The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-24

the world ara obligated all men are reduced to the one level, The humblest woman in the world can enter the fin, est Catholic cathedral and feel at home and at peace, The steeple With its cross Is token of shelter to her. Fur theE the lowllest infant boy may be. come @ pope,
 q respect the Catholics for their reverence of ther places of worship, In their cathedrals, church and chapels there Is an absence of the whisper and the jostle that are heard and felt in our Protestant churches, l don't be- lieve in holy water holy bells and so forth but l do believe that We should respect the church as the house of God the gate to heaven,
 q also like in the Roman Catholic church the eXalting Of motherhood in the Virgin Mary, They know that Mary was not the mother of God, but in her they raise motherhood to the highest, to the supreme.
 Further, I like th5 Catholic church because virtue is current there They make no distinction in morality as some of our evangelists do who speak of mere morality and other kinds, The Catholic church never speaks con | temptuously of morality, but some Pro- testants assign it to g very inferior place.
 "The Roman Catholic church deserves great credit for the spirit and the poli- | ty by which she holds her members. No other power on earth could do it.
 'The world owes a great debt to that church for being the patron of art and music, sculpture ad architecture. The grandest cathedrals are Catholic. So are some of the subIimest sculpture and painting. and much of the best music has been composed by Catholics. With such architecture, art, music and her | liturgy, no wonder that the Roman Catholic church is so impressive
 ''rhe Protestants now recognize the fact and are slowly introducing some of these into their own, churches. The Catholic church appeals to the eye and other senses with her grand houses of worship, her sublime music. the paint ings, the statues, the incense, her pa geantry of ceremonial, and her author ity speaking with no uncertainl voice.
 q have been among the Catholics, and I find two classes-the progressive and the conservative. Some of the most tender-hearted, sweetest souls ever met is in that communion. Their piety so profound, their spirit SO self sacrificing, their unflinching loyalty to God and humanity to man were the ncblest traits. Remember Father Da- mfen among the Hawaiian lepers. See the sisters of charity and of mercy ad- ministering to the yellow fever victims at Memphis, Tenn, risking their own l lives to save those of others and with out making any distinction of cresd. I You find these noble women in the midst of every pestilence, silently strug- gling to save the life spark of others and often losing their own. They are a credit to their church and the world
 T would look upon it as calamity if the Catholic church were dis3rganized. It would be perilous if5she lost her hold on her maseses, her 200,0o0, ,0oO She has done great, grand service Like all other institutions she has goodness and irairmities, No other church can take l epWeNy 1lC4 CAA1ulsi IlQIlt ilGI pSCullaf teaching and no other organization can hold them.
 "oh, looking toward Heaven with the light again falling upon his broad forehead, "ohl for the. unity of the spirit in the bond of peace! May We find that peace which the world cannot give and the world cannot take away
 Next Sunday evening the Rev. MT. Dickerman will speak on tsThe Good Things in Episcopalism the Religion of Ceremony