duced St. Ulrich of Augsburg to oppose with all his might the Hungarians who swept everything before them like a flood? Truly the Catholic religion does not render men weak, cowardly, and indifferent, but infidelity and materialism are inclined to do this. For he who knows no higher interests than mere worldly ones, how should he be willing to risk life and limb for the sake of his country?
3. Thus religion, our holy faith, enables men, above everything else, to carry out into practice the motto which is inscribed on the banners of so many rifle corps:
Eye, heart, and hand
For our Fatherland!
The eye for the Fatherland! But in order that it may be really useful, the eye — I mean the eye of the mind — must be able to see and perceive what is best and most profitable for the country. But in the case of many a man the vision is obscured by self-interest, egoism, and party feeling. And this is the cancer which in the present day is eating into the greater number of civilized nations; so very many citizens, and among them those who an at the head of affairs, have an eye obscured by selfishness or party feeling. Hence arises the disregard of sacred rights; namely, the flagrant encroachment of the secular power in ecclesiastical affairs. Therefore a free, wide-open, clear eye for the Fathered I But it is religion alone which gives
