Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-11-02
CATHOLICS WELCOME
bishop NJ. E.. LENIHAN
Newly Appointed Bishop of Great Falls Makes First
Visit to Lewistown and receives Enthusiastic Re-
ception--P Plans on Foot for Hospital Here.

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most of them. For instance, we have
Inc difficulties existing now in an in.
tense aud aggravated form between
capital and labor. and many ambitious
solutions are proposed for them. |
need not so into the details OF these
things. Our Socialistic friends have
their remedy, each great polltica
party a its remedy: hut many of
these proposals are really unneces-
sary. We have a remedy already
Mankind has for nearly two thousand
years had what would be a perfect
solvent of all human troubles II We
nnly applied it in the right way. No
human device for ameliorating the
condition of mankind a ever equal
he Ten Commandments or the Golden
Rule. There is more practical wis
dom in the Sermon on the Mount
as well as spiritual. than there Is in
Ill the polemics and dissertations that
have been written apart from IL. 4
have often been puzzled, in thinking
over matters of this kind, to under
stand why we pass by the plain obvi-
Gus and easy solution OF the most OF
our difficulties, and seek for some
abstruse and difficult way in which
To dissipate the p~erplexities that con-
front us. | do not say it in any spirit
Of insincerity when ! affirm my belief
that the spirit Of the Golden RUE,
DO unto others as We would that 9th
ers should do unto you If applied
ny men and by communities to the
solution of the problems that press
Upon them, would render our troubles
comparatively simple, | believe that
most of the difficulties that confront
MS would, If this solvent were applied
10 them, melt away from us like the
morning mists before the rays of the
rising sun. But still we cannot apply
it. For nearly two thousand years
mankind, or the more civilized portion
of it, has been professedly guided by
the principles laid down by the Master
OF mankind, and yet our difficulties
are not yet solved; we have them ey.
err with us. The failure, | think, lies
not in the rule, but in the application
of 1t. II we were really willing 10 lay
aside everything except the spirit Of
the teachings to which | have re,
ferred, | believe we should all be
amazed at the facility with which we
could do away with these difficulties
that are pressing upon us. and which
seem to grow more intense and impor-
tunate from generation TO generation.
From the time of the first Christian
emperor, Constantine the Great, to the
present time, mankind has grappicd
with an infinite variety OF perpleAing
and difficult problems. We have them
today just as they had them then.
trust that We are approaching a Ill.
tie nearer the proper solution Of these
things and that sometime perhape we
may receive them perfectly. And still,
one must be amazed when he consid
ers that, from the organization of the
church in apostolic times down 10 the
, present, il has always borne 10 man
kind the message brought to earth by
the Savior of men. and still generation
alter generation has struggled on IN
comparative darkness, wrestling with
difficulties apparently too great for 1t
70 overcome, needless VI the lesson
conveyed TO IL by the church In It's
various branches. all the time search
ing for some effective panacea for the
ills of life, and yet WI have n ever
before us. The church has been con-
veying to us this message for nineteen
centuries, and all that We lack is the
disposition 10 heed its teachings.
am perfectly sincere in saying that |
believe nearly all our difficulties, both
personal and those which pertain to
the community, would vanish IL we
would lend an attentive ear to the
Divine Message that has been hand
ed down to us through SO many gener.
atoms, and is now presented to us
through the medium not only of the
Catholic church which our worthy Wis
itor tonight represents in this diocese,
but through the other branches of the
Christian church. Il Is a very practi-
cal matter. my friends. These things
are not something TO be thought OF
merely on Sundays and at the various
church services, but should be taken
with us into every day life and APP
Piled to all the transactions of life.
Who a doubt for a minute that the
solution of the problem of intemper
aDce, of the struggle between capital
and labor, of corruption in politics,
could be effectively dealt with II we
all, or a majority, or even a minority
of us of sufficient strength, approach
ed the solution OF these questions with
our minds illuminated by the divine
truth which has been brought down
to us? Ii Is really a practical thing
for us. One would imagine, with A
remedy in our hands, for solving these
difficulties which so heavily perpleS
and press upon the minds of all think
ing men, that we would take advan.
tage Of Ii, and n can hardly under
stand how we should neglect il as We
DO. And yet IL is a fact that We do.
The exactions of capital. the tyrannies
OF labor, the various Influences of cor
upton, exist among us now probabl,
worse tnan they did q quarter of n
century ago. We do not seem 10 have
blade any progress for the last quar-.
'Er of a century. IL religion we're 10
us something not to be recognized ex.
cept UPON Sundays and feast days. bur
/, something to be thought of every day
; in the week and In all cur transac
, tions. | believe We should make pro.
press in a degree that would amaze
r tLe entire world. II religion we're not
, to us CHIEFLY a formal matter. If II
/ we're a part of our thoughts and &C.
, lions, If IL became a rart Of the rules
3 OF our conduct. II religion were In fact
r a binding fast to the highest ideals
, % the best we know-and always In
our hearts and minds, how much bet
Ter a place this earth would be, hoN
: much better a place Lewistown would
g be-to bring the matter right home
10 our Own doors. II the employers
of this country possessed the spirl
which forbade them to Cypress theil
employees, If the laborers OF this coun
e try possessed the spirit which for
e babe them TO defraud their employer.