St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-01

humanity. He reminds us bishops and
priests that our highest and noblest
mission on earth is to promote the moral
and social well-being Of the people. In
MS luminous encyclical on the conStitu-
ton of Christian states, our holy
father proclaimS the fundamental
truth, which is sometimes for
gotten or controverted, that the
Catholic religion is adapted to all
the times and all places, especially
under republican forms of government,
and thank God we can hear this evening
the sentiments of our holy father. and
In the light of experience and obServa-
tion can affirm that while the church
mas had to struggle, and while she still
struggles for existence under the dark
shadow of deSpotic rule, she grows and
expands like the oak of the forest I'M
der the free air of our republican insti-
tutions. Nowhere is the benign author
ity of the pontiff more respected and
honored than in these United States.
Our
FiliaI Devotedness
toward him is not less strong because
less noisy in its demonstrations. Our
loyalty to his spiritual jurisdiction to be
wasted in frothy declarations; the fire
that burns in our breast is too sacred to
be allowed to explode in rhetorical
speeches. In hOnorlng the pope hope
he will not he suspected by unfriendly
critics of man worship. We worship
the one true God. We honor the pope
because he is worthy of all veneratiOn.
We revere him not only for his personal
virtues, but especially as the highest
representative of Christ, and the un
compromising exponent and vindicat0r
OF our Christian civilization.
In his admirable encyclical on Chris
tan Marriage the holy father pro-
claims truth which has a special sig
nificance in our times and which ought
to be needed by the American people.
1t is that if our Christian civilization is
to be saved and perpetuated, the sanctity
and lndiSSOubility of Christian mar
rage must be recognized by the masses.
He tells US that the marriage couple are
the source of the family; that the fam
lily is the source of society and that the
stream does not rise above its source.
In his latest
EncycIicaI On Labor.
the holy father proclaims the rights
and dignity of labor and of the laboring
man. lie tells us that Christ, by His
teachings and example, has ennobled
labor, and that ever since He toiled at
His trade in Nazareth He has shed
halo around the works hop. In all his
public utterances the pope proves that
he is abreast with the times and that he
is in sympathy with the legitimate as
pIratiOnS of humanity.
1--WE thank the holy father for his
message of benediction to the venerable
metropolitan of st. Louis on the occa-
sion of his golden jubilee-a patriarch
al prelate who is the connecting
link between the past and the
preSent-whO has seen the church
of America in her struggling
youth and who upholds her today in her
majestic developments; who has seen
the episcopal increase from Is to $50
bishops, and amid this bright galaxy he
has ever been a burning, shining light
for half century; prelate sans peur
ct sans reprOche, who, like His Master
with the scOurge in the temple, has the
courage of the lion to rebuke iniQuity,
and, like His Master at the tomb of
Lazarus, has the tenderness of a child
when SympathiZing with sorrow and
suffering.
Most reverend archbishop, with
heartfelt pleasure, [ discharge my com
mission by handing you the gift from
the pope" This gift is portrait of his
holiness in handsome gold frame,
brought from Rome by the pope's cham
berain, Mgr. O'Brien.
Other toasts were responded to by
Corrigan, of New York;
Jensen. of New Orleans,
and others.