The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-01-09

never before even heard of them, nor of the
country they inhabited, nor of the churches
they built The fact recorded by our wise
and learned contemporary has never come
down to us from history, either scriptural
or prsfane.
He may be very wise and very-learned,
and we very ignorant, but he ought not to !
have intimated so to US. Neither should
he have referred to us by a nickname,
which does not beiongto us, and is neither
literary ip its conception nor legitimate in
its application, and can only expose those
who deal in such slang to be looked upon
as regardless of gentlemanly courtesy as
well as Christian charity. He should have
remembered that there was, no argument in
an epthet, no logic in sncer. 1t isFa
bad cause that requires such weapons,fa
mere carrying out of the advice said to
have been given by that bitter and unscru-
pulous enemy of the Church, the intidel
Voltaire, to his disciples: " Keep throwing
dirt at her, some of it will stick"
+ Our learned contemporary is very unne-
ccssarily troubled about the probable pro
ceediugs of the great Council of the Nati-
necessary to notice loose and irrelevant re-
marks, or idle speculations for which there
is no foundation. But when he supposes
| that priests can violate public deeeney and
still continue to hold their places under the
protection and covering of the Church, he
meFely draws upon his imagination for the
SANDER he insinuates. The Church, no
doubt. occasionally discovers vicious OF
! disobedient- priest among the flock, but
when the great number of her priests is
! considered, the occurrence may be looked
upon as rare indeed. But whepevcr one
ventures to Violate public decGnfy, or Is dis
obcGient, and refuses to repcntand submit
I sheputs her mark upon him, and says to
him Go, You shall TO longer remain in
me, nor with me; you have forfeited your
=. place among those who are referred t" IN
the beautiful prayer which the Son OF Cod
addressed to his Father on the night OF
the Last Supper, when he used the
following words ''Neither pray for these
alone but for them also which shall be-
tlieve on ne through their word; That they
all may be one; as thou, Father,,art IN me,
and l in thee, that they also May be one IN
us that the world may believe; that thou
hast sent mc.''> The Church has no use for
the Achillis, Gavazzis, Chfnniquis, HoSans,
nor any of the tribe, within the walls OF
her sanctuary. She turns them out OF her
garden, while the friends of our wise and
learned contempor2Tx rQn, d9 t SeslYG tbffAY4
plain that when the Pope weeded his gar
den he always threw the weeds over on
his side of the wall. But things have
altered since then, for now they seem>to
have a laundering after the weeds.
Our wise aad learned contemporary has
been guilty of violation of sentlemanly
courtesy, # not of common decency, in
connecting together in the same paragraph
the name of beastly a creature as
Beecher with that of highly respectable
priest, and insinuating the parallel be
tween them when he talks of "a priest ad-
ministeFiHg the holy sacrament Of Baptism
to a fire engine" Is it possible that he
does not know what the nature of sacra-
ment is, what they We're instituted for, and
that they are administered only to living
human beings. Or is it really the fact that,
to crafty his appetite for SANDER, he was
merely throwing dirt 7 Does he not know
that the Church teaches her children that
every good thing and every good thought
comes from God, and that they ought to
pay homage to Him, by dedicating every
good and useful thing to His Holy Name
Does he not know that in Catholic countries
where the good old customs of the Church
have not been suppressed by the power
of unbelevers, that the priests bless with
holy water and prayer the land in the
beginning of the season, the seeds that are
sown in it, the beasts aud the implements
that are used in its work that they bless
d. churches, public buildings and ships, and
that, doing so, they inculcate the homage
their people ought to pay to that Great
Being to whom they are indebted for every
| good thing? Does he not himself bless the
very meat that is prepared for the use of