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submission or drive them from the State at the point of the bayonet.
Bishop N. C. Matz took up the fight in behalf of reaction, and for a number of Sundays the Right Reverend Bishop, instead of preaching peace, love and charity, attacked a political party, labor unions and the Western Federation of Miners in discourses which were widely reported by the press.
The following is an extract from one of his lectures :
"Socialism, that is the enemy our century will have to face. We must prepare to do so at once. Godlessness, which St. Thomas calls the greatest of all sins, has brought it forth. Infidelity robs man of the hope of heaven and the fear of hell, and urges him to seek heaven here instead of hereafter. Thus humanity is led to plunge recklessly in pursuit of pleasure.
"A return to God through Christianity is the only remedy. Christianity teaches man that God alone, who has made the human heart for himself, can fill the wants of that heart. It teaches him that this want shall be fully satisfied only in heaven. Earth, with its few years of miserable existence, at best is not worthy of man's infinite aspirations. There, in heaven alone, full justice will be done. There the roles will be inverted, and the poor, the afflicted, of whom the earth was not worthy, will be the landlords."
We quote another extract from Bishop Matz's lectures, which will be found entertaining, if not scientifically instructive :
"Nothing could be more anomalous, abnormal and ridiculous than the position of Socialists claiming to be Godly and Christian men. If ever the devil did travesty the angel, he did it in Socialism.
"In the famous romance of Gil Bias we read of a beggar seated by the wayside in a lonely spot, asking for alms in the name of God, while