The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-29

Our church can mover fall,-we can. She
IL in dsnger,-never; we,-always, ana
more 80 now than ever. The faith OF the
church cannot be shaken. Can the Hea'
vensi The faith Of the individual may be
shaken in the earthquake of evil to come
To come fit 10 rumbling even now right
under our feet. The church. erect, safe,
triumphant walks through the storm OF
struggle. Against her brow it beats
only to brighten it,-only to flush 1t with
victory's bale, only to garland it with true
glory's immortelles. But, in the same
struggle the individual may go down. He'
alone, by himself, is weak. Weakness
seeks strength in union.
The struggles Is it comingf 10 1t on
us7
Waterman I! tell us,-what Of the Night!
What hour 10 iti-and is all WELT And
the watchers voice cries it," The Night
is dark,-'tis dangers hour the foes are
near tho faithful sleep, all is not we'll
Awake,-Arise,-Un
Yea, the struggle has begun Mt the CEN
tral-seat Of the church. Not long-and 1t
will widen over the world.
What kind Of struggle for its char
acter must determine the defence that we
must make. A struggle against our dog
mat No;-heresy and schism have done
their best and failed. Protestantism, the
sworn opponent Of our doctrines for three
hundred years, has gone to pieces as re-
ligiou. 1t has reached its last sophism. II
is no longer a religion. It is an immense
Prejudice. Out of Professionalism have
grown thousand Isms. They have los
all principles of cohesion, but they have
preserved the power Of Hate. Void of al
powers from tile next world, they wish t.
secure all power in this. That power can
not reach our truths. We are lower thar
our truths. Therefore it is arrayed against
ourselves.
The political powers which rule the
world have been trained in these Isms o.
tainted by them and the very Revolu
tiouism which, aims at the overthrow o
thrones, is the last child Of these Isms
and, with inherited hate, vows the destruc
ton of the Altar. Therefore against Pom
tiffs and Priests and the Laity who accep
this authority, are the powers Of this worlt
turned. They laugh now at ths dogma
and are getting ready to lift their bant
against the men who teach it and the mel
who accept it.
In . word, the direct struggle is not 81
much against the Truth Of faithful men u
against the men faithful to Truth
By q terrible logic the 81 protest agains
the Church" in the sixteenth century reach
ed az am Indifferent to Religion" in tn
seventeenth, passed to I doubt Christ,
: in the eighteenth, reached 81 deny Christ
in the nineteenth and is hurrying taste
than men may believe to the last drea
formula I deny Cod"
"Away with Christ" was the last cry c
crime in the end of ancient Times ;
8 "Away with the church" will be the Las
cry of crime in the end of modern times
They crucied Him they will crucif
her. Shall we abandon or defend If W
, abandon, she still is saved, for it behoovet
Her, as Him, to suffer and thus enter int
glory: though those who leave her shall b
lost.-If we defend it is not Her, br
ourselves we save. And howl
By Union. Therefore The Voices, wit
the breath of Holy Spirit in them, ceas
not to cry again and still again 6. UNITE
Are you ready4 Or wish you other reason
u ere you move to actionF
Other reasons we have,-and we wi
= give. A. j. X.