The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-01


Ao, orr II allan citizens attended numerously last
,,d. evening in the Sunday School Of the Taber
r.e,s Ia hear the eloquent preaching Of their dstin
s,uisbed countryman After the prayer OF sour Father
which art in Heaven" the orator announced that the
subject ofthe lecture would be The duties OF Italians
towards 6od themselves and all their fellow men, We
must learn to fulfil all the commandments Of God to re-
spee His name and not to do to any fellow creature what
you would not should be done unto you. The religion of
nature is clear conscience and honesty may add also
true patriotism that Of God is faith and by works oil
charity, not by long prayers and superstition shall
never exclude any person possesses all these things
because he should not believe do My opinion Is that
the Great Master of all has not created millions Of souls
for an eternal dampaton for not having been bap.
tized with water Those who have not received the gift
of revelation will be saved without law by their natural
virtue which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost the others
who instructed in all the evangelical truths Of the
Gospel must be baptized by water and believe, to be
called saint The honest pagan, baptized will
be saved by his honesty; aud will millions of people
who born before Christ This doctrine is certainly
contrary to the teaching of the clergy OF Rome notwith
standing man may be innoeent, moral and charitable
recommend to you, my Italian brethren not to use in
vain the of Cod blaspheme and ayoid swear
ipgour duty is pect Him do in our prayers
BAsphemy is more common ia Catholic countries than
among the Protestans. 60 TO Naples or Rome, where
the of the people IS more superttous more ogot-
ed and fanatic than religious there you will hear
God nroSsned every instant and the names of the apos
Ties Peter and Paul and Of the Virgin Mary put In rdi
Guile and blssphemed as mere joke; what mas the
Church of done TO put stop TO this scandalous
vulgar practice2 Did she act with kind and christian
teaching with moral persuasions No-with the In
ouisition The Dominican tIars amused themselves bv
putting lock through the lips OF the bias phemers and
exposing the tortured trangressors at the door of the
church curing the Sunday service The tortured
generally the poor because the rich people could pay the
tar, which the lnqustors put every individual who
found guilty Of swearing This is not the way TO
abolish basphemy it is not by burning alive the accused
as Saint Louis of France practised but teach them
better morals We Italians the more we become desi-
rous Of being eancpated from Rome and foreign des
potism the less should proane the name of God. |
remember that in the beginning of the popularity of
pins * when the Italians thought that he would have
been the savior Of Italy basphemy totally banshed
from the lips Of the Italians, and ii heard to
God in vain he was called spy OF Austria and not
the son of the Pope. After Plus TX preached
on blasphemy in St Andrews Church. in Rome you could
not find = single citizen Tho would have dared to be
marked out q basphemer but this done for
the of his Holiness than from respect God
member Of having the ferryboats Of the river
Italian blasphemer cannot be Of Plus TX" IT, then
Italians ceased 10 profaae the name of God to
please the Pope let cease swearing for the sake of
God himself
Our duty sancify the day which should be
dedicated to the service of God. You have six days in
the week for your use Why shall
one also To our divine makerY III am not a pharisee
divide the Sunday into two partone for the edidcat0n
of the soul and for instruction. and the other for repose
Instead OF frivolties, read chapter of the New
Testament; and do not smuse yourselves, has been
lately in New Orleans under the very OF the
n " B W,
horrid bull and bear fight. But ii | condemn those
violations OF the day Of God, do not approve of
the practise Of certain Protestant countries, where
people think that by going to church five times Sunday
and eating cold victuals they better the Of
God. am an independent man, and as such am free
to express my opinions. In some parts the people
would never dare TO trespass Sunday outside the
door OF the house for the purpose of taking walk.
