at every mass on Sunday, asking you to unite with I's in thanksgiving to God's good Providence for having converted the insane fury of the Public School Trustees into au agency of religion for the salvation of our little ones. STATISTICS OK TIIK CASR In the interval between tiie pnhlii'iition of the Boards' "exi»elling" nisohition and the issue of Our Pastoral i-etter condemnatory of it, the foUdwinu' I'onmi'inieation was made to our feIlow-<-itizens throntrh the Kin.Listou " Daily News," Oct. 22nd, 1SS7: " It is estimated that the resolution passed hy the School Board at tlu^ recent meetinji', (!xp(dlinjr the children of Separate Scliool Snpporters, will not aflcct over iialf a dozen pupils. It is estimated that there are abontj^orty Rofnan Catholic clilldren now attending the Public Schools, IxTttlie parents of all tht^m, exceut of about half a dozen, are supporters of the Common Schools."—" Xew.J," Satunlay, Oct. 22, 1887. Here w(^ have the number " fifty or sixty, ' as announced on the 5th of last March, br.>ugl'.t down to an "estimated forty" of our Catholic ciiildren in attendance at the Public S hools. Precision is invaluable. Jiefore adducinir Our table of statistics showing the position of (^'atholics in those schools before and after Our denunciation of the Trustees, We must premise that all available methods have been em- ployed by Us for the discovery of the true state of things, which, for the reasons already stated, it was difficult to ascertain. AVe have gciue so far as to Ind the Rector of Our Cathedral, who is also Chairman of the Separate School Board, to communicate with ^r. [ravage, the deservedly res|)ected Chairman of the dis(;nunted Public School Board, and suf)ply him with the list which Our examination of the two assess:* lent rolls and Our diligent in(iniries throughout the city hatl led Us to Ixdieve correct; also to HMjuest a coi)y of the Trustees' list in return, for the sake of undisputed computation of the nirndxTS of Catholic pupils in tlie Publi<' Schools. By ( )ur order a copy of ( )ur list was forwarded together with this reipiest to Mr. Savage on the 2Sth day of October. He wrote in reply : " 1 cannot at present u'ive the requested' information, as I have no memoranda at hand ; hut I will try and get it to-morrow." We appre- hended indeed that he shouKl(^x|)erience some obstruction in his ellorts to j)rocure the re(|uired document, and were, therefore, not mui-h disap- pointed on the Rev. Hector's receipt of a letter from liim last evening, in wl tht to ii ( fami :! ch IT) .journals, two ocese to the iloiia sustain- incidentally f the Public )us they had iseless boasi- quick ; for it ressly avow) ; and degrad- I upon them gence of this r diocese the r warded Our t every masB nksgiving to insane fury religion for Is' "ex {Killing" itory of it, the s tlintufrh tiio chool Jioaril at ool Supporters, tiiat tliere are 'tiblic .Si'hools, are supporters cd on the 5th otir ("atholic nvaliia])le. le position of ation of tlu^ ive been ein- whiith, for the ive in the country, within the municipal limits (at < i. T. it depot), have always desired to educate their children in the Separate Schools. But they had no Sepurate School nearer to them than a mile and a half, while they had a riililic Scliool at their door. Their children, whose au'es rani.'e from 4 to Id years, were tooyouii;;' to make tiie lonj.' double journey every day and in every st'ason of the year; and, moreover, it woiiM be danut now the Trustees havt? rendered it ab.solutely impossible for any seU-respectiii;^' ('atholic to com- mit his children to their care; and all have con-setiueutly iicen withdrawn from the I'ublic Schools and jilai-ed in the far-away Separate Schools. Thanks be to God, Avliose mercy draws good out of evil. II. Catholic pupils, children of Catholic fatht^rs and Protestant mothers, who attended the I'ublic Schools up to (Jet. 2;'.rd, wi^e 4 in num- ber, and they belong to "> families. They likewise liavi! all been with- drawn from the Public Schools and sent to the Separate Schools since the piiblicatiou of Our Pastoral Letter denouncing the action of the Trustees. III. ("atholic pupils, children of Protestant fathers and Catholic mothers, attending I'ublic Schools up to ( let. 2;!rd, belong to !• families and are 14 in number. Throe of those families have transferred their children, tour in numtier, to the Separate Schools since the publication of Our Pastoral. The children of three others are distributed between the Si^parate and the Public Schools; and the mothers of two of the remain- ing three families are most eager to transfer their children to the Separate Schools, and hope to be allowed to do so before long. The "expelling" deitree of the Board was directed against two families only, and it was not enforced against them on the 1st iust., tlu' day iixcd for its execution. Those two families, and with them eleven others, now ise allected by the decree, have transferred their children from the Publii; to the Separate Schools since tlie publication of Our ibrnier Pastoral on Oct. 2ord. Thanks be to God for His mercy to Our little ones. We have gooil reason to liope that all, except one, of the Protestant fathers of Our Catholic childn'U will ere long con.sent to tludr being edu- cated in accordance with the doctrine and moral discipline of the ("luircli of their P>aptism; that, being Catholics, they may lie good, religious and virinoiis Catholics, not half-and-half imr neutralized, that is, neither Indif- ferentists nor Agnostics, of whom, unhappily for families and for society, there an> too nianv