THE CORONATION OATH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12100, 20 July 1901, Page 10

THE CORONATION OATH.

' '">".'.-1 m./.\ 11.-uil. to Tin-, rcmion. Sin.—Kindly allow me to voice what I helicve to be tlie Pintoslaiit sentiment of I -real Britain, as it is of New '/.calami, in ciiiinocilon with l'-;- Coronation Oatii. Mooeni I'lotesb'its have no wi»h to do Violence to the hear,-belief and spiritual nents of ltom.m (V.hnlirs. Tlio proof ol tin ties in tue kict ttie.t- when we urc in po\\'.r we t.o not use it to persecute, harass or even diaturl) them. The liberty we so prize to worship Cod after our own conscience we, on principle, cordially extend .0 ".tier--. As we ic-cnt being wounded in <".ir lin!ie?| sensibilities, sn , VClll | (l ,| wire . o retrain from anyihir.tr that may wound others in theirs. ]; ;ho change, then, of wording in the ontli would accomplish this uuhma ]e ? w ng a loophole for disturbing It.o 1 lotesiant niere»3iou in a nation we would, ;U: ,i , T ili. ehullv con.-ent 111 ein tt done, lint such absolute «rcumv wr n-.u.-t have! We do not want eh. wiy to repeat itself. Witli the doctrine ti'.ntrlil. liy Homan t!c.oiogj a ..i f 0 f tiie ad-nii.s--iliiliiy for i.!ie "ood ol that Climeh u nicntal iv=enat«n in |.il;i„,,- an oaih, a.ui '>'■ '".I. Ilnil tlio ('lnircli avowedlv aims at llie spnmeii and iniiporal .mpieinaev of the I oistili over all and .Statee. we have need lo stand on Moreover, we llini)" iranspirinj; around us bile, and in I'very cjjouy of t|,e Australian Commo'nweatili, iliar aceeniiiaies the need of Vr;;;ciitiiiiie.;- njnim! this C'linreii, and her alone'' ■None Pi her, save lier-elf. sttivo.i to jtwin :e vanecment by the use of political means-. I lii» -"lie unueutaMy bus done in the pasi, f' ! Vi' !• lo: "' 3il ". Tlie Uonian t.atl'olies consiitnte. ,;ay. one-ei»lit!i of Iho I population of New Xeabuui. It is (iiotefote : lj'.-'i thai a full eiyhth of r. piestiioition in | l arlianieiii and of all tiuveninirnt positions , juiosiid a.ccrue to ihom. lint there is nt | le : bt a strong snspiL-ion tliai thev are not . »'"'>tcni with this, to tlie injury of'the other • seveii eij-btli?. Is it, or is it not, a fact that uie\ iill a fav larger pioporlion of pvtblic and State otllces than thi.?? !.s it, or is it not, a fact thai not 13 piv cent., but 75 per f-enl.. uf Iho appointments to the civil cervice in Invernugiil duriiur the ksl four years have been filled by Catholics'; Vt T o should to know what proportion of tiieni are fouiid m the railway service the colony, iu the police .service, aud idl positioiis nndcr tlovernment hesLuwal? Is it but one of the whole, or vastly more? If t?o, how dor* this come ahout. savo l>y This i< the leclins? abroad 1 find evciywhere. whether it { he true or false. The livm conviction that | tuiri Church >pare.? no effort to secure tliat | ihoie over whose consciences she has con- | irol _«hall gradually be odjjed into everv posilion of influence, ami yo her )iower-- . not of a spiritual nature, hut political—shall , he wratliially consolidated, until that be in . ti'ue taken from u*s which we most prized— freedom of con-eience. speech, and action.— anil this accomplished by the misuse of that very freedom we exhmd to them, but they do not extend to u.s, in countries where their power i< suiireuio. With our Catholic fellow colonists, individually, we can live on the kindliest terms, and ri'sppct aud tluun as noble, kindhearted, and most estimable brothers and ■ fellow Christian*'! Not tlu*ir tenets, but the . MWt aims of their Church hierarchy it is, which causes dbmnet. Nothing would more j rejoice ine than the absolute dbproval of i i?ueh a stis])icion! As for the belief* they ! ccuscitMitioinly hold, can (iod not he . trurted to make Mis truth prevail al last, whether il be with them or u?, without con- . tr )ver.^v?—l am, etc.. | Knw. C'. TKX.vkxt. Port Ohalmeri?, duly 15.