St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-05
Charles Mitchell, the Fire
man, Buried Yesterday
With All Honors.
Thousands Of Bushels of
Wheat Will Be Spoiled in
the Fields.
Meeting of the Press Club
Rev. H. M. Simmons on
Light.

uul HOO anu lICNGI CApcCb W UG d
member of the holy Roman Catholic
church, but as Christian man and pub
lie teacher it is my duty, as it is my
| pleasure, to try to understand the prin-
ciples 1t teaches because of the vast in
fiuence it has had III all parts of the
world, and because that power is no
| doubt growing day by day as the open
ings for the teaching of religion are
being made as they never before have
been. 1t is not the province of any man,
and, least of all, that of a clergyman to
denounce wholesale faith which, no
matter what can be justly said in reply
to it, has for six generations stood for
light, for sweetness, for pardon and for
life, to number of people no man can
| number: which has. for more than
| thousand years, had some OF the great
est men i'll its communion known to
| all, to literature and to the service of
men; Which can place its finger upon
the names of 25S pOpeS who have mace
the seat of its ruler the most interesting
| city known to the world to-day; re-
ligion which has now, probably, over
two hundred million people whom it
calls its own by baptism, eight of these
millions being our fellow citizens. |
j
Self-intereSt, that we do seek to know
what are the secrets of its power, how
it is that it has called out such won
derful enthusiasm from age to age, from
the palace to the cot, from the keen
philosopher to the half savage mind.
With these motives l entered the
Eternal city. had letters of intro
duction from Archbishop Ireland to
Rev Monsignor O'Connell, the rector of
the college in Rome for the training of
young men. who are to be sent as
man who would, SO far as L could judge,
be better qualified for the place
than he. A man he is of
wide reading and wide thinking.
On some lines his knowledge appears
microscopic, and on others wonderful.
He knows who Prof. Harper is. what he
did in the East, and what he proposes
to do in Chicago, and how liberal is his
creed in regard to the inspiration of the
Bible; what Prof. Haupt is doing. and
what John Fiske is writing are all
familiar to the rector in Rome, and all
this information Is put to service for
the church, and wide inductions are
made from it to prove the need of
central, undivided and infallible
authority.
There are about $500 students for
The priesthood in Rome, and these
men are to be sent into all lands. Now
each college, as the French, English,
German, American, have all at their
head men who know the language, his
tory, literature, genius of the countries
for which they are to train priests and
the propaganda, sees that the teaching
is good, safe, and Roman Catholic. 1t
is the aim in all matters of order, not of
faith, to. bring the church into touch
with the peoples of the earth. Any OBJ
server can see that in America the one
constant aim is to have the church in
sympathy with the people, and the peo-
pie in love with the church; that the
points of difference are not to be made
prominent, as between Christian men,
for the Roman church has never
name of Father, Son and Holy
Ghost is valid even if by layman it be
| done; and they say that all are in the
soul of the church, though apparently
outside of it, They would be in it If
they saw it duty so to be.
In Rome all this is to be seen. We
may learn lessons from our neighbors
in this. They work on in patience in
the faith of the triumph of the truth as
they understood it. We say we known
better in many things than they. / so
rectitude in the abuse of things which,
to devout souls are precious, but in the
very earnest, self-s acrificing work for
the truth as God has made it clear to
us, and by noble deeds that we shall eS-
tablish and extend the faith we love.
That man is untrue to our American in
stitutions,i is recreant to the best interest
of the Union who seeks to stir religious
strife. Let every man work for his own
faith, proclaim it, live 1t, while he re-
spects every mans convictions as his
own. In Rome lessons which once were
considered learned have had to be re-
considered. 1t was thought monarchy
was breakwater against the progress of
the faith, and that in Kingdoms it would
be harder for the Catholic religion to
make Roadway than in republic, in
which the schools of the masses were
controlled by men who did not belong
to the church. That fiction is exploded.
1t Is well known now that in America
they have better chances of growth than
in France. Your politician all the wide
world over is the same kind Of creature.
men who can vote, call forth, If not his
| love, his earnest consideration; and if
| they number million or more his
ready service. So Rome does not say it
| in the silent places; it SAYS it in clear
| tones. Il love the United States
1.-The authorities of the church are
| alive to the fact that the greatest loss IL
| ever had was that of the England of
the Reformation, because the English
! speaking people largely rule the world
| OF commercial activity, and its church
sends out mighty influence into all
| Englsh-speaking lands. Roman Cath
olics also know that the English Ian
guage is growing power, which gives
| promise Of being in words what
the pope, they think, is in re-
ligion, the head. And so. seeing
the result is SO desirable,
no we'll considered plans are left I'M
tried to convert the Anglo-Saxon race
and its descendants to the faith they
hold dear. All this. is clear to man
| who is in Rome week, if he meets in
telligent members of the church. To
this result every plan is viewed, wheth-
er it be a sisters mission or a Roman
Catholic college in Washington; wheth-
er it be preaching friar in New York
or German priest in Wisconsin. And
SO far from heaplng blame on them, /
honor them for it.
"And, as one sits in Rome and sees
how hard the task before them is, how
they must, like Moses, die and not see
the plan complete in its results, one
does not know which the more to adj
| mlIo Tic Sell dull6BdbiOll anu ccnS6crd-
ton, or the high and holy faith for
which they stand, even if it be, as we
think, obscure. 1t must never be lost
sight of that in all its history, in its
love of tradition, in its indulgences, In
its, as we believe, undue evacuation of
the ever blessed Virgin, in the doctrine
of the immaculate conception and in the
infallibility of the pope, the Roman
faith has stood to say to men, Christ
is the son of the everlasting
God; that He died for men; ;
that salvation is here to be found. 1t
has said sin is indeed real. 1t has stood
for pardon, for grace. for good works.
1t has never pandered to the belief that
death ends all. but lite through death
it has proclaimed to all its daughters
and its sons. Some of the most tender