The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
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PASTORAL LETTER

family, society and the state sumer
enormously for passion and self-inter-
est will reign. Without religion man
fears not the all-seeing God, Who
fathoms his innermoSt thoughts; then
the crimes conceived in secret will
burst forth upon the world to cause
contentious, pillages, revolution and
hloodshed. The eye of the public Off
Ger cannot penetrate the human heart,
the throne of evil and rebellion and
the root of social evils. Legislation
cannot create conscience, the dictum
of right and wrong, or put moral prin-
ciples into human being, should leg
islation ignore the foundation of NOR
atty, religion. Evil, some irrationally
say, can he generally attributed to the
unlettered. Who, in truth, are the
authors and readers of the infamous
literature which corrupts innocence
by low insinuation, double-meaning
expressions and diabolical schemes,
thus plunging unheeding youth into
the pits of iniquity? Who are they
that stand guilty of public and private
dishonesty, of graft and swindles of
all sorts? Who are the socialists,
the communists and the nihilists, who
are disorganizing society the world
over? The much decried illiterate
masses? No, indeed, hut principally
those educated without religion. Who
are the seif-seeking officials who rob
the public and put nation and a
community to shame? Mainly those
educated without religion. Goddess
education destroys morals, weakens
the power of resistance and enfeebles
the will.
Religion Necessary for the Stability
of the Nation.
The motto of every true American
should ever be Next to God, country,
and next to religion, patriotism" De-
spise these mottos and danger is nigh.
No country can continue to flourish
without a high standard of morality.
A cultivated mind and neglected
heart in citizen will produce most
pernicious results, for mere mental
culture is as powerless as money to
procure morality. Men are endeavor-
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trusts and railroads by law, but law
fails to reach the root of evils, the
human heart, which cannot be recti-
fled without religion. No sooner did
the pagan Roman Empire reach the
summit of it's intellectual culture, than
iniquity gnawed it's very vitals. So
ciety needs order and true liberty, but
the loss of respect for authority, the
foundation of order and the love OF
true liberty are decreasing, because
of the popular and blind thirst fol-
unrestrained license, luxury, sensual
ity and wealth. The materialistiC
spirit, the natural outcome of goddess
education, begets those social diseases
that sap nations strength. A coun
try's prosperity depends on the mora
education of it's children, the product
of religion, while irreligious educa
ton, in forming sharpers, swindlers
and inscriptions citizens, digs :
countrys grave. No power, but re-
ligion, can stem the tide of pernicious
human passion, arrest the corruption
of social order and safeguard the ma
ton. Let there be no religious edu
cation and then a nation must face g
disastrous brood of infidels, who only
consider the earth earthly, socialists
ready to destroy the established order
in society and anarchists eager to de
molish, plumber and shoot down
Every educator should be familiar
with the maxim or George Washing
ton, the founder of our, country
Whatever may be conceded to the
influence of refined education OF
minds of a peculiar structure, reason
and experience forbid us to eXpec
that national morality can prevail il
exclusion of religious principles.
History indeed, sacred and profane
should have long since convinced thu
world that man cannot be moral with
out religion. Who will maintain tina
patriotism can exist without religion
The love of God first, and the love o
country strengthened by the love o
God second make the true patriot ant
the power of the nation. A countr.
can only stand on the supernatural
virtues Of the people. Material great
ness win not save the nation. Thu
IOuuuGTS OL our pOllJICdI SON0EuIu0u
placed credence in Christianity
though they misunderstood some o
it's essential dogmas. No valuable
work was begun without an appea
to God. Religion appears in most de
partments of the government. Con
gress and State legislatures opel
with prayer The administration o
oaths in the courts expresses belle
in the Almighty. Chaplains are ap
pointed in the navy, prisons and re
formatories. Why, then, in the nam,
of common sense and all that is sd
cred, exclude religion from the mos
important department. the school, tn,
drill ground of the future citizens
Owing to goddess education, out o
90,000,00O of people in the Unite'
States, about so millions belong to nj
Christian denomination. The exist
ence of the nation is therefore men
aced, for there can be no moralit.
without religion. immortality beget
national ruin. Depraved literature
the low and debased stage, a luere
stricken press, suppressing the trutl
or pouring forth falsehoods, rampan
RIGHTEOUSNESS, political venality, hu
man corruption and suicides, beholt
the outcome of God banished from thu