The Irish standard., 1895-09-07
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that the education Of their children goes
hand In hand with Their spiritual training.
thus making them an additional burden.
Having seen the efforts of Arch bishop Ire
land:in behalf of the church, Of which he
lis so distinguished a prelate; to spread
throughout this country the light of reli-
g.ous truth and show, to all men that there
was no conflict between scientific or ply
steal truth and divine revelation. felt
called upon to devote a portion Of this
worlds goods with which ] have, been
blessed to the work Of education for the
priesthood men who would be able to
preach,down the spiritsof unbelief, and to-
stand as shining lights along the pathway
that leads to heaven. The work which
has been commenced here and has today
received the blessing Of your church, con-
tinue to send out men who will bear wit
ness to all the world that no nation or peo-
pie can long prosper, or even continue,
without the aid and direction of living
and active Christianity,
Following Mr.. Hill Mgr. ,Satolli made
lowing extract is made:
Fifty years ago the illustrious Newman
spoke thus Of the church in the United
States: Few passages in the history Of
the church are better calculated to raise
the Christian hears in admiration and
gratitude to the Oliver of all good than her
fortunes in the United States, fortunes
which are greater promise still ia the
future than the present accomplishment
Did he live and write today how much
greater would be his admiration at the
present condition of the American church.
For during the last so years this church
has made such progress as would take five
centuries in other lands and ages. II this
statement be true in regard to the country
at large, how much more true is it in
regard to the archdiocese of St. Paul,
whose onward impetus has carried in it's
trail the suffragan dioceses Of Minnesota
and the two Dakotas. And yet your as
constituent at the prosperity Of the North
west in the religious and temporal
spheres will be diminished if you but
stop to consider the two chief causes OF 1t
John Ireland and ]. J. Hill. With two
such men, religious and material progress
can be but q matter Of course. Given
three tliings-breadth Of mind to con-
ceive, honest and infexible will to exc
cute, wealth to reaiZe-and the progress
is necessary result.
In the makeup and friendship Of these
two men you will find combined those
three qualifications, and finding them you
you need not wonder at the result.
Closing, Mgr. Satolli said:
q Catholic priest, such as you understand
he should be to accomplish his mission in
this country shall never be forgotten by
me- You would have him a holy and
learned minister of God and social guide
of his people. You would have the moral
honesty of his life based not on motives
Of faith, but also on the social ground
that he owed to the community for the
good of the community, the spectacle of
a blameless citizenship, and SO you would
have his private life follow the golden
mean that lies between luxury and pc
nury, and YOU would acknowledge that
these thoughts guided you in the plan
ming of your magnificent project. THESE
were noble thoughts, and in this group OF
buildings you have given them most tit
ting expression. Many, sir, are the mon
uments you will leave behind you to bear
to rehotest posterity the fame of your
bread, keen mind, of your Christian and
generous ucdlC-ll:1Il CuC COA OSAI.A
with iron roads, palatial steamers plowi4g
our inland seas, vast tracts of land
brought into cultivation and teeming with
an Industrious population, these two cities
growing with the growth of your. enter
prise and soon, we hope, to become one
great metropolis. But, sir, nobler and
more lasting than all the works to which
is attached your name is this institution.
For you have given it to a church that
can die from earth only with the race. It
is an institution that deals with souls and
things that are immortal; it is an insti-
tuition from which unnumbered genera
lions shall reap the greatest, blessings
that heaven can begtow on mankind. And
so may it prove blessing in life and
death, in time and eternity to yourself, to
the noble-hearted wife who rejoices in the
work and to children who are the Inherit
ors Of the glory that the work will bring
to the name of J.J. Hill. !.