The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-10-01
Clerical Charity.

ground that it has killed off seven million
ofIrish Catholics, and has thus been of grea
use to the country. We do not know who tn,
reverend DR.. is, or whether in his partic
ular case the charge is true, but there il
n smack of naturalness about the yarn
The real Protestant programme of CONVEX
sion is extirpation. 1t is fire, sword, pill
lage and repatriation. There are Thousand
of good men who call themselves Protes
tants and who could not be brought to per
secute anybody, but the spirit of Protest
! antism Is hatred and murder. 1t will
approach a man with cant and falsehood
considered unworthy to live longer +; he il
in the way.
Intolerance is black hearted, black
orowed vice. When an intolerant sectar
ian is thrown into contact with q Catholi,
whom he knows or supposes to be immov
able in his faith, he becomes as frigid il
manner as though petriied, he gives ne
token of acknowledging acommon human
| ity, but reflects upon his darkening face
the total aversion, akin to hatred, that fills
his soul. This feeling may not amount tc
moral murder in its intensity, but it is in
degree only that the differenc e exists.
Of course this is all foolish and unchris
tian. Even worldly wisdom of kind the
least illuminated by divine light opposes
the sacrifice of human life for principles
sake merely. Lincoln used to say that the
very poorest use you could put q man to
was to kill him, and Lincoln was certainly
not much Influenced by religious bias.
Common sense, however, bears witness that
our fellow men are of use to us, and that, as
general thing, 30 far from favoring meas
ures tending to depopulate country, public
interest always seeks to encourage and de-
velop population. Yet fiery zea!ot
whose bitter prejudices do not give him
time to reflect, would gladly see a whole
community swept out of existence and their
country reduced to wilderness, rather
than endure their opposition to a pet
theory. If he could not convert them he
wonld kill them.
1t Is needless to say that this vindictive
intolerance is also peculiarly anti Christ
ian. Christ came not to destroy, but to
save. He was not go zealous for his own
doctrines as to annhiiate all or any who
refused to believe, but left as a legacy to
his followers the many centuried task of
winning with love the children of those
whom he could have slain with look. His
followers are still engaged in carrying out
that bequest; who are they that in their
blind and impotent zeal would kill all who
will not be converted at their teaching
Certainly they are not his followers, bu,
the disciples of that devilish creed of which
the first hiGh-prieet was Cain.
The reverend I'D >" of Columbus, i
correctly reported, is a genuine Protestan
lntolerant, of the type of Calvin, Knox anC
Cromwell. He has fully concluded that tn,
faith of the seven millions of Irish Cstho
lies could not have been shaken and, there
fore, rejoices that whisky killed them. Thi
frantic fanaticism comes of the Devil il
this particular instance the paternity i
clear, for it exults over Wholesale deaf
and glorities intemperance as faithful au
esteemed instrument.
But we read current history differentl
from this reverend missionary of Deatl
We find that it is the Puritan race whic
that Boston is a stronghold TO day of til
despised Celt, and that the hin sides an
valleys Of New England are rapidly passin
> into Irish keeping. Tho Puritan has falle,
before bis own immortality and vice. Th
strength that once carried his iron hard
! hood oTer the frozen wave and planted hi
r colonies in the distant wild, has been sappe
by bestial habits and has changed int
sterile decay. The conqucror is upon hin
The stronger race is crowdipg in over hin
and soon, unless he retraces the steps of hi
revolt against God and nature, he shall b
, b'otted out as etfectually as were the cite
= of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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