The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-21
MONTANA And IDAHO DEPARTMENT.

country and Religion at st. Patrick's
church yesterday. There was a large
congregation in attendance and Father
Hut phy was listened to with great at
Ientlon. He said in part:
~ De an American is most priv
! iIeSeu honor; an Inspiration to noble
ueeuS, generous Self-sacrifices and glO-
ilouS hopes. Every American is partly
owner of the great republic in which
ne lives, a country which stretches from
lhe Atlantic on the east to the Pacific
on the west, and from the st. Lawrence
70 the Gulf of Mexico. According to
ms ablllty, every American has tho
llSnt OF participation in the government
OF ms country. He can boast of a land
Where all men are born equal and en-
lowed with equal rights: where there
is no sovereignty but that of mind and
no nobility but that of genius" where
a.! can drink at the sOul-inspiring foun-
IdiIS OF liberty, and where man dare
not curse what heaven has made -lo,
ilous. TO belong to such country is
inueed an honor and a privilege. 1t is
hkeWlse an inspiration to generous sac
rlllces and glorious hopes.
When we read of the energy. the ner-.
severance, the heTOism, the grandeur of
soQl OF the early colonists; when the
hopIe Igures of Washington. of Adams
OF Jefferson, of Clay and Calhoun rise
up before US; when we contemplate the
rapid tread Of reDublicanism. of civili
zatlon, OF Americanism, from a few
scattered hamlets on the Atlantic to the
soIueh gate OF the west, our souls ara
tuned IN higher key and we feel that
the motto Of Americans should ever be
ENcelSlor'-ever moving upward
WORKING out the base and the sensual
IN human nature and developing to
thelr utmost the intellectual and spir-
itual
Again, from the fact that all positions
IN TINS country are open to talent, per-
severance and good conduct, every no
ble-minded youth has an incentive to
struggle bravely onward and win
place in the temple of fame. where
heroes are born not to die" Great
!hen' and inspiring is your title, Amer
lcan' 1ou have, however, a grander
sun more imposing title. and that is
your title of Christian and Catholic.
Father Murphy then launched into
the history of the church. pointine ont
Mndl IL mad done for the cause of civ
lllzatlon and refinement: purifying cor
FupI ana decaying empires: eleyating
woman and surrounding her with the
peerless dignity She now eniovs. The
glory and honor of being a Christian.
ne SAID, pre-suppoSed obligations anG
al these obligations may be summar-
- "a tliC IhiIldliOn OF our saviour Je-
sus Christ.
In his peroration. Father Murphy ad-
monlshed Catholics to initiate Christ in
ms life on earth and form within them
selves the image Of the Savior. which
image, as Cardinal Manning remarks
creates faith and then rewards it,
Which image fulfills the one great need
OF human nature-the healer of its
wounds, the physician of the soul. the
transforming power from spiritual
weakness and deformity to spiritual
strength and beauty.
rather Murphy intends to remain in
Montana until the beginning of the fan
term at All Hallows in September. He
VIII visit different points in the state
before his return He saws the site of
the contemplated new college has been
planted with trees in great number. and
occupies one of the most prominent To-
cations in the city of Salt Lake.