The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-14
FEAST OF ST. THOMAS
LOCAL COLLEGE, CELEBRATES IT'S
PATRON SAINT WITH -APPRO-
PIRATE CEREMONIES
MANY PRIESTS WERE PRESENT
Rev. Father Joseph Campbell De-
Hvers Scholarly Address to Stu
dents ON Catholic Science-A
Memorable Occasion.

The feast of St. Thomas Of Aquino, the
patron saint of ST. Thomas college, was
celebrated yesterday at the college with
appropriate ceremonies. A large number
of clergymen Were present, together with
a concourse of friends of the institution.
The church was decorated in honor OF
the patron saint
Solemn high mass was celebrated by
Rev. Father Dieninski He was assisted
by Rev. Father Prendergast, who acted
as deacon, and by Rev Father Kennedy,
VINO performed the duties of sub-deacon.
A special choir of collegiate boys sang
the mass, assisted by the seminary choir.
Professor Bruner presided at the organ.
After the services were over dinner
was served Over fifty priests We're pres
ent to celebrate the feast. Among those
present who attended were Monsignor
Oster, Father Moynihan, Father Turner,
Father Moore, Father OBrien, Father
O'Neil, Father Glut Father Gobbons,
Father Conroy, Father Timothy, O. S. B.,
Father GEMS, Father Cunningham,
Father Turner and others.
The sermon was delivered by Rev.
Father Joseph Campbell, of St Paul
Seminary, and was as follows.
Catholic Science.
According to materalism. the principal
mcnt. According to agnosticism, the
principal science is the science of de-
stroying belief in personal God in
moral responsibility and in state of
future reward or punishment for men.
According to rationalism, the principal
science consists in refusing to admit the
historical authority of sacred scripture,
IN refusing to admit miraculOusIy con-
hrmed doctrine. According to Cath3ticiIY
the principal science is the science of
metaphysics, as known from reason and
from revelation.
Physics is the science of concrete facts:
mathematics is the science of qualities;
metaphysics is the science of supersar-
Slble intellectual truth; metaphysics
may be divided into cosmology, anthrop-
ology and ethics. Cosmology is the
science Of the supersensible origin and
destiny of the world around US; anthrop-
ology IS the science OF man, especially
science of the origin and destiny Of the
spiritual human soul. Ethics is the
science of divine direction given to man
divine restriction imposed on man, in
order that man may attain his divinely
appointed destiny. Catholic cosmology,
dnthropology and ethics Catholic meta
physics IS the principal Catholic science.
CHRIST did not teach history, linguistics
or mathematics; Christ taught meta
physics; Christ taught cosmology, an
throFology and ethics. This world of ours
is not the result of eternal force acI%ng
Oh eternal heed the Almighty plastic
d.
tlon In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth" Man is not the
result or force acting on a monad ma
terlal organism or on an anthropOid are
man is the result, the immediate result
or divine creation. Let US make man to
our image and likeness Man is fallen
creature; Christ, the Goldman IS The
mediator between God and men. "A
faithful saying and worthy of ali accepta-
uon that Christ came into the world to
save sinners. Men cannot partake of
CHRISTIAN salvation unless they practice
justice, religion, social obedience and
temperance.
Came to Save Sinners.
This is the nairaculously confirmed met
dHhyslcS OF Christ this is the doctrine Of
The fisherman of Galilee; this is the teach
ms OF the early Christian fathers more
man nifty master inteliects; this is the
turtles more than hundred and fifty
master intellects. This is the teaching Of
me bishops Of the Catholic church as
sembed in nineteen general councils: this
is the teaching of Roman pontitfs of nine
teen centuries, more than 260 in number:
TINS is the doctrine that shall be taught
IN time shall be no more, till the sun of
cur system burns out, all the planet we
lhhablt becomes too cold for human Aabi-
tatlon. L am with you all days, even to
the le,, consumption of the world
ThomaS OF Acquino was the first to give
TO the world Catholic METAPHYSICS in
truly scientific form. In the thirteenth
CHRISTIAN century the revived philosophy
OF erring human reason, the revived met
aphyslcS of the pagan wonder Aristotle
revived truth blended with falsehood was
a danger to the faith of the tickle the
unwary and the superficial St Thomas
separated truth from talsehood; he wed
0ed natural truth to revealed truth: and
his Sunma Theological is the result of
this happy union. There is no Catholic
subject that St Thomas has rot touched,
there is no subject he has touched thai
he has not, almost, finished. est. Thomas
alone has shed more luster on the Catho
lie church than all the other doctors Of
the church taken together" Gregory
XIII
You are Catholic students of a Catholi,
couege dedicated to a name associated
with human Intellect, perhaps the great
est, the world mas ever witnessed Others
may say. p believe what the Catholic
church teaches; you must be able to say.
Here is what the Catholic church teach
eS; here is why the church so teaches"
Every faithful student of a college dedi-
Gated TO the name of st. Thomas must
be a Catholic scientist. 1t is well to be
first in history; it is Well to be first in
classics, ancient and modern; it is well to
be first in physical science; it is well to
be first in mathema tics; but while ne
neglected none of these sciences ST
Thomas was first in Catholic metaphysics
the principal science. The faithful stu
dent follows his patron according to the
utmost of his ability and his opportunity.