The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-10-02
Christ Livettl; Christ Reigneth.
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Looking back today, dearly beloved brethren
over the centuries from the dawn of Christianity
to now, history tells that many states and king
dons rose up and for time prospered, and then
came the downfall Why thus, dearly belovedl All
it because they banished Christ and His saving
Gospel of justice and right! They refused to rec
ognlze the necessity of religion and the force and
morality of its precepts, and consequently they de-
hvered themselves to their vices and their pas
sions, and corruption and extinction the
suit. But from the past men will never learn
lesson, for today have men who would Danish
Christ and Christianity from our midst-Inen who
boldly proclaim from the housetops that humanity
is humanity's only god and that the God of the
Christians is only a shadow, myth Pulled up
with their own vain concets and In the narrowness
and shallowness of their weak intelects they have
the audacity to put before enlightened Christian
peoples the vaporings of their sickly minds What
they think is the right and the truth. Christ, they
tell US, only human teacher, good enough for
His day. but totally out of place in this age OF rush
and push, electricity and air machines. Man is
God and God is man, and reason is the only revela
ton. "Uplift humanity" these shrek out
from professional chair, pulpit and street corner.
'Set up reason in place of Christ in the temples,
tear out from mems minds the superstitions which
breathe a Heaven and Hell and an Immortality
beyond the tomb Man has no need of sacraments
those so-called helps from God and Heaven
Yes, yes, there can be justice without God and
atty without religion"
All, these men VIII never read the lesson of the
past, that the nations which threw off the Christ and
His teachings that the nations which endeavored to
build up other foundations than those of Chris
danity went down beneath the tide, of their own
corruption.
Without Christ there can be no commonwealth:
without His Gospel and His religious code mans
passions VIII break forth with volcanic violence
Infdelity anarchy, immortality Will spring up hy-
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death Christ and His Gospel are the stay, the
comfort of the individual, the stability, the
strength, the life OF the nation Liberty, manhood,
justice, moral courage, patriotism, social and re
gious soundnes5 everything great and good and
lasting in the individual and the tic7,
great and good and lasting in all mundane mat
ters-springs from Christ ana IT.. rt -
Christ Is the of all power, all life al reality
Today, dearly beloved, the Father OF ChTiste1-
dom, Christ's vicar on earth-Pius Hooks out
from the watchtowers of Israel upon a world and
he there the wrange OF sects and the indelity
atheism, anarchy and religious Indifference which
that war necessarily brings BE sees the struggle
that false philosopher, false teacher false econc-
mist are making to Danish God from the schools
and all the saving truths of redemption and saliva
ton from the peoples mind He sees the marriage
bond broken, homes rent by divorce and the youth
the strength, the hope of the nations-grow I'D
without the saving light of faith the cheer of hope
the fire OF charity He all this, the backward
march of the peoples to that state of corruption
immortality and slavery which long ago brought
pagan Greece and pagan Rome to their downfall
He all this and, aye he sees the one the only
saving remedy, and loud his voice rings out to the
nations: "Go back to Christ In Him is the
way, the truth and the life, and without Him is
DEATH everlasting death Yes, today Chrsts mouth
piece earth the sanity Plus stands at the door
of the twentieth century and pfoclaims to those
outside the fold, that the simplicity, the love- the
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from Christ and His teachings, are the only hope.
the only stay the only salvation for the individual
and the state. go back to Christ"
Standing at the door of the twentieth century.
Plus addresses his fock too, and clarion-like
his voice rings out to them: "My beloved onee
stand firm in Christ Jesus" Be not swayed about
by the winds of strange doctrines and by voices
that clamor discordant sounds in the night Wall,
firm in Christ Jesus with His faith to guide Won ON
hope in Him to cheer and solace you and His char
ity which will bind you with the bonds of love and
peace. Be firm in Christ Jesus. No wavering. no
faltering, no idle no Indifferent soldier is wanted
Hold the truth live up to the Sermon on the Mount
in all your ways and days. Teach the world by word
and by the example of your lives the beauty of viz
tue, holiness and truth. Stand firm in Christ Jesus
Guard your homes. model them on Nazareth. Let
your every act, your every thought your every
word, be OF GOD and IN God. Stand firm in Jesus
Christ Sentinels of Israel, no sleeping at the ont
1osts be ever ready the watchtowers of religion
With the banner of the Cross above and the sword If
ruth, justice and charity in your hands, Stead
soldiers of Jesus Christ, steady. Christ livetb
Christ reigneth and in Him is mans redemntion.
md salvation.
Old warriors of Jesus Christ, you are the vet
rans of His empire; you have fought His battles
-aliantly and well. For almost century YOU have
,een tried and true. Today your forms are STONED
-our hairs are gray and your eyes are dim. but the
pirt OF the Christ lives in you stronger than ever
Steady. old warriors yet awhile Soon o- L..