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Show THE ATONEMENT. So late! so late, you come to bind our wounds. Oh, stubborn foe! bad you but tarried slill 'Twere all too late! For deadly was ihe strife Thro' myriad years, and dreary was the nigh' Our night of bitterness and agony! Nay! nay! you may not ask that we forget Our chains, our martyred dead, our country's w..e. Her million famine-graves, her ruined homes The wailiug of her exiles thing afar! Xor can we quench at once the raging tire. I Fanned by the furious breath of centuries! i But standing in the shadow of the Cross And looking on His wide and gaping wounds-Hearing wounds-Hearing His voice that for forgiveness prays K'en for His murderers! we too take heart j And lay our hands in yours, and for His sake Forgive the wrongs of all the blood-dimmed year.. Rev. James B. Dollard. in Boston Pilot. This is the note, soft and low and charitably sweet, that should be sounded in all the future songs of triumph of ihe Irish race. While Irishmen Irish-men cannot efface or forget the many centuries .. English misrule, injustice and bloody torture inflicted in-flicted on Erin by British statesmen, they can, following fol-lowing the example of the Savior of the world, soften the bitterness that is in their hearts by honorably hon-orably striving to forgive and disremember the past. We all need mercy and pardon from an eternal eter-nal God and now it seems probable that the present generation of England will, in the near future, grant tardy justice to Ireland in the shape of a law for complete self-government or home rule, it would be profitable and chivalrous for us to adopt j in our wp-itten and oral utterances a charitable and conciliating spirit. The Catholic Church hurls charityas an eternal truth, absolutely vital to salvation sal-vation from the pulpits and watch" towers of the world. Vroper criticism, tinged at least with a veneer of V-rcy and discrimination is forever law-1ul. law-1ul. and sjn-times satire given in a friendly way is more f jf rful than vaudalie and brutal abuse as praetic. I in season and out of season by Editor j .Judge's N -V Whirl of the windy and fog-laden atmosphere at-mosphere Chicago. There are thousands of English-bo J Catholics who are naturally and patriotically pa-triotically jtached to the land wherein they were born and s it the pleasant days of their childhood. Throwing 4 faults of Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth. Eliza-beth. Cr onJj jell and others in the faces of the present pres-ent genera of England, except in self-defense, is as obnoxiolis as resurrecting the unjust deeds of Queen Mary) Charles IX of France, and his mother, Catherine DeMedici. to wound Catholics of all nation- would be. Rev. James B. Dollard deserves unst nted admiration and honor for this timely poem, breathing, as it does, in a sublime manner, the a we-inspiring love and forgiveness of Calvary. |