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MCeS PORTER, Palllskcr.] *'5fr«rh the €>u?pfl to €vtr% Äri*t8«."— MARE EVI. IS. [TE&MSftSOe PEE ANNUM. VOLUME 45. PITTSBURGH, JULY 21, I88<S, NO. 26 ed in the humblest of slaves. Ad- F«r UTC'S Sake. The Chare li «ad Slavery. the just Noe puni ihed with that Greek, no slave, no freeman, no ings, knowing that the Lord both ot j name the sin ot hi » son. It is sin, male, no female. You are all one in them and ol you is in heaven, and 1 mirable was the example of good Sometimes I to tempted to murmur LETTER OF OUR HOLY FATHER, LEO then, which has dc served that name, Jesus Christ." Most precious les- there is no respect of persons belore morals which they set their masters, That life to fitUing »«ay. XIII., BY DIVINE PEOVIDENCE and not nature." sons, honorable and salutary, of Him." They are also admonished : as well as their extreme patience in With only a round of trifle* POPE, TO HIS VENERABLE BRETH From the contagion of the first which the virtue has not only re- to consider that the servant has no toil, while it was impossible to in- Filling eaoh buy day, j REN THE BISHOPS OF BRAZIL. stored to man his dignity and more, j reason to complain of his state, since duce them to prefer any iniquitous Dusting nooks and corners» sin all evils ars derived, and espe- cially that monstrous perversity but has also brought men of all he is the " freeman" of Christ, orders given them to the holy com- Making the house look fair, Venerable Brethren, Health id the whereby men, losing the memory ol nations and conditions into one close while masters, on their part, being mandments of God, so that they de- And patiently taking on me Apostolic Benediction. union of brotherly love. That love the " bondmen" of Christ, are livered up their lives, in the midst ot The burden of woman'« care. Iraterna! union, and instead ot prac- Amid the manifestations—so mtil ticing, by natural impulse, mutual of Christ, with which St. Paul was bound to repress all haughtiness and the cruelest torments, with an imper- Comforting childish sorrows, titudinous and revealing so much benevolence and deference, have lis- on fire, he had drawn from the heart pride in exercising their authority. turable spirit and serene countenance. And eharaing the childish heart piety—made and yet being made tened only to the prompting of their of Him who had mercifully made ! Masters are also bidden to recognize Fusebius celebrates the invincible With the simple King and story, daily by all nations in congratulat passions, have looked on their fel- Himself the Brother of all men. and in their servants the dignity of hu- constancy of an Arabian maiden who, Told with a mother'* art; ing us on having happily reached lows as their interiors, and treated who had ennobled them all, without 1 manity, and to treat them accord- rather than consent to the debauched Setting the dear home table. the fiftieth year of our priesthood, them as born beasts ol burden. For- exception or forgetting one, with His ingly, considering them not of a dif- desires of her master, courageously And clearing the meal away, one has especially touched us. This getting the community of nature, the own dignity, admitting them to a ferent nature, but their equals bv laced death; and at the price of her And going on little errand*. comes from Brazil, where, on the dignity of humanity, and the divine participation in the divine nature. I virtue of their religion and fellowship blood remained fatthful to Jesus In the twilight of the day. occasion of this happy event, liberty image set as a seal upon mankind, By this same charity were formed in the service of their common Lord. Christ. Not less admirable were One day is juit like another ! has been legally given to a great the victors in wars and quarrels made and gathered together those races These laws, so just and salutary in other similar examples of slaves who Sewing and piecing we'l number of those who, in the vast captives and slaves ot their van whose rise and rule were in the j uniting harmoniously two divergent would have deprived them of the lib- Little jackets and tiouier* territories ot that empire, lay under quished foes, and thus the multitude, divine counsels ot wonderful service I components of human society, were erty ot their souls and the fidelity So neatly that none can tell the oppression of slavery. though ol one race, was gradually to the common good, when, in due I practiced by the Apostles themselves. they had vowed to God. Of Chris- Where are