The Irish standard., 1907-11-09

II the Virgin Mary, possessing as her
son the fuliness Of human nature. It
says, Christ announced himself as God
coming upon earth to save and teach
mankind, and proved his mission by
the fuiGllment of prophecies, by the
working of miracles, by his own resur-
rection from the dead. 1t repeats to-
day the creed which has curg out
through Christendom since it's earliest
origins.
Shows chureh's Origin.
"The encyclical says, Christ founded
the church, founded it upon the rock
that ever endures, his own divine au.
thority, appointed it to teach his doc
trines under his own guidance even
until the end Of time. 1t says, the
sacrarnents of the church are Of i'm
mediate, divine institution, and its
dogmas are as Interchangeable in mean
ing and import as is the truth of which
they are the outward expression. The
encyclical says, religion is the bond
linking man and God, subjective, in
deed, inasmuch as it is this outpouring
Of the soul, but objective, also, mas
much as it rests upon objective reali-
ties, God and his Christ.
"The encyclical is right, in spite of
all that modern thought has dreamt of
or said. The modern world has not
shaken the foundations upon which
rest God, Christ, the Bible and his
church. God ever remains. The in
visible things of him, from the crea-
tion Of the world, are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are
made, his eternal power, also, and di-
vinity. So that they (who see him
noD are inexcusable.' The heavens
show forth the glory Of God, and the
armament declareth the work of his
hands.
God reigns-and Christ reigns. NO
scrutiny into the historyshas darkened
the rays of his divinity closed for aye
over his dead body the sepulcher. No
scrutiny into history has taken from
the ages the superhurlan moral power
| which gave vitality to his Kingdom on
earth and invested il with the super
human moral efficacy of Transforming a
pagan humanity into a. Christianized
humanity, bristling on it's hill tops with
light and virtues SO uplifting and SO
uplifted. that mere humanity fields its
hands i'll; despair, and declares it never
did, and never could. produce ought like
unto it. And because Christ lives and
reigns the Bible remains the inspired
message of: heaven and the church re-
mains the divine school of truth, and
the divine channel" of grace to souls.
| What has Plus done? He has plant
ed his banner upon the fortress Of the
living God, upon the fortress of the di-
vine Christ-and hence he challenges
the age, in all It's prize and boasting,
to lower it by art or artif1ce from its
sublime heights. Not Catholics alone
should praise him.; all others. too, who
love the divine Christ, who worship
the Almighty God, who cherish their
own souls and are unwilling to be re-
duced to the level Of the animal or of
mere matter, to be left on earth with
out the uplifting power. the brighten
ing hope. the strengthening grace that
descends from the heavens Of the AL
mighty God. .-.. .
Modernism! We praise it with Plus
for all that is good in 1t. With Plus
we say: Apply. yourself .energetically
to the study of natural science. The
brilliant discoveries and the bold and
useful applications Of them made in
our time which have won such ap-
plause by our contemporaries will be
an object Of perpetual praise for those
that come after u.s.
At Outs With the. Age.
,"But modernism, denying God and
his Christ. denying the spirituality and
the immortality of the human soul
modernism blackenlng the divine light
emerging from the pages of the Bible
contradicting the divine authority
speaking through the church! tn thia
modernism we say, 'Avaunt. satan: we
shall have none of thee; thou bringesi
but ruin and death gathered up in thy
false teachings. Avaunt, satan: leave
!, us with our God and our Christ. Il
God and Christ afs at outs with the
age SO are we. II to be without God
ond Christ is antigua ted and old fash.
toned, so are we. We: are with divine
truth-which is ancient because It II
eternal, which is, also, new and moderr
in all ages present as. we'll ;as past
because all ages belong to the truth
belong. to the Almighty God, unchanged
and Interchangeable, because eternaTant
lall-perfect.'" ---'':::'.':' 49, r.
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