St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-28

tunities here. But they came, above all, De-
cause they were men, and here could stand
mn i'm the full dignity which God destined for
their manhood. 1t is the instinct OF nature,
following the pointing OF the hnger OF the
Creator Hilher then have come the millions
from every corner of the earth making up
cosmopolitan people such as the world had
never beheld. They come from countless
nations of the old world, hedged in there
with narrowness and mutual hostilltles; put
here these cramping, lettering limitations
and distinctions vanish, and all blend into
the harmonious unity and unlversailty
which are the heaven-appointed character
istics of our country. They come WIN
strength Of body and bravery OF heart, with
varied knowledge and muldform abilities;
aud all these are cast into the common stock,
to cooperate for the common good. They
grow in numbers and in strength till they
fear no violence from any power Oh earth:
their God-given rights and liberties-and OF
the sacred safeguards OF law ana
order which hedge them round and
render them secure: never, surely, Will
they permit that any element OF laWiessness
or ambition among themselves shall ore
assail those sacred liberties, Cor brave the
majesty of the law. And thus there are
placed before our people opportunities as
boundless as the country that we i've IN 10
develop all that is noblest in human energies,
and to use them for ends the wisest ana best
that humanity can aspire to. Here the mind,
unfettered by old errors and prejudices, can
look truth honestly in the face ana love II
for its own sake, and drink it in from all the
fountains of nature and of revelation, In
gladsome preparation for that wondrons
vision of the fullness of all truth, which will
make 1t blessed for eternity. Here human
energies, hindered by no desponsm, ex-
panded by the limitless possibilities around
Them. grow Titanic in their grasp on all
natures powers, sport with the forces or the
universe and bend them to the uses OF man,
eloriously realizing the word of Holy writ:
s.frbnn ha crowned q God. with glory
and honor; Thou hast placed him over all
the works of Thy hands, and hast subjected
all things under his feet" Here the human
| heart knowing its own sacred rights, and ro-
specting those of Others should grow Christ
| like in gentleness, in considerateness, III
generosity, in mutual helpfulness, all unit,
| ing in smoothing out lifes roughnesses ana
! conuuering lfe's difficulties and making the
world radiant with the sweetness, beauty and
grandeur of God. Is this a dream? Is 1t not
the will of God? Is 1t not what lie
wishes for His creatures what he made
them for: Is it not the evident mission that
He has given to this blessed new world OF
| ours? Shall she not. with His aid, comPIe-
| hend it and accomplish it!
No wonder that the church of God feels so
entirely at
HOME IN SUCH COUNTRY.
| She too has known what it is TO be ham
| pered and hindered and fettered ana treated
shamefully in the ola world, both by open
enemies and by false hearted, self-seeking
breathes freely, and gladly puts forth all her
mighty powers for The worlds good, in this
! land of Providence, where she has Meth er
| tyranny to persecute her, nor patronlZlng
I hypocrisy to degrade her. She knows what
| il is TO suffer and to mourn in lands where
| proud and greedy creatures of u day trampe
! on the rights of God and of their fellow
! beings, ana where she has To speak GODS
word with batedbreath, lest it should be con-
| sidered an intrusion, forsooth, on the lord
! ship of mans authority. And now she re-
! joices to breathe the pure untalnted air,
| where the millions are free to strive as best
| they can 10 be and to do all that God meant
! them to be and to do, and where her voice
| can speak out in clarion notes the message to
| Gods truth and peace and joy. to minds that
/ are willing to hear it and hearts that are
ready to respond TO it. ow opportune1t It
was that her missionaries, in the
dis charge of their ministry of peace
and blessings, should have been the
first to tell of the wonders stored
up by God and nature in these Western
| wilds! How fitting that the first light show
ing forth TO the people the pathway ottheir
| true progress. should have beamed from the
cross lifted on the rude chapels of the pio-
| neer priests-the cross with its sweet lesson
| of divine love, the finger pointing man to
| his Creator, 10 the giver of ali rights, the
fountain of all blessings, the JOY of all life !!
| How providentially suggestive that this
| great city should have taken its name from
! the little Catholic chapel that stood here and
| that the name should have been that of the
! great Apostle of the Gentiles. the very en-
! bodiment of the noblest energy directed to
| the noblest ends of him whose watchword
| was: Lord, what wilt thou have me 20
do?'' o glorious motto of great and ener-
| getic soul Well shall ii be for this great
| metropolis if it ma Ike that exclamation of st.
| Paul the motto and the inspiration of its life
| GlOriously indeed shall the mighty energies
| of the Northwest be used for noblest results
| if their principle and their guide be ever,
| Lord, what wilt thou have me 10 do?" Great
and blessed surely must be ary land whose
| aspiration is the fullest. truest ana noblest
working out of the ali-wise and all-biessed
will of God! And that, and that alone, is the
desire and the aim of the old church of
| Jesus Christ
You all can bear witness, brethren, that
! such has uniformly teen the spirit that has
guided the church to action among you.
From this episcopal see there has
ever rung forth a voice in which
every hearer could recognize the ac
| Like the voices of Loras and of Cretin,
worthy disciples of the great apostle it has
sounded i'll the ears OF the oppressed and
the needy, inviting them, if only they had
manly hearts and energies, to come where
natures bounty offered plenteous reward to
honest endeavor; and tens of thousands
have responded to his call, and they have
made the wilderness to blossom like the rose,
| and their blessings are daily shOWered on
! their deliverer and their guide.
| Lest human energies, struggling with ma
| lures forces, should forget their true dig
| nifty and worth, and toll only like the OK or
| the horse for feeting ends, that voice has
| ever rung out in loving warming in inspir-
| ing exhOrtatiOn, in earnest reminder of the
true end and destiny toward which all
| energy and and all secondary aims must be
| directed. Beware. ii has cried. lest greed
and selfshness should set up here again
their demon throne, and blast this realm of
! peace, of prosperity, of mutual justice and
| generosity, of real human welfare. Be care
| full to keep God as King and Father, and
then shall all be well with freedom and with
| human rights, for where the spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty
| When a degrading vice, a shameful self
indulgence, was sapping the foundations of
our peoples prosperity, debasing the dig
nifty of human nature. devastating thousands
of homes, wrecking countless lives, crushing
myriads of wailing hearts, blasting
man beings for time and for eter-
nifty, shaming the Church of God, that same
| voice has from here rung throughout the
| land. bewailing the ruin, the folly, the degra-
dation, the burning shame, denOuncing with
righteous indignation the heartless, soulless
greed that has encouraged the awful evil and
! fed and fattened on it. appealing to all hearts
| thatlove the honor of the church and seek
the welfare of their fellowmen to unite their
efforts
IN ExTIRPATING THE EVIL.
| Again, in tens of thousands they have re-
| sponded, and from end to end of the land the
great army of those who are bravely striving
in this noble cause look here to st. Paul for
encouragement and counsel while thousands
of grateful hearts, lifted up from enslare-
ment or from wretchedness, this day invoke
blessings on your archbishop as their delly-
| erer and benefactor.
When the providence of God raised up
among us a fervid lover of the true, the beau
tiful and the good, to plead with burning
eloquence the cause of the highest educa-
ton, of the fullest enlightenment of inteili-
gence and the purest refinement of taste, of
sentiment, of aspiration, to advocate with
| the earnestness Of enthusiastic conviction
| that there should be established in the very
center of our country's life great temple of
| highest and truest learning, whence purify
ing and ennobling influences should radiate
| to the very ends of the lands, 1t was here
| AGAIN in st Paul that the aDDeal found its