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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 19 October 1888, Page 15

Our esteemed contemporary, the Jewish Messenger, of New York, commenting on the present agitation over ihe bchool question in Boston, remarks .. — •' We fear the cry cf • Catholic wolf I ' is raised too often by Protestant shepherdp, who forget that a Protestant wolf is just as objectionable to Catholic priests." Elsewhere, touching on the American Catholic University, it ha 3 the following :— "Our Cainolic brethren have made a brilliant beginning, and they are to be congratulated. They Bet an example of educational and religious zeal which some very plausible people criticise as behind the age in free and enlightened America ; but a 9 the dynamite, not the Messianic, era is apparently dawning on free and enlightened America, a wellequipped university and a creed that upholds personal morality are influences surely not to be despised." Dr. John Hall, the burly Presbyterian preacher imported from Belfast some decades ago to give new life to his decaying sect in New York, at a late meeting of British Presbyterians, consoled them by teldng them that the Catholic Church was making no progress in Americ i ! No doubt, there is still a large field for us to occupy, but such a statement, as a reproach to any Christian denomination, comes with a peculiarly bad grace from a representative of New Y( rk Presbyterittns, of whom it was told by the daily papers of New York, at the very time that Dr. Hall was making it, that Presbyterians were not holding their own in New York, their members goiog over en masse to the more fashionable Anglican Establishment. We commend to Dr. Hall's attention tbe list of Protestant churches unfilled, closed, and offered for sale, and tbe list cf Catholic churchift opened every week in the seta. — Catholic Jtevien;