The Great Change

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 50, 20 December 1923, Page 9

The Great Change

m&HUR WHYTE ADDRESSES TROOPS TRANSFERRED TO WEXFORD. Hie 63rd Battalion of the National Army which had been stationed in Wexford since March last left on Tuesday tor Kilkenny on transfer (says the Free Press for October f. U) - On their departure by train they were seen off from the railway station by a number of friends. The battalion has been replaced by the 47th, which had been stationed in Kilkenny. An interesting ceremony took place at Kilkenny on the occasion of the departure of the 47th Infantry Battalion tor Wexford. Three companies of troops, in charge of Captain Hayes, paraded the city, headed by their pipers’ band; and in the afternoon there was a massed parade on 1 1© barrack square in the presence of Most Rev Dr Whyte D.D., Bishop of Dunedin, N.Z., and Right Rev.' Mgr. Quinn, of the Archdiocese of Armagh, The troops were in charge of Commandant J. O’Hanrahan. Introducing Bishop Whyte, Rev. Father Dea, military chaplain, said it "as he first time a Catholic Bishop ever went into the barracks. Bishop Whyte, addressing the troops, said it was certainly the first time that he had been there. The last time he came to the barracks he looked in at the door. That was as far as he could go. ‘‘lt was not the uniform I see before me to-day,” added his Lordship, “that I saw then. It was the colors that became distasteful to us from our infancy, and you can thank God that a different color is found on the barrack square at present.” He was given to understand before he left New Zealand that they had become very proud of their National Army, and he hoped when he returned to New Zealand he could say that those "ho told him that were quite correct. Up to that he had not expressed his views, but anybody who gave him the credit of being sane ought to know what his views were on the political situation. Mgr. Quinn hoped the day would come when they would see the uniform of the National Army in the SixCounties, that the reunion of the North and South would soon take place.

In Angel Eves

... If there are angels "ho look into the ways’of man, how different are the notions which they entertain of us from , los< ? winch We are apt to form of one another. We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning. the noise of victories. They, on the contrary, see the phi osopher m 16 cottage who possesses his soul in patience . hank-fulness under the pressure of what titled minds call poverty and distress. They do not look for great men of the head of armies, or among the pomps of «■ court, but often find them out in shades and solitudes in the private walks and by paths of life. The evening walk of a wise man is mol e illustrious in their sight than the march of a gennlation f e r le r d ° f ? hUndred ' sand men. A contemplatmn of Gods works, a voluntary act of justice to our 11 d ; tnm( ; nt 1 a g f el °“ s concern for the good of mankind, teai shed m silence for the misery of others, a private desire or resentment broken or subdued-in short, an unfeigned exercise of humility, or any other virtue, are such actions as are glorious in their sight, and denominate men t. eat and icputable. The most famous among us are often ooked u 0„ with pity, contempt, or indignation, rtUst those who are most obscure among their own species are reeaided with love, approbation, and esteem—Addison.

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