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SUBIACO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1875.
No. 8.
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the same mechanical force ; there can be no the countless hopes of mercy with which sin, as there can be no holiness. It is not " And, first of all, the adversary in both had blessed man's sinful soul were love His Materialistic The possible to read without a shudder of disgust conflicts is identical. S. has Well Heart. Sacred His in up bound the statement boldly enunciated a few weeks theories of to-day, which recognize in matter own person, his in speaking Augustine, and form human understanding, the the promise and potency of every Jesus Christ was to the souls ago thatof the what described the than else nothing IIUXLEY. are sensual love, and the religious passion quality of life, TYNDALL AND whom He had gathered-from Paganism into philosophers pagan of are all equally results of the school man, a in of been feeling teachings The following Pastoral Address has His Church : ' 0 Beauty so old and yet so play between organism and environment who, for about six hundred years before of Thou calledst ; Thou utteredst new hundred one some issued by the Archbishops and Bishops for through countless ages of the past. For Christ, and especially Thy voice ; Thou lookedst through my what is this but to assert that, in the last and fifty years between Tholes and Socrates, Ireland to their flocks cThy ; flashed lightning Thy darkness. analysis, the sublimest acts of Christian delivered themselves up to speculations con" DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN,-As ; my darkness was scattered. shone splendour physical the of on the heroism undertaken for God's love, or the cerning the nature and origin came forth, I drew my breath, those whom God has made watchmenwhich is scent Thy theories, degrading their world. Against loftiest flights of human intellect, differ not I hunger, and tasted, I thee. for towers of the mystic house of Israel I pant and are strictly human reason itself, in its better tempter, in their nature from the unspeakable abomiHis Church, we, your Bishops, every and I thirst. Thy touch reached me, and I word indignantly revolted although, as yet, the nations of a Thais, or of the yet guilty peace. (Couf. lib. x. 38). Thy bound not only to deliver to you after burned pale first the but true Light was casting Magdalene ; nay, that the Magdalene herself, we have received from His divine mouth,but " Conceive some Mategialist calling upon condemnation the ; and its dawning we see of when when still revelling in sin, was neither better rays soulhuman the that believe to also to lift up our warning voice one an such the pronounced against them by the lofty intelnor worse than when she bowed her sinful had become man-did God which the deposit of faith, of which we are of love for the but was ligence of Plato and Aristotle head to the dust before the Good Shepherd, distinct from matter ; or that it guardians, made the object of hostile attacks. exist not judginspired divinely the of echo human to bathe in penitential tears, and wipe with atoms ; or round smooth, fine, Two such attacks have recently been directed of ment, in which the Author of the Book of consisted her tresses those feet that had gone after her functions of of certain result the against the Catholic Church in Ireland. The was it that the kill Wisdom holds up for eternal reprobation in her wanderings. In such a system, all system. How would the Christian one, aimed directly at her life, seeks to connervous the The philosophy. their of guilty delirium moral dignity absolutely disappears from single he a for Would ? at a blow that faith which is the very less proposal leading tenets of those philosophers agree, receive the tempted to balance Jesus Christ, humanity, for neither truth remains, nor dition of her existence ; the other, be moment one by one, with the doctrines we have heard duty, nor charity, nor self-sacrifice. Man is against the base All, his direct, endeavours to injure the external and God his According midst. lately enunciated in our but a brute, equipped, it is true, with faculorganization by which faith is diffused, of the Epicurian, even though the teachings disciples, latest their to according her as them, to ties superior to those of the brute races from of results the to appeal maintained, and increased throughout make should latter a streak of morning cloud, which he has proceeded ; if, indeed, that body. The one belongs to the intellectual man is butmelt into the infinite azure of the science, and to the great names that had destined to finer sensitiveness can be reckoned a supeorder, and derives its strength from the school of philosophy to which the illustrated does thus nothing,' of born are We past. riority which, while it makes him more open pride of intellect