The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-28

1re cf the communes, and tumble to T;. sne
nro % DrGws inflicted by the moro barbsric
rn hnen ~ the chateh of God, as it did on the
mSUi;nS society; Deceived and exhausted
viii With lensns s1ss ion ana
ana light, and comfort to the infs{libie bss a;
oil, me s i1destructible Church, for she alone
her, like Niobe, all tears for the sins Of haa
s chlidren, and altho' unhurt, yet stripped of
some m OF her external splendor. VI
~ me church with prescience characteristic
VI Her action, has, with the FORESIGHT of
Prophesy, prepared for the struggle; her of,c.
OF reconstruction of society demands that sbe
s sho be pure, hence she has announced, in
age, tne doctrine of the Immaculate Concep.
ton, it also demands that she should be
a aseeptsd as the teacher oftruth, hence she has
She foresaw that, in the general CONFUSION
VI society, the organism of the Church as
corrective body, might be enfeebled or i'm.
Reliance and the hence the necessity Of implicit
| as tne visible representative of the DIVINE
Founder of the Church.
IL Is, therefore, for social as we'll as religious
reasons, onr duty to cultivate, nourish and
support, the benefcent institutions Of charity
wlilch abound in our midst. The rich, who
ENJOY the advantages OF the existing social
| social and political reasons, in the relief Of
| suffering humanity, than the INDECENT inmates
OF our hospitals and charitable institutions.'
". an the charities, however, to the support
OF which we are desired to contribute This
undertaken by the Little Sisters of the Poor
seems to be the most unsel6sh. The infant
child committed to ones charge will naturally
development; there is something attractive in
the smile of innocence and the beauty of youth.
!; But old age, with it's wrinkled front, its
step, its diseases, the result Of poverty OF sin,
has nothing to commend it to Human love, or
render it attractive to the human heart
those, therefore, who voluntarily devote them.
selves, as do these Little Sisters of the Poor
to such repulsive service, must do so from
no earthly motive; their action must spring
from the most nuselhsh Christian love and
charity, it must be from loye of Jesus Christ
crucifed, whose face they see behind the face
of each one of these old men and women COM
mltted to their charge
This gentleman was succeeded by Father
Koegerl, the pastor of St. Boniface, who ad-
verted to the necessity of sustaining institu-
tions of the kind so calculated to benefit hu-
manity. He thanked the audience for their
support, and trusted that their generosity
would extend to the necessary future expenses
as we'll as they had to the present ones.
At the conclusion of the Rev. gentleman's
remarks, the Archbishop blessed the corner
stone, which bears the inscription:
Bsate Ma nj Virgin.
Sine 4 Lac 3. G 2Eets:h xSSSiMf.p'"
When completed the new asylum will p1e-
sent fine appearance. In the rear Of
the main building, which will be three
stories high, will be chapel thirty feet high,
in length and twenty-five in
width. The chapel will be ornamented witha
dome and turret. The central part of the new
structure will be fifty feet square, and the ex-
terror wing thirty feet front by one hundred
and sixty deep.
The Sisters have now over eighty old per-
IONS in charge, and the care of these, to which
is now added the great labor and cost of erect
ing the new building, requires such an i'm
nense outlay, that unless generous support
8 given them, the success Of their undertaking
will be seriously impaired.
In an eloquent sermon delivered recently in
he Jesuits' church, Father Bourgeois, the emf
rent French Dominican, thns beautifully pic
ured the feelings and su6erings of the aged
md infirm and the noble herossm and devotion
If the Sisters:
What q solemn moment is that when o man,
ceiling his strength failing him and his under
All OVER wtb his n aetiye lie sbat Lis career is
inisbed, that there is nothing more for him to
10 except to wait in repose for the hour when
900 shall call him to Himself! That moments
olemn, for there is something mysterious in
,verything which is beginning as in every.
hing which is ending, and one feels then as if
learer to the mighty act of Sod. Now it hap
,ens that at this time some men have to say to
themselves that if repose 10 commanded by the
nexerable laws of nature, it is forbidden them
" the necessity of living, and thus they see
bile and speedy death. This, is the greatest of
ii human miseries.
Watch yonder old man seated on bench
Vhere his infirmities and his weaknesses hold
i'm fast. Quivering in every limb from the
ccuuiulated fatigue of many years, his ears
losed, or nearly so, to what is said to him, his
yes covered with a thick fiim, speaking only
n haHuttered syllaLles-loek at him and say
neither, when poverty is met at the threshold
f such man, il is not the most frghtful
hing imaginable.
Other miseries are great, but they have not
he dcsolating accompaniment of all the suffer
ngs collected in o heap, they have not the IT.
emediable and permanent character of this
ne. There may be temporary weakness with,