The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-10
sanctitY will not shield him from the
soorn and contempt Of sincere and can

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for my spiritual welfare ard guides me
to my eternal home. The other guards
my tenn 2oral interests, and protects me
in the exercise and enjoyment of the
sacred rights conferred upon me by my
Creator. Each is supreme in its own
sphere; each has certain limits in
which it is restricted. Listen to the
teaching of Pope Leo XIII, in his ency-
clical on the Christian state.
"God divided the charge of the human
race between the two powers, the eccles-
iastical and the civil; one sits over di-
vine things and the other over human
things. Each is supreme in its own
kind; each has certain limits within
which it is restricted. Whatsoever in
human affairs is in any manner sacred,
pertaining to the salvation Of souls or to
the worship of God and the like, be-
longs to the church. But all other
things which are embraced in the civil
or political order are rightly subject to
the state
GA free church in free state, the
happy relation that exists in our country
is the ideal condition longed for by the
church of Jesus Christ. Where union
of church and state exists there is the
ever present danger that the church will
| become the creature of the state, and
depend too much on the complacent
good will of the government. The
church has, invariably suffered from d
coalition with the state. When the
head of the church is at the same time
the chief ruler Of the realm, as in Eng
land, the people lose respect for both
church and civil power, on account of
the strange and often perplexing com.
| mingiing of secular and ecclesiastical
authority. All the church asks for and
| all that 1t has right to claim is perfect
freedom to carry on the divine work
| which Christ confided to it's care. The
state has never received from God or
the people the right or authority to de-
fine for men their religious creed. To
the church has not been entrusted the
peoples political welfare. Catholics
have not sought nor hoped for political
supremacy for their church in this free
land. They are just as jealous of the
rights of the state, of their own political
rights, as any class of American citizens
can be. They would have nothing to
gain by an ecclesiastical supremacy,
and do not desire that the church
should dictate the politics OF the people.
Here is the language of CARDINAL Glib:
bons, spoken in Rome, the ceuter Of
Catholic faith, on the occasion Of being
made cardinal OF the Church Of
Rome:
"'The Catholic church in the United
States owes it's great progress to the
civil liberty we enjoy in our eplightens
ed republic The church has been often
hampered in her divine mission. She
has been forced to struggle for existence
wherever dtspotism has cast it's dark
shadow, like plant shut out from the
blessed sunlight Of heaven. But in the
genial atmosphere of liberty she bios
SONS like the rose
Unconstitutional government has moth.
ing to fear from the influences of the
church, or from the spiritual power
which it exercises, by virtus of the COM
mission confded to it by the Savior
of mankind. Lawful civil authority
will find it's best and most reliable sup
port in the church that teaches it's mem
bers the Christian duty Of loyalty and
submission to established authority.
Religion is the great conservative force
in human society, sustaining the rights
of just government and restraining the
way wardness of disconnected and restless
individuals.
"Anarchy is the unworthy child of ir.
religion and agnosticism. From IRE
ligion, therefore, the state has much to
fear, for it is the ineidious poison that
imperceptibly, it may be, destroys the
very life Of nation.
"Americans who honestly love their
country and It's free institutions will al
ways foster most friendly relations to.
wards the church of Christ, and will be
mindful of Washington's warning, that q
free people will in vain hope to es-
tablish morality without the powerful
aid of religion. NJ
mo church could destroy or under.
| mine this government if it desired to dc
so and no church will have any such de.
sire, for this free land is the fairest field
| in which it has been the fortune of the
church of God to harvest souls for the
kingdom of heaven since CHRIST con.
quered death and SIM
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