gue, of Armagh? He agrees with Dr. Walsh, and with
reference to the Parnellite split, thus delivers himself:--"We are
face to face with a grave disobedience to ecclesiastical authority!
The doctrines of the present day are calculated to wean the people
from the priests' advice, to separate the priests from the people, and
_to let the people use their own judgment_!" Surely nothing could be
clearer or more uncompromising than this. Bishop Nulty, alluding to
the refusal of Mr. Redmond's political party to accept without
question the political commands of the Church, thus hinted at the
consequences to recalcitrant Papists:--"It is exclusively through us
that the clean and holy oblation of the mass is offered daily for the
living and the dead on the thousands of altars throughout our country.
It is through our ministry that the poor penitent gets forgiveness of
his sins in the Sacrament of Penance. The dying Parnellite will hardly
dare to face the justice of his creator till he has been prepared and
anointed by us for the last awful struggle and for the terrible
judgment that will immediately follow it." This threat of eternal
damnation was eagerly taken up and re-echoed by the inferior clergy.
Father Patrick O'Connell speaking from the altar at Ballinabrackey
said that no Parnellite could receive the sacrament worthily, and
warned all parents against allowing their sons or daughters to attend
a Parnellite meeting, as it was not a merely political matter, but a
matter of their holy religion. In his sermon he referred to a meeting
of the political party favoured by the Church, and said that every
man, woman, and child must be present. All must assemble at the
chapel, and all must be in time to walk in procession to the place of
meeting. He would be there with Father McLoughlin, and the pair would
go round to see who was absent. All absentees must let him know the
reason why, and if the reason did not satisfy him he would meet them
in the highways and in the byways, at the Communion rails, and would
"set fire to their heels and toes." He would make it hot for them.
There would be no compromise. All voters against clerical instruction
he denounced as "infidels and heretics." Mr. Edward Weir, who was
suspected of having opinions of his own, was denounced in Castlejordan
Chapel as a 'Pigotted Guardian.' He was a member of the Poor Law
Board. He was threatened to be 'met at the communion rails,' by which
he understood that the sac