The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-24

for Instance, Is. of necessity, calculated
to teach self-sacriice and patriotism to
the children within. These virtues pro-
coed from a deeper source. and are the
outcome of sound teaching based on COR
rect principles regarding the origin and
sanction of secular governments.
And, by way of p~arenthesis, the asso-
citation mighty on paper that assumes
to itself the thankless task of saving the
flag from destruction; that has it's rami-
fications in every town in the and capa-
Bile Of supporting a sewing circle; that,
under It's three mystic letters suppresses
an overplus of patriotic zeal; this asso-
citation was ready, before the war, to
equip an army of two hundred thousand
men to resist foreign Cor Catholic in
vasion of American Institutions and
privileges. Before the war we notice.
I was with Grant the stranger said; said
the farmer, Say no more When the
real necessity arose this tremendous asso-
citation found the woods very conveniently
near, and took to them, with surprising
unanimity.
Young gentlemen, your voice and your
vote will, in the near future. be factors
of motion in that wonderful machinery
called the Government, and it behooves
0 to hold with tenacity to the sound
principles that have formed part of your
training here. You must be good citizens
because you are Catholics, and the deeper
and better planted, and more vigorous
YOU religion is in you, the purer, strong
er and more unselfish will be your love of
country.
THE obedience that your Church
teaches you must be paid to your secular
superiors does not depend upon the per-
~sonality of those in authority; 1t matters
not that they be intellectually great or
Insignificant; whether endowed with ma
lures choicest gifts of soul, or as hideous
and m~isshapen within as was Cal
ban without. Above and beyond
all personal reasons for obedience
in the Catholic apply the
words of st. Paul. Let every soul
no power but from God. And they that
resist purchase to themselves damnation.
Gentlemen, you are about to leave the
sheltering care of your mother. Her first
thought when you were given to her was
to prepare you for eternal life. and it is
your solemn duty to see that her anxious
solicitude be not betrayed. She sends you
out. not educated, for education is CONF
plete when life itself is finished, but fully
equipped for future education. Some of
you will adopt the learned profession;
his one to the practice of law the other
to the healing of the sick; some will de-
vote themselves to business, and many,
we hope, will take Excelsior for their
motto, and give their talents and energy
to the service Of the altar.
But whatever you do, whatever line of
action you choose for your life's work,
let obedience be our guide and standard.
Obedience is founded upon humility, and
humility is opposed to the prevailing
American idea of personal and national
independence, but there is nothing humil-
iating in a rational man submitting his
will and service to a power higher than
himself, and if the powers that are, in
the secular sense, are ordained by God,
how much more are they ordained by
God. whose mission comes directly from
Him? Therefore the stamp of true man
illness will be upon your lives if you are
obedient children of the Church. To you,
the Bishops and priests of the Church
are divinely appointed teachers, and with
the simplicity of disciples you will sit at
their feet and learn from them the les
sons Of eternal life.
Here comes the peroration; admoni-
ions to keep up the friendships OF college
days. that your future associations may
Hbe guarded and made safe by the contact
Of Catholics. The Apostolate is in this
that the 1aity will edify even our enc
mics, by their obedience and loyalty"
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