The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-23
BISHOP KEANE
EXTOLS CHARITY
breaches at Cathedral of the
New Religion Es-
tablished.

Rt. Rev. Bishop Keane, of Cheyenne
preached the sermon following the
10: 80 o'clock mass at the Cathedral yes
terday morning. The subject of Bish-
op Keane's address was Charity" He
said in part: ---7'i -"fti4.
you have heard one Of the greatest
rhetorician's eulogy on the greatest Of
virtues. In the lesson which 1 have
read. st. Paul describes the impulses
from which charity springs-humility,
generosity, sympathy. These impulses
are our natures Observation-Disclosures
gift to every human SOUL
But there are after impulses, as
universal, because quite as natural,
which tend to destroy the gift of self
fOrgetfulneSs; which war against the
impulse to give; which rob one of the
secret Of entering into other hearts,
and as feeling as others feel. Hence
though charity is our natures crown
it has ever been restrained and re-
stricted in it's activities, save where re-
Hg1On has transformed human nature.
Plagiarism was unlOving and cruel
because it was impure and proud. And
impurity eats out the heart Of all true
tenderness and makes charity impos-
sible, while pride Systematically en-
thrones self upon the ruins of all true
affection. Hence there is not in Greek
or Roman life, despite a magnificent
material grandeur, nor in any system
of philosophy, anything that even re-
mOtely approaches the Christian virtue
of charity. &
THE lines of Plato, extolling love,
which wars against misery, are but
literary curiosity, or at most an evil
dence of the height to which one in
dividual genius had scared in magma
ton, solitary in the tide of time. Even
the Jew had explained away the mean
ing of the law, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as myself
when the Redeemer Of a fallen
world entered into the charities Of His
ministry of mercy and salvation, He
could call the law of charity "a new
commandment He was God, and
God is love. He came into a world
where mans love of fellow man was
extended only by consideration Of self
interest or blood relationship.
1.-The flame of love, that had burned
eternally in the bosom Of God, touched
the hearts Of men. 1t caught and
spread and would not stop, and be-
hold the spectacle Of a band Of broth
ers running over the earth and pro-
claiming the new law, Love one anoth-
er as 1 have loved you establishing
a new religion which proclaimed that
all men had a common Father and
Jesus.
THUS the law was new as a histori-
cal fact. It was new in it's standard.
1t ran not as Of old, Love thy neigh
Dor as myself but Love thy neighbor
as I have loved you Love is ever
the gift Of self-of time or labor or
income or affection. 1t is the surrender
of what one holds dear, or the accept
ance Of pain or sorrow for others.
when looked at the life of Christ Is
life of self-immolation and the agonies
of His passion are Illuminated by the
tremendous truth. He who Is cruci-
fed between two thieves is the eternal
King of Glory. From this faith in the
voluntary -immolation of the Most
Holy, new power of love has stream
ed forth in the souls of men. This
self-chosen humiliation and agony Of
the infinite God that He might draw
to Himself the hearts of men, provok-
ed an answer of grateful love, first to-
wards Himself and then for His sake
towards His creatures"
Bishop Keane leaves for Duluth to-
day, where he will be the guest Of Bish-
op McGolrisk for a day or so and then
return to Wyoming.