The New York herald., 1872-11-24


or political reasons joined the Huguenots, perished
But II "a Protestant, win look calmly into his
tory he viii find that the massacre account has
been balanced over and over again In the butchery
re r in e # rse wo
never make right; but when "A Protestant-
seeks tSo,y 70 lay al such acts at tne door
should be reminded OF their own sins.
The wholesale slaughter OF Catholics
latter during the relgns OF Elizabeth, James l.:
Charles l., Cromwell, Charles H.. william Ill. and
testant Church-and their Parliaments decided
that the only direct means OF establishing the Pro-
Catholics or enacns % such laws that they could not not
practise their religion, should he sufficient to 81
ience every Protestant on the subject OF st. Bar
tho0mew. The fire and sword system OF prose-
lytizing succeeded in England and Scotland, but
not In ireland. The last trial OF the system made
whole catholic colony Of inoliensiye men, women
and children were butchered in night.
On the score OF religious liberation we would re-
fer "A Protestant to the monstrous Penal laws
enacted against Catholics In the regns above re-
OF our war with England; we would also refer him
TO Sweden, Norway and Denmark at this present
time where there is little Or IN fact no liberation
Protestant Prussia and Switzerland i'll expelling
priests, imprisoning bishops, seiziDg their prop
erty, and depriving Catholics OF the means Of prac.
tising their religion, without the shadow or show
OF cause And lastly, We refer him to an able
article In last Sundays HERALD on the Presby
terian Church In America In which appears the
following truthful paragraph
LISA remarkable fact, however, that Preshy,erians
~
religious liberty was rsi established and practically
rled out in America
To blacken the character OF his Catholic neigh
bors still further he attempts to make them out
disloyal, because they not seen. he says. in
professions on Washingtons birthday. Now. II
"A Protestant" knows anything, he must know
there Is good reason for Catholics not Joining in
those professions, They were arst instituted dur,
monopOllzcd almost exclusively by the secret
order Of United Americans who prescribed Cath
them, even were they so wanting in seltrespect as
to march in professions where every other banner
Washington birthday parades Enthusiastically anti
Catholic they were joined by the Irish Orangemen,
testant Association This patriotic body, scarcely
one OF whom are American citizens, cared about
men fs o the o. hey ana
Catholic Church. made the air resound with
their faction tunes OF "rhe Protestant Boys"
regalia and no Popery banners impressed one with
the idea that the Father Of His Country was con.
surprising that Catholic citizens gave Washington
Birthdays parade the cold shoulder.
But it is not in empty show "A Protestant" must
look for Catholic loyalty he must seek 1t on the
battededs of Mexico and in our late war, when
Catholics poured out their ifes blood side by side
with their Protestant fellow soldiers
There was no shrinking in the day Of trial. Reg-
ment after regiment OF Irish Catholics, as well as
lowed by the devoted priest who, amid
carnage and slaughter, consoled the last moments
or many q brave heart. Equally devoted
were the Catholic SISTERS of Charity and
Mercy in the camp aud In the hos
their country and their fellow man-of far more ac
count than any fife and drum demonstration.
When "a Protestant questions the loyalty Of his
Catholic fellow citizens he should remember how
large proportion are natives, to the manner born
how many native born priests, bishops and arch
ia
converts that are daily received into the Church.
not one OF whom will yield in LOYALTY to the best
and loyalty to the government under which we
live are the teachings of the Catholic Church. 1t
ment fact which "a Protestant would do well
to note and practice. CATHOLIC.
Natural md Spiritual Christianity.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
The apostle Paul uttered great truth when he
said, That is first which is natural, alterward that
which is spiritual, and as we have borne the
Image OF the earthly, so also shall bear the
image Of the heavenly. Christ was prophecy or
the man OF the future. He was the man OF the fu-
ture-the restored man OF the future, living In
Divine ORDER moving In the currents OF the Divine
affections, He lived on the higher plane Of exist
ence; while the Jews spoke OF God as their father,
parrot like, he called God His father from an in
terror conscious experience. The hidden forces OF
saw In the lily OF the field, the sparrow, and the
hen and her brood, the tender, watchfu, loving
care OF the All Father who Is In the perpetual en-
deavor to restore and save all who will receive
that love into their hearts and lives. That is the
reason why he was not understood by the Jews
He was to them an enigma while men looked
at things only on the exterior He looked at the
interior of all things The seeming righteous
Pharisees, the Keepers of the law in its letter. were
to him whited sepucllres full of dead mems bones,
because they were devoid OF any spiritual prin-
cpe. He called things by their right names he
exposed the shams, decets and nypocrcies Of the
times, consequently he excited the hate and con-
tempt of those In authority. That Christ was not
understood, even by his disciples and immediate
followers, think must be apparent to every stu
dent OF the New Testament And why Because
the interior degree of their minds were closed.
They lived and acted from spiritual principle, 1t
Is true, and were accepted OF Him; but the open
ing Of the interior degrees of the spirit were re-
served for the man OF the then future age. That
the apostles did not understand the true nature
and mission of Christ read their history in the
Acts or the Apostles and in their Epstes. See their
dom was to be confined to the Jewish nation. Note
their surprise when the gift Of the Holy Ghost was
the truth little by little that God is the universal
Father and Christ the divine humanity Humanity
without the spirit Of Christ the man possessed OF
a legion Of devils, the man out OF whom Christ
cast the legion Of devils. Clothed and in his right
mind, sitting at the feet OF Jesus, Is humanity
stored to divine order. We do not blame the
Apostles for their narrow -minGedness, nor do we
find fault with them for not graspipg the great
truths uttered by the greatest Of all teachers 1t
was the fault of the times they lived In. Our OBJ
ject is to show that the revelation OF truth and its
reception is gradual Christ himself told His disci-
pies that He had many things to tell them, but
they could not hear them now; but the time would
come when He would show them plainly OF the
Father. That time we hold Is now beginning to
come. We are now in the day dawn OF that time
the morning OF a new age Is upon u.s.
But who shall abide Its coming Who shall be
able to bear the splendOrs OF It's MONDAY glory
They, only they, who are seeking the living Christ,
the risen Lord; not they who go TO the sepuchre
Of the dead past to find Him. lie Is not there.
The angels said, 'He Is rsen" and humanity must
rise with linn II they would obtain their highest
destiny, their chiefest goOd-rest0ration to divine
order. That the human mind Is being more un-
folded l think must be apparent to every one.