The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-06

the select band of the brave there must 90
| forth another band, even more select, to oHer
ihemse!ves dAily ~ ,he a,tar. care little t,
see the inheritor ofs CREST name spending his
yo9th in the camp, aud then, st thirty, 90
farsh TO live idle for the rest of bis days. What
dits-eoce 8 there between the studsn. who
never works when once be has lett college
and the young ofhcer Who nArries and does
nothing afterwards What bareft accrres
either to tie fsthe.land or to tie ChuIch from
those two years spent az the military school
aud those eight in the barracks Assoredy il
IS lot What Joseph ce Aaistre demanded,
VIXEN be said .. the beginning Of the present
eentGry, "The priestho ood ousht II be, e: the
present time, tie gres. aud paramount con-
ceru of society, If society wishes 20 work cot
lie regeneration. LIE: tie higher classes offer
their sous TO the altar they did in former
days Let Them give back 10 the Church, in
is4e-S, IL ability, and in money, something
Ike 1.-THE OF what the Church has given to
immense deb. which they have contracted To-
wards France, perhsps also towards Earope,
sod ceITsiIlT towards Cod What joseph
de Asistre demanded of tie French noble.se
ots-urity, in its pefpetuity, and II is COM
plrT=ness; the total seif-sscri6ce of the msa
who gives himself TO God and TO his brethren
IN o warfare without truce aud without inter-
mission where retreat is upknoEn, and in
vhicb the last Mass that he celebrates and the
last once that be recites on the bed of death
sixty-six years that have rolled away since
oeeph de Maistre wrote thoee words have
sho IN how few generops souls have responded
TO the heart stirring appeal These
charged with the education of youth tell Us
that they are powerless TO influence the vocs-
tioss OF their pupils. The parents have but
little influence, the bent of the future life is
given in play time, in ex eursions, in the inter
course of schoolboys with esch other, and in
they sse before their eyes. -. 1
will now state 20 you one or two fehectiops
that have occurred 10 myself about the ekt,b |
lishmen of ecclesiastical schools and the |
means of filing them. The following are sim |
pie matters Of fact thst have come within my |
OWN Knowledge. In the year 1S40 the Semi |
ouly 100 stodents. IL 1877 there were nearly !
200. How was t2e Improvement efsctedf 7 Il |
wss in this wise. The Archbishop, Cardinal |
Asthieu, had during that interval founded
developed, or encouraged in all paris of his |
TAst diocese ecclesiast cal school,, where |
anilies were able ID avail themselves of those
,pportu Of edaca-iog their sons for the
Church. .... HIS EmiGence was often
1rged, oa the score OF economy, to consolidate
hose schools into one. He steadily refcsed
% DO SO, because he believed tast tie more
ecoudary sch oois he tad, hCuhle they
night be Individually, t1e more cbAnoes there
we're of boys finding vocstioDs.
Another fact shows tie great fArsSbtedness
md deep faith of the Cardinal Archbishop.
ssaEcoD, be felt repugnance TO spare his
priests for religious congregations and foreign
missions II seemed like impruGence to de-
rive bis own parishes of their laborers. 1t
,rovide for the supply of his own diocese.
Bat after the experience of few more years
be Cardinal changed his opinion, and toings
oop changed for the better. The more per-
MISSIONS be graLtsd to priests to quit bis dio-
ese, the more vocations did Providence eend
.uongst his people. For one missionary that
obtained leave to go forth to the beashen, two
II three young men went forth from the same
'illsge as students for the Seminary. You
lave yourself made this same remark. The
,reat ecclesi steal prosperity of the diocese
u b eancon dates from the day when her sons
,egan to set forward on all the missions to
ands afar off to preach the Gospel to those
hat still sit in the shadow of death. The
fcisl return esys that in le5l there were
e75 the Ordo gives 20. We are not told how
napy missionary vocatiops have been found
Q that splendid diocese. Probably, however,
here at this moment: not less tSau two
npdrrd priests - Jesuirs, Donipicaps, Ca.
'ucb'us Oolate of Mary Immaculate, MAr;sts,
SEettes-- OF A4FFY tsissieBsfies,- and rel Slaas
f every lame and institute belonging to it
ltheT by birth or education, the flower of the
ouutry the elite OF the prie. t'y army; and
q the words OF Plus TX SO we'll quoted By
ourself-t1e boldesr, the Eayest, tae nost
uterpsI-ipg, and the most fruitful OF apostles.
md twltbstaud!ng that suoh h"st hss
eec taken away TO serve abroad, be diocese
f Bes"rcon is etiii S rich in vocatlcns that !
I cal t)rd to lend numbers of E.ost valuable
aen &c other dioceses of France. So true il is
bat rhe more we give to the Lord the more
bundantlg will He repay u.s. Such,
ev. and dear friend, are the reflections which
our book has suggested to my mind. Permit I
ne to send them TO the pre- and 20 thank
'ou pnbIicly for the great service you rem
eriDG to the Chutch, while conclude by :
noting the patsotic wish expressed in your
losing paragraph France, mayst thou in
be trials that perhaps are still in store for b
bee, always possess q body of priests, numer-
us, devoted, and instructed to aseiet thee, not
D die-thet certainly cannot be thy destiny
Mt to arise and liver tLoUIs
Bishop OF Mines, Uzss. and Alais.
aume les Danes, 2oth August. 1s7S.
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