The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-12

z Kings Of the Garth stood up, and the Princes M
together against the Lord and against HE Christ
Lefas burst, say they. the chains which felt,
our liberty-our unbounded liberty of though
OF word, Of action, and cast aside Their yoke
the yoke of Faith, Morality and Conscience.
Groundless, indeed, Dearly Beloved Brett
rem, are our fears, should we be craven enoug
, to conceive any, for the safety of that Churc
whose life is indestructible, because the pri1
oiple of Her being is immortal, and of who's
victory In Her present, rs Her every other cor
Hict, whether past or to come, there rests upo
our minds not q shadow of doubt. "He ,oh
| d'retieth in the Hearens SCOTS at the abortire al
saults Of His enemies" Their puny efforts H
ridicules, and He, in His own good time, will
speak to them in His wrath, and upon thei
guilty heads will fall the terrible chas.isement
which they have SO justly merited. Yet to Us
Dearly Beloved, it is q source of no less mex
pressible sorrow, when We behold SO many
souls, ransomed by the Blood of Jesus Christ
treading in Satan's rebellious steps, thus haz
arding their every hope of salvation and
exposing themselves to the risk of eternal
association and exile with him for eternity
Can We, Dearly Beloved, be but idle specta-
tors of the trials and sufferings of that holy and
lllustIious Pontiff, to whose guidance Provi-
dence has SO wisely entrusted His Churchs
Government during these troublous DAYS 2
Not only is he forcibly robbed of His Patrimony,
but even insulted in dsstardly manner by the
serfs of a faithless, per6dious government, nay
inhumanly outraged, and violently prosecuted
by the minions of the thankless, iniunitous.
sacrilegious Sandman. In almost every conn
try in Europe, in Germany, in Switzerland and
Ita1v the Cburch ir h,,kt oe
persecution, which is the most refined mani
festation of their hypocritical phrensy. Where
persecution is not the order of the day, insult.
outrage, injury and calumny, the very vilest,
a perseousion the more to be feared, because it
is the more insidious, hold the sway. In
language the very lowest, and to interpreta-
ton the most senseless are the traths of our
molly religion exposed; our works of charity
misrepresented-even falsified. In short, moth
ing which the genius of man can devise, has
been left untried, that the Church might ap-
pear In as odious and ridiculous light as
possible to the eyes of men-an object worthy
OF the hatred, and deserving the contempt of
an enlightened century. As its greatest enemy
its very bitterest foe, hostile to its every de,
velopment, ever retarding it's onward pro-
gress, do the satellites of the Demon present |
w e-S WIN Oa0 ShukCu VI jesus CQrl6G And !
yet it is that Church which cloisters within Her
pale children of every nation and of every
people, of every cline and of every tongue.
It is She, the inexhaustible treasures of whose
maternal heart, are 80 profusely lavished upon
der children. 1t Is She who consults their
avery true wish, procures their every happi-
less, supplies them with the only real, imper-
shable goods of this life that they may attain
md possess the eternal ones of the life to come.
The words of the Apocalypse would in our day,
Dearly Beloved, seem to have found their full
illment Satan is unfettered he has sedaoed the
afons 'chich are spread orer the four quarters Of
he earth. He compasses the Camp of the Saints
The Holy City, but to desolate and Law it
waste, and even, if possible, to bury it in
uins Patient, indeed, Dearly Beloved, is the
Lord, because He is eternal. Yet, at his nod, \
lis enemies will disappear faster.tr. r---Hs
efore the wind than~Inld be rem" 0nan smoke
--sef or worse BY. thu the wax before the fire,
md then shall the jGst feast and rejoice before
God, and pih gladness shall they be delighted"
But it is ours, Dearly Beloved, to hasten.
~ our prayers and duplication to the
Throne of Grace, the speedy dawn of this
much wished for day. In the present |
crisis, Dearly Beloved, the Faith of Christen-
DOM yelling up by an innate, and voluntary |
expression, from the depth of Her children's |
hearts, casts its eyes upon the Sacred Heart of |
Jesus. In the fathomless recesses of that |
Adorable Heart, have Her children ever been |
certain of finding light in their darkest hours,
ortitude in. their severest conflicts, and |
strength and consolation in their heaviest |
Affections. The Conservation of the various |
Dioceses to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was but |
the manifestion of their Faith in the Heart |
IF their Divine Redeemer, Us it was the reali-
.ation of their long cherished hopes and ar
lent aspirations. Thus, Dearly Beloved has
,ven the malice of the Church's enemies, been |
he unwilling instrument of unfolding Her |
hildren's unwavering fidelity, and ever in
reasng Devotion to the Heart of their Ador-
Lble Saviour.
The Hierarchy of the United States, as re-
narkable for their zeal for the Church's growth |
IS for their Devotion to it's Head, could not |
,ut feel that love for the Sacred Heart with
which the heart of Christendom was yearning,