The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-22

our glory to combat them; but for triumphing
over them it needs not TO ignore their exist
ence and energy to conquer war, to say to it
what our Lord has said TO death-there must
needs be waged war of determination
against sin; against sin of society as against
that of the individual; against sin of indi-
viduals as against that of kings. It needs to
read and to expound to the world.
which does not yet know them, those
two grand books of private and public
morality-the book of the Synagogue writ
ten by Moses with the fires of Sinai and
transmitted by the Prophets to the Christian
Church; and they have our own book-the
book of grace-which expounds and COM
pletes the book of the law, the Evangcl of the
Son of God. The Decalogue of Moses and
the Evangel of Jesus Christ; the Decalogue
which declares justice, in pointing out in the
lights of justice the fruits of charity the
Evangel, which declares charity in pointing
out in the roots of charity the seat of Justice.
Behold what it is necessary TO affirm by word
and example; behold what it is necessary to
glorify before peoples and before king8 l
thank you for this applause, because it issues
from your souls, and because il is
rendered to the two books of God.
] accept it in the name of these two
books I accept it also in the name of
the sincere men who are grouped around
us in Europe and in America; for IL is stri-
hlllS ldCJ JuCI0 Is no pltCe III IDe sun OF inc
civilized world, save for these religious socie-
ties Catholicism, Professionalism, and Juda-
ism. The absence has been regretted of
peace catechism. Forms more detailed or
more suited to our actual needs may be de-
sired, but | dare to assert that it has been
made. You have only to unfold the lessons
of the Decalogue; you have only to apply to
peoples the morality of individuals and to
break down that barrier of lies-one morality
To
lie life. Thou shalt not kill, says the eternal
command; but does it solely condemn the
cowardly and cruel man who follows q victim
into the shade and buries the knife in his
heart or blows out his brains with q pistol?
Is murder no longer a crime when committed
by wholesale, and when it is the deed of a
prince or of deliberative assembly? What.
Shall you be able, without violating the
law of Cod without rousing the con-
science of man, without bearing upon your
forehead the sign of Cain, and without heap
ing upon your head Goals Of fire-shall you
be able to open to the sun of history those
vast fields OF carnage, and to devastate with
canister shot, for your caprice OF for your pur-
poses, hundreds of thousands OF human crea-
lures? Cain Cain, what hast thou done with thy
brother Abel? Thou shalt not kill, says the
law; and it says again. Thou shalt not steal
Here is poor man. His wife and his chill
an infected bed, in one of those habitations
SO frequent in the middle of great Cities
where luxurious palaces stand. This man. in
the fever Of grief, III the temptation of u soul
troubled by tears. which he has drunk from
the cheeks of his wife and from the hands
of his little children, seizes a loaf or piece
of gold and brings back life in default of
Joy into the abode of hunger Human
Justice pursues him there; it bears him away
from that mourning family; it strikes him at
once in his love, his honor, and his liberty.
And now see q government which dreams of
[ know not what rectifcation of frontiers
without; of L know not what skilful diver
sion within: Of / know not what snares laid
by glory for liberty and in awaiting the
Judgment of history and the more assured
Judgment of God, the public conscience it
self will, perhaps, glorify the fate of SO many
cities and of 50 many Provinces the hypo-
critical or violent inQuisitiOn of a whole peo-
| pie Well, /, a minisser of the living God.
my hand upon the Decalogue, I dare to say.
if there be sin in the first case, it is a venal
sin; in the second case, it is a mortal crime.
| Thou shalt not desire these things in
| thy heart continues the inspired book and
| in fact. before the God of the Christian con-
science, evil is not only in the hand which
| does it; it is also in the eye which covets it,
| in the thought which meditates it. Oh kings
| oh powers or peoples because the peoples
| have also their madnesses, and the democracy
its fatterers which destroy it, as the personal
powers have; whoever you be, kings or peo-
pies, thou shalt not covet Thou shalt not
say, await our hour as the brigand waits his
also, in the obscurity of his cavern: you shall
not breathe in advance the odor of the blood
which you did not dare to spill. Thou shalt
not covet You see, gentlemen and ladies'
it is not catechism to be made-it is a his
tory to be remade. 1t needs that we should
no longer be taught from our infancy that
the highest glory is that of conquerors. What
needs to be told to your children or mothers
who hear me, is that the man who has made
two blades to grow where there was but one.
has done more for humanity than the con
queror who has gained twenty battles 1t is
that they ought to have for the independence
of nations the same respect as for the chas-
tity Of woman 1t is that they would be as
coWardly and as criminal to insult it in the
case Of "A neighboring nation as to suffer it tc
he assaulted in their own country And if il
were war OF independence, l would be the
first, if not to wage, at least TO preach it. II
the flag of France were at the frontier to de
fend. but not to attack it should be rent Will
shot, blackened in the smoke, redeemed il
blood. We would all surround it, and i
should not recede. Dear and glorious flag
ii the hands of soldiers fail thee
those of woman shall nail thee to tn,
staff, and it shall not recede | have
Just spoken OF justice. 1t no mor
suflices between peoples than between indi
, Viduals Along with justice there must b.
charity. Why is the law, so-called, impossi
BILE to fulfil so long as the Spirit Of Grace i
, not in the heart? Ii is because justice b.
itself is grievous; il limits our right
, by the rights OF our fellows; it limit