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PERTH, SATURDAY, SEPT EMB
ER 15, 1934.
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The Church and Democracy MEN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR RUL ERS
powerful and neteve:rthv ad- ple, who found that this fitted best children, that none among them has was formed. • . • dali, Bos- their selfish interests. It dates back eight s adelivered at Fanere A centra Tuly 4), efficient rule procured such greatlised the right, begotten of himself, to rule hundred years, to the same twelfth al Independence li:, adothers Eminence Cardine: t) Connell vantages that it was swept into power Supremewithout due reference to the century that saw the rise of the UniGovernor ,',',irk done despite itself. ht into light the gr, Only then arrived taught and teache and Lawgiver. She versity. s that men's right Church. Not only in England and France, Autocracy. :)emocracy by the Ca.. . to choose other men to wield author- hut in every Christian country, there His Eminence: As maste ity rs is of exercis the people ed to ensure just order, was a Parliament. now inThe Church had Ve are the oldest dept- . .'yin ex- stead of their wh ich begets delega ted legislators, both peace and happi- so diffused the teaching of the peo01. :er ving this rule nce. We are rs even ness, anniversary of our democracy the law of went so far as to replace com and that this right of man has ple's rights that no king or prince was e to him from God. God with their own whim She taught able then to over-centralise inies which have test( every other or fancy. that all civil order coming from God, or obtain the money needehis power, They seiezd the power of of government hi -.he world. God and d for that as it does, must have justice purpose, without the consultation and need to-day is not eatory but Such were styled themselves divine. ex pressio the n. Roma And n Julius that order and approval the and of his people. honest and deep Roman Augus tus, who both styled peace companion justice. She taught They brought to Parliament their .17,ht—about our form 0: governhemse and lves t teache Divus s that Caesa Right r. is superior to Christian training quite as much as Here is a et; about the origin of democracy; t ypical instance of self-assumed Div- :Nlight. She taught always what we their class consciousness. They plainit its principles and prevess; and ine know right. as Demo I choose to name them cracy and she con- ly acted as a human check on Monit its dangers. from among the scores of others, be- demned always what we know as Au. archy. Their rights were always on le know the meaning of demotocr cause acy. they most of all have left their their lips. The mediaeval trend was :7—a people's govern:re_ nt. It is mark upon the civil government ot She did more than teach—she prac- clearly Democratic. T .apression of the pee-::e.'s inherent tised. It would be a pleasant task for rae She was herself the first true to rule. Its origin goes back the world. I choose to name them also for an- Democracy. In the Church no man t o bring to mind the many other lJ'od Himself; was born to rule. tnings that have been forgotten, of other reason. In the reign of the first A made man in Ili, 0.% n image Even the lowly Augustus, God, Himself, - came down born could rise to highest place. The religion's place in the progress of Delikeness and placed Mtn in the Suffice it here to state :adise that He had eiade, and to earth to put an everlasting check clergy, then as now, came, from the mocracy. Hed him, and said, "Increase and to their Autocracy. These are the most part, from the people. The peo- what every scholar knows, that in the Itiply and fill the earth, and subdue words of Chrig, Who came to bring ple chose them, brought them to the Middle Ages the Church was the Church for training, asked for and greatest check to the autocracy of Jai rule over it." That is the in- back justice as well as love to all hurulers. The Church was the best -A way of declaring the. origin ot manity, "Render to Caesar the things rejoiced in their ordination. and truest friend the common pectle 7.,xracy. That is the very founthat are Caesar's, and to God the Clergy and People. eon of democracy. It is but a proper presentation of had. God made things that are God's." That was the In this review of how Democracy like to Himself, and made him Magna Carta of Democracy. It vinthe truth to say that the clergy were progressed, I come to modern times. of all creation. The earth is dicate d the Rights of God the repres in human entativ es of the people the and the fullness thereof, but society ;lit restricted human rule to ing our early and piddle ages. dur- They started well. The Church had The lias given it the men things of earth. And Jesus Christ greatest step in the mediaeval pro- raised the people and formed the Parfor our inliament. The Church had also brought --.ance. The fish, the was crucified for that principle, the gress of Democracy was the addition e and all the fruits andflesh, the freedom of the spirit. of the body of the clergy to the body about the Christian Monarchy, which produ cts happily, though slowly, took the place : the earth belong to It was the Church of Christ, re- of the nobles in the councils man. All men of the of Feudalism. equal creatures of cruited from the poor and lowly, and king. It furthe the r may Lord be said that the child of theThe modern state was and .ers of the earth; Church. Local and the next step was also, in great mea- p and equally all from philosophers and ,thinkers, that opular liberty was being nicely balthe right to bring ekrth under first gave men the right again to call sure, due to the Church. It was the anced by It a strong central authority. subjection. rise of the new social class of city This is the Divine their souls their own. The Church of The Church stood sponsor for it of men, Christ upheld God's right and man's workers and merchants. them They grew both. this right given to them by God. Christian against this so-called Caesarism and up through the Church's fostering tion had arcontained another right care rived at a peak in.civilisa trot • coming the the Divine Right thirteenth- cenof Kings. The and example. and by her aid were tecf by him from the Lord; im• tury, when modern Christian Church is the modern source added as guilds to the existing govern - perly begin, hut thentimes most proAs !ere created in our nature. all Democracy. it started to ment. Before the Middle Ages end- de intelligent we had cline. to use our She taught and teaches that all men ed, and at the time the earth wasmind. The right are God's creatures---nay. more, God's was Catholic, the when all the world modern parliament (Continued on Page 8.) ;iven to man no small gift, not alone. By the ' seeessitY of the case. by the nature, God gave man the right nise his work. The very corn4ity of harmonising each one's ht with The Second .XVIII. have once again secured the Premiership for the third year in succession. t hall They 1 .eac and men's right —the need succeeded in making a record score against Scotch College, by kicking 23 goals 18 behinds to nil. • order —incit !rt and ed man te portion out Man did divide his common the common choose now king, now w magistrates. To each inese they gave as much orand as their need dietated. It i'etrs to give. And thus the made e origintheir government. That of te deffiocracv. It g oes ,:ewe , the furthest ages that it finds its origin in God's .'e are fundam ental ideas, well en student of histor :' iTvaellet1(31,eM y. now, it is that y(-;it . n tight to them, for things too wen they are known to be thought aa:e too easily taken for kita_ uauns thus they are forgotten. .te;uin .e, these principles were and the Past that they were " first t. .ight toth•os mg men °her ,..,_ choose forgot was 'their mn look their rulers. They S out for that, anA e xercise themselves. They "dsawselfiqi eiltr ri r1 to stay in power tile . kings assume the right 1.'le' as Ivere their due, their iri;,That was A utocra cy. v .:ltiedp \vas yStep. n°t Start rrslt) usurpation. Its flnlent . the Popular neglect of , I first for t,he people selfishly ?/or w_sneir own material atNames. from lefi to right: The a 11SUrPaiO its second Front Row: F. Jones, K. Needham, E. Prendiville, 0. Chapman, M. MacDermot, J. Hinkle y. ame frosupreme exaltation Sitting: W. kinane, W. Muskett, F. McAuliffe (capt.), C. Chapple , B. McCormack of , A. Glasheen. m some among the Standing: P. McDonald, R. Gelle, M. Southee, R. Thompson, F. Richardson, J. Leeson, peoR. Green, P. Looney.
Christian Brothers' College, Perth, Second XVIII.
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