The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-10-17
lDerBlng Star and Catholic Messenger.
INV oRr.EAMs, SUNDAY, OCTOBER IT. 1878.

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INV oRrEAMs, SUNDAY. OCTOBER IT. 1878.
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thereby save Almighty God from the Insult OF
that Mortal sin; 1t was good deed 70 compon-
safe for o whole life of labor. Applause ]
But what Immediately concerns; o1 ths sn r;t
which has induced you to estaoiis9 your our 20
societies; God grant that the new lie gwen 70
it now, In prayer ana the n9 h aa ytbe evil lasts
which it lie intended to oppose For there Is
no doubt of the societies which he establish
al ard the spirit of Total Abstinence that ne
spread. and the respect for it's practice which
through him has grown up IN the hearts 9i
men there is no donbt that all this has mace
it easier for you to organize yonr society ana
il will make il easier to extend, TO attract TO
yourselves further increase, to give ~ IN
crease and long continuance. You are giving
life to Father Mathews work. [Applaueel
You have made your Total Abstinence Socie-
ty strictly religious association, ana IL 10 al.
ways reli gion that makes the most permanent
Look at tho celebration of the memory Of
great men, how speedily it dies away except
great men of the world that lived q hundred
years ago are honored by an annual cele4ta
ton Of their memory. But the Chnrcnes
saints who lived q hundred and q thou sand years
ago are every year: and in places where they
lived or died, the celebration is observed py
crowds of people-and it is not Win empty
ceremony
reverence, gratitude and love. Look for IN
stanoe, ct our great Washington here IN MS
own land, the children of which are gu 80
deeply indebted to him as the savior OF MS
country and the father of our liberty ; man
80 worthy of esteem and love for his material
virtues and his successfnl works LOOK at the
celebration Of his birthday even now when
no is not one hundred years passed from the
world and compare that with the celebration
and whose Feast 10 celebrated blythe Church OF
God, ST. Patrick. applause
80 likewise for religious societies; If proper
~ conducted they commonly last rs long as
the necessity continues which gave rise to
them. We see many instances OF this IN the
history ofthe Church. In all ages there nave
been societies raised up to meet the wants OF
the people of the day. To go back to the times OF
Of the Church to provide burial for their dead
and hiding places for the living, had to burrow
beneath the earth like animals. They made
then those famous catacombs, long galleries.
under ground winding around and crossing
each other, in their length amounting to more
than hundred miles. Men wonder now how
plish such q work. But it was need OF the
Church, and God gave good inspired men to
form q society called Fasseres, who devoted
their labor and risked their lives to provide
these burial places where their bodies could
repose in blessed ground not decorated by
pagan ashes. 1t is the same feeling which
man stirs MP the Indignation of Catholic Mon
&real. And later on, in the days of the Crusa-
ders-when Christian pi!grims to the Holy
Land were ILL treated OF murdered by the Ma
hometans, they needed protectors, and God in
spired men to form religious societies of SOL
diers, the knights of st. John, the lem
plars and the Teutopic Order, who served
their fellow men by fighting in their defence
still later when the Moors of Africa, by their
piracies on the Mediterranean sea were captu-
ring and enslaving Christians-and those poor
Christian slaves were often tempted by harsh
treatment or fattering promises to renounce
their religion and become Mahometana, then
God inspired charitable men to form societies
least who seemed most in danger of renouncing
their religion, and loosing their souls. The
members of this society collected aims, and
applied the money to redeem the poor captives
and restore them to their families. They even
made VOW that if they found captive in
imminent danger of losing his faith, and
rive themselves in exchange for him and SEND
Elm home while they remained In slavery unit
thev ekonlA ha redeemed.
And this was not an idle promise, but it wal
often carried into effect, Of which We have 9
striking example in the life of ST. R..ymont
Nonnafus.
Thus tbs Chutoh has aiwayo beeh establish
ing societies to meet the evils and necessitie
of the day. In otr days there are indeed
great many evils and necessities ana among
them all perhaps there is none that suTpasse
in magnitude the desolating practice of int IN
1oerance and rome more worthy that Christian
men and women should exert all efforts an'
make all sacrifices to overthrow it. Who eve
takes part in this holy work, is defending poo
pilgrims through this dangerous world ant
not from Mahometans' swords that kill tn
body, but poison which destroys both bodie
and immortal souls. He is redeeming captive
not from q Moorish master who enslaVes the
during life but from an Internal tyrant VIII
would torture them for eternity. This then
the great, the heavenly work that you hav
undertaken.
These societies used various means aCcoEdin
to their various Objects Part of their mean
were always prayer, aud often works of per
ance The means you take to combat the CIV
hnai6aa
Earnents, is to do penance for yourselves an
your fellow men, by denying yourselves er
firely the qualification of all dangerous drink
such is the character of your society, and frol
this character we can easily see the answer t
some objections the benefits to be expecte
from It and draw Bome counsels as to you
practical working of it. Your attention ha
been already SO long occupied, that on thes
points 1 must endeavor to be brief
The only objection shall notice, is of thos
who say that total abstnence is founded on q
error. Wig: on the false notion that the liquors
wines and other beverages which it renouncet
are in themselves bad things, which 1t 10 Htntu
FOR man TO uso and always Injurious to thei