The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-09

Slble that the educated human mind with all
the science and enlightenment of the twentieth cen
fury shining upon it, you ask yourself seriously,
how can the educated human mind embrace those
systems of religion which bears upon their face
FOLLY and lie! Before you answer my question:
[ will ask you another, and it is this: Ascending
beyond the limited knowledge of the human mind
and its fckleness, How was it possible, | ask YOU
for the angels in heaven to rebel against God {!
These angels had before their eyes the infinite
power, truth, Justice and love of the Living God
They sat beneath His Throne and they drank in
that happiness and peace which were never to have
diminution as long they kept the word faith
full" written upon their shields. But faithful many
of them did not remain. One of them assumed the
role of false prophet even before the face of the
Living God, and cried out, 81 will not serve" and
the rebel angels took up his cry eve will not serve"
and with that cry upon their lips they were hurled
from the calm of heaven to the horror of hell.
What, | ask you was at the bottom of that foolish
cry of Lucifer and his angels ? | have no need to
tell you; it was pride. There was a war in heaven
against the Living God, pride originated it. There
is on earth against the Living God amongst
those beings ga little lower than the angels" and
pride, of all the passions, is the of it.
Men, like the angels, see the Living God, see
Him in His works and hear Him in His words Did
not the Son of God leave His throne in heaven
and come to them? Did He not tell them about
the truth and justice and love of His Father! Did
He them against the pitfall of the angels,
and did He not above all warn them against the
false prophet? Christ the Son of the Living God,
taught men by word and example Every state of
life, He visited every false science He combatted,
and for every i'll He gave the remedy. Yes, Christ,
Son of the Living God, has taught men all lessons
but above all these two-the human mind with
out humility will be Lucifer, the human heart
without the grace of God will be unto the beast.
Pride, yes.
"By that sin fell the angels and how man.
The image of his Maker, hope to gain by it p
Pride has spawned heresy in heaven. Pride
spawned and spawns heresy earth.
In a letter recently written by Plus x, Christs
vicar on earth, we find these true and beautiful
words:
We have remarked one strange contradiction
that exists in this world with regard to the science
of religion. No man can pretend to be a doctor
unless he has studied medicne-and studied it well,
for otherwise he will have no patients; man
set up for a lawyer unless he has studied law,
provided, indeed. he is content to be advocate
of lost causes But in the face of this, there is
a great many who profess to be Christians who
have studied the science of the Christian,
which is religion. If we were to put this question
to great many outside this hall, care you Chris
tian 2" we would be answered Immediately, Il am"
but were to ask what a Christian IS q many
would be unable to answer us because they in
utter ignorance of the motives of faith the
laws which govern holy religion and give no
thought whatsoever to the concerns of faith and
religion. And it is doubly strange to find that
many are very willing to discourse as if they
knew all about it with the result that they bias
pheme what they know not"
This folly of the human mind so aptly and
truthfully described by Christ's vicar on earth,
arises from two facts namely, the common, the
uneducated mind takes its religion from the false
prophet; the educated mind, educated in the prob
lens of life, takes its religion from It's pride
and conceited knowledge, and from these two fac
tors arise that religious chaos as regards dogma
which exist outside the Catholic Church today
How can they preach unless they are sent2"
Such the words of God Christs words to men
are sent down the ages by living church insti
tuted by Him for that purpose, and not by
ceited philosopher false prophet. No human
power can add or take from Christ's word. We
find that word in the writings of Evangelist and
Apostle. We find that word in His living church
''Go teach all nations whatsoever [ have
manded you and behold | with you all days
even to the consummation of the Word" False
prophets may arise they have arisen III the past
they will arise with every day of time; false philos
ophers may mutter the rawlings of their conceit
ed mind, but they shall all go down before the
truth which makes men free, the true light which
enhghteneth every man who eometh into the world
When the human mind forgets the Catechism
of the heavens and the earth:
"For He who guides the swelling orbs above,
Spreads every leaf that futters in the grove
Breathes health and fragrance in each balmy gale,
Pours the clear streamlet gliding in the vale,
Extends the vast Atlantic's rolling floods,
And clothes the forest with its waving woods
Guides the green tendril round the shady bower,
Shines in the dew and bushes in the flower,
The humblestt but that blossoms in the morn,
The meanest insect in its bosom born,
Live by the fiat of that mighty voice.
Which rules the spheres and makes the world re-
joice"
When the human mind, [ say, forgets the Cate
chism of the heavens and the earth, and ah, when
the human mind forgets the Catechism of Jesus
Christ embodied in His Sermon on the Mount and
in the writings of His inspired Apostles then in
deed will it be the day of tares, the day of the
false prophets the day of human passions for