The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-05
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND breaches
ON THE GREAT PARIS
EXPOSITION
LIVE NOT BY BREAD ALONE
stupendous Achievement of Mans
Toll Serves, Only to Show
Need. OF. the Word
of God.


pei of st. Matthew
My dear brethren:
w nile Journeying abroad tarrled for a
While on the grounds of the great eX-
position of Paris. There were gathered
the products of mans toll and of mans
genius In profusion and elegance never
before equaled All that earth could
give, that man could extract from earth
Ior human instruction, human comfort,
human happiness, was displayed in the
exposition, and made accessible to the
eye ana hand Of the visitor. Never be-
fore was there such an accumulation of
inc results Of mans labor and of earth's
gItS TO man. And surely the visitor
could not but be fl lied with admiration
with wonder, that man had been able to
40 ana 10 obtain so much for his inStruc-
tlon and his happiness. The visitor
81 man as made manifest in his works.
mere We're the. works of man of every
latIon, OF every language, the works Of
humanity at their very best, and 1t were
wrong not to rejoice that man has been
ape TO accomplish SO much, that through
ms ingenuity and knowledge man has
Done SO much for his own aggrandise-
IIeht ana the glory of his Creator.
But when all that is said mighty prob
lem suggests itself. 1t is this: Here
IS eartn at its best. Here is all the
mysteries Of which it is capable, yet does
man lind here all that he wants? Is
ii-an, can man be satisfied with earth at
us very best, with the enjoyment of its
ulost mu!nhcent offerings. Can man live
on the gifts Of earth alone? Never more
t titah IN the presence of the great EXPOSE
. r1on, summing up as it does earths most
IInunlhcent offerings, is the thinker
Drought TO understand so deeply the
meanings of the words of the Lord, mot
III 6re9d alone does man live, but in every
mot4 InaC proceedeth from the mouth
OF God. Not in bread alone does man
I'VE I'VE Man needs indeed the gift of bread.
MAI needs the offerings of earth Earth
was created for him; and let If hrioo.
forth for his use the fruits of its nnyv wa
ana It's fecundity, they belong to man.
ana man Is worthy of them But when
az the the earth can give has been received
Inc Inc truth IS, not in bread alone does man
I'VE With all the riches of the great
exposition at the feet of humanity what
L, ,S,, II mat has been done for man; for
can earth do to lift up man to snheras
man mtln'9 VII ne grows to true grandeur? If
DUCTS he has wrested from earth ~ w.
Is IS ne What does he find himself TO he he
ofber e cLies from one palace to an
ing Of e 9i human industry? be-
diSSo+ " eafln, part of earth's own nro-
I WIS., tne highest and greatest, if Won
n ~tod; u these products, but only a
pu hefor OF ear, earth. Everything that is
ttInSs 20 earth; the more he conten1n1a 4ee
- tIIe oiLerlngs of the earth the more he
10 fee fey TF ITO 10 It, and the more he is made
nothlng there that would take n,n3 IS
put him at a height inmensn mail aL ana
dare e IdIotnIng that would make him mn
fnrn hi "?5Id; nothing that places he
~ 1Th -, MIN Ideals far above the tbinoTs
sa il1e are are OF earth and which of them
S5tees draw him down to earth III
II we contemplate the things of aor+4,
foy+ Lynne re 70 feel that the highest af-
t 1rt OF mans mind is to nena+rate 81 FL
feet pSH nat3d OF the earth few thousand
teeC aeeper and wrest from if its bid ~
CIeasufe, or to be able to domino f .aeC IN
S ooeaais anu continets, annihiIatin@ The
fa pTi he SGparat1ng them from one another
globe tTg,e 20 o{ gL5sp more readily the whole
, pe, 10 make new discoveries to i ,Vurq
of tfw cornn etIn13ds Of governing the earth
IIccally his pleasures ana -bis ene!set-
ian would live on imagining tba4 li rs
who're mission is of this earth and it rs
lives 1 1b6ilIes IKE TO that with which he
ny yes, winch he touches, WIN ch he draa,, NJ,
o. man would be lowered even 1Intn ,,an
Ter ana would dwindie down 70 a - nc nc
is 10 r rd4g matter, whose highest DESTINY
eure Itself with sweetest deiicacieS, itI r5
LOT LOT mat purpose to lay hold Hnon 9 ttr1
tb tse et Jump of this slime which We cali
tHe earth. If in bread alone man IT,; 80
there is no elevation~for him nv ~ %,
"a -, material no potent spring that vi
HIVE fba nr nm upwards into ideals and into
of him 0sei ~ OF tn 5 that will make
Di t9rr thoughts and ambitions.
