The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-23

lifted his church in all its essential ele-
ments above the specuiations of the
human intellect; he placed her founda-
ton on the holy hills, and beneath her
the outStretched eternal arms. rms
church will then speak to you all or the
great historic church of Christ, the
same in all ages. the same IN all ehnes'
so that standing in the presence or It's
legitimately ordained bishop as he or
fers the sacrifice of the mass, or eX-
plains the gospel to the people, you
have the certainty that you can trace
his spiritual lineage back through an
uninterrupted succession of pastors to
the mountain side in far off Galilee.
where Peter stood with his brethren
and received the commission from
Christ: GO teach all nations whatSo-
ever I have commanded you, and 10, l
am with you all the days, even to the
consummation of the ages"
Perfect Brotherhood of Man.
This church. as every Catholic does,
will stand for the most perfect exem-
pliffcation that the world offers of the
perfect brotherhood of man. Through
it's. teaching, through the ministratlOnS
of its Sacraments, it constantly I'M
presses on the minds of its members the
fact that in one great department OF
life and that the most important, that
they are all children of the same
Father, who measures mems worth, not
bv the accidental advantages of social
position or wealth. or even intellectual
endow .nents, but by the higher gift OF
goodness, and greatness of character.
And the features of the Catholic
church makes it stand for, in this age
as ii has been in every age, the most
potent agent of democracy that the
world has ever known, the recognition
of the common people, the people at
large, as the source of political power
and as-entitled To share all the privI-
leges of government and all its advant-
ages and protection, with the most
highly born or favored.
when the Son of God came to save
the world, he touched with his saving
. hand all classes of the community. the
rich and the poor, the educated and the
ignorant. the highly born and those of
low estate, and going down to those
who were not recognized under pagan
law as men, but as things, he went
down to the class known as slaves, and,
putting his hand upon the head OF a
Slave. he said Come with me, and
shackles of his slavery fell from about
him. and the poor slave, lifted up by the
influence of Christ into the brother
hood of the young church, he felt at
once that there was a throne for him
as for his Master close by the throne
of the Son of God in heaven.
All Men Equal
"And this feeling of equality in the
spiritual order. that in the things of
God and in the life to come, and in all
things that belong TO the soul, all men
were eduaI-this though l say filtered
down until at last the idea of equal civil
rights. and equal civil privileges began
to leaVen the entire society, until in a
few years we find attaining its growth
and full flower in the medieval laws
which recognized at once the necessity
of constitutional government, and babe
the people the repository of the ma
tion's power, so that the government
was for the people and of them. and by
them To this doctrine the historic
church of Christ has ever been loyal
down to our days. The Catholic ele-
ment of our great nation is today
most loyal TO this democratic principle
founded upon the life of our blessed
Lord and upon the utterance of his
apostles.
when he sent the apostles he sent
them to every preacher. st. Paul an
, nounced the unity of mankind and the
equal claim of all, to the same spirit
uaI privileges, when he declared that
there was no longer Jew or Gentle,
bond or free. but that all were all in
Christ Jesus.
Caste or Privileges.
s'How this new doctrine must have
started the minds of men whose gov