The New York herald., 1877-12-10
RELIGIOUS PROGRESS.
SOCIETY UNDER THR RULE OF THE CHURCH
LECTURE BIZ FATHER DUCEy.

SOCIETY UNDER THR RULE OF THE CHURCH
LECTURE BY FATHER DUcEy.
A. Chckering Hall last evening Rev. Thomas J.
Ducey delivered . lecture under the auspices OF the
Young Mems Catholic Lyceum the subject Of
"SocietY Undor tho Rule OF tho Catholic Church."
Father Duccy said:-"A great multitude followed our
Lord and listened to His teachings but they went their
way 10 their business and pleasures and rejected the
word Of eternal life So is and has beon with
millions and millions OF In tho civilized world
They look upon tho Catholic Church, cxcrtng .
unity OF faith, under every form Of government,
with every Of men. tho samo now
as she was moro than cightcon hundred years
ago. Millions hear her voico and 500 her
tcauty, az men saw God. whom she represents, and
they go their way and they do not for they win not,
receive tho doctrines which the doctrines promul-
gated by God and established by His crucinxon Mon
turn from her straight path and rush with seeming
Joy into the wide way OF eternal death This is sad
but, praise TO God and His Catholic Church. not all
men act thus. More than two hundred millions OF
souls recognize her divine constitution and givo to
God through her the frce submission OF their WILL tho
love and homage OF their hearts and proclaim
her the one, only, infallibe guido In all thnt Is Of
divine faith and eternal morality"
WHAT rHE CHURCH HAS DONE.
Tho lecturer then showed that under the refined
civilization OF Greece and the great power OF impe-
rial Rome charity and compassion for the suffering
and the lowly mad no existence. Tho two great asy
lums under Roman civilization for the helpless and
the poor were infantlcldo and slavery. The Church.
In the fourth century, countcnanced ald decrced the
establishment Of hospitals, asylums and refugees.
Tho first hospital was founded by Catholic Roman
lady Fabiola, and the first General Council OF Nice.
convoked May 20, 1925, decrced that one should bo
founded in every city. The civilized word had
made no provision Tor the care OF that great
est Of anlictions, insanity. Tho glory Of this
necessary form OF charity belongs to Spanish monk,
Juan Gilberto Jore, who filed with compassion al the
sight OF tho maniacs. hoo,ed by the rabbe through
tho streets Of Valencia, founded the first lunatc asy
lum in that city. HIS example was soon emulated by
others and IN othor places The Church laid tho foun-
dation OF international diplomacy and grouped nations
together upon q new principle. ;"
Father Ducey concluded as follow:-Church OF
Gods creation shou hast recreated society. No
longer the slave or toy OF man no longer associ-
atsd only with ideas OF degradation and servility,
woman rose, in the person Of the Virgin Mother INTO
q new sphere and became the object OF veDeraled
homage Of which antiquity had no conception.
type OF character called into being; now
kind Of admiration was iostered. Into harsh and
ignorant and benighted ago this ideal typo infused
conception Of Rentleness and OF purity unknown TO
the proudest civilizations OF tho past All that best
Europe clustered around IL ana 1t is tho origin OF
many Of the puress clements OF our civilization.