New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-16
WILLIAMSBURGH ITEMS.


The WmLIAMsBURGH CATHOLIC INsrI-
rUrE-REy. Mr.. RoDDASs LscrURz-SUBJEcr,
"THE CHRISTIAN AND THE PAGAN WoMAN"-OE-
ing TO the severe snowsorm prevailing az the time.
the lecture-room of Central Hall was not as crowd
ed as en- other occasions, but the audience made up
in enthusiasm for what il wanted in numbers. Mr..
Roddan prefaced his lecture by some preliminary
remarks, and then proceeded. Assuming that the
ladies present Catholics, 1t is not necessary to
prove that Woman is the equal of Man. They have
learned from their atechlsm that Woman was Gre
ated out of Mans very flesh, and is therefore part Of
himself, iIseparable from him in her life and eter
nal DESTINY. They 10 not believe, with the phIlosO-
phers of this and other ages that we are only Irn-
proved savaEes-OelOngHg. IN the hrSt pace, TO the
brute creation, and improved by degrees until we
came 10 stand erect on our hind legs they do not
believe that Man or Woman IN any stage, was
dog or an oyster, neither 90 they believe that
wicked and fallen woman ever let gave birth to and
educated good and vIftuOuS CHILD
The nineteenth century sthe century OF centuries.
This IS the doctrine OF the philosophy OF progress
Notwithstanding, II is a m0nsiIOus deluslon No
doubt If you consider the century III an Industrial
pont of VleW It's progress would seem to shame this
assertion out OF confidence. But the end OF the
steam-mll and the factory, and of the Telegraph,
and of Manchester and Lowell, Is not yet come and
that alone Will tell their value 10 man and to woman.
There were great countries before America AID
England they possessed hgh clYiuzatlon they
were Persia, Assyria, Greece ana Rome lhey nave
passed away Rome had the same confidence, or
nearly so, as did America, She spoke OF her power
as indestrsctibe and eternal. We possess one adj
vantage that she did not we have religion ana
church she had species OF religion, but no church
But church means the true church, because false
church IS worse than no church. The true church
is the guarantee of the family and thereby the guar
antee OF the government and security. Government
cannot exist without vItuous citizens. There can
not be yiItuous citizens without the grace OF Cod
And there is no channel for the grace OF God to
flow through but the church. Add TO this your own
experience Did you ever yet know a pad CaIholc
VINO was vrtuOus and good citizen
Europe row is without the guidance OF the
church II has entered into the valley oithe shadow
OF death, where are rottlng the bones OF Assyrla,
and Greece, and Rome. The Europe OF to-eay Is
not the Europe of old. The Europe we hear ofnow
on the arrival of every steamer, kossuth, OF MAJ
Uni and of Danqu the Europe OF the revolution
lists There are three parties theIe--the Christians,
the Revolutionists and the Socialists The Chrls
sn says in presence Of the peril of the times, turn
10 the Church: the revolutlOnSt says, destroy All
existing Governments the socialist says destroy
the family.
