TERRIBLE EXAMPLES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 448, 11 November 1881, Page 7

TERRIBLE EXAMPLES.

The late attempt to murder by means of dynamite machines at Lille has created much excitement. Amongst Catholics this has been much heightened by the arrest of Woutera, the locksmith who broke open the doors of the Redemptorists at the time of the execution of the notorious March decrees. After his sacrilegious exploit he was shunned by his neighbours, and his trade fell of so completely that he became a bankrupt. His house was then burnt down and he was arrested for arson, but discharged for want of evidence, Since then he abandoned himself to habits of drinking, and his brutality to his wife obliged her to seperate from him and go to her family in Belgium. He has been heard constantly to threaten all those innocently implicated in his bankruptcy, and it is supposed that his horrid crime was a deed of vengeance. Other more terrible examples of the anger of God against sacrilege have occurred in various parts of France. At Boulogne, during Holy Week, a number of young men parodied the last supper at a repast they held forthe purpose of ostentatiously easing meat on Good Friday. They even went so far as to be photographed in the midst of their impious orgy. One who personified Our Blessed Lord died a dreadful death the week afterwards. Even the Protestant chaplain attending the hospital declared he saw the finger of God in this solemn chastisement. Since then several of of the party have died, and the rest live in fear and trembling. The negative of the photograph has been destroyed, and the survivors have expressed their deep regret. At the same place a fisherman who was prevented attending a meat banquet on Good Friday took flesh meat out to sea with him, and instead of the customary prayers ordered his crew to sing the " Marseillaise." The vessel has not been heard of since, and sixty-three orphans survive as a living testimony that God will not spare" those who scoff at holy things. — Exchange.