Hare's Memorials of a Quiet Life, 431 Hill's Elements of Philosophy, 427. Humphrey's Mary magnifying God, 423 Hundred Meditations on the Love of God, A, 574 King and the Cloister, The, 430 Laboulaye's Poodle Prince, 431 Landroit's Sins of the Tongue, 719 McGee's Sketches of Irish Soldiers, 860 Marshall's Church Defence, 280 Marshall's My Clerical Friends, 138 Meditations on the Blessed Virgin, 860 Meline's Two Thousand Miles on Horseback, Palma's Particular Examen, 860 Primaute, La, et l'Infaillibilité des Souveraines Proceedings of the Convention of the Irish Ca- Quinton's The Money God, 282 Reverse of the Medal, The, 288 Sainte-Germaine's Only a Pin, 574 Sermons for all the Sundays and Festivals of the Sign of the Cross in the XIXth Century, 429 Sour Eugénie, 142 Southwell's Meditations, 574 Sunday School Library, 430 Taylor's Lars, 430 Thebaud's The Irish Race, 432, 718 Two Thousand Miles on Horseback, 286 Valuy's Directorium Sacerdotale, 574 Walworth and Burr, Doctrine of Hell, 571 Winged Word, A, etc., 572 Wiseman's Lectures on the Church, 143 SOCIETY NEW-YORK THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XVII., No. 97.-APRIL, 1873. PUBLIC CHARITIES. MODERN Civilization has no higher or more important question to deal with than that of ameliorating the condition of the poor, the unfortunate, the ignorant, and the vicious. Governments are and can be engaged in no more appalling work than that of legislating wisely in regard to these classes, and in seeing that not only are their inevitable wants provided for and the public interests protected, but also that their rights are secured in fact as well as in theory, and that the instruments employed in these exalted spheres of public administration are suited to their purpose, and are guarded against degenerating from means of amelioration into agencies of oppression, cruelty, and injustice. There are two chief motives which lead to the care and provision for the unfortunate members of the social body-charity on the one side, and philanthropy on the other. Religion inspires every motive for this great and holy work, and of all the virtues which religion inspires, charity is the highest, purest, and best. Charity is the love of God, and of man for God's sake. That God of charity has revealed to us that, of faith, hope, and charity, the greatest is charity; that he that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord; that he who performs works of charity to the least of the human race performs them ipso facto to the Lord, creator and ruler of the universe; and that the eternal doom of every human being at the last dread day will be decided by this great test. Christianity itself, like her divine founder, is charity. The church of God, like her Lord and Spouse, is charity. She is imbued with and reflects his divine essence, which is charity. Charity arises from no statute or arbitrary decree, which might or might not be made according to the option of the legislator; it is the essence and motive of all good. It exists in the very nature of things. And as the love of God by man is the first and necessary relation of the creature to the Creator, and as our fellow-creatures exist from God, and Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Rev. I. T. HECKER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. |
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