The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-03
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at the root of things, and all your con-
tradlcllens vanish. Nature will appear
as realizing Gods. purpose incomplete
~; supernature. on a grander scale.
boln are means, not ends; economies,
Iiot LnaIltles; avenues, not goals; parts,
not Wholes. How can they be contra
Q1ctlons! Supernature is an addition to
human nature, a complementary fur
therance of it along the line of it's re-
turn TO the eternal source from which
II sprang. God has surely not called
INTO fequls1tion the fullneSS of his pow
er, nor exhausted the infinite store of
ms energy in the production of this lin
lteo world of mind and sense. The sum
OF humah-truth and the sum of cosmic
energy are surely not the gauge and
measure of divine knowledge and ac-
tlon- Ine limits we see, were surely
not set by God to his own power, but
to ours. The constancy of the universe
is the constancy of the God who is back
of it.
There must be truths in the Infinite
MIND and power in the Infinite Will
that exceed the constituted course Of
nature What, therefore, is to hinder
I GOD from revealing himself still more
! IN the intellectual order, in the moral
as well as in the physical, by calling
INTO activity this surplusage of power :?
I In dong so, what else is his action but
an addition to the ordinary efficiency
'of human Understanding, human will.
| or natural force? Away with you
Averroes, and fly into space! Nature s
| laws are constant if you will. Mira
cles do not affect their constancy. Nei-
| ther does theology. They simply indi-
| cate the self-eXistent acting on a high
| er plane, and working out the one same
! eteTnally constant plan by means Of a
superior, parallel order of phenomena.
Addltion is the word, not contradictions
Falth ADDS to reason body of new
truths; grace adds to nature a higher
state and set of higher powers; mira
cIes add to ordinary efficiency; the
Church is the care-taker of the eternal
| end, While the State looks only to the
temporal. Christ is the sum of history
| and theology the sum of all philosophy.
| ana imperfect man is led by this double
SET OF agencies-of Reason and Faith
OF nature and of grace, of State and of
Church, of study and of science and of
Wonderment at miracle, to a fully de
Neloped, supernatural and everlasting
seithod in close, direct and unabating
communion with the God of Glory, who
IS the final Goal of all development, the
satisfaction of all desire, the expansion
OF all Intelligence, and the solution of
all mystery.
| Such is st. Paul in his own epistles,
and as written out to full stature in the
course of Christian thought. Such is
the message of this spokesman of the
we are members of a university fffill-
supernatural the patron of this facul-
ty We live in an environment today
which sorely needs just such an eXpan-
slVe World-view, and we are members
OF university whose deepest roots are
stuck fast in the reality of this higher
lie. About US are many men who have
deiuded themselves into thinking that
the truth of religion can be determined
by studying its development, either in
the individual or in the history of the
race; who seem utterly unable to reflect
that the psychological genesis Of an
idea is not TO be confounded with it's
philosophical worth They have hope
lessly sunk the religious order in the
physical; they are endeavoring to play
the symphony of the universe back
ward, and to listen once more, like old
Pythagoras, to the music of the
spheres. Their Christianity is like the
Salaminian ship which, still pretending
to carry Theseus, has now, by reason
OF perpetual removals and repairs, little
left of the original timber. They have
become enthusiastic apostles of cosmie
motion, travestying the idea of the su-
pernatura and aprodying it as the |
ghost and hobgokin of the Semitic |
races still haunting Christian thought. |
Hypnotized by the narrow and arbi-
trary method which they profess, of |
viewing every idea solely in it's origin,
their eyes are blinded to the fact that
the idea of the supernatural, although I
a product of faith, is also a philosophic l.
eorollary of belief in an infinitely in
telligent God, and no relict of previous
ghost ancestry or of eastern mysticism.
Would that their blindness were like /
that of Paul on the road to Damascus.
But we, members of the line all, in
Catholic university, which cherishes a
theistic philosophy that is no blank
disc of indefiniteness, which points out
the road to saintship as well as to
and certainly both are
equally hard, we, I say, should realize
full well in our innermost RELIGIOUS
selves that we shall miss both egreg-
riouGly if, failing to cultivate the, sense
and habit of the supernatural, we retro
grade in faith while advancing in
knowledge"
After the religious ceremonies the
Right Rev, Rector entertained the
Apostolic Delegate, Most. Rev. Arch
bishop Martinelli, Bishop ELECT Share
tai, Rev. DR.. Rocker, Rev. DR.. Magnieni
Of st. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, the
Deans Of the different faculties and the
members of the Faculty of Theology.
o
The January number of the Bulletin h
a number of articles that will
repay perusal. Rev. DR.. Pace writes
On the Concept of Immortality in the
Philosophy Of st. Thomas" The reIa-
tons Of the soul to the organism during
life is outlined, and the consequent
of death is shown in it's bear t.
ing upon the vital function. The
Priesthood and the Social Movement'91
IS treated by Rev. DR.. Kirby, who calls.
the question lis being asked: Is our ctV-d
lization Christian? What is Christian
ty worth? He reviews four classes of
answers made having particular stress
IN that the Catholic Church. Rev. DR..
Henebry has a paper on Eugene
CGrowney and the Revival of Gaelic " !
which contains an account of the pT1n-
,ipaI events in British and Irish his.
.ory in their bearings upon the lues-
ion Of language. 1.-THE Poetry of Israep'
s the title of an article by ETnestv-"
IS the title of an article by Bneas
3. Goodwin, who has made Independent
examination of the Hebrew Scriptures,
n order to ascertain the use and infiu-
ence of poetry on the social life of the
,arly Israelites And DR.. Shahan treats
If q new edition of the works of Hip
,olytus, a Roman writer of the third
century. The Bulletin contains. be-
fdes,~ a number Of important and
engthy book reviews, an account of {
Archbishop Keane's collecting tour, and lie
he usual university chronicle. f
The Right Rev. Rector was in Wor- l
ester lately, and delivered the princi- !
'al address at the Alumni association /
Meeting of Holy Cross College. He will 2
peak in Chicago on Feb. Z. Right Rev. 1T