jrç/ÏTTMEbJ.XYI, JtCH PORTER. PaWfsker.] iPrrarh tfce P>osprl t® €vftg fcrratiuf." M*RK xvi. IS. [TER**: $2 20 PER ANNUM. IKIXELA PITTSBURGH, MARCH 17, 188:3. SO. màMjj j.iffijiw ffee Stetti or Ifcf Salite. Pastoral LetUr or thr Mast Rev. | right to exact our obedience, and a riches and worldly enjoyments, has This Pastoral sh be read in all will and support of the people. The right to prescribe the conditions un- violently divorced innumerable hearts the churches of thiss Diocese, as soon Irish Government rested on the 1!» pi»J thnrach life a porfeet part, Cornell«* O'Brif», ArrfcMskap of der which we might enjoy the fruits from that God for whom they were possi ble after s reception by the Scotch and Knglish majority in the . OnnoùccJ *n<t unnkown, HaUffcx. of His redemption. To deny this is made. Souls, created with an un- I'astor. f C. O'HRIRN. British Parliament. How far ought To mtk so r<wt in any heart, to deny God. Hence we are not at ! limited capacity for happiness, and K. K. MI-XPHV, Secretary. we to go in the way of concession to H gin only tM'i ikiw. To the Clfrfry and f.aity of the Dio- i liberty to make a religion for our- that yearn for untold joys, have, by Halifax, V V. Ash Wednesday, Irish demands for political freedom.' In litt)« things to own no «ill. ct&r of Halifax, Health and time- j selves; we must accept the one which j falsi1 maxims, and unsound, though 1888. Every man could see that in certain To ha»o BO •taut in great, diction in the Lord:— His Church was to preach to every brilliant, theories, have been led to cases the granting of full political Ti <>4 the tabor re*'IT Mil), DEARI.Y BKLOVKD:—Called by the | creature. He exacts the same obe- ! seek their heaven upon earth; and freedom would lead to risks and dan- And far the OPown to «rut. voice of the Supreme Pastor of souls Hrrkert (¿ladstonr on Ireland. on earth to assume the duties and the j dience to that Church as to Himself; have forgotten, or perhaps, denied, a gers which nogovernment could right- Up« the brow to hear no traee responsibilities of the Episcopate, we ; He makes its voice one with His own. 1 future slate. Disappointed, restless, Mr. Herbert Gladstone addressed ly inenr. The converse of this was • Of more than eotnnimi cam. "He that heareth you, heareth me." and wearied, as alt such must sooner a large meetidg of Liberals at Leeds equally true. Kqual laws every Lib- To write no »»oret in the face hasten to address to you our first j words of pastoral greeting. For nine He clothes it with llis own power: ! or later he, they raise a cry in their on Monday night. February 12. tak- eral at once conceded to them. The For mer: to read it there: "As the Father hath sent me, I also . wilderness of misery, and ask with ing as his subject "Ireland." From mere mention, however, of an Irish T)M daily orom to olawp wwi We" long months the Diocese of Halifax i send you" (John, xx, 21). It is hopeless tone, "Is life worth living?" the reports of his speech which Parliament, of home rule, aroused With s«oh familiar xeal had been grieving for the loss of its •r clearly, then, the duty of men to This is at once the consequence and peared in Tuesday's papers w takt the wild cries of "Disintegration of At hide« from all. while not the le*» gentle, zealous, and well loved Arch- obey the voice of God's Holy Church, j the punishment bfa denial of Christ's the following passages; the Kmpire." \ el, as we have given lit daily weight you feet. bishop; and, although it has now j thrown aside its widow's weeds, and As there can be no properly form- I Gospel. The cross of daily life is Ireland's happiest days were in the a Parliament to all our great colonies with the most beneficial results, and In toils that praise will ne'er repay, j has raised the anthem of joy, the mem» ! ed society without a recognized head, only heavy for those who revile the early centuries of Christianity, when Tttee ywar life go part. ory of Dr. Hannan is not forgotten, Jesus Christ, who intended that His cross of Christ; and the path of life she developed a civilization which, as we lost America through withhold- Tnmeet in every coming day | but lives as freshly as ever in the j Church should be a perfect organiza- 1 is dreary only to those who look not though it shone with uncertain light ing elementary political institutions, Twin -«inter of the laet; | hearts of his grateful children. And lion, constituted