St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-08
ITS TENTH ANNUAL
St. Thomas College Celebrates
the Feast Of Its Patron
Saint.
MANY CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN
Witness the Ceremonies and
Enjoy the Sermon Of Rev.
VIM. turner,
MANY CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN
WHO AS STUDENT AT ROME
Received High Eonors for His
Attachments - A Musical
Programme.

Yesterday the faculty and students OF
st. Thomas college, Merriam Park,
suitably celebrated the feast of its
patron saint-Thomas Aquinas. 1t was
the tenth annual celebration, for 1t is
ten years since the college was built
and put under the protection of the
Angel of the Schools. At 1890 a. m.
the slow strains of Gregorian music,
emanating from the college chapel,
were evidence that the day was being
begun with solemn high mass. Former
students of the college officiated. The
Rev Gabriel Andre acted as celebrant;
the Rev. Joseph Creminski, deacon;
the Rev. j. German, subdeacon. Mr..
Schumacher, a present student of the
college, acted as master Of ceremonies.
At the offertory the Rev. L. Simon and
NJ. A. Doland, both of st. Paul semi
nary, sang "Attende Domino"
Among those present in the sane
tuary during mass were noticed the
Most Rev. Thomas L. Grace, arch
bishop of Sinma; the Right Rev. Mgr.
Caillet, V. c., president st. Paul SEM
mary; the very Rev. ]. c. Byrne, pres
ident st. Thomas college; Rev. ]. F.
Dolphin, Rev. j. Yori, Rev. j. +. Mac
Evan, Rev. A. Hurley, Rev. ]. j. Law
Ter, Rev. John Conway, Rev. T. Moore,
Rev. T. F. Mcclure, Rev. F. Polaschi,
Rev. H. Moynihan, Rev. NJ. Mcintyre,
Rev. A. j. Gerhard, Rev. A. McNulty,
Rev. A. Cestelli, Rev. F. Shaefer, Rev.
Patrick Danehy, Rev. M. Mccartney,
Rev. r. 7. Burton, Rev. p. ]. Boland,
Rev. l. Santgeratti, Rev. ]. E. Mar
tin, Rev. James j. Woods, Rev. j. J.
Fitzpatrick, Rev. T. j. Gibbons, Rev.
P. Charegre, Rev. T. Kennedy, Rev.
George Doyle, Rev. William Calbert,
Rev. c. GEMS, Rev. J. H. Busch, Rev.
James Trolies, Rev. j. Fitzgerald, Rev,
p. Hart, Rev. P. Gaughran, Rev. j.
Cunningham, Rev. j. Harrington, Rev.
7. Venn, Rev. P. F. McCarron, Rev.
T. Gleason, Rev. Richard Cahill, Rev.
Alphonsus Carey, Rev. Patrick Shea,
Rev. Dennis Barrett, Rev. John Glea-
son and Rev. F. Nissan.
The sermon of the day was preached
by the Rev. William Turner, a young
clergyman who, as a student in Rome
received the highest honors for his at
tainments in Thomastic theology and
philosophy.
FIR. TURNER'S SERMON.
After speaking Of the natural and
the supernatural as side views, partial,
imperfect, surface presentations of the
One Divine Idea, views distinguished
only by the application of relative
test, the capacity of our created ma
ture, the speaker went on to draw at
tention to the solicitude with which
God has preserved the supernatural
truths which He has revealed. He
said:
IF such be Gods care that men |
Should know and love the truth which |
is above them, what shall we say of |
His care for truth of the natural or |
der? Saul, by the express command of |
Jehovah, was anointed at the hands of |
a prophet; ambition, corruption, civil |
strife placed Augustus on the throne |
Think you that the Roman empire was,
therefore, less an object of solicitude |
to the Ruler of the destiny of man than
the establishment of a kingdom in |
Judea? Think you that the rise and !
Fall of nations, the growth of industry, |
The development of art, are not part |
and an important part in the plan of |
Divine Providence? We have the BIZ |
BILE, and we are thankful for the les |
sons which it teaches. 1t is Gods own |
JUN, nay, IL 10 Ollo VI Ills |
books. The other is that broad book |
of nature whose laws proclaim TO |
them who can read them the exist
ence, the power, the goodness and
MERCY OF IT'S CREATOR.
cit is, thus, Gods design that the
natural and the supernatural should
blend in one harmonious system of
thought"
Then followed brief sketch of the
life of the saint. at was not what
one would call an eventful life; rather,
let us say it was a life in which ideas
were events"
They fail, however, to appreciate
fully the work of st. Thomas who see
in his writings a mere refutation of
the errors of his time . In the
writings of st. Thomas one may see
not a, purely negative influence, a sim
pie arrest of a counter current, but a
natural, long-looked-for step in the
direction of
INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS,
a true evolution. Raphael, the MASTER
artist, has represented in his School
of Athens group of the philosophers
and scientists of antiquity. In the CEN
ter stand Plato and Aristotle, the one
looking up in rapt contemplation of
THE SUPREME GOOD,
the other, with a gesture of calm I'M
imprisoned love of truth, speaks by
his attitude the great tenet of his sys-
tenn that all our knowledge avails not
unless it be founded on experience.
Plato's conceptions are grand, SUBJ
lime, far-reaching; Aristotle's are solid
and scientifically exact. Where Aris-
totle is deficient Plato supplies his de-
ffciency; where Plato is weak, Aris-
totle furnishes the support of evidence
from experience. st. Thomas saw the
defects of both, and, with a confidence
Oorn of humility, viewing both sys-