AN AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC POLITICAL ALLIANCE WITH LABOR.

NZ Truth, Issue 438, 15 November 1913, Page 3

AN AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC POLITICAL ALLIANCE WITH LABOR.

TKc Theological Twist, or the Sacerdotal Screw.

AN OPEN LETTER

TO THE MOST REVEREND DR. DANIEL MANNIX,

Coadjutor Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne.

BY JOHN NTORTON.

-Most, Jßeyerend an-1 Dear Sir:— ... -„ Whether fdr „t he weal or woe of the Roman CJoiholic Church in^VictoAa, you seenruio have decided that it is consonant with your sacred 'functions as onfeijjfthe chief shepherds of the Christiai£Mui£ch -m this Commonwealth to desntf your high and honorable ijrdt'fc^BP^^ >si ti on. into the polemical ara^Wi^wiUcs. You may be as adroit a /#^Rcian>«Bo r ou have ■ proved yourBdrtr,thefriogriati. But, adroitness and ardour m religion do not always stand for or supply the: place of dignity, and discretion. • • . . Some of the ; most successful of the many scoundrels >vho disgrace and degrade the political life. of i Australia owe their success to their, ardour and adroitness m simulatmg a slnctre desire to serve fhe 'cause ".of -real re'iglon and what is called "r«J!t?iousl education," for which and of which they, have as much knowledge or concern as a hog has of holiness, They are professional strif emohgers, sectarian savages, -vyho "live on the game" of gammoning godliness, and; who' turn Parliaments into * pig-styes. Therefore, I say, with sincere regref,' that it *s' not,; a,; pleasant elght^Yo see a most reverend Roninn Catholic prelate of .the prominence arid prestige of Dr. Mannlx; descending into such a malordorous place as the p-»lHI-cal pig-pen, to bargain with ptitrid politicians about putting ,ihe; twist, of Ihe political screw on another push of equally 'putrid politicians, In the tacred' name pi religious education!;, .^ .-'.. - • ■ •■■• ' ■•'.■•.■■ i. •'■ '• * ■•■ ' ■?'■■ ■ ■ I do not presume to pass Judgment on Roman Catholic claims ; to a State' capitation grant, or any other form of Statg'aid to Roman Catholic schools" 'or charities. Still less would I presume to criticise,- let alone condemn, the dJs-. cretion pf a prelate-priest of ..your, preeminence . m seeking- political party«uld for' achieving your Church's pious demand for some sort pf State subsidy to Roman Catholic schools. I would only presume so fa* as to suggest that the • Un^e chosen by you for calling to your aid a section of the political; forces of a practically. 'Protestant Statii'like Victoriiwis neither opportune, >o. your purpose, nor prftpi.tious. to the party to whom you proffer, the political support of Roman Catholics at the pnlls. ' The reasons for making this suggestion are palpable and pertinent. ■ i , - • ■-.-■ /." ■■■'•-','■ ..' ■•, ■■ ■■■■:■ Fipst of all, you are only a four months' old citizen ol l_l>Js great, Iree, and— despite putri'd;pJiliticiand end savagei sectaries-- progressive and prosperous ComnidnWeaN l>. Ti e cefenly. and -' "cocksureness" (If a bockneylsm may bo permitted on so solemn a subject) would seem to stomp .y»»u as a <lerical_ counter-part 'of Foster Fraser, that gal)opin£ grinder-out of books of travel, who wrote a book oh Australia while traversing it at 'express speed m railway trains. YoV ceiuiiuly aro a':.. Very clever man from a clerical point of view, but it is a matter «»1 somq dubiety whether your short stu.v m yictfcria, even with your KrJLlarit achievement* at Maynooth its theolosical professor and educational organise! Hupor-added. ont itlo yo t,tojiwreraptbiily pronounce judgment the . most vexed .public prtf.lem m Australia toy day, and ihcse last f >i*y years— tb^t 1 of religious education m oubllc f schools. "..■•■' . # fc* "■ • '■''." : These remarks scorn to.bb'caiJeaVforby y,our. utterances nt the Ip-ylng of tho v foundation- «ton> of a new primury school at St, Brendan's Church, .'ilemintfton. on .*»unday lost After dc-^ nouncing what you, perhapij, accurately enough described as rhe despicable jwllcy of the Government m regard to Roman 'Jathnlic educational claims, you proceeded :•> deliver yourself as follows, according to t he jj Melbourne

