St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-05
Yesterdays Celebration Possible.

lie Yesterdays Celebration Possible.
wealth; more and more equal dis
aspiration of the world to be realized
in the thoughts of many by impracti-
cal dreams and impossible Utopias.
The church has the real solution. The
ethics she teaches, the duty. of labor
ducton of wealth, and she alone has
the moral lessons and influence that
render the use of wealth just and hui
name. AS to the distribution Of riches,
What power Is more needed than the
one that proclaims the principles of
Justice and charity, the fatherhood of
goa and the brotherhood of man?
1, II you take Christianity from this
movement, leave man to drift with
the unrestrained passions of his fallen
nature, civilization will go and bar
par1sm come back. Shall the priest
pe allowed to remain in ignorance of
70 be the greatest revolution in the
life OF the race unless it be guided
oy the principles of the Gospel.
NOTHING TO FEAR.
From all these transformations the
church has nothing to fear. Christian.
lty IS not philosophical system that
anether .ant system may overthrow; it is
theory will belle. 1t is a. fact and an
institution that has held the world for.
nineteen hundred years and has stood
tne boid ofqnt +h OF thousand attacks. Be-
allu out of its shade have passed mon
archlst and republican, Egyptian.
creek, Roman, Mohammedan and the
nineteenth century European, Pharaoh
ra "a ms cnariot, Alexander in his litter,
SSeed, Napoleon on his war horses.
The pyramid has stood and seen them
al pass; the pyramid stands to see in
Ine Iuture how many new conquerors
wave their banners and clash their
steel about it's immovable base. Let
men and peoples and ages come and go
us the way of things human, amid the
ssnlItng. procession the church stands
h DGhss4Wlng a Ife-giving blessing on
Whatever Is good, a whitening curse on
Whatever Is bad, in things human. For
lne generations, as they pass. busied
tnough they, be with the f1eeting inter-
I ISIS OF the hour, must look up to her
| and death that Yex, their souls and
Iaust accept the answer, wherein is the
oiesslng, or spurn it, wherein is the
; curse. 81 Sc rear not for the church. She
order; in her are the princinIes The
strength, all the resources to guide the
new movements of humanity, as Leo
ALL. is showing. and doing No fear
~ o., .ne ,enurch there Is not the ques-
t1on nor our present concern.
! line energy of the church Is annIied
70 mankind by a human agency. her
priests. The energy lies dormant until
loosened by, their hands IF they
there be faiths T The eapr priest h0M is faa fha
Keeper of knowledge. and from hin
shall the law be sought. "And what
| contlnued the prophet, eff he depart
Stumble stu 81 'ae a WAY sSS ,a and cause many to
saltn the Lord, II have made you con
| Iempt1ble and base before all peonles.
VIII send poverty ON you and will
curse e,nCss your blessings; I will scatter
emnities.' More than Sacrifice. sac
raments, worship and rites has been
committed to the priest-knoWledee of
Ine law and Of order. Individuals and
isSp1 ipgSopies 5. may perish, as they have per-
ished, If priests have not the knowledge
or fall to do their duty; and that duty
is not some abstract theory, but the
work of the hour, the requirements of
tne age and the land Things old are
safe if things new be attended To- for
II Is from the new that comes danger
to the Old
The seminary of this day and of this
ana land cannot ignore the civil, natural
to theological science as its chief and
professional subject. Through the
science of the day. as through pre-
ambles of faith, the priest reaches the
tu,.iu tnrN aIia M. neart OF the nineteenth CEN
l.
to preserve and defend Scripture tra-
dltlon, philosophy, from the attacks Of
men who think there is no conciliation
between the old and the new.
Give US a clergy so trained, and the
civilized world in its onward movement
Snall continue to be Christian. Then
humanity and Christianity, like Tobias
ana the archangel, together will set
ooe. ooe. -, descend the rivers, cross the
pack safe to the Fathers home. One
tnlng more I would add, without
Whlch knowledge is but a skele-
ION ION lacking nerve, muscle, blood
OF the language. Ah, here it is We
are deficient, and our enemies or1frivaJ
US. II humanity listens to them it is
| not that their systems are accepted
] understandingIy or give the answers to
| the questions that vex mans soul
] but 1T is that the ear of the century
/ has been ravished and its imagination
I mas been captivated by the charm of
4 an eAqulslte speech. The English Ian
\ widest home is here Give us, then.
4 clergy holy, master of knowledge and
expression, and America, destined by
\ Irovidence, according to all appear
! ance, to- be the theater upon which the
modern movements are to have their
greatest and quickest DEVELOPMENT.
america shall be Christian and Catho-
nc- Such is the purpose of the ST. Paul
Wider sense, is the purpose of the Cath
| olic, university of America to which
your seminary is affiliated. Such is
the programme outlined by Leo XIII.
In science Catholics ought not to be
followers but leaders," IS the watch.
word that has come down to us from
| the Vatican.
| One afternoon in the winter of 1879
when our city was but a village and
It's cathedral the second story in the old
brick building, which many of you
remember standing but a few years
ago on the corner of Sixth and Waba-
sha streets, the Right Rev. Joseph
Cretin arrived only few months be-
fore to the newly created see of ST.
Paul, took from a school room in the
basement Of the old brick building two
boys, led them to the altar, bade them
kneel with him and said, 'I put yon
under the protection of God; you are
the beginning of the diocesan semi
nary of st. Paul A diocesan semi
nary! Such was his dream and his
/ prophecy; such, too, was ever the hope
of his beloved and venerable success
sor, the archbishop Of Sinnia, who is
still, thank God, with us. The dream
has been realized the prophecy accom-
plished and the hope fulfilled by one
of those boys, now your Archbishop.
Z. Not many years after the Incident
have just recorded there came to the
growing town of ST. Paul young
man of keen brain and indomitable
energy, who, while he steadily climbed