The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-02-01

r6lg1On without GOu, society WITHOUT
God, family without God, education
without God and other wild theories
that are disorganizing society the.
world over, the Church would then
gain the popular appreciation. Her
staunch conservatism is the bone of
contention.
No Consolation in Other Theories.
Harken to the principles of other
theories, which pretend to afford the
workingman consolation. Workers,
society needs your work; therefore
men must work. Your condition,
workers, is ameliorated, as progress
has been made and interest on capital
decreased. Sad, indeed, is your lot,
workingmen; you pray, but God is too
| far off to hear or to grant your petit
tions. Politicians boast to the work
| ingmen that new plans are being
formed for their welfare to be, un-
doubtedly, realized after the next cleo
tion. Workingmen, say other agitators,
assert your rights, you are kings OF the
hour, revolutionize society. Working
men proclaim others, society is as
on wheels, stop work, and victory will
be yours. Nature, science, progress,
reason, honor, such are the favorite
utterances of deluded thinking ma
chimes, who thus blindfold the crowds.
So plunged in worldly pursuits are
many mortals that they seem to have
no need of God and live in iniquity
and injustice till the moment of death,
when the cry bursts forth from their
lips in heart-rending accents: my
God" ..
The sensible workingman finds no
consolation, peace or comfort, in the
above theories. Nothing is found in
them to relieve his wants, being OBJ
liged to work and struggle on, despite
the futile arguments of the literateur,
the proclamations of the worldly econ
omist, the dire doctrines of the ire
ligious philosopher utterly repulsive to
the deepest sentiments of the immor-
tai soul, the repeated promises of cum
ming politician, the savage and brutal
exhortation of the anarchist, the hon.
est workingman being fully convinced
that law and order. and not might,
should govern rational beings, and
profoundly impressed with the fatal
consequences of continued inactivity.
Experience, moreover, teaches the
workingman, that science and philos-
ophy are too cold in the face of sor-
row, pain and troubles. Mortals, there
!; fore, notwithstanding all theories and
endeavors, are powerless to cure the
ills of humanity and to take from labor
the pain that renders it unacceptable
: to most.
Catholic Church Alone Has Remedy.
The Catholic Church alone possesses
the cure for human ills. Only one
institution on earth possesses the
remedy for human misery, pain, pow
erty and the labor troubles, the Catho-
lie Church, which tolerates no viola
: ton of any principle of right and JUS
! tice, nor sacrifices one iota of the
doctrine of Christ, which He commits
, stoned her to preserve ever pure and
| unadulterated, the Catholic Church,
that changed the face of the earth in
, bygone ages by bringing society to
| the feet of the Redeemer of mankind.
/ That same power, the world should
understand, is absolutely needed today
to repair and to renew modern sOci-
ETY. in God and thus calm the present
: storms.
At Christ's advent, slavery abound
lected, and woman was degraded
Genuine history will testify that
Christ's Divine Spouse the Church,
: vanquished slavery, elevated woman.
hood, reared asylums, hospitals and
: orphanages for the, destitute, sick and
, homeless. By the abrogation of bar
barous laws, infanticide, savagery and
: domestic discord yielded to her re
generating forces The. Church con.
l quered the heather world, not by the
force of arms, but by the power OF
the gospel and the charity she exer
2 cised towards human outcasts and
D workingmen. The Church, whose di
d rect object does not embrace politics
I the founding of governments, or the
$ establishment of industries, her pri
: mary mission being to save souls by
$ the grace of God, has the solution OF
D all society ills in the principles she
! breaches for the guidance of human
$ conduct. Were these principles OBJ
$ served, there would be no labor troub
: les, no violence, no graft, and no un
5 charitableness. Christ, the divine
: founder of the Church, made no effort
4 to improve the political or social con
) dition of the people, His life and acts
. tending solely to their spiritual ameli
: grafton. In pursuing the direct and
1 supreme object of winning souls
Christ and His Church did more fol
men in their various avocations than
3 any theory of political economy. AS
/ the Church was in the beginning the
G refuge of the oppressed and the pro
t tectress of labor, she alone can effec
t lively deal with the intricacies oi
g modern labor Catholicity through the
!, teachings of Christ, fosters content
t ment and unites men in sympathy, for
I bearance and respect. Slave-labor the
/, Church withstood in the past, without
$ the abolition of society, and today she
r alone can master the greed of capital
, lists and calm the excitement of work
/ ingmen by that influence over the
human mind and the human heart