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SUBIACO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1876.
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stood shoulder to shoulder with Protes- forms of church government and take ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY CONVERTS. tants on every battle -field, which *was their doctrines from what they are deIt is said that at the great " Jubilee" often literally mired with common clared to be by such governments. But fission giren by the Redemptorist, ON CATHOthere is nothing in this which shows a HUN. REVERDY JOHNSToN blood. This exclusion from political rights want of true Christianity ; and then. Fathers in four churches of Birmingham LIC CITIZENS. upwards of 140 persons of different for many long years prevailed in Eng- too, how sadly weakened would be the It glorious army of Christians without the lenentinations were received into the The Hon. Reverdy 'Hinson presided land to her dishonor an.' disgrace. that a at the Democratic Conservative Mass continued for a long time in conse- Roman Catholics. They constitute a 'allude: Church. It is said, too, Meeting held in 1i:dilutor° On the 15th (ptence ttf the insane obstinacy of George number far greater than that of :dl arge number more placed themselves soon be re inst., and in his address made strolls al- Ill. But better counsels now prevail. other sects combined. In cenelitsion, eider instrtsction and will pivot!. The adults who were confirmed lusion to the existence of the new The enlightened men of the present day then, on this head, I hope for the honor Know-nothing order in Maryland, in that country have seen the injustice of our State and the reputation of our luring the :Mission were so numerous Ina they filled St. Chad's Cathedral in which be dismissed by saying : " There of such an exclusion, and have removed people, that no citizen will fail to supIt was half -past ten is an innate strength in a virtuous pur- the shackles which enforced it. One of port Mr. Carroll, only because of his all its parts. o'clock when his lordship the at night gentleman proves too much these statesmen, however, a religious faith. end the in that pose ceremony of bishop finished the Referring of rare ability and consnmate scholarfor the corrupt trickster." Con firmat ion. The attendattee in the to the nomination of Mr. John Lee Car- ship, the Bight llonoralde W. E. t;laillifferent churches was so large that it roll for Governer of Maryland, Mr. stone, is waging a war of pamphlets PREsiiu;NT oLN E A CATHOLIc. was necessary to have a double close of with Boman Catholic bishops, which is Johnson said of Chad's 'Cite particular objectien to Mr. Car- calculated to revive to some extent, the It has been asked (says the Vim' the '.Mission. The Cathedral political intolerance of the past. 1 have York Tablet ), " 1 lad the late President lad never been seen so fell before. It roll is, that he is a Catholic. His fitness for the office of Governor, no doubt that he thinks lie is doing Lincoln been a ("alielie ?" Mr. .1. E. was crowded on the occasion of each unless this makes him unfit, no one what will promote the interests of his Martin, in an article in the Meads, on the close. The Bev. Father Stevens deHis death of lotisiattior Letevre, l'tishep of ivered the closing sermon for one His blettd, country and secure its safety. tplestione or can question. like his Owls descends frem one of the doctrine is that the civil and political Detroit, gives vale:tide testimony on congregation the Bev. Father Nl'iLatighhive: cc. in for the other. Home tal sieuers of the Dcelaratien ttt allegienee of the Catholic is due first to the subject. " We came to speak," Independence, who was from the first the Pepe rather than to the Government writes Mr. Martin, " of political events, to the last universally respected and es_ nudes which he resides and is protected. and of the assassination of President teemed, and who (hied revered and be_ 'this, in my judgment, is a gross error Lincoln, and we are not a little sur- AN EXAMPLE FoR WEST AUSTRALIA. loved by the good of every religions as applied to the present century. prised to hear Monsignor Lefevre say Some charitable organizations of New denomination. No man was so stupid There may lie found in sonic of the with sadness, " Ali Poor Lincoln, if " Homes" or " Coffeeor intolerant as to object to him on tic- publications from the Vatican passages he had remembered my advice his end York, having have hit on an admirable plan etiunt or his laoh. If, when he was at- Iwhich, taken literally by themselves, would not have been so deplorable; houses," for assisting: the hungry poor. They tam hieg his name to the great charter will sanction the view of 'Mr, Gladstone; why did he not remain at home oo Good ten fur a dollar, tpi .1merican liberty, any mem- but the history of England proves, that Friday, and why did lie net continue issue "meal tickets," wen and others, to business sell them and subjects the Catholic of the crown have es ef the body had objected to his to say his beads His beads.' he who find them very handy when needy ris id to do so, because he was a Ceti:0_ never failed, in peace or in war, to assert answered ; lint, Lincoln was net a persons come to them fur assistance. Ile, the objection would have been and maintain the right and honor of Catholic ?' Ile was not, so latterly: ticket at the place No England. 'They COnFtitlAted a consider - yon say rightly he had become an in- on presenting a t rested with scorn and detestation. a meal is given was interposed, and his able portion of the army with which fidel. lint in his youth he was baptised from which it is issued, to the hungry one. unlit it with the other of those great and Wellington succeeded in overpowering by a Catholic missiattary of Illinois, pule Teen was received with joy and ap_ Napoleen, awl were ever in the van of and I myself have heard his corifesien Focal, as tending to strengthen the these who achieved the glorious victories many times. I frequently celebrated WHAT ARE THE DOCTRINES OF stoassosassi? teat CRUST On Whkh they had embarked. tilt to the crowning one of Waterloo. Holy Mass in the house of his parents, Is it not marvellous, that in this age of And this these Catholics did to TWO - Later in life he aspired to higher eight fundamental A es:eels-The the world, and particularly in this (twin - serve Psotestant England against Catho- honors he married a woman that be- doctrines of the Mormon church are as try, such an objection should be coup- lic France, nine -tenths of whose people longed to the Presbyterian sect, and he follows: (1) God is a person with the l say were Catholics. But if Mr. Gladstone became connected .vith the Frcternasons. flesh and form of man. ttteanced by any sane man ? (2) Man is a especially in this country, because our is right. that Catholics believed that \Ve felt it a duty to break off all rela- part