The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-08-06

Outside Gods House, there is the whistle of
| the engine the thud of the steam shovel the rat
tie OF the electric car, the rush, the injustice the
corruption and the graft of wicked world. The
man of the heart hears them not heeds them not.
His Christ is before him. the saints are around
| him. He is living now with Christ and them.
True, the statue and painting of Mary and Joseph,
| Apostle and the way of the Cross but wood
and marble and canvas but ali! Christ's hands
| have touhced them, Christ's words have blessed
them, and as such they have the halo of Christs
| day on earth and Christ's everlasting day in
| Heaven about them. Yes, the of the heart
knees there, the Great Master is before him,
around him are the men and things that bring
wildly to his mind Bethlehem and Nazareth and
| Calvary. Though living in the twentieth century
| of push and rush, he lives, too, in the days of
! Christ and Peter. Christ's Church has placed
| Christ in the tabernacle for men to adore feed
on and grow strong. Christ's Church has placed
the holy water at the door, the image of saint in
| the niche, the Stations of the Cross upon the
walls, to purify and to aid and to strengthen and
| to raise mems minds and to fasten them, not on
| the things of earth, but of heaven Vestment and
lighted candles, statue and painting, stained glass
window and the Way of the Cross all have deep
religious meaning for him. He gazed upon the
| painting, in the famous gallery, and it brought
back to his mind the happy scenes of his boyhood,
these scenes that breathed simplicity purity, love
| ard worth. He kneels now i'll the Catholic Church
| and tabernacle and light, Way of the Cross and
statue all there breathe Christ's love and mercy,
saints heroism and obedience. He rises from his
knees refreshed and kneeling to his God he walks
| to the door. Before he passes out his eyes rest
upon a son of toll. He is kneeling in the last
! bench. The that carried his food for the day
is before him, and in his fingers is a rosary beads.
! His days work is over, and before he goes home
to his wife and little ones, he into the
| Catholic Church to speak to his God, and in sim
! pie, loving accents say his Hail, Mary" The
/ in hand is hutyU oil or
some other such substance He kisses it, yes, and
| he loves it, because Gods hand has touched it,
Gods voice has blessed it. All, we'll that simple,
loving mind knows that through the Catholic
| Church Christ's hand touches, Christ's voice
blesses. The man of the heart stands in the porch
of the Church. Close by baptism is being per-
formed. The of the heart stops, for that
ceremony, which makes babe of earth babe of
heaven was always joyous sight to him. He sees
the priest take the spittle from his mouth and
touch the and the nostrils of the child, say
ing. he does so, "Ephpheta," be thou opened.
Yes, may thy be ever opened to hear the
voice of God, and, hearing it, obey it, and may
thy nostrls breathe the odor of sweetness and
sanctlty. The of the heart sees this cere-
monY, and back to his mind comes rushing the
words Of the Gospel read in this days mass:
Sand they brought to Him (Jesus) one deaf
and blind, and they besought Him that He would
lay His hands upon him. And taking him from
the multitude apart, He put His fingers into his
ears, and splitting He touched his tongue. And
looking up to heaven, He groaned and said to
him, Ephpheta, which is BE thou opened And
Immediately his were opened and the strings
of his tongue loosed and he spoke right"
Yes, Jesus used the fig tree, the grass of the
field, the birds of the air in the speaking of His
parallels, and the same Jesus used the spittle the
dust of the earth, the barley bread in the working
OF His miracles. The man of the heart knows all
this. and knowing it, he again sees in the rites
and ceremonies of the Catholic Church the Master
again walk the earth, the Master again touch and
heal and whisper love and mercy
The man of the head the COOL calculating ma
chine the man without religious feelings, enters
Catholic Church. He heard this Church was
famous for its architecture and its paintings. He
goes in and he admires the beauty of the architec-
ture the glory of the paintings but the beauty and
the glory to him all earthly See, he looks
upon the picture of the TRANSPORTATION, the
stained glass window of Christ teaching in the
Temple and we catch the words that fall from his
lips: That painting is worth $4,000 to Roth
schild or Rockefeller" "They could not turn out
such window that in this country.
All, yes, tabernacle and light, statue and Sta
ton of the Cross, stained glass window and paint
of scor, he terms them excellent works of art but
they are, all of them, the embodiment of Romish
superstition and idolatry. Man of the head, thou
cool, calculating machine, without a particle of
religious feeling in this composition, we follow
thee out into thy little world. We want to show
you with all charity that thou art living contra
diction
procession passes along our streets. 1t is
procession of one of those many orders that are
to be found in America today whose object is to
give strength and help and love to their fellow
men. The procession passes along, and alb, we
see the man of the head the cool, calculating ma
chine, the man without religious feelings, we see
him head the procession. By his side hangs
sword, his breast is badge and decorations,
above him floats the banner of his order, and be-
fore him band discourses sweet music. You ask
him why he marches there, and with hand
upon his sword and the other pointing to badge
and banner, he will proudly answer you, my order
demands it. The strength the union and the love
of my brothers require it,"
Man of the head, of the world your ac-
tol is fitting is right, and we blame thee not for
it. but we do blame thee for this: There is one
order marching through this world. 1t is the