The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-10-24

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healthy expansion. vii! secureiy lift it into .
position OF authority which no government can
give or take away. II will be impossible to
withhold from University, the educatrix
public rewards of learning which, althou Oh the
property OF the entire people, have hiIherto
been monopolieed by . section Of the commu-
ni,y. AZ long as it shail be esteemed an ex-
eellent thing In q people TO hold answered in
sheir hearts love for God for country. and for
learning, so long shall the present genera
tion Of irishmen be entitled to praise for hav-
ing. with great sacrifice. laid broad and deep
the foundations of University, which living
by and for the Irish race, should give back the
resources drawn from their generosity in every
ion. enlightened by Science, and in foliest har-
mony With the national spirit
To counterfeit the evil influences of the
Model and Training Schools. and TO meet the
ever-increasing need of Catholic teaehers, We
have determined tossstablish . Catholic Train
ing School for Masters, under the protection of
st. Patrick, the Apostle of ireland, and under
the immediate care of the Vincentian Fathers.
The establishment of such an institution We
regard as o highly important condition Of sue
cess In the struggle in which we are engaged
on behalf of Catholic education. We look for
ward with earnest longing for the day in which
by its means, we ehall be enabled to confide the
little ones of our flock to teachers who, them
selves trained under the sslutary Influences Of
religion, shall have learned how to form the
opening mind of the child, and store it with
secular knowledge, while they guide it to the
better and higher knowledge and practice of
religion. This important work we confidently
recommend to your generous charity. You
who know how awful the responsibility that
weighs on parent's soul, and how appalling
the sentence pronounced by the Apos tie against
the man who has NO care of his own, and es-
pectaiiy of those OF his own household, will,
we have no doubt, assist us in this new under
taking. from which you yourselves are to re-
ceive the greatest help towards the discha rge
of one of your most solemn oblig ations.
As for ourselves, dearly beloved, il is our
clear duty, as it is our fixed determination,
never to desist from our exertions until
Catholic education shall have been placed on
firm aud permanent basis in the country. We
have not read the history of our country's
struggles for Catholic emancipation without
fruit. We know that the constitutional battle
against Protestant ascendency had to be
maintained for more than one generation; and
now generation has scarcely passed since
Protestant ascendency disappeared, but the
Protestant Church, which gave it consistency,
has been disestablished by the Legislature.
Even should our struggle for religions educa-
will not finch for on our steadfast perseve-
rance depend the religious destinies of our
country, and the faith of millions yet unborn.
ISTEMPERASCE
Bat there are yet other dangers against
which we must raise our warning voice. With
deepest pain, and after the example of the
Apostle, weeping, we say. that the abomnable
dreadful havoc among our people, marring in
their souls the work of religion, and in spite
of their rare natural and supernatural virtues,
chan ing many among them into enemies of
the Cross of Christ, whose end is destruction :;
whose god is their belly and whose glory is
in their shame (Philipp. iii. Is, 1917. Is it not,
dearly beloved, an intolerable scandal, that
in the midst of Cathalic nation, like ours.
there should be found many slaves of
intemperance, who habitually sacrifice to
brutal excess in drinking not only their reason
but their character the honor OF their children,
their substance, their health, their life, their
souls, and God himselff To drunkenness We
may refer, as to it's baneful cause, almost all
the crime by which the country is disgraced,
Drunkenness has wrecked more homes, once
happy, than ever fell beneath the crowbar in
the worst days of eviction it has filled more
graves aud made more widows and orphans
than did the famine it has broken more
hearts, blighted more hopes, and rent asunder
family ties more ruthlessly than the enforced
exile to which their misery has condemned
emgrants. Against an evil so widespread and
so pernicious, We implore all who have at
heart the honor of God and the salvation of
souls, to be filed with holy zeal. We warn
parents and employers that they are bound to
set in their own persons an example of tempe
rance to those who are subject to them, and to
watch lest through their own negligence those
Entrusted to their charge should fall victims to
drink. We exhort artisans and other members
OF the working classes to join some one of the
pious confraternities approved of by the
Church, in which, if they be faithful to the
observance of their rules, they will find
school of Christian self denial. We bless Fl ON
our hearts those Jealous ecclesiastics ard
others, who in accordance with the spirit of
the Church devote their time and energies to
forwarding the cause of temperance and we
would remind all that, however valuable other
helps may be, there exists but one unfailing
source whence human weakness can draw
strength to resist temptation and break the
bonds of evil habits. That source is the Sacred
Heart of Jesus, the ever flowing fountain of
mercy, from which through prayer and the
Sacramento we receive grace in seasonable aid.
The habit of daily prayer faithfully persevered
in frequent and worthy approach to the
Holy Sacramento the devout hearing of the
Word of God and the avoiding of dangerous
occasions, are the only sure means by which
intemperance can be overcome.
THEATRES AND DANCES.
We must also warn you, beloved breth rem,
against serious evil which threatens the
lustre of that modesty and purity for which
Ireland has always been remarkable among the
nations. We allude to those dangerous amuse-
ments in theatres and elsewhere, In which the
delicacy of Christian feeling is outraged by
represent ations, either unbu shingly lioentious
or more dangerous still from the halfveiled
indecences they suggest. To these we must
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