[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) PROLOGUE 21/30
The admonition was thrown away.
A month later, the canvass of Mr.Henry George being then fully opened, Dr.M'Glynn sent Mr.George himself to wait upon the Archbishop with a note of introduction as his "very dear and valued friend," in the hope of inducing the Archbishop to withdraw his inhibition and allow him to speak at a great meeting, then about to be held, of the supporters of Mr.George. The Archbishop replied in a firm but friendly note, forbidding Dr. M'Glynn "in the most positive manner" to attend the meeting referred to, or "any other political meeting whatever." Dr.M'Glynn deliberately disobeyed this order, attended the meeting, and threw himself with ever increasing heat into the war against landlordism.
On the 2d of October 1886, therefore, he was formally "suspended" from his priestly functions--nor has he ever since been permitted to resume them.
Another priest presides over the great church of St.Stephen, of which he was the rector.
More than once the door of repentance and return has been opened to him; but, I believe, he is still waging war in his own way, and beyond the precincts of the priesthood, both upon the right of private property in land and upon the Pope. He is a man of vigorous intellect; and he has defined the issue between himself and the Church in language so terse and clear that I reproduce it here.
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