The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-27

To enable orr readers to judge of the
New England Puritan panacea for all the
moral evils that flesh is heir to. we show
them, through the eyes of the Belfast Er
anainer, what the "Bible and Prohibition"
without the moral restraints Of true reli-
gion have brought Glasgow to. 1t is a
horrible picture, but be it remembered
that it is not Catholic paper after all that
draws il. 1t is pure and simple the pre-
sentation Of Glasgow sectaIlan preacher:
| 1t is q sad confirmation of what PIetro"
has frequently written to the Catholic Re
Vie,r:
"Sunday debauchery would seem to
have grown to such an extent in Glasgow,
notwithstanding the legislation OF SIT For
! bes M'Kenzie, as to have called for indlS-
nant remonstrance from at least one of the
numerous body of clergymen in that city.
and he informed his congregation on last
Sunday week that on his way to church
| that day he had counted no fewer than
| twenty three persons under the debasing
influence of drink. Bat this was not all i;
| for he announced that 40 abominable were
the obscenities INDUCED in on Sundays by
profligate parties in the district over which
he had charge that respectable people were
obliged to take circuitous routes in going
to church in order TO avoid them. Now, II
the Bible and the Statute Book could be
instrumental in abatipg this unfortunate
all others in which their Influence should
be shown. The sale of intoxicating liquor,
, or indeed, of any liquor for that matter, is
, strictly prohibited, and penalties the most
/ excessive imposed on those detected in the
contraband traffic, and the most prominent
f object, and the one most displayed next to
finery in dress on the Sunday, is the Bible
Thus we have in full operation all the
powers of these two great agencies for the
r endorsements of morality, and yet the con
. dition of the city in which they are so &C
3 tive is that described by the Rev. DR., Wal
lace. 1t ia impossible almost to enter g
, street in Glasgow the Sunday that is
{ not occupied by one m"re persons en-
3 gagged in expoundipg that Word which is 81
t buastipgly referred to as the foundation q
all our spinning jennes and poTer looms
our hacking machines and newspapers
3 and yet respectable persons cannot go t.
r church on Sunday without having their ear
= polluted by blasphemies aud obscenItle
g of the most horrlfyipg character. If thi
g he the condition Of things in Glasgow
. the statement of the Rev. DR.. Wallace, wh'
e can doubt it mot only Forbes Mckenzie
/, but the open air preachers and Bible read
o ers, must be very unsuccessful IN thei
S mission. We have no desire to cast tn
b blame of this lauentabie state of thing
q upon either of these agencies. The per
d sons who work them are in the main ear
D nest and sincere but coercion will neve
n make a bad man good, nor the mere re
# heaIsal of atext of Scripture convert
g drunkard into person of sober habits
g Much injury, indeed, is done to religi0
It aud morality by profiigate persons, with
it out character OF capability, taking upo
v themselves the office of spiritual instruc
= tors, and degrading sacred things in tn
= eyes OF the vulgar. In no city more tina
= in Glasgow is this case, and the result
If found in such bumilating scenes as til
!, Rev. DR.. Wallace so openly describes
g During two months of residence in Ital
}. this gentleman did not see as many i'll
y stances of drunkenness as he observed o
u the Sunday morning in question on hi
10 way to his clerical ministratiens. An
r yet poor benighted Italy has been sufferin
from the clouding Influences of Romanisn
N while Scotland, in whose principal con
a. mercial city the Sunday is desecrated b
q bands of dissolute prohigatvs to an unal
n precable extent, has for centuries had til
"a advantage of an open Bible. But 1tal.
~ through the labors of Messrs. MacDouga
al and Gavazzi, will doubtless soon be re
~ lieved from all Popish letters, and hi
~ chief city may in time come to rival IL
N excellencies of blackguardsm paramount
=. ING lasgow."
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