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They came to this country poor and for the most part deficient in education, 'rendered so by the cruelty of oppression, an oppression which had exiled them. Taunted with their poverty and ignorance by the descendants of those who had oppressed them, they were at last goaded into making a stand for their rights; those once gained (alas: only partially) they began steadily to rise in the intell- ectual and social scale, and to-day we see them occupying the first positions in the Province. The Lieutenant Governor, the local Premier, judges, barristers. physicians and wealthy and influential merchants, all meet to worship God in St. Dunstan's Cathedral, which, Spacious though it is, is far too small to contain the Vast number of persons who flock to assist at the Holy Sacrifice on Sundays and Feast Days.

Tb provide for the instruction and edification of the children d' the Parish, the Bishop has, within the last few years, arranged that immediately after the eight o'clock parochial mass on those days a mass shall be offered and a sermon preached for the children.

From the extreme north western end of the Island where the graceful spire of the church of S.S.Sinmn and Jude flashes the golden symbol of the Christian faith over the prosperous parish of Tignish, to the eastern extremity where the white sanctuary of St. Columba is a guide and a beacon to wave fishermen in peril off the dreaded reefs of the East Point. there is an almost unbroken chain of neat

t and tasteful churches erected to the greater honour and glory of Almighty God. .It is a matter of regret to Catholics visiting Prince Edward Island that the dwellers in the Cathedral parish of St. Dunstan should so lack the ambition and zeal which has incited their poorer c04religionists in the country. to make such sacrificas in the cause of religion. There is apparently no reason why a stately minster should not arise on the eminence upon which grey, old St. Dunstan's rears

its unshaped proportions. There are in tne congregation men of money, men of

generosity and of resource. Should the day ever dawn when, laying aside paltry

differences of opinion and taste, these men should unite their energy and force in

one grand largehanded effort to assist their well beloved Bishop in the project that