The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-13

zion or Q people known to civilization, and
there will point to you teacher. OF the Gas ,;
sionaries, forever preaching and teaching:
FORMING ali the world OF flesh holds dear.
Follow me from Zone to Zone. from the . sun;
Torrid from the rising OF the sun to the SET
ting thereof; and wherever we fnd Cathonc
Missionary, there TO- WI We ma th sno Sburcs
teaching, refining, elevating their sex spread.
ing christianity. and ut all times and in all
places, and under oil circumstances, perform
ing their self-abnegating, self-sacrlhcing WORKS
of charity and mercy,
FesriD % ne thought but God.
1E RESTING = meath eat lis 3d.
It isa universally recorded and well known
fact of history, that during those times OF per-
secution, of anarchy and bloodshed. denomln.
ated by posterior historians as the dark ages,
when ali other schools of science and OF learn
ing were crushed beneath the crimson car of
Revolution their every vestige wiped away
by the bloody hand of Mars, the Church alone
preserved, unadulterated, her teachers and her
schools; and to her is the world indebted Tor
arts and sciences that would else have been
swept away and from them have flown the
sciences and arts of the world-Geography,
oIoey. all found birth, as sciences, in Catholic
| Italy, and were first taught as such IN Rome.
| Paintings, that seem to need but the breath OF
life to make them real, are iouno IN hGme anu tha
pulsiug blood to make them move, are fo o
| in Rome and there alone. Music-the Mise
rere that Gregorian chant that seems 70 EARN
choir around the Throne above, is heard in the
Si1tine Chapel in Rome, and there alone.
Architecture, that seems beyond the eo pe
heusion and ability of man, is found In Rome.
Poetry was Graded there. Rome fostered the
first physicians of any note. Our law books
are filed with Justinian law The orator must
| be Ciceronic to be perfect How well and truly,
then, did Macaulay, the greatest of historians,
denominate the Catholic Church 40 the Mother
of Sciences-the Foster Mother of Arts" Our ga,
to be- the best and most successful schools III
the land and yet they are the most detained,
the most bitteiiy opposed by all other denomi.
nations and their ministers. But in spite OF
ali this opposition, and their strenuous efforts
to nut them down, still they ontnnmber, still
they succeed and prosper, much to the chag!l No
an 81 hese must saw that
within my experience in life, l have never
, known of O Catholic college OF convent, OF
: even day school, once established, that ever
} failed.
Take the South throughout during. the try
ing times Of her late civil war take all hel
cities that had Catholic schools before the war
and show me the school existing then that ii
{ not existing now, and that did not, in almost
. every instance, continue during the war; and
in most of them, us here in Shreveport, YOU
will find many of the same teachers, in the
' same garb, and performing the same routine o.
{ arduons duties as you might have seen then
ten, fifteen OF twenty years ago-no poorer, TO
d they could not be no richer, for they wonls
9 not be. Why is it, then, that in the face OF al
J, this opposition met with, our Catholic school
9 succeed so we'll, when others fail and pas
II awayP I will answer the question. To me !
g is no mystery to any understanding CATHOLIC
= it ia no problem difficult to solve The reason
simply this Our schools go hand in hand ,rith on
religion wherever you nnd find ca
I tholic school; our schools are but branches am
d parts of that ,chole, the Charch, and the Divin
n Creator who established the Chsrch promised
a. of the trorld, and he therefore gave to tina
Y, Church the power and wisdom, the eiemen'
le and requirements necessary for the proper an
ID successful management of all her parts. In
l. religious organizations known as Orders {
Of Communities in the Church. the lives of who's
I members are devoted solely to God, whose rule
q, and regulations are based upon their rel1glo
ne and it's principles constitute the main elemeI
,r- requisite for the successful management OF tn;
i'd branch of the Church, her schools.
bh Now, what are the traits and characteristic
KS of that element, which renders it SO eminent
fit for it's occupation, and so indispatably su
es cessful in the attainment of its object al
he aimsP Observe their lives, read their rule
o. understand their religion, and You will at on
know and see the secret of their success
sci First, the Church teaches us that we are N
ar- created for this life alone, but for another al
in a better; that each one of us has rocafiol
st, that God fits every man and every woman
j a certain station and calling in life, and gran
'se them the graces and wisdom requisite for t
ng of these communities have satisfied themselI
he they have a religious calling-that of devoti
he themselves to teaching and works OF char
he for the honor and glory of God.
val The Church, in wisely regulating and p
ell tecting these communities, affords her childr
no the means of most perfectly filling those rt
gious vocations.
up Their rules and regulations are rigidly v
I'M tuous, temperate, self-abnegating. They
rec make vows of poverty, chastity and obedien
the vows from the heart; conscientious vows, not
our man, or to each other, but before the altar,
o o in presence of each other, and to God tt
aft, utter aloud their sacred, solemn vows; lay
My aside the world, even to their names
inn clothing, and assuming those the Church c
IAN fers. Hence, you see their object is not rici
less individually, they do not work for money; q
its have no salaries; they receive no pay; II
re- have made their vows of poverty, and wish
AXE none. They do not work for worldly fame
dry glory, for the world does not even know tn
aims The world they have forgot
tere Have cast aside thor garb and name:
fifty Who they are a,o OF Whence Tos they came
the Their retired life, their rigid rules, their
ints perate habits, must satisfy You that they
his no pleasures. Hence, you see, that their L
man are spent solely in teaching and works OF !