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Show I The Western "Watchman pays its respects re-spects to Father Henebry, who has been posing as a martyr sinre he lost his position as professor in the Catholic university: '"Backed up by the San Francisco Leaier. the action of the university authorities in refusing: to reengage re-engage Dr. Henebry has been criticized. ; ' In all such controversies the inner facts are carefully concealed. The Watch- ! man quotes from the Gael, the organ of Hie Irish national party: " 'Ivtther Henebry was the Irish Schroeder of the Catholic university. ' ; He has posed -as a martyr for a year. t According to the Gael for May, Mr. j John T. Keating, national president of j the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and ' Mr. Stephun J. Richardson, treasurer of the Gaelic .League in America, recently re-cently visited Mgr. Conaty, rector of i the Catholic .university, for the purpose I of obtaining definite and authoritative ) information, regarding: the present status of the Gaelic chair at this in-i in-i etitution. Mgr. Conaty courteously and I voluntarily furnished the desired infor- - ma lion. "He -produced the books and i accounts and showed to the satisfac- ' tim -of the' visitors that the fund is in-i in-i tact and that no part of it has been di verted to any other channel or applied to aDy purpose other than its donors intended." "Mgr.' 'Conaty is quoted as stating that had Dr. Henebry displayed I . one-tenth of the energy in holding his erted in trying to get back, there would have been no occasion to refuse to reengage re-engage his services at the termination ' "f the contract. Messrs. Keating and i Richardson. learned. from members of ; I the Gaelic league in Washington that . Dr. Henebry never took an active part - in Gaelic league matters in Washing- i ton. That he never tried to organize a branch of the league there or attend one (.f us meetings after a branch had been organized. Moreover, although he occupied the Gaelic- chair founded by the A. O. H.. "he refused to become a member of that organization when in- ' vited to do so." In making these dis- closures the Gael disclaims any un friendliness towards Dr. Henebry, but ' "loves the cause of the Gaelic league . more than any individual and believes its readers should be made acquainted j; witli the facts in the case." Lev. H. Astley Parres, a Unitarian minister in Harbadoes, writes to the Boston Christian Register. He tells of j , the simple, thirfty habits of the na- lives, who are. interested in each !v; other's welfare, and whose religious , creed is charity to all. But their prim- tive ways and simple faith are not left i undisturbed. Rev. H. A. Parres says in ; f letter published in the Christian . Register: ' "During the past few years a popular - ;. type of ignorant missionaries have : j JTfe there. First, they riscovered that in districts wRlhere the Church of England-has been established for nearly two (entries 'the gospel was never i preached' till they went. There are ' now live distinct setcs in that village. Each has a specially patented brand of 'truth' which the other does not possess, pos-sess, which they cannot obtain w ithout due acknowledgment of these patent i rights, and without which they must sufler untold retribution. Of these various va-rious 'missions' the people all strive to - ' ; ,e exjiert theologians. Much stress is , ' a'd upon the study of the Bible 'under 1 ! -n guidance of the Holy Spirit.' All I ; :"' A,e similarly guided as to the dosirabil- I i , Hy of being crammed full of proof- J ' S . " t - . tests, n support of the veriest rubbish, and similarly guided, too, as to 'the necessity ne-cessity of intolerance almost bitter ha4 tred of each other over the different conclusions to which they are equally le'd' by the same spirit. So intense, is this competition that little time is found for the legitimate business of life. This is paraded as an instance of the eagerness after gospel truth instead in-stead of being recognized as what in reality it is the development of a disposition dis-position to vanity and babbling." This description would suit the Philippine Phil-ippine islands, where over-zealous missionaries, unable to get or retain a congregation at home, have gone to sow discord. To prevent them from quarreling, separate fields have been set by the alliance for each denomination. denomi-nation. Each sect parades the Bible, and "under the guidance of the Holy Spirit," though drawing different and often contradictory doctrines, each is infallible. No two could agree on any one special doctrine. With them the "Spirit breatheth" where they will. |