The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-04-30

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creeds and infidelity Yes, dearly beloved, private
reason set itself up the sole judge in matters OF
religion it gave us as its watchword the greatness,
the liberty of the human mind, which bows not nor
can ever bow to any authority IN heaven or on
earth. The principles sown by Luther and Calvin,
Voltaire and Rousseau and the rest took up and to-
day outside the Catholic church you have doubt,
chaos and striving to blot out God from His earth
and heaven Look to Germany and the leader of
Socialist thought backed up by host of infidel fol-
lowers, openly declares that 'region is an absurd
popular sentiment" ga fantastic degradation of
human nature "The abolition of religion is a
necessary condition for true happiness" So speaks
Karl Marx, the leader of these infdel forces IN
Germany, that wage upon the Christ and His
Church. Turn to Italy and the aim, the thought OF
those in that land who have cast off God is ex-
pressed iii a declaration of a late Socialist
gress eve shall have the delight of assisting at the
agony Of the priests Frustrated in the gutter of the
street. They shall pine away of hunger, slowly,
fearfully before our eyes, This shall be re-
venge and for the relish of such a revenge, &C
companied by bottle of Bordeaux we will willing
ly sell our place in heaven. What say WEI Heaven!
I'VE want it not What we wish for is hell-he
with all the delights that go before it, and leave
heaven to the God of the Papst.' And France
eldest daughter of the Church. the land of Clovis
Charlemagne, and the sanity Louis. You today
have cast off the Christ, you today deny your
and daughters the right to know and worship God
From the past you will not read the lesson writ in
the blood and tears of thy children, and writ too
in the strong hand of Jesus Christ, ''The nation
that knoweth not God shall perish" Yes, take to
your heart Votaire, Rousseau Rohespierre and
BRAND, they will teach you freedom of thought and
freedom of act as far God and morality are con-
cerned, but they will give you death. Infidelity in
England is well represented in Blatehford and
Bernard Shaw The former says ~ cannot be-
heVe IN the existence of Jesus Christ. " fThere is
such thing sin and freewill is myth Car
lyle is more moral than Jeremith, Ruskin is super
Tor to Isaiah Ingersoll the Atheist, is nobler
morallst and better than Noses Bernard
Shaw writes these words, 1.-THE social system based
on religion and common belief in the Divine order
has broken down. The Bible must CO. Till you
get rid OF the Bible religion In this country will be
IMPOSSIBLE
I come to the infidel part of America, and I
pass over the eonglomeration of sects that place the
human on the throne of Cod | pass over the
empty mutterlngs of Harvard professors and self
constituted ministers of the Gospel [ pass over
these and come to one incident which happened
lately. Ferrer, the Barcelona murderer and
anarchist, placed against dead wall and the
rifles of the soldiers did the rest Why was he
placed there? Why such an end9 will tell Won
"mie llv1ng he taught those principles to $4,000
anarchists and lnfidels in Barcelona I hone T do
not insult your ears in the telling of them .'There
Is neither God nor SOUL comrades, let us be men, let
US blot out OF life the Infamous upper and middle
GRASSES, let us pull everything to ruin. If amongst
politicians any making appeal to YOUR humanity
Kill them. Abolish all law Demoish all churches
Free love and free conscience are to be allowed and
hohored. The national flag is nothing more than
piece OF calico fastened to a stick'' Such were
Ferrers principles, the bullets of the soldiers was
his end, and yet with savage outburst of rage the
1ntldel and anarchist of Germany France Spain.
TtalIy
martyr Ah well, men robbed of Christ the
Saviour, will follow Bakmin, the Nihilist
Ours IS an advanced age, an age of science and
enlightenment, but our advanced age should know
what the past has told and the future heralds:
''Science is acid which corrodes and consumes
everything but the pure gold of truth.
The Catholic Church is the mother of all true
science. She welcomes all true enlightenment In
the past her and daughters have shone in both
these spheres, and in this our day they more than
hold their own, but while soaring to the heights in
those two domains they have ever before their
minds these thoughts:
Without God there is moral law, and with
out moral law there is moral right, and without
moral right there is nothing left but the grasp of
the strong hand the age of slavery The soil of
the earth may team with golden corn, the bosom of
the earth may give forth the gold and silver and
precious stones. Man may understand the laws that
rule the sun and moon and stars He may thrive in
all knowledge, and all science until his mind is filled
with intellectual food. The bread of corn feeds the
body. The bread of knowledge feeds the mind, but
Beyond the bread of body and mind there is still
wanting another bread-the bread of soul, which is
God. God and His Word alone can turn man.
mind and power to noble service, noble aim. Old
Athens and old Rome prosperous, were
learned, but old Rome and old Athens knew not
God, and their power brought contemplate slavery.
their learning moral degradation. No country is
good nor endowed with the principle of stability
without God Yes, yes, the nation that will endure
is composed of men and women that look up to the
stars of God for light and guidance and follow the
justice of God all their days and ways. "Not by
bread alone doth man 1.-THE nation) live, but by
every word that cometh from the mouth of God