receiving the law from the hand | At the last day, we shall see the of the Most High, accompanied | blood of the Lamb (which ungratewith many religious rites, sacrifices, and ceremonies, all figurative and prophetic of our great High Priest, his sacrifice and sacraments. The manna from heaven, accompanied by twelve miracles, on sacred record. But this, with the paschal Lamb, and even the Tree of Life, all vanish away at the presence of this grand and sublime sacrifice and sacrament! The sun, the moon, the stars; angels, saints, and men; in a word, the whole creation, "heaven and earth flee away before his presence, and there is no place found for them!" ful, unhappy mortals, during life, trampled under their feet, to their eternal condemnation) shine in proportion to each one's merits, in every soul, in every body, in every robe, in every crown, that will adorn the elect of God in the heavenly Sion. And that they arrived there, because they had taken care in time to wash their robes clean in the blood of the | Lamb. Read the last chapter but one of Ecclesiasticus; see the humble, the devout, the docile Israelites, taught by the illustrious high priest, Simon, all fall prostrate on the pavement of the sanctuary, to adore and praise the God of Israel during their sacrifices. And shall we, catholics, when the Son of God descends from heaven on our altars, to carry our hearts back to heaven with him, remain as immovable and erect as blocks of wood or stone? What! shall the spirit of God inform us repeatedly, that the four and twenty ancients, the most illustrious citizens of the new Jerusalem, fell prostrate, casting their crowns before the throne of the same God, who honours our altars with bis sacred presence, and we remain unmoved at his awful and merciful visits? God of Love! sweet Saviour of Men! here the pious christian, wrapt in holy silence and astonishment, may feed in devout contemplation on thy infinite bounty, thy infinite charity! The favourite disciple of love cries out,-"Jesus having loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them the end." He conferred on them the most magnificent favours that a God-Man could give, since he gave himself to them whole and entire, without reserve! Not all the profanations, ingratitude, and sacrileges of bad christians; not all the insults and blasphemies of jews, gentiles, heretics, and infidels, could restrain that flaming Furnace of Divine Charity from bestowing this infinite treasure upon his favourites to the end of time! Oh! unparal leled Bounty! Oh! infinite Good ness! With what flaming hearts, with what tongues of celestial fire, ought we to celebrate thy eternal praises, O Jesus, Saviour of Men! C. S. P. Corpus Christi, June 5, 1817. For the Orthodox Journal. MR. EDITOR,-That Messrs. Leslie Foster and Webber should de claim against the Jesuits is no more than might be expected: they are the mouthpiece of the orangemen of Ireland; that the protestant bishop of Ossory should hold the same language is quite natural; he is Cicero pleading pro domo sua; and that Mr. Laicus Ralib should employ his bistoury with the same savage apathy on that revived body, will surprise no one who is acquainted with his religious principles and conduct. He is one of the school and family with your lately described doctors Israel Tongue and Titus Oates, who devoted their existence to the defamation and persecution of popery. But that there should be found English catholics, who owe, in a consider able degree their religion, their edu cation, and some of them, their subsistence to the illustrious author of The Christian Directory and The Three Conversions of England, father Parsons, with other contemporary jesuits, and who, nevertheless make common cause with those professed enemies of our religion in opposing and abusing an order of men, who have laboured so indefatigably and so successfully, during the three last centuries, for its support, is a subject of melancholy astonishment. I sometimes make inquiry, whether the catholics of this description who are in holy orders say the prayer and lessons appointed by the church for the last day of the present month, namely, for the festival of saint Ignatius; and I am even tempted to ask them whether they are content to associate, bereafter, with that founder of jesuits, and those thousands of his martyred sons who have illustrated and propagated the catholic faith by their blood, no less than by their preaching, from Chili to Canada, and from Persia to Pekin, or whether, like Montezuma, they wish to decline the possession of heaven itself, if there they are to meet so many objects of their aversion. It is true, sir, that the jesuits have and always had numerous and im placable enemies; but was not this the case also with our Divine Master and his apostles? and has he not in emphatical terms laid down his hatred and opposition of the world as a distinctive mark of his true disciples? Why did the various tribes of modern philosophers, as they stiled themselves, strain every nerve to destroy this society? Their own writings inform us that it was from hatred to christianity: accordingly, when that effort had obtained a temporary success, they boasted, that its light armed troops being discomfitted, they should easily rout in succession the heavy armed regiments: an impious threat which has been too nearly verified. And why does Mr. Laicus Ralib, while he prays every day in his conventicle for grace to keep the law, that forbids him to bear false witness against his neighbour, at the same time ston the public with the most horrid and barefaced calumnies against a religious order, exemplary for the morality as well as the piety of its members? He himself tells us at the head of his Introduction to The History of the Jesuits: "It will be found" he says on the fullest inquiry, that the Roman catholics at large, and the jesuits in particular, are merely parts of the same great aggregate.-From this it may appear that until popery shall lose her intolerant character, in which case she must cease to be popery, jesuitism will have lost none of her peculiar dangers." It is natural then that infidels and puritans should hate the jesuits; but that catholics should partake in this hatred would be inconceivable, if other in consistencies among them, in this age and country, had not prepared us for the one in question. I am not going, Mr. Editor, to enter upon an express refutation of Laicus Ralib's shameful slanders, published in the above quoted his tory, but I am half angry with that able and well-informed writer, Cleri cus, who in his five admirable letters, first published in the newspapers, and afterwards in your Orthodox Journal, and in Mr. Dallas's New Conspiracy against the Jesuits, chastized this libeller's former effusions of his irreligious malice, for not undertaking a work for which he is so eminently qualified. Ralib acknowledges that the mass of filth, which he has lately poured upon the English public, was not raked together by himself, but by that banditti of French jansenists and jacobins who began the late uproar of revolution by destroying the order of jesuits. Among these the writer | nate and in the city; that it vindiconfesses himself to be particularly cates their history as well as their indebted to the Recueil of Cou- religion, and promotes their civil drette, an unprincipled jansenist, emancipation as well as their ecclewho was repeatedly imprisoned for siastical immunity? Aye, but, say his libels and impiety. Another the persons alluded to, this publicamore dignified author of these Re- tion produces and perpetuates dissencueils was Ripert de Monclar, procu- sions and hostilities in the catholic reur of the parliament of Aix. This body, which it is the office of chrismagistrate, as is well known in tian charity to extinguish and prevent. France, when he found himself to be To this I answer, that the professed on his death bed, sent for the vicar object of The Orthodox Journal is of his parish, Monsieur Jouvat, and to preserve the unity, the peace, and in his presence, and that of many the due subordination in religious other witnesses, signed a formal in-matters of the great body of Eng strument, by which he retracted all that he had ever written, said, or done, to the prejudice of the society of Jesus; declaring that he re-ling to compromise our religious vered their virtues no less than their discipline and jurisdiction, and our talents, together with their institute very rule of faith, for the chance of and spiritual regimen. I could ad- getting for themselves certain tempoduce other still more remarkable in-ral advantages, the blame of such stances of reparation of character to the calumniated society, made by persons on the point of appearing before the Great Judge, if the occasion required it. I observe the same inconsistency among certain catholics with respect to the editor of The Orthodox Journal, which I have remarked among some of them with respect to the order of Jesuits. It is notorious that there is a violent, though not a very numerous party of our people, who entertain the most virulent antipathy to this valuable and truly orthodox miscellany, and who spare no efforts, as far as words can avail, to decry and suppress it. I say as far as words can avail; for, as to writing, they would as soon take a lion by the beard as provoke the editor of The Orthodox Journal, with his cause and his talents, to the use of that weapon. And what, after all, I wish to ask true catholics, is the fault of the Journal? Is it that, with invincible courage and equal abilities, it makes head against all their enemies, in England and in Ireland, in the seORTHOD. JOUR. VOL. V. lish catholics, which ends, if they cannot be attained without annoyance to a very small party, who are wil disturbances must rest with the latter and not with the editor of the Journal. For example, if there should be in our body a layman, without any other distinction, except what the wealth which he has obtained from it procures him, who is, for lustrums upon lustrums, at work, but always under ground, to subvert the church to which he professes to belong; who, on the occasion of our former emancipation in 1791, strained every nerve, in opposition to his pastors, to force upon us the name and the religion of protesting catholic dissenters, and who, on the prospect of a second emancipation, was no less active, in conjunction with certain protestant statesmen, in striving to subject that pastoral authority from which he had suffered a defeat, to lay control. I say nothing of this unfortunate man's continued attempts (being as punctilious at the same time as his friend Gregoire is, in the external practices of the catholic religion) to amalgamize this uncompromising religion with all the varying sects of the day, and to edu 2 M cate its youth on the modern deisti- | itself, nay, of what was going on in oal plan of the bible alone, to the exclusion of catholic pastors and catechisms. Things being so, I wish to ask sincere catholics, whether it is the part of charity to alarm them, at the danger to which their religion is exposed, as the Orthodox Journal has been in the habit of doing, for the purpose of obviating it, or to let the mischief take its course, to the certain injury and possible ruin of that which is most dear to them.This gentleman and his knot of supporters have three daily papers in pay, The Press, The Globe, and The New Times; it would be hard, indeed, if we could not have some account of our affairs to be depended upon once in the month. their own body (except when the I am, your's, &c. J.M. To the Editor of the Orthodox SIR, A neighbouring gentleman, called the British Catholic Board, who is, I believe, a meniber of what is lately shewed me the minutes of its June 16th, some of which are highly interesting to the English catholic body, and more particularly to me and my congregation, who encouraged and supported that board heretofore by a liberal contribution. The minutes I particularly refer to are that it is expedient to appoint subthe two following: June 8th.committees of British catholics in different parts of Great Britain, for the purpose of collecting and communicating more effectually the sentiments of the body on all subjects of moment; that, to effect this purpose, it is desirable that a sub I do not here undertake the defence of every paragraph which has appear-proceedings from last May 7th, to ed during these four years in The Orthodox Journal; a periodical editor would be more than mau, who never published any thing which, on mature reflection, he would not wish to have suppressed: much less am I throwing any indirect censure on its concomitant print, The Catholicon, which is highly valuable on many accounts. I sincerely wish well to the editors of them both, and rejoice that their differences have now subsided; but I undertake the defence of the Journal from having lately witnessed some outrageous, and, at the same time, groundless sortees made against it by catholics of influence and power, and I fear not to tell the catholic public, in the face of the former, that they are under the greatest obligations to the editor of this print, first for his religious and well-written essays, and next for the very important informa- bery spiritual books, particularly his Treatise on Mystical Divinity, being some tion he conveys to them in almost thing about the purgative way, something all his numbers. Before he set up about the illuminative way, something about his periodical work, they, for the the unitive way; something about the plea most part, knew as little of what sures, and something about the pains, exwas going on respecting their reli-perienced in each of those ways, something about Thaulerus, &c. Such is the title of gion in Ireland, France, and Rome the book. * Having been informed that this prolific writer has lately given a new edition of his works, and, not being inclined to go to the price of purchasing it, I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents who will take the trouble of informing me whether the Blue Books are contained in that edition, as likewise his little New. committee be formed in each of the failed, it publicly thanked Messrs. principal towns in which the catho Canning, Butler, and lord Castle, lic population is considerable; of reagh, for framing and advocating it, which the chairman and secretary, at and it disgracefully turned out one least, shall be members of the board, of the venerable vicars apostolic and with whom alone official commu- for opposing it. Its first resolu nication shall be held.". "Juuetion in the present paper is an act 16th, That the two subscriptions of adhesion to the same system, raised for the benefit of the catholics of Great Britain, through the medium of this board, since its institution in 1808, being not only exhausted, but a balance of several hundred pounds being due to our secretary for monies actually advanced by him, exclusive of debts contracted on account of the board, it is necessary, for the welfare of the catholics, that a new or third subscription be immediately opened, and that our secretary be requested to communicate the foregoing resolution to all the members of the British catholic board, and, through them, to the body at large, observing that at no period was the press more actively employed in diffusing libels, and propagating mistatements on the character and principles of catholics, and that there never was a time which called for the exertions of all catho-in our favour decrease; in short, lics, from the highest to the lowest, than the present. and one of its last consists of thanks to Mr. Grattan, who, in unr name, offered this and any other securities for which protestant bigotry might ask. In its course it has invaded the sacred ministry, deciding on the expediencey of instructing our peo ple by the English bible, and under, taking to do this, for which purpose it has expunged from our old catholic testament the notes, which were most necessary to be retained in it. Now, all these proceedings are notoriously opposite to the sentiments of the body at large, and they have unfortunately rendered it a scene of dissension and confusion ever since the period in question. In the mean time, what temporal benefit has the board procured for us? It acknow ledges that libels and opposition increase, while the votes in parliament emancipation appears farther removed from us than ever. I have said that the resolution seems to promise something beneficial; in fact, appointing sub-committees; that is to say, the board is to appoint them, not we to elect them, particularly the chairman and the secretary, who must necessarily be its own members. Permit me here, my lords and gentlemen, with all the respect that is due to you individually, to ask you what you are as an aggregate body? Are you our legal masters? No.Are you our chosen representatives? No. You are nothing but a com The resolution of June 8th, seems to promise something beneficial to the body, where it speaks of collect-it barely states the expediency of ing and communicating their sentiments. The fact is, we, the catholic clergy and laity of the kingdom complain, that the London board never pays any attention to our sentiments, which are at all times decidedly for the purity and freedom of our religion; but acts in direct opposition to them. It began by publicly engaging itself and us to accept of the unconditional Veto, for such was the acknowledged sense of the fifth resolution. It next sup-mittee by courtesy. As such, then, ported a bill founded on this basis, but containing other and still more grievous clauses, and, when this had to pretent to dictate rules for our local meetings and deliberations, throughout the extent of the island, |