Southern Messenger (San Antonio and Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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reader* on topics of public interest.
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For the Week Ending Oct. SI, 1914.
Sunday, 25—Twenty-first Sunday aft-
er Pentecort.
Monday,*26—SL Evaristus, Pope and
Martyr.
Tuesday, 27—V|gll of SS. Simon and
Judec ■■■ «>
Woc’niwdsy, 28—^88. Simon and Jude.
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Thursday, 29—Office of the day.
Friday, 30—Office of the day.
Saturday, 31—Fast and Abstinence.
St. Sirlciua, Pope and Confessor.
As the "blood of martyr* ip the
seed of the Church." *o the rile cal-
monies of modern bigots «ffl Itmd
many hvoest, thoughtful nun and wo-
men fo> tnqtfre and investigate and.
learning the truth, to embrace it.
Rev. J. J. Campbell, late of Gains*
vllle. has been appointed to Wlehita
Falls.
Program ot the Forty Hours 'Devtrtln
and Day of Adoration.
October.
2f—Smithville: Koerth.
25, 26. 37—Victoria (Our Lady of
Lourdes).
W. Shaw, I>. D„ Bishop
of Son Antonio.
October.
21. 2X Polvo.
22. Lnz del Desierto.
24, 25. Prvrtdio.
26, Shafter.
27, -Marfa.
21, Alpine.
3*. 39, 31. Chises.
Joimter.
1. 3, Terlingua.
3, Lsgltaa.
4, San Vicente.
5, Casteion.
4, 7, 5. BoquOIas.
9. Arrive at Marathon.
edge attained of the evil results of
their action*, and then the intellec-
tual torture becomes fearful, as 1k
well known to medical men. eases of-
ten arise In which the nervous system
becomes super sensitive, and the prick
of a pin , or the slightest touch gives1
exquisite pain. Let us imagine that:
after a career of crime the moral and |
intellectual sensibilities of the evil-i
rendered intensely ;
"What are we Catholics in America
going to do about this? We have
borne the vils abuse carried through
the United States mails, and subsidiz-
ed therefore by the United States Gov-
ernment, that han been heaped upon
some ot the priests are serving a*
. waiter* In raetanrunt* or engaged to-
menial occupation*. Sisters, who
8, 9,1? rife at the Good Shop- nuraed the sick and taught In schools
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prieras end nuns. The same paper*
were circulated among Mexicans to
prove that all this would be phasing
and colleges, ar* working u seamans,
• • • • The raHgioo* institutions tn
southern Texas are taxed to the limit
of their poor means to provide for
exiles already here. Very soon, per-
haps, others will arrive at Galveston.
American Cathoilca have to take care
of them until some employment Is
found here, or until the scoundrels In
charge of the government In Mexico
City have been forced to some degree
of fairness. We can ask that at least.
The needs of home missions are
great: chapels and schools are urgent-
ly demanded everywhere; but The
Catholic Church Extension Society
gladly suspends her own appeals to
beg and plead with it* friends and
subscribers to come at once to the aid
Of these unfortunate priests and Sis-
ters. They have suffered enough."
Father Kelley closes his stirring
editorial with a request that replies
to his appeal be sent to The Catholic
Church Extension Society, Mexican
Relief Bureau. McCormick Building,
Chicago.
We trust the appeal will meet with
before the world for the outrage*
complained of, as the supporter of the
faction that has perpetrated them. As
Archbishop Ireland has publicly de-
clared:
"The acta of these bandits chal-
lenge the attention and the interven-
tion of the United States because by
intervening before, we have assumed
a responsibility. So long as these at-
tacks on priests and nuns and the
Church continue, the United States
stands responsible before the eyes of
the world and Almighty God Him-
self." I
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Entered at the Pcatoffics at Sea
Antonfo, Tans, as second class mail
matter.
rum miseria consummate" (In 4 D<*J,Jr;?<r « is present-to itself,came of our American mxuhcod that
No, 50). "Therefore it will be a most ' thorough comprehension. Shouldcan stand by, untouched with hr
extreme wretchedness for the damn-irM‘11 * lonl dortns ,t’ year* of trial. I dignatio*. that men, alien to A»w-
ed that their intellect shun id be de— i ^^ve warped and maimed tts 1 lean urinrinleK /it <w*T* CJ1 r
Drived completely of the Divine light'
K— U W>» _un:u will aiiuuid be *4no-; ” — — ■“* ‘—I— «.—
bornly set against the Divine will’ hardened instrument of guilt;
and this is the chief misery of the “ “to
damned." (Suarez, De Angells.) teudmde* into
Where Ke HeM* tboaght-out <eliberate self-chahting
Many passages might be quoted and to hate; tbesL
both In the Old and New Testaments I is ioeu Mark^ th^.,.^^
which would seem to indicate that!brought about by one dellberm7are
JhalT te hi* * «** r * ■ * _* .. _ ___ ra lx
For example, we read of the rutek
Ilona Dal han and Ablrou: “the
earth opened her mouth, and awaltaw-
in thought, foallag aad exprassioa.
