Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-07

the general and generous cooperation
OF all who are at all interested in the
truly great work of teaching our youth
the Wonderous things of Gods Law.
The common and pernicious indiffer-
ence concerning true knowledge that
makes of education something apart
from God and His revealed religion as
preserved and taught in His Holy
Church, is an alarming feature Of this
age, so given, as it is, to the love of
money and of so-called pleasure. / do
not deny the intensity so prevalent
among many of intellectual research,
nor the great additions made to the
worlds treasury of what is usually
denominated learning.
But / do deny that mere information
IS an equivalent for character. Edu-
cation, and, therefore, ethics apart
from Christianity is a fundamental
fallacyi If not, indeed, a gross alb
surdity.
very much regret the introduction
of Sunday railway trains into our
Peninsula. While we'll aware of the
speclous arguments adduced in their
favor, l am persuaded that they mean
more Of harm than of good. 1t was,
] have always thought, an honorable
distinction that, almost alone, our
| Delaware Division, so far at least as
passenger trains are concerned, OBJ
served the Lord s day.
OF course, ] may be mistaken, but
am persuaded that there was but little
I demand for them. And even if in this
respect am mistaken, the demand for
them, however so general, was not in
the interests Of any need that should
override the sanctity and quietude be-
longing to a day already in other
directions and by other means so
! grievously disregarded.
There must inevitably ensue the
intrusion Of a disturbing element into
our hitherto secluded and protected
villages and towns, tempting many
away from their homes and ordinary
| places of worship, and contributing
/ towards an increase of that utter dis
4 honorine of the Lord s day, which is
responsible for very large measure OF
our national Generalization anC
worldliness.
1t is as convinced of the moral anC
| spiritual dangers involved, that fee
/ compelled to record my earnest pro
test, and, further, to warn my diocese
against it as an evidence of a fresh
surrender to the spirit Of secularisn
whose defiance of that which Is holy
needs to be resisted with all our might.
And still further, in the interests oI
all who labor, whether in body or II
mind, l protest against an invasion o
the hours that should be devoted L
necessary rest-an invasion that has
already been the immediate cause
from overwork and unceasing work, o.
so many cases of premature lmbeclllty
and of shocking suicide.
The recent announcement of the In
tention Of opening in our American
metropolis of banking institution
whose doors shall be open for business
throughout the evening and night, u
! but another illustration of the mac
and maddening greed for pecuniar.
J gain that bids defiance alike to tn
, laws Of God and man. The church Z
cry of Halt should be loud and long
1 add a paragraph from a SUISSE
county newspaper in its issue after tn
first Sunday trains: Sunday in -
had the robe Of heathenism; freigh
) and passenger trains were run all da,
long, about 200 men were working ol
? the new siding; teams were unload
} ing ice for refrigerators cars; a grea
{ many did not know what day it was.
2 1t has been intimated to me tina
D something is expected of me with re
gard to some questions that have bee
{ lately disturbing the church as to tn
! liberty belonging to her members as {
3 matters of Faith. In my address I
E the convention of 1904, spoke upo
y this subject as distinctly as l kne'
q how to speak. May repeat a sentenc
! or two of what l then said? "Ih
@ neople of today want to be assured tina
what they are likely to be taught o
8 tine Lords day in. His House by Hi
O amhassadors, shall have about it th
/ same authoritative tone that marke
= His own discourses. ''Io maintai
j. in its integrity the Catholic faith-th
4 faith once delivered to the saints-ma
subject us to the specious charge
Q narrow mindedness, even of bigotry
e and we might find it easier in the gar
8 of some twentieth century preacher
= liberty and independence to gain SON
s APPLAUSE and notoriety, however
r superfcial and transitory. But
were worth a whole lifetime of III
n swervinq loyalty to this faith to d
j without having given the enemies
d Christ any opportunity to blaspheme.
d It is ali very well, my dear brethren
y to denounce heresy trials, and here:
]. hunting, as it is Inappropriate
Is termed: but it ought to be borne
II mind by persons who thus speak
,e write. that the heretics that are p'
d on trial are those who have been tiaun
y inc their erroneous and strange do
IS. trines in the very face Of the churcl
), They have saved the ecclesiastical a.