The Irish standard., 1902-07-19
Address Delivered by Archbishop Ireland
to the National Educators at
Their Convention.
He Censures Certain Catholic Publications
for Allegations Made Anent
Schools of Manila

Creator, is truth; every act going out
from infinite God, or finite creature,
every fact or incident marking the
flight of time since time began. Is
truth: and wherever truth is, the d.
vine is there, and it is very religion
to approach it with respect and, In
opening to it our mind, to bid it enter
thitlcr, in it's native perfection, unal-
tered and undmmcd.
In God and in man there is mind,
the ability to know truth.
God. infinite mind. knows all truth:
man, finite mind, knows truth par
TALLY; so far as man knows truth, so
far is he nigh unto the infinite, par-
taking of the life. the beauty and the
power of the Infinite
AS the bodily eye is made to see
bodily things, so the mind is made to
soc truth. The mind lives of truth; It
is dead when no truth comes to It;
1T is dying when false appearances, in
stead of realities. are set before 1t.
With the avoidance Of error, 1t is freed
from disease; with the increase of
truth, it grows in vlgor and in power.
Truth is light. and light is the
adornment, the beauty of the mind.
Every being, every fact, that is truth,
is ray shed upon the mind; and as
ray follows ray, rs the slender
strclk first clcaving the darkness,
wiilcns into sun-kisscd horizons, the
mind glows, and is afre: it mirrors
more and more the intellect of the
infinite; 1t is ravisling of comeliness
and splcndor.
Truth bcgets strength in the mind.
Every reality. which is seen and laid
hold OF by the mind, transmits to the
mind it's own force; and as the mind
travels from reality to reality absorb
ing force after force it nsccnds in
stature ana mightiness. dominating the
universe around IT, making its owner,
man, what God intended man to be,
strength of the mind is strength to
the whole man. All, indeed, in man
is dependent upon the mind. The sew
cr|l energies in him. through which
he may work and conquer. are set in
motion by his will. But tile will of
itself is blind: it sees not WHITTIER it
should tend; it needs The light which
comes from mind: ana the more bril-
liant this light, the more far-reaching
its diffusion, the more capable is the
will to discover the pathways over
which mans other energies may travel,
the more ambitious is the will to- issue
words of command, and the more
ready are the other energies to obey
It,
The knowledge of truth is power:
it is tho condition Of all movement, Of
all progress in the individual and in
society. And hence it is that all COM
munltfes that live and seek to go for
ward clamor for greater TRUTH and Ia
Dor that knowledge of truth be co.
extensive with their membership, and,
Mt least here and there, rise upward
into towering peaks whose SUBMITS
may bask In the lustrc of truths high
est and most radiant suns
The noblest and most sublime thing
in creation Is the human mind. It is
the image of the highest attribute In
God the divine intelligence. Through
it man is conscious of himself; he
knows himself; he knows things out
side Of himself; ranging far and wide
through the universe, he grnsps and
apprDpriates to himself the truths that
are within it; he rises far beyond the
universe into the regions of ideas and
principles; rising still higher he re-
poses upon the very bosom Of the In
finite, the First Cause and the Final
term, the Alpha and Omega, from
which all truths come and to which
all truths lead, and there enriches
himself with the life, the knowledge,
the grace, the power, which are Gods.
20 Lord, our Lord" exclaims the
Psalmist, chow admirable is Thy
name in the whole earth!... What is
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