The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-10

Certainly not. Schiller would pc viFtnons - .,
10 could clothe hiuaslf in the lus.re Of virtue q
vitho1t sacrifice. Arhe passionate impulses u
If the heart are stronger to htm than the
sense of duty. He gives way to his pass,osSs {.
He repoupces virtue because he ID too weak
too languid, too listless to encounter TINS
giant strife bravely like strong man; sosn
10 the noble Schiller. 10 later years, wnen 'pe
fery impulses of his heart bad subsided, ne
reused himself to better efforts and nobier
aConsider the prince of poets, Goethe. How
Goethe's coarse insults to morality are well
known. HIS better friend, Schiller, wrote OF
him to Koerner, His mind is not calm enough,
because his domestic relations, whieh ne Is zoo
weak TO change, cause him great vexation.
Koeruer ans wered, Mon cannot violate moral,
ity with impunity., Six years later the noble
Goethe's detestable political principles are |
we'll known. He did not possess q spark OF
| patriotism. He composed hymns OF VICTORY w
iator of Germany. These are the heroes OF
| modern sentiment, the advance guard OF ioer.
ty, morality, and true manhood Ana spe sp
| heroes so far succeeded that the noble AfnaI
| wrote of his time, I'VE are base, cowardsy,
and stupid; too poor for love, too listless ior
anger, too imbecile for hate. UNDERTAKING.
everything, accomplishing nothing; willing
everything, without the power OF doing any
thing 80 far as this boosted freethinklsg
created disrespect for revealed truth. so iaa
passions, leads to mockery of religion ana ie as
loose the bassr passions of man. If they cast
these representatives of the times In prohZe
| thew should stamp on the foreheads Oh theii
statnes the words of Arndt: .
, go We are base, cowardly, and stupid; TOO
poor for love, too listless for anger, too inioe
n without the power of doing anything"
"You are severe, doctor"
!. "I am not severe. 1t is the TRUTH
= GLOW does it happen tina. people SO weak
a feeble aud base, could overthrow the power OF
:, the French in the world u
i. "That was because the German people were
n not yet corrupted by that shallow, unreal
# hollow twaddle of the educated classes aoon
ia humanity. 1t was not the princes, not TIT
nobility who oyerth hn ia W1en in 1873
Is the Germans rose, in hamlet and city, the;
s. staked their property and lives tor iatneE n
Or But it was not the enlightened poets ana pro
fe their hearts to this great sacrifice; not Ines
ir who enkindled this enthusiasm for iatneria an,
CT 1t was the religious clement that dio ~. Il !.
10 Gernan warriors did lot sing Goethe's by INNS
lie Napoleon, nor the insipid model song Oh Lue'
\ COWS wilder Jagd,' as they rushed into pattle
o. They sang religious hymns they prayed DeiTI
no Judgment on Rnssia's ice fields, tue avengih
re- hand of God. Trusting in God, and nersed D
be religious exaltation, they took up tne s" %
40 antilles of war. So the feeble philanthropis'
be could effect nothing, 1t was only q pei's'o"
ns healthy, strong people could do that."
;e- But the saints, doctor! We have "ahoere
". mot ar all! We have thrown some ligt
ais on inimical shadows; the light can now SHIN
nd derful and remarkable. have studied the
es. carefully. have sought to know their am
Of and efforts. 1 discovered that they initiate ts
a the example of Christ, that they realized u
+ 7 exalted teachings of tho Redeemer, You hr
al fault with their contempt for the Things
de- this world. But it is precisely in this tn u,
lev ephemeral but the enduring. They copslde
of ed life as the entrance to the eternal destiI
in of MANN direct opposition to the spirit
in the times, that dances about the golden ca
me. The saints did not value earthly goods
.ith more than they were worth. They plac
for them after selfcontrol and victory over o
the haser nature. Exact and punctual in all th'
nro duties, they were animated by an admiral
low. spirit of charity for their fellow men. Aud
en- this spirit they have frequently revived so
the ety. Consider the great founders of orders
nor. ST. Benedict, St. Dominic, St. Vincent de IA
rWna Party spirit, malice and stupidity. have do
are their worst to blacken, defame and calnmina
,liz then And yet, in spirit OF self-sacrlu
hle. the sons of St. Benedict came among the u
act. man barbarians to bring to them the ennobli
rist. doctrines of Christianity 1t was the BeI
ma. dictines who cleared the primeval forests, {
ucated their wild denIZens, and found
cry schools who taught the barbarians handiwo
lark and agriculture. Science and knowleaSe ilo'
icti we are indebted for the preservation OF class
and, literature. What the monks did then they
,ssa. doing now. They forsake home, break all U
eria1 and enter the wilderness, there to be mlsei
bly cut off in the service of their exalted m
ial," sion, OF to die of poisonous feyers Name Name
mes one of your modern heroes, whose mouths
rbsy full of civilization, humanity, enlig htenment
br me one who is capable of such nc bema
co. their gold bags and their pleasures, and lea
era the stupid monk to die in the service Of eka
over ed charity. 1t is the hypocrisy and the IA,
VEN hood of the modern spirit to exalt itself, q
ge. beiittie true worth. And what did St. Vince
of de Paul dol More than all the gold-bags
owe. oether St. Vincent, alone, solved the soc
ans. problem of the tme. He was, in his time,
ther preserver of society, or rather Christian
nes through him. And to-day our gold bags tire
all BILE before the apparition of the same SOC
in problem. Here high-sounding phrases phrases -
and. are Of value. But the inflated spirit of
% be times is not capable of noble action 1t is
rvat. the modern state--not enlightened socie
,e n sunk in egotsm and gold-that can save
stiu Christianity alone can do it. Social devel
docs mcnt will prove this"
3 for al do not dispute the services of the sal
age to humanity said Frank. But the quest
, ON is, whether society would be benefited it
, and fauatical dark spirit of the middle ages
uxu- vailed, instead of the spirit of modern tim