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“GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATION’S.”
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MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, MARCH 18, I88l.
VOL. XI.
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prudent father strive« to keep them from hi« cjiil- ' has already begun in National Legis­
esiantism can now since the loss of nets of the Republic. On the contra­ aren.”
“ There mho doubt that the Church eondemns lature of France that has just met.
Alsace-Lorraine, not number a single ry, Theirs, Grevy, Gambetta, Wad­ Libenty'in
the ttenee of the Reformation and espe­
C hristian essenger , million, against some thirty-six mil­ dington, Jules Ferry, and the other cially
ia that of the nineteenth century. ’
The readers of the Standard will be
Devoted to the cause of Primitive Christi­ lions of nominal Catholics. It has a acknowledged
republican leaders,
The French government is only do­ kept advised of the progress of this
anity, and the diffusion of general in­
vast, , preponderant, freedom-loving, have again and again defended the ing what the freest, mildest and most war between Ultrnmontanistn and
formation.
priest-hating republican population claims of religion, and of the Catholic tolerant State on the continent . of free institutionsin France.— Christian
Price Per Year, in Advance, S9.M
1 Church, and have advocated the 1 Europe felt itself compelled to do Standard.
All business letters should be addressed as shown daily in the elections'; and
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granting of the budget of Public Wor­ 1 years ago. The Swiss peeple, Catho- . [
to T. F. Campbell^ Editor, or Mary even among the Monarchists, Orlear-
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—Edward Kimball, in the Baptist
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lies
and
Protestants
consenting,
have
ship,
which
gives
fifty
millions
of
ists and Bonapartists, there are multi­
Btump, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon.
Teacher, speaks as follows of the uni-
Advertisers will find this one of the best tudes who sympathize with the’ Re­ francs to the Roman Church. It is written it in their present admirable
tform
Bible Lesson, and the results
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mediums on the Pacific Coast for making publicans in their love of free institu­ only when this Church, following its constitution, that no Jesuit establish-
which
it makes p<>-sible:
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their business known.
tions and their hate ef clerical, Jes­ eternal instincts and habits, has left [ rnent of any kind shall be allowed to
The
study <>f God’s Word, under
BATES OF ADVERTISING
uitic rule. Yet, all these subtractions the domain of pure religion and has exist within the territory of their lie- the sjstem of uniform Sunday school
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made, there are still left millions of invaded, and that with hostile intent, public ; no Jesuit, under this law, can lesson*, which now cover* the Chris­
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the prerogatives of the political and , ( teach even the humblest village school ■ tian world, is no
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of .God. -Scores.of the ino.-t careful
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and learned Christian scholars in Nngs
Notice« in loci column» 10 cent»- per line lor
the
Republic
from
distructionf
For
vigilant, active assailants of the Re­ fortunately the papal church cannot
, land and America are bending over
each insertion.
Yearly advertisements on liberal term«.
public, its free institutions, its friends 1 possibly live within the strictly reli­ years the Jesuits were disturbing the j the Bible, and giving to the y>ung
Professional Ca d* (1 equare) 112 per annum..
gious sphere; it is as all the world ’ peace of Switzerland, and were plot- ' of Research amMalx>‘J!
t>y^ ^ves
and supporters.
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Mr. 1. G, l>»vid«®n I* ',u* Adv« living
knows, essentially, and unchangeably [ I Finally, in 1847, they actually excit­
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But
the
French
Republicans,
and).
Agent In Porti« ml.
many tnorevof Christian ministers,
all lovers of free institutions there a political church. As such it is in I
1 oriental scholars, ductors of divinity,
Entered at the Poet Office at Moiimouth M
ed
some
of
the
Catholic
cantons
to
a
are not willing, after so many years of every State; an imperium in imperio
•econd clans matter.
educated and godly lay min, with a .
; toils and hopes, and of prodigious sac- j a State within a State. Here the revolt against the Federal government . host of devoted women of the mast
The French Government and the rifices ; after such grand progress,and ‘ whole trouble lies.
and this peaceful people were plunged
careful culture, and the deepest .piety
Jesuits..
such splendid successes, to give up I Some reflections will not be out of for several weeks into the distresses
. —many of these last being wives and
and horrors of civil war. The confed­
and lose all these glorious achie vments; place here.
