The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-03-06

4 are full of wisdom and at the same time
couched in such concise and terse Ian
guage that they drive home to the hu-
man heart as some of the great funda-
mental truths of humanity. Gathered
at random from his writings are the
following luminous statements, which
may be counted a message to the tWen-
tieth century:
The greatest misfortune is never to
have known Jesus Christ. Christ is the
| fountainhead of all good. Mankind can
no more be saved without his power
than it can be redeemed without his
mercy
When Jesus Christ is absent human
reason fails, being bereft of its chief
protection and light, and the very end is
lost sight of, for which, under Gods
| providence, human society has been
built up.
Ito reject dogma is simply to deny
Christianity. 1t is evident that they
whose intellects reject the yoke of
Christ are obstinately striving against
God. Having shaken off Gods authori-
ty they are by no means freer, for they
will fall beneath some human sway
" God alone is life All other beings
partake of life, but are not life. Christ,
from all eternity and by his very nature
is the life just as he is THE truth,
because he Is God of God. IF any one
abide not IN me, he shall be cast forth
as branch, and shall wither, and they
shall gather him up and cast him into
the fire, and he buneth." John Xv:6)'
"'Once remove all impediments and
allow the spirit of Christ to revive and
grow in a nation and that nation shall
be healed
" The world has heard enough of the
so-called rights of man." Let it hear
something of the rights of God
1.-The common welfare urgently de-
mands a return to him from whom we
should never have gone astray; to him
who is the way, the truth and the life
and this on the part not only of the in
dividuals, but of society as a whole "
Father Doyle then related in a most
graphic way his recent audience with
the present holy father Plus X. During
his reception Father Doyle said he told
the pope of the work for missions for
InoneCatholics as it centers about the
Apostolic Mission house here. and re-
ceived his special blessing and COM
mendation for the general progress
along all lines of activity.
Il impart my blessing to the Apos-
tolic Mission house." said the holy ia
Their, according to Father Doyle, ito
all missionaries who have gone out of it
and to all who have co-operated by
their generosity in carrying on the work
of missions for non-Catholics. May God
foster this apostolic work and so make
1t flourish that it will not be long be-
fore every diocese will have its band of
missionaries, and the great work of the
conversion of America to the true faith
will be an accomplished fact
1.-THE words he smoke seemed 10 have
a special JUNCTION, as though they came
from the bottom of his heart" continued
Father Doyle. He expects great things
from America in the next decade of
years From the tower of Israel he has
ofen loked out upon the earth. and he
has seen in the lands across the sea, in
the western world the greatest hope
of the church. 1t surely warns his heart
now to realize the strong faith and the
great devotion of the American Catho-
lie, and 1t gives him unwonted pleasure
to see what active mea sureS are being
taken for the spread of the faith in
America, and what may not be the re-
suit of all this activity in years to come.
These thoughts undoubtedly added a
special earnestness to his words, as he
pressed his hands down hard on my
head as l knelt before him.
II had presented to him the story of
the inception, progress and completion
of the Mission house, and the work of
training the nearly one hundred priests
who have followed the lectures during
the past few years. and the wonderful
work these missionaries are now doing
in all parts of the United States. and
he spoke of the hope of the future and
what may not be done If the Catholics
in the United States continue to support
the work in the future as they have
done in the past AS the holy father
listened his eyes. slowed with enthusi-
asm, and his frequently uttered 81, ST.
E bene, E bene, showed how closely
he followed the statements and what
warm sympathy they elected from his
fatherly heart.
There is one thing about Plus Y thai
distinguishes him from Leo and that is
that he is a good listener. He site on
the edge of his chair, for he is a small
sized man, and clad in white from
head to foot. with his hands resting
comfortably on the table before him. he
takes in all that is said to him with
wonderful attention. His face is not the
vivacious one that Leos was. nor are
his eyes SO brilliant, but there is a sense
of repose and resignation in his atti-
tude. 1t is withal a kindly face. illun-
mated by n placid smile. His features
are rather heavy and forceful. As one
looks into them one sees where the
mastery power comes from that can do
the great things he has done in the last
few years, particularly the latest of his
acts-the reorganization of the cOngre-
cations.
LAS the conversation went on and he
was told. what characterized this non
Catholic mission work from all other
missionary movements-in the first
place. its organization under the bish-
ops, training the diocesan priests to be
missionaries-he said: Quite right, FOR
the Holy Ghost hath appointed the
bishops to rule the church Of God. and
it is very proper that they should su-
pervise the efforts for extending the
borders of the church.
He approved most cordially of the
system as it was explained TO him
When the method of the mission WORK
was stated-forbidding contentious con-
troversy and endeavoring to attract the
by a plain. simple exhibit
ton of Catholic truth-he raised his
eyebrows in some wonderment that any
other way should ever have been fol-
lowed. 1t all seemed to him the most
natural way. 1t was just the way thai
q kindly old man like himself would
gather crowds about him and persuade