TM flr*t write*: "No vtatant panrirm
iswvur enkindled In th* soul, that the
|*aw at tt do not emmuulrato wtlh-
owL Dsagair. above all otbei*.pra*eats
the sywxptom* of a true uinilsgi uihm
Th* eye* Rash, tha blood, batting Ik
tha veins, spread* fire to th* ettttraui-
tha. and if tt is hot carried off, the
th* Mate* baa bees donee. Th* Coo-
stftioeuQM* have had blood enough to
ridtog hfcmuBt w*h arms to dsftnif pttMy avmtlumL. It is time w* stood
btfkuw Oto wssfl* Bfo CUthottc bgllaCL «■< tett tham that they wttl get no
"t^ra (httdte purest who does not pa£ otwu. ItwoCntboilc Amarimas have
IMothoheadbethtoeHMaCaiboifc » jrakhare ponas at such a price, we
War bi aattty nggisetrnl Ma sbu- wtt Mttra and ask ourartves it
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■to bats to day- FnoCammud
Wto ttown to tho hmt ladtaa who
ttMtotettoCmatotottowattot vrahk
«* for tha last five years by gutter-
The pastor of souls who does not snipe papers. The Mexican murderer*
labor fo put a Catholic journal m F
every household of hi* parish cuts oft te^raipe* because they were killing
ffooa hto catototom class «*« hto p*I-
.ytt * stoat eflktent auxtttory; the
CUMfc who to not a nafii of a
Csthottc jeuroal to without real for Ito th*' American poepte. Vary wait,
tb* gxmsth *c Catbotia mb in Ms own--------- ~
astod amt heart, wttbawt xaal fa< pro-:
bard, Dallaa-.
15, K. 17—St. Mary's. Sherman.
22, 23, ?4—St Joseph's, DsUsa.
2P—St, Joseph'*. Mansfield.
29, Dec. 1, 2—St. Mary's,
Worth.
COmmunlcatlous for publieati<m
^w reaching this office by Tuesday
wfU not appear till issue of following
weak.
Ofltew tt pubMcathm: W*. RS
Cuwrer Balldtng.’ Alamo Pluwu S*»
Aatouio, Traas. Old FboweCrnnkrtt
Mtt. todnsrial Rooms, OH Pbona
Crockett 411—J.
When notifying us of >«*«*«* *
addrws oi—*■ gtva u* the former
nlaca of reridanc* a* wen as the new
olio Church from Catholic Marts*,
from reading Catholic books, ar any.
Thing that smells of Rome. I awvw
did, and yet I am not bigoted. They
I Fathers and theologians, and we hold : mitigation. If left to nature, wd wre^SS
I to thia teaching as nbsolutely true and i to nature's laws, we can only Mr down Franri^A Christie in tto
correct: This fire will punish each in the dust and cry. 'woe 1* me!' " Jot
wHtiniy ftwd itself Jthis document (a 'Menace' to).
mmwH.i of Chfcsgtr Theofegicai
Seminary, titoW*;
(1) AMberafpt (Mly ■* to **• ***•
____________ of wM* tndtftmac* to the Church.
We ton only provide for the fhtura but Utoki eisuewl as to its causa. (2)
‘ Greet dlvsnfty as to the reuuMmeut
Th* refugee* at Vera Crus are trying of a treed sad th* axrtBt of used re-
quired for uhnr^h membership. <3)
The sum diversity a* to th* relation,
anythhig decent for a cruet of bread; of theology to m«t*physic* sod the de-
vetopmant at theology- (4) An irre-
concilable disagreement a* to what
th* Church stands for.
Is tt any wonder that Protestantism
to dying oat?
cannot be loved by God, who can only
love good and the lovers of good.
Such a soul ta, then, lost to God. if'
ruch a seal know* Its lorn. It has the i
Cif Tntttt. *T*h4tt <« »Fki . 1
***4*«c ®e Stere* te
DeOas. tt tofltm.dtaM tMpptfte
1, Tilden; Menard: Montballa.
