EULOGY ON MGR. DUPANLOUP.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 299, 24 January 1879, Page 9

EULOGY ON MGR. DUPANLOUP.

On the twenty-eighth of last month the Parliamentary Session opened at \ersaillos. On such an occasion the President of the Senate eulogizes the senators who may have died during the recess. The actual President is the Due d'Audifrret-Pasquicr, whose speech on tue franco-German war did more harm to the Bonanartiats. probably, than did the awful disaster at Sedan. We do not know that the i)utc is remarkable for his intense Catholicity. If we mistake not, he is rather what is called <• liberal" than not in point of religion! Among the deceased senators was Mgr. Dupanloup, the Bishop of Orleans ilic President, according to the report which has reached us extolled Mgr. Dnpanloup's services to the Church, literature and education his inexhausible charity, his intrepidity during the war, and Ins eloquence." It would seem to us that the Duke was struggling between his honest admiration of a noble Frenchman and his ll^i^ g0U u g t °? J fa , r in P raise of a SS od Catholic Churchman. The late Jiisnop, he said, had faith in free discussion, loved liberty in the past as in the future, and saw no necessary antagonism between VrZ y t a^ dd Ire 1 rel 'g lO J 1 - This may sound very liberal praise to that * rench mind which has forgotten its faith, but to a Catholic the best of it is an ply a trite truism. As for faith and free discussion, the latter is necessary to real faith. No one of the scientists has ever disrpS- S ° ?e? c ? y nd intelli Sently questions of supreme importance regaiding God and man as Catholic theologians. Liberty is the next human right for which the Catholic Church through all her history I has struggled and suffered, for which she is suffering and struggling S«lS? <Al y ' . As fo ? " necessar y antagonism between liberty ana leiigion, the antagonism can only occur between true liberty maV^nVf lgl » "' % falSe liberty and true reli S ion ' " The f aith s hal l i??£ ?'. ls I the motto on tfce Chri stian standard. So that we twJli ' ? nt( r nded as eul °gy of tfa e great Christian warrior, Mgr. ESl 1881 " 1 ? 17 to repeat trite truisms, and go under rather Sato! X T-\T -\ kC Lacordairc and Montalembeit," said the th?W,S ea PPf ciatcd nn tt b c combined force of the love of God and it& Iw! ry ' 1 Thls c love is one that Catholics of all national- ™ tw"£ w Wa •' the treatment of *ne German heroes who so SvlW ?Wm tbat War 1?™ much on aP M fch tha t of their 18 - I ' ll ancestors The orator closed by what was atleast JcSh^S allusion > and one that must have smote M. Gambetta, who, £ll e*^le *^1 record shows while playing "Director," was really paving a very jolly time of it during the occurrence referred to. " His o^pH ce v e °^ abe^ agU / cd ? t;sr '" saidtbe:Duke of tb * Bishop, «in?^SS adn ? lsa tion for the heroine of Orleans, on whom he desired Tn£ Z -a ho] ? alo , of saintship. With the purest of national glories ffi T% bas he ,? ccforth linked the memory of her champion, the Sm P i °w Cai \ s -. Wel1 ' y es ; but the Bisb °P of Orleans will be S b , crcd . for bls own sake. He borrows no glory from the great *iencli heroine ; he lends one rather to her fame, whose reality and

worth are best approved by the r testimbhy of so great, illustrious, and holy a man as the heroic Bishop of Orleans, whose faino is a common heirloom to Catholics in all lands.— Catholic Review.