The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-01-25

4 wife and family could not give as much
to charity as do now, nor would u be
| free atsall times to go where the necessl-
/! ties Of my business call me. Or, per-
I haps, can better illustrate it to you by
supposing a case OF two newspaper men.
Both have started on their journalistic
careers. They are evenly prepared as to
intellectual ability and education. Each
has his own place to make in his profes-
sion. Suppose one should say, l am go
ling to get, married and have a good time.
am going to do what I can, but l will
enjoy all the good things of life as go
basis he begins his newspaper work,
His family and social life take up a great
part OF his time and his energies. The
other man decides to have no mistress
| but his profession 1t is his only aim,
his only thought Which in the end will
do the most work? t..
"Then, again, speaking of Catholic
priests" the cardinal continued, 7 Won
der if you realize how long it takes them
to prepare themselves for their work. 1t
requires twelve years Of hard study for
4the best of masters before they are
deemed worthy to have charge of a
church. The boy who feels that he is
called by the Lord to the priesthood,
having already received large part of
his common school education, has, at the
age of Is, to go into college and to re-
main there for six years, studying the
ordinary branches, the sciences, ETC., in
connection with his religious work, and
at the end Of this time he has six years
more of theological training. He is as
sociated with the best minds of the
church, and these twelve years are, as a
rule those of the hardest kind of study
and work. T.
| The conversation here turned to the
Sunday question, and I asked the cardi-
nal as to whether he was in favor Of the
European or Puritan Sunday. He re-
piled that he was in favor of Sunday OBJ
servance, but that his ideal Sunday was
not the Puritan, nor was it the European
Sunday Said he: Il like the closing Of
the shops and all kinds of business on
| Sunday. and think it is blessing for
Baltimore and for all Of our cities that
this is compulsory. I think all kinds, of
work should be stopped on that day.. l
hope we shall never have the European
Sunday in America. Sunday should be
a day OF religious rest, but it also should
be day of innocent recreation. do not
think it wrong for a man to go out riding
with his family on Sunday afternoons,
nor to take a walk in the fields. I think
it should be day of cheerfulness with
out dissipation, of religious enjoyment
without sadness or melancholy. The Pu-
ritan Sunday goes too far, and the ideal
| Sunday is the golden mean." I'll,
| Cardinal Gibbons has the brOadest idea
las regards capital and labor. He be-
lieves in labor organizations, but froWns
upon the walking delegate, and says that
whoever tries to SOW discord between
the capitalist and the laborer is an enc
my to social order He has many times
had great influence with the laboring
classes in time of strikes and has done
much to harmoniZe the differences, which
exist between them and their employers.
He is an enthusiastic American, thor
oughly believing in the separation in this
country of church and state, and an en-
thusiastic patriot upon all occasions.
| 1t was at the close of one of DR.. Tai
mages lectures on his trip around the
world that chatted with him on relig-
ious matters, putting much the same
questions as those I asked of Cardinal
Gibbons as to a universal religion. Said
l.: "After all your travels, doctor, do you
still believe that the people of the world
will some day be altogether Christian?"
| Yes replied Dr. Talmage. II have
no doubt whatever of that. 7 believe it
because God never launched a failure.
The only salvation for this world is the
Christian religion. Its acceptance by all
people and the carrying out of it's prin-
ciples would form the croWning beauty
of this wonderful universe. God built
this world He cannot do otherwise than
see it completed in its perfection and
beauty Sin cannot prevail. The devil
cannot triumph. The world is steadily
l 1o%t tHr
every day. It's progress in charity, phi
We go back 200 years to find suitable
philanthropists to use as examples CT
models in our speeches on charity today.
The greatest philanthropists of the world
are those who are living now. There are
so many of them, that no one thinks Of
them. Schools are founded, great hos
pitfalls are built, and churches are estab-
lished almost every week by charity any
one Of which would have created a great
sensation 200 years ago. We take it now
as matter of course, and donation Of
hundreds ofithousands of dollars is hard
ly worth an Associated Press dispatch" !"
Speaking of foreign missions, doctor,
is it not fact that the heathens often on
leaving their own religions become inf
dels. and accept no religion?'
| 1GS, S(LIcLlulSS,. was C4lc ISplS.
not as much as IS generally supposed. The
missionaries are doing vast deal of good
] They are doing wonders in Japan, and
they are reyoIltionizing India. I met
with nothing in my travels which i'm
pressed me 80 much as the religions of
India Hindooism and Mohamme edanism
have for years been hardening the hearts
and lives of the people there, and the con-
dition of the women is horrible. assure
you I would rather be a horse, a hog. or
COW in America than a woman in India. =
elbow about free thought in America !?
Do you not think infidelity is spreading?"
'sNo, do rot, was the reply. There
are more churches now than ever before.
Religion may be gauged just as other
things according to the supply and the
demand. If there is not a. great demand
| there will not be a great supply. We
have new churches because there are men
to fill them; and the size of our churches
and their number increase every year.
More money is spent on religion now than
ever before The Christian stands higher
| in the community and the day has now
come when men are not afraid of being
called Christ: :ans. In some respects the
! churches have changed. Religion is more
| liberal and more a matter Of the soul.
I The fences between the sects are being
lowered. Christians are becoming united
and they are working together The old
questions Of sect and doctrine are passing