The Progress., 1893-02-04

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Z that meant sometime. and done IT so
cmphatically that it has caused the
Church of Rome 10 take its stand by
Edward McC;lvnn, Cardinal Gibbons
and Archbishop Ireland.
There is no sort Of question about
where America is going to stand i'll this
| contest These f2yiiOns are not going 20
stop tomorrow, but in the fight that Is
/ to come there is certain to he triumph
Of one of them. Olc of those factions
stands for the American idea of free,
broad education; the other stands for
| the narrow ecclesiastical conception OF
an education that is no education at all,
along the line simply of a catechism and
under the sbadow of an ecclesiastical
machine. In the development of that
struggle you are to take an important
part. We are 10 give unqualified sup
port and friendship and fraternal greet
| ing to the patriotic Catholic who believes
in his country and his flag. | believe
! the time has come when Protestant
| Christianity shall JOIN hands with that
wing of the Catholic church which Is
represented by the spirit of Nineteenth
| century liberalism and breadth of view
and say: We are brethren. We stand
with YOU TO-DAY, ana we VIII back you III
/ this movement, and give You not our
curses in this fight, nat our earnest and
/ honest Chri,ti.A .;;rg.rt."
TIE Ct,.. e. r>.HEa M'OLN,N.
| thought ai Gr-, Ii WAS u calamity
that Dr Nr,5.t..S went bGck 10 Ia
Ca1no5c cher.n i..l,h" Crar!rst man
that las draw: .~.. sword against th'
Ro.t ma.a-- = hin the present ora-
tury. Iic t-.ts .-..s, heart and jr'.n
of a"y iaJu bu,.. N,o ,35 drawn IT,
sword against the power at St. Peter
since Martin Luther nailed his theses
on the door of the church at Wittemburg,
and had hoped that he might come into
the Protestant fold But it seems God
did not so will il. and believe his re
turn will bring with it so broadening
and sweetening M influence that it's re
hcx will he felt throughout the entire
length and breadth Of the Catholic world.
If we Judge by the developments in the
past month or two, it would seem we
nave reason to hope for this.
Seconds the Church Of Rome an
ally, and can il be used as a power for
the salvation of the world? l beliJro it
is possible in the future development Of
this nation. In the first place, nine
tenths of our doctrinal agreements arc
Identical with the Catholics; the one
tenth on which we differ is the question
of ecclesiastical machinery. And Rome
herself is coming to democracy. and
when she agrees to the great funda-
mental principles of democratic gov
ernmont III the state she will come at
last TO the other, for the state yields the
basis ON which the church will be built
in the future.
The Church of Rome in this city today
is doing a work for the foreign masses
we are not doing. This town could not
be held from the devil for twenty-four
hours if it were not for the power of the
Catholic priesthood. You would have to
turn your guns into these streets and
sweep them with grape and canister
without them. What have you done to
reach these people: Nothing. What
are you going to do? Nothing. Who are
doing that work? The Jewish rabbis and
the Catholic priests. If they do not dc
it, it is not done. If you take those
forces away, you have left the people alb
solutely in darkness. If that is fact.
you have got to recognize it, and that
these forces are being utilized for good.
Then | admire the wisdom and skill
of the Catholic church and priesthood.
They have more sense than Protestant
ministers. They are more skilIful. They
have longer heads. They know better
how to grasp and hold a city. Go and
look at their big churches here today. |
In my western trips The biggest churches
/ see are the Catholic churches. They
were the first in the town, before the
other denominations thought of building, |
and the priests got the lots for nothing
too-long headed men that look far into
the future and seize their opportunities
and hold on to them forever.
While other churches lost their rights |
to church and title in this city, they had
sense to go to the legislature and have
their titles perfected while you were
asleep. And then they do not preach on |
Sunday and cay to the people. You can
go to the devil during the week" They
teach their people that what they preach |
on Sunday is to be pat into life on Mon
day, and the priest can say things that
have great power and influence in the
political world. When Hill said, 'Give
me the saloons, and you can have the |
churches" he was talking about the
Protestant churches, not the Catholic |
Why? Because our Protestant churches |
are a disorganized mob-every man for |
himself, dog eat dog-while the Catholic |
church goes right on to its triumph and |
glory, incarnatinga power for righteous
ness here.
CHRISTIAN IS AS CHRISTIAN DOES.
From Catholicism today we should |
learn divine lessons of unity and of the
concrete application Of truth in every
day life. The question is, in fact, what
a Christian does, not what he processes.
We have got the best credible creed |