ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1414, 27 March 1905, Page 2

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

THE CHURCH IN FRANCE. ' •' CONDITION OF IRELAND. " Speaking of the Roman Catholio Church In France, Arobbisbop Redwood, in'reply ing to the address;.; of..welcome presented to him, said he had heard the Rope declare —not once, but ba'several occasions—that the day is coming, and it may hot be fat off, when there will be a great reaction in that country, and then liberty would be restored to the Church there, and she would take her true position. Referring to his visit to Ireland, the Archbishop said he spoke with knowledge and experience of that country,- as ho . bad* spent ten of the most useful years of his life there. * Tho people of Ireland were beginning to look up, and to be better in many ways, and he saw evidence’of im-, provements and comfort. . He was in the east and south of Ireland, but not in the west. The west was a most unfertile country, and, strange to say, that was where the population was. The people should be brought back to the fertile part, and when this was -done the western people would be prosperous, because when' they were on good laud they would make progress. They were also - making head-? way with industries in Ireland, but he was sorry to say the country was still “ bleed-? ing, * i.e., the youth of the Country were? going across the Atlantic. The remedy? for this would be found when the people went on the land again. The Archbishop was delighted with the virtues of the people, and described Ireland ha tho most - innocent, most moral and most holy land on the face of the earth. -