Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-22

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Il SALT Lake CITY. OCT 80. 1910.
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Il THE SPIRITUAL VS. TEMPORAL.
The Rev. Father Vaughan of Lon
don having. expressed, white In this
country, his belief in what he terms
Il the decay of Professionalism. the Pres
byterian Ministers Association has Wig
orously repudiated tho idea that Prot
cstanism in America 10 dying out: +
4 The Catholic Father. preaching in
81 New York, took occasion to observe
Il that according to the Protestant Bishop
i Sellew the spirit of Professionalism Is in
decay, that 1t is an expiring religion.
and that the Bishop seems almost to
! invite us to give It q respectable fun
eral.r The catholic prencher added:
II 81 am proud of Bishop Sellew for
l the alarm, bell there is u note In It's
/ vibrating air that men, hearing 1t,
may look to their spiritual whereabouts.
! and whether they belong to she Cnurch
or The Their they are outside OF the
Church. or whether they are IN me
porch OF the Church; that they may
look Ito tsee II their religion rs vital
and vltallzing cnerGy:.i II. It is. an entity
that lis making for life or Il tnicrobe
fastening on them for death.
This pointed utterance very naturally
called forth u reRly from the Presby-
terians, assembled in convention, the
next day after Father Vuughan's SER
mon; and the following resolution was
passed:
Resolved. That this association re-
pudiates the statement quoted by the
Rev. Father Vaughan in this city, TO
the effect that Professionalism in Amer
lea Ii dying, and coHbats his assertion
I that Catholicism Is tho only hope OF
i the American Republic.
"In an, hour when we desire the full
est fcordiaIity of Catholics and Prot
estunts toward each other we would
h merely mention Father Vaughnn's ut
ter unfamliarity with American ccndl-
tions-being foreigner and having
arrived here but two days a go-and we.
would cite as samples of Roman-Cath tn
i ole influence In selevatlng countries
where that Church has long had abso-
Lutte domination, the condition In SPAIN
and France,s and South American na-
TONS and in Italy until AiaZzini and
Victor Emmanuel secured clvilNliberty
and ushereI in the modern and better
italy by fighting and triumphing over
the pa1al power.
sour nation was born n Protestant
nation, several of the original thirteen
colonies being exclusively Protestant,
f. md has attained Its present high place
as a Protestant nation. and until tho
Roman Church can citc some nation
ti,at has arisen under Catholicism as
z rapidly md glorlously ms ours Father
pronunclamento needs no
refuta ton"
The reply Of the Catholic was equal
ly prompt and characteristic. Hc said:
THE Presbyterian ministers fling
down q challenge to me and ask me
to show them u nation that Catholicism
has built up commercially. That Is not
the question. Christ did not found
i his Church 10 be a chamber OF COM
nlcrccs or an exchange In Wall Street.
a He drove the buyers and sellers out of
the temple But let me send n chal-
lerge to the ministers association. /
II sny to them. Show me n nation that
Professionalism has built up spir-
itualIy, nation where Protcstnn-
! tlsm has developed reverence for au-
& thority, where 1t has kept down the
Is number of divorces and racial suicide
When4the Presbyterian ministers show
me that Professionalism in the United
States Is n vital force In combating
these evils and in building up respect
8 and reverence for law and authority.
/ will take hack what / said and ] Will
~tNo,,,
i5S The sole question seems to be wheth-
ersthe spiritual can be separated from
4 tho temporal growth of nations Father
Vaughan argues that the dender Pro-
testanism Is as n spiritual power, the
more likely 1t will be to achieve mater
ial success; for in proportion, he says,
as the spiritual wanes. the more awake
s. are human ambitions and energies to go
forward In the line of material progress.
Ii this true? We think not
The spiritual that does not include
also the temporal welfare and adj
yancement OF mankind Is fatally de-
fective. The monks and hern,its OF the
middle ages tried to become solely
spiritual. by separating themselves
III from tho main pursuits that lead to
earthly happiness and temporal prog
ress; and that they failed utterly Is
not our judgment alone. but is tho
plain verdict of history.
To some extent thorecan be independ-
ont progress along either the temporal
or the spiritual line. but such progress
n does not and cannot go very far. The
TEMPORAL affords the necessary mea ms
for spiritual expression and for all
i forms and degrees or the higher life
Temporal well being must be secured
before spiritual we'll being can bc more
than a sentiment. The temporal ls
however, not only the. necessary basis
Of the spiritual, but It Is often simply
the other side OF It: for the temporal