The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-09-18

attention IN the midst of your plous gagements-
come to beg for a prayer. Prayer that is our poll
tics; that is our great interest III the events of thi.
world. To speak of God to men. and to speak Of
men to God, that is our mission. = =
We are heard praying for Syria and for Poland,
for England and for Russia, for China and for Africa
for the victories of France, and for the victories oil
the faith; for those who suffer, who weep. who hope
for those who groan and who pray with US. and also
rs well for those who do not pray, who do not groan,
who close their eyes, who forget
This day, Sabbath of the Passion, at this hour,
when the standard of the cross is hoisted over all
our temples, at the sight of this holy emblem of de-
liverauce and of safety, | say to myself, My God
died upon the cross for all mankind, and yet there
are men who still are cruciied. He died to deliver
all from all bondage, and there are men-the noise
which is now making about this great question pain
fully recalls TO me-there are millions of men lCho
are still in Sldrery!
Good Friday is approaching. That day, the Cath
Ole Church, standing at the foot of the cross, with
eyes fixed on those extenIed arms which sublime
prayer, Christians, heretics, Jews, Pagans; and we
will utter with her these noble words Let US
pray God the Father, omnipotent, that he may
cleanse the world from all errors; may remove disease,
keep off famine, open the prison doors, and 6reak the
chain an SuRdor 20
That is the pure spirit of the Gospel and of Jesus
Christ; is 1t not thus that the divine Redeemer of
mankind announced his mission to the world /?
The Spirit of the Lord is bestowed on me,'' said
he, - to teach the Gospel to the poor, to console those
who weep, to cure the broken hearted, TO preach
GeilUeTdHce TO tie captures, and to those UhO are in
bondage, ~ii6erty.''
And, after the divine Master, is it not St. Paul,
one of his most fervent disciples, who shouted forth
to the Pagan world the sublime cutlery, There
exist no longer either masters or slaves. for we are
all brothers in Jesus Christ =" Well, even at this
day, in Christian lands, after eighteen centuries of
Christianity, after those CORDS Of Jesus Christ, after
that cry Of st. Paul, there stiH are siaUeS! =
Gentlemen, 1t Is for this miserable and cruelty
oppressed portion of humanity that | come to ask
your prayers, Yes, let us pray; let us pray for
those poor Si0Ces. = =
1t is wished to persuade me that the interests of
our manufacturers are with the South, of our COM
merce with the North. = " = y | don't know
all that. But what / do know is, that there are
still four millions of slaves in the United States,
two millions in the rest of America, together six
millions of slaves in Christian countries eighteen
hundred years after the Cruci6xion; what [ do know
is, that the horrors of civil war have been let loose
by this fearful question. and that the peace of the
world is threatened, and is already disturbed.
And what l am more happy to know is, that, by a recent and
important act-a message OF the Sh March, sent to Congress
prudent, equitable, peaceful, have been
understand the objections OF those who plead for slavery
1 do not desire to discuss them at length. Not that they do not
tell me that the slaves are happy. Yes, perhaps, under good
masters they eat they sleep. have some hours OF repose, per-
domestic heartfNhave they the he fnmiiyeha W. t has f 1reS M
Poor disinteresied ones of the human family, they have lost not
are sometimes allowed a plate of lentiIs, proclamation is
I'll touched upon the theory, L would show that the unity of
the human family, which, with us, is not an opinion, but a dog
it be well understood, a dogma, and even one of the
grounds of our faith has become a dogma Of science-I would
that the unity OF the human family, the principle of dig I
condemns and rebgkes slavery and I would refer to the works
F FL and n. 0uatre 81 spa and ~ fbe 'e caiaEra+c DII others VI VI De
de Broglo on this great subject. 1 would refer also to
The admirable work of Mr.. WALTON upon the ''SIavery of Anti
Iuity," and to the great and liberal work OF NJ. Augustin
upon d" Modern Slavery Here are men and writers Of
authority than those vain sophists who, alone, at this
ire through hatred of Christ and his church, attack, with all
he efforts of science in desperation this Christian dogma of
y, the fraternity, the liberty of mankind. But let us pass
You refuse to set slaves free. because =, ~ ,yev -. iro
Of liberty and 1, tell You that this incapacity is kept
laves to stlgnate under it. CAUSES |
1t is also the teaching of experience that the slavery of the
slavery OF blacks-has an origin. and a consequence,
qualy detetable Its origin was the treaty. the ignobie and
bargain, condemned by Plus III. in 1872. by Paul III. in
XIV. in 1899. The consequence is, the destruction Of
go ~ - ,,S Yg f- ~ r"rt the Gn n Ht"r[E H%e only ol the slave but OF
the slave to read and to write in favor Of liberty.
There are then on the same earth with myself children of God.
nj children of men like myself, saved by the same blood that
am, destined to the same heaven that 1 am, five or six mil
oas Of my fenow-beings.in the United States, in Brazil, in
'uha' IN Surinan, WHO are slaves-aged people, vigorous men,
'onen, young Gtrs, Children. Just heaven! Is it not yet
practice the ever enduring law, - Do not to another that
hich you would not he should do to you and that which you
My reverend brethren. the bishops Of the province Of Bor-
esux, assembled in council at La Rochelle in 1853 with the new
ishops OF the colonies, three years after the emancipation of
slaves IN the French possessions, pronounced this solemn
approved by the Holy See:
The Catholic Church has ever deplored the cruel slavery in
q multitude Of men are detained, to the great detriment
Their souls aud has never ceased to labor to remedy so great
i lE-N A-'N4 Nt fiNN-ONi'AA VI lASG t'pAG NhihS. aNi u 50
other apostolic utterances, the ardent vow which i offer
lat this cruel slavery may cease at length throughout all
Tristan countries. r 81
In those touching universal prayers which you recite each
~ in the evening exercises. and in which the church commends
God the Traveller, the sick, the agonized. the afflicted Of every
nd, after the afflicted, commend ia your hearts the slaves. 1
* Il OF you, sirs-I ask IL Of all my diOcesans. The moment
ems proPiuous. Pray God to accomplish the work begun,
III II your prayers are not heard today, repeat them to-mor-
W, until At last they be accepted Of Him whom We do not
call the most mercfful-the God on high.
Accept, cherished co-workers.. the fresh assurance of my deep
ID aTtctionate devotion TO you in the Lord
FELIx. Bishop Of Orleans.
Orleans, Sunday of Passion Week, April o, 1862. s
Two such prominent lights as these-Gasparin
Id the Archbishop of Orleans-appearing in
lie European sky, must exert a powerful infu-
one on the enlightened political element of
urOpe and the other on the Catholic church, {
ere and elsewhere throughout the world. Most
uly and hopefully does Gasparin say, in closing I
volume entitled - America before Europe ="
'' The whole world is engaged in the contest. The
,rising Of this people upraises US also; this specta-
Of sufferings nobly accepted, does US good. We
i that one of those storms which purify the atmos- =
ere is passing at this moment over the globe. = : +
e question in the end is q second creation of the Y
iited States. This is carried on in the American
,thOd, that of Washington, that Of the war of 1912,
Al which begins in weakness and ends in grandeur.
,, the sixteenth president of the United States will
be the las; no, the eighty-ffth year of this peo-
will not be the last their flag will come ont of d
pierced with bullets and bIackened with pow
:, but more glorious than ever, without having let
], as l hope, in the melee q single one of its thirty
r stars
SUGAR REFINERY.-This new manufactory is now q
successful operation. We shall give q detailed
,ount of it in an early issue. .