the Reams and joining« That action, inspired by Christian severed into two distinct classes. course, and thanks to the ertorts of The most remarkable example ol this ttan slav who, for any other reas- Ah! the *eamy tide of tife mercy, and accomplished by the zeal Ancient history displays these la- the Church, the comity ol nations is given by St. Paul, where he writes ons resisted theil r masters, or took Is kept oat of sight by the magic ot charitable men and women who mentable events down to the coming was able to form itself, freely and with such benevolence in favor ot part in conspiracies injurious to the Of many a mother and wife! worked in union with the clergy, has of the Redeemer. The calamity ol Chrtstianlv, upon the model of the Onesimus, the fugitive slave ot Phile- State, history does not give us a sin- been offered to the divine Author and slavery was then spread broadcast family. From the beginning, in- mon, whom he sends back to his gle case. When an era of peace and And oft when I'm ready to murmur Dispenser of all good in thanksgiv- over all nations, and so greatly re deed, the Church devoted a special master with this tender recommenda- tranquility dawned for the Church, That life is flitting away, ing lor the lavor granted to us in that duced was the number ol freemen care to teaching the Christian people tion : " Whom I have sent back to the Holy Fathers explained with ad- With the selfsame round of duties we have been permitted to reach in that a poet ol the empire—Lucan— to receive and to observe, on so im- thee, and do thou receive htm as my mirable wisdom the apostolic teach- Filling each busy day, health and safely the year of our was able to tormulate the atrocity portant a point, the pure doctrine of own bowels; whom I would have ing as the brotherly union of hearts It comes to my spirit sweetly, jubilee. that the world was made only tor a Christ and the Apostles. Hence- retained with me, that in thy stead amongst Christians, and with equita- W ith the grace of a thought divine, few. This idea prevailed among the forth, thanks to the new Adam, who he might have ministered to me in ble charity applied these lessons to "You are living, toiling for love'« sake, Great has been our joy, lor this best constituted nations, among the is the Christ, nations have existed the bands of the Gospel. But with- the profit of slaves by showing them And the loving should never repine. act fulfills a hope long cherished that the Brazilians would completely ex 1 Greeks, and among the Romans, together in brotherly love. Even | out thy counsel I would do nothing ; that, though, doubtless, their masters '•YOB are guiding the little footstep.« , tirpate and altogether abolish the where the rule of the few was im- as all men have one common origin that thy good deed might not be as had a legitimate right to the labor of In the way they ought to walk; baibarism o( slavery Such has | posed upon the many; and their in the order of nature, so in the | u were of necessity, but voluntary. their servants, yet it was not permit- You are dropping a word for Jesus power was swayed wit supernatural order they have one ted to any one to have an absolute | been proved to be the will of the so much ] For perhaps he therefore departed lor In the midst of your household talk;' perversity and so much p common spiritual origin, one salva- power over lives or to subject anoth- | people, and that will has been sec- | j a season from thee that thou mightest | Living your life for love's sake Hide that | onded by the energy of the emperor j tion, and€hne faith; all alike are | receive him again forever; not now er to cruelty. St. Chrysostom, treat- Till the homely car« grow sweet herds of slaves were considered as called to the adoption of one only ing of this with great frankness of and his august daughter, and by the as a servant, but instead of a servant And sacred the sell'-denlal possessions—rather as things than God. the common Father, insomuch manner and language, remarked that : activity of the directors of the coin j a most dear brothec, especially to That la laid at the Master's feet," as persons, robbed of all rights, even as He has bought all with a great amongst the Greeks slavery, accord- • monwealth who have carried through j j me; but how much more to thee* j ot the right of defending and enjoy- i price ; all are members ol one body, ing to the ancient signification of the ! and sealed with the final sanction i both in the flesh and in the Lord ? j Foot-Prints it the Siad.