3, 4, 5. Hatiettsvillr.
♦. 5. 6, Moulton.
9, Ottine.
8. 9, 10, St. Patrick's, San Antonio.
12. Inez.
15, Hondo; Presidio; Sweet Home.
IS. 16, 17, St. Gerard’s. San An-
tonio.
17. SL Lottis. College, San Antonio.
17. 18, 19, Yorktown.
22. Lockhart; Candelaria; Medina.
23, Campbellton.
29. MeyersvlUe (Polish).
29. 30, Dec. 1. Cathedral, San An-
tonio: Floresville.
30, HUIJe.
.*n» FuaMbwmat at the Dsuarf.
The punialUMut at th* damned to
twofold: the pain of loss, and the
pain of **»■*. (1.) The chief punish-
ment of the damned to the loan ot the
vision of God. This punishment is
clearly set forth tn th* Sscred Scrip-
tures: Depart from Me. ye cursed.”
(Matt, xxv-41); "I know you not
wbetfc* you are, depart from Me. all
ye workars « iniquity" (Luke xiU-27).
This is th* frenteet puntohment of the
damned, for the sou! was created by
God for the enjoyment of heaven,
and nothing can be worse than for a
rational being to realize that by bis
own fault he has lost forever the
greatest of all goods for which he wu
created, and which be might so easily
have attained. St. Augustine tells us
that “thl* punishment is ro great that
no torments known to us can be com-
pared to it" (Euchlvid c 112); and
fit. John Chrysostom says: "This is
the most severe punishment ot oil,"
and "compared with this loss of the
beatific vision of God a thousand bell*
would be as nothing” (Ad. Theod.
Hom. in Math.). This punishment^
which theologian* call the pain of loss
is a natural consequence of that tam-
ing away from God in which the mal-
ice of mortal sin consists, and bears
with it the remorse of conscience, of
which the Holy Scripture speaks os
"the worm that dieth not," which i*
destined to be one ot the most cruel
torment* of the damAed,
"If there be pain wben our material
life is famishing from want of food, ------
or when it i* quivering from fever to *Ok and rope* of sand,
fire, from fire to frenzy In the delir-
ium of thirst; If there be pain when
a sharp sword cut through palpitating
flesh and shrinking nerve 'nto the
very severance of body and soul, must
there not be pain, .too, when the un-
1 ItiiVMraCAiilteM*rar
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25i-b<,-«te-Ur*uMa*'Cowvmt. Dai-[hard to support thamaslves with th*
las- - v ------ ,. » .
a, i Sewtebw-
1—St. Jasssh’s, Waxahachie.
- 3, 4. 5—St. John's, Strawn.
I, 9, 14—ttt. John's, Turrell.
Mxtre C*pbp» « CM- OsmYwirMLW
ftMM wwaUy uwdur th* ra-
tea at th* Et. N. A- GsOugher.
Sb Du BMte* Gt OsMrttm; th* *t-
>er- John W. Stew, D. D, Btstep rt
•TO ‘Titil: th* Rt- Bev. Joasph P.
Lywck, D. Di. Rtahop at Mhk tot
■tta ttt. Rev. Fmd Mrartram, D. Ik,
IDSteswefCocproCbrirtL__________
Xk WXXXXAM MEWGRR, Gro»I
' t* whom an mmm bboul*
b* pah* «»d iiimmssfroM— •*-
tsaaattL _____________1
We make no apology for again re-
turning to the subject of the persecu-
tion of the Church to Mexico. It is
true that for a long time past—even
from the Inception of the persecution
—our columns have been filled again
aad again with recitals of the horrors
inflicted on prelates, priests and nuns
in Mexico by the faction now in power
there. The fact* we published were
taken in many instance* direct from
the lip* of the persecuted, or written'
by their own hands. There was not,
there could not be, any question as to
the authenticity of the statement* h widespread and generous response,
made. Names, places and dates were
given, and the fullest opportunity af- The United States stands responsible
forded those who might be disposed
to doubt to Investigate for themsel-
ves.
Some of these article* were repub-
Itohad in our Catholic exchanges. The
secular pre** took no notice whatever
of them. The net result of these pub-
lication*. so far. Is the protest recent-
ly made to President Wilson by a com-
mittee of the American Federation of
Catholic Socletie*. The President
promised to investigate and mean-
while. requested the committee to
point out what line of action they
-would suggest he should take—than
seeking to place upon the Federation
a responslbiltty which belongs alone
to the Chief Executive of the Nation.