at this side of the Atlantic. fW. k; TiiK i;o\i;i)s cHAMnoxs. It is siiti^lactory to ()lis('r\(' that the riihlic Scliool iJt^ard's edict of [xi'iictuMi (Icf^i'ailutioii issued Mj^aiiist a ii;ilt- d(>/,i'ii imioci'iit ('iitluilic children, iiiicoiideimu'd ol' <.Tinit! jind unaccused, lias happily uwakcnud no echo of approval in th(; city or in the rrovnicc i'l'oni any [>uhlic hody, any decent Join*- nal, or any individual ot' vecoi^ni/ed |)ul)li(' merit or socinl inlliience With re-fret, h twever, We feel hound to notici \ letter addressed to hoth our local dailikh, hy a person named I). II Marshall, and dated from nowhere. Connncn Ixdiet attrihutes tlu! authorship of this conununication to a uiirliki' son of toil who enjoys littinsly the same i)atronymic iind is familiarly known in the city. We have taken some [)ains to assure Ourself of the identity of the writer who haa entered the arena in the character of a free lance and, without any ])rovo(!ation whatever from Us, has thou^dit i»ro])er to ast-ail the Bishop of Kingston and the *' Church of lionu'"' in langu- age of coarse vituperation not unlike the insensate ravings of the Xo-Popery ranters of the IHth century. To our great surprise We have discovered that this gentlenum is professor of Physics in (^)ueen's Tniversity. His position entitles him to respect, and We shall not deny it to him. For he is hy his ortice associated with gentlemen for whom we entertain the most kindly and rehpectlul feelings. It has heen a pleasure to Us to hold relations of amity and courteous interchange of friendly regartl with the distinguished Princii)al and several of the ahle and erudite Professors of the University of which Kingston City justly hoasts as her pride and her joy in the present a.nd her hope for the future. God forhid that We, whose lengthy experience of academic discipline enal)les Us to recognize the latitude allowed to individual professors for indulgence of their ])ersonal whims in unollicial and i)ri- vate hfe, should he guilty of the rashness and injustice of charging against the College, its Princi[ial or its professors generally, the odium of Mr. Marshall's misconduct. On the contrary. We take to Our heart with all confidence the puhlic and solemn pronouncement of the Iniverwlty in its corporate clniractti-, delivered to Pjastern Ontario and to jiU nninkind l)yifs honored Princip;il in the official aildress to ('onvocation rea resipccted at all liiiicH. Not oiily so. \vi' ^ivc the assiiraiiit', dear tn cvrry true parent, lliat our cniiiuTrKiii with an iini'icnt liistiiriial cliiinli i'iial>li's ns lo .snrroiin'l llir I nivcrsiiy with r»'li;iiinis iiillnrnccs dl' Mns|M'aln. ^ Mil. MARSHALL AXALVSKl). But, accustomed as We are to scanning rhe utterances of men straitened between their bigotry and the lawB of honor, We read his lines in their natural secjuence and in the s})irit of his antithesis of clauses. We cannot suppose Mr. Marshall, a Professor in (^)ueen's University, to be as ignorant of the J^nglish language as the T'ruBtees of the Public School, who in their silly apology addressed to the journals, try to excuse themselves for ordering the "expulsion" of Catholic childr(;ii bei-ause there was not among the whole ten of them sul'lici(!nt knowledge of Knglish to enable them to express their guilty intent in less criminal language. The learned Prof, must surely know the meaning of the word " liberal" when applied to children's elementary education " free" from religious dogmas. I'iducation is the development, of the mind's faculties. " Liberal education" is a phrase denoting the for- mation of the mind in literature and science generally, such as is received at a College or University in Arts and all the higher dei)artments of intellect^ual training It does not apply IM to piircly iirol't'Hsional or trclmical Rcicnn' iis siKth, altlioiigli tlu'oloj^y, law, nicdiciiic, i'lij^mccriii^', Ac, arc coinpriHcd under thiH head. Miudi Iohh Ik tliiw pliras*' applicable to riidi- nif'ntary knowlodjjic acfpiircd by (diildrcii in tbo I'lildic Scbools, sucb as reading;, cali^'rapliy, vul^^nr aritlmntic, pliv .sical f^t'of^rapby, tb<' (dcinciitH of Hoioiicr, Ac. If it ever l>o p»'rniissii)h! to nnploy tbis dclinitc! i»brase in r't'crencc la thoso initial studicH, it must bo in an cxpn'SHly <(inilitiod sonso, and tbe i|ualili('ation nmst (b'jx'nd entirely on tbe con- text. Since Mv. Marsball in r(>ferrin<,' to tbe elementary e(bi(^ation r(!eeived l)y (diildren in tb(! I'nblic Scbools, re^'rets tbat Roman Catbolic cbildren sball no loncer bave tbeir minds fasbionod tliere l)y wbat be calls " liberal education." •ntinize tii we must 01 necessity ficrutinize tiic context for tbe (pialifica- tion tbat will justify tlie use of tbe term "liberal," and directly we lind it in tbe subjoined clause — " free from tbe dogmas of tbe Cburcli of Home." Oh ! may Our good God save tbe Catbolic cbildren of Kingston from such "liberal" dev(dopment of tbeir intellectual faculties as will " free" them from the circumscription of God's revealed dogmas of soul- Raving truth, and leave them exposed to be "tossed to and fro, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the wickedness of men, in craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive." (F^pb. IV.) There is also in Mv. Nlarsball's sen- tence a distinct antithesis between the " liberalism" in which be would like our Catholic children to be intellectually developed and the exactness of religious creed implied in the term "dogma;" and this is emphasized yet more by the sug- gestion tbat tbe attainment ot the former