that exalteth itself against he himself belonged ? No, a thousand times, of doctrines their describe writer wars sacred the to suttering, wakes him likewise the sport of other in himself the knowledge of God ; the recollecting rather But, ! no life, and after this we shall be as if we had longings after a happiness that he can never dismiss his according to the flesh, and the weapons of its peremptorily would he is Christ, nostrils in our breath not been for the reach, and of hopes that are to be quenched warfare are carnal. (2nd. Cor. iii. 4.) The crying out in his heart of hearts, tempter, our move a spark to speech and prothe smoke with his life in the grave. To what havoc in and I ant assault is led, in the one case, by believed, have I whom I know hearts, which being put out, our body shall individual souls, to what ruin in society, to which I that keep fessors of Materialism, who have lately, to able is he that as certain abroad be ashes, and our spirits poured what a universal unchaining of all the worst under the name of Science, obtruded him, against that day.' unto committed have as the away pass shall life our and soft air, passions, ravenous for satisfaction, these blasphemy upon this Catholic nation : and (2 Tim., i. 12). trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a doctrines inevitably point is there a man so which we into in the other, by the modern persecutors of struggle the then, " Since, mist which is drawn away by the beams of blind as not to see resembles the the Church, and especially by Italian closely most to -day forced are 3). 2, ii. (Wisdom, the sun' " Far from us to charge those who among statesmen, who, following up other acts of of the early Christians against struggle : while they held that the sources "Again have lately us have professed a Materialism, more or less that violence against God's Church, doctrines the since ; philosophy pagan of natural phenomena are to be traced to veiled, with the conscious utterance or laid violent hands upon the property confided are paraded before us as the highest dissome one agent, itself material, they, like defence of such consequences as these. We by the Christian world to the Sacred Conare none other than the science of coveries cane(' being resented disciples, of their modern pass no judgment on the intentions of any gregation of Propaganda for the benefit vile Materialistic theories so often and so Atheists. A divinity they should have, no man ; but it is quite certain that these the Catholic missions, in which Irelsnd's ; the since them by rejected steadfastly were matter of what sort, provided that it appalling doctrines are the direct outcome of children, at home and abroad, have so large a we combat is nothing less which for stake whom ' in ; Creator personal living, a not Materialism, and are explicitly defended as vart. Christ Himself, llis faith, with Jesus God of the knowledge is not of there either silence such by those who, on the Continent, have pass over in goodand beauty, and truth, infinite His not all by these good things that are seen, could acquired a lurid flame as its apostles. We these ; for, although they constitute but a spring that hopes and joys the all and ness, by attending is, neither that Him, understand learn from the Epistle to the Romans that local phase of the persecution with which the ; let us, too, learn from the early therefrom was the who acknowledged have works the as to the Church, corruption the most hideous had sprung up, world now everywhere assails to overcome how Apostles the of disciples workman bat have imagined either the fire, even in S. Paul's day, among those who it assailed the Church's Founder, yet they the adversaries of our faith, turning away or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle of denied God ; but it required the dreadful suggest a special lesson, and impose special towards our God, and crying out them sun and from the or great water, the or stars, the to impress experience of the centuries since to lay bare, duties which it becomes our office with the Apostles, Lord, to whom shall we world.' rule the gods that be the to moon, faith. yonr of strengthening historically, the connection of this effect upon you for the life, eternal of words the Nast Thou ? go 2.) (Wisdom, xiii. 1, with its cause, and to prove beyond gainsay ' Sion ! the voice of thy watchmen they and know that Thou believed have we admiraand their loud in although " Again that by no accidental failure, but by the have lifted up their voice' (Isaias lii. 8) ; not the Christ, the Son of God.' (John, vi, are of nature, is in beautiful that of all tion of the voice the but action of laws, rooted deep in human nature, our own voice merely, 69, 70). of the harmonious workings powers, nature's who, and we stand, place whose in truth, purity, selfsacritice, and all the Apostles simple faith of the the although " But, how