St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-14
CAPITAL and LABOR
DISCUSSED BY ARCHBISHOP IRELAND
--MeHY ENGINEERS PRESENT..
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
Do Unto Others as You Would
Wish to Have Done Unto Your
seIves-Property Will Always,
in View of Our Conditions, Be
UneQually observation-disclosures.
full Discourse.

Iul Discourse.
About two hundred B. l.. E. delegates
attended service at the cathedral yes
terday morning. and listened to timely
sermon by Archbishop Ireland, it being
powerful discussion OF the subject of
capital and labor.
His remarks were well received by
them. and were as follows:
The church celebrates today tho
festival of PentecOSt, the anniversary
of the coming down of the Holy Ghost
upon the apostles. There are in the
Christian dispensation two manifesto
tons of the divinity; one in our blessed
Lord. Christ Jesus, the incarnate God;
the other i'll the descent of the Holy
Ghost upon the apostles on Pentecost
Sunday. The mission of the holy
Ghost is to continue the action
of the divinity as first made
manifest in Christ Jesus, and to quicken
by continuous influence the growth of
truth and grace in the souls of men, In
promising the paraclete, Christ an
nounced HE will abide with you for
ever" and thus the divine action upon
the world begun over eighteen hundred
years ago, continues as merclful and
| potent today as at its first effuSiOn. We
may well thank God for this pouring
out of His power upon US. We need 1T.
Without 1t, what strength have we?
What hope have we? What Supernatu-
raj truths do we know?
Man in his destiny and constitution is
human and divine He is human, Gre
ated to live upon earth and to busy him.
self with the things of earth. He is
divine, having soul capable of the
infinite and thirstiEg for the infinite.
whose final destiny is to be immortal
with God in heaven. We need the
divine for our divine life, and we need
1t for our human life. The twOfold
destiny of man is III practice one, the
divine having its influence over the
human, and the human. even in its own
sphere, needing and demanding the
divine. st. Paul said most truly
that "Piety. having the promises
of the life to come, has also those
of the life that is" A false and
misleading idea of Christ's religion
would be that it serves only for the life
| to come. and not for the life that is.
| With this notion in mind, men would be
| tempted to leave the thoughts and prac-
| tice Of religion to those who are par
ticularly intent on the life to come, or,
! SO far as they themselves would be con-
cerned, to postpone il for some leisurely
| need it, however, for this life; even
| those who take this narrow view OF
| mans destiny and mans duties that
| they limit them to this world, cannot,
for the sake of this world, overlook the
teachings and the grace of Christianity.
| Religion enters as most important
| factor in the very life and interests of
this world. Religion eliminated, some
thing absolutely necessary is wanting.
| and things go astray. l instance those
| social questions which are at the pres
ent time agitating the minds of men.
| In his encyclical on the condition OF
labor Leo XIII. lays down this primary
principle: mo practical solution of
this question will ever be found without
the assistance of religion and of the
| church, Doubtless. this most serious
| question demands the attention and the
! efforts of others besides ourselves-of
the rulers of states. of the employers of
labor. of the wealthy and of the work
! ing population, those for whom we
| plead, but we affirm without hesitation
that all the striving of men will be in
vain if they leave out the church."
Religion. the church, which is relig-
| ion made concrete and active. does not
| propose of itself alone to give practical
| solutions of all those social diffic ulties.
| As the pope remarks, employers. labor
ers. state officials have their part in the
task. What religion gives, and what,
without religion, cannot be had. is, first.
| principles which will guide men in their
searchings after solutions, and next.
motives of action for all men,
whoever they he. and strength of
| soul for them to do what they
| all movements are as the compass for
the ship at sea- Without them, men
wander aimlessly, often travelling along
a road from which afterward they must
| retrace their steps. Principles for the
human mind and for human action are
| the eternal laws of the Creator. They
| are the laws to which He subjected men
when He created them and assigned
destinies to them. These principles are
made manifest to US in Christ's gospel.
| ChrSt'S gospel, then. must be the text
book for all social movements. The
| gospel gives US first this might saving
| principle dignity of man. The
mistake of many social theories and
| practices is that man is for
gotten and his mechanical energy
| solely considered, just as the ma
chine is viewed valuable only for its
power OF rotation, or its power to impel
other pieces Of matter. Christ through
out His preaching teaches that all men
| are the children of God. heirs of heaven,
| and brothers among themselves. The
beginning of this Whole social solution
was given out by the Man God when He
| taught us to pray "Our Father who art
| in heaven" Our Father! We do not
dare lift UP our eyes towards the skies
| without acknowledging that God is the
| Father OF all, and without asking Gods
| grace and gifts for all: Give US this
day or daily bread" Christ died for all.
Consequently, whoever the luan, be he
rich Or poor. be he employer or en-
| pioye, he is our brother, separated from
US by the merest accidents, hav-
an immortal destiny, a soul
SO valuable before God that God made
! man died for 1t. In each man we must
| see the child of God put upon nth by
the will OF God for purpose, and hay-
| ing, consequently, from Almighty God
i the right to work out His purpose. Men
being all brothers, the gospel precept is
| of easy observance: love one an
other;' do unto others as you would
wish to have done unto yourselves"
! Christians must acknowledge the dig
| nifty Of all men: i'll whatever position
they may be placed, we must not mere
ly see their physical power, but see.
back of the physical action. the agent,
who is man. IL child OF God. And as
Tar as we can operate, as far as we can,
by word and act. Improve social condi-
| tons, we must aim to have each and
every man, whatever his condition,
treated so that he may live as child of
| God. with divine destiny before him.
The second vital principle given 10 us
by the gospel of Christ is that of justice
to one another. We are all brothers,
and consequently all have to be treated
with due respect TO their being and the
rights of their being. A man must not
imagine. whoever he be. that he is put
| upon earth TO live all by himself. or
that his mission is to crowd out all 9TH
ers. Such is the habit of savage, wild
| beasts; but men are members of
one family, and are made to live
with one another in peace and
harmony. Therefore. they are made
| to rpcnvniZa one annIhpr Nnu anni,