By Decree dated June 15, 1891, and just issued to the different Bishops, hie Holiness has instituted a Catholic Hierarchy in Japan, The Metropolitan See is established at Tokio, with three suffragan Sees, at Nagasaki, ut Osaka, and at~ Hakodate. Yo the Archbishopric of Tokio, Mgr. Pivtro Osouf has been nominated; to the Seo of Nagasaki, Mgr. Alfonso Cousi of Osaka, Mgr. Felice Midon; to that of Hakodate, Mgr. Alessandro Berlioz. Tablet.
We may quote in connection with the establishment of a Catholic Hierarchy in Japan a letter written by Cardinal Manning, and recently published in answer to " request of the Rev. Dr. Lunn, editor of The Keview of the Churches, that the Cardinal would contribute paper to the Round Table Conference of that organ on the Reunion of Christendom. His Eminence writes as follows My dear Dr. Lunn,—I will not' again refuse to send you a few words, but ditticult for me to do more than listen to the voices which are reviewing the Tu May, 1848, I saw and spoke for the first time with Pius IX. He questioned me at length about the Christianity of England, and about the multiplicity of good and ble works done by Anglicans and Dissenters, ending with the Quakers in the great prison reformation of Mrs. Fry, He then leaned back in his chair, and said, as if to himself, "The English do amultituds of good works; and when men do good works God always pours out his grace, offered day by day for land."
My poor prayers are Since that time every year has multi kinds of goud works in England, can be no doubt that an especial pow the Holy Ghost has breathed and breathing over our people. I gladly repeat the words of Pius IX, fur I rejoice over the good works which cover the face of our country. My daily prayer. for England, and go far as it has been in wy power I have shared your good works and united with your peaceful and beneficent alme. Tu the words which open your first number I heartily agree. You say: "The tendon ey of religion in our day is towards unio There has grown up in the last 60 years a vivid sense or instinct that, division is evil, and the source of evils, The desire and prayers for the reunion of Christendom have created movements and organisations both in the Anglican and in the Dissenting bodies, and your Review of the Churches is the latest and most resolute manifestation When I held back from writing.as one of your contributors it was not from any slackness in desiring that wil our hearts may be drawn into unity, but from unwillingness to strike a note out of harmony with you. You have many ways of seeking union. We have but one. Union in good works has indeed a constraining moral influence in bringing the most remote men together, and charity is the way to Truth: © Ifavy man will do His will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God." This is a safe course for those who are divided from each other. Controversy repels, but charity unites. Your present action cannot fail to bring many minds into closer union of goodwill.
But this is neither our need nor our method. Union is not unity. And unity is not the creation of human wills, but of the Divine. It does not spring up from the earth; it descends from heaven, Cyprian truly describes it s. the raiment of our Lord, " without seam, woven from the top throughout by heavenly sacraments." It is Truth that generates Unity, and it can be recovered only by the same principle and from the same source from which it descended in the beginning,
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