The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, January 1, 1909 Page: 36 of 42
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
if accompanied by the clank of the sword and the sharp com-
mands of the captain. There are times when the smoke of
incense has to mingle with the smoke of powder. Our bre-
thren in Germany and Belgium know this by experience and
have inscribed the formula on their banners of victory.
True that instrument of peace which became gradually an
instrument of servitude the Concordat of Napoleon kept the
hands of the clergy bound with golden chains. No call to
arms could be uttered but a weapon more powerful than the
power of organization popular vote or oratory viz: the
power of the press could have been resorted to. There is
no end of talent in the French clergy nor end of generosity
among their Catholic people. The innumerable schools
and charitable institutions which sprang like so many lilies
on the fair fields of France since the days of the Revolution
are standing monuments to their faith and self-sacrifice. If
the tenth part of the popular contributions to schools col-
leges hospitals and shrines had been devoted to the organi-
zation of the 'press the four parts of the world would not
echo to-day the prayerful sighs of the exiled victims But
trained as the Frenchman has been sustained individual ef-
fort is too generally sacrificed to golden hopes of a restored
monarchy or to exptctaiions of heavenly intervention. Many
people wonder at the divisions of French Catholics in the
presence of common danger. The lack of civic initiative
and public virtue resulting from his one-sided education ex-
plains the longings after monarchy on one hand and hopes of
divine intervention on the other much better than fidelity to
traditional politics. It is so much easier to read literature
and discuss the relative merits of the classical and romantic
schools than to exert oneself to a larger extent than contri-
buting money for educational and charitable purposes for
the propagation of the Faith and Peter's Pence. It is much
easier to explain all the evils by Jews and Free-masons and
to expect the remedy to the situation from a political Messiah
or a solditr of fortune.
( To be Continued.
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