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I'It isalw.ys labor IJF IL 10 attempt to
Eoye % Protestznta hat we ars sheir very good
We are even dis9ns{ed when We And Catholics
inone country urging Their religion becauses fa@
vorableto monarchy, and ii FanotlE& because
favorable 20 demoe cy; citing The EdxAmpl ples--
quite too nimer6 --of the uacafholic induce
Of our ancestorsin dsohe ting The Church ID Or
der 70 satisfy thecis6 tyrant, whether king nr'
peopes that ina conflict between Charchs and
State we mny be relied ont aide with the state,
and plunge the sword into the beart ofour spir-
II0al mother. tbs to. ssick conduct on tkepart
ofour Catholic ancestors II Is to their readiness
70 sideWith the secular against TIA splflnal at-
tn rity, that we owe thedeeposisS = 4 an.rchy,
shs sshIsT ~ lresx |II sIsI
heathe6lln: Toappsove Is s. 5 j Is = uss :
less. as il IL uneafhoiic. ! The tue poIIcg for
Catholicsis net to SEEK "a. .comrsud themselves
tothe lovers Of the world. but to Calculate al
ways on being persecated. All who will live
godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. -
II we are good Catholics Our home is not in
this world, and thiswerM does and must hate Is.
orthodoxy, error viii pefsecute truth, and the
secular win persecute tho spiritual. Il has
always been 50 from the beginning, aud will be
90 unto the end. Alive can dosis to love our
enemies, pray lorthem who persecute us, and
bless them that curse US, and proceed on our
way N the path marked out BY Dur rtiigion,
without turning to the right hand or the Iett,
looking for no peace on earth, and seeking none
till we arrive in heaven, our home. Our busi-
ness here is to prepare for heaven, to love- obey,
and bear witness to the truth, and therefore to
that which condemns the world. There is no
compromise or cancellation practicable, or to be
thought Of. We must either be true. to our
religion, and thus have all who are not oft for
our enemies, or we must be false to it, and have
God for our enemy and hell for our doom.
We know we are told that the aee Of persecu-
ton is past that advanced civilization has render
ed,ithenceforth impossi6is % reliew old pcnal
laws md to disturb man for his religion. Ev-
en- some Catholics, and Catholic Journals, join
in the disgusted cant as toreligious liberty. tol-
teIdbou, duo tHes uutIhilty VI lic ugc. q w mere
are our eyesf Have we forgotten the arrest Of
the Archbishop of Posen, and the imprisonment
of the Archbishop Of Cologne, a fewyears since,
by the king of Prussia? Have we not seen,
within the last four or Eve years, the Jesuits and
other religious orders pefsecnted in almost every
country in Europe, the Hoy Father driveninto
exile. pious and devoted priests and religious
mossacred or assassinated, and are not theillus-
trious prelates Of Luxembourg, Lausanne and
Geneva, Turin, and Cagliari still iu exile, and
their hocks a prey to the spoier! What age
was more civilized, in your sense liberalization,
than that of Nero, Domitian, and Diocletian
or what people in modern times have come up
in civilization to that of the people Of the Ro-
man empire under the Pagan Emperors! Who
so ignorant of history as to rely on what is cal
led civilization as a protection against persecu-
ton OF the true religiona Who knows not that
the more advanced that civilization is, the more
host lie it becomes to the Church, and the more
cru lily does it persecute the true beIievfrs Dc
not deceive yourselves. Tie age is not one
whit more tolerant Of religion than was that o
N ro or Decius, and the religious liberty which
Protestants talk about is, as we have often tod
you, only the liberty of heresy and infdelty
freedom from religion, and the liberty to oppress
it, to subject it to the state or the mob. Oper
your eyes, and see the whole So called liberia
party throughout the world mad against religion
and combining to destroy its organization, ant
to deliver men to the tender mercies of the IN
restrained despot or the lawless mob, and ther
fepose in the lbrality of the age, and our en-
hghtehed civilization, If you can. The agt
aclaims TO be phianthropic, arc Who knows no
that the characteristic of professed phiianthro
pist is to have heart harder than the nethe1
! mill stone! No, my br brethren, join not in ~
cant Of the day, trust none Of the professions Q
religious liberty you hear, come they from wha
quarter they may ;and above all. put no confdenc
in our cold. material, selfish, heartless moderl
: civilization. Read the New Testament, rea
your tract on Grace, and rely no longer on tn
liberality of heresy or in6delity, on the world
its children. Recall what you have seen ID Eng
land during the last two years. and learn tha
: your sole reliance is on the truth your Churc
Y teaches you, and on her celestial Spouse. w
are prosecuted, we shall be persecuted, and "
/ must make up our minds to be prosecuted, and I
I thank God we are accounted worthy to SUITE
iof his sake; for If we suffer with him we sha
reign with him. 8.
: These considerations explain why it is Catht
It lies are always the object of Protestant persecr
! ton, and why they always must be, as long !
e Protestantism in any form survives, they shou
e also serve to show how idle it is, by any preyar
/ cation or disguise Of Catholic truth, even il
r we're not sinful, to attempt to conciate Protes
Is ants. Catholics and Protestants stand Oppose
to each other as the spirit and the flesh, and the
n is and win be war betwixt them, as long as 4
= world stands. We cannot helpsit, and all =
q have to do IS to cling fast to the faith stand
" the Church with true and heroic courage, a.
:; suffer without complaint whatever we may
es called upon to suffer, trusting that onr good q
e, will abnndantly reward US Hereafter for all J
may suffer for his sake here.
Of W. have been carried away so far by this q
g. cussiorl that we have wellnigh forgotten 9
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