implies " freedom" from the latter — " a good liberal education free from the dogmas of the Church of Home." He seems moreover to have let out much more of bis mind than he intended by referring to tbe " chances," which he regrets having been lessened, of the Catholic pupils acquiring, through the Public School lessons in reading, writing and arithmetic, that " liberal" expansiveness of thought which would set them " free" from tbe restricting bands of Christian " dogma" — the enslaving bands of liome. ^fr. ^Marshall can hardly be unaware that the term "chance" necessarily implies hidden design, and, by consequence, uncertainty of result. Wbat hidden design of God or men was there in the " liberal educa- tion" of Catholic cbildren " free from the dogmas of the C/burch of Piome," which they have been hitherto getting in the Public Schools of Kingston under Orange administration '? And how is tbe working of tbat hidden design lessened by the inierl ol tif enitn witb'i (logiil glavol C( lltlf first mutH An.ql blr n| ment It is been I faith i ^^f*Mieg^%fefe ch, altii(Migli c c<>in|iriH('(l iiM' to ni'li- the Pul.lic liiiit'tic, pliy f it iiVfr l>e rrlVrenc(« i(t slv .(iiiilitiod oil tlic roii- oleiiuuitary ooIh, ren[retH ■ liavc their ccliicatioii," lie (lualiliea- bcral," and fe from tlio ir good (^od h "liberal" ' free" them nas of 8oul- ^sod to and ine, in the ie in wait to shall's sen- in which itellectnally plied in the by the sug- " freedom" 3 from the moreover to itended by [iving been rough the metic, that set them dogma" — hardly be ies hidden lit. Wliat ral educa- as of the getting in istration ? led by the 1!) iiiterpoHition ot the l»iHh(i|» coiinttrnntin^ the revealed pljinB ol the Hoiird ? All fhiH, We Know, is in pcrtVct Imrmony with the invct* eratc* proptiisity ol' lii^otH of .Mr. MarHJiallH type, who, without knowing wliut they are saying, inveigh againnt the dognnitie teaching of ('hristian antiipiity as intellectual filaverv. It is an old, old i)latform cry, repeated through the C( nturies from the days of the IMatoni/ing converts of the first uuii H'cond ages ot Christianity down to our own. \\ hat matters it, that he who repeats this parrot-cry, if he be an Anglican, or l*resbyt(!riau, or anywise a believer in the inetfa- blc mysteries of the Trinity, the Incarnation and the Atone- ment, stands self-coniU-nnied by the words of his own mouth '.* It is enough that he thiidis he in striking at ( atholicism, becauHe it uutlinehingly holds to the ancient creed, "to the fjiith once traditioned to the saints." (Jude ;{ v.) Tin: SCHOOL board trhhteks and mr. MARSHALL. The Trustees have little cause for thankfulness to ^^r. D* H. ^larshall for his interpretation of their pious intentions or for his regrets at their unwisdom. Neither ciin they feel com|)Ument<;d liy his censure upon their downright fatuity, " because they have unintentioiuilly given Bishop Cleary a chance of writing" the Pastoral Letter which undid theii' whole scheme, and converted their weapons of attack into an armoury of Catholic defence and salvation of Our little ones. I As for Us personally, We can easily forgive Mr. Marshall for all the vile epithets he has been pleased to heap upon Us in consideration of the high-sounding panegyric with which he mentions Our name in his opening sentence : " I could not liel[) remarking to myself, ' Here is a Bishop to the Church of R»)me's own heart!' " This is a meed of praise far in ex- cess of Our deserts. St. Francis de Hales and St. Charles Borromeo would have been abashed by such magnificent (uilogy bestowed on them, did they believe their i)anegyrist'8 opinion worthy of any credit in the estimation of men. No more noble tril)ute could be paid to the holiest and wisest and most self-sacriticing of the Hierarchy than this : " Here is a Bishop to the Church's own heart." We are profoundly ap- preciative. THE TRUSTEES AND THE TORONTO "MAIL." The only other champion of the Kingston Public Sdiool Board is the Toronto Mail. Dic/num pdtella operciiliuii. War- fare against the Catholic Church, come wkence it may, or. •20 how niiworthy soever l)e tlif chiho of the ussaihiuts, is we\ eomefi hy that journal as an occasion for jjouring out its well lilled vials of wrath a^anist " tlie liOrd's anointed," whom it is strictly forhidden to touch with iiiilioly hand. (2 Kings i. e. 11 v., Ps. 1(U, 15 V.) \Vhi» in Ontario is not aware of the violent assaults, renewed frani day to .lay in that i)aper for the last eighteen motiths, against the Church, her doctrines, her |)ractices of piety, her civil rights, accompanied always hy daring misrepresentation of her Bishops, and calumnious i-eviling in almost every conceivable form '? This is th(> journal that raised the war-cry of "race and creed" hatred ni the Provincial electoral Campaign this time twelvemonths, and did not hesitate to proclaim that " Confedeiation must be smashed into its original fragments (sic)" in order to de- prive • "atholics of their legal and C(mstitutional right of edu eating their children religiously and, as far as p(>ssible, to render life unbearable to the Irish and French residents in Ontario. All honor to the Protestant electors of the Proviiice, who, being hve-sixths of the entire constituency, responded to the Mdil and its desperate partizans l)y their silei't and determined suftrage at the |)olling-booths on the third day after ^ 'hristmas. that they do not want a war of rt^ees, and will not join in religious strife, nor will they "smash con- federation into its original atoms" for the gratification of a band of literary aiiarcTiists. The