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not monks ? And why did you pull it off again when the Queen's 

 proclamation forbidding monastic gowns came out, if it was not a 

 monastic emblem ? 



I have always understood that the Oratorians were the Jesuits of 

 Jesuits ; that where the Jesuits could not get in the Oratorians did. 

 And surely you of the Oratory, who have got so much money together, 

 have not falsified your character for high intellect, political intrigue, and 

 the hold you obtain over your followers to get their money. 



Dr. Dalgaims quotes Father Taber's relatives. I fear that they have 

 suffered most acutely for his conduct ; and when they have seen family 

 after family separated, and seen the members of these families, over whose 

 mind he had the singular power of exercising so complete a control, 

 estranged from brother and sister, they may well be expected to have been 

 horrified. 



This powerful control of one mind over another seems inexplicable, 

 though it is true. The separation from family and loss of property is 

 too bad for complaint ; and how can the widow or orphan complain when 

 I scarce dare complain ? 



It is not worthy of the members of St. Philip Neri to deny they are 

 monks,- that they belong to an order and do not belong to an order, as it 

 suits their purpose. Dr. Dalgaims says they can leave without dispensa- 

 tion or permission, either from the Superior or any other ecclesiastical 

 authority whatever. This does not correspond with that implicit obedience 

 which Faber exacted. And when Dalgaims says that "the obedience 

 which we pay to the rule of the Superior has no place here," it is in entire 

 variance with the action and statements of my relative. He told me that 

 obedience to his Superior was absolutely necessary to salvation. I have 

 urged this matter over and over again, with the same result. 



My relative's life and death was an example of the doctrine of implicit 

 obedience. When Faber ordered him to leave his family and friends, he 

 did so ! When he told bim to make his wiU, he did so, and in Faber's 

 favour. 



Now, as a matter of fact, from the moment my relative came in contact 

 with Dr. Faber, he acted most implicitly as he was directed. My relative 

 on many occasions pointed to the value of this implicit obedience, as by 

 that they were enabled to embarrass the Ministry and Parliament. In 

 fact, so great and necessary is implicit obedience, in the opinion of the 

 Oratorian votaries, that it is respected as far more important than truth. 

 Truth, he has argued, is doubtless a great virtue, more important, however, 

 for mercantile circles than for religious circles. In fact, tnith is very well, 

 but faith is higher ; but highest of all is Christian obedience. 



My relative has declared to me that the community could dare the 

 Government and Parliament to interfere with them ; that they could cause 

 a riot when they liked ; and triumphantly pointed to the Hyde Park riots 

 in illustration. He always represented that the Ministry were afraid of 

 them, because the members acted together, and, by throwing their weight 

 in on even-balanced questions, could decide the issue. This was always 

 pointed out as the aim and effect of religious houses, and the obedience 

 they enforced. 



Are the counsels of this great country to be emban-assed by the 

 Oratory? Are Whigs and Tories — each honestly fighting for their 



