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THE CHURCH AND THB STATE.
REV. FATHER BOYLE's LECTURE LAST
NIGHT

| REV. FATHER BOYLES LECTURE LAST
| NIGHT.
The second lecture q the 'isoeisty" course ~
delivered last night ct Lincoln hall BY Rev. =.
Boyle. pastor Of st. Peters church, Capitol Hill
before large and Intelligent assemblass oflsdiei
| and gentlemen, who manifested their admiratfol
Of the able and eloquent Of the lscture
BY repeated applause. On the platform wefs
! seated Rev. Fathers Walter, Coll, barotti, Kane
and San MARITIME. The Lecturer wss appropriately
| introduced By Major J. Edmsad Haiist, prest
dent Of the Young Catholics Friend Society, and
speaking without notes, oceuplsd just one houI =
the confederation Of bis interesting subject, Th(
| Church and Civil Liberty"
Father Boyle commenced By aging that tn
Catholic Church 10 specially promnent 1t present
By the rapid diffusion Of Information. by the tels
issues now q stake. She sneountered NOR
serious difficulties under Pagan and Asian EN-.
perors, and was victorious. hut to-day she 10 IN
stsses@sn, and the isssen Of thought. Is:
Catholic Church 10 . colossal, invineibls and
ss.ndiy %ystsrious i.ct; AnsIissI: 't.SX , md
in struggle. Of life and death. II this country
she Is Judged calmly, and fsvorably estimated;
features 81 Chrstanity, the representative Sf the
ancient days Of religion,
TIE CHURCH WITHOUT RoLrTlcs,
and the motive power Of Immense charities. Her
people obey the laws respect the authorities, and
sss snS
best and wisest in the land. But In the Europe
which she civilized, IN which she conquered Pa
tho Saracen. she u trsated most dsspitefuly with
calumny and hatred. The cause Of the difference
in treatment is that With us she Y tried on her
meter Ii their inndelfty.
The contest in Europe isnot between Cathoiicity
and Professionalism, bat between aggressive un-
hall - funA nf0l TINT Of
itself Tho purposes Of the .unbslievtng a.
gressors are yelled under the sllvery words .hb-
ss!r ,a sss
gion their education sOnly the method Of worldly
Of Sod and the of The Stat: as SOW
ereign, absolute and irresponsible. In the pres
WHAT 10 IIBERrTf
What Is its radical idssf It 10 the unhindered
highest liberty is that which Christ gives: You
ehall know the truth, and tho truth shall make
yOs Is The Sn dSwsr God
srty Of the individual the family and the state Is
m. n hs IT ss STATE ea Ss
basis Of this sentence: where the Spirit Of God
is, there is liberty" Hence the history Of the
iiberty Of conscienee. It continues with the
liberation Of the million white slaves left BY
the Roman empire and the conversion Of the
It is sixnaiised in the contest Of the Popes for lib
Great, Gregory VII. innoesn. III. and Sonif.cs
loving Church generated in the brain Of st. Dom
inc the elective principle the essential feature
Of the great Dominican order. The subjects I'm
inaugurated in the thirteenth century
THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLE
All the otficcs and dignities Of the Church are
open to merit, not to rank or privileged classes
Callistus, Pope in "a, was BY origin slave:
artificial and invidious distinctions. liberty:
born idea started the crusades that pscthed
Europe whilst they crippled S.raesnie power :t
fects, the crusndes made freemen Of serfs, de-
stroyed feudalism, enlarged commerce and ex-
tended science. Republics grew aoundantly in
ienoa, Pisa and Florence are examples. The
Church blessed '.the Lombardy League"
The Truce Of Goo" was the device Of the
rant and barbarous period. The nations OF Eu-
rope chose the Popes as the umpircs In disputes |
I'd the srbiters for Justice and peace. It was
Magma Charta, !" the document Of liberty; Pope |
Gregory III, In 7s2, aroused Charles Martel TO |
ave Europe from the Saracens by the victory Of
IN the Gulf Of Lepanto in the same defence; and
Innocent II. inspired the gallant Sobiesk TO save
Chrstendom in loss outside the walls Of Vienna.
j Il,
In the cause Of all true liberty.
What moves now
THE PROSECUTING BIsNARcK
to charge against the Church hostility to liberty
and stable government He Is sagacious enough
to discern in the Church the only bulwark Of lib
erty of conscience, the assertion Of freedom from
slavery to the senses, to false philosophy and the
tyranny Of the State. It is no longer question
to absorb the Church BY the State, OF the forty
million Inhabitants of the German EMPIRE fifteen
millions Catholics, of whom 200, 900 fought to
lave their church and conscience.
+, The ne RsHsJcs, whose name will heneeforth Be
..ss If Pontius Plate is in the Heeise creed,
Hben challenged to the proof Of disloyalty Of
Catholics, could but maintain ignoble silence.
Prosecutors have always lied before being cruel
md unjust. This man of iron and blood Belongs
70 the class Of Nero and Trojan.
The lecturer explained the meaning Of
uHIoN o. CHURCH AxD STATE,
md showed its best existing type to BE- in the
United State. IN which religion e protected in
% exert its Inherent rghts He set forth the doc
rine and practice Of the liberation Of worships,
hs and ths or ~
new. The Church Is not responsible for the State |
Lnquisitions Of Ferdinand, Charles v, aud Philip
enemies Of society, and the crusads Vas against
heir armed bands. The massacre Of St Barthol- |
,mew was hellish, and wrought by Catharine and |
ne o.
In conclusion, the lecturer reverently made the |
hypothesis that Christ, instead Of ascending TO
heaven, had =.
ELECTED TO REMAIN OF EARTH
III the contamination of time. In such case some
would have adhered to him, some would have |
utterly Indifferent. He wouid not have called |
Town fire from heaven to consume" his enemies; |
le would not have asked the assistance Of ''more
han twelve legions Of angela" He would ex-
ng the night In prayer" he would strive to draw
III men to himself Prosecuted in one city, he
Vould seek another. In all this IL verified the
lction Of his Church in the world. Not BY VIC
ence, but by truth and prayer has she fulfilled
Ter mission But Christ III present now to the