of the substance of God, and will ancestors were so impressed with the their paramount civil allegiance is to tions with him. We confess," adds Mr. himself become a God. (3) Man is not duty and necessity of not interfering the government of Rome, lie ought to :Martin, " that we did not all expect created by God, but existed from all politically with any man on account of tit:detain the necessity of resorting to this revelation, the authenticity of eternity. (4) Man is not born in sin, his religions faith, that in one of the the measures, which were the disgrace which we guarantee upon the testimony and is not accountable for his offences first amendments to the Constitution, of England for so many years, their ex- of 'Monsignor Lefevre and Americans other than his own. (5) The earth is a that were coeval with it, they provided clusion from all political place. For, need not have the least doubt that they colony of embodied spirits, one of many that " Congress shall make no law re- holding such an allegiance makes them have nominated a Catholic fur Presi- such settlements in space. (G) God is specting* an establishment of religion or aliens, and like other aliens they should dent. But Lincoln (lid as many others president of the immortals, having under prohibiting the exercise thereof." And not he suffered to participate in the have done : he abandoned a religion Him four orders of beings : first, gods, it is believed that like provision is con- government of England. That this is which he had freely embraced after that is, immortal beings, possessed of a the sequence of his doctrine no logician tained in every State Constitution. serious examination, and, to arrive at perfect organization of soul and body, But have we had no Marylander be- can doubt, anti "Mr. Gladstone is a logi- fortune and positien, he became an being the final state of men who have sides Charles Carroll of Carrollton, chin of the highest caste. And yet, so apostate and an infidel." lived on earth in perfect obedience to;the whose life, character and services speak far, he dues not, propose such an exclulaw ; second, angels, immortal beings Yes, sion. aloud against this intolerance ? who have lived on earth in perfect obediwe have had one in the person of the Considering all these things, I should ence to the law; third, men, immortal IREEANp IN Astroues. late Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney. think that the American, aware of thorn, beings in whom a living soul is united His whole career, professional, legisla- when proposing to exclude the Catholic Cardinal McCloskey received a warm with a human body; fourth, spirits, tive, executive and judicial proves how from political office because of his reli- welcome ill Dublin. lie attended an immortal beings still waiting to receive gross would be the wrong done the gion, would. blush scarlet from very examination of young students in the their tabernacle of flesh. (7) Man being country if we acted upon any such un- shame. But in addition to what I have Catholic University, and, in the course one of the race of gods, became eligible, constitutional and wicked folly. said, every theological student knows of all address to them, said : by means of marriage, for a celestial Put what is the religions faith whose that the truths of Christianity have " It is my honour to preside over throne, and his household of wives and followers some would consign to politi- never been more ably maintained than Catholic people who are by far in largest children are his king torn, not only on cal servitude ? It is the religion of by Cathelie writers, nor have its beau- numbers of your own race and your own earth, but also its heaven. (8) The Jesus. ties been more charmingly or effectively kindred. Not only many, but most of kingdom of God has again been founded Every Roman Catholic believes in it presented to the human heart than by them, have been born on this fruitful on earth, and the time has now come for as any one belonging to other religious Catholic Chateaubrind in his " Genius Catholic Irish soil, and, when they went the saints to take possession of their sects. They hale a different mode of of Christianity." Christianity itself is across the sea, they carried their faith own, not by violence na force, but by worship. So have other sects. But at war with all such intolerant doctrines. deep in their hearts and, becoming virtue and industry. The Mormons the essentials of the faith are common It has been well and truly said, that, citizens of their great, young and have been successively located in New to all. They believe in the Divinity of " by inculcating the precept of universal flourishing republic, they become citizens York, Missouri, and Illinois, from which Jesus, in the Trinity and the Atone- love of mankind, it raised the narrow with all their hearts also. I can say, State they were expelled in 1848; from ment. What is the most reasonable spirit of patriotism to the extended feel- without fear of contradiction, that no that time up to the present they have mode of worship men may and do differ ing of general philanthropy," and "laid American horn upon the soil of America resided in. Utah. about, but all Christians believe in the foundation for the peace of the -no American counting back his these essentials of the faith. Have world, through the doctrine of reconci- American ancestry for generations-can Catholics ever failed to be good citizens ? liation of men with God and with each claim to be more devotedly attached to Loss OF THE DEUTSCHLAND. All the duties of life, public and pri- other." The doctrine of the infallibi- the instructions of America than the vatsl, they discharge as fully as all other lity of the head of that Church, recently Irish adopted citizens. But though, as The tragical incident of the loss of the During the war of our brought prominently before the public, events have proved, they are ready by German emigrant or passenger skip, the Christians. Revolution and the one of 1812 with is not a new doctrine ; the whole mean- word and deed, by arms, and by every " Deutschland," has created a profound England, and that of 1846 with Mexico, ing of it, as I understand it, is that the way in their power, to sustain those sensation both in England and Germany. they hazarded life and fortune to main- members of the Church assume as true instructions, still, as much as they love It is simply deplorable to think of the tain the principles which produced the the religions doctrines pronounced from their adopted country, they have not lost loss of so many lives from the stranding first, and to maintain the rights of our time to time by its governing head. one jot of their love for the dear old of so large a steamer as the "DeutschGovernment, in the two last. They Most of the other religious sects have laud we tread on." land" in such a thoroughly beaten track
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