The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-03-06
HRYTEY PASTORAL.

EEYTEY PASTORAL
/ address oil the NeY Bishop OF the Do
CesC Of CIeTelaHd-SOme Vigorous
and Emphatic declarations OfChuFCl
Doctrines.
The following is the Lenten address
delivered by Bishop GImour to In,
Roman Catholics of the Diocese o
/ Cleveland
pOinlmcnJ Of the Apostolic See, Bishop q
Cleveland, 20 the Clergy, Religious am
I Laity Of jhc Diocese health and ben9tir
tiou.
BELOVED BRETHREN or THE CLER-
: GY AND DEAR CHILDREN OF THE
/ IlAITY fifth much anxiety and
/ grave apprehension did we, in clo.!i-
I enca to the will ~ l}..u -I ri- tt.,
chief pastOrship .i Be-. -j... -.. 60,
/ Cleveland. Tnt. resi- On-ID.4:f-,'- ,I tina.
| eViscOpacy on the one hand, and our
! conscious inability on the other, were
/ causes sufficient. But the kindly
welcome eVeTywheTe extended to us,
I your earnest faiii-, and the wonderful
I pyogress religion ...t- made, have ten
ded much 10 give Us hope and rouse
orr courage. Twenty-Five years ago,
when our most worthy and hard
working predecessor was appointed
first Bishop of Cleveland, there were
but few churches and fewer priests,
whilst the Catholics were but thinly
scattered over the northern part Of the
State. Now churches are everywhere;
every town and wayside station has
its cross. Schools, hospitals, asylums,
religious institutions tell their own
tale, and mark the sacrifices and liv-
ing zeal Of bishop and priest, and the
UnbOunded liberty Of the faithful. For
all Of which we thank God ard q Ose
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 guise Of progress, inf
deity and disObedience is the religion
of the hour. Liberty, which now
means license, disorder, robbery, is in
every ones mouth, whilst God and
truth are forgotten. The Holy Father
is prisoner, the Church prosecuted
and robbed, and her authority defied.
Society IS fast accepting the old Pagan
doctrine that the individual is for the
State, not the State for the individual.
Under the speciOus plea Of zeal for ed
ucatiOn, unless we make bold stand
for our rights, we shall soon see the
child taken from the parents, and
comDulsOry education inauguTated.
Few DeileVe, anu IOUUI 5slII Osstv 80
religion. The Church cries aloud her
warning note, but nobody listens !;
whilst the devil goes on sowing the
seeds of ruin. We must be up and do
ing, and shoulder to shoulder meet
the enemy. Never was there q time
when Catholics needed unity more, or
when they had a more dangerous enc
my to meet dangerous because he
comes as an enemy 10 light
If we hold our own amid this uni
yersal war that is going on, we must
De more united. There must be less
petty iealOusies among us, natiOnali-
ties must be made subordinate to re-
ligiOn, aud we must learn that we are
Catholics first, and citizens next.
CathOlicity does not bring US in con-
fiict with the State yet it teaches that
God is above man, and the church
above the state. TO the church as the
representative Of God, we owe a spiri-
tual allegiance, yet in all that does
not conflict with the law Of God, we
owe an unqualified obedience to the
state.
The questiowof the day is no longer
CathOlIcity and PTotestanism, but
CathOlicity and ratiOnalism or infideli-
ty, which, under the cry of education,
carries on the war. Educate the mau
and you make him good, say modern
refOrmers. True, but the work edu-
cate has two meanings. In man there
are two powers to direct-the mind
and the heart. Forgetting that if you
educate the head and forget the heart,
YOU have but half performed your
task, and that without religion man
cannot be moral. The modern would
be educators give indeed men intel
Iectual power, but leave them without
moral training necessary TO use it.
Smartness to them is everything !;
goodness, nothing. When you have
developed the intellectual powers, you
have put into the hands of man q
dangerous weapon, much like a loco
motive on q Railroad. 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
glves-pOwer power for evil, power
for good power to destroy, as well as
to save. Like the locomotive that
genius has created, education gives
power, but cannot give skill 10 guide,
any more than genius that may create,
can, without experience, guide the
power it has created. Who would
trust himself abroad 4 Railroad car
without q skilled hand to guide the
Dower that is to draw it ? Yet, TO
guide the human mind, the most pow
erful and intricate Of all machines,
men insist that skill is not needed, and
that this machine can be run without
a guide.
VOW WITH I5 t1Ifs 2 II
saws the Catholic church 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. Pagan though
they were, they made religion part of
their education, and the better to i'm
press the laws Of their gods upon the
citizen, they united priest and emper-
or in the Cesar.
At present we have nothing to hope
from the State. Yet, we must not
therefore cease to insist upon our
rights. and if needs be, at the polls de-
mand them. IPere Catholics alive
and united on the school question
were they to demand from every man
who asks for their vote, pledge that
he would vote for our just share of the
school fund. legislators would learn to
respect the Catholic vote, and give us
our lust rights. Catholics are too
timid,- ,-they seem TO 60 upon the prin-
ciple that if they are tolerated they
are doing well. This is a mistake if
we let our rights go by default, we
should not wonder If we lose them.
Vs must be decided in our demands
and presents a bOlder front to our enc
mics. It is unjust TO so organize the
Dublic schools that we cannot in con-
Science send or 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 de-
mands. But in the meantime what
are we to do ? Fold our arms and sit
idle? Let Ourchiidren grow up in ig-
norance. and so be beaten in the race
OF life ? Send them to the public
schools, where not only their faith will
he endangered, but their virtues ex-
pOse1? No, q hundred times, no.
H'e must build Catholic schools every
where, and at whatever cost, support
and lit them up till they are equal to
the best It is our solemn injunction
and most positive command, that
every church in the diocese have its
/ school. lFnere a congregation can
not at once build both church and
school, let it build the school house