But the matter cannot rest here.
We are glad to see that the Catholic
Church Extension Society of the Unit-
ed State* has taken up the question
and will give it nation-wide publicity
through the medium of the magazine,
"Extension.” In an editorial, which
will *ppeer In the November number
of that magazine, an advance copy of
which 1* before us, th* editor, Dr.
Kelley, reviews th* situation In very
i plain and vigorous language. We
i make th* following extracts:
"If I could sit down and write the
revolting thing* that I now know, a
cry would go up from the reader* of
this magazine to echo in every Cath-
olic heart of this country, and
force. In turn, another cry of rage and
indignation, which would echo, per-
hap*. even under the dome of the
capital. Tho cruelties perpetrated by
the Con*titutioaalists in Mexico
against Inoffensive priests and the un-
speakable outrage* against nuns have
bean smothered a little too long. A
dartre for peace will never justify
murder, robbery and wanton out-
rage. There is such a thing as dis-
honorable peace; and there is such a
thing, too, ** a peace which may be
more horrible than the worst horror*
of war. It is evident that that is the
sort of peace we are having. We have
purchased tt, up co the present, by
closing our eye* to the most, shameful
of shameful deed*, bertd* which *11
robberies, all burnings, all scourging*,
all murder* pal* into *ignlflcsnce."
hell, according to the
V quality of his sins—"pro qualitatc
peccati, ignem ribi unumquemque suc-
cendere discimus." So that as the , .-------------- .,
same great Father teaches, the tire J ’ beginning been the help, but-
which punishes the sinner in hell is " “ " “
fed by the iniqulte* he committed on I. • - ..... ----- — _
earth, for these form, as it were, its P0*®1* without fancy or.--------- -
fuel and "matter"—“Ignis qul a pec-, 'Botog spiritual, and being I against the dirty thing Filming thrt
Ut^r’ co~°Pe*wtioo. and^the ap- *4 ®P- - - -they aad that betting-
oie, mighty effort, and the thing is
——-! Let us unite, for God. for
country, for on- mhm*. to banish
ubhs. «< ™
__ PXttwtottf th* siaMfcroM, btagand
1_ =HSSSS=-- <l*y— Ot th* toad. C
The listi****** of tn* ctotteOc Boonmowk Teua.
Mtty ttarguMtet wmgh a strong ,I1TW * . —-. \
—----- qUERN op TEE WMMKt.
** “Sc*- * ** -* siuSs?
sitting Aowa ' pendant aad zfluat^as
ontere and *b|*t a* otrattv*."
"Alaa, we Can not undo Ch* p**t-
Every position in life has its draw-
backs and difficulties; even that of
editor ot a religious Journal is not
wholly free from them. We seldom
make any complaint in our own be-
half, and have no Intention of doing
so now; but we desire to express our
entire sympathy with the learned edi-
tor of "America"—the Catholic
weekly review published by the Jesuit
Father*—in the troubles that have
fallen upon hta defenseless head in
consequence of the European war. In
a recent issue he says:
“The postman groans under tho
daily load of letter* that crltlcft’e
roundly the paper's biased ‘handling,
of the war news and complain bitter-'
ly of the unjust, unfair, outrageous
treatment diver* peoples, countries,
cities, communities, or persons have
received at the editor's incompetent
hands. Passages like the following
are found In these letters:
“Your recent editorial on ‘Heroic
Belgium' is indefensible. Please stop
my subscription at once." "The pro-
German bias of last week's Chronicle
la the last straw, I will read your
paper no longer." "The Insensate hos-
tility to Austria you display
and pains me. Drop my name from
your subscription list." "Your atti-
tude towards England has cost you at
least one subscriber." “Is your paper
edited from BerllaT I may subscribe
again after the war." "I think I am
your oldest subscriber, but the calm
and dispassionate way you spoke Inst
week of the bombardment of Rheims
Cathedral is intolerable. Drop my
name." "Permit me to say that your
manifest bias for France comes with
bad grace from a paper of your *n-
tecedents. Please discontinue my
subscription." "Your account of
Ireland's attitude toward the war
could not be further from the troth
Stop my paper."
