Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-03-05
from the Cleveland Leader.l
LENTEN PASTORAL.

LENIEN BASIUkAL.
Address OF Bishop eIimOur TO the Ro.
man Catholics of the Diocese Of
Cleveland -PleafOT Catholic Schools.
Catholic Parents Sin who send their
Ch1ldren TO Protestant Schools
Need OF more PTieStS-NeW SemIna.
ry Tor the DiOeess-0bserVatiOns on
Marriage, aud other Questions.
The following is the Lentep address
delivered by Bishop Gilmouy to the Ro-
man Catholics of the diocese of Glove
land:
RICHARD. by The Grace Of God and The
appointment Of the apostolic See, BiSh-
op Of CleuetGRd, 10 the Clergy, ReIi-
g'oH$ aud Ldity, Of the diocese, heath
and benedictioa.
BELOVED BRETHREN OF THE CLERGY
AND DEAR CHILDREN OF THE LAITY.-
With much anxiety and grave apprehen-
sion did we, in obedience to the will OF
/ Rome, assume the chief paStorship OF
The diocese of Cleveland. The reSpons-
Utilities of the episcopacy on the one
hand, and our conscious inability on the
other, we're causes sufficient. But the
kindly welcome everywhere extended
10 US, your earnest faith, and the won
derful progress religion has made, have
tended much to give US hope and rouse
Our courage. Twenty five years ago,
when our most worthy and hard work
ing predecessor was appointed first
Bishop of Cleveland, there were but few
churches and fewer priests, while the
Catholics were but thinly scat cred over
the northern part OF the State. Now
churches are everywhere; every town
and wayside >tation has its cross. Hos
pitfalls, schools, aSyiums, religious insti-
buttons tell their own tale, and mark the
sacrifices and living zeal Of bishop and
priest, and the unbOunded liberality of
the faithful. For all Of which we thank
God and those who have created them.
Though much has been done, much
remains to he done; enemies are every
where. Resistance TO law is the order of
the day: revolution is triumphant and
under The CuiSe OF progress, infidelity
and d~isnbedience is the religion of the
hour. Lib-rty, which now Ins ans Ii
( censs, disorder, robbery, is in every
ones mouth. whilst God and truth are
forgotten. The Holy Father is = prison.
er the Church prosecuted and robbed,
aud her authority defied. Society is fast
accepting the old Pagan doctrine that the
individual is for State, not the State for
the Individual. Under the specious plea
of zeal for education, unle-s we make s
bold stand for our rights, we shall soon
see the child taken from the parent and
compulsory education inaugurated. Few
believe and fewer still care for religion,
The Church cries sloud her warning
mite, but nobody listens; whilst the
devil goes on sowing the seeds of ruin.
We must be up and doing, and shoulder
To shoulder meet the enemy. Never
Was there a time when Catholics needed
unity more, or when they had a more
dangerous enemy to meet dangerous,
because be comes as an enemy To Eight.
II we will hold our Own "a id this uni
versai war that is going on, we must be
more united. There must be less petty
lealousies among us, ~natiOnalities must
be made subordinate TO religion, and we
must icarn that we are Catholics first,
and citizens next. Cstholicity does not
bring US in conflict with the State, vet it
teaches that God is above man, and the
Church above the State. To the Church
as the representative of God, we owe a
spiritual allegiance, yet in sll that does
not conflict with the law Of God, we owe
an unqualified obedience to the State.
The question of the day il no longer
Cathoiicity and Professionalism, but Cath
olicIty and ra~tionalism or infidelity,
AIAGlF uAluEL tue CIV VI EuuIe1llQ0, car
rles on the a Educate the man and
you make him good, say modern reform.
ers. True, bat the word educate has two
meanings. In man there are two powers
10 direct-the mind and the heart. For
getting that if you educate the head and
forget the heart, you have but half per-
formed your task, and that without reli-
gion man cannot be moral. The modern
would be educators give INDEED men in
tellectual power, but leave them without
the moral training necessary to use it.
Smartness to them is everything; good
ness, nothing. When you have devel-
oped the intellectual powers, you have
out into the hands of man a dangerous
weapon much like a locomotive on q rail-
road. The machinery is powerful, the
boiler Is strong, and the steam at the
proper gauge, and men exclaim, What
power! This is what the education of
the intellect ~gives-pOwer; power for
evil, power for good ; power to destroy,
as well as to ave Like the locomotive
that genius has created, education gives
power, but cannot give skill to guide,
any more than genius that may create,
can, without experience, guide the pow
er il has created. Who would trust him
self aboard a railroad car without a
skilled hand to guide the power that is
y NAon ~ 4OA ~ SuEub luc luIudu
mind, the most powerful and intricate
of ali machines, - en- insist that skill is
not needed, and that this machine can
be run without a guide.
Now what is this guide? Religion,
says the Catholic Church ; religion, saws
e experience, and religion, begin to say
the wiser men of the age. The Greeks
and Romans were highly educated, but
they were not moral what of morality
they had came from their religion. Pa
gan though they were, they made reli-
/ gion part of their education, and the bet
ter to impress the avs of their gods up
on the citizen, they united priests and En-
perOr in the Caesar.
At present we have nothing 10 hope
from the State. Yet, we must not there
fore cease to insist upon nur rights. and
if needs be, at the polls demand them.
Were Catholics alive and united on the
school question ; were they TO demand
from every man man who asks for their
vote a pledge that he would vote for our
just share of the school fund, legislators
would learn tn respect the Catholic vote,
and give us our just rights. Catholics
are too timid ; they seem TO go upon the
principle that if they are tolerated they
are doing well. This is a mistake : if we
let our rights go by default, we should
INV ~ - w AC1S AA1AH " nus
be decided in u demands, and nresent
a holder front 20 oar enemies. 1t is I'M
just to so organize the public schools
that we cannot in conscience send oar
children to them. and then tax us for
their support. As well create a State
Church, and tax us for its support. The
honesty OF the American mind will no
doubt in time see this, and give us our
Just demands. But in the meantime
what are we to do? Fold our arms and
sit idle7 Let our children grow up in
ignorance, and so be beaten in the race OF
life? Send them to the public schools,
where not only their faith will be endan-
gered, but their virtues exposed? No.
a hundred times no. We must build
/ Catholic schools everywhere, and, at
whatever cost, support and lift them up
till they are equal TO the best. It is our
solemn Injunction and most positive
command, that every church in the do
cese have its school. Where a cODgrega-
ton canuot build both the church and
school, let it build the schooIhOuse and
wait for the church. There is little dan
ger of the old losing their faith, but there
Is every danger that the young will.
On the school question there can be
and must be no division. Either we are
Catholics, or we are not. If we are Cath
olics, we must leave after us a Catholic
youth. And experience has clearly
proved this cannot be done unless the
children are early taught, and daily
taught, that they are Catholics. We must