I mothers-—are writing, week by .week,
France is a Catholic country ; here eracy triumphed, several of the Cath­ t for the Christian and the secular press
to see laid in ruins again the majestic
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temple of freedom, of light,' of life, of the secret of the special danger of olic cantons, Tessino included, stand­ • studies for Sabbath scheol clashes.
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hr th e prec e ding —article- iL_ 5saa_. e y- and hope, r ea re d a t a n much rn.tt, Fil l a i m n itane , JexurtTnltuence in that ing by the national “cause. ‘The new I This work, for its faithfulness, accura-
ahowii that the Catholic world now—i and eherished by the deepest affec­ Republic. In a land overwhelmingly constitution of 1848, modeled after ,| cy, and spiritual value, not only sue-,
all that is truly Catholic—is in its tions and the most ardent hopes of sa and truly Protestant and where the that of the United States, now ban-' cessfully challenge criticism, but com-
mind and conscience, and therefore in many millions of Freipchtrien, and in people, well understand and have long ishes these common disturbers.of the i pels grateful admiration.
the full control of its life, entirely in which the whole free world is rejoic- enjoyed and been trained in the high­ peace ef States forever from the terri­ | Of course, some crude work is done;
the hands of the Jesuits. This the ! ing, and to witness the dark cloud of ■ est forms of intellectual religious, po- tory of the Alpine Republic.
I but, what I have asserted is true of
Some genorously think that with |
dominion
settling ( litical and sociaf freedom, the dangers
statesmen of France, who are now Ultramontane
i this work, as a whole. 'Either of mv
I from the machinations of the Jesuits the progress of liberal ideas and insti­ children, I think, to-day know.s more
guiding it>s destinies, as well as all 1 down again on France !
This is the peril, this the situation, ar.d their obedience allies in other or­ tutions the Jesuits have also changed,
enlightened Frenchmen generally well-
’' of the Word of God than I did at the
this
is the strife, and this the ders and the clergy, may not be so This is not so, even in the least de­
know. It is the object of the present
same age, and I had godly parents,
article to set forth the reasoning that question at issue. No intelligent man great as to justify an act of suppress- gree, as they said to Mr. Cailus, so and was in the Sabbath school at four
has brought them to the aecision to of whatever party, is ignorant of the . ion and expulsion*,"but may be met by they say now ; " Thanks to the divine ' years of age. If God’s Word “ giveth
revise and execute the “ decrees ’’ true situation. The writer in the in­ the wakeful intelligence, the deter- favor, the spirit which animated the light,” if it is " Spirit and life,” if " It
against the Jesuits and the other ‘'un­ terests of thb Church and the Jesuits I mined will, and the liberty protecting first Jesuits lives yet in us; and by runneth very swiftly,” if it is " quick
the same mercy we hope never to
authorized” orders affiliated with will deny all this before „the world. institutions, of the peeple.
and powerful,” if” it shall not return
t
lose
it.” And the same spirit lives in
The
discreet,
polished
article
of
the
!
As for the United States, it is not
them and tinder their control.
unto Him void,” if it shall prosper in
1. The Syllabus, these statesmen Abbe Martin in the Nineteenth. C cr -{ j yet done with the Jesuits and the all of them, as one of their great lights the thing whereto He sent it,” if “it
A conriict
conflict has said. “ Xos omnes in ha-. causa
say has put a new face on the entire tury, is a specimen of the cunning,. '^tramontane church.
unum sumus." (- We are all one in shall accomplish chat which He pleas­
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skillful
rhetoric,
intended
for
the
out-1
may
yet
arij(e
in
tbe
future>
perhap8
Catholic Church—its teaching, its
es,” what may we not expect ? What
conscience, its life. What was before side Protestant world. But whatever . notteo far off U)at wiU obHge our this matter.”)
\\ ill the French people sustain the ; may not our faith counters sure from
t again9t
well known of the absolutism of: ¡delusion it may produce abroad, it . Q . ¡u 8elf.defense to
government
in its efforts to subdue ' this constantly maintain«»! ami fart-h-
France,
‘ thus
i 1 fatal
, , , enemy
.
in trance,
ffltal
e
of , dur
institutions
Rome, that it was accepted and taught i will — deceive no .. one
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- where
,
of
institutions
fully pursued stuffy of the Bible?
our
nieasure8 tliat have the Jesuits 1 To this, I answer: We
by many of its teachers, has now be- 1 ' this art is well known and under-
Training the youngs for, say ten or
these , honeyed
17'71
7 not
1 ’ , been
' in
• ¡n our
l - a
hitherto
or
¡n. may rest assured that the French gov- '
come universal, and has been made | stood.
