The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-24

Ca.vary, shortly before death, uttered
these prophetic words. pregnant with
meaning to al thoughtful minds. Moved
by the sins, the sufferings, the prejudices
and the ignorances of the world. and
knowing the weaknesses of human ma
ture, He declared: 1 have yet many
things to say unto you. but We cannot !
bear them now" With this depression
let me pass on to the thoughtful and far
reaching teaching of the Catholic church, |
and with profound reverence for truth /
whithersoever it leads, let me ask if its |
spirit, the spirit of truth, is not moving /
men today to help the world understand
conditions, the explanation of which |
CHRIST told His hearers of nigh two thou |
sand years ago they were then unable to
bear. Each man VII judge for himself. |
For one, / see in the present attitude of
the great historical church of the world,
of the pronouncements sent forth by the
venerable head t.-ereof, Pope Leo Kill,
and in the unfiinching declarations of
those high in authority under him; of
the dec. arat.ons made, teachings promul-
gated and views held by the Anglican
Church as represented by the Archbishop
of Canterbury and many learned and
thoughtful ecclesiastics, / say l see in
their various attitudes and asseverations
the working of the spirit of truth.
CARDINAL MANNING'S VIEWS.
The greatly revered Henry Edward
Manning. Cardinal Archbishop of West
minister, in an address to the pastors and
people of England and Ireland, met in
convention at Thurles to further the USE
fulness of the League of the Cross"
league of total abstinence. said: "Twen-
| ty years have taught me that the great
bar which in our days closes the soul of
man against the Word of God and the
t Holy Sacrament is excess in Intoxicating
drin he
for the salvation of the Incorporate and
for the sanctification of the temperate,
is total abstinence. Temperance is good;
total abstinence better. We are all
pledged to temperance by the vows of
our Baptism. No one Is bound to total
abstinence 1t IS the free choice of those
who aspire to live by the counsel of a
higher life. Happy are the homes where
father and mother are pledged to the
higher life. Happy are the children who
have never known the taste of intoxicat-
ing drink. Happy are they who have TAX
en- the pledge, not for any need of their
own, but to save others by word and ex-
ample from spiritual death. In such
homes and hearts the peace of God will
reign. Happy, above all, are the pastors
who go before their flocks in the League
of the Cross
; Writing to a military chaplain In India
this high-minded prelate said: Il am
greatly rejoced that the commander in
chief dord Roberts) is willing to take in
hard the temperance of the army.
The efficiency of the League of the
Cross VII depend absolutely on the zeal
of the chap aims. = 4 hey will, l am
sure, be prompt and earnest in forming
branches of total abstinence societies
2 among the soldiers"
o To the Rev. /. f. Flood, Cardinal Man
ming wrote, with all my heart / bless
the League of the Cross in Athlone.
7 hope all fathers and mothers will brinl
q up their children from infancy in tota
, abstinence. 1t is not only guard agans
many of the deadliest temptations, but i
is counsel of higher life and lifts ou
will up to desire and to do better things
. POPE ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
: And now, Mr.. Editor, allow me t.
q quote words of the present Pope, Lee
= Kill, who, in a letter to Archbishop Ire
land of these United States, wrote as fol
4 lows:
= I'VE have rejoiced to learn with wha
Q energy and zeal, through the Catholi
: Total Abstinence Union. you combat tn
. destructive vice of intemperance.
, Nor can we sufficiently praise the pre-
!, lates of the United States, who recently
{, in the Plenary Council of Baltimore
re declared that the faithful who yield t
n this vice of intemperance become thereb
g a scandal to non-Catholics, and a grea
r. hindrance to the propagation of the tru
n religion.
Hence we esteem worthy of all com
mendat.on the noble resolve of your piou
association, by which they spledge them
n selves to abstain totally from every kin
l. of intoxicating drink. Nor can it at a
&c be doubted that this determination is tn
e proper aad truly efficacious remedy 70
;? this great evil. The zeal of tn
/ priests, who, as they are called to ms rue
n -. .
l. mold them to Christian morality, shout
n also, and above all, walk before ther
Ii in the practice of virtue. Let pastors
: therefore, do their best to drive tn
plague of intemperance from the fold c
y Christ. and to shine before all as mod
1t els of abstinence, that so the many ca
J. lamities with which this vice threaten
1t both church and state may, by thei
l. strenuous endeavors, be averted."
le PUBLIC TOO APATHETIC.
l. Let me thank you. Mr.. Editor. for you
h courtesy in giving place to this long com
;, munication. 1t is true that public inter
g est in the subject is not ali aglow an
}, many, perhaps, will find no time to por
IF der the words above written; but whe
l. we have all passed away, and when, pos
IF SHY, labor questions, sugar shares an
- politics wane in interest, and when tn
IF stupendous possibilities of mans menta
r neral and physical Improvement find g
" least an equal place with other questions
Of and when to reach out in thought sti
% farther onward and onward, when trut
N will be worshped above all things, an
r mans true happiness and wen being fin
l. first pace in consideration, then, / ash
p is 1t too much to hope that any hel
l. given to hasten such times will not hav
20 been energy wasted? Your paper ha
Id long claimed the first place in our CON
,e munity. An aim to help correct tremer
he dous evils, hope to help in the better
,e ment of this mystery of mysteries Gale
life, IS surely a high and honorable an
l. bition for any paper, furthering the da
le when men will think as among the
id noblest attributes their desire and powe
l. to express themselves accurately in state
ir ment so that each may help all to jus
D. tice in action. Then, sir, your good sci
&c vices in helping forward a benefici;
it though unpopular movement Will not hay
er been in vain and surely not forgotten
ly for, as we believe matter to be ind,
1t structible, so must we conceive the worl
re ings of our minds as sending out the
r records into the Infinite mind, and in OF
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