Some of the above read like ex-
tracts from our own correspondeuao.
and doubtless many ocher editor* aw
•ay th* same. Tbe trouble with many
people Is that they do not really want
*a impartial summary of the new*,
but only such portion* of tt as will
confirm and tatter their own preju-
dice*. Th* dlrtrartad editor who tris*
to P1MMO everybody will succeed fn
planting nobody. Hl* only resoorre
this text, that each of the unfcrtu-
i own fire to ;
number and ‘
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So that a* the"
Feast at th* immaculate Cbaeeption,
Decraiber 8: letter D*y,—
ASnggescfo*.
1 Wo noted In a recent number of the
Catholic Columblad a suggestion em-
, bodying what we consider the most
practical plan yet mentioned looking
to the barring from circulation
1 through the United State* mails of a
’ certain disreputable, lying and ob-
! scene publication. *n Insult and dis-
grace to the intelligence and civIHn-.
tlon of the entire country, but which'
through the Indifference, stupidity or
culpability of the “power* that be"
is being allowed t<’ continue its vil-
lainous course, aided and abetted by
those same "powers," through the In-
strumentality of the postal service,
which in turn is maintained at the ex-
pense of the respectable, law-abiding,
moral citizenship, whose every seuae
of right and decency 1* flagrantly In-
sulted every time one of these vile
sheets find* entrance to their home*
and firerides, thrust into those sacred
precincts by and through the, in this
Instance, evil agency of the postal de-
partment. The plan suggested is this:
That every self-rcsporting Catholic “« “• ’n*n we
(and it is to be hoped that adjective «aI lt^U„?u.PC<,IT. wlth
may be applied to note of them) 'flor<* want tor “ lu
make it his or her business to write
a personal letter to the Congressman'
from hl* or her district, making a
straightforward protest against the
United State* malls being used any
longer as an agency for the circula-
tion of this intolerable "Menace,"
with its quota of villainous Hee and
horrible obscenity; there letters to be
written and mailed on December 8,
the feast of the Immaculate Concep-
tion of the Mother of God. and our
Mother, that Mother ot beautiful and
holy purity, the very antithesis of the
abominable stuff now finding its way
, to the home* of th<- land and of our
PITY THE'Vd[tOR IN WAR TIME. L1“’e' broadcast in there
f filthy sheets by the agency of the gov-
ernment we help to support: those
letters to bo so clearly written that
there may be no misunderstanding on
the part of our representative* that
they mean Just what they say.
In there days at the mighty dollar,
touch a man's pocketbook, and you
touch the man: Thrce representatives*
pocketbooks are their positions at!
Wssuuigtun, and ,
understand that their return for an- . .- , ... . . . , • ... ------------—
; other term maydejjend Inrgiey on!**1’ , “a2 l"“ ** * material aad real; beneficence of the Creator, must see
their attention to the request* of a; IL1"*.** con,mon teaching of the! that In this there Is no promise of
Very large, number oi their const!- - ’“’’'T
tuents for fair play and a square deal |
in this most vital of affairs, you can J
Just wager your last dollar that, in;- . . ____ , „
the language of the street, "there will j J®**™1 manner but with more or ere Hell.") i
be something doing" soon after the *ul^’ *c^“rrtlnK to M» greater or less Ir a wal hu wilfully fixed itself
eighth day of December next, and that! We gather so much from , fOtlBVet. la jpujt. and wilfully forever
they will find some way to show the Ji7h ‘ hoIda r*IentI«u,b' to guilt, rech a soul
proper official in the postal depart- *"* Wb" ,Br ' *"compassed with
went that there is ample law already I the light of your fire,
on the statute books to protect the de- to the Annie* which you have kin-
cent cltlzennhlj) of th« country ’from !Whence we learnt
an indecent and obscene press, insofar ,S5. Jto5°™e- camniffliting on
i at least as the circulation of there in- 1 v—’
■ultingly slanderous and obscene pub- damned light* up his
lication* through the mail. 1* con-
cerned. '
We have In the United States some-
thing like eighteen million Catholic
population: to this we may easily add
another five millions closely united to
the Cstholtc citizenship by marriage
or otherwise, not of the household of
the faith: to there we might also add
from the broad, fair-minded men and
women of the country, those of other
and of no religious affiliations, an un-
limited number. With anything like
a united effort through our various
Catholic sodetie*, the Knight* of Co- ‘
lumbus, the Catholic Knights of
America, tbe Young Men's Institute*,
the numerous sodalities of men and
women, to say nothing of our number-
less social and civic associations, a
perfect cyclone Of letters could be
turned loose to find their way to ovr
representative*, enough tor one day at
least to leave no room in Uncle Sam'*
mall bags for those horrible papers,
which it is sought to bar for all time.
