The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-12-12

vidual is dehumanized, the home is
robbed Of it's sacredness, the social or
gsnism loses its stability, the whole
race of mankind is driven to barbarism
and ruin.
All teachers of men proclaim the
need of morals; all human institutions
cry out for morals, all progress and
elevation in humanity depend upon
morals. Our distinguished President
says, '"Grow not only in health but in
morals and spiritual things" Whence
then do morals come? Moral arts arc
acts Of free human will. The intellect
propounds principles which guide and
influence the will, force, not control,
the soul in it's interior life where lies
the source Of human morality. De-
crees of legislatures and bayonets Of
armies can never create a system Of
morals. and yet moral principles are
absolutely required. which reach into
the saaetusry OF tho su.rl. = Where are
VIC to look for those principles of ncr-
ality? Is it the philosophy of earth
with it's sophisms or the philosophy
Of heaven that will solve the problem?
The philosophy 81 earth wants a
morality without religion. They say
the youth is to be taught ethical crl-
ture so as to make him good citizen,
but how shall this be done? They an
swer, "Teach our children, that virtue
is beautiful" but to the youth With the
wild fire of passion in his veins, and
safe, as he imagines, in solitude and
darkness; he gratifles his passions;
what does he care for the empty the
ory Of virtue. Again say these mis-
leading philosophers, who want ,rors Is
without religion, you have to arpea! to
the welfare of society. or to the ulti-
mate veal Of the human race, but what
cares he for society, who is the out
cast and victim, as he believes. of. it's
customs and ordinances? The child or
man. without religion, who is taught
that heis mere atom in the universe,
what does he care for the other atoms
OF which he knows nothing and for
which he cares nothing.
Such theories of morals as the phil
osophy Of earth proposes are only
formulas to be toyed with in playful
discussions of the problems OF life,
but in the practical solution of the
most important problems, this pllilos-
ophy of earth is false. misleading and
works infinite mischief in the social
body. Different is the philosophy of
heaven. Human morals come from AL
mighty God, the Creator, Who, as His
works demonstrate, is God Of law.
In creating man, He made him subject
IT, law, in his physical being to physi-
cal law, in his moral being to moral
law. In ruling men, the God Of law
rewards those who observe law and
Furnishes those who violate it. Teach
men, teach the child to know and re-
member daily that its Maker and Gre
ator to whom it owes it's heing and all,
sees them and watches over them and
wants them to keep His command
n,ents and observe the other Christian
obligations as they are more fully ex-
planned in the Church, the school of
divine truth, and such it is, the stream
of divine grace and such it is. and you
will have a different moral character
in such child and in such a man,
than in the one that is brought up and
taught with ethical culture and other
deceiving theories without God and
without obligations towards God and
His law. Thanks be to God that there
have been rulers and people from the
dawn of the Era up till now, that per-
ceived the necessity Of accepting the
divine law as embodied in the doctrine
Of Christ, who said to His Apostles ard
their legitimate succesgors: "Go
teach ALL" They said to the chaos of
paganism: Let there be light" and