"Argus'' report . of- "vbur sermon- pr speech, whichever ; you choose to call it:— '.■.-■'• . ■■'.--.'..■. Continuing, Dr.. Mannix said that they had just* had another foretaste, of what they might expect from such a /Governments Some time ago the Catholic Federation . held a monster meeting m the Town Hall. Certain res >lutions were agreed to, and these were brought under the notice of the Premier. They had received 'a patient and courteous hearihK— -something they did not .al'.vays. gat from ttc same quarter, lerbaps it .vas becoming recognised that t»-.e fp.deration was not a negligible quantity. , Then there was a Henerji /election coming oil. But -Sv ft words butter no. , parsnips. ( r^ushter.V >©n this occasion the Preniier. instead of giving a blunt i-nfiii&al ?n lils own authority,* prelerreJ to- share the responsibility with his Cabinet. The answer to th*s federation's resolutions had come; they know now that for the present Catholics couM have no hope of a capitation, grant for their schools 'lroia the party m power.- Even ihe Truest for a Royal Commission, had beenrefus-, cd. The door had been slammed m the face of the le-lciation. '■ • ■ ' • - '.• That is all clear and fair enough viewed f rbm' a* Roman Cath,oHc cierica 1 standpoint. , But you did not stop there. You went on^to say mucn mom that was much more emphatic and significant, and which does not senm so clear and fair from .-even . -a lionutn Catholic clerical paint of view. You put forward the astounding, not to y say r'r.eposterous, proposition that'tlie R>>man Catholic Church and its adnerents |n Victoria should enter Into a straight and close p-jlitical ajliance with Ihe Stale tAbor Party for t*»*»' purpose of securing satisfaction for those clerical claims which you saw no prospect of being satisfied without such an alliance. Surely a, stmngiir, I will not say muro, scandalous, suggestion was never put forward m the nan*.»' of religion and morality. Hare ar.v vour'own plnin "Words, m block ond white cold type:--He hoped, therefore, that the« would be a Mratght approach to the Labor Party. It might be their turn next. With the chastening and persuasive power cf th.9 election m view it might be well to find out what would be the policy of a Labor Ministry m regard to the education (iuestion if that party were returned to power. A general .election wcul'i bo the time for, the federation to twist the political screw. ■ • . ' • ■ ' . ♦ '■ " That savage old sage Dr. .'ohnson doflneil the old Latin adage "faeills descensus Avcrni" us "The way to hell Is paved with tjood intenUons/" While crediting you with the.; best of Intentions, that of promoting the Interests of your Church, you almost lay your»9K open. to the charge of committing . something worse than a blunder.. For a religious leader M n minority to propose partnership with a political party for the purpose of achieving a clerical 1 or sectarian object is, to say the least i V.f it, one fraught »vith peril hot only to the interests of both oftthe clerical and political partners, DUt also, to the ' social and political »>cace of the whole . community. Thu very sjecets of s a proposal would uo sufilclont to prevent its Dermanency.,,, Such a success . would sweep swiftly to political. peidl- \ lion so sinistur and unnatural an -alliance. The British pojplo hot love coalitions, once said that shrewd Semitic statesman Disraeli; and tho sort' of coalition they aro least Inclined to tolerato is tho one between priest and politician, or pardon and politician.

