The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-07-31

AZ IeVuuOn paper, ooecluG I0Ee0 the moch1nel
~ established by the Atheists Of England
a. the propagation Of their pernicious prime
= Piles. It was there shown that popul,
lecturer named Bradlaush had appoin
ments in various parts Of England to les
= ture three times week for the balance
!. the year-that his lectures were attende
in crowds by the working men, and tha
no had a journal which circulated by thou
!, sands, instillins the same poisonous doc
trines. By our foreign exchanges we lear
!. that on the I'd Of July there was held Il
Paris an International Philosophical
Congress-" composed of Free thinkers from
all parts of the world. The names consti
tuting the committee of the association
show the nature of the doctrines they advo
, cate, and the danger there is of their spread
amosg the people. Michelet, Henry Mar.
, tin and Jules Simon are popular names
among the minimizing masses, and thei,
writings are circulated everywhere. Their
object was publicly announced to be the
extension of their organization so as to
combat the Catholic Church and to check
the growth of the Christian idea among
the young and among women. Two papers
are printed in Paris with view to propa-
eating their principles. Thus it will be
seen that these Atheists are the allies of
certain Protestant sect, who have one OBJ
ject in common-"to destroy the Catholic
Church." The Paris correspondent of the
| Savannah Republican, gives us glimpses
OF the details of their intentions, from one
| of whose letters we make an extract:
These men reject creed, but claim it's
hottest precepts. The Church, as an organ
ization, they condemn. Society itself, they
assert, should embody qualities just as it
does courage and honor, and it is by allow
Ing them to be claimed as monopoly by
the Church that men of the world have
come to France for a code of morals |
for themselves They seek, therefore,
to take Afom the clergy all State pro-
vision for instruction and charity, and
ternatlonal leagues. They profess to be the
devotees of what in Germany is called alb
solnte truth, towards which all other sects
and religions stand In the relation of Ian
guage to ideas. They are mere means of
expression, and as such useful to the de-
divine. Man alone is that. The progress
that these views have made in Europe, of
late years, by their alliance with socialism
in the government, has been great cause
Of apprehension to rejecting statesmen,
and has caused the reaction exhibited in |,
the recent elections in Belgium and Baya-
ria, and even in Austria toward Catholi-
cism. Men fesl that there must be something
settled, and if Christianity cannot command
society by the reason, then they would
have 1t written opon the minds of the
feelings. 'sAnd if its precepts are good,
why seek to destroy the organization which ]
for eighteen centuries has protected them ~ !
The prominence given to moral questions
in the legislation of England and France
during tho nat year, "a distinct from mere
Church provIlion, IL Che result Of thia school .
Of thought. The past week it has taken Q
definite shSpe in the French Senate by the q
of a bill, by III. Duray, the 9
Minister OF instruction In the late Cabinet \
of Napoleon, for "free Instruction. BY 9
'esence and theology and atheisns to assert 8
by their own organs, in their F
OWN established colleges, independent of Y
my control Of the State. At present this 9
liberty is enjoyed, except that the State G
will permit no one in State professorship Y
Icing this M. Renan, who wrote the Life + +
IT Christ" was few years ago forced to a
esign from the College of France. For the a
anne reason Jules Simon himself, who was ii
me of the leading members of the late
Philosophical Congress- although q p
member Of the French Institute and at one +
lime government professor, cannot now y
leliver his lectures. As member of the q q
legislature he, however, takes his revenge, 7,
nd his speeches on every subject land he T
peaks on nearly ally are filed with his Pc B
uliar views. At the close of each session W
hey are collected and published in vol b,
me and circulated all over France. Sub Of
ects OF such a practical character engage "a
he Legislature in America, that it is diff &c =.
ult to understand the character and extent VI
f this moral proselytism of French legis- ri
ators. 1t can be compared to nothing ex- +
ept the constant preaching of abelitionism G.
a former Congresses Of the United States, &C
18th this difference: That was directed pr
gainst an institution, this against the "
upon which are founded all the ~ ~
1stitutions, political and social, of the 90
ountry. 1t is not an easy thing for Napo- fo
ION to combat these views and at the same
me escape the charge of being under the Ia
,fuence of the Church, and yet this is JC
hat he is attempting to do by putting for p
ard in the government young men who n
ave not compromised themselves in the "a
5ruggles of the past ~ ~
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anks to Mr. c. c. Haley bookseller and stationer til
Commercial Place and Poydras street. for q copy of 81
ct seat Of war In Europe. The eyes whole
sid concentrated the gigantic struggle be- an
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