The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-10
CATHOLIC MISSION
Meetings Being Held Nightly IN
Opera House.

the speaker is an eloquent orator.
but because of the libera.ty OF his
views. The mission opened last
Sunday evening with lecture on
the topic, The Nature aud Neces-
sity of Religion ''GOd and the
Humaa Soul
Monday night the topic was is
There One True Religion. The
Evil and Result OF SIM"
Tuesday night, "1he Papacy.
Opportunity was the topic.
Last evening the speaker took
up the subject of 1he Satramental
System of the Catholic Church.
The Character Of Jesus Christ.
This evening, The Confessional. "
THE Following Of Jesus Christ.
Tomorrow evening, "The Holy
Eucharist. The Sacred Heart
OF Jesus Christ" will be discussed.
Saturday, Marriage and Divorce
is the topic, and the closing lecture
Sunday evening will be on the subject
Under Which Banner:'' The
Dignity and the Work OF Life -
An interesting feature of the meet
ings is the question tox, through
which medium the audience can ask
questions upon any knotty point, for
Father o. Ryan to answer to the best
Of his ability.
Father Organs first lecture Sun
day night was on ''The Nature and
Necessity of Religion. he defined
religion as the dawn Of the relations
between God and Man; proved the
existence of personal God, who is
wisdom and goodness, the creator Of
the universe, as against the Atheist
or Pantheist. Reason asserts the
existence OF such being" he said.
Man being his creature, depends
for his existence on God, therefore
owes homage and obedience TO Him
That the soul OF man Is spirit,
immaterial and naturally immortal
was shown from mans continued
Consciousness Of his own personality,
from the operation Of thought, judg
ment, and specially the idea of will;
also from the goodness OF God, for
God were not good with life as it is,
with human desires and hopes that
are here unsatistied, with human
justice incomplete. Religion is to
know these things, to know my duty
toward God, His moral action to-
ward me, His enlightment on my
ways. ~"
The speaker showed from history
that whatever was good and great in
the nations Of antiquity was the out
come of their religion or bound up
with it; that even the corrupt relig-
ions of the past, because of their
CLEANS OF truth lighted the world
In It's progress.
On Monday evening Father Organ
spoke to the question, "Is There One
True Religion?" Summarizing the
thoughts Of the previous night, he
began with the proposition that the
moral reason of man asserted that
God has spoken to man or given a
revelation. For since there is a
good God, higher than man, he can
be conceived as higher only in the
things highest in man-the things
Of morality. Given moral God, a
God wise and good, who has created
the moral agent, man. He must have
spoken across the abyss to teach the
moral nature Of man, to throw light
on his eternal destiny. Also, all
peoples have believed in revelation
showing universal demand in man
for revelation, which demand is evil
IDENTIFY OF the very nature of man.
therefore to pe satisfied by Him who
created that nature. The speaker
laid down further proposition that
the reason OF man asserts that Chris
tianity is that religion, for it alone
gives the highest idea of God, of
man, OF morality. Christianity as
divine was evidenced by its continued
and benefcent life, its work in civil
izing the Pagan world; also by the
prophecies Of the OLD Testament, of
which Christ aud His religion are
the fulhllment; by the miracles Of
life and resurrection OF Christ. That
Christianity in its fulness and per-
lection is the Catholic church was
the last proposition. The speaker
dwelt on the historic life of his
church, asserting her continued iden.
tity through nineteen centuries.
Taking scripture texts he asserted
that Christ established church on
the apostles which was to endure
forever one and the self-same In doc
trine, assisted by the spirit OF Pente-
COST That history knows of no other
church that has come down unchanged
in constitution and teaching, except
| the Catholic church which ,s ,ho.o