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“Far Away.”
•‘The land is very far off." —/«*. Erir *'' •' IT.
Up the shore
Os Evermore
We sport like children at their play ;
And gather shells
Where sinks and swell*
The mighty so* from far away.
Upon that beach
No voice nor speech
Doth things intelligible say ;
But through our souls
A whisper rolls
That comes to us from far away.
Into our ears
The voice of years.
< 'omos deeper, deeper, day by day :
We stop to hear
As it draws near,
lb? awfulneas from far away.
At what it tells
We drop the shell*
We were so full of yesterday ;
And pick ho more
Up on that shore,
But dream of brighter far away.
And o’er that tide,
Far out and wide,
The yearning of our souls doth stray :
We long to go
We do not know
Where it may be, but far away.
The mighty deep
Doth slowly creep
Upon the shore where we did play :
Hie very sand
Where we did stand
A moment since, swept far away.
Our playmates all,
Beyond our call.
Are inning hence, as we too may.
Unto that shore
Os Evermore,
Beyond the boundless far away.
We’ll trust the wave,
And Him to save.
Beneath whose feet as marble lay
The rolling deep.
For He can keep
Our souls in that dim far away.
[Fraser't Metgatiue.
rrorn “The Irish in America.”
REMINISCENCES OF BISHOP ENGLAND.
[continued.]
The following passage, though desrip
tive of the condition of the Cath
olics of that day in a Southern State, was
just as applicable to most other parts of
the Union, save where a priest was regu
larly stationed Indeed, it as accurately
represented the condition of Catholics in
a vast number of places in thirty years
after it was written. It was written of
Wilmington:—
‘‘May Kith.—Celebrated Mass at my
lodging, and gave an exhortation to those
who attended. After breakfast met the
Catholics, about twenty men : Not a
woman or child of the Catholic faith.
No priest lias ever been fixed here, nor
in the neighborhood. A Rev. Mr. Burke
had spent a fortnight here about tweny
five years before, and a Jesuit going to
some Spanish settlement spent two or
three days in the town about the year
1810, and baptised the children of Mr.
■ ? hut their mother being a Method
ist, they were not educated in the faith
Ihe Catholics who lived here, and they
who occasionally came hither, were in the
habit of going to other places of worship
—Episcopal Protestant, Methodist and
Presbyterian and had nearly lost all idea
of Catholicity. I spoke on the necessity
ot their assembling together on Sundays
fur prayer and instruction, and ot their
forming a branch of tlie Eook Society, to
bota of which they readily agreed, and
then recommended their entering into a
subscription to procure a lot for a church
and to commence building, as I would
take care they should be occasionally visit
ed by a Priest. I also exhorted them to
prepare for the sacraments.
I received an invitation from the pastor
and trustees of the Presbyterian Church
to use their building (the best in the
twn), which upon consideration I accept
ed- i was waited upon by the Protestant
minister, who offered me his church also,
which of course I declined, as having ac
cepted of the other. In the evening, I
preached to a very large congregation, on
tne nature of the Catholic Religion.
Here was a fitting occasion for the zeal
ie young Bishop; and we find him daily
exhorting his own little flock, and also
preaching each evening to large and at
tentive congregations—“On the nature of
Redemption, Mission of the Apostles, and
me Authority ot the Church to explain
the Scriptures and teach the doctrines of
bhrist by her traditions.’’ Nor was his
labor without fruit, as be established a
branch of the Eook Society, raised bv
inscription 1,100 dollars for a church
mid received some converts of note.
Among the entries of May Pith, there
this record : “Baptised George Wash
‘Hgton, aged three years, son of Patrick
Murphy and Rebecca Lear ; sponsor, J
E Calhardo ”
“May 20 Was request*
r< h .V some Protestant gentlemen to
Keach twice this evening, as 1 was to
k
leave town in the morning. I complied
with thei~ request, and preached at half
past three and at seven o’clock, to verj
full congregations There was created in
Wilmington a spirit of inquiry, and the
prejudices which were very general
against Catholics were removed.”
In a place near South Washington, we
are told that John Doyle, an Irishman, is
the only Catholic. In Ncwbern we find
a state of things exactly the reverse of
that described in Wilmington. In Wil
mington there were twenty Catholic men,
and not a single woman or child of the
faith ; but in Newbern there are upwards
of twenty Catholics, principally females.
A Priest had visited them seven months
previously. Here the Bishop baptised
two converts, “men of color.”