understand to refused laws, they of its tender charities of the natural and superas S. Peter says, ' followed not cunningly was enough to vanquish Christians early more beautiful of them is Lord the much the known natural life, must decay in the presence of devised fables when they made Materialism nineteen centuries ago, perhaps of beauty Author the first for they than Christ.' Jesus Lord The history of nineteen our of presence Materialism. power and progress the in wrought changes manifold the . lie . and that things made all those centuries has done this ; and, surely, its (2 Peter, i. 16.) For, they having once to the defeated cause a given have ages of For they. mightier than them is made that majesty record will not dispose the minds of men to been made eye-witnesses of His new vigour, or robbed the victorious one of by the greatness of the beauty, and of the when He received from God the Father extend a welcome to these theories on their means. any so, by ? Not strength its ancient creature, the Creator of them may be seen, reappearance in our midst ? honour and glory,' ever live in the Catholic irony in the fact bitter a not there is For (Wis. xiii. 3,4,5). thereby.' known to be as so " The second change wrought in the posiEpiscopate to repeat to the successive of to-day ostentatiously Materialists the that writer, sacred adds the all this, for ye And ' Hear Divine tion of Materialism is, that time has supplied generations of men the produce as the fruit of the inexorable to be pardoned. For it they not are they coming day that on heard they which professors with fresh arguments, supplied its Him,' advance of science in this age of progress the were able co know so much, as to make by the results of scientific investigation, down to Him from the excellent glory when a petty philosophic school of of doctrines not they the world how did of judgment mount.' especially iu the last three hundred years. they were with Him on the holy is this, we may well ask, :2,5,111 years ago more easily find out the Lord thereof ?' The inanities of Democritus, which once And in the strength of this simple teaching, all the result of so many years of scientific (Wisdom xiii. 8, 9). And hence, also, S. did duty as the solitary plea for Materialism, and not in the conceits of a vain philosophy, that of the whole fruit this Is ? research to be inexcusable.' them declares Paul the has it pleased God to protect in every age have been reinforced in course of years by a march of intellect of which so great a boast is (Rom. i. 2). faith of Ills Church against the ever -recurring numerous levy of arguments recruited from made ? if the schools of Democritus and of " Now these are the theories to embrace to assaults of lying teachers, who bring in sects the entire field of the physical sciences, so many ages ago enabled were Epicurus Ireland is of youth Catholic the which of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought among which the theories of Natural a height of wisdom that we of such to attain in Christianity! its faith away to fling invited 1.) them.' (2 Peter, i. 16 ; ii. Selection, of Hereditary Transmission, and the ninteenth century can find nothing nobler paganism, born of a corrupt doctrines, These Materialism has time first the for " Not now other favourites of the hour are led to take highest our before to set theories their than mankind in of great heart by the spurned made war on the Christian Faith. The a leading position. In fact the Materialism why those sneers at the assemblies, scientific by the as absurd and anger, rejected disgust a repetit-day is little else than conflict of to of to -day asserts itself as the direct creation Christian faith because of its antiquity? reprobated human intelligence, very flower of waged, conflict the of varied, tion, slightly of science. It boldly asserts-and in this Why dwell on the scandal and amazement of by the Holy Spirit as unpardonable sins, on the first appesrance of Christianity, bold assertion lies its power over weak minds because intelligence century nineteenth our without absolutely S. Paul as condemned by against its teaching concerning God, man, -that science, spurred on by the impulse of choose to cling with loving Ca!holics Irish excuse ; these, and none other, have been of opponents the among and the world. Chief determining the sources of natural phenomena tenacity to the doctrines and practices of in assemblies, gathered proclaimed haughtily unbelievers the were time at that faith the has succeeded, after infinite research, in Divine Author, its like which the Christianity, as science, of the advancement for who, notwithstanding that the wisdom of God constructing a theory of the; universe-a know no essential change ? can of which splendour in the truth, sovereign the of work the in shone forth resplendent cosmogony of its own-and that of the " But to omit this. Titus has wrought stand