DR. BARNARDO AS A PROSELYTISER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 50, 4 April 1890, Page 23

DR. BARNARDO AS A PROSELYTISER.

One of Dr. Barnardo's manoeuvres has again been checkmated. His appeal in the casa of the boy Gossage has been dismissed by the Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Fry, and he has been ordered to Drocure the lad from " Mr. Norton, of Canada." Dr. Barnardo, however, is an old hand at the arts of proselytism, and he now intends to appeal to the House of Lords, counting upon the law's delay to enable him to protract the cisc until the boy shall have reached the age of fourteen, whim it will no louger ba in the power of his mother to cnoose his religion. Possibly Dr. Birnardo's plot may succeed, but whatever be the issue, Catholic action in this and the Tye case has had the beneficial result of uamasking this unrelenting proselyiiser. When Baruardo is in ne.d of >unds he appeal to the public as an unsecarian philanthropist. If he were a single-minded man, determined to act up to his professions, what shadow of a cause was there to prevent him from handing over the boy Goseage to the Catholics / The lad would be well cared for by the Catholic authorities, and Dr. Barnardo could easily obtain in his place not one but hundreds of non-Catholic children who are unprotected and destitute. But Barnardo's primary intention ib evidently to snatch the souls of Catholic children at all hazards. The exposure of Dr. Barnardo's proselytising practices is fraugtt with an important lesson for Catholics. It brings out clearly the facb that there la in operation amongst a certain section of Protentants who are plentifully endowed with the goods of this world a deliberate system of proselytising Catholic children. Thousands of Catholic children have been brought up as Protestauts in Protestant institutions, and dpported to Canada, where they have been placed under the care >nd influence of Protestant ministers and teachere. Taere is something exceedingly touching in the reproach addressed to himself on a recent Sunday by the Bishop of Salford, who is now working with such heroic zeal for the protection and rescue of the C ithohc children of his diocese. "He must look back," he slid, "upon the first yens of his life in the diocese aa years marked with sorrow and reproach, which he could never cease tJ feel. Hundreds and thousands of their poor children had lost their faith through proselytising who might have been saved had we been more alive to the necessity." When such aa earnest and activp prelate confesses that he ha 9 not done all that he ought to have done, whati Catholic is there who will say that he has fully performed his duty ? — Liverpool Catholic Times,

The Italian Bishops have published a collective protest against the proposed law on the Opere Pie

The Key. William Tat lock, late curate of St. James the Less, Liverpool, for many year?, and also of Christ Church, Clapham, has iust been received into the Church at the London Oratory by the Very Rev. Sebastian Bowden, Superior. Mr Tatlock is a graduate of the University of L>ndon. It ib be iered that ho is now studying with a view to entering the priesthood. Luther hang himself, is the question discussed in a volume just published by Father Maju&ke, who was formerly chief editor of the (if rmania. It »ppears that on the de-tthof the s>catled reformer, the report got abroad that he did not d.c from natural causes. The Report was subsequently confirmed by his valet, who abjured the into which he bad been led. This man stated that on entering bid master's bedroom on the morning of the 28th February, 1346, he, found him dead and l-anging lrom his bed. The first attempts of the Protestants to dispute the truth of the valet's testimony date from 1635, but the arguments adduced weie so weak that it was thought wisfi to trust to a con«pnacy of si.'c cc. Hence, in the works of modern panegvnsts of Lathe wi> stele in vai i for an allusion to the valet's declaration. Fathi r Majunke now shows its vraisemblance, supporting hu contention by arguments of the psychological order.