Something for Father Carroll to answer.
Editor of the Gael.
Dear Sir : In your last number of July, 1894, I
see a communication from Rev John J. Carroll
showing the antiquity of the ancient language of
the Gaelic or Celtic race, from words derived from
that language, many of which he cites.
He numbers among the descendants of Japhet
from whom the Gaelic race is supposed to have
sprung, the Phenicians and Carthagenians. Here
a difficulty occurs to me which needs elucidation. I
am at a loss to know how these two peoples can be
of the Japhetan race. The oldest and most authen¬
tic history known to me is the Book of Genesis. In
the 10th chapter of that book we read of Chanaan
one of the sons of Cham or Ham, and that the limits
of his posterity extended from Sidon to Gaza (or
the Mediterranian Sea) and around to the Dead Sea
where Sodom and Gomorrha stood, and in fact
through all that country now known as the Holy
Land, which was afterwards possessed by the Jews
or Hebrews, descended from Heber, a son of Shem.
Some of these Chanaanites could not, or were not,
dispossessed by the Israelites, and amongst them
were those that dwelt along the sea shore in the
country known as Phenicia.
The Chananean woman from whose daughter our
Saviour expelled the evil spirit lived at the city
of Tyre. St. Matthew who wrote his Gospel about
six years after Our Lord's Ascension, mentions this
fact, which shows that these people were known by
the name of Chanaanites at that time, about A. D.
39. Sidon was named trom the eldest son of Cha¬
naan. Tyre, about twenty miles south, was founded
by a colony from Sidon, and Carthage, in Africa, was
a colony from Tyre. How, then, can these people be
classed among the Caucasian or Japhetan family
When did the Japhetas come there? What hist¬
ory relates it?
— Subscriber of the Gael.
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cumlocution, hence we say that if you were one-
half as patriotic as your Wheeling brethen the
Gael would be a weekly journal today, to be hand
ed down to those who come after us.
Canada — Cornwall, Rev Doctor Neil MacNish, a
proud Scot who looks with contempt on the Anglo¬
Saxon fossil.
Ireland. —
Cork — Coolmountain N S. D O'Leary, per Rev.
E D Cleaver, Dolgelly North Wales (omitted from
last Gael).
Donegal — Mullaghduff N S. Dl Gallagher, per
our Irish publisher, P O'Brien, Dublin (omitted in
the March Gael).
Limerick — Ballinamona, M Gleeson, per T Mc¬
Eniry, Phila. Pa.
In the coming elections West Britons will be so¬
liciting our votes as Irishmen. The only claim
they have on us is, that they are Catholics; but the
Italian and the German Catholics have more claim
on us for they advocate the preservation of the lan¬
guage ; the West Britons sneer at it.
The Providence Gaelic Society, on
Sept, 30, gives a grand concert and
reading in Infantry Hall. The Lect¬
ure will be by President E. Benjamin
Andrews, of Brown University.
The Philadelphia Philo-Celtic Society meets at
Philopatrian Hall, 211 S. 12th St., every Sunday
evening, where it imparts free instruction to all
who desire to cultivate a knowledge of the Celtic
tongue.
OBITUARY.
Michael J. Fleming died Oct. 20th, 1898. He
was a native of Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He
came to America, landing at Boston, about forty
years ago. He was one of the first settlers of Be¬
ment, III., (where he died). Mr. Fleming was in
the mercantile business in Dublin before he came
to America. He was a thorough Irishman, and of
excellent education, and a consistent Catholic. He
died at the age of sixty-three fortified by the rites
of the Church. He leaves a wife and nine children
to mourn his loss.
Also, the genial, patriotic Henry Durnin of Tin-
gapahoa, La (late of Mayer), one of the first sub¬
scribers to the Gael May their souls rest in peace.
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