The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-03-19
Signs Of the Times.
frouRrH ARrICLE.)

ie,-every day, demonstration OF N;--tne
sorrows Of the lone man ON the Rock, have
awakened sympathies deeper than the sea
Of Passion that RACES round the Rock -
and high above the roar of the storm that
beats against HIM are heard, like the sound
of many waters, the voices OF three nun
dred millions, who, in the name OF regen-
Grated humanity cry out to the world, 10
Plus and to God ellis wrong is our
wrong his insult is our insult ibis SUI
fering is our suffering; he alone is not
prisoner; our rights, our intereste, our no-
erty of conscience Jour freedom OF 1aitn'
eur Catholic privileges are prisoners with
him. Those Sandman soldiers, who tramp
ed through the eternal city, have trampiea
on our hearts. That cloud above the Yati-
can hangs over us and eclipses our light.
That Robber-K King has outraged. our Roy
atty. His sacriligious sceptre has stricken
us. We denounce the deed I'VE anathem-
atize the Robber and the Robbery Tin the
eternal names of Right-Truth-Falth-
J ustice-God-we protest and still protest;
and never will cease protesting-until the
independence Of our Religion Will oe &C.
cured by the liberation and independence
of Plus"
Who said that the Power of the Pope
was on the wane9 Who boldly boosted
that the influence of the Papacy was van
ishing Who said that the Tiara was mere
ornament on o feeble brow land ire
mendous Powerf-who predicted THAT the
worlds voice was ready to chant the De-
profundis over the Papacy's gravef
False Prophets! ye are like your prede-
cessors }! Foolish takers of vain things y
busb and listen to the worlds voices:-
From every land and in every language
they come but their words are alike and
their tone. Poor France,-the land OF
clory-but now the land of graves, in the
desolation of her heart, lifts her>voice SO
sad; and needing sympathy so much, still
has sympathies tender and touching 1or
the sorrows of Pho Mono.
Brave little Belgium springs to her feet
and records her protest against the wrong
at Rome. Germany calls ON her new En-
peror to protect the rights of Plus. Aus
tria, reused from her lethargy of faith, lifts
her voice in behalf of him, who has suffer
ed not a little from Austrian perhdy.
Spain, in the face of the puppet King
the son of him of Sardinia, protests against
the Father of her new King and tenders
noble sympathies to the Father of bel
Faith.
From the crowded cities of England
the old Prosecutor of the Pope's children ;
and from the mist-mantled mountains o
Scotland voices rise in solemn protest ant
in tender sympathy. Out OF the heart Q
T Ireland,-when was Ireland lukewarm to
= wards the Popes f-come words Of indigna
Q ton af,ame with the old Celtic fir
rs against the spoilers of the holy city. b.
- brave old Ireland would rather draw til
a. sword and go down to battle for Pic Nor
Zh than sneak mere words, most sincel
A. H. though they are, in favor OF the lone ms
DO on the Rock. In the cause OF such a Pc
,st son and such power that race would rat
SIN or unite its protest and record its symp
"' thy in the crimson characters of pure bra
blood on battle-felds. And from end
of end of Europe and from strange LANDS
ng Asir;-from the banks of the old Tlgrls
NJ from the shores of rivers that flow doy
cd through lnuH,-lEou tA0 "AANS W
ol- tary,-from sands of Arabia, the men
II = the East send on their sympathies to tn
se. Father in the West. And from Africa a
ad from far Australia sound voices that sh
'ed that in those lands too the depths of hea
ar have been moved and the height of Fa
,b- have been stirred by the storm that be
lhe against the Rock.
no And the people of sunset-land-the n
in of the West, from Paraguay up to the
req of snow beyond which summer may
re- pass,-they, too, have spoken for their
her, Their and against the spoiler. We h
has heard ono of these men speak,-and
Tue Tue words were as brave and as true as
ties self and, not when he walked the d
not of the Alabama, under the "Bonnie I
l Hm Flag" and sailed the wide worlds sea-
;ri;s search of the foes of his Southern lar
ca was he firmer in look, more fearless
an bearing and truer to His highest impu
q ~ than when he stood before his audi
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