The Dublin Review Volume 27 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...paid as they are, for doing so little, nay, that their incomes should generally proceed in an inverse ratio with the amount of their services? But we have not completed our enumeration of the benefits which the Catholic Church confers upon the community at large. The labours of the clergy form but an item in her great work of spiritual and corporal charity. There are at this moment in London and its immediate neighbourhood, some dozen or more institutions of mercy, whereby " the ills that flesh is heir to" are relieved in ways very obvious to the understanding, and very accessible to the cognizance of the "benevolent and humane" portion of society. There are the good sisters of Bermondsey, ministering to the comfort of the destitute. There are the Religious of Somerstown or of Norwood, supplying the place of mothers to the orphan. There are the nuns of Hammersmith, performing the office of the " Good Shepherd," by gathering the sheep from the desert into the fold from which they have strayed; and doing that work of their Divine Master on earth, the work of reclaiming the impure, which none are fitted to do but those who take the Mother of all purity for their model and their patroness. All, or most of these institutions depend for their support upon the voluntary liberality of the faithful. Where are the revenues which Catholics bequeathed for these and similar "pious and charitable uses?" Hear it, all ye saints of God, who mourn over the desolation of that once favoured Isle which nurtured you Hear it, ye martyred prelates, and ye royal Confessors; meek a Becket, and Edward, follower of the Virgin-Spouse Those hallowed offerings, from which religion and charity were meant to rekindle their dying fires, are now the fuel ...