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New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 33

A male lunatic named James Smith was committed to the Asylum on the certificates of Drs.Fi ance.and FelUast Friday. Preaching in London lately, the Rev Father Gavin said : —The Pope of Rome regards the High Church party exactly in the same light as the Low Church party in England. To him all their varied sects are .simply divisions among those who are without.the Catholic Church. The High Church in England has given to us a large number of converts ; nevertheless, I can state on the very best authority that it has kept others away. In fact, while giving ample credit to individuals for the purity of their motives, and willingly bearing testimony to the mortified and even penitential lives of many of the members of- the High Church party, I go so far as to say that that party has been one of the greatest obstacles that has ever been invented for keeping away souls from the fold of Jesus Christ. The very high ideal at which its members are taught to aim is in itself a temptation. They have not even stopped short of an imitation of the religious life instituted by the Catholic Church for the purpose of supplying men and women of. -high ideal of perfection with the means of leading lives elevated above the ordinary life in the world. Thus, on whatever point a member of the High Church body expressed a desire to follow Catholic practices, he wss met with the.rejoinder, ‘‘You need not go to the Catholics’ for it ;.we have it here,” The Catholic church is always one and the same ; she does not depend for her existence on outward things. Ths Church of Jesus Christ would still be His Church if no candles were burned on her altars, if no grain of ino-ms" lit in her sarcLuaries, if no flower shed its fragiance on the air. ; "■>