The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-13


| looking all around for the beast; it is pure
presumption a la Luther. First of all. is he
not in sin sor having broken his solemn vows
to the Creator for the creaturef Or is be- like
| another reformer, above the law Of sin and
| death' man, entering the holy priesthood
knows what he is about; no one compels him,
the ecclesiastical authorities much less yet
than others, to adopt this state; he is at Hber-
ty, before entering it, to follow any car eer !;
but should he, comfortably to Gods call to
the elect, "Sou. give Ne thy he-r.!" answer it,,
decide upon giving himself up to God unreser-
vsdly, and take deliberately solemn vow, it is
criminal for him to break it: "When thou hast
made vow to the Lord thy God. thou shalt
not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God
will require it; that which is once gone out of
thy lips thou shalt obserre, and shalt do as thou
hast promised to the Lord thy Cod" Dent. xiii,
81, e. 90.
Did Hyacinthe once take solemn vow to
God to belong exclusively to Him aud to no
one elsef Assuredly having ceased to pay it,
he has fallen into sin. This Hyacinthe seems
to overlook, for says he, IL always held sin in
horror" Perhaps he contemplates it now from
such height that ain, like fly seen from the
top of steeple, seems scarcely perceptible to
cinthe he is evidently no Catholic any more,
although he las the effrontry of calling him.
self one yet, and, indeed, a firing mem Der OF
the Catholic priesthood; cardinal virtues in the
Church are humility and obedience; these
have left him long ago; he would seem to in
cline towards Moraviansm, for, like Zinzen.
dorf. he denes that even the moral law oon-
tained in the scriptures is q rule of life for he
LEVERS.
How tenderly, further on. he hugs Luther
"The error of Luther" says he, "was not in
that chasfe and pons marriage that onghi
! rather to initiate most of those who condemn
it." Now, where there chastc and pious
principle in marriage for Luther, when Luther
VIGOROUSLY preached up adultery in his public
sermons: Isl polit DONNA" etc, (Serm. de-
Matrim. T. w How this caaste and pious prin
ciple of the new saint will suit the NE " mazda III
time will tell.
. In another passage: " At tho moment, hi
, adds, "when was going to be abandoned, de
, MED by my friends and kindred, exiled from
: my Church, from my country, from my family
I God % sent on my solitary path"-what would
you think, my dear sir, the Creator God Away
did it, you knowD sent this holy monk all rap
up in spiritual oontemplations Why!-s wo
e. man. So you see that, after all, there is
:. woman at the bottom of this Reformation, too
a A woman, if you please! Now we would bav
, thought the Almighty cent him some spirtua
:, grace; and so He would, but Hyacinthe, hav
ing left His service for that of His Sable Ma
, jesty, this one sent him-a female. Attrbut
8 ing, thus every thing to God Che did not wis
y to go against the sarih of God before, when b
., thought he must gre up celibacy), like Luther
e after comforting with the devil in person
If wanting us Immediately to believe that blac
It is white, Hyacinthe nowadays wants, in th
Q same thruthful spirit, we should believe thu
" what is from below " is coming from ADORE.
B Hyacinthe carries the spirit of impudenc
o further; he casts a slur broadcast upon tn
y clergy: "thousands," says he, 1.-THE Churc
70 ought to command marriage to-" This woul
1t remind MS of his drill-sergeant Dolinger in hi
% presumptuous language, exclaimiDg tho,
b sands (of priests) think as dol" Where OF
% these sincef Just q small HANDFUL of apo
y tates. Where are the thousands of HyRcinthe
1T At all events, from what have seen in M
- travels in the United States, the priesthood,
to q body, is glorious and pure; aud believ
to Hyacinthe to be too interested witness
AZ accept of his testimony against the presthoo
70 abroad.
Further, Hyacinthe throws the blame of b
e. marrying upon st. Paul. How is it the apo
Of ties instead of marrying, left their wives (thos
C. who bad any by mutual consent, besides lea,
tug aU tie better to qualify themselves for tn
l." promises of Christ, in order to serve their o,
~ master, with exclusive singleness of purpose
o. that st. Paul himself did not marry, who wa
a as much open to the fraities of human uatul
10. as Hyacinthe, but who chastised his bod
l." and brought it into subsection according
he the teachings of modification of the Lor