The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information . nce, the pre-sence of her armies and fleets where the services of the Catholic Churchwere performed with pomp and dignity, the necessity which courtesyimposed on the Federal and State officers of attending the Catholic ser-vice on solemn occasions, while it excited the sneers and taunts of theEnglish and tories, induced the people at large to look with far other eyeson a religion and worship which they had been taught to loathe: andwhen Congress assembled in St. Josephs church in Philad
The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information . nce, the pre-sence of her armies and fleets where the services of the Catholic Churchwere performed with pomp and dignity, the necessity which courtesyimposed on the Federal and State officers of attending the Catholic ser-vice on solemn occasions, while it excited the sneers and taunts of theEnglish and tories, induced the people at large to look with far other eyeson a religion and worship which they had been taught to loathe: andwhen Congress assembled in St. Josephs church in Philadelphia to hearthe solemn High Mass and Te Deum chanted to thank the Almighty forthe happy close of the war, it ratified the equality of all denominations,and did all that our government can do to dispel prejudice. The name of Catholic was honored in the land. Strange and wonder-ful effect of the guidance of Divine Providence, that made a movementbegun in hatred of Catholicity redound to its glory and exaltation.* * The Catholic element since the establishment*of the Rej)ublic Avill form a MEMOIK OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.* Mary Stuart, who in her life, and still more by her death, was destinedto illustate one of the most melancholy chapters in history, and to provethat a crown may indeed be, in Shakspeares words, polished perturba-tion, golden care, was born in Palace, on the 8th December,1542. Her father, James V, Kinf? of Scotland, was the son of Margaret,the daughter of Henry YII of England. Mary, therefore, had in herveins the l)lood royal of England and of Scotland, and she was also con-nected by birth with France, as her mother was Mary of Lorraine, sisterof the Duke of Guise. James Y died a few days after the birth of Mary,through grief at the reverses he had sustained in his contest with thegenerals of Henry YIII. The infant (|ueen was crowned at Stirling, on Sunday, the 9th Septem-ber, 1543, by Cardinal Beaton, the Archljishop of St. Andrews,
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