Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-01

glory for ever. Amen.
Are these reverential Inscriptions Of
praise dangerous and heretieal? Is tue
worship which acknowledges our Heay-
emily Father as the source Of all power,
as the ruler of the Universe-is that
worship to be denounced and prescribed /
by one who calls himselfthe Priest ofthe |
living God? Was it for this that he
gathered the children of his flock togeth-
Fl, and By threats OF shameful exposure
from Gods altar. persuaded them to vio-
o,ate the laws Of their country-persua-
ded them to rebel against their teachers
persuaded them to sacrifice the great
giftse education?
/ How vain and how shallow are such
pretenses. How trifing and immateTial
are the verbal differences which are now
insisted upon. Does any one fail to see
that this movement Is only settled, and
determined, and preconcerted opposition
to our Holy Bible? Does any one fail
Ito see that it is because the prayer is read
with Protestans that the Catholic chill
dren are forbidden to join in it-lhat the
Catholic priests are resolved TO Danish it
from our schools? Can there be any
more sincere g,ounas Of complaint be
cause the children were called upon to re-
peat the Ten Commandments? Are the
lessons of piety and morality which they
teach offensive to the conscience or sinful
to hear? Ibve these divine commands
lost anything Of their obligations in the
progress of civilization? Has their sub
lime morality lost its virtue ?-is there no
t commandment which to-day Christian
dare disa5ow?
! O,er hree thousand years ago these
: tables of the law were delivered from
: Mount Sinai By our Heavenly Father
t when the mountain burned with fire in
;, to the midst of Heaven, with darkness
t clouds, and tIick darkness'-wben Jeho-
{ yah said unto Moses, Gather me tht
J people togdher and will make theu
j. hear my words, that they may learn f,
t fear ne all tle days that they shall liz,
: upon the earth, and that they may tsacl
+ their ehtl9rei.'
b Has tia, divine injunction lost it
d force? Is i.useful at this hour to teacl
e those Divine commands ;? Who that ha
Il watched the signs Of times-who tha
has watched the winds, and the wave.
" and the dark clouds which drift along on
IF stormy sky, fails to see the object an
1t end of all this movement? No. no, ther
Z IS no fear for the coRsciences of the Chi
r dren; the real objection Is to the Bible i
n self, for, while that Is read daily in on
n schools, America can never, aerer b
= Catholic. 1 am told that the most yea
t. Gus of English Catholics acknowlede
N that Eagland can never be Catholic
h. long as they keep their Saxon Bible.
IT its power over the hearts Of the peopl
Is an Englishma an has most truly and FL
re queHtIy said !: King James version liz,
al in the ear of Briton, ike music th
- can never be forgot Ike the sound
Sc church bells, which the convert hard
n Knows how he can fcrego. It's felieiti
rs seem to be almost things, rather tbs
lat mere words. Il is part Of the nation
mind, and the anchor of national seriou
1t ness. The memory Of the dead pass,
rr into it. The potent traditions of chill
of hood are stereotyped in its verses. T
to power of all the griefs and trials Of nj
he is hidden beneath It's words. It is t
as representative Of his best moments, Al
- all there has been about him of soft, a
Is gentle. and pure. and penitent, and go
re- speaks TO him forever out of his Eaal
he Bible. It is his sacred thing, viii
" doubt has never dimmed, and controv,
Or y never spoiled. In the length a
h'S breadth Of the land there is not an FL
ind lish Protestant with one spark Of rel
hat iousness about him whose spiritual bi,
OF raphy is not in his Saxon Bible Y
Gus al! that Is true! And does any one d.
NE to hope that this book sill be driven fir,
'ris our schools? Never nersr! The 5
ne may turn back in its course, the ST
Bile may fall as the eaffalleth from the Vi
ihS and the heavens may be rolled togetl
re a a scroll, but until We have soId {
DO birthright Of freedom. never, necer '
lat The descendants Of Euglishmen cons
heh that the Saxon Bible shall be banisl
r. from their free American schools. I
Iod- | may be told that our fears are grou
ok less, that they do not object to our 81
ere but to the particular u<e made Of il
leir this particular case. We are not to
who deluded by such specions arguments.
le F.: well know the foe with whom we de
q Of they will be content with any step in
the vance Of II. h.. II the thousandfb ~,