New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-01-22

tal. and tne great max VI the south the apostle OF
aggressive Slavery. But could the great heart Of
Religion be kind.ed within them their gigantic
powers would be exerted 10 the task Of founding
| the State on the divine ides Of Jesg. Men ike
| these are always with Let the Church bap-
| TIE these with her hsllowing influences and then
their Pow er shall be eXerted 10 creating systems
| Of equity, their Ambition satisfied 10 performing
| the ministries Of the Seraphim. These SHAH or
| gsnize Christianity in Courts and Institutions
shall be the Constructive Priesthood Of the I n.
verssl Church.
| '. The Worlds ffth estate is that Of PiHaH-
/ Mr0DV. There are men and women. everyv here,
who must expend life in personal contact with
those who suffer, who are oppressed, who mourn.
/ They deal with the individual, not with the state
Their work is 10 upiit the fallen, 10 elevate the
! ignorant, 70 heal the SICK - REDEEM the guilty
i They DO not work nfermedIately by the slow
process Of changing institutions, but operate d.
/ rectly, by Individual contact upon the victims Of
| Circumstance and wrong. Ia the day Of the old
/ Catholic Unity these formed frstefnities Tor the
/ purpose Of combining Individual with associative
| action. One order assumed the care Of the aged
/ poor; another Of orphan or founding children
/ another Of tie religious culture Of the young
! Others yet exerted their powers IN times OF war
fare and pestilence, binding up the wounds Of the
| soldiers on the battle held, or tending the dying
| left by all in the sgones Of the plague. Those
Brethren Of the Jsis and Hospitals, those Sisters
| OF Charity and Mercy did blessed work for man.
| We may trace their course through these waste
medieval centuries as We track rvulets through
the desert. by the living bloom 81 fragrant benef-
cence and good will that sprang up around their
way.
| Now Protestautism has secularzed Philanthro-
py. 1t has allowed this great current OF Providen-
tal influence 70 escape from the Church 70 choke
az It's source or to waste itself in numberless di-
vergent channels But Christs blessed T Fraternity
OF Mercy, though unrecognized cannot be dsband-
4 OH sIa
be true " their instinct and their fate Struggling
for three drear, dumb centuries for organization,
this tendency has at last broke forth IN the Reform
Movement Of the Age. IL Is beginning 10 assume
form and method. One band is IN the prisons Ia
boring for " him who has no helper " another goes
down 10 the very brothei seeking to uplift poor
trampled woman 10 her celestial sphere Of inno-
cence another seeks 70 protect the widow, the
stranger and the istherless and another stIll 30
strip the letter from the slave.
But this great current of influence Is turned In a
great measure against the visible Church OF the
times. After seeking fellowship and imploring
recognition alter being rebuked from the pulpit
for working miracles Of healing the Sabbath
day after being deceived by hollow promises and
Knocked by continued evasions it has arrayed itself
against the visible forms OF Religion. The masses
of HeiOmers, as a class, denOunce the Church as
corrupt, spostate and false. To me It seems that
their view is oue-slded, and therefore incorrect
but, be that It may, those who in the Powder
tai order should be the Churchs Missionary Priest
hood It's drest foes. They circulate every
where among the masses and array against the
visible Church, the moral indignation Of Mankind.
But though they war against the Church. they can
| not succeed without 10. Lacking It's mild love,
they too often revilc and deiemc their adversaries
and wanting its apostolic herOlsm, they grow cary
IN the strife. The scattered bands OF phllantTO-
pists often waste their energies In abortlve expcr
lments and destroy their influence by mutual re-
ordinations. The best men of this type see and
acknowledge IT, They own their need Of Divine
Unity representing Christ on earth they wish to
be empowered " it'll its authorities and hallowed
with It's conservation.
Letthen the Church arise aud establish its or.
ders of Charity aud Mercy, composed Oi those
who wish wholly to consecrate themselves to the
work OF seeking and recovering the lost. once
more let them emerge from her portals IN their
white robed and radiant professions, yet return
not 10 the cold tOrpor OF the monastery, bat 10 the
beautiful amenities of united home. Once more
let these ministers OF love bend, like watching an
gels over each couch OF iOrsakcn suffering and
lonely death circulating like life blood from the
Divine Heart through every member OF the suiier
| ing humanity oil God.
vi The Worlds sixth estate is that Of Ile0ih.
This class carries the commercial intercourse OF
the earth and absorbs 10 itself the surplus wealth
OF nations. 1t is time that the provdential use
| and mission Of Capital were recognized by all IL
has been W ell that the world has had a class OF
men disposed to gather and preserve that surplus
product of Industry which otherwise would have
been expended Ia the predigal luxury OF the Court
! or wasted in the brutal orgies OF the Ignorant or
used to stimulate the destroying energies OF War.
| Well say, that masses OF wealth should be laid
| aside against the hour Oithe world necessity and
| the Church call
| Now the Church must recognize the providen-
tia mission of this powerful and universal class
It must cease alike from ianstcal Agrarianism
| lid rf4ms "a 81
| the great concentrators OF Capital TO its cOmmu-
| mon and in giving fellowship require obedience
| Ii must point out TO w ealth its divine and wait
| Ing mission. The duty Of this body OF the Church
| shall be 10 endow the free Universities OF Hei-
cous Science and to rear the asylums OF an unsec-
tarian Philanthropy, to create institutions that
! shall give employ ment and culture 20 the unem-
| poyed artisan 70 fill the hands OF Benevolence
it'll its precious clusters 70 open 70 the public It's
| galleries OF Music and OF Art TO build temples Of
worship where rich and poor shall gather on equal
| terms to a common communion, and TO sustain and
promote the aims ofthose religious teachers whose
hearts and lips are glowing with the Christian In
SEPARATION. Thus the Capitalist, best in receiving,
| shall on giving, be dOubly blessed, and w ealth be
consecrated as the great Amoner OF the Church.
VII The Worlds last estate is that of IVaHt.-
This forms distinct grade and interest Our DIVINE
Master has said: 80 The Poor ye have always
| with Won" The poor are not eminenty ignorant.
finement, Genius Religion have their representa-
| tives among these men OF sorrows. Now, IN
our time the masses Of the Poor begin 70 level at
the Church deadly hate. Those who most OF all
| require It's divine. coHsong and sustaining Infu-
ences are for the most part driven by distust into
rejection and denial. They rush from their IN
plted agony to the dark legends Of Materiallsm or
| to the impractlcable visions OF the Owenite.
They are alike orphaned OF God and Hope. They
iy in despair 70 the destruction OF all laws and the
subversion Of all society. And oh blame not
those little ones of our good Father If they are
thus msddened and esusyed for once the poor
were the hope OF the Church, and sent wisdom by
its eounsels and devotion to its affairs and yielded
a sacred band, the iorlorn hope OF piety, most
brave in the iercest battle building OF their I'm
pregnable spirits bulwsrk against the foe. They
| never abandoned religion TIL the Church aoan-
doned ,hem-abandoned by delivering them bound
hand and foot 70 the extortions OF sthelstic Nam
mon-sbandoned BY refusing to near their means,
like the means OF some dumb creature IN DIS
tress and by driving them with ignominy from
| It's locked pews and It's select communlon-aban-
doned by forgetting the Injunction, Feed my
lambs, and by yielding them To the sheaung aid
the slaughter without pity and without remorse.
Once more Christianity, the religion Of SUI