FURY OF THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 12

FURY OF THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH.

It is appalling to observe the mad fury with which the enemies of Christ and his Church rush along in their efforts to destroy religion, livery best gift of God to man is turned into a powerful weapon for this work of blasphemy. Literature particularly is made a powerful agent. The Internationalist literature actually reeks with the most horrible utterances of blasphemous profanity. There is not a Christian in this country who will not read with loathing horror the following words, which we transcribe with a feelin? of deep repugnance from this most recent of the abominations of the International? The wiiter is discussing the belief in the existence of God, and after some revolting excesses, he bursts forth as follows — " God ! I have always denied you, and I deny you still. If you exist, I defy you to paralyse my tongue which insults you, or my arm which threatens you." In another of their pamphlets the vilest of outrages are heaped upon the priesthood of the Church, and it concludes as follows : — " Yes, the Kingdom of Heaven will be established upon earth when it shall have been reddened with hecatombs of priests." Such is the foe, such is the warfare against which Catholics have to stand in array in this generation. 1 here need bo no fear that in His own good time God will defend tho right. Our Supreme Pontiff, the Prisoner of the Vatican, sees and knows of all that is going on, both good and bad, and, may we not say it, inueh of what is to happen. Let us hear some of the latest words pronounced on the 2nd inst., before a distinguished assemblage of Cardinals and Bishops, in reply to an address from the Roman Youth. [Referring to ihe efforts that are made to drivo him out of Koine and so to deliver tho city up to the horrors of the revolution, the Holy Father immediately added:— "Fear not at all, for the holy city is well guarded and 1 have tho firm confidence that my enemies will not succeed in driving me from this last asylum, where I await aid from on high." Just before he had said with marked energy and emphasis: " In this moment of struggle God gives to His own and notably to His Vicar, to tho Pa-tors of the various dioceses, an invincible force which makes them resist without fear all the attacks of hell " Finally, the Holy Father, inviting all the by-standers to look forward to the day when the Divine Mercy shall be manifested in the exaltation of the Church, pointed out one of the signs, the forerunners of this mercy :—: — "Confusion reigns already in the camp of revolution, in the same manner as it spread in the camp of the Midianitea who, at the sight of Gideon and his 300 companions, armed with trumpets and lights, killed each other almost to a man, not recognising one the other." These are consoling worJs indeed from the lips of the Holy Father. — Bombay Catholic Examiner.'