The New York herald., 1871-10-29

minds OF men becoming suDverted with the false
ideas OF materialism. liberalism and inndelity."
surely there never was an age, stationary or pro-
gressive, In which materaism and its laws were SO
well and generally understood as the present age.
Liberalism" Is advocated all the wcrld except
by lew interested persons prlests and their dupes
| who are trying to Keep back the tide with their
| forks. 'Infdelity ~ Inddellty 10 whats To
system OF superstition gotten up by halfcviized
ancestors several centuries bacK-a system cacu-
lated TO keep the priests In clover and the people In
bondage and ignorance, such every traveller sees
| with his own eyes In every purely Catholic country
Can opposition TO thing like this be inndelityS
He charges that the liberal writer's or our times
| "use their utmost endeavors to traduce the advo-
Gates and promoters OF charity and equity and to
Incie in the minds or the people enmities towards
each oiher." do not think 1t Is very equitable In
the clergy to keep the people In almost brutal gno
rance, not only OF every thing else but or their own
religion in particular. As teachers the clergy are
mundcenty paid yet there Is not more, perhaps, than
one in a hundred OF their people who can give to an
inquirer the least particle OF rational account OF
mis- religion or It's history AS for "charty' and Its
Catholic promoters must tell this writer that be-
heve and can demonstrate that the most successful
destroyer OF charity that the world has ever seen is
the Catholic Church. by her doctrines Of exclusive
salvation, by which she shuts heaven against the
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barbarians to regard them as the enemies OF God
by her definitions neresy, her interdlcts and her
| curses OF pure-mnded men, and the way she has
treated all who refused to bow TO her authority, she
has done more than all other causes put together to
ALLEVIATE mems minds one from one another and de-
stroy charity among them.
She writes ana breaches much about charity, so
she does; but she enforces It's opposite by lighting
up and feeding the name OF religious anmosty
and hatred, as IS more than attested by The his
tory OF her religious wars.
Catholic
this country are not unfrendly TO our puoic school
He e ey rnS DO
deny their own religion, be otherwise. AS for those
ne to h
learning. what, In Gods name are ineyf Are they
not places where Ignorance IS taught and the light
the children receive, mingled with few shreds OF
the elements Of secular education such narrow
sectaran training makes Them fixtures In the
Church and willing contributors for lie to her
wealth9 Instead OF unbounded respect for the
have not the children to carry about
burden OF discriminating watchfuIness against
heretical books. persons places, lectures conyer-
instead OF getun9 large liberal and charita-
| blc, is constantly growing beautifully less
and consgnIng to he'll ali who Will not sub
NIT to the same slavery Ii this do not answer or
viii Just invite him to take trip to Ireland, or
France or italy, SPAN or Mexico where this devoted
| Church-has had everything her own way for
turtles ON centuries one would think that the very
| thought OF these CathOic nations would cause the
| blush of shame to mantle the cneek OF TINS c0rre
| spondent ana others OF his stamp when they talk
OF the Catholic Church as the friend OF popular en-
| iightenmenL
| The lear OF trespasslug on your space makes me
pass without noticing lew other things IN the COM
inuncalion before me- out there Is one thing which
| cannot thus allow to escape.
Chmrch and ~ to her trinmnns IN days gone by this
writer, In imitation OF all on his side OF the line,
boasts tnat .sne the Church. can 10 liSe manner
! may arise Tor her destruction nowadays" lie does
not reflect on the vast, the wonderful change that
past triumphs the Church was the only Power III
the socaled Christian world. Her priests were the
being comparatively in barbarian ignorance II an
Conduct or ted his Voice against their authority
he was soon disposed OF, for ne had neither press
nor reading public At ms back the press that
power, did not then exist. But how changed Is all
thlsl Every man now. in the advanced ma, nations Of
Catholic States are now permitting ana even en-
couraglng free inquiry and this IN sne face Of she
has had to submit 70 forced abdicati0n and reason
is enthroned. Free thought, free speech and lree
State are divorced, or on the way to It, and be-
| tween tnese two mllstones there can be no more
In The long long night OF the Middle Ages when
| the world had not yet learned It's A d C's. the
Church might be excused for the boastlng OF It's In
vinclbity and perpesuity; its enemies were but as
oziers in It's hands. IT did not dream OF an enemy
then gestating in the WOMB OF the future-an enemy
which, when 1t had arrived at It's maturity, would
| prove an overma:ch for the proud boasser and lay
him in the dust. That enemy Is the free press OF
the nineteenth century and the system Of free, un-
| sectanan education.
| think can with some confidence, assure this
! gentleman thar the men Of our times and OF those
| coming not going TO wear forever the iron COL
| ago by few crafty Jews and their illegltimate
ospring the Pope and his priests; but that they Will
and hold to tnat only which has the approval or
their reason and is In accord with the laws OF nature
and the facts % Of history rs 1 and science. v,pruvv
Should Pro,est.nts Rejoice at the Trials Of
| the Churchs
| To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
| Were It not that the Divine Founder suffer ed
| caiumny contumely ana death 1t would seem an
insult to reason in this enlightened age to Defend
| or be Obliged to defend, the Catholic Church. to
impress on minds OF the meanest capacity that two
| and two make four. As 1t Is SO. however, q few
common sense reflections may be useful.
NV remarks are not, OF course, intended for those
sublime intelects that ignore God and religion as
things OF the past, and regard this world the
be all and the end all, though philosophers and
materialises must die and be judged like other
| people, whether they will or no.
with such, however have nothing to DO; but
there are thousands OF good and, IN their own way
religious people to whom I would speak-those who
are educated in gross ignorance Of the Catholic
| Church, and never heard or read aught respecting
| her but what Is false and absurd-lies that from
| constant repetition are almost believed by the per-
petrators themselves and can only be sustained by
| unlimited brass. Thus asserts that wears his
nose on the back OF his mead, while every one who
takes the trouble OF investigating Is convinced that
| y wears his nose in the proper place. but A per-
sists In the lie, and thousands who only listen to
| and his followers believe 1t.
We have case in point with regard to the
ground upon which the new Cathedral Is building.
Pious newspapers and ministers have time and
again asserted that the ground was donated by the
| city-a falsehood which has as often been refuted