Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-11-24
FAITH.

The dOubters and prebers have done much
to demoIsh our household gods. They have
denied the actually of William Tell, they
have dried up the Maelstrom, they have
laughed away King Arthur, and they have
ridiculed Washington and his apple-tree ex-
ploit out of all serious countenance. Depravity
hath a voice and a learning; and down in the
depths of it's badness it browns the good and
the blessed, while its lesser minions stone the
prophets and injuriously use them. Bob In
persoll, gifted and bright goes about upon
the sad, perverted mission of destroying tho
faith which lives in the life of those trusting
hearts who believe in Christ and him crucltied
forgetting that but for the divine story
which underlies the crusades and the grandest
architecture of this world, letters and art and
music and the Bible itself would havepershed.
Because thou art virtuous shall there be no
more cakes and ale! '-quoth the heartfulest
humorist of all the world of wit. Because
there are bad men and bad practices III the
Church shall we '..scard the faith of our
mothers! Ingerso.4 tells you there is no such
name as Christ in the Hebrew; that the San
scrit is the only language which furnishes
forth such a name What does this signify!
1t means that the very name of the Saviour is
a theft-thus destroying the very identity of
the Redeemer But if. in the ancient San
scrit this greatest of names found all embodl-
l,,eut, if the sainted lives which were devoted
t. the perils and glories of early Christianity,
boo into troI of
the past caught at this thrice hallowed name
As the best that could be given to onr Blessed
Lord, why is that name any the less to be
adored Hold fast to your faith, oh man Let
no hypncrte's life sour your own sense Of
trustfulness, oh, sons and daughters; for the
faith is as good and as true and as saving to
body and soul now as when Paul fought with
beasts at Ephesus. They burned Bruno for
his heartless derisons, not Of the men who
represented the Church, but his mockery
of sacred things Voltaire held to the faith,
while, as the Popes friend, he scorned the
pervert and the corrupt among the clergy.
Aud the great, tolerant Father, filled with
the true Christian splritdid not dlsapp rove of
what the great wit had said. For faith, truly
and strongly tolerant, seeking for the truth as
the way which leads to heaven, like it's best
and honestest sister, charity, ''suffereth long
and is kind" Said Doctor Doyle: From my
infancy | never felt a dislike to any man on
account of his religion, And this sturdy
and erudite Catholic was so great in his own
self poise that Wellington, being questioned
As to certain investigation i'll the House of
Lords where Doyle had been a conspicuous
ness:-''Are you examining Doctor Doyle?
No. said his Grace. dryly, doctor Doyle
is examining u.s." He was SO firm in his
saith that he could afford to be tolerant to-
ward the views of those who differed with
him. He was too great for his time and asso
citation; and lesser minds than his own cast
the suspicion of heresy upon him. ''Hold
fast to the faith" In this is tie whole lesson
that the faithful tho doubling priest would
teach. For faith has come like sweet consol- |
lston to so many poor suffering breasts; it has
lifted up SO many who have been bowed down
by the burden of their sorrows; it has brought |
comfort to so many bleeding hearts tt at it is
be- 1t is like that sweetest and warmest and |
most assuring of huulan attributes + giendship. |
Mark what Holmes said in one of his happi-
est prandial poems:
triple health to Friendship Science, Art
From heads and hands that a heart
Friendships blind service, in the hour of need,
Wines the pale face and lets the victim bleed:
Science must stop to ~easOn and explain,
caI,s his finger the streaming vein
t,ut y he al last
Then Science lifts the hambeau Of the Past.
When DO, h their equal impot, zee der,ore,
And learning signs and still can do more,
The of Friendship pnurs its aiiiG balm
Ard sOothe5 the pang anodyne may calm
Let US bellows and refuse to disbeeve i'll
that which is pure and good and trustful,
paying no heed to the things which shake the
aith of the doubling, earnest for the Right,
rue to the Faith OF the Fathers, blessing and
rot cursng those most excellent things where
" this world has been enlightened and bet
cred and humanized and made pure. And
hus. men and bretheren, shall we endure
unto the end.
ONLY LITTLE CORKsCREw.-Onl a little
broken corkscrew. 1t lay upon the repotorial
able this morning Only little broken ,
1t is not much, certainly, and to t
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