The Irish standard., 1903-01-10
THE PAULIST Fathers
Open a Mission to Catholics
ST. Paul.

Open a Mission to Catholics In
ST. Paul.
The opening of the mission for non
Catholics, conducted by Rev. Fathers
Conway and Harvey at st. Lukes
church, Victoria and Portland streets,
st. Paul, saw the church crowded TO
the doors last Sunday, and three-quar-
tiers OF the audience was composed of
the element most desired by the Paul
list Fathers.
Rev. ]. Il. Harley delivered an intro
duction, treating definitely with the
aims OF the lectures, the manner III
which it was desirable to conduct
them and their assurance, as repre-
sentatives OF the Catholic Church, that
the treatment of those who should
come to them with the object of gain
ing knowledge regarding the subject
ut issue would be all that anyone
could desire.
In his short talk Father Harvey re-
marked:
I'VE welcome you, our on-Catholic
friends, to hear our expression of the
tenets, doctrines and teachings of the
Roman Catholic Church.
I'VE well understand the fact that
there are honest men and women who
hate us for 10 other reason than that
they are not aware of the true aims
and claims of the Catholic Church.
Each man owes it to himself to
treat tie Catholic Church fai.ly, 1or all
men are by instinct rel gious creatures.
1t is, then, Il question of which is the
best religion and Which is the best
means of conveying it to the people
and of eNpounding it to them.
AS st. Augustine said long ago,
Our hearts are restless until they rest
III God Man, as l have said, is by
instinct religious. He acknowledges in
his heart Il Supreme Being-one who
shaped the universe. For the Catholic
Church we claim that it satisfies the
reason as well us the heart. For here
we claim that she is the greatest
church of the world. \ church that
has shaped the destines of nations and
empires, Il church that has lived
through trials and viciSsitudcs that
have proved her worth and need, the
greatest church of the Christian ages.
I'm order to understand the Catholic
Church, as in all other things, one
should study and investigate. 1t is
for this that we are among you. 1t is
to tell you of that which we know you
to be ignorant of, it is to try to clear
hover about your pathway.
"ln addition to the lectures, we have
placed near the entrance of the church
Il box, in which we earnestly invite all
who would have some particular point
elucidated more clearly than the time
allows us in passing over it in our
lectures to place their written ques-
tons. This is the most earnest of in
vitations-every opportunity allowed
us of clearing away the doubt of your
mind we count as joy. Further than
this, we have set aside, out of every
day we shall be among you, two hours
in which to meet those who would de-
sire a personal talk. There are many
we are aware, who cannot set forth
clearly their doubts, difficulties and
desires upon slip of paper, and for
this reason we have made the arrange
ments to meet them at the parochial
residence in person. This invitation is
as earnestly extended as the first"
The subject of Father Conway's adj
dress was "rhe Divinity Of Christ"
He spoke in part as follows:
1.-THE Catholic Church has always
stood for, and been looked upon as the
perpetuation of the incarnation Of
Jesus Christ, and the firm, uncOm
promising defender of His divinity.
1.-THE Pharisee, in the bitterness of
his hatred, might cry out against the
sufferer on Calvary's hill; the Roman
in the might of his power might seek
to cast contumely upon the crucfied
slave; the Greek, in the pride of his
intellect, might sheer at the new
doctrine of the resurrection of the
dead; the unbciever of every age
might blurt out defiant denials-yet,
always, from John, the beloved, to
Leo KILL, in the twentieth century,
writing his letter of peace to all the
nations of the world, the church Of
God has ever proclaimed Jesus as the
Son OF God. The storms of the cent
uries that have swept over the society
of all the intervening time since nine
teen hundred years ago have beat
strong upon her; attacks of all and
fearful kinds have assailed her; yet,
always, as the giant tree that the
wind blasts only strengthen, she has
gathered force and power from it all
weary and worn, Jesus and His
disciples were one day gathered to-
getler near the site Of the ancient city
of Dan, and, turning to them, He said
who say the people that l ann And