,
, Underneath
.
,
•
hitherto
our . habit8
habits
or tn-
twenty years of their forming life in
these
,. ..
«•
... necessity
clinations.
We
hope this
this
necessity | ernment would not have moved in
binding on the consciences of all words, , this calm moderation,
. .
. . , clinations.
w e . hope
this study—the very essence and
i V^aC^1CeJ* may not come, and that our vigilance I this matter without the confidence of
Catholics, at ths peril of eternal dam polished sentences, * 1
heart
of this truth of God being set
a powerful support in the will of the
nation. And this Syllabus and the eye defects the rude, mortal, insatiate I may avert it. But let us not be too '
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forth,
week by week, taken off from
nation. Only those intimately fa mil
now established dogma of papal in- violence of papistic ambition ; as the over-confident in our security. There j
these
living and glowing altars of
iar with the present and past senti­
falibility, that make the Pope, as French say, the mitt conceals the Jiri is a solemn warning in the words of
'
loving,
burdened, praying, believing
ments of the French people, know
Melchoir Cano, in his letter about the
God, omnipotent over the destinies »f —the honey disguises the poison.
hearts,
in
these workers who prepare
The reader can now understand Jesuits to the confessor of Charles V.: how old, how deeply rooted and wide­
the souls of men—both the work o'f
the
lessons,
and the teachers who
spread is their hostility to the Jes­
Jesuit inspiration and of Jesuit hands and judge the reasons that have mov­ “ God grant,” he says, “ that the time
study
and
teach
them—must result in
uits. \ et this society has a power­
—teach expressly and avowedly the ed the French government, in defense may never come, when sovereigns
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great
things
for
Christ.-- tdkrietmn—
ful support in France. The contest,
subjection, in the most abject way, of the very life of the Republic, and of will desire to resist them, but shall
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Statesman.
is just begun; and every etfort will
of all human authority and power, its free institutions, to execute the not be able.”*
—The Bible production in our
be made by tne partisans of the Jes­
decrees
against
the
Jesuits
and
other
• What Romanism forebode* to our country may
political as well as spiritual, to the
l>e seou in the following iiamtageft from a contem­ uits to thwart the government and time is equal to more than a million
unauthorized
congregations.
These
Church—that is, to the Pope, and
porary, Roman Catholic American journal ef the
nighe«; authority, the Catholic H’orld, which l»oar* overflow it in this battle.
What the copies a year, or say more thau nine­
reasons
as
here
set
forth
are
faithfully
that means to the Jesuit.
the official endorsements of the Pope, Cardinals,
gathered
from
the
speeches
of
minis
­
and Archbishop. There u no ambiguity in the issue will be, the near future will in­ teen thousand every week, more than
The Syllabus throughout utters the
language, read it.
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most extreme denunciation of all lib­ ters and their supporters in the Sen­ •• For ourselves we do not pretend tliat the dicate. The final end of the conflict three thousand every day, three hun-
Chureh ii» or ever has l>een tolerant.”
i dred every hour, or five every minute
eral government and institutions; it ate and the Chamber, and from the “ The end. or (rod as a final cause prescribes may be more momentous to France
th o law which all men must obey, or fail of at­ and to the Catholic Church, than the J of ’ working time.
At this rate, the
leading
newspaper
articles,
explaining
taining their ends, which is their Mipreme good.”
declares reconciliation with these, on
“ The Church, as all Catholics hold, is the em­ conflict itself; it may not unlikely j press is producing an English Bible or
and
defending
the
action
of
the
gov
­
the part of the Catholic Church, im­
bodiment of this law, »nd is therefore iii her very
and constitution teleological. Mhe Hjieaks result iW the entire separation of j New Testament every twelne seconds.
possible ; and therefore proclaims ernment, as well as from the . speech nature
always and everywhere with the authority of Clod,
Signs of this are ! These Bibles are not wasted—they
as the tins) cause of creation, and ’herefyre her Church and State.
universal and eternal hostility to and articles on the other side.
words are law,- her commands art* the commands
3. The French republic" is not hos­ of
already
appearing.
