The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-27

NATIONAL PROBLEM.
Interesting Address on Re-
ligious Equality By Rev.
Father Tighe of
GreenVil1e.
TWILL BE AGALa DAY FOR ST. PAUL'S
Great Preparation Being Made For
the Parish Picnic--News of
the Churches.
TWILL BE AGALa DAY FOR ST. PAUL'S


The many Jersey City friends of Rev.
Father John ]. Tighe, pastor of st.
Pauls r. c.. Church, Greenville. who
were deferred from attending the A.. Q.
H. picnic at Newark, Independence Day,
by the heavy downpour of rain, will no
doubt read with pleasure the address
delivered by the eminent priest on that
day. THE Jersey City News" having
secured a report of the able address, is
pleased to present it even at this some
what late date. The address in part is
as follows:-
This day, fellow citizens, is conse-
Grated to the cause of liberty. 1t is
the commemoration of the grandest
revolutionary drama ever presented
on the theatre of time, not indeed in
its action, but in its results. A drama
on which the curtain fell. not mid the
cloud and tempest of devastation and
disaster, but with the glorious sun of
freedom shining in undimmed splendor
on the sapphire turrets and crystal
gates of a new and imperishable tenn
pie of human independence.
when the toes:n of American in
dependence was sounded a new era
opened N the history of man, and he
was crowned with undying dignity as
The child of freedom and the child of
God. 1t was an suspicious day in the
history of humanity, when the men of
thirteen colonies, with an inyinc:ble per-
suasion of the right and an unfaftering
trust in the god of armies, rose to meet
the invader, flushed, mighty multitudin-
Gus as he trod these western shores, and
stood side by side on the perilous ridges
of battle, to or to die for man.
kind. The enemy came, they exulted
on our mountains; they revelled in our
valleys, they Toasted, they rested, they
grew prouder, stronger, holder day by
day. The prepared to cast the chain
of slavery around the form of freedom,
binding life and death together forever.
GOD DEFENDS TILE RIGHT.
.But God defends the right. Footsore,
hungry, thirsty, faint, but
not in heart. the patriot band hurried
on for God and their country. They
met the blast upon the open plain, and
the storm upon the crimson hillside;
they bent before it like the trees in the
tempest; but after many dark days of
fear and trembling came the rapture OF
relief and the paean of victory-a VIC
tory which all classes of our blended
brotherhood, from the coast beneath the
eastern star, on the shores of our lakes
and rivers, amid the wild flowers of our
prairies, and in homes of the midway
and the border celebrate today, as they
came together to multiply thanksgtvings,
to confess their obligations n renew
and perfect their conservation to the
service and the glory of their country.
The greatest problem Americans have
TO fear is that of religious concord
- ~. 7;eforor+ dano r1iOo fi0Dc Pa
ligious unity may not be within the
bounds of possibility. but religious har-
mony is guaranteed in that equality of
rights which is decreed by the constitu-
ton and that spirit of tolerance which is
craven on the hearts of the American
people. To maintain that religious peace
and harmony should be the first aim of
the statesman and legislator, and ev-
cry attempt to infringe, or eyer to
zen in the land should be rep9dlatea
hood of the nation. This question over
shadows and dwarfs all others. Neither
the nowe distT rtfPssr fhSosr e specialization Of Of
States as peopled by diverse populations,
nor the political necessity OF a COM
snffra iang NOR ,ed uesaheT cam el ompare nm in
interest and importance with the all
~pervading question. Of the Application
ana maintenance VI l1OSG PTlliCiPlCS VI
religious equality which are essential to
peace and brotherhood of all classes
within the walls of this Republic; Who
ever cries out, Beware of the Catholics,
beware of the Methodist, beware of the
Jew" desires to uproot that equality; is
the enemy Of his country and the enemy
DIscoRD FATAL TO RELIGION.
Religious discord is not only the door
of anarchy but the death of all religion:
God there can be no State; for religion
it is that gives to society its stability,
to government its authority, and to
laws their binding force upon the con
ciple which ennobles mans earthly exist
ence, the most sacred element of his
nature, the source of his Hottest
thoughts, his mightiest deeds, his sweet
the morning, noon and evening of his
tory; the paradise from which it starts,
the haven of peace unto which, after
thousands of years on the storm-lashed
ocean of time, ii shall be conducted to
rest from its labors.
Let US cultivate that in which it has
been said the American people are most
lacking. the sense of reverence-rever-
ence for law. for authority, for religion
and for God. Resting on the basis of re-
hgion. the security OF our empire shall
be enduringly secured: peace and pros
perity shall obtain undisputed reign; lib
erty- and order shall. like two celestial
stars. walk hand in hand throughout all
our domain. and from The snowy sum-
mits of the White Mountains to the
sun-seared sands of the. gulf, from the
och ribbed coasts Of the East to the
before the world an individual nation
under one government and one law, just,
powerful. clement. glorious-a nation
where every mar is free"