The Irish standard., 1909-07-03
that obscurity which is so favorable

that obscurity which is so favorable
to the church's mysterious claims.
I'm reality the church has not turn
ed her face backward. but is alive to
all questions of the day. applying the
eternal truth which old as the hills
offers new phases in the daily appli-
cation to the problems of life"
The Modernists say" continued the
speaker, that the evangelists invented
the parallels, and that irrespective of
truth they wrote what would be most
productive of good. There is no rea-
son to impeach the veracity of the
evangelists. They could as little add
to the beauties of the teachings and
the life of Christ as candle could add
to the splendor of the sun. The Mod
ernists deny that the gospel Of st.
John is historical record. The gos-
pei itself proves that the writer, who
goes into details in SO many particu-
; lars, was a close observer and wrote
from experience. They urge that the
discourses imputed to Christ are too
lengthy to have been remembered by
st. John. But he was the beloved dis
ciple, and accompanied Christ, and was
when he cites the discourses of Christ
at greater length it is because of the
special Importance of the event
THE Modernists claim that Christ
was not conscious of His Messiahship
at all times. This Is refuted already
by His appearance as child in the
temple. by the hesitancy of John the
Baptist to baptize Him, by the fact
that the disciples from the very be-
ginning attached themselves to Him
because He was the Messiah by His
declarations to the disciples sent to
Him by John the Baptist. The Modern
lists deny that the divinity of Christ
can he proven by the gospels, while the
gospel OF st. John is written with that
exact purpose in view, and the other
gospels acknowledge Him the Son of
God
The leading thought of the Mod
ernists is that the church is opposed
to science. In truth the church is it's
best friend. The example of Mendel,
in, evv;o ,I,o
studied certain problems of evolution
and printed them, but the. attention of
the learned as well as the illiterate
was focused at that time on Darwin
ism which fourished about the middle
of the last century It must be remem-
bered that Darwinism does not mean
evolution, which is held by many
Catholics, but is only a phase of evo-
luton which commended itself to
some men because they thought it
offered means to do away with
God. But Mendel was overlooked for
the time. In 1900 a savant CHANGED
upon the pamphlet and in it found the
solution Of problems that had seemed
impossible before. Here it had been
waiting for them for IS years as the
result of the work of a churchman.
The law of Mendel will last as long
as science endures. while Darwinism
is putting forth it's last efforts to re-
main alive.
"A few weeks ago DarWinisms
chief exponent, Haeckel, resigned his
professorship, and the manner in which
he duped his admirers to that time
was no credit to their intelligence,
This Darwinistic charlatan was the
leader of that host that attacked the
church and he furnished many of the
weapons that We're used all over the
world against it, but his fall was &C.
complished not through the church but
through his fellow scientists