appeal of our Public School Trui-^tees to such a journal to take them under its protection and make some sort of a case in their behalf, is a pitiable Hxhihition of their conscious guiltiness, rendered almost ludicrous by the » ditor's emphatic rebuke of their stupidity in having by their method of action " so ably seconded" the Bishop's policy. When the advocate slaps his client on the face in ()[)en court, his case is confessedly gone. It could not be expected of Us or any other Bishop to write in defence of Our otlicial acts in the pages of the Toronto Mail, nor indeed to hold controversy on any subject with its editor-in-chief. He is therefore perfectly safe in the indulgence of his unna- tural taste For vilification of the Church and her consecrated dignitaries We say " unnatural," because it is not nature's instinct that impels a man born of Irish Catholic parents in the heart of Connaught, the most Catholic of Ireland's Pro vinccR, and reared up in boyiiood according to the discipline of Catholic [)iety, and ado[)ted by a CatJiolic liishop as a candidate for the ministry of the altar, and transferred by I'jpiscopal kindness to the College of Propagambi in Iiome for test of his vocation and the nourishment of his mind and heart in the highest truths of wisdom and best lessons of lauts, is wel T out its welJ ed," whom it (2 Kings i. c. aware of tho at i)aper I'oi' er doctrines, mied always i calumnious This is the reed" hatred i'elveraontbs, Jiation must order to de- ight of edu p(\ssil)le, to residents m he Proviiice, V, responded ir silei't and le third day f rioces, and smash con- lication of a ublic School s protection is a pitiable sred almost lir stupidity Lionded"' the dient on the It could not ;i defence of , nor indeed tor-in-chief, f his unna- consecrated lot nature's parents in dand's Fro -J discipline lishop as a nsferred by n liome for mind and i lessons of •21 virttu\ to turn iiround, alter his abandonment of the iiriestly candidature, and, tor hireling's pay, strike his venomous darts into the bosom of the mother that reared him. We will con- tent Ourself with the following analysis of the three editorial articles written by that gentleman on the subject of Our deJence of Our little ones against the inhumanity of the Public School hk)ary the iUshop of l\iii,u;st()n at the opeiiin<>- cereuiDuy of i)astoral visitation in the Church of Napanee on till' "iud Xovemher, was published in an obscure sheet in Ottawa on tiie I'ith, and in a few days obtained circulation all over the Dominion of Canada. Several of the principal jour- nals accepted it without in(piiry, and delivered tierce editorial denunciations against His Lordship. The following letter of repudiation a|)[)eared in the ivingston iJidh/ Xeirs on Satur- dav, l*.)tli November: "J > To the Editor of tlic Daily Neics : Sir — In your issue of last Wednesday an anonymous communication appears, dated Napanee, November loth, pur- porting to be a re])ort of the reply of His Lordship the Bishop of Kingston to the address presented to him by the laity of the church of which 1 am the pastor. I cannot conceive who the author of this might be. There were several Protestant ladies and gentlemen among the Catholic congregation dur- ing the services at which the Bishop is said to have pro- nounced the discourse published by you, but my personal aciiuaintance with them forbids me to suppose that any of them would commit so grave a breach of religious hospitality as to misrepresent the teaching of bishop or priest, which through oiu' courteey, they were privileged to listen to. Much less could 1 believe for a moment that any of them would oifer so grave an outr.ige to their Catholic fellow-citizens as to distort the hishop's instruction on the cultivation of modest deportment into the odious accusations which your anonymous correspondent imputes to him in reference to the "women and girls of this country" without limitation or dis- tinction. Be pleased to allow me to inform your readers that from the beginning to the end of his discourse the Bishop passed no observation whatever upon "the women" of this country, whom you e.vpressly classify as distinguished from "the girls. " You do not indeed imitate the Toronto "Mail" and the Montreal "Gazette" by writing an editorial paragraph appealing to the injurcnl feelings of "the wives and mothers of (.'anada," but tiie document puhlished by you amounts to almost the same. The entire instruction was directed to the manners of youth and the laws of social reserve and modesty and gentleness retpiired for the Christian formation of char- acter, particularly in females. Even your anonymous corres- pondent sulHcieiitly signifies this in his concluding sentence: "His I iOrdshi[) contrasted in very caustic language the system in vogue in this country, and that of the Old World, complet- /^: 21 ing his reniiirks \vith an appeal to tJie yonnri f/irls of his eon }j;vej.i;ati()n to preserv(» their modest}' as a priceless jewel.' This ri'i)resents the whole hurdeii oi" his discourse. The Bishop did undoubtedly contrast the social demeanor of .young females trained hi the Old Country according to tht traditional rules of (Christian propriety with that of our new country, whose disregard of those excellent rules in the sys- tem of public education, shows itself too frequently and pain- fully in certain incongruities and irregularities of behaviour instanced by him. He said that "boldness of look" and "hard staring iuio the face of the other sex," and "loudness of speech," and "unreserve of numner," and sometimes also "unfeminine