The Irish standard., 1893-10-28
A A GRAND A. TRIBUTE u
ArchbisRop Ireland's Eulogy of
Oarc1tlal Gibbons at the Silver
JVbilee Celebration.
4 MAGNIFICENT DISCOURSE.

IL MAGNIFICENT DISCOURSE
The Cardinal is the American o1
Americans and Most Loyal Co.,
Laborer of the Pope.
At the celebration of the silver episco.
pal jubilee of James Cardinal Gibbons
last week, Archbishop Ireland delivered
q grand discourse in the Baltimore Cathe-
dral, from which the following extracts
are taken for the edihcation OF our read
;ers: a~
This evening be it my coveted privi-
4ege to honor man among men. The
record of the cardinal archbishop of Bal
timore I speak with pride and exulta-
ton; it is the record should have traced
for my ideal bishop and leader OF rnen in
those solemn times through which the
Church is passing.
The times are solemn. There has been
since the opening of the Christian era no
epoch in history when changes 50 pro-
found and so far-reaching have occurred.
There is in the physical sphere of human
activity complete revolution. Discov-
cries and nveLtions have opened to us a
new material world. Social and political
conditions have been transformed. In
tellectual curiosity is ante ase and peers
with acutest eyes into the recesees OF
earth and sky; intellectual ambition,
-maddened by wondrous successes in
smany fields, puts ON most daring wings,
CsaRd challenges all limitations of knowl
The human heart is emboldened
into stfangest dreams, and frets itself
into desperate efforts in presence Of all
!, barrierssto the impletion OF it's desires.
Let all things be nsw, il the watchword
of present humanity, and to make things
new is its STRONG resolve and to this end
are pledged it's most fierce activities,
which, in whatever part of mans realm
they are exercised, find their illustration
in the steam and eiectricity of the new
material creation. " M
In the midst Of these times the Catho-
lie Church moves and works andspro-
fesses, us her charte,: obliges her, to CON-
qner mSysds and hearts, individuals and
society Her mission TO the world is
what it has been for l. ng centuries; but
the world wears q new aspect The.
Church eails upon the waters of the same
ocean, upon whose bosom she has glided
since her first.departnre from Palestine;
but new winds srouble those waters, and
toss them into unusual blllows. There
cannot be much need OF argument to
shoNs that there ought to- be new move
aaents of the helm in the ship Of state,
Md new unfurlings of canvas from her
masts The opportunity for great and
singular men among the Church's sons
is nigh. To-day old time routine is fatal;
the commonis today wcrn-out senility;
the cri9s demands the new. the extra
ordina1s and with it the Catholic Church
shalL the grandest Of her victories,
in tkesgrandest Of her history's ages.
.Ykere is discord between the age and
tRa; Church. Wesrecall the fact with
sprrow. The interests Of society and re-
Iiksion suffer, while misunderstanding and
separation exist. Only in the peace of
harmony will both find weil-being and
progress.
The fault lies with the age and with
the Church, or, rather, with patrons Of
the age, and patrons Of the Church. Age
and Church rightly apprehended are in
no manner at war. The age, as we have
seen it, is at fault. Elated with the ma
terial and intellectual successes the age
is proud, and exaggerates it's powers. 1t
imagines that the natural, which has
served it SO we'll, ie all sufficient: ittends
to the exclusion Of the supern atural; it
puts on the cloak Of secularism, In its
worship Of the new, which the march of
progress brings to Ii, whatever is old is
suspected. It asks why the Church may
not lie new as we'll as it's chemistry.
sa The Church, as she comes before us IN
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the sections Of church men, deserves her
shazs Of reproach. speak as : Catholic
with sincerest love for the Catholic
Church. We know the divine elements
"a thu Church shich Christ has made the
depository OF truth and grace. and we
have 5ullest faith that those elements are
at all times guarded under the nnerring
breathings of the Holy Spirit. But we
know, too, the human clements ID the
Eharch. Men in the Church retain their
human parts. and upon Il cir wisdom and
their nergy very much of the Churohis
5outxaad veal is made dspepdent. The
Chuleh has had. her epaohs differing ON
hother il eht and glory
md iClstholic psopls
eht md
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