The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-12

| vfttt Y a'o NCais h4hAN, - % PVllSNti
worked as the statuette at the On
trance door scanned every day b,
Ithe eye Of prince ana peasant
Gentlemen; The Catholic churcl
has gwen labor. liberty, dignity and
above all the most precious Gift
conscience.
The only reasonable ground fol
Itbe fears OF The Archbishop and OF
ether disnitaries Of the Roman Cath
ollie church is that Socialism will
bring enlightenment, education, en-,
lfpye to the mase" Victor Burger
This means, of course, that the
Catholic church fostered ignorance
and barbarism of the masses these
1900 years
let rs see my friend; You probably
rave heard of the Bible If you do
net believe 1t the inspired word o..
Cod. you likely believe it to have
been the inspiration of literary genius
in christian times Who gave you
tAe Bible? Who received the in
spirel pages Of the gospel from the
hands of the Evangelist and handed
them down through the course OF cen,
turtles and will continue to hand them
from generations to generations till
the Bible aud the book OF judgment
shall be closed? The Catholic church,
Who handed down to US the classic
RACES Of Homer Of SophocIes OF
asahyles of a Demosihenes OF
Cicero, Horace, a Virgil 4 Tacitus
the writings OF Plato, an Aristotle.
Of Arroes2 The Catholic church.
whose lazy, ignorant monks deciph-
cred the ancient parchments and
copied them. Who gave those master
Pieces of pulpit oratory in the begin.
ring of christianity, the sermon Of a
Chr. sosom, a Gregory, a Basileus IN
Greek. those of St Ambrose, Of ST.
Augustus in Latin? Who composed
those divine songs waited through
the aisles of centuries stiH resound
ing in our Catholic churches today.
the Sweet Laudation, the awful Dies
lgae, the stahat Matter the pears Of
nymnology. Such songs are abovs
the ken of Socialism. II may produce
9 Marse'llaise in France or in Ameri,
ca perhaps Il won't go home til
Have you sir. heard of those
Irinces of poetry a Dante, Tasso,
Petrarch in Italy. a Lopez de Veg
and Calderon in Spain, a Canoes in
Portugal? All sons Of Mother church
Have you heard of Corneile, a Ra.
cine, a Moliere in France, or Pope
q Dryden. a Thomas More, Catholics
of the British Isles?
And that master genius, who SCARE
lhove all the rest, Shakespeare most
was Catholic, as il is nj
2 ,storical fact that his father suffered
fef his fidelity to the church. Walter
seott Tennyson and Longfelov
'ayed 10 dwell on Catholic themes
witness "lvanhoe" the Idls of taeI
* ng "Eyangeline." The GermlnI
poets, stolberg, Frederick Won
Schiegel Breutano Won EichenbergI
we're faithful sons of the church
in his greater dramas THE
Maid Of Orleans" Mary Stewart,
'Walienstein,' william Tell" Isl
2atholic, and even the proud Goethe
bends his knee in Faust before the
Blessed Virgin Nay the declare
'nemies of the church, a Votaire and
Diderot, received their education
rom Catholics, whilst Byron. Shelley
ieine, Victor Hugo and all their fol
overs plucked industriously flowers
n Catholic fields and gardens.
In short. If Lady Poetry" SHOULD
e deprived of all Catholic raiment
he would be a suitably adorned
'ride for Robinson Crusoei on his SOL.
AIRY Island And in face OF all this
he Socialist maintains that the Cath.
,lic church foster ignorance.
| cannot even touch upon those
tources Of culture. arts of architec.
ure Of sculpture. OF painting an
0usic May mention tho heroic
.ames Of Michael Angelo, Rafael San.
coFreeio LeonoSio ia vincl, Fra