The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-07-07

wraps fsolss robea srouna HE truths. @IAt.
erature, plays prettiiy with his name,
while mocking at his laws. Art banishes
him from her realms as an i4lssase without
any rights 'Tis the old RkN Bethle-
hem, without Bethlehdsp SS 4rse.
There is room for everythla9la and Avst3one
in our age,-but NO place ~ hiH.
He is q Burden too Aeasy to b. borne.
He 10 Restraint, too striee to be bfeoted.
He il an InterfeIenees NOT e0e
He 10 Law too stern 70 BSsAeCepeo4.aHe
IL Dictator-and this age scouts any die
tatorship. He is a Kipg,-but THE century
is casting down thrones. HS II q Mys-
tery,-Sand our matter of-fact people laugh
at the mysterious. He 10 . God,-aud
must stay at home. In Bibles, in Temples,
at Affairs, in Pulpits, in Prayers of little
children, Ein weak hearts 81 women. in
di m Beliefs of minds scattered here ,aa1
there over the d,-there he may live,
but thence he must not come forth into
The Forld. u e has pp right there'v1hers-r
fore, no place. God is out of date and ont
of fashion. His spirit is not in accordance
with the spirit OF, the age. He, will not
bend,-hewili not stoop, 0he'w win make no
compromise. He is intolerant. And this
is an age of toleration:
He persists in keeping the fires of hell
burning for those who will not keep his
Jaws. He is obstinate in keeping the gates
of heaven closed against those who will
not love him. AS a passive silent, far-off
spectator of the human scene, the age ia
willing to recognize Elm. He may spend
his time listening to prayers. But he must
not enter the arena as an active partici,
pant. He must not speak word. He
must not act. He may sit on his throne, a
mere locker ON. He must not even de-
scend it's steps to interfere with man. And,
if he should 80 far forget himself and the
rights of man, as to desire to interfere
why,-the age passes him by as very
non entity and proclaims aloud that it can
do very well without him. No..
Can it 7-Let it tryf-It has been tried
before. There have been hours in this
worlds history that men drove, or thought
they had driven, or tried to drive him
away. And these hours 1T shudders us
to read the storms, darkness, iniquities,
destruction, blood and awful ruins that
fill them. So true it is that God is the
Peace, the Light, the Virtue, the Saliva
ton, the Hope, the Order, the Harmony,
and the Happiness of men and nations.
So, true it is, that he is to man, what the
sunlit Heavens are to earth. So true it lie
that He going, is the Sunset of nations;-
and He gone, they enter the Night of their
sleep of DEATH
Alb! men when light leaves your coun-
sels,-when sun and stars rush ont of your
skies,-when darkness descends upon you,
and you grope thro' the night ;-theD,
perhaps will you reach forth your hands
for His Hand, the only one that can lead
you ont Of the DARK, the only one that
can guide you into the bright. Then,
| mayhap, you, who denied Him in the light
may be forced to make your act Of Faith in
Him, in the dark. For even, in the dark,
he is beside you. But his faoe wears a
vel, "a veil woven by yourselves. You
dream you have banished Him and all
! the while, He is in your midst. You give
him NO room why the knoweth how to
sweep you away and to make room for
himself. You think he. has gone and
suddenly he appears, his feet on your
graves. You imagine you have broken his
power but, soon, in the breath of the
destruction which sweeps by, his voice is
heard, his hand is seen,-his awful Face
wrath wrapped floats spectrally before the
world. For it is written: This earth lie
the Lords, and the fitness thereof" For
it is written "He shall mock the mocker,
and revile the reviler.n For it is written:
"He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.n
He never moves an inch from His place.
Hide himself he may,-and he may SEEM
gone away. But he never goes. Hidden
or unhidden, He is in his place in this
world and in its every hour. You cannot stir
the star. You Cannot move tho mountain.
You cannot stir or move God from his
place. And he demands that you shall
recornize and resDect hia Mace. You must