The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-01

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he was telling me OF II, that his lrlsn o!noo
found endowment in the continuous oa.sies s
bnt he said this Is my book, my armo'y, auu
he told me that for thirty years ne nau neset set
failed once year at least 10 reau Is ,,;srht Srs
book carefully and altentiVely tnat ns,d ne m,s'
be filled with arguments tneieIn ~ n,',rsnt
He kept himself well Informed on ths euaaToI na roI
literature then In the United Statssi ne re-
ceiy0d the Catholic papers; he reao Calno.S y.
works: but alter all, he loved 10 3, oaCh w
the first book that he brought WIN al.n Ta ora
he went ont into that new !anu. lhe.e ore
other works besides Doctor Miiimer @ ., on' 'o0 o0s
cannot be now obtained. Ihere 10 oue
otber volume of which l thlnk VerV'
Very highly, written by The late Rev. Doctor
Mc(;Ill, OF Richmond, aud 1t Ia volume pre-
senting us a condensed summary Oh Cs,po,ic
doctrine, scientifically presented aud Logically
connected, going over the nea 10 spcn s,Sd q Way
that any man can learn If he will but stnoy,
and If he will but think over 1t. He can learn
the precise doctrines and their connection, lor
This Is one of the truths OF Cathol1c lneologys
that as truth does not contradict INC tlu'ii VI
one doctrine, but is allied Win II, so i,s t,,s
whole doctrine Of the church, sclentinsals
presented, form q series OF truths oouhu 'o
pstb.r and as intimately united together as
are the truths of geometry ltseil. l oe'
lieve that was the expression or Mscau'a!.
That book, then, I especially recommend,
though there are many 0tners. WIN u"t
speak of living authors. With them you must
be familiar, at least, as mollVes ol lh.ties'
will lead YOU not 10 leave them untouched.
i But. after all, those that mention look upon
| as the Two fundamental works that all Englsn
speakine Catholics ought to be well acquainted
II. Thus i. is, as I have said, we have not
alone 10 instruct the intellect but we have 10
defend our faith and to give the reason why
we are Catholics. And would say, IKE
wise. that for the pure intellectual train
| oc fnfo there I0aQluR
ike that of those strictly logical expositlons
| of our faith. The mind Of man Graves trul II.
Truth is its natural food, so 70 speah,
and here we have truth-Divine truln-
truth infallibiy presented-trulh that we haom ..s
| to be the truth us clearly as we Know tnat ,ue
eun shines over our heads IN mlu,oay; mSu u
| ia composite being besides hls lnteiiecC ne
| mas a conscience, aud besides bis soul ne mas
| mis- body, his spiritual nature and nls numanl-
tv. IA needs truth not simply TO Nil MS ~
| telect as geometry or physlca! science miSuI
do. but truth that will guide his conscience
| trn,hs will,do. Therefore we gain Tue lurtner
advantage that while we instruct tne Intel
lect we are inslrncling good conscience
The effects end not here, because ne VINO un-
derstands his religion, he who loves l's prlnc!-
ples. he who culliVates the two faculties, mas aC
| hand principles which he applies to Thousand
of causes arising In his daily lie. long olncu,,
OF anxious doubts The effect goes on, and
why is Il that catholics are not given TO
isms Why is it that they do not run alter
m.smerism, spirilualism or Mormonlsm The
| only lam OF which they can be accused Is ID
servatlsm, which pushes them to leave even
difficulties that they know not OF safely
before them, and not rush into perhaps
greater difficulties of which they have not
vet any experience. Now what each man
himself will read, even without my suggestion,
| is found in his own business. The lawyer can
| never hoLe to succeed unless he has poreo
over folio after folio, unless he has made HIM
sell intimate with the proinndlty OF legal lore I
| as every great lawyer before him did. Tne
physician must study, must learn what the
world around him is learning 10 experiments
| or experimental science. The merchant-he
must knew his business too. He should learn,
| If he would be eminent, where what he deals
| In Ia prodncpd where 1t can De best produced
aud best found, and where after being produced
it is best and most cheaply formed into the
artificial articles that mems commerce will
need, and how it can be brought, aud how ID
can be turned to account. Tradesmen must
know their own profession, and must study
each their own craftsmanship. He must know
what his art requires If he would ever ad-
vance TO emineDce In It. Tne agricnlturlst
| must know of farming. He must know the
soil; he must know how the work If the earth
| can be turned to the best account. But
need not speak of these things 10 this country
OF energy, earnestness aud practical wisdom;
all those things that men need when they ad-
vance they will find out for themselves. Per.
haps should speak more at length on nnotheI
branch OF the subject. Men generally read
tor Information o. Ior recreation; men wish to
know what Is going on in the world, what
steps science has made, what other vast dis'
covery m.n have reached. They wish
to know aud wander through the fields
of science, and ascertain what. Indeed, men
know. How shall we read for general infor-
nation! Here, again, we must read sisteina-
tically. We must take up subject BY subject and
devote ourselves to II to the comparative ex-
oIusion while engaged on that 10 all others.
I need not go over the list OF subjects; some
men must be guided BY their own special apii-
tude, or by the opportunity or occasion In
which they find themselves. But take up,
fret, history. No nobler field of knowledge IL
presented 10 us. for In the study of history we
see the past, and ages are revealed before us
as In q living moving panorama. The cheap
est wisdom is that which we learn at thh ex.
pense OF others. History tells ns what Others
have done, what they have suffered. Yes,
II We understood history well, there would be
much more wisdom In ruling, ln shaping the
deslinies OF men. 1t is because we look at
the present, magnliying 1t as 1t were by
microscope, and forget TO look back at the
past, at that philosophy which teaches by e1-
ample IN the events OF ages l0DR gone Oy,
which, If we knew and understood, would
tell ua what now should be done-whst
now should be avoided. But 10 reading his.
tory We English-speaklng Catholics d d
dificulty. Oh all things think that the Eng.
llsh written history OF the past three centuries
has embodied more Of poison 10 II against the
Catholic Church than any other branch of
literature. If an English writer were treating
OF the old heathens, Greeks, Romans, Egyp-
III A rio ho hri In
against the Catholic Church; II speaking of the
decline and downfall OF the Roman Empire
there again we must be struck. II he comes
down to the middle ages all Is darkness and
confusion. and In modern times every caumny
Is paraded against US. Even now la this
present age things are better, thanks TO RAN
kin, Golden, Haller and Maitland, who have pnt
the seal OF condemnation upon many of the old
statements made against the Catholic Church
80 eagerly swallowed by those who believed IN
the monstrosities of foxes "Book OF Martyrs"
Sill enough remains. Have you not heard
within a few weeks one who claims 10 write
history repeat and reassert that the massacre
of st. Bartholomew is fairly chargeabe 10 the
Catholic Church and 10 The spirit Of Catbo-
licity. No more cbavgeable tran was the
coup d'etdt that Louis Napoleon made in 1852.
At that time you know the history. AS presi-
dent of the assembly he seized one night
over fifty of the chief men OF Paris and threw
them into prison; his troops filled the streets;
he swept the streets with grapeshet, aud the
blood of murdered men ran In the gutters. For
weeks and weeks, says one OF the Pari-