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

Draw the people In all charity, by word
and example, to the sweet service of
Christ. The race about you is impreg
mated with the spirit of liberty, indus
try and manly assurance; noble field
In which to work, and, priests of Amer
lea, do you but add to the natural vir-
tues of the race the supernatural vir-
tues of your faith, and thus prepared
live in the people, with the people and
Tor the people.
1 have spoken the word "superna-
tural Now the great peril of this
age is that it shall drift into natural
ism; that it's knowledge and morality
snail cease to be founded on principles
that come to us from revelation. Moth
ing Is more contrary to Christianity
and social we'll being than naturalism.
Hence the necessity of training our
clergy so that while knowing things
supernatural they shall not remain ig-
norant of the natural sciences. They
must be able to show that natural and
supernatural orders harmonic, how
faith and reason, theology, the science
of things revealed and all the sciences
of men concerning nature cannot but
be in accord as proceeding from the
one eternal truth. In this important
work of conciliation those natural sci
ences should be kept prominently in
view which correspond to the condi-
tons and needs of the present age.
From this conSidera ton / draw a Spe-
c1al commendation for this seminary
Of st: Paul, where, in addition to the
principal studies Of theology and phil
osophy, are to be cultivated specially
all the natural sciences that occupy the
thoughts Of men and are become in the
hands OF too many masters an armory
of weapons against Christianity. Let
the students that shall come forth from
this seminary wrest their weapons
from the foe and thus draw the reason
of the faith that is in them not only
from revelation but also from nature.
nj thnca yhn ~. -
this country of ours. / see in the pres
ent condition of mankind three ele-
mentS or phenomena which rather add
to the restoration and extension of
Christianity and should be taken into
account in the shaping of a seminary
of today, if our priests are to be fitted
to bring back or to hold society for
Christ. The first is that the age feels
scientists hold in high esteem facts
and experiments, the third that man.
kind is grouping for the solution of
what is known as the social question.
our priests that they may show to
the world that it's aspiration after be-
lief is to be realized in the Christian
religion and in the church, which is
the organized form and the concrete
expression of Christianity; that they
may show what Christian truth is
based on and protected on all sides
by the experience of centuries, and
tory. that they may show that the
social question can find no consistent
solution but in the principles taught
by the Savior and in the application
posed by the church. Any other
solution starts from wrong principles
or leads to false conclusions, or is
lacking in practical power to get itself
ests of the two parties concerned
the classes and the masses, the capital
ist and the laborer.
Then, turning to Mr.. Hill, DR.. O'Gor-
man. still using the language of the
papal delegate, said: ''And to you,
sir, let me say a few words, not as
coming from myself, but from his holi-
ness, the head of the church. When
you hrst spoke to me some two years
ago about your intentions in this mat
E ter YOU spoke of what you thought a
catholic priest should be in the highest
development of his possibilities, and
your remarks, as well as your benefi-
cent intention filled me with admira-
ton. Your intention, as you expressed
1t to me, waste make a Catholic priest
suca as you understand he should be
to accomplish his mission in this coun-
!. try, and shall never be forgotten by
me. You would have, him a holy and
learned minister of God and a social
guide Of his people. You would have
the moral honesty of his life based not
on motives of faith, but also on the
-1ounlty for the good of the community
ne spectacle of blameless citizenship,
nd so you would have his private life
follow the golden mean that lies be-
/ 4ween luxury and penury, and you ac-
knowledge that these thoughts guided
you in the planning of your magnificent
project. These were noble thoughts,
and in this. group of buildings you have
given them most fitting expression
Many, sir, are the monuments you
Will leave behind you to bear to the
remotest posterity the fame of your
broad, keen mind, of your Christian
and generous heart-half the con
nent belted with iron roads, palatial
steamers plowing our inland seas
vast tracts of land brought into cul-
'uvation and. teeming with an indus
tr1ous population those two cities grow.
-, ing with. the growth of your enterprise
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 institu-
ton. For you have given it to a church
that can die from earth only with the
: race. 1t is an institution that deals
s with souls and things that are immor.
: tai; 1T is an institution from which
unnumbered generations shall reap the
: greatest blessings that heaven car
on mankind. And so may ii
blessing in life and death. in
and eternitvto yourself. to the
: 1obie-hearted wife, who reioices in fbe
work, and to the children who are
! the inheritors of the glory that tbe
! Hill. --|'ie VI d D.