The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-12-28
g CHRISTIAN CYARI TY." !"
It is by the Recognition Of This Uni
versal Instinct That All Mankind
are Brethren.
the RECORD or MANS INJUSTICE

Unless You Have Charity You Have
Nothing Without it, it is Impossible
to Please God.
The following interesting and in
structive paper was read by Mr.. j. K.
Corrigan at meeting of the Particular
Council of the st. Vincent de Paul
Society at Cretln hall. in st. Paul. on
Sunday evening, December 8>h, 1889,
on '.Christian Charity" aud will no
doubt prove of much interest and edi.
6cation to the readers of THR IRISH
STANDARD:
Mankind is universe: brotherhood.
This is a fact which is proven long
since by science. Revelation assisted
before the dawn of scientific 1uvestiga-
tion in impressing the fact upon mems
minds. Mankind had a beginning,
he,,ce was created; only the outline Of
the creation was revealed, bat what is
given, is all sufficient for anyone Of US
who desire to prepare here below for
the existence beyond the grave. Those
who say that the revelation is insult
icint ave the uneducated, the ill-educa-
ted, and the perverted minds Of the
race. Look back through the histories
of the mlgrations of mankind on this
planet from the hegSlning and you Will
5.dnd him ever to have been less than the
angels and greater than the brutes,
though the temperate Zone has bleached
his face white as the SHOWS aud stirred
his faculties to brave deeds, though the
equatorial heat scared his skin through
the different stages Of color from brown
to black and forced chains upon his
faculties, he has always been aud will
al HaYs iu this order OF creation. 1t is
not strange therefore to discover that
IN whatever condition he is placed there
is in each individual an intuition, an
instinct, if may thus denomlnate u,
sometimes latent, sometimes apparent,
which moves him more Or less strongly
to recognize his fellow men as brelhern.
This feeling must have been perfect
with the 6rst of creation aud should
have been permanent throughout their
descendants, bat, immediately, III the
first family, sacred history tells US. this
feeling was extingulshed III Cain by the
baser passion Of jealousy; we have not
the rest of the s.ory however, perhaps
when the blood Of his brother rau red
before his eyes aud he had satisfied Ills
envy aud jealousy, the brOtherly feeling
of which write, surged bacK into his
soul, aud with eyes blinded with the
scalding tears of repentance, he Was
cast out. q wanderer. With such be-
ginnlngs eau we wonder that this in'
stincr at later times, until the days OF
Jesus Of Nazareth, grew fainter and
fainter aud fainter IN the multlUude; in
the days Of Noah when the lime had
not yet been fulfilled for His coming. SO
weak had 1t become aud consequently
so near the beast creation in Ill essen-
tials had man graYitated that God per-
mitted the whole Of the.n save the
family of Noah to be submerged in the
great deluKe; again tho remnant es
sayed TO Oeuple the earth, 50 few in:
numbers that their dependency upon
each other was apparent to each, but
again the great truth was torgotten.
Read sucA history as we have from che
time OF Noah to the beginning Ut tile
Christian era aud you are a,touuded by
the record Of mans iDjustice 10 man
The living unfOrtunates, The lepers aud
unclean, were cast out to wander among
the beasts Of the field. they appealed in
vain for charity; the quivering lips. the,
pa!sied hands, tho ghastly faces Of
these sufferers were as the inanimat1
objects of nature to the people OF those
days. The enemy who was not mrr-
cilessly slain in war was driven as a
beast, put to the torture, hissvery eyes.
torn oug, his tongue cut off; the taking
Of the life Of an enemy III those days
WAS the happiest fate that could befall
him,if he were vanQuished. 1.-The were
the slave or enemy III the Roman empire
he night consider himself fortunate If
he Was consigned TO end his days In the
degradation OF pltiless slavery. but m0rv
probably he was given y toy shield and
short sword and forced into an arena to
makes mock defense Of his life agalus,5|
some fierce half starved lion. or some
merciless tiger from the jungles Of
India, aud s. AL for the glory ot some
ROmanmagnate and the pleasure Of u
people who were degraded 10 nearly ths
level of thos,, very beasts because they
had rgottens the sbro rotherhoOd of man.
The very ,abes were exposed 70 death
zby staryat tioDs a their brains dashed out
upon the ~ the t1rlta lied arsnls.
Among tifs offssss humatIity thus
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