Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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The necessity therefore of being prepared for its efforts must be evident to everyone.
From the general consideration of secret societies, the author turns to their action amongst ourselves, and
He gives the most salient features of British Freemasonry, its oaths, passwords, and signs.
He shows to what extent it differs from continental masonry and how it is essentially unlawful and dangerous.
He then passes to the principal point of his lecture so far as his auditory were concerned, Fenianism.
All that he had stated before here becomes of use as explanatory of the nature of that mischievous conspiracy which had its rise, development, and ending, if indeed it has ended, while the author was engaged upon the Australian mission.
But he has given ample proof of its designs from admitted authorities.
The history of its founders he has taken from a source that cannot be impumed.
The works of the late Mr AM Sullivan of the Nation.
The other articles on the sad endings of the conspirators and the wonderful indestructibility of Irish faith rest upon their own merits.
A discourse which aimed at illustrating the words of our holy father Leo XIII could not be complete without a reference to such societies as the wisdom of the great pontiff has pointed out as fitted for Christian men.
The author therefore speaks in favour of the excellent temperance society he found already in action, connected with the Catholic Institute as a sovereign antidote against secret societies of every description, and as the best remedy for those ills he could not help witnessing when passing through Edinburgh and other great centers of population in England and Scotland.
He plainly refers to the evil which certain idle agitators bring in those cities amongst poor, good natured, but credulous Irish Catholic working men.
He believes that nine tenths of the papulum which keeps such pernicious seducers in employment would be destroyed if Irish working men could be removed from the influence of persons who make profit out of their unfortunate drinking habits, and that misfortune of nearly every temporal kind would cease for them if they became temperate and continued to practice those virtues which Catholic confraternities with strict sobriety as a first rule foster.
He has therefore given his aid in advocacy of such societies as are calculated to keep the Irish in England and in Scotland, and indeed everywhere, sober, a quality which, with habits of industry, economy, and thrift enables them to live happily, and to bring up families educated, fairly provided for, and a credit, instead of a shame, to the country and the religion of their parents.
The necessity of compressing a large amount of matter into the small space at his disposal has caused many of the topics touched upon to be treated very inadequately considering their claims to attention.
He has, however, given as much fact and matter as he could, even at the risk of occasionally sacrificing smoothness and ease in writing.
His desire was to give within the shortest limits as full, complete, and consecutive a view as possible of the whole subject he undertook to treat.
Under any one of the headings given, a volume and in some cases a very large and interesting volume could be written.
Facts, however, tell for themselves, and in most instances he has left to the intelligent reader the task of drawing the inferences.
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