The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-30
rha Goanal OF the Poor.

10 afks DflSuU. MT. i1uluy SIaSSu Cha' H-'
;eHpenenthad spoken of care for the sick,
dumb. blipd, etcy -bnt had forgotten an
other hiaTk Of the creed Of 'Nazareth, that
the Gospel was rpreaoheilto the poor We1
regret the MORNING STAR has not room to
reproduce the whole reply to this clap-trap
-contentihg ourselves with the closing
part:
4 And now We come to another fact, still
more significant. Not only is there no
preaching to the poor, but the thing preach
ed to the rich is not,the Gospel, :nor any
thing more resembling the Gospel than q
80 The only preaching which even
aims at being popular 10 ontraycrsial, and
that not merely negative, but fibaid. 1t
would, perhaps be too much to expect from
human frailty to attack hostile system
without hard words, aud if this were al,
one might feel sorrow, without imputiug
SIM But to deal with solemn tenets held
not only by the vast majority OF, Christians
in all ages and countries, but also by a.
very largo aud powerful section within the
Church Of England, as mere SUBJECTS, for
scurrilous TESTING or filthy inuendo, can
hardly be thought evangelical. 1t is enough
for preachers Of this stamp land there is
scarcely q diocese in Ireland where they do
not carry on their evil works with the full
connivance of the ecclesiastical authorltiest
stitute bitter hatred of Roman Catholicism
for personal religion and now and then as.
a browning triumph, to turn backsliding
Roman from q possible penltent into
disappearing inGdel. The Gospel as taught
in this wise may be sufficiently exemplitied
by the dying testimony of one of its pro-
fessors, as he closed a by no means edifying
life: "Im u poor man, and couldn't
afford meat more than once n week, but /
took care always TO. have it,on n Friday
No one had ever taught him to be Chris
tian, and he believed that in being an Anti
Papist he had fulfilled the whole duty of
man. What made the Gospel of the poor
a miracle in the first days of Christianity,
Il miracle ranked with raising the dead and
casting out devils, was not the bare fact
that men without wealth were suffered to
become disciples, for that constituted no
mark of distinction from Jew and Pagan,
| but because tremendous social revolution
was undertaken and carried out by q
/, handful OF iiiiterate artizans. = When a
luxurious oligarchy, itself at the mercy of
| an absolute despot, oppressed a world of
| slaves, and of clients and ffeetlmen scarcely
above tie level of slaves, when narrow
| eliques CT philosophers aimed only at i'm
1 parting their systems and theories to a
select knot of cultivated hearers, leaving
the herd to Wallow in its Ignorance, when
! the statesman pohdered only how fresh
! schemes of repression might be devised to
CuED iuc uIcaQSN upllSiuS VI tnc piitch
l mass of crime, hunger, and hopelessness
over which society .was:daiutily picking its
itsteps, when q voice was heard declaring
that slaves had social rights, that the
peasant was capable of learning n, philoso-
| ply purer, deeper, md struuge than Pinto
and Aristotle had ever thought out, and
that rulers existed only for the benefit of
subjects. No wonder the Empire put out
it's might ten times against the Church, for
| it was plain from the first that the two
must come to the death grip sooner or
| later. But what trace of such - Gospel as
this can he found in the history of the Irish
Establishment 7 Is not its whole career
the very contradiction of this proclamation,
an incessaut denial of all the rights of
citizenship, nay, of many of the rights OF
humanity, to every person placed by birth
outside a narrow pale, unless he would
consent to purchase privilege at the cost of
treachery to every tie and association
which men agree in counting sacrcdf II
would be easy to show, moreover, that
even If this heavy charge were not indis-
putable, that Professionalism, as a creed, is
? religion of the rich, and not of the poor.
1t is . far more money getting form OF
4 belief than any other. One scarcely OK
aggerates in saying that the eager pursuit
of wealth, even by the most honorable
tsietst,s, is ipeontpa ibie many Divine
aud Apostolic warrington Holy Writ. One
= dues not at t.xaggerate say ing that
!
to Eastern and Western Kalendars, anG
which comes closest to the heart of the
y needy and suffering, is Sometimes very
IT different from that spirit which, AS tourists
u delight to tell ms, makes tire protestant
Cantons in Switzerland so much richer thar
J the Catholic ones, made Chaplain SO mucl
!; more we'll to do than Assist. But, if Mr.
Claiborne Hardy meant Mammon- worship
FkeP ssP q q IS fflf 6sQspelr Jle ought tt
pave .heen more explicit and to have
fsnggsSt8d, hike ArelIbislop Whatley, Easy
"a 5ss sS9fis 6HTAI0aN5 Mdteta ns sbe prope
slepd for s0llfs hang eIiBg fox he klad tiding
been sosnnehamore eager about the wealth
!dhQf, the gEstabliAhment-T1tb than about til,
III doCtfines Of the Church, could pot hav,
dope other than assent to such a View. x.
EDUCATION OF CoLoRED people.
Savannah Repn67icdn of the Esd inst says:
The Roman Catholic Church has inauguratet
a system for the education of the colore,