The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-14

that call things shall be ADDED to u.s." which
chapter, IL every one would read and make
good use of, prison would be better than a
palace, and confinement for religion and q
good conscience sake, more pleasant than all
the liberties the world can afford. As for my
faithful Christians their prayers,) am happy
enough and rs for Others, beseech God tnat
the evil example of those that swear against
their consciences may not be guides for tne
rest to follow, nor their deeds rule to their
actions. We all ought to follow the narrow
way though there may be many difficulties IN
it. 1t is easy thing to run in the ol'na
way of liberty, but God deliver ny from all
broad, sweet ways, We know what Jo0 said
of libertines: " They lead their lives IN the
goods of this world, and in a moment they
descend into hell " But, as our Saviour saith,
what doth it profit man to gam the whole
world aud lose his own soul ~ God gave JOB
Is goodly increase for oil the riches lie took
| from him. and blessed his latter end more
| than his beginning. and gave him one hundred
! and forty years of 1ourishing life for his short
| sifi iction in which his oonstanoy and faith in
| God were tried; and our Saviour promiseth
| an hundredfold 70 all that leave goods and
| every thing willingly for his sake Whose well
| considers this Will be content to leave both
| friends, fortune, and freedom. by imprison-
! ment for their faith and religions sake, till
such time as it pleases God and the King Gin
| obedience to whose command they sufter) to
| release them. And in the meantime they will
| have this comfort, that they are giving tes-
4
| They fear God because they choose rather to
! suffer persecution than swear against their
condolences they honor the King because
| they are willing to suffer the pen alties he i'm
poses, and yet remain faithful subjects to him,
! whom God long preserve. with his Parliament
| and people, in all happiness
| 1t seems evident, from the above extract out
of his diary, that Father Joachim was at this
time under the impression that the fury which
was then raging against the Church might
subside. It must be remembered that during
. l,aG ,.k rft ha RAafnr rot ian
had enjoyed respite from that excessive pro-
scripti0n which had signslzsd the Common
wealth. Charles II. had more than once
showed wish to favor the prescribed reilg-
ion, and, ia the year 1872. had gone so far as
to pa blish Declaration of Indnlg euce to nom
conformists and recusants, whereby ne sus-
pended all the penal laws, allowing dissenters
to exercise their religion in places licensed for
public worship, but, st the same time. strictly
confipng the religions assem- blies OF Catholcs
to private houses. This Declaration of lndnl-
! gence awakened the most violent opposition
| throughout the country, and. coupled with the
conversion of the Duke of York, contributed
to fan into flame the latent hostility against
| the Court. The anti-Cathofto bias of the En-
glish public was probably far mere virulent
than during the unrel enting prosecutions OF
! Qaeen Elizabeth, for the Puritanism of the
| Commonwealth had effsoed all traces of the
Catholic sympathies of the people, and had
| settled them down into that Calvauistic Pro-
testantism which formed the staple of the
national belief for nearly two centuries, vent
| of dissent, and in the kindred nonsacrament-
alism of the Lower Church party in the Els.
Establishment. Macaulay declares that hatred
| for Catholicism had become one of the ruling
| passions of the community, and that it was as
strong in the ignorant and profane as in those
| who were Prouestants from conviction and,
| at this PERIOD there was general impression
| ahoat that the Court was silently preparing
to restore the ancient faith Catholics them
selves had been full of hops, and had watched
the various political eigns of the times with
| -, sr,fa rhn q M
the secret treaty between Charles H. and
Louis XIV. had fostered the decisive dream
which many pious household was cherishing
| in secret, and which seemed on the eve of
being realised when the Duke of York not
| only submitted 10 the Church bat married
Catholic princess. In the previous century
the Court was continually lnVenting ana
fomenting Catholic Plots as pleas for increased
vigilance and persecution. The unhappy
Powder Plot itself was the outcome of this
nefariops policy, for the misguided c,ntriVers
of that fatal and Ubiquitous scheme were nm
, questonaby goaGed on by the examples which
, the Government itself had perpetually pro-
voked and stimulated in order TO cajole its
victims into self-destruction. After the Re
s,oration the same policy was pursued no
longer by the Court. but by its foes. Such
t men as Shsftesbury and Halifax, who aimed
, at popularity, were well aware that they could
build their success upon no irmer basis thar
o the popular hatred to the Catholic Chnrch, and
e that this fuicrum they could even upset
4 the monarchy of the STARTS. From the
Z
q the lesson of inveuting Popish plots as the
y sureet means of arousing the dormant spiri
of the nation against Government which
was supposed 10 favor the prosecuted religion
3 Already in 1878 AN attempt had been made t.
o hatch Catholic conspiracy, and an apostat
8 monk named Luzsucy was produced by Lord
b HOLES aud Russell, With tale very similar Z
, that " hich Titus Oates subsequently devised
T 1t is possible that the public mind may no
o have been ripe fur she exhibition of credulit
9 to which it succumo bed three years later, to
g the scheme collapsed "a soon as the mans oil
q honesty was exposed. The faitnre of this an
g other attempts, together with the well-know
r leanings of the Royal family, may have or
a couraged Father Joachim and his brethren
10 hope that the present storm would .hkewl
l. blow over as coon as the lies OF the consplr
n torp should have become patent. Hitherto, l
v it rememb ered, none of the principal victim
Il had been put to death. The Jesuit marty
were in Newgate awaiting their trials, al
If there we're secalars and regulars in almo
N every gaol throughout the country, but as
n scarce one of them had been arranged, al
IA therefore there was every reason to hope tn
az ers the time should arrive for their trie
ne some change might come over the public Sc
oil timent, and that the Court at any rate mig
ne exert it's clemenoy in their behalf.
,r- Auy information which may have reach
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