The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-05
REV. ]. B. HARVEY.

quarters of the audience was composed
of the element most desired by the Paul
list fathers.
Every night, until and including Fri
day, the fathers will alternate in address
ing the non-Catholics of st. Paul in lee
lures explanatory of the doctrines SYM
bellism and aims of the Catholic church.
The subject of last nights address was
THE Divinity Of Christ" by Father Con-
way
Rev. ]. B. Harvey delivered an intro
duction, treating definitely with the aims
of the lectures. the manner in which it
was desirable to conduct them and their
assurance, as representatives of the Cath
Ole church, that the treatment of those
who should come to them with the OBJ
ject Of gaining knowledge regarding the
subject at issue would be all that any
one could desire.
In his short talk, Father Harvey re-
marked:
1--WE welcome you our non Ca holic
FRIENDS, to hear cur 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 no other reason than that
claims of the Catholic church.
Each man owes it to himself to treat
the Catholic church fairly, for all men
are DY instinct religious creatures. 1t
Is, then, question of which is the best
religion and which is the best means
of conveying it to the people and of ex-
pounding it to them.
Man Is Religious.
GAS st. Augustine said long ago. Our
hearts are restless till they rest in God
Man. as 1 have said is by instinct re-
ligious. He acknowledges in his heart a
Supreme Being-one who shaped the uni
verse. For the-Catholic church we claim
that it satisfies the reason as well as
the heart. For here we claim that she
is the greatest church of the world. A
church that has shaped the deStineS of
nations and empires. church that has
lived through trials and VicisSitudeS that
has proved her worth and need, the
greatest church Of the Christian ages.
"In order to understand the Catholic
church, as III 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 and clear away the grim
shadows CT doubt that hover about your
pathway.
I'm addition to the lectures. we have
placed near the entrance of the church
a box. in which we earnestly invite all
who. would have some PARTICULAR point
elucidated more clearly than the time al
lows us in passing over it in our lectures
to place their written questions. This is
the most earnest Of invitations-every
opportunity allowed us Of clearing away
the doubt of Your mind We count as joy.
Further than this, we have set aside, out
or every day We snail &c among YOU,
two hours IL which to meet those who
would desire personal talk, There are
mary, we are aware. who cannot set
forth clearly their doubts, difficulties and
desires upon a slip of paper, and for
this reason We have made the arrange
ments to meet them at the parochiaI res
idence in person. This invitation is as
earnestly extended as the first
Father Conway spoke in part as fol-
lows
Defensa of Christ's Divinity.
"The Catholic church has always stood
for, and been locked upon as the prepet-
uation of the incarnation of Jesus
Christ, and the firm, uncomproniS ing de-
feE6er of his divinity.
1.-The Pharisee, in the bitterness of his
hatred. might cry out against the suf-
terer on Calvary's hill; tho Roman. in
the might of his power, might seek to
cast contUmely upon the crucified slave;
tbs Greek, in the pride of his intellect.
might Sneer at the new doctrine of the
resurrection of the dead; the unbeliever
Of every age might blurt out defiant de-
nials-yet. always, from John, the be-
loved, 10 Leo XIII. in the twentieth cen
fury writing his letter Of rea3e to all
The nations of the world the church of
God has ever proclaimed Jesus as the
Son of God. The storms of the centuries
That have swept over the society of all
the intervening time since nineteen hun
0red 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 mas gathered force and power from
1t all.
Weary and worn, Jesus and His dis
ciples were one day gathered together
near the site of the ancient city OF Dan
and, turning to them. He said Who "a I
the people that / am? And they answer.