. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. contrary the literaltruth, to say that ninety-eight out of every onehundred Catholic churches in the Province havebeen built by the open-handed generosity of theIrish exiles and their descendants, who are in asense re-enacting here that which the Irishmissionaries carried on in Scotland and Englandover a thousand years ago. It is no exaggera-tion to say that the faithful he
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. contrary the literaltruth, to say that ninety-eight out of every onehundred Catholic churches in the Province havebeen built by the open-handed generosity of theIrish exiles and their descendants, who are in asense re-enacting here that which the Irishmissionaries carried on in Scotland and Englandover a thousand years ago. It is no exaggera-tion to say that the faithful hearts, and generoushands and loving labours by aid of which the Catholic churches, educational and charitable in-stitutions were built, and are being built in On-tario, belong to that noble Celtic people whichThierry, the historian of the Norman Conquest,characterized as an indestructible nation is in some sense a providential na-tion, and has some mission assigned to it by theAlmighty. Some peculiar thought, idea, orprinciple distinguishes or differentiates it fromall others, constitutes its individual being, andaffects the workings and development which tendto the great end of Providence. There is not a. The Very Rev. Dean Harris. race that has ever by force or choice had ifs peo-ple scattered through the world, which has hadin its exiles a Christian aristocracy more true ormore steadfast to the Catholic faith and its insti-tutions than the members of the Irish race. Theyhave carried their religion with them wherever akind on unkindly fate has driven them, and in theend their simple but unrelenting devotion to theirChurch and its institutions, has killed the pre-judice against both race and religion which orig-inally battled with a giants strength against the 45^ CANADA: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. one and the other. Let it not for a moment beassumed that in paying this meed of admirationto the Hibernia-Celt, I mean to withhold a tributeof respect and applause to the enterpr
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