The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-30


in that. city answer. Is 1T good for
the Church TO nave her colleges and her monaste-
res OF men and women closed and coniscated Is
II good for the Church to ind her religious orders
suppresseds Is it good Tor the Church TO have her
priests exposed to insult and apprehenslve OF as
IL good for the Church to have her seminaries sub
lect to military conscriptton Is II good ior the
20 is gs made LOT the @ 81 S
to have her inustrous head prisoner in the Vati-
cam Sir, these are fair questions; You know that
thousand interr0gations Of equal import. No one
can call into doubt the truth of what
gone down. So do these questions make it certain
that the act OF the Pedmontese invader operates,
not well, but with an unclaimed spirit Of Satanic
hensible that the HERALD should defend It, The
act Is qualification to bgots, TO the ignorant de-
fusion, TO the judicious o regret 10 God-the
founder Of the Church-an outrage, TO all Catholics
Mr.. Editor the Catholic Church needs her tempo
raj power. She is not chameleon that can i've
upon the atmosphere; but she Is a real thing,
largely under human management, Tor all tine
degree to material things. To slay-to extirpate
her is impossible-to bind her hands-lor she has
hands--has been often done; and one OF the surest
ways for forging irons ON her wrists as well as for
filing her heart with penetrating cries OF anguish
to the Almighty IS 70 strip her OF her temporal
by her divine virtues. to meet her divine duties,
and with the benediction of Heaven and OF all the
nations OF Eunope. Not an acre did she acquire by
rapacity, not district did she administer with
fraud The greatness OF the Italian Kingdom is a
very good thing. But by what right should the
Church OF God be pillaged of her time-honored,
greatly needed possessions Tor the interest OF such
.. greatnessP Tue right of the burglar TO the mer-
travellers purse; the right oil the invader to lands
not his own. There is no other right for It, ion
VIII say that plebiScit,un has justified Victor
Emmanuel. No true plebtsciu,nl did such thing;
ana ii it did, the rights OF the Church would stu be
rights from ptsbiscat"n. she acquired them by
her own good hands a pleotseft,t,a Is human
justice; otherwise all its plans and deeds are out OF
law and inspired by crime. The late rebellion was
vast teOfscttu1n 1t hatthe dimensions OF sea, the
strength OF an ocean, the warmest hopes and the
finest vaor in the world; half The tropical sun
attributes Justify itg Let the rivers OF blood that
quenched IL answer the dreadful question. SO IL
must be with the temporal rights OF the Church.
They rest on the pillars OF sacred 1ustlce they
breahed on by the Creator Himself; they have
benedted Chrstendom. No p,e0is eitune can have
right above such lofty rights. The Church, in
her long experience, has found them to DO good.
In her iniallibe Judgment she declares them me-
cessary. by her inspired voice she says they are
sacred. They make the ground firm under her
ieet; they Keep shackles away from her wrists;
they give her the royal independence to which by
grace she was bound. They are inalienablc and
can never be surrendered. They arc under the
weight of invasion now. But they are the property
treasure OF an imperishaDle Church ana their abey
ance is only Tor time. Saadin took the true
crosS--a Godfrey, OF BOulon, regained It, SO with
these rights. Infdelity and sacrilege have seized
them, but they will be met again. The purposes
ana hopes OF the HOW see never baiieu Tor
ever. Our glowing holy Father may not this
triumph in the flesh, ana may Heaven iorefcnd that
he should not; but he sees it in hope and he de-
clares ii with prophecy, and his hope and his
prophecy are not from earth put from Him whose
vision he Is and, therefore. 1t is rational to believe
them.
Mr. Editor, you are standing on the side OF
wrong; You are taking part with rapine; you arc
abettlng sacrilege. You are dong SO, not, per-
haps from direct malice, but certainly from con-
slant unlairness, and, without any doubt. vita
IA n ha - IN
no right TO make you champion OF their Pope; but
as you frequently discuss ais highest interests, IL Is
that You always carry on the discussion with de-
cided hostility. You have million OF readers, ana
on this subject you poison many. And for what
elevated purpose are yOu thus enstod9 For Vic.
tor Emmanuel. For Victor Emmanuel great and
spotless chafacte e OF Tue admiration Oh
destroyer OF more than eighty young women. Such
Is the monster DIX, Bryant, Beechcr and others
greeted tvs years ago Tor entering the city OF the
martyrs SUCH is the monster the NEW YORK
HERALD upholds day after day. Assurcdly it would
be more noble TO stand by tue venerable Vicar oil
''-''' ''''A y ~ WV u JAMES NJ spELLIsY.
The Invasion of Our Churches by
sMamln on.''
10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
viii you kindly permit us, through your indie.
pendent columns, to present to the public mind
the following querlesy-When John the BAPTIST
sent his disciples TO inquire OF Jesus cart thou he
that should come or do we look for another ~
the response was, "Go and tell John what things ye
have seen and heard" thereby making these evil
dences the criterion by Which he must form his
conclusions as TO whether Jesus was the Christ or
not And we notice that Jesus gave TO John no
definite answer, but left 1t with his own Judgment
to decide the question by the evidence of what was
"seen and heard"
Suppose that in lieu OF one Of the evidences then
given--viz., "To the poor the Gospel Is preachedr
had been substituted this, "The seats around Gods
table are put up to the highest bidder; and they
that have the most money may have tho Gospel
preached TO them. And so may alss the poor, by
sacrificing their selfrespect and gelDg as boggars
and trespassers upon other mems purchased and
to him, through the merits of which he must form
has conclusions, what think You would have been
the decision to which John woud have arrivedY
Does not this criterion, then, given by Jesus own
lips, still hold goods Must we not still Judge by
what Is "heard and seen" whether the Christ be
present or apsenty And may we not justly con-
women who do not 60 TO church on account or the
enormous price OF Gospel privileges are Influenced
money Is not the lone thing Deodiui'
whereby TO- gain access TO Goods Bread OF
LiieS" Among ali the invasiOns OF our people
Dy ''Mammonn there are none 10 be SO deeply de-
pi0red as its invasion of our churches. That the
spirit OF money here also bears sway Is a fact so
startling that it Should engage the attention OF
every thinking and earnest person.
TnrQugh how many OF our churches is Gods voice
now heard saying TO his children, clio, every one
that thlrstetn, come We to the waters, ana he that
hath NO money; come We, buy and eat; yea come,
buy wine and milk without money and without
price Z" And when instead thereof the voice OF
the crier Is heard putting up the seats around
Gods table 10 the highest bidder should we not
ask with emphasis, "Is this the spirit vi Christi Ia
this in accordance with the teaching ana example
OF our Great Leader, who declared, 'Ye cannot
serve both God ana Mammon.'"
ISABELLA b. LANGSTON
BEDMrSsTERvnLE, Bucks county, Pa, March IL,
1873.
The Russian Church in Japan.
The Cronstadt Gazette notices the spreading OF
the Russian orthodox creed IN Japan. A former
bonze, Paul Sarvate, Is Que OF It's most active
apostles. In Hakodadi there Is a Russian Church
In which divine service Is held In Japanese. Tho
Bishop OF Kamschatka received during his presence