The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-09

The diocese of Albany has fifteen ori
more religious. communities. VT is notice.
able that the official list SCENE generally. to
avoid the words " convent" and monas-
terry" while the term e conyent," is APP
piled to bothmale ahds feneie rsligious
many of these houses in some dioceses |
pass under thenamesof "collegep or 'acad-
envy - and al they are usuaiiy in secluded
localities, and very quiet 1sd undemon-
strative in their connection Nth the OUT
side world, they gradually 9pcrease and
tant leaders and thinkers who have sup
posed that this was, and is, and will be, q
Protestant country. And 80 O state of
things exists in our land in this connection
which, if 1t bad existed fifty years ago.
might have raised'a Native American"
sod Protestant outcry. :.
" Meanwhile Protestant sects go on qaar-
railing and warning, leaing out bravely
'into gorgeous churches, whose pews are
filed with anbeiieving men, and more and
more with unbelieveing women. Occa-
sionall two sets nearly alike are frightF
ened by theirsgaoemy psospects into a coal
ition, which is celebrated with due flourish
of trumpets. Yet quietly, ssnid Sunshine
and shade, along lake and bay and river,
over mountain and hill +; as steadily as fate,
moves the shadow of Romes us priesthood
! have, as a general thing, either through
zeal or limitations of their superiors, one
thing principally in mind-to foster mother
church. So they dot the land with
churches, converts, hospitals, asylums,
schools, etc. Their principal cause Of
growth rs found; of course, in the vast
Catholic immigration. Their leaders &C.
knowledge q considerable falling away
ant and especially infidel influence; but
the ranks are filled and overfewed each
year again by the incoming tide from Cath
4 Ollie Europe !; and ever and anon some
weary hearted Protestant or infidel creeps
under this great shadow, and, all over,
borne as he is by the heat and burden oil
the dag, feels--often with reason-that be
has bettered his condition. Again, many
children, especially girls, are sent ito the
schools. Ap,id the upheavals of the times
a parents feel sense of relief when they
: know that daughter is in the custody o
this old and strong hierarchy. Her morals
f will be preserved; they will, they think
q take her away s0onsenough to prevent heI
becoming Catholic. She will be taugh
r by women who have adopted the pro!es
r sion Of teacher as life pursuit, SO tina
q there ia aichance that the education will b
q thorough of its kind, land it is so cheap.
Il Then oftentiraee the dying Protestant o
a infidel, casting about for safe deposit TO
. his wealth, watches through his window th
q careful motions of the Sisters of Mercy o
q Charity in the hospital over the way, @
a the gambols of the uniformed orphans i
J. the court of the neighboring asylum, a
At they vent their irrepressiblej juvenile garet
ic in the sunshine; and though the iron {
a the syssem enters his soul, though he fee
D. tho steel gauntlet clutching at his we'll file
!. dying hand through the velvet glove, b
,e concludes to let the money go where the'
ia is q tolerable certainty that "the 4coI
g. Germ won't burst mp right away" to an il
70 sttution that has the merits of stabilit
ri and is conducted by men and women
3. energy and practical ability.
t. Natchez diooese has; sooth to say, a as
Stanielaus Commercial College," direct.
ar by "Brothers O. the Sacred Heart" To
ut acteristio Of To- Roman Church, namel
in it's willingness to ad0pt any new ueth'
As for maintaining eoatrol In human affail
I'M the use of which daes not neeessitate z
nd relinqRishing of any of its venerable Dc
We trines. HGne lie d Titanic hen, that striv
ii- with outstretched wings to cover all t
of earth and the people thereof. She kee
za) mn a constant 1'cluck! cluck ~ for the
~, gathering of her own children and eve
Of other human mothers loved daughter.
TX TIE object>of the writer in PRESENT.
Mt. this picture of the rapid growth of mon'
OIL ticism in this country, is not to crea
civ alarm among Professionals, or ill-will amo
he them towards RomanistssAy Believing
Id the manifest, Destiny OF tho Unit
States, and in the ability of America lnr
is tutions to- nuiiify anything essentla
Az harmful in religious practlce, "ouiu stE
err to impress upon the public mind the il
hat that there are portions of the Rom
eli .smeans of salvation" which embody grA
tn uses that are not represented in any r.
fer gious or secular institutions OUTSIDE of t
be- body and the Protestants ana secular
1ci will never be ab 9 to DO what they WISH
ter the world until they can offer some g.
ress I1city of refuge" as is found in the conve
mat In a lecture before Liberal club of n
IONS York, l said that we must have place
{ 90 refuge for the financially uncombativ
those whom either modestyj shrink