Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-15

NoNs1GSoR CAPELs LECTURE LAST NIGHT-THK
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND INDIvIDuALISM-rHR DIG
NIFTY OF MANA HIT AT DARwINIsM-THB VALUE
OF THE soUL-Gop THE SOLE SOURCE OF ALL
HUMAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND SCIENCE.
Monsignor Capel began the second lecture Of his
series OF three on catholicism and Progress at
Lincoln hall last night with a playful allusion to
the criticisms OF reporters, one OF whom objected
to his coldly logical manner and expected him to
be more poetcal He was teaching truth and had
no time for flights of fancy. The Catholic church
taught indlvidual1sm- Every human being came
into the world alone and wert out OF it alone.
Every man was little cosmos Almighty
God gave each his work to do In the world,
and appointed the time and place for such
work and the circumstances under which it had to
be done He gave to all the strength to do the ap-
pointed task. Faith in this truth gave great per-
sonal dignity. and made us have higher respect
for other individuals. This it was that prompted
the church to send her most gifted sons to incur
the dangers OF disease and death in the vtlest
Sums. II only one soul, and that OF the most hum
bic creature, might be saved That beautiful pile,
the Capitol the treasures OF the country, the
railroads and the bonds, even though multiplied by
million, We're not as valuable as the soul OF one
poor neglected Irish boy. He referred to this in
dividuasm as prompting the sending OF the
churchs favored sons among the heather, account
Ing the loss OF their lives as gain, only one soul
was saved.
Scientists state that first existed a stone,
then as vegetable, and afterwards as monkey.
As d IuOuhty he wore MS Tall OH anu UtcaIue a
man. He preferred to believe with St Paul, that
we were created a little lower than angels
The Catholic church also taught that no one man
had a right OF himself over any other man: not
even the father over his child, the governor oven
his people. the pastor, the bishop, even the pope
authority. Authority Is three fold: the authority
OF family, the authority OF state and the authority
OF church. The popular sentiment In regard to the
origin OF authority and that entertained by the
Catholic church are essentially different. In re-
public like this the power is said TO be with the
people, that in monarchy with the sovereign. But
the Catholic church holds that all authority Is from
God. who gives it TO people that they may form for
themselves governments. which are best calculated
to aid them in carrying out the ends for which they
Almighty God. or not bound to recognize It,.
He then took up the relations of the individual to
his family. to the state and to the church. He had
been accused in a newspaper, greatly TO his
establishment, OF trying to subvert the American
government because he taught that the child owed
obedience to his father. not because he was his
father, but because God gave the father authority;
that we should obey the state, because there too
the authority was from God. Education by the
state he approved, but the state had more right
to prescribe what should be taught then 1t had to
prescribe what we should eat, Or drink Or wear.
Referring to the reply by Clergyman to his first
lecture on Catholicism and Progress In which the
treatment OF Calico cited as showing that the
church was opposed to progress or science, he
the savages OF Europe He referred to the growth
OF CHURCH architecture and music, the invention Of
printing, etc. before the era OF Professionalism, and
then asked why il was If the church opposed
TO science that the Protestant government OF Eng
land had sent Il Jesuit to observe the transit OF
Venus. He referred to the scientific apparatus OF
another Jesuit father in use at the signal Office in
this city, and recommended the minister ia QueS-
ton il he had ever heard OF the Jesuit college in
Georgetown, TO take his telescope of history and
microscope of truth there look into the library
and question the professors and see what they
know about science. Why was it that the JeSutS
the Christian brothers. the nuns. devoted their
lives TO teaching Latin. Greek, and the sciences IL
the church was opposed TO progress
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was strictly logical but mere Stringing together
OF some OF the points made by the lecturer. His
fOrcible and emphatic manner was varied at times
by playful sarcasm as he referred to the attacks
upon him in the newspapers and from the pulpit.
NOnsgnor Capel Will lecture again Friday night at
Lincoln Hail on the confessional.