The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-25
THE .goUsfENIoA1 ooUNoII.
Remarkable Address OF Catholic Lay,
st< men, 20 tho Bishop OF Treves.

The North German correspondent OF July
31st says:
The address OF the Catholic laity OF the dio-
oese OF Treves to the bishop is document at
once 30 interesting and 30 5emarkable that we
beieve we cannot do better than present our
readers with the re1t. 10 q short introduction
the menorialists state the motives which in
duced them to tread the un Honted path OF ex-
postulation. An organ Of the Church. the Civil
IA Cattoltca, appearing In Rome, lately prodpc-
ed an article under the form Of q communities
tlon from French correspondent, 10 which it
was asserted that while the liberal Catholics
we're. apprehensive- tho approaching council
would proclaim the doctrines Of the Syllabus
and M the infa!libllity OF the Pope. and hoped it
away to some extent certain Of the proposi-
uons which the Syllabus containedb The trne
Catholics, on the other hand, were ready TO ac-
cept these dogmas with aoolamaHon and that
tnere are even very, many in Franco who
earnestly desire the Council viii complete the
new teDets by adding to them that Of the
glorious Translation 81 the Blessed virgin ID
Heaven. eyGfq !, .- priusr;i ~ "
The following ISIS part Of the address:A, r,
:, When We ax our attention on the position Of
the Church to che State and to modern sooi ETY.
in general, 1T scems to us that .the4llberty ard
independence OF the former .imperatiyely. de-
mald that the spptoaching council shall Jeave
nonnaI no doait possible that bag deanityey re-
TIC governmental forms of the middle ages.
The chief cause of the alienation OF the minds
ot men from the church in our days is the fear
ot return TO those times when The power Of
teaching and laws ora religion based on d sr-
pernatural revelation, when the conscience was
consequently bound, and the dignity or religion
itself, which cannot exist without the v0lunta-
~ devotion OF the. faithful, free ffom all
Legislative restraint, was grayely compromised.
we fully recognise that the existence OF the
state is seated on religious foundation, in SO
iar as the social order established by 1t, and
the magisterisl power. repose on the recogni-
ton OF o living personal God and OF the moral
law implanted by him In the human eoul; but
We are likewise convinced that the sphere OF
the State, which reyolves like the church, COM
Rietesy iIdepsndent in iis own special circle.
ceptlona and moral principles which a-o within
tne grasp OF the natursl mental powers OF
otrlst.n Thst state Hs,s our opinion is the most
these limlts,. and while Measures to revealed
religion, 70 the church, and tho different con.
fesstonsf which acknowledge iti own Religions
and moral basis the most perfect freedom of
unfairly takes ACCOUNT % faf n fhst asn 'Sss Ss
aone without violating the principle OF EQUALITY
people and readily utlijses The higher undsr. a ~
obsn Sa sepss b Sff.
nature, and embody 1t with stin greater ciAsr.
ness and purity In its statutes, IN tbis Wsv (
more perfect harmony. more fruitful activity.
State may be attained than history hss =. yst
witne1sedt and u, tNithsjAndipe this. con,
atets between them still afJss 81 che lives OF
individuals, they win only be such @ more or
iess necessarily arise on the one aide nom ths
obristiapity between. ths silps of the cnureE
and tho State of on other lholh the veaine
ana Alabiity ofsyefyth thing that 70 human.