The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-12-07

Gracious God! upon what times have
we fallen? "a. S." in the Catholic
Record, of London. Ont,, writing upon
the subject Of the Confessional, we'll
says:
"We must not take to heart the sickly
condition of our beloved country 80 long
as we open our arms to blind bigotry
and detestable hypocrisy, so long as we
shall throw open our doors to those So
called inspired apostles of morality and
accredit them as ministers of the Gospel.
These sensual men overspread immoral
ity and infidelity from shore to shore
without giving birth to rebukes from
the representatives of popular senti
ments. St, Paul's graphic portrait we'll
characterizes them as raging waves of
the sea, foaming out their own confu-
sions wandering stars. to whom the
storm of darkness is reserved forever
How many writer's now days have
flooded our great country with great
ISLANDERS and thorough rottenness for
the personel of the young and innocent
hearts, easily impressed with impas
stoned TRADES such that pure minded
will turn from wi III disgust unutterabie?
What weapon do these grandiloquent
moralists brandisb to summon their
listeners to the standard Of rebelliou
and anti Romanism? This sweet-ruin-
ing principle that man and woman
cannot be brought together, even in
holiest relations, whether of society or
religion, without being carried away by
sinful thoughts. Great Heaven! to
what abyss of degradation have we
fallen, Can we with any degree of
prosperity, associate ourselves with such
slanderers? Shall unprejudiced intel
ligence this foul and loathsome view of
humanity as a criterion of certitude
against the Confessional. Surely pas
sioDs have not strangled reasons in all
social quarters; it SO, then we must look
calmly in the face Of the ensuing con-
sequence that will follow; rioting in
blood and terror. Another awful catas
trophe similar to the French revolution
will fall to our lot. Away with this
hellish thought! Impossible. We are
not on the verge of ruin,, Let us un-
mask these human monsters and reject
their company, and again morality will
cradle our thoughts, and breathe joy
and bliss in domestic cucles.' And let
us prove to the leaders OF heresv sand
intidelity that the Catholic Church Of
to day is tile same Catholic Church OF
nearly nineteen hundred years ago; that
Christ Himself permanently dwells
within her consecrated temples, and
that, consequently, the gates of nell
cannot prevail against her. ''Thou art
Peter, and upon this rock Will buid
NY Church, and the gates Of bell shall
not prevail against it, Matt. l6 l8
And as Professionalism in any form was
not born until towards the middle OF
the sixteenth century. it is the greatest
piece of mockery, born lof an ignorant
ana perverted mind, for any man to
attempt to claim divine foundation for
any of the Protestant sects. What
greater proof of this do we want than a
snort glance over the lives of such men
as that bluff old tyrant, Henry WILL.
who, tired of his virtuous wife stricken
in years, disgraced himself BY his high
handed tyranny, and by sacrliegious
spoilatlons, sullied English history;
Luther. Calvin, Sparries, Brownies.
Rreckenridges, Michelet, Voltairp.
Maria Monk, ETC.. who are
the founders and SO called ornaments OF
the Protestant Church in various forms,
and who, it may we'll De said. take 'm
in obscure narratives, especial
" when directed against the Catholic
Church. How much better and how
much more pleasing in the sight of God
would it be il those Protestants who
call themselves Christians would devote
their labors towards ChristlaniZing the
heathens. the savages and the inidels-
in honestly striving to bring souls to
God-than wilfully and continually
the Church of God, Of openly
defying her precepts, and continually
to- annlhilate the Church,
together with its precious Dreregatives
and adjunctsl How different the course
pursued by the Catholic clergy, whose
members have, from the days OF the
apostles down to life OF Father Damien.
the Leper Priest of Molokai, suffered
martyrdom for the Faith! Let Chini-t
GUY, Fulton. the Montreal Witness and
the rest OF the ungodly gang take few
pages from Cathullc history. and let
them strive to emulate the lives of
those thousands Of Heaven inspired
minds that ornament the Church of;
Peter. and whose lntellects fiffuse the
light OF Faith amongst her millions Of
children w hose gentr us heart ls IS, out
ii sympa thy, ], ay g, in pity, TO those
whose bigoLed aud perver ed minds
make them fit subjrcts for the punish-f
rnrnt invoked by lagos wife on the
liars described by Shakespeare
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