The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-02-02

brothers, aged and feeble nuns, wer
all turned out into the highway as S,
many cattle, with no provision made fo
a crust of bread, shelter from th,
storm, or nights lodging.
8. OF course, the terrible scenes O.
these three years were not allowed tt
be sent in the telegraphic dispatches.
10. The Catholic schools have beer
replaced everywhere by atheistic schools
of every grade, for the purpose OF
] bringing up the children and the young
men and women to hatred for Christ
and without Christian morality.
! IL. Finally, as the last step, just
now, all the bishops and parish priests
are being driven from their homes;
and these homes together with the
thirty thousand churches and all prop
critics are being seized by the govern
ment.
L. This is being done under a law
passed last year, the notorious law of
Associations for Worship" (Associa-
tions cultuelles). By this law the bish-
ops and priests are ordered to give up
all control and management of every
thing connected with the church prop
erty and church services. Everything
must be put into the hands of Commit
tees ASSOCIATIONS of laymen, who Will
manage everything = churches, prop
erty, residences, bequests, the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, Confession, Holy
Communion, Baptism, the Sacraments
for the dying, etc.-all according to the
dictates of the atheistic government.
13. 1t is easy to see that no man with
half conscience could thus yield up
his trust and his obligation before God
and man. And so the Pope and the
Bishops and the Pastors with one voice
have said "non possumus', we cannot
And this IS the pretext under which the
entire Episcopate and the whole body
Of the secular clergy, the pastors of the
churches, are being turned into the
streets, as the hundred or two hundred
thousand religious teachers and SER
wants Of the poor have been turned into
the street before them.
Il. During the past twelve months
be sure of the plunder, has sent its
agents to each of the thirty thousand
parishes, and these agents have made a
complete list of every scrap of property
connected with each church. This list
everything, even to the vest
ments and chalices used for the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, and the vessels in
which the Sacred Body of Christ is pre-
served in the Tabernacle on the Altar.
All this IS now being se.ed as each
Bishop aad Pastor is being put upon |
the street.
Is. And, finally, this law of "Asso-
Citations" is so Worded that if any |
Bishop or Pastor should-which God |
forbid-so forget his conscience as to
consent to the sacrilege, and betray his
5rust-the law is so worded that no
Committee could possibly avoid one or
another of multitude of acts on &C
count of any one of which confiscation
would Immediately follow.
Is But the whole case is made plain
by the words of M. BRAND, who is a
member of the French Cabinet, and is
he framer of the law. Mr.. BRAND, as
he Minister of Education, in addressing
he school teachers of the new atheistic
choois, said:
"The time has come to root up from
he minds of French children the an
lent faith which has served it's purpose,
nd replace it with the light of free
hought. 1t is time to get rid of the
christian idea. We have hunted Jesus
;hrist out of the army, the navy, the
chools, the hospitals, the insane asy-
lms, the orphan asylums and the law
ourts; and now we must hunt him out
f the State altogethsr."
There is no need of further testimony.
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