! are required—and more copies of the
God. Christ, who is G<»«1 as well as man. is'licr
them. But it is now notoriously the
personality, and therefore she lives, t-aches, and
Some of the moat eminent, but al»o j Scriptures are demanded in the Eng­
tile to religion in any of. its forms. governs
in him an<l he in her. This being so, it is
one special object of all the activity
It has waged no war on the Catholic clear that religious liberty must coneist in the un­ moat conservative Republican leaders lish tongue than in .the languages of
restrained freedom and independence of 4he
of the Society of Jesus everywhere,
Church in its- legitimate, religious Church to teach and govern all men and nations, in trance, like Jules Simon, Laltou- all the other nations of the world, al­
and under them of all the other orders
princes and ¡>eople, rulers and ruled, in all things
Girordin, oppose the de­ though the number 6f versions to
sphere; neither the last president, enjoined by the teleological law of man's eahtence. laye, and
affiliated With them, to teach and es­
ami therefore in the recognition and inainicnance croes, agan st the Jesuits; n,,t because
the illustrious TheirA, nor M. Grevy, for the Vhureh of that very supreme authority
which this country gives encourage­
tablish among Catholics the doctrines
which the popea have always claimed, and against they have any better opinion« ,,f this
the present head of the government, which
ment and assistance, over and above,
the Reformation protested^ and which secu­
of the Syllabus, and to mold the mind
nor even Gambetta, nor Jules Ferry, lar princes are generally diapwaed to resist when it order, but because they would invoke is considerably more than one hun­
crosaeH their pride, their policy, their ambition, or
and conscience of the Catholic world
instead ot these measures of force, the dred and fifty. The number of copies
the author of the famous “ Ferry law,” the love of power.”
by it. The Jesuit is, in the most aw­
“ The Protestant experiment has demonstrated
has
ever
uttered
a
hostile
word
or
beyond (preetfcm that tne very things in the Catho­ American Spirit and doctrine of *'ree of the Bible in circulation at the be.
ful sense, by the most binding and
lic Church which are most offensive to this age.
inaugurated a hostile measure against and
for which it wages unrelenting war against toleration, and would Itattle against ginning of the -present century is es­
terrible vows, devoted, for life and fer
her, are precisely thoec things it moat needs for its these enemies with’mural wuapufM.
religion, Catholic, Protestant or Jew­ own
protection and safety, It needs, first of all,
timated at 5,OOO,<M)G It is believed -
death, to the dissemination of this
the Catholic Church- nay, the papacy itself—to de­ These men agree with others in re­
ish Ths same can also be said of all clare
that the circulation has »ince been
and
applx
the
law
of
God
to
states
and
em-
mortal enmity and warfare against
the recognized national representa­ Cree, to aoverebOMi and Kubjects. kings ami people, garding the J>-Miitsrns the devoted increased to 154,000,000 copies.
all free institutions everywhere
at politicw may no longer be divorexil fr»>ni reli­
tives of the Republic. This is very gion, but be rouperod mil»ehlary to the mnriiual, mortal enemies of i-.t» ny and of
—A teacher asked his class : “ How
because these are fatal to the triumph
the eternal «ltd of mah'.'lorlrlinh V.oth individuals
| notably true of the Protestants who and society exist and civil government* are institu­ I rance, and tlio nioimst.c ur ittr-t gen­
do
you pronounce s t-i-n-g-y ?” A
and dominion of the Papal church.
ted, . . . to take charge of tsIncati<m, . . . erally as a pernicious incubus on So­
were in the Waddington ministry— and
m<wt
of
all,
to
exerHse
a
vigilant
ot>n«
-rwhip
,
smart
boy Bto<d up and said: “That
2. Now consider that France is
over ideas whether vented in bo>»ke- journsls or ciety.
himself
being
one
of
these;
as
well
as
depen.ls
a great deal on whether you
lectures,
and
to
keep
fr<»»u
the
public
im
whieb
Catholic by birth, by traditions and
the battle-on the Jesuit Question j mean to use it on a man or a wasp F
of the Prote^ants in the othei Gabi- tend to m*alo*ul the mind or coruipi t»-u heart, aa a
habits, almost universally. Protes-
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