The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-28
THE POPE's LECTURE.
A General Reversal Made of His Prede-
cessOr's Actions.

BALTIMORE, Mo-, NOV. GO.-1le HrSU Iul
| and authentic translation into English o.
Leo Kills encyclical on the Christian con
stitution of states appears very different in
| it's full form from the cable condensations
already published. Instead of condemnina
in any way modern civilization or the
States as they exist at present, the Pope
highly approves Of all real progress and
true freedom. It is in short. an exact re.
versal of the policy pursued by the late
Plus TX, whose encyclicals invariably con-
demned modern civilization as atheistical
and pagan. After condemning anarchism
and lawlessness, he says that no form oi
government is condemned SO long as it has
nothing repugnant to the Catholic doc
that the various kinds OF divine worship
should have the same right as
THE TRUE RELIGION.
Still it does not condemn those Cover
nors of States who, for the sake OF accom-
plishing some great good or preventing
some great i'll, patiently bear with manners
and customs, SO that each kind OF religion
has it's place in tt e State. The Church, he
says, approves the State where it presides
wisely over its citizens and defends the pub.
lie interest from alien rule. After quoting
the action of the Catholics in former times,
even under the Roman Empire, the Pope
continues to exhort the faithful to renewed
efforts in the political world. Now, indeed,
in these days it is well to renew these ex-
amples of our forefathers, for Catholics, as
many as are worthy of the name, before all
things, it is necessary to be willing to be
regarded as the most loving sons OF the
Church, Whatsoever is inconsistent in this
report, without hesitation is to be rejected,
and use popular institutions as far as they
honestly can be to the advantage vi truth
and justice, so thAt liberty OF action shall
not transgress the bounds ordained by the
law OF nature and of God; so to work that
the whole truth OF the public life shall be
transferred into, as we have called it, the
CHRISTIAN IMAGE AND LIKENESS.
The means to check these aims can scarcely
be laid down upon one uniform plan, since
they must suit places and times very differ
ent from each other. Nevertheless, in the
first place, let concord OF will be preserved
and likeness of things to be done sought
for, and each will be attained. The best OF
all shall consider the admonitions OF the
Apostolic Sea. Let all understand that
the integrity OF the Catholic profession can
by no means be reconciled with opinions
approaching toward naturafism or ration
alism, OF which the sum total is to uprOot
Christian institu tions altogether and to es-
tablish the supremacy OF man, Almighty,,God
being pushed on one side. Likewise, it is
unlawful to follow one line OF duty in
private and another in public SO that the
authority OF the church shall be observed
in private and spurned in public, for this
would be to join together things honest and
disgraceful, and to make man fight a battle
with himself, when on the contrary he
ought always to be consistent and never in
any least thing or manner OF living decline
from Christian virtues. Concerning the
BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT
or civil regulations OF one kind or another
there is room for disagreement without
harm. Madness OF opinion it, indeed, re-
pudiates. 1t disproves the wicked plans
of seduction and especially that habit OF
mind in which voluntary depar-
tllre from God is visible. But since every
true thing must necessarily proceed from
God, whatever OF truth is by search at
tanned the church acknowledges as certain.
1t takes the divine mind, and since there il
in the world nothing which can take away
the belief in doctrines diviney handed
down, and many things which confirm this,
and since every finding OF truth may impel
men to a knowledge of the praise OF God
himself. Therefore, whatever may happen to
EXTEND THE RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE
the church will always willingly and
joyfully accept, and she will, as is her wont
in case of other departments OF knowledge,
studiously encourage and promote those
also which are concerned with the investi-
CATION of nature, in which studies OF mind
find anything new. The church is not in
opposition. The fight is not against the
search after more things for grace and con-
venience OF life; nay, the
VERY FOE TO INERTNESs
and cloth, she earnestly wishes that the
talents OF men should ,1y being cultivated
and exercised, bear still richer fruits. She
affords indictments to every sort Of art
and craft, and by her own virtue, directing
by her own perfection, all pursuits OF those
things to virtue and salvation. She strives
to prevent man from turning aside his in
te]iigcnce and industry from God and
hpa yenly things