In North Washington th« Catholios
were “few and generally negligent.” No
Priest since the previous year. “The
Methodists have a meeting-house, the
Baptists a temporary place, but there is
no other house of worship.” The Bishop
not only preached in the Court-house in
the evenings, but said Mass in it in the
mornings; and the congregations increas
ing, the converts, including people of
color, coming, and favorable impressions
being made upon others, who took time
to consider what they should do, we are
not surprised to learn that “the Baptists
and Methodist leaders were drawing off
the hearers to the best of their power.”
On his arrival in Plymouth hefiuds but
one Catholic ; but in a day after he dis
covered a second. Still he is well jeceived
and actually establishes a Book Society.
“Finding,” he says “an anxiety to hear me,
I consented to remain, and preach twice
this day, to about 40 persons at eleven
o’clock, and to a much larger congrega
tion at five o’clock at the Academy,
which was the only public building in the
town.” For three days he preached both
morning and evening; on the third even
ing he “preached to a very crowded con
gregation in the Academy, after which the
Book Society met, and elected their offi
cers.” It ‘was on that evening that the
Bishop discovered the second Catholic in
the town.
In other placesh e finds a few Catholics,
the greater number attending the Method
ist or Baptist places of worship, there
being no Catholic church, and the visits
of a Priest being “few and far between ”
Whatever the nature of the congregation,
whatever its admixture of nationalities,
Irish are to be found amongst them ;
thus, next to tin* high-sounding Spanish
name, we alight upon a Daniei Flynn, a
Michael Dempsey', or an Ignatius Crow
ley'. Deputations wait upon him to re
quest he will preach in the Protestant
churches or in Court-houses, which he
generally does, and with advantage to
the cause of truth. But converts are
lukewarm, and Catholics relapse into in
differentism ; and Priests cannot be had,
or are not always reliable, being dis
couraged by* the hardships of a seeming
ly unpromising mission ; and troubles
and perplexities plant the Bishop’s mitre
with plentiful thorns ; and rheumatisms
rack his bones, and fevers break down
his strength ; and to add to his afflictions
poverty oppresses him. “1 was fre
quently” says the Bishop of three great
States, “without a dollar, from the wretch
ed state of the income, and the bad dis
position of the infidel portion who pro
fessed to belong to the flock.” Still, in
spite of incessant toil in the mission, and
drudgery in his seminary, and the con
stant pressure vff noverty, he continued
to extend his Book Society, and estab
lish in Charleston, in 1822, a weekly
newspaper, called The United States
Catholic Miscellany , which, under his
management, became one of the most po
tent means of vindicating the faith, and
refuting the calumnies so constantly cir
culated by its opponents ; in fact, it soon
grew to be a power in the country.
“December 28th, 1822. Columbia I
preached in the House of Representa
tives, at the request of the Legislature.”
“April 24. Mr. Salmond was kind
enough to find the Catholics and bring
them to me They consisted of the fol
lowing persons (French, Spanish, and
Irish names), to whom 1 gave the usual
commission I gave them some books,
and heard the confession of one who pre
sented himself. At the request of the
inhabitants I preached in the evening in
the new Presbyterian Church, to a very
large congregation. I afterwards bap
tised three children.”
With one other extract we shall con
clude a notice of the Bishop’s diary, from
which sufficient has been given to afford
the reader a true picture of a mission
throughout which Catholics were thinly
scattered, and in which they had to de
pend, in a very great measure, upon their
own steadfastness to retain even a sem
blance of their faith. In purely country
districts—perhaps not visited for years
] j y a clergyman—matters were necessar
d.Y worse ; notwithstanding which there
were many, many instances of Irish Ca-
Mffllll EIS S©!SI„
tholics keeping the faith alive under* the
most discouraging circumstances.
“April 29,1823 —Fayetteville. Heard
confessions, celebrated Mass, and exhort
ed ; had foui communicants—baptised a
child. I found that the congregation had
regularly prayed together on the Sundays
and holidays, until the sickly season, when
they fell off. I endeavored to prevail
upon them to resume the good practice.
Superseded the former commission, and
issued anew one to John Kelly, Dillon
Jordan, Laurence Fitzharriss, Doctor Jas.
Moffet, and Daniel Kenny. Was invi
ted to preach at the State House In the
evening I again saw the Catholics, and
exhorted them to persevere—spoke to sev
eral individually. At eight o’clock I
preached in the State House to a very
large and attentive audience.”
As years went on, so did the fame of
Bishop England increase; until the time
came when, from one end of the Union to
the other, his name became a household
word with Catholics of every nationality,
who recognized in him a champion fully
equipped, and equal to the good fight.
