The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-10-31
THE MOTHER OF GOD.

Our present civilization, the governments Of the
world the enlightenment of the people and their
general morality based absolutely on Christian
ty. 1t was the advent of Jesus Christ in the world
that inaugurated the Christian era and it has been
in this era that the people have advanced from
darkness into light No matter what religious pro-
fession you may make, whether you see eye to eye
with us or not in doctrnal matters or whether YOU
disagree with the Catholic Church in all its profess
sons of faith, these things cannot be successfully
denied. The evidence in profane and sacred his
tory is one long, unbroken chain of facts which es-
tablish beyond peradventure a truth that nobody
with the ordinary gifts of reason will attempt to
deny or dispute.
1t being plain that the civilization the govern
ments the enlightenment and general morality of
the people of the world are based on Christianitv
the thought naturally suggests itself, on what is
Christianity based? For it must be more than
mere code of morals and man-made system
of government perpetuated through many centu-
ries by authority drawn from man alone Chris
tianity is based OH Christ the Divine Son of God
born of the Virgin Mary. There are those so-caed
Christians who attempt to deny the Divine Nature
of the Son of God and to place our Lord in the
same category as Confucius-that of great teach
But when they do this they strike at the very
foundation of Christianity for if Jesus Christ was
not the Son of God then Christianity is not what it
purports to be, and any worship of mere man be-
comes a sacrilege. The Catholic Church bases its
belief in the Divinity of Christ and worships the
Son of God and venerates His Holy Mother as they
have a right to be worshiped and venerated and as
it is the duty of all mankind to worship and ven
crate.
All orthodox Protestant churches admit the di-
vnity of Christ 1t is one of their tests of ortho-
doxy. While holding that Jesus Christ was the Son
of God, born of the Virgin Mary, by some process
Of reasoning that is not clear our Protestant
friends seem to have an aversion to turning the re-
lation of the Mother and Son around for in none
of the denomnational churches do we ever hear the
Blessed Virgin spoken of as the Mother of God.
Especially do our Protestant friends seem to dis
like the Catholic nomenclature which always pre-
fixes the BLESSED" when reference is made to the
Mother of our Lord This is especially noteworthy
because in the Protestant version of the Bible
Luke i, 49, appear the words "from hencefortb all
generations shall call me blessed" In the light of
their own version of the Bible it seems strange that
objection could be taken to the yeneraton given TO
the Blessed Virgin by the members of-the Catholic
faith
The only reasonable explanation seems to be that
they fear the Blessed Virgin may become of more
Importance in the minds of the people than God
Himself, yet such fear would never enter the mind
of Catholic child taking its first communion. No
matter how highly exalted the Mother of God NAV
be IN the minds of Catholics, the fact that she is