The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-02-11
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, FEBRUARY Il, leli

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lligion. Science reads the existing
laws of nature: there it stops to give
place to reasons questioning. Whence
those laws? What the power that en-
acts them, that guards them, so that
order ever prevails, and in order per-
feet adaptation of means to an end,
perfect harmony in movements, per-
feet beauty In effects? Let science
go forward in discoveries: each new
discovery is further demonstration
of the order in which nature is built.
But let science rest in its discoveries,
| and not dare venture into the invisl-
BILE, where reason alone has the right
to enter. God reigns as infinite work
er-as really and as effectively, as
His works are real and objective. No
creature is He of human fancy, OF
human sub-consciousness no imman-
ance is He of our sense of human
needs, of our aspirations towards
higher planes. Systems of philosophy
there are that reduce God to a phan-
tom: systems there are that defy
matter: but systems of philosophy
those are that demolish reason and
reduce man to mere sentence, to
mere animal perception. God reigns:
the Supernatural reigns.
The Supernatural reigns: Jesus
Christ, the Incarnate God reigns.
Why may not the Invisible make Him
self visible, to teach men more et-
fectively, to gain more readily their
love? And why decreeing His in
carnation may He not prove His pres
ence among men by works impossible
to natures innate forces, possible
through injection into it of forces from
His own infinite power? At the re-
cent National Scientific Congress,
| held in the City of Minneapolis, it was
said-Miracles are not to be thought
of in the scientific atmosphere of pres
ent times What, I should ask, is
there in the observation of science
that inhibits the Supreme Being from
nature and quickening them into life
and power hitherto not resident in it's
bosom? The speaker whom I quote,
insults science in bending it from it's
legitimate scope of observation OF
4 visible phenomena into edicting judg-
ments as to the causes of those phe-
nomena, thereby usurping the domain
of reason, in which no hearing should
be allowed it because there it knows
not what it speaks about.
Miracles are matter of historic en-
quiry: for the miracles of Christ we
have no fear before the bar of his
tory. Tear from the bosom of history
] the physical miracles of Christ, His
!. resurrection, for instance-the sup
, you have recourse, bring darkness
upon the the most valued records of
: events Of other kinds-consign the
whole past to guess and dream. Deny
, the moral miracles of Christ-the
building up over the ruins Of pagan
} humanity a new humanity, Christen-
: dom, in which morals, private and
, ever elsewhere, to heights so elevated
| above the best that humanity outside
{ the reach of Christ ever produced or
J thought of producing have poised
/ in the air an edifice of towering ma.
jesty, without prop or foundation to
5 rest it upon the earth. He who
wrought those miracles, physical and
) moral, pronounced Himself God-one
r with the Father-and sent out to the
) nations teachers to proclaim that
7 nothing else is He but "the Word
: made fesh,'' God blessed forever
} Belief, clear and explicit, in the divin
! ity of Jesus Christ, built up Christen
5 dom, inspired it's sages and saints
: permeated it's every throbbing, vivi
4 fed it's every act, sustained its every
5 hope. No separation is possible OF
5 the divinity of Christ from Christ's
e life and words-from Christ's won
4 drous Christendom: the divinity is
t the web and wool of the whole drama:
D the divinity is a fact, else the whole
e drama is an Illusion, deception.
$ The Supernatural reigns: Christ
D God Incarnate, reigns. And the Church
j founded by Christ, commissioned by
;, Him to last until the contamination Of
S the world, vivified. throughout by His
i spirit, demonstrating baptiZing
s spreading over humanity the grace Of
;, the supernatural life, brought doWr
from Heaven for the salvation of men
No mere society of men, fashioned BY
hands of men, living of the life o.
f men, is the Church, present on Olive
s in the persons of the first Apostles
e to which the risen Master said: "Al
d power is given to Me in Heaven ant
: on EARTH Going, therefore, teach al
O nations-and behold I am with yol
e all days even unto the consummatio1
q of the world"
J God reigns, the Eternal, Omnipo
!. tent: Christ, God manifest in human
+ form, reigns; the Church of Chris
. reigns, the historic perpetuatiol
d through ages of the life and work o
9 Jesus-who with it and through i
s abides among men, until the consum
nation of ages.