Now arises the question, how does this affect
woman In the dignity OF the family consists the
dignity Of woman. In destroying the family YOU
degrade woman and the only guidance OF the family
is the Church Wherever community seeded
from the Church Woman became degraded Whef-
ever a community returned to the Cnurch woman
was restored TO her dignity. Wherever the Cnurch
if rejected, Woman becomes absolutely corrupt
Wherever the Church governs, Woman's dignity
her place as the pure and noble mistress OF the
family Where she is so, there must be good and
vlruOus citizens. The children OF TO day, Will be
the worlds masters OF to morrow, and II is needless
TO say how far their hearts Will be formed by the
character, the influence, and the counsel OF their
mOth6Ts. -,
over before the birth OF the Redeemer. BY mans
tyranny, and the evil teaching OF corrupt phoso-
ply, the image OF God vas almost erased from her
soul By the birth OF the Savior and His death she
Was not alone redeemed from the thTaldom OF sln
but from that Of social tyranny. He came into the
world as an infant dependent on the care and tender
ness of mother, and he renamed with that mother
Ill he was 30 years OF age. The doctrine OF the New
Testament, that gives to woman the same Immortal
destiny asman, redeemed her from Delng the save,
the toy or the instrument of mans sensual indul-
pence Where man marrles as many wives rs ne
choose and then dscards many as he likes society
cannot exist. The Nation must fail where the
wives ana mothers are degraded and fallen. Christ
ordained that man should be the husband OF one
wife and raised marriage to the dignity and sancty
OF sacrament The family Is the safeguard oil con-
seIvaiism And the family is protected. fostered and
dIenifed by the Church While Europe was 90 adlent
70 the Church. the relations of the family were pre-
served In their integrity Out ofths sprang the great
aud the good Of Europe-S ants, Scholars statesmen
UerOes-anG as long as the family was preserved
Europe was free. Now Europe is not free. Now the
family is lot protected, the Church does not rule :
and 10 this disgrace and degradation OF Europe, eV
and wicked women conduced, such as EilZaOeth oil
England, who, by certain rhetoricai inquire COM
mon In English history, Is called the virgin queen
4 short glance here a, the Pagan orlnhiel woman
According TO Eastern theology, woman WAS aoml,
led TO Heaven. But so were cats and dogs. Ana
moreover the beattude assigned her when In hed-
ven vas to be the slave OF man, and TO minister 10
his pleasure or caprice. In China, and Wherever
men of that race 1--we. females are held III 50 con-
temptibe account that female infants left to die
Ano even when allowed to grow up, they are al ways
looked on a. unfit be trusted with the care Other
own virtue woman is never allowed to see the
man she is to be married until she is sent to his
house: and hen her chief ambition must0e to prove
she is worth what she cost lac eshIndnon Ia Wnich
woman was held IN Greece and Rome, can De seen
in the writings of the lasscalipOets-ln AnacTeon,
Ovid and Catullus When it's considered that iher
hcentious writings were publicly read IN mixed
me etngs In presence OF high born Roman and Greek
women, and not only Listened 10, Out cneered ana
appauded We must blush 20 fad woman exuting In
the nfamy and degradation OF her SEX There Is IN
deed one Christian country where woman IS the az
souie slave OF her husodnd-HuDgary when tne
young Magyar demands the nand OF MS iutuIs Wllt,
he asks her In undlsguiSed language 10 oec6me ms
drudge And when she consents she must hold the
plow While he drives the hOTses-she mends the
road while he sits and whistles
Having shown that the Church Is tae pr0te c,or OF
The sacred relations Of The Family Is Gear tnaI
whatever has for lis aim the oveTthro" OF the
Church is mimic al to the family, to Conservatism
ard to government. Protestantlsm mas thaI ailn'
and there FORE Professionalism is nmica to Lae inter
estS OF the family and 10 the freedom ana uue ~S
ni,y of womaIhOOd. This may be consldeIS1ai % ~
fensiye Even go, It is the TRUTH anu u shou.c W
snolen Whneyey then NAV belong to Protesian1lsu.
a woman, a. all events, should not 80 800 sbs hears
be reyoluionisi SOCIALIST az Kossnth and
sees HIM throw up cap for The os5 iUs in HI.
he strives she should utier aoJ "aLnas ~ - "a
ear for OF that liberty the degtaa'. -
VII, be- must be, an inevitable result; Of the de.
The ' E rapid s' wsS S he at
eTaoea stare VI. W Essence of the influence OF the
io1 1s Of 70 the morals OF Pans, which ne SAD,
70 The ss WS%sa. RSs
severe tn1es "a no hourlshed at them, and sid
u tbey ought to go West and make
nh ihe MoImons the Hungsrians ana oInet eA
traerdlpary people. He was iouoiy chee'eU ''A'
end.
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