FOR HIS DEAR SAKE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 19, 24 February 1893, Page 19

FOR HIS DEAR SAKE.

For bis dear sake, who lived on earth A life of pain and woe, O may our hearts for others' need With tender pity glow I For His dear sake, wbo went about, With hands outstretched to bless ; May we to every mourner pour A balm of tenderness ! For hia dear sake, who had no place To lay His kingly head, May we with lowly contrita hearts, Our path of duty tread. For Hia dear sake, who bore for as The load of sin and shame, May we in thought aod word and deed Confess His holy name. For His dear sake, who died and rose, Exultant o'er the grave, May we have strength to vanquish Bin, And Satan'a power to brave. For His dear sake, who pleads for as, E'en now enthroned above, As incenße may our prayers ascend, And may our lives ba love.

— Australian Menenger.

Mr Daniel O'Connell French, Q. 0., has been appointed County Court Judge of Leicester, vice his honour Judge Hooper, transferred to the Dorset and Hunts district. The new judge, who wa9 called to the bar in 1872, is a grandson of the great O'Connell. " I'm going to have that last painting of mine framed," Mid young Daub, the artist. " Don't you think in would be a g>od idea to have a glass put over it? " " Yes," replied Stringer, " a smoked one." Some remarkable figures concerning the growth of the military burdens of Europe have recently been published in a French paper printed in New York, the Courrier des Etatt Unix. Th« statistics, which have been compiled by Captain Molard. of the French 19th Regiment, show that whereas in 1869 the armies of Europe numbered in all just Beven millions of men, they now tot up to twelve and a half millions, while— when the present laws enacted in the different countries relative to enlistment aud the further development of their military s'rength becom« operative — no less than twenty-two and a half millions of men will ba withdrawn from useful and productive employment. The following are some of the actual details :—

Id the letters which he has ad A rested to the Italian Bishops and people, Leo XIII. m>»pß out a more sympathetic method of warfare againet the Mas >nic sect ia Italy than has perhaps ever been counselled or adopted. H» not only lays bare the designs of the enemy, but carries the battle into their camp. His denunciations are scathing, bis language as to the necessny ut an offensive and defensive attitude on the part of Italian Ca'hohcs is particularly emphatic. Knowing full well that the principles of the Italian Freemasons are thoroughly astheistic, and that their aim is the destruction of Cnristianity, he calls upon Italian Catholics to hold no peace and no truce with a society s > incomoatible with true religion ami patriotism. The pernicious influence of the Freemasons wbo at prese t rule the' Italian Government ia felt in every rank of life in Italy, and in using his great power to counteract it Leo XIII. renders a service of the very highe«t kiod not only to the Church but also to his country. Liverpool Catholic Times. TLe Catholic statistics for England, as published in the new Catholic Directory for 1893 9how a steady increase in the number of clergy. The priests are ody about 400 f°wer than in Ireland. They number 2,588, or including Scotland, 2 950. againsi 3 059 in Ireland last jear. It should, however, be borne in mind that in this number ure included a considei able number of foreign priests, chiefly m mbers of religious orders, who, driven hither by political exigencies, such as the closing of the French monasteries ia 1880-81, are possibly awaiting changes wnich may enable them to return Liverpool heads the list of English dioc ses in point of numberi with 421 prieata. Westminster tollows wiih 355, and Southwark with 322, Salford coming next with 239. The inaoortant monastic establishments of the Benedictines at Belmont, Downside, Malvern, and the Chartreuse at Parkminster in Sussex help to swell the list of regular clergy to its present dimensions. Ireland has four archbishops and twenty-five bishop* whilst England has but one archbishop and fifteen bishops.— Glasgow Observer. r B

Country. 18C9. 1892. Hereafter, Prance Sermany fciuseia Austria [taly Great Britain Spain Furkey Switzerland Sweden 1,350,000 1,300,000 1,000.000 750,000 570,000 450,000 450,000 320,000 150,000 130,000 2 500,000 2,417,000 2,415,000 1,050,000 1,514,000 342.000 300,000 700.000 212 000 370,000 4.350,000 4,500,00 C 4,000 00C 1,900.00 c 2 2 J6.00C 602 00C 800,00 c 1,500,00 C 489 000 610.00 C