The New York herald., 1871-12-27
THE INTERNATIONALS

What Catholic Priest Thinks or the ARA y.
iDg Of tho Laborins Ciasses Against the
Rich, asd What He Predicts for New York
II the Msve.ent Goes On Hero.
The Rev. Father Tiss0t, formerly President OF st.
Johns college, Fordnam, during his sermon al St
Patrick's Cathedral on Christmas Day, made the
following remarks:-
There Is an old but BY no means obsolete law,
which has ever been in force AND which win ever be
n Inv q enG 81 o inv % No. sa
inat certain people escape fro this law, but they
to obey Know i very ns.ars or se paoe
(and oy the poor DO not mean Deggars who depend
upon the charity OF others for their daily bread but
The lab0rlng classes TO be dissatisfied and discOn-
tented wnen they think OF their condition aud life as
compared with the condition and position Of others
man to say sometimes, "How dlrerent Is the ncn
mans condition from mine He has his brown
tHere there was quite litter throughout the con-
gregation. many persons being under the impress
every luxury he can wish for, and 1 have only
coarse 1o0d, sometimes barely enough TO keep body
WHINE have get up at He Is se aa
Thought Of; am despised. He is unacQuainted wltn
s3, WINE work early 70 late day after day week
the weather is very not, he leaves his palace In the
city and goes TO the seaside possibly across the
ocean, while have got TO stay In the city and WORK
Now. II that poor laoorina man only thinks OF his
Saviour, or Christ, who was born 80 poor who, like
himself had to earn his bread al the sweat OF his
brow, all complaint dies his lips Then will he
exclaim, III my Saviour was 30 door, and worked
so uncomplanngly; II he suffered narushps and
privatiOn without murmur, why should not be
willing 10 work and suffer In my poverty ~ But III
that poor laboring man has no knowledge OF thirst
In his heart, aspiration beyond this world bitter
reflections rankle IN his breast and he will be GER
tain 10 communicate them TO others, and by and
by, az natural result there come plots ana con-
spracies, and the arraylng OF poverty against
wealth; OF the laboring classes against those who
have more OF the goods or this earth than they-in
fact, the COmmunel .N
We have heard lately OF the awful doings in the
Old World OF men who claimed TO be poor men op-
posed to the rich. WHAT was the cause OF it all
Whence all these upneavngs OF the poorer classes,
OF the mutterings that fall upon our ears. OF the
dreadful threats that being made OF one
class against anotheTf The reason is simply
thls. The lower classes who tax thus
consolation and hope The question is, then,
shall We have Commune In our midstf No
thousand times no 30 long as the poorer classes
believe IN Christ and look up TO Him their conso
lation, their model and their hope. But II the ene-
niles OF the Church are TO succeed in bringing up
the rising generation without the knowledge OF
Christ-ard they are working industrlously to do
years from the present day they have the Com
mune with all iis horrors In midst that in this
ciiy OF New York there Will be q hundred thousand
men who wil only be too glad TO 90 about
ttf Nt@ts BURNING AND sLAUgHTERIN0 - N@f
and plaging, as we have beard OF men doing in the
Oid World but q Few brief months gone by. And
why is there danger OF this7 Because these people,
called the poorer classes having no earthly colso.
lauon ando belief Ia Christ and the consolation OF
the world to come, hnd their CONDITION in lie in
rOlerabe, and are wiling adopt the most terrible
measures to GEL rid ol liL