The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-23
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We take the following ffom the New
York World, mersly repeating its conclud-
ing words: !" which Of all these sounds
like Christianity ="
We do not affiict our Monday morning
readers by regular reports of the dismal
trash which overfows from too many of
digestion Of the first day Of work, and
more than neutralixe the day of rest. But
we are sometimes tempted to pick out oc-
caslonsl plume from the theological pud-
ding. On last Sunday, for example, at the
Grant and Coltax Alliance"-a curious
kind OF church-the Rev. Iren@us Prime,
from whom something more decorous was
expected, "made q statement that the
meeting was not q substitute for the great
Evangelical Alliance meeting, which had
to be postponed, but it was simply meet
ing to hear aud to welcome the delegates
who have arrived. He said that he would
willingly put off the convention for few
years if 1t could be held in Rome, and that
the Pope might be by that time converted
and could be made the presiding officer"
In Brooklyn, az usual, there was Of course
"high jinks." At TIE openiDg-we shall
not say cOnsecration-cf a new free church,
its shepherd, the Rev. Mr.. Talmadge, said !:
"When we began to put up this building l
prayed that, whatever it might be, it might
not be like q church, and I believe my
prayer has been answered"
How completely, is apparent from de-
scriptiOn taken from q Republican and
friendly journal, which says: I" OF modern
structures it resembles nothing else so
much as q CHROME tent, unless it be the finer
would be. expected to disport himself the
minister breaches, and where the horses
are wont to train Mr.. George w. Morgan
sits and plays the great organ"
Then, too, the rusticating and rollicking
Beecher came back to his children "ruddy
and corpulent." In how devout and rever-
entail q frame of mind he returns from
looking "through nature up to natures
God, may be inferred from the following
which We give without comment: Gen.
Sheridan stood with King William OH the
heights of Sedan watching battle, but
William looked not upon Aenhict as a
general, nor as a mere spectator of an ex-
citing contest, but with paternal interest,
for he had two sons in the fierce fight. just
80 it is our Saviour stands upon the thresh-
old watching our struggles in the fight he
took upon himself"
Happily, other and holier words were
uttered on this desecrated day. The voice
of stranger was heard in the land speak
ing words of gentleness and peace-not
one of sectarian asperity. not one scurvy
joke, not one profane sllusion. The Ca
tholic Bishop of Charleston preached in
New York, and used these solemn, gentle
words /: 1.-TWO great events mark this pres
emit year-the Council of the Vatican and
the great war between the two most power
full nations of Christendom. Shall these
two in any way be connected Nova
days think one in q hundred would feel
disposed to smile at any one who would
place them aside by side. What influence
can these few hundreds Of old men who are
now assembled in Rome, in the Vatican
Council, exercise at all to be compared
with the grand, the great world-results of
this gigantic warfare7 And yet remem-
Der, as child, hearing one truth-that the
thunder which rocked earth to its summit
passed quickly away, but the still voice of
the preceptor would sink into the heart
and memory, become part Of his being, and
for years afterward, SO long as he lived,
would be producing it's effect. The world
has seen other councils before that of the
Vatican, and the world has seen, alas too
many wars before that which is now raging,
and yet history tells US, no matter how
furious the war, how great the commissions
of nations seemed at the time, before many
years the progress of human life, the ad
vancement of society, peace and tranquility,
would efface the effects and memories of it,,
Which of all these sounds most like
Christianity
A NUNS EFFoRTs.-A correspondent of