rudeness," exhibited l)y rushing in and out of railway cars, are evidences of the defective training of female youth, which he himself has often witnessed and has often heard others comment upon since his advent to Canada. He made emphatic referencee to the practice unknown in Euro- pean countries, but seemingly claimed as a privilege of their sex by many young ladies of this country, of conversing in loud, shrill tones in the railway cars, to the great annoyance of their fellow- passengers ; and this he described to be " screaming and screeching" rather than lady-like conversa- tion. I venture to say that there are few persons accustomed to travel who have not from time to time been made painfully sensible of this specimen of defective training of the female youth of Canada. Your anonymous correspondent chooses to extend his Lordship's remarks by making them refer to "the women " as well as "the girls,"' and not to any class or sec- tion of them or to occasional instances of such irregularity ; but to all the women, or, as the "Mail" and "Gazette" would have it, "to the wives and mothers of Canada." In this case, and it is the substantial significance of the anonymous libel, the statement is absolutely untrue. A great deal of malignity of purpose is displayed in the anonymous writer's transfer of certain of the bishop's words from the sentence in Avliich they were spoken to some other connection in wliich they have a meaning nowise intended by his Lordship. But 1 will not follow him through this course or trespass on the patience of your readers, since I should transcribe almost every second sentence of the libel in giving instances of this unworthy procedure. One sentence at the conclusion of the libellous document calls for special r marks, because it may go far to explain many of the incongruities of manner censiu'ed by the Bishop. "Putting young men and young girls together and allow- ing tl schoo tolc model able ti(m. •2") /.'f of Ill's eon H'less jewel." ;ijil demeanor lordiny to tin •t of our new s in tlie sys- t'v and i)ain- of behaviour k" and "hard loudness of netimes alHO 1 and out oi' ing of feiLale nd has often Jaiiada. He wn in Euro- lege of their onversing in i annoyance ribed to be lie con versa- i accustomed i^de painfully the female it chooses to •efer to "the dass or sec- rregularity : zette" would In this case, ymous libel, iiyed in the hoi)'s words some other intended by this course e 1 should I'l in giving nee at the al r marks, ngruities of and allow- ing them to associate without restraint, as is done in the schools here, is un Jiboininatiou which even [(Uguiis would not tolerate, and which has It-d to the destruction of all female modesty." The last clause of this sentence is, like muny others throughout the lil)el, transformed fiom a just maxim of morality into an otfensive imputation against the women of Canada, by the sui)stitution of one word for another. The Bisho[) said " tends" !>■: your corresiioiideiit writes "led " to. As regard the general ])roposition announced by his Lordshi|), which he has likewise proclaimed on many similar occasions, I Ix'lieve his judgiiifiit stands a[)jiroved, not alone by the maxiuis of Catholic theology and the rales of the (,'hurcli, but also ny moralists of the highest character and widest e\i)eri- ence belonging to various religious denominations: and it is a fact that the medical faculty in the I'nited States liavi' [)rotested against that practice for reasons proper to their profession. Even the " Mail " of last Thursday concurs to a consider- ahle extent with the views of the Bishop on the general ([iies- tion. It says that, " Viewed as a machine for propagating morality, the pub- lic school system is defective. Wiiether it be the fault of the mode of teaching, or of the teachers, or of the parents, or of predisposing causes of another kind, or of all foui* combined, the average public school child, hotli in Canada and the I'nited States, is deficient to some extent in truthfulness, in oberlience, in reverence and other ([ualities which go to make the true man. ' Sir, there is something suspicious about this anonymous libel heir'? [)rodured at this particular time. The IJishop's discourse to my congregation wns delivered on the 2nd November at his formal entrance into the church for the opening of his pastoral visitation. It was published very fully in l)oth the Napance journals two days afterwards, and neithet journal expressed a word of dissatisfaction, but rather of high praise and a any class or ' lt)V(' iinloss ^VaS tlMlC, OIK J()»(l tllV (i()() " Thou" Shalt to he ahlo to house for an promises of cccss. Even 1' twenty- live ivin^' in this fivinrr money n-iw^ for the ny who were th-hed atone iithing some- this duty of wills, hut to said he was numher of said he had warrantahly and wrote my warrant nifestly hos- fitholic chil- id sought to "expelled" unaccused, 3US duty as il of all the :ant fathers s the result is upon the two days ^ pastoral Idress ^vas the 4th of )orts of his fault with ail's ■' own 'nal, which •2\) tbe editor's remarks would signify not to have contained any great accusations. But now, thirteen days after the bishop's delivery of that address, and two days after the issue of his pastoral letter hi the church announcing the withdrawal of all the Catholic children from the public schools in consequence; of the hoard's ill- treatment of them, an anonymous report of his address is prepared by angry men, sent round to ail the journals for publication, and denunciation against the Bishop. In the anonymous document itself the