The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-27

II ever religion decays or dies these shores il viii be
because spiritual teachers have like those Of other
lands forgotten and forfeited their high and holy CALI
ing. No nation boast Of pure and indebted re-
ligious sentiment-and without such sentiment IN
the hearts Of the people consistently praesed upon by
them nation be really freeunless that sentiment
the fruit Of broad and universal liberation Of opinion
respect for those differ from us and earnest and
ervent attachment those lessons Of charity love and
goodwill among men, taught and practised by our com
mon Redcemer The profession is nothing If II is not
crowned with works Men may talk religion, but 50 long
as they act politician and raduoe all those who do not
worship at the shrines where they knee themselves their
words are dross, and their intentions evil
Another feature in the present crusade against single
Christian creed is strikingy similar to one OF the inu-
ences that stimulated French hostility in the same d.
rectonwe aude the fact that many Of the most reck-
less and abandoned adventures the community now
in favor Of the new society and among the loudes
howIers against the Catholic religion So was 1t during
the French revolution. Our Angel Gabriel, English
man. answers well to, and is good likeness Of that
Anacharsis Clooz Prussian, who began his assaults
upon ca,holicity in France, and finally landed whole
nation in the arms Of nhdeliy. The extract from
Theirs win show how far in other respects the SIM
itude may be carried In both Christian min
listers deserted their pulrts for politics. in both they
branded all who dissened from them and though in
France the prison and the Scaold did their work upon
such offenders in the United States they deprived Of
the right to hold office by secret inqusiton or denied
the right of suffrage which had been offered to the OPP
pressed of all nations by the patriots of the revolution
and this because of the accident of birth the crime Of
a conscientious belief! God in His infinite mercy, protect
rs from fulfilling the that followed the zealois who
hunted down the Catholics Of Franeel Our beloved conn-
try has suffered enough before the nations Of the earth in
being held responsible for the deeds OF frantic demagogues
and ambitious priests Let the cup OF nRdeity pass from
her now and forever.
There ia another stern and truthful lesson taught by
his era Of the French revolution which cannot be too
nrofopndv studied FREscH PRESCRIPTION FAILED TO De
srnoy THE CArHoLlc CHURCH First we see that nfdely
rose upon the ruins of that Church and finally that when
i n6delity fell Caholicity grew great and strong From
that moment it continued to advance Its votaries in
"a the recollection of their surngs in the revo
ton were descanted upon Napoleon took the prosecuted
creed under his imperial care Each succeeding monarch
and every succeeding change the ruler added to its
err And now we behold the bayonets of France protecting
the pope Of Rome from the efforts Of his people and
Protestant Europe submitting to the act Such may b
called one Of the results Of faith prescribed
people and an infatuated combination Of class OF re
ligonists to put down another Such in word, was thu
> result of know-nothingism sixty years agol
We are a Protestant--born and bred Protestant w
discuss this question: keeping its religious aspects quite gu
0 of view We plead for cause higher than the cause
doctrinaires-we plead for country. We reproduce
the errors Of other days warnings for the present
recall the history the French revolution not to mourn
over the decay Of Catholcity but the growth OF in
d delty as result Of religious prescription We pom
to the excuses of the French clergy and their Frenc
followers to show that the be foowe
by the same cruelies and the degradations,
. they initiated these shores LIT 4s he admonlshe
be extinguished by persecution All history prove
this Cathocity could crush Luther but enabled hir
still further to extend his magical influence Cromwell
made converts, it is true but he also made the faith h
prescribed stronger than Cranmer and his associate
did die in vain. The blood of the martyrs ia tn
seed of the Church. This is the lesson of impartial hso
y, and it right that should recall and reproduce
whenever anatcsm, in the hour Of bind success ana
binder ntuation, would lay violent hands upon right
that come from God and not from man. The DECAY 0,
RELIGION WHENEVER MEN usuRp TIM
ATTRIBUTE EXERCISE OF CONSCIENTIOUS
BELIEF, THEIR rELIow-cREA ruREs
I DEITY.