The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-09

z Ees er ~ lifGse religion ia II a. -bey please
As il - uSE, Sbis e07EtTF is dEs 28tiezliy in
tslzTs-7 % sll ba1 ;be iaa1si. DissIinioA
4 f5e- are practically Daoe IN his favor II ~e
are 70 asTS rs.1Eioas liberty here u fact AZ
well u asEe, AsI oaF reEigious E1ocey b.
SIS f-sS So car religions SpinIoEs-And
c-k5 - eS5oSi Ea1sy ID bsEesIgi0as nouey.
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Laey c1Sass 10 estHoissA f5sHs Rousisb
7coer 70 Rcm,sa scAoo,s; Protestant
Do1ey a. PEo-es-Aoi s-bools- and ln6Sei
HoGty 70 IE6del schools Let ekcS mar
- pe-E8Ade6 IN his oEc mind, otbe. ice
there 1s ID nhsTty 1ere fa- any hut those
Eho k1se r~siEssn aod Eli that is best in
cirIl HSt--T.- AZ their GicshIion Christina
people are taxed 30 &C scsfe the children Of
CHRISTIAN fEuisies cat of the CtristiAa To
iiEion fo- ucs 10 educate esiidren in relig-
Aea - 10 educate them Ia iBf3elity and TO
eSEcsSe then II !G6isiify is to educate
them 8EsiHst civil liberty.
Religion /. tie tr1ess friend of civil lib
eIFy- IEsdrls are welcomed TO the tisto-
greatest lawyers have beeo Christians.
For Elx h0odred years the Lord High
CaAaeeIlors we're Bishops Of thu Church.
Mast Of the great LAWS were written by
clergy meo- The AAgns Charta was from
the pen OF Stephen Langtoo, Arch bishop of
CAassrbary. In Green's History of EGG
iAOd,7 lately pabiisbed by Harper Bro
tbs-s, II speaking of King Johns defeat ss
the battle of Bsavises, 1t ie said: So He
Tetu,oed from bis defeat to fad the nObiee
10 longer bsnoed together in secret con-
sPir4eies, hui opealy united in definite
c4Alrn Of liberty ana law. The author of
this great change was the new Arch bishop
whom Pope Innocent had set on the tbroce
e+ +CastE:horH-ErnmLl The moment of biz
landing II England, Stephen Laogton had
the constitutional position of the |
PriEafes, as champions Of the old Eoglish |
customs and laws, against the personal de- |
s2otisEns Of k'ngs- As Anselnn talso Arch |
bishop OF CA0tero1ryl bad withssood Will |
Lam tie Rsc, as Teecbaid also Arch bishop |
Of CAnterburyl lad rescued Eogiapd from |
the iswiessDess of Stephen, so Langtou |
prepared 10 withstand and reeeQe his coUn-
~ froa the tyranny Of John. At his fi.ss |
meeting viii tbe hiDg, he called upon him
o eWeAS to the Observance of the laws of |
he Confessoy, a phrase 10 wA:ch the whole |
" tie uatlooal liberties were summed up.
ChurchnAn Sc he Wss, he protested agaius.
ae royal homsge TO tie Pope ~. l25D
EIth sbe failore Of religion, civil liberty
iEs "a Led. The miniuan Of religion has
.ver been the maxiuum of 6espotisn.
'scuiaElsE destroys liberty. II lifted C@-
ONE sorts had been worshiped, to throne
There Ce sar was God On the side of
eeiesiastlciEm is ranged the principal |
earning OF the world and the best devel-
pment Of domestic life. On the eide of
eeolarism all the dreadful despOts, from
'a Sar down-all tie civil traitors, embez-
lers, thieves, defaulters, forgers, political
dseptnrers and drunkards. a glass Of
hIsky-snd mean at that-beconss foun-
sia OF civilization Alas for education,
1r morality. the future of our rising gen.
ration, for civil liberty, when the worst
lasses hold the power and shape our iu-
titutiops.
The fror, ;y;I |
bat from those degraded
isciples of secUarisu-those Bible hating,
sbbath breaking and God deridipg cor
lorants of office, men WHO make a trade
politics and live upon what they can
lunder of the public taxes. They know
re managed by religious denominations,
5 formerly, fraudulent contracts for sup
lies and miscellaneous stealirgs now car {
ed on by petty politicians will De stopped.
laoce taeir wall. DID eeeularsm ever
ian age charity honestly OF economical
: ! Never! Vide yoar County Hospital {
I'D = us House Reports by onr present
oard Of Supervisors.)
Setularisn, the friend Of liberty, in
eeo! When was it SO SecaIarism rules
y might. The GFecisu AID Roman phil
soPhers tried secular education, and 10 |!
F ;ar came. Secular educ alton leads d.
sctly and inevitably to tie sword. When
l
IN is termed, you turn 70 the side of the
olice. Religious training of the young :
Ill not accomplish all possible to it, bat
bis ia the best that eau be done. This is
ue between ecciesiasticism aud sec arism
) ore distinctly between liberty and license
between virtue and vice-between the
Till of majority of law abiding citizens
nd minority cf iaw-breaktng in6deis-
ractjcal if not real. It ia an effort to
urn society over to communism and all
evolutionary passions. 1t is not ecclesi-
sticlsn', as sach, but the moral discipline
Ehich it represents, which Is SO opposed.
The Church threatens nothing. It ever
eeks the good of all classes of society. 1t
3 the highest eoDservAtor of morals we
ave. 1t is above rings, mAnipulations and
org continued perversion. He iR the trne
itizen who has "the liberty wherewith
>hrist hath made him Free" No man ia
rec who has not the moral, if not religious
Of himeelf. The secret of pro-
'rees is to preserve the equilibrium of the
ocIAl forces. The constant tendency ia
xeess in Some onS of these forces. The
present tendency is to throw the riliRious