This is a matter is Which *11 decent,
self-respecting citizens should, and
could be easily Induced to. take a
hand: if properly presented, there i«
scarcely one individual in a hundred
who would refuse to co-operate with
us in this grand move. It is one in
which the mothers of tbe land should
be particularly Interested, that the
little ones so r>*r to every mother**
heart may be protected now and here-
after from the possibility of haring
such dirty, filthy obscenity brought to
thrir pure eyes and heart*. Th* mem-
ber* of the Mother*’ Club* through-
out the country ahbnld be appealed <
*ttMt to '*■» erasy rarato te ed*n *• imar M worth tt.
rate wu eMto Me. toe htoim
CtobMto Eto s«r renrfth toMt
- -
to to—offtorot totow to >to
The "Menace" 1* the cheap**
—a of Immoral literature
IM**e* through the mail znd trim *•
enter our decent homes. Hon. H«ry
- _—, formerly a Protestant,
who had been reading such sheets '•
the "Meeaee.” says: "It occurred <•
me that a church that excited tbe h'*”
tlMy of ssch roes must be * very
Church, and that her dortrian
be tree If a* weapon* bettor than lbr>
g«ry and y «•*» be brortt* |
agalaat thenu" E»-pra^est T*ft. i;
•wwktog to the era 11 Sts Of s Crtto" k
a IfcsrtMjhhrCteri.O'spa.i'Mp /
"Tfirttol -er being a retonn that to* ,
araaat be —rtntte. loyrt raw
3W ere roenritore er tbs Cette—| J;
the Uh—* Stotra » to
E» —aleft—— -
Tl—n afr
. wrauL mr roucu fivuq tt* w uwx tret me aucu wiuuu
ture needs, and, in the agony of a j result* from knowing that they have
, spirit, thirst for light and love, while I done evIL But let the moral sense be
yet, distempered with guilty glutton- j awakened, and an increased knowl-
n**s and befouled by evil aim. It can-
not taste the good it touches, cor
quench it* uncontrollable anguish
with the pure water* that ripple near?
Must there not be pain, when to lu
innermost depths, the soul is torn
and tortured and rent asunder be-
tween Its natural need and its acquir-
ed bent, between unborn yearning
and encrusted habits, between spon-
taneous strivings towards good and
wilful clinging to sin. between divine
Instincts that draw it upward with In-
finite attraction and accursed Im-
pulses, bred of Its own malice, that
drag it down with demon violence to
the deathless suicide ot » hating and
hateful soul." (God or Chaos., Rev.
R. Kane. S. J.)
”). The positive punishment, or
pain ot sense, as it Is Called, constats
chiefly In the torment of fire. That
that kindle a fire, encompassed with
ata, —Touring foveg. Let u* ttnagto*
no* !b tbe superior fiaenltie* at man
th* fimr to d«*prtr. as intense a* ft
will be in the condemned, when he
couteatplstto. by neeoratty, th* lm-
maaatty to his mMortan* In tbe
gruatMus aad beamy at the God
whom he ha* lort. “Lot us sappnre
also to hl* material organization that ,
tenacity which dhtri power wilt give d]au f—.
to th* rm—tto tofty, and which
will enable tt to suiter all the an-
guish of death without dying, and -we
can tirirtwi without difficulty that
the condemned snwL united to tbe
body, win cany into It all the ele-
ment* of an eternal conflagration"
(Martinet 'Reiigioe in Sodety*).
In * striking work on "The Natural
History of Hell" an American scien-
tist say*: "Every phenomenon is the
result of preceding cense*, and be-
come* itself tbe cause of other occur- j
reace*, and this obtains both in C
moral and physical world. If tbe con-1 nominal
sequence* of every act cling to us for
all time, then the consequence of our;Ton down
wrong-doing can be no exception. tu„,
Thei wrong-doer will go down through i <re too h q
all the endless cycles of eternity {rfoa_ th<t h„ ‘JL - —
chained to hto doom not by the arbi- rief^hbor or oneTL'* f G<Xl'
As this paper has and is W.
Ing, circulated in Marlin, anr erne
is of a fair mind and with enoert C
telligence. will say with -* that th*
"Menace" is a plain appeal to tanatg
rism and doe* Irreparable misty in
the cause of any religion.
