MISSION ON THE WEST COAST.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 258, 12 April 1878, Page 7

MISSION ON THE WEST COAST.

SnSl?'»S nra J M ?'! rai^ion, which commenced in Hokitika on Sisafthan on^ Tff nV^- 12tb Marcb > was » "»« *» ™re F'Sher Ec Sv° P r nf Ye r c 1 dai ] y on the increase tUI <*» <^d Km™™ . 7 f 'tS Grevmo^, and Father McCaughey, of the STSfV* sslßt , ed . th . c Pastor and the Missionary a great part of the 10 * 1 ? tbe «°»»«ti The ordinary pro' sary preparations therefor. But it was made up for by Sic extrao? temsm OHM

rt2 ™t* a* 'i • C brou K ilt *o d o *« to denounce from the pnlpitthe untruthful asscrfions made against htm. But now, however tho matter assumes morn then local ' proportions. The enemies of the Missionary, not satisfied with mafijn? him in the ihorMnreS i cS unwSraS T* th ° ir - "P 10 ? more by spma,l]njthehS *«£ i ? expressions throughout tho country through tho medium fr, ? is on] y J1 ™ lbc rev ' is begimnnto realize the depth and extension of tho conspiracy against him Zi P < P g ,T Canterbury aad other journals, which show him conclusively who the spirit is that is the prime mover in all this work of imputy He had contented himself hitherto with simply defend Sf«iT 7I" G cbur<jhcs - But th e provocations continuing to increase and become more malevolent be is at last brought, very much against his tastes and habits to enter on the Avar path and to assume J££S }° Tl<eT I<e 11 ? h l ai ? lon y with the circumstances. Whathisfuture .course of action shall be regarding the enemies of the good he is ffSfS 7 i O1 "i? 1S e Y ldently foreshadowed by his first step of sending through the Press Agency the telegram published by it. rlnvm l^ *♦? T d tbe were doing their worst to pull down what the Missionary was endeavouring to build un certain ministers of WesUand wheeled in as their allies, and^ conWTbuted I fclhe c i£ fU f tb ff rr • th ° CaUSe '- Th ? y Uicd to P l^ imS sible— the hos of their companions in arms to be truth : and one of and attacked not only Father Heuuebery but Father Martin as well with unrivalled Billingsgate and Scripture without stint th ft ™£' Pf acber namecl Mr - B «ssell has also joined tho ranks of hL,^ i^ ?M? M endcavon *?d to convince the public that Father Hennebery did denounce mixed marriages and Wai marriaces as no marriages, and adds that he would sweat- to it ««™igcs as no dnnlrfrss\' whl ? ° oUld occasion-of the cause no Catholic dSSSrJ S* fS ° mUCb fee J^ g imd bafl blood as have been lately displayed on this coast-regarding Father Honnebcry's Mission ? The ostensible occasion was his teaching about mixed marriages And whac did he teach ? Surely none of the falsehoods -for a purpose-Mould obtrude on the public as his. What then? £w J-?°i i fi y marriage that is a marriage before God. But Sft £ ?■ * eaCb . ? He taught wbat is obtained in the end of Father Martin's protest against the Ecmlnn Star. He taueht that ShSSJiTPr tT W trCat thG State nf mMria^ holil?, Suse SOhmS? fn 7 W because " B™* sacrament in Christ and in i he Chinch, for which reason the married people should be good ChrisS? SS f S WOm^ ; tbGy Sbonld be ood and wScs, W fathe] ; s » nd mothers. If Catholics are married to non-Cath-ohes he instructed them to lead good Catholic lives ; to pray earnestly mornings and evenings: to receive the sacraments frequently ; to Snn w"'f CM fr U Wdl aml , to bri " S them aIUl P in ** Catholic fKT' a Vf J moreo I^, those in mixed marriages, that the Church never allows her children under any other conclitions to engage m such marriages than that they have full freedom of their regg D '»f thafc all their sons and daughters adhere to the Catholic faith and no other. He added that they should not allow themselves of their tnlcience 7° f G ° d * e * tt * in S t 0 tbc diclatcs qt ,,. J^^tepo^blethiitßiiehieaehingsnsthe above occasionally stn up the bile of those non-Calholie men who persistently deprive £ S^ w T* at fv Gr domestlc f trife 0' misery arise from their action he attributed to the missionary's doctrines ? Certainly not. As to the separations m lawful marriage such as the newspapers and the telegraph were so ready to publish, we know not of one case to have occurred, though we have made several enquiries. This statement is IW?^f ai f ° fcl i ers j a t el y wade about our missionary's te ichings. Ihey appear to be truths but are not. Bo it is, to this finally all the hubbub comes that it has no foundation except in the imagination of the enemies of the Church, who would have everything, even in marriage, moulded according to their erratic hallucinations *«*. bov f: alc ° nsollI ?f rG6 » lt s have followed the opposition of the allied forces of the Press, the telegraph, and the preachers. First of all it has united the Catholics young and old, if possible, more than ever in nnnpS 111011 *^ '^ baYe ' besid^, that 3 non-Cathohc writers persist in slandering and vilifying the Church and her pnests they must do it at their own espensef and the cSo enL™v W^ ? mWn ?ICir? ICir l satroua g e from the newspapers that haw S^lS^p? TUn d ? W \ tbe Missionai T by the toof outrageous Sif \Z i^W also ' h ° w pessary it is to patronise the Tablet S?L?^. bad - lfc ?°) before are now vi^ theit subscriptions m^S 3^ «PP0?l?« PP0?l ?° U 1S — rly dead ' and Pather Hennebery proceeds on his way, the victor enjoying his well earned triumph. Kumara,April3. LAICU8 '