The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-17

has all right, human and divine, 70 Catho,
lilo education. The "religious difficulty
does not exist in country where the PEG:
4 pie are united in religion. Let the small
fraction in ireland which 10 not Catholic
| freely enjoy their own education. Bat let
NO counsellor induce this country to over
bear the conscience and faith of nation
These are ill-0mened contests, which may
God avert.
The Attempt to Set Up Compulsory Sec~.
lar Education ioould be to 1naNgurgte a
.Despoffsm.-The attempt to set up uni
form, universal, compulsory and secular
education for these kingdoms, would be to
ism over the conscience of Christian peo-
pie. But there are men who have con-
ceived the thought, and desire it's execu-
| ton. 1t Is necessary to take off the mask,
| and to show it for what it is. The people
| of this kingdom will never permit the con-
will not allow the rights of fathers and of
mothers, over the training and formation
of their offspring, to be taken from them
by Platonic Republic or by q Partisan
Commune. They will not suffer the re-
ligious liberty of the poor who cannot pay
not endure that the political justice Which
guards the child Of the pauper, as jealous
~ as it protects 1.-THE child of prince,
shall be denied. They will not consent
that the high and wise legislative prudence,
which has steadily advanced for half
the public peace and unity of these three
Kingdoms under the Imperial Crown shall
be marred and wrecked by rekindling,
about school children, the religious con-
htcts which have been extinguished in the
| whole public and private life Of men. The
inftict upon us no greater calamity than
the lighting up again of the fires of re-
ligious contention between Great Britain
and Ireland, and among the manifold
classes and communions of England and of
Scotland.
The Duty of the Faithful.-on you, then,
Reverend and dear Brethren, and dear |
Children in Jesus Christ, the disastrous con-
tests which are waging around us can have
but one effect. They make you hold fast
with sevenfold tenacity, If indeed the firm
ness Of yo1r grasp can be increased, to
sevenfoid more resolved to protect it for
the children of the poor. You can take
care of yourselves. They need you to be
the guardians, the advocates, the defenders
Of their rights. We rejoice to know with
what self-denial, watchfulness and labor
to protect the right and liberty of every /,
Catholic child. We know that you are
sharing in their zeal and charity. 1t is to
this We would invite you as the special act
OF reparation and piety in this Lent.
Among the works and fruits of penance
Divine Redeemer than self denying love
and labor for the salvation of children.
They cannot stand up for themselves. They
cannot vindicate their own rights. They
cannot defend their own liberty. Their
very heipiessness pleads in their behalf. {
year by year, of their faith. 1t was taken !
rom them while they were unconscious of l
heir loss. They were spoiled Of that
which constitutes the dignity, the perfec- t
lion, the beauty of the regenerate soul.
1 thousands, too, have PeEished in our
the lanes and purlieus of London. The sin 6
and neglect of parents has wrecked their i
homes and cast them out into the lairs and {
lens OF sin, to fall for mercy into the l
lands of the law. This brings us to the /
'ppeal whlch every year we make to your t
proportion beyond all past appeals. When e
he Annual Collection on Quinquagesima a
unday was first instituted, it was made in q
ehalf of the two only Orphanages then ex- c
sting, at North Hyde for boys, and at Nor g
ZOO, ZOO. iof sg ,rdis. The former then contained
undced girls: North Hyde now contains o
YER Ave hundred boys Norwood between a.
NO hundred and three hundred girls.
ur claim, therefore, upon your charity is Il
'urfoid in strength. But this is not Il
Il. We ask You help to-day not for *
20 orphanages only. They have multi b
lied about ten or eleven. When this fa
opeal began we pleaded for some two d
nndred children. To-day we plead to IL
On for two Thousand. We have at this s.
oment been compelled to take another n
rye house capable of holding about a
nety girls; and we must at once proceed d
certain changes and enlargement in the is
aiding, which will enable us to receive q d
1ndred and twenty more. For this we Il
TX help. We are also about to open Il
,other Industrial School for boys, to re- b
i've the poor children swept from the Il
reefs by the boy-beadles of the London ii
,hool Board. That these works are vital h
the salvation of our poor children you B
ell know; that we cannot do them unless n
cd inspire your hearts to help us, you as Ii
rely know. We therefore earnestly ap- m
sal to you. May the love of our Heavenly T
ather move you to deny yourselves in W
mething, and to consecrate it to this work 81
love. You have perhaps been laying IL
your means for some personal object, oil
oh uariah N fh., no;nr ,pI bo 1,ft L,