Instead of this they keep themselves very retired ST
around table and after ha wing read the Bible they Eli
up glasses of whiskey toddy and continue their Sunday
gossip for several hours until their hearts are merry
pf ding If 6av i'm
today prefer to walk or other occupations which
not be injurious to the body. Do you believe, my
brethren thstt will be possible for you to open in this
city Italian chapei-not Protestant but Christian
one, the Church OF St. Paul? Although shall
not remain here longer than two weeks, / hope to
tablsh among you Italian worship, directed by an
Italian and by this you viii repudiate the ISLANDERS of
your enemies who say that, having abandoned the
Jesuits you have become infdels We must do justice
to ourselves, and must feel self love- and
personal ambition but sentimental love Of justice for
nationally and cause am man. and an Italian
and, what is better Christian In every circumstance
of life have been placed by misfortune, have never
disgraced nv country pether at home nor abroad and
in order that obtain among foreign people their
respect and sympathy We must show ourselves indus
trous not to be ashamed of any honest trade
may by circumst be mpeed to undertake In
London the Italian society had fun1 Of 5000 sterling
but, against my WILL they distributed this money for
charities instead OF employing il for OF ndu sty
and, few months after, there neither the 5000
sterling the committee have enough Of Ame.
RIGA to be able to that any man, with good health
and good will gain his livelihood better than in
the Old World nd by economy and moral conduct put
aside part Of his TO become indie pendent
I recommend you also temperance and sobristy. BY
this would not be Represented by you orator Of
the temperance society Iaughter) / shall
speak in favor Of the BODY OF teeo.alers to Italians
here or in tay in the sense it ia understood in Amercs
and in England. l shah say nothing against it
to Americans while am here, because foreigner
must respect the Laws OF the country that gives shell
ter and St. Paul says Do use wiae if can scanda
lze your BROTHER But 10 Italians of Italian REFORM
have to preach the pure and true gospel of Christ
And now has not ChIist turned water into vine and
not wine into water tBravo) ] cannot dsePprove
of the drinking Of vine and liquors, shall
preach two gospels as some persons do, by explain
ing the part which suits their doctrine and leaving
aside what is in opposition Let any TO Italy
and introduce the Maine Liquor Law and shall oppose
him-I shall comoat his tyranncal theories MANY speak
upon temperance and the gospel because they find
which passes through the mouth that defles man but
what comes out of the MOUTH Also, st. Paul says
take wine for your own and benefit and Il
preach temperance shall speak against the gospel II
is good for lady who sits al the day chair reading
or knitting to drink water but for poor blacksmith or
laborer who works twelve hours of the day by
swallowing water he viii become a consumptive. Ii 20
to Italy and speak against wine they will YER we
pages that wine is approved and drank by Christ
himself. But it is said that drinking is dangerous
Everything dangerous, when you it with mode
ration Italians, remember that the
eve Of our regeneration While the Protestants
are sleeping they do not perceive that the tenn
perance society il Jesutical movement not because
that institution preached by Father Mathew but on
account of its tendencies The Of
society papai obe-binding person, By OATH not to
pany with those who do not belong to the total abs
nence society These Protestant teetotaers should
reproech rdcHle Catholics not eating meat on Fri
day or fasting during Lent while they prohibit by oaths
and anti constitutional laws, people from drinking any
strong beverage Ho. shall they reprosch Gregory VII
for having established cebacy among priests The time
will come when the Americans and English will learn 70
embrace all the papal rules Of fasting and other ab.
nencies In the same way, to prevent adultery should
we destroy all human beings, prohibit matrimony
to prevent robbery should prohibit holding property
and to prevent forncaon should Danish all women
from society yet the temperance would burn the
root Of the vine TO prevent drunkenness have been
present at some wornens convention. Qanghter.) /
shall respect this delicate who bring no other strong
argument in defence OF their than to wish that
should i've for few days in the their
husbands shall NOT say anything against them, al
though they placed in different condition than at the
time OF the Apostle Paul We have even "curate-
women and, doubt they take great care of their
fosks. daughter But / would inform these Jealous
women and their temperance advisers, that they
make good by the torture and the bbet They must
reform the morals Of society They will say that hard
task but it is rational and will be more permanent.
Spread education and you viii abolish drunkenness With
all the temperance societies in England (supposel 70
hau drn rJa