patched up for the purpose of extorting at the ballot box, or trepanning Parliament into giving, something which free, unfettered public opinion is not willing to grant, and which the pernicketty Protestant ' -ij>nsdenee is not yet ready to concede either* to decent religious demand or corrupt political intrigue. , "i ■ • ■■. ■ • ■ /»..-■ I've just now suggested "th&l-rthe time chosen by you for calliag to your aid the political forces of a practically Protestant State like thnt of Victoria js neither opportune to your;purposenor favorable to the party to whom you proffer the political support of Roman Catholics at the polls." I've already given Some reasons tor that suggestion. There are many others equally strong, and some much stronger. You, a brilliant and cultured sun. of Erin, a prominent patriot as welt as a distinguished prelate, cannot be oblivious to the fact that- here, an Victor! i, as, Indeed,' throughout the whole Commonwealth, a large portion of the overwhelming Protestant majority are bitterly hostile to. Home Rule for ?r eland. Here racial and religious feeling run m the same racial and religious channels as they do m. Great Britain and Ireland; You will, I hope, acquit me ot presump^on if I, a stronger to you,, knowing only of your splendid repute, venture to preccnlso that you would not willingly or wantonly do anything that would seem f.-» assist In impeding Ireland's political emancipation. That being naturally presumed and reasonably conceded, you- will, perhaps, permit me to point out how your present excursion 'into the arena of precariouspolitical adventure, if persisted m and carried through, predicates peril to Ireland's cause which every, true Irish Roman Catholic has at hyart. ; ; • ' ■•■ -,- • , • .'■• You* are as well aware as anybody that the cause for Home Rule for Ireland is not vet won. that it Is m danger still; and that political plotters are conspiring to prevent Us* long-delayed consummation by subterfuge and chicane. The wriggling AVlugs— -lineal descendants of those pious Puritan Protestant pirates who robbed tha monasteries and stole the abb .ay lands as well as the commons^ from thj poor of England—are beginning, already to\ back and flil and break their pledges and promises to Ireland by talking about conferring and compromising on Home Rule. That way lies the continuance of the thrall of Saxon over Celt Their malevolent machinations .-«nd mischievous manoeuvres have revived the resistence of Ulster and strengtheued the sectarian and {ftuuino Imperial opposition to Home Rule here m Australia, as well as m other important dependencies of the British lunpire/ This being so, I crave i«avo to put a few pertinent, .plain question for 'your serious consideration: 1. Is the time opportune for an Irish Roman Cattollc prelate of your position to sound a sectariun .. -call to arms? | 2. If not. are you justified In run- | nlng the risk of imperilling or even delaying the consummation of Home Rulo In Ireland even for tho s sake of a State subsidy to religious ' education m Roman Catholic schools m Australia? 3. Do you, yr <lo you not, know that sectarian strife hits been the downfall of every political party and prominent politician who has made religion^ stalking horse to power and plac*— besjumng with Sir Henry Parkcs, who <iicd defeated, 'discredited, destitute, and deserted, down to Dan O'Connor, recently relegated to a pauper benevolent asylum, together with hundreds of similar and even more insignificant m\d less known Catholic and ProUstint si'ctarltes who sought to live <»n relufi.tus rancour? They are all dead, and already all but forgotten. . • 4. Aro you aware that, though very anlent, nctlvij, end influential; j Roman Catholics m Australia are In a minority; that tho Protestants outnumber them four to one: an<^ that Ratlonallsu, Agnostics, and Secularists combined aro more numerous than Roman Catholics, and tltiat on the question of religious education they invariably side with . devout Protestants against devout Roman Catholics? 5. Have you forpntvn* hat much of the opposition against Roman Catholic educational slaims is due to the fact that tho Roman Cathollo Church In Australia Is virtually and to all intents and purposes an Irish organisation. In which there is not ono prominent pr*lnie or gricat who can ololrh English. , Scotch, or Welsh nationality? 6. Does not yaur o\/n intimate acquaintance! with the, progress of Homo Rule m Ireland "and Bnshtnd convinoc you that oleriv-al Influence intorproting iisolf Into active Intervention m political agitation hae impeded the roallttatl m oMreUnd's