Bishop is charged with im- puting immodesty to all the women and girls of Canada, and some of the editorial articles emphasize this yet more unjustly by interpreting it as directed against the " wives and mothers of Canada." He (the bishop) protested against all this as untrue and gravely unjust. He did not speak at all of women, much less of wives and mothers, but addressed himself solely to the manners of young people, telling how they should be formed on the Christian type, more particularly in regard of females, and complaining of the neglect of this important element in the public education of this country. He had mentioned certain irregularities of manner that are too fre- quently observable in the youth of this country, such as loud- ness of speech in the railway cars, staring fixedly at perstms of the opposite sex and other forms of unreserve in deport- ment which had semetimes come under his own notice, and he had heard others remark upon, and he urged that these ■were indications of a defective system of training in the public institutions. He said it was wholly untrue that he had attributed those irregularities to all the young females of Canada ; he spoke only of instances that were frequently visible to every traveller. It is shamefully untrue that he imputed immodesty or immorality to any of them. When he used the word modest in that address at Napanee, it was always in reference to deportment and the forms of outward manner, and every one knows that in this connection the word has a definite signification ; and that to torture such a phrase into a charge of immodesty or immorality, as some of the journals have done, is a gross injustice and calumny. He said in conclusion that it is (juite usual to enforce the neces- sity of general regulations, wdiether demanded of government or of educational institutions, by reference to instances of irregularity, and that no one interprets such reference as a charge against the entire community. Thus the cause of temperance is every day advocated by clergymen and moral- ists pointing to well known instances of intemperance in this or that city or district, and no one thinks of cliarging the :;() V i. I spt'iikers with vilifyinfj; tlic ^vll()le body of thf lialtitantH in such cities, towns and (liatricls as drunkards. Tlic trcatiiitnt \\v (the bishop) had received from the press in the puhlieation of the anonyiiious libel, and their unjust coiunients extending' his words beyond tlieir s('o])e aiid nieanin{,% had caused him ,u;reat pain, and this haishop's em- pjiatic tele<4ram appeared in all the journals, and the editors, with one or two exceptions, declared their rej:?ret for havinf:j wronpted him by their acceptance of the anonymous libel. On Thursday His Lordship celebrated the seventh anni- versary of his episcopal consecration. Surrounded by all the priests of the venerable old diocese of Kingston, he commen- orated in a most fitting manner the great event that took ])lace seven years ago at Iionie, on the 21st of November, 18H(). the Feast of the Presentation of the Most lilessed Virgin, when he rcieived episcopal consecration at the hands of the Most Eminent Cardinal Simeoni, in the Church of the Trban College, Rome. ADDRESS TO TfTE BISMOP EV THE CLERGY. To His Lordship the ^[ost Rev. Ja^ies Vincent Ci.eaky, S. T. J)., BisiToi- OF Kingston : My Lord, — Wc are assembled around your episcopal throne to tender to you our sincere and heartfelt congratula- tions on the seventh anniversary of your consecration as our bishop. The recurrence of the anniversary of the Bishop's conse- cration is always an event in the life of any diocese, a day of universal rejoicing for priests and people, for it brings hack to our memories the day chosen by J)ivine Providence on which to give us a guide investf^l with His own authority to conduct us in the ways which lead to eternal life. The seven years of your episcopate, IMy Lord, are in our memories inseparably connected with the greatness and mul- titude of your works for (rod and His Church. Through your zeal for His greater glory, temples have been uplifted to His worship, in beauty of form and solidity of structure, the sub- stanti-il types of your own robust and vivid faith, the faith of a mind aflluentlv stored with the treasures of Christian learn- ^Md liabitants in '111' trcjitniciit e puhlicalioii its extcjidini^^ I caused liiiii 10 when lie is >us visitation iontiniiL'd lip ^'st which ho inds liimself anxiety and 'ishop's era- the editors, 1 i'or havinf? us lihcl. venth anni- h1 by all the he common - it that took Novemher. ssod Virgin, ifinds of the t' the I'rhan KIIGW ■ episcopal !onf!:ratula- tion as our 5p's conse- ', a day of gs back to ! on which to conduct ire in our and mul- »ugh your ed to His the sub- e faith of an learn- ing. In tliat hoit Hpa" of time our diocese '-an point wili pnde to tlie el'e .tion ol n lews than lifttcu t-hu '\irH, In-sideM wliich there are four chi.rehes dually ir^der co'struc'tion, some of which, when i-oiiipitt< i, a ill vi< n pcrfc rtioii and beauty of architectural dcisi^ii ^ith th< ;4randeBt hitherto existing in this or any nei;j;hbo)i ig diootae ; and live others have been enlarged and Im autiCud b_v the addi- tion ot tower and s[)ire, therrby receiving the full and due i)r()portion of the Chriiitian teni|»U'. Standin<^ in this eathedral, the central church of the diocese, whosi spiritual favors are distiibiitcd in the teachings of faith from the episcopal chair and hi tln^ sacramental elements of sanc- tiiication, we have but to look around us for testimony of the j>race and beauty of art made ancillary to faith and virtue; in the mysteries and miracles and parables of the gos[)el, por- trayed in those excpiisitt; stained glass windows, the adorn- ment of (iods tem[»le and the evidence of the x.eal for its beauty quickening at once the soul.