The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-11-16
TIE MORNING. STAR MESSENGER NOVEMBER TO-

honest citizsns that In the States where
religion WAS divorced from instruction men
might grow h up .rsi tended
TO rese them up rather to clever devils ehsn
as honest men. TO Improve a maRs snfet-
Lses, to sharpen Ass tptts scos not to ef.re or
isssrsse HE ksort osd u they might judge
tksSe Seoasnteeatio Sgethvow 0y experience OF
sAs psSsts aesesSty aad
rnn SOCIAL STATE OF TIE AHE RIcAN UNION.
by what they heard from their own mousba |
Of the tone Of society, and of public, Pc.
litical aud commercial life-they could not |
cation, for it certainly had not reared mp |
that spleudidly honest aud truly religious |
nation which it was supposed might oe
brought about with instruction, In which
there was little OF no religion. be hao
given them his own views ON the snbjece
and he would now give them an extract
from the words of their spiritual father,
Pope Plus TX. 1t must be great source
of encouragement and strength to them all
| to feel that there was no public questi"n
affecting religion and morality which had
not been touched upon by their spiritual
Father, the present pontif. The Pope
said:
| cit assuredly happens that when truths
| revealed by God are impudentiy denied or
are subjected to the examination and judg-
i
ton of natural things to the supernatural or
der entirely disappears. Aud as men are
withdrawn from seeking after the eternal
end of their creation, their thoughts and acts
become crcumacribed by the limits OF the
material passing things of this world. The
Chnrch has been constituted by her Divine
Founder as the column and foundation of
the truth, that she may keep whole and an :
4 v.n,ate he deposit eon6ded to her, and
skes1 to may direct and mould men, ac-
II AlAH HnrR
. their mutual relations, in their moral con-
= Diet aud in their whole system OF life.
= Eecsei; is that the abettors and propaga-
+ tore CT, alse doctrines, make every effort
a to strip the Church of her authority over
. huraan society. Wherefore they leave
. nothing untred whereby they may dimin
o ish the entire power and sslutary influence
~ which the Church has ever exercised since
- its divine institution and which it ought tx
- exercise over human society. They do al
d that in them lies to remove the lnn9ence o
|, the Church from the institutions of human
a society, and to subject these institutlon
20 entirely to the political and civil authority
at to the good pleasure of those who are II
IN government, and to the law of the hckb
le opinions of the age. 1t 10 not, tneIe.O oH
~ efforts are principally directed against tn
~ public instruction and education of yeutf
- It cannot be doubted but that human %
ha ciety will suffer grave injury when tn
ed mOderatlng auChority Oh Ihe Snu'S "
- her sslutary influence are expelled frol
ov the public and private education OF yonsl
~ on which the Eappin ess Of Church and Sta
so much depends. 1t is thus, in effect, tn
"a human society is by little and little Stripe
,er of that Christian spirit which can aloi
ba preserve mistaken the foundations OF pu,
90 lie order and peace, and ia alone ahle
:; create and carry out true and useful pr
nd gress in civilization; ct the same time tn
'nt all those aids are provided which are u
nd cessary in order that man may attain e
~; last end that is, his eternal salvation, ait
IN, the course of this mortal life. Most &c
.o tafnly the instruction which has not on
nn Tor its one only end the knowledge
v,., rasuro and the objects OF earthly and soc
Nv lie, cut which also abandons the trut
ha sitye all into the spirit of error and fails
o'e hood. THE education which undertakes
~ form the tender minds and heart, mailee'
the as wax in their inclination to vice, OF en-
dren, without the aid of Christian doctrl
h. u and discipline of the moral code, can Oh
Inv aN bring up a generation which, excited
pa impelled by it's own passions and by ct
~ interest, will bring down upon prlvi
90 families and upon the State the great
. ~ misfortunes. If this pernicious MODE
le s faith and from the authority of the Chur
hn4 ia a cause of the greatest evil to the IN
&c. vidual and to society, when 1t Is lntrodu
''I ;n into the public Institutions that are con
al Grated to the education and higher etuc
IN of the upper classes, who can fail to
ppy that the evil and loss will :.be far grea
r bss when such a method is applied to ;,
1 DE- schools of the poor7 For, in effect, IT
; !no principally in such schools that the
s e,d dren Of the lower classes ought to be
o oaS structed from their tenderest infancy
e en; the mysteries aud principles OF our .I1
QUIZ tha religion, and diligently formed to plety
, tne a moral life, to religion, and to become
nree citizens. Religion ought in such sens
III Duu hold the first place, and SO to preval
I've these schools, both in instruction and e
maze a ;e cation, that the other branches OK KIN
s u ~ ledge should appear as secondary.
sng unless religious teachiPg is closely cor
rlt TN ed with the instruction given In q
nd MS schools, youth is exposed to the grea
con. dangers. Popular schools have been
), tabIished for the religious education of
j., un people, for their training and pisty an
oy the laws of Christian morality, and til
c Span fore it is that they have aiways with
q nren reason, beyond other houses OF educa'
~ az engaged the special care, solicLtude
=. o9C wa1c6fulness of the Church. The p