national aspirations? 7. Does the deposition, of Farnell on the peremptory demand of the Irish Roman Catholio hicrachy at the dictation of the English Nonconformist Conscieitee not teach a lesson of caution and circumspection to Irish Roman Catholic Clericalism? 8. Is the realisation of reallrish . Home Rule, such as Parnell was on the point of extorting worn an unwilling British Parliament, any nearer to-day than it was at the date of the disastrous deposition from the Ixjadorship of that great Protestant champion of Ireland's national cause? , - • .• * The.se are the questions that should make every Irish' patriot, yriest and layxnan. pause and cause •them to weigh welPthe probable consequences following- upon clerical Interference In purely political questions giving rise to racial and religious rancours. -„ You, Sir, may not consider such questions as v. ; ortUy the consideration of so exalted an ecclesiastical authority as youroelf, but they are questions that confront me and millions of other sincere English supporters for Home Rule t«-r Ireland. I Itave thought over them and answered ■.hem m a mannor sadly sstisfactory to myself. I use the term "&a6ly because the answers are not altogether satisfactory In the sensa of pointing to o prompt and peaceful of the Home Rule problem, m this connection I can enly commend lh«se questions t6 your calm and candid consideration m the words of the Quaker' poet, Bernard Barton:, As I walk by myself. I talked to myself, And myself replied to me: And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers, I give to thee. Put them home to thyself, and if unto thyself Their response the samo should be, On! look well to thyself, and beware of thyself, Or so raucn the worss for thee. It is •■ conceivable that you, though an Irishman, being a R->n.Bn Catholic cleric, place the cause of the Church before that of Country, as, undoubtedly, many of your Catli »lie ;i>nguners do, and as' bishops and archbishops lire m duty, honor, and conscience bound to do, being, as they are. "minlstri scrvi servorum Dei" — servant* 1 , of tho servant of the servants of God, under oath, and bond of fidelity and fealty to trie Pope from whom they receive their divine legation. Such were Cardinals Cullen, Logue, Moran, an«l btlv»r distinguished Irish Catholics prelates who were opposed to Foniantjni, Home Rule aud the Land League. JJut these proud prelates and pillars of tho Papacy m Ireland had to bow before the patriotism of the Irish peoplo and rf tho patriotic Irish parish priesthood It took the hoolings of Irish Jlome Rulers In tho Rotunda, Dublin, to turn Cardinal Moron from tho hostlh attitude assumed toward Home Rule by him and his uncle, Cardinal Paul Cleen. When he arrived m Australia, Cardinal Moran was found to have been an ardent and enthusiastic Home Ruler. Tho political conversion of some prelates is sometimes as sudden and salutary as that of some agnostics and theiste to orthodoxy. There are no clevoror diplomatists than clerics; which, perhaps, explains why a certain class among them are dubbed devil-dodgers and sky-pilots. • • ■ Whatever willingness the Irish Catholic cardinals and bishops show to subordinate tho claims it country to tho^e of church, and the political policy of Ireland to that of the Roman Curio, it Is a fact that they have nover been able to induce a majority of the Irish Catholic peoplo an<l priesthood to bow thoir national necks to the Roman yoke of political expediency and clerical opportunism. Of course there aro Irish Catholics at home and aoroad who are Papists first and foremost and patriot* last and A long way buhlDd. Happily, their numbers are never great and ure daily diminishing. Ths majority of Irish Catholics aro willing enough to lake their religion from rtome, but Insist on taking their politiojt from Home. With them no noro than wltli Proiostant Homo Rulers dou* Homo Rule mean Rome Rule. • • • . Pretty much the same mental altitude and political prsture will be found to belonur to Irian, Rotnan Catholics In the I^abor Party m Australia.- Th<ty would not sacrifice the cau«o of Labor to tho exigencies of the crurch at tho command of dories, «ny more ti»an they would uacrincti tho chww of irluh Hotn^ Rulo to the commands cf a helot hierarchy controlled by clerical conservatism. There aro many Konrnn Cuthollcß among tho JeaCtra of the State and Federal Labor Parties of thus Commonwealth, auJ scorea of