The feeling of his own countrymen to
wards him cannot be described, so intense
was their pride in his great qualities—his
power of pen and tongue, his resistless
force as a controversialist, his capacity
for publtc affairs—the nobleness and
grandeur of his nature, which all men
respected, and which made for him the
fastest friends among those who were not
ofhisChuich. There were other great
and good Bishops, who by their saintly
character and holy lives commanded a re
spectful toleration for their faith ; but
Bishop England extorted respect for his
religion by the matchless power with
which he unfolded its principles to those
who crowded round him wherever he
went, and refuted the calumnies and mis
representations that had been the stock-in
-trade of the enemies of Catholicity for
centuries. Like all Irishmen, of that day
as of the present, Bishop England at once
became an American citizen, thoroughly
identified w r ith his adopted country, pnud
of her greatness, jealous of her honor,
loving her beyond all others, save that
old land whose recollection lay warm in
his heart.
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
As described by Daniel Webster, in a letter written in
18'24.
Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one
and eighty-two, above six feet high, of
ample, long frame, rather thin and spare.
His head, which is not peculiar in its
shape, is set rather forward on his should
ers, and his neck being long, there is, when
he is walking or conversing, an habitual
protrusion of it. It is still well covered
with hair, which, having been once red,
and now turning gray, is of an indistinct,
sandy color. Ilis eyes are small, very
light, and now neither brilliant n r striking.
His chin is rather long, but not pointed.
His nose small, regular in its outline, and
the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth
is well formed, and still filled with teeth;
it is strongly compressed, bearing an ex
pression of contentment and benevolence
Ilis complexion, formerly light and j
freckled, now bears the mark of age and j
cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncom
monly long, his hands and feet are very
large, and his wrists of an extraordinary
size, His walk is not precise and military,
but easy and swinging. He stoops a little,
not so much from age as irom natural for
mation. When sitting, he appears short,
partly from a rather lounging habit of sit
ting, and partly from the disproportioned
length of his limbs.
His dress, when in the house, is a gray
surtout coat, kerseymere stuff waistcoat,
with an under one faced with some mate
rial of a dingy red. His pantaloons are
very long and loose, and of the same color
as his coat. His stockings are woolen,
either white or gray, and his shoes of the
kind that bear his name. His whole dress
is very lmuh neglected, but not slovenly.
He wears a common round hat. Ilis dress,
when on horseback, is a gray, straight
bodied coat, and a spence of the same ma
terial. both fastened with large pearl but
tons. Wlieu we first saw him, he was
riding, and, in addition to the above articles
of apparel, wore round his throat a knit
white woolen tippet, in the place of a
cravat, and black velvet gaiters under his
pantaloons. Ilis general appearance indi
cates an extraordinary degree of health,
vivacity, and spirit. Ilis sight is still good,
for ho needs glasses only in the evening.
His hearing is generally good, but a num
ber of voices in animated conversation con
fuses it.
Mr. Jefferson rises in the morning as
soon as lie can see the hands of his clock,
which is directly opposite his bed, and ex
amines his thermometer immediately, as he
keeps a regular meteorological diary. He
employs himself chiefly in writing till
breakfast, which is at nine. From that
time till dinner he is in his library, except
ing ill-it in fair weather, he rides on horse
back from seven to fourteen miles. Dines
at tour, returns to the drawing-room at
six, when coffee is brought in, and passes
the evening till nine in conversation, ilis
habit of retiring at that hour is so strong,
that it has become essential to his health
and comfort. His diet is simple, but he
seems restrained only by his taste. His
breakfast is tea. and bread always fresh
from the oven, of which he does not seem
afraid, with sometimes a slight accompani
ment of cold meat, lie enjoys his dinner
well, taking with his meat a large propor
tion of vegetables. He has a strong prefer
ence for the wines of the continent, of
which he has many sorts of excellent
quality, having been more than commonly
successful in his mode of importing and
preserving them. Among others, we found
the following, w r hich are very rare in this
country, and apparently not at all injured
by transportation: L’Ednau, Mucat, Sa
mian, and Blanchette de Limoux. Dinner
is served in half Virginian, half French
style, m good taste and abundance. No
wine is put on the table till the cloth is re
moved.
In conversation, Mr. Jefferson is easy
and natural, and apparently not ambitious;
it is not loud, as challenging general atten
tion, but usually addressed to the person
next to him. The topics, when not select
ed to suit the character and feelings of his
auditor, are those subjects with which his
mind seems particularly occupied ; and
these, at present, may be said to be science
and letters, and especially the University
of Virginia, which is coming into existence
almost entirely from his exertions, and will
rise, it is hoped, to usefulness and credit
under his continued care. When we were
with him his favorite subjects were Greek
and Anglo Saxon, historical recollections
of the time and events of the Revolution,
and of his residence in France from 1783-4
to 1789.
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