The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-15
A Voice of Warning.

Of that cloud compasses this earth's CIR ,
cumference, and when the storm snah
wake and break, the awful sweep ot its
woe and ito wrecks shall be as wide as tue
| world, Under the cloud, on the hearts Of
men, there lies that awe which precedes the
awful. Do you close your eyesf None
tho less is the cloud there;-aud as it doats
over the nations it grows the darker. That
cloud shrouds thunderbslts. In a moment,
in lees than the twinkling of an eye, they
may burst upon NJ. When they burst
woe What woe f-"Woe to the world
because of scandals"
Such woes have broken, like waves OF
destruction, on the shores of this world
before. They have rolled against it and
wrecked its glories, out of the deep sea OF
Gods eternal wrath. Coming the storm is,
for over us the storm- cloud floats;
shall it comet
God has His laws Of tempest as He has
His laws Of calm. He can be still,-still
for q thousand years,-sti,l with a stiffness
az deep as the grave,-as calm as the sha-
dow Of sleep that rests on the brow of the
lcxadlcd child. He can smile on the world
whsu the world wins His smile, ah more
tbr1ehtly than the sun ever smiles on the
stormless sea.
But anger Him,-send up the shadows of
sin to darken the bright, sweet face of His
:, love. Tauut His acknowledgements His
;, mercy;-waken His wrath. Then He hides
a His light and bushes His love, and walks
on the clouds Of the storm. Beware then,
ye men Of this world when God strikes
> He strikes like q God. Mercy lends her
omuipotence to Justice. Justice puts on
= cloud as a shield, and from the cloud
Aings down the thuuderbolt.
So tile cloud is over US deeply dark
and back of the Icloud-God;-andG od-in
% Justice. His Mercy is lying down with her
4 pure, white hands hiding her face,-lying
down before Him almost weary of this
generation. Aud the prayer from Mercy's
lips is scarce whisper;-while Justice
% stands, stern of face and strong of hand,
B. and in thunder. tones commands the clouds
h of wrath to wrap the world and wake the
70 storm.
a. Whyi-
!. Do you dare to ask us whyi Is not the
:. why universal and visiblef Is there not q
~ grand, worldwide conspiracy against the
30 Ruler of this worlda His TRUTHS it not
~ trampled down as a vile, plebeian thing
to unfit for the aristocracy humanity His
1T law.-is it not Knocked and spit upon in the
M halls of human reason, ae was His Christ
I'll In Pilates HALT His words,-are they not
treated like very felons and outlawed and
ostracized by the very ones who need them
co most f-His Church;-His bride-is sue moi
al made verf outcast-treated as very
ur prostitute-an impure thing-a castawaJ
as. by the Governments Of earth
His vicar,-is he not lifted up, affixed tt
the cross If persecution on that twin o.
the hill of Calvary;-theh hin of the Vatican
and while some stand beside that cross
true, like His Mother to the laat, does mo-
the world wildly blaspheme, mock tina
vicar, az erstwhle Christ was Knocked; ant
from blasphemers in hundred nation
does not the old cry resound across thu
0p EARTH" Not Him--not Him but Barab
yer basq"
'e- His priesthood, they, the men of sacri
40 fee, who have left all-all-all-father
.;sf mother, sister, brother, home, country, t.
n. serve Him, as virgins, in their celibaey,
the martyrs in their work,-are they not mad
alto the scorn and the derision, and Missing
the shame in the very lands whose libertie
the they Graded, whose glorses they guarded
ing whose sorrows they soothed, whose suffer
- iugs they shared, and whose names the
'g'a garlanded with the fame of earth and til
8, q c.;,,, &c 1I..ro,s
=" And everything that is of Jesus Chris
10, and in Him, and from Him and by Hin
nh do not the men who pretend to rule th
ons generation, hate end despisef And there
rch fore 1t Is that there Is war III ha"y n"''oi
ond against the men who wear Tue Cassock
because the men who wear the Cassoc
bear the Cross the highest, love it the deer
]. est, preach it the bravest, and guard 1t tn
.o, bsst.-And therefore again it is that til
IT. chief of the men who wear the Cassocl
lie. Pho Mono, is receiving daily, in his ow