tliousands ot' the rank and file are staunch Roman Catholics — the very backbone of the Labor ilovement— who are just as staunch Laborists. These are neither to be bullied nor nounced into- coming to the clerical, collar to drag the. church coach out of. any and every rut into .which priestly presumption may have caused the sacred. Ark of the Covenant to skid. In Australia, as m Ireland, America, Canada, and Africa, they are patriots first and Papists last — each at the right time and m the proper place. • • » I know what I am talking about when tackling this thorny subjtet of politics and sectarianism in 'Australia: to judge by your utterances,- you don't You have not done yourself justice m entering so -precipitately; into so complicated a controversy. You have hot given yourself time to make yourself acquainted, with the real facts of the situation; to garner your information for yourself at first hahi. Your pronouncement of political policy has been premature, and, if Fm not much mistaken, win soon be found to have paralysed ihe cause it was intended to sustain. Perhaps you'll have patience : - to bear with me while I tell you why I think so! " '.. v - - Already, your ringing of the theological tocsin has caused alarm m divers clerical camps and among different political parties. Among the parties the Labor Party is the most alarmed, because the most directly concerned and affected by your pious political "pronunciamento." Your bellicose denance of the fighting: '-forces of Protes-tant-Rationalist-Agnostic" - Secularist - Materialist. Anti-Catholics has already aroused the smouldering embers of ; seeiarian strife, ami before tho ntxr i general election m Victoria they will probably be found to havo ourst into furious flames, which will envelope the ballot box m the smoke and soot of sectarianism, obscuring ihe real questions at issue and paralysing the political strength of the puople. If this should come to pass, yOu, S.ir, will be mainly responsible fur ' tho .damage that will be done to genuine Democracy and to the cause of , Labor' m Australia. '■■■■• ' . ' • - ■ .. -V- - ■ You could not have- chosen a more unpropitious occasion than*" this to have proposed a. political partnership t.etween Roman Cath >lieisra and Australian' Labor. If you "do not kuow, you ought to have known, that Labor, as a political oower, is not so strong and popular as it was before your arrival m Australia. It is suffering from political prostration caused by incompetent and corrupt leadership and the inevitable swing of the party pendulum, which at the last Federal Election struck it a staggering Mow fair on the solar plexus. What Labor requires just now is not a priestly partnership or parsonical propping up, but a season of reclusion and r<ist and retirement for reflection an.i repentance. , ■ * ' •■"■-'■< •' .-•■■■ ■ > 'Labor Is suffering from a complication of-woes inflicted upon it by ita rash misleaders and reckless friends. Corruption and cowardice have crept Into its councils, discrediting it most disastrously, and would have damned it to destruction* were it capable of being destroyed by corruption, cowardice, and incompetuncy. Beslles this, it staggers under the cruel and, if true, crushing suspicion of being m secret alliance with priests and publicans, and to owe such success as It has achieved to the support of the Rqman Catholic Church and the Licensed Victuallers' Association. This suspicion lias lately assumed the consistency of ccrtamty In the mimls of many men and women, who care neither for Labor nor Liberal, Catholic nor Proteslant, but who wish their politics to bo kept pure and true from sectarian savagery, and themselves ;o be permitted to worship God m their own way "m spirit and In truth." and, if need be, without Interference of parson, priest, <>r politician. Such ;i suspicion is bearing tho most baneful prejudice against Labor; and your pulpiteering call to that party to an open alllanco with the Roman Cathillo Church »s likely to increaso that moil pestilent prejudice against tho only political jjarty m Australia formerly supposed to be free from sectarianism and clerical control while strongly In favor of Home Rule for Ireland.- You liavfl made the Australian Labor Party a very t>oor. not to say scurfy, return Tor its sturdy support A Irish Home Kulo, by seeking to f^rco upon It tho Roman Catholic xillcy on Education hearing the imprimatur of tao Pope of Rome. v v • • •' ' . You have done, unwittingly, doubtless, a grievous vvronjc to the Labor I"arty that deserved better treatment from your particular church and at the hands of Catholic prelates of your prominent position and proud pretensions; Whether the Party will sink or bwlm under the burden of your proffered alliance remains to be «t-on. It It does survive 'it, then nothing olsc can ever destroy it, or ©v'«i seriously damage it Never was there a more apt and Illuminating illustration of th« adage "Save us from our friends." Sectarianism first killed Freetrade and thon Protection In New South Wales, What, with your inopportune help, it is going to do rov.Lnfer at the uext General Etootlon, Oo.n only Knowa. I'm sure yovi don't, any .tioio th*n I do. To me It doe« scoma pity toat you, so distinguished a preliitr, whos« mission Ib, ov ought to be, peace, should havo uroved «o early In your Australian career so baleful o. j>ortent of i>olltlcal perturbation and «o sinlßter a tifgix and signal of s-*ctariau strife. You. fieem to Bf*?aU ««nd rvct ajj tboogli you thought you were still In Ireland, where two 'thirds of vit«' popuUillyn are Roman CailwHc, a *^ hierarchy and priesthood have powerful, away, l)otl» In religion ma ik>Uucs. You «et!m to forget that you «ro m AubtraJla, where three-fourth* of the people are Protestants or JftoUlouaUatu, and antl-OiUiolic and whtra outiUd« lli« sphere of religion. n«ilth«r. cjuhllbiU nor prlttxt, prlmato nor parjwn t lwi» nny pmctlcal U»»tttu; ttulu»>nr«? ott thwlr, lK>iuic«. You'll find tlwt if y«u do n*p promptly endeavor to u»Cr* th«* dx^"" »ijru youv«? already den*, hy; ft'loj^ttlf «»t attltudo of HWi^i jt»s«on»t>le{ ll *® Mln ih<» ailvocacy of il»' CnUU'tU- r :lf lm lo CApiiAtton t;rant««. >-•»" '*nd-th*j t*»»»i«axl party whom you prc&uttu to p«U^fv«i«<

