The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-16
PR0vIDENTIAL RACE.

From the dawn Of time, even down to own
days, at certain epochs in the worlds history men
have appeared upon the stage of life whose trancen-
dent greatness, cruelty sanctity separated them
from the of their age and engraved their names
on the tablets of the memory of the human race.
These are known in sacred literature as provden-
tia men, that is, men destined from their mother
wombs, as was Aaron, for divine purpose and en-
dowed by God with special attributes, intellectual
gifts, physical qualities or spiritual graces
complish the particular work fer which God Great
ed and chose them. Il have chosen you said our
Divine Lord to his apostles, not you me- Behold,
from the womb of thy mother l have called thee,
and again, Before the day star was l have begot-
ten thee" Cyrus was mentioned by name in the
prophecies long before he was born, chosen
by God to punish the apostate and deliberations
people of the Assyrian empire. OF these men were
Henoch, Noah Moses, Elias, Alexander the Great
and in modern times the Apostles, of whom st.
Paul was once called to be an apostle and chosen
out of due time" Of these also were Genseric, the
Goth, Attila, "the scourge of God" Columbus and
Bonaparte and many of the great popes and saints
of history. Tomorrow the Catholic church will cell
citrate the memory man blessed of God and be-
loved of his people whose name is held IN bene-
dicton for all time by the Imperishable church and
in an especial manner by the people of the Irish
race at home and abroad. Where was he born who
were his father and mother, what race he sprang
from does not concern us, for it is enough for us
to know that, like Melchisedech the King of Salem,
he priest of the most high God or as John the
Baptist, he was man sent of God There is sin
guar analogy between the call of ST Paul to Mac
edonia and that of st. Patrick to Ireland "And a
vision was shown to Paul in the night: a man of
Macedonia standing. and beseeching him, and say
ing: Pass over into Macedonia and helm u.s." We
have before us copy of the confession of St Pat
rick wherein he records his remarkable experience
touching his call to ireland. When this occurred
Patrick was in France. Il saw vision, he says
during the night man coming from the west
He gave me a letter to read, and in the beginning
of it was a voice from Ireland, l thought tito be
the voice of those of Foclut adjoining the western
sea. They apparel to cry put with one voice and
to stretch out their hands to me, and to say Come
to US, 0 holy youth, and walk among us" The
young man went to Rome for his ordination and
conservation as bishop and at once returned to
France and crossed over the sea to Ireland. The
conversion of the four Kings of ireland and the
Irish people to Christianity is one of these silent
but extraordinary facts of history which CONTRA
diets the experience of the human race There is
other example in the annals of the world of
entire nation accepting at once the doctrines and
yoke of foreign faith unless they were whipped
into obedience by the strong arm of an overwheim-
ing military force There is no other instance on