St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-05

of the striking passages were being
! repeated, his grace would knit his
! brow, clinch his fist and gesticulate
as though he were delivering 1t him
| self. Then, when the passages eulo-
! giving Archbishop Ireland and Mr..
| Hill were being read, he would roll
| his eye around in the direction in
| which they sat, as If to see how his
| praise sat upon them, and as his
| glance met Archbishop Irelands stern
! gaze, he would begin to laugh in a
| manner that brought smile to the
countenance of both the archbishop
and the big railroad magnate The
| audience frequently interrupted the
reading by applauding.
Following is the address in full:
The solemn Inauguration of this
seminary devoted to the study of the
ology, philosophy and the sciences is
an occasion of rejoicing and congratu-
| lation to the clergy, the faithful. the
| citizens of this city, this state and
the great Northwest. An enterprise of
this kind Is beneficial not only to the
church, but also to the state. What
| ever fosters clerical and religious edu-
cation makes for the cultivation Of the
| civic virtues and therefore for the
| common good. Such is the relation be-
tween religion and the republic that
Whatever benefits or harms the one
benefits or harms the other, for both
come from the One Supreme Being
and have been placed by Him In the
world to live side by side in friend
| ship.
The young men trained for the min
1stry. of the church cannot and should
not forget, whether during the years
! OF their training or later on during the
time of their ministry, that they are
| bound by the requirements of their
office to foster and uphold by word and
deed the highest and purest citizen
ship.
whoever studies history knows that
the church in adversely or prosperity
has ever cared for the welfare of So
ciety, that as soon as she gained
| foothold anywhere she established
! schools not only for the training of her
ministers in their specifically profess
| sional studies, but also for the teach
| ing to them and others of every sci
| ence that was within the reach and
compass of the various times within
| which she lived.
That she has been the foster mother
| and preSerVer of knowledge through
| the formative centuries of European
| civilization is a fact denied by no one
| who is not sunk in ignorance of the
| past. This being so, l am not wrong
| when 1 say that among the more re-
markable and eff1cacious means for the
/ promotion Of the civic virtues is the
| institution Of seminarieS, and that they
| are among the peoples greatest bene-
factors fact r,aod. and deserve greatest glory
| IN establishing or perfecting homes
| where chosen youths may be formed
into learned ministers of the church
/ and model citizens of the state
Fifty years ago the illustrious New
man spoke thus of the church in the
| United States: Few passages in the
| history Of the church are better calcu-
| lated to raise the Christian heart in
/ n nd 70 fha
| OF all good than her fortunes in the
| United States, fortunes which are
| greater promise still in the future than
| the present accomplishment" Did he
| er would be his admiration at the
| present condition of the American
church. For during the last fifty years
this church has made such progress as
lands and ages. If 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 on
| ward impetus has carried in it's trail
| the suffragan diocese of Minnesota and
| the two Dakotas. And yet your aston
| ishment at the prosperity Of the North
west in the religious and temporal
stop to consider the two chies causes
of it-John ireland and J. J. Hill.
With two such men, religious and ma
terlal progress can be but a matter OF
mind to conceive, honest and inflex:-
I bic Will to execute, wealth to realize
| and the progress is a necessary result.
In the makeup and friendship of these
/ two men you will find combined those
| three qualifications, and finding them
/ you need not wonder at the result
ABOUT SIX years ago I was present
at the inauguration of the Catholic
| city of the United States. There / be-
held present not only the hierarchy of
the country, but also the chief men of
the state : President Harrison, Vice
secretary of state, James G. Blaine.
cabinet ministers, justices of the su,
preme court. What meant their pres
sence and what was the burden of their
1 though they differed from Us in relig-
lous belief, yet they mad come to offer
their congratulations because Cath.
olic university, glorious as it might be
advantageous to the republic, mas.
much as it fostered knowledge ana
morality, without which no govern
ment, much less a democracy, can
live. They were right. After all wha<
IS a democracy but the best balancing
between authority and liberty =? And
what is balancing? Liberty, safe and
secure, accompanied by all the civic
virtues, holding steadily the safe way
between license and servitude; author
1ty, which is the product rot of human
will and pleasure sut of God, the
source and principle of all rights and
duties, recognized honestly that it is
limited in exercise by the form of gov
ernment adopted by the people; that it
rs vested in the man chosen by tine
people, and therefore by Providence,
to be the bearer.af it.
Now I could bring forth any number
of arguments from holy Script and the
traditional teachings of the fathers
and doctors to show that the church
has ever sought and upheld this just
balancing of liberty and authority. In
deed, she has been forced at times to
pass under the yoke oe despotism and
license; but even then, when the pas
sion of the despot or the fury OF the
rabble assailed her, she never ceased
to vindfcate the rights of jIst and
moderate liberty against tyrants on
the one hand and on the other the
duty of the governors to rule the peo-
pie for the peoples good. She is the
holder of the scales wherein are laid
liberty and authority, and in her hands
the scales balance. 1t IS her peculiar;
glory to have saved the race IRON 6es-~
potism and license; to have raised it
from the shame of vice and the dark
ness of ignorance; to have called iEto
being wherever her voice was heard a
new civilization, which is Christendom;
to have broken the idols, religious and
political, of paganism, and out of the
scattered fragments to have tuilt up
nations on principles that con from
heaven; and all this She mas dOne by
/ the power of Him "who is able
raise out of stones children of Abra-
ham,
Look into history and you will see
that in the middle ages She fostered
blessed and protected republics. They
fell, dt is true. but say If it was because
of their connection with the church.
No; the usurper of the mob through
excesses of authority and liberty be-
came deaf to her voice, violently up
hq1QnninO
hand, and so the medieval republics
went the way of all things, because
as Institutions human that assert their
independence of God they went to ruin.
The one great lesson that Leo NIT.
has taught the world during the eight
cen years of his pontifcate, has taught
the country in the encyclical be adj
dressed to us last year, is this: That
the republic cannot stand without re-
ligion, and ought to live in friendly
concord, peace and unity.
Think not 1 am wandering from the
subject in hand. 1 have just stated
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