I^t me quote a tew non-C*tes!Je
J critic* on the “Menace": There me
acie. xnai the intellect ana moral !t«n« *vo?<rtS^ld
seraibillti** may be rendered more h?—T
delicate and more acute is within the ‘ rh- ^teb-
____,ara and tnier, the acknowledrei wrw
Some men to h. ■ ,t,tade U»® lofftily-deelared erfre
Some men *enm to be under Yoo arr uke<J to
* word against the word—of whore*
; Why against the word of leritm.
most fair-minded and most retort
of the Protestant clergy and laity, mf
, against the word of those who'm
neither Protestant nor Catholic, vto
are the lover* simply of fair >l<y are
the American square deal. Mr. T*
gar, who Is a Protestant, editor of tte
Minneapolis "Bellman": “Tt is Indsrt
a menace—a menace to Christianity,
to PrcSretantiam and to common <h-
cency. The decent Protestant who km
I proper respect for his own creed ought
doer should be rendered intensely J
acute, can we imagine a more terrible; t1on to hi* k? ^hBCL
then, so long am these laws maintain JL scarcely &
their sway, there is no e*rape, and catholic* been
can be no pardon. Pardon—that lx H *“*■
release from misery—can cnly come i ttier OI
by a suspension of there laws, or In :i c.tholin
/.tk., x- . —•__----
j fully Ignorant of the Catho'.k Chon*.
■ ... ns . Kot one Protestant in theusandz erw
1----------.j 1”.----------C ■-----When she has pro-iseks information concern inc the Catb-
»i-t h.-k pvxuiona ust b*’ evld*bt t® anyone who has; nounced our doom she show* no way - —
Washington, and If they are given to ;re“d th*' vatious texts from the Sacred |of pardon or escape: and ho who re-
UJKSerwtud that their return for a*1- whi^h we hnvr already clt- J lies upon nituril l>wa and tile general
- - - , — < --------------- — :* -----: c.
their attention to the request* of the common teaching of the i that In this there is
j Fathers and theologlus, and we hold : mitirsdon. If left
4om!
ratnra to peace.
Tk* ifcfl—sre to th* Ctohnuc
—a. . r . ^7 7_ — "■ ■■■’ tfx- a w»Wg
RrL_. -iu. w. _.— w
P*al would not be in vela. On* here to to theta went down alive late hell
J “ .....•«* tbe enrth etaurt *poa them."
(Num. xvi-32-34); to the rieh man
we rend that "he died aad vw bur—
hi bell” (Luka xvi-S2). Such toe i*
th* common teeebiag to th* Fathers wternt**** to antrftrar
. an* titeotogtaa*, bat the Chunk he* « to^ea
SSS—
Angwtt**; ”!■ whet pert at t—__
—tl* (town—tbe untron*) beCtol «x—
i 1— ktortto the BrtT «•* i
e—— Ivv—a* (De, Or. Drt —
WW «— <<4* 4— Bklra
! the «—I —ft
. ■ dJ- 9
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®BE*nnM*<ar-<'joCTtT|
XAUSncx—tmXl
-JJy **"■ tefcto men
h lying Uw tS&Jlfl
olio Church. Th* y*—ill
ear* to notice such otoamitoT *4 fl
£■-- HbeK
raeh lira The Csthrtte
used to meh attack* as
the editor at "The Menace"*7^1
ter whom no Church would ;
now he makes his living
«« towm lie so tong as he
--- ---— --t voederx. He •
markrt for hi* ch^g-
of tbe country where the I
few. Naturally, the CtfbsStx 1-^** I
little known, are misumiemore. vl I
mtefa raglcM be send* ill tu h, « * I
a depraved imaginarto* can to»S I
and to gbe plausibility t© m« i I1
gtre* name* of persons thsj do - - i|
. exist. *r give* iddrrws that *r* ■ i|
gne or untrue. or places th*t are »
cn the map: gives name. of ;|
before whom swore :
'Imade, notaries not lifted br the!
