The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
now HISTORY Is MADE.
LETTER TX.

worse than all in the haste Of writing sometimes leave
the obscure for the want of word q sentences
and in the closing sentences of my last letter find the
sentence II am calling now rather savors of the bom
bastc for which hereby apologize to all concerned This
is my fault and shall not be repeated again The last
few lines of that letter ashamed Of and now as to
the matter in hand viii say:
The constant assertion Of my friend reminds me of
simiitude have read Of somewhere assertion and
evidence wherein assertion was Hkened to long bow
the shaft which may strike the mark but depends
altogether on the that draws it while evidence
like crossbow and sends the shan with the force
and effect whether the trigger be sprung by the hand
child or giant This Son Of the Morning. has a quiv
er of arrows neither barbed feathered such chill
ren use at play his bow very long indeed Joshua
harrington or Baron Mmehausen could scarce surpass
him.
In my last spoke of those stale charges of conspiracy
made against the Church These things neither
true 1t has been so. from the beginning The
early Christians eernay conspring against the civil
power; unwiIngly too it seems. From Nero to Docle
tian and from Henry VIII to Bismarck It's all the
All well hath the Master said Ys not of this world
and therefore the world hateth you"
Gi bbon SAYS: IF the Empire had been afflicted by any
recent calamity, by plague, famine unsuccess
full war the ber had if the Nile had not risen be-
yond its banks if the earth had shaken IL the temper
ate order the had been interrupted the
sttious Pagans convinced that the crimes and i'm
piees of the Christians who spared by the excessive
cemency of the government had at leng provoked the
Divine justice The impatient clamor of the multitude de-
nounced the Christians the enemies of God and man
doomed theR tOthe severest Decline aad
FdH Of Roman Empire rol. H. p. 165. Thus, you
the of the morning. always ready to denounce
Christian and ask proof insult and but
bgot would think of the like. And they still
plotting" it Do they teach the capacity Of
for in favor of monarchy.
Do they teach that the voice of the people shall
they mnOns OF the arsOcracy Do they teach obed
the powers that be they opposed to the
Is the country in danger and they volunteer in
defence lit is to make themselves tyrants and if
by vaor and talent they rise rank station woe to
Jonathan for his days numbered There is no time
to be Sherman and Sheridan have him by the throat
to the rescue!
weare accused too Of Ignorance and the fell desire Of
driving the world into barbarism and in the next breath
they cry Jesuits in schools teaching youths
look out, you will all be Romanists in week or two
They must be put down. Garabaldi never be God
where they teach. Down with them! down with them
Up with Inhdeity, let Reason reign Idel Reason not
Chris tian Reason The free schools for the Infde
only taxation for all but benefits for these alone The
Pap opposed to free schools and wish to keep the
people in darkness. LOOk, Behold!!. They build
ing school houses everywhere. They teaching and
proselyting children They increasing! They
will Overturn the government ah ah The ends justify
the means you know; away with them And this is
called argument.
But yesterday opened work astronomy and find
the author has stepped aside from science to asperse the
Catholic Church, and has written himself down-well-a
mule. He says, Roman Catholics enlght-
ened. They have founded schools and institutions of
learning equal perhaps superior those of any other
denomination in country Grant all this but why,
and for what purposel Ansacer-The force of crcum-
stances the enlightenment of the has compelled them
to move forward. They willy and the alert.
The millions could longer be held in the old beaten
track of ignorance to pander to the few and Rome
pretending all this fOresees her impending downfall
less she too steps forward in ded robes then
takes tack with her ponderOus ship upon he of
mind" Here you the evidence Of another uminsry.
There many other passages of like import but not
quite very silly bo mbastc and this is from book
science, too.
wonder if this could love any history! II So
would refer him to Anthony Woods History of Oxford
College" to Rev John Lords introductory Essay
Froissarts Chronicles of the Middre Age. Lord says:
Did not the earlier schOOmen speculate the highest
truths Of philosophy and teach the most elevated lessons
of moral wisdom while tho Norman and the Provencal
poets excited by their romantic and aegorcal songs the
enthusiasm Of passionate peoplei 1t in the Dark
ge that twenty thousand oeked to Oxford
and thirty thousand to Paris to learn theology, and
Jurisprudence aud medicine. 1t in these slanered
ages that we perceive the living, precious germs Of
thought the most wonderful intellectual activity since
the age of Percs The eighteen folio volumes of Thomas
Aqunas filled with else besides mere barbarous
wrangling. The sehOolmen says Schlegel displayed
not only the most subtle reasoning of the human mind
but the refined tenderness of the enamored heart
Even GuzOt admits They had merits brilliant they
varied devoid of aectatiOn and free from pedantry
They were Lord elevated in their solitary toll by
the contemplation of boundess truth Life to them
not in palaces and gardens in velvets and in wine in
chaots and horses They made wisdom consist in the
triumph Of the spiritual the animal and priced life
for its simple pleasures and devout contemplation They
not have attained these exalted ends but their respect
for the spiritual in profound In the chaos of
turbulent age their minds acquired force and fire They
shone morning stars in the intellectual and moral firm
ament of Europe" Oxford founded in sec Cambridge
in 915 the University of Paris in 500 and all Eu-
rope filed with Catholic schools and colleges Padua
the Alma Mater of Christopher Columbus had time
students Bologna the great law school of Europe
had from 10000 to 1900 after the discovery of the
Panduets of Jusnan in the eleventh century The
of circumstances has not compelled the Protestant world
to found any school like those mentioned besides hun
dres others of like celebrity; and Indety assist
her Your Cornell and Yale and Harvard combined would
not equal the least Of them and to the faculty there
can be comparison for branches taught in that age
gain quote from Lords Essay Moreover the Papacy
great central power needed to control the Princes
of Europe and settle the difficulties which between
them The Popes whatever may have been their personal
character conseators of tho peace They
ed unity amid anarchy and restrained the impulses of
passionate Kings" Again he says The Papacy, in its
best age, is thought by many profound historians to
bave been Democratic in its sympathies 1t guarded the
interests of the people, preserved them from the vio
lence Of oppression it furnished retreat in monasteres
for the cOntempative the suffering the afflicted and the
poor. The monks and the taught by their quiet
and industrious life, that |
There exists
An higher than the warriors excellencies;
That vast and sudden deeds of violence,
Adventures wild, and wonders of the moment;
These are not they which generate
The calm and bssful and enduring might |
From their "beehves of industry-probably dsgraeed
by the vices of cOncubnage and the oes of asceism
they only issued to relieve the helpless to the dis
tressed teach the ignorant ana Administer celestial
consolation In the moral power Of learning and sanctity
We tempted exelaim with Digby These surely
ages of highest grace to man." SO much for Lord
He bears testimony to the worth ability integrity pety
and benevOence Of both monks and nuns but has fling
their moral character The facts Of history he could
not dispute he must bear testimony to all these but
then probably-whO knows &c. Probably his mother
bawd; who can tell Strange things have happened
in London But you by this testimony Europe was
full of institutions of learning and able men conducted
them. |
But special objection against the Church its