-, of bishoi) and i)riebts and laity who hive, by free donations and without cost to the congregation, erected these lovely monuments ol the piety of Kington city aiul diocese in this our day. AVe recognize and admire also the ardor of this zeal for the l)eauty of (lod's house in tlu; abundant weeklv offerings of the noble laitv of the congregation of St. Mary's cathedral, forming a grand fund for meeting the cost of the exterior completion of this magniticent edifice. Six convents have been established and furnished, which give promise of the most beneficient results in the trainhig of the young and the development in them of the solid and attrac- tive virtues of the C/hristian law as exemplified in the life of the immaculate Mother of its Founder. Fourteen new presbyteries have been erected and fur- nished, and wise measures adopted by the several church conniiittees, under the direction and with the counsel of the Bislioj), for the suitable mahitenance of the priest in all that appertains to his support according to his })Obition and the esteem in which he is always so aff( ctionately held by the grateful childion of the true faith. These are some of the evidences of the material progress of religion in your diocese during the seven years of Your Jjor.iship's epihcopate. Yet important though they be, they suffer by comparison with the purely si)iritual work which has been accomplished during those years of your pastoral care. You have ever_\ year provided that the spirit of our ecclesiasticjil vocation be renewed and piu*ified in us by the holy exercise of spiritual retreat. Our minds have been in- 82 Rtnictcd aiitl invigorat('(l )>y l'rr(Hi('nt tht'()lo«^iciil couforenco with kiKuvit^il^c <^'('iiri():iHly im[iarte(l Irom tlio riclincKS of your own varied aiwl ac'<*uiate ©(roleHJastical .science. In ,you, indeed, tlu' dioctsse of Kin^'ston jxtsscsses a teadier of tlio K('iene«w)t'(iO(l, fittiMl fof the e\ulrt-d othce hv long vears of aH8i(hu)iiH study which has made you ho iiuiuently worthy to lie an elect [tontitV under Iliin, wlio has made it an eternal ordinance for His i)riests that, "their li|)h shall Kfep know- led^c and the [xople shall seek the law from tliei' mouths, heeauHe they are the angels of the Lord of hosts. (Mai. ii-().) But your care has not heen limited to the spiritual advancement of your priests on'y. Vou have heen also mind- ful of tlie spiritiuil interests of the laity 1\^ the creation of nine new parishes, whose jjeople have thus heen united more intinuitely with the hiessed intluence of sacerdotal miniHtra- tion. carrying with it the life-giving and life-preserving sacri- fice and sacraments of the eternal priesthood of the New Law. And has not the establishment of the Confraternity of tin* Holy Family, now happily extended through tin; length and breadth of Kingston diocese, brought holiness and the disci- l)line of Christian virtue into the homes and hearts of all your devoted children".' Has not Vour Lordship's exceeding care to irai>ress u[»on the memories of the children preparing for the great sacrament of confirmation, precise forms of prayi-r accurate in the expression of Catholic belief, with also a ready knowledge of the catechism of Christian doctrine, iden- tified your name witli practice^ of piety in the daily life of our people, which will go down as a heritage of exact and blessed faith to the generations not yet born ? Thus the kingdom of Christ, within and without, has been, by the fruitful blessing of the ^fost High, fostered and strengthened with manifest success under the wise guidance of Vour Lordship. In the first year of your remarkable episco^ ate a great burden of financial diftiulty weighed upon our diocese. This has been entirely removed, and your Lordship has taken wise measures to insure the impossibility of such embarrassment in the future. Care has been taken by you that the work undertaken in the present, although involving considemble outlay of our resources, shall nevertheless not lead to the accumulation of any grievous burden of debt upon the diocese in the future. But. my lord, in the growth and progress of all this work, in the development of the grand beauty of the Catholic Church, we would remind you that tlie same enemy must be fought against who is ever alive in his opposition to God and onforenco cluiCKH of In voii, ler (if the years of worthy to n (tcrnal tp know- mouths, (Mai. spiritual Iso tiiind- catioii of ted Hioro ininiHtra- n<^' sacri- ic'w fiaw. ty of tho igth and he disci- ' all your lin<]; caro irin^' for )f prayer 1 also a 16, iden- fe of our blessed f^dom of Jlessing nanifest a Ki*eat This en wise issment le work demble to the diocese ill this atholic lust be od and His Cliiihl. Ill rvtiy land the Cnurch Iiiih haf them to the ni ■oil Id leir heir 8 of u to any tion Of rour Is of juty, leep land the I church and to yon at regular times "? How could the grand I urposo lor which the Confraternity of the Jloly Family has been instituted, under sanction of Christ's vicar, and jn'opaga- ted hy your Bishop through the length aud hreadth of this diocese of Kingston, he worked out in the centres of family hfe for the cultivation of the domestic virtues exemplihed in the Floly Home of Nazareth, did not the fathers and mothers co- operate, by parental precept and Christian