r Not in bread alone doth man live ,,
tba fit oo .naI eartff can offer. what is there
Ia tiiat can make of man righteous moral
p6t2g| What was there in All Tho ny o., al
GiIhI!nery, IN all the Jewels. in all fhe raT
IN iIi1ttls PICTURES IN the great exposition
Glat enables him to still Within b;n1 AZ
nbers of heart wildIyabea ting hena at,th t ne
storms. of passion2; What was tbero& go
az az those things that would make him
atouHseT TO Tepel~ temptation. and rAyf
Would bring him to know that the firrt
ana supreme duty of man is to he rieIif
cons, to practice virtue towards biroSsoie
ana ana towards his fellow man? And VIII
ont some poWerIfn Humanity maIxing r.
Ghteousness, impeiTfng- men to he T11oTaI
beings what would HuIna nitv BECOME hl1+
a nero OF beasts. in which might wo1,Id
take the place of right in uJbicb h. ~
the most worthy OF sal1rnira ton VII rs 10
slaves others and make them bend 70 ~
pleasure and his pride There Wera in
ne cLe eXposiion products Of human in
sehulty, which could well be used in tba
service of Righteousness, but which could
lust as we'll be used in the serviea Of
u3inIrIghteousness. And there was here no
things else you must be righteous apd
there was nothing there to aid man
against his own weakness in his strIIp
giles to be righteous. Fer aIasi If iS Mt
enough for us to ASPIRE to riohteou - lioe
10 resolve to be righteous When fbe Of
fort is made, we feel the heavI- re-
sualnt Which our material nature puts
upon the SoartngS of the soul we feaI.
the horrid thirst of pleasure burning
through the senses. We say we are weak
IN vain VIII you seek strength from the
richest mines, from the products of rac
tories from paintings and SCULPTURES
charts that teach to navigate the seas
from telescopes that open to vision the
q qll regions Of space. No help comes
Cling, alone, perhaps in the midst Of
darkness, against some violent tenntt,
tlon to triumph over the powers of evil
You may give to humanity all that earth
can give You may Work on for centu
rleS to come and multiply beyond nresent
conception all that we have of earth's
ton that will throw the wondrous one of
Parls into oblivion; no moral power comes
from expositions, and it is moral power
that man above all things else needs for
his own sake and for the sake of hu
mainly at large. We talk of ciyiliza ton.
no doubt the material triumphs which we
1czation, but the vital essential element
OF civilization is morality What else
makes man a spiritual Or a social being
ana separates him from the animal but
morality? And to find morality you must
travel beyond the sphere of matter
:, not In bread, alone doth man live"
IN N bread alone must man seek his hap
pllless. Man seeks happiness; he is
forced by all his nature to seek it; but
IN VAN he seeks ,it,1n the bread offered
70 him from EARTH Passing through
we are awed for a moment by the gran
deur displayed; we are rayished bv
fpeauty set before your eyes There IS
Tor moment RIeaSpre for a moment
SaflS Q %, Of Soul,but for moment
of life: but on Closer inspection t tells of
DEATH To produce the wonders of the
exposition death had invaded the for
ests, death had ,assailed the animals of
the fields, and han himself, the ssover-
elgn of the whole stone. was in picture
and sculpture, the faithful telltale of his
avenues and palates and saw sPg the ' eaIgies
of the thousands who had lived in the
past, who, had owned the earth as we
as We enjoy them today, but are now no