The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-04-10
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEwoRLEANs, SUNDAY ArRII N ,.,o -
REVIEW .oF THE WEEK.

aEVAGW sOF THE WEEK
DEATH OF RELIGIEUsE. NJ Not,
Dame la Salette, March 18th, Sister stani,
laus McKernan, o. s. D., in the twentiet
year OF her age and second of her religion
profession. Early in life the deceased ex
pressed an ardent desire to consecrate he1
self to God in the religious state. Perse
verlng IN her choice, she, in her seventeenth
year, left world whose delights could no
satisfy the loDgipgs of her pure soul, an,
entered the novitiate of the Dominicans
st. Agnes Convent, Memphis. No euloq,
more fitting than the following words, ad
dressed by her Rev. Director to her sorrow
ing parents and weeping friends on he,
funeral: To devote herself to God in the
retirement OF cloister, Sister Stanislaus
renowned the endearments of her fathers
house, Of which she would have been the
idol, and the allurements of society. To
which she would have been an ornament
wisely preferring the glorious privilege of
spouse Of Christ to the inconstant smiles
OF deceitful world" Death found her at
her post, imparting to the dear little ones
entrusted to her charge those lessons of
love she herself had learned SO perfectly
from the white-robed monitors of her child
hoods years. Those that loved her and have
witnessed her life Of humble, fervent piety
and truly edifying death, may they not
hope almost confidently that she has merit
ed to hear from her Heavenly bridegroom
these consoling words, Come, ye blessed
of my father"
DoStT1oNs TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES
The organization in New York called the
Union League" has left the political
platform and entered the theological arena.
With the aid of the New York Tribune and
the So called religious press. strenuous eff
forts are being made to influence public
opinion to the detriment of truth and the |
cause of charity. So palpably erroneous
are the statements made, that even Protes- |
tants have come forward with view to /
disabusing the public mind of the falsity of
these statements. Rev. Mr.. Willett, ON
late occasion, eioquently and ably re-
Piled te the Union League Club, on the
subject of "Grants from the Legislature to
Schools which are not part of the Public
System" In the course of it he said:
1t is true that the grants to the Roman
Catholic institutions are considerably great
er than those made to Prctestants, but
when we compare the magnitude of the Ro-
man Catholic charities Of New York with
those of Protestants, these grants NAV not.
after all, be far out Of proportion. And
there ls one fact, however, which must be
patent to every casual observer, and that a
is, that Protestants are doing little accord Il
ing 70 their means, in the way of alleviating .
human woe, and reaching the outcasts Of |
New York and Brooklyn, as compared with t
he Catholics" o
A PRorEsrANr's OPINION OF PRorrsr. O
Saring Gould, n. A., has pub a
lshed volume called "The Origin and :,
Development of Religious Belief" The a.
york has created no little attention, and m
7hile the author utterly. fails when he
onches Catholic themes, he is mors sue r
essful in delineating the outlines of Pro- ds
estantism, as developed in the thousand tn
nd one scots of which it Is composed. OF pu
uther he says: " He was man of coarse ..
nd vigorous animalism." The doctrine of tn.
he tells us, was simply panthe- de,
M, and Galvfn's belief could in NO sense 1
considered Christian. 'he
Some person. has forwarded to us this of
ork, from which we take the following ex- byt
acts: sen
=. and
Zwinglius had taught that God was in pri,
lite essence, absolute being. The being D
creatures, he said, was not opposed t0 m. ~
3 being of God, but was in and by ~, ,s
n. Not man only, but ell creation, was TAs
divine race. Nature was the force of God n an.
action, and every thing is one. Sin he '''sD
ID to be the necessary consequence of the &c
!elopnent of man, and to be, not a dis pers
bance of moral order, but the necessary into
'cess IN the development of man, who -,
no free will. II
Calvin's idea of God was quite as abso- man
3 as that formed by Zwinglins, but it was San
SO pantheistic, though he did not shrink sent
N calling nature God. The Deity was sett1
llm the great autocrat, whose absolute ri,
allotted to man his place in time and
eternity. Beyond the pale of the CD urch, pnes
Taught, there was no, remission to be
ed for, nor any chance of salvation; for OF Y
Church was the number of the predes- ! nir.
d, and God could not alter his decision c lnS
lout abrngating his divinity He eur .
PIT away the sacramental system if he are l.
to Christianity, it was in name not in and
Try, for his doctrine excluded it as n 81
sssary article. He deprived the atone whic
It Of its efficacy and significance, and he deal
the Incarnation unaccounted for, save peas
he absolute decree of the divine and ' ~ -
trary will worshiped as God. that
. thus speaks of the Reformation and confu
} cardinal principle: a a5 81
1T what was the result of the Reforma- and a
The establishment of q royal ALONG police
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