The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-06-20
The established Church.

It 10 easy to zee now now the 1P'sS"Po
Church Of Epgland became and remained
estabLshed in Ireland. Government pap
fed IL and fattened it. Without that sup
port it bad no inherent ability to sustain
itself. It was in . condition Of permanent
babyh hood and had to be fed With spoon
ali the time. There was NO growth TO 1t,
90 adolescence, no maturity. II IL always
practicable for the bayonet to make such
establishments as that just such an es-
Establishment was our Warmoth government
and just such another 10 our Kellogg gov
ernment,-establisked by virtue Of our
slavery and their effrontery.
Now our good people can all understand
in fact, they can't help understanding,
what sort Of thing was the Established
Church of Ireland" Il was pure piece OF
carpet baggery,-an institution fasteDed on
a copouered people to humiliate and en-
poverish them. Its bene6cisries had the
insolence to insult and deride the people
whom they ieeced. In fact, they just
filed the role of the Radical carpet Dagger
in this country. Bat can our non Catholic
population see the parallel Do they de-
nounce the tyranny which fastened An alien
incubus on an unwilling people If 30, it
must be in an undertone, for no one hears
it. How can they clamor for justice when
they are Ut willing that others should ebjoy
itf 4
But whether they are unwilling or not,
the day of the Established" iufamy is
ho1
and, of course, it disappears. From our
last Irish letter we learn that Archdeacon
Lee, of the Dublin (Protestant) Diocese,
has seeded from the regular Episcopal or
ganization and inaugurated the work of
founding a separate branch of that Church.
The Archbishop himself, the week. before,
had announced that he intended to secede
unless certain things were done, and We
may therefore fairly infer that this action
of the Archdeacon was upon an understand
ing with him. Our correspondent, who is
on the spot, says that in another year the
Episcopal Protestant Church Of Ireland will
be divided into three or four sects.
Then its history may be considered al
ready written. Division is the beginning
of individ ualism-the beginning of the end.
Every separate member will commence TO
snub bis pastor and set up for a shining
light Of his OVID. The ministry will fall
into eostempt, the churches into decay and
the religion into oblivion. Episcopalianism
will lose its aristocratic prestige and go into
the hands of the tradespeople, like Method
isn asd Baptism.
The current is setting in the same diree-
ton in England. Before long the State
Church must be disestablished there also,
aud then it, too, will be torn to shreds and
thrown to the ednaille. Division alwayl
works this result. Respectable, intelligent
people get disgusted with the feeblenes'
and littleness that follow in its wake. They
quit, and abandon the concern to q set o
half bred enthusiasts, in whose hands ever!
thing soon degenerates into vulgarity. Th
whole Protestant fabric in England ant
America has already lapsed into vulgarity
except as to its Presbyteria and Episcopa
branches. Division must attack them, too
1t is the Inherent vice of their constitution
of the whole heresy of Protestantism, o.
private iDfallibility. Division brings weak
ness; weakness iapses into vuigarity.
What is the result of vulgarity3 Publi
contempt. The press, the stage, the poet
the artist, the caricaturist-all attack vul
garity. A polished heathenism mnst Away
eventually prevail over a fanatical rabie
and drive it into obscurity. That is th
foregone end of Protestan tism, left to itsel