and call to your clerical co-partnership will "come a cropper." Australian Democracy, Catholic and Protestant, is not prepared to See its political parties and representatives m Parliament bailed up m broad daylight by a clerical coridottieri clapping a priestly pistol into the face of a fros and libertyloving people. • • * What a pity you <lid not, at your first coming amortjrst us, study, copy and practise the prudently polite and powerfully persuasive, 'if somewhat Jesuitical, methods of your most it?verend and generally revered superior and suffragan, tho Venerable bishop Carr, the one Catholic prelate who has done more than any dozen of his clerical confreres to promote amenities between antagonising Christian creeds and to mitigate tho savageness of sectarian strife. A little less archiepiscopal audacity on sour part, with something more of the saving grace and soothing sweetness of ypur venerable chief's mild, yet manly, method and manner m controversy, would better become a four months' old priestly "Pommie," so to speak, than the bold bumptiousness of you** tread-on-the-tail-of-me-coat tirao.es at Flemington and Brunswick during the past week. More of Carr's "suaviter m modo," and less, or none at all, of Mannix'a "fortiter m re" is what is wanted, expected, and ought to be had at the hands of a priest 01 prelate who professes to follow Him whose Gospel , was ?he glad evangel of "Peace on earth and good will toward all meni" • . ■ • • •. If ever a Christian prelate sought to realiseVaqd succeeded m realising, St. Paul's ideal of a Bishop, that prelaw is Dr. Carr, the Archbishop ot Melbourne, and_ not Dr. Mannlx. But when D>, Afannix is as old as Dr. Oarr, and has acquired the intimate acquaintance \vith Australian conditions which Dr. Carr's long experienco has given, "Dr. Miannix will havo raodiflei his methods and improved his manners, and nave Jearnt, once and for all, to the profit of his pastorate and of his Church, that the Australian people, no more than the Irish or English people m the United Kingdom, are prepared to permit either parson or priest to put th< theological twist on to their Parlia mentary representatives, or to stand by patiently, without protest, while the sacerdotal screw is *put upon the policy of a great political party who may be m power m Victoria to-morrow, and probably would bey but for your 511---advisod, ill-timed incursion Into* thu arena of party < strife. ■■ If the Labor Party of Victoria is defeated at the next State election, tho fault will not be theirs, but will be owing mainly, if not solely, to you, Dr. Mannix, a misguided nmrplot, who, >x>Utlcally spoalcing, "dunno Were 'c are!",. If your lime, patience, and courtesy permit you to peruse this long and somewhat discursive' and disjointed epistle, 1 shall be more than repaid for the trouble taken m writing it. Whatever you may think.ot.it whether, you fuel call ed upon to approve, condemn, or ignore it, I believe its publication will do good, and help the Labor Party out «f tho ditch of dilemma into which your proposal to bind them as oond slaves to the chariot of the Roman Catholic Church has landed them. • •' • Meanwhile, , may I recall to your pious nerusal and careful clerical consideration the -following description of what a Christian ought and ought not to be written to Titus by that great Protestant of tho early Christian Church, St. Paul of Taraus: For a bishop must be blameless as the steward .>f God*, not selfwilled, not s-jop. angry, But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good man, ! sober, just, holy, tempera to: Holding fast the faithful word as ho hue been taught, that he may be able by spunri doctrine both to exhort and convince the gninsayers. For there ore many unruly and vain talkers and delivers, specially they of tho circumcision, Whose mouths must bo stopped, who subvert whole house's, touching thiugs which they ought not* for filthy lucre's sake. One of themsoroes, even a prophet of their ovrn. said, Tho'Cretians are always liars, ovil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound m the faith. v Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandment* of men, that turn from the truth , Therein Paul portrays what a good Bishop ought to be. In It, as m a mirror, a good bishop ought to nnd bis likeness, even as a bad bishop most certainly should see his own. I leavo this gospel looklng-giasa for you to look into, believing, as I do, that to a Christian archbishop n\>thlug from the Holy Bible, "the book divine, tho greatest gift of O-»d ta men." should como amiss— even to one »o profound* ly learned m the Snored Scriptures oa yourself. 1 have the honor to l»\ Reverend and Dear Sir, With the profoumleat respect. Your Grace's Humble, OboJlout Servant, JOHN NORTON. j Melbourne, Thursday. October 23, istis. FEAST OF OUR "MOST HOLY REDEEM £11. This day l« ««t apart by the Church to praise and glorify God for the Treat mystery of onr teUempllon, arwl to honour th« l»er«on of HU Son. who. by becoming nwn and flyiajj fur v* has fmtwl «:e from the rUi-very-of Pawn. And restored to ys our heavenly Inherlittnco.