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are perverse. Be the laborer INDECENT,
incorporate, impure; economic laws,
prosperous industries, inviting oppor-
tunitieS are of no avail to him. He will
not work to acquire a livelihood; if he
does work his wages are wasted in riot
ing and in sin. Be the man hateful to
his fellows and quarrelsome, a mis-
chief-maker, and rebel against law,
society suffers from his anger and dis
obedience, and cannot tolerate him
within the pale OF its liberties. Be the
employer or capitalist cruel and avari-
cious, he will crush and impoverish his
wOrkmen in manners that no legisla-
ton can prohibit Dishonesty in money
getting is at the root of thousand So
claI misfortuDes. For the ills of
heart i'll laborer or employer secular
ism has its prescriptions. 1t will appeal
to the reason of each one, to his sense
of honor, to his temporal interests; and
the value of this appeal | do not dis
dain. But experience teaches us that
it is limited. Make the appeal to re-
ligiou. Re echo its commandments.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and
thy neighbor as thyself. Thou shalt
not kill. Thou shalt not commit
adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou
shalt not bear false witness. Drunkards
II.
Thou shalt not defraud the laborer of
his wages. Re-echo, say, those COM
mandments; aid men to observe them
by bringing them to invoke divine
grace through prayer and sacrament;
allow them not to forget that there is
the living judge above them before
whose tribunal they shall be sum-
moned, and on whose sentence their
eternity shall depend. Here are
remedies that penetrate into the
very marrow of the bone, and that will
be remembered amid the turmoil of the
day and the slumbers of the night. Can
the physicians of human society afford
to overlook them? Well does the Holy
Father say: christian morality, when
it is adequately and completely prac-
ticed, conduces Of itself TO temporal
prosperity, for it merits the blessing of
that God who is the source of all bless
Jugs; it powerfully restraints the lust of
possession and the lust of pleasure
twin plaques which too often make
man without self-restraint miserable in
the midst of abundance it makes men
supply by economy the want of
means, teaching them to be content
with frugal living, and keeping them
out of the reach of those vices which
eat up not merely small incomes. but
large fortunes, and diSSipate many
good Inheritance
The Consultations OF Religion.
Are you optimiStS, | would inquire of
our social physicians? Do you believe
that when your best shall have been
done. all tears shall be dried, all heart
sores healed? In its fairest forms life
is succession of joys and woes. Roses
have thOrns nigh them. Sadness and
suffering darken cottage and palace. No
condition is proof against care and
anxiety, against death and the shadows
of death. What cure will Secularism
bring? 1t is powerIess; it has no cure.
Hurry and worry, it says. in the race
for earth's gifts; but you will never
have your fill; they will never satisfy
the SOULS deepest warnings; they will
never ward off pain and trouble, and,
cling to them as you may, you must one
day lose them. Thicker as it will the
veil which it fain would put before
the grave, secularism cannot take
away from our eyes the specter Of
death, beyond which there is 10th
ing, not even the murmur Of
the evening breeze. The highest
promise Of secularism is: To-day, eat
and drink and be merry, for tomorrow
we shall die. With these words happi-
ness, real and enduring. disappears
from society, whatever the reforms at
tempted or realized, and the black cloud
of despair lowers upon it. o Christ,
come to our rescue, with Thy faith in
future life, and buoy us up with the
hope that springs from this faith. Life,
under the wand of religion, has
meaning; there is purpose to it, from
from which no degree of misery can
strip it; and in the certainty of being
hi. 10, III, h..
fortunate find sweetest JOY and conSola-
ton. even when earth is most migrate
full to them. God has not created u.s."
says the encyclical, ''for the perishabie
and transitory things of earth; but for
things heavenly and everlasting,
He has given us this world
for a place of exile, and
not as our true country" Money, and
the other things which men call good
and desirable, we may have them in
abundance or we may want them alto
gether; as far as eternal happiness is
concerned, it is no matter; the only
thing that is important, is that we use
them Alright. Jesus Christ, when He re-
deemed us with plentiful REDEMPTION,
took not away the pains and sorrows
which i'll such large proportion make up
the texture of our mortal life; He trans
occasions of merit. IF we suffer with
Him, we shall also reign with Him."
We are speaking, be it remembered, not
OF the actual enjoyment which awaits
US in another life, but of the present
consultations which the hope of this en-
joyment gives us. Our thesis is the
present social value of religion.
Not in Bread Alone Doth Man Live
1t is written, mot in bread alone doth
man live, but in every word that pro-
ceedeth from the mouth of God" Bread
for the body; the word of God for the
soul. But as the body is but the inStru-
ment of the soul, so it is true that not on
bread alone doth the life of the body de-
pend, but on every word that proceed
eth from the mouth of God Without
God there Is no solution of the social
question; there is no society in which
reigns justice and charity, in which
there is fair play, and an opportunity
for the weak and the poor, as well as
for the strong and the rich, i'll which
even the strong and the rich themselves
can be happy and safe. You are
dreamers, who propose social re-
forms in which religion is not
the cornerstone. You raise up i'll
your fancies huge edifice; but
there is no cement binding together
your blocks of marble, and it is doomed
to fall. The most perniciOus enemies
of social justice and charity are they
who biaspheme God, and bid Him be
hidden away in the regions of myths
and guessings. And yet they are often
the ones who are the loudest i'll their
clamOrings for social improvements, and
for the universal brotherhood of man.
Their speeches are lies and deceits.
Death is in their words. They destroy,
and cannot build up. God alone is the
builder and the savior of society. "EX-
cept that the Lord build the house, they
labor in vain that build it. Except the
Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain
that keepeth it,"
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