St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-06
MGR. SATOLLI SPEAKS.
CATHOLIC CONGRESS- OPENED WITH
HIS ABLE ADDRESS.
DRAMATIC SCENE WITNESSED
When the Papal Delegate and
Archbishop ireland Appear
Bishop Watters0n Sounds the
Keynote on the Labor Question
DIR. Barry and Others Talk
Message From Leo.

Message From Leo.
CHICAGO. Sept. 5.-'1n the name of
Leo XIII. salute the great American
republic, and | call upon the Catholics
OF America to go forth, in one hand
bearing the book of Christian truth and
in the other the constitution of the
United States.''
The papal delegate. Satolli. wrapping
the purple folds of his robe of office
tightly about him, and speaking with
burning intensity of feeling that sur
prised and enraptured the great multi
tude of people listening, delivered this
message today in the Catholic congress.
The scene was dramatic in the extreme.
The papaI delegate had but moment
before been received with thunderous
burst of applause when he was seen
mounting the platform with Archbishop
Ireland. and the personal representative
or the Roman pontlff to the United
States was literally shaking under the
stress of the excitement of the oc
caSion, which was his first public
appearance at national gathering
since his appointment to office, and
doubtless III his own eyes. and as III
those of many, was regarded as his ia
stallation in office. Before addressing
the aggregation. Satolli had been con-
Quoted to great, black, towering chair
OF honor, of curious. ancient workman
ship, said to have been brought to
America in one of the expeditions of
Columbus. Here, with much majesty
and with his mentor
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND,
on the lower chair beside him, the dele
gate, with eyes aglow. measured the
throng before him, while Judge Morgan
j. O'Brien, of the New York state SUI
preme court, the presiding officer OF the
congress, delivered an address of well
come. and the sea of spectators scanned
eagerly the massive jawed, firm
mouthed, daZZling-eyed man who had
been sent by Leo as their spiritual ruler.
To add to the memorable picture, there
was seated near the chairman the arch
bishop OF Zante, of the Greek church, in
his strange costume of Office, while on
the opposite side of the stage were two
turbaned representatives of the fai tn
of Budha, who had come into the hall
TO witness the proceedings.
The papal delegate spoke in his own
tongue, the Italian, and his words were
afterwards translated eloquently by
Archbishop Ireland. Satolli spoke as
follows:
This congress assembled here today
will beyond doubt be productive of
rich and magnificent results. You have
so framed it as to show that the church,
while opening to men the treasures of
heaven, offers also to them the felicity
OF earth. All congresses are, so to speak,
the concentration of great forces. Your
object is to consider the social forces
that God has provided us with and to
apply as far as you can to the special
circumstances of your own time and
country these great principles. Now,
the great social forces are thought, will
and action, and in congress you have
before you these
THREE GREAT FORCES.
Thought finds its food in truth. So
in all that you do-ln all the practical
conclusions that you formulate-you
must bear in mind that they must all
be based upon tue eternal principles of
truth. Will has Its sphere in the recti-
tude of the human heart. and until the
human heart is voluntarily subjected to
truth and virtue all social reforms are
this action must be regulated by truth
and thought, and both these by virtue
i'll the human soul. Applause
The well-being of society consists in
the perfect ordering of the different
elements toward the great scope of
society. Order is the decentralization of
the different Relationship different
elementS-one to another. And these
relations to which men are subject are
pi1 i'm tAd
and nature.
Man has, first of all, his great duties
to God. which never must be forgotten.
He then has his duties to himself and to
his fellowmen, and, finally, he has re-
latjons with the great world of nature
over which his action is exercised. And
from the several considerations of these
different relations spring up the great
problems which have veXed mems mind
the great problems which today are
before us; in view OF the different eyo-
luton, social and otherwise, which
marks our modern nature, and it is for
the consideration OF these that Your
social congress is formed today.
Bear IN mind that there was first
GREAT SOCIAL CONGRESS
which is to be the model OF yours
which gave out the principles which
must underlie your own deliberations,
anu that social congress. the ideal and
model of all others, was held when
Christ, surrounded by the thousands of
the children of Israel, delivered his dis
course, the sermon on the mount. GAp-
plause.
There the solution was given to the
human problem; there was laid down
the vital principles. seek first the
kingdom of God, and its justice and all
other things will be added unto you"
Seek first the kingdom of God; look up
to the Divinity, whence come down
truths without which man is absolutely
at sea.
Men should not devote their whole
being and all their energies to the seek
ing of mere matter. Justice is before
all, all self-satisfaction, before all at
tention to ones own personal wants,
and blessed are the merciful; blessed
are they VINO know and feel that they
do not live for themselves; whose hearts
go out in sympathy to all their fellows.
Applause.
This must not be world of slavery,
where the multitude live only for the /
benefit of the few. |
There is throughout all this universe
Throughout the story of mana divine
proyidential dispensation. Blind is he
who sees it noti and he who studies it
not courts disaster. He who would have
only the natural without the super
natural fails and must fail. The super
natural comes not TO destroy or elimi-
nate the natural, but to purify it. ele-
vate it and build it up.
Today this is the
DUTY OF CATHOLICS.
to bring into the world the fullness of
supernatural truth and supernatural
life. This especially is the duty of a
Catholic congress.
There are the nations who have never
separated from the church, but who
have neglected often to apply in full
degree the reasons of the gospel There
ara the nations whn hava rnna ont