The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-10
CHURCH AND COUNTRY.

Father Cleary's Discourse on This Subject
at St. Charles Church.
St. Charles Church was crowded to it's
utmost capacity again last Sunday even
! ing. The subj ct OF Father Clear} 8
discourse was Church and Country"
and as an introduction to bis sermon OF
the evening hs said of Morgan and his
ap slogists:
"Mr. Morgan and his courteous,
Christian champions Of this city, stand
ing on a lofty pedestal of self.righteous-
ness, like their patron saint, the Pharisee
of the temple, who had no sins to be-
moan, affect to be greatly shocked at
my ruceness and audacity, because I
have presumed to hurl back at them
some of the missiles they have been dis
charging at my church and my CO.
relig1onists for years.
"Baptist ministers Of this city have
been villifying the Catholic church and
our Catholic people in the most out
rageous manner, almost since the city's
foundation. They have called US trait
ors to our country, have brand us as
slaves to vile and debasing supersti-
tion; have taken prominent part in
political meetings, Ike the venerable
pastor of the First Baptist church last
Saturday evening; have filled the public
press with their vile vomitings against
religion, which they are unable to
appreciate and when people have be-
come weary of their ignorant and stale
repetitions OF oft refuted calumnies
against Ca: hoiics, they invite motor
ious and disgrunted political bankrupt,
more INSCRIPTIONS than themselves to
occupy their d:sgraced pulpits for the
purpose of calumniating heroic and self
sacrificing women, and of d1shonorlng
the name of tbs most noble and saint
| ly heroes hat have ssnctifed the Wild
erness of this western world. Then
their tender, phariaaical sensibilities are
shocked, when the vileness of their
| methods and the baseness of their con-
duct are laid bare.
do these mon imagine that they can
| continue with impunity to charge us
with treachery to our native land, with
hostility to institutions that we love,
with deceitful cunning and base efforts
TO keep the people in the bondage of
ignorance, and that we shall never re-
sent their gross and insulting imperti-
hence? We have kept silent too long,
under their base insinuatione. /, for
one. have in me sufficient American
independence and manly courage to hurl
in the faces of the hypocntioal foes of
my creed, aud the base libelers of my
devotion to the land of my birth, their
dastardly insinuations and unmanly
misrepresentation. They have so long
enjoyed the monopoly of abuse and
svituperation" against the Catholics that
lthey seem to expect us to kiss the hand
that smites us and praise the tongue
that reviles all that we hold most dear.
Turn the light Of honest and intelligent
American inquiry on their dishonorable
warfare against the church of all ages,
Of all nations and of all races OF men,
and the fair minded people OF this free
and glorious republic will come to
realize the dastardly insults these men
have been offering to American intelli-
lgence. 81 .s ss3
az have no apology to make for my
Isevere arrangement Of Mr.. Morgan and
his clerical triangle. The professional
prssvaricato 81 haas no rights that honest
linen are bound toI respect. His Affected
assumption Is superior Intelligence and