The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-06-24
Free Thought.

ysrv opnoste of what they claim to Dc nc
cord,pe to the dictionary. Inc cDu de
found Professionalism very liiioera' ril
vary bigoted, but she hnds the succeSs'i o' We
proteatartism, Liberalism, not on'y wi
oeedinp it in illiberality but reaching ZIG hi
extreme bound of absolute intolefAn'0' be
Thara vss a point at which Protestantism W.
.,n,a atom in its revolt against Cathoiici- m
4, I;hara,sm that point 10 ignored. n,
W.. E,ancb Atheism coupled it's war on =,
,ha cbnrcb with blasphemy, Protestant 70
nouers Joined bands In crushing 1t, ana IL
ENGLAND was foremost IN sustaining INC
pons. Now German Atheism is just 40 III d
solept, Just as bold. just "a scorniui 40 n
French Atheism then was, and It's war on 6
| the Church is adopted by the powers q
Protestantism has lost it's sensieiiity IN the q
nresepce of blasphemy; it has lapsed lnto Z
Liberalism. II
This shows that the remnant OF Faith 10
wb;ch Professionalism chung in its revolt
against authority has nearly worn out
That remnant of faith was belief in the In
sn;ration of the Holy Scriptures. To-that
GREAT truth it's followers hela on, with what
n aver of sound doctrine they, in the feebleness
" Of their human understanding, could gather
}, from writings SO hard to be understood |
II and which 30 many have always wressed
70 their own destr uCtion. While that talth
N ,ostsd IL carried with it q sincere venera-
a ,;on for certain great and fundamental
,e trnths which necessarily flowed from it.
IL Thns. a pious Protestant then believed in
personal, spiritual God, in the crea'ion VI
70 this world out of nothing, IN the lmmor-
nd tality of the soul. When Voltaireans sec lieu
Int at these things he was hoIrifed, and mace
oe, war on warning iufidefity. Now the Ter
man School laughs at the same things; II
ssys all vital force is in nature and always
,at WIS there with an innate power OF deVei-
,cL opment; English saUans have adopted tnl
rho teaching and carried it into such details al
tod Darviniapism; all is evolution; man wa
not created, he evolved Immediately from
a monkey, medately from an oyster
49, Does your pious Protestant thro" up III
"a hands in hol ror at all this, as he did vine
inc. Voltaire went only half the length NC
900 at all. He sighs and says: Well, there
state nothing like Free Thought.
And 40 we come back to Free Though
What ia this terrible Free Thought that hs
shop """' d. .n'e dawn into ALLAN,
Firle taHieu ifo'o0' .,.,;.o = ia II
hal
City, logical sequence OF revoiC again "u'A'
were ity. Said Luther and GAVIN Anelo
con- no authority in the Church to teacn
God has given it no such power. he
,,o revealed his law in the Scriptures ana I'd
;. -, ia all, every man must understand IL
- Ga. himself. We will have Free Thought.
;rst We'll. now we zee the fruit of this RI
o last Tbonpht. II thought is free it will be I
utter, terly free. If you may say what the BIZ
, con- mama because there is no authority aoc
Com vopr Indictment, you may also, for the sn
ItheF's reason. say what is the Bible. Who
authority to control your judgment on
death point more than on any other point
If that have rejected the Books OF Maccaoees
of the the dictum of the early ketormeFs'
.ys the NAV reject the Mosaic Books on the re
dy and ouing of Colenso somebody else may
on and snade Won that the whole of the Old
blsn"p lament is merely history, accurate
holy venerable, but human; then learned ]
i's oo" fassnr will convince you that certain T.
of the New Testament have been perver
NSessrs. otbers ipterlarded, perhaps that Ger
w. p chapters or authors are apocryPna''
on. AS all this thought is free, if there is no 'l'
for the cornorate. continuous authority divil
xpected oor,,,;ssioned to teach the exact truth.
towards . 4.or,rt RI
together "eii' VIC rouara 7
asses in nall way o"S 'u'neu 'U' p.nl
Texas, Will assert ltse'A a''e. 4,s
niration unerringly log'cai IL w" SA'e
enough, In this case 1t has taken
centuries for common sense to assert
IBERIA Init it has finally done so, and men
t of this .h.. tbare ia no more certainty
for the 49,, pih,o Ia than "a to VIII
t yu" means. They will not accept the
, ~i,l be tional Bible of Luther or Calvin Of
sons and mere dictnm of those gentlemen.
j Moyni- Yet that dictsm' that acceP'A"'0
l;var the Al. oorrar atoDa of Professionalism.