The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-02
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Truly have We fallen upon evil times
The terrible chastisementS of the sins OF q
wicked and God forgetting generation have
come upon the world in these our days.t
Murder and all uncieanliness, rioting ana
drunkenness, impiety and blasphemy, and
avOwed infdelity are, still more than the
material progress of which it is 50 proud,
the prominent marks of this generation.
Nor have these evils been cOnfned to here
teal and scklAmatical natiOns; with shame
too, have fallen into these denominations, as
did the Hebrews of old when they alone,
of all the tribes and nations of the earth,
professed to worship the true God. Ter
rible was the manifestation of Gods wrath
when His own chosen people consummated
their career oflvickedness by the crucitixiOp
of His Divine Son. From that hour their
doom was>sealed, and the blood of God
man lay, like a sea of liquid fire, over the
once favored race. &
Who sees not in the course of affairs To-
day the sad counterpart of those long gone
scenes of Scripture historyf What nations
4 of our time are more unfalthful to the max
inns of religion, more given up to the dread
materialism and sensualism of these latter
ages, than those that are supposed To oe
within the Church Year by year we see
France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Ireland, ana
the Catholic countries OF Southern yer
many, permeated with the revolutionary
spirit of the times, and the revolt against
all authority, human and divine, which are
its natural offspring. Devoured by the
restless spirit of worldliness, the carna
. Judaism" of old time, Catholic nations
Q departing from the ways OF their fathers
;, rush headlong into the melee which threat
!, ems, at no distant day, to plunge the Worit
}, in anarchy and utter confusion. Even a.
(; the Jews of old rested not in their mat
;. career till they had nailed the incarnat
= Lord of Heaven and Earth to an lgnominl
;. GUS tree, so has the hatred of authority
r petted and pampered and fired to fury u.
It the irreligious and anti-religious organs q
J. this evil time, eliminated in the spoliation
d deposition, and probable exile of the ylca
g of Christ from Rome-trom the City OF tn
n Apostles, the City of the Popes, the centr
r. r. of Catholicity, the metropolis OF the Catno
l. lie world! Do Catholics, who may b
f. carried away by the senseless cry OF {" til
Of Universal Republic" know the awful exteI
in of the calamity that has befallen the world
Will they, at least, pause in the mad caret
le in which the Prince of Darkness IS whlr
III ing on the blinded race of man, and renee
rs ere it be too late whittier they are gong
~ whittier the unholy spirit of revolt, OF III
no bridled license, will carry poor mlserab
"a man. when once he has thrown OF the I.
he ssraints of conscience and religions WI
is they figure to themselves the grand y,
ut mournful scene where, in Eternal Rome, u
as Head of the Church, the successor of :
nd Peter. is braved, insulted and "order'
ne OUT by the minions OF Victor Emmanuel
nay, not of him, but worse still, of Mazzi
"A and Garibaldi 2 Will Catholics think
, rs the terrible drama, the mighty epic,
M which the greatest of modern popes, t
Use illustrous Plus the Ninth, is the cent?
ho figure? Will Catholics learn, eren now,
ry; think, to speak, to feel, to act as Catholic
led War is upon the earth-nation is VI, agalI
IL IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is already, and tam
en- soon will be, following in it's train W
s Su the people begin to fear the God who
s ls ticts such terrible chastisemems? w
md they think and pray "a. Y. Tablet,