The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-08-06

are, and always have been since the So
called Reformation, that Anglicans can
only attain eternal life by the same process
of conversion. That is the explanation of
their charitable zeal towards all who are
out of the Church. That zeal is as old as
the Christian religion, and one of it's charac-
teristic products. Edmund Burke ridiculed
the folly Of reviling man for wishing to
communicate to others what he deems an
incom parable blessing. The blessed mar
tyrs of England, whom Anglicans murder
ed because they would not deny the Cath
Ollie faith, gloried in shedding their blood,
amid horrible torments, that SO they might
win souls from the Anglican apostacy. 1t
was God who inspired them to do 30. To
them we owe that the true religion was not
quite banished from England, and, to their
merits and prayers, we probably owe it's
has nothing in common with Anglicsnisnl,
as the love of the martyrs for iG, and the
rage of the Anglicans against it, sufficiently
prove. When Lord Falkland's daughters
were converted, with the consent of their
mother, Laud Immediately wrote to Charles
l. to give me leave to call the old lady
into the High Commission" that he might
afaict and persecute a, Protestant mother
for not preventing the conversion of her
children That is the epirit of Anglican
Ism. There Is nothing so hateful to it as
the only religion ever known in England
-
a man may become anything be pleases,
from Calvinist to Nationalist. and the
serenity of the Anglican mind will hardly
be rufaed; but let him embrace, by the
succour of divine grace, the religion of st.
Anselm, ST. Thomas, st. Boniface, of Fene-
Ion, st. Francis of Sales, and he will be
greeted with howl of execration, while all
the human instruments Eployed in his con-
version will be fercely reviled 80 false,
GINNING, base, treacherous, and immoral.
That is the worlds Judgment. 1t is not
Gods: But, when the world, or, at least, the
English portion OF it., comes to a conclusion
TO that of God, Lord Nelson ap-
pears TO think that it is God who ought to
retract. and retire from the scene. Why
should His wisdom, or any wisdom, be sH-
perlor TO that of an average Englishman7
And what is Catholic truth, or the salvation
Of soul, that it should take precedence of
The private opinions of that sublime imper-
sonation of all possible wisdom and virtue,
the master of British household Respect
parental authority! Well, the Catholic
Church has doue good deal to maintain
and fortify parental authority, bat for good,
and not for evil. She does not exalt it
above God. She cannot obliterate the di-
vine precept, d" He that loveth father and
mother more than Ne is not worthy of
Me-" She does not admit that q son must
abide in heresy and schism because his
ather Wishes it. That may be Lord Mel
IONS view, ont he must not expect the
Church to share it. Her business is to save
'on!s, not to destroy them. She gives no
,elp to fathers who think they have o right |
10 do so. There are Moslem and Jewish |
parents who would beat their Sons with |
many stripss if they dared to prefer Chris |
ianity to ialam or the " Talmud." In |
primitive times not u few pagan fathers de- |
ived their own children to the executioner
because they had become Christians. Their !
yiew Of parental authority" was exactly |
hat of LORD Nelson.
If this significant fact should afford him |
ncagre consolation, he will no doubt, be
imply compensated by the ardent Gym |
,athy of enlightened public opinion IN his |
'wn land. If he happens, for example, to |
lave read the Standard of the 9TH met, he |!
Will feel that" Roman Tactics" are re6uk |
ID with sufficient energy. Almost every |
in that wild effusion of inarticu
ate nonseDse is an untruth, as the admir- |
Ible letters of Father BowCen to the Times |
bundantlJ proves, and al! that is not no
rue is absurd. young man of twenty, |
firo belief in every Catholic |
ruth, and long hebituated TO the use of
catholic devctioDs, asks priest to receive |
linl into the Catholic Church. If the priest |
lad refused to do 30, he would have been 3
rsitoT to both God and the Church, and |
you'd have put his own soul in peril. Ia
tead of " deliberately advising the son to
deceive bis father" as the Standard asserts |
With impudent and libellous mepdacity, it |
urns out that the priest enjoined him to |
vow his conversion immediately. If the |
oolish and excited Individual who wrote |
his frantic stuff in the STANDARD has read !
Nsther Bow6en's reply to Lord Nelson-a |
model Of calm Weldon ana Chrietian so |
incline to think that even he
must blush to remember his own calumnies,
md regret that he did not choose a subject |
more within the compass of his intellectual
md spiritual resources.
LRvY BRoTHRRs.-While we hear on every !
ide dismal chorus of hsrd times, trade, etc.. II
both pleasant and cOnsong know that at least
rouse is doing good business. Why this house should
prosper while others fail, every will after his
'wn fashion Our guess is, that the Levy Brothers
'eing intelligent active and wide.awak business men,
iont ait down and wait for trade to them but
tr around. take advantage OF the big Gales made ct
he North and Of the low prices of goods buy cheap
THAT they know peSple want and make quick sales
at small profits It's tEue but tot the great benefit
people, to the advantage of CITY and to their