example, and enrol themselves togetlur with their children as members of this charming sodality, and make the requisite sacrifice of their time an-^ worldly convenience in assisting at the pre- scribed devotions and listening reverently to your instructions on the l)lessed models set forth in the lives of Jesus, ^lary and Joseph for imitation by the child and the mother and the father in every Catholic household ? Thus it is, my dear rev. friends and fellowdaborers, that God accomplishes his pre- destined mercies through the joint agency of bishop and priests, guiding His people in the way of salvation, aud ofthe people humby and lovingly following their divinely-appointed guides, and submitting to the sacrifices demanded of them in their passage through the desert of this world to the true land of promise and everlasting inheritance. Let us all unite in proclaiming "not to us, 0, Lord, not to us, but to Thy name give glory. (Ps. cxiii.) Let us never regaid onr ministerial successes as our own, but return humble thanks to God because He deigns to employ us as His instruments. We may "plant and water ; but it is God who givetli the increase." (1 Cor. iii.) You or I may conceive the good ])roject, and may aid by our striving to give it effect ; but should any result of grace or goodness come from our efforts it belongs to Him who rules our will and directs our undertaking, "for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to accomplish, according to His good will." (Phil, ii.) Nay, more, let us be thoroughly imiiressed with the Christian maxim so well calculated to inspire us wdtli the loftiness of our ministry and our lowliness of self, which atfirms a hidden design of supernatural Provi- dence in the ap])ointment of each of us to a definite place in the Church for the execution of works prepared from all eter- nity, to be done in our time and in the place assigned to us, through our instrumental agency, "for," as 8t. Paul declares to the Kphesians, (ii chap. 10 v.) "we are God's workman- ship, created in Christ Jesus, in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them." 1 return you my thanks most heartily for your affection- ate suggestion, regarding my present need of repose after the continuous labor of visitation throughout the last six months. as 1 will act on your advico without delay. During my absence Iroiu the diocese everUhiu^,' will proceed in the ordinary way under direction of the stiuior vicar-general, Bight Rev. ]\[gr. l''arrelly, to whom 1 will commit the administration of affairs, with special iustiuetions. One wori more. The majoiity of the youth of ray diocese are educated in the public schools in your districts, wherein it has been found im[)ossi))le, under existing condi- tions of law, to establish and ellicieiitly maintain separate schools. Among those who have reci ived their elementary education in those public institutions you count not a few among yourselves, whom we all hold in high honor in the priesthood. Xot a few also of our excellent religious sisters, who have devoted their lives to the service of God in the education of youth or the ministration of mercy to the sick and afflicted members of Christ, have likewise been pupils in the public schools of their native parishes. In my otHcial visitation of the missions I have ascertained on inquiry from yo:i that some of the most exemplary and most ardently Catholic members of your con- gregations have received no other education of a scholastic kind than that of the public schools, and, furthermore, that many of our most valued teachers, both in the public and in the separate schools of the rural districts, have been public school pupils. In view of statements recently circulated I deem it right to ask you to inform your congregations that the withdrawal of all Catholic pupils from the public schools of Kingston city, in accordance with my pastoral instruction to their parents, nowise affects the relations of the Church with the public schools of the diocese generall3% nor anywhere outsi.ie the city of Kingston; because my episcopal action and the corresi)onding action of the Catholic parents in and around this city have been determined by causes wholly exceptional and exclusively pertaining to the actual adminis- tration of the public schools in this city, as has been most fully explained in my two pastoral .etters on the subject. 1 coniidently hope and expect that the gentlemen who constitute the board of trustees for direction of the public scliools in your respective districts will never afford the same ground of com- plaint as the i)ublic school board of Kingston has unhappily supplied. 1 have never heard of similar conduct in any of your missions. You have always reported to me that our little ones are fairy treated by teachers and trustees without l)igotry or insult of their religion. May this continue to be the rule everywhere. Siiy, especially to the young females who have come out of the public schools, that their bishop does Prot( eithe l)isho in an; to sta of his of beli I '^mma^ni^' IHMkNMU floes not l)o]ieve tliit fl Protectant faith, o/tJ.rSal'evouth'oIr' T'""""™ «' the !"»l'op of K-,„,.ston "Lu ev ' • -^""r "'^'" "j" ™ ' fj' tins great diocesp nf v ''z ''"^ ?()8 00. Total, $(). Total, $90 90. Gi and total, $0,281 18; total t'roni Kinf^rston, $717 48; total from the Diocese apart from Kinj^ston, $5,5()8 70 ; total from Clergv of r»iocese, $1,404: total from laitv of Diocese, $4,817 18." The offering of Kingston Diocese to the Holy Father on occasion of the Bishop's visit at Limina Apostolorum in 1888, was $8,200.