The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-19

acceptance OF gUGn 0FCt9Gf1Y ana S9f0Gerly as
.silEance and consol alton aid hot entail break
ing mp ef the hothes Of the. poor 10 did NOT
mean the distraction Of all further chance Of
holding on in the struggle Of life, in the hope
the swapping of every family tie, and the sun
dering OF every affectiopate bond it did not
mean public humiliation, public degradation,
and inter loss Of self respect and self-depend-
ence 1t did not mean . forfeiture Of all that
makes existence upon earth worth living for.
The poor-law relief system, which was begct
of the lamentable Refornstion, entails and
Sonla s6ho1 and shuSss e
that o hundred human beings should, in Lon
don alone, prefer the lingering suGerings Of
death by starvation than they should accept
This is the secret of there being such an
alarming amount of distress in the midst of
such unexamp1ed plenty. and with the exist
Poer.relief systems to be found anywhere. One
hundred people allowed to stsrve every year
In the metropolis Of . nation whose capital has
been increased during the past ten years by
E1 ,000, o0O, 0oOi One hundred poor sufferers
who lose their lives every. twelve month";,
through want Of food, and 61 ,o0O, 0oO, 600 being
hundred fellow creatures suffered to die annu-
ally through want of the common necessa-
ries of life, and . State Church, aud State
Archbishop and bishops aud clergy-who pre-
sumo to be the successors Of those unostenta-
tious and genuinely earnest apostles to whose
kindly confederation and care our Saviour re-
commended in special manner the poor
living in wanton and unbecoming luxury on
the spoils Of the Church persecution and
Wholesale robbery, on the strength of which
they came into existence. A Church, and q
hierarchy, and .poor-relief establishment
swallowing up yearly as much money as would
provide comfortable life-competencef for every
man, woman and child in the United King
dom and yet hundred Of Gods creatures
knowledge oftheir Maker. What o spectacle /
what result. of the three hundred years'
working Of the mispamed Reformationl How
long 10 It to be bornef This has been truly
an af1iction. Thank God, there are at Last
hopeful indications Of the passing away Of
ice Of our forsiathers, who, through corrupt
Influences and through fear, were induced and
forced to fall away from the. real and only
Church Of Christ, and thus assisted in the CAL
arnitous work which Henry VIII snd some Of
his followers accomplished but tooSwell The
nightmsre by which England has been af-
ficted for over three hundred years and the
eyes of the people are being opened to the
error which their forefathers have bequeathed
to them. The people of England have come
to inquire and 60 think as to what was the
character and the work Of the Church which
existed for ages before Henry VIII. found it
inconvsnient to the prosecution of his vile
passions, and swept it away. Catholic churches
and Catholic religious houses are again spring
ing up in al parts Of England, aud every where
these much needed institutions are able to live
on the voluntary assistance Of Catholics. The
work of undofng what has been done. and
ing slowly but surely-so surely that England's
return to Catholicity, and the swallowing mp
Of all existing schism can be not very far away
in the future.-London Cnirerse. D.: =,