The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-26
4CHILDREN'S DAY
HOMES PROFIT
Big Assemblage Gathers to
Hear Prelate Speak in
Aid of the Good Cause
ADDRESS is PROFOUND
Faith Is Subject Chosen by
Archbishop Montgomery
for His Learned Lecture

Faith, It's Dangers and Safeguards,
was the subject of a profound address
delivered by his Grace Archbishop
/ Montgomery last evening in st. Mary S
] Cathedral for the benefit of the Chill
dren's Day Homes. In expressing graf
ifcation in the name of the Sisters of
the Holy Family for so large an. at
tendance his Grace said:
I asked Archbishop Riordan this morning
as this benefit affords and he replied that they
live like the spsnoVs they live Ike the
! lilies Of the field they live like the birds OF
the air that God feeds.
Yes they have friends in you. for God works
through his agents. hence they have no
anxiety. Faith inspires the work OF the Sis
tiers and faith inspires the church
Some days ago many or YOU no doubt were
Sisters old Peoples Home You saw there
what was being achieved The work OF the
Sisters Of the Holy Family and That OF the
from the Potrero TO the North Beach and
along almost half OF the city in the other
direction. Their work appeals to the prac-
teal for they assist those who are willing
assist themselves. They receive into their
homes the children OF mothers who needs must
toll for livelihood. and were II not for the
homes these very mothers would be com
PEELED 10 remain indoors TO tend their young
and would be unable to perform the duties of
]
ID ones are not pauperized. but are enabled to 60
TO work through the practical assistance
given by the Sisters and yourselves.
Speaking to the subject of the ad-
dress, his Grace said in part:
To man belong powers that belong to no
other earthly creature, aspirations given 10
meme besides. These powers. these impulses,
these aspirations transcend all material things
the universe itself cannot compass them.
Though man is by nature finite. he is by
adoption and by destiny participant Of the in
finite. This completion Of his being and this
participation OF the infinite are begun on earth
and wrought out through the truths of holy
faith, to be crowned in their fullness in
heaven.
Faith, or truth known through faith, Is the
sJbliuest knowledge possible.
one great difficulty. and in fact perhaps the
greatest difficulty for the majority Of men in
believing. Is that they asked to accept
the truths OF faith authority or on trust
IN others. Let US consider. therefore. briefly
this objection and shall see that far
from this forming any valid reason for not
unprejudced minds antecedently proper
that we should accept truths of faith on trust.
for the very. reason that We do so in almost
every other contingency and circumstance OF
human life.
The very nature OF things is such that in
our whole social life in our intercourse with
one another and in the most trivial as well
as in the most important things. we are re-
ouired 10 take matters on trust. II this.
II erefore is true OF the material the intel
lectual and the social concerns Of life in the
natural order does it not seem astonishing
that we should become at once independent
and Self-sufhcient each for oneself the mo-
ment We pass TO a higher order, the spiritual
the supernatural order where God dwells in
lisht inaccessible?