Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-28
IGNATIUs LoYoLs.
The Subject of Rev. Dr. Cailaghan's
Lecture Inst Night.

Lecture Last Night.
Last evening Rev. J. f.. Callaghan, ID. D.,
rector Of ST. Cecilia's church, Walnut Hill,
delivered lecture in the church Of The Holy
Family corner of Eighteenth and lard, on
"St. Ignatius and the Company OF Jesus"
before large and evidently very apprecia-
tive congregation.
The reverend lecturer began by giving
a graphic description of the struggles
and trials OF christianity in the
first century OF its existence.
Nineteen hundred years ago." said the
lecturer, "there came n sound from heaven
OF strange, mystical melody, sound COM
pared with which even the music Of angels,
prostrated before the throne of God, is as
nothing; sound throbbing with the spirit
Of God, and IL came TO brood over the
church From that moment there appeared
in the history of the world new race of
heroes. The name of Jesus rose above the
wreck Of Roman paganism.
"Out OF that divine name and the divine
truth which il covers two organisms were
borE one divine in its life, and, through that
divine organism came healing for
every wounded soul. IL was not II divine
organism established to create material
comfort or to widen the means of material
happiness. We do not read in the commits
sion of the apostles that they were ever
sent to build railroad from Joppa to
Jerusalem But it's mission was TO make
men worthy citizens OF heaven.
Now, akin to that first organism is another
form, its shape, its color, its literature,
its art, its science, solely from the
divine power of the nome of Jesus and
from the divine organism, and that is the
Catholic church, the organism of the living
God. One was an eternal society, the other
was its earthly counterpart. The world ac-
cepted the name of Jesus as the
shibboleth Of salvation, and in return there
was born of that name christian common
wealth. All Europe, the world accepted the
divinity of Jesus Christ. 1t was Il paean of
Joy for all the ills that flesh is air to.
What was the work upon society wrought
for fifteen centuries in the name OF Jesus! 1t
took the pagan law and IL stripped that law
of its despotism and il clothed IL with the
charity of Jesus. AS Emerson has well said,
'rhe principles of the Cathoiic faith and the
doctrines OF the Catholic church, teaching q
divine legislator ruling all, was the proclama-
ton OF the first principles of democracy that
found a home.' 1t took the poor and
in the name of Jesus it clothed them with
the purple of its divinity, and it told the
rich in u clear, emphatic, never wavering
voice that the poor had right to Il portion
of the wealth OF which God had made them
the custodians. 1t wiped out the badge OF
depreciation from poverty and the stamp of
servility from the brow of the workingman.
1t clothed both with dignity and it preached
divine equality in the name of Jesus 1t
silenced with its voice of truth the errors of
humanity as it silenced, with love- the long,
unabated cry of the poor. II broke the fet-
ters of ignorance with its wisdom
as it broke with its love the
fctters of the slave 1t took the
lost Of mankind, the parah, one of the pro-
letariat and it put upon his brow the Giadem
before whom kings bow; the diadem OF the
figure of Christ giving to him the power of
the name and all the authority of the divin-
ity of Christ. II levelod all castles. There
was neither Greek nor Gentle. The work
of Jesus was twofold in its character. bless
ings upon the individual and benedictions
without number on the community.
But there came sad hour, the most de-
plorabie in the history of the world since pa
ganism went down with its rottlng garments,
an hour when supernatural authority was
denied in the worldn
The speaker then dwelt upon the rise and
progress of the reformation, introducing in
his reference the statement that God sought
for man to rebuild the bulwarks of chris
tian faith, to rekindle the flame of learning
stem the tide of heresy and open up new
lands and new fields of labor. That man
was found IN Ignatius Loyola, and that
serried phalanX was found in the company
of Jesus.
Speaking of ST. Ignatus, he said: Cleared
in luxury, nurtured in Incidence, fondled in
court, bred to the science of arms, it
seemed poor beginning for saint-four
elements out of which 70 shape q christian
hero. But God saw in the calm, cold intel
lect of st. Ignatius, joined to that magnetic
power over the affections of men, leader
| who would again I'LL the weak places of earth
with the fires of virtue, who would again
| lift up the human mind in Its soaring after
| knowledge. He found one who would not
| only leave his mark on earth, but would
| leave the stamp of divinity on his own brow,
| and his name as an heirloom for generations
of his company until the end of time"