“‘•land sells these lies to you 1
»“’! nominal mm of fifty c(.nts t
i is a bad bargain, because If y'oT^^
k- - —<cd Ton conW sit down wswduT
be no exrcption. ture all there He, for ncrtiS^
! yDa <re to° hon"’ ’o do -c Xo oZ
does^ that has respect for God. nan*
trary sentence of a capricious judge,
but by the adamantine link* of cause
and effect, working in strict accord
i with laws whose action knows no
: pity and no mitigation. Compared
with such links the iron chain* which
bound the vultnre-gpawed Prome-
theus to his rock are\but as cords of
. " , . “ . d.N From such a
doom there is no escape bat by * tnlr- !
ad*. ' That th* intellect and moral ’
I (in October, 1912); 1
itself Ist thi* document (a
not because I tear that many ProtM-
ants will be deceived by it. bnt be-
cause the people who are capable*
inventing such things arc a *odel
menace." And Rev. L. M. Haugbwert,
--------, .. —. Episcopal mlniater of the same tow*,
pain of loss. This is damnation. This ■ iu the same paper says; “ The Mm-
| is HelL ; ace’ is a moaaic of inconseqaeutef
Study for one moment the state 11115 deliberate falsehood. It b
of a *oul that has left the day which 1 & PleJ° appeal to fanaticism :ind dem
once wa* the living partner cf its life.! i^P^vsble injury to the religW
That *oul wben freed from what had ot derom I nation."
• , —- —B ...kt ,nrij>, uut-j In September. 1912. the t>ueto*s
t what in the end had been the weight i °f Springfield. Mo., turted iW
and load of clay, is now free to use * whole wagon-load of "Menarm."
| its spiritual powers without fancy or The Niagara Falls Journal protetod
“ , --n,. - — - — kt —-ks —1
catoribus succendltur materiam in! J10* “*oT°ugliIy Immaterial in its life, I town. "Appeals to bigotry are out it
peccatis habet et Inlqultete." Thia .>ateIlectuaJ vision Is no longer; <i*te." It said, "and The Menace’ »
pain of sense is a natural consequence ’1 because no longer depend-1 ®n insult to American iDtelligwica"
of that Inordinate turning to crea-iTT upon sense-knowledge but lntul-!'n,« Alton Journal say*: “Any t»F
ture* which la involved in the com- i 51™" 15 •*«* itself now through and man, Protestant or infidel, will av*M
mission of mortal sin. t * •* it is: it comprehends it-1 ft *• he would a thine tmdsra.
3) That there are other acciden- • for there are no mate- [ Ev«y time the 'Menace* is cxrrtrt
tai punishments of th* damned is i *“ J”’*?™* no **»****<: appearance*. I through the madia the mail sari*
clear from the Sacred Sdpture*. Their tna “’■dr*ne’« of sense, to clog its should be fumigated." And the "tt-
intellecta are darkened, their wills;ac“®n- ft *ee* itself as thoroughly jdependent" of New York. July IL
are fixed in impenitence, and their *een. and this without ef-ji*12: "Protestantism and libertyd*
mental misery is complete, as St.' ;.on:.y>U>OIf5 P*1111*- without poretbil-' not need such defender*.” Tte TW-
Thomas teaches; there is no specie* of “tf *" . 11 ** itoelf perfectly 1 i*h Messenger," organ of the Ejdsrw-
s uttering to which the damned sbali | Pl*?*?1;, ft itself, pure- j I**l Church of Omaha. Neb., speeldsg
J not be subjected In order that their j;?, ** objective matter of! of the •‘Menace’s” Iles of Catbrtte
misery may be complete—“ut sit eo-* _w°’?refore without need of;Sisterhood*;remarked: "What bash*
Imau utlnoila (In * D’JI.! * . r <♦ <- —*- - . -- . - . * . ...
No. 50). "Therefore it will be a most f “ “"ooEa eomprehension.
—wirPto and maimed Its angelic ! Iran principles of fair play and ica*.f
v.LujnrK.v « ujo uivuiw *iguz, ** within Itself to fix deep;Lonor, should masquerade in Itaaab*
aad that their will should be rtub-, n,T'“ ™ *™t- *o as of itself ta to rob women of their fair rumeT
Mbil^n
"■ t teidnida Into
enter our d«t
tt dow“ to Iateehood! Clay Dillon
I Alla tft httlMb* vkrtrti aalf * *■— **. * *
both in the Old and New Testament*' is lost, Mark that this state
^reaeaelaO A a 1—SI. L. **. . ■ w. ■ a.*,
hell is somewhere under the earth, of mortal sto; for that dtoUtonre
wot -C —k_w of mortal ata plunge* Sr^Zoi tom
eratntad intensity at galtt. eastoti-
t«te a morrt hnMt «f the —*i in l
-to-ttI. its iwsstota swZtteZ
tatottran *rtk*tosta* which, vm,
vflM aa* tm* vw« rathsr rte* *r
them Mbs at raaHeh. It*
^Tri”**^** “«• * II
«*trtt ho m**» tt tarowa to Mb by a tt to
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