The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-30

You sual I'VE forever, ara the gates "
hell and our enemies shall never prevail
against her. Kingdoms aud empires may
pass away, human greatness Is bus the
dream of him who dreameth until morn
ing. Men may come aHd men may 60, but
the Church stands forever. Haman weak
ness may reveal itself, as it does every day
| in the old forms of detestihle sin and crime.
Society may grOan under it's own miseriea
and its murders, it's impurities, it's abor-
tions, its dishonestles, and mon may CRY
| in their despair, as they cry in the daily
press, When shall this :endY When
| shall we have justice, purity, and homes
ty ~ The blind fools don't recognise the
fact that no crime, no impurity, no dishon-
esty, no Sin can ever be tolerated by the
Church of God, or approach the Catholic
Church. And she alone 10 the saviour
Of society, because she alone IN her dogmas
can declare ,chat the ,corld is crying out for
in this our day.
THE WORLDS BLINDNESS ITS ENDLESS d.
VISIONS.
Tire world may divide itself, as it does,
into thousand schools of philosophy, a
thousand schemes and systems Of varying
opinion or religion. That ia what 10 called
ia this our day "religion." Every religious
teacher may come out with his own scheme,
"a you will fad by reading the New York
Herald. You will read there such a num-
BILE jumble of doctrines that such a man
teaches one thing, and another man teaches
the very opposite, and that Mr.. So and-so
ID considered very pions SORT of reli gious
man, fer no condescends to acknowledge
the existence Of Gsd and the Divinity Of
Jesus Christ. There is no unity in that
world, and yet men are blind enough, will
fully blind enough not to perceive the mag
nifcent unity, second only to the essential
unity of God, which guides the councils,
animates tho words and personifies the
n had Saff ho r,th al;
THE cHUcH's UNITY, sANcrITY AND RTER-
NIFTY ARE EVIDENCES OF HER DIVINITY.
Well, my friends, if you consider these
things you will be obliged to sonolude, ev-
On IT you are not CathOlics-I don't know
whether there are any here Tonight who |
are not Catholics-you will be obliged to
conclude that there must be something di- |
vine in the religion which captivates the |
intelligence of two hundred millions of
men, and which makes that intelligence as
Of one mind, end as one man in it's express
hand every form of sin and,
~ destroying sin, changes the sinner into
The child of Gsd. Beginning with the Sac
'ament of baptism, it goes on to the Sac
'ament of Penance, and from that to the
Holy Communion, until it finally wipes
way the very latest niseres and fears,
which will attach themselves to the yery
implest and holiest, by the consolng and
antifying Sacrament of Extreme Uuction.
There must be something divine in a
;hurch that has been able to stand for
wo thousand years. that has never allowed
ny political or philosophical question to
% without examining it and judging of it;
hat has move: feared to take up any in
ulry of science; ready to meet every in
urer, give him his answer and prove it to
in. This Catholic Church never dies
ever knows how to die, never grows old
ever knows the day of dissolution. And
ne Church alone, like unfallen man, will
ass from its militant state to the trium-
hant, and will reign as the Church of God
'rever and forever in heaven.