REPLY TO DR. MORAN.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2641, 4 August 1871, Page 2

REPLY TO DR. MORAN.

To the Editor, Sir— Dr Moran knew that be was misrepresenting me when lie charged me with opposition to bis obtaining justice for Roman Catholics in the matter of education, as is obvio.is from what I said in the lettir, to which ho affects to reply. “If Dr Moran had advocated the removal from our educational system ” of all taint of sectarianism,” •system of education is the only one that at once embnees justice to all parties and loyalty to God’s truth.” 1 hold that a State aided system of education to be a fair one, involves the supporting of all sectarian schools, Roman Catholics among the rest—which is infidelity to truth—therefore 1 am adverse to it. Dr Moran, referring to the bishop’s oath, asks adroitly, “Might 1 not follow them” (Heretics, &c ) “ perseveringly to win them oack ? and might I not fight against their errors ?” (nothing said in the oath about lightingagainst “error” !) Thequestiouis not what Dr Moran might do, but what the oath binds him to do! Untl he unequivocally states that he cynscietiously believes that the sen. icnce (which I fancy is giving him just now a good deal more “trouble” than it hag given me), was meant by the framers of it, and is understood by the dignitaries of his Ghuich to mean the simple-inculcation, not of the persecution, but or the winning back of heretics and fighting against their errors by fair, moral means, and not by force or violence, I shall hold that he has attempted by an unworthy quibble to save the honor of his Church at the sacrifice of truth and honesty. i am glad that the Romish Bishop has had the courage to admit that his Church does indulge in a little cursing sometimes ; though his mode of defending her conduct in this casts this honor upon the Holy Bible, and is a libel on all good Civil Government. If a father should discover that the emissaries of Rome, through the wiles cf Jesuitism, have-succeeded in inducing Q beloved d inghtcr to enter one of those dens of imprisonment and pollution called -.unnerios, and he attempt to secure her de« livcrance from her gloomy prison, he would, according to Dr Moran's religion, be guilty of “a great crime,” that merits all those errible miseries, present and future, in bed fire, with the devil and his angels, which the Romish bishops are required to imprecate upon Lis devoted bead! And mark you, sir, Dr Moran dares to say that “the civil Government inflicts a more severe and substantial punishment for crime,” &c., than the. tremendous sufferings that extend to the state of the lost in hell which his Church binds him to invoke upon a father, who, true to his parental instincts, endeavors to rescue his daughter from the abomination of a Romish nunnery ! The. doctor’s Church Iris mauy curses besides the one 1 referred to. If your space allowed, I should like to present your readers with sonic of them—say, for example, those contained in the Papal excommunication of V'ictor Emmanuel. But enough for the present.—Yours, &c, Q.MEOA. August 4.