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Show Orangemen. Rarely Go to Church. The Orangemen, It is stated are going go-ing to raise money to help Rev. Dr. Babbitt to save his Episcopal church in "Brooklyn from, being sold by foreclosure, fore-closure, and the lodges have already given $20. This is not much as to the amount, but it is extraordinary as to the fact. Orangemen, as is well known, not being remarkable as church supporters sup-porters or church-goers, a' characteristic characteris-tic of the brethren which the Ulster Protestant Unionist M. P., Mr. Thomas W. Russell, thus notices in his recently published book, "Ireland and. the Em-pise": Em-pise": , "And who are these people who fight these squalid battles on the streets of Belfast in the name of Protestantism? Protestants forsooth! If the truth must be told., they rarely enter a church ''nor: they never subscribe a sixpence hp Tho furthrnnct of any fT-m of r- i ligion; they bellow on the streets about the pope and about the Protestant religion. re-ligion. The public house (liquor saloon) sa-loon) is, their temple; the publican is their great high priest. They preach a gospel of hate and of hatred that would disgrace a race of savages, a gospel of which the Christian religion knows absolutely nothing." Such are the Orangemen of Belfast on high Protectant authority, and Belfast Bel-fast is the great headquarters of the order. But perhaps the brethren in New York are better. We hope so. j Freeman's Journal. |