YANKEE NOTIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 15, 5 August 1887, Page 23

YANKEE NOTIONS.

Fbom the Burlington jfree Press :- A Burlington dude was struck with an idea for the first time in his Hie the other day, and is Buffering ever since from concusii<>n of the br,tin. From the Philadelphia Times : —Anti-coercion meetings are the straws that tell the direction iv which freedom's winds are blowing. From the Cincinnati Commercial Gamette :— lf you see a little inland town with its nose in the air and putting on heaps of style, you may put it down in your note book that the little town has struck gas or oil. From the Irish- American :— The dawn of Home Rule is, surely, at hand when the " Castle " can no longer trust the Irißh police those placid tools whoso often in the heyday of the old " Ascendency " helped to strangle the national organisations that sought the freedom of their native land. From the Catholic Columbian : —In an annual Bession of a Presbyterian Presbytery, recently, in Baltimore, a Dr. William H. Purnell, a luling elder, made this public declaration : " When I was a young man and unconverted, I used to think I did God service in denouncing the Church of Rome. Now I see that I was wrong." It is gratifying that the scales are falling off prejudiced eyes all over the land. Fjom the Macon Telegraph:—" Pa, what is a commission?" "A commission, my son, is a committee appointed to work out problems that legislative bodies haven't the courage or ability to eolve.' 1 From Church Progress :— lt is not fair, it is not just, to condemn theCatbolic Church because black sheep are found in her fold. They will be found 'til the end of time The Church's membership is composed of good and bad, and only the day of tbe harvest will separate the cockle from the wheat. This is Bible teaching. From the Kansas Catholic:— Va.\th is the evidence of things unseen, believing Ue revelations of God, having just grounds for that belief. . . . This is tbe root from which aii other virtues spring and from which all .morality springs, for the Apostle assures tbe world tbat " without faith it is impossible to please God." From the Cathtiic Standard : — Because the Catholic Church is the representative in the world of authority, of authority expressly given to her by our Divine Lora. Moieover, she is a firm and constant upholder of civil authority, of social peace, and consequently condemns and opposes tho tchtmes aud conspiracies of Kadical Revolutionists and Anarchists, and the false principles and notions upon which their schemes are based. Erom the N. Y. Tablet :— By early association and by the surroundings of their life in the exercise of their ministry, the priebts are identified with the masses of the people. Priests whose names never appeared in print, whose lives are spent daily in visiting the cellars and garrets of the tenement houses, in our city, are necessarily in sympathy with any cause that has for its aim the betterment of the moral and physical condition of the labouring classes. From the N. T. Freeman's Journal : — It is a comfr rtable way ( t the ' fires tie philanthropist " to avoid meeting the vital quest ons of time by declaring that if the world were truly Catholic, there would be r o evil in it. We have no guarantee that the Church, will entirely rule all men in this world in the immediate future.

From the Ohio State Journal: —Pops Leo's letter to Archbishop Corrigan takes from Dr. McGlynn his last shred of pretence that the land theories of Henry George had never been condemned at Rome. The letter shows that there has never been anything at Rome except condemnation for what the Pope characterises aa " the vicious seeds of doctriues scattered under pretext of helping the masses." From the Catholic Mirror: — The congregation of Plymouth Church, over which the late Henry Ward Beecher presided, and which he held together by his pleasing eloquence, alrea ly shows unmistakable signs of going to pieces. There is nothing surprising about this when it is remembered that neither preacher nor people had any fixed principles or faith in religious matters upon which U build.