St. Peter and his to the road of Calvary. Life is in- through clouds of mythical tales and in the abstract there were strong Ta haar of high, heroie things. I just it is that it should so be; for a life i successors its supreme visible heads, supportable only for those who do not legends. I at1 , without doubt, a dis- reasons for Lts adoption. But it was And yi»W than rororwoe dae. said that by granting home rule thev WBm. ] long devotion to duty merits a life- and His vicegerents on earth. "Thou ! lean on God, and who seek to smoth- I' nrtuence over But foal life » daily offering» | long remembrance. art Peter, and upon this rock I will | er within themselves the voice of'! Western Europe. At that time the would play into the hands of the Art fer more fit for yon. Separationists. and that the Irish But. although the man dies, the build my Church, and 1 will give to | conscience and of religion. The sea preserved Ireland- -unfortunately ly disloyal. He did To wo» no secret, «oft. dugni»» office lives on. The Church of Ood thee the keys of the Kingdom of Apostle St. Paul (Rom. 1.25) speak- j for herself—from Roman or Saxon were hopeless tier; but assuming it To which »elf-lore is prone. j is a Divine institution, while its mem- Heaven." are words which proclaim ; ing of those who "changed the truth conquest; but she was harassed by the not grant the 1; Canatieed by all other eye». I bers are mortal. Death cannot gam the place and power of the Supreme of God into a lie, and worshipped ruihlcss incursions of piratical N> nth- to be so. he did not think a Parlia- On worthy in your own; i no victory over it, for death can Pontiffs. They have inherited Pe- | and served the creature rather than j men, and th period ol peaceful and ment in Dublin would endanger the To yield with «ach a happy art. i destroy its supernatural life. Unlike | ter's throne and prerogatives. Peter j the Creator," shows the wretched I progressive learning terminated Queen's authority in Ireland. He That no one thinks you rare. ! institutions of human device, which j died, but his power was transmitted, j and degraded state into which they among the disintegrating conflicts of thought, however, that the scheme And aay to your poor, bleeding heart, ! change and perish like their authors, 1eve n as were the mission and man- fell. They "became vain in their rival clans. The history of the Eng- was fulli of difficulties, and would "Bow tittle can you bear !" j the Catholic Church, partaking of the | date of "preaching the Gospel to I thoughts, and their loolish heart was lish Government in Ireland wai make Irr ind no happier. Putting every creature." darkened. For professing themselves that aside, he came to the question of Oh! tit a pathway hard to chonee, t undying years of its Founder, keeps j complete catalogue of political blun- : to be wise they became fools.— less sweeping, but if the Irish people A struggle hard to share, i on its ceaseless and unchangfng Hence, from the Apostolic Council i ders, to use no harsher word, and, \V herefore God gave them up to the willingly met them in he right spirit Far human pride would still nfiw I course. "Go ye into the whole world, ! in Jerusalem, where Peter's voice j before a comparatively recent period, The nameless trials there; j and preach the Gospel to every crea- ended the discussion, and decided the desires of their heart, to uncleanness. J probably no country in the world had he believed more beneficial reforms. Bat met we hBow the gat«! is low ; ture" (Mark, xvii, 15) ire at once its ' controversy, down through the ages As they liked not to have (rod in their seen less peace and more of misery. \Th e whole system of governmen in That Itndt to heavenly bliss. i mandate and its Divine charter. "He j to our own time, the Pope has ever ] knowledge, God delivered them up to From the responsibility for most of Ireland should be remodellec. The What higher grace could Ood bwtow ! that belicveth and is baptized shall jI stood forth as the central figure of j a reprobate sense, to do those things this no class in England was exempt. public departments should be made which are not convenient." This broader, more elastic, and more di- Than such H life a* this ? be saved; but he that believeth not I Christianity, and the infallible head We had lately to use hard words in picture of sin and shame drawn by ' rectly responsible to Parliament.