Religion must convicted Christian the worldly up with puffed yet creation, visible cosmogony thus formed Materialism is the two specially noticeable modifications in the Henceforth Christian as an imposture I science, refused to God a place in His own latest expression. It even pushed itself to has brought it First, Materialism. of cause Materialism is to make way for revelation full are letters of science. universe. And S. Paul, whose into clearer light the moral and social doctrines "Ate front as the mouthpiece " Does not this bring us back to the conthus itself, conflict the of details that ail religious theories of the that lurked in the gloomy recesses of its 10"Ass such it claims dition of the early Christians, who were Seeing that in the notions embrace which systems chronicles the issue and next, schemes, and, speculative theories themselves ; summoned every day to choose between the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew of cosmogony, or which otherwise reach into has furnished the advocates of these with it wisdom Christian preaching and the of folly foolishness the by God pleased not God ; it the domain of science, must, in so far as a more showy apparatus of scientific arguof the world that knew not God ? And thus of (Christian) preaching to save them that they do this, submit to the control of science, ments. But neither the one nor the other of is renewed in our day that encounter of the believe.' (1 Cor., i. 21.) This encounter the and relinquish all thought of controlling it. of advantage the to tells changes the these upon with the Christian mind heathen and science worldly of between the wisdom (Tyndall's Address page 61.) These are cause itself. Not, certainly, thin development of the the existence issue of which very is preaching Christian of foolishness the lofty pretensions, indeed, and they provoke of the ethical side of Materialism. If man nascent Church depended. And how did repeating itself to -day ; and' although the a searching criticism of.the power iu whose machine conscious automaton-a a but be shock? the early Christians meet the opposing some induced has lapse of nineteen centuries favour they are advanced. Two questions constructed of organized matter-if the soul With what weapons did they arm themselves? we struggle the of conditions the in change start themselves at once to the mind. First, be but a function of the nervous system-the What method of combat did they employ ? are now witnessing from those of the former, laws what is the science, which is put forward act of volition must be governed by AU ! it needed but a single look of reverent yet the main features of both are the same. other the as alone competent to answer truly the govern which to those similar upon the of their Christ, the love face conflict the of comparison closer And upon a solemn interrogation ever rising from man's phenomena of matter. Hence it follows that Author and Finisher of their faith, to teach of to-day with that earliest one of which heart to man's lips as he journeys through the will must obey the irresistible impulse them that there was but one test of the truth S. Paul speaks, we shall find that the points liberty life-' Whence came I ? Whither am I of attribute laws, and the these of the light doctrine. In had him they of as well as each other, wherein they resemble going ? And, next, in the present matter, belongs to man's will no more than to the which enlighteneth every man that cometh those wherein they differ, do but serve to are its judgments invested with authority hurricane which ravages the tropics, or to the into the world, not merely a teacher of truth, place in yet clearer light the Divine beauty sufficient to justify their large demand on cities. engulfs which earthquake (John, itself. truth I truth.' but am the of which of the Catholic teaching, for love "And if man's will be not free, then moral man's submission ? they Him beautiful beyond xiv. 6.) knew and conquered. foeght Christians early the " The question what this science is to responsibility ceases to exist, and the legisthe sons of men, for grace was poured And we who, like them, are assailed, like which Materialists appeal is one of singular lation which, by Divine or human authority, abroad in His lips, until their every faculty them shall find victory in this our faith, for in the matter which now occupies importance for their punishment metes out to criminals was entranced by the sovereign beauty of who is he that overcometh the world, but he us. For, at present, physical science, properly offences is nothing loy. a colossal injustice. His holiness. He was the Lamb of God, that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?' so called, to not sufficiently discriminated his Vice and i it tuc ar:: but (lilal come to take away the sins of the 1,011,1, awl (1 John, v. 5).
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