THE ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 136, 10 December 1875, Page 15

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL.

The following letter, with the extract subjoined, appeared in the Auckland ' Evening Star' of November 22 :—: — (To the Editor of the ' Evening Star.') Sir, — A few evenings ago you gave an extract from what you call " A virulent anti-Catholic journal in San Francisco," regarding Archbishop Croke's altered and more liberal views on education. Now, your preface to that extract supplies a prima facie evidence against the correctness of its statements, for you designate by the name of "Anti-Catholic" the journal from which you take the clipping. On the score of fair play, you will kindly insert the following, which gives a more correct view of the Archbishop's mind on the " godless education," and which will remove any unfavorable impression occasioned by the extract in Friday evening' s Star/ — Yours, &c, J. Golden. AECHBISHOP CROKE'S ADDRESS. The correspondent of the London 'Daily Telegraph' who was specially accredited to the O'Connell celebration, attended the foregoing Religious Ceremonial, and in the course of his picturesque and elaborate description, thus refers to the Archbishop of Cashel's address: — "Would that I could transmit the glowing 1 eloquence and rounded periods of the speaker ! In manner of address the Archbishop is exceptionally pleasing. The current of his thoughts is continual. Although the hearer of many sermons I have never heard one so faultlessly constructed or so admirably delivered. Before wandering into the Madeleine, one winter's afternoon, I listened with rapt attention to the utterance of a Franciscan monk, who held spell-bound a great Parisian audience, as he descanted upon the life and character of a deceased dignitary of the Church, and have ever since held that sermon to be the finest in my experience ,- but to-day's discourse eclipses the eloqtience of the Franciscan friar, and I must henceforth award the palm as a preacher to the Archbishop of Cashel. The Roman Catholics are right in selecting him as their orator. Very cleverly he depicts what a Romah Catholic is, or at least should be. Very carefully he shows what O'Connell was. How his life was it religious one, and his education from the first was that approved by the Church — a point made much of by the preacher, who is terribly hard upon those who d ire to uphold what he terms a " godless education," and how all of his successes depended upon his subserviency to the hierarchy of the Church, and his reverence for the Sovereign Pontiff — were told with marvellous fervour."