The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-28
Catholic universitz Items.

| The Catholic university was the
scene of a magnificent demonstration
on Wednesday afternoon March 1S,
when the Rt. Rev. ]. L. Spalding, bish-
| op of Peoria, and one of the trustees
of the university, lectured in Mcmahon
hall on Education" before the largest
audience assembled for a public lee
ture. Over a thousand people, reprer
senting all classes of the national cap
ital, greeted the distinguished prelate.
| The large hall was crowded to over
/ flowing, as were also the corridors
| leading to the entrances. The day was
beautiful and pleasant, and the dis
| tinguished audience was a tribute to
one who is recognized as the foremost
leader in the religious and educational
life of the country. Seated on the
platform with the right reverend rector
were his excellency the Papal dele
gate, Most Rev. Archbishop Falconio;
his secretary, Very Rev. Mgr. F. z.
Rocker, D. D.; the Mexican ambassa-
dor, Senor Don Manuel de Aspiroz:
Rev. Jerome Daugherty, S. j., president
of Georgetown university; Rev Ed
ward Fink, S. j., president of Gonzaga
college; Brother Abdas, president of
ST. Johns college. Hon. John Lee Car
roll, ex-governor of Maryland: Hon.
Judge Barry of Winnipeg, Manitoba;
4 TX,
Hon. Hannis Taylor, former minister
to Spain; DR.. William F. Byrns. Dr.
A. j. Faust, Professor Cleveland Able
Hon. Terence V. Powderly, members
OF the different faculties of the univer-
sity, and a large number of the rev.
erend clergy from Washington. In his
introduction the rector. Rt Rev. Bish-
op Conaty spoke of the deep interest
taken by the bishop in university work,
and described him as one of its most
devoted friends, who never failed in
all circumstances to manifest a vital
interest in its establishment and de-
velopment. Space will not permit to
give Bishop Spalding's address in full.
We give, however, a few extracts.
Among other things he said:
Faith in education is intimately as
sociated with the opinion that a self
governing people must be an enlight-
ened people, needing the two-fold il
Elimination which comes of intelligence
and of character. Education is neces-
sary to make our institutions perpet-
ual. Liberty is good, because it en-
ables men to unfold their endowments:
equality is good, because is offers op-
portunity to all to accomplish what
ever God has made it possible for them
to perform. People are apt to think
of liberty and equality as great sources
of human good, efficacious in promot-
ing our material progress. rather than
the progress of man himself The alb
solute purpose of education is not to
preserve institutions, but to upbuild
mans being. Education is a process
of love; human life is the end and per-
fection of human love- A country is
judged not by its material prosperity,
but by the kind of men it produces
The law of love is that it springs from
within outward. He alone is free who
frees himself from within. A poIiticaf
constitution cannot make us free: we
must free ourselves. A youth should
be made to feel that the supreme good
for him is to grow more in self-con-
troll, elf-sacrifce, and mower of ner-
severing. We can love only what we
make ourselves capable of loving. we
can know only what we make our-
selves capable of knowing. We shorld
seek in antiquity for the noble minds.
for there is immortality. The essen
tial things in human life are truth and
love. The strongest thing on earth is
the strongest mind; it's power is ire
sistable. When we CONQUER men with
truth we make them free. The aim Of
intellectual power is virtue. Character
In the noblest races a few have been
found capable of loving the best and
they are the kind of men universityr
wants to send forth. The stimulat tion
to right thought and noble deeds 10
the ACQUISITION of truth and love. these
are the purposes of education and
these in the highest degree are the
purposes of a university"
Bishop Spalding then paid an elo-
quent tribute to the retiring rector.
whom he lauded for his successfuI adj
ministration of the university affairs
and said: ?
AS this is the only opportunitv
which will present itself to me for graf