St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-05
ARCHBISHOP,S ADDRESS,
Picturing the Vista of the Future
Years.

The assembly hall IN the chapel
building was crowded to witness the
exercises last night. It was a re-
| markable gathering, the majority of
| those present being in full evening
| dress. 1t was composed of the leading
| citizens of the city of all denomina-
| tions, among the number being nearly
| all the army officers from Fort Shell
| ing, the judges of the district court,
| prominent railroad men, state officials
| and others, with their wives and other
| members of their families. The ca
pacfty of the hall is only about ], 600,
but enough people went out to fill it
once and a half.
The background to the platform in
| the hall was decorated with the ma
! tional colors, and on either side of the
| platform, in addition to Archbishop
| Ireland, Mgr. SatolIi, J. J. Hill and the
| other speakers, were seated a number
| of archbishops, bishops, priests and
| leading laymen of the Catholic faith.
! Shortly after o'clock Archbishop Ire!
land began his address, after first read!
ing the kilograms from Cardinal RAM
| polla, papal secretary of state, and
from Cardinal Gibbons. The archbish-
ops words were frequently applauded.s
especially when he referred to Mr.. and
Mrs. Hill. He said: =
Events are to be measured in their
Importance far less by their immediate
| circumstances than by the results
which are likely to follow from them.
Indeed, the Immediate circumstances
of events have meaning and value only
so far as they symbolic and give
promise of results. L shall lose no time
in telling the splendor of the baptismal
day of st. Pa,uls seminary. This splen-
dor is seen by you. Let the words
which it is my privilege to. address to
you open to your eyes the vista of the
future years along the lines of its pres
ent purposes and it's present hopes.
My grateful heart, however, compels
me to voice at once its deep emotions.
I thank the tens of thousands offriends
of the seminary who have during the
day honored it by their presence. I
thank those who this evening grace
our assembly room-so many among
them men famed in the land for hon
ored services to country, to humanity,
to God. In a manner most special 1
thank his excellency, the apostolic
delegate, whose personal recognition
we prize most highly, and through
whom comes to st. Paurs seminary the
honor of honors, the recognition of Leo
XIII
The noblest work is the uplifting of
humanity to higher planes of thought
and action. God the Creator laborS
for humanity through all the myster-
ious operations of nature; God the Say
ior la.bors for it through the merc1ful
dispensations of His incarnation and of
His church. The true and good men of
all ages have sought to do as the Di-
vine exampled. No man may consider
his own life served out to it's due pro-
portions unless it has contributed to
the betterment and elevation of the
lives of otherSmen.
Humanity is not sent upward by a
mechanical process; men are moved
onlv through their intellect and their
will. and the education of those fac
ulties is the royal road to human i'm
provement.
Progress comes through education.
Mere charitable and philanthropic ap-
nliances which staunch the wounds,
or still the ache, though sweet and
IMeritorious. and rewarded by earth
and heaven, are temporary antidotes
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humanity; they place it not upon high
er levels. To uplift you must educate.
A most effective method to the edu-
cation of the masses of the people
is the education of their chieftains and
leaders. No class of men in the COM
monwealth own that educational in
fuence which is the appanage of the
clergy They are the official keepers
Of hn vital
ment in observation-disclosures truth !;
and the authority with which this fact
invests them spreads itself through
countless ramifications over the whole
intellectual, moral and social life. The
| education of the clergy, to the fullest
share of knowledge proper to their
calling, and to the fullest realization
| of. their responsibilities. is the master
| work in the education of the whole
| people. st. Paul's seminary is the
school of the Catholic priesthood of
the Northwest. We honor it because
of its high purpose; we rejoice in it
because of the glorious things to come
from it, of which it's apostolic name,
St. Paul, is the sacred augury.
| ST. Paul'ss seminary proclaims to-
| night it's solemn pledge that the edu-
cation given within it's walls shall be
at all times the best and the highest
| Nothing short of the best and the
highest is worthy Of the priesthood,
worthy Of the cause the priesthood
| represents, and of the interest which
it is to serve. Should st. PauIs SEM
mary ever, in days to come fall be-
low this evenings ideal, be it public
| ly mathematical as faithless to it's
| baptismal promises-faithless to the
| just demands of it's founder, faithless
to the inspirations and orders of it's
sponsor and first archbishop.
\ Christ yesterday, today and tomor-
| row. The Savior of the past is the
| Savior of the present, and will be the